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To be fair, the lines of code isn't necessarily a good measure. An analysis software stack consists of a lot of low-level stuff (usually fairly generic: e.g. CERN's "root" distribution), then a framework for the rest of the code to run in, then modules to unpack parts of the raw data, calibrate it, provide quality and other measures, and then comes the analysis-code proper. In ours, most of the heavy lifting is done with C++, and most of the analysis involves linking modules and processes the results with python.
I'm told that they put together 4 teams, each using a different analysis and simulation suite, that weren't supposed to confer with each other, so that they'd get some verification that the methods worked and they knew what they were doing.
I have a _lot_ of trouble believing that one man wrote 90% of the software. Installed it in github on behalf of the team, maybe.
All of that said, I don't know anybody in the group, and have no idea why she was selected.
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PHOENIX (AP) ‐ Authorities say a man on a flight that had just landed in Phoenix sprayed other passengers with a liquid from a bottle and then opened one of the jet’s doors and jumped to the tarmac.
Phoenix police spokesman Tommy Thompson says the man randomly touched passengers’ faces and sprayed them after the American Airlines flight from Minneapolis arrived Friday morning at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Thompson says the man was escorted to the front of the Boeing 737-800 but opened a service door and jumped out.
He fell about 10 feet (3 meters) and suffered minor injuries. Cleared the door with small carry-on and executed a reasonably good 5 point landing.
Police said they do not know what was in the spray bottle.
Charges are pending against the man, who was not identified.
[ColumbiaDispatch] Barely a week after launching an effort to award Ohio’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes nationally, supporters abandoned the quest for this year.
"Due to the time constraints and high number of signatures needed to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot for 2019, it will not be possible to meet the deadline for this year," said a news release from the attorney handling the issue, longtime Democrat Don McTigue of Columbus.
If they couldn’t get the signatures, it seems unlikely they’d get enough votes.
"The committee, therefore, notified the Ohio secretary of state (Tuesday) that they are withdrawing the petition."
Before the withdrawal, Gov. Mike DeWine told news hounds, "Well, I’m against that, I think that’s a stupid idea, frankly. Why would Ohio voters give up their right to make decisions about who the next president of the United States is?"
If approved, the proposal would have bypassed the Electoral College. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia, with a combined 184 electoral votes, have enacted a similar popular-vote measure into law. States representing 86 more electoral votes would be needed to reach the majority of 270 Electoral College votes to guarantee that the winner of the popular vote nationally would become president. Ohio has 18.
They just stripped me of my franchise to vote for president in order to support a dozen major metro areas across the country. One party. "Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." At least the governor and the state legislators are on record for the reckoning after the civil war they provoke.
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As Trumps poll numbers go up in the aftermath of the Mueller report a few cooler heads realize how this absolutely stupid idea could blow up in their faces and make them historical-level laughingstocks.
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The Dems are always assiduously gnawing away at the fabric of this great country. Is it time to declare them a subversive terrorist organization and move on without them.
Sue ‘em. Class action. All the way to the Supreme Court. This is exactly the kind of thing blogging conservative law professors ought to want to get their teeth into — or will happily publicize and connect you with those willing to help.
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#2 As Trumps poll numbers go up in the aftermath of the Mueller report a few cooler heads realize how this absolutely stupid idea could blow up in their faces and make them historical-level laughingstocks.
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...My concern now is that if that happens, you will see a serious call for the electors from those states to vote for the other guy, "because there's no possible way Trump could have won honestly." And THAT will be where the fighting starts.
Mike
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As the story mentions, only 13 states plus the district of Columbia have voted to bypass the electoral college. Together they have 184 EC votes. All 184 went to Hillary in 2016.
Ohio's EC votes went to Trump. That is why the anti-EC effort failed there.
This effort is merely the latest method of democrats rearranging_the_chairs_on_their_titanic.
MEXICO CITY (AP) ‐ Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.
The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America. "No need to identify tus nom. All Vietnamese are enemy."
~ Unknown Humong mercenary.
A similar confrontation occurred on the same border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala last year.
The institute said the migrants were acting in a "hostile" and "aggressive" way, and accused them of also attacking local police in Metapa, a Mexican village that lies between the border and the nearby city of Tapachula.
The group of 350 pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula in the latest caravan to enter Mexico.
Claudia Jaqueline Sandoval, 43, from El Progreso, Honduras, was walking toward Tapachula with her 6-year-old daughter. Another son and a daughter are already in the United States.
"I have been HIV positive for 16 years," said Sandoval, but her reason for going north was not just medical treatment. "It has been two years since I heard from my son" in the United States, and money is scarce, she said.
There are already several groups of migrants in the southern border state of Chiapas who have expressed frustration at Mexico’s policy of slowing or stopping the process of handing out humanitarian and exit visas at the border.
A group of several hundred Cuban, African and Central American migrants have been waiting at the immigration offices in Tapachula for documents that would allow them to travel to the U.S. border, where most plan to request asylum.
Some members of that group have scuffled with immigration authorities and broken windows at the offices in recent days, accusing officials of making them wait too long for papers.
And another group of an estimated 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants have been stuck for at least a week further west in the Chiapas town of Mapastepec, also waiting for papers.
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Thought this was going to be another Babylon Bee article until I realized they were at the Mexican southern border moving north rather in Texas heading south. Was too hopeful this a.m. Thanks to those schmucks Obama and Soros for their Open Border craziness. Put a bunch of these illegals on their estates and see how they feel about it.
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One A-10, one strafing run, problem solved. The rest will run over themselves going home. If they can walk.
Of course, a BUFF fully loaded, plus seven or eight of his neighbors, will also get results. It has to be PAINFUL before they get the message that fleeing to the US is not the solution to all their problems.
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[Aljazeera] At least 16 people were killed and 20 others injured by stray bullets at protests and sit-ins on Thursday and Friday, a Sudanese police spokesman said in a statement on Saturday as the nation waited to hear from its newly appointed leader.
Government buildings and private property were also attacked, spokesman Hashem Ali added.
The release of the death toll comes hours after the Sudanese military replaced the country's transitional leader who had been in power only one day.
Thousands of jubilant protesters celebrated in the streets of Khartoum on Friday, after Defence Minister General Awad ibn Auf, announced he was stepping down as head of the ruling military council.
He had been named the de facto leader after President Omar al-Bashir was forced out of office on Thursday after 30 years of rule.
Ibn Auf said he would be replaced by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, general inspector of the armed forces, as head of the transitional council, which will rule the country for two years until elections.
"This is for the benefit of our nation ... This country has great people and a great army," Ibn Auf said in a brief TV statement, adding that he hoped the civilians and the military would work together.
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[VOE] In a Q&A session Pope Francis told an audience of schoolchildren who had gathered in the Vatican that "migrants bring with them the wealth of a multicultural and multi-ethnic world".
"Let us thank God for a multi-ethnic and multicultural society", he said, "because dialogue among cultures, persons, and ethnicities is richness".
"Multi ethnicity" and "multiculturalism" are the water of life which, unlike distilled water, is tasty and quenches thirst."
"Migrants are not to be feared as if they were a plague. Migrants are not criminals, just as the mafia was not invented by the Nigerians."
"The mafia is ours, made in Italy: it is ours", the pope said, adding, "We all have the chance to be criminals."
"Migrants are those who always bring us riches. Europe itself was made by migrants! The barbarians, the Celts...", he continued.
"All these came from the north and brought their cultures with them. Europe grew in this way, with the contrast of cultures."
"But today", he lamented, "there is the temptation to a culture of walls, to raise walls, walls in the heart and on earth to prevent this encounter with other cultures, with other people."
"And whoever raises a wall, whoever builds a wall", he warned, "will end up as a slave inside the walls he has built, without horizons."
"If I have a racist heart", the pope urged, "I must examine myself why and convert."
He urged that migrants be received, accompanied and integrated because by welcoming them one becomes richer and grows.
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Well, if it wasn't for migrants illegals that collapsed the Roman Empire, the church probably would never had attained it standing it still enjoys today. In the power vacuum of the post-Roman period the only thing holding together what amounted to 'Western Civilization' defaulted to the church. Problem for El Jefe is that the migrants illegals in his neighborhood are muzzies out to take him and every other infidel down.
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Migrants is so vague. We have legal migrants and we have illlegal migrants. One group is likely to assimilate and add to the culture, the other will not and treats the culture as a host to feed upon.
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An apologetic for the invaders whom he used to succor as priest and bishop, not as head of a worldwide church, among whose believers are the invaded as well.
And yes, Pope Francis — about those living behind walls: you free yourself from slavery first, to show us how it should be done.
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Ah ,, but distilled water makes a uniform product anywhere on the planted.
Distilled or R/O water is easier on your coffee makers too. StarBucks coffee made anywhere in the world will taste the same made with R/O water. For a branded product like StarBucks that's important. You know when you get off a plane at Changi the Starbucks will taste just the same as the one down the street from your house. Pope! for a branded product that's really important.
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Let me put it another way.
When you need the US Marines you want the US Marines and not some pretty boys from the local watering hole.
Brands and uniformity are more important than you think Pope baby!
[Townhall] Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) gave a victory to the pro-life movement Thursday by signing one of the strictest pro-life bills in the nation.
"The essential function of government is to protect the most vulnerable among us," DeWine said before signing the bill. "Those who do not have a voice. Government’s role should be to protect life from the beginning to the end. To protect those who cannot protect themselves, such as the elderly, the unborn, those who are sick, those who have a disability, those who have a mental illness or an addiction. The signing of this bill today is consistent with that respect for life and the imperative to protect those who cannot protect themselves."
[Red State] Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used the tragedy of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting to call for gun control back in January, saying that lawmakers would have greed on what to do about gun control following the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults if they had been forced into "a locked room, no press, no one, nobody else" and required to examine "the autopsy photographs of those babies."
"There is no reason why we cannot have reasonable gun safety laws in this country," she told a CNN Town Hall crowd in Iowa, who cheered and applauded.
Well now the good senator’s position on gun control is coming into focus as we learn she means gun control for people other than herself.
California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said she owns a gun for "personal safety" Thursday, adding she wants to protect the second amendment after leading efforts to ban assault weapons.
"I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do ‐ for personal safety," Harris told reporters after attending a party with supporters in Des Moines, Iowa, according to Business Insider. "I was a career prosecutor."
You’re likely reading into that correctly. She packs for personal safety, she says. Because she had a job that demands such a thing. People like her ‐ powerful people ‐ have exerted their power in pursuit of truth and justice so they OF COURSE need firearms to protect themselves.
But you people? What have you possibly done in life ‐ certainly not become a lawyer and prosecuted bad people ‐ to warrant the perks of gun ownership?
But there’s an even deeper message here, and she’s sending it out not to "average" people she might sway to vote for her. No, the more subliminal message is going straight out to the powerful people behind the progressive regime that tends to give Kamala Harris and politicians like her money to stay in the game.
And that message is this: we get the guns, we get the power.
[Aljazeera] Hugo Carvajal, who had advised Hugo Chavez, recently became the biggest military figure to declare loyalty to Guaido.
Venezuela's longtime spy chief was arrested Friday in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a United States warrant for allegedly trafficking tons of cocaine.
Hugo Carvajal, who for more than a decade advised late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and headed the country's security apparatus, recently became the most influential military figure to declare his loyalty to opposition leader Juan Guaido.
The opposition saw Carvajal's criticism of Venezuela's current government as a possible stimulus to prod other military figures to defect, but the country's armed forces have remained largely loyal to current President Nicolas Maduro.
Friday's arrest is a result of a 2014 indictment by the Southern District of New York in which the US Attorney's Office accuses Carvajal of having "coordinated the transportation of approximately 5,600 kilograms of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico" in 2006.
A spokeswoman with Spain's National Court, which handles extradition cases, said that Carvajal would testify on Saturday before Judge Alejandro Abascal in Madrid. He can either accept the extradition to the United States or fight it before the court, explained the official, who wasn't authorised to be identified by name in media reports.
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Tell us what you know Hugo my friend, and all of these ridiculous drug charges will vanish. By the way, welcome to the United States.
Carvajal, head of military intelligence from 2004 to 2008, denounced Chavez’ successor Maduro in February and gave his support to Juan Guaido, who in January invoked the constitution to become Venezuela’s interim president.
Guaido was later recognized by the United States and dozens of governments, but Maduro remains in office with support of the military and has denounced Guaido as a U.S. puppet.
Guaido has offered amnesty to military leaders who took his side.
Carvajal recently said on Twitter that he would relay all the information he knows to the appropriate authorities, the senior U.S. administration official said.
“We look forward to receiving that information and to learning everything he knows … about how Maduro and his mafia operate,” the official said.
Washington expects to learn more about Maduro’s ties to Cuba, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the official said.
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Hugo (Pollo, the chicken) and chavista seems to have an interesting past: According to ABC, "Last time he was arrested (2014), the Obama administration let him slip away. I hope the U.S. government won't let that happen again."
[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry announced on Friday that it had killed two Death Eaters while foiling an attack targeting a police checkpoint in Egypt's South Sinai, a statement read.
The statement said that police forces confronted "armed terrorist elements who attempted to attack the Oyoun Moussa security checkpoint in the early hours of Friday."
The exchange of fire resulted in the death of two of the terrorists.
Forces from the interior ministry found an boom belt among the terrorists' possessions.
According to the statement, a bomb expert was immediately deployed to the scene to defuse it.
Tight security were also deployed around the site of the attack and the surrounding area.
[IsraelTimes] Some 7,000 gather for protest with some throwing rocks and fire bombs at troops who respond with tear gas and occasional live fire; IDF nabs armed man at fence.
Paleostinians said a 15-year-old was shot and killed during weekly riots along the Gazoo Strip border on Friday as rioters threw rocks and fire bombs at IDF troops who responded with tear gas and live fire.
Some 7,400 Paleostinians gathered for the weekly protests at several sites along the border.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Gazoo health ministry said the youth, identified as Maysara Abu Shaloof, was shot in the stomach by live fire. It also said 17 other Paleostinians were maimed, but it was not clear how many of them were hit by live fire.
The army did not immediately comment on the death, but said that troops had apprehended a Paleostinian armed with a gun "near the fence in the northern Gazoo Strip." He was taken for questioning by security services, the IDF said.
The army put the number of protesters at 7,400, saying that it had also identified several attempts to approach the border. "The army responded with riot dispersal means and live fire in accordance with the rules of engagement."
Numbers at the protest were down from last week when 10,000 participated and the week before, the one-year anniversary of the start of the marches, which drew over 40,000.
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the stomach during festivities with IDF forces east of the Jabaliya refugee camp, according to the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, Health Ministry on Friday.
According to the report, two other people were maimed by gunfire in festivities with IDF forces east of Gazoo City, when 9,000 demonstrators protested in five locations along the Gazoo border.
A Paleostinian was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! after cutting the fence into Israel, waving a Paleostinian flag.
[ToloNews] Sources close to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have confirmed that the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has "temporarily" removed sanctions on Taliban’s senior members who have held negotiations with US officials in 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... According to the sources, all the 14 members of Taliban’s political office in Qatar, including Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of Qatar office and deputy leader of the group, have been removed from the UN blacklist for nine months.
Anas Haqqani, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... , Amir Khan Muttaqi, Qari Din Mohammad, Zahidullah Ahmadzai and Mawlawi Ziaurrahman Madani are also among those who have been removed from the UN blacklist, the sources said.
"This issue (removing names from UN blacklist) was discussed in the first meeting as well, but the Americans were making the excuse that for removing the names, the agreement of the Afghan government is needed. But this time, it is clear that the Americans have made the move, after their 16-day meeting (in Qatar), to reach an agreement," said Nazar Mohammad Mutmaen, a political analyst familiar with Qatar talks.
The Afghan government and the UN have not commented on the report.
Iqbal Khyber, head of People’s Peace Movement said that lifting sanctions on the Taliban’s senior members will help the peace talks.
"This will not only facilitate the peace talks but will also create trust between the two sides," said Khyber.
This comes as the US Special Envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad and his team are expected to start a new round of talks with the Taliban in Qatar later this month. Khalilzad so far has held five rounds of talks with the Taliban which according to him, these meetings have been "productive".
Mohammad Ismail Khan, member of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leadership and member of the newly-established Reconciliation Leadership Council, said the working committees of the council have not reached an agreement about the members of the delegation that will attend the Qatar meeting ‐ scheduled for April 19.
"So far, they have not agreed on a list. The government was trying to have more delegates (in the team), but the politicians were not accepting it," Khan said.
The intra-Afghan talks, between the Afghan government, Afghan politicians and the Taliban, is scheduled for April 19 to 21. Initially, the talks were scheduled for April 14, but the Reconciliation Leadership Council on Wednesday said the meeting has been postponed.
This comes as the Taliban announced their spring offensive on Friday morning which is entitled Operation al-Fatha - which means "victory" in Arabic. The group said in a statement that the offensive will be conducted across Afghanistan with the aim of "eradicating occupation" and "cleansing our Moslem homeland from invasion and corruption".
Hours after Taliban announced their so-called spring offensive, a front man of the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, Dave Butler, said the coalition forces will continue to support the Afghan forces in the fight against the Taliban as the group has chosen violence despite a "tremendous" opportunity for peace.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense has confirmed that heavy festivities are underway between security forces and anti-government armed hard boyz close to Shirzad district administrative compound.
According to a statement released by Ministry of Defense, Talibs launched sporadic attacks close to Shirzad district compound at around 7pm local time.
The statement further added that both security forces and Talibs have suffered casualties during the festivities.
the Ministry of Defense also added that the armed forces have launched artillery strikes to repulse the attack and festivities between the two sides are still underway.
Reports received from the area suggest that Talibs have detonated two Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Devices close to Shirzad district compound.
The anti-government armed hard boyz including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the incident so far.
[ToloNews] Government figures show that almost 45,000 members of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces bit the dust in the past four years under the National Unity Government.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... festivities have intensified in northern, northeastern and southern parts of the country as the weather is changing.
In a recent incident on Monday night, at least eight members of the Afghan police were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in northern Balkh province.
In a report released in February, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... said the organization has documented 3,804 civilian deaths, including 927 children, in 2018.
In total, UNAMA documented 10,993 civilian casualties (3,804 deaths and 7,189) maimed), representing a five percent increase in overall civilian casualties and an 11 percent increase in civilian deaths compared with 2017.
In this report, UNAMA attributes the majority of civilian casualties ‐ 63 percent ‐ to anti-government elements (37 percent to Taliban, 20 percent to ISIS, and 6 percent to undetermined anti-government elements).
According to the report, pro-government forces caused 24 percent civilian deaths (14 percent by Afghan national security forces, six percent by international military forces, and four percent by other pro-government gangs and forces).
The report says that key factors contributing to the significant increase in civilian casualties were a spike in suicide kabooms by anti-government elements, mainly ISIS, as well as increased harm to civilians from aerial and search operations by pro-government forces.
The report says that 2018 witnessed the highest number of civilian casualties ever recorded from suicide attacks and aerial operations.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] About 1,500 refugees and migrants colonists are trapped in detention centers by the Libyan conflict and the risks to their lives are growing by the hour, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
"These are people in the most vulnerable and dangerous of circumstances," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement, calling for them to be evacuated. "Sent home" is not an option?
"They must be urgently brought to safety. Simply put, this is a matter of life or death."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel is claiming that the Iranian missile fired into the occupied Golan Heights earlier this year had violated international law.
The missile used was a "medium-range surface-to-surface missile" that was allegedly transferred from Iran to Syria after January 2016; this is a violation of Annex B of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on April 4th, as reported by IHS Janes.
According to Danon, the Iranian missile allegedly "flew no less than 60 km" and was equipped with a "precise warhead".
"The [Security] Council must take responsibility for stopping these activities that continue to jeopardize the safety and security of our region," Danon said in the letter.
As stipulated in UN Resolution 2231, Iran is prohibited from transferring any military equipment to a foreign country.
The attack that took place on January 20th was carried out by the Syrian Arab Army in retaliation for an Israeli projectile that targeted the western part of the country.
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[AnNahar] Suspected Somali al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... jihadis kidnapped two Cuban doctors Friday and killed their police protection officer in northeastern Kenya, police sources said.
They said the two doctors and their guard were on the way to work in the town of Mandera when they were attacked.
"It just happened this morning. The police officer is dead but the two doctors were taken away," a police brass hat, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
"From the modus operandi and the fact that they went towards the Somalia border, we have reasons to believe that the kidnappers are al-shabaab."
The two doctors are part of a group of about 100 Cubans who came to Kenya last year to help boost health services.
[DAWN] A man bumped off his daughter-in-law and her alleged paramour in the name of honour in the limits of Sar Dheri cop shoppe here on Thursday.
In-charge Azizabad police post said that one Zamin Khan of Nazo Kallay Azizabad opened indiscriminate fire with his pistol on his daughter-in -law and her alleged paramour. As a result, both were killed on the spot.
Later, the attacker handed himself over to the Sar Dheri police along with the pistol. The police registered an FIR and have started investigation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi counter-terrorism forces launched a new operation on Thursday that targeted the remaining Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) Death Eaters from a mountain range in northern Iraq.
According to a report from Baghdad, the counter-terrorism forces began their operation by storming the Islamic State’s hideouts in the Hamrin Hills.
The report said that the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have already killed a dozen Islamic State terrorists, while also destroying a number of hideouts and trenches.
"...the sectors of the Counter-Terrorism forces, supported by Iraqi Army aviation and international coalition aviation, initiated a broad security operation to chase the remnant members of the terrorist ISIS in the hills of Hamrin to destroy the caves and their safe havens," read a statement by the Security Media Cell on Facebook, as reported by the Rudaw News Agency.
The operation was reportedly green lit by Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, the country’s commander-in-chief, according to the media cell.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi Navy took part in the ongoing battle in northern 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... this morning, firing several missiles towards the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... defenses in the Hajjah Governorate.
According to reports from northern Yemen, the Saudi Navy fired a number of missiles towards the Houthi defenses in the town of Mahatrah, which is located inside the contested Abs region of Hajjah.
The Saudi missile strikes were accompanied by a powerful ground assault by the pro-government tribal forces and Yemeni Army in the Abs region.
For several days now, the Saudi Coalition has been hammering this part of the Hajjah Governorate in a bid to weaken the Houthi resolve and help push the pro-government troops towards the bucolic provincial capital.
Despite these attacks, the pro-government gains have been limited, thanks in large part to the rugged terrain which has helped the Houthi forces greatly in the Abs region.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles into southern 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... this evening, the Yemeni group’s official media wing reported.
According to the report, the Houthi forces fired several Zilzal-1 ballistic missiles at a Saudi Coalition base in the Raboa District of the Asir province.
The Houthi forces have claimed that their missile attack resulted in the destruction of two artillery field guns that were present at this Saudi Coalition base.
This Houthi attack was conducted in response to the Saudi Navy’s missile strikes on their positions in the Abs region of Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over 200 captured Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) fighters to the Iraqi authorities, the Bas News Agency reported.
Citing a security source from the Iraqi Army, Bas News said the Islamic State fighters were transferred to the 8th Division’s base, where they will later be processed.
The IS prisoners were said to be all Iraqi nationals.
This is the third time this year that the Syrian Democratic Forces have transferred a large number of Islamic State prisoners to the Iraqi authorities.
The transfer of these Islamic State fighters to Iraq also helps bring justice for the victims of the terrorist group.
The Islamic State fighters will be tried by the Iraqi courts, which is something that is currently not possible in eastern Syria.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A counter-terrorism operation is ongoing in the Siberian city of Tyumen, where the FSB says 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.... faceless myrmidons were planning a terrorist attack.
Russian Special Forces are storming a private home in Tyumen where armed faceless myrmidons affiliated with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) are currently holed up.
The Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB) has confirmed that an anti-terrorist operation was underway in the city late on Friday, saying that the faceless myrmidons planned attacks in the Siberian city.
Numerous unconfirmed videos on social media appear to show the nighttime operation in full swing, with heavy gunfire, a score of police cars and military vehicles amassed in the streets.
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Sounds like another Trump-associate bust by Muleller' s boys.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force has unleashed a flurry of Arclight airstrikes over the southwestern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate this evening, a military source told al-Masdar News.
According to the source, the Russian Air Force primarily targeted 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.... ’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) positions near the town of Harbisha in southwestern Deir Ezzor.
Tonight’s attack on the Islamic State’s positions in southwestern Deir Ezzor comes just 48 hours after a Syrian military convoy disappeared along the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor Highway.
The Syrian high command believes this Syrian Army convoy was attacked by the Islamic State and the soldiers were taken hostage by the terrorist group.
The Russian Air Force typically targets the jihadist rebels in northwestern Syria; however, with the frequent Islamic State ambushes in the Deir Ezzor and Homs governorates, they have switched their attention to this desert front.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a heavy attack across southern Idlib, southwestern Aleppo, and northern Hama last night.
Using a mixture of surface-to-surface missiles and artillery shells, the Syrian Arab Army began their assault by launching a number of projectiles towards Jaish al-Izza’s positions near the Ottoman Turkish observation post in Morek.
The Syrian Arab Army would then follow up this attack by launching simultaneous strikes on the jihadist positions in the southwestern Aleppo town of Khan al-Assal and southern idlib town of Khan Sheikhoun.
This prompted a heavy response from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham , who also fired a number of missiles and artillery shells towards the government’s positions in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
Over the last few weeks, the fighting in northwestern Syria has intensified to the point that the Russian and Ottoman Turkish armed forces have had to intervene in order to stop the spread of violence.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... a source from the Syrian Arab Army told al-Masdar that the likelihood of decreased hostilities in northwestern Syria is very slim because their high command believes Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their jihadist allies are seeking to expand in southern Idlib and northern Hama.
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[Babylon Bee) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pumped to attend a taping of The Price Is Right in Hollywood this week. The special guest introduced herself as a U.S. representative and rising star of the Democratic Party. Things got interesting when the game began and every time it was her turn to estimate the price of an item her answer was "free."
Items included a set of Italian leather handbags, an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas, and a brand new 2019 BMW 330i, at all of which Ocasio-Cortez shouted, "FREE!"
When host Drew Carey asked if Ocasio-Cortez understood the game's rules, she told Carey not to cat-call her and then responded, "Don't hate me cause you ain't me."
She went on to guess that diamond earrings, a set of jet skis, and even a giant pile of cash were all free. Carey unveiled a package containing world-class healthcare and she said, "Definitely free." She was at one point puzzled by a stack of croissants but eventually guessed that they also were free.
Cortez was never able to advance to the game proper, and as the credits rolled she appeared visibly upset. A hot mic picked up comments she made in frustration, claiming that the game was rigged by capitalism and that "everybody knows giant piles of money are free, that's like basic economics 101"
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Beau: to create a hot link, type a bit of text, highlight it, then click on the link icon and paste your URL in it. When I went into your comment to see what went wrong, the link was there, waiting for something to attach to ... so I gave it something.
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There have been some tough ones recently, double-checking I was at the Bee. One of these is an actual story, though daily Rantburgers will pick it out.
(A)Gay man ectures Christians on biblical morality.
(B)Los Angeles Intersection to be renamed in honor of Nipsey Hussle.
(C)Man arrested while attempting to smuggle Chick-Fil-A sandwich into San Antonio airport.
(D)Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's economics degree recalled.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The US Treasury Department sanctioned four companies and nine ships on Friday, including some that transported oil from Venezuela to Cuba, as part of the efforts of the 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... government to isolate President Nicolás Maduro.
"We continue to sanction companies that transport Venezuelan oil to Cuba, because they are benefiting while the Maduro regime loots natural resources," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement, reported AFP.
"Venezuelan oil belongs to the Venezuelan people and should not be used as a bargaining tool to support dictators and prolong oppression," he added.
So far, the United States has revoked the visas of 718 Maduro associates and has issued sanctions against more than 150 people and entities.
Despite the sanctions, Maduro clings to power with the help of Russia, China and Cuba. The international coalition that has supported the opposition has 54 countries, although some old US allies have refused to recognize opposition politician Juan Guaidó as legitimate president, which the Trump government has done.
The sanctioned companies are Jennifer Navigation Limited, Lima Shipping Corp. and Large Range Limited, all based in Monrovia, Liberia, and three of their vessels that are presumed to have taken Venezuelan crude to Cuba this year.
In addition, the Treasury sanctioned a PB oil SPA, headquartered in Italia, and six of its oil tankers, including one of the Venezuelan oil derivatives in Cuba.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] On Friday, the Foreign Ministry of Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... formally announced the withdrawal of the country from the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), of which it had not participated since last year.
Through a statement it was explained that the crisis that afflicts the body, the prevalence of ideologies and other aspects were the causes of the decision, AFP reported.
"This decision was made in the context of the crisis that afflicts that body, manifested in the general secretariat's accretion for more than two years, as well as an agenda with high ideological content and very far from its initial objectives and administrative disorder. that prevailed in the organization in recent times, "says the letter.
In addition, it is added that their perception of UNASUR is shared with several countries in the region; of which highlighted Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, who are not already in the union.
Argentina communicated its decision in a note addressed to the president pro tempore of the regional body, the chancellor of Bolivia, Diego Pary.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu clashed on Friday with a French politician over the commemoration of the "Armenian genocide" in a heated exchange that prompted the French delegation to walk out.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Armenia are at odds over how to describe treatment of Armenians during the Ottoman era in WWI, with Turkey denying massacres and forced deportations amounted to a genocide.
French President Emmanuel Macron in February announced La Belle France would hold a national day on April 24 to commemorate the "Armenian genocide", drawing criticism from Ankara.
During a meeting of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... parliamentary assembly in Antalya in southern Turkey on Friday, Ottoman Turkish parliament chief Mustafa Sentop lashed out at La Belle France’s decree to establish the commemorative day, accusing Gay Paree of "manipulating history."
He also referenced massacres committed in Algeria when it was still a French colony and in Rwanda whose government accuses Gay Paree of being complicit in the 1994 slaughter there.
Attending the meeting, French politician Sonia Krimi, from Macron’s LREM party, criticized Ottoman Turkish comments saying she was shocked. But that provoked a sharp response from Cavusoglu.
"In terms of genocide and history, La Belle France is the last country to be giving lectures to Turkey, and we have not forgotten what happened in Rwanda and Algeria," the minister said.
"You can keep trying to look down on us, but we will keep putting you in your place."
Krimi and the French delegation left the room in protest over Cavusoglu’s remarks.
"When the arrogant @MevlutCavusolgu gives you lessons on arrogance and politeness, arrogantly and without any respect," she wrote on Twitter referring to the incident.
Turkey’s presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin hit back posting on Twitter a story from state news agency Anadolu about "dark stains in French history."
"Neither their colonial past nor their self-centred present guarantees their moral superiority," he wrote.
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[DAWN] The disappearance of two students of Shah Abdul Latif University (Salu) here on Thursday sparked rumours of yet another case of a free-will marriage in making as one person appeared to be a Hindu girl and the other a Moslem man.
The family members of the girl, a BS third-year student, approached the A-Section cop shoppe to lodge her missing report as she did not return home from the university at the routine time. They apprehended that she might have been kidnapped and named the suspected man, who appeared to be her class fellow.
The police raided the suspect’s home to arrest him but came to know that he also did not return from the university by the evening.
The police said they were making all-out efforts to locate both the ’missing’ persons.
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You have to understand that life in a hindu home in porkistan is shit. And life as a hindu female is lesser than shit. If these girls are refusing to live in these conditions and running away with mochmeds, it's self preservation disguised as a romantic decision. It's more of a socio-economic phenomenon.
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Except that kidnapping dhimmi girls for forced conversion and marriage is a regular activity in the Land of the Pure. And seduction of dhimmi girls for willing conversion and marriage without her parents’ permission is also, though in neither case does the Moslem boy truly love her. Free will marriages do happen, including between religions, but the two predatory situations appear to be more common.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The military council that assumed power in Sudan after the ouster of Omar al Bashir considers that this overthrow was not a "coup d'état", one of its members declared on Friday. "It's....something different"
The head of the junta's political committee, Lieutenant General Omar Zinelabidine, told diplomats that the expulsion of the man who ruled the country for three decades with an iron fist was not a "coup d'état," said AFP.
For his part the head of the military Council, which in principle has to lead a democratic transition, General Awad Ibn Ouf, will address the nation "very soon" announced state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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Hopefully its more of a "Weekend At Bernies d'etat"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algerian police are firing water cannon at protesters in the capital as tensions mount on the eighth week of protests against the country’s leadership.
The protest movement has been overwhelmingly peaceful but police were out in larger than usual numbers Friday.
Reporters from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named saw police spraying water repeatedly on a huge crowd on Didouche Mourad Street in Algiers, on the route toward the central post office that has become a symbol of the movement.
It was unclear whether something prompted the police to act. Maybe they just needed a shower?
The street was packed with protesters waving Algerian flags. Protesters shouted "Authorities - Assassins!" and surrounded the water cannon truck, with some appearing to hit it.
The protesters pushed out longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... last week but now want other brass hats to step down too.
Anger is mounting over military chief Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah, who was instrumental in Bouteflika’s departure but then threw his support behind interim President Abdelkader Bensalah, seen as part of the old regime.
Bensalah was named interim president this week and announced new elections for July 4.
Protest appeals online call for both Bensalah and the military chief to step down.
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No fifth filth!
Revolting! They're sporting the Swoosh;
Loose women are humping the louche,
And fighting the power.
A government shower
Goes whoosh in Rue Mourad Didouche.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eastern Libyan forces bogged down in street battles in a push to seize the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... deployed warplanes on Friday to hit several government positions, as more civilians fled fighting.
More than 1,000 people gathered in central Tripoli to demand that Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... stop the advance of his Libyan National Army (LNA) on the coastal city of about 1.2 million people.
Haftar launched the campaign a week ago, in the latest conflict in a cycle of anarchy since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... But forces loyal to Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's internationally recognized government have so far kept them at bay, with fierce fighting round a disused former airport about 11 km from the center.
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[AnNahar] Two people, including a soldier and a vigilante, were killed when twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno state, military and militia sources said Friday.
The bombers quickly blew themselves up on Thursday in bid to evade arrest when they were stopped by troops and forces of Evil outside the garrison town of Monguno.
"We lost a solider and a civilian vigilante in the kaboom which also injured another soldier," a military officer who did not want to be named, told AFP.
"Twoexploding trollop female suicide bombers were involved in the incident," he added.
One of the bombers panicked when they were being questioned and detonated her explosives, killing her while her accomplice "took to the heels", added a militia leader in the town.
"The soldiers and the vigilante pursued her and when she realised they were closing in on her she went kaboom!, killing a soldier and a civilian JTF (militia)," said the militia, who didn't want to be identified for fear of official sanction.
He said another soldier sustained injuries in the incident.
Monguno, 135 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, houses a military base and camps for people displaced by the 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... insurgency.
The town which lies in the Lake Chad area has been repeatedly attacked by the jihadists who have made several failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! s to overrun the base.
Suicide bombings are the hallmarks of the Boko Haram faction loyal to longtime leader Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... , targeting civilian targets like mosques, markets, schools and displaced camps.
Another IS-affiliated faction focuses on attacks on military targets including raids on bases.
Boko Haram's decade-long conflict has killed more than 27,000 people and displaced 1.8 million others in the northeast.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan’s Defense Minister Awad Ibn Auf said on Friday that he is stepping down as head of the Country’s transitional military council, a day after former president Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. was tossed in a coup.
Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan will be the new head of the transitional military council, Ibn Auf said in a speech broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Friday.
Ibn Auf said: "I, the head of the military council, announce I am giving up the post," he said, adding he took the decision to preserve the unity of the armed forces.
He also said Chief of Staff Kamal Abdelmarouf al-Mahi was relieved of his position as deputy head of the transitional military council.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters have been rallying in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum, against the military takeover of power after ousting longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir on Thursday.
The Sudanese group spearheading a nationwide protest movement described a decision by the head of a newly formed military council to step down on Friday as a "victory" for the people.
"The stepping down of General Awad Ibn Ouf is a victory of the people’s will," the Sudanese Professionals Association said.
Jubilation erupted across the capital in response to the resignation.
Ibn Auf was sworn in as de facto ruler late Thursday after leading the ouster of al-Bashir following months of protests.
Ibn Auf had been defense minister since 2015 before al-Bashir promoted him to first vice president in February as protests against him intensified.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Footage released by the Libyan National Army (LNA) on Wednesday allegedly shows LNA forces after reportedly taking control over the Brigade N*42 base in Ain Zara, southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Fighters from the LNA, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , can be seen celebrating and pulling victory signs while surveying the base.
Since erupting over a week ago, fighting over the Libyan capital between Misrata forces and the LNA has left at least 47 dead, including 9 civilians.
The LNA, which controls eastern Libya, is aiming to take over territory from the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) including Tripoli, as the country has been split between the two rival governments since 2014.
Approximately 4,500 Tripoli residents have so far been displaced due to the ongoing festivities, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
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[DAWN] Sudanese protesters, angry that army commanders have taken control after removing veteran president Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. in a palace coup, defied a night-time curfew to keep up four months of mass demonstrations on Friday.
Protest leaders dismissed the transitional military council formed by top brass after they toppled Bashir on Thursday, as the "same old faces" from the old regime which had ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades. Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss
Demonstrators demanded a civilian body to lead the transition to democracy and bring an end to the multiple conflicts which have pushed the country into worsening poverty.
Most shops and offices were closed on Friday which is the day of prayer and rest in Sudan.
Vast crowds were expected to throng the streets of Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman after the main weekly Moslem prayers at noon raising fears of confrontation.
Washington called on the military council "to exercise restraint and to allow space for civilian participation within the government".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) sleeper cell carried out another heavy attack against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops in the Daraa Governorate.
According to a report from the Daraa Governorate, the Free Syrian Army fighters stormed the Syrian Arab Army’s checkpoint inside the Daraa al-Mahata District, infilcting a number of casualties within their ranks.
Tonight’s attack by the Free Syrian Army marks the first time this month that this rebel sleeper cell has targeted the Syrian Arab Army’s positions inside the Daraa Governorate.
Previously, the Syrian Arab Army had issued a stern warning to the Free Syrian Army last month about launching attacks on their forces.
The Syrian Elite Republican Guard was redeployed to Daraa and then threatened to launch a new operation inside the reconciled towns to find the FSA fighters behind these attacks.
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[IsraelTimes] State media claims jets fire missiles from Lebanese airspace, destroying several buildings and injuring three.
Syrian state media said that Israeli aircraft had carried out a strike on military targets near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday.
Syria’s official state news agency SANA said the Israeli Air Force had fired missiles from Lebanese air space and said that several buildings had been destroyed and three people injured.
The report claimed that Syrian air defenses had shot down several missiles.
Earlier, the news agency had reported kabooms in the area’s countryside.
[AlMasdar] (4:45 A.M.) – A little before 3:00 A.M. (local time) this morning, the Israeli Air Force struck the city of Masyaf in the western countryside of Hama.
The Israeli airstrikes struck the Syrian military’s positions around the Masyaf National Hospital; this would result in several explosions that could be heard throughout the Hama countryside.
A source in Masyaf said the Syrian military managed to shoot down some of the Israeli missiles; however, the latter would eventually overwhelm their targets.
At least three soldiers were wounded during the attack; they have been transferred to a nearby hospital for treatment, the source added.
[AlMasdar] (4:05 A.M.) – Earlier this morning, the Israeli Air Force launched several airstrikes on the key Syrian city of Masyaf in the Hama Governorate.
According to a military source near the scene of the airstrikes, the Israeli warplanes hit a number of sites near the Masyaf National Hospital.
The source said the Israeli airstrikes targeted some of the military storages in Masyaf; this resulted in several loud explosions that could be heard as far east as Hama city.
Ooooohhhh — secondaries!
He added that the S-300 system was not in use during the Israeli attack.
Again? Why spend so much money on a defence system that’s never turned on?
Masyaf is an important city because it is considered headquarters of the Tiger Forces and several other military units.
The S-300 system has also been installed around the city.
Really, it doesn’t work unless you turn it on, guys.
[Jpost] The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on four firms and nine ships in its latest effort to pressure the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... , which the Trump administration sees as illegitimate.
Three of the targeted firms are based in Liberia and the fourth is Italian, a statement posted on the U.S. Treasury's web site said.
[DAWN] Two non-combatants were killed and 10 injured on Friday evening in a blast in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Chaman city, according to police.
Unidentified bully boyz had planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on a cycle of violence parked in the main bazar on Mall Road. The blast occurred when a Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) vehicle carrying troops was passing through.
A child was among the two civilians who died immediately, said police, who added that two FC personnel were among those injured.
The injured were transported to the hospital and the area was cordoned off by police and district administration who arrived at the site shortly after the kaboom occurred.
Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal condemned the blast and expressed his sorrow at the loss of life.
The chief minister said that "security be kept on high alert in sensitive cities", and told "police and other law enforcement agencies to take comprehensive security measures".
This is the second blast to hit the province on Friday. Earlier, at least 20 people were killed and 48 injured in a blast believed to be targeting members of the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community in Quetta's Hazarganji market.
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[Breitbart] Georgia’s newly minted director of the state ethics commission said Thursday his agency will subpoena the bank records of failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and groups that assisted her with raising campaign funds.
David Emadi, a former Douglas County prosecutor who started Monday as head of the ethics commission, announced plans to look into the Abrams campaign during a press conference on general agency business with reporters.
He did not provide specifics on what kind of possible wrongdoing officials are looking into.
"What I can say about the investigation into the Abrams campaign is, in the relatively near future, I expect we will be issuing subpoenas for bank and finance records of both Miss Abrams and various PACs and special-interest groups that were affiliated with her campaign," said Emadi.
Lauren Groh-Wargo, who served as Abrams campaign manager, said of the imminent inquiry in a statement: "The Abrams campaign worked diligently to ensure compliance throughout the election and, had we been notified of any irregularities, would have immediately taken action to rectify them."
Groh-Wargo continued: "The new ethics chief ― a Kemp donor and former Republican Party leader ― is using his power to threaten and lob baseless partisan accusations at the former Abrams campaign when they should be focused on real problems like the unethical ties between the governor’s office and voting machine lobbyists instead."
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"The Abrams campaign worked diligently to ensure compliance throughout the election and, had we been notified of any irregularities, would have immediately taken action to rectify them."
Then there should be nothing to be concerned about.
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I guarantee paper records will be shredded and gone in a week . But those pesky thumb drive and e-copy disc files.. don’t you just wonder how many insurance policy copies are going to be among principal campaign managers. the investigation could prove interesting, it’s funny how quickly somebody will turn to avoid prosecution ...
How utterly adorable — he’s trying to be a tough negotiator.
[PRESSTV] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... says the United States has raised the risk of returning to past tensions after the collapse of his second summit with 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... , stressing that yet another meeting between the two leaders is only possible if Washington comes with the right attitude. Welp, alrighty then. No soup summit for you!
The North's official KCNA news agency on Saturday quoted Kim as making the remarks, two days after Trump floated the idea of holding a potential third nuclear summit with the North’s leader.
"What is needed is for the US to stop its current way of calculation, and come to us with a new calculation," Kim was quoted as saying in a speech to the Supreme People’s Assembly on Friday.
He also said that he would wait "until the end of this year" for Washington to decide.
Back in late February, Trump and Kim reached an impasse at their second face-to-face denuclearization talks in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, with Washington demanding full disarmament and Pyongyang demanding economic incentives through partial lifting harsh sanctions.
The second summit in fact did collapse when the American president abruptly walked away from the talks without reaching a deal or even issuing a final statement.
Trump claimed that he quit the talks because Kim demanded to lift all economic sanctions as a prerequisite to denuclearization.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Pyongyang quickly responded that it had never asked for the removal of all sanctions, but only the partial removal of them. "Only the effective ones"
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The second summit in fact did collapse when the American president abruptly walked away from the talks
This long-running soap opera is fascinating, but other than Pudge and the guys on our side, it's hard to know anything about the players. But the idea that Trump is going to get rolled in the negotiations is laughable. After dealing with assorted villains, mooks, thugs, grifters, and legislators as a New York real estate developer, this is just another day at the office for Trump - although on a larger scale and with more aircraft carriers.
I do hope we can get Dennis Rodman back into the mix. Maybe as ambassador to NKor. Or did he go back to his home-world?
[Jpost] Ecuador said on Friday it is holding a programmer linked to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in jug pending possible charges of interfering in private communications, a day after ending Assange's seven-year asylum in its London embassy.
Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said prosecutors could file charges against Ola Bini, who she said lives in Ecuador and had visited Assange in the London embassy a dozen times.
President Lenin Moreno in recent weeks had accused WikiLeaks and Assange of violating his privacy by publishing family photos of him. WikiLeaks denies the accusation, and says Moreno was trying to stifle reporting of corruption allegations against him.
"He is detained for the purposes of investigation. This is a detention that took place in recent hours, ordered by judges of course, and requested by state prosecutors," Romo said in televised comments. "This person is very close to WikiLeaks."
Romo, who on Thursday had announced the detention of an unidentified individual, did not provide further details.
On his website, Bini describes himself as a software developer who works for the Quito-based Center for Digital Autonomy, which focuses on digital privacy and security. The site does not mention WikiLeaks.
Bini and the Center for Digital Autonomy did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
Romo said the government had information that Bini had traveled on several occasions with Ricardo Patino, who was Ecuador Foreign Minister when Assange was granted asylum in 2012 during the government of former President Rafael Correa.
Patino via Twitter said he does not know Bini.
Romo said two Russian citizens were also under investigation but had not been tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Moreno's government accused WikiLeaks of being behind an anonymous website that said Moreno's brother had created offshore companies that his family used to fund a luxurious lifestyle in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... while Moreno was a delegate to a United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... agency.
Moreno, who was Correa's vice president but fell out with him after taking office in 2017, denies wrongdoing.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Moroccan court has sentenced a Swiss citizen tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian hikers to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges, his lawyer said Friday.
Kahlil Idriss said the man, identified only as Nicolas P., 33, was convicted on Thursday in the city of Sale, near Rabat, in a case unrelated to the double murder.
A dual Swiss-Spanish citizen was among more than 20 people arrested after Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland were found beheaded on December 17 in the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh.
Nicolas P. was arrested in January for having had contact with the Swiss-Spanish national as well as compatriots with ties to Syria, Idriss said.
He was found guilty of "forming a terrorist group".
The lawyer said he has filed an appeal on the basis that his client had signed a police report in Arabic without having read it. So he's guilty of Felony Stupidity as well
The accused told the court he had been paid by Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... ’s secret services for making contact with Swiss terror suspects.
Moroccan authorities allege the four main suspects in the hikers’ murders were sympathizers of the ISIS group but not in direct contact with ISIS members in Iraq or Syria.
The 33-year-old man sentenced on Thursday was identified by Moroccan media only as Nicolas P. Media said he also holds British citizenship.
Arrested on Dec. 29 in Marrakech, he was tried on charges of "forming a gang to plot and commit terrorist acts aiming at seriously undermining state security, intentionally helping the perpetrators of terrorist acts, training people to join terrorist organizations and apologia for terrorism," MAP said.
The first instance verdict, which will likely be followed by an appeal, was separate from the case of a Swiss-Spanish national, identified by media as Kevin P. His lawyer, Saad Salhi, told Rooters his trial, as part of a group of 25 other suspects in the double murder, had not begun yet.
Four main suspects pledged allegiance to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in a video made three days before the tourists’ bodies were found. Authorities described them after they were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! as "lone wolves" who had not coordinated the killings with Islamic State.
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[Jpost] At least 16 people were killed, and 20 injured by stray bullets at protests and sit-ins on Thursday and Friday, a Sudanese police front man said in a statement on Saturday.
Government buildings and private property were also attacked, front man Hashem Ali added.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Khartoum on Friday.
[The Hill] Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Friday that he expects the Pentagon will soon send additional troops to the border, though the Defense Department (DOD) has yet to receive a formal request for such support.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise that we'll provide more support to the border," Shanahan told reporters prior to meeting with German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at the Pentagon.
"Our support is very elastic, and given the deterioration there at the border, you would expect that we would provide more support," he said.
Asked if troops would be involved in detaining migrants in any way, he said "we haven't received any details on that, but I expect an increase in support will occur."
President Trump earlier this week said he may send more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to deal with the spike in migrant families entering the country.
"I’m going to have to call up more military," Trump said Wednesday.
NBC News reported that Shanahan was among the top national security advisers who gathered at the White House Tuesday night to discuss whether the military could build tent city detention camps for migrants and whether it could legally run the camps.
There are roughly 3,000 active-duty service members at the southern border after Trump first deployed troops there in the fall to assist in addressing a migrant caravan traveling from Central America.
The troops are in addition to about 2,000 National Guard members ordered there in April 2018 to assist in border security.
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
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MEXICO CITY (AP) ‐ Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.
[VOE] In a Q&A session Pope Francis told an audience of schoolchildren who had gathered in the Vatican that "migrants bring with them the wealth of a multicultural and multi-ethnic world".
[Red State] Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used the tragedy of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting to call for gun control back in January, saying that lawmakers would have greed on what to do about gun control following the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults if they had been forced into "a locked room, no press, no one, nobody else" and required to examine "the autopsy photographs of those babies."
...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...
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[DAWN] A man 
...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...
Bouteflika
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[AnNahar] Two people, including a soldier and a vigilante, were killed when two
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
[IsraelTimes] State media claims jets fire missiles from Lebanese airspace, destroying several buildings and injuring three.
A source in Masyaf said the Syrian military managed to shoot down some of the Israeli missiles; however, the latter would eventually overwhelm their targets.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
North Korea
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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[The Hill] Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Friday that he expects the Pentagon will soon send additional troops to the border, though the Defense Department (DOD) has yet to receive a formal request for such support.
