"90 percent of Americans are for a responsible background check for a gun, and you know what this Congress has done? Not voted on it, not brought it to the floor, not introduced a bill." John Walsh
Listen prick... there are already background checks on gun buys. After having your show of America's most wanted, you seriously think that more laws and background checks will keep criminals from getting weapons? You are dumber than you look.
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I've never heard a flatworm say anything stupid. Plus they have a rudimentary nervous system!
Perhaps Crazy Uncle Joe could explain how tougher gun laws would improve the 14 killed, 84 wounded stat for Chicago over the weekend? (ok, so it was a long weekend)
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Baikonur is full of old, obsolete gear, and with the development of the next generation of boosters, about to be more so. When Russia built it, it was in their country. If they're going to build a new launch complex, it's hard to see why they they'd build it outside their own borders. It's also difficult to see why China would want it; they already have a complex that they use regularly. Unless they're planning to start an operation based on equipment that the Russians have decided is obsolete.
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The anti-illegal immigration protests Monday brought out new, first-time demonstrators and onlookers from many different backgrounds--from young enlisted Marines to legal immigrants from Germany, Mexico, and Central America.
All AMERICANS come to protest the importation of non-citizens who are illegal.
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I read that the Feds were going to deploy riot police for this transfer; nothing confirmed, could be a game of telephone...or people went whoah the feds have riot teams? then I remembered Department of Weights and Measures.
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I might be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised iff this issue of illegal immigrant children is more than NAFTA, OWG NAU ETC. starting in the Year 2015, but is actually covertly a massive ruse or cover story for POTUS Obama = USA to have an PCorrect-Deniable "good excuse(s)" to unilater N-O-T fight a major mil conflict wid Iran, Russia, andor China, etc. in the very near future, espec vee CHINA IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC, IN DEFENSE OF US STRATEGIC INTERESTS OR SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES LET ALONE US OVERSEAS ALLIES???
FYI as per FREEREPUBLIC, HOT AIR ARTIC = claims that up to 300,000 people [adults] from Central America are planning to sneak into the US.
Also, ...
* WORLD NEWS > [HuffPO] THE "ASIAN CENTURY" RISKS BECOMING AN "AGE OF PERIL".
* SAME > CHINA + SOUTH KOREA VS. JAPAN + NORTH KOREA?
* VOICE OF RUSSIA > "WE CAN'T TRUST THE US TO TO RESIST ISIS ONSLAUGHT" - ME EXPERT.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Rediff Blogs] IRAN CORNERS US IN IRAQ - INDIAN PUNCHLINE.
Ditto IRAN in ME from Lebanon to Syria now Iraq, + PUTINIST RUSSIA in the Black Sea???
* GLOBAL NATION PHILIPPINES > CHINA'S NEW TERRITORIAL LAW COULD SPELL DISASTER - [Phil] ANALYST.
* TOPIX > [Wall Street Cheat Sheet] HERE'S WHY TENSIONS BETWEEN US + CHINA ARE GROWING.
"More than half of companies (56%) increased employees' share of health care premiums or co-payments for doctors' visits in 2013, and 59% of employers say they intend to do the same in 2014." - USA Today
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"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is expected to rule any day now in a lawsuit that aims to block the law's insurance subsidies in more than half the country. If the challengers ultimately prevail, the Affordable Care Act's complex framework could begin to unravel as millions of people lose financial assistance." - National Journal
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Rate increases will be kept to a minimum so long as ObamaCare delivers reinsurance to cover losses. Reinsurance is being lowered incrementally over the next few years. Sort of like slowing boiling the frog.
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That means that premiums will go up in the fall in order to cover the added expense of the higher-risk enrollments ā and that has the Obama administration spin team working extra hard this summer to cover their rear ends just before the midterms:
The Donks deserve any losses that come their way in 2014 and 2016. Shame on them for foisting this Obamanation on the American people. The sheer arrogance of Pelosi saying you have to pass it to read it [ACA] was astounding and should have been enough to get her tossed out of office. Unfortunately for Americans, so many Congressmen/women did exactly that [It may be that some of them that can't read]. Freedom suffered for the American people.
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Well then get ready to LOL when all these illegals get deemed citizens, opening them to the IRS tax system, which requires them to have health insurance, which they cannot afford, so qualify for so many deductions, some of which yet to be interpreted by the new HHS, they actually get paid to have health insurance.
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IF I were running a US company I'd make any payment for employee health insurance bundled with a ridiculously personal-data filled bedroom-habit enquiring form and say it's to mitigate hiring risks and make sure we're meeting the needs of our employees...
If the government says Business needs to be in your bedroom then they should be allowed to ask a few questions too.
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And here I thought the 'outhouse' was a symbol of 'redneck' association. If it wasn't before, the usual suspects will make it 'racist' to fit their narrative.
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The state Democratic Party called the float one of the "worst shows of racism and disrespect for the presidency that Nebraska has ever seen." Yet the float nonetheless received some of the day's heartiest cheers,
It would, Obama's fucked, and dosn't kmow it yet.
Has NO sens of humor, and wants the restof th world to bow down and pray To Obama.
He denys as hard as he can.
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I remember a similar Clinton Presidential Library theme. Was that one racist too?
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Yeah, I remember the same 'outhouse' meme regarding Clinton's presidential library. The cartoonist Oliphant (before he went bat-sh*t crazy lib) did an extended panel on the Clinton library as a ramshackle hut and the contents of it which was so funny that I had cut it out and had it on the refrigerator for ages.
This is just the Legion of the Perpetually Butt-hurt in full-throated moan once again.
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Showing disrespect to Clinton's library is also disrepectful because he was the first, first black President. Obama is only the second, first black President by my count.
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I believe this has been a running gag since politicians discovered foundations are a way to hide income. Also, I remember a W. memorial sewer system.
Making fun of the president is not only a fine tradition, it should be encouraged. Not being able to criticize government officials is one of the reasons why they fought...the freedom of speech is also a pressure safety valve. By tying in racism, they are calling on the power of the State to suppress free expression - something Voltaire would give you the finger for.
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News this morning had a piece on ValJar's numerous meets with Fauxcichontus. The Beest must be sending the wrong signals in reference post-Champ administration criminal amnesty.
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Well, shucky darn ... the trolls were slain before we got here?
Although this story has been live since early this morning. Guess the payments for paid trolling of conservative websites didn't go through until noonish, or so. Three-day weekend, ya know. Slows down all sorts of stuff.
Actually it was a measure proposing to rename an existing treatment plant in San Francisco (surprise.) It was defeated with 69% of those voting opposed..
The dominant dogma regarding jihadism, that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists who distort its teachings to justify violence, has been put to a severe test by the declaration of a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The mainstream media is fighting back.
The Islamic State, as it calls itself, has issued several declarations thick with Koranic citations and mainstream media to explain and justify its positions. Its conscious, explicit, and deeply rooted Islamic character has rattled mainstream media cages -- to the extent that articles have begun to appear claiming that this new caliphate is no caliphate at all, so unlike its illustrious predecessors as to be unworthy of the name.
That was the central claim of an article that appeared in the New York Times Wednesday: "The Caliphate Fantasy" by Khaled Diab, "an Egyptian-Belgian journalist based in Jerusalem." Diab complains: "The problem with this new caliphate...is that it is ahistorical, to say the least." Why? Because "the Abbasid caliphate, for example, which ruled from 750 to 1258, was an impressively dynamic and diverse empire." The Abbasid caliphate, Diab asserts, "thrived on multiculturalism, science, innovation, learning and culture -- in sharp contrast to ISIS' violent puritanism."
Multiculturalism? Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized second-class status Islamic law stipulates for non-Muslims in the Islamic state, notes of Jews and Christians in this "multicultural" caliphate that "it was during the Abbasid period that their degrading status developed and was integrated into the legal system of the dar al-Islam." She writes of the crushing taxes that the Abbasids made the dhimmis pay, in accord with the Koran's dictum that they "pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (9:29). "Money was extorted by blows, torture and death," Bat Ye'or writes, "particularly by crucifixion."
Ultimately "the dhimmis, ruined by taxation, abandoned their lands and villages," hoping to escape to the anonymity of the city, whereupon a "drive to track down dhimmi peasants, organized throughout the Abbasid Empire, required a considerable number of participants, who were joined by brigands greedy for plunder and pillage." The plunder and pillage of the minority communities was considered to be their due as a sign of their submission to the Islamic state.
Diab ignores all this, and asserts that Muhammad established quite a different paradigm: "Muhammad, the most 'rightly guided' of all, composed a strikingly secular document in the Constitution of Medina. It stipulated that Muslims, Jews, Christians and even pagans had equal political and cultural rights -- a far cry from ISIS' punitive attitude toward even fellow Sunnis who do not practice its brand of Islam, let alone Shiites, Christians or other minorities." In reality, the Constitution of Medina is of doubtful authenticity: it is first mentioned in Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad, which was written over 125 years after the accepted date for Muhammad's death.
And unfortunately for Diab, Ibn Ishaq also details what happened to three Jewish tribes of Arabia after the Constitution of Medina. Muhammad exiled the Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadir, massacred the Banu Qurayza after they (understandably) made a pact with his enemies during the pagan Meccans' siege of Medina, and then massacred the exiles at the Khaybar oasis, giving Muslims even today a bloodthirsty war chant: "Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return." (Indicative of the influence of Khaybar, and not the Constitution of Medina, in the real world outside the pages of the New York Times is the fact that while jihadists frequently repeat the Khaybar chant, no one ever chants, "Relax, relax, O Jews, the Constitution of Medina will return.")
Science, innovation, learning and culture? The Assyrian historian Peter BetBasoo has noted that "when Arabs and Islam swept through the Middle East in 630 AD, they encountered 600 years of Assyrian Christian civilization, with a rich heritage, a highly developed culture, and advanced learning institutions. It is this civilization that became the foundation of the Arab civilization." What happened when Islam encountered this civilization? BetBasoo points out that the early astronomers in the Middle East "were not Arabs but Chaldeans and Babylonians (of present day south-Iraq), who for millennia were known as astronomers and astrologers, and who were forcibly Arabized and Islamized -- so rapidly that by 750 AD they had disappeared completely" -- that is, by the dawn of the Abbasid caliphate.
And if the Abbasid caliphate was really a center of science, innovation, learning and culture, what happened? The greatest indictment of Diab's case is that clearly something happened to snuff out that intellectual exploration, so that the torch of philosophical and scientific inquiry passed to Europe. What happened was summed up in the famous, although possibly apocryphal, quip of the Umayyad caliph Umar when he ordered the ancient, fabled library of Alexandria to be burned: "If the books agree with the Koran, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical."
The new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, couldn't have put it more clearly.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and New York Times bestselling author of Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In. A good read.
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When you lose an entire city to a nuclear event and it will happen let me be the first to say children in diapers , lies, greed, ignorance corner office and power mad syndrome. It will be out West! Enjoy! KIDZ!no drone no sats! No shit !
When it happens I will be with my dog!
Tell the idiots not to bother me anymore !
[DailyMail] o The new directive by the TSA affects flights out of Africa, the Middle East and Europe
o The TSA has announced that devices that won't power up will not be allowed on planes
o Owners may have to undergo additional screening at security checkpoints
o American officials are concerned that al-Qaeda has produced new bombs
o iPhones and Galaxy phones are to be singled out for extra attention
Airports facing chaos over busy holiday period as school's finish
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Got to create panic to justify one's existence. Just like MMGW. Take a smidgen of info, extrapolate, and exploit. "You need us" - TSA
He who defends everything, defends nothing. So much for the 'kinder gentler' war that only continues without end rather than ruthlessly obliterate its nesting place.
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I guess I should be lucky I'm not traveling. My one working laptop's battery is more or less permanently dead, and I can't afford to replace it. I can't afford airline travel either, so I guess it balances out.
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Things like this come from actionable intelligence gathered by other agencies.
Just guessing, but based off past experience terrorists are replacing the batteries with explosive and claiming the phones don't work and the airport security just x-rays them and sends them through. Works since the battery usually shows up as just a grey blob anyway.
The question really is, "How many terrorists will the TSA catch from this?"
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Back in '82 I had to prove my portable CD player worked before I was allowed on a plane at Logan in Boston. Big Deal.
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Makes sense, if there's no power, the likely of going BOOM,is much greater.
I'd say around 70% higher.
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It shouldn't take a genius to figure out how to make a replacement battery that has just enough juice to power up the laptop, with the rest filled with explosives.
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The key to preventing such terrorism is early detection. After detection, the computer and owner need to be taken to a safe place and detonated in a safe manner.
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Heck - when you consider that a raspberry pi is about the size of a deck of cards and can drive a display, keyboard, etc... Much much smaller than the mainboard of even a small laptop. And much smaller power requirements...
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In Europe now; coming back Saturday and will provide an update of what we see if anything other than run it through the x ray.
although the Amsterdam to Hamburg connection today we did have to pull the power cords out of the bags and run them through in a tray; that was a first.
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Would you travel with a phone but without a charger? Hardly.
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If you walk across the soutrhern border you do not have to turn on you iPhone or computer to show it works. In fact, you don't have to take off your shoes or belt or even walk through a metal detector.
Hell, you don't even need a passport or visa.
Flying is so overrated.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A 23-year-old teacher was allegedly raped at the Balwakheri village of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday evening.
The incident happened when the 23-year-old was coming home after giving tuition, NDTV reported.
Two friends of the accused, who were present at the spot, reportedly made a video of the act to blackmail the teacher.
"Mohit (the accused) came from behind, covered my mouth so I could not shout and dragged me to an empty house. Then he phoned his two other friends who came and filmed him raping me with their phone," the rape survivor said.
The three accused, who are college students, were jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! late Saturday night under charges of rape and on charges under the IT act.
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What is going on in India with all the rapes? Is it religious based? Is it Class based? Is law and order breaking down?
This incident came within a fortnight of a similar one in Muzaffarnagar when a 20-year-old woman was gang-raped by eight men, and the video circulated on WhatsApp. The woman alleged that the men had threatened her that if she complained to the police, they would post the video online.
Gunmen killed at least 29 people in raids on two coastal areas of Kenya, the latest in a series of attacks claimed by Somali militants who have vowed to drive Kenyan forces out of Somalia, although a police officer cast doubt on their role.
The Interior Ministry said one attack killed nine in the trading town of Hindi in Lamu County, the same district where about 65 people were killed by gunmen last month. Another was further south in the Gamba area, where 20 died.
āThey went around shooting at people and villages indiscriminately,ā said Abdallah Shahasi, a senior official for the Hindi area, which lies near the old trading port of Lamu and Mpeketoni town, where gunmen launched raids in mid-June.
Sheikh Abdiasis abu Musab, spokesman for Al Shabaabās military operations, said in Mogadishu that the Somalia-based group was behind both attacks on Saturday night. It had also said it was responsible for the June raids in Lamu County, around Mpeketoni.
But President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed Al Shabaabās claim last month and blamed local politicians, stoking an already fierce row with the opposition, which denied any role.
Regardless of who is blamed this time, Saturdayās raids will hammer an already beleaguered tourist industry that has been hit by a wave of militant attacks and will deepen public frustrations about poor security in Kenya a day before a big opposition rally is planned for the capital.
In a news conference on initial findings, police deputy inspector-general Grace Kaindi said a blackboard, ripped out of a school, was found at a junction near Hindi with scrawling that could implicate the coastal separatist group, the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC). She said investigations were ongoing.
āAt first we thought it was Al Shabaab, but now it is turning out that it is MRC as they have put it there clearly,ā she said, adding that other slogans appeared to back opposition leader Raila Odinga.
She said scribbled phrases included āMRC - You are sleeping,ā āMuslims your land is being grabbedā, āRaila is adequateā and āUhuru downā.
The MRC swiftly denied any role. āThe government should stop using us as a scapegoat,ā Randu Nzai Ruwa, the MRC Secretary General, told Reuters by telephone.
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[DAWN] LAKKI MARWAT: Police on Saturday claimed to have locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two kidnappers and freed a young girl from their captivity an hour after she was kidnapped from Tajori town.
A police official identified the accused as Gul Jamal, Mohammad Farooq and Imdadullah, who picked the girl, Mumtaza Bibi, from Tajori bazaar and took her away in their car. He said that the victim with her mother, Paveen Bibi of DI Khan had come to Paakhel Bhittani ...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data... region to condole death of her uncle.
The police official quoted Paveen Bibi as saying that the accused started beating her and her daughter with gun butts while they were buying medicines in Tajori bazaar. She said then the three men dragged her daughter into their car and drove away.
The official said on information about the girl's abduction DPO Ismail Kharak directed coppers to secure safe release of the girl and arrest her abductors. He said that coppers noticed a suspected car near Behramkhel village and signalled it to stop. "But two men onboard the vehicle got out and started firing on cops," he added.
The official said after exchange of fire for fifteen minutes the law enforcers overpowered the kidnappers identified as Gul Jamal and Mohammad Farooq and seized two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol and bullets from them.
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[THISDAYLIVE] The Management of the People's Hotel that was recently attacked 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... in Bauchi has disclosed that it was relocating the hotel from the state.
Speaking to select newsmen in an interview yesterday at the hotel, the Director of the Hotel, Mr. Ifeanyi Ezesi, said operating his hotel business in the state was no longer safe for him and his customers; therefore he has no other option than to relocate from the state.
According to him, "I think the time has come for me to relocate from the state because of the continued attack on my hotel business by Boko Haram. They have already passed the message to me that my presence is not needed in the state, so I just have to leave for the security of my family. This is the second time they are attacking this hotel. The first attack was in 2012. The second attack now in 2014. I think it is high time to leave".
He recalled how the bomb incident has traumatised and devastated him, saying he was yet to come to terms with the horror of dead bodies, shattered human parts and blood everywhere.
"Before the incident happened on that day, I was sitting down in the hotel with some group of friends drinking, so I remembered that I had to buy some meat to include among the items I was sending to my siblings in the eastern part of the country. So on my way to buy the meat, I received a call from my elder brother, Ogechukwu that there was an kaboom at the hotel.
"When I received the call, I had to return. I could not believe that it was a place I left barely just five minutes ago. The whole place was littered with human blood, scattered human parts and dead bodies. People were running for their dear lives. I have not yet recovered from the shock of the incident up till now.
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[Al Ahram] Combat between two Arab tribes in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 18 people, a resident said Sunday, adding to a growing toll as various groups battle for resources and Dire Revengeā¢.
The latest incident occurred outside Ed Daein, the capital of East Darfur, said the resident who is a member of the local Rezeigat tribe.
"Yesterday the clash began when a Maaliya killed a Rezeigat. The Rezeigat gathered themselves for Dire Revengeā¢ but the Maaliya surrounded them and killed 18," he said, declining to be identified for security reasons.
A member of the rival Maaliya tribe said a rocket-propelled grenade destroyed a Rezeigat pickup truck used as a troop-carrying vehicle.
"I saw the Rezeigat taking away their bodies," from the vehicle, he said.
Hundreds of Rezeigat were gathering for retaliation and "a big battle might happen today or tomorrow," another resident said.
Battles between the Rezeigat and Maaliya in East Darfur last August killed 190 people, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... said at the time.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police caught a Chhatra Shibir leader early yesterday, after a 20-minute shootout with him and his cronies at Satkania, Chittagong.
Kamal Uddin alias Dari Kamal, 30, an accused in 12 cases including four murder cases lodged with Satkania cop shoppe, was an acolyte of the local Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Shahjahan Chowdhury and was involved in violence perpetrated by Jamaat and Shibir in the upazila in the recent past, said Khaled Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Satkania cop shoppe.
He was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital since he was hit by bullet in his right leg during the shootout, Khaled said, adding that a gun and six rounds of bullets were recovered from Kamal's possession.
The OC said police arrived at the upazila's Switch Gate area around 2am, having received a tip-off that Kamal and 10-12 of his men were preparing to commit a robbery. "Sensing our presence, they fired at us. When we started firing back in self defence, they fled, leaving injured Kamal behind," he said.
The Shibir leader was shown tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in a case filed in connection with a robbery that had happened a few days ago.
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[Al Ahram] Anna Gribnikova looks on as aid workers hand out loaves of bread nearby from the back of a truck to Slavyansk residents who she says had been held "hostage" by pro-Russian separatists for three months.
The retired teacher is relieved to see the back of the rebels who fled the small eastern industrial town that had become the centre of their separatist uprising after an onslaught by the Ukrainian army.
"Those so-called defenders, those terrorists, they are still dreaming of the Soviet Union," Gribnikova lamented. "They do not seem to understand that this is the 21st century."
"We were like hostages" of the separatists who wanted to break away from Kiev and its pro-Western leaders and join neighbouring Russia, she tells AFP.
Hundreds wait patiently under grey skies for their allotted two loaves of bread or other basic foodstuffs being doled out at the city hall where the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag again flies proudly.
On the square in front of the building, government soldiers take a "selfie" in front of an immense statue of Lenin.
Many residents in the Russian-speaking town -- horrified by the pro-European path taken by Kiev which they saw as a direct threat to their culture and vital ties to Russia -- had cheered when armed pro-Moscow militia seized the town.
"At first, in April, it was kind of romantic, no one could imagine that it would finish like this, that they (the army) would fire rockets at us," said retiree Vladimir, who was in the food handout queue.
Like many, Vladimir firmly blames Kiev for the violence unleashed in the town which was brought to its knees by the weeks of fierce fighting.
"You see how great our government is? First they bomb us, then they feed us," retorts a woman who went to fetch provisions with two of her friends as they pass the fire-ravaged security services building seized by Kalashnikov-wielding gunnies on April 12.
The asphalt is slippery with oil and damaged by the to-and-fro of armoured vehicles in front of the rebels' first stronghold, still protected by walls of sandbags ripped open by gunfire.
Scores of hostages, including local and foreign journalists, were held by the rebels in the dungeon-like basement of the security services building, some for weeks on end.
Residents are still reeling from the sequence of events that began with heady aspirations to return to the fold of former Soviet master Russia -- or at the very least gain some sort of autonomy from Kiev -- and ended with the town being plunged into war.
Buildings in the town of 100,000 people -- half of whom fled during fighting -- are scarred from the barrage of shelling, windows are shattered and on one street a bicycle store has been razed to the ground.
"No one imagined it would end like this, no water, no electricity, no gas. Even during the war (WWII) it was better," said Leva Staravoytova as she filled her bag with sugar, pasta and tinned goods.
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[Tolo News] Following the destruction of over 400 vehicles that were parked in a supposedly secure lot in the Chawk-e-Arghandi area of Kabul, officials at the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Sunday suggested that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) is legally obligated to help protect Afghans' property, and if it fails to do so, the government is responsible for compensation.
According to official estimates, tens of millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the fire and kabooms that destroyed predominately gas tankers late Friday night awaiting escort to Kandahar province. The incident is being investigated, but according to early reports from security officials, it was caused by magnetic bombs.
"The government is responsible to keep these trucks secure and to prevent such an incident, but nothing was done and now the government must compensate the drivers for the losses," Khan Jan Alakozai, the Deputy Head of ACCI, said.
Drivers, who saw their trucks - and livelihoods - go up in flames late Friday night, said they were instructed by security officials to remain in the parking lot for security reasons. They were supposedly asked to pay a nightly fee for the security being provided to them.
ACCI officials maintained on Sunday that the government is obligated to compensate for the losses of the drivers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... MoI front man Sediq Sediqqi, reported that the owner and guards of the parking lot have been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and under suspicion. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... he did not comment on the possibility of monetary compensation for the truck drivers.
Some of the truckers have received the remaining parts of their vehicles that were not entirely destroyed.
Noor Khan is a driver who lost three vehicles in the fire, and has been a vocal critic of the government's handling of the situation. He said he doubted he would receive any of the remaining parts of his destroyed vehicles.
"These are my vehicles that have burned down, what can I do, I can't say anything, it's not a problem during the day, but at night, coppers will take the remnants of the vehicles and will create problems for us tomorrow," Noor Khan said.
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[Ynet] Police tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... 22 residents of Nazareth and Nazareth Elite overnight including 12 teenagers on charges of disturbing the peace. Several of them are expected to be brought to court on Sunday where the police said that they will ask for an extension on their remand.
Two local residents were admitted to an Afula hospital where they received medical care and were later released.
[Iraq Sun] Yemen's air force bombed Shiite Mohammedan fighters north of the capital city of Sanaa Saturday in fighting that caused "a large number of casualties," local officials said, after a recent truce between the Lions of Islam and government forces collapsed.
The fighting in northern Yemen, which has taken on a sectarian tone, is further destabilizing a country struggling to overcome many problems, including a secessionist movement in its restive south and the nationwide spread of al-Qaeda insurgency.
Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... Shiite fighters, officially known as Ansarullah, blamed army units linked to the rival Sunni-Mohammedan Islah party for breaking the June 23 cease-fire on Friday when government troops advanced on an area in al-Jouf province.
A Yemeni government official said the army's advance on the town of al-Safra in the province north east of Sanaa was prompted by the failure of Houthi fighters to vacate positions in the area in compliance with the cease-fire.
Tribal sources in al-Jouf province, which is partly controlled by the Shi'ite Houthi rebels, said at least 18 people - 10 Houthis, five rustics and three soldiers - were killed in festivities Friday.
The fighting later expanded to the adjacent Omran province, where the Yemeni air force flew sorties and bombed Houthi positions around the scenic provincial capital early on Saturday.
Local government officials gave no precise casualty figures from the fighting, which included Arclight airstrikes. Instead, one cited "a large number of casualties."
In southeastern Yemen, state news agency Saba reported that one soldier had been killed and four maimed on Saturday in a "terrorist'' attack on a security compound in the Hajar area of Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province. The agency gave no further details.
The cease-fire had largely held, with few reports of violations.
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Thus, Virginia, we once again have NOSTRADAMUS' QUATRAIN - "... None shall see the Power of Asia [Perse = Persia aka Iran?] until the Seven/Seventh holds the Line".
ole' Nostry + Persia/Iran + new AL-Baghdadi Caliphate have much to thank POTUS Obama + his "red lines"???
[DAWN] KARACHI: The police Sherlocks probing the Friday kaboom in Saddar claimed to have 'solved' the case on Saturday after the identification of the two men killed in an kaboom on Friday, saying that both were associated with a banned nationalist outfit and were killed due to mishandling of the explosive they were carrying on a cycle of violence.
After the identification of one of the killed men as Abdul Fatah Dahiri, the other was recognised as Usman Panhwar, who lived in Chakra Goth in Korangi but originally hailed from Jamshoro.
The police said "both were associated with the banned nationalist outfit led by Shafi Burfat". ...founder and current chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, a separatist secular political party in Sindh, that believes in Sindhi freedom from Pakistain. Burfat fled to Kabul, where he's been for the past 20 or 25 years. In 2013 Pakistain declared JSMM as a terrorist organization and imposed a ban, which works about as well as all the other bans the Pak govt's imposed...
"After analysing the evidence, speaking to witnesses and poring over the technological analysis, we came to the conclusion that the two were riding the same motorbike when the bomb went kaboom!," said Raja Umer Khattab, chief of the CID police counter-terror unit.
"We also got the footage of a camera in one of the building near the blast site which showed that the two were riding the same bike with a bag placed between them. The bomb went kaboom! most probably when the pillion rider was finally connecting it before planting it at their targeted place. The bike was moving and in the process he mishandled the explosive and it went off."
He said Dahri had been living in the Nazimabad area since 2008 but originally hailed from Nawabshah. The operators of the banned groups, he said, hardly shared their activities or association with their families.
"So the family claim doesn't matter about his routine. The Sherlocks have also acquired his cellphone record data which helped in connecting the dots and identification of their organization," he added.
The kaboom outside Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki and its neighbouring seminary, Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami Madressah on New Preedy Street in Saddar on Friday, which killed the two suspected attackers, was heard for miles and sowed fear in one of the busiest commercial districts of the city. The blast was so powerful that it damaged the panes of the vacant multi-storey Parking Plaza across the road and destroyed two motorbikes.
City police Ghulam Qadir Thebo had in his immediate reaction ruled out that Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki and Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami Madressah were the actual target as the Sherlocks hinted that a nearby rally of the Jamaat-ud-Da'awa was the potential target.
"Their target is still not clear," said Raja Khattab. "The record of the dead operators was being further checked. But one should remember the operators or workers of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations operate in an extremely sophisticated manner and their activities hardly come on the record. But if you look over the past few months the number of bomb kabooms has increased at a staggering pace which definitely indicates the presence of several groups in the city."
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The guy can afford a high-dollar watch. He knocked over the Mosul bank for nearly a 1/2 billion dollars. The watch won't do him much good if he gets drone-zapped or someone decides to collect the $10M bounty the U.S. has on the guy.
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Funny thing about most of the Arabs. They're pretty much conformist in traditional dress (and Baghdadi's is more or less traditional.) But it's the accoutrements that designate status, like watches, pens, rings, etc.
But, hey, congrats, Abu! You have gone from jihadi to caliph almost overnight. You are now qualified for Rantburg's Page Six, the Politix section. Now you can associate with the likes of al-Maliki, Assad, al-Sisi, Khamenei, Erdogan, Sarkozy, Xi, Putin, King Abdullah and Obama. Don't let anybody give you any crap if you wanna wear a cheap bauble on your wrist. You've earned it. This is a freaking big deal, you bloody bastard. Cheers!
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This is the great media counter-offensive to discredit jihad cool? Maybe keeping track of time without sporting a smart/cell phone is good for business, and business seems to be going good.
The better question is whether this becomes like wearing a pink bracelet in October.
Three Europeans working for an Italian construction company in Libya have likely been kidnapped, a government official said on Sunday, Alarabiya reported.
The vehicle of the Italian, Macedonian and Bosnian engineers was found abandoned in the town of Zuwara, west of the capital Tripoli, an official in the local town council told Reuters.
"They are missing, and we suspect they have been kidnapped," the official said. No further details were immediately available.
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[Iran Press TV] ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... Death Eaters have reportedly forced thousands of residents in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour to leave their homes.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the ISIL (Daesh) has forced 60,000 people out of their homes in the troubled region.
The Britannia-based group also says Takfiri Death Eaters expelled some 30,000 residents from the town of Shuheil after seizing it on Thursday from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Another 30,000 residents have also been forced from their homes in the towns of Khosham and Tabia Jazeera of the volatile province.
Residents feared the Death Eaters may plan to loot their homes. Sources say the large displacement has left thousands sleeping in the open, facing food and water shortages.
This is while Abdullah al-Bashir, the commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), has warned against emerging a humanitarian disaster in the ISIL-held regions.
Takfiri groups have recently stepped up their fatal attacks against civilians as Syrian army soldiers have made further gains in their fight against foreign-backed bad boys,
Over the past months, the Syrian army has achieved major victories in its battle against Takfiri groups across the country, particularly in the strategic Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... says the Takfiri war in his country has strongly shifted in favor of government forces as they have made continuous gains in their fight against the terrorists.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since March 2011. Over 160,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions displaced due to the violence fueled by the Western-backed bad boys.
The West and its regional allies including Qatar, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and Turkey are giving financial and military support to the Syria bad boys.
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Four Philippine soldiers were injured in fresh fighting with Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province where security forces are pursuing the rebel group holding several kidnapped foreigners and Filipinos. The clashes broke out Friday in Patikul, a day after the military announced the capture of an Abu Sayyaf base in the town's hinterlands.
The injured soldiers were airlifted to Zamboanga City as troops continue to pursue the rebels in Patikul, a known Abu Sayyaf stronghold.
Earlier this week, two marines were injured in clashes with rebels in the town where troops recovered a huge cache of improvised explosives from the captured Abu Sayyaf base believed used by Radulan Sahiron, a senior leader of the group.
Brigadier General Martin Pinto described the Abu Sayyaf camp as fortified with connecting trenches and wellāestablished firing positions and littered with hundreds of improvised explosives. There was no indication that Sahiron was among the dead or injured in the fighting, but there were reports that the Abu Sayyaf had fled with some of their hostages.
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Always demand your Clash to be "fresh".
I'll have my fresh clash with Aroooooogula, morel mushrooms and extra riboflavin pls. Dressing? Bitter herbs and a hint of remorse vinegar.
[Washington Post] Discouraged but defiant, pro-Russia separatists vowed to keep fighting the government in Kiev from the largest city in eastern Ukraine, where they regrouped Sunday after being driven out of a key stronghold.
At a rally in a central Donetsk square, the rebels were cheered on by thousands of supporters waving flags from Russia and the self-proclaimed independent Donetsk People's Republic. Many urged Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to quickly come to their aid — but there was no comment Sunday from Russia.
While the rebel withdrawal Saturday from Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 they had held for months, was not a total victory, President Petro Poroshenko said purging the city of the Lions of Islam had "incredible symbolic importance." It was unclear whether the government — after abandoning a cease-fire last week and going back on the offensive — was now winning the fight that had sputtered for months.
Rebel fighters from Slovyansk could be seen walking through Donetsk on Sunday in groups of 10 to 15. Most were still wearing camouflage, but some sported identical new bright-colored shorts and shirts. It was an unsuccessful effort to blend in with the civilian population, since they still carried automatic weapons.
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[Ynet] Israeli Arabs attacking Jewish drivers near Qalansawe and Paleostinians launching rockets from Gazoo are conveying one, unequivocal message: It's either you or us.
Whoever thought that we had moved on to the next page in the history books was wrong. The events of the past weekend in Israel's Arab communities, alongside the riots in east Jerusalem and the rocket fire on southern Israel, are a sad reminder that the War of Independence is not over yet.
Whether they are Israeli Arabs attacking Jewish drivers near Qalansawe or Paleostinians launching rockets from the Gazoo Strip, they are conveying one, unequivocal message: It's either you or us.
According to the more softened version, the Arabs have simply lost hope — whether of self-determination in the West Bank and Gazoo or of gaining equality within the boundaries of the Green Line.
Ariel Sharon was the last prime minister who managed to engage in a real dialogue with the Arab sector. In the meetings he held with the sector's representatives, he listened to them, promised to improved their living conditions, recognized the state's responsibility for pursuing equal rights, but always demanded that they respect the rule of law indisputably. He warned them not to try to challenge the rule of law in the way we saw over the past weekend, like blocking traffic in Wadi Ara, which he saw as a red line.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unlike Sharon, is dealing with the security reality taking place around us as if it were a random collection of incidents: Issuing a hollow ultimatum to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo, which remains unfazed and continues to fire at southern Israel; sending the security forces to deal with the rioters in Jerusalem; declaring his support for Kurdish independence instead of proposing an overall solution for the conflict between us and the Paleostinians; and justifying his decision to build a wall between us and Jordan.
As for the question how will we be able to continue living here like this, surrounded by walls, iron domes and other missile-intercepting facilities — Netanyahu has no answer.
A prime minister is expected, therefore, to face the public and let it know what he plans to do in order to deal with these events, which resemble the sequence of events that started the second intifada in 2000. Then, at the height of the intifada, the Israeli public removed Ehud Barak from the prime minister's seat.
Today, 14 years later, Netanyahu is sitting on that seat, and he is the one who will shape the state's next borders and the pattern of relations with Israel's Arabs and with the Paleostinian entities in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip.
In fact, Netanyahu will be the one responsible for the results of the war of independence — ours or theirs.
[Iran Press TV] Experts say the Western media foment Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... amid recent atrocities committed by ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... bully boyz in Iraq and Syria.
They argue that the Western media as well as anti-Islam campaigners have done their best in tarnishing the image of Islam.
"It is appalling that just a handful of Death Eaters can tarnish a whole religion the way that they do" says former British MP Derek Conway commenting on the Death Eaters that commit acts of violence and terrorism in the name of Islam.
Since June 10, Iraq has witnessed a fresh wave of violence fueled by the hard boyz from the so-called ISIL. The bully boyz have overrun most of one province and parts of three others north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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I dunno. There's at least a few centuries of history to refer to.
[Iran Press TV] A political analyst says the ISIL turbans can become a catalyst for a war engulfing the region and spilling over across the world, Press TV reports.
Speaking in an interview with Press TV, Bill Jones, from the Executive Intelligence Review, ... that'd be the La Rouchies...
said the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... ISIL murderous Moslems pose no direct but certainly an indirect "big threat" to the United States.
"Given the situation in the Middle East if the ISIL would create a radical Islamic state in the region, then that becomes a catalyst for what can become a much more widespread war and chaos involving not only the regional powers but given the interest of other international powers in the region including Russia, China, the United States, we are looking at some pretty serious conflicts between these great powers," Jones added.
He emphasized that any success of the ISIL cult would have "a very important indirect effect" on the US and on the rest of the countries in the Eurasian region.
The analyst urged all regional countries to create "a fabric of stability" which has been consistently undermined by the US.
He pointed to the support of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Qatar for ISIL turbans and said any kind of the US military bid to defeat, stop or hinder the Takfiri murderous Moslems will be "a total folly" unless the Saudi role is exposed.
Iraq is currently witnessing a wave of violence, which escalated after murderous Moslems from the ISIL terrorist group took control of large swathes of the country, including key cities last month.
The Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with their fight against murderous Moslems from the terrorist group, who have threatened to take the battle to Baghdad.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible for the security crisis and growing terrorism in his country.
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As Reagan-n-Bush-41 era "Peace thru Strength" + "Trust but Verify" STEADILY-N-DELIBERATELY devols by the Powers that be into post-Cold-War, post-9-11, pro-OWG Globalist "Peace thru Retreat" or "Retreat is Peace", ITS UNCLEAR IFF THE US WILL EXISTENTIALLY SURVIVE THE BAMMER'S FOREIGN POLICIES - EVEN PRESUM IT DOES, TO SURVIVE AS A GREAT POWER, SUPERPOWER, OR AS A PREDOMINANTLY JUDEOCHRISTIAN NATION???
[DAWN] Hundreds of Taliban fighters rushed to disguise themselves with new haircuts in the weeks before the launch of the North Wazoo operation, it has emerged, as refugees revealed details of life under the murderous Moslems - and their taste for imported luxuries.
Azam Khan was one of the top barbers in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... until he, like nearly half a million others, fled the long-awaited offensive unleashed by the military on the tribal area in June.
He told AFP his business boomed in the month leading up to the army assault as the murderous Moslems sought to shed their distinctive long-haired, bearded look.
"I have trimmed the hair and beards of more than 700 local and Uzbek murderous Moslems ahead of the security forces' operation," he said while cutting hair in a shop in Bannu, the town where most civilians fled.
For years he cut Taliban capos' hair to match the flowing locks of former Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud, killed by a US drone last November, but in May a change in style was called for.
"The same leaders came asking for trimming their beards and hair very short, saying that they were going to the Gulf and wanted to avoid problems at Pak airports," Khan said.
Even Uzbeks and Tajiks with little knowledge of the local language came to him, he said.
"Knowing little Pashto, they used to utter four words: 'mulgari (friend), machine, zero, Islamabad'," said Khan -- asking him to shave their beards to nothing so they could go to Islamabad.
French perfume
The military launched the offensive against murderous Moslems in North Waziristan tribal area on June 15, vowing to wipe out the strongholds they have used to wreak countless deadly terror attacks across the country.
The rugged, mountainous area on the Afghan border has been a hideout for years for Islamist murderous Moslems of all stripes - including Al Qaeda and the homegrown TTP as well as imported muscle including Uzbeks and Uighurs.
For years people from North Waziristan remained tight-lipped about life in a Taliban fiefdom, scared of being kidnapped or even beheaded if they shared information about the bully boys.
But as the exodus of people has grown, some have found the confidence to tell their stories.
While the murderous Moslems bombed and maimed thousands in their fight to install an austere sharia regime in Pakistain and publicly professed contempt for the West, in North Waziristan they indulged themselves with fancy imported goods.
Hikmatullah Khan, a shopkeeper in Miranshah, said that at the same time as commanders were insisting he pay 300 rupees a month "tax", their fighters were stocking up on grooming products.
"They were very keen to buy foreign-branded shampoos, soaps and perfumed sprays," Khan told AFP.
"They had a lot of eagerness for French and Turkish perfumes, body sprays and soaps. "Muhammad Zarif, a wholesale merchant in Datta Khel, near Miranshah, said fighters would buy large quantities of British detergent and American cooking oil, much of it smuggled from Dubai.
Militants gone?
Pakistain's allies, particularly the United States, have long called for an operation to flush out groups like the Haqqani network, which use the area to target NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and are thought to have links to Pak intelligence services.
The military has said it will target murderous Moslems "of all hue and colour" but the scant resistance troops have encountered has led many to believe the gunnies fled before the offensive, limiting its effectiveness.
The army says the operation has killed nearly 400 murderous Moslems and will rid North Waziristan of their bases, denying them the space to plan attacks and allowing investment to come to one of the country's poorest areas.
But it remains to be seen what the long-term impact of the offensive will be. Local intelligence and bully boy sources told AFP that up to 80 per cent of fighters fled after rumours of an army assault emerged in early May, most over the mostly non-existent border into Afghanistan.
These sources estimate the present number of murderous Moslems as around 2,000, down from around 10,000 before the operation. The figures are uncertain and difficult to confirm.
The army has asked Afghanistan to crack down on TTP refuges across the border and this week top brass from both sides met in Islamabad to discuss the issue.
"It is clear that murderous Moslems were aware that the offensive was coming before it started. Lots of them fled," a Western diplomat told AFP.
"The big question is: after the offensive, will Pakistain allow the Haqqanis and others to come back? "
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Cowards.
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That is not permitted by the Koran - beards mandatory! Apostates forfeit their virgins...
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two office-bearers of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) were killed on Sunday in a targeted attack near 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... 's old Sabzi Mandi area, DawnNews reported.
Supporters of ASWJ held sit-ins on the road at the site of the incident, with protestants burning tyres and blocked University Road due to which the flow of traffic was suspended.
Following the attack, police conducted a search operation as a probe into the incident went underway.
Karachi East SSP Syed Pir Mohammed Shah suspended SHO of PIB Colony on the murder of the two ASWJ members.
Previously, a 27-year-old ASWJ activist was killed in Malir City in a murder. Also, two more ASWJ members were killed in a targeted attack near the Ojri Camp in Shamsabad on May 23.
Both members of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization were on their way to Saddar after attending a religious seminar when they were attacked by two unidentified cycle of violence riders.
Karachi, the largest metropolitan city of Pakistain, is riddled with assassinations, gang wars, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism.
Targeted operations led by Rangers' forces with the support of police are ongoing in the city under a directive issued by the federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies.
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[Ynet] Due to the recent bouts of rocket fire from Gazoo, IDF officials decided Sunday to limit fishermen in Gazoo to working only three kilometers off the coast instead of six - one of the concessions given to Gazooks at the end of Operation Pillar of Defense.
[Aswat al-Iraq] Police sources reported here today that three cops and one Peshmarga personnel were maimed in two kabooms inside Kirkuk city.
The sources told Aswat al-Iraq that the first bomb went kaboom! targeting a civilian vehicle before a benzene station that led to wounding its Peshmarga driver.
The second bomb went kaboom! 200 meters near the first one, targeting a police vehicle that led to wounding three cops
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BELEDHAWO, Somalia -- At least two persons have been reported killed in bombing at a restaurant in Gedo regional district of Beled Hawo of southwestern Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say, the bomb in the restaurant went off shortly after crowds gathered for lunch as Somalis are observing the dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan. More than five people were wounded in the blast, witnesses said. Most of the fatalities from the explosion were those who broke their fast with broad day light food.
As has been the case, Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group boosts rampage and deadly attacks during the Ramadan. The militant group has not so far claimed credit for the latest attack. Al Shabaab lost a string of strategic towns in central and southern Somalia to allied forces.
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[Al Ahram] Two Palestinian fighters were killed and another wounded Sunday by an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, emergency services said. The victims were among a group of armed men who targeted by the Israeli drone east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, near central Gaza's border with the Jewish state, witnesses said.
Two Paleostinians were reported killed in an Israeli strike on the Gazoo Strip late Sunday night, capping a day of near-constant rocket fire on Israeli towns near the Paleostinian enclave.
Israeli planes struck the refugee camp of al Bureij in the central strip just before midnight Sunday, targeting a rocket launching crew.
So it was a little more than the well-known Israeli grudge against armed Arabs wandering the landscape...
The army said in a statement in prevented a rocket attack "by targeting terrorists." It said a hit was confirmed.
The Paleostinian Ma'an news agency said two members of Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... 's armed wing were killed.
Some 25 rockets were fired at Israel over the course of Sunday, most of which landed in open areas.
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[FRANCE24] More than 60 women and girls kidnapped last month by suspected 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... bully boyz northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had "received an alert from my colleagues ... that about 63 of the kidnapped women and girls had made it back home". A high-level security source in Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity, confirmed the escape.
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[DAWN] The notion of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as the epicentre of international terrorism has rapidly gained traction — not only are Pakistain and Afghanistan being affected by the militancy infested in the area, the threat has become credible enough for the international community to sit up and take note. A new debate is raging: what should Fata's fate be?
Fata is currently governed as a special tribal region under separate constitutional arrangements. The region, comprising a total area of 27,220 square kilometres, is inhabited by almost a dozen Pakhtun tribes. It is constituted by seven tribal agencies — Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Kurram, Orakzai, North Wazoo and South Waziristan — and six frontier regions (FRs): FR Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , FR Kohat, FR Bannu, FR Lakki Marwat, FR Tank and FR Dera Ismail Khan
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[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Three coppers were killed on late Sunday night after the vehicle they were in was fired upon by unknown gunnies in Hyderabad, DawnNews.
One other policeman was also injured in the incident.
Sources suggest that the police mobile the four officers were in was fired upon in the suburbs of Latifabad.
They were later rushed to the hospital where three of the coppers were pronounced dead.
The fourth policeman is said to be in a serious condition.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has condemned the incident and has called for the immediate arrest of the men responsible for the attack.
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SOMEWHERE in heavily-armed Somalia -- Twelve people were killed during separate overnight attacks on Saturday in Hindi and in Tana Delta.
The heavily armed attackers invaded Gamba police station, in Garsen, Tana Delta county, killing nine people on the spot including a police officer on duty and inmates. The attackers also released a suspected ringleader of the recent Mpeketoni attacks who was being held in the police station.
According to AFP, a spokesman for Somalia's Al-Shabaab group issued a statement claiming that their fighters had carried out another attack in the area.
"The attackers came back home safely to their base," Al-Shabaab military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab said, claiming that 10 people had been killed in the attack.
Confirming the incident, the Deputy County Commissioner Mr Mike Kimoko said the attackers killed the policeman on duty, before pulling out five people held in police cells and shooting them to death. They further pulled out other three civilians in a lorry which had just arrived at the police station and killed them before disappearing into the bush.
"Gunmen with strong power attacked the cell at around 11 o'clock and killed a policeman, five prisoners and three other civilians who had just arrived at the police station," confirmed Mr Kimoko.
He explained that the policeman who was taking charge of the cell was killed during the exchange of fire between the security officers and the attackers before they broke into the cell. He said the attackers took advantage of the darkness in the police station, which is not connected to electricity, and it was hard to tell the total number of the attackers No suspect has been arrested yet.
Gamba is located on the Lamu ā Malindi highway towards Witu.
A separate intense gunfire was also reported at Hindi trading centre on Saturday night by unknown attackers that left three people dead and two others injured. Hindi trading centre is located between Mpeketoni and Mokowe and is around 100 km from Gamba
Area chief Abdalla Shahasi has confirmed the attack. Mr Shahisi said that his office and that of the area District Officer were among the first to be attacked.
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[Al Ahram] A jacket wallah detonated explosives inside a cafe in a predominantly-Shia neighbourhood in west Baghdad on Sunday evening, killing at least four people, security and medical officials said.
The evening attack struck inside the cafe in the Washash neighbourhood, a police officer and a medical source said, leaving at least 12 others maimed.
The blast was a rare bombing in recent days in the Iraqi capital, which has endured a tense calm as security forces and murderous Moslems have focused their resources north and west of Baghdad, with a jihadist-led offensive having overrun swathes of five provinces.
Iraqi forces initially wilted when faced with the myrmidon onslaught, which began late on June 9, but have since performed more capably, albeit with few gains in offensive operations.
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[Tolo News] At least 14 Taliban murderous Moslems were killed and 13 others injured in an Afghan cops operation in north-eastern Badakhshan province on Saturday night, local officials said.
The operation was launched in Jurm district of the province last night to clear the area of murderous Moslems and two Pak Taliban were also among the dead, said Ahmad Nawid Frotan, provincial governor front man.
The Taliban shadow governor for Jurm was also injured during the raids, he said.
There were no Afghan forces and civilian casualties during the operation, he added.
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[Ynet] Hussam Dufash was picked up in Hebron by IDF for abduction of Eyal, Gil-Ad, and Naftali, two weeks after two prime suspects named in investigation.
An additional suspect was incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for alleged involvement in the murder of Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Yifrach, according to Paleostinian sources, who said Hussam Dufash was arrested Saturday night in Hebron by the IDF.
Unlike the other two kidnappers, Dufash was not away from his home in the days after the kidnapping. At the same time the third suspect was arrested, Israel announced relief from the harsh restrictions faced by residents of Hebron since the abduction.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced that as of Sunday morning Paleostinian workers from Hebron were authorized to enter Israel. Additionally, Paleostinians from the region would be allowed to enter Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan.
After the abduction of the three teens, Paleostinians from Hebron were barred from entering Israeli territory.
[Iran Press TV] Iran and Russia have agreed to jointly help Iraq combat terrorism, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says.
"Tehran and Moscow firmly support Iraq in its fight against terrorism and will strongly stand by the Iraqi nation and government to protect Iraq's unity, independence and territorial integrity," Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Iran's al-Alam Arabic-language news channel.
He added that Iran and Russia both oppose any conspiracy for the disintegration of Iraq into smaller entities.
The top Iranian diplomat further said, "Tehran and Moscow have close and in many cases common and coordinated stance on regional developments."
Iran and Russia believe that Iraq, along with its fight against terrorism, should seriously focus on completing the political process in the country for convening the parliament to form a government.
The first session of Iraq's newly elected parliament was adjourned on July 1 for a week without choosing a new speaker after Kurdish politicians boycotted the session over their conflicts with other politicians.
The members of parliament are tasked with naming a new unity government. After choosing the parliament speaker, the politician will have to pick the Iraqi president as well as the prime minister within 45 days.
Incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... is bidding for a third term, despite stiff opposition from his key rivals.
On the future of Iraq, Abdollahian said Tehran will respect and support any coalition formed by Maliki's State of Law coalition, which won the most parliamentary seats in recent elections.
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[Iran Press TV] Pro-Russian militias have lost four cities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region to Ukrainian forces in the space of 24 hours.
Ukraine's Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey said on Sunday that the cities of Artemovsk and Druzhkovka in the Donetsk region, as well as Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka, are now controlled by the Ukrainian forces.
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council front man has said the country's army was "concentrating on destroying and dismantling training bases and checkpoints of murderous Moslems."
According to reports, pro-Russian forces of Evil are now regrouping in the lovely provincial capital Donetsk. The gangs say they will make a firm stand against government troops.
Kiev authorities claimed victory over pro-Russia forces in Slavyansk on Saturday, after anti-Kiev fighters left the city for the town of Kramatorsk following Ukrainian security forces' overnight attacks.
The move prompted President Petro Poroshenko to order the Ukrainian flag be raised over the city.
Opposition leader, Andrei Purgin, however, said fighters only left the city in order to protect the civilian population.
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[Tolo News] Following 12 consecutive days of festivities in Alasay district of northeast Kapisa province, Taliban turbans have taken control of Askin valley of Alasay district of Kapisa, local officials said.
The Taliban turbans gained control of the valley at around 3 a.m. local time. Local residents and police forces have fled the area in search of safety to eastern Laghman province, said Shukraullah, police chief of Alasay.
He said Alasay is a key district of Kapisa in which the Taliban can threaten several other districts.
Alasay district borders with Laghman province where turbans frequently target the Afghan police force outpost.
The local residents of the valley have fought against the Taliban turbans several times, according to the district police chief.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) will resist any movement of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... to topple the democratic system in the country.
These views were expressed by PPP Punjab secretary information Abid Siddiqui in a statement issued on Sunday.
He said the PPP had requested Qadri not to start any campaign against the democratic system and let it function.
He said the PPP would stand by democratic parties to protect the system and Qadri would never be allowed to succeed in his agenda.
Abid alleged that Qadri would leave the country for Canada after the collapse of the system and the people would have to face the consequences.
Earlier this week, Dr Tahirul Qadri vowed at a presser to topple the present government "within a few weeks".
He said he was committed to bringing a revolution in Pakistain, adding that a People's Revolutionary Council would be constituted shortly.
The PAT chief called upon people to stop obeying what he termed the illegitimate orders of the authorities.
Qadri had returned to Pakistain in late June to lead what he called a revolution. He was scheduled to arrive in Islamabad but the government had ordered the diversion of the aircraft carrying him to Lahore.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Muggers shot a young man thinking he was carrying money in his empty bag in Adabor area of the capital yesterday afternoon.
The victim Anisur Rahman, 25, suffered bullet injuries to his abdomen, and was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
Anisur told journalists that he along with his friend Nesar Uddin went to check his balance at two private banks at Shekhertek of the area around 3pm. As they stepped out from the second bank, three armed youths came forward and asked for the bag he was carrying.
When they tried to resist the snatchers, they opened fire on Anisur and fled with the bag on a cycle of violence, leaving him badly injured. Afterwards, pedestrians chased the muggers but failed to catch them.
Anisur said there was no money in the bag except a cheque book, some books and clothes. "Muggers thought we had withdrawn money from the banks," he continued.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... police suspected that the snatchers were not professional and the incident took place as sequel to previous enmity.
Adabor cop shoppe SI Maidul Islam, who visited the hospital to quiz Anisur, said: "The place where he was shot was not a commercial place where the muggers can trace the movement of wealth people. Besides, this youth looks like a college student. They were not supposed to draw attention of the muggers."
Anisur left a company job five months back and had feud with the company owner over money, said the SI, adding that the attackers might be hired by someone.
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[ARABNEWS] The Dalai Lama Sunday reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Mohammedans, in a speech to tens of thousands of devotees to mark his 79th birthday.
In front of the massive crowd that included Hollywood film star Richard Gere in northern India, the Dalai Lama said the violence in both Buddhist-majority countries targeting religious minority Mohammedans was unacceptable.
"I urge the Buddhists in these countries to imagine an image of Buddha before they commit such a crime," Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said on the outskirts of Leh, high in the Himalayas.
"Buddha preaches love and compassion. If the Buddha is there, he will protect the Mohammedans whom the Buddhists are attacking," the leader, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, said.
The Dalai Lama also expressed shock at a wave of deadly violence by Sunni murderous Moslems against fellow Mohammedans, although he did not refer specifically to Iraq, where such murderous Moslems have overrun swathes of five provinces north and west of Baghdad.
Gere greeted the Dalai Lama on stage, shaking his hand and praising the leader on behalf of several thousand foreign devotees who had gathered for the speech.
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It's the same 'buddhisdm' in Burma that allied itself with the China that erased Tibet... but it's ok, they'll listen to you this time nd stop being Nazis for the sake of Moslms, that they wouldn't for the tibetans or the Shan. Yeah, right.
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Buddhists should offer to trade a plane ticket to Mecca for the passports of fanatic moslems. The moslems would be happier there where they can join the big Caliphate (before everyone started doing it) and the Buddhists would be rid of a problem.
[Libya Herald] The Scholars Association of Libya has condemned the attacks targeting moderate preachers, imams and sheikhs across the country.
Religious leaders continue to fall prey to intimidation, threats, kidnappings and liquidations, the Association said today. It added that these actions were only causing the security situation to deteriorate further.
The protest by the scholars followed the most recent incident, involving the kidnapping of the Sufi imam Tarek Abbas. Abbas was kidnapped in front of his home, near Abu Manjel mosque in downtown Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , just after Fajr prayers on 4 July.
Abbas, known in Tripoli as an orator and Koranic teacher, was said to have boldly criticized the actions of the Matiga militia. Some believe that this militia is responsible for the kidnapping, though this has not been proven.
The scholars called on the Tripoli Council and the capital's Local Crisis Committee to take full responsibility for the safety of Abbas and to bring his kidnappers to justice.
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[Al Ahram] Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... was set to reject preliminary election results released Monday, heightening a political crisis over fraud that threatens to trigger instability as US-led troops pull out.
Abdullah, previously seen as the election front-runner, alleges that he was the victim of "industrial-scale" ballot-box stuffing on June 14 and has vowed not to recognise the vote count.
His poll rival Ashraf Ghani, who was reported to be at least one million votes ahead, says the result is fair and must not be further delayed.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and Afghanistan's international backers had lobbied hard to try to ensure a smooth election process, but the contested outcome will realise their worst fears and raises the risk of civil unrest.
Influential US Senator Carl Levin ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... , on a visit to Kabul, told news hounds on Sunday that the preliminary result would likely be followed by an audit of suspicious votes in an attempt to assuage Abdullah's fears of fraud.
"I expect that (there) is going to be an agreement on a comprehensive audit," Levin, chairman of the Senate committee on armed services, said.
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[Gulf News] Manama: A man divorced his bride on their wedding night after he was given intimate pictures of her by her former lover.
The couple were at the hotel where the wedding celebration was hosted when the groom was given a bouquet of flowers and an envelope that contained a flash memory stick. A note urged the groom to look at the pictures of his bride.
Shocked by the pictures, he decided to divorce the bride on the spot, Saudi news site Sabq reported, citing a religious preacher, Sheikh Ghazi Bin Abdul Aziz Al Shammari, who reported the dramatic event on a Kuwaiti television channel.
According to the report, the bride was contacted four days before her wedding by her former lover who asked her to go out with him. He warned her that he would inform her future husband of their relationship if she refused his invitation.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... she told him that she was getting married and that he ought to forget their past relation. She added that she wanted to start a new life with her husband and that she was longing to become a mother and raise a family.
Her pleas failed to convince the former lover who after learning about the wedding venue bought the bouquet and included the memory stick with the bride's pictures, resulting in her divorce and the scandal.
Al Shammari, a Saudi citizen, did not identify the nationalities of the couple or the blackmailer and did not specify where the dramatic events unfolded.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he said that it was one of the most bizarre cases he had ever come across.
"The groom came to see me the next day and he was under strong emotional trauma," he said. "It was truly the shock of his life and he could not bear the scandal."
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In iran the prostitutes get married and divorced a few times each night as a way to dodge the non sex while not married laws. I suspect something similar is going on here but they are trying to keep his name cleaner than usual.
[Al Ahram] Local and imported cigarettes and alcohol will cost more as of Monday, after Egypt's president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi decided to raise sales taxes on both, according to the state's official gazette.
Under the new taxes, a pack of local cigarettes priced at LE9 will go up by LE1.75, those selling between LE9 and LE15 will increase by LE2.25, while those costing more than LE15 will be levied by LE2.75.
Accordingly, a pack of Cleopatras, the cheapest and best-selling Egyptian cigarette, will cost between LE8.00 and LE8.75, compared to LE6.25 and LE7.00.
Medium-priced brands like L&M will be offered by retailers at LE14.25, up from LE12 per pack.
High-price brands like Marlboro will be sold at LE19.75 per pack, compared to LE17.
Imported brands will see the same increases as well as a rise of 50 percent of its retail price. For example, a pack of Dunhills will be sold at LE27.25 instead of LE17.
It's not the first time cigarette prices have been raised this year. The finance ministry upped the cost in February by LE0.5 to LE0.75 for local brands and LE1 to LE1.5 for imports.
As for alcohol, taxes on local and imported beer will see a 200 percent increase, with a minimum of LE400 per 100 litres ā or LE0.83 per 330ml bottle of Stella beer.
Taxes imposed on wine and spirits will register a 150 percent increase (minimum of LE15 per litre).
El-Sisi's decision has not clarified the projected revenues from both commodities.
Revenues from sales taxes are expected to reach LE118.4 billion in fiscal year 2014/15, up from the proposed amount of LE92 billion in the past fiscal year 2013/14, according to government figures.
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[DAWN] Punjab Law and Education Minister Rana Mashhood says the law-enforcement agencies will ensure that no turbans in the guise of internally displaced persons (IDPs) should join the network of forces of Evil through the urban areas of Punjab.
The minister was talking to the media after addressing the owners of private schools and principals of public and private colleges of the province at a fund-raiser for the IDPs at the Directorate of Staff Development on Saturday.
Mr Khan said police and secret agencies should coordinate with one another and added that hooliganism was not a solution to any problem.
Responding to a question about electoral reforms, he admitted electoral reforms were need of the hour but the parliament was only a legal and constitutional forum for the purpose. He said the federal government had made nominations in a special parliamentary committee for making amendments to the election laws.
"If PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... is serious about electoral reforms, why is he not nominating his assembly members for this purpose?" he asked.
In the same go, he stressed, Imran Khan should display political maturity as 7.6 million voters had expressed their confidence in him in general elections to play his due role in the assemblies.
He said those making claims of bringing about a revolution in a few weeks, in fact, wanted to hoodwink the people and they were trying to sabotage the development in the country.
The minister said the military operation was started against the Taliban as they wanted that their demands be accepted through force and lawlessness instead of constitution and law.
Earlier, speaking at the fund-raising event, Mr Mashhood said the army was ensuring security of the country by eliminating bully boyz through Operation Zarb-e-Azb. He said the nation was imbued with a spirit of sacrifice for their displaced brethren who had been besieged by the bully boyz who wanted to use them as human shield in North Wazoo.
He said the IDPs were patriotic Paks and the army as well as federal government would provide them with every facility. He said the Operation Zarb-e-Azb would continue till the elimination of last terrorist in the country. He hoped that when the IDPs would return to their homes, they would live in a peaceful and prosperous atmosphere.
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[Iran Press TV] Uganda's army soldiers have killed 41 gunnies in a battle with tribal gunnies near the country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC).
Army front man Paddy Ankunda said on Sunday that the battle erupted in the western district of Bundibuguyo a day earlier after tribal gunnies attacked army barracks.
"We repulsed them, killing so far 41 of the attackers. The operation is ongoing," Ankunda said, adding, "We lost nine rifles to the attackers."
He did not disclose whether there were any army casualties from the battle.
Local media, however, reported that a soldier and his three children were killed in the attack.
The country's police front man, Fred Enanga, said that unknown gunnies attacked a police checkpoint in the neighboring district of Kasese earlier on Saturday, killing one officer.
The attacks came hours after the Ugandan army said it had killed a person for being involved in an attack at a church in the border region last week that left one woman dead.
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[Gulf News] The UAE Government has fast-tracked legislation including tough measures against those found to be involved in terror acts, financing terror or campaigning for terrorist groups.
Under the draft law offenders will face the death sentence, life imprisonment or fines of up to Dh100 million.
The Federal National Council is due to be called from its almost four-month summer break to attend a special session later this month to review the draft law, which establishes "terrorist" capital offences, which result in the death of a victim, including attacks on a head of state or his family or a representative or officer of a state; coerced recruitment of people into a "terrorist" organization; hijacking; hostage-taking; infringement on diplomatic or consular premises in committing a "terrorist" act; use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and assaults on security forces.
Under the 70-article bill being discussed by the legislative and legal affairs committee of the House, convicted murderous Moslems will face the death penalty, life imprisonment and fines of up to Dh100 million.
The draft law will also authorise the Cabinet to establish lists of designated terrorist organizations and persons.
The Cabinet will also establish counselling centres where murderous Moslems will receive intensive religious and welfare counselling in jail in a programme targeted against future threats posed by those holding bully boy views, according to the draft law, a copy of which has been obtained by Gulf News.
Sources said the UAE, a signatory to 13 international treaties on terrorism, is revising its counter-terrorism law, issued in 2004, to better combat evolving threats.
In late April the FNC passed a draft law to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
The bill strengthens the integrity of the country's financial strengths in line with the International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation — the FATF Recommendations, according to members of the House.
Under the legislation on combating terrorism offences, a criminal case involving terrorist suspects, shall neither expire nor the court ruling imposed be dropped by prescription.
"Setting up, running or leading a terrorist organization will be penalised with the death penalty or life imprisonment and the court shall order the organization to be disbanded and its offices closed," the draft law states.
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I thourght they were funding Jihad as they are never attacked!
[An Nahar] Russia has barred a leading member of Crimea's pro-Kiev Tatar community from entering his home region for five years after annexing the region from Ukraine in March.
Refat Chubarov, the chairman of the Tatar assembly, or Mejlis, told Agence La Belle France Presse on Sunday he had been blocked from crossing into the Black Sea peninsula and handed an official document banning him from Russian territory until 2019.
The decision to bar Chubarov follows an earlier ban to stop Ukrainian politician Mustafa Dzhemilev, the respected head of the Tatar minority, from entering the region.
"It feels like an entire state has declared war on me," Chubarov told AFP, after being stopped from crossing the border on Saturday.
"This is a small piece of the huge injustice that is now taking place in Crimea."
Moscow in March annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula following a disputed referendum in which pro-Kremlin authorities said nearly 97 percent of voters chose to split from Ukraine and join Russia.
Crimea's 300,000 Mohammedan Tatars, who make up around 12 percent of the peninsula's population, largely boycotted the vote and have faced increasing difficulties since the switch to Russian rule.
The U.N. says it has documented "serious problems" of harassment and intimidation facing the Tatar community in Crimea amid growing fears of religious persecution among practicing Mohammedans in Crimea.
More than 7,200 people from Crimea -- mostly Tatars -- have become internally displaced in Ukraine, the U.N. said in the May report.
The Tatar community has previously said it would push for greater autonomy, while the new Russian authorities have threatened to prosecute community leaders for "extremism."
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"Would push for greater autonomy" > at last check, ditto as per local ethnic Hungarians.
The Tatars are still claiming persecution + alleged "ethnic cleansing" by local Russians, + are demanding international or UNO intervention.
[An Nahar] Syrian jets fired shells at the eastern Bekaa region of Arsal on Sunday, reported the National News Agency.
It said that they targeted Syrian gunnies in Wadi al-Khail in Arsal.
Four shells struck the region.
The Lebanese army confirmed air strikes in "border areas" but made no mention of their target.
Earlier, NNA said that the jets fired rockets at al-Rahwa region on the outskirts of the border town.
On Friday, two Syrians were killed and five other people maimed in five air raids staged by the Syrian regime on the outskirts of Arsal.
Media reports said that the raid targeted Lions of Islam in Wadi al-Zumrani, Wadi Ata and Wadi al-Ajram.
Arsal, near the border with Syria, is a Sunni town where residents support the rebels fighting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces. The town also hosts tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
Ever since the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Arsal has become a key conduit for refugees and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria.
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[Al Ahram] The opposition Syrian National Coalition said Sunday that regime forces are preparing to launch a major assault on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo.
The group's leadership, meanwhile, was meeting in Istanbul to elect a successor to SNC chief Ahmad Jarba.
"The military situation is very difficult, the siege of Aleppo has become a reality," coalition front man Luay Safi said on the group's website.
"Syrian troops are preparing to invade Aleppo," he said.
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial hub, has been divided since a July 2012 rebel offensive. Government aircraft have been targeting opposition-held areas there as well as nearby towns and villages.
The assault began in mid-December and intensified in January, with helicopters raining down barrels bombs, causing a massive exodus.
Regime troops have made advances since last week, taking control of most of the industrial district in northeastern Aleppo and threatening to cut off rebel supply lines.
On Sunday, pro-government daily Al-Watan said loyalist troops were on the verge of "another breakthrough" by routing rebels from a military academy in the city's northeast.
Rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... control eastern parts of Aleppo and some districts in the north.
Loyalist forces are mostly in control of southern districts of Aleppo as well as some western areas.
Opposition coalition front man Safi charged that government forces around Aleppo were acting in collaboration with the jihadist Islamic State.
He condemned the West's failure to support the rebel Syrian Free Army, which is fighting both Assad's forces and IS.
"To this day the United States is preventing the dispatch of sophisticated weapons to the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... to fight Assad's terrorism and radical organizations," he said.
IS has seized large swathes of territory in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, declaring the land it holds to be an Islamic "caliphate", and its leader the ruler of all Moslems.
With government forces also on the offensive, SNC official Bahiya Mardini told AFP that the opposition at their meeting in Istanbul would elect a new president on Monday.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) just declared its support for the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), El Khabar reported Wednesday (July 2nd).
In a video posted last Friday, al-Qaeda's Maghreb affiliate expressed its support for "the mujahedeen" in Iraq. The message implicitly criticised al-Qaeda central and other branches for not publicly supporting the rising terror organization.
Abu Abdullah Othman al-Asemi, AQIM's "judge" for the central region, addressed ISIS in the video, saying his lover companions "want to link with you".
"You're dearer to us than our own families and relatives and we always pray for you," the AQIM figure said.
Al-Asemi, whose real name is unknown and who is believed to have recently joined the group led by Abdalmalek Droukdel, added: "We're still waiting for al-Qaeda branches here and there to show their position and declare support for you."
The phrase "show their position" carries an indirect call to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... to reveal his stance on the Levantine jihadist group.
In another implied reference to al-Qaeda leadership, al-Asemi said: "As those concerned have been silent, we wanted to show our positionĆ¢ĀĀ¦so the mujahedeen of ISIS may know that we won't let them down."
The video carried nothing indicating that AQIM wanted to support ISIS with fighters and weapons, or provide any type of assistance other than moral support.
Yet it shows that there is an organizational break with the al-Zawahiri-led network. There has clearly been no communication between al-Qaeda central and the Maghreb branch on the issue of ISIS and what it is doing in Iraq.
Many experts believe that AQIM's declaration of support for ISIS was an indication of looming regional changes that may eventually prompt the group to change itself from a branch of al-Qaeda to a branch under the command of "the caliph of Moslems".
"AQIM is confident that things will change and that an Islamic state in the Arab Maghreb may be declared," retired military officer Taher ben Thamer said. "Therefore, it is rushing to act so it can win the leading position in the new jihadist organization that will be created on the ruins of pro-al-Qaeda organizations."
"I don't know exactly what form the new organization will have; however, it will certainly not be restricted to North Africa, but will extend to Sahel countries, West Africa and Somalia to form an Islamic state comprising several African states," he added.
El Khabar recently cited a security source as saying that ten states, including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania and Egypt, have increased their aerial and satellite surveys of northern Mali, Libya, and parts of northern Niger to identify the location of an expected summit of the top jihadist groups in North Africa.
AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... in Tunisia and Libya, Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in Egypt, El Mourabitounes and Ansar al-Din in northern Mali decided to hold a meeting somewhere in Libya to examine several issues, the most important of which is the dispute between al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri and ISIS.
The conference will also reportedly address the unification of some groups, especially those in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Mali.
"AQIM's declaration is an attempt to take the initiative in case the jihadist organizations redistribute roles in the region or new actors appear," security affairs analyst Omar Abderrahmane said. "AQIM wants to be the number one group, whether with the parent al-Qaeda or ISIS."
Abderrahmane added: "AQIM has lost much of its power and capabilities, and its operations are now limited and without much impact. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... other groups appeared, such as the one led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar that carried out carefully-planned operations, which AQIM couldn't do."
"Therefore, AQIM is trying hard to win a moral push and perhaps receive logistical support later to tip the balance in its favour against the other groups," the expert concluded.
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Many experts believe that AQIM's declaration of support for ISIS was an indication of looming regional changes that may eventually prompt the group to change itself from a branch of al-Qaeda to a branch under the command of "the caliph of Moslems".
For now we are all brothers. We will argue and slay one another later, when the infidels have been defeated.
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Poor Screech. All pious with the bumpy forehead and shit, finally Numero Uno with the Curly Toed slippers and some heart-eating upstart rustics jump the line and set up Teh Caliphate. Sad, really
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Not surprising. Everyone less so wants to back the successful fighter. And I still see no reason to think Saud is not supporting ISIS, and every reason still to think he is, e.g., with Iran and Russia making noise about helping Maliki keep his skin. But this AQIM move means, among other things, that Saud support of ISIS is akin to mounting a bucking camel. He has started something bigger than he can control. ... if I am reading the rolled grape leaves accurately .... And the morons never have created a one-only caliphate. Dreamers. Getting Arabs together is like herding cats. Even Saud has to keep an iron fist on his own. Thanks for showing/linking the Spencer essay on whitewashing the caliphate.
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If the Saudi's openly gave their blessing to the Caliphate and possible peacefully merged it would be huge for the ISIS and something they might be willing to trade for the Sauds keeping the money and perm control over Mecca or something. Such a trade would allow Saud's to keep their heads which is a better deal than I think they will otherwise get.
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In fact if I was the ISIS I'd be talking to the Heshimite's of Jordan and the Saudi King trying to see if either will give up their country to be head of Mecca (and survive).
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The Saudis have oil. ISIS doesn't even have Iraq's oil; it's in Shia and Kurdish territory. Easy for ISIS to beat the Iraqi army in Sunni territory; not so easy to expand beyond.
Sources close to Mr Maliki, who is under pressure from Washington to step down, say he could cancel the Strategic Framework Agreement with the US. The SFA, signed in 2008, outlines the terms for political, economic and security co-operation between Washington and Baghdad.
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Great job, Obama. Thanks to you, all the US military deaths during 12 years of brutal fighting will now be transformed into having been for the benefit of Iran.
You certainly brought about "fundamental change in America" - into an impoverished, crumbling, third-world dystopia, with a shriveling military, and a bloated, tyrannical, self-serving government.
And you still have 30 months left in office, to continue your sacking and plundering of what's left.
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The greater threat may have not been the tyranny of the Shah, Sadat, Saddam, Quadaffi, or even Assad. The far greater threat appears to be a blind, religious ideology. Unfortunately, we tend to side with the greater of the evils.
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I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi
Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!
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Few here need a visual, but it seemed appropriate.
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Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?
Foes, of course. Now that the U.S. is world's top producer of oil and natural gas -- and many other nations including Britain, France, Germany, and China (!!) ramp up their own fracking production -- the previous deference to the Arab oil producers necessary to keep the world economy going will become considerably less necessary.
And Saudi Arabia won't even have to run out of oil before the world kicks sand in their face. That they're worried about ISIS on their border looking slant-eyed at the Kaaba -- the very same ISIS they've been funding, along with, no doubt, a good many other taqfiri groups, is added spice. Sometimes karma is absolutely delicious.
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Why do we have a base there and protect them? 9-11-01 10-01 mineral meeting 11-01 Qatar World Trade meeting-
#7 I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi
Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!
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... add Marxism for all intents and purposes to that descriptive.
From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
Fascism and Communism are species of Socialism but their etiological differences are consequential both in themselves and in how their adherents are treated.
The difference between a heresy and an apostasy is slight in the result but significant in the method of and approach to each. Thus, it is a material difference that, in ideal conditions, should be creatively consequential.
For the record, this theologian assesses what Codevilla calls the ruling class as fascist, not communist. Taking it so permits accurate anticipation of its moves and generation of controlling response.
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From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
Fascinating, TopRev. I would be grateful if you would expand on that a bit, particularly in terms of defining the difference between apostasy and heresy, and in what ways Communism and Fascism are so defined. I am accustomed, for instance, to thinking of Christianity as a Jewish heresy, though I am open to other interpretations. ;-) Be aware that some here are thoughtful, non-rabid atheists, or otherwise not of the Christian persuasion.
[MAGHAREBIA] Notorious terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, alias Laaouar, intends to unify fighters returning from the Syria front and use them to strike the Maghreb, retired Tunisian Brigadier General Mokhtar Ben Nasr recently revealed.
"Since declaring his allegiance to al-Qaeda, Mokhtar Belmokhtar has stayed in Libya where he has been recruiting Syria returnees," Ben Nasr told Algeria's Echourouk daily on June 27th.
"He is trying to impose his influence on other jihadist groups in the Arab Maghreb after Tunisia's Abou Iyadh disappeared from the scene because he was banned from making media statements by a Libyan militia," the Tunisian officer said.
Algeria's El Khabar daily cited unnamed security sources as saying that Belmokhtar met with Uqba Ibn Nafi Brigade chief Khaled Chaieb (aka Abu Sakhr) and told him to free Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... fighters from Mornaguia prison near Tunis.
The newspaper, which did not specify the date or place of the meeting, said the instructions also included targeting a number of oil, tourist and security facilities and some political and security officials.
"The terrorist elements are incapable of confronting the internal security and national army forces," Tunisian Defence Minister Ghazi Jeribi said on Thursday (July 3rd) during the funeral of four national army soldiers killed on Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by terrorists. "Their strategy is to plant landmines and not to confront the army forces."
He added: "Jebel Chaambi is under control, and a decision was made to storm the mountains between Jendouba and El Kef provinces."
Olfa Ayari, president of the Prisons and Correctional Institution Syndicate, dismissed Belmokhtar's call to his followers to attack Mornaguia prison.
"Let him come with all of his al-Qaeda elements and let them try," she told Magharebia. "They will be disappointed because this is Africa's most secured prison with its strong fortifications and highly-trained guards."
According to Ayari, Mornaguia prison is home to more than 500 terrorists.
"We're all accustomed to Belmokhtar's threats, which are basically propaganda after his status dropped among terrorist groups," security expert Sami Riahi said.
Tunisia's Al Maghreb daily also reported that Laaouar aimed to carry out terrorist operations in Tunisia, including bombings and liquidations of some officials.
Observers are not surprised by Belmokhtar's plan to target prisons, like what happened in Niger last year.
"Terrorist organizations are stepping up their efforts to free their nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... elements because this is the best way to maintain their loyalty," analyst Abdelhamid al-Ansari said.
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[DAWN] Air force planes bombed murderous Moslem hideouts in North Wazoo on Saturday, killing several suspected murderous Moslems, including Uzbek nationals.
According to ISPR, the military's public relations department, air support was called in after fire and resistance from inside Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... town and Boya village.
Planes bombed positions and five hideouts were destroyed.
The ISPR said that most of those killed in the strikes were Uzbeks.
Unconfirmed reports said at least 30 people were killed in the bombing.
The claims could not be confirmed from independent sources.
The blurb said hideouts, caves and a large cache of arms and ammunition had been destroyed.
According to sources, some places in Dattakhel, Deggan and Momadkhel areas were also pounded.
They said troops had begun demolishing suspected hideouts in Dandy Derpakhel, Derpakhel, Miranshah Bazaar and Chashma village.
Militants had concentration in these areas and they had rented houses from locals.
The sources said houses of Hakeemullah Mehsud, leader of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) who was killed in a drone attack last year, had also been destroyed near Miranshah.
Dandy Derpakhel, near Miranshah, was also a hub of Afghan and local Taliban and murderous Moslem leader Jalaluddin Haqqani's family was also residing there.
A soldier was killed when an improvised bombwent kaboom! during a clearance operation in Kaka Ziarat area, near Miranshah.
Security personnel are using sniffer dogs to clear IEDs which are posing a serious threat for infantry men in the area.
An official said the forces had sophisticated equipment to detect and defuse IEDs. Officials said 19 makeshift factories of IEDs had been destroyed.
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When taxes on interest bearing accounts is diminished due to miniscule interest rates, there is only one thing left to grab. Eating the seed corn is generally the point of no return.
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interest on svg deposits are about 0.3%, so a tax of 0.003% wouldn't be a big deal if it allowed for a decrease in income taxes
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Negative interest rates. Attempting to get savers to become spenders and, therefore, stimulate the economy. Unless the gummint adjusts required capital footings, this will reduce available bank-lending capital.
[DAILYPOST.NG] Igboezue, an Igbo socio-political organization, has faulted a recent statement attributed to Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... insurgency is worse than Biafra-Nigeria civil war.
Soyinka had on Thursday stated that the ongoing activities of the Boko sect were worse than the civil war, noting that the development has made Nigeria's breakup difficult.
In a controversial interview with Rooters, Soyinka said, "The bloodshed is now worse than during the 1967-1970 Biafra war, when a secessionist attempt by the Eastern Igbo people nearly tore Nigeria up into ethnic regions.
Reacting to the statement on Saturday, the group's National President, Chekwas Okorie, described Soyinka's comment as an "assault and shocking".
The group said, though Soyinka's statement, which was broadcast on Rooters and also published in most Nigerian newspapers, was advisory on the need to preserve the unity of Nigeria, it was at the same time insulting to sensibilities of the Igbo nation.
Okorie, who also described the statement as "unguarded, insensitive, reckless, irresponsible and reprehensible, however stated that someone like Soyinka, who played a historical role in that war up to the level of being suspected by the federal military government at the time of collaborating with the then Biafra leader, late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for the injustices and massacre of the Igbo, should not be the one to make such a statement.
"We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale, even during the civil war. There were atrocities (during Biafra), but we never had such a near predictable level of carnage and this is what is horrifying."
The Igboezue leader also said that to correct part of the deliberate alleged "misrepresentation" as he claimed contained in Soyinka's statement, the group "wishes to state that the mandate given to Gen. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu to declare the Independent State of Biafra was given to him by the then Eastern Nigeria Consultative Assembly and a large part of Mid Western Region in the present South-East and South-South geopolitical zones of Nigeria."
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Terrorists released from prison will be re-arrested if they or their organization attacks Israelis, according to a bill approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday. The bill, proposed by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Ze'ev Elkin (Likud Beytenu) and signed by MKs in Labor, Bayit Yehudi, Hatnua, Shas UTJ and Yesh Atid, is meant to combat plans by terrorists to kidnap Israeli soldiers or civilians.
However, if Elkin's proposal becomes law, all terrorists who are freed as part of a diplomatic deal, will not be pardoned, rather they will be let out of prison in an administrative release with the option of being re-arrested if they return to terrorism or if the terrorist organizations with which they are associated attacks Israel.
Consider it a parole with conditions attached. That happens all the time.
The terrorist will then have to serve the rest of his or her original sentence and face a trial for his or her new crime.
"The government understood that the equation has to be changed and terrorist organizations have to realize that kidnapping will put them in jail, not free them," Elkin said. "This [bill] is a good start toward a general change in how we deal with terrorist organizations."
MK Orit Struck (Bayit Yehudi), one of the bill's cosponsors, called it an important step in the war on terror, as it will take away terrorists' motive to kidnap Israelis as a negotiating tool.
Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On spoke out against the bill, saying that it "turns the courts into a toy for politicians who can cancel or renew their decisions when they want.
"This bill shows a total lack of effective governance," she added. "The government is unable to make decisions and wants the laws to dictate every move it makes."
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[Iraq Sun] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his third term bid and pick another candidate, urged Shi'ite Moslemholy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He's studying to be an ayatollah... , amid parliamentary deadlock over the formation of a new government.
Maliki has come under mounting pressure since Islamic State murderous Moslemforces of Evil rampaged through the north and west of the country last month and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate on land they and other gangs captured in Iraq and Syria.
In a statement published on his website late on Saturday, Sadr said Maliki "has involved himself and us in long security quarrels and big political crises" and suggested that preventing Maliki from serving a third term would be a "welcome step".
"It is necessary to demonstrate the national and paternal spirit by aiming for a higher, wider goal from individuals and blocs and by that I mean changing the candidates," said Sadr, who gained political influence during the U.S. occupation.
The radical holy man and his political allies had previously advocated the next prime minister be chosen from outside of Maliki's State of Law coalition.
State of Law is part of the National Alliance, a bloc comprising the country's biggest Shi'ite parties, including both Maliki's list and his foes.
"I remain convinced that the brothers in the State of Law coalition must present the candidate for prime minister ... because it is the biggest bloc within the National Alliance," said Sadr.
Dhiya al-Asadi, secretary general of the Al-Ahrar bloc, the Shi'ite political party loyal to Sadr, echoed his stance.
"We are fine with any State of Law candidate as long as he is not Maliki," he told Rooters.
The United States, Iran, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , and Iraq's own Shi'ite holy mans have called on Iraqi politicians to overcome their differences to face the insurgency.
As Shi'ite politicians sought a way to end the political deadlock, a video was posted online of the man purporting to be the leader of the murderous Moslem Islamic State praying at a mosque in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , one of the cities the group seized last month.
Maliki's opponents blame his divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... rule for fueling the political crisis and want him to step aside. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he refused on Friday to give up his quest for a third term in power.
The first meeting of Iraqi parliament since its election in April collapsed last week without agreement. Kurds and Sunnis walked out, complaining Shi'ite politicians had not yet determined who they would put forward as premier.
Maliki's main Shi'ite rivals say there is already consensus among the Shi'ite coalition and among the Sunnis and Kurds against his bid for a third term.
"There is a wish by all political blocs except the State of Law ... [for] the change," said Ali Shubber, a leading member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), a Shi'ite party that came second to Maliki's State of Law in the April elections.
"We feel that the change must take place in order to change the political equation."
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[An Nahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq revealed that tweets by the so-called "Free Sunnis Brigade" were in fact made by a foreign intelligence agency, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
He did not disclose to the daily further details on the matter.
But the shadowy brigade was quick to hit back on Sunday afternoon, telling Mashnouq that he will not be able to prevent the group's "jihadist operations."
"You and your Crusader security agencies won't be able to prevent us from staging our blessed jihadist operations, wherever we want and whenever we want," the Brigade said in a tweet.
"You and your Crusader security agencies that you are bragging about enjoy 'a high level of naivety and silliness'," the Brigade added.
In his remarks to An Nahar, Mashnouq had hailed the efforts of the security forces for their "preemptive" measures in thwarting "criminal bombings at Dahr al-Baydar, al-Tayyouneh, and Raouche."
"The security measures enjoy the complete support of the powers represented at cabinet and those outside of it," stressed the minister.
Commenting on the parliamentary elections, Mashnouq revealed that preparations are being made on the basis of the adoption of the 1960 electoral law.
"Weekly meetings to this end are being held away from any political decision on the matter, which is in the hands of parliament," he explained.
In May 2013, the parliament voted to extend its own mandate for 17 months after the rival political parties failed to reach an agreement over a new electoral law.
Around 100 MPs from all blocs, except the Change and Reform bloc, voted to extend parliament's term until November 20, 2014.
"Consultations between me and Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... are ongoing and he will carry out further discussions in the upcoming days regarding the polls," Mashnouq stated.
Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... deemed on Friday the "Free Sunnis Brigade" Twitter account as "fake", saying it was run by sides affiliated with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... The "Free Sunnis Brigade" had vowed earlier this week to task gunnies to attack churches in Leb and in the eastern Bekaa valley in particular.
Following these alarming tweets, Lebanese authorities contacted Twitter's administrators to communicate these threats with them and try to identify who is behind the account.
In the same context, the Internal Security Forces' cyber crimes bureau announced on Friday that the Twitter account of the vague Brigade is under prosecution.
According to the bureau, two fake names have operated the account and they are Omar al-Shami, a former Syrian inmate who died in the Adra prison in the neighboring country, and Saifullah al-Shayyah, who does no exist.
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FYI those notorious "Anonymous" hackers have repor decided to wage HackOps agz Al-Baghdadi's new Caliphate the "Islamic State".
[Al Ahram] Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... called on incumbent Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday to give up his bid for a third term in power or risk the dismemberment of Iraq.
Maliki on Friday rejected a chorus of such calls since gunnies of a group now calling itself the Islamic State rampaged through swathes of Iraq and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate in land they control in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
"I think it is time for Mr Maliki to leave the scene," Allawi told Rooters in an interview in Istanbul.
"If he stays on, I think there will be significant problems in the country and a lot of troubles. I believe that Iraq would go the route of dismemberment, ultimately, if this happens.
"Definitely there will be more violence, the security situation will deteriorate," added Allawi, a secular Shi'ite who took 21 seats in April's national election with his secular bloc. During his political career Allawi has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis, who have felt excluded from power during Maliki's rule.
Maliki's statement on Friday will complicate efforts to form a new government to unite the ethnically and religiously divided country, something parliament failed to achieve this week. It extends a political deadlock made all the more dangerous by the pressing threat to Iraq's territorial integrity.
Allawi said Iraq needed a road map that prioritised reconciliation and the building of institutions, and that this was more important than the issue of who will be the next prime minister.
"It is not a matter of changing faces. It is a matter of agreeing on a road map, to get Iraq from where it is now to a brighter future. I think this road map should incorporate two important areas.
"One is the issue of reconciliation. The second is starting to lay down the ground to build the institutions of the state," he added.
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[Ynet] Bedouins throw Molotov cocktails at southern Jewish community, rioters in Shfaram set fire to trash bins, while police outpost in northern Arab village burned by protestors.
Arab protesters rioted Sunday in East Jerusalem and a number of neighborhoods in the capital after a tense day which saw security forces tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! six men for the murder of the Paleostinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Some 15 silent protests took place in Arab communites across Israel without incident.
A number of right-wing Jews demanding Dire Revengeā¢ for the death of the three Israeli teens also rioted in the capital.
In the Shuafat neighborhood, from which Abu Khdeir originated and was scene to the kidnapping itself, over 100 Arab youths, some who were wearing masks, pelted police forces with stones. Similar scenes were reported from the Abu Tur neighborhood. Police forces were present at both areas.
In Tel Sheva, a Bedouin town bordering Beersheba, masked protestors threw Molotov cocktails and hurled stones at cars at the entrance of the southern Jewish community of Omer. Damage was caused to several vehicles.
In the Israeli Arab city of Shfaram, about 50 rioters threw stones and attempted to set fire to trash bins. Police forces at the scene are attempting to disperse the crowd.
In Iksal, an Arab local council near Nazareth, rioters burned parts of a police outpost, while protestors in Nazareth threw stones at a fire station.
In another incident, rioters burned tires in Arraba in the Lower Galilee, after which the main road was closed to traffic.
In Jerusalem's Bar Ilan Junction some 40 rightwing Jews were blocking the traffic. Earlier in the day a rightist was arrested after attempting to harass a protest calling for calm and for an end to racism, in Jerusalem's IDF Square.
In the Paleostinian village of Hizma, in East Jerusalem, a number of masked Paleostinians threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the police. Police blocked the protesters and attempted to quell the uprising.
After a relatively quiet morning, hundreds of protestors are clashing with police in Tamra in the Lower Galilee, with some throwing stones at officers, who managed to hold them at bay and fired stun grenades at them. The officers also prevented the protestors from blocking Highway 70.
In Nazareth, youths threw stones at a police car. Officers chased the rioters and arrested 12 suspects.
As of now, heavy traffic is reported on Highway 70, a main traffic route in the north. Special Patrol Unit and Israel Border Police officers are on the scene and are preparing for a continuation of the riots in several other locations later Sunday, including in Umm al-Fahm junction on Route 65, where a large demonstration is expected to take place tonight.
After breaking the fast as part of Ramadan observances, protests will be launched from Taibe, Tira, Qalansawe, Kafr Qara, Sakhnin and other locations.
The Mayor of Qalansawe, Abed Salameh, spoke to Ynet in an exclusive interview Sunday concerning the recent riots in the town. "In my name and in the name of all residents of the city, I'm sorry for all those who caused her damage," he said.
"I would call the situation in Qalansawe a crash landing. This is the first time in history that I've met with something like this. I guess the anger and the rage (that's been building up) for years has went kaboom! now."
Violent riots continued overnight Saturday in Jerusalem, with hundreds rioting in the capital and its environs. A bus driver and two passengers were lightly maimed near the Mount Scopus tunnel in Jerusalem, when a stone was thrown at a 174 bus between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.
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Mebbee they would feel more at home in Jordan. multicultual demography Israel's may lead to her demise. This cannot be allowed to happen. Arab 'citizens' or the Trojan Horse'?
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