[KhaamaPress] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has grabbed credit for the attack on a private construction firm in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Amaq News Agency, the pro-ISIS media outlet reported that the attack was carried out by snuffies affiliated with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
According to reports, at least 16 people bit the dust during the attack which was carried out in the outskirts of Jalalabad city, the quiet provincial capital of Nangarhar.
The media office of Nangarhar had earlier reported that 11 workers of EBE Construction Firm bit the dust in the attack and 9 others have sustained injuries.
According to a statement released by the provincial government, a soldier of the Special Forces of Afghan Intelligence also lost his life in the attack.
The statement further added that five snuffies involved in the attack were also killed during the festivities with the security forces.
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[DAWN] US forces have not yet been ordered to pull out of Afghanistan despite President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's plan to end involvement there, the commander of American forces in the Middle East, said on Thursday.
"We have not been directed to withdraw. There are no orders to withdraw anything," Central Command chief General Joseph Votel told the House Armed Services Committee.
"The political conditions of where we are in the reconciliation right now don't merit withdrawal," he said.
After 17 years, Trump wants to end US involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 American troops are still deployed.
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Well it's great that military commanders can tell us the political situation. Such a success they've had in 17 years. No victory and an endless bleeding wound.
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We could "win" pretty easily. It would require levels of violence and death that most of the world would find abhorrent. Therefore we will not "win" and it begs the question why are we still there then.
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Questions for/from the parentals... the big postwar mystery innit. One of 'em, anyways.
What portion of what you were earning
Got shipped off to shit-pits for burning
Or lost in the shuffle
(pigs fattened on truffle!)
And what's your investment returning?
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A convivial beast, the entelodont;
Such intelligent people its belly haunt!
For a fork and a cork
(it adores its long pork)
It'll tell ya whatever the hell you want!
[Voice of Europe] Based on his 20-year-long studies on integration and assimilation, Dutch professor of sociology Ruud Koopmans has come to the conclusion that Muslims are more difficult to integrate than other migrant groups.
Ruud Koopmans claims than no Western country has managed to successfully integrate Muslims.
"Muslims are much worse at integration than other groups of migrants, and there is no doubt that in most other groups of migrants, we see great progress from one generation to the next. Although it’s not completely absent in Muslims, the change is much slower," he told Danish newspaper Berlingske recently.
Around 65 percent of the Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in six European countries consider religious rules to be more important than the secular law of the country in which they live.
Muslims consider themselves separate from other non-Muslim groups, and refrain from broader interaction with those outside their religion.
The fundamentalist interpretation of the Quran, which is prevalent among Muslims, prevents them from being integrated into Western countries.
And up to 50 percent of Muslims in Europe hold fundamentalist beliefs. By contrast, the proportion of fundamentalists among Christians is much lower, at less than 4 percent, according to Koopmans’ data
Subsidised migration of any group for low wages and high land price reasons has been a disaster for the country as a whole. In the UK the only one that wasn't too bad was when Idi Amin expelled the Indians.
[AnNahar] FrenchieMehdi Nemmouche was found guilty Thursday of the "terrorist murders" of four people at Brussels' Jewish museum, the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe.
Nemmouche, 33, sporting a trimmed beard and wearing a navy blue sweater, showed no emotion and stared into space as the verdict was delivered. He now faces a life sentence for the anti-Semitic attack in the Belgian capital on May 24, 2014, following his return from Syria's battlefields.
Sentencing could be as early as Friday.
The 12 jurors, accompanied by the presiding judge and two other magistrates, had deliberated for more than two days in secret at a Brussels hotel before returning their verdict.
Nemmouche was found to have killed the four victims in cold blood in less than 90 seconds, but he denied the accusation telling the court he had been "tricked."
This referred to arguments made by defence lawyers that Nemmouche was not to blame for the cold-blooded slaughter, but that he was caught up in some kind of plot targeting the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The legal argument had centered around Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva, the first two of the four people killed in the attack.
A young Belgian employee, Alexandre Strens, and French volunteer Dominique Sabrier were also murdered.
According to the defense, the museum shooting was not the work of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group but a "targeted execution" aimed at Mossad agents. The defense said the Israeli couple who were killed were in fact Mossad agents murdered by another man who had hunted them down.
The Riva family's lawyers have furiously rejected the theory and said attempts to pass off the tourists as secret agents was "an absolute scandal."
"Let's stop the joking," prosecutor Yves Moreau told the court earlier this week, describing the arguments presented by the defense as "complete nonsense" against compelling evidence.
Miriam Riva worked for Mossad but, as an accountant, she was not operational, said the investigating judges who traveled to Israel during their investigation.
And really, why would anyone deliberately murder an accountant? That’s crazy talk.
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Yohan Benizri, the head of Belgium's Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations, denounced what he called a "nauseating conspiracy theory."
The 12 jurors also found fellow Frenchie Nacer Bendrer, 30, who was accused of supplying the weapons, to be the co-author of the attack.
The investigation showed that the two men had dozens of telephone conversations in April 2014, when Nemmouche was preparing for the killings.
Six days after the massacre, Nemmouche was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... in the French city of Marseille in possession of a revolver and a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle.
At the trial, Bendrer admitted that Nemmouche had asked him for a Kalashnikov when he came to Brussels in early April, but claimed he never delivered it.
Among other personal effects, Nemmouche upon arrest carried a nylon jacket with gunshot residue, as well as a computer in which Sherlocks found six videos claiming the attack with an off-camera voiceover thought to be Nemmouche. In total, the prosecution said it had identified 23 pieces of evidence pointing to Nemmouche, who also physically resembles the shooter seen on the museum's surveillance video.
"We are both deeply convinced that the two accused did indeed commit these acts," one of the two prosecutors said in their indictment.
The prosecutors say the attack was the first carried out in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by a jihadist returning from fighting in Syria.
The Brussels killings came 18 months before the November 13, 2015, Gay Paree attacks which left 130 dead.
Mehdi Nemmouche has been convicted of carrying out Europe’s first terror attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town.
Separately, he is also accused of acting as the jailer of four French journalists taken hostage by jihadists in Aleppo in 2013.
Nemmouche is already a case study in the radicalization of some young European Moslems. Belgium and La Belle France, in particular, fear the defeat of groups like the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria will send more angry young men homewards. But Nemmouche seems to have been on a radical path long before he set off, in early 2013, for the so-called "caliphate" on the Euphrates.
The investigation into the May 2014 massacre in the museum has pieced together elements of his background.
TROUBLED AND ANGRY YOUTH
Nemmouche was born on April 17, 1985, in the northern French town of Roubaix, to a family of Algerian origin. He never knew his father and his mother was judged not "capable" of raising him, Sherlocks say.
Aged only three months, he was moved to a foster family in the northern industrial city of Lille, where he would stay ‐ off and on ‐ until he was 16. But his upbringing was not stable. He would make difficult trips to stay with his grandparents, and sometimes to care homes or a Gay Pareeian orphanage.
His foster parents, in documents seen by AFP, describe him as an “angry” youth, “capable of the worst as well as the most kindly” acts.
He committed his first known crime at 13, then at 16, he spent three weeks in a juvenile prison for a hold-up with an air pistol after being convicted by a children’s court. His criminal record grew ever longer in his late teens, with traffic offenses and muggings, and his grandmother lost track of him after his second jail term.
In 2007, aged 22, he headed to Provence in southern France after gaining a vocational qualification as an electrician, but soon fell back into trouble.
‘SADISTIC AND NARCISSISTIC’
Between December 2007 and December 2012, he spent five years in custody — and investigators believe this is when his ideas hardened.In prison, he was known as an “extremist proselytizer” who tried to organize group prayer and spoke of jihad and the 1995 “genocide of Muslims in Bosnia.” This linked him to the “Roubaix gang” — French Islamists who returned from the Bosnian war and carried out robberies to fund Al-Qaeda, some of whom he knew.
When his grandmother saw him in Tourcoing in December 2012, he had a long beard and was praying daily, something she had not seen before.
Less is known about his experiences in Syria, but three former French hostages have identified him as their “strict and violent” overseer.They say he did not hide his admiration for Mohammed Merah, who murdered three French soldiers, a Jewish teacher and three young children in Toulouse in 2012. Former hostage Nicolas Henin told the trial last month that he had “absolutely no doubt” that Nemmouche was his jailer and torturer in Syria. Henin described him as a “sadistic, playful and narcissistic” man.
Nemmouche, who was extradited to Belgium over the museum shooting after being arrested in Marseille, will go on trial in France over the hostages at a later date.
Held under tight security at a prison in Leuze-en-Hainaut, his lawyers describe him as a man of “steely will” who was bearing up well under the pressure of incarceration.
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[Rooters] Austria said on Wednesday it would not help repatriate any citizens who fought for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and other hard boy groups, as countries across the West wrestle with how to deal with returning hard boys.
Hundreds of people are believed to have left Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to fight for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. With the Islamist hard boy group down to its last shred of territory, several have asked to come home.
The cabinet has sent a bill to parliament on consular assistance that makes clear that it can be denied to citizens if there is a threat to public order, the government said in a statement.
"There will in future be no assistance for people who join a terrorist organization," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, a conservative governing in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, told journalists.
"Anyone who leaves Austria to murder, torture or act against religious minorities and those who think differently elsewhere in the world has no right to Austria’s help," he added. He stopped short of saying they would be barred from returning.
But European countries have resisted pressure to take in citizens who had sworn allegiance to groups determined to destroy the West.
Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. ’s conservatives and their Social Democrat coalition partners this week agreed a plan to strip some Germans who fight for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of their citizenship.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said his country was well within its rights to start the "co-production of [missile systems] S400s, maybe S500s." He made the remarks in Ankara on Wednesday.
"Now we have a deal with Russia. We will start co-production of S400s, maybe S500s," stated the Ottoman Turkish leader.
Erdogan went on to query why The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally.... was being questioned about its missile deal with Moscow. US General Curtis Scaparrotti told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week that he didn’t recommend the delivery of F-35 jets to Turkey if Ankara continues with the S400 deal.
"Those who are opposing us on [the acquisition of the] S400s why are they not doing the same thing to Greece for [its] S300s? Why not to Bulgaria for [its] S300s? Why not Slovakia for [its] S300?," he queried.
"There shouldn’t be a regulation that we should buy everything from you," he added before going on to stress that Turkey was not a nation of "slaves."
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...And we're free not to sell you the damned F-35s. Works out nicely.
Mike
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"Maybe we'll skip a couple and do S800's!"
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Exactly Mike. They are free to buy the S-400 and we are free to not sell them the F-35s. In fact I don't think we should be selling them any military hardware at this point.
They are clearly not an ally and are acting more like a rival.
#4
Give them a refund on the money that they have already invested in the F-35, if any, and move on. We don't trust each other so just make that distrust official.
[Daily Mail] 'At ICE, when we have families with children, we have to give every girl a pregnancy test over 10. This is not a safe journey,' Kirstjen Neilsen told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
DHS secretary faces first U.S. House grilling with Democrats in charge
Claims her agency has uncovered 'recycling rings' that let trafficked adults reuse the same children over and over again to pose as family units
Nielsen also says rape is so common among migrant caravans that every girl over age 10 who enters the U.S. without papers is given a pregnancy test
[DailyMail] Asia Bibi remains in protective custody sheltering from lynch mobs as she endures an agonising wait to leave the country after her acquittal in Pakistan.
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[DAWN] Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said the government has decided that it will decide on its larger strategy on how to act against proscribed organizations after discussing the matter with other parliamentary leaders.
While addressing a presser, the information minister said that the leaders of major parties will be taken into confidence with regards to major decisions on banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations.
Chaudhry said that a consensus had been built in the country in recent days in response to Indian aggression and the government wanted this consensus to be sustained rather than see it break "over small things".
He said that these were matters of national interest and the government wanted to move forward with the opposition the way it had with various other institutions.
On Tuesday, officials of the Ministry of Interior had announced that 44 under-observation members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar (no relation to the Minister of State for Revenue) ‐ the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively ‐ had been taken into "preventive detention" for investigation.
Law enforcement agencies on Wednesday intensified the ongoing crackdown on JeM, Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and other banned outfits, with the arrest of more than 100 activists and takeover of nearly 200 seminaries besides hundreds of other facilities and assets associated with them across the country.
Chaudhry today said matters regarding proscribed organizations had been decided in 2014 when all political parties had signed on to the National Action Plan (NAP).
He noted that one of the fundamental bases for the plan was to take steps to ensure that Pakistain's soil was not used against any other country.
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[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi on Thursday told Pakistain's High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood ‐ who is due to return soon to New Delhi ‐ that Pakistain wants to de-escalate tensions with its eastern neighbour, Radio Pakistain reported.
Tensions between Pakistain and India had escalated rapidly after the Indian Air Force (IAF) violated Pakistain's undisputed territory following a deadly attack targeting Indian security forces in Indian-occupied Kashmire's Pulwama area.
According to the foreign minister, direct contact between the two countries was necessary to reduce tensions prevailing. He noted that the two countries will hold discussions on March 14 in New Delhi on the Kartarpur corridor, which Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... wants completed swiftly.
In a blurb issued on Tuesday, the Foreign Office (FO) had said a Pak delegation will visit New Delhi on March 14. This will be followed by a visit to Islamabad of an Indian delegation on March 28 to discuss the draft agreement on the corridor.
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“You guys back off while we ramp up the violence, m’kay?”
[IsraelTimes] Gaza rulers tell Egyptian mediators they are ‘not willing’ to accept punitive measures designed to boost popularity of Israeli politicians ahead of election, Saudi paper reports
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leadership has reportedly conveyed to Israel it is not interested in further escalating tensions in the Gazoo Strip, but warned it will not accept any additional punitive measures against the Paleostinian territory which it claims are designed to boost the popularity of Israeli political parties ahead of elections.
Unidentified Israeli sources quoted by the Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat said Hamas officials on Tuesday spoke to a visiting delegation of Egyptian intelligence officials, who then passed the message on to Jerusalem. The terror group also demanded that Israel abide by the terms of the informal truce agreement struck between the sides late last year.
"We are not willing to accept suffering and hunger in Gazoo because of electoral considerations in Israel," the report quoted Hamas officials as saying.
On Monday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... said that in November Israel and Hamas reached understandings whereby Israel would extend Gazoo’s fishing zone, increase the territory’s electricity supply and allow Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i cash into Gazoo for its public servants in exchange for calm on the border. But, he claimed, Israel breached the deal by staging an undercover raid in Gazoo, which he said undermined understandings on broader issues "as if they never existed."
Asharq al-Awsat reported Thursday that Egyptian mediators are working hard to implement some kind of truce before March 30, the one-year anniversary of the border protests, when Cairo officials have warned of a major flareup in violence.
[AnNahar] US authorities created a secret database of journalists and activists linked to a caravan of Central Americans who tried to enter the US last year from Mexico, NBC reported.
In some cases authorities flagged their passports for alerts, the San Diego, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, affiliate of NBC reported.
It cited documents leaked to it by a source in the Department of Homeland Security who requested not to be named.
It said these documents list people who officials thought must be screened at the US-Mexico border.
They included 10 journalists, seven of them US citizens, an American lawyer and 47 people from the US and other countries who were labelled as organizers, instigators or with "unknown" roles.
The target list includes advocates from organizations such as Border Angels and Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said the affiliate, NBC 7.
In addition to flagging the individuals for extra screenings, the Homeland Security said agents also created dossiers on each person listed.
"We are a criminal investigation agency, we’re not an intelligence agency," the source said, according to NBC 7.
"We can’t create dossiers on people and they’re creating dossiers. This is an abuse of the Border Search Authority."
NBC 7 said a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson declined to confirm or deny the validity of the documents.
The spokesperson said in an email that after incidents like breaches of the border wall in San Diego or violence against border agents it is routine to collect evidence for possible future legal action and to determine if such acts were pre-meditated.
"CBP and our law enforcement partners evaluate these incidents, follow all leads garnered from information collected, conduct interviews and investigations, in preparation for, and often to prevent future incidents that could cause further harm to the public, our agents, and our economy," the statement said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Mehmood 
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
