[FreeBeacon] Administration officials alarmed over bid to block Trump's ambassador to Germany
U.S. officials are increasingly alarmed by a congressional block on President Donald Trump's pick to be the next ambassador to Germany, a holdup that comes as Berlin pursues a host of anti-Israel measures and is growing closer to Iran, according to multiple administration insiders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. Perhaps Trump could appoint Twitter to be the ambassador in the meantime.
As Democrats in Congress continue to hold the nomination of Richard Grenell, a veteran Republican diplomat who was tapped by Trump to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, the post remains vacant, sparking concerns the United States is ceding leverage amid sensitive discussions regarding the future of the landmark Iran nuclear deal. Because Iran is so responsive to diplomacy.
The vacancy also has left the United States with little voice to combat a series of anti-Israel efforts being pursued by the German government. Trump administration insiders are becoming increasingly fed-up with the block on Grenell, telling the Free Beacon that U.S. diplomats currently helming the post have been bungling critical national security priorities, including the Iran portfolio and recent efforts by Germany to sell Tehran sensitive equipment used by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria to produce chemical weapons. I wonder if Darth Bolton could pull double-duty . . . .
"The current leader of the embassy is not an ambassador," said one senior U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation, referring to Kent Logsdon, a former Obama administration official who is serving as the chargé d'affaires ad interim in Berlin. Just close the embassy. It would be better.
"He is perfectly nice and steeped in the State Department culture, but irrelevant to serious policy makers," the official said. "He oversees a team that promotes a normalized relationship with Iran and has promoted anti-Trump speakers throughout Germany." He is not "nice". He is a backstabber.
Grenell's absence on the international stage has only become more noticeable in recent months, as the Trump administration pursues a last minute diplomatic effort to strengthen the Iran deal or scrap it by May, sources said. Looks like Dems are voting to scrap it and blame Trump.
The Free Beacon first reported that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ousted from the administration due in large part to his efforts to walk back a series of demands by Trump that European allies crackdown on Iran's ballistic missile program.
As negotiations continue, administration insiders have cited Germany as a prime roadblock in these discussions.
German officials have declined to go along with a bid to crackdown on Tehran's ballistic missile program, which includes scores of medium-range rockets capable of striking Israel and sparking a regional war.
Recent reports also indicate that Germany is likely selling Iran technology that is being used to help the Syrian regime replenish chemical weapons stocks.
America is failing to exert its diplomatic muscle in Germany as Grenell's nomination languishes in Congress amid fierce opposition by Democrats.
"The Germans have become key facilitators for Iran's dual use material and technology imports," said one Trump administration insider who works closely with the White House on Iran issues. "These are goods that ostensibly look civilian but can be used to help Iran advance its missile and nuclear programs." We can thank the present-day Fuhrer for that. Hitler burned what he could to the ground after WW II in revenge for the Germans not trying hard enough, and he had a thing for Muslims. Now Frau Merkel seems to be continuing the job. I can't imagine what good end she has in mind.
"In talks with American negotiators, Germany has made it clear it does not believe Iran's missiles should be subject to a snapback of sanctions waived by the nuclear deal," the source disclosed. "Instead, the Germans say the West should simply keep waiving sanctions and offer to negotiate with Iran on its missile program by offering the regime more economic incentives in exchange for JCPOA-like concessions on missiles."
This has caused a tense diplomatic situation that has been exacerbated by the lack of a U.S. ambassador in Germany, the source said.
"At a time like this, we need a strong-willed, pro-Israel American ambassador in Berlin," said the source. "That man in Rick Grenell. The sooner he hits the ground, the sooner we start taking it to the Germans for dragging their feet on Iranian missiles." It's not foot-dragging. It's worse.
As the Iran issue takes top billing, Germany has also come under criticism for a series of anti-Israel efforts opposed by the United States.
In the latest kerfuffle, Germany has been blocking efforts by Israel to join the United Nations Security Council. Israel's presence on the council could send a significant international message and help thwart efforts by Arab nations to delegitimize the Jewish state at Turtle Bay.
There, too, Grenell could have an influence, sources say, referring to his vocal support of the Jewish state and efforts to combat deligitimization efforts.
Germany also has refused to take a tough line on the Iranian-tied terror group Hezbollah, according to recent report.
The German government is said to be opposed to efforts by the international community to designate Hezbollah as a terror group and crackdown on its rogue activities across the region. Why should they be opposed? They are part of Frau Merkel's Final Solution.
As the diplomatic battle continues, the United States has had little to no voice in the discussion, sources say, again citing Grenell's holdup. Just collateral damage to the Donks. And all those liberal Jews out there, just make sure to keep on voting like you have been.
Richard Goldberg, a former senior Senate aide and current senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, described the block on Grenell as disastrous for U.S. national security and foreign policy.
"The number of bilateral issues facing the United States and Germany are mounting by the day," Goldberg said. "We need a thoughtful, strong-willed, confirmed ambassador in place as soon as possible. On issues like trade, the Iran nuclear deal and Russia sanctions, the stakes are too high to drag this out any longer. Leader [Mitch] McConnell should consider filing for cloture at the end of the week if the hold isn't lifted." Can't Trump just appoint one?
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Had it not been for German and Swiss laboratory instruments and tools, Saddam would have had none at all. Agricultural (tomato blight) research simply had to continue.
The company Krempel has sold Krempel „Pressspan PSP 3040 to two small trading companies in Iran.
This material is used particularly in small motors for household appliances and automotive applications.
The material was not on the list of "dual use material" for which previous authorization is necessary.
BAFA (The Federal Authority for Export Control) has this to say about the material:
In current press reports on "German components in Assad's poison gas rockets" it is stated that BAFA has issued export licenses for the material "Pressspan PSP 3040" for delivery to Iran. The material is also referred to as dual-use goods.
These statements are false.
It is inaccurate that BAFA has issued individual export licenses for pressboard.
It is also unfounded that Pressspan "PSP 3040" is a dual-use product subject to approval. It is true that particleboard is neither an armament good, nor a dual-use good, nor is it subject to Iran-specific embargo regulations.
It is a common standard material used, among other things, in electrical machine construction. The starting material is pulp, which is processed in a process similar to paper production. Comparable products made of cellulose are diapers and coffee filters. Differences in use are only gradual due to the different compaction of the material and the layer thickness. However, these differences are irrelevant with regard to the lack of criticality.
The production of the standard material pressboard is possible worldwide without special know-how. The material is freely available on the world market.
BAFA has confirmed to Krempel GmbH that the export of the material is not subject to approval only with regard to the stated civilian use in Iran for end use by the named consignees.
In the course of the plausibility check, there were no indications of any use of the material for possible missile construction in Iran or of any intended further delivery or even use in connection with the use of chemical weapons.
Due to the worldwide availability of commercially available material, the BAFA cannot confirm clear conclusions on the origin and "delivery routes" of the pressboard or the rockets themselves.
The BAFA confirms to inquiring companies by means of so-called "zero notices" that the respective goods which they wish to export to a country or to a consignee are not subject to approval.
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L-SWAQA, Jordan (AP) ‐ A U.S.-funded counterterrorism center has opened in Jordan where law enforcement officers from partner countries in the Middle East and beyond can practice shooting, storming hideouts and responding to bomb threats.
The Jordan Gendarmerie Training Academy is the second such facility in the pro-Western kingdom. It opened on Thursday.
Paul Davies, director for the State Department’s Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistance, says that additional training centers are to be built, including in Senegal and Kenya.
He says 21 partner nations out of a pool of 56 have trained so far in Jordan’s first facility.
Earlier this week, Tunisian police officers practiced storming rooms in a "shoot house" in the new center.
They threw sound grenades, setting off loud booms, as visitors watched the drills from a gallery above.
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Send more rebels not paramedics new zombie movie they Store them in barrels like in that zombie movie and drop them out of helicopters instead of barrel bombs!
[Breitbart] An unnamed 55-year-old woman in Spain has died after a fatal apitherapy appointment. This unique form of alternative medicine leverages honeybee products ‐ including venom ‐ to treat all manner of ailments. Unfortunately, the woman may have developed an allergy to bee stings.
In bee acupuncture, a professional squeezes a live honeybee onto someone’s face, prompting it to sting and inject its venom, after which it dies and the process is repeated. This and other apitherapy treatments are used for everything from arthritis to cancer, despite some the medical community’s resistance to its "quackery." Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow of Goop infamy swears by the treatment, crediting bee venom with helping rid her of an old injury.
This was not the first time there had been complications for the unidentified patient. The woman had already been through two dozen appointments over the years before, apparently without reactions sufficient to dissuade her from continuing the treatment. But during the last visit, she "developed wheezing, dyspnea, and a sudden loss of consciousness immediately after a live bee sting."
She was rushed to a hospital but later died of multi-organ failure. The case study authors stop short of mocking the treatment outright but do caution that "repeated exposure to the allergen was found to carry a greater risk of severe allergic reactions than in the general population," so "the risks of undergoing apitherapy may exceed the presumed benefits." They have concluded that "this practice is both unsafe and unadvisable."
[Hot Air] If this post fails to appear or, once published, suddenly disappears, a majority of Americans will know whom to blame: The Deep State.
According to a new Monmouth University Poll, a substantial majority of Americans believes that an unelected, shadowy portion of government and the military secretly manipulates federal policy to its own ends.
Here’s what’s so intriguing about this finding: It’s bipartisan, one of the few things in these hyper-partisan days that members of both parties as well as independents share a fervent belief in.
"This is a worrisome finding," says Patrick Murphy, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. "The strength of our government relies on public faith in protecting our freedoms, which is not particularly robust. And it’s not a Democratic or Republican issue. These concerns span the political spectrum."
Perhaps out of conviction, President Trump has stoked belief in the Deep State, suggesting faceless opponents in Washington maliciously use an antagonistic and willing media to undermine his policies and programs in the eyes of unwitting citizens.
Clearly, Trump’s professed suspicions have found a believing audience.
Fully 64 percent of the 803 adults polled said they believe the Deep State definitely or probably exists. Sixteen percent think it "probably" does not exist. Only five percent are certain it does not exist.
Sixty percent feel unelected or appointed officials have too much power and influence determining federal policies, for instance, writing regulations from vaguely-worded legislation.
"We usually expect opinions on the operation of government to shift depending on which party is in charge," Murphy adds. "But there’s an ominous feeling by Democrats and Republicans alike that a ’Deep State’ of unelected operatives are pulling the levers of power."
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I suspect the reason we can no longer do budgets is that the out of sight Omnibus pork gives lobbyists enough of what they want to fully fund the re-election of the UNI-Party.
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I suspect the reason we can no longer do budgets is that the out of sight Omnibus pork gives lobbyists enough of what they want to fully fund the re-election of the UNI-Party.
I'm afraid that's pretty much how it works.
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The question is, would things be better or worse with five parties?
[Townhall] "This is just a truly astonishing moment coming from the White House podium," tweeted MSNBC's Kasie Hunt. Like the rest of the media pack-animals she hunts with, Ms. Hunt had been fuming over President Trump's telephone call to Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on winning another term as Russian president.
Reliably opposed to a truce were party heavies on both sides. Sen. John McCain joined the chorus: "An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections," he intoned.
Another Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, told a reporter testily that he "wouldn't have a conversation with a criminal. I think Putin's a criminal." "When I look at a Russian election, what I see is a lack of credibility in tallying the results," sermonized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "I'm always reminded of the elections they have in almost every communist country."
Actually, what the International Election Observation Mission found in Russia's presidential election of March 18 was far more nuanced. Why, in some ways the Russian elections were very American: In the difficulty dissident candidates have in getting on the ballot, for example.
Ask Ron Paul or all those anonymous, aspiring, independent, third-party candidates about the US's "restrictive ballot access laws and the other barriers erected" by the duopoly to protect their "de facto monopoly in America," to paraphrase Forbes.com.
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Obama gave the dictators of Iran billions in cash and permission to acquire nulclear weapons. Obama also surrendered to Castro with a limp wristed photo op to boot.
At this moment I trust Putin more than McConnell, Ryan, Schumer or Pelosi
[Hot Air] Go figure that a man known as a skilled appellate defense attorney might have an animus against the idea of a roving prosecutor, but don’t let that keep people from hearing Alan Dershowitz out. He writes in The Hill that Congress should have seized the moment after the 2016 election by creating a bipartisan special commission to get to the truth of Russian interference and how to defend against it instead of demanding recusals and special counsels.
The Mueller probe, Dershowitz argues, compounded the damage that Russia intended to create in the first place:
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Doesn't matter. It's emotional. They were very deeply hurt by Trump, and now it's payback time. They will pursue him to the ends of the Earth and if it hurts America, then America is a horrible country which deserves it.
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It showed the American People (the rest of us knew it already) what their elites are really like.
[Daily Caller] Brazilian women want to be impregnated from the sperm of white American men, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
Wealthy Brazilian women and lesbian couples are requesting white male sperm from the U.S. so their kids will have more Caucasian features, the Wall Street Journal reported.
At least 50 percent of Brazil’s population is black or mixed-race, but women are selecting young sperm donors who will more likely produce children with blond hair and blue eyes. The number of American sperm donors to Brazil surged at least 3,000 percent in the past seven years. It is also illegal to pay men for their sperm in Brazil, which allows American donors more opportunity in the market.
The carefully vetted process of selecting American sperm and then the in vitro fertilization process starts at around $7,000.
[The Hill] An undercover informant who helped the FBI prove Russia’s uranium industry engaged in criminal activity says congressional Democrats’ recent attacks on his credibility were insulting to his medical disability and ignored the fact that agents recently asked him for fresh testimony about former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
In his first on-camera interview, William Douglas Campbell told The Hill he was interviewed for about five hours in December by FBI agents from Little Rock, Ark., who were investigating whether donations to the Clintons’s charitable empire were used to influence U.S. nuclear policy during the Obama years.
Campbell said he was asked specifically about whether donations to the Clintons charitable efforts were used to influence U.S. nuclear policy during the Obama year, and that agents questioned him extensively about claims the Russians made to him that they had routed millions of dollars to an American lobbying firm in 2010 and 2011 with the expectation it would be used to help President Clinton's charitable global initiative while major uranium decisions were pending before Hillary Clinton's State Department.
"They were looking into the Clintons, and the information that I provided to them about the Clintons and about what was said and confirmed by Russian leadership seemed to be very important to them," Campbell said, appearing in shadow during the interview to protect his identity.
Spokesmen for the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton did not return calls Thursday seeking comment. The Clintons have long denied donations influenced any policies.
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"They were looking into the Clintons, and the information that I provided to them about the Clintons and about what was said and confirmed by Russian leadership seemed to be very important to them," Campbell said, appearing in shadow during the interview to protect his identity.
"Appearing in shadow"..... could provide a clue as to the content of his responses.
Bottom line however.... 'What happens in Little Rock, stays in Little Rock. Some things, they simply never change.
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The Dems are hoping Campbell will die before anything happens with U1. Awhile back Campbell claimed that someone was trying to help the Dems achieve this goal early.
[LI] The battle isn’t over Trump, it’s over whether our normal democratic and constitutional politics which elected Trump will prevail over the deep state.
The pace of media frenzy and #TheResistance howling has picked up lately, particularly in the wake of the firing of Andrew McCabe.
But this frenzy is just a variation on a theme.
That theme is that the 2016 election was invalid, Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, and Trump must be removed from office one way or another. One of those ways is through the Mueller investigation.
None of this is new. It’s been a rolling anti-Trump thunder at least since election night.
With all the outrage over Trump’s tweets or statements or actions, I’ve yet to see a single Trump personality trait or modus operandi that was not fully exposed and litigated during the campaign. Trump won the election with full personality disclosure. So when people claim outrage over this Trump tweet or that, I mostly don’t care.
I also don’t care about the continued smoke blowing about supposed Russia collusion. At such point as someone shows me the fire, I’ll worry about it, but the smoke is just part of the attempt to delegitimize the election.
What I do care about is the intense anti-democratic (small "d") nature of The Resistance in favor of a permanent espionage state which exploits its information for political purposes.
There were multiple chilling examples after McCabe was fired.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, who is as anti-Trump as they come, suggested that he knew information about Trump that was not yet public. Information, of course, he would have learned in his role at the CIA or through his connections:
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The Latest on Congress and a $1.3 trillion government spending bill (all times local): 12:45 a.m.
Congress has approved a $1.3 trillion measure bestowing hefty increases on military and domestic programs. It gives President Donald Trump just a nibble of the money he’s wanted to build his wall with Mexico.
The Senate gave final passage to the bipartisan legislation by 65-32 early Friday. The House approved it 256-167 hours earlier.
Trump is expected to sign the bill before Saturday. That would avert what would be a third government shutdown this election year, which would embarrass Republicans controlling the White House and Congress.
Trump initially promised Mexico would pay to construct his "big, beautiful wall." That country has refused, and Trump has sought $25 billion for the project and other border security efforts.
This bill provides only $1.6 billion for a year’s work.
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I hate this. I hope Trump veto's it. I would sooner see the government shut down than see this trough full of hog food (trying to avoid vulgarity, barely succeeding). I certainly would not be embarrassed if the government is shut down. I pray for a plague on both their houses. It feels odd, but Rand Paul may be right on this. And the BS that Trump would not sign because of no DACA mention? Does everyone in Washington hate the citizenry of the USA?
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There is no reigning in of profligate spending. Congress is the enemy worse than the islamists. They will not reform themselves.
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Phase 1: We can't do anything because we only have the House.
Phase 2: We can't do anything because we only have the House and Senate.
Phase 3: We won't do anything even though we control the House, Senate and White House.
Why should any care if its a republic?
I'm with the plan to spend it into the ground. Then pick up the piece afterwards. A lot of hogs will die. Suffering will be great, but that's how humans have learned the hard lessons for thousands of years. See - Goose, Golden Egg
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And yet we know what it will look like if we allow the Democrats to get majorities in the House and Senate — President Trump won’t be able to do anything at all. I intend to vote for the Tea Partiest candidates in the primaries that I can find, then for the Republican in the general election, in the hope of moving the average further to the right.
[IsraelTimes] The United States imposes sanctions on a Frenchie it accuses of helping 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.... terror group deploy chemical weapons on the Syrian battlefield.
A statement from the State Department identifies the suspect as Joe Asperman and says he had been listed as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."
"French national Joe Asperman is a senior chemical weapons expert for ISIS," the statement says. "Asperman oversaw chemical operations production within Syria for ISIS and the deployment of these chemical weapons at the battlefront."
Although hundreds of French fighters are thought to have travelled to the Middle East to fight with jihadist groups like the Islamic State, Asperman’s name has not previously been reported.
The US Treasury’s list of sanctioned snuffies says he is believed to have been born in the Cannes region on La Belle France’s southern, Mediterranean coast between 1986 and 1988.
Along with Bashir al-Assad’s Damascus regime, the Islamic State terror group has also been accused of deploying chemical attacks in Syria, where it is one of the factions in the long-running civil war.
Along with Asperman, the State Department also designates the Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari, an gang it describes as an Al Qaeda ally and "the largest Uzbek fighting force in Syria."
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[IsraelTimes] The United States embassy in Israel announces it has eased the visa renewal process for Israelis.
Under the new guidelines, Israelis who have in the past been granted a visa can send in their application and will no longer need to go in for an interview.
The embassy says the new process applies only to those who received their visas after January 1, 2008, and were at least 14 years old when granted a visa.
[Cyberscoop] The U.S. government and Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab are currently in the throes of a nasty legal fight that comes on top of a long-running feud over how the company has conducted itself with regard to U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.
A recent Kaspersky discovery may keep the feud alive for years to come.
CyberScoop has learned that Kaspersky research recently exposed an active, U.S.-led counterterrorism cyber-espionage operation. According to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, the operation was used to target ISIS and al-Qaeda members.
On March 9, Kaspersky publicly announced a malware campaign dubbed "Slingshot." According to the company’s researchers, the campaign compromised thousands of devices through breached routers in various African and Middle Eastern countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Yemen.
Kaspersky did not attribute Slingshot to any single country or government in its public report, describing it only as an advanced persistent threat (APT). But current and former U.S. intelligence officials tell CyberScoop that Slingshot represents a U.S. military program run out of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), a component of Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
The complex campaign, which researchers say was active for at least six years, allowed for the spread of highly intrusive malware that could siphon large amounts of data from infected devices.
Slingshot helped the military and intelligence community collect information about bandidosbully boyz by infecting computers they commonly used, sources told CyberScoop. Often times, these targeted computers would be located within internet cafés in developing countries. ISIS and al-Qaeda targets would use internet cafés to send and receive messages, the sources said.
These officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a classified program, fear the exposure may cause the U.S. to lose access to a valuable, long-running surveillance program and put soldiers’ lives at risk.
The disclosure comes at a difficult time for Kaspersky. The company is currently fighting the U.S. government in court after the government claimed that the Moscow-based company’s software poses a national security risk due to the company’s Russian government ties. Kaspersky has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
CyberScoop’s reporting of JSOC’s role in Slingshot provides the first known case of a SOCOM-led cyber-espionage operation. The command is better known for leading physical missions that place elite soldiers on the ground in hostile territories. Over the last decade, SOCOM has been instrumental in the Global War on Terror, having conducted many sensitive missions, including the one that killed former al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... Slingshot, CyberScoop has learned, is a complement to JSOC’s physical missions.
A former intelligence official told CyberScoop that Kaspersky’s findings had likely already caused the U.S. to abandon and "burn" some of the digital infrastructure that JSOC was using to manage the surveillance program.
"SOP [standard operating procedure] is to kill it all with fire once you get caught," said the former intelligence official. "It happens sometimes and we’re accustomed to dealing with it. But it still sucks ... I can tell you this didn’t help anyone."
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Yea, well, that's what happens when one underestimates the competition.
[Ynet] Three Arab men from the Triangle area suspected of kidnapping another Arab man and beating him bloody to dissuade him and his family from 'collaborating' with Israeli security forces.
The police have tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! three Arab men from the Triangle area suspected of abducting another Arab man from the same area because they believed he was collaborating with Israeli security forces.
The police investigation found that earlier this week, the victim was driving his car in the town he lives in, when the three suspects showed up and forcefully removed him from the vehicle.
They allegedly kidnapped him, tied him and beat him bloody. Several hours later, they released their injured victim.
The victim arrived at the local cop shoppe with his father the next day to file a complaint.
The police launched an investigation, during which Sherlocks were able to track down the three suspects.
In their interrogation, the three denied the abduction was nationalistically motivated, claiming the victim was trespassing on their property, which is why they decided to nab him.
The police reject the suspects' claims and are convinced the three carried out the violent abduction in an effort to dissuade the victim and his family from collaborating with Israeli security forces.
The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court extended the three suspects' remand by six days on Wednesday. They are suspected of abduction for the purpose of aggravated battery, conspiring to commit a crime, assault and battery, and intimidation.
[Ynet] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", security forces circle home in Nuseirat refugee camp to capture Anas Abu Khoussa, alleged to have carried out the attempt on the life of Paleostinian PM Hamdallah; would-be assassin, who may have had ties to Gazoo Salafist movements, was badly maimed during siege, later dies; 2 Hamas operatives die during siege.
Hamas security forces were involved in a firefight in the Gazoo Strip's Nuseirat refugee camp Thursday morning as part of the manhunt after Anas Abu Khoussa, suspected of the attempt on the life of Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Forces have besieged a home within the camp in which Abu Khoussa has allegedly been hiding.
Two Hamas combatants were killed during the firefight, whereas Abu Khoussa was seriously maimed and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital. In addition, another man suspected of having been an accomplice was killed and a second alleged accomplice was captured.
Abu Khoussa, 26, was said to be the person suspected of the attempted liquidation, and may be related to Gazoo Salafist movements, according to Paleostinian sources.
Earlier Thursday, roadblocks were put up and smuggling tunnels near Rafah were closed by the terror group ruling the isolated enclave to prevent and block Abu Khoussa from escaping the strip. Hamas also prevented access to the Erez border crossing Thursday morning, later allowing only humanitarian cases to pass.
The bombing of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's convoy in Gazoo last week dealt another blow to efforts to implement a unity deal between the two main Paleostinian factions‐Islamist Hamas, which dominates Gazoo, and Fatah, the main party in the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank.
The motorcade Hamdallah and Paleostinian security chief Majid Faraj was attacked on March 13 shortly after it entered Gazoo from neighboring Israel. They were uninjured.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... had blamed Hamas for the kaboom.
After Thursday's raid, a front man for Hamdallah's government questioned Hamas's version of events and again accused the group of bearing "full criminal responsibility" for the liquidation attempt.
"Once more, Hamas is going along the same path of ... fabricating weak stories that make no sense," the front man, Youssef al-Mahmoud, said.
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My worry is McMaster was telling Trump things he did not want to hear but things he needed to hear nonetheless. Which is why he left/got fired. McMaster knows war and the reality of it. Trump does not. Bolton was a diplomat, and as of late, a TV talking head.
Id rather have had Bolton as Sec State, let him clean out the state dept with a flamethrower and light some people up on the diplomatic side of things. Unlike NS Adviser, its a full cabinet level office, and a lot more powerful.
Starting wars isn't all that its cracked up to be, especially if you or your kids or grandkids are those who are tasked with winning the wars. I have skin in the game, though not my own anymore.
I have no confidence that Trump will not veer off and get distracted. And when that happens, this administration thrashes around and screws things up, usually with some wild Trump tweet as the cherry on top. And then the state dept wretches will once again stop things before they finish, leaving yet another war to be fought, screwing us military and our allies once again.
We who bleed got screwed in 91 when we could have finished the job once and for all. There would likely not have been a 9/11 nor a need for OIF if the first Bush had let us off the chain and took out Saddam. Then hit happened again in OIF, throwing away all the gains from the surge, thanks to that fricken jerk Islamist boot licker Obama. And in between that shit sandwich were Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia in between. And Haiti too.
If Trump and company do decide to have a go at Iran, they better damned well have solid and meaningful high impact objectives, have the means to achieve them quickly, and the will to finish the damned job.
It better be worth the blood it will cost.
Color me wary of full-on war with Iran - what are we trying to accomplish? Anything short of decapitation will end up reinforcing the hold of the Mullahs. Regime change has to be the goal, anything else is a half measure doomed to fail.
If Trump goes in there, he better go hard, win fast, win big, or the spineless GOP in congress will give the Dems the impeachment proceedings they are salivating over.
As for North Korea, there is simply no good answer there. We kicked the damned can down the road for too long under Clinton, Bush and Obama. 24 fricken years wasted. And that clown Jimmy Carter screwed up everything on the rare occasions when we did manage to put in some harder measures.
In Seoul, a lot of civilians will die. And the press will blame it all on the US instead of the North Korean artillery shells and nuclear strikes. Same warning about spineless Repubs and impeachment goes double here.
As someone famous once said, Its getting awfully hot - where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
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We who bleed got screwed in 91 when we could have finished the job once and for all. There would likely not have been a 9/11 nor a need for OIF if the first Bush had let us off the chain and took out Saddam. Then hit happened again in OIF, throwing away all the gains from the surge, thanks to that fricken jerk Islamist boot licker Obama. And in between that shit sandwich were Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia in between. And Haiti too.
Absolutely true. Superb analysis OS, but I still believe Iran must be dealt with.
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National Security. Did McMaster anticipate our forces were about to be attacked by a few hundred Russians, Russian artillery, Russian tanks?
National Secirity. Did McMaster predict our allies in the ME such as the SDF were about to be invaded resulting in 800,000 people being driven out of their land by Turkey and Al Qaeda in 0 to 60 days flat?
National Security. McMaster is a Flunky. Bolton = I know what is about to happen. McMaster = What just happened?
This is the kind of situation that I worried about with DJT. So far most of his "walk" has been decent, his "talk" I basically ignore on the "take him seriously, not literally" formula.
[ARABNEWS] A series of recent health scares have raised new concerns about octogenarian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , reviving anxiety about a potentially chaotic, and even bloody, succession battle that is bound to further weaken the Paleostinian cause.
In the latest sign of Abbas’ health troubles, officials and medical sources say a cardiologist has moved into the presidential compound in Ramallah to monitor the longtime leader.
The move follows a mysterious hospital visit in the US after Abbas appeared weak in an address to the UN Security Council.
Abbas, a heavy smoker with long-standing heart problems who turns 83 next week, insists he is fine. But after more than a decade of avoiding discussion of the post-Abbas era, Paleostinian officials acknowledge that they are concerned, and potential successors are quietly jockeying for position.
The topic of succession has been taboo in Paleostinian official circles since Abbas took office 14 years ago. Abbas took over as a caretaker leader following the death of Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, and was elected for what was supposed to be a five-year term the following year. He has remained in firm control since then, refusing to designate a successor while a political split with rival Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", prevented new elections.
Abbas has a long history of health issues, ranging from his heart troubles to a bout with prostate cancer a decade ago. Last summer, he underwent a health checkup at a Ramallah hospital and separately, dispelled rumors he had suffered a stroke. Two years ago, he underwent an emergency heart procedure after suffering exhaustion and chest pains. He suffers from arterial plaque and has had stents implanted.
Concerns deepened after Abbas’ Feb. 20 appearance before the UN Security Council, where he appeared to struggle for breath at times.
After the speech, he traveled to Baltimore for a series of tests at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Feeling fatigued, Abbas then decided to return to the West Bank rather than continue on to Venezuela, as initially planned, according to three Abbas aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are under strict orders not to discuss his health.
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Who gets the Dread Red Binder™?
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[TheGuardian] Five member states plan move as bloc’s leaders agree that Moscow likely source of Salisbury attack.
France, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are understood to be considering expelling Russian diplomats, as requested by the UK government, in a coordinated strike against Moscow.
[ARABNEWS] The strength of the US counterterrorism relationship with 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... "rivals" that with its historic ally the UK ‐ although this has yet to register with the American public, a former homeland security adviser told Arab News.
Information provided by the Kingdom has prevented several terror attacks and helped save American lives, said La Belle Frances Townsend, who worked in the administration of former US President George W. Bush.
Saudi Arabia has stood "shoulder to shoulder" with the Americans in combating terrorism, Townsend said.
"This relationship has developed in terms of counterterrorism ‐ in particular, information sharing and intelligence sharing ‐ which from the United States’ point of view rivals (what we share with) Britannia, our longest historic ally," she said.
"We have a critical information and intelligence-sharing relationship that is almost unparalleled with any of our other partners
She cited two terror plots that were prevented specifically due to intelligence from Saudi Arabia.
"The intelligence exchange between Saudi and American officials has saved American lives," Townsend said.
"It is a very important ... partnership. It is critical to protecting the American homeland."
Yet this is not something recognized by many Americans, who are still acutely aware that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 terror attacks were Saudi citizens, Townsend said. With King Salman and Prince MBS, it's pretty obvious the Saudis are trying to back gracefully out of the web of mistakes they've made as a country after their creation turned on them. They pretty much own Salafism and its multiple mutations, just like Qatar owns the Moslem Brotherhood and Pakistain owns the bulk of South (and probably Central) Asian terrorism.
They can't say "Oh, yeah, we were doing it as matter of national policy but we've stopped now." You simply don't lose that kind of diplomatic face. Instead, they have to quietly shut down the funding channels and quietly back away, covering as many tracks as possible. All the while there's the danger of a counter-revolution by the Holy Men and the True Believers. All is not as stable as it seems on the surface, we can take that for granted.
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Except the 9-11 memo where they help fund a handful of the rebels!
[THEEASTAFRICAN.CO.KE] At least 14 people died and several others were maimed Thursday when an exploding car blew up in front of a popular Mogadishu hotel, a government front man and witnesses said.
"There was a heavy blast here and the number of casualties we have so far is 14 killed and a number of others maimed," said Abdiazis Ali Ibrahim, a front man for the security ministry.
"The toll could be higher," he added.
Witnesses said the kaboom was caused by a boom-mobile on one of the capital's busiest streets that was packed with people heading home from work.
"The blast was so huge, a vehicle containing explosives went off near a teashop in front of Weheliye hotel, leaving more than 10 people dead. I saw people being rushed to hospital and some of them were already dead," said witness Abdulahi Moalim.
"Most of the casualties are... people who were spending time to take tea, there was devastation and buildings were damaged," said another witness Mohammednur Abdirahman.
Mogadishu is regularly hit by kabooms carried out by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... which is fighting to overthrow Somalia's internationally-backed government.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police have jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! two suspected members of banned Lion of Islam outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Shibganj area in Bogra.
The arrestees are Hadisur Rahman Sagor alias Julfiqar alias Saad Bin Abu Waqqas alias Toufiq, 36, of Md Harun Or Rashid of Joypurhat, and Akram Hossain Niloy, 24, son of Abu Torab Khan of Kishoreganj.
They were handed over to the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit immediately after their arrest on Wednesday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
CTTC sources said Sagar was one of the suspected runaway accused in the case of Holey Artisan attack in Gulshan and Niloy was the main coordinator and financer of plan to bomb the Mourning Day procession at Dhanmondi 32 on August 15, 2017.
Sources said information related to Lion of Islam activities found in the mobile phones recovered from the arrestees.
CTTC’s Deputy Commissioner Muhibul Islam Khan said the arrestees will be sent to court on Thursday.
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[CBSNews] A car loaded with propane tanks ran through the main gate at Travis Air Force Base in northern California on Wednesday night. Military personnel ran up to the burning car that exploded in flame after breaching the security gates.
In video posted on an Air Force forum on Facebook, firefighters are seen attempting to put out the flames.
Law enforcement sources say the car carried propane tanks and the driver deliberately ignited the fire. He died inside the car, which drove off the road into a ditch. There are no reports of shots fired during the incident. The driver has been identified by law enforcement but not been named.
Since he ignited himself, investigators are treating this as an act of terrorism. The FBI has joined the Air Force in the investigation.
Travis Air Force Base is a main military air cargo and transport terminal on the West Coast, supporting operations across the Pacific. It's home to some 7,000 active U.S. Air Force military personnel.
The main gate at Travis was closed for 12 hours after the incident and officials say there is no known threat to the base or the community.
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Cigarette ash ignites prayer rug? PX/BX Home and Garden shop return gone bad? Cremation by Weber? Angry SUV rental customer? Lightening?
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The individual is obviously unclear on how to set up a BBQ appropriately. This is not how you set up a Tail-Gate party ... more appropriately a Car-B-Q.
[ARABNEWS] Airstrikes, likely to be Russian, on Thursday killed 22 civilians in a market in the northwestern province of Idlib, which is largely controlled by radical fighters, a monitor said.
The strikes hit the area of Harem, which is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britannia-based monitor says it identifies who carried out Arclight airstrikes based on flight patterns, munitions used, and aircraft.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... Syrian opposition fighters have released 13 of their prisoners to the regime.
The men, who identified themselves to the media as soldiers and civilians attached to the Syrian Army, who were captured by opposition fighters in the battle for Harasta, cried in relief. They thanked God, the Syrian Army, and Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... for their freedom.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV said the regime released five "terrorists" in exchange.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four border troops personnel were killed in an ambush launched by 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.... members, west of Anbar, a security source was quoted saying on Wednesday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "four border troops personnel were trapped by Islamic State members, who set up an ambush on the international highway near border exit with Jordan."
"The gunnies attacked the security personnel using different weapons on highway, leaving them all killed," the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
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[ARABNEWS] In the dead of night last month, two tanker ships pulled alongside each other in the East China Sea. One was a North Korean vessel, the other was the Belize-flagged Wan Heng 11.
Lights on both ships were blazing, arousing a Japanese spy plane’s suspicion they were carrying out a "ship-to-ship" transfer banned under UN sanctions imposed over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Records for the Wan Heng and a number of other ships identified in recent UN and US sanctions blacklists and Japanese surveillance reports reveal ties to Hong Kong through front companies based here. The findings underscore rising concern over the southern Chinese financial capital’s role as a nexus for North Korea’s underground business network, which has led the US government to urge Hong Kong authorities to crack down.
The corporate registration agents that set up these front companies "present a key vulnerability in the implementation of financial sanctions," said a report by the UN Panel of Experts on North Korean sanctions released on March 16. Researchers said North Korea relies on front companies acting as middlemen to mask its overseas trading links, many of which involve China.
Successively tighter rounds of sanctions aim to deprive North Korea of key sources of revenue by choking off its ability to smuggle exports, including through oil transfers between ships on the high seas.
Hong Kong, an Asian business hub, is "staying highly vigilant about activities and suspected cases" of sanctions violations and is "looking into the cases" involving Hong Kong-registered companies, the government said in a statement.
The city often tops business and economic freedom rankings, based on criteria that include ease of setting up business. That can also facilitate illicit dealings.
The city hosts a vast industry of company formation experts who can register corporations quickly and with minimum information from their clients. Many operate out of anonymous, one-room offices with as little as a single employee. They promise to set up a firm within a day for clients who can apply online if they’re not in Hong Kong.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The spokesperson for the Arab tribes in Nineveh has disclosed news about a visit by a delegation from U.S. to each of Baghdad and Erbil to agree on the redeployment of the Kurdish Peshmerga troops in disputed regions.
"U.S. delegation will visit Baghdad and Erbil next week to discuss redeploying of Peshmerga troops, along with federal forces," Mazahim al-Howeit was quoted as saying by Radio Sawa website.
Peshmerga, according to Howeit, "preserved security at those regions upon liberating them. "After they withdrew, in coordination with the government in Baghdad, crimes were carried out against civilians."
"Representatives of the Arab tribes met with officials from department of state and defense to tackle the situations at regions, from which troops withdrew," he added.
Iraqi government forces approached the southern borders of Erbil, capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, after taking over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in October, fulfilling instructions made by the Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to retake areas where illusory sovereignty is disputed with Kurdistan.
Baghdad had declared intentions to retake areas disputed on with Erbil following the Kurdistan Region’s vote for ts independence referendum on September 25, from Iraq, urging Peshmerga to cooperate with federal troops.
[StrategyPage] Germany has come up short once more in meeting its military obligations to NATO. Leaked readiness data indicates that a key component of the NATO rapid reaction force, which Germany is to supply in 2019, is nowhere near ready to perform duties German said it could handle.
Why on Earth are we still allied with these ungrateful freeloaders?
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...I'm starting to think that when you look at this and the Baden-Wurttemburg disaster, the Germans are acting like the kid who botches up mowing the lawn so badly that Dad does it anyways.
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Thanks for catching that - not sure what's going on this morning but none of my link attempts seem to be working. This site covers things quite nicely:
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Given how much Germany is spending in financial support as well as policing the 1.x million colonists Chancellor Merkel invited, it's no wonder they haven't the funds for a properly kitted out military as well. I seem to recall they already had to increase taxes to cover their increased domestc expenditures.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several 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.... members were killed in an operation carried out by the pro-government paramilitary troops, north of Baghdad, the media service reported on Wednesday.
In a statement, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, "troops of the eighth brigade carried out, this evening, an operation in al-Tarmiyah district, north of Baghdad, depending on information from the intelligence."
"Several IS members were killed there," the statement said.
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[TheGuardian]Much of the plastic waste accumulates in five circular ocean currents – known as gyres – found around the globe. The Ocean Cleanup has pledged a “moonshot” effort to clean up half of the Great Pacific garbage patch within five years and mop up the other rubbish-strewn gyres by 2040.
The organization is developing a system of large floating barriers with underwater screens that capture and concentrate plastics into one area ready to be scooped out of the ocean. A prototype, to be launched from San Francisco this summer with the aim of spawning a clutch of devices each of which can collect five tons of waste a month, will, if successful, be followed by dozens of other boom-like systems measuring up to 2km (1.2 miles) long.
The project comes with caveats, however – its system will not catch the proliferation of microplastics measuring under 10 millimeters (0.39in) and the whole operation will require further funding from next year. Any successful clean-up may also be overwhelmed by a global surge in plastic production – a recent UK government report warned the amount of plastic in the ocean could treble within the next decade.
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So i take it all the garbage they collect in the Pacific they will haul overland and dump in the Atlantic and all the garbage from the Atlantic they will haul overland and dump in the Pacific...
Not dissimilar to the bacteria that gobble up oil after a spill. I recall the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Mississippi some years back. We were told that it would takes DECADES (a LIFETIME, whatever) for the cleanup.
As it was, the little entities 'bloomed and consumed' most of the spill in just a few months.
Like they've been doing for eons, according to plan.
Might have been quicker, but the 'dispersal agents' put down by humans actually slowed their consumption rate.
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Great Pacific garbage patch--The process of disintegration means that the plastic particulate in much of the affected region is too small to be seen. In a 2001 study, researchers (including Charles Moore) found concentrations of plastic particles at 334,721 pieces per km2 with a mean mass of 5,114 grams (11.27 lbs) per km2, in the neuston. Assuming each particle of plastic averaged 5 mm × 5 mm × 1 mm, this would amount to only 8 m2 per km2 due to small particulates
*Yawn* Researchers will need funding to discover hidden dangers of plastic soup...
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First they said the garbage patch was huge and showed pictures of garbage floating on the water, only to later retract that saying the garbage is broken down and roughly 3 or 4 pencil sized bits of garbage in a square meter of ocean LINK.
Then researchers had to retract a paper suggesting that the garbage was dangerous to sea life LINK making it seem almost as if it perhaps it isn't actually real.
So now we have environmentalists claiming its bigger than France, bigger than Texas, bigger than Alaska trying to scare folks again while simultaneously going after plastic straws! I can only assume that some prominent lefties have invested in the non-plastic straw industry.
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least four innocent civilians perished after person or persons unknown have opened fire on a passenger bus in Southern Somalia on Thursday, witnesses and Police said.
The bus came under attack on a road leading to Lantaburo area in Lower Shabelle region, a hotbed of the Al Qaeda-linked holy warrior group Al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... "Men armed with AK-47 rifles wearing face masks fired on a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying passengers on a desolate road near Lantaburo location in eastern Lower Shabelle region," said a resident who spoke to Radio Shabelle by phone.
The button menkidnapped five passengers after the shooting. Men, women, and children are among the dead and injured, local officials said.
It is not yet clear the motive behind the shooting of the bus, and no group has so far grabbed credit for the deadly attack.
This comes amid an intense military operation against Al-Shabaab in Lower Shabelle region by Somali troops, along with African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeepers.
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[YouTube] In this speech to a meeting of Swinton Circle in London on 31 July 2015, Liberty GB leader Paul Weston exposes the Left's relentless assault on British culture, identity and tradition. About the Author:
Paul Martin Laurence Weston (born 1965) is a British far-right[1] politician and a member of the Pegida UK leadership team. An activist and blogger, Weston joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2010 and stood as a Parliamentary candidate for Cities of London and Westminster. In 2011, Weston left UKIP and joined the now-defunct British Freedom Party with members of the English Defence League (EDL) and former members of the British National Party (BNP).[2] He was the chairman of Liberty GB before the party was dissolved in December 2017, recommending its members to join For Britain.[3]
For Liberty GB, he was a candidate for South East England in the 2014 European election[4] and for Luton South in the 2015 general election. He obtained 158 votes (0.4%).[5]
He was married to a Romanian after meeting her in Romania.[1][6] He was the President of the English branch of the International Free Press Society founded in 2009.[7] Wikipedia
[Dhaka Tribune] Four people have been detained in a case filed over the murders of two women in Dhaka.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! them from Nalitabari area of Sherpur district on Wednesday.
RAB sources said detainee Shanjib Chiran was the criminal mastermind of the murder.
RAB Media Wing Deputy Director Major Abdullah Al Mehedi confirmed the detention on Thursday.
Later, in a press briefing, RAB said the alleged killers went to the residence with the intention of stealing money for celebrating their religious festival "Star Sunday."
Apparently Star Sunday is a Christian public holiday in Bangladesh, but I was unable to discover what we might call it.
They had been planning the theft for over a month.
According to the confession by the detainees, they murdered the victims when they thought the two would come in their way. After the murders, they searched the entire house for money. When they could not find any money, the four later left the house ‐ locking the main entrance.
Police recovered the dead bodies of Besat Moni Chiran, 65, and her daughter Sujata Chiran, 40, from their residence in Gulshan Tuesday evening.
In the first information report (FIR), Sujata’s husband Ashish Mankhin said: "Sanjib Chiran [Sujata’s nephew] killed my wife with a knife, and strangled my mother-in-law with the help of three associates.
Abu Bakkar Siddique, officer-in-charge of Gulshan cop shoppe, said they might have been murdered over a family feud, property issues, or sexual relations.
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Not that I haven't occasionally thought about what fun it might be to call them and chat about this story or that (haven't we all?), but I doubt the folks at the Trib know much about Christianity. Suspect "Star" is "Easter" (or possibly "Laetare") transcribed as heard. OC, I'm pretty ignant re Bangladesh.
[USDefenseWatch] The road to total military disaster is being paved by feminists, Obama holdouts and cultural Marxists who have infiltrated the armed forces at the highest levels in the last decade, while warriors have become an endangered species in the Pentagon.
The Hour of the Clusterfu*k approaches and yet across the world, the US military marches on, like martinets suffering from cognitive dissonance, not committed to warfighting anymore, but to a much higher calling, diversity.
Meanwhile, our enemies are dying with laughter. Our enemies know that the US military in 2018 is a feminized, PC weakling. Our enemies know that as every day passes and new politically correct orders are generated, the US military is one step closer to total annihilation in the next war, against foes that will coming to the field with navies, armies and air forces.
As our enemies train for war, we train for social justice. Continues.
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Activists say South African authorities are tacitly approving attacks on the country’s white farmers, with one being murdered every five days, and the police turning a blind eye to the violence.
The white nationalist lobbying group AfriForum says that when lawmakers passed a motion last month which could see land being seized from farmers without compensation, it sent a message that landowners could be attacked with impunity.
It said there have been 109 recorded attacks so far in 2018 and 15 farm murders, meaning that this year, one white farmer has been killed every five days.
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Sort of mirrored with young black pharmaceutical distributors in Chicago/Baltimore killed everyone 3rd or 4th day in generating public outrage and condemnation. In both cases the local government really isn't that concerned.
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Why hasn't every white person in South Africa at least attempted to emigrate? The handwriting is on the wall. And the targets are on their backs.
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Why hasn't every white person in South Africa at least attempted to emigrate? Posted by Rambler in Virginia.
A number of reasons, age and financial situations being two of the greatest. Elderly parents must be cared for. Others would lose businesses, farms and homes, as obviously it is a depressed market and currency. Still others stubbornly cling to the hope things will change. As in Rhodesia, many strongly encourage their children to move abroad.
[CBSNEWS] A teenage girl who was shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school is brain dead and is being removed from life support, her mother said Thursday. Melissa Willey told news news hounds Thursday night that her daughter, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey has "no life left in her." She said Jaelynn would be removed from life support during the evening, by the family's decision.
The mother, holding a young baby, said, "On Tuesday ... our lives changed completely and totally forever. My daughter was hurt by a boy who shot her in the head and took everything from our lives."
The teen was shot Tuesday by 17-year-old Austin Rollins at Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County.
Rollins died after shooting Willey. A school resource officer got there within a minute and fired a shot at Rollins, but it's not yet clear whether Rollins was killed by the officer's bullet or took his own life.
The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday Rollins and the girl had been in a relationship that recently ended.
"All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence," police said in a statement.
Willey had been at death's door at the University of Maryland Prince George's Hospital Center. A fundraising page to help her family has raised more than $59,000.
Jaelynn was one of nine siblings, her mother said, and a member of the swim team.
The shooting broke out just before classes were to begin Tuesday, according to the sheriff's office, which said the gun used belonged to Rollins' father.
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[Al Monitor] Sometime in late 2006, US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte visited Israel. According to a security source speaking on condition of anonymity, at a meeting with the heads of Israeli intelligence at Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, intelligence branch officers presented a small time bomb. On the margins of the discussion, dealing with various security analyses of Israel’s neighbors, Col. Eli Ben-Meir, head of the technological branch of army intelligence, said that according to his assessments the Syrians were working on an "unconventional weapons project."
Amnon Sofrin, head of Mossad's intelligence branch, fumed. He had not authorized army intelligence officials to bring up the topic, because Mossad had concluded that there was no nuclear activity in Syria. Regardless, Ben-Meir had opened his presentation to Negroponte with three slides on nuclear activity in Syria. His assertions were explosive and controversial. Not only Mossad, but the Americans as well, headed by Negroponte, rejected the army intelligence assessment as unrealistic.
Ben-Meir had illustrated his presentation with dark clouds and called the situation "a nuclear cloud." Negroponte expressed his disagreement with him: I’m an expert on everything involving North Korea, he said, and it can’t be that the North Koreans are creating a nuclear reactor in Syria under our radar. That’s not possible.
At that stage, Ben-Meir was viewed as foolish, as hallucinating. Hard and unequivocal evidence for his extraordinary assertion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was secretly building a plutogenic nuclear reactor in the heart of the Syrian Desert was yet to be found. Ben-Meir knew that he was right, but he was unable to prove it. He also knew that North Korea was behind the secret project, which threatened to change the face of the Middle East within a year.
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No doubt this operation will form the template for future Iranian operations.
[Ynet] German prosecutors say they've charged a German-Algerian dual national with supporting a terrorist organization over allegations that he aided 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.... murderous Moslems in Syria and Iraq.
The federal prosecutor's office said Thursday that 32-year-old Samir K. was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Wednesday in Baden-Wuerttemberg after a series of searches in the southwestern state, as well as in Brandenburg, Hamburg and Lower Saxony.
Prosecutors say K., whose last name wasn't released in line with privacy laws, organized email, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook accounts under aliases for four IS murderous Moslems between the years 2015 and 2017.
Using the accounts, prosecutors say, the murderous Moslems from Germany were able to maintain "comparative communication" with other members of IS and distribute messages on the internet.
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[ARABNEWS] A US-funded counterterrorism center has opened in Jordan where law enforcement officers from partner countries in the Middle East and beyond can practice shooting, storming hideouts and responding to bomb threats.
The Jordan Gendarmerie Training Academy is the second such facility in the pro-Western kingdom. It opened on Thursday.
Paul Davies, director for the State Department’s Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistance, says that additional training centers are to be built, including in Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... and Kenya.
He says 21 partner nations out of a pool of 56 have trained so far in Jordan’s first facility.
Earlier this week, Tunisian coppers practiced storming rooms in a "shoot house" in the new center.
They threw sound grenades, setting off loud booms, as visitors watched the drills from a gallery above.
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[ARABNEWS] The United States formally approved defense contracts totaling more than $1 billion with 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... on Thursday, as the kingdom’s crown prince continued his American tour.
The State Department confirmed it had green-lighted a $670 million deal for anti-tank missiles, a $106 million contract for helicopter maintenance and $300 million for ground vehicle parts.
An official said the deals had been in the pipeline since 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... agreed more than $100 billion in contracts on a visit to Riyadh last year, but were now formalized.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Six coppers were killed and injured in a kaboom that took place in Hammam al-Alil region, south of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh police said on Thursday.
"A bomb targeted local police, leaving a policeman killed and five others maimed," Cap. Raad al-Hayali told BasNews.
"Police forces cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the victim to forensic medicine department, while the injured were taken to hospital. Investigations were conducted," he added.
"Troops tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... 18 suspects over involvement in planting the bomb," Hayali said.
Either rounding up the usual suspects or they got the entire cell and some of its connections.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Mufti, al-Saddiq al-Ghariani, has accused Egypt of conspiring against Libya and of intervening in Libyan internal affairs.
"Egypt is plotting against Libya and the unification of the Libyan army cannot be at the hands of Egypt as all what it is doing is a flagrant intervention in Libya's domestic affairs." Sheikh al-Gharyani said Wednesday on Tanasuh TV.
He said that all those who call for uniting the military institution via the coup plotters are helping the coup in one way or another.
"We thank the military officers of the western region for their stance as they stressed that Haftar is illegitimate and call on all Libyan officers to oppose Egypt's agenda." The Mufti remarked.
He also said the wrongdoings in Libya such as kidnapping people and putting them in Mitiga prison and other jails will add to the instability and incite retaliatory acts.
"If people want to end conflicts and war, they should demonstrate in huge numbers and say no to wrong, crimes, and arbitrary detentions. It is a must that Libyans call for their rights so Libya can be stable." The Mufti further explained.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the Libyan Mufti slammed UAE and 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... 's policies in Libya earlier in an article, pointing out that they are backing up Haftar with "dirty money" saying their schemes can divide the country.
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[ARABNEWS] Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in western Kansas, where Moslem immigrants colonists from Somalia lived and had a mosque, wanted to kill as many as possible and send a message they were not welcome in the United States, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Prosecutors charged Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Eugene Stein each with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City, Kansas, and conspiring to deny others’ civil rights. Wright also faces weapons-related charges and Stein is charged with lying to the FBI.
Officials have said the men, who face life in prison if convicted, were members of a militia group.
The defendants, all white men, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." after they were indicted in October 2016. Defense attorneys said Thursday their clients were entrapped by the federal government.
"Defendants wanted to plant the message Moslems are not welcomed here ‐ not in Garden City, not in Kansas, not in America," prosecutor Risa Berkower said in opening statements of the trial in federal court in Wichita, Kansas.
Berkower said the men were members of the Kansas Security Force, which she described as a militia group. They had formed a splinter group known as "the Crusaders" to "kill as many Moslems as they could" and "to make Moslems uncomfortable in this country," she added.
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Conspiring... Conspiring... Unspecified weapons charges... Deprivation of civil rights...
So two nothings, a crime that's routinely ignored when favored minorities commit it, and Democrat politicians' favorite approach to dealing with actual US citizens.
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Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Kurdistan Region Government has urged anti-Turkish, Kurdish fighters to avoid residential areas to spare civilians the damage from Turkish airstrikes targeting those fighters.
ٍKRG spokesperson, Safin Dizayee, in a statement on Thursday, urged Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters to “keep away from populated areas to preserve civilians’ lives”.
“In a time when Kurdistan citizens celebrate Nawroz, four have martyred due to Turkish warplanes attacks on Balkayti region (north of Erbil)”.
According to Dizayee, “the presence of PKK fighters’ locations near populated areas poses a danger to civilians’ lives, an has led to targeting them many times”.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq on Thursday denounced Turkish airstrikes on anti-Ankara, Kurdish fighters’ locations in the north of the country that left a number of civilians dead.
In a statement, the foreign ministry spokesperson, Ahmed Mahgoub, said “The Iraqi foreign ministry denounces the continuation of aggressions and transgressions upon Iraqi borders by the Turkish forces, the latest of which was the strike that targeted the villages of Mawan, Qassan and Sarkinan in Soran, Erbil, which led to the martyrdom of a number of unarmed civilians”.
The statement said those “violations…do not serve the development of relations between both neighbor countries”. It added it “reaffirms its stance of rejecting the presence of any forces on Iraqi soil or any attempt to carry out military operations by any neighboring country”.
Earlier on Thursday, Kurdish media reported the death of four civilians in Turkish strikes on the borders with Iraq.
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[AnNahar] A husband and wife who ran an export business out of their Massachusetts home have been indicted on charges that they did business with a Syrian company that developed bombs used against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. federal prosecutors said.
Anni Beurklian, 49, and her husband, Antoine Ajaka, 50, operated their company Top Tech US Inc. out of their Waltham home, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.
Between 2012 and 2018, the business exported electronics, computer equipment and other items to customers in Leb and Syria, according to the indictment. One customer was Syria-based EKT Electronics, which the U.S. government alleges developed improvised bombs.
EKT was "involved in activities related to the acquisition, attempted acquisition, and/or development of improvised bombs, which were being used against U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to authorities.
As a result, the U.S. Commerce Department requires anyone doing business with EKT to obtain an export license, which authorities say Top Tech did not do.
EKT's manager was also named in the indictment.
The couple was engaged in plea negotiations when they fled the United States in January to avoid prosecution, federal authorities said.
Both are originally from Leb. Anni Beurklian, who also goes by the name Anni Ajaka, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Antoine Ajaka, who also goes by Tony Ajaka, is a legal permanent resident of the U.S.
They are charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws and regulations, conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling goods out of the United States, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and obstruction of justice.
"I am aware of the indictments and am in the process of reviewing and digesting the charges, which are serious," their Boston-based attorney, Brad Bailey, said before declining further comment.
[AnNahar] More than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by 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... were in Nigeria's capital on Thursday, a day after their surprise release that fueled rumors about how their freedom was won.
A total of 104 of the 110 students seized from the school in Dapchi, in the northeastern state of Yobe, on February 19 were dropped off by the Islamist Lions of Islam on Wednesday morning.
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[All Africa] After decades of frozen relations with the United States, Sudan is poised to come in from the cold. Following the October 2017 relaxation of longstanding sanctions, Sudan appears eager to continue US engagement. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... since October, momentum for next steps toward improving the bilateral relationship has slowed.
The US-Sudan relationship is imperfect, and there are many enduring obstacles to full normalization‐including Sudan's need for greater political freedoms, economic reforms, and genuine peace in areas of the country long beset by conflict. Though daunting challenges remain, the best chance to achieve further progress is more and deeper US engagement, not less.
Further delay on the next phase of US-Sudan relations jeopardizes the best US opportunity in nearly three decades to influence positive change in Sudan. Moreover, it risks giving Sudan's hardliners an excuse to walk away from the United States and into the arms of US strategic rivals Russia, China, or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... On March 8, in an effort to reaffirm the importance of a timely second phase of engagement, the Atlantic Council's Sudan Task Force released three issue briefs offering specific recommendations to the administration of US President Donald J. Trump on future relations with Sudan. The briefs focus on three critical and related topics: political reform and governance; economic reform; and opportunities for cultural engagement.
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[ARABNEWS] A woman who claimed 25,000 euros in compensation after posing as a victim of the 2015 Gay Paree terror attacks was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison.
The 49-year-old, who claimed to be at the Bataclan concert hall where ISIS attackers killed 90 people, had already been found guilty of fraud on three different occasions.
Before her arrest in February she had also been holding a paid job at a charity for victims of the gun and kabooms in which snuffies murdered a total of 130 people.
In her claim to police in February 2016 the woman told of "bullets whistling past her ears" at the Bataclan, but Sherlocks found she had faked a receipt for the concert ticket and other documents to build up her claim for compensation.
On top of the 25,000 euros ($31,000) she claimed from the state’s FGTI compensation fund for terror victims, she received more than 13,000 euros from the French health service.
She is not the first person to be caught impersonating a victim of the carnage at the national stadium and Gay Paree nightspots on November 13, 2015, La Belle France’s worst attacks since World War II.
Two people have been found guilty of fraud and another 11 of attempting to swindle the FGTI out of compensation, according to the fund.
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[AlAhram] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... has designated the ISIS-Sinai group a terrorist organization.
The Qartari National Committee to Combat Terrorism also designated seven other groups active in 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 Qatar as terrorist organizations.
The list is the first published by the committee following a decree issued by the country's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in July 2017.
The list includes 19 people: 11 Qataris, two Saudis, four Egyptians and two Jordanians.
The Egyptian individuals on the list are Ahmed Samir El-Habib El-Teneger, Dahi Mohammed Mostafa Senger, Ahmed Eid Salem El-Hegawi and Hassan Saad Shetewi.
The ISIS affiliate in North Sinai, formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has grabbed credit for dozens of deadly terrorist attacks against security forces and civilians in the governorate, killing hundreds.
The Egyptian military has said it has killed hundreds of the group’s members in military operations in recent years.
Earlier, the military launched a major operation earlier this year to target "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
Egypt, 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... , Bahrain and the UAE severed diplomatic and transport links with Doha on 5 June 2017, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism and meddling in their internal affairs, sparking the region's worst diplomatic dispute in years. Doha has denied the accusations levelled against it.
In recent months, several diplomatic efforts have taken place to resolve the lingering diplomatic row and support mediation efforts mainly by Kuwait and the US.
The four states have repeatedly said they are ready for dialogue to ease the dispute if Doha shows a willingness to deal with their demands and stop its "hostile" policies in the region.
Egypt accuses the Gulf Arab state of supporting "terrorist" organizations, including the Moslem Brüderbund, which is designated in Egypt a terrorist organization.
Earlier this month, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry reiterated to Timothy Lenderking, the US deputy assistant secretary of state for Gulf affairs, and General Anthony Zinni, a retired former head of U.S. Central Command that Qatar should abide by the 13 demands listed by the four countries, including shutting down the al-Jazeera television channel and downgrading relations with Iran.
Shoukry said Qatar has yet to "prove goodwill" despite regional and international efforts to end the dispute.
He expressed the concerns of Egypt and other boycotting states over Qatar's "continued negative role in sponsoring terrorism and extremism" by providing financial aid and refuge to murderous Moslems.
The diplomatic rift is the worst dispute in decades between Arab states.
That is one opinion, certainly. Another might be that the Obama pull out was the mistake. Or allowing the State Department to take over administering post-invasion Iraq instead of leaving it in the hands of the Army. As for me, I’d rather the bad guys were fighting and dying in their homeland than in mine.
[Task & Purpose] Just days after the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, I wonder why it’s still difficult for one of our nation’s most-respected commanders of the war, Gen. David Petraeus, to admit what many already know: Going into Iraq was a mistake.
Petraeus was asked recently by Task & Purpose whether the Iraq War was worth it. Here’s how he responded:
"I think everybody who was in Iraq, who served there, who knows the sacrifice it entails, who knows the cost in blood and in treasure... has been frustrated to see how the country slid back after we left in late 2011," Petraeus said in an exclusive interview with T&P’s Jeff Schogol. "But at the end of the day, I think we also have a degree of quiet pride that when our country needed us, we answered the call."
My colleague Jeff Schogol didn’t ask Petraeus whether the troops who fought there served honorably, or whether they were frustrated by Iraq’s slide into chaos after withdrawal. But the retired general offered a classic example of deflection. It’s a politician’s answer ‐ instead of addressing the actual question, you just answer the question you prefer to be asked.
Petraeus was offered a simple question: Was it all worth it? Given all that we know now, should we have invaded in 2003? And yet, he dodged it. Why?
Admitting it was a mistake isn’t controversial among most in the national security field, or even the public writ large.
Americans were told of a possible "mushroom cloud" brought on by Saddam Hussein’s (non-existent) nukes and other weapons of mass destruction ‐ claims all based on faulty intelligence that former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz later admitted was just a convenient excuse for war.
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You know who wrote the infamous fake WMD memo that was used to justify the war? Robert S. Mueller III. Yup, that same one. And people say the Deep State doesn't exist. The smoking gun:
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Going in wasn't the mistake. Leaving too soon was the mistake. Anything else is a bullshit lie.
Playing the "with what you know now" game is absolute horseshit and deserves no answer. We did not know then with any certainty, and we did have indicators that pointed toward WMD there, especially with the game-playing with UN inspectors and so on. So we had to act or risk a mass destruction attack on the US. The September 11th attacks showed that we cannot remain complacent, nor can we wait for "perfect" intelligence.
Anything to the contrary is just a bunch of crap by people trying to rewrite history and play "gotcha". Screw them.
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The war wasn't a mistake - Muslims, and Arabs especially, need to be reminded periodically who is who and what is what. "Nation building", now that was a mistake!
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This is the second time I've seen a story from "Task & Purpose". Folks, it claims it's for US servicemen, but it has a regular column titled "The Long March". Caveat emptor.
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WMD = chemical, biological, nuclear.
Reminder of all the chemical weapons seized and destroyed since occupying Iraq. Stuff that was suppose to have been gone well before we went back in. Remember the freak out when ISIS occupied one of the site were the material was being processed out of weapon status?
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Going in was no mistake. The ultimate pursuit of the war absolutely was. We had the chance to do the right thing and on multiple levels in '91 and stopped for no intelligible reason.
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People in my old company in the 82nd died from those non-existent WMD's. Trapped and exposed in a WMD chemical storage bunker with no gear. Buried info now.
This "Task and Purpose" org is just another one to hate. And Mueller was involved in the finding? Find a link between him and Jamie Gorelick. Oh wait, another traitor from Hale and Dorr, now Wilmer Pickering Hale and Dorr. A nest of traitors since the '50's. Maybe earlier, I can't tell. But commies all.
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Sorry got the commie bastards company name wrong. It is now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.
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I wanted to believe that Bush knew what he was doing in Iraq. Now we know better. Live and learn. These days I believe the best revenge against Arabs is to leave them to their own devices.
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[ARABNEWS] As Joseph Kabila plays video games in Kinshasa surrounded by the only functioning military entity in the Congo, the Presidential Guard, the people grow weary of his pretexts for remaining in power. Having taken over following the liquidation of his father Laurent-Désiré in 2001, the president completed his second term in 2016.
The hollow state he has built teeters over a vast country wrought with ethnic division and foreign interference. The last thing it now needs is a return to the armed conflict that since 1998 has left over 5 million people dead.
Political scientists and African anthropologists will note that violence is no stranger to Congolese society, and that since independence in 1960, armed conflict has persisted in the country. Others argue that it has existed as far back as King Leopold of Belgium’s violent exploitation of the Congo in the 19th century.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Former Minneapolis police officer Mohammed Noor
I do not understand why Mr. Noor chose this particular line of work. According to his neighbours, he is by nature ill tempered and jumpy, and dislikes women, children at play, and African Americans.
was released from jail late Wednesday after posting bail on murder charges in connection with the shooting death of a 40-year-old Australian woman.
Bail had been set at $400,000 Wednesday after Hennepin County prosecutors raised concerns that the ex-officer could be a flight risk, noting that he might try to flee to his native Somalia.
Noor was seen leaving the Hennepin County Jail with his attorney, Thomas Plunkett, around 9:45 p.m., according to ABC affiliate KTSP. He declined to answer questions.
He was released under conditions including that he would abstain from contact with Matthew Harrity, his Minneapolis Police Department partner at the scene of July 5, 2017, shooting. He was also ordered to surrender his passport and firearms.
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Dislikes children at play.
What could possibly be wrong with "children at play" ?
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...And I'm sure the idea of seeking comfort, wisdom, and solace from his family back in Somalia has never once occurred to him.
Gorram idiots. He's as good as gone, which is almost certainly what the city fathers (and mothers) of Minneapolis want. A trial would be messy, embarrassing, and reflect poorly upon a favored class and we can't have that.
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don't they have electronic bracelets in MN?
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Note that nobody mentions the CEO of the data-mining company's real crime. Yes, the #MeToo data-mining bit that got him fired and scared the hell out of the powers that be.
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the American populace was reportedly squealing with delight as shares of Facebook stock plummeted to yet another low.
It is the Onion but MZ must have known the sh!tstorm was coming; he had been dumping off huge amounts of his stock before this story broke in the media.
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Not that I'm all that sympathetic to Zuckerberg but I think Senator Kennedy's approach is all wrong. I don't believe FB rises to the level of a public utility that needs regulating and it's not a health or safety problem like food or drugs or cars.
Nobody is twisting your arm to use FB or any of these social media so if you don't like the way they're doing it you are free to opt out. If you're afraid somebody's gonna find out your likes and dislikes don't post them on the Internet. Is that too hard to understand?
But I guess grandstanding is what senators do. They sure as hell can't seem to do much of anything else.
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They sure as hell can't seem to do much of anything else.
Oh, they have that spending that would make a drunk sailor queasy pretty well mastered...
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At least drunk sailors are spending their own money...
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Anyone who didn't think there info was being mined by Facebook is a fool. Having said that it seems to me the Onion post is more about defusing the anger against a reliable liberal than anything else.
The Telegraph is live blogging events. The latest as of 1:16pm Greenwich Mean Time, two hours after the gunman burst into the supermarket:
Gunman takes hostages at supermarket in Trebes, France
Police have the supermarket surrounded
At least two people killed and a dozen more wounded
Attacker reported to be Moroccan national in his 30s
Gunman 'shouted Allahu Akbar' and 'said he supported Isil'
is said to have demanded release of 2015 Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam
Shortly before, police officer shot in nearby Carcassonne
French Prime Minister: We believe this is a terrorist act
Update at 9:50 a,m, EDT:
Gunman shot motorist in head before stealing car to drive to supermarket
Police have found a body in bushes in Carcassonne and another man there who suffered bullet wounds is being treated in hospital, local media reported.
The gunman is believed to have shot a motorist in the head - and also injured the passenger - before stealing the car to drive to the Trebes supermarket.
Bruno Bartocetti, the regional representative of the SGP police union, said the Carcassonne attacker is believed to the same person who has taken hostages in Trebes.
Local media report that the Trebes attacker is a Moroccan man who lived in Carcassonne.
Police confirmed at least two people - thought to be a shop worker and customer - have been killed and a dozen more injured. Around 50 people fled the supermarket, but a police chief warned the casualty toll is likely to rise, saying: "We are unfortunately expecting to find more victims."
Shortly beforehand, a police officer jogging with colleagues in the city of Carcassonne, around a 15-minute drive away, was shot and injured. The same gunman is believed to have then shot a driver in the head, before stealing their vehicle to drive to Trebes to carry out the attack.
The operation to capture the holed-up attacker was ongoing on Friday afternoon. He is believed to be alone with one police officer in the store.
The man "entered the Super U supermarket at around 11.15am and shots were heard," a French security source said. He is said to have been armed with a gun, knives and a hand grenade.
The man who killed at least three people in attacks in southern France was a 26-year old known for petty crimes and possession of drugs, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters, adding that he acted alone.
Collomb named the attacker as Redouane Lakdim and said he was from nearby Carcassonne, where the attacks started.
"He was known for petty crimes. We had monitored him and thought there was no radicalisation," Collomb said.
And The Daily News provides a useful timeline of events:
Morning, Friday March 23: Lakdim, who reportedly lived with his mother and three or four sisters in Carcassonne, is seen walking his little sister to school
Some time before 11am: Lakdim hijacks a car somewhere in his home town.
A passenger in the vehicle is shot in the head and killed while the driver is wounded before the terrorist drives away.
Approximately 11am: The attacker opens fire on four policemen jogging near the edge of town.
One officer is wounded after being hit in the shoulder. Bullets also strike a nearby car, shattering the back window. Lakdim escapes in the stolen vehicle.
Approximately 11.15am: Gunshots are reported at a Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes as Lakdim storms in, taking hostages.
Two people are later shot dead, though it is unclear precisely when or why.
French police initially say a dozen people are wounded, though uncertainty remained around the exact toll on Friday afternoon.
Some time before 2pm: A French policeman makes his way into the supermarket after agreeing to swap himself for a hostage.
He is later wounded, though it is not clear exactly how.
Approximately 2pm: French police storm the supermarket, shooting Lakdim dead.
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known wolf means border control breached to keep the establishment super-wealthy
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Should Carcassonne count on its walls
Built back when Jacques Bonhomme had balls?
Non, villainous plèbes!
Comme les carcasses de Trèbes,
You can hide behind Manuel Valls.
[LongWarJournal]The State Department announced today that Joe Asperman, a French national, has been added to the US government’s list of designated terrorists.
State says that Joe Asperman works as “a senior chemical weapons expert for ISIS” and “oversaw chemical operations production within Syria for ISIS and the deployment of these chemical weapons at the battlefront.”
Full story at the Long War Journal's link in title.
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Sarkozy paid him with the illegal funds he got from Libya for his election!😛
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish air raids have damaged an ancient Christian heritage site in northeastern Syria near the city of Afrin which Ankara-led forces captured at the weekend, Syria's antiquities department said Thursday.
"Ottoman Turkish regime planes bombed the archaeological site of Brad, 15 kilometers (about nine miles) south of Afrin city," the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums said in a statement.
It said that Brad -- which includes many Byzantine churches and monasteries as well as tombs dating back to the Roman period -- has been on UNESCO's world heritage list since 2011.
"The bombing destroyed many important archaeological buildings," including the tomb of Saint Maron of the Maronite community, said Syrian antiquities chief Mahmoud Hamoud.
Also destroyed was "the Julianus Church, which includes the mausoleum and is one of the oldest Christian churches in the world, built at the end of the 4th century," he added.
Ottoman Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels seized control of Afrin city from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia on Sunday.
Ankara began its offensive in January against the YPG, which it says is allied with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging an insurgency against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... since 1984. The PKK is blacklisted as a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
At the end of January, Syria accused Turkey of damaging the 3,000-year-old iron age neo-Hittite temple of Ain Dara as it pressed its bombardment of the Afrin region.
But the Ottoman Turkish military said "religious and cultural buildings, historical sites, archaeological ruins and public facilities are absolutely not among the targets" of the offensive.
The tomb of Saint Maron was discovered by a French archeological mission in 2002.
"This site is one of the most beautiful pages of the history of Christianity. It is home to three churches, a monastery and a five-meter-high tower," Syria's former antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told AFP.
In Janurary he had voiced concern for a group of 40 ancient villages in the Afrin region, which UNESCO calls "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria" and includes on its world heritage list.
UNESCO says these villages provide, among other things, "an exceptional illustration of the development of Christianity in the East, in village communities."
Syria's seven-year war has killed more than 340,000 people, displaced millions and ravaged its archaeological heritage since it started in 2011.
Maronites are a branch of the Catholic Church and are indigenous to Syria and Leb. In Leb, the president is chosen from the Maronite community named after Saint Maron.
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But the Ottoman Turkish military said "religious and cultural buildings, historical sites, archaeological ruins and public facilities are absolutely not among the targets" of the offensive.
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In communion with Rome, no? One family of 'em, whose names I'm ashamed to have forgotten, are some of the nicest people I've ever met, outgoing and friendly to a degree -- and with an apparent sincerity and unanimity -- that's just about extinct in this country. Big family, and not a single brooding patriarch, sulking teen, or significantly silent woman to be seen.
[ARABNEWS] A British court revealed that samples taken from the ex Russian spy and his daughter were analyzed by UK’s military laboratory in Porton Down point to exposure to Novichok nerve agent or a related agent.
The same court said that Blood samples from former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia can be taken for testing by the world chemical weapons body (OPCW), an English judge ruled Thursday.
The Skripals, victims of a nerve agent attack that Britannia has blamed on Russia, are in a coma in a critical but stable condition in hospital in Salisbury, southwest England but sources revealed that even if they survived the poisoning they might suffer damage to their nervous system.
High Court judge David Williams ruled it was lawful for doctors "to take blood samples for provision to OPCW (the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and to provide copies of medical notes to OPCW."
In slasbury today, British police briefed the public about the latest in their investigation. A police spokesperson said that UK policeman in poisoned ex-spy incident has been discharged from hospital.
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey was left seriously ill after taking part in the early response to the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4.
"People ask me how I am feeling ‐ but there are really no words to explain how I feel right now," he said in statement issued by his local force. "Surreal is the word that keeps cropping up ‐ and it really has been completely surreal."
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[LongWarJournal] The State Department added Uzbek jihadist group Katibat Imam al Bukhari (KIB) to the US government’s list of specially designated global terrorist organizations today. State labeled KIB is the “largest Uzbek fighting force in Syria.”
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Ein Britischer Hundsbund of Puppen!
The newshounds were sniffin' and scoopin':
Who knew if your Pudel
Flew stukas mit Rudel,
Or Buddhas were brutal Sturmtruppen?
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I particularly love the multilingual ones, Zenobia F. They remind me of how cute the trailing daughters where as they learnt to speak two languages at once.
[AnNahar] The United States has quietly dropped assault charges against 11 bodyguards of 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... who were accused of attacking protesters in Washington last year.
The Superior Court in Washington confirmed Thursday that charges against four were dropped last November and another seven on February 14.
No reasons were given for government prosecutors' decision to seek dismissal of the cases.
But an official with close knowledge of the case said: "the decision was made for evidentiary reasons," suggesting there were questions over the identification of those involved in the May 16, 2017 melee.
Nineteen members of Erdogan's security detail were indicted over the daylight attack in front of the Ottoman Turkish ambassador's residence, which took place while Erdogan was in Washington to meet 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... Two of them were US citizens, who pleaded guilty in December to assault charges. Two were Canadians, who were charged but have not been tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Fifteen others were Ottoman Turkish citizens who were a part of Erdogan's entourage and took part in the attack, which saw peaceful protesters kicked and beaten by the Ottoman Turkish security team.
Several were sent to hospital for serious injuries.
Much of the assault was filmed by bystanders, and police identified the suspects in part by the video recordings.
The indictments raised the temperature of already heated relations between the two countries, with Erdogan calling the case a "scandalous demonstration of how American justice works."
The U.S. meanwhile froze a deal to sell $1.2 million of small arms to the Ottoman Turkish president's bodyguard unit.
According to the Washington court, charges were dropped against eleven of the 15 Ottoman Turkish bodyguards, while four others remain under indictment.
The first batch of dismissed cases came on the eve of the visit to Washington of Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim last November.
The second batch took place a day before Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Erdogan in Ankara.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday that the department "had no role in the decision to drop those charges."
"That was entirely coming out of the Department of Justice," she said.
She said Tillerson knew of the decision before he met Erdogan, but "the timing was coincidental." Perhaps they will now get off of my arse and let a harmless old preacher alone.
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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday that the department "had no role in the decision to drop those charges."
"That was entirely coming out of the Department of Justice," she said. She said Tillerson knew of the decision before he met Erdogan, but "the timing was coincidental."
[HERALD.CO.ZW] Government yesterday signed a $4,2 billion platinum investment agreement with a Cyprus-based company, Karo Resources, as investors continue to show confidence in policies formulated under the new dispensation. The deal — the largest to date in the mining sector — was signed at Munhumutapa Offices in Harare by Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando and Karo Resources chairman Mr Loucas Pouroulis at a ceremony attended by President Mnangagwa, Vice President Kembo Mohadi and senior Government officials.
The mine will be located in the Mhondoro-Ngezi area, while the deal includes the establishment of a 600MW thermal power station in Matabeleland North and chrome mining.
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Note how in most entries the Ominbus value is >> than the President's request, the House voted or the Senate voted. A cynical person would expect these Omnibus private conference committee meetings were filled with lobbyists.
Here’s a clip-and-save budget chart for NASA comparing the original FY18 request, House and Senate bills, and the final omnibus. (All values in millions of dollars, and the 2nd SLS launch platform is included in exploration ground systems.) pic.twitter.com/cAoW9V8MAg
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Another one is the 2 large expensive military communications satellites that NOBODY in the military wanted added to the Military part of the omnibus bill.
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Well, the Inspector General was a little less than the FY18 request, but still more than the House and Senate wanted.
Strange, no?
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It's like the Republicans don't understand the forces that brought Trump to power and are just playing the same old game. Very sad, and now we have to hear the old blackmail nonsense about a shutdown.
Someone should put forth a law/constitutional amendment or whatever that divides the budget into parts. Essentials such as military spending and social security can be in one (just to show how massive that one is); and other crap in the other. That way politicians can't threaten seniors and defense every time they want to force some garbage into the budget.
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I was terribly disappointed to see President Trump sign this pig into law. Downright dispirited, actually.
But now I'm over it. When Mr. Trump won, I told an Obama-supporter friend that he, President Trump, would do things I did not like. And now he has.
Setbacks are time for reflection, not sorrow. Mr. Trump is our President. He will recover from this, or die trying (morbid as it may sound, if literally, we get President Pence. And a whole lot of exploding Prog heads.).
In for a penny, in for a pound. I'm still glad I voted for Mr. Trump and shall not let a piece of crap like this bill get in the way. Once.
Should something as unconservative as this offal reoccur, I'll be getting up 1/2 hour later this upcoming election day than I normally do.
If Mr. Trump can't get this done, let it burn. Having been shown that the Prog-way is, in reality, the only way, I'll have had enough.
[AnNahar] Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers died Thursday clearing improvised bombs (IEDs) in the Syrian region of Afrin after the capture of Afrin city at the weekend, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
"We have three deaders today. They were martyred while clearing IEDs," Yildirim said in a televised speech in Ankara.
Three more soldiers were maimed after an IED went kaboom!, the army said in a statement, confirming the corpse count.
Ottoman Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces seized control of Afrin city from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia on Sunday.
Ankara began its offensive in January against the YPG, which it says is allied with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging an insurgency against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... since 1984.
The PKK is blacklisted as a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
But the YPG has been working closely with the United States against 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.... murderous Moslem group in Syria, much to Turkey's chagrin.
Some 250,000 civilians fled the violence in Afrin and dozens of others were killed, as well as around 1,500 Kurdish fighters, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Prior to the latest deaths, 46 Ottoman Turkish military personnel had been killed during the operation dubbed "Olive Branch".
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... has vowed to extend the operation to other YPG-controlled areas in northern Syria including the towns of Manbij and Kobane.
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If you wander over to liveleak.com and look at some of the celebration videos of their victory over Afrin you wonder how many hundred of their troops were wounded by celebratory fire.
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.
[Breitbart] An unnamed 55-year-old woman in Spain has died after a fatal apitherapy appointment. This unique form of alternative medicine leverages honeybee products ‐ including venom ‐ to treat all manner of ailments. Unfortunately, the woman may have developed an allergy to bee stings.
[Daily Caller] Brazilian women want to be impregnated from the sperm of white American men, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
[The Hill] An undercover informant who helped the FBI prove Russia’s uranium industry engaged in criminal activity says congressional Democrats’ recent attacks on his credibility were insulting to his medical disability and ignored the fact that agents recently asked him for fresh testimony about former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
[LI] The battle isn’t over Trump, it’s over whether our normal democratic and constitutional politics which elected Trump will prevail over the deep state.
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The Latest on Congress and a $1.3 trillion government spending bill (all times local): 12:45 a.m.
[Ynet] 
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday chose as his new national security adviser John Bolton.
[TheGuardian] Five member states plan move as bloc’s leaders agree that Moscow likely source of Salisbury attack.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Police have 
North Korea
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The spokesperson for the Arab tribes in Nineveh has disclosed news about a visit by a delegation from U.S. to each of Baghdad and Erbil to agree on the redeployment of the Kurdish Peshmerga troops in disputed regions.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several 
[TheGuardian]Much of the plastic waste accumulates in five circular ocean currents – known as gyres – found around the globe. The Ocean Cleanup has pledged a “moonshot” effort to clean up half of the Great Pacific garbage patch within five years and mop up the other rubbish-strewn gyres by 2040.
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
About the Author: 
Sometime in late 2006, US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte visited Israel. According to a security source speaking on condition of anonymity, at a meeting with the heads of Israeli intelligence at Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, intelligence branch officers presented a small time bomb. On the margins of the discussion, dealing with various security analyses of Israel’s neighbors, Col. Eli Ben-Meir, head of the technological branch of army intelligence, said that according to his assessments the Syrians were working on an "unconventional weapons project."
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Mufti, al-Saddiq al-Ghariani, has accused Egypt of conspiring against Libya and of intervening in Libyan internal affairs.
... 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 emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...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...
As Joseph Kabila plays video games in Kinshasa surrounded by the only functioning military entity in the Congo, the Presidential Guard, the people grow weary of his pretexts for remaining in power. Having taken over following the 
[ARABNEWS] A British court revealed that samples taken from the ex Russian spy and his daughter were analyzed by UK’s military laboratory in Porton Down point to exposure to Novichok nerve agent or a related agent.
... 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...
