[Ynet] Militants struck a border post between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in an attack that left two soldiers and three of the gunmen dead, officials said Saturday.
The violence began Friday when a suicide car bomber struck the Yemeni side of the border post in the al-Wadia area on Friday, killing one Yemeni soldier and wounding another, according to Yemen's official news agency.
[Ynet] An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison on Saturday, the court's judge said, for inciting violence that erupted after the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last year.
Badie, convicted along with about 36 other Brotherhood leaders and supporters for the same crime, is facing the death sentence in two separate cases. All 37 defendants were also charged with blocking a major road north of Cairo during protests that followed Mursi's ouster on July 3, 2013.
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[Ynet] According to Palestinians, autopsy findings from body of Mohammad Abu Khdeir show direct cause of death was burns that covered 90 percent of surface of body.
Initial autopsy findings from the body of an East Jerusalem youth who Palestinians believe was kidnapped and killed by far-right Jews showed that he was burned alive, the Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying.
"The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and it's complications," Mohammed Al-A'wewy was quoted as saying by Palestinian official news agency Wafa late on Friday.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have risen sharply after three Israeli teens were kidnapped on June 12 and later found dead in the West Bank.
This was followed on Wednesday by the kidnapping of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 16, in his neighbourhood in Arab East Jerusalem. His charred body was found hours later in a forest on the edge of the city.
Saber Al-Aloul, the director of the Palestinian forensic institute, attended the autopsy which was carried out by Israeli doctors in Tel Aviv.
Israeli authorities said they did not yet know whether Abu Khudair was indeed the victim of a hate crime.
Al-A'wewy said Al-Aloul had reported fire dust material was found in Khdeir's respiratory canal which meant "the boy had inhaled this material while he was burnt alive."
Burns covered 90 percent of the surface of the body. The head suffered a cut. Samples like liquids and tissues were taken for more lab examinations to complete the legal medical report.
At Khdeir's funeral on Friday, furious Palestinians chanted "Intifada! Intifada", calling for a new uprising against Israel. Stones thrown at Israeli police were met by teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets in one of the most highly charged displays of enmity in Jerusalem in years.
Clashes continued across the West Bank overnight with at least one Palestinian hurt in the city of Nablus, medical staff said. Clashes also erupted in Israeli-Arab towns, a police spokeswoman said.
Palestinian officials trying to calm tensions have said they would prevent any intifada, or uprising, and seek a solution to the crisis that began when the three Israeli teens were kidnapped.
The discovery of the young Israelis' bodies on Monday prompted an outpouring of national grief in Israel.
Many Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas, assert that Khdeir was the victim of far-right Jews incensed at the Israeli deaths.
With Israel having mobilized ground forces outside Gaza on Thursday in a threat to invade, Egypt tried to mediate a truce. Israel and the Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement each said the other had to back down first.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Abu Khudair's killing, a day after the three Jewish seminary students were buried, "loathsome" and ordered a swift police investigation.
Israeli authorities said they did not yet know whether Abu Khudair was indeed the victim of a hate crime.
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On NPR (National People's Radio), they just stated this was a revenge killing. No hedging, no qualification, and no quotes from anyone who might know - just a flat-out statement with no follow-up. Meh, indeed.
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I wouldn't put it past Hamas kidnapping and burning to death another Arab, just to stir up the people against the Jews. That bunch will do ANYTHING.
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dropped his molotov in mid-throw, did he?
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trained by Hek?
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On the other hand, if it was indeed Israeli Jews who did this, and they are caught, I'm willing to bet that Israel will prosecute them. Israel is a nation of laws, unlike the Palestinian state.
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For those who are always chipping away at our Constitution, the 4 freedoms that are under assault and have to be defended are of little concern. They are always trying to find ways to circumvent it; not live by its principles. The supremacy notions of our enemies are certainly brought out in this article.
[Daily Caller] Whites in Zimbabwe can own businesses and urban apartments but not land, according to the country's president, Robert Mugabe, who called for the removal of white farmers in a fiery speech to a group of supporters on Wednesday.
"We say no to whites owning our land and they should go," the 90 year-old Mugabe told the crowd, gathered in Mhangura, a farming village, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
"They can own companies and apartments�...but not the soil. It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States."
"Don't be too kind to white farmers. Land is yours, not theirs," Mugabe added, according to the BBC. You must live locally, in the urban ghettos, where you and your businesses can be more easily targeted.
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Mugabe is blatantly crude. The Champ, FLOTUS, and the majority of their regime subscribe to an identical doctrine, but they're much more subtle. Subtlety really is the key.
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Three youths attacked University of Macedonia professor Nikos Marantzidis in Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
Marantzidis, also an author, was with a student at a local cafe when three young men approached him and voiced their objections to the professor writing articles criticizing the left.
According to Marantzidis, he responded by saying he was willing to discuss the matter with the three men but one of them punched him in the head and the other two kicked him when he fell to the ground.
The three assailants ran off and Marantzidis was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Yep. Don't forget about busing thugs to someone's home only to frighten their kids just back from school. Remember these are the same people who demanded civility from others.
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Al-Qaeda's master bombmaker has trained European jihadists to become suicide bombers targeting their home countries, intelligence agencies have discovered.
Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri's alleged plans to develop "stealth" bombs triggered a worldwide airport security alert that is expected to spell misery for British holidaymakers and commuters flying to America.
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Yet another example of how you can't win a war by playing defense. Did I say 'war'? Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. I know you are not interested in war, but...
A powerful explosion and shots have been reported near the Somalian parliament, while MPs were in session. First reports said there were casualties in the explosion, said to have been caused by a car bomb.
Ten people died when al-Shabab terrorists militants targeted the parliament building six weeks ago. The Islamist terrorist militant group lost control of Mogadishu in 2011 and has since carried out several assassinations and bombings.
A Philippine soldier was killed and three more injured in fierce fighting with communist militants in the southern province of Misamis Oriental.
Officials said the clash erupted in the hinterland village of Umagos in Lagonglong town after patroling soldiers ran into a group of New People’s Army militants. More fighting broke out in the neighboring town of Balingasag. The injured soldiers were evacuated as the military deployed more soldiers, backed by helicopters, to reinforce the troops.
Major Christian Uy said a still undetermined number of militants were either killed or injured in the fighting. He said, "One of our soldiers was killed and three others are wounded in the fighting. There are reports that an undetermined number of rebels were also killed and wounded. The operation against the NPA is still going on."
[SUNNEWSONLINE] In the aftermath of the failed suicide kaboom attempt on a military facility by a female terrorist who blew herself up in Gombe recently, troops have jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! three suspected female Lions of Islam who have been secretly recruiting ladies into the female wing of the Lions of Islam group. The suspects, Hafsat Usman Bako, Zainab Idris and Aisha Abubakar were intercepted while travelling to Madagali from where they were to transit to the forest to reunite with their cohorts.
Investigations revealed that the suspects, led by Hafsat Bako, have the mission to recruit members into the female wing as well as conduct espionage for the group. Hafsat's link with the Lions of Islam group had earlier been a subject of investigation in 2012, when security agents on a manhunt for one Usman Bako, her husband who was identified as a terrorist, stormed their residence in Jimeta. This resulted in the discovery of an AK 47 rifle and 2 loaded magazines. Though Usman Bako later died in an encounter with troops in Sokoto where he had relocated to continue his terrorist activities, Hafsat continued with the terror group specializing in surreptitious recruitment of members into their fold.
The arrested trio suspects were luring ladies especially widows and maidens of tender years by enticing them with male suitors who are mainly members of their terror group for marriage. Before their arrest, they were on a mission to take additional briefing from the leadership of the terror group.
The trio has been operating together as members of the intelligence team of the group. Their arrest has yielded information still being verified by security agencies.
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[ARABNEWS] At least four people were killed and seven maimed in overnight air raids by Syrian forces on mountains and valleys near the Lebanese town of Arsal, security sources said on Friday, the latest spillover of violence into the border area.
The five air raids struck close to Arsal, an area sympathetic to the mostly Moslem rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
A police official said the Arclight airstrikes occurred early Friday, some 7 km within Lebanese territory in the northeast near the town of Arsal. He said one impacted near a jeep, killing the farmer. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, because he wasn't allowed to speak to the media.
Al-Manar, a television station affiliated with the Lebanese group Hezbollah, said the strikes targeted gunnies.
Violence has regularly hit areas around Arsal. In January rocket fire from Syria killed at least seven people in the town and maimed 15.
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[ARABNEWS] Egypt was on Friday mediating a potential cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which controls the Gazoo Strip, after a flare-up of violence across the border.
"There are continuing Egyptian efforts to return calm to the Gazoo Strip, but no agreement has been reached yet," a Hamas official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
Hamas "told the Egyptian side they do not want an escalation," the official added, but gave no further details.
Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official in Gazoo, earlier told AFP: "Hamas is not interested in an escalation or war in Gazoo, but at the same time it is not possible for it to remain silent on the continued aggression against Gazoo and the West Bank."
Tensions have risen around the Paleostinian territory in the past few weeks, with Lion of Islam rocket fire repeatedly hitting southern Israel, and dozens of retaliatory air strikes against Gazoo.
Israel deployed troop reinforcements towards the Gazoo border on Thursday, the army said, stressing that it did not want an "escalation" either.
The Hamas-Israel face-off follows a vast arrest operation against the movement's West Bank network, after the Jewish state blamed it for the kidnap and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied territory.
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Hamas ought not rejoice too soon. Recall, al-Sissi's Egypt has been teaming up with Israel to keep Gaza blockaded, blaming Hamas for smuggling Iranian arms to various Al Qaeda in the Sinai groups.
[ARABNEWS] Malaysian police on Friday said they have locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! four more suspected Tamil Tiger separatists, including a man allegedly involved in the attempted liquidation of a former Sri Lankan president.
The four are believed to be senior members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the Tamil Tigers, crushed in 2009 after a 26-year civil war over their bid to carve out a independent state in the north of the Indian Ocean island.
The arrests come after three Sri Lankans, including two refugees, were deported in May amid a crackdown on suspected bad boys, prompting criticism from the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... refugee agency.
Federal police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the latest arrests happened in raids around the capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. The suspects "were planning to reactivate the group by making Malaysia as their base of operations." Some activists, he said, had exploited their status as refugees to pursue illegal activities.
One of them is believed to have been involved in the attempted liquidation of former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1999, while another is a suspected bomb expert, Khalid said.
A large number of passports of various countries and fake Malaysian immigration rubber stamps were also recovered in the raids.
Khalid said half of the 14 suspected Tamil Tiger separatists arrested since 2009 had held refugee cards.
A spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Malaysia said Friday she had "no further information" on the latest arrests.
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[Pak Daily Times] LAHORE: Bodies of two unidentified middle-aged men were found packed in separate sacks and dumped near Dhalla Stop in Liaqatabad police precincts on Thursday.
Upon being informed, police and rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the bodies to Jinnah Hospital for autopsies.
A police investigator said that scavengers had found the bodies while collecting junk from garbage. He said that bodies of victims, appearing to be in their thirties, had visible marks of torture and their hands and feet were tied up with ropes. He said that the victims had been kidnapped before being killed approximately a week ago. The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigations.
Burnt alive: A three-year-old girl was burnt alive in her house in Jia Musa locality in Shahdara police precincts.
The police said that Habiba, daughter of Sher Mohammad, accidentally fell on the burning stove and received severe burns. She was rushed to a hospital where she succumbed to her burns. The police handed over the body to the family.
Expires: A 35-year-old man expired in a local hospital on Thursday, three days after he was shot at and maimed allegedly by his former brother-in-law over enmity in Ichhra police precincts.
The police said that Kashif Butt, of Islampura, was passing through Fazlia Colony on a bike when two motorcyclists shot at him, injuring him critically. The suspects managed to flee. Kashif's maternal uncle Ameen Butt alleged that the victim's former brother-in-law Mohsin Butt was involved in his murder, as Mohsin believed that his marriage had broken due to the victim's interference. The police sent the body to the morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the suspects.
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Kashif's maternal uncle Ameen Butt alleged that the victim's former brother-in-law Mohsin Butt was involved in his murder
"If we don't break this case and Butt walks,
The Chief will be cleaning our clocks!"
So they grilled him all night.
Screamed the press at first light,
Butt Busted, Butt Cracks, and Butt Talks!
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Now Mr. Fairbanks with all due respect, I disagree, you will notice Mr. Butt is a character in the article. By the way I loved you in Say Young Fellow.
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Mr. Pruitt posts articles showing the character of the society involved, Mr. Fairbanks, though they are indeed not true War on Terror news. Thus these crime reports, RAB encounters in Bangladesh, and honour killings and child brides from all over the Ummah.
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Shipman, you obviously have never been whacked with the lavender clue bat. Pray you never are...
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I think they made me a moderator not because of ruthlessness, which I most definitely lack, but because when I asked y'all to stop squabbling because it upset me, y'all chose to do so.
The rest of the moderators are quite ruthless enough to make up for it, having a broader experience with the dark side of humanity, though they are patient about letting me figure out that they're right.
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Good Christian kids receive plaques
And find prizes in sugary snacks,
But the heathenish Paks
Must subsist upon smacks
And discovering corpses in sacks.
[ARABNEWS] Security authorities at the Grand Mosque in Makkah incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a 40-year-old man wearing unusual attire inside the mosque on Tuesday and Wednesday. The individual was later transferred to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution.
Lt. Col. Atti Al-Qurashi, official front man of Makkah police, said the individual entered the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Tuesday evening unusually dressed causing many pilgrims to gather around him to take photos resulting in congestion and disturbance to other worshippers.
He said that the man refused to heed calls by security officers to wear more appropriate attire to avoid disturbing the pilgrims but he returned on Wednesday evening dressed in the same outfit. The security officers then arrested him and referred his case to the Bureau for further legal action.
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I have a "Lookin' for a Kegger" suit just like that one!
[DAWN] QUETTA: Kidnappers released Judicial Magistrate Ziaratâ Jam Saka on Friday evening, a senior administration official said.
Akbar Hussain Durrani, the Home Secretary Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... said the kidnappers freed Dashti near Ziarat Cross after three days.
He said the kidnapped law officer spent three days in captivity and was finally set free by his captors.
"The judicial magistrate is safe and sound. He has been shifted to Quetta," Durrani said.
The motive behind the kidnapping is yet to be confirmed. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the officials were reluctant to comment over the method adopted for the release of judicial magistrate by his captors.
Armed Death Eaters had kidnapped Jam Saka Dashti near Ziarat-Pishin cross when he was coming to Quetta from the tourist town of Balochistan.
The kidnappers had freed the driver and security guard of Jam Saka near Syed Hameed Cross area of Killa Abdullah district.
Despite tall claims on the part of the government, law enforcers are yet to burst the gangs involved in acts of kidnapping.
In the past, the Death Eaters had kidnapped aid workers from Pishin district and they were set free after payment of ransom to the kidnappers.
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[ARABNEWS] Militants seized an eastern Syrian oil field early Friday as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group seized the Al-Tanak oil field early Friday. Another group, the activist collective of Deir El-Zor, also reported the seizure.
The field is in the eastern Syrian province of Deir El-Zor, near Iraq, and it followed the IS group's seizure of Syria's largest oil field on Thursday. Both oil fields were taken from other rebel groups.
IS now fully controls all of Syria's main oil and gas fields, which are located in Deir el-Zour Province next to Iraq, a monitoring group said.
IS declared a "caliphate" in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq, where it is spearheading an offensive against government troops.
"IS took control of the Tanak oil field, located in the Sheiytat desert area in the east of Deir el-Zour Province," late Thursday after rival rebels withdrew, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The group is led by an ambitious Iraqi Death Eater known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who this week declared the establishment of a state, or caliphate, in the lands it has seized in Syria and Iraq.
It proclaimed Al-Baghdadi the head of its new self-styled state and demanded that all Moslems pledge allegiance to him.
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With Assad's consent!
It seems the Syrian government dont attack ISIS areas and used the same men against US troops in Iraq.
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It seems the Syrian government dont attack ISIS areas and used the same men against US troops in Iraq.
Certainly, defending the oil fields does not seem to have been a high priority of Assad's, I agree, Thusosh Untervehr8552. But with limited manpower, ought not he have been concentrating on securing his tribe, the areas containing other groups loyal to his government, rather than oil fields when he couldn't guarantee shipping lanes within the country?
[ARABNEWS] The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) in Dammam has locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a man who pretended to be a faith healer and was blackmailing three sisters by publishing their private photos with him.
The Haia officials ambushed the blackmailer after the women reported him to the relevant authorities.
The women believed in performing incantations and went to see the faith healer who deluded them into believing that they were possessed by jinn. He beat one of them on the head, performed incantation and gave her a ring, which he made her believe belonged to a king of jinn. He then took a photo of her in addition to downloading some private photos from her mobile.
He later used the photos to blackmail the woman into doing his bidding.
The man also deluded one of the other two sisters into believing that she was possessed and needed treatment at the hand of another man in a neighboring country.
He escorted her and her husband to the neighboring country where another fake faith healer examined her and upon return to the Kingdom he lived in the woman's house for couple of months to monitor her case closely.
While staying in her house, he took pictures of the woman and used them against her, which triggered family disputes between the woman and her husband leading to a divorce.
The Haia also discovered that the imposter had stolen gold and jewelry from a third sister after telling her she was possessed. He had also taken photos of her and threatened to show them to her relatives unless she bowed to his demands.
After a while, the women could not put up with the fear he created in their lives and decide to report him to the authorities who arrested him and put an end to the sufferings of the three sisters.
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Wow. Be a while before Naomi Wolf's pulse gets back to normal after that one. What a day for the outre'! I gotta bounce, but let's see... goof aloof proof roof spoof Tartuffe. Add conjs and preps (mine have been horrible lately anyway), stir, and enjoy.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two people were killed and two others were maimed in an kaboom that took place in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Saddar area on Friday.
The blast took place near Makki Masjid (mosque). Initial investigation revealed that ball bearings were used in the bomb. The intense blast damaged a nearby building and also caused damage to vehicles parked in the vicinity.
Police and rescue services reached the site of the kaboom and the injured were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where an emergency was imposed.
Police said one of those killed could be the attacker himself.
Security personnel cordoned off the blast site and the Bomb Disposal Squad searched and cleared the area.
The cycle of violence used in the attack was taken away for further investigation by police personnel.
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It is interesting how violence in the Moslem world INCREASES during the holy month of Ramadan when everyone is supposed to be praying and contemplating their faith and celebrating their faith.
Do you suppose it is more violent because Mosques full of people are convenient targets for the psychopaths among them or is it because that is the way the fanatics and extremists celebrate their faith, i.e., blowing up each other?
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Senior journalist, analyst and anchorperson Hamid Mir has left for London, DawnNews reported on Friday.
Mir, who was targeted by armed gunnies on April 19, 2014 in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and received six bullets, is expected to consult doctors for medical treatment in London.
Mir left for London along with his wife and daughter through flight PK613, where his son Yasir Aarafat has already been residing for educational purposes, DawnNews quoted sources as saying.
According to the sources, Mir's stay in London could be prolonged.
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[DAWN] A PICTURE generating optimism is emerging now that former army chief Gen Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... 's reported procrastination is no more and the North Wazoo operation's ground phase has been launched following weeks of 'softening' of targets via air strikes. The honest truth, though, is that it is too early to say if this optimism is valid.
But what isn't early to say is that there are elements in the defence forces that need serious reorientation training if there are to be lasting gains from the sacrifices of the soldiers — and civilians about 10 of whom have died for every soldier killed — as the forces of Evil have pursued their bloody campaign.
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There is a defined need for a scorecard for these offshoot terrorist groups. On the other hand,does it really matter?
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For the most part, imho, offshho terrorist groups are little more than present-day mobsters with AK's and a willing press looking for the latest "bad-boy" story.
Dangerous? Yes, but to some degree, motivated by their vanity. See Al Capone, etc.
[DAWN] PAKISTANIS may not be aware but the nefarious designs of faceless myrmidons who wish to isolate Pakistain from the rest of the world seem to be working. Unknown to us, the creeping delinking of Pakistain from the global economy has intensified in the last few years. Evidence corroborating this finding is quite strong and is discussed below.
Pakistain is widely perceived and projected in the Western world as "the most dangerous country in the world" or as "the epicentre of global terrorism". More recently, 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... has been described as the "world's most violent megacity" where the state seems to have "ceded its authority to thuggish politicians, ethnic and religious bigots and exceptionally brutal criminals". This negative perception has nurtured a feeling of hostility against the country.
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Descent began in '47. Nation on life sport. Who, but themselves, is to blame?
[Iran Press TV] Desperate Nigerian villagers from the northeast have pleaded for UN protection against 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... 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.
The villagers, who are from the town of Chibok in the restive state of Borno, requested UN help on Friday to soothe their sufferings.
Following the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in April, the forces of Evil have further terrorized Chibok by carrying out 15 attacks on 19 villages and killing over 200 people, local elder Pogu Bitrus told a presser in the capital Abuja.
"The Chibok nation wishes to categorically state that the inability or unwillingness of the federal government to provide adequate security⦠following the abduction of the girls leaves us with no option than to call on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to use its apparatus to come to our aid and protect us from imminent annihilation as a people," Bitrus said.
Chibok's residents have also called on the government to "go into immediate negotiation with the Boko Haram ⦠with a view to securing the safe release of the girls," he added.
Experts say the military has failed to counter the surge of violence plaguing the region, due to a lack of funds from the government.
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[Dhaka Tribune] In the verdict on the Ramna bombing case, a judge has commented that the Qawmi madrasa system is teaching a curriculum that renders Qawmi madras students both unemployable, and also alienated from Bengali culture. We agree with this assessment.
The Qawmi madrasa system should not be allowed to continue in its current form. It would serve its students better by making them more employable. The Alia madrasa system already teaches a government-approved curriculum. Qawmi madrasas should be persuaded to adopt a government-approved curriculum.
We urge the government to negotiate with the Qawmi madrasa boards to update their curricula. As has been seen from previous attempts to integrate the Qawmi system into the mainstream, this will not be easy. Last year, Hefazat chief Shah Ahmad Shafi threatened civil war if the government passed a law enabling the state to take control of the Qawmi madrasas.
Nevertheless, there have been others within the Qawmi system who were willing to work with the government to reform the curriculum. The prudent course of action would be for the government to state clearly that it will only recognise the certificates issued by Qawmi madrasa boards which agree to adopt a government-approved curriculum. Madrasas do have the right to exist, but it is important to bring them under a common standard.
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[Iran Press TV] US presidents have become the worst enemies of the American nation in the 21st century due to their negligence of the citizens' rights, an analyst writes for Press TV.
"In the 21st century, Americans' worst enemies are not al-Qaeda, Iran, Russia, and China. America's worst enemies are our own presidents," Paul Craig Roberts wrote in an article for the Press TV website.
He said the American presidents claim that the right to declare "war on terror" empowers them to violate the "civil liberties guaranteed to every citizen by the US Constitution."
"Having stripped US citizens of their civil liberties, executive branch agencies are now stocking up vast amounts of ammunitionâ¦. Congress and the media are not interested in why the executive branch is arming itself so heavily against the American people," Roberts wrote.
He said US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... 's appointee to the Court of Appeals, David Barron, recently wrote memos "fabricating a legal justification for the Office of President to murder US citizens without due process of law."
Roberts added that the civil liberties are "sacrificed" in the United States under the pretext of fighting al-Qaeda.
"The executive declares a state of war, even a war that is not conducted against another country or countries but a vague, undefined or ill-defined war against a vague stateless enemy such as 'al-Qaeda', with which the US is currently allied against Syria," the analyst wrote.
He said the office of the president's "illegitimate power" poses a threat not only to "every American but also to every living being on Planet Earth."
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How's that "cozying up" to Iran working for you Obumble?
[NY Times] Despite sharp criticism from almost every political party in Iraq and pressure from friendly foreign powers to step down, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced Friday that he would run for a third term as prime minister.
He never suggested he would step down. But the chorus of criticism over his sectarian policies, which helped create the conditions that led to a large swath of the country falling to Islamic bad boys, had left many believing that lacking supporters, he might relinquish power.
They appear to have underestimated his desire to hold on to it.
"I will not give up my candidacy for a third term," Mr. Maliki announced in a statement read on Iraqiya, the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel.
He noted that the bloc of politicians that supported his nomination was the largest in the Parliament and that they should not be asked to meet any conditions imposed by other legislative groups, such as supporting another different candidate.
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[SUNNEWSONLINE] Osun State Security Council has debunked the wide spread rumour of 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... operations in the state. Rising from its meeting, which lasted for several hours on Wednesday, the council denied any terrorist operation that could be linked to Boko Haram in any part of the state.
The state Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Maishanu, who addressed newsmen after the meeting, said: "What happened in Ile-Ife recently was a minor kaboom and not a major one as reported by a section of the media."
Other security chiefs at the briefing included the Director of State Security Services, Mr. Andrew, Commandant, Nigerian Army Engineering Construction Regiment, Ede, Brig General Gbenga Adeyemo and Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Muhammed Hussein.
Maishanu said the detachment of police that went to the spot of the kaboom only found a banger and not a deadly explosive or bomb as was reported.
He said there was no threat to lives and property as Osun still remained one of the most peaceful states in the country.
He enjoined people in the state to go about their lawful activities without any hinderance.
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[Iran Press TV] A leader of Shia 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" ... fighters in Yemen has censured the United States for being the major supporter of 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... snuffies in the region.
On Friday, Sheikh Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi accused Washington of being behind terrorism particularly in Iraq and Syria.
Terrorists of the al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) tarnish the image of Islam, Abdul-Malik said.
The Houthi leader said that the chaos in the region meant to divert attention from the Israeli aggression against Paleostine.
He also called on Middle Eastern states, including the Saudi government, to be wary of a plot by the US.
Last week, Houthi front man Mohammed Abdulsalam denounced Riyadh's "destructive" role in the country, condemning how the kingdom "deals with Yemen as personal property."
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[ARABNEWS] A mentally ill Gulf national wreaked havoc among pilgrims in Makkah after he attacked two Asian pilgrims living in Ajyad with a knife, security sources said.
What was he wearing?
One of his victims sustained deep wounds and has been hospitalized.
Police rushed to the area after receiving word that someone was stabbed in front of a hotel in the city.
Police then overpowered the man, who was holding the knife at the time, receiving the applause of hotel residents. Police are questioning the man to determine the motive behind the attack.
"The two victims have been taken to hospital and their condition is stable," said Lt. Col. Aati Al-Qurashi, Makkah police front man.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... police have locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four Arab children aged between 10 and 17 for allegedly stealing cell phones from pilgrims.
"Criminal investigation officers arrested the four children and handed them over to police," a source said on Wednesday.
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Scuttlebutt from Africans I know: The Saudis are abusive toward African pilgrims, especially the women. Saudis give Africans the Jim Crow treatment, and go out of their way to harass African women.
[AnNahar] The lingering electricity crisis is likely to worsen with no solution in the near future as the country is bracing for a summer drought exacerbated by massive influx of Syrian refugees. According to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday, rationing in Beirut's southern suburbs is daily between 10 and 12 hours while in the South and the Bekaa is between 12 and 14 and reaches around 20 hours in some areas in the North.
A parliamentary source told the daily that politicians should be clear and direct with the Lebanese concerning the electricity crisis.
"There is no near future solution."
The sources said that electricity will not be back 24/7 in 2015 as some expected, advising citizens to buy their own generators or subscribe with the one in their neighborhood.
Leb is in need of 2,500 megawatts of electricity while the current production is only 1,500 MW. The daily reported that any unexpected malfunction in one of the power plants in Leb will increase the size of the problem.
Yes, that's usually the case...
The report added that the state spends yearly around two billion dollars on electricity while the rationing hours keep on increasing.
The newspaper reported that drought reached several areas and villages as the dramatic situation is exacerbated by waste and an influx of Syrian refugees. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR warned in February that the presence of more than a million Syrian refugees alongside four million Lebanese would seriously deplete the country's renewable water resources.
People in Beirut and several areas have already been forced to buy water from private suppliers and farmers are complaining about crop losses.
MP Mohammed Qabbani expected in comments published in As Safir the "situation to worsen in August and to hit bottom rock in September and October."
He noted that the Public Works and Energy Parliamentary Committee, which he heads, formed in April a crisis group to deal with the summer shortages, but nothing has been accomplished.
That's the usual result of a parliamentary committee...
"Swift measures should be taken to deal with the situation," Qabbani said, calling for "courageous and painful decisions."
None of which are allowed to affect his constituents...
Leb's meteorological service says the country has had just 431 mm (17 inches) of precipitation since September, less than half last year's 905.8 mm and far below the yearly average of 812 mm.
Ordinarily, Lebanese farmers irrigate their fields by digging channels that divert water from local rivers or wells that fill with rainwater. But the rain and snow that usually feed the rivers and wells never arrived.
The country has just two dams and some 70 percent of the water that flows through its 16 rivers ends up in the Mediterranean.
[Iran Press TV] Some 100 Imams from both Shia and Sunni communities across the United Kingdom have signed a petition calling on British Moslems to refrain from traveling to Syria and Iraq to fight in those countries.
The Moslemholy mans made the appeal in an open letter, adding that they share a unified stance in the face of crises plaguing the two Middle Eastern countries.
The holy mans advised members of the British Moslem community against falling prey to sectarian divisions and urged them to support the people affected by conflicts in Syria and Iraq in a responsible way.
The appeals come amid concerns by British as well as European officials over the growing national security threat posed by the European forces of Evil returning from Syria. Fears are growing that the European forces of Evil coming with experience from Syria may carry out terrorist attacks in their home countries.
An estimated 500 Britons have traveled to Syria to fight along the myrmidonforces of Evil there.
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No, kids, ignore those imams - they are tools of Shaitan, not of Allah. You must go and fulfill your duty of jihad.
Of course, many of you will not return, but that's OK.
Tee hee.
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Get your free tickets to the Holey Land here, free tickets!!
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This wont stop the Brit born pakis who long for Jihad/early death.
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Well, what we got here in the UK is a whole buncha Moslems and Slavs, both of which hate the English equally, nary an Engelsk in sight.
The difference is, the Moslems just won't fuck off, they think they're here to stay. Sticky stuff is going to hit the air circulator soon, with the general populace about ten steps behind, as usual. The jihadi hate is not even disguised, yet I predict a very surprised population when they really start their shit here.
[Iran Press TV] The latest reports indicate significant gains for the Iraqi army soldiers and heavy losses for 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... turbans from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) on several battle fronts.
Media reports say the government forces backed by thousands of volunteers killed 88 turbans in festivities in the northern Salahuddin Province.
Dozens of vehicles belonging to the ISIL have also been destroyed in the troubled region.
The army has also launched successful attacks on the turbans in Salahuddin's neighboring province of Diyala and in Kirkuk Governorate.
The attack in Diyala targeted the ISIL turbans in the Masuriyat al-Jabal area, northeast of the lovely provincial capital Baquba.
The army campaign in Kirkuk involved Arclight airstrikes on the ISIL turbans in Hawija, a city controlled by the turbans near the lovely provincial capital Kirkuk. No details including the potential number of casualties have come out yet.
This comes as Iraqi army is pushing ahead with its offensive to flush Takfiri turbans of the ISIL out of Tikrit. Soldiers, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have already taken control of Tikrit University.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... scores of faceless myrmidons have been killed in the army Arclight airstrikes on djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Babylon.
Iraq's ambassador to the US says Baghdad will turn to Iran, Russia, and Syria for military support if Washington does not supply what it needs to halt the Takfiri terrorists. Lukman Faily said Iraq has to take whatever aid is available because of the threat from the ISIL.
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Actually, Mosul sits ON TOP OF the ancient Assyrian Capital of Nineveh.
Babylon is on the outskirts of Hillah, to the South of Baghdad.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Allegedly tortured by Kotwali police, Samiuzzaman Uzzal, 32, an activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal in Jessore town, died at Jessore Central Jail yesterday.
Sources in the victims family as well as in BNP said Uzzal, who was also former joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... 's Jessore unit, died after being tortured by the police and due to the negligence of the jail authority. However,
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[DAWN] BANNU: Christians and Hindus who fled from a military offensive against holy warriors in North Wazoo say the Taliban treated them with relative tolerance, contrary to the Death Eaters' brutal reputation.
Some 2,000 people from the country's often-embattled religious minorities have fled an army operation that began in mid-June in the North Waziristan tribal district for the nearby town of Bannu, where many have taken refuge in Christian schools.
Like nearly half a million other residents who have escaped the fighting, they spoke of the hardship of living in a zone that has been caught in conflict for more than a decade.
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Believable.
They are ALIVE to tell the tale.
This must qualify as "relative" tolerance, Taliban style
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Security forces in the Russia's republic of Dagestan gunned down a wanted terrorist after he failed to give himself up to police Thursday. The shooting took place Wednesday night in the republic's capital, Makhachkala.
"Stop! [BANG] Or we'll shoot!"
The man, identified as Rizvan Aliyev, was on twelve systems the federal wanted list for committing a series of terrorist acts. Aliyev was armed with a Glock firearm and a grenade at the time of the shooting.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The PDP has set the stage for its tactics ahead of the elections in 2015 and its simple- bomb parts of Nigeria and indeed Nigerians and place the blame on the door of the opposition APC. Men like Femi Fani-Kayode are being used to attack them in the press and various online media as sponsors of terror. Isn't it queer that days after Fani-Kayode accused the APC without proof of having a militant terror wing and an evil character in Musiliu Obanikoro accusing Bola Tinubu and his friends as starting Boko Haram that suddenly Ile-Ife was bombed?
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[TRIBUNE.NG] FOLLOWING the purported abduction letters sent to three government secondary schools in Nasarawa State by members of Islamist group, 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... , students of one of the affected schools, on Thursday, fled their hostels, for fear of being kidnapped by the Death Eaters.
A visit by the Nigerian Tribune to Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Lafia, showed that many students had left their hostels, while others were seen with their belongings, heading towards the main road to board vehicles to their respective homes, despite the downpour.
Some students who did not want their names in print told the Nigerian Tribune that "many have left today and we are waiting for our friends so that we can leave together before Boko Haram people will come to the school."
At the time of filing this report, stern-looking mobile coppers had taken over the school premises.
Sources said the security operatives had been stationed on the premises since Thursday morning, to forestall any intrusion.
When asked on the presence of the mobile coppers on the school premises, the principal (name withheld) said he was not in a better position to speak on the development, adding that the local inspectorate office or education ministry would be in good position to talk on it.
When contacted on phone, the state Commissioner for Education, Yakubu Na'Hauwa, denied that the government directed the students to go back to their various homes, saying information that students had left hostels had not reached his office.
While confirming that the snuffies sent letter to GSSS in Lafia to abduct schoolgirls, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ismaila Numan, told the Nigerian Tribune on phone that the letter was received, on Tuesday, adding that the police had commenced investigations on its authenticity or otherwise.
He also confirmed that the command had drafted coppers to the school to forestall any act capable of disrupting existing peace in the state.
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Dick Metcalf, the guy from Guns & Ammo who was run off for his antigun views last year decides to go digging. I read a sympathetic article about him in a leftist publication (don't remember which one, sorry) in which he claimed he defended Second Amendment rights his whole life, so to be treated as he was.... He did defend Second Amendment rights and he lost over the past 20 years, which means he was the Washington Generals to the Harlem Gun Grabbers, a role he continues to play with abandon, which is what the Right to Keep and Bear Arms community did with him: abandon him.
Target has announced its policy with regard to open carry: Keep your guns out of our stores. Open carry of rifles, despite claims to the contrary is a far different animal than open carry of handguns. You may have the right to do it, which I support, but you gotta wonder if a handgun, which is much better suited for use inside a store would be a better open carry option than a rifle. I expect the counterprotest to Target's decision to fizzle out quickly.
Possible 2016 nominee for the Republican Party for president, Chris Christie avoids the inevitable sh*tstorm by vetoing magazine restrictions for New Jersey. Good for New Jersey, but only if New Jersey residents run off the politicians who wrote this law to begun with.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed while prices for used rifles were lower across the board, as prices for all used firearms continue to collapse. Don't be surprised to see used ARs going for under $500 average and used AR-10s for under $900 average by the end of the year.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (After Unchanged (7 weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, Factory seconds, .30 per round (From last week: +.01 After Unchanged (3 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, RNFP, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: GO.D. Green Supply, Tula, Steel cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: -.01 each (After Unchanged (2 weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.01
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SWVA, RWS, FMJ, .39 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Blazer, Brass, JHP, .40 per round (From Last Week: +.08 Each (!))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tula, steel cased, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel cased, .26 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Barnaul, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2014: .25 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged 2 Weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (After Unchanged (2 weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 box limit): AmmoMen, Remington, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Trop Gun Shop, Federal Champion, .10 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $619 Last Week Avg: $620 (-)
California (204, 206): Del-ton AR-15: $650
Texas (314, 330): Core 15 (M4 Pattern): $650
Pennsylvania (154, 155): Palmetto State Armory: $620
Virgina (210, 214): Mixed Build: $625
Florida (413, 402): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $550
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,100 Last Week Avg: $1,210 (-)
California (43, 43): Iron Ridge Arms: $1,100 (Same Gun)
Texas (60, 52): DPMS Oracle: $900 (!)
Pennsylvania (23, 26): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Virginia (38, 40): Mixed Build: $1,300
Florida (76, 76): DPMS: $1,000 (Same Gun)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $505 Last Week Avg: $524 (-)
California (43, 43): Saiga: $550
Texas (62, 54): Zastava M-70: $500 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (57, 50): Saiga: $500 (Same Gun)
Virginia (80, 76): WASR : $520
Florida (126, 125): CAI Vz 2008: $475 (!)
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,134 Last Week Avg: $1,134 ()
California (0): None Available
Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (1, 1): Romak PSL: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (2, 1): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida (7, 6): Romak PSL: $800 (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $417 Last Week Avg: $420 (-)
California (152, 145): Rock Island Armory: $460
Texas (212, 216): Tisas: $400
Pennsylvania (190, 197): American Tactical: $400
Virginia (180, 176): Charles Daly: $425
Florida (385, 388): High Standard: $400
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $427 Last Week Avg: $434 (-)
California (150, 146): Smith & Wesson SD9VE : $375 (Same Gun)
Texas (328, 314): Glock 26: $450
Pennsylvania (203, 209): Glock 19: $400 (!)
Virginia (235, 253): Glock 17: $460
Florida (492, 488): Glock 25 : $450
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $420 Last Week Avg: $410 (+)
California (102, 96): Glock 23: $450 (Prolly Same Gun)
Texas (144, 136): Glock 27: $425
Pennsylvania (117, 112): Glock 22: $400 (!)
Virginia (120, 125): Glock 22: $450
Florida (237, 222): Sig Sauer P250: $375 (Same Gun)
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In case you were wondering why the Obamacare law was a lousy idea from the outset, consider that antigun fascists want to use the medical profession to help statists seize guns
They have been at this for awhile now. In the past, they have tried to define "firearm-related" deaths as an epidemic. No matter what "firearm-related" deaths means. Their statistics are flawed.
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I have a side-by-side 20 gauge shotgun x 52 caliber rifle made in the 1840's. It's a long gun and I love it. It's percussion.
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In case you were wondering why the Obamacare law was a lousy idea from the outset, consider that antigun fascists want to use the medical profession to help statists seize guns
First let me apologize to those of you who smoke.
But over the course of my many years on this planet I have known very few people who died or even suffered from gunshot wounds. Well, maybe there were a few guys I knew in high school who didn't make it back from Vietnam. But I've seen a hell of a lot of people get sick and die from smoking cigarettes. Funny, how I never hear Baraq say anything about that.
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Yeah, the thing about cancer patients is that they die quietly and it usually doesn't make the news unless it's in the obits. It's certainly not on the front page, unless it's Tony Gwynn. Same thing with emphysema. Just not newsworthy. You could say it's their own damn fault because they knew the danger but by the time they get out of high school they're so badly addicted they can't quit. You just know that along with his chooming activities in high school, Baraq was smoking cigarettes as well. It'll be bigger news than Tony Gwynn when he gets sick.
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It's a nasty, expensive and deadly habit. I have missed it every morning for 15 years.
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My Dada had a wooden case that held a carton of cigarettes, with a little ditty on it -
Tobacco is a dirty weed
I like it
It satisfies no normal need
I like it
It makes you thin, it make you lean
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen
I like it.
He quit in 1960; I quit for the third and last time in 1989. I still dream about smoking....
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In a dramatic turn of events, the 46 nurses who were forcibly taken to Mosul by Iraqi militants were handed over to Indian authorities on Friday afternoon.
At 9am when this correspondent managed to speak to one of the nurses held captive in a Mosul building, she said she was unaware of any such move. The woman sounded a bit worried though she said there was no threat to life. They were served dinner but there was no breakfast which she said could be due to fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.
A few minutes later, jaws dropped and smiles froze on their lips when the militants told the captives to pack up and board a bus to travel to the airport. They did not say which airport they were headed to, though most of them presumed it to be Arbil, which is around 80km away.
The women from the south Indian state of Kerala scrambled to send "homecoming" messages to their parents. At the drop of a hat, politicians took to the social media to hail the happy ending to the nurses saga as a huge diplomatic victory for the Narendra Modi government at the centre. The visual media celebrated the news as parents forwarded messages from their wards.
According to sources, the militants handed over the nurses at the Mosul checkpoint to intermediaries who ferried them through the no-man's land to the Kurdish checkpoint. The sources said that the Kurdish authorities, after formalities, transported the women to the Arbil checkpoint and handed them over to waiting Indian Embassy officials, including Ambassador Ajay Kumar.
The nurses were then shifted to hotel rooms in the Kurdish regional capital for an overnight stay. The Indian mission has made all arrangements at the Arbil airport to provide travel documents to those who do not have them.
A special aircraft took off from New Delhi for Arbil on Friday evening with central and state government officials to bring the nurses directly to Cochin in the early hours of Saturday. Sources said the aircraft will also bring home several workers who had been stranded in the Iraqi city of Karbala. Hundreds of Indians who are working in the non-conflict parts of Iraq, including in places such as Basra, Najaf and Karbala, are scheduled to return by regular commercial flights in the coming days.
A relieved Oommen Chandy, chief minister of Kerala where the nurses hail from, was happy and relieved that the nurses are finally able to return home safely. He said it was the joint effort of many that culminated in a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
"Ultimately, it is hope that has triumphed," Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman for the Indian External Affairs Ministry, told reporters in New Delhi. "I can confirm to you that those Indian nurses who were yesterday moved against their will are now free."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Seasonal extortionists are allegedly back in business ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, as businessmen and traders in the capital are receiving phone calls where the callers demand extortion, claiming to be top criminals.
A group of muggers, allegedly backed by some notorious criminals who went into hiding during the massive crackdown by law enforcers, are said to be behind such acts.
The names the callers mention while demanding extortion include Shahid Shahadat, Jishan, Subrata and Bikash, said intelligence sources.
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[NPR.ORG] China's president is in Seoul to meet his South Korean counterpart. In a not-so-veiled gibe at North Korea, the two leaders repeated their opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
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See also DEFENCE.P[K/FORUMS > SEOUL-BEIJING WARMTH + SEOUL-TOKYO CHILL = US IMPOTENCE - FORBES.
Again, NOKOR won't have any NucWeaps unless overlord China allows it.
NOKOR'S alleged Tacnukes = iff like Cold War-era, Soviet East Euros [WARSAW PACT], would still be under Chinese, NOT NOKOR, control.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki refused on Friday to give up his quest for a third term in power, defying a chorus of critics demanding his replacement as the country faces an existential threat from Islamist insurgents, Reuters reported.
Maliki has come under mounting pressure since militants of the group now calling itself the Islamic State rampaged through swathes of the country last month and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate on land they have captured in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
"I will never give up my candidacy for the post of prime minister," Maliki said in a statement read out on state television by an announcer.
"I will remain a soldier, defending the interests of Iraq and its people," he added, in the face of what he called terrorists and their allies.
Maliki's statement will complicate the struggle 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.
Accused by his critics of exacerbating the country's sectarian split, Maliki has come under immense pressure to step down from his Sunni and Kurdish political foes, and even from some in his own Shi'ite camp. In pointed comments in a Friday sermon read by an aide, the country's leading Shi'ite cleric said parliament's inability to form a new government at its first session was a "regrettable failure".
The span of governance for a prime minister in a democratic / semi-democratic state rarely exceeds ten years. Your positives plateau, your negatives accumulate. At some point you either lose an election, step down or get shoved to one side. It's about time for Maliki to get a shove.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani reiterated his call for the government to have "broad national acceptance", a formulation that many officials interpret as a call for Maliki - accused by Sunnis of marginalizing them and worsening ethnic tensions - to go.
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[BREITBART] President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... will attend three fundraisers in Texas next week but will not travel to the border to see the crisis that many say he has exacerbated by not enforcing the country's immigration laws and vowing to enact unilaterally more executive actions to ease deportations.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said at Thursday's White House press briefing that Obama is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Dallas on Wednesday and two events for the Democratic National Committee in Austin on Wednesday and Thursday.
When pressed about Obama's decision not to go to the border and the military bases and detention centers where undocumented Democrat children are being warehoused, Earnest said Obama has all the information that he needs from his senior advisors.
"I defend that by describing to you that there are a whole range of bigwigs in this administration over the course of the last three or four weeks who have spent a lot of time in the southwest border," he said.
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We have top men looking at the problem. Top men.
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Looks like he's given up protecting whatever good image his followers had of him.
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Uh-huh, and Bush flew over the Katrina zone instead of getting down and dirty. In some cases I suppose it is a situational awareness security issue of keeping The Man out of the hands of energized, desperate people prepared to riot. In others, the one is advised not to bring increased awareness of the border issues to the fall campaign.
When I remember the Mayor of New York standing in the street surrounded by ash covered responders I am reminded how shallow this one is.
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So Breitbart is reporting this story? Will it be in the NYT, WAPO, ABCCBSNBC? No? Didn't think so. They're all talking about the hurricane.
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That oh so convenient hurricane.
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re Katrina: Mr. Bush knew that his on-site presence would divert resources from the recovery efforts. Obama, of course, would have treated it as a photo-op enroute to his next fundraiser.
Obama's handlers will not let him near the border FUBAR until it is politically advantageous to do so.
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Remember, prior to Katrina, the President had to wait for the state governor to request federal aid. They then trashed Bush for 'slow response'* when the gov (D) was slow in requesting. The Donks-with-bylines of course 'Blame Bush'(tm). After Katrina, buried in the backpages of the various outlets of the Ministry of Truth(c.1984), they changed the law so that the President no longer has to await the call of the governor to act, which of course, creates another danger.
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I wonder how many of the politicians who are pushing amnesty and encouraging these children to be sent up here to cross our border would be willing to adopt 30-40 of these children to live in their homes? Better yet, how would it be if they were forced to take in 30-40 of these kids to live with them (That would still not make a dent in the hordes coming across). I didn't think so. It would not be long before, your family would go under with the added burden of supporting a bunch of these kids. Would Canada allow such craziness, i.e. what would they do if 50,000 people showed up at their border and insisted on being taken in? I don't think they would. The same is true for a country as it is for a household. At some point, the unregulated flow of illegal immigration destroys a country. No country is rich enough to take in anyone who wants to come here. There are millions of people around the world who would come here if they could. There are children everywhere who lack something or are in dire circumstances. If these people who want to come here are defined as refugees or asylum seekers as Obama probably will, then just about anyone from another country could be defined in this way, they children are living in squalor, the country has a high crime rate, is unstable or the people are living in poverty. It would cheaper to give aid to them in their own countries if people are so inclined. There are plenty of private organizations that do this already. There needs to be some sanity instilled into the immigration process; otherwise the choice is chaos (as it is now) and national suicide. The first step is to seal the border. After that, the debate can occur as to what do with those who are here illegally. The people who are here illegally have to right to be here.
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The Hispanic community in Texas has expanded considerably in Texas. But with the huge Tejano Texas within the Hispanic community, no noticeable support for Democrats ever occurred with that expansion. In fact Congressman Cruz is a electorial product of fiercely independent Texas Tejano spirit.
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I don't know JohnQC - If rumors from reliable sources are true Harry Reid would probably like having 30-50 underage children being totally dependent on him for their very lives.
The only reason Liberals would take on 3-50 so-called children would be if they can 'work them' in the fields or in the home (for free of course). And if the taxpayers pay for their shelter, health, food, clothing, etc...
Doesn't Queen Nancy have vineyard which are always looking for strong backs?
I am old enough to remember when the politicians said, "Let's stop sending people to jail for taking drugs; instead, let's go after the pushers."
With the penalties removed, the market for drugs exploded. With a large market for drugs, the gangs took over large areas of Latin America.
As people start pushing for more legalized drugs, the market will grow. As the market grows, the gangs' power will grow, and they will continue to butcher civilians and anybody else in order to control their share of the market.
As the drug cartels expand, other jobs for people go away. Who wants to run a business in a city controlled by killers? (This is why businesses left the Chicago ghettos after the blockbusting realtors destroyed the neighborhood and the suburbs shot rifle bullets through the windows of Black families who tried to follow jobs to the suburbs. Then Great Society kicked Dad out of the house. He's an able bodied man; he can find a job. His job moved to Melrose Park, there's no public transportation, and somebody will shoot into your kids' bedroom window if you try to get an apartment there? What is that to the Great Society? If Dad's in the house, you have a provider and you can't get any relief. Oh, there aren't any jobs, the schools are falling apart because Chicago Board of Ed and the Teachers' Union don't give a damn for black kids? And gangs took over your neighborhood now? That's too bad. Go away now; you're keeping me from my golf appointment with my precinct captain.")
Anyway...
Without jobs, you can't eat and keep a roof over your head. So you want to go somewhere else. Somewhere safer, like the US. To file for a visa costs six or seven hundred dollars, which at Latin American income levels is half a year's salary, if you have a job. That's for one person, not your family. Then, because Immigration bureaucrats are, well, Immigration bureaucrats (you can't sink much lower), you get notices like, "Dear Senora M.. Your visa application was correct as of the time you filed it; but we changed the rules in the nine or ten months before we got around to looking at it, so now you have to refile. The fee will cost you another half year's salary."
This is why people jump the fence. And when they get here, there are politicians who depend on having a ghettoized constituency to maintain their power. Just as the bosses in Czech and Polish wards did and still do in Chicago; the immigrant neighborhoods have the same problem. Immigration only let you bring one of your five kids into the US? OK, Buddy; I'll see what I can do so you can get one of your other kids here, and I'll find a way for you to be eligible to vote so you can remember me in your next election."
Then there is the little challenge of finding adult ESL instruction. Some of the students I work with have been on waiting lists for over a year to get into my class and others like it. The demand for ESL instruction is far, far above the supply. Schools provide it for kids; but the parents have to juggle work, child care, and transportation so they can get to a class that meets one or two days a week. Some of the students who want to get into classes are working three jobs. One of my students works three jobs and gets four hours of sleep a night. Somehow he make it to one class a week.
So if you really want to solve the present immigration mess:
1. Clean up the Dept of Immigration. Dump the payrollers and crooks. Set a system that handles applications in a timely fashion and does not cost obscene amounts of money for people to apply.
2. Seal the border so that the border states do not have stampedes of people straining their resources; and so that the criminals can't get in either.
3. This is probably even harder than making ICE a functional department, but we have to try: Get across to all the potheads and aging hippies that every gram of weed and coke is watered by the blood of Latin Americans killed by the Narcos.
4. Want people to learn English? Volunteer to help teach it.
[ARABNEWS] Three people are believed to have been killed in an kaboom early on Friday at a house south of Cairo used for making bombs, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.
The kaboom was in a brick building in an agricultural area in the town of Abu Kasah in Fayoum Province, it said, adding that experts found more than 20 bombs at the scene, which they were defusing. "Remains of bodies, estimated to be three, have been discovered and the identities are being determined," MENA said.
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[Iran Press TV] Ukrainian army has fired artillery into residential regions of Luhansk and left power stations damaged.
The attack happened on Friday night and cut off power supplies in the eastern parts of Luhansk.
"As a result of damage done to a high-voltage transmission line, the residents of the Zhovtnevy district were disconnected from power supplies," the press service of the Luhansk Town Hall said.
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[The Hindu] The Indian government's efforts to rescue its nationals from war-torn Iraq met with success when the 46 nurses, who had been under captivity in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, were freed on Friday.
"I can confirm to you that those Indian nurses who were yesterday moved against their will are now free. They are in touch with our embassy officials. We had envisaged this earlier and, therefore, had sent our officials from Baghdad to Erbil," Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said here on Friday.
The nurses, who had earlier been moved from the hospital in Tikrit, were dropped off by their captors at Duhok, north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in the afternoon.
A source among Kurdish Peshmergas said 46 Indians, along with 31 Bangladeshis, arrived at a checkpoint under the control of the Peshmergas at Duhok. The Peshmerga rented four mini buses to move them to safer areas in Kurdistan, from where they planned to take them to Erbil later at night, sources said.
Several factors, both diplomatic and at the ground level, converged successfully to secure the release of the nurses, the sources said.
On Thursday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke to all her counterparts in the Gulf Cooperation Council — Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — energising diplomatic channels in the region at the highest level.
The initiative capped parallel efforts by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh to engage officials capable of influencing the situation.
New Delhi also tapped Turkish officials, who had last year managed to secure the release two of their pilots and nine Lebanese nationals from the clutches of a rebel group in Leb. Syrian authorities were also drawn in to share their experiences in the multilevel diplomatic exercise, the sources said.
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[THENEWSNIGERIA.NG] An organization focused on fact-checking in Africa today warned media organizations on the danger of exaggerating the harm done by forces of Evil in Nigeria's northern region.
The concern follows the circulation of a "faked photo of a 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... massacre" of 375 people in a Nigerian Christian community, circulating on twitter and Facebook platforms.
Peter Cunliffe-Jones director of Africa Check' said the photograph has been found to be fake.
"We quickly discovered that the picture was all too horribly genuine. But while it does depict a real event, it is not evidence of a massacre or, for that matter, the massacre of 375 Christians. Rather it shows the aftermath of a fuel tanker kaboom nearly 2000 kilometres from Nigeria in 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...
"The tragedy, which occurred exactly four years ago today, killed at least 230 people and injured 190. The fuel tanker apparently overturned while trying to overtake a bus. By-standers were attempting to collect leaking fuel from the truck when the fuel ignited, possibly as the result of a lit cigarette. Many of the dead had gathered nearby to watch a World Cup soccer match."
The fact-checking was done by Kate Wilkinson and Julian Rademeyer. The duo were able to accomplish this using Google tools.
"So how do you tell fact from fiction? Fortunately a number of online tools exist to help you spot fakes and hoaxes online. By uploading the image to Google's image search function and sifting through the results we managed to narrow the hunt down", they reported.
Promote those two and give 'em a byline and a raise. They're doing what journalists are supposed to do, but too few actually bother. Well done, guys!
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Four Philippine marines were injured on Friday, one of them critically, after heavy fighting again erupted between the soldiers and members of the Abu Sayyaf group in Patikul, Sulu.
Marine Deputy Commandant Jose Cenabre said the clash began after gunmen fired on the soldiers, triggering a running battle. He said one of the injured Marines was in critical condition and was airlifted to a hospital. Cenabre said, "I don't have yet the details but apparently there were three to four soldiers wounded."
Military sources said the gunmen belonged to Abu Sayyaf leader Radullan Sahiron, the same group believed responsible for the ambush and slaying of six Army troopers in Patikul, Sulu. Cenabre said, "The manhunt against the rebels will continue until they are decimated."
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FYI GLOBAL NATION > [At least five ...] INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS [incl. ISIS/ISIL-linked] HIDING IN MINDANAO - REPORT.
Malaysian Sun.
Artic strongly indics or infers that the ISIS/ISIL + the pro-Qaeda Abu Sayaff Boyz are colluding, + are NOT exactly deadly enemies as per Al-Nusra-vs-ISIS back in Iraq???
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Artic strongly indics or infers that the ISIS/ISIL + the pro-Qaeda Abu Sayaff Boyz are colluding, + are NOT exactly deadly enemies as per Al-Nusra-vs-ISIS back in Iraq???
Thinking globally, acting locally, JosephM. Or, they're all brothers under the skin. Since 9/11 there's been lots of sharing of personnel between jihadi groups, exemplified most recently by the Al Qaeda in Arabia's master bomb maker training European volunteers in Syria/Iraq for future missions on their return to Europe, hence the increased security concern for America-bound flights from Europe/England.
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Sahiron was an old Mujahideen fighter. He was the SULU commander of the ASG. They had ties to AQ and to wahabis in Soddi. While I understand most of the ASG has broken down to crime acts and not ideology driven act, I think Sahiron is one of two ideologically driven commanders, Insalon Happilon being the other. Si they are probably not ISIS connected but AQ connections are still there.
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Gotta admit, that is pretty impressive.
I now look for Puty to do some one upsmanship with a couple of larger weapons, and Champ on the other hand, would fumble with the toy guns that pop the 'bang!' flag out.....
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Our two-fisted Commando in Chief
Eschews arms for a puppet motif:
With one hand up the Chiefs'
And one up Eric's briefs,
He delivers by far the most grief!
[DAWN] "Hell," as Sartre observes so pithily, "is other people".
This, it seems, is increasingly our fate in Pakistain as door after door shuts on us. Sri Lanka was one of the few countries that issued Paks visas on arrival at Colombo airport. No longer, alas. I feel personally deprived as I have been going to the lovely island regularly for some 15 years, and spending much of the winter there.
This change in policy has been caused by the hundreds of Paks who have claimed political asylum in the country. Ahmadis and Christians, suffering from violence and persecution in Pakistain, have been driven to this extreme measure, and who can blame them?
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Check the source article and the comments. Very interesting self-reflecting...
[DAWN] The government is mulling invoking Article 245 of the Constitution to summon the army in all major cities of the country, DawnNews reported late on Friday night.
If the said article is invoked, the army can be called to guard all important public installations including airports and sensitive areas in major urban centres.
According to sources, the government is considering the move to help the civil administration deal with law and order situation and combat terrorism.
Feedback from the law and interior ministries as well as the attorney general has been sought in this regard.
The sources said the army will be called in the next few days by the civil administration.
The sources added that the army operation in Fata is being carried out under Article 245.
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[FOXNEWS] An Egyptian teenager was killed in festivities between supporters of the ousted Islamist president and security forces Friday, a security official said, raising to two the total number of deaths during two days of violent protests on the anniversary of Mohammed Morsi's ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator. Then he was replaced by a younger edition of Mubarak... ouster.
The street festivities culminated a week of violence including several small bombings in the capital of Cairo and other cities, although Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund and its loyalists failed to draw massive crowds onto the streets after a crackdown against Islamists that has left hundreds dead and at least 22,000 jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , including most of the group's big shots.
Police closed off Tahrir Square, which has served as the epicenter of protests since a mass uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011, and other plazas for several hours on Friday to prevent massive gatherings. But still dozens of pro-Morsi demonstrators gathered in Cairo and other cities.
The 15-year-old boy was killed by birdshot pellets during a demonstration in Cairo's Zeitoun district, the security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he wasn't authorized to release the information. It was not immediately clear whether the boy was a protester or a passer-by.
Another protester was seriously maimed by live ammunition during a march elsewhere in the capital, the official said. A health ministry official, Mohammed Sultan, said 12 people also were maimed.
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[Iran Press TV] The Israeli regime has launched several more airstrikes against the besieged Gaza Strip as Palestinian protesters slam the Tel Aviv's aggression against the enclave. On Friday, Israel continued its airstrikes targeting the town of Rafah in the southern part of Gaza. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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"the besieged Gaza Strip" - one would expect nothing less from Press TV.
A prominent Somali clan elder was injured today in Afgoye, a district 30km from the Somali capital Mogadishu by unknown gunmnen.
So now the Shaboobs are going after the elderly. What's next, mugging old ladies for their social security checks?
The elder, Mohamed Ahmed Ulusow was severely wounded after multiple armed assailants shot at him 'several times' before he fell to the ground, witnesses described to Shabelle.
A fellow intellect and elder, Mohamed Ahmed Elmi confirmed to Shabelle that the latest attack against Mr. Ulusow adds to a string of murders against clan elders in the Lower Shabelle region.
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A loong explication on the ongoing controversy over Diana West and her book American Betrayal. Part II will be tomorrow, but can be seen at American Thinker.
My opinion is that West was treated poorly by Ronald Radosh and Davis Horowitz, but that she has also said some dumb things as well. (Don't recall what they were, but the words were cringing.)
"With the publication of my second book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, I am looking forward to a vigorous debate about my findings," Diana West wrote when the book was released.
What followed was not exactly what she had in mind.
On August 9, 2013, after the book had received largely glowing reviews and endorsements from conservative writers, Frontpage Magazine published a blistering attack by Ronald Radosh, "McCarthy on Steroids." The review questioned not only the author's conclusions, but her competence.
This kicked off the nastiest internecine conflict on the right in recent memory, pitting, in the eyes of their adversaries, supine "court historians" against wild-eyed "yellow journalists." Embroiled in the controversy were, among others, two groups of individuals who, in some cases, had been barely aware of each other -- critics of Islam and writers on Soviet subversion in the U.S. in the '30s and '40s.
These groups did not comprise two hostile two camps. Andrews Bostom and McCarthy wrote in support of West, the former entering into a heated exchange with John Earl Haynes. But M. Stanton Evans, author of an exhaustive study of McCarthy and a survey of the influence of Russian agents in the U.S., was also a stalwart supporter of West, while Rebecca Bynum, editor of the website New English Review, an inveterate critic of Islam, lambasted the book. Sites took take sides: Frontpage Magazine, First Things, and National Review supported Radosh; Breitbart and Gates of Vienna and others backed West. P.J. Media featured articles from both camps. On American Thinker a guardedly friendly, though critical review by Bernie Reeves was followed by attacks by others.
The distinguishing feature of the controversy was the venom directed at West.
Of course, I've always thought Tailgunner Joe was right about the influences of the Communist party in the US. And I would say the smearing he took at the hands of the media only reinforced that opinion in me.
His tactics stunk but he was right about what he said was going on in Hollywood and the Media and in the colleges and universities.
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I thought the soviet files released afyer the wall fell pretty much confirmed Joe was right.
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Correct. KGB files declassified after the collapse of the USSR (Venona cables) proved that Comintern infiltration went much further than even the most paranoid anti-communists suspected. But it was predictable, to a few careful observers. Distinguished historian Robert Conquest subsequently quipped that he would re-title his book "I F***ing Told You So."
I still don't get why everyone was so upset with West. I never read her book, but what did she do that was so wrong and awful? Seems to me that leftists, deprogrammed or not, are just argumentative, unpleasant people who can't stop themselves from ripping each others' throats out over trivial doctrinal deviations.
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It is my understanding that less than one percent of the Vanona cables have been decrypted. I wonder what happened to the others? Wouldn't it make sense for the NSA (or Defense Intelligence, or FBI, or something) to make them available to everyone, especially those interested in cryptography?
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If you turned them over to NSA all of the juicy stuff would be lost due to a hard drive crash about 30 seconds after some interesting names appeared in the documents.
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[AnNahar] The leader of Iraq's Kurds set the ball rolling Thursday for a referendum on their long-held dream of independence, another setback for international efforts to unite the country's politicians against a krazed killer offensive.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki broadened an amnesty offer aimed at undercutting support for jihadists, whose onslaught has have overrun areas of the country and who proclaimed a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
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Corruption is far larger a problem in the Shia areas. Not nearly such a problem in the peshmerga. That's why the Kurdish units have held, and pushed back.
Intense clashes erupted in Eel Bur district of the Galgaduud region which resulted in severe casualties and losses.
So was it an 'intense clash' or a 'fierce confrontation'?
The battle was between joint Somali National Army soldiers and Ethiopian troops under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) against the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab terrorist group.
Residents in the district reported to Shabelle after the confrontations that the warring sides used different types of weapons, mainly gunfire.
Good thing they didn't use loud explosions. Those things can really do some damage.
Eel Bur is among towns and districts recently liberated from the Al-Shabaab terrorist group by joint SNA and AMISOM.
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[BLOOMBERG] The U.S. will remain the world's biggest oil producer this year after overtaking 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 Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation's economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said.
U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other countries this year with daily output exceeding 11 million barrels in the first quarter, the bank said in a report today. The country became the world's largest natural gas producer in 2010. The International Energy Agency said in June that the U.S. was the biggest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.
"The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil," Francisco Blanch, the bank's head of commodities research, said by phone from New York. "The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn't have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable."
Oil extraction is soaring at shale formations in Texas and North Dakota as companies split rocks using high-pressure liquid, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The surge in supply combined with restrictions on exporting crude is curbing the price of West Texas Intermediate, America's oil benchmark. The U.S., the world's largest oil consumer, still imported an average of 7.5 million barrels a day of crude in April, according to the Department of Energy's statistical arm.
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And gasoline is STILL over $4.00 a gallon in Californicate.
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The wells aren't exactly cheap.
Think local, sell global.
We can have cheaper gasoline for awhile if it gets regulated, then it will be cheaper and scarce, it being difficult to get those thieving oilmen to work for a loss.
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It's not that gas is expensive, it's that the dollar has been ruthlessly debased by unending 'quantitative easings'*. Commodities stay generally relative to each other, it's the fools in control of the printing press and modern equivalent thereof that seem to generate an infinite amount of monetary units without backing.
* when the speculative game ended in 2008, a lot of institutions were stuck with vastly overpriced paper whose assets that paper reflected lost half or more of their value. After the Treasury and Fed have inflated the dollar, that paper is now on par with its face value. So while the people at the Treasury and Fed can go back and work at those institutions, the rest of us are stuck with an 'inflation' tax in the cost of those things necessary for daily living (which by the way, are not for some reason calculated in the official inflation index).
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I am very happy that America has begun its energy independence but we could of accelerated this with a focus on coal and nuclear as well. Additionally cooperating with Canada to bring oil and natural gas South would help as well.
But remember this we send billions each month to the Middle East for oil and they hate us. Wait until we shut them off and close them out of the financial markets. They are going to treat us like Jews.
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Extraction is one thing; getting it to market is another. In addition to the non-Keystone pipeline, the railroads are getting another beating or two; the Bakken crude has been identified as more flammable than non-fracked crude. As a result, in addition to mandating the DOT 112/114 standard tank cars ( of which there aren't enough and the backlog for manufacturing runs out a couple years) now there is a proposed rule that will require the oil unit trains to run at only 30 mph and on designated (less populated) routes. This will only further clog an already jugged up system. And will not help prices.
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Trust me all of the rules the EPA and OSHA are throwing at the transport of oil and oil based products has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with limiting their ability to reach the market.
The federal government and most Democratic run (ruined?)states make considerable revenue off gasoline and oil sales taxes and excise taxes. To lower the price of gasoline would gut many state revenue streams.
It is all about the taxes and the need to feed the welfare state beast.
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Also don't forget the Soddies still have plenty of money to buy US politicians.
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07/05/2014 12:11
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..and their handlers in the media and celebrities to manipulate the public mood.
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North Dakota is currently "flaring" aka "wasting" 30% of the natural gas produced from its oil wells due to lack of pipeline capacity and gas-processing infrastructure. Per WSJ: North Dakota wells burned off 10.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas in April, according to state data. That amounts to nearly $50 million worth of natural gas at spot-market prices. ND Industrial Commission guidelines, which were proposed by the industry earlier this year, set targets for flaring at 23% of all gas produced by January 2015
[Pak Daily Times] LAHORE: A 35-year-old man was axed in the name of honour in Green Town police precincts on Friday.
The police said that Imtiaz, of Nawaz Morr, had nursed grudge against Shafique, a motor-mechanic by profession from Nawab Town, for developing relations with the wife of his elder brother Faryad.
He said that Faryad and Shafique were friends over the last three or four years. Faryad married "A" (fictitious name) eight month ago. In the meanwhile, Shafique developed relations with her.
On Friday, Imtiaz caught Shafique dating his sister-in-law and got infuriated. He attacked Shafique with an axe and wounded him. The injured was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The police sent the body for an autopsy. No case has been registered as yet.
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Should this have occurred in the U.S., there would be a huge cry for gun control no matter that an ax was used.
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