[The Hill] The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it will offer up to $1,000 to anyone who adopts a wild horse in an effort to "encourage more adopters to give a wild horse or burro a good home."
The agency said in a statement that it will be providing the funds under its Adoption Incentive Program for anyone who decides to take in an untrained wild horse or burro from the agency.
The agency said the goal of the program is to reduce the department’s "recurring costs to care for unadopted and untrained wild horses and burros while helping to enable the BLM to confront a growing over-population of wild horses and burros on fragile public rangelands."
Under the new program, qualified adopters are eligible to receive $500 "within 60 days of adoption of an untrained wild horse and burro" and another $500 "within 60 days of titling the animal."
The agency added that the incentive is available for all untrained animals that are eligible for adoption, including animals at BLM facilities and off-site events.
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Kinda hard to keep track of wild horses. I wonder how many will actually be adopted. Probably ought to audit this program after a year or two and see how many are still alive and how many just "disappeared".
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Hard Pass! I expect that if you take them up on this the Government will require you to waive your Privacy Rights in the future. At any time they will be able to bring anyone (EPA, DEA, AFT, et cetera) on your 'private' property tagging along with them.
Locally I knew a farmer that was offered "Free Fish for his Farm Pond", of course the State Wild Life wanted free rein in the future to "inspect the fishies" (and anything else they cared to look at, but that was unsaid). He kept the gate closed and told them to get off his property.
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Honest-To-God I drive around them all the time where I live. (They get out in the road a lot.) It's hard to say how many wild horses are in the Nevada outback these days. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? The BLM isn't exactly your crack federal agency.
BLUF:
[Pat Buchanan at WND] Now, there are no excuses, or defenses, for what happened in Christchurch. But there is an explanation.
All peoples to some degree resent and resist the movement of outsiders into their space. Some migrants are more difficult than others to assimilate into Western societies. European nations that had not known mass migrations for centuries were especially susceptible to a virulent reaction, a backlash.
Americans, after all, reacted viscerally to the Irish migration of 1845-1849, and, again, to the Great Migration from Central and Eastern Europe from 1890 to 1920. Inter-ethnic violence was not uncommon.
Our leaders in the 1920s understood this and took steps to halt the migrations until those who had come could be assimilated, and, in a word, Americanized. It worked. By 1960, we were a united people.
Then, without the people’s consent, the great experiment began:
America’s doors were thrown open to peoples of every religion, race, culture and creed, to create a different nation that mirrored all mankind in its diversity, in Ben Wattenberg’s phrase, a universal nation.
The problem: A universal nation is a contradiction in terms. A nation of all races, religions and tribes had never before existed.
The liberal democracies that embraced this ideology, this idea, are at war with human nature, and are losing this war to tribalism and authoritarianism.
As for Christchurch, unfortunately, such horrors appear to have become the new normal. But Brenton Tarrant alone is responsible for what he did. And it was not Trump but the New World Order globalists who fertilized the soil that spawned him. Emphasis added.
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The problem: A universal nation is a contradiction in terms. A nation of all races, religions and tribes had never before existed.
The liberal democracies that embraced this ideology, this idea, are at war with human nature, and are losing this war to tribalism and authoritarianism.
And we will continue to 'lose the war' until the dominant tribe expels the democratic minority.
Our magnificent republic and it's experiment with freedom is but of speck of time in the annals of tribalism and authoritarianism.
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World air travel has made tribalism untenable. If you believe in your tribe first and foremost, you are going to have friction everywhere you go away from your tribe. You can argue either way about whether there is an American tribe (I really think there isn't) but the fact stuff gets kinetic wherever Americans go still says something about tribalism.
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Ref #2: Precisely correct. We now live in a giant zoo. Until other solutions are found, survival is dependent upon independent domains and separation....nothing has changed.
Join the modern world. Stop worshipping a guy on a flying horse, moon phases, magic rocks and magic dirt. Stop worshipping celebrities. Stop worshipping clearly failed tinker toy excuses for economic systems. Stop worshipping yourself. Punish the wicked. Leave people who cause no trouble alone. (Looking at you, gun banners) Wise up. See the bigger picture...
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I ain't holding my breath, Murcek. Most humans can't see past their little monkey spheres of 100 people and tend to be reactionary to events. There is money and power in tribalizing things and most people look towards a god or charismatic figure.
I don't have any faith in humanity overcoming its hunter-gatherer roots for small tribes with powerful leaders and spirits shaping the world. The old wise men were there to keep a break on those impulses, but when they were ignored or cast down things went to hell quick. Our wise men are out of favor and ignored since they don't generate the clicks and views reactionary and charismatic people do. Therefore shit will go to hell for a while.
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Tarrant is Australian. Tarrant worked as a personal trainer for two years about 10-12 years ago. His father was a triathlon-competitor and died at 49 of cancer. Mother was an English teacher. During a tour through Europe, Tarrant witnessed an Uzbek man drive a truck into a group of tourists in Stockholm, killing five. He claims to have been inspired by Anders Breivi, the Norway shooter. He spent much of his time playing violent video games while growing up according to his 94 yr.-old grandmother. He traveled extensively to different places in the world for seven years. The grandmother says he became radicalized after traveling. I wondered where he got the money to travel so much. He had a sizeable inheritance from his family. It's been reported he traveled to North Korea and Pakistan. Not exactly places most people would go for a vacation. He has been reported to say that he most identifies ideologically with China.
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Our leaders in the 1920s understood this and took steps to halt the migrations until those who had come could be assimilated, and, in a word, Americanized.
So, yeah, it might be time to cool it for a while.
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Maybe only let people in who are likely to be easily "americanised" and actually want to be "americanised" rather than parasite from Americans?
[Daily Wire] On Saturday, a Muslim doctor who has been highly critical of radical Islam appeared on CNN and must have given that network heart palpitations as she insisted that in many parts of the Muslim world, not only is President Trump beloved, but so is former President George W. Bush, and that the Trump administration is not Islamophobic.
Dr. Qanta Ahmed, who hails from Great Britain, stated, "One thing the viewers should know, this president and this administration is often castigated as Islamophobic, but I move in the Muslim word, in Egypt, in Oman, in Jordan, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where this president is beloved. This president and the Republican Party going back to George Bush is very dearly held. Today is the anniversary of Halabja, the massacre of 180,000 Kurds at the hands of Saddam Hussein. That only change would [be] because of a Republican president. So it is very important not to lose so much perspective that we start believing our entire government is Islamophobic. That is not the case."
Ahmed added, "I did see his very categorical condemnation of the events in New Zealand and that was gratifying. And I also feel that he needs to do the same about white supremacy, not only the United States, but globally. There is nothing ‐ the president has no responsibility if a fanatic mentions him in a manifesto. A fanatic could equally mention me. So I don't think that is his responsibility. But, yes, I would like to see President Trump condemn all forms of lethal bigotry."
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Yes. For lefties, the only way DJT could effectively denounce Charlotte or Christchurch would be to cut his own throat on live TV. OF course, that's neither realistic nor going to happen. So they, lefties, are miffed...
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We recently had another article about Professor Ahmed. She’s the one who considers herself an accidental Zionist.
[WND] A new polls shows President Trump’s popularity is soaring in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
He leads a generic Democratic nominee in those states 46 percent to 40 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal survey.
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday it’s not hard to understand why.
Voters in those states like the "ongoing economic renaissance" they are experiencing.
"This wasn’t supposed happen. Trump was supposed to barely be above 30 now," he said.
But those states are "all thriving under the president’s pro-growth economic policies," the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports.
"Indeed, Trump’s economic agenda has had a profound effect on Pennsylvania: The state’s 4 percent unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in nearly two decades, and the economy continues to add new jobs at a dizzying pace," the paper said.
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People usually vote about the beans on their plate. And currently, there are a lot of beans after years of few. If things are still good economically in Nov. 2020, Trump will be very hard to beat.
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No. The short memory of voters will decide things were always so good and moar Clinton and Obutthole is the answer...
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In normalish election cycles, I would agree with you. But this is not normal times and the unions have been devastated in the rust belt. Work returning for these people after they voted for Trump will continue as long as the work does, IMHO.
The demoncratic part is broken there and with the current crop of insane leftist candidates, I don't see the workers returning to the fold so to speak.
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Expecting intelligent behavior from union members is a big stretch...
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Considering that the unions have been trying to force mandatory fees and losing with membership plummeting, I would give the now ex-union members the benefit of the doubt.
[Legal Insurrection] Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez might be a hit among the fringe left, but polling indicates she’s alienating voters and Democrats.
A new poll released by the Siena College Research Institute shows AOC’s favorability has tanked.
Favorability by the numbers:
From the SCRI:
“Ocasio-Cortez, with a negative 31-44 percent favorability rating, is as well known to statewide voters after three months in office as Gillibrand is after ten years as senator. While Democrats view Ocasio-Cortez favorably, independents view her unfavorably more than two-to-one and Republicans view her unfavorably, 68-6 percent. She is viewed slightly favorably in New York City but strongly unfavorably upstate and in the downstate suburbs.”
Worse still (for AOC), 2/3 of respondents strongly support the Amazon HQ deal that Ocasio-Cortez actively fought against, and say Amazon’s decision not to build a large facility in Queens is bad for New York:
[Daily Caller] Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump on Sunday after reports that members of the Minnesota Democratic Party are considering removing her from congressional office for her repeated anti-Semitic statements.
Minnesota Democrats are reportedly dismayed that Omar has made a string of bigoted comments about Jews, which have received massive condemnation from both sides of the aisle. Consequently, members of the state party are looking for someone to contest her nomination in 2020 and run a different candidate in her place.
Rather than blaming the Minnesota Democrats, Omar focused the backlash on Trump’s 2017 executive order, which has been referred to as a Muslim ban. The executive order suspended U.S. entry of those whose counties do not meet adjudication standards under federal immigration law for 90 days and included exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
Omar, along with fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, became America’s first Muslim congresswomen when sworn into office in January. Both congresswomen’s time in office has been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism.
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I've been around for a lot of presidents starting with Ike.
I've never seen such an omnipotent one as DJT. He seems to be responsible for anything in the world that is dubbed questionable by the CW, MSM, Proggie left, and Commies everywhere.
[PJ] Police are searching for a suspect who reportedly opened fire inside a tram and at several other locations in Utrecht, Netherlands.
According to Financial Times, three people have been killed and five more injured. Police initially said nine were injured, but reduced the number to five on Monday afternoon.
Police are searching for 37-year-old Turkish man Gökman Tanis. They released a photo of the suspect on Twitter.
The police asks you to look out for the 37 year old Gökman Tanis (born in Turkey) associated with the incident this morning at the #24oktoberplein in #Utrecht. Do not approach him but call 0800-6070. pic.twitter.com/U1IWEDtUYu
‐ Politie Utrecht (@PolitieUtrecht) March 18, 2019
Schools have closed and security has been increased while counter-terrorism police search for the gunman, the BBC reported.
"We cannot exclude a terrorist motive," Dutch anti-terrorism co-ordinator Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg said at a news conference on Monday.
The attack took place at about 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT). One witness told local media that "a man started shooting wildly."
[NYP] The Trump administration on Monday proposed new limits on federal student loans taken out by parents and graduate students as part of a broader proposal to curb the cost of college.
White House officials included the plan in a list of suggested changes to the Higher Education Act, a sweeping federal law that governs student lending. The legislation is getting its first overhaul from Congress in more than a decade.
Ivanka Trump, the daughter and adviser of President Donald Trump, unveiled the plan at a meeting of the National Council for the American Worker, an advisory group that Ivanka Trump helps lead.
"We need to modernize our higher-education system to make it more affordable, flexible and outcomes-oriented, so all Americans, young and old, can learn the skills they need to secure and retain good-paying jobs," Ivanka Trump said on a call with reporters.
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Hmmmm....why is the government competing against itself? See - GI Bill
Make the universities and colleges carry a sizable portion of the debt. They might actually want students to graduate with viable skills to pay them back.
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@P2K - That would work well at for-profit colleges and, perhaps, privates. But at state schools where most students probably are it would just put state taxpayers on the hook for the tab.
I know of a young woman who borrowed money through the student loan program. She went on to get a Ph.D. and then another in Europe. I was told she had borrowed a total of about $400K. She now has a university job after kicking around for a few years. She pays the minimum of about $10K/year based on her salary. In 40 years she might have it paid off. I know of another person who bought a new Audi with the money while attending school and getting paid as a TA. I know another student who bought a duplex with student loan money and later sold it. There are abuses in the program.
In addition to abuses in the student load program, universities are tied into the Federal government through many programs such as diversity multicultural program requirements, reporting requirements, EPA, OSHA, and many other programs. Moreover, like the government, universities have expanded the bureaucracy in universities significantly. The tie in to Federal programs ramps up the cost of education to the student and drives up the need for loans.
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Make the universities and colleges carry a sizable portion of the debt. They might actually want students to graduate with viable skills to pay them back.
I like this idea. But, further, I would require universities to inform students of their projected future earnings based on current statistics for their majors. I mean, with a degree in French literature, what can a student expect in the way of job prospects and earnings as opposed to a degree in engineering? Then tie the loan amount to the earnings potential, an engineering student could then borrow more than a French literature student.
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Introduce rudimentary economics into the student loan business?...that'll never work because...racism
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I feel the best way to fix the issue is make collages have skin in the game and limit available funds.
1) Limit the amount a student can borrow (can be adjusted for degree, school, etc.)
2) If a student finishes a degree, say an engineering 5 year degree, they need to be able to pay off the loan in 10 years at a reasonable payment plan. If the student can't due to no fault of their own, the collage is held financially responsible for the rest. The idea being a degree shouldn't be a lifetime payment plan. If someone can't pay it back in twice the time it took to get the degree, it was overcharged and the collage gets hit with the bill.
The idea back in the 70s is you could pay for what the degree cost in how long it took to get it. 4 year degree, most people could pay it off in 4-5 years. Things need to go back to paying for the degree in the time or double it took to getting it.
Otherwise this is little more than being a debt slave to the state.
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Someone I knew realized that he could postpone the onset of loan repayment by... (wait for it!) ...taking more advanced post-grad degree courses. Of course that meant that he would owe more money and the original loan kept appreciating, but he didn't have to pay today!
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^ Yes. And the concept of politicians floating "loan forgiveness" should be completely shut down.
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...who might finally wake up ....
It'll never happen. Taxpayers have bought hook, line & sinker into the idea that lavish spending on education equates to the future success of their community, state & (probably) nation. No part of taxpayers subsidizing failed students will have any corrective action.
[Politico] Alan Krueger, a celebrated labor economist whose research influenced Democratic policy on the minimum wage, died this past weekend at 58.
The cause of death was suicide, according to a statement from Krueger’s family released by Princeton University, where Krueger held a chair in political economy.
Krueger was chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under Obama and chief economist at the Labor Department under President Bill Clinton. A leading scholar on jobs, wages, and income distribution, Krueger joined the Princeton faculty in 1987.
"He saw economic policy not as a matter of abstract theories, but as a way to make people’s lives better," former President Barack Obama said in a written statement. "Through it all, he had a perpetual smile and a gentle spirit‐even when he was correcting you."
"A wonderful person, a very great economist," tweeted the Nobel prizewinning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, "who transformed our understanding of labor markets, and one of our finest public servants."
That's easy. Don't be a political tool and don't sell snake oil. You don't need a PhD. to see that...
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The inner guilt for having associated with both Clinton and Obama no doubt overcame him. Leaving a wife and two children to fend for themselves, a cowardly act.
[Townhall] I have told the following to numerous audiences:
I'm hardly a Hollywood celebrity, but almost no day goes by that I am not stopped by a few strangers who want to shake my hand and say something. Needless to say, I rarely know the religious identity of the individual, but if the person tells me what college their child goes to, I assume the individual is a Jew.
When I relate this to Jewish audiences, it invariably evokes a great deal of laughter. Jewish audiences know how true, albeit slightly exaggerated, it is. As I always add, to more laughter, non-Jews don't tend to tell strangers what college their child attends (which is why non-Jewish audiences don't find the story nearly as funny).
The story is humorous, but it conveys a serious and troubling fact: Many American Jews define their worth by the college their child attends. In American Jewish life, there are no bragging rights equal to being able to say one's child attends a prestigious college.
Thanks to the recent revelations about wealthy people -- few of whom are Jews -- paying large sums of money to bribe coaches and others to get their children into elite schools, it is now clear this perverse affliction is not limited to any ethnic or religious group.
Why would people do what they know to be immoral and illegal just to get their child into Yale -- or, for that matter, USC?
I am certain the biggest reason is bragging rights.
Apparently, many American parents define much of their worth as parents -- and even as individuals -- by what college their child attends.
[Washington Examiner] A group of "useful idiots" at the United Nations accused Israel of committing war crimes rather than hold terrorist groups responsible for using human shields in recent protests, a prominent Republican senator argued Monday.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz delivered that rebuke hours after a commission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council reported that Israeli forces "killed and gravely injured" dozens of civilians over a nine-month period last year. The clashes arose form protests against the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, as President Trump’s decision inspired a "Great March of Return" by thousands of Palestinians who sought to breach a border fence between Israel and Gaza. The most intense confrontations took place on the day of the Jerusalem embassy opening, which resulted in a U.N. rebuke.
"The Commission found reasonable grounds to believe that during these weekly demonstrations, the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) killed and gravely injured civilians who were neither participating directly in hostilities nor posing an imminent threat to life," the U.N. investigators said. "[T]he use of lethal force in response was rarely necessary or proportionate."
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There are 5-star hotels and restaurants to stay at in "civilized countries" where you can wax polemic about their (quote) dastardly behavior (un-quote). In Bad Guy Land™ they tend to haul you out in the bushes and shoot you (pre-execution torture on video optional).
[Free Beacon] Federal agencies are not monitoring how taxpayer funds are being spent, or whether research grants are being properly disclosed to the public.
A new report released by the Government Accountability Office found the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are failing to enforce the Stevens Amendment, which requires grant recipients to disclose federal funding when they publicize their projects.
The Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) does not know how much taxpayer funding is going towards salaries for groups who receive grants, and the National Institutes of Health says it has difficulty calculating where taxpayer funding is going because research programs can have "multiple funding streams" and research portfolios of academics are "now more complex."
The three agencies accounted for over $500 billion in taxpayer-funded grants in fiscal year 2017. HHS alone handed out $455 billion in grants.
Since 1989 the Stevens Amendment, named after the late senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, has required grant recipients to disclose how much federal funding they received for projects when they publicize their taxpayer-funded work in press releases, statements, and other documents.
In his rationale for the law, Stevens said taxpayers "ought to be informed how much money comes from Federal sources in any program, project, or grant activity."
[Breitbart] Several spring break revelers got a little unruly in Miami Beach this weekend after the group of mostly women began smacking and punching each other in the middle of the street, according to a shocking video making the rounds on social media.
The video, which first surfaced on Saturday, showed the revelers dressed in swimsuits brawling in the middle of the street while the vehicles lined up around them honked their horns in the hopes the brawlers would take the fight elsewhere.
But the revelers showed no sign of slowing down as they continued to slog each other while a few young men filmed the incident using their cellphones.
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Could be an opening in being on the lookout for these events and "rescuing" the children of the rich while whaling on the feral utes for the fun of it.
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I seriously doubt any of them study at a university.
[IsraelTimes] Images posted on social media show demonstrators setting off small kabooms, lighting tires on fire and pointing lasers at Israeli security forces.
Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip resumed night time protests along the border between Israel and the coastal enclave on Monday, a week after halting them.
Pictures and videos posted on Twitter show Paleostinians in several locations in the border area, setting off small kabooms, lighting tires on fire, and pointing lasers at Israeli security forces.
The loud sounds created by the kabooms at previous night time protests have caused significant distress for some Israelis living adjacent to Gazoo.
Some 600 Paleostinians participating in the night time protests on Monday largely remained several hundreds of meters away from the border fence, an IDF front man said.
At past evening protests, many Paleostinians, mainly youth, have approached the fence and clashed with security forces. In some instances, they have thrown Molotov cocktails and rocks at troops.
Security forces detained and subsequently questioned four Paleostinians on Monday, who crossed the border, the army front man said.
[Ynet] A cluster of balloons with an bomb attached to it was found Monday in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. Police sappers were called to the scene.
[IsraelTimes] A bigwig with the Paleostinian party Fatah is badly beaten up in the Gazoo Strip on Monday, with the group accusing the strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, of responsibility.
Hamas denies the claim and pledges to investigate the attack, which comes amid days of violent crackdown by its security forces on protests in Gazoo.
Atef Abu Seif, front man for Fatah in Gazoo and a member of its central committee, was beaten by a group of men near his home in the enclave, the official Fatah-aligned Paleostinian news agency Wafa says.
Pictures posted on Wafa show Abu Seif with a bandaged head and leg, with his clothes speckled with blood.
Mahmoud Aloul, deputy chairman of Fatah, accuses Hamas of carrying out an liquidation attempt.
Iyad al-Bozum, front man for the interior ministry in Gazoo, condemns the incident, telling AFP "the police are investigating the attack."
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a Paleostinian man Monday at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on suspicion of planning a stabbing attack, as Israel remained on edge following a deadly shooting and knifing the previous day.
The suspect, in his 20s and from the Paleostinian town of as-Samu, was found to be carrying a knife, and during questioning said he planned an attack, Israel Police said in a statement.
Officers manning a security post close to the holy site became suspicious of the man, who was loitering nearby and appeared to be nervous and anxious.
Security forces approached the suspect with the intention of conducting a search of his person, but he resisted, the statement said. He was arrested and a search uncovered the knife.
His identity was not immediately cleared for publication.
[Ynet] Security forces also searched the family business and questioned the father of 20-year-old Omar Abu Lila, suspected of killing an Israeli soldier and a father of 12
Israeli military raided the home of the suspected Ariel attacker and incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... his teenage brother early Monday morning. The security forces also questioned the father of the suspect, and searched a store belonging to the family. The 20-year-old Omar Abu Lila, from the village of Az-Zawiya in the West Bank, is suspected of killing two people and seriously wounding two others.
The Israel Defense Forces launched a massive manhunt for Lila on Sunday after he rubbed out 19-year-old Staff Sergeant Gal Keidan, and maimed two others - one seriously and one critically - in a shooting and stabbing attack close to the West Bank settlement of Ariel. One of the victims, Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger died Monday morning of wounds he sustained in the attack. He was a father of 12.
"Throughout the night, the Israel Defense Forces, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, the Border Police and the Israel Police, operated in the area of the villages in the area of the Ephraim Regional Brigade in pursuit of the terrorist," said the military in a statement. "In the meantime, extensive operational and intelligence efforts are underway in order to locate the perpetrator."
On his Facebook page, Lila published posts praising Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , and there was hardly any reference to political and religious issues. The only post to ever raise suspicions about his intentions, was a condemnation of Israeli security forces entering Temple Mount last summer.
The Sunday's incident apparently began when the 20-year-old stabbed the soldier at the Ariel Junction and then stole his rifle and shot him. The assailant used the weapon to fire at three vehicles, hitting a civilian and then hijacking a car, which he drove to another junction nearby where he shot another person before continuing on to a nearby Paleostinian village, said the military.
The security footage from the scene of the attack shows Lila approach the bus station where the 19-year-old Keidan was patrolling the area. The attacker is then seen confronting the soldier, grabbing his weapon and shooting him at point blank range, while soldiers stationed on the other side of the intersection open fire at the Paleostinian.
[IsraelTimes] In Geneva, the US ambassador to Germany leads protests outside the UN over what he terms the "bigotry" faced by Israel at the Human Rights Council, as nations weigh condemnations of the Jewish state.
Several hundred people join the protests which are largely focused on the council’s so-called Agenda Item 7, a fixture on the council’s schedule exclusively devoted to resolutions condemning Israel’s treatment of the Paleostinians.
Israel is the only country with a dedicated agenda item, which is one of the main factors that prompted the United States to leave the rights council last year.
"This is not just a form of bigotry. It is a sign of intellectual and moral decay," US envoy Richard Grenell tells the crowd.
"Like a drug-addiction, anti-Semitism is both a disease and a source of comfort" for states that habitually condemn Israel at the UN, says Grenell, who stirred controversy in Germany last year over his stated ambition to promote conservatives throughout Europe.
The protests were organized by the Geneva-based NGO UN Watch, which seeks to flag alleged anti-Israel bias within the UN, among other issues.
Tying up initial reports here and here with a ribbon. Note how quickly the authorities reacted to a possible jihadi attack.
[AlAhram] Dutch police nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a Ottoman Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday.
Utrecht police announced the suspect, 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, had been taken into custody.
The city was put into lockdown after the shooting, shortly after the morning rush hour, which authorities initially said was an apparent terrorist attack. Police conducted raids in several locations.
But hours after the shooting, the gunman's motive remained unclear.
Unclear to some, most definitely. But not to others — read on, dear Reader:
A prosecutor said it could be for "family reasons"
...which translates as an honour killing when the victim is female...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... 's state-run Anadolu news agency, quoting relatives of the gunman, said he had fired at a relative on the tram and had then shot at others who tried to help her.
Helicopters hovered over the usually quiet mediaeval town.
Authorities had raised the terrorism threat in Utrecht province to its highest level, schools were told to shut their doors and paramilitary police increased security at airports, other vital infrastructure and at mosques.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte convened crisis talks immediately after the incident, which came three days after a lone gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
"Our country has today been shocked by an attack in Utrecht... A terrorist motive cannot be excluded," Rutte said.
"The first reports have led to disbelief and disgust. Innocent people have been struck by violence... We are now doing everything we can to find the perpetrator or perpetrators as soon as possible. That is now our complete focus."
The mayor of Utrecht, Jan van Zanen, said three people had been killed and nine injured, three of them seriously. The number of injured was later lowered to five.
Dutch police issued an image of Tanis and warned the public not to approach him.
The suspect had had previous run-ins with police, the prosecutor said. Local broadcaster RTV Utrecht said earlier the suspect was known to police for both minor and major crimes, including a shooting in 2013.
The shooting took place in Kanaleneiland, a quiet residential district on the outskirts of Utrecht with a large immigrant population.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish intelligence services are investigating the deadly shooting attack in the Netherlands to determine whether it was a terror attack or a possible family dispute, 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 Monday.
According to Turkish media, the main suspect, Gokmen Tanis, was born in Yozgat, central Turkey. Turkish state news agency Anadolu, citing “relatives” of the alleged assailant, said it may have been a possible “family dispute.”
[IsraelTimes] The father of the Ottoman Turkish-born man suspected of killing three people in an attack Monday in the Dutch city of Utrecht said his son should be punished if found responsible, a Ottoman Turkish news agency reports.
"If he did it, he must be punished," the DHA agency quoted Mehmet Tanis, father of 37-year-old suspect Gokmen Tanis, as saying after what Dutch officials said was likely a terror-related attack.
His father revealed he had lost contact with his son, having returned to his homeland in 2008 after divorcing his wife, DHA reports. She remained in the Netherlands with Gokmen.
Mehmet Tanis says he had since remarried and now lives in the central province of Kayseri.
"I have had no dialogue, no contact with my son for 11 years. We have not spoken to one another since 2008," he tells DHA.
In Utrecht stood Vredenburg Castle
(the Spanish could be such a hassle!)...
But Dutch are not German;
Mohammedan vermin
Had better take care who they rassle.
Or not... but ya go to war with the deracinated tulipants ya got.
[PULSE.NG] Nicaragua's opposition alliance suspended its participation in peace talks with Daniel Ortega's government Monday in protest over the regime's "violence and repression" of demonstrators.
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“Try ‘em fair and hang ‘em high” is a lot cheaper than giving them three hots and a cot until their country gets around to taking them back.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced a Belgian national to death by hanging for belonging to 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.... bad boy group.
Bilal al-Marchohi, 23, was found guilty of belonging to Islamic State and carrying out terrorist attacks on its behalf.
"I shouldn’t be prosecuted in Iraq," Marchohi was quoted by Rooters as saying during today’s hearing. "I should be prosecuted in Belgium. I am a Belgian citizen."
During an hour of proceedings, the presiding judge read out portions of Marchohi’s signed confession and showed a video and photographs that he said proved his membership of IS.
The images from a phone found in his possession at the time of his arrest showed Marchohi carrying a gun and making a hand gesture affiliated with the bad boys. Several pictures showed him cradling his infant son.
Marchohi denied all allegations against him in open court, including that he was a member of IS at any time.
Judge Jumaa Saidi told the court that the photographs were clear evidence Marchohi was a member of Islamic State.
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In the old west, a man's horse and his cattle were key to his livelihood and survival. Horse and cattle thieves were reportedly dealt with quite severely.
I have no issues with the Iraqi decision. Their business, not ours.
Damascus (IraqiNews.com) ‐ A pro-Syrian government newspaper has claimed that the military chiefs of staff of Syria, Iran and Iraq will meet soon in Damascus to discuss anti-terrorism efforts.
Al-Watan daily gave no further details about the timing or location of the meeting.
Iran is a key supporter of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... and is also a close ally of Iraq.
After withdrawing from the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program, the US reimposed sanctions on Tehran in two rounds, the second of which targeting the country’s key oil and banking sectors took effect on November 5, 2018.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani left Iraq on Wednesday en route to Tehran following a three-day visit to the country, during which he held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih, as well as Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.
The visit was only meant to discuss a role that could be played by Iraq in mitigating the U.S. sanctions against Iran.
CONFIRMED: Heavy clashes (heavy shelling & machine gunfire) ongoing between Pakistani and Indian armies right now at Nakyal, near Goi, Akhnoor & Sunderbani sectors.
This photo has been shared with me by a soldier posted on Pakistani side of LoC. pic.twitter.com/Oy3wjSBdiU
[DAWN] In the aftermath of the Pulwama episode, Kashmire-centric turban group 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... has been making headlines internationally, as the jacket wallah involved in the attack claimed to be a member of the outfit.
This has led India to call for action against the group, particularly against its head Masood Azhar. While India has been thirsting for Dire Revenge in the post-Pulwama period, its efforts to blacklist the Jaish and its chief are not altogether altruistic. Delhi has made an all-out effort to prevent the Kashmire issue from being internationalised, and is presenting itself as a victim of ’terrorism’ to take the focus of the international community away from its brutal tactics in the held region. Indeed, all of Pakistain’s attempts at talks or acting on CBMs have been held back by the Modi regime’s single-point agenda ‐ to portray Pakistain as a hub of jihadi activity.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... away from the Indian stance, there is still a case to be made for Pakistain’s clamping down further on the Jaish and others of its ilk ‐ for its own security.
The dangers of the path adopted by the Jaish are clear. Masood Azhar’s aim was to blur the distinction between pro-Kashmire jihadi groups and those subscribing to sectarian militancy within Pakistain.
When Gen Musharraf proscribed the Jaish, he was targeted by the group, barely escaping two attempts on his life.
The attempt to rein in the Jaish’s activities caused a large section of the group to join hands with the TTP to attack the state and religious minorities.
Attempts to deradicalise gunnies also did not work, and it became clear that the danger of reprisals notwithstanding, stern action was necessary against all gunnies ‐ whether they were allegedly using Pak soil to plan attacks outside the country, or killing and maiming thousands within the country. Indeed, Pakistain should have learnt a lesson from the Americans who encouraged jihadi elements in Afghanistan, only to be confronted by a monster of their own creation in later years.
Given this backdrop, many observers have emphasised the need to crack down hard on all such groups in Pakistain. Most have been banned but much more is required to ensure that they are eliminated and never come back to life.
If the world wants to blacklist Masood Azhar, there should be no hesitation on Pakistain’s part. Neither should China use ’technical reasons’ to block such a move.
There are no ’good’ or ’bad’ gunnies groups; all have either caused or are capable of wreaking havoc in the country. That outlook is hopefully a thing of the past now, as the prime minister has promised that no groups will be allowed to use Pak territory for turban activities. He must make good on that pledge. This is the only way Pakistain will regain the respect of the international community, and counter India’s constant campaign to isolate it.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led "Wrath of Olives" operation room announced on Monday that their forces had killed three members of the Ottoman Turkish military in eastern Aleppo today.
According to the official social media account of the Wrath of Olives operation room, their fighters detonated a roadside kaboom while a Ottoman Turkish military convoy was moving through the village of Ajil near the key town of al-Bab.
The Kurdish group said that at least three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed as a result of the attack, including two military coppers.
The Ottoman Turkish military has yet to comment on these recent claims; however, the social media account of the Wrath of Olives released a number of photos of the alleged Ottoman Turkish soldiers killed during the operation.
The Wrath of Olives operation room was formed shortly after the Ottoman Turkish-backed Euphrates Shield took control of the Afrin region in northwestern Aleppo.
Since then, the Wrath of Olives operation room and the Afrin Liberation Forces have wreaked havoc on the Ottoman Turkish and rebel troops in northwest Aleppo.
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Cheese! That's a serious crime, Gromit!
[ELUNIVERSAL] Three men identified as Luis González, 18, Lorenzo Palmar, 24 and Nervis José González, 24, all members of a band known as "Los Queseros" were locked away Please don't kill me! in the San Julián sector, San José parish, Machiques municipality Perijá, Zulia state.
The subjects were detained by members of the Bolivarian Police Force of Zulia state (Cpbez) and accused of armed robbery on a farm, according to the Final Version portal.
The procedure was carried out by officers on duty at the San José Police Station of the Perijá Police Coordination Center, who were alerted by the owner of the hacienda where the crime was committed, through a call made to the Peace Quadrant number 6.
The uniformed ones went to the site, immediately undertaking the search for the criminals, who were placed in the town square, seizing a non-conventional shotgun-type firearm.
The men who had managed to take 25 wheels of cheese, among other dairy products, were taken to the police headquarters where they remain under arrest by order of Prosecutor's Office 20 of the Public Ministry.
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We found round of bullet, you bet,
A crossfire, a bag of baguettes
(okay, it's cassava),
A shutter gun, yaba,
And just the right wine for raclette.
[DAWN] China says it has incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! nearly 13,000 people it describes as Lions of Islam in the traditionally Islamic region of Xinjiang since 2014 and broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs".
The figures were included in a government report on the situation in the restive northwestern territory that seeks to respond to growing criticism over the internment of an estimated 1 million members of the Uighur and other predominantly Moslem ethnic groups.
China describes the camps as vocational training centres and says participation is voluntary.
Former detainees say they were held in abusive conditions, forced to renounce Islam and swear allegiance to China's ruling Communist Party.
The lengthy report issued Monday also says "law-based de-radicalisation" in Xinjiang has curbed the rise and spread of religious extremism.
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[PULSE.NG] Carlos Vecchio, appointed by self-declared president Guaido, entered two Venezuelan military buildings in Washington -- while advisory minister Gustavo Marcano took control of the consulate in New York.
"We are recovering and protecting the assets of the Venezuelan people to stop the usurper regime from continuing to steal from and destroy them as it has in the last 20 years," Vecchio said.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, who is loyal to embattled President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... , denounced the "forced and illegal occupation."
In a statement on Twitter, the Venezuelan government branded the action an "extremely serious violation of the US government's international obligations," and threatened to take reciprocal action in Venezuela.
The ambassador said that in the coming days, his mission would take possession of the Venezuelan embassy, although its accounts are frozen.
A source close to Vecchio said the opposition-controlled National Assembly would have to approve their use.
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In a statement on Twitter, the Venezuelan government branded the action an "extremely serious violation of the US government's international obligations," and threatened to take reciprocal action in Venezuela.
Like what? Better not try to "nationalize" that embassy. On the other hand, why not. We have a bunch of bored troops who wouldn't mind a little training exercise.
[PULSE.NG] Some residents of Michika told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they started hearing gun fire and kaboom around 7 p.m. on Michika- Lassa road as the bully boys, who approachef the town, were engaged by the military.
"We are hearing gunshots and the fight is raging on," a resident of Michika who simply identified himself as Idris, said.
"Pray for us; Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... are trying to enter Michika," another resident, Teri, said.
John Jigalambu, a resident of Bazza, a village near Michika, said they could hear gun shots and most residents in the village had escaped to avoid the attackers.
Confirming the incident, the Adamawa Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, said the military was on top of the situation.
According to Sajoh, the bully boys, who entered through Kirchinga village in neigbouring Madagali local government, were being chased out by the military which had deployed reinforcement.
"They burnt the first bank in Michika and some shops," Sajoh said.
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[DAWN] The World Health Organisation has conceded that government and its partner organizations in polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... eradication campaign are responsible for the failure to achieve the target of eliminating the poliovirus.
The world health agency stressed the need for joint efforts to make the country free of the crippling vaccine-preventable childhood ailment.
"As partner of the government in vaccination, we are accountable for polio eradication activities and there is strict accountability framework. There are many examples of termination of services and warning letters given for poor performing staff," Dr Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO representative in Pakistain, told Dawn.
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[KhaamaPress] At least 28 Talibs were killed during the Arclight airstrikes and festivities with the armed forces in the past 48 hours in northern Faryab province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrikes and festivities took place in Arkalik, Zohoria, Shakh, Ziarat Gah and Naw Dareh Qala areas of Qaisar district.
The statement further added that 28 Talibs were killed as a result of the festivities and airstrikes, 8 others were maimed, and 6 cycle of violences were destroyed.
The statement also added that the security personnel also sustained casualties during the festivities but did not elaborate further regarding the exact number, adding that the numbers announced by Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... are baseless.
The 209th Shaheen Corps also criticized the Provincial Council officials for endorsing the propagandas of Taliban group.
The anti-government armed holy warriors including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] More than 40 Talibs were killed or maimed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes which were conducted in various provinces of the country over the past 24 hours.
According to informed military sources, Afghan Special Forces conducted a clearance operation in Chahar Darah district of Kunduz province and destroyed 2 IEDs. The Special Forces killed 7 Talibs in a similar raid in Khugyani district of 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.. while an airstrike a barricaded shooter in Khugyani district resulted into the killing of a barricaded shooter.
The sources further added that Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Ab Band district of Ghazni province killing 4 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters and seizing 32 ANA uniforms, 13 pressure plate IEDs and an assortment of weapons and ammunition.
In the meantime, 2 Talibs were killed in an airstrike in Khoshi district of Khost and 14 Talibs were killed, another hard boy was maimed during the Special Forces operation in Nad Ali district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... . Over 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and numerous IED components were also destroyed during the same operation.
At least 16 Talibs during separate airstrikes in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan and Kajai district of Helmand province, the sources said, adding that a separate air strike in Sangin district of Helmand destroyed a structure being used as a Taliban operations center.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian Navy has dispatched its 61st naval group, consisting of the Sabalan frigate and the Bandar Abbas logistical support ship, to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait between 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and Djibouti connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, South Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Afshin Tashak has said.
"The naval group is on a mission to provide security for the routes used by the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) in the area of the Gulf of Aden and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait," Tashak said, speaking to Iranian media on Sunday.
According to the admiral, the naval group set sail for the strategic shipping strait on Saturday, departing from Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
Also Saturday, the 60th flotilla, consisting of two logistical ships, which fended off a pirate attack on an oil tanker last week, safely returned home to the southern Iranian port of Bushehr after completing a 5,600 nautical-mile journey.
The Sabalan frigate is equipped with a 114 mm main gun, along with anti-ship missiles, mortar, machine gun, torpedo tubes, and anti-air defence weaponry. The Bandar Abbas is a lightly armed replenishment ship with a helicopter deck and hangar capable of carrying a lone light helicopter.
Since 2008, the Iranian Navy has contributed substantial resources to international anti-piracy missions off the eastern coast of Africa. According to Tashak, Iranian naval groups have escorted some 6,000 oil tankers through international waters over the past decade.
The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the adjacent Gulf of Aden linking the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal is a major global shipping route, with the equivalent of about 4.7 million barrels of oil shipped through the strait each day.
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[Rudaw] The Iraqi Army and a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)-linked group skirmished on Sunday night in Shingal, with each side claiming that two of their fighters were killed, as the Yezidi militia says their convoy was ambushed on their way to a meeting.
Mahma Khalil, Shingal mayor told Rudaw TV on Sunday night that the festivities occurred when a Shingal Protection Units (YBS) military vehicle came under fire from the Iraqi Army as it was attempting to cross into Iraq.
Khalil said as a result of the one-hour fight two YBS fighters were killed and three others maimed. He added one Iraqi Army soldier was killed and another was maimed.
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[DAWN] The deadly terror attack on two mosques in New Zealand is "another grim reminder" of rampant Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... sweeping the world, Pakistain's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, told a gathering of delegates on Sunday.
The senior diplomat was addressing a side-event on "Breaking Stereotypes: Moslem Women as agents of change", one of the four events organised by her, at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a global gathering of women activists,
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[Libya Observer] An unknown gang has kidnapped three people after opening fire on several others in Ghadduwah in southern Libya, sources from the town have reported.
The sources added that the gang entered in a heavily armed convoy of about 10 vehicles, adding that the vehicles "appeared to have logos similar to those of ISIS."
They indicated that the gang stormed into houses of two persons and ended up detaining them along with a third one from Ghadduwah town, which later descended into calm.
The head of the municipal council in the town Masoud Abdelsalam told news hounds that the armed convoy was not identified, adding that one person was injured by their fire and he was sent to Sabha Medical Center.
Ghadduwah and Taraghen in south Libya were subject to attacks by some button men who could be from ISIS or Chadian rebels or even Libyan gangs in the region.
Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's self-styled army launched last January an operation to "cleanse the south of criminals and terrorists, thus seizing control of most of the south but failing to exact law and order.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish people will not allow Istanbul to become Constantinople, 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 on Monday, in reference to the city’s former Christian name, which was reportedly referenced by the attacker who recently carried out an act of terrorism on two mosques in New Zealand.
"The terrorist attack in New Zealand is a signal of certain circles addressed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... . The enemies of Moslems have shown that they continue to hate us. We are ready to resist and speak loudly about it in Canakkale... Ottoman Turkish people will always live on these lands, they will not allow Istanbul to be turned into Constantinople," he said while speaking in the northwestern city of Canakkale which marked the 104th anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish troops’ victory over the Entente powers (Britannia and La Belle France) in the Dardanelles Campaign during World War I.
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...Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Got it. ;)
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi army chief-of-staff Lieutenant General Othman al-Ghanmi said on Monday that the border crossing between Syria and Iraq will open soon, a step which is expected to help increase the volume of trade exchange between the two Arab neighbors.
"The coming days will witness the opening of the border crossing between Syria and Iraq, as well as the exchange of visits and two-way trade," Almaalomah news website quoted Ghanmi as speaking at a presser in Damascus.
He further highlighted high-level coordination "between the Syrian and Iraqi armies to face terrorism," stressing that Syria’s security is part and parcel of Iraq’s security.
[Rudaw] The death of a Kurdish activist on hunger strike in a Ottoman Turkish prison sparked festivities between supporters and police near his grave on Monday as his lawyers and Kurdish party officials said he had did away with himself.
Zulkuf Gezen, who died late Sunday, was one of scores of detainees on hunger strike in support of a Kurdish politician in Diyarbakir, a sensitive region where Ottoman Turkish forces have battled Kurdish holy warriors.
Clashes erupted on Monday when police fired water cannon to break up supporters of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP who had gathered at his grave, an AFP news hound at the scene said.
"A prisoner lost his life yesterday. If the justice ministry had fulfilled its responsibility, our friend who lost his life would still be alive," HDP co-leader Sezai Temelli told news hounds.
Gezen’s lawyers said he had hanged himself. He had been in prison for 12 years on charges of membership of the PKK Kurdish holy warrior group.
In a statement, the public prosecutor’s office said Gezen had did away with himself in a bathroom, but rejected claims he killed himself as part of his protest.
A politician from HDP or People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Leyla Guven, launched a hunger strike on November 8 while in jail to protest the prison conditions for Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. She has been released but other detainees followed her lead.
Ocalan is one of the founders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has waged a bloody rebellion against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984. It is blacklisted as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Ocalan has been serving a life sentence for treason in an island prison near Istanbul since his capture in 1999.
The HDP remains under the scrutiny of Ottoman Turkish authorities, which accuse the party of links to the PKK. Several of its MPs are behind bars, including former party leader Selahattin Demirtas.
At least 171 prisoners are on hunger strike, according to the party, which has urged the international community to take action.
The PKK initially sought independence and more recently autonomy for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... ally.... ’s Kurdish minority. Fighting has left tens of thousands dead.
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[Rudaw] The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described a media report that said the United States is planning to keep 1,000 forces in Syria as "factually incorrect."
"There has been no change to the plan announced in February and we continue to implement the president's direction to draw down US forces to a residual presence," added Gen. Joseph Dunford in a statement released on Sunday night.
Dunford was refuting a report by The Wall Street Journal published on Sunday. Citing US anonymous officials,
Oh. Well if it was anonymous officials...
the article reported that the United States would keep 1,000 military forces in Syria.
The figure represents nearly half of the forces the Pentagon claims are in the country supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS in eastern Syria and at the At Tanf garrison on the Iraq-Syria-Jordan border.
US troops remaining in Syria is at odds with US 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 announcement in December of a full troop withdrawal.
The report added that the decision to keep troops in Syria comes as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Kurdish factions, Europe, and the United States have failed to establish a safe zone between Ottoman Turkish forces and the predominately-Kurdish SDF.
Additionally, the source reportedly told the WSJ that keeping 1,000 forces in Syria was required because European and regional allies have failed to pledge to deploy their forces in the country, thus allowing for a US draw down.
Dunford struck a positive note, claiming that military planning between Washington and their NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... allies in Ankara have been "productive."
"Further, we continue to conduct detailed military planning with the Ottoman Turkish General Staff to address Ottoman Turkish security concerns along the Turkey-Syria border. Planning to date has been productive and we have an initial concept that will be refined in the coming days," he added in his statement.
The SDF have repeatedly hinted that they are close to routing a remaining 5,000 ISIS fighters and their families from their final bastion east of the Euphrates in besieged Baghouz.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the final stage of Jazira Storm has dragged on since May 2018 and the SDF and coalition say they have slowed the operation because the Death Eaters are using human shields.
US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey said at the Munich Security Conference on February 17 that the US withdrawal would not be abrupt.
[DAWN] At least three people, including two coppers, were maimed in an improvised bomb (IED) kaboom near a police vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... 's Parowa tehsil on Monday.
The police van was on a routine patrol in Parowa area, which borders Dera Ghazi Khan, when the bomb planted on a bicycle went off, DI Khan District Police Office Saleem Riaz said.
As a result of the blast, two police officials including a sub-inspector and a passer-by sustained injuries. They were shifted to the district headquarters hospital for emergency treatment.
DPO Riaz said eight kilogrammes of explosives had been used in the IED that targeted the police vehicle.
Search operations are underway in the area to apprehend the suspects involved, he told DawnNewsTV.
A recent study shows that the year 2018 saw a remarkable reduction of 45 per cent in bad boy attacks in the country. The study conducted by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies showed the ratio of security forces’ casualties per attack significantly increased in 2018 compared to 2017.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Cyclone Idai killed at least 157 people in Zim-bob-we and Mozambique as it tore across Southern Africa, officials and state media said on Monday, and vast areas of land have been flooded, roads destroyed and communications disrupted.
The Mozambican port city of Beira has suffered massive damage, the Red Thingy said. The storm has also pounded Malawi.
"The scale of devastation in Beira is enormous. It seems that 90% of the area is completely destroyed," said Jamie LeSueur, leader of the International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies team there.
In Zim-bob-we, the Chimanimani district has been cut off from the rest of the country by torrential rains and winds of up to 170 km per hour that swept away roads, homes and bridges and knocked out power and communication lines.
Zim-bob-wean information ministry official Nick Mangwana told Rooters the number of confirmed deaths throughout the country was now 89. The body count is expected to rise.
The Mozambican state news agency put the corpse count in Beira at 68, although television channel TVM reported that about 84 people had died across Mozambique.
Zim-bob-wean rescuers were struggling to reach people in Chimanimani, many of whom have been sleeping in the mountains since Friday, after their homes were flattened by rock falls and mudslides or washed away by torrential rains. Many families cannot bury the dead due to the floods.
The Harare government has declared a state of disaster in areas affected by the storm, the worst to hit the country since Cyclone Eline devastated eastern and southern Zim-bob-we in 2000.
The country of 15 million people is already suffering a severe drought that has wilted crops. A United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... humanitarian agency says 5.3 million people will require food aid.
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[DAWN] The surviving family members of Afzal Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i ‐ the man who exposed the 2012 Kohistan video scandal and was rubbed out earlier this month after years of fighting the menace of 'honour' killings ‐ have demanded of the authorities to ensure their security and means of livelihood.
And while Afzal's death has left his family members in more peril than before, that has not shaken their resolve to continue his work.
Speaking to Dawn, the two brothers of Afzal ‐ who were featured in the video that led to the honour killings of five women ‐ said Afzal had been the sole breadwinner of their family. With him gone, the future of 18 orphans and widows whom he was looking after is in jeopardy.
"We are scared. After Afzal was killed, our rivals threatened us and told us to prepare ourselves, saying 'we are next'," said Gul Nazar, one of the two brothers.
"They want to remove all traces of our family from here."
"All other victims died silently, it was only Afzal that unmasked [the perpetrators] in national and international media," he added.
Nazar said their fear has been compounded because their rivals are much more influential than his own family. "They own around 250 houses, while we own just four in the Gadar village of Pallas," he said.
"Afzal was fighting for the slain girls, his own brothers and for our security in the Pak courts," said Bin Yasir, the second of Afzal's surviving brothers.
"We never went out of the house since we were first accused in the case. Later, we were jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for six months and bailed out. Since then, we have spent the last seven years in stress and fear. We and our families have been confined to living like refugees in the hilly area of Battagram district," he added. Afzal's death had forced Bin Yasir to take the risk of appearing before media for the first time.
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[FoxNews] I am excited by the opportunity to share my perspective and views with the Fox News audience and to help shape the dialogue at this important juncture in our history. More importantly, I'm eager to learn from the experience.
The 2020 presidential election is a consequential moment in American democracy. Everything we believe in as Americans will be examined and, in essence, ratified by our votes. But it concerns me, as it does the majority of good Americans, that our national debate has become hostile and disrespectful. We no longer simply agree to disagree. Too often we demonize the intentions of others. Our lines of communication are frayed, if not broken.
In order for us to best decide as a people how to better protect and preserve our way of life, we need to first be able to hear what others are saying without the filter of bias and contempt. Not until we once again become practiced at treating those of differing views with civility and respect can we begin to join together to solve the myriad of problems our country must overcome.
I fully admit that in my previous lives as a campaign staffer, presidential campaign manager and Democrat Party official, my own lack of civility in the heat of battle has been on full display. And it wasn't pretty. I should have been wise enough and humble enough to have listened to my mother, Jean, who so often would tell me, the third of nine children, to shut up and allow my siblings to speak, and to listen - really listen - to what they had to say. She knew I wasn't listening so much as I was pausing before launching again into an argument. My mother tried to teach us Brazile kids a lesson we all need to heed as citizens: Listen more, talk less. Be civil to one another. Find common ground. Contempt is hatred towards others. These are the lessons and the attitude I will bring to Fox News.
Given your self-described history, my dear, it isn’t likely you’ll be able to sustain that attitude for very long. But it’s nice that you recognize the need, hypocrisy being the compliment that vice pays to virtue.
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"I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls."
The additions to the board came as Fox separated Tuesday from the corporation’s entertainment assets that Disney is expected to take over at midnight Wednesday.
So Fox entertainment is now Disney. Please remind me not to watch any of it.
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[DAWN] The bodies of two doctors who had gone missing last week have been found from a dam in Fatehjang tehsil of Punjab's Attock district, police said on Monday.
The bodies of Dr Iftikhar Ahmed and Dr Aziz Ahmed bore gunshot wounds and signs of torture, according to police, who suspect the involvement of their employees in the murders.
Three men have been tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in connection with the double murder.
As per the First Information Report (FIR) registered when the two doctors went missing on March 13, Dr Iftikhar, who lived in the United States, owned some land in Fatehjang and had delegated Dr Aziz to look after the property.
While on a visit to Pakistain, Dr Iftikhar and Dr Aziz had on March 13 drove from Islamabad to Fatehjang to oversee work being done on the said property, which is located in the Ali Jahangir area.
The duo had subsequently gone missing on the same evening during their commute back to Islamabad. An FIR was registered at Fatehjang cop shoppe on abduction charges.
On Monday, their bodies were recovered from a small dam in Dhok Suba and were subsequently shifted to hospital for a postmortem examination.
Although the two doctors belonged to a religious minority community, police have dismissed reports that their murders were a hate crime.
Speaking to DawnNewsTV, Fatehjang Station House Officer Abid Munir said Dr Iftikhar owned 46 kanals of farmland in Fatehjang, which he wanted to sell.
He said it had transpired during the initial police investigation that after coming to know of the dear departed's plan to sell the land, three of his employees hatched a plan to murder the doctors.
According to the SHO, the three employees, who worked at the property, first murdered Dr Aziz and then forced Dr Iftikhar on gunpoint to sign an affidavit to transfer the ownership of the land in their names. They subsequently shot Dr Iftikhar in the head, the police officer said.
The suspects then dumped the two bodies in a small dam near the farmhouse and covered them with sand.
All three of the suspects have been arrested from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... , SHO Munir said, adding that their four-day remand was obtained from a local court on Monday.
He said police have also recovered the stamp paper that the suspects had Dr Iftikhar sign, while efforts are underway to recover the weapon used by them to murder the two doctors.
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[PULSE.NG] Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner was charged in yet another corruption investigation Monday, in this case over the fraudulent import of liquid gas.
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[Rudaw] Iranian security forces twice clashed with gangs in the border area with the Kurdistan Region in a space of a week raising the possibility of increasingly tension at a time that Tehran and Washington are competing for influence in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
One Iranian border guard was killed on Sunday night in a clash with a group of gunnies near Baneh city in the western Kurdistan Province, the commander of the border guards in the province said.
"The border guards clashed with a number of armed bandidos who intended to carry out subversive activities inside the country," Commander Kiumars Sheikhi of the border guards in the Kurdistan province told Tasnim news. "We have found traces of these armed bandidos and we are pursuing them."
In a separate incident on Friday night, a Kurdish group clashed with border guards near the western city of Marivan which lasted half an hour with no casualties reported. No Kurdish group grabbed credit for the attack.
Iran has several hundred kilometers of mostly non-existent borders with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Tehran has historically attached critical importance to this region. Iran has repeatedly protested to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its two ruling parties to stop Kurdish opposition groups from using their territory to deploy fighters to inside Iran.
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Tehran says its adversaries 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... , Israel and the United States are supporting the Kurdish opposition groups, but the Kurdish groups say they are struggling for greater rights for the Kurdish minority which number over 8 million within Iran.
Peshmerga fighters of several armed Kurdish opposition groups ‐ headquartered in Iraqi Kurdistan since the 1990s ‐ often clashed with Iranian security forces including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) until last September when IRGC targeted two camps in Iraqi Kurdistan belonging to two of the main Kurdish groups. The missile attack came after three years of festivities between fighters of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and Iranian security forces in which dozens of fighters from both sides died.
In the latest clash on Sunday night, one border guard was killed, commander Sheikhi said without specifying which Kurdish group was responsible for the clash. Iran has been fortifying its border area with Iraqi Kurdistan by constructing roads to the mountain tops and launching large scale clearing operations via artillery, drones and thousands of troops to stop infiltration of Kurdish groups into the country.
While a number of minor festivities have occurred since the missile attack on the Kurdish camps in September, the latest attacks could raise tension between Tehran and Erbil if claimed by the Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region.
[ELUNIVERSAL] In northern Iraq, the PKK and the Party for a Free Way in Kurdistan (PJAK), Iranian Kurds twinned with the PKK, have bases for withdrawal
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive kaboom rocked Afrin city on Monday after unknown assailants targeted the main headquarters of the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels.
According to local reports, a boom-mobileexploded in front of the Hekmeh building, which is the location of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s (FSA) main headquarters in the Afrin region.
The corpse count following this attack is still unknown.
This attack comes on the first anniversary of the rebel takeover of the Afrin region from the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Since capturing Afrin last March, the Ottoman Turkish military and their rebel allies have turned the region into one of their main strongholds in northern Syria.
Furthermore, the Ottoman Turkish military has recently announced the opening of a new border crossing that links the Hatay Province with the Afrin region’s Jandaris District.
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[PULSE.NG] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... on Monday confirmed he will stay in power beyond his term expiring next month, despite tens of thousands of people demonstrating against his rule.
Bouteflika announced on March 11 he was withdrawing from his bid for a fifth term, initially sparking elation among protesters before they realised he would be remain in office beyond his term.
The ailing 82-year-old also scrapped the election set for April 18 and announced he was rolling out reforms through a "national conference".
Rarely seen in public since a 2013 stroke, Bouteflika issued a statement on Monday which confirmed his new plan would see him stay in power for months beyond the expiry of his term on April 28.
"(I hope) that Algeria experiences, in the near future, a harmonious transition and assists handing over the reins to a new generation," he said in the statement carried by state media.
"This is the ultimate goal that I have committed to making a reality before the end of my presidential mandate, at your side and at your service," added Bouteflika, who has ruled Algeria for 20 years.
While Bouteflika has given no timetable for his national conference, he said the shake-up of Algeria's "political, economic and social systems" would start "in the very near future".
A constitutional review would be put before a referendum, he said, which would be "a prelude to a new electoral process that will see the election of a new president."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Salafist tough guys are once again clashing in southern Idlib after a relatively peaceful two weeks among the rival factions.
According to local reports, heavy festivities erupted between Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Harakat Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... inside the town of Umm Seir in southern Idlib earlier today.
The reports said both parties used light and medium weapons, but they did not go into specifics regarding the reason for the festivities.
Harakat Ahrar al-Sham and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham have clashed on a number of occasions in the past, with the majority of their firefights ending in one side losing territory to the other.
Since the collapse of the jihadist-led Jaish al-Fateh ...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey... coalition, Harakat Ahrar al-Sham has attempted to change their image from a hardline Islamist group to a similar rebel force as the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA).
Ahrar al-Sham is now part of a large coalition of rebel forces fighting under the banner of the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... (NLF).
Despite the emergence of the NLF in northwestern Syria, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham still remains a major force in the governorates of Hama, Idlib, Latakia, and Aleppo.
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[AlAhram] La Belle France's prime minister announced a ban Monday on yellow vest protests along the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Gay Paree and in two other cities following riots on Saturday that left luxury stores ransacked and charred from arson fires.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the ban will apply for an unspecified period in the neighborhoods that have been ``the most impacted'' in the cities of Gay Paree, Bordeaux and Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , where repeated destruction has occurred since the yellow vest protest movement began in November.
He also said Gay Paree police chief Michel Delpuech will be replaced this week by prefect Didier Lallement.
Philippe announced the measures following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and top security officials that sought to avoid a repeat of Saturday's violence, in which rioters set life-threatening fires, ransacked luxury stores and attacked police around the Champs-Elysees. Many of those high-end boutiques remained closed on Monday, some of them charred from arson fires set.
He acknowledged ``dysfunction'' in French police operations on Saturday, rejecting ``inappropriate'' orders given to security forces to use fewer rubber bullets following a controversy about the numerous injuries they've caused at previous protests.
Philippe also announced a shift in security strategy to allow police forces to have a greater initiative on the ground to take measures against rioters and disperse crowds. He said police will use new tools, including drones and video surveillance, to help preventing violence and send rioters to trial.
``When a protest has been banned and its aim is to ransack and loot, all of those who take part it in and, in fact, protect looters, encourage them or glorify them online, are complicit and will have to face the consequences,'' he said.
Philippe promised ``nothing will change'' for other peaceful, authorized protests.
The surge in violence came as the 4-month-old yellow vest movement, which is pressing for more economic justice, has been dwindling. Images of the destruction on Saturday_ including from a bank fire that engulfed a residential building and threatened the lives of a mother and child _ could further erode public support.
But the renewed attention energized some protesters, who took to social networks to call for new protests this Saturday to demand lower taxes and more support for workers.
The Finance Ministry held a meeting Monday with groups representing small businesses, restaurants, hotels, insurance companies and banks to estimate the economic impact of the protests.
The Gay Paree region's Chamber of Commerce said 91 businesses suffered consequences from Saturday's riot at the Champs-Elysees, 80 percent of which were severely damaged. It called for an ``emergency plan'' to support those shopkeepers and employees.
Last month the French Parliament passed a bill backed by Macron's government to further prevent violence during protests and to help authorities maintain order. But the ``anti-troublemakers'' law has not yet taken effect since the Constitutional Council must assess it first.
It would authorize regional prefects to prevent people seen as a serious threat to public order from protesting, and would force protesters involved in violence to pay for damages. It would also make it a crime for protesters to conceal their faces, punishable by up to one year in prison and a 15,000-euro ($17,000) fine.
The bill has been criticized by rights groups, opposition members and even members of Macron's centrist party as going too far in restricting freedoms.
Protesters sought to raise their profile Saturday to mark end of a national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... that Macron had organized to respond to their concerns about sinking living standards, stagnant wages and high unemployment. Many demonstrators feel the debate didn't succeed.
Yet after offering French workers a series of economic concessions to address their complaints, Macron, the protesters' target, is now resurgent in the polls.
[ToloNews] Fifty-eight members of the Afghan Border Police, who crossed the border into Turkmenistan following heavy battles with Talibs, have returned home through the Torghundi Port in the western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province on Monday, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The forces came under attack by Talibs in Bala Murghab district, which shares border with Turkmenistan, in the northwest of Afghanistan, almost two weeks ago. The battle, according to Ministry of Defense, continued for two weeks.
The ministry said women and kiddies also accompanied the soldiers when they crossed the border into Turkmenistan after they came under pressure by Talibs.
Another 58 members of the border forces, the ministry said, were captured by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... "Search operations will continue until we release them," the statement added.
"From among 150 security force members, some of them surrendered to the Taliban due to the compulsion and some other were forced to flee," said Abdul Aziz Bek, member of Badghis Provincial Council.
"We are in a war situation. A war situation has its own words. It is true that one or two of our personnel are in the hand of the enemy, but we also have some of the enemies with us as hostages," said Noorullah Qaderi, Commander of Afghan Army’s 207 Zafar Corps.
Footage released by Ministry of Defense earlier this week shows an Arclight airstrike purportedly targeting Taliban hideouts in the district.
"They migrated to Turkmenistan alongside their families. They stayed in Turkmenistan for two days, but some of them had surrendered to the Taliban. We do not have any information about their fate," said Wali Shah Nayeb, an MP.
This comes a week after at least 20 Afghan security force members were killed in a Taliban attack in Badghis following a fierce battle with the hard boys.
Also on February, 15 Afghan security force members who had been captured by the Taliban were able to escape Badghis.
[Rudaw] Syrian president Bashir al-Assad’s regime will regain full control over jihadist-held Idlib and northern areas controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) "sooner or later", Syrian defense minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub told news hounds Monday.
Following a meeting in Damascus with Iran and Iraq’s chiefs of staff, designed to strengthen ties between the three militaries, Ayyoub said the United States has only one card left to play in Syria ‐ the SDF.
"Preserving the unity of the Syrian state geographically and human-wise is not negotiable and not up for discussion," Ayyoub told a presser in the Syrian capital alongside Iran’s Mohammad Bagheri and Iraq’s Othman al-Ghanimi.
"The Syrian state will regain full control over all of its geography sooner or later, whether through reconciliation or military force. Idlib won’t be an exception at all," he added.
US forces are stationed in Syria illegally, Ayyoub said, unlike regime-backers Russia and Iran whose forces were formally invited by the Syrian government. He predicted the US would eventually leave.
"There won’t be any area of Syrian soil outside the government control," he added.
Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib is currently under the control of the former al-Qaeda affiliate Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). An estimated three million people remain inside the province, including thousands who fled former rebel bastions in Daraa and the suburbs of Damascus. A shaky truce brokered by Russia and opposition-backer The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... has so far prevented a bloody regime offensive.
Several northern areas, including the Kurdish canton of Afrin, are held by Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian opposition groups. To the east of the Euphrates River, meanwhile, Kurdish parties have carved out an autonomous administration. Here the SDF is leading the ground war in Deir ez-Zor, near the Iraqi border, to uproot the last holdouts 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.... (ISIS).
Spooked by the prospect of an imminent US withdrawal, the Kurds of northern Syria (Rojava) have expressed a readiness to negotiate with the regime to secure some level of cultural autonomy should the regime retake the territory. Striking a deal with Damascus could prevent a feared Ottoman Turkish offensive.
The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), negotiating on behalf of the Rojava Kurds, has said the regime appears unwilling to compromise. The regime meanwhile has accused the US of trying to sabotage negotiations.
"America and others will leave Syria as they have left other areas since their presence is illegitimate and rejected," Ayyoub told news hounds.
"As for what is related to the so-called SDF, the rationale of the state and citizenship stipulates for the sons of the homeland to stand by their state and army, irrespective of the existence of differing political visions, but it shouldn’t reach the point of carrying arms against the army dedicated to preserving the security of the homeland and citizen," he said.
The army will "liberate" areas east of Euphrates if the SDF shows it is unwilling to pursue reconciliation and heed the authority of the state, he added.
General Bagheri, the visiting Iranian chief of staff, told reports Tehran is prepared to stand by the Syrian government in its efforts to reassert control over every inch of Syrian territory.
Syrian President Assad has previously made it clear he intends to retake areas outside regime control and has threatened the SDF with military action if it refuses to accept rule from Damascus.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their operation to reclaim the last self-proclaimed 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.... (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) enclave in the Syrian village of Baghouz on Sunday.
Footage from the area captures the exchange of gunfire and shelling.
According to the SDF, 29 IS Death Eaters were killed and "a large quantity of weapons and ammunition" was seized from IS on Sunday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) launched arguably their last counter-offensive to regain the territory they lost to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Baghouz area of eastern Deir Ezzor.
Backed by nearly 100 women and kiddies, the Islamic State stormed the Syrian Democratic Forces’ positions at the northern flank of the Baghouz Camp in a bid to force the latter to retreat from several areas.
According to preliminary reports, the Syrian Democratic Forces did retreat from some points after losing a half dozen fighters on Monday.
The reports said the Syrian Democratic Forces saw many women and kiddies dressed in their combat fatigues attacking their points during today’s battle.
The Syrian Democratic Forces will likely counter this Islamic State offensive in the coming hours as they hammer away at the terrorist group’s last bastion with both Arclight airstrikes and heavy artillery.
Due to their shortage of fighters, the Islamic State has begun using women and kiddies at the front-lines to help defend their last positions at the Baghouz Camp.
The Islamic State had previously prohibited women from fighting at any of their front-lines; however, due to a shortage in manpower and provisions, they have made an exception to this rule.
[Jpost] U.S.-backed fighters said they had taken positions in Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria and air strikes pounded the tiny patch of land beside the Euphrates River early on Monday, a Rooters journalist said.
Smoke rose over the tiny enclave as warplanes and artillery bombarded it. Another witness said the jihadists had earlier mounted a counter attack.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia said in an update on Monday that tens of gunnies had been killed during what it called fierce festivities, and one SDF fighter had been injured. It said Islamic State had sent four jacket wallahs to points close to SDF fighters.
Late on Sunday, an SDF front man, Mustafa Bali, said on Twitter that several enemy positions had been captured and an ammunition storage area had been blown up.
An Islamic State front man said on Monday the displacement of "the weak and poor" from Syria's Baghouz would not weaken the group.
"Do you think the displacement of the weak and poor out of Baghouz will weaken the Islamic State? No," Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said in a recording distributed by Al Furqan, a media organization linked to Islamic State.
He added "the Islamic State will return, God willing, to the regions it left whether it takes a long or a short time."
In the recording al-Muhajer also said Islamic State leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... urged the group to avoid using telecommunications devices as they had brought harm, and to take caution.
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[KhaamaPress] At least seven Talibs were killed in an Arclight airstrike which was carried out in the vicinity of Khogyani district of 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.
The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the Afghan Special Forces called in air support after coming under fire during the operation late last night.
The statement further added that 7 bully boyz who were involved in planning and coordinating suicide kabooms and roadside kaboomings were killed in the airstrike.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the report so far.
Nangarhar province has been among the relatively calm provinces but the security situation in some of its remote districts has tanked during the recent amid growing attempts by Taliban and ISIS sympathizers to expand foothold in this province.
[KhaamaPress] Last night Twitter users posted to social media "#AFG Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... are 3 KM away from Tarin Kot the lovely provincial capital of Uruzgan."
Military officials in South of Afghanistan are saying that these tweets are a result of what appears to be a refute to the recent successful air strikes and joint Afghan Special Security Forces and 205th Corps operations in Uruzgan over the past two weeks.
Although these tweets seemed to be an announcement to an upcoming Taliban attack, what actually happened was another precision Arclight airstrike by the Afghan Air Force, the officials added.
"Eleven Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan Special Security Forces; five Taliban fighters were observed in a tactical formation in the open. The fighters were killed by one airstrike away from civilians in Tarin Kot district, " said the 205th Corps Spokesperson. "During the same operation six fighters were observed for several hours actively planning future attacks against Afghan National Defense Security Forces and civilians in the region. The fighters were killed by two separate airstrikes away from civilians in Tarin Kot district."
In the past two weeks, 76 Taliban fighters have been killed by on-going operations.
"We have seen significant effects from these operations, " said COL Abdul Wali, the 4th Brigade, 205th Corps Commander. "No matter what they say to the media, we have seen a drop in their ability to resource and coordinate attacks against ANDSF forces in the area. The recent operations have really hurt their formation."
[Twitter] North Korea has been conducting air-raid drills in Pyongyang since last Thursday, after the summit with the U.S. in Hanoi, Vietnam collapsed late last month. The next day, the North's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui warned the U.S. that the bilateral talks may be suspended.
The North also indicated that it may end the moratorium on missile tests that it claims has been in place for more than a year.
Radio Free Asia reported Saturday that North Korean authorities had been holding nationwide air-raid drills since Thursday to prepare for a U.S. attack. One source in Ryanggang Province told RFA, "Things had been quiet for a while with no air-raid drills or military exercises, but the drills resumed suddenly and created many difficulties for people."
"Authorities across North Korea are telling people to get ready for war preparations by the U.S. and South Korea," the source added.
#5
Out of curiosity I checked to see if this and the supposed high level cabinet meeting coincided with the meteor explosion. The meteor event happened mid-December, so no.
[PULSE.NG] 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... drew a sharp rebuke from New Zealand Monday for using controversial video shot by the Christchurch mosque gunman as an election campaign prop.
Erdogan, campaigning for local elections this month, has presented the attack as part of an assault on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ally.... and Islam more broadly and projected the video of the killings at his rallies over the weekend.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters protested on Monday that such politicisation of the massacre "imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and it's totally unfair".
Peters announced on Tuesday that he would be travelling to Turkey this week at Istanbul's request to attend a special meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
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such politicisation of the massacre "imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and it's totally unfair".
It also tarnishes our virtue-signaling and reduces the chance that the crocodile will eat us last.
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.
[The Hill] The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it will offer up to $1,000 to anyone who adopts a wild horse in an effort to "encourage more adopters to give a wild horse or burro a good home."
From the SCRI:
[Politico] Alan Krueger, a celebrated labor economist whose research influenced Democratic policy on the minimum wage, died this past weekend at 58.
[Free Beacon] Federal agencies are not monitoring how taxpayer funds are being spent, or whether research grants are being properly disclosed to the public.
... 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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] The Pattoki police on Sunday arrested a prayer leader who allegedly raped a minor boy at Hanjrai Kalan village.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[Dhaka Tribune] Cyclone Idai killed at least 157 people in Zim-bob-we and Mozambique as it tore across Southern Africa, officials and state media said on Monday, and vast areas of land have been flooded, roads destroyed and communications disrupted.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
Bouteflika
...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey...
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State (ISIS/
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
[Twitter] North Korea has been conducting air-raid drills in Pyongyang since last Thursday, after the summit with the U.S. in Hanoi, Vietnam collapsed late last month. The next day, the North's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui warned the U.S. that the bilateral talks may be suspended.
