[Daily Caller] The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.
While the headline is sensational, The New York Times’s report is self-contradictory at times, conflicts with statements made on-the-record and under oath, overhypes the substance of the memorandum, and is irreconcilable with other information in the public record.
First, the report concedes that the Times has not "viewed a copy of the memo," despite the fact that the Times says memo itself "is unclassified." If the memo is unclassified, then that raises several questions. Why did the Times not press the source for a copy of the memo? Why did the Times not seek a copy through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) before publishing? If it was truly unclassified, then the Times stood a decent chance of having the memo released.
Second, if Times’s story is true and what President Trump did amounted to obstruction of justice, then Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe likely committed perjury. Before Comey was fired, McCabe was the Deputy Director of the FBI, one of four "senior staff" positions and also the Bureau’s second-in-command. The Times report alleges that Comey "shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates," which means that McCabe knew about the memo on May 11 when he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Russia investigation. During his testimony, Senator Marco Rubio and McCabe (who was under oath) had the following exchange:
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The radical left and their ass kissing beltway establishment will not allow anyone but them in power. To hell with democracy as far as these tyrants are concerned.
[Wash Times] Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a joint CNN town hall Tuesday with Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders that his instincts were right about President Trump.
Mr. Kasich, who unsuccessfully ran against Mr. Trump in last year’s Republican presidential primary, said the allegations that Mr. Trump shared Israeli intelligence about the Middle East with the Russians is "a very, very serious matter."
"I don’t like people that say, ’I told you so,’ but you both know how much pressure, criticism and heat I took because I was the one Republican who would not endorse Donald Trump," he told CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper.
[Breitbart] Fox News executive chairman Rupert Murdoch will host a company-wide meeting Wednesday amid internal turmoil at the network and threats to its ratings dominance from MSNBC.
According to Deadline, Murdoch is set to host two meetings at the network’s new studio, Studio F, where he will discuss both the company’s plans for a new newsroom and its overall direction and future. The meetings will reportedly be held in two shifts to accommodate all staff.
The meetings come as the network has been rocked by a series of sexual harassment and racial discrimination lawsuits in recent months, culminating in last month’s departure of star anchor and one-time cable news ratings king Bill O’Reilly.
Following O’Reilly’s departure, the network’s primetime schedule underwent perhaps its most significant reshuffling in years, with Tucker Carlson taking over O’Reilly’s 8 p.m. time slot and the panel show The Five moving to 9 p.m.
But the network faces an early test of its new lineup from MSNBC, which has benefitted greatly from star anchor Rachel Maddow and its lineup’s breathless coverage of the Trump administration.
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Tucker Carlson was a good choice for the O'Reilly slot. I don't know the facts regarding all the claims of sexual harassment by the women at Fox. Gloria Allred or her daughter was behind many of these lawsuits. Allred and her daughter are "legal hit women" for the left/Donks. Allred took down Herman Cain in 2012. The women and their claims against Cain disappeared shortly thereafter after he stepped away from running.
After carrying the M16 or one of its cousins across the globe for more than half a century, soldiers could get a peek at a new prototype assault rifle that fires a larger round by 2020.
Army researchers are testing half a dozen ammunition variants in “intermediate calibers,” which falls between the current 7.62 mm and 5.56 mm rounds, to create a new light machine gun and inform the next-generation individual assault rifle/round combo.
The weapon designs being tested will be “unconventional,” officials said, and likely not one that is currently commercially available.
Some intermediate calibers being tested include the .260 Remington, 6.5 Creedmoor, .264 USA as well as other non-commercial intermediate calibers, including cased telescoped ammo, Army officials said.
If selected by senior leaders, the weapon could resolve a close-quarters weapons debate about calibers that critics say dates to the 1920s and has influenced military small arms ever since.
If successful, the new rifle and round combination would give troops a weapon they can carry with about the same number of rounds as the current 5.56 mm but with greater range and accuracy in their firepower — with little change in weight.
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In the name of safeguarding its 1.4 billion people, China has been collecting biometric information from millions of people whom it deems potential threats—among them, Uyghurs, migrant workers, and college students—as part of national DNA database.
China’s Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the database, has amassed information for more than 40 million people—the country says it has the world’s biggest database of DNA information (link in Chinese)—as of 2015, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday (May 15). For comparison, in the US, the FBI’s national DNA index has 12.7 million offender profiles.
“Mass DNA collection by the powerful Chinese police absent effective privacy protections or an independent judicial system is a perfect storm for abuses,”said Sophie Richardson, China director at HRW. “China is moving its Orwellian system to the genetic level.”
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Prudent. That "Star Wars" ballistic missile defense the liberals savaged Reagan about is all of a sudden sounding a lot better, now that a nutjob has nuclear warheads and missiles with range.
Sen. Thom Tillis collapsed during a Washington, D.C., race Wednesday morning and was taken away in an ambulance, but he later released a video proclaiming his health and eagerness to get back to work.
Observers told The Associated Press that Tillis, R-N.C., at first appeared unconscious but was revived and seen breathing as he left the scene.
Just before 10 a.m. Tillis posted a short video to his Twitter account from the hospital.
“Hey everybody. I’m fine; just running -- about two-and-a-half miles in got overheated, no CPR, no special measures, just checkin’ me out,” Tillis said. “See you back on the Hill.”
[KSAT] SAN ANTONIO - State Sen. Carlos Uresti (TX-19) has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
The senator is facing multiple charges including wire fraud, securities fraud, engaging in monetary transactions with property derived from specified unlawful activity; and, one count of being an unregistered securities broker.
Uresti was first elected in 1997 as a Texas Representative and elected to the Senate in 2006. Notice it gets down to here before we see what party he is part of...
The Democrat and San Antonio native attended law school at St. Mary's and opened his own legal office in downtown in the early 1990s. Aaaaand there it is. Ignored by most of the media from here on out
The U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Texas issued the following statement detailing the alleged crimes.
In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments against District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division. Three other individuals were also charged by the grand jury.
[Liberty Alliance, 5 March 2017] On June 27th of 2016, Bill Clinton met secretly with Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
A week later FBI Director James Comey laid out in a press conference the many scandalous activities taken by Hillary Clinton while she was President Obama’s Secretary of State and then he said the famous words:
Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
The request, uncharacteristically, was denied.
Fast forward to October 2016. Wikileaks began releasing emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. These emails were virtually ignored by the mainstream media who were in the bag for Democrat Hillary Clinton but were spread widely by websites that chose to share the truth like this one.
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Perhaps bigger than Watergate, but nothing provable. More importantly, the swamp denizens do not want to prove it. They DO want to 'prove' ANYTHING against Trump, and it does not even need to be true, just plausible - with Trump that should be a low bar to get over.
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Inside the Hunt for Russian Hackers show a dead end trail from Omaha to Trump Tower that could have been planted remotely, as Vault 7 reveals.
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I doubt that any Dems really want to take Putin up on his offer. The Dems want to keep some issue, any issue (even made-up issues) in the echo chamber of the MSM and slowly bring Trump down with death by a thousand cuts. Even some of the Pubs are jumping in with their two cents such as McCain and Graham. With the Dems, even if they are supporting a criminal, there is unanimity of the Party behind that criminal as we have seen.
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Anyone else see frightening similarities to the early 30's? This is undercutting basic confidence in government, I cannot see this healing for a long, long time, and add the plummeting race relationships ties to one side, and I cannot see it ending with even strained tolerance....
[Real Scoop] Tillerson is saying the Washington Post’s report is RONG!!
"During President Trump’s meeting with Foreign Minister Lavrov, a broad range of subjects were discussed among which were common efforts and threats regarding counter-terrorism," Tillerson told reporters at the White House Monday evening. "During that exchange the nature of specific threats were discussed, but they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations."
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attended the meeting and also pushed back against the reports of Trump’s comments to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
NSA McMaster has already denied it and so has his Deputy NSA Dina Powell.
[Daily Caller] Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News Tuesday night that the Clintons’ "entanglements" with the Department of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer may know.
On Fox News’ "The Story," Gowdy cryptically told host Martha McCallum that he believes "history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were."
"I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information (though God knows everybody else is)...so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac," he explained.
"Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice but to make the decision he made in July," Gowdy said.
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The Sky Harbor meet was a Bill Clinton future Hildebeest administration job offer, more commonly known as a bribe.
Lynch knows it's a bribe, obstruction of justice or collusion (or has the appearance of a bribe, obstruction of justice or collusion), but is caught btwn a rock and a hard place. Courses of action available:
a. Make an official report of the event to the congress and recommend a special prosecutor? Trash the former president and the Hillary Clinton election over a (he said-she said) at Sky Harbor Airport ?
b. Don't report the event and go easy on the Clinton's as requested, only later to be seen as facilitating the Sky Harbor Bill Clinton obstruction, bribe or reward ?
c. Recuse herself, hand the Clinton issue to her deputy? But for what reason, and to what potential future outcome ?
Lynch goes to Comey for advice, probably Soetoro as well. Hey guys, WTF do I do? Comey recognizes her dilemma which is somewhat like his own. Comey is already reluctant to recommend charges on the mounting evidence against Clinton, and destroy her run for office. Soetoro tells Comey "I've got your back on this one, I think you know what to do."
On 5 July 2016 Comey then takes out the trash of two presidents, an AG, and the democratic party, lifts the decision burden from Lynch.
Bill Clinton smiles. Nothing can be proven. Mission accomplished. Soetoro hits the links. Lynch's lackluster career is programmed to slip into obscurity. On 10 July 2016 Democratic campaign worker Seth Rich is found murdered.
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I wonder what it would take for Gowdy "not to stop just short"? It seems like part of the problem with the Clintons is that far too many people have "stopped just short" and as the result, the Clintons have continued to skate for decades. Perhaps it is out of a fear of the Clintons as there is an unusually high number of unusual deaths around the Clintons.
[Daily Caller] Mayor Mike Signer--who had declared his intention to make Charlottesville, Virginia, the "capital of the resistance" to President Trump and a sanctuary city "to protect immigrants and refugees"--is refusing to protect a symbol saluting one of America’s greatest men.
Yes, Robert E. Lee was a great American.
If Signer knew the first thing about human valor, he’d know that there was no man more valorous and courageous than Robert E. Lee, whose "two uncles signed the Declaration of Independence and [whose] father was a notable cavalry officer in the War for Independence."
The battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia--known as "Lee’s Army"--is not to be conflated with the "Stars and Bars," which "became the official national flag of the Confederacy." According to Sons of the South, the "first official use of the ’Stars and Bars’ was at the inauguration of Jefferson Davis on March 4, 1861." But because it resembled the "Stars and Stripes" flown by the Union, the "Stars and Bars" proved a liability during the Battle of Bull Run.
Skipping to last para:
Born in New York (confirmation of which Sergey Brin’s Google search is reluctant to cough up), steeped in Berkeley and Princeton--Mayor Mike Signer is nothing but a carpetbagger.
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Lee was a complex man and unlike this idiot mayor, actually changed with the times.
After the surrender, he was a full supporter and vocal advocate for the North's policies.
He didn't want to grant the vote to the freed slaves right away, but not from racism. He pushed for them to be educated at the landed elites expense so they would be on an equal footing with the whites when they did vote and become full citizens so their ignorance wouldn't be taken advantage of.
Needless to say, his plan didn't happen. I often wonder what the south and the US would look like if he plan was put into action.
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Such horseshit. I often wonder when the enlightened masses are going to come after my alma mater, Washington & Lee University, named after 'Saint Bob' (and George Washington) and of which he was president for 5 years immediately following the end of the Civil War. For the record, he took the job expressly to heal the wounds of the North and South through education. Those jackwads in Charlottesville should know better.
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I don't think anyone should be calling Robert E. Lee an "American Hero". He might have been an incredible military man, and had super patriotic uncles and father, but he was a military leader in an armed rebellion against the United States of America which is treasonous by most definitions.
Call him a hero of the south, a military hero, whatever you want but "American Hero" doesn't sound right.
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After reading the "Civil War Trilogy" by Shelby Foote I completely changed my opinion of Lee. When he knew the Civil War was lost he continued to fight which killed many more Union and Confederate soldiers that had no reason to die. Do you know that many of the Politicians who voted for Secession said that they were opposed to it while campaigning?
[TheGuardian] The Armenian National Committee of America has captured scenes of violent protests on the streets of Washington, DC after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with US President Trump at the White House. According to witnesses, the brawl erupted when the Turkish president’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence. (Video at Link)
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"Democracy is like a train. Once you reach your destination, you have to jump off and beat some people up"
-- some Turkish dude
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Hard to watch this video of the Erdogan security detail shown kicking viciously a man in the face and other attacks instead of acting with established decorum for these diplomatic missions.
Our DSS while protecting those visiting foreign dignitaries needs to be looked at when these people act like thugs and are allowed to do serious harm and not be prosecuted.
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Everyone one of the security detail should be thrown out of the USA and banned for good.
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"He looked like a Kurd"
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Burn down the embassy. Shoot anyone trying to leave.
Raqqa (IraqiNews) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, on Tuesday, that the clashes are ongoing between forces from “Euphrates Wrath” operation (Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Elite Forces, backed by US Special Forces) and the Islamic State group, in the eastern and northwestern country sides of Raqqa.
The observatory stated that forces from the operation codenamed “Euphrates Wrath” managed to advance into the area, and recaptured two villages in the northwestern countryside of Raqqa, while clashes continue in Raqqa Samraa Village, located east of the city of Raqqa.
The clashes were accompanied by mutual shelling, while the Islamic State tried to recapture the villages it lost, the observatory added. The mutual shelling resulted in casualties among the ranks of the two sides, where at least five members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and nine members of the Islamic State were killed during the clashes.
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(IraqiNews) Two boom-mobiles killed at least six people and maimed several others in Syria’s sprawling Rukban refugee camp near the border with Jordan late on Monday, a rebel official and a resident said, in an attack claimed by 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.... holy warrior group.
One kaboom was near a restaurant and the second targeted the camp’s market nearby, they said.
"There are at least six civilians dead and the number is expected to rise," said Mohammad Adnan, a rebel official from Jaish Ahrar al-Ashair who runs the policing of the camp.
Islamic State said in a statement on its Amaq news agency its fighters "carried out the Rukban camp attack", according to the U.S.-based SITE monitoring group. It gave no further details.
In January, a boom-mobile killed a number of people in the camp, and Islamic State hard boyz have since launched attacks on Syrian rebels in the area.
Rukban, near the joint Syria-Iraq-Jordan border, is home to refugees and also to rebel groups, including the Jaish Ahrar al-Ashair, which fight both Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... and the Islamic State movement. It was also hit by kabooms last year.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person died and two others were wounded on Tuesday when an explosive device went off in northern Baghdad, according to a police source.
Security sources quoted by Ikhnews said the blast occurred near a building materials shop in Sheikh Hamad, north of the capital.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed and two others were wounded on Tuesday when an explosive device went off in southern Baghdad, according to security sources.
The device exploded near a grocery in Madaen district, southeast of the capital, sources were quoted saying by Alghad Press.
Erbil (IraqiNews) Large swathes of farms in the bordering areas of the Kurdistan Region were destroyed on Tuesday during air raids conducted by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .The Arclight airstrikes, against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) began at 11:00 a.m. at three villages of Amedi, Duhok province.
Mahmud Niheli, a media official from the area, told BasNews that the bombardments had no human causalities but caused "a huge damage" to the people from Sargale, Dere and Sgere villages.
Most of the people from these villages are farmers and their plantations were destroyed heavily by the attack, Niheli explained.
He added the offensive has scared the residents of the area who left their farms behind to save their lives.
This week Amedi mayor, Rozhan Ismail Mustafa, called on the PKK guerrillas to stay away from the residential areas near the borderlines in order for the civilians not get hurt by Turkish strikes.
Thousands of villagers from Kurdistan Region borders have been displaced due to the constant fight between PKK and Turkish army and several have bit the dust in the bombardments.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The paramilitary troops have freed three villages in Qairawan region, near Mosul, on the fifth day of an offensive launched to drive Islamic State out of the region.
A statement by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said that the first brigade troops liberated Tal Bashuk village in the north of Qairawan. Battles between the troops against the Islamic State fighters left several militants killed and their vehicles burnt.
Another statement said that the 13th brigade troops freed Tal al-Dala’, in the south of Qairawan, while the 41st brigade liberated Thara al-Karrah village.
“The troops evacuated tens of families toward the recently liberated Tal al-Sultan village, in the south of the region,” the media service said.
“All essential needs were offered to the displaced families before being evacuated to outside of the battlefields,” it added.
Many villages in Qairawan region, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, have been freed since an the troops launched an offensive on Friday to free the region.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces began Tuesday invading the last district leading to the Islamic State-held Old City from the northwest as commanders reassure of near victory.
Cap. Kadhim Hassan, from the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response forces, told BasNews that troops invaded al-Najjar district, and managed to destroy ten booby-trapped cars belonging to the Islamic State at that district.
Iraqi government forces are eyeing the ancient, densely structured and populated Old City, the place where Islamic State’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of an “Islamic Caliphate” in 2014. Troops besieged the area for weeks from the south, but turned to the northwestern axis to invade the city earlier this month. IS fighters are believed to have been holding hundreds of thousands at that area as human shields.
“The enemy is on the brink of total defeat in Mosul,” U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesperson of the U.S.-led coalition backing Iraqi troops, told a news conference in Baghdad on Tuesday, adding that the coalition had destroyed 200 underground tunnels and 300 vehicles belonging to the militants.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces killed a senior media official with the Islamic State in western Mosul and arrested 25 others in the north, an army and police officers said Tuesday.
BasNews quoted Maj. Ali Mohsen, from the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service, saying troops killed Islamic State’s current media official, Jalal Ayoub Shehab, a Syrian national, during battles at Iktisadiyeen district which troops partially recaptured. He added that seven booby-trapped vehicles were also detonated.
Meanwhile, Khaled al-Jawari, a Federal Police colonel, told the website that security forces arrested a 25-member IS cell in al-Sukkar and al-Seddiq districts, north of Mosul. The arrested members had light weapons in their possession, according to the officer.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State members were killed Tuesday when unidentified fighter jets bombarded a house in western Mosul, a security source was quoted saying as operations reach the group’s last few entrenchments.
A security source told Shafaaq news website that the strike targeted a house at Iktisadiyeen neighborhood, where intense fighting is ongoing between the group and Iraqi troops eyeing the neighboring Old City.
Those killed included the group’s commander in charge of booby-trapped vehicles attacks, according to the source.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Joint Operations Command has declared controlling 89.5 percent of western Mosul and killing 16,467 members of Islamic State.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said “the total deaths of IS have reached up to 16,467 militants until yesterday.”
“100 percent of the area of eastern Mosul is under control of the troops,” Rasool said adding that life returned back to normal.
679 booby-trapping vehicles, 11 headquarters of the group, 47 drones and 76 booby-trapping workshops were destroyed while 6,661 bombs and 217 explosive belts were defused, according to Rasool.
“89.5 percent of western Mosul was liberated. Only few districts are remaining under the militants control,” he said adding that the paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi “made extreme advance toward Qairawan and Baaj regions.”
Meanwhile, Iraqi troops have isolated the main battlefields, besieging the IS militants is some districts.
Captain Ali al-Daraji, of the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service, told Shafaq News that the Iraqi forces imposed its full control on Tamuz roundabout and Hafsa bint Omar mosque, in the northwest of Mosul.
The troops now isolate 17 Tamuz (July 17th) district from districts of al-Refaie and al-Najjar, besieging the militants in the alleys and streets of the district.
In related news, Lieutenant-General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, CTS commander, said the coming few days will witness the full liberation of Mosul to be declared as an IS-free city.
He added that once Islah al-Zeraie district was liberated, CTS troops were able to free al-Ureibi district, which enabled blocking the communication between the militants there and the rest in 17 Tamuz and al-Iqtisadiyeen districts, forcing them to head toward the Old City, which will be there last stronghold.
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Damascus (IraqiNews) Syrian regime forces shelled, on Tuesday, areas in eastern Ghouta, killing and wounding 17 persons, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The observatory said that the Syrian government forces shelled areas in Hamouriyah town, in eastern Ghouta, using three ground-to-ground missiles (GGM), killing two women and wounding 15 other persons.
Furthermore, regime forces shelled an area in the city of Saqba, injuring four citizens, while the number of deaders is expected to rise due to the severe injuries of some maimed persons.
The Syrian regime forces also shelled the outskirts of the towns of al-Muhamadiya and Bayt Nayem in eastern Ghouta, using ground to ground missiles, inflicting material damage but no casualties.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Two border troops personnel were killed, while three others were maimed as 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.... gunnies targeted their patrol, 70 kilometers west of Rutba district, western Anbar on the borders between Iraq and Jordan, a source said.
"IS members targeted the security troops patrol, 70 kilometers west of Rutba, leaving two border troops personnel killed and three others severely maimed," a security source from Anbar Operations Command told AlJournal News on Tuesday.
"Other troops headed to the accident spot to support the rest of personnel, who are still battling against IS," the source added.
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[Al Ahram] A 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... n police officer was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade on Tuesday in a Shia town, the interior ministry said, as deadly fighting escalated.
A member of the special police emergency forces died when "a rocket-propelled grenade (was) launched from inside the neighbourhood" and hit his patrol unit in the Almosara area of Awamiya, the ministry said in a statement.
"Five others were maimed and taken to hospital," it said.
Awamiya is a town of 30,000 in Qatif district of Eastern Province, where most of the Sunni-ruled kingdom's shias live.
The town, in a region where Shias have long complained of marginalisation, has been the scene of repeated security incidents.
The police officer is at least the third person killed in the Gulf coast town of Awamiya since Wednesday.
The unrest centres on Awamiya's old Almosara district, which is the site of a redevelopment project.
"It's really war," said an area resident who reported his home has been shaken by kabooms in the past two days.
On Friday the ministry said a two-year-old boy and a Pak died when gunnies from within Almosara opened fire on passersby, security officers and workers on the project.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson needs to rein in these people hard. Their job is to present President Trump's views, not impose their adoption of the Palestinian position on him and the U.S.
[IsraelTimes] TV report says David Berns principally responsible for incident that embarrassed Trump administration; 2nd US diplomat, economic counselor Jonathan Shrier, also reportedly involved in spat.
The American official who sniped at his Israeli counterparts that the Western Wall, the holiest place for Jews to pray, is not part of Israel and not Israel’s responsibility was named Tuesday in a TV report as David Berns, the political counselor at the US Consulate in Jerusalem. A second US official, the consulate’s economic counselor Jonathan Shrier, was also involved in the bitter diplomatic incident, which deteriorated into an angry shouting match, Channel 2 said.
The TV report predicted that Berns’ job might now be under threat, since the incident embarrassed the Trump administration ahead of US President Donald Trump
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Consulates are staffed by the bureaucrat heading up the state department's personnel department. - Not true actually not even close.
It sounds like the embassy staff needs to be cleaned out, too. - I'll bet you the "staff" was WH staff not Embassy. Site advances like this are done by WH staff. Embassy folks are not the ones saying what POTUS will or won't do - only WH staff does that.
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Nikki Haley basically completely reversed this at the UN.
“I don’t know what the policy of the administration is, but I believe the Western Wall is part of Israel and I think that that is how we’ve always seen it and that’s how we should pursue it. We’ve always thought the Western Wall was part of Israel,” Haley said.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's (PTI) politician Shafqat Mahmood on Tuesday criticised the government over its 'handling' of Kulbhushan Jadhav's hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and urged the federal government to divulge details of the matter before the parliament so that it could be brought under discussion.
Asserting that matters regarding national security and foreign affairs should not be decided behind closed doors, Mahmood said, "It was important to ask how a 'clear' decision against a self-confessed spy and 'terrorist' was made controversial."
The ICJ on Monday heard the case brought to it by India pertaining to the sentencing of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Pak Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
Implying that the government had 'deliberately' softened its stance on Jadhav, Mahmood said experts were drawing links between Pakistain's handling of Jadhav's case with Indian business tycoon Sajjan Jindal's visit to Pakistain last month where he met with the prime minister in Murree.
"Nobody should be allowed to trade personal interests with national interests," he maintained.
Mahmood urged the prime minister to disclose information regarding Jadhav's hearing at the ICJ before the parliament.
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They're dead now. [DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have killed four members of a banned outfit in an alleged encounter in Khanewal, and seized arms and explosives from their hideout.
A CTD spokesperson said the Multan team had received information that two suspected forces of Evil Usman Basra and Abdul Rehman, who had beat feet from police custody, were hiding at a house in Jahanian tehsil. He said the suspects and their six accomplices had been planning to attack sensitive installations in the city.
He said after receiving information, the CTD raided the hideout in Chak 161/10R Jahanian tehsil early morning and ordered the suspects to surrender.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he claimed that the alleged forces of Evil shot at the police team and also lobbed hand grenades at them. The police team shot back in self-defence, he said. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... three of the suspects blew themselves up using explosives while another was found dead in front of the compound. The spokesperson said four of their accomplices managed to flee.
He said the CTD officials had seized 10kg explosives, a hand grenade, two rifles, a pistol and ammunition from the hideout. Police took the bodies to a morgue and started investigating the identity of the other suspects, he said.
A CTD official said Usman Basra and Abdul Rehman belonged to the banned outfits Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. He said both forces of Evil were involved in the kidnapping of slain governor Salman Taseer’s son Shahbaz Taseer.
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[Ynet] Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 85 staff at the energy and education ministries under a investigation targeting the network of a US-based holy man whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating last July's attempted coup, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Tuesday.
No further details were immediately available. Some 50,000 people have been formally tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! as part of investigations targeting supporters of holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... . Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is visiting Washington, is seeking Gulen's extradition.
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Now if Trump and his crew of apologists had some backbone instead of just sharp tongues we might see some undesirables removed.
[Dhaka Tribune] 6:00pm- Company Commander Major Monir Ahmed announces that the operation has been suspended for the day due to low visibility. The operation will be resumed and Bomb disposal units will attempt entry into the remaining building tomorrow morning.
3:50pm: RAB 6 Jhenaidah Camp Company Commander Major Monir Ahmed tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We have recovered five bombs, two dynamite sticks and some 15 to 20 different types of electrical circuits from Selim’s house."
1:27pm: RAB 6 Khulna Region Commander Rafiqul Islam says: "We detained Selim and Pranto around 1am. They disclosed three locations to us.
"Based on their information, we conducted raid at one house and recovered two boom jackets. We will start raids at the other spots within a few minutes."
11:48am: Major Monir Ahmed tells the Dhaka Tribune: "The raid has begun, We have already recovered two boom jackets from one of the houses."
11:46am: Bomb Disposal unit arrives at the spot.
11:41am: The houses are located half a kilometre away from RAB camp, our correspondent Nayan Khondoker reports from the spot.
11:25am: One of the houses is owned by slain myrmidon Tuhin’s bother Selim and the other is owned by Tuhin’s cousin Pranto, our correspondent Nayan Khondoker reports from the spot.
Earlier on May 7, two myrmidons, including Tuhin, died in a raid at a suspected myrmidon hideout at Bojrapur village in of the district. Three police officials were maimed injured in the incident.
10:30am: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 6 Jhenaidah Camp Company Commander Major Monir Ahmed tells the Dhaka Tribune: "The two buildings have been cordoned off since the morning.
"We are anticipating that murderous Moslems are hiding inside these two dens."
10:00am: Law enforcers cordon off two suspected myrmidon hideouts in Chuadanga village of Jhenaidah district.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have retaken the Qala-e-Zal district of Kunduz province, ten days after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Lions of Islam seized its control.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) confirmed that the control of the district was retaken during the operations launched around 6 am local time today.
The provincial police front man Mr. Rahmani earlier said the offensive is underway as the Afghan forces have made major gains as the offensive is underway.
He said the operations were launched from the Aqtapa village and Afghan forces are moving forward to fully clear the district.
In the meantime, the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army said at least one bad boy has been killed so far during the operations.
The source further added that the operations are launched under the name of Pamir-5 to retake the control of Qala-e-Zal which was lost to Taliban ten days ago.
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[Al Ahram] French authorities Tuesday charged a suspected 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.... "scout" believed to have helped a key organiser of the 2015 Gay Paree attacks and the perpetrator of a foiled train attack enter Europe.
Prosecutors charged Bilal Chatra, a 21-year-old from Algeria, with complicity in an attempted terrorist liquidation and association with terrorist criminals, according to a source close to the enquiry.
The source said Chatra was "suspected of playing the role of a scout", helping train shooter Ayoub El Khazzani and Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the organisers of the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, get into Europe via the Balkans migrant route.
Khazzani shot and seriously injured a passenger on a high-speed Thalys train between Amsterdam and Gay Paree before being overpowered by two off-duty US servicemen and their friend.
He travelled to northern Europe with Abaaoud, one of the Gay Paree attacks cell who opened fire on bars, restaurants and a concert hall before he died in a police shootout shortly afterwards.
According to a probe source, Abaaoud ordered Chatra to "scope out the checkpoints in different countries along the migrant route", a mission that took him to Greece, Serbia and Austria.
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before being overpowered by two off-duty US servicemen and their friend
I think there was a call earlier to offer free ridership for US troops in return for casual security.
[Al Ahram] Iraqi forces have recaptured nearly 90 percent of west djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from 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.... (IS) murderous Moslem group and other Islamist forces of Evil in the city are on the "brink of total defeat", officers said Tuesday.
Iraqi forces launched the massive operation to retake Mosul from IS nearly seven months ago, fighting their way to the city held by Islamist murderous Moslems, retaking its eastern side and then attacking the west.
Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, front man for Iraq's Joint Operations Command, told a news conference in Baghdad that IS now controls just over 10 percent of west Mosul.
Both Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, a senior Iraqi special forces commander, and Colonel John Dorrian, the front man for the US-led international coalition against IS, said that the end was near for Islamist forces of Evil in the city.
"They have two options: die and go to hell or raise the white flag. They have no third option," Saadi told AFP at his headquarters in Mosul.
"The enemy is completely surrounded," Dorrian told the news conference in Baghdad. "The enemy is on the brink of total defeat in Mosul."
The drive to retake Mosul has been supported by a campaign of coalition air strikes in and around the city.
Dorrian said that coalition strikes have destroyed more than 300 explosives-rigged vehicles in Mosul, as well as over 200 IS tunnels and more than a thousand Islamist murderous Moslem fighting positions.
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"The enemy is on the brink of total defeat in Mosul."
[Al Ahram] Gunmen suspected of being fighters from Somalia's al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... myrmidon group burst into a government official's house in northeast Kenya and shot him dead late on Monday, police said.
The four attackers in military fatigues struck in Mandera county, a territory near Somalia's border that has seen a string of al-Shabaab raids in recent years.
"We suspect the attackers are bandidosmurderous Moslems since after the raid they escaped towards Somalia," Edward Mwamburi, the head of the northeastern regional police force, told Rooters by phone.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the administrator of the county's Omar Jillo area. But the myrmidon group has said it will continue to attack Kenya until Nairobi pulls troops from an 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... peacekeeping force inside Somalia.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least fifteen anti-government armed hard boyz were killed during the ongoing Silab-5 operations in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government in a statement said the operations were launched on Monday morning covering the areas in Alingar district.
The statement further added that the hard boyz were targeted in Basram, Katal, Maidanio, Hakimabad, Qasaba, Salimgar, and other areas.
At least fifteen snuffies were also critically maimed during the operations, the statement added.
The Afghan forces still conduct clearance operations in the mentioned areas, the provincial government said, adding that the operations will continue until the hard boyz are fully eliminated from the area.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two non-combatants were killed in an kaboom in Jalalabad city, the placid provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani confirmed that the blast took place inside a house belonging to an individual identified as Habibullah.
Khogyani further added that the house is located in the first police district of the city and the incident took place after explosives material went off inside the compound.
He said at least two non-combatants were killed as a result of the kaboom.
The circumstances surrounding the incident have not been ascertained so far as the local security officials are saying that an investigation is underway in this regard. Just whipping up some C4 for dinner, maybe?
It is yet not clear if the individual had any links with the anti-government armed bad boy groups or not.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... snuffies suffered casualties after launching a major coordinated attack on several districts of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in a statement said the attack was launched late on Monday night by the Taliban Death Eaters.
A statement by the 201st Silab Corps said the Taliban snuffies attacked the security posts located in Shegal, Watapur, Chapadara, Marwara district and several other areas.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces effectively responded to the holy warriors attack, inflicting heavy casualties to the Death Eaters.
At least 22 holy warriors were killed and 5 others were maimed during the festivities with the security forces, the 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the dead bodies of several holy warriors are still lying in the area.
According to the 201st Silab Corps, the local residents and security personnel did not suffer any casualties during the festivities.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Suspected Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bandidossnuffies attacked a village in Mandera
..that's in northeast Kenya...
and killed a chief before abducting two police reservists Monday night.
The incident occurred at Omar Jillo in Lafey sub-County in the volatile border town which has faced similar attacks in the past ‐ all blamed on the Somalia terror group.
Police stated that more security personnel have been dispatched to the area following the attack.
They said that the gang escaped towards the Somalia border which is about seven kilometres away.
Omar Jillo is among towns in the area under a dusk-to-dawn curfew over insecurity linked to Al-Shabaab terrorists.
The other towns are Mandera Town, Arabia, Fino, Lafey Kotulo and Elwak.
On Thursday last week, two quarry workers were killed in Elwak, Mandera following a suspected Al-Shabaab attack.
Bodies of the two, said to be non-locals, were found the following morning after the attack.
Similar attacks have occurred before, with up to 30 people killed in separate incidents.
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[AnNahar] Threejacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers have attacked a herding community in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , killing two people and injuring seven others, according to a village elder and a civilian militia member.
Ali Musa said the trio, believed to have been sent 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... jihadists, struck at Shuwari Buri village, 38 kilometers from Maiduguri at around 9:20 pm (2020 GMT) on Monday.
"Two of them rushed into a thatched hut and detonated their explosives, killing two brothers who had retired for the night," he added.
"The third bomber detonated her explosives among residents who had gathered ... injuring seven."
The three bombers had earlier told villagers they were travelers and asked them for accommodation for the night. But they were refused on security grounds.
Ibrahim Liman, a member of the civilian militia assisting the military with security, gave an identical account.
Shuwari Buri is in the Konduga area, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, which has been repeatedly hit by suicide kabooms and gun attacks.
[DAWN] The deposed holy man of Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... is set to stir another controversy as he has decided to preside over a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of Lal Masjid operation.
"Invitations will be sent to the president, prime minister, the director general of the ISI and the federal cabinet along with leaders of like-minded political and religious parties to attend the conference," said a close aide to the holy man.
The conference, scheduled to be held on July 7, will be organised by Shuhada Foundation at Lal Masjid.
The foundation announced that the conference would not only be a milestone towards the implementation of ’Sharia’ but would also prove to be a referendum towards the imposition of Islam in the country.
"We will file an application with the capital administration on Tuesday so that there is an ample time for them to clear all queries," the holy man’s aide added.
"Similarly, invitations will be forwarded to key religious and political personalities and the leadership of the country as well as the head of the intelligence agency this week."
He said extending invitations to key officials would help the organisers put pressure on the local administration to grant permission for the conference besides facilitating the guests to set their schedule well on time to attend the event.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... a front man for the Shuhada Foundation said there was no need to obtain any NOC from the government as the conference was being held inside the mosque.
"If they do not give us the NOC we will approach the Islamabad High Court to get out right to hold the conference to highlight the sacrifices rendered by our comrades for the implementation of Islam in the country," said Hafiz Ehtesham Ahmed, the front man.
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sounds like a target-rich environment dreamy
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[Ynet] Syrian media reports Sudki al-Maqat--who previously served 27 years for espionage--is sentenced to 14 years after being convicted of providing intelligence information to Syria on IDF activities near the northern border.
Syrian media reported Tuesday that a man from a Druze town in the Golan Heights has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Nazareth District Court for supplying information about the IDF to Syrian intelligence forces.
According to the reports, Sudki al-Maqat from Majdal Shams, was convicted of cooperating with a foreign agent and transferring information to the Syrian regime.
Al-Maqat, 50, had already spent 27 years in prison for spying for Syria prior to this latest conviction. He was released in August 2012 and resumed his activities shortly after his release.
According to information contained in his indictment, it appears that al-Maqat documented IDF activity on the Israeli-Syrian border and transferred the information to the Syrians by uploading it to various media outlets on the internet and Facebook.
Al-Maqat was charged with espionage, assistance to the enemy during wartime, support of a terrorist organization, contact with a foreign agent and a host of other security offenses. He was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in February 2015 and the indictment was filed three months later. al-Maqat's lawyer, Kamil Faraj, said they are considering appealing the verdict.
SANA, a Syrian news agency, reported that al-Maqat sent a letter from prison, claiming that the "malicious verdict awaiting me is meant to silence, punish and prevent me from exposing the truth about the support the Israeli occupation authorities provide terrorist gangs and criminals in Syria".
Maqt was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in 2015 on suspicion of passing photographs and written reports of IDF positions to Syrian intelligence officials. He obtained the information from a IDF combat soldier. The soldier, who cannot be identified in media reports, was arrested in February 2015.
The Israeli side of the Golan Heights has four Druze towns. Many of the residents feel they are Syrians, and maintain connections with their brethren over the border, who make up about five percent of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million people.
[Al Ahram] A 17-year-old Danish girl who offered to fight for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... was found guilty on Tuesday of planning kabooms at two schools, one of them Jewish, court documents showed.
The girl was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... at her home in January last year, when she was aged 15, and charged with planning the attacks after acquiring chemicals for making bombs, police said.
Police who searched the residence found a handwritten note with the words "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest), a date, and the address of the Jewish school in Copenhagen
A second note was marked "kaboom on the infidels" and gave the address of her own school near Holbaek, a town west of the capital.
Police said they also found chemicals, a list of ingredients for making a bomb and a container marked "Tatp" - a common abbreviation for the explosive triacetone triperoxide.
A jury in the Holbaek district court found the girl - who is white European and was not named - guilty of attempted terrorism, the court said in a statement. Sentencing was deferred to Thursday.
The court said the girl had written two Twitter profiles in which she offered to fight for myrmidon group Islamic State.
Prosecutors last month presented the court records from her preliminary questioning, stating she initially confessed to planning the attacks. The girl later changed her plea to not guilty.
Defence attorney Mette Grith Stage told Rooters her client would await sentencing before deciding whether to appeal.
In February 2015, a gunman killed two people in shooting attacks at a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being rubbed out by police.
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[DAWN] British authorities confirmed Tuesday that their Border Force officers had found a "quantity of heroin" on board a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight that landed at Heathrow Airport Monday.
The authorities further said National Crime Agency officials were investigating the case after the seizure of narcotics from the plane.
"No arrests have been made, enquiries are ongoing," said an official associated with the agency, in an email response to Dawn.com.
Earlier in the day, PIA spokesperson Mashhood Tajwar had confirmed that British authorities had "thoroughly searched" and detained the flight crew after they landed at Heathrow Airport.
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Bringing forward g(r)om's Instapundit Article from yesterday.
Fox News is reporting this morning that a federal investigator who reviewed murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich’s computer after his death found evidence that he had been communicating with WikiLeaks: Hopefully, this recent development regarding the Seth Rich murder won't be overshadowed in the media by some James Comey note taking revelation. Or is that actually the purpose of the Comey revelation ?
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The federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspired to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. That controversy resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson. A number of Sanders supporters refused to back party nominee Hillary Clinton, and some subsequently formed groups to work against Clinton and the party.
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Just for grins, someone ought to ask the DNC if they think this needs to be investigated or not. When they say "no," it will be another nail in the coffin. So will the MSM's reaction.
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Seth Rich info will destroy their Russia smear foundation that is built upon Russia hacked DNC. This is reason they desperately attack Trump to negate Seth Rich story.
Wheeler, who is a former police homicide detective, is running his own investigation into Rich’s murder and believes the police department may be trying to cover up what actually led to Rich’s death. “I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and Wikileaks,” which are in the possession of the FBI, the investigator said.
“The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” said Wheeler. “They haven’t been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.” Wheeler also claims that a source inside the police department told him the police were ordered to stand down on Rich’s case.
“Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Comey had Seth's Laptop , along with Weiner's files that Comey did not turn over to Justice Dept that's why Trump fired his corrupt ass while he was 3000 miles away, so he would not have time to clean out his office .......
Who had something to gain from Mr. Rich's murder? The Russians? Seriously?! A robbery gone bad that left $, phone and jewelry. Nah. Someone under contract to plug a leak? Ding-ding-ding!
Now the parents are throwing shade on the report. Might be a good time for a journo to look into any $ windfalls or maybe threats.
I spent some time in AR, where there is genuine fear of the Clinton's; Mr. Rich's untimely and suspicious demise points S/W. (imo).
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Currently there is a class action suit against the DNC seeking repayment to Sander's campaign donors. Repayment. An attorney (Shawn Lucas) who filed a fraud case against the DNC ended up dead. He also acted as a process server and served the papers on the DNC. Recently, it was reported that Fentanyl was found in his system but his close friends said they never have known him to use any drugs. Shawn Lucas death.
[Al Ahram] The White House declined to comment on Tuesday on media reports that Israel was the source of sensitive information that President Donald Trump shared with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a White House meeting last week. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said he would not comment on the reports. He also declined to say whether the White House would share transcripts of Trump's meeting with Lavrov with lawmakers who have asked for them.
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Well, at least now we know that the info was correct.
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"It was an intel source we have inside Hezbollah"
that oughtta twist some panties
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Real question - why is it proving difficult to figure out who leaked this info. Wouldn't be down to the folks in the room to know what was discussed? That would leave a couple americans and russians. Anyone have any insight on this?
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# Yosemite Sam, I believe one of the guys in the room said the Washington Post made up the story, and then Trump semi-admitted the story was true (nothing wrong with sharing that kind of info that keeps planes from being blown up).
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He also declined to say whether the White House would share transcripts of Trump's meeting with Lavrov with lawmakers who have asked for them. Lawmakers? Well, technically, that's true but they are a whole lot of other things too.
[Independent] Two women travelling on an American Airlines flight have claimed members of staff were "racist" towards one of them.
Rane Baldwin, who is African American, was flying with friend Janet Novack, who is white, from Kentucky to Charlotte when the incident occurred on 2 May.
Baldwin - an AAdvantage Platinum Select/World Elite cardholder - had purchased the two tickets and decided to upgrade them both to first class. However, when they were issued their boarding passes, she was instructed to go to the back of the plane despite her frequent flyer status, while Novack, who holds no status with the airline, was directed to first class. Baldwin was told her seat had been reassigned because there weren’t enough first class seats available.
The behaviour of American Airlines flight attendants from there added up to "the most blatantly racist thing that’s ever happened to me," according to Baldwin. "I’ve never felt so unimportant in my entire life," she told The Root.
She's Platinum? Pull out your phone, dear, and call that private customer service number on the back of your card to complain that you are being mistreated right now this minute, and would they please talk to the stew standing in the aisle about fixing it? No? I need to talk to your supervisor right now -- this is a problem. Yes, thank you, I'll hold. But do hurry, as we are due to take off, and they've got me sitting by the lavatory at the back of Coach, while they seated my companion in First Class. I can't imagine what they were thinking.
[Al Ahram] A 17-year-old boy and two men died in Venezuela after being shot during anti-government protests, prosecutors said Tuesday, bringing to 42 the number of people killed in six weeks of unrest.
The latest deaths made the recent wave of festivities almost as deadly as the last such disturbances in 2014, when 43 people were killed in anti-government protests.
The current unrest erupted on April 1 when the opposition erupted into the streets in anger at what they saw as moves to strengthen elected socialist President Nicolas Maduro's hold on power.
The government and the opposition have accused each other of sending gangs to sow violence in the protests.
The boy was hospitalized after being shot in the head Monday during a demonstration in the western town of Pedraza and died early Tuesday, the public prosecution service said in a statement.
He was at the scene of a demonstration "when suddenly a group of people arrived and fired several shots, wounding the young man in the head," it said.
The department added that two other men, aged 31 and 33, had died from gunshots they suffered in demonstrations in the cities of San Antonio de los Altos and Tachira.
Monday saw the latest in weeks of violence as opponents mounted fresh demonstrations against Maduro.
Police have fired tear gas and protesters have hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails in a near-daily series of festivities.
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[AnNahar] A man has been placed in jug for alleged links to a gunman who killed a policeman on Gay Paree's famed Champs-Elysees just days before the first round of La Belle France's presidential election, a judicial source said Tuesday.
The 23-year-old was incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on Monday in the Gay Paree region, the source said.
Investigators are trying to find out where the gunman, 39-year-old Karim Cheurfi,
...the reclusive Algerian-Frenchman who'd only got out of prison last year for trying to kill French policemen when he turned around and got himself killed committing jihad in the name of ISIS...
got the Kalashnikov he used in the April 20 attack.
A note praising 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.... was found next to the body of Cheurfi, who rubbed out an officer and maimed two other coppers and a German passerby before being killed in a firefight.
Police later found other weapons in Cheurfi's car including a shotgun and knives.
The Islamic State group claimed the shooting as the work of one of its "fighters." It was the latest in a string of attacks that have claimed 239 lives around La Belle France since 2015.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the IS named the shooter as Abu Yussef the Belgian, which does not correspond to Cheurfi, who was from the eastern Gay Pareeian suburbs.
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[Libya Observer] On the date of the third anniversary of Dignity Operation, which is being celebrated in eastern cities that are governed by military rule, journalist and political activist Mansour Abied, who has abandoned the operation, has crashed the party with heavy criticism and allegations that would rock any boat.
Abied, a media performer who has interviewed most Dignity Operation commanders and enjoyed access to all areas of the conflict in eastern Libya under the protection of Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), took part in a debate in his newly established Libya al-Watan TV on Monday night. He covered all aspects of Dignity Operation, from the reasons for its launch in 2014 to the way it was managed and the results after three years of death and destruction in Benghazi.
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[Al Ahram] No talk of opinion polls and definitely no boasting - Britannia's governing Conservative Party is under strict orders before a June election which it hopes will "destroy" the opposition.
The Conservatives, once criticised by Prime Minister Theresa May for being called the "nasty party", won seats from left-wing parties and from the right in local elections this month by capitalising on the opposition Labour Party's divisions to appeal to their working-class voters and Brexit supporters.
The elections to local councils and a handful of mayoral positions were a dry run for the June 8 parliamentary election in which opinion polls suggest May's party is set to add dozens of additional seats, possibly reshaping the political landscape in Britannia by ushering in years of Conservative rule.
The goal is nothing less than "to destroy Labour", one Conservative politician said, by targeting the seats of up-and-coming opposition politicians to stunt its growth. This, the Conservatives say, would hand May the kind of commanding victory she needs to strengthen her hand in divorce talks with the EU.
But the message to Conservative politicians, members and activists is true to form for the risk-averse prime minister - do not take anything for granted. For her, the biggest electoral threat is not from other parties, but the risk of the Conservatives appearing over-confident.
"We must not be complacent and I am not complacent," May said just a week after she called the early election.
This month, after making gains in local elections, she told supporters: "I will not take anything for granted and neither will the team I lead, because there is too much at stake."
Opinion polls give the Conservatives around a 20-point lead over Labour, and the party won some seats traditionally supportive of the opposition party in the local elections.
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[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security service says it broke up a cell of Arab Israeli men from the Islamic Movement who were planning to carry out shooting attacks against IDF soldiers.
According to the Shin Bet, the three men in the cell began plotting the attack in November 2015 in response to Israel’s decision to outlaw the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.
...the Islamic Movement is the Moslem Brotherhood in Israel. They do all the usual social welfare stuff, pass millions in donations from Turkey and the UK to Hamas, and additionally the "moderate" Southern Branch runs for election as one of the Arab parties, while the Northern Branch uses stronger methods, including the Mourabitoun, the cadre of Israeli Arabs who harass Jews on the Temple Mount. Their founder died recently; he was loudly mourned as a staunch "Zionist", which suits the Southern Branch marketing.
They put together their plan throughout 2016, purchasing a Carlo-style improvised submachine gun and electronic transmitters to set off explosives from afar, the Shin Bet says.
Two of them -- Muhammad Masri of Beersheba and Abdullah Abu Ayyash of Kuseife -- were enjugged Please don't kill me! in December 2016. The third member of the cell, Mahmoud Luisi of Qalansawe, wasn’t arrested until March 2017, as he had traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... According to the Shin Bet, while in Turkey, Luisi met with members of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in order to secure funds and training from the terrorist organization. He was picked up by the Shin Bet upon his return to Israel, the security service says.
The interrogations of the three members of the cell also led to the arrest of Fares al-Omari, a senior member of the Islamic Movement, as well as two unnamed men from the Galilee, who are suspected of illegally selling weapons.
Indictments have been filed against the suspects, the Shin Bet says.
The terror cell planned to carry out an attack against IDF soldiers in the Negev. Plotters monitored soldiers’ travel patterns in the area, acquired machine guns and remote bomb-detonating devices.
In the second half of November 2015, Masri and Lawisi came to the protest tent in Umm al-Fahm, which was established following the outlawing of the Islamic Movement. al-Omri spoke with the two in private and asked to enlist them to protest against the decision by spraying slogans. Later on, the three concluded that it was not enough to spray slogans and decided to carry out a terrorist attack in Israel.
"The northern branch of the Islamic Movement has maintained close ties with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", over the years. The investigation showed that the common ideological basis and the deep connection that exists between the Death Eaters in both organizations carries a great security risk, with an emphasis on (replacing) alleged humanitarian activities with carrying out terror attacks," said the Shin Bet.
Professor Cohen presents a pretty good theory regarding the potential origins of the current Russian derangement virus. His reference to a 'fourth branch of Government' is a view shared by at least one or two.
Could be a simple coincidence. Interestingly, however, whilst everyone scurries around the White House to 'unmask' the leaking staffer(s), the real leakers may have been the first ones officially notified of the substance of POTUS' recent discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Russian ambassador Kislyak.
"That's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
~ Yogi Berra
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Would it be pro-muslim NSA etc interests causing this after all their backers do have the most to lose from
a) Peace in Syria
b) Strong alliance against islam.
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These leaks and calls for impeachment are cover or distractions by the left to protect Clinton and Obama followers from prosecution.
There is a pattern to their timing.
Expect Comey to cause a lot of problems, I suspect he was fired in such a humiliating way because Trump felt Comey had a lot to do with the leaks. Now it's McCabe's turn.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz were killed in an Arclight airstrike involving fighter jets in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Chaparhar district.
The statement further added that the turbans were targeted around 8 am local time in Kariz area, leaving four dead and two others maimed.
The turbans killed in the Arclight airstrike belonged to the Taliban group led by Mullah Ghazi, the statement said, adding that the local residents did not suffer any casualties in the Arclight airstrike.
It is yet not clear if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the Afghan forces or the US forces based in Afghanistan.
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It looks like a different four, Skidmark. The articles have different URLs, though both are from Khaama, and the four yesterday were connected to three hideouts in the vicinity of Achin district, Nangarhar. Today's was in the vicinity of Chaparhar district.
[11 Alive Atlanta] According to Clayton County Fire Chief Laura Richardson, the crash happened Monday morning on Flint River and Taylor Road.
The entire incident started at 4:20 a.m. in a neighboring county. A security guard reported four suspects were robbing a Sprint store at 1415 Highway 85 in Fayette County. When the guard confronted the suspects and advised them to stop, they ignored him and continued to rob the store.
When Fayette Police officers arrived, the suspects had fled the scene. At 4:27 a.m., Clayton Co. Police were advised that officers from the Fayette County Sheriff's Office were chasing a vehicle with four passengers that was traveling east on Flint River Road. Don't send in the dive team until the bubbles stop Deputy Jones. They could be armed !
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I don't think the word "evade" is really appropriate here. Maybe "attempt to use car as a submarine right in front of astonished police due to the typically crappy driving habits of criminals" might be better.
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The vehicle that officers were pursuing collided with another car at the intersection of Flint River Road and Taylor Road. The fleeing car fell and landed upside down in a pond. At first, police thought they lost the suspects, so they returned to the scene of the crash. That's when they found it submerged in teh pond.
[DAWN] QUETTA: Four security personnel were maimed in a landmine kaboom in the Dasht area of Mastung district on Monday.
Official sources said that unknown gunnies planted a landmine on an under-construction road in the Khand-Marve area of Dasht. It detonated when FC personnel passed through the area in an official vehicle.
The blast left the vehicle damaged and the four FC men travelling in it injured, Levies officials said.
FC personnel deployed in the area rushed to the site and took the injured men to hospital.
The FC men were patrolling the area and guarding labourers and other people working on the road. This is the second landmine kaboom over the past 24 hours in the Marget and Dasht areas of Mastung and Bolan districts in which six FC men received injuries.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak man has been jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over the murder of a young Afghan boy over 25 rupees in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... city of Pakistain, it has been reported.
The suspect was reportedly arrested by Azizabad police after murdering a 15-year-old Afghan boy who was demanding Pak rupees 25 against the work he had done for the culprit.
The victim identified as Noor Agha was rubbed out on Sunday, allegedly by an apartment-owner in Karachi’s Karimabad area, after he asked for Rs25 for cleaning a staircase.
Superintendent Police (SP) Gulberg Bashir Brohi told Dawn that the suspect was arrested while he was reportedly trying to flee the country on a US-bound flight.
The in its report further added that the suspect was carrying a large amount of Pak and foreign currency.
Noor was a scavenger of Afghan origin who, along with his brother Umer and others -- all residents of the Machar Colony near Sohrab Goth -- collected garbage from localities in Karimabad for a few rupees per family, Brohit added.
Noor and his colleague, Naimat, had washed the staircase of a flat owned by Ayaz Malik on Sunday and demanded Rs25 for their services.
Instead, the suspect retrieved his pistol from his apartment and allegedly shot the boy before fleeing the scene of the crime, the report added.
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while he was reportedly trying to flee the country on a US-bound flight
Call that judge in Hawai - Agha's human rights been violated1
[SHABELLENEWS] In Somalia, a country long troubled by deadly violence, there’s a disturbing new trend: an increase in summary executions.
Somali military courts and the turban group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... have each executed about a dozen people so far in 2017, all of them killed in public settings as crowds of between 30 and 300 people looked on.
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that's a long hot weekend in Chicago
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[Al Ahram] Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday said Germany must decide between its friendship with Ankara and alleged coup plotters, after Berlin granted political asylum to some of its military officials with suspected links to last year's failed putsch. "Germany must decide on one thing: if it wants to further improve its relations with Turkey..., then it must turn its face to the Turkish republic" not to supporters of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, Yildirim said. Gulen is blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July last year.
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"Germany must decide on one thing: if it wants to further improve its relations with Turkey..., then it must turn its face to the Turkish republic"
actually, the Turkish Republic no longer exists. It is now a quasi authoritarian state trending toward autocracy.
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[IsraelTimes] Group broadcasts video in which 3 alleged suspects recount how Israeli intelligence ordered them to shoot Mazen Faqha.
Mazen Faqha, one of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s top terror criminal masterminds, was killed with a silenced pistol in the garage of his apartment building on March 24.
In a presser broadcast on its television channel, Hamas official Tawfiq Abu Na’im, director general of the Hamas-controlled Gazoo interior ministry, said, "The security services were able to arrest the direct killer of Mazen Faqha." They identified him only as a 38-year-old with the initials A.L.
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[IsraelTimes] Fatah member Jamil Hawil downplays images of him participating in festivities, says ’entire Paleostinian nation throws rocks’.
Hawil, who represents the northern West Bank city of Jenin in the Paleostinian Legislative Council, was first elected as a MP while serving in an Israeli prison, according to the Ynet news site.
Hawil served a six-year prison term for his membership in Fatah’s armed wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which Israel, the US and Western nations consider to be a terror group for its role organizing suicide kabooms against Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada.
[DAWN] A 'faith healer' allegedly raped two women in Getha Bathha Town near Rahim Yar Khan, police said.
Faqir Hussain, a resident of Jetha Bathha, filed a report Monday at the Saddar Police Station stating that his daughter and daughter-in-law were raped by Bilal Shah, the 'faith healer', almost two weeks ago, Station House Officer (SHO) Saddar Khanpur Abbas Akhtar told Dawn.
Hussain added his daughter and daughter-in-law routinely visited Shah to get amulets, the SHO added.
He said that, returning from one such visit 15 days ago, his daughter and daughter-in-law told him that they had been raped by Shah, the SHO said.
In his application, Hussain said he had contacted some influential people in the area regarding the matter and due to the pressure exerted by them, Shah offered money or land to the victims.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... Hussain refused to accept.
A first information report was registered by the police under Section 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
The two women were sent to District Headquarter Hospital in Khanpur for medical tests while the police began a search operation to arrest Shah.
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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.
[Daily Caller] The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.
[Wash Times] Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a joint CNN town hall Tuesday with Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders that his instincts were right about President Trump.
[Breitbart] Fox News executive chairman Rupert Murdoch will host a company-wide meeting Wednesday amid internal turmoil at the network and threats to its ratings dominance from MSNBC.
After carrying the M16 or one of its cousins across the globe for more than half a century, soldiers could get a peek at a new prototype assault rifle that fires a larger round by 2020. 
[KSAT] SAN ANTONIO - State Sen. Carlos Uresti (TX-19) has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
[TheGuardian] The Armenian National Committee of America has captured scenes of violent protests on the streets of Washington, DC after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with US President Trump at the White House. According to witnesses, the brawl erupted when the Turkish president’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence. (Video at Link)
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] Pakistain 
[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have killed four members of a banned outfit in an alleged encounter in Khanewal, and seized arms and explosives from their hideout.
[Ynet] Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 85 staff at the energy and education ministries under a investigation targeting the network of a US-based 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have retaken the Qala-e-Zal district of Kunduz province, ten days after the 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] According to the local government and security officials, the incident took place in the first police district of the city.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least fifteen anti-government armed 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
[DAWN] The deposed 
[Ynet] Syrian media reports Sudki al-Maqat--who previously served 27 years for espionage--is sentenced to 14 years after being convicted of providing intelligence information to Syria on IDF activities near the northern border.
[DAWN] British authorities confirmed Tuesday that their Border Force officers had found a "quantity of heroin" on board a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight that landed at Heathrow Airport Monday.
[Libya Observer] On the date of the third anniversary of Dignity Operation, which is being celebrated in eastern cities that are governed by military rule, journalist and political activist Mansour Abied, who has abandoned the operation, has crashed the party with heavy criticism and allegations that would rock any boat.
[Al Ahram] No talk of opinion polls and definitely no boasting - 
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security service says it broke up a cell of Arab Israeli men from the Islamic Movement who were planning to carry out shooting attacks against IDF soldiers.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four 
[DAWN] QUETTA: Four security personnel 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak man has been 
[SHABELLENEWS] In Somalia, a country long troubled by deadly violence, there’s a disturbing new trend: an increase in summary executions.
[Al Ahram] Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday said Germany must decide between its friendship with Ankara and alleged coup plotters, after Berlin granted political asylum to some of its military officials with suspected links to last year's failed putsch. "Germany must decide on one thing: if it wants to further improve its relations with Turkey..., then it must turn its face to the Turkish republic" not to supporters of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, Yildirim said. Gulen is blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July last year.
[DAWN] A 'faith healer' allegedly raped two women in Getha Bathha Town near Rahim Yar Khan, police said.
