Either improve productivity and reduce waste or reduce the number of people. Yemen chose to efficiently reduce the number of people.
[DAILYSABAH] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's civil war has killed more than 100,000 people since 2015, a database project that tracks violence said Thursday.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED, said in a new report its corpse count includes more than 12,000 civilians killed in attacks targeting civilians directly.
The conflict in the Arab world's poorest nation began with the 2014 takeover of northern and central Yemen by Iran-aligned rebels, driving out the internationally recognized government from the capital, Sanaa. Months later, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched its air campaign to prevent the rebels, known as Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, from overrunning the country's south.
Saudi-led Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties and killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. The Houthis have used drones and missiles to attack Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and have targeted vessels in the Red Sea.
Civilians have suffered the most in the conflict, which has created what the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
ACLED said approximately 20,000 people have been killed this year, already making 2019 the second-deadliest year on record after 2018, with 30,800 dead.
[DAILYSABAH] The French Senate approved a bill Tuesday proposed by the mainstream right that would oblige women wearing headscarves to remove them when accompanying school outings.
The issue has been in the news in recent weeks since a far-right politician objected to a mother wearing a headscarf who was accompanying a school trip to a regional assembly meeting. The move came a day after two elderly men were seriously injured in a shooting attack at a mosque in the southern city of Bayonne. A suspect with a far-right background is in jug.
The bill also needs to be approved by the National Assembly, to enter into effect.
But as the ruling party, the Republic on the Move ‐ which has a majority in the national assembly ‐ is against the bill, it is unlikely that the bill will be approved.
La Belle France has the largest Moslem minority in Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... , estimated at 5 million or more out of a population of 67 million. The place of religion and religious symbols worn in public can be a matter of controversy in the staunchly secular country. For years, rights groups have argued that La Belle France's secular laws foster Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... and discriminate against Moslem women. La Belle France banned schoolchildren from wearing religiously distinctive clothing or emblems in 2004, after controversy over Moslem schoolgirls wearing headscarves.
[DAILYSABAH] Aformer military officer detained for links to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) revealed how the terrorist group developed a secret method to plant its men into the army. Confessions of the officer identified with his initials S.O. laid bare the group's sinister scheme of infiltration before it moved to seize power in a thwarted coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
S.O. was among thousands of officers detained following the attempt that killed 251 people and injured nearly 2,200 others. Interrogated by prosecutors in Istanbul, he invoked a remorse law that allows suspects to get away with more lenient sentences in exchange of full collaboration with authorities.
The officer was a member of a committee assessing would-be cadets applying for admission to a military school and explained how the terrorist group used a secret coding system to avoid suspicion in their infiltration scheme.
Under the scheme, cadets with no apparent ties to the terrorist group were picked by the committee who'd be only aware of their links to the group thanks to code numbers assigned to each future cadet.
S.O. was arrested in a case related to the FETÖ network at a military school for naval officers. FETÖ is accused of helping infiltrators secure admission to the school during the election of cadets in the 2013 school year.
The officer himself infiltrated into the army with assistance from the terrorist group whose members guided him to take up a military career. He said he would secretly contact FETÖ's point men who helped his military career. He sought to switch to a military intelligence career and asked for help from the terrorist group. He was supplied questions and answers to an exam for admission to the intelligence department by FETÖ and he managed to pass the exam.
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Don't throw us into that briar patch in an election year!
[The Hill] Senate Democrats blocked a defense spending bill for the second time on Thursday, underscoring the hurdles ahead of next month's government funding deadline.
Senators voted 51-41 on whether to advance a spending package that was expected to include the defense funding. The bill needed 60 votes to advance.
Democrats warned ahead of time that they would oppose taking up the bill until lawmakers get a deal on top-line spending figures known as 302(b)s. They previously blocked the defense spending bill in September.
"The Republican leader has been accusing Democrats of threatening to block military funding. Now, that is an absurd statement if there ever was one. We're simply trying to stop Republicans from stealing money from our military and putting it into the wall," Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said ahead of the vote.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) sent a letter this week to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asking that they "take a meaningful step forward and work together with us to reach bipartisan agreement on 302(b) allocations for all twelve appropriations bills."
"Such an agreement is necessary for appropriators and all of our Members to do their jobs and fund our national priorities," he wrote.
The Senate Appropriations Committee passed its defense spending bill along party lines after Republicans rejected an amendment that would have prevented President Trump from redirecting money toward the border wall without congressional signoff.
Republicans blasted Democrats for blocking the defense bill, noting that it comes even as they've recently criticized Trump's Syria strategy.
"The same Democrats who recently rediscovered hawkish sounding positions on Syria and the Middle East are really going to filibuster a $755 million for the counter ISIS train and equip fund for Iraq and Syria? And filibuster all the other broader funding of our armed services? Really?" McConnell asked.
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The in defiance of a federal court decision supporting the transfer of funding.
[DAWN] Pakistain on Thursday rejected the "void" and "illegal" bifurcation of India-Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e into two union territories, saying that "no step by the government of India" can change the internationally recognised fact that it is a disputed territory.
The Indian government had on August 5 repealed Article 370 of its constitution, stripping Indian Kashmire of its special status. The orders went into effect today, dividing up occupied Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories; one Jammu and Kashmir, and the other the Buddhist-dominated high altitude region of Ladakh.
In a statement released by the Foreign Office, Pakistain termed the move a "complete violation of the UN Security Council Resolutions and bilateral agreements between India and Pakistain, especially the Simla Agreement".
The statement underlined that India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognised disputed territory. "No step by the government of India can change this. These changes are illegal and void as per the relevant UNSC Resolutions, and do not prejudice the right to self-determination of the people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir."
[DAWN] The Foreign Office regretted on Wednesday that the Afghan government, instead of responding to Pak proposal for addressing the cause of recent border skirmishes, had resorted to allegations hurled through the media.
"It is highly regrettable that despite mutual agreement on utilising recognised channels of communication, Afghanistan has chosen to raise the issue through a media statement," the FO said in a rejoinder to a statement issued by the Afghan Foreign Ministry on the cross-border firing incidents that took place on Sunday and Monday.
The festivities had erupted on Sunday when Afghan troops used force to stop construction of border post. Eleven Paks, five civilians and six soldiers, were maimed in the festivities.
The Afghan government had accused Pakistain of "violation of international laws" as well as an "explicit violation" of its "national illusory sovereignty".
The FO, in its response, said: "The Ministry would like to put the record straight that on 27 and 28 October 2019, Afghan military resorted to unprovoked mortar and heavy weapon firing on Pakistain military’s newly-established posts, which resulted into serious injuries to six Pakistain military soldiers."
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[DAWN] Shops and offices were shut in Indian Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e on Thursday and the streets largely deserted as federal authorities formally revoked the restive area’s constitutional autonomy and split it into two federal territories.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision in August to change occupied Kashmir’s status and tighten its grip over the region has stoked anger and resentment among Kashmiris.
Just after midnight on Wednesday, the federal government’s orders went into effect, dividing up occupied Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories; one Jammu and Kashmir, and the other the Buddhist-dominated high altitude region of Ladakh.
Both will be directly ruled by Delhi, and new lieutenant governors were due to be sworn in at a high-security governor’s premises later on Thursday.
But the most contentious change for many people is the threat of land grabs by Indians outside the region with the formal abrogation of a clause in the Indian Constitution that safeguarded Kashmiris’ exclusive right to land ownership.
"Everything changes on Thursday," said a retired Kashmiri judge, Hasnain Masoodi, a member of India’s Parliament. "The entire exercise is unconstitutional. The mode and methodology have been undemocratic. People were humiliated and never consulted."
[Rudaw] Iraqi judicial authorities will bring Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) fighters who committed crimes on Iraqi soil to face court justice in the country, foreign minister Mohammed Ali al-Hakim has said in an interview with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Hakim told NRC Iraq will bring ISIS fighters who committed crimes inside Iraq to face proceedings there regardless of their nationality.
"The Iraqi judicial council is ready and committed to bringing all foreigners and Iraqi ISIS fighters who committed crimes inside Iraq and against the Iraqi people to justice," Hakim said.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the Iraqi foreign minister refused the trial of those suspected of fighting for ISIS in Syria ‐ despite requests by some countries to trial their nationals believed to have fought there.
"We are not responsible for the ISIS fighters who committed crimes in Syria," he said.
International concern has been expressed about trial and detention conditions for ISIS suspects in Iraq, including the use of death penalty sentencing for both Iraqi and foreign nationals convicted of ISIS involvement, the use of violence and torture in prisons, and the overcrowding of Iraqi facilities holding ISIS suspects and their kin.
Despite this knowledge, western Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an and Scandinavian countries have continued to seek suspect trial in Iraq, citing the danger they could pose if repatriated.
Hakim’s comments come as ISIS face a pivotal moment, following the death of founding leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the announcement of his successor Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... confirmed in a White House statement on Sunday that Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a US special operations mission in northwest Syria.
In the early hours of Sunday, a US-led operation on a compound reportedly sheltering the ISIS leader in Barisha village, in northwest Syrian province of Idlib ended with Baghdadi committing suicide.
ISIS confirmed Baghdadi’s death and the appointment of a new leader via group affiliated media on Thursday night, warning of even greater violence.
"They should not be happy, as we are coming and they will soon wish that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive, as he would have been softer toward them," new ISIS spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi said.
Trump has announced on many occasions ‐ including after the killing of Baghdadi - that "ISIS is 100 percent defeated."
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... Hakim told the NRC war with ISIS is not over and urged continued international efforts to eliminate terrorism in the region.
Though territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017 and in Syria in March 2019, the group continues to operate in both countries using insurgency tactics. It conducts daily attacks against Iraqi forces, especially in Sunni areas of the country.
The number of ISIS suspects held in Iraq is unknown. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... an August 2019 report by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights put the number of people held on broader terrorism charges in Iraq at 18,306.
About 12,000 suspected ISIS fighters are currently in SDF detention in northern Syria, including some 2,000 foreigners, many of whom are believed to be Iraqis. About 70,000 family members and supporters are being held in the area’s camps.
Their detention status is now precarious following Trump’s decision to greenlight The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s military operations in northeastern Syria earlier this month.
The diversion of SDF focus to the frontlines has led to fears of prisoner escape and a full-fledged ISIS resurgence.
Fears came to fruition a few days after operation launch when at least 750 ISIS affiliates escaped the SDF-held Ain Issa camp after Ottoman Turkish shelling close to the camp and detainees rioted. Most have since been recaptured, SDF spokesperson Mustafa Bali told Rudaw.
In what could be an obstacle to Hakim's wishes, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi has insisted suspects detained in northeast Syria will remain there until their fate is decided.
"The fate of ISIS [ISIS] detainees and families is in our hands. We arrested them, they are held by us and we will determine their fate," Abdi told the SDF-affiliated Ronahi TV earlier this month.
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Is someone pondering a stealth invasion, perhaps, or connecting with clients in the West Bank and Gaza?
[DAILYSABAH] The Presidency of Religious Affairs (DIB), the state-run authority overseeing Moslem pilgrimages abroad, is prioritizing Jerusalem as a top destination for umrah travelers. Umrah, a lesser pilgrimage compared to the annual hajj, involves a visit to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... where Islam's holiest site Kaaba is located. Jerusalem hosted the first-ever qiblah, or direction Moslems should turn to while praying, before it was replaced with Kaaba as the new direction. The DIB lowered prices for Jerusalem tours, which travelers can attend without visiting Saudi Arabia or combine with the umrah pilgrimage.
Authorities aim to raise interest among Ottoman TurkishMoslems in Jerusalem. Pilgrimage trips for the Moslem faithful with a stopover in Jerusalem were introduced in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... for the first time in decades four years ago, but they have not been regularly organized since then. Pilgrims have to register with the DIB and pay fees for trips. The first group of pilgrims will leave on Dec. 5 for a three-day trip to Jerusalem, and the DIB also offers a 16-day umrah pilgrimage with a Jerusalem stopover.
Remzi Bircan, head of the religious authority's pilgrimage and umrah services, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that they held a workshop earlier this month for a comprehensive assessment of umrah tours with Jerusalem stopovers and analyzed possible challenges. "We want to increase the number of tours so we can maintain our citizens' admiration of Jerusalem," he said. "Jerusalem was our first qibla, and we want Ottoman Turkish people to visit it, so we kept the prices low. We offer all the services people needed on tours," Bircan said. He also said there were no security concerns for tours and that they offered a hassle-free tour of the city. Israel is known for its past practices of randomly restricting Ottoman Turkish nationals' travels to Jerusalem or denying visa applications.
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[Rudaw] A senior Kurdish official from northeast Syria said late Thursday that 412 fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's launch of Operation Peace Spring.
Speaking to news hounds in Washington, president of the Syrian Democratic Council’s (SDC) Executive Committee Ilham Ahmed announced "confirmed statistics" on their now 22-day-old conflict.
"More than 400,000 people have been forcibly displaced. Some of them stay at schools, while others are homeless. 18,000 of the displaced are children. Five of the medical personnel who were helping the injured were have bit the dust," said Ahmed.
"Four journalists have been killed. More than 20 schools have been destroyed and 180 schools are out of service. 18,000 students cannot go to school now. 5240 teachers cannot go to work. All the [international] humanitarian organizations have left the arena," she said, putting the number of SDF "deaders" at 412.
She added that Turkey and its Syrian proxies currently hold 73 SDF hostages captured during the conflict.
The SDC is the political wing of the multi-ethnic SDF, allied with the US in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) since it was founded in 2015.
Turkey regards the SDF a terrorist organization due to its alleged link to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas inside Turkey.
It launched Operation Peace Spring on October 9 against the SDF in northern Syria, aiming to drive out Kurdish forces and eventually resettle millions of Syrian refugees who have fled to Turkey since the breakout of Syrian crisis in 2011.
Turkey and its proxies took the towns of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tel Abyad) from the SDF following days of intense fighting.
The offensive was officially paused by Turkey - despite a number of skirmishes - for six days after deals were reached with the US and Russia.
About 1000 US troops were present in the SDF-held areas but pulled out of the area after US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ordered their withdrawal. Only a small number now remain in Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Ahmed reiterated on Thursday SDC concern for the US response to Ottoman Turkish incursion.
"The US promised us multiple times that the area where they are present will not be targeted by anyone, but the US did not commit to its promises."
Kurds have blamed the US for abandoning them after years of joint operations against ISIS. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the joint mission between US and Kurdish forces to kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proved some continued alliance between the two sides.
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[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rejected a call from the Syrian defense ministry for its fighters to join the ranks of the Syrian army in order to fight The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , saying that the group’s "special status" must be protected.
The Syrian defense ministry said Wednesday that they are "ready to receive the members and the units who are willing to join" and to "settle the status" of those who did not complete compulsory military service.
It added that both Kurds and Arabs, who both face a "common enemy" have to unite against the Ottoman Turkish Operation Peace Spring and "restore every inch of the beloved Syrian territories."
In a statement published Wednesday, the SDF stated their preference for a ’restructure’ of the Syrian military, which would allow the group to operate under an "umbrella" of unified efforts while remaining separate from the national forces.
"We from the General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces appreciate any attempt to defend Syria and face off Ottoman Turkish aggression against our country and people," read a statement from the command.
"Our position was clear from the beginning that unity comes from a political solution which recognizes the special status of the SDF and its structure and finding a healthy mechanism to restructure the Syrian military establishment in order to become an umbrella for unifying efforts," it added.
SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi also rejected the call as "unwelcome".
"The form and the mechanism of the Syrian defense ministry and its call on the members of our forces to ’individually join’ the Syrian Army is not welcome," tweeted Abdi, reiterating the SDF’s position that their status has to be preserved.
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[THESUN.CO.UK] A FORMER officer in Saddam Hussein’s army has today taken over as the new leader of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... after the terror group finally confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Abdullah Qardash ‐ known as the Professor ‐ has now assumed day-to-day control of the jihadi group - who heralded the news by vowing to target the US.
Confirming Qardash's new role, ISIS stated: "Whosoever fulfils what he has covenanted with Allah...he will bestow on him a great reward."
Qardash is a former officer in Saddam Hussein’s army who grew close to Baghdadi, 48, when they were both tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in Basra by US forces for their links to al-Qaeda in 2003.
It was in the Iraqi prison that Baghdadi became a jihadist demagogue converting hundreds of prisoners to his sick vision of a so-called caliphate.
Qardash, whose age is unknown,
... but is thought to be about 40...
is believed to have worked alongside him ever since, reports The Times.
The Iraqi worked as the death cult’s top politician before his promotion to leader in waiting, it has been reported.
His nickname is the Professor and is known as a ruthless policymaker in the group.
Qardash was also a confidante of Abu Alaa al-Afri,
...former physics professor and head of regional emirs for ISIS, he was briefly acting head of the organization during Abu Bakr al-Baghdad’s recovery from being airstruck, but then an American missile reached out to touch al-Afri more permanently...
Baghdadi’s previous deputy, who was killed in a US helicopter gun raid in 2016.
Since the fall of Baghuz, ISIS’s last urban stronghold in March, the group has been reduced to pockets of resistance across the two countries.
Qardash faces a divided leadership, some of whom may reject his vision and strategy, reports The Times.
With its members scattered in cells across a huge sweep of desert that spans two countries, three main factions have emerged, gathered around Tunisian, Saudi and Iraqi leadership.
The Islamic State jihadist group confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a statement Thursday and named his replacement as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
#8
Netflix is about to start any day now, with a dramatic account of the rise of an idealistic young acolyte to an emir in an 'extremist' faction of the religion of peace. Trying to be a good guy as well as lead an army of misunderstood zealots, each with their own little story of victimization and islamic hope, or ass-buggerry. Something humanizing sasquatches like Narcos, Mayans and Sons of Anarchy does for meth peddling pimps and child raping p0rn0graphers.
[ALMASDARNEWS] An unnamed personal "security official" of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi passed information about the terrorist number one’s movements and safe houses to Kurdish militia, NBC News reported, citing Syrian Democratic Forces General Mazloum Abdi. According to Abdi, the spy in al-Baghdadi’s inner circle was responsible for "securing the places" where the ISIS* leader was hiding.
"Al-Baghdadi took his security precautions to the highest level. He never used high-tech communications at all. Any place he was in, was in a communications blackout, with exception of those who were directly responsible for his security", the general said.
Abdi revealed that the "official" who betrayed al-Baghdadi did so out of a desire for Dire Revenge against both ISIS* and its leader after allegedly losing hope in the group’s "future". The Kurdish general further said that the spy was present at the terrorist’s hideout when it was assaulted by US forces, and was subsequently evacuated from it.
TOUGH ROAD TO THE OPERATION
Mazloum Abdi stated that the spy was regularly providing the Kurdish militia with information that was later transmitted to the US. The person didn’t know the exact location of the safe house, but managed to make observations and notice landmarks that allegedly helped US intelligence pinpoint his location to a facility in Syria’s Idlib province.
"The idea that al-Baghdadi was in Idlib was completely unexpected. It was a surprise to everyone", Abdi said, referring to the presence of terrorist groups in the province that had been rivals of ISIS* in the past.
US intelligence services were not especially keen on working based on the spy’s information, fearing that it could be a trap, the Kurdish general said. But the attitude changed after the spy reportedly managed to smuggle al-Baghdadi’s blood samples and underwear for a DNA test that confirmed his identity. Abdi didn’t clarify how their asset in ISIS* managed to pull this feat off.
The operation to take out al-Baghdadi was also on the verge of failure, as it was delayed by US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s decision to pull US forces out from northern Syria. At the same time, the ISIS* leader was preparing to change his hideout to a new, unknown one, according to Abdi. He estimated that al-Baghdadi would move to a new location within 48 hours if the operation was not carried out.
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Had to look up SouthPark. Maybe I should write a funny book when I'm not doing anything. It'll keep me in good spirits too. Aaah... Rantburg's enough.
the "official" who betrayed al-Baghdadi did so out of a desire for revenge against both ISIS* and its leader after allegedly losing hope in the group’s "future".
Leads me to believe more and more that the Hazimite faction had something to do with it.
[DAWN] The Pentagon has released its first images from last weekend’s commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned that the turban group may attempt to stage a "retribution attack".
The declassified, grainy, black-and-white aerial videos from Saturday’s raid showed US special operations forces closing in on the compound and US aircraft firing on bully boyz nearby.
The most dramatic video showed a massive, black plume of smoke rising from the ground after US military bombs leveled Baghdadi’s compound.
"It looks pretty much like a parking lot, with large potholes," said Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.
McKenzie, briefing Pentagon news hounds, said the idea of destroying the compound was at least in part "to ensure that it would not be a shrine or otherwise memorable in any way.
"It’s just another piece of ground," he said.
Courtesy of Rantingly, the video can be seen here.
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
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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.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[DAILYSABAH] Aformer military officer detained for links to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) revealed how the terrorist group developed a secret method to plant its men into the army. Confessions of the officer identified with his initials S.O. laid bare the group's sinister scheme of infiltration before it moved to seize power in a thwarted coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
I see ! You're right ! 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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