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Documents describing Hillary Clinton's role in the death of White House counsel Vince Foster have vanished, Daily Mail Online has learned after an extensive investigation
Foster is believed to have shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River on July 20, 1993
Two former FBI agents involved in the investigation tell Daily Mail Online they issued reports linking Hillary's tirade to Foster's suicide
Days before his death, then First Lady ridiculed him mercilessly in front of his peers, say former FBI agents and detailed it in their report
'You have failed us,' Hillary told Foster, former FBI Jim Clemente told Daily Mail Online
Archived material related to the case, housed at National Archives in College Park, Md. were examined by the author to no avail
After filing a Freedom of Information request, it was determined that the agents' reported have gone missing
[ABC] A U.S. service member has died from wounds sustained today in an operation near Lashkar Gar in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the Pentagon confirmed.
The service member was conducting "train, advise, assist" activities with Afghan counterparts when the patrol "triggered an improvised explosive device," or IED, according to a news release from U.S. Forces Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has not released the service member's name because of next-of-kin notification.
Another U.S. service member and six Afghan soldiers sustained wounds during the operation.
[AllAfrika] The Nigerian Army on Tuesday announced the death of three key commanders of the extremist Boko Haram sect.
The army said the terrorists were killed on Friday in a major air strike on their location in the dreaded Sambisa Forest.
The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, said the leader of the terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, was also inflicted with with "fatal injury" during the operation.
Mr. Sani, a colonel, said the bombardment was carried out on Friday while Mr. Shekau, who the Nigerian military had pronounced dead several times in the past years, was leading his group in performing the Friday prayers at a secret location called Tayye in the heart of the vast forest.
The military has repeatedly claimed credit for killing Mr. Shekau. But the sect denounced the claims each time saying its leader remained alive. At times, Mr. Shekau would appear in a video to prove he had not been killed. Let's hope they've got him this time. We've grown tired of the teasing.
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[SkyNews] A soldier has died while taking part in a night-time live firing exercise at a training facility in Northumberland.
The serviceman had suffered a serious head wound after being shot during the exercise at the Otterburn training area.
Emergency services were called to the scene at 11.15pm on Monday night, but the soldier was pronounced dead at the scene.
Armed Forces minister Mike Penning said the soldier was from The Royal Regiment of Scotland, and expressed his condolences to the man's family, friends and colleagues.
He added: "The safety of our personnel is our absolute priority and while deaths in training don't happen often, any death is a tragedy."
Yes, the FBI: where domestic terrorist investigations go for a proper burial...
A man in Roanoke (Virginia) allegedly shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ while attacking a man and woman with a knife Saturday, an incident being investigated by the FBI.
Roanoke County police said that the attack occurred Saturday evening at The Pines Apartments, as a man and woman were entering an apartment building. Witnesses heard their attacker yelling ‘Allah Akbar,’ police said Monday night.
The man fought off the attacker, police said, who fled the scene but was apprehended when he came into the same emergency room where the two victims were being treated. Police were in the hospital and soon arrested the suspect, identified as 20-year-old Wasil Farooqui of Roanoke County. He is charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and is being held without bond at the Western Virginia Regional Jail.
No doubt he'll be found to have "mental issues"...
Roanoke police said the attack was believed to be random and that Farooqui had no connection to the victims.
Adam Lee, Special Agent In Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Field Office, said in a statement provided by local police that the agency is involved.
“While I cannot discuss details of the investigation at this time, I do want to reassure the community that we are working to determine the nature of the incident,” he said.
Best gumshoes in the land are working on it, and we'll never hear another word...
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Hey "Special" Agent Lee - how about discussing the dam details of the investigation for once...especially that part about where you all dropped the ball. You all are absolutely useless. The FBI knew about this guy and don't do anything about him after his failed attempt to join ISIS...
Hell, they even lost Mateen's wife...let her go on "travels" while they were preparing charges against her; knew about Mateen; knew about and even encouraged the two in Garland Texas; they knew about the brothers in Boston, and Nakoula video maker... WTF? - over.
I wish the FBI could tell us about all the ones they stopped...but, that would be a "secret" and they can't tell us...the terrible secret is that the FBI, nor DHS, nor State, aren't stopping anyone.
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See Something - Say Something: If you should see that young chap on the left, please contact your local FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC). He goes by the name Tamerlan and was picked up in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing. He's not been seen or heard from lately.
Leo DiCaprio abruptly backed out of hosting a $33,400-per-guest fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton at his LA home on Tuesday, saying the change in plans was because of the production schedule for a documentary he's producing -- but not everybody is convinced of the story.
The move came just days after the Hollywood Reporter said the star and his eponymous foundation could be linked to a scandal involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, at the same time Hillary and Bill Clinton's own charitable fund is under scrutiny.
Guests attending the Clinton event in LA were notified via e-mail over the weekend that "the production schedule for [DiCaprio's] climate change film 'Before the Flood' has altered . . . which will prevent him from returning to Los Angeles . . . As a result, Leo personally asked his friends Justin Timberlake and wife Jessica Biel to host Tuesday's lunch with Hillary at their home in the Hollywood Hills."
But some attendees wondered if the move had more to do with the THR report, which said the US Department of Justice filed an asset-seizure complaint in federal court pertaining to a Malaysian fund that backed Red Granite Pictures -- a production company behind the DiCaprio film "The Wolf of Wall Street.
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You'll notice that under-taxed title-rentiers support the democrats.
Trump would be wise to look at properly taxing Hollywood in a capitalist manner.
[BBC] For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency.
Some opposition MPs said the new civil defence concept, to go before ministers on Wednesday, was scaremongering. Citizens are advised to store enough food to last them 10 days, because initially a disaster might put national emergency services beyond reach.
Five days' water - two litres (half a gallon) per person daily - is advised.
The German news website Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) said the new concept was set out in a 69-page German Interior Ministry document.
The document said "an attack on German territory, requiring conventional defence of the nation, is unlikely". But, it said, a major security threat to the nation in future could not be ruled out, so civil defence measures were necessary.
Soon, Germans began tweeting ironically under the hashtag "Hamsterkaeufe" (panic-buying).
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Five days' water is fine, a month of beer supply essential.
That fortunate discovery of the preservative effect of hops, meaning a batch of beer lasts longer than a few days... making it a perfect safe water storage and delivery system. ;-)
At least have a way to filter water. If its down to drinking out of the back of the toilet or the water heater, you will want it. Low on water and unsafe to go outside is no time to get something like dysentery. There are good ones, and take up hardly any space - just remember to check the filtration rate vs. number of people + potential physical activity. Four people waiting six hours for a quart of water is probably not going to cut it. One person, maybe, if not too active, but if it is SHTF like civil uprising, chances are you will not be in the comfy chair doing crosswords.
But like EC said, a prepared person should have this stuff anyways. Dehydrated food has come so far even within the last 10 years. MREs are edible and do not require the cooking water dehydrated food does.
If you are going to play SHTF: Civil Unrest Edition, don't forget a way out of Dodge. Start with how to drive to your Weekend Out Fishing, then start throwing in variables, like Bridges Are Out! and 2+ Lane Roads Closed! No Go Section! It doesn't matter much why, and sitting in your car programming your route when minutes count is going to cost you. Especially if GPS & Cell Phone Jammed!
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Enough supply of clean water (and beer) is of course the most important thing.
As for food, this is quite easy.
First week: Just rotate fresh supplies
Second week: Still mostly fresh, but more durable supplies.
Next two weeks: Durable stuff that you still like to eat. Because you want to rotate that, too.
A military attack on Germany is not really the issue. A natural disaster, disruption of the supply chain (think of a meltdown of the financial system) or a virus outbreak are the things to plan for.
Here in the city, our family would probably be self sufficient for three or four weeks, but we'd probably leave in time to stay on the family farm.
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Here in the city, our family would probably be self sufficient for three or four weeks, but we'd probably leave in time to stay on the family farm.
that's what they said in Rhodesia/ZimBobWe
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This is Bavaria and hunting runs in the family ;-)
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Sounds like you got a plan.
I went over our two most likely SHTF events with my wife.
First, influx of refugees due to a neighboring town evacuating from a wildfire. It was interesting because as a community not next to a water source, we are on wells, and only so much water can be pumped per day. That is where we decided upon a supply of food, water, and water filtration.
Second was our own evacuation. That was a bit different. She asks, which way do we go? I said, dunno, I might be at the fire or assisting evacuations. She had to work through that one while I sort of Game Mastered and gave suggestions. Mainly, I'm not here, the town is on fire, people are freaking out because kids are at school. That is when we put together the boogie bag.
Everything else built on those two basic stay and leave scenarios, considering geography, season, weather, distance of evacuation or strain on local resources for how long, etc.
It was actually a bit fun after the initial gravity was worked out. Like, so honey, you have the kids and went x direction, you are off a decent road and far from help, what if you get a flat tire......hey, let's go check the spare tire real quick.
Or, hey so-and-so told me which MREs are the most tradable, let us get some of those.
Hey honey, why vodka? Because in a pinch it is the most likely liquor the kids would drink, and gin turns people invisible. Don't want to be chasing Harvey the Rabbit around.
Of course we did zombies, because fad, and gotta have some fun.
[Fox] EXCLUSIVE: An investigation by the State Department's top attorney has found that the official who ordered the censorship of a 2013 press briefing -- deleting an exchange between a department spokeswoman and a Fox News reporter -- specifically mentioned that exchange when ordering the doctoring of the video.
That fact, buried in a new report prepared by the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, was ignored in the report's own conclusions about why the incident occurred, and conflicted with public statements about the report made by State Department spokesman John Kirby.
In presenting the findings to reporters on Thursday, Kirby weathered 33 minutes of intense questioning about the report's inconclusive results. Department investigators now say they do not know if a technical glitch or willful misconduct caused the deletion of the critical eight-minute exchange on Dec. 2, 2013 between then-spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen.
[Shoebat.com] The Japanese government is planning on creating the largest defense budget for its military since World War Two. The budget will be 5.17 trillion yen ($51.7 billion) for the 2017 fiscal year. It will be done, not just to intimidate China, but also to show the world that Japan still has the capabilities to be a very dangerous country. The plan includes upgrading the PAC-3 missile defense system, so that it can launch missiles at a farther distance, more than 30 km (19 miles), according to Reuters.
The Japanese will also be spending on the production of the Block IIA version of the Standard Missile-3 system, which it has been developing in conjunction with the United States, supposedly for the purpose of intercepting and shooting down missiles at higher altitudes. Japan also wants to create "a new submarine model with advanced detection capabilities." Japan, moreover, desires to and plans on purchasing "an upgraded version of the F-35 stealth fighter, made by Lockheed Martin Corp." Japan is also currently developing its own fighter jet, the F-2, which will be designed "to conduct ground-strike and close-air support missions" and "to maintain air defense capability and to ensure air superiority surrounding Japan." I find it concerning that the Japanese are interested in ground striking. Who do they want to strike? Who do they want to bomb? The last time Japan was involved in ariel striking, they bombed the US, China and other Asian lands.
[Breitbart IS] 83-year-old Francine Stein was buried on Wednesday in the presence of strangers after it became apparent that she had no living relatives or friends that would attend.
A graveside funeral at Temple Israel Cemetery in Blauvelt in New York’s Rockland County was conducted by Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach.
Rabbi Weinbach’s daughter Ora, a high school teacher in New Jersey, asked people to come in a Facebook post.
"Huge mitzvah opportunity. A woman is being buried tomorrow who has LITERALLY NO ONE attending her funeral, other than the funeral home director and the rabbi (my father). Who would like to join me at the funeral? I will be leaving Teaneck at 10:45. Free lunch with the rabbi after," the post read.
Ora Weinbach said the post was instantly shared by her friends whose friends in turn shared it, bringing in the attendees less than 24 hours after she originally posted.
[AmericanThinker] Forget the arrogance and corruption -- $153 million in Clinton family speaking fees from 2001, mainly bribes during her State Department years. Forget the lies, the lies about lies, and the perjury. Forget the security breaches. Forget enabling America’s most prominent sexual predator. Forget the trail of bodies stretching from Little Rock to Benghazi. Forget every scandal from Whitewater to deleted e-mails. Forget all of it.
Instead, focus on coming attractions -- what a Clinton presidency would mean for America. It would be the political equivalent of an extinction level event. Obama began the process of transforming America. Hillary will finish it -- and us too. However, if you elect Trump, sophisticated Europeans will make fun of you --- just like they did when you elected Reagan.
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Clinton will maintain the pretense of fighting ISIS while importing the poison. She’s called for increasing the number of Syrian refugees by 500% -- that’s on top of the 100,000 immigrants from the Middle East (overwhelmingly Muslim) admitted each year. The FBI and Homeland Security will be told not to do or say anything that might offend the jihad community.
The signals aren’t even subtle -- Huma Abedin with her family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia advocate Khizr Kahn baiting Trump at the Democratic National Convention, and (in a Rod Serling-esque moment) the father of Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen seated behind the candidate at a Florida rally, telling an interviewer Hillary is “good for America” -- i.e., good for the coming Caliphate.
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The bad news about Hills is that she can be bought. That's also the good news. (She reminds me exactly of former governor Edwin Edwards, except much uglier.) So the issue boils down to whether the American taxpayer can make larger donations to the Clinton Foundation than the Chinese, Putin, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Mad Mullahs, etc.
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Matt the money was the route, but power is the object.
Consider, would the Clintons drop the Foundation, cut their Presidential pay in half in return for 16 years on Air Force One?
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Think California, which went from reliably red to true blue in a generation.
I've been telling you people this for years. It is not the fault of the people who lived here in the 1960's, 1970's or 1980's. But by the 1990's the transformation was complete. I know. I was here watching helplessly as it happened. Coming to a state near you.
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I love California but the pension crisis will destroy this state and nobody is doing anything about it. It is easy to live the blue model lifestyle when you don't pay your bills.
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Why would anyone obey the law under a Clinton presidency? Why would anyone want to be in the military or follow Clinton as the commander-In-Chief? It would be a cruel joke. You certainly couldn't believe anything she said. You couldn't trust her to have your back if things went to hell. She wouldn't take the 3:00 a.m. call unless there was some money it for her; she didn't things went to $hit at Benghazi.
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Well, it could very well help end the theatrical facade of the old republic and give even the rubes the awareness that its an oligarchy. Maybe they'll quit giving up their sons to die to maintain its power then.
[The Hill] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday attempted to clarify his position on immigration, suggesting he would use similar tactics as President Obama and former President George W. Bush.
"We are going to obey the existing laws. Now, the existing laws are very strong. The existing laws, the first thing we are going to do if and when I win, is we are going to get rid of all of the bad ones," Trump said Monday on "The O'Reilly Factor."
"We have gang members. We have killers. We have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country. We are going to get them out. And the police know who they are."
Trump said these people are known to law enforcement, alleging that they go around "killing people and hurting people."
"And they are going to be out of this country so fast your head will spin. We have existing laws that will allow you to do that as far as everybody else, we are going to go through the process," Trump said.
"What people don't know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country. Bush, the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I'm going to do the same thing and I just said that."
But the GOP nominee said he wanted to do this in a "humane manner."
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So, Trump is backtracking on another one of his core policies? It's almost as if,during the primaries, he was just making provocative proposals he had no intention of following through with. Might need the Gomer Pyle graphic Mods.
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As I'll keep posting. First secure the border otherwise its all a catch and release kabuki show. Second enforce the existing laws on employers. Then we'll talk.
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The Narodniy Komissariat Yustitsi'i (People's Justice Committee) has determined that you will be shot. The Clinton firing squad has a 21 January 2017 opening. The Trump firing squad has no openings until July or August at the earliest.
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Obeying the current laws would be a great start, first call them what they are - illegal aliens - again, when an illegal commits a crime - kick them out immediately after their sentence is served, try to vote - kick them out and send them back to Mexico to vote, ask for a public hand out - agree that Mexico should give them one and send them back... I would be cool with all of the above.
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He's saying the current regime is lawless in the nicest possible way so that the media, soccer moms and pajama boys don't get the vapors.
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Tactically it is a smart move. Court the Latino vote that has been confused by the twisting of his words. Existing law says send illegals back which is what his policy has been. Build a wall to keep them out in the first place.
But really hammer anyone that employs illegals and you'll find they self-deport.
Then work on streamlining the proper immigration process and setting quotas from countries we want to see more of, and less from countries that just send trouble.
"Trump struck a starkly different tone during an interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News that aired on Monday night. Trump said he would separate the country’s undocumented immigrants into two groups: The “bad ones” who would be kicked out of the country as soon as he takes office and “everybody else” who would go through the same process that the Obama Administration is currently using."
President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras said his country has signed an agreement with Israel for "cutting-edge technology" to help his army fight organized crime.
Hernandez said the agreement, which will be submitted to the legislature for its approval, will be used to battle "the highest levels of crime in the last 15 years."
Calling the pact "pivotal to the growth of the Honduran nation," the president said it "will allow the strengthening of our armed forces with capabilities we have probably never had." I wonder if USA, provided Trump is not murdered, will be interested in Israeli tech to investigate Clinton Foundation?
[The Hill] The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Monday released a trove of Hillary Clinton’s email exchanges, some of which the group says show high-dollar Clinton Foundation donors receiving special access to the former secretary of State.
In 2009, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin coordinated with Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band to arrange a meeting between Clinton and the Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, which was requested by the crown prince.
"Cp of Bahrain in tomorrow to Friday[.] Asking to see her[.] Good friend of ours[,]" Band wrote to Abedin on June 23 of that year, a Tuesday.
Abedin replied several hours later that the crown prince had attempted to arrange the meeting through "normal channels," but that Clinton "said she doesn’t want to commit to anything for thurs or fri until she knows how she will feel." A bit under the weather was she ? She was drying out...
Two days later, Abedin reached out to Band and said: "Offering Bahrain cp 10 tomorrow for meeting woith [sic] hrc[.] If u see him, let him know[.] We have reached out thru official channels[.]"
The exchange was part of 725 pages of State Department documents released by Judicial Watch on Monday, 20 of which the group said were not previously turned over to the State Department.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON -- President Obama's visit to Louisiana on Tuesday could help bring much-needed attention to the flood disaster in the state, national relief officials and political experts said.
If that's true, why didn't he go earlier?
"Any time the president goes to a disaster scene, the American public pays attention, the media pays attention" Brad Kieserman, vice president of disaster operations and logistics for the American Red Cross, said Monday. "I think possibly even more important than all of that is that the survivors of the disaster genuinely feel like their government is paying attention to them."
Obama's visit comes five days after GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, toured parishes damaged by the floods. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, vowed Monday to also travel to the state when her visit wouldn't interfere with recovery efforts.
[Daily Caller] An unnamed politician is stirring the pot in Germany, stating Sunday that Turkish intelligence, known as MIT, has a network of more than 800 agents operating 6,000 informants inside Germany.
What that figure amounts to is one informant for every 500 Turks in Germany, reports the German newspaper Die Welt.
Not even the Stasi, the once feared legendary East German secret police, managed to run a network inside the German Federal Republic this extensive, Deutsche Welle reports.
"This is no longer about an agency acquiring intelligence, but increasing performing repression," Erich Schmidt-Eenboom said. "Even the Stasi did not succeed in building up such a large army of agents in the federal republic."
MIT agents exist in Germany to put massive pressure on Turks, who may have valuable information or connections. There are approximately 3 million Turks living in Germany.
Green Party Member of Parliament (MP) Hans-Christian Ströbele noted there was an "unbelievable" amount of "secret activities" perpetrated by MIT.
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North Istanbul...
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A crucial aspect of the original Muslim Brotherhood that was soon rejected following the death of Banna its founder was the stated belief that there could be but one party, the party of God (Hizbollah). The MoBro was created in Turkey as the Nur movement. From there it spread to Turkish workers in Germany. Under various names the Brotherhood in Germany has managed to coexist with the state but has never rejected its slogan,"Islam is the answer." (Islam huwwa al-hal.)
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It should be noted that Erdogan is a Muslim brother and had a huge funeral in Turkey that congregated the Ikhwan following the death of his mentor Erbakan.
[Daily Caller] Republicans in the House issued subpoenas to the technology companies that managed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private emails while she served as secretary of state.
The Science, Space and Technology Committee is ordering the CEO of Datto, Inc. Austin McChord to appear before Congress and testify about the business’ handling of Clinton’s emails and other relevant details pertaining to her server.
Committee chairman and Texas Rep. Lamar Smith said in a press release that a testimony was imperative because "companies providing services to Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private email account and server are not above the law."
In a letter to McChord, co-authors Smith and Sen. Ron Johnson, contended "that a product offered by Datto, Inc.‐the Datto SIRIS S2000‐was purchased in 2013 for Secretary Clinton to provide on-site, immediate recovery of backup data in the event that the primary server failed."
Certain employees who were specifically hired to oversee emails could have had access to highly confidential and sensitive material, despite access being implicitly illegal. The committee also wants to decipher if Clinton’s email practices were in compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity standards.
Smith says that because companies like Datto "have failed to comply with our committee’s request for documents and interviews," a legally-binding directive was in order.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the committee’s ranking Democrat, expressed her severe disapproval over the issuance of the subpoena.
"I am outraged that the chairman is recklessly abusing the committee’s investigatory powers to brazenly do the bidding of the Trump campaign," Eddie Johnson said, according to the Washington Examiner. "I am certain that the Science Committee will not uncover any ’smoking gun’ after this issue has already been thoroughly investigated by the Benghazi Committee at a cost of $7 million in taxpayers dollars as well as by the FBI."
Two other companies, Platte River Networks and SECNAP Network Security Corp., were also issued subpoenas after failing to voluntarily answer questions relating to Clinton’s use of her private email server, according to The New York Times.
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In the summer of 2012, Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other congressmen raised extremely legitimate questions about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration. The individual Bachmann identified who garnered the most attention was Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin. Rogers disavowed Bachmann and referred to Abedin as “an American patriot”. Emphasis added.
Nothing will be done. The power elite all sit around the same table.
As one studies these seemingly mindless strategies, amazing geopolitical and legal contradictions, the linkage between what the Administration views as the 'Moderate Muslim' aka the Muslim Brotherhood becomes increasingly clear. The recruitment of so called 'moderates' or key-figures and assets, is a geopolitical control effort dating back to WWII and the Ostministerium. It continues today.
Unfortunately, or fortunately in our case, this recent Clinton episode has exposed the Muslim recruitment effort for what it is.
[ABC] A former Australian soldier has been released from an Afghan jail after serving seven years for murder.
Robert Langdon initially received a death sentence in 2009 but always maintained his innocence, claiming he killed in self-defence. His family, after spending years campaigning for his freedom, received the news this week that a presidential pardon had been granted and he was on his way home.
"He certainly has been released and the family, of course, are very very pleased about that," family lawyer Stephen Kenny said.
Mr Langdon was initially convicted for shooting Afghan colleague Karimullah, when a dispute arose while they were escorting a convoy to an American military base in mid-2009. He was found guilty of killing the man, and then trying to blame the murder on a Taliban ambush.
The Australian was also accused of setting fire to the dead man's body and trying to flee the country. Mr Langdon was sentenced to death but later had his sentence reduced to a 20-year jail term after his family reportedly paid the family of the dead man a substantial sum of money in compensation.
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The Australian was also accused of setting fire to the dead man's body and trying to flee the country.
C'mon man. Who hasn't done this a time or two? I mean, really?
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Did Mr. Landon have a difficult life, perhaps? Mother passed away at a young age? Grew up in a bad neighborhood? Teased in the fourth grade? Will we never understand why he did this?
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[ALMASDARNEWS] In a blow to ending Libya’s political crisis, Libya’s internationally recognized government has rejected UN efforts of establishing a unity government on Monday.
The Government of National Accord is seen by the international community in being pivotal in restoring stability to the war stricken country and defeating ISIS on the coastal city of Sirte.
The House of Representatives, Libya’s recognized legislature based in the far east, refused to give its support to the GNA.
"The majority of politicians present at the parliament session voted no confidence in the government," said parliament front man Adam Boussakhra.
Libya’s rival government in the eastern portions of the country have refused to give up power and delayed any re conciliatory process over a lack of quorum.
Monday’s vote was "the first time quorum has been reached in five months," Boussakhra said.
After one such vote postponement in February, 100 politicians in the 198-member legislature said they supported the GNA but had faced intimidation.
Mattia Toaldo, a Libya expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations, warned Monday’s vote could lead to "a new institutional crisis" in the war-wracked country and called for "immediate international mediation".
"We will have to see if Sarraj and the members of the (House of Representatives) who support him will accept the legitimacy of the vote," he said.
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[JPOST] If the US is engaging Turkey about extradition at the highest levels, at the very least Turkey should be extraditing Saleh al-Arouri, who murdered US citizens living in Israel, argues Shurat HaDin.
Oh, there's a nice counter-gambit...
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A major hoard of gold, cash and weapons has been discovered inside the IS security headquarters in Sirte.
The building was taken by Bunyan Marsous forces early yesterday. However it was not until overnight that the terrorists’ Hisbah (“Accountability”) centre was declared free of booby traps and could be properly searched,
In one room there were boxes of gold jewellery, wads of largely Tunisian currency, rifles and shotguns, computers, radios and cartoons of telephone cards.
The fact that such a large stash of valuables could fall into BM hands suggests that the IS terrorists are now primarily thinking about their own survival rather than the booty they had amassed.
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At least one child was killed and three others were wounded in an explosion in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan, local officials said Monday.
The incident took place late on Sunday afternoon in Qosh Tapa district as the children were playing in the area and struck with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which was already planted.
Provincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani confirmed the incident but did not elaborate further on who had plated the explosives.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the incident so far.
Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to the other insurgent groups frequently use Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces but the ordinary civilians are often targeted in such attacks.
This comes as the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released the latest civilian casualties report late last month which stated at least 3726 civilians were killed or wounded between January and June of this year.
The UN mission said the civilian casualties in the country has reached to a record number since counting began in 2009, with 5,166 civilians recorded killed or maimed in just the first six months of this year, of whom almost one-third were children. The total civilian casualty figure recorded by the UN between 1 January 2009 and 30 June 2016 has risen to 63,934, including 22,941 deaths and 40,993 injured.
According to the UN mission, the anti-government elements remain responsible for 60 percent of the civilian casualties with ground engagements continuing to cause the highest number of civilian casualties, followed by complex and suicide attacks and improved explosive devices (IEDs).
[BLOOMBERG] Kenya and other East African nations will begin withdrawing their troops from Somalia in 2018 because of improved security in a country that’s been ravaged by civil war for more than two decades, President Uhuru Kenyatta told U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... Somalia’s army and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... mission, known as Amisom, have registered "remarkable progress" in their battle with al-Qaeda-linked myrmidons, Kenyatta told Kerry during Monday’s meeting in the capital, Nairobi, according to an e-mailed statement from the presidency. With a gradual pullout of troops planned for two years’ time, Kenyatta said it was important to build the capacity of the national military to assume the mandate.
Amisom, which comprises troops from Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Æthiopia, is battling al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , an Islamist myrmidon group that’s waged a 10-year-old insurgency in the Horn of Africa nation in a bid to impose a strict version of Islamic law. Somalia has been embroiled in civil war since the ousting of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991.
The country’s politicians are scheduled to choose a new president on Oct. 30, a process the government says is necessary because the electoral commission doesn’t have the capacity to conduct a nationwide vote.
The "success of the electoral process depends on the support from the international community and partners," Kenyatta said, according to the statement.
Kenyatta also discussed with Kerry regional initiatives to "restore normality" in neighboring South Sudan, where a bid to end a more than two-year civil war with a transitional government has been thrown into turmoil by renewed violence.
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[PTINEWS] The alleged financier of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, who supplied nearly Rs 4 million to the LeT men, has been sent to judicial remand after the Pak anti-terrorism court hearing the case did not allow the FIA to have his custody for more days.
Sufayan Zafar has joined the other six suspects - Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Mohammad Younis Anjum - in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, where they are lodged since 2009.
Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the criminal mastermind of the Mumbai attack, is living at some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location after being released from jail on bail over a year ago.
The anti-terrorism court sent Zafar on the judicial remand on Saturday noting that the Federal Investigation Agency had been given enough time to probe the suspect, a source in the FIA told PTI today.
He is accused of providing Rs 3.98 million to co-accused Riaz through account no. 2338-2 of the Moslem Commercial Bank's Drigh Road branch 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 account no. 2464-0 of the Allied Bank's Drigh Colony branch in Karachi prior to the Mumbai terror attack.
During interrogation by the FIA, he was quizzed over providing millions of rupees to the suspected holy warriors of the Mumbai attack case, his relations with them and other absconding suspects, the source said.
"The FIA has interrogated Zafar for providing financial assistance to the co-accused in the Mumbai case besides his connection with the holy warriors and the LeT. He was also interrogated for the channel/source from which he got the huge sum of money to provide it to the co-accused," he said.
Zafar was absconding after being declared proclaimed offender in the Mumbai case. He was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! early this month (on August 3 or 4) from his hideout in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province. A resident of Gujrawala district of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... - some 80 kms from Lahore, Zafar is among 21 other absconding suspects wanted in this high-profile case.
According to court documents, the other suspects who allegedly arranged funds for the attacks include undertrial Ahmed and Anjum and proclaimed offenders Mohammad Usman Zia, Mukhtar Ahmed, Abbas Nasir and Javed Iqbal.
The FIA wanted more time to investigate him further, the source said, adding that the agency would indict him along with the seven other suspects of the case in the trial court after completing his challan.
The trial court will resume the hearing of the case on September 7 after over a month-long court summer vacation.
Defence lawyers are of the view that indicting Zafar along with the seven accused may further delay the conclusion of the case, which has been pending in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) since 2009, due to repeating the exercise of cross- examining witnesses in the light of the new arrest.
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ALEPPO – The US-led coalition said that operations of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue in the city of Manbij and that they support both opposition rebels in Manbij and al-Rai area.
“The Syrian Arab Coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces continue operations in Manbij City in the ongoing effort to clear the liberated city of Da’esh [ISIS] fighters, identify and remove improvised explosive devices, and establish a defensive posture capable of thwarting a Da’esh counter-attack,” the coalition said in a press statement on Monday.
“The continued clearance is part of a broader effort to prepare defendable positions for long-term security in Manbij City,” the coalition added.
“After expelling ISIS from the city, we’ve warned civilians not to approach their houses before their cleared by the SDF. Our specialised teams are now dismantling a large deal of explosives and landmines left by ISIS terrorists,” Manbij Military council Commander, General Abu Amjad told ARA News in an earlier interview.
“The full extent and complexity of the improvised explosive devices and booby traps in Manbij City is slowly emerging and still presents a threat to civilians. These devices were left behind by Da’esh fighters to maim civilians and slow operations,” the coalition said.
“The population is receiving a variety of assistance throughout the area. The SAC established dedicated medical facilities and continues to work with Coalition partners to ensure the availability of humanitarian assistance. The Kurdish Regional Government increased the capacity of the Fishkapour crossing to allow the movement of non-government officials to deliver humanitarian assistance for internally displaced persons,” it added.
The coalition also stressed that it supports both the Turkish-backed rebels that fight against ISIS in al-Rai, and the SDF forces that continue to take control of villages north and south of Manbij.
“The Coalition-supported Syrian moderate opposition efforts in Manbij City and al-Rai continue to weaken Da’esh’s threat to Turkey, Europe, and the United States,” the coalition said.
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Common. The Iraqi Police don't call Da'esh the Islamic State - they call them the booby trap state due to the huge number of devices left behind when they leave an area.
Quoting the Lord Humungus: There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. ... Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.
After arresting key Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders, including Dr Farooq Sattar and Amir Liaquat, Sindh Rangers on Monday sealed MQM stronghold Nine Zero after confiscating communication equipment.
According to local media reports, a heavy contingent of the paramilitary force arrested three party activists from Nine Zero. They also took control of the headquarters’ control room.
Earlier, Sindh Rangers Director General Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar had said the paramilitary force will release Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar after taking his statement.
The paramilitary force arrested Dr Sattar and Khawaja Izharul Hassan when the two were about to hold a press conference in wake of the attack on ARY News office in Karachi’s Saddar area.
Major General Akbar said that the paramilitary force will examine camera footage to identify perpetrators of the attack. “We won’t let anyone sabotage law and order in Karachi,” said the Rangers chief.
The paramilitary force also arrested several other Muttahida activists, including Amir Khan and Sajid Ahmed. Media reports say the arrested MQM activists will record their statements.
The development comes after one person was killed and five others injured after violent protesters stormed the office of ARY News.
The private news channel has alleged that the protesters were members of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). ARY News further reported that the protesters entered the building and attacked the staff.
According to TV channels, MQM chief Altaf Hussain in his speech earlier today told protesters "to storm the offices of TV channels".
Earlier, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif directed Sindh Rangers Director General Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar to arrest those involved in the attack on ARY News office.
The army chief had a telephonic conversation with Major General Akbar in which he ordered the Rangers chief to maintain law and order situation in Karachi.
[THESMOKINGGUN] Meet Wise Intelligent Supreme God Allah.
Belying his name, the 18-year-old Ohioan made the imprudent choice Thursday night to be carrying a loaded handgun while a passenger in a car traveling in Akron.
During a police traffic stop, Allah was found with a Hi-Point .380 caliber handgun in the waistband of his pants. The Canton resident was jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on felony weapons charges, according to Akron Municipal Court records.
None of the four other occupants of the 2014 Kia were arrested during the stop, which occurred in front of a Taco Bell. An Akron Police Department report states that Allah and two women in the vehicle "has history of drugs and weapons."
The accused pistolero--whose rap sheet includes a felony burglary conviction--was booked into the Summit County jail, where he remains locked up on $20,000 bond.
According to court records, Allah’s residence is adjacent to a multi-county juvenile detention facility.
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Not what I imagined at all for Allah, what, an 18 year old with a .380 tucked in his waistband? I was thinking the image of Allah was a squiggly line or abstract symbol such as Prince used at one time--or someone looking like R. Crumb's Mr. Natural.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command informed that in an IED explosion in Khalidiya, eastern Ramadi, killed one policeman and injured three others.
Sharing details the source further informed, “At noon today, one policeman was killed and three others were injured, when an IED exploded while the police team was carrying out a search operation in the liberated areas of Khalidiya Island, 20 km in eastern Ramadi.”
“Security forces rushed to the incident area and searched the area in anticipation of finding other IEDs,” the source further added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Mayor of Ramadi Ibrahim al-Awsaj said that the security troops are waiting for orders to start the liberation battle of Ramadi Island from the ISIS control.
Awsaj, in a statement issued to the media, said, “Security force after liberating Khalidiya Island completely, will start the liberation battles of Ramadi Island especially after completing all the preparations needed for the battle.”
In 9 August 2016, the Mayor of Ramadi called upon the security forces to move to Ramadi Island in order to liberate it. Ramadi has lot of importance.
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[FOXNEWS] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for an "expedited investigation" by a special prosecutor into "pay-to-play" accusations involving the Clinton Foundation while reiterating on Monday he plans to have a "firm, but fair" stance on illegal immigration.
"The Clintons' made the State Department into the same kind of Pay-to-Play operations as the Arkansas Government was: pay the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money and throw in some big speaking fees for Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... and you got to play with the State Department," Trump said at a campaign rally Monday night in Akron, Ohio.
"The amounts involved, the favors done, the significant amount of time, require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately," he added.
Trump also called the investigation by the FBI and Justice Department into Clinton’s private email server a "whitewash," and said that the two agencies "cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... ’s crimes."
The billionaire businessman also expanded on earlier comments he made in the day on "Fox and Friends" about being "fair, but firm" on illegal immigration in an interview on Fox News’ "The O’Reilly Factor."
"I just want to follow the law," he told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
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Donald Trump called for an "expedite investigation" by a special prosecutor
Funny, I was thinking the same thing except part of the expediting would involve a rope. "Cue ball" Carville had a statement to the press saying there is nothing to see here and that those who are going after the Clinton Foundation are going to go to hell for denying kids across the world help that would save their lives--no matter that some estimates of money actually going to charity is around 6-15%. People who have their doubts ought to check with Haiti. I guess the CF has to buy a lot of paper, pens, and paperclips.
Sindh Rangers arrested Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders Dr Farooq Sattar and Khawaja Izharul Hassan after Monday’s attack on ARY News channel that left person one dead and five others injured.
The two Muttahida leaders were about to address a press conference at Karachi Press Club when the paramilitary approached Sattar and asked the MQM leader to record his statement, Waqt News reported.
Farooq Sattar questioned the Rangers action, saying that under which law the paramilitary force was arresting him. A Rangers officer then asked Sattar to cooperate with the paramilitary force.
The paramilitary force also arrested TV anchor Amir Liaquat and other MQM activists, including Amir Khan and Sajid Ahmed.
The development comes after one person was killed and five others injured after violent protesters stormed the office of ARY News in Karachi’s Saddar area.
The private news channel has alleged that the protesters were members of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). ARY News further reported that the protesters entered the building and attacked the staff.
According to TV channels, MQM chief Altaf Hussain in his speech earlier today told protesters "to storm the offices of TV channels".
Earlier, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif directed Sindh Rangers Director General Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar to arrest those involved in the attack on ARY News office.
The army chief had a telephonic conversation with Major General Akbar in which he ordered the Rangers chief to maintain law and order situation in Karachi.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] India is preparing to install the Israeli radar technology in the jungles of the Indian-held Kashmire and along the Line of Control (LoC), Indian media reported.
Representatives from India's Border Security Force (BSF) are due to visit Israel as part of the acquisition of the detection system. During the trip, the Indian forces would receive training on the system's operations.
The radar is equipped with high-sensitivity sensors that can track human and vehicular movement in areas of dense foliage, the Indian media added.
The Indian government would established a 24/7 control room to monitor the signals received from the Israeli technology installed throughout the Kashmire Valley and the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistain.
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[DAWN] Five cases were registered against separatist Baloch leaders Brahamdagh Bugti, Harbiyar Marri and Banuk Karima Baloch for allegedly supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements on 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... , police said.
The cases were registered on the complaints of petitioners Munir Ahmed, Maulana Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Hussain, Ghulam Yaseen Jatak and Muhammad Rahim at five cop shoppes in Balochistan's Khuzdar area.
The Baloch leaders were booked under sections 120, 121, 123 and 353 of the Pakistain Penal Code. The sections refer to "concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment", "waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against Pakistain", "concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war", and "assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty".
Acting District Police Officer Khuzdar Muhammad Ashraf Jatak said the applicants claimed Bugti, Marri and Baloch had 'supported' Modi's Aug 15 speech.
The Indian premier in a speech on India's independence day ─ in what some analysts believe is a move to divert attention away from the Kashmire issue ─ said that the people of Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmire 'thanked him a lot in the past few days'.
Petitioner Munir Ahmed also alleged that the Baloch leaders had asked the Indian premier to commit aggression against Pakistain.
Modi's controversial statement sparked protests across Balochistan, with large numbers of rustics taking to the streets in protest in Dera Bugti, Khuzdar, Quetta, Chaman and other parts of the province.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Commander of Nineveh Operations, Maj. Gen. Abdullah al-Jubouri announced on Monday that ISIS bombed military forces and civilians with missiles carrying chlorine gas south of the province.
Jubouri, in a press statement, said, “ISIS today bombed our units in Al-Owisja village, situated to the east of Qayyarah, 65 km south of Nineveh. The bombing was carried out by homemade rockets loaded with chlorine gases. The villages that were targeted included civilians.”
Jubouri added that, “The attack did not injure any senior official of the military or any civilians. ISIS has targeted civilians with chlorine gas more than once.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Security forces today morning repulsed an ISIS attack on some liberated areas in Mosul.
A security source informed, “Security forces have repulsed an ISIS attack on al-Jad’aa, al-Remah and Ajhala villages and killed tens of ISIS militants.”
“The security forces also managed to destruct three booby-trapped while repulsing the attack and reinforces their presence in the areas,” the source added.
Meanwhile, the local police discovered one of ISIS prisons that was used to torture women in al-Jawa’na during a search operation in the area.
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HASAKAH – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said that the Turkish army on Monday shelled their SDF positions with heavy artillery.
Backed by the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-Arab SDF alliance is deemed the main force fighting the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Syria.
“The Turkish state officially supports Daesh and bombs the positions of the Manbij military council and its countryside in the northern axis of the defence positions at Sajur river,” SDF spokesperson Sharvan Darwish said on Monday.
The pro-Turkish government newspaper Daily Sabah claimed that Turkey hit both ISIS and ‘PYD targets’ –in reference to Kurdish forces– in northern Manbij.
The SDF forces have recently established a military council for the ISIS-held city of Jarabulus in northern Syria and advanced around 10 kilometers from Jarabulus city on the border with Turkey.
Media reports suggest Turkey is preparing Syrian rebel forces to cross the border to take the city of Jarabulus.
“We in the military council of Jarabulus warn the Turkish government for its aggressive actions. We stress we will not stand idle towards such hostile acts,” the Jarabulus Military Council said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday said that ISIS should be completely removed from the Turkish border, after an ISIS attack killed at least 54 people at a Kurdish wedding in the town of Gaziantep southern Turkey.
Speaking to ARA News, Nicholas Heras, a Washington-based Middle East researcher at the Centre for a New American Security, said that Turkey wants to prevent SDF advances against ISIS.
“Turkey has a vested interest in making sure that the SDF remains aware that nothing is sustainable in northern Syria without the Turks’ longterm buy-in,” he said.
“This is their way of signaling that, without forcing Turkey to invest in a ground campaign in Syria,” Heras added.
Last year in October and July Turkey also prevented Kurdish and FSA forces from crossing the Euphrates River, hitting them with artillery and tanks.
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Taliban insurgents have closed off the Baghlan-Kunduz highway in the Aliabad district of Kunduz, essentially minimizing traffic into or out of the provincial capital, local officials confirmed Monday.
Tariq Majidi, TOLOnews reporter who is in the area, said insurgents have created check posts along the key route and are stopping everyone travelling through the area.
He said the insurgents searching motorists, passengers and pedestrians in order to make sure no security force members get through their blockade to Kunduz city.
Local officials have confirmed the Taliban has created check posts in the Aliabad district, which is close to Kunduz city, and are searching all vehicles and people.
In addition to this, the Taliban also destroyed the key Alchin Bridge which links Kunduz city with Shir Khan Bandar, Imam Sahib, Dasht-e-Archi and Qala-e-Zal districts of the province.
But Shirzai Hamid, TOLOnews' reporter in Baghlan, said people are now avoiding the highway and using informal tracks to get in and out of Kunduz city.
He said insurgents are searching "all motorists, all people, (and even checking) their shoes and IDs to prevent government employees, especially security forces, from entering the city."
Highways, including the Kunduz-Baghlan route and the Khanabad road have seen a sharp drop in security in the past week after the Taliban increased their attacks in the surrounding areas.
Early Saturday, the insurgents attacked Khanabad and took control of the district for several hours but were eventually driven back by security forces.
TOLOnews correspondents report that currently security forces are in clashes with Taliban insurgents in Aliabad, Khanabad districts and on the outskirts of Kunduz city.
Sediqi Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, on Monday confirmed clashes were ongoing and but said "there are enough troops in Kunduz city and (in districts) fighting the insurgents."
Sediqqi also said the U.S air force carried out strikes in some parts of Aliabad in which 22 insurgents were killed. Among those dead are Qari Nasir and Qari Omar, two Taliban commanders.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior informed on Monday that a bomb blast south of Baghdad killed at least one person and injured six others.
Sharing details the source said, “In a bomb blast this morning near a popular market at Abu Dshir Doura, south of Baghdad, killed one person and injured six others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area and carried the injured to a nearby hospital and the body of the deceased was sent to the forensic department,” the source further added seeking anonymity.
It may be mentioned here that to nab the culprits involved in bombing, security sources have launched a search operation.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A well placed source informed that the security forces seized five explosive belts and two improvised explosive device (IED)s during security operations carried out in northern Baghdad.
“Forces from the Army’s 22nd intelligence brigade, based on the confessions of an arrested terrorist, today seized five explosive belts during a security operation at al-Hawra in northern Baghdad.”
The source added, “The security forces also seized two improvised explosive devices, which were tied to a bulldozer.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command has announced that the security forces have killed three ISIS members Baghdad.
Spokesman of the command Brigadier General Saad Maan, in a statement issued to the media, said, “A force of the 60th infantry brigade today, after receiving information about the presence of three ISIS members taking shelter in a house at Irsan near Baghdad, surrounded the house and opened fire at it. The three ISIS members present inside the house were gunned down by the forces.”
It may be mentioned here that Baghdad is witnessing occasional explosions by car bombs, roadside bombs and explosive vests, in addition to sporadic attacks targeting civilians and security forces in different parts of the capital.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior informed on Monday that a bomb blast to the west of Baghdad killed at least one person and injured ten others.
Sharing details the source said, “This morning a bomb exploded near shops at Abu Ghraib district to the west of Baghdad. One person was killed and ten others were severely injured.”
“Ambulances rushed to the area and carried the injured to a nearby hospital. The body of the deceased was sent to the forensic department. Anticipating the presence of other bombs in the area, forces have taken strong measures to prevent further damage,” the source further added seeking anonymity.
[BUSINESS-STANDARD] Investigation into a daring theft at a house in Perumbavoor near here last week is centred around one Abdul Halim, an associate of an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... operative Thadiyantavide Nazeer.
Some men including Halim have been booked in connection with the theft of valuables including 60 sovereigns of gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees at the residence of Siddique Abdul Rahman posing as vigilance personnel, police said.
Police had yesterday said that they suspect role of some murderous Moslem elements in the robbery in which a gang posing as vigilance and anti-corruption bureau officials had conducted a "search" at Siddique's house and decamped with goods including gold jewels.
The eight-member gang robbedSiddique's house when he had gone for prayers at a mosque in their neighbourhood on August 19.
A police official part of the probe team, said the arrests would be made soon in the case. They, however, refused to divulge more details.
Halim was nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in connection with the extremism-related case in Kerala including in 2006 Kozhikode twin blast case and the 2005 Kalamassery bus burning case.
Thadiyantevida Nazeer, suspected kingpin of Islamic terrorist activities in south India, was arrested in 2009 and he is currently in jail in connection with various terror-related cases.
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Well, just you send in the UN to arrest those miscreants!
Jeddah- Two security experts have stressed that the chaotic methods used by Houthi militias are a blatant violation of human and international laws. The experts said their strategies follow no rules and reveal the weakness of the militias.
The experts called upon the U.N. to stop the violations of the insurgents and recruitment of children in the war, in addition to kidnapping and blackmailing.
Security expert Ahmed al-Ansari said that what Houthis are doing is a heinous violation of humanitarian laws.
He said this armed militia had taken control of the authority in Yemen without following any rules and uses any means possible to terrorize others.
The expert pointed out that all departments, whether military or political or legal, criminalize targeting civilians. He explained that such practices do not lead to war victory but rather to contradictory results.
He also mentioned that everything used by Houthis in the war is a violation of rights and law.
Ansari stated that Houthis recruit children in their war and resort to kidnapping and blackmailing people. He believes that the goal of gaining power united Houthis with former president Ali Saleh and the only language they understand is that of force.
Ansari also added that Houthis and Saleh did not only destroy and kill people in Yemen, but helped in increasing the crime rate in the Yemeni society, in addition to human rights violations, poverty, and illiteracy. He went on to say that the consequences will be fully revealed once the war is over.
As for Iran-made weapons and missiles, Ansari said that these arms reached Yemen when Houthi was in power. He added that there were direct flights from Tehran to Sana’a, reaching to six flights on a daily basis.
He explained that the weapons would then be assembled in Sana’a by militias and members of the Lebanese so-called Hezbollah.
Security expert Ahmed al-Mawkli told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that targeting civilians reveals the failure of Houthis and insurgency militias. He added that war is not random but rather ruled by laws and regulations that protect civilians, children, and media personnel.
He drew question marks on the role of rights and humanitarian organizations regarding what Houthis are doing.
Mawkli said that targeting civilians is a point of weakness for the Houthis and Saleh, and shows their failure in confronting the coalition forces that were formed according to U.N. Resolution 2216.
[Rudaw] Kirkuk police caught a young boy on Sunday night wearing a boom jacket and trying to blow it up inside a Shiite Husseiniya mosque.
As seen in the video captured by a Rudaw camera, two coppers hold the boy’s arms and wait for more than 20 minutes until bomb disposal engineers arrive and defuse the vest.
Twenty-nine minute video report in Kurdish can be seen at the link.
According to Kirkuk police, the young boy had confessed later on that he had been trained and sent on the mission by his father.
Shortly before he was caught, another young boy went kaboom! at Kirkuk’s Wasit neighborhood. The second boy said he was his brother and had both been prepared for the suicide kaboom by their father.
He also revealed to the police that they were refugees from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn....
An earlier Rudaw report on the same story -- with a three minute video of the lad being held by police -- added:
A young bomber, aged between 12 and 13, was captured by security forces in Kirkuk’s Huzairan neighborhood, according to a Rudaw reporter on the scene.
A few hours earlier, a suicide bomber detonated his payload at the Wasit neighborhood in front of a Shiite shrine, wounding three people. That followed another suicide bomb attack in the same neighborhood that caused no casualties.
“There is a dangerous campaign tonight against Kirkuk,” a security official, told Rudaw.
Dramatic video has emerged of Iraqi police stripping an boom belt from a child suspected in a suicide kaboom attempt for ISIS.
Authorities said they believe the 15-year-old came to Kirkuk a week ago from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , ISIS' most significant stronghold outside Syria.
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[HEAVY] Iraqi News is reporting that ISIS bandidossnuffies in occupied djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq threw 4 men off a roof on charges of homosexuality on Saturday, including 2 of its own members. A "local source" told Iraqi News:
ISIS members executed four people, including two of its own members, on charges of homosexuality and sodomy. The execution was carried out by throwing the men from the top of a former insurance company building. The execution was carried out in dour al-Toub area in central Mosul. Later, the outfit transferred the bodies and threw them at Al-Khasfah hole, situated to the west of Mosul... Even though the National Insurance building is destroyed, yet the terror outfit is using it for carrying out executions.
The executions were carried out by the hibsah. Hisbah is short for "Rijaal al-hisbah" and translates to "men who guard against infringements." "Infringements" in this context refers to anything seen as non-Islamic by sharia law interpretation.
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"If only they stuck to young boys and livestock, they'd still be right as rain"
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] Since the launch of Khyber 3 operation, which commenced last week, a total of 40 forces of Evil have been killed with 21 injured, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported on Monday.
In the treacherous terrain of Rajgal, 43 terrorist hideouts were destroyed through ground and aerial operations since start of operation. Security forces have also occupied passes and are now consolidating their positions up in high mountains in Rajgal. Earlier today, a huge cache of arms and ammunition including Improvised Explosive Device’s (IED) were recovered during the search in Damo Drub.
The army launched air and ground operations in the Rajgal valley, about 90km (60 miles) west of the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , last week, which is the latest leg of an offensive against TTP and its allies that began in 2014. Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in North Wazoo has cornered some groups into small pockets of territory, while others have fled over the border into the lawless region of eastern Afghanistan.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] KARACHI: Security forces tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gang-war leader ’Mulla Zubair’ in an operation conducted at the city's Maripur area, the police said on Sunday.
The suspect belonged to the Uzair Baloch group. Moreover, two more suspects were arrested by the Rangers from Nayabad and Mahmoodabad areas of Lyari were handed over to Lyari police.
One of the accused, Sajid, belongs to the infamous Rauf Nazim group allegedly and was wanted by the police in crimes of serious nature such as murders, extortion and police encounters.Police arrested another suspect in Nazimabad who used to rent cars and sold them afterwards.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The warning came after US fighter jets had tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived.
The Pentagon has announced that the USA is ready to down Syrian and Russian planes that they claim threaten American advisers who by international law are illegally operating in northern Syria.
On Friday, Pentagon front man Captain Jeff Davis claimed that US jets attempted to intercept Syrian planes to protect the American advisers operating illegally with Kurdish forces in Syria after Syrian government jets bombed areas of Hasakah when Kurdish police began an aggression against the National Defense Force.
On Monday, another Pentagon front man, Peter Cook, said, "We would continue to advise the Syrian regime to steer clear of those areas."
"We are going to defend our people on the ground, and do what we need to defend them," Cook told news hounds.
He said, "it’s not a no-fly zone," but added that "the Syrian regime would be wise to avoid areas where coalition forces have been operating."
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Gotta be some nervous MiG-21 drivers in the Syrian Air Force right now...
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He said, "it’s not a no-fly zone," but added that "the Syrian regime would be wise to avoid areas where coalition forces have been operating."
And when a S-300 bags a USAF fighter (quote) accidentally (unquote) what will this nitwit say then? "Its only aggression when THEY do it!?!"
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Nobody's said it, so I will.
If he can induce a strike before the election the Dems will have reasonable justification for him to stay. No one else will want the job.
I'd have to say the two we have now don't seem to want it very much.
Look for the buried lede at the end of paragraph 4.
[AlAhram] An eight-year-old boy was killed Monday when a grenade was thrown into the apartment in Sweden where he was sleeping, police said, adding he was likely the victim of an underworld feud.
The child was sleeping in the living room of an apartment in the working class neighbourhood of Biskopsgarden in Gothenburg, on Sweden's west coast, when a unidentified attacker threw a hand grenade through the window, police said in a statement.
At least five children and several adults were in the apartment at the time.
"One of the people registered at this address is a person convicted by a district court for murder" in a settling of scores between members of the Somali community in Gothenburg, police said.
In March 2015, gunnies burst into a pub in the Biskopsgarden neighbourhood, gunning down a man known to police and an innocent bystander in a spray of bullets. Eight people were convicted earlier this month for the attack, and handed sentences ranging from seven years to life in prison.
According to local newspaper Goteborgs-Posten, which conducted a lengthy investigation of the vendetta, the pub shooting spree was the culmination of several violent incidents between rival gangs over the drug market.
While Sweden is generally a peaceful, safe country with low crime rates, police have had difficulty addressing violence in poorer neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. In recent years, there have been grenade attacks, shootings and incidents of car arson.
The issue has been one of the main topics of Sweden's political debate this summer, as cars have been torched in the neighbourhoods on an almost nightly basis.
The centre-right opposition has called for 2,000 more coppers to be hired, while the leftwing government has proposed a series of crime prevention measures.
[NST.MY] The Malaysian government has urged the Guantanamo Prison's Periodic Review Board to reject an appeal for the release of former Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Lion of Islam leader Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, as he could still pose a security threat in Southeast Asia.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohammed said that Hambali was a former Lion of Islam group leader who may still have strong influence over the group's remnants in this region and could spur a resurgence of the JI Lion of Islam activities, particularly in Malaysia.
"The Lion of Islam JI group may still have followers and they may be waiting for Hambali's release to revive the movement, although it was mopped out some 10 years ago.
"This is a matter of national security and great priority should be given to this. These factors should outweigh the release of a placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! man who is capable to train anyone into a radical soldier," said Nur Jazlan after a working visit to the Home Ministry Complex in Taman Setia Tropika, today.
He said although Hambali was from Indonesia, the man had been residing in Malaysia for many years in the past and was involved in recruiting new JI members, including at a former base camp in Ulu Tiram, here.
Hambali is one of 61 detainees at the Guantanamo facility in Cuba where high-value detainees and bandidosbully boyz are held.
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Probably the same face I make when someone says their food is absolutely terrible, here try it.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hezbollah carried out another powerful attack against the jihadist rebels of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Nusra Front) in the Qalamoun Mountains of rural Damascus on Monday.
Hezbollah’s media wing captured footage of the missile strike that destroyed the Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham headquarters near the Jaroud Jarajeer border-crossing.
This ATGM (anti-tank guided missile) attack by Hezbollah on Monday marks the second time in the last 24 hours that they have targeted one of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham’s positions near the Lebanese-Syrian border-crossing.
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[DAWN] MORE than two years after its formulation, the National Action Plan took its first and most credible step towards registering and regulating religious seminaries in Sindh when the Madressah Registration Bill 2016 received cabinet approval. It now moves to the Assembly where its passage is almost assured since the provincial legislature is dominated by political parties that have virtually no roots in the religious establishment. Registering the seminaries was an essential part of the National Action Plan, and the task met its stiffest resistance in Punjab, where the authorities were the last to submit a detailed count of the number of seminaries operating in the province, as well as geo-mapping the locations of all the establishments.
Working under the ambit of the Apex Committee, Sindh completed these tasks faster than anybody else. Where other provinces argued that regulating seminaries -- their finances, syllabi and other activities -- was largely a federal matter, Sindh is demonstrating how a provincial mandate can be brought to bear on the matter. In Punjab, the opposition to any heightened surveillance of seminaries was led by the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia, a federal body. But in Sindh this body has a much smaller presence. Instead, the opposition is coming from political parties, the JUI-F more specifically, whose leadership is threatening the state with street protests in the event the bill is passed into law.
The political challenge should be taken seriously since the JUI-F has considerable street power, even if it cannot translate that into representation in the legislature. But just like the opposition from the Wafaq in the case of Punjab, the substance of the opposition is without foundation. Only a few seminaries can be said to be involved in myrmidon activities but a strong and continuous effort is required to keep a check on these few. During the geo-mapping exercise in Sindh, out of a total of 9,590 seminaries, 167 were found to be built illegally, at least 48 were identified by intelligence agencies for their links to myrmidons, and more than 3,000 were not registered with any government department, according to police figures given at the time. Given the fact that at least a few of them have been found to have links with myrmidon groups, and many have funds from overseas flowing into their coffers, it is necessary to bring their activities within view of the state. Monitoring of syllabi and teachers’ credentials can be left to the federal government, but provincial governments clearly have a role in this matter. Contrary to its image as a floundering enterprise, the Sindh government is leading the way in this effort, perhaps because the political stars are best aligned for the job in the province. Nevertheless, safe passage of the bill will establish that centre-province issues need not be the obstacle they have been presented to be in the past.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian government officials reportedly met with YPG and Asayish leaderships in the Russian Hmeimim Base to negotiate a lasting ceasefire under Russian supervision.
Three main points were agreed upon:
The security box in Hasakah is to remain under the control of the local police force while Brigades 121 and 123 in Kawkab region in eastern Hasakah are to be under the control of the Syrian Army.
Asayish units are to withdraw to their previous points of control.
Police stations to be given back to police officeers and interior ministry forces to be given the role of protecting governmental institutions including the prisons and immigration/passport offices.
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[JPOST] Located in a wooded area of Metulla near the Lebanese border last month was smuggled into Israel by Hezbollah, the defense establishment now believes.
Defense sources estimate that the explosives were smuggled into Israel from Leb with the intention of being used in a terror attack.
A Hezbollah "courier" was likely supposed to collect the explosives, however a local farmer found the bag first, spoiling the plot.
Authorities originally believed that the explosives belonged to small-time Mister Bigs, however an investigation led to the assessment that Hezbollah was the actual culprit.
The Shi'ite terror organization regularly attempts to smuggle explosives and drugs over the border into Israel. The majority of these attempts are thwarted by intelligence information and the alertness of IDF patrols in the area.
As Israel and Hezbollah marked ten years since 2006's Second Leb War earlier this month, the terrorist group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, warned against a possible rekindling of hostilities.
"Israel knows that there is no location in the country that is not in Hezbollah’s cross-hairs," Nasrallah said in a video broadcast.
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[Front Page] The 28 classified pages of the “Congressional Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001” (“Report”) have been finally de-classified and released, with some redactions, to the public. The material in these pages points to evidence of connections between Saudi individuals and groups affiliated in some way with the Saudi government or its funded entities and terrorist organizations. Individuals named in the Report include Omar Al-Bayoumi, Osama Bassnan, Shakyh al-Thumiary, Saleh Hussayen and Osama Bin Laden’s half-brother Abdullah Bin Laden. The Report also mentions groups such as the World Arab Muslim Youth Association (WAMY), based in Saudi Arabia, which the FBI believes is ‘closely associated with funding and financing of international terrorist activities.”
The information in the Report details the activities of these Saudi individuals and related groups, including in the United States. There is a network of links to Saudi government entities, Saudi-funded front groups espousing radical Islam and jihad on the Wahhabist model, and terrorist organizations or individuals. A study of organizations in this network, with the Saudi government agencies or front groups at its hub, is very instructive in itself. But it reveals something else, highly relevant to this year’s presidential election. There are direct links of Islamic organizations in the network to those to which Hillary Clinton’s top aide and confidante Huma Abedin has belonged. To be clear, Huma Abedin is not named in the Report. However, her associations with groups linked to what is referenced in the Report is highly troubling, to say the least.
The Muslim Student Association was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. It spreads radical Islamist propaganda. FrontPage Magazine has documented the MSA’s indoctrination activities on U.S. campuses in an essay entitled “The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network.” The MSA has had close ties with the Muslim World League (MWL), an organization with ties to jihadist terrorist groups, including Hamas and al Qaeda. MWL was founded by members of the Saudi government. The MSA also has close ties with WAMY, one of the organizations mentioned specifically in the Report and which is the youth wing of the Muslim World League. The Report referenced the FBI’s account of the connections of Osama bin Laden’s half-brother, Abdullah Bin Laden, to terrorist organizations. Mentioned specifically was the fact that he was “the President and Director of the World Arab Muslim Youth Association (WAMY) and the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Science in America.”
A cable released by WikiLeaks under then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s name stated that, according to intelligence, the Muslim World League and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth “continue to send money overseas and, at times, fund extremism overseas.”
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"Abdullah [bin Laden], who lived with his brother Omar at the time in Falls Church, a town just outside Washington, was the US director of WAMY, whose offices were in a basement nearby.
But the FBI files were closed in 1996 apparently before any conclusions could be reached on either the Bin Laden brothers or the organisation itself. High-placed intelligence sources in Washington told the Guardian this week: "There were always constraints on investigating the Saudis". The Guardian 2001.
[MILITARY] The U.S. has sent 100 troops to the defense of Lashkar Gah, the capital of embattled Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province that is in danger of falling to the Taliban, the Pentagon and U.S. officials in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... said Monday.
The U.S. troops are in a training and advisory role to the Afghan National Defense Security Forces and will provide a "new presence to assist the police zone" in Lashkar Gah, said Army Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , chief front man for U.S. commander Army Gen. John Nicholson, in a statement.
In a briefing to the Pentagon late last month, Nicholson said the Afghan Security Forces' 215th Corps had made progress in Helmand since cashiering corrupt leaders, but Cleveland made no attempt to downplay the seriousness of the situation in the province or the threat to Lashkar Gah.
"This is a big effort by the Taliban. This is probably the most serious push we've seen of the season," Cleveland said. He described the troop deployment as a "temporary effort" to advise the Afghan police, but he declined to put a timeline on how long they would stay.
The U.S. troops would be limited to an advisory role, although they would have the right to self defense. "They're not about to go out and conduct operations or something like that," Cleveland said.
Earlier this month, the Afghan forces sent reinforcements to Helmand but failed to hold off Taliban offensives that have cut off main roads to Lashkar Gah and gradually crept closer to the city.
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Training and advisory role...in a city under siege.
Riiiiight.
"Watch how we do it, guys."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s defense minister criticized Russia on Monday for having "kind of show-off and ungentlemanly" attitude for publicizing that it used an Iranian air base to launch Arclight airstrikes on Syria, the first sign of government dissent over the unprecedented stationing of foreign troops in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The comments by Gen. Hossein Dehghan come after he chastised parliament this weekend for asking questions about Russia using the Shahid Nojeh Air Base to refuel its bombers striking Syria.
His remarks Monday, reported by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, signal officials beginning to recognize how unpopular the decision could be with the public. There was no immediate response from Moscow.
Last week, Russia announced it used the airfield some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the Iranian city of Hamedan. Iranian officials only confirmed Russia’s presence a day later.
On Monday, state TV quoted Dehghan as saying that Russia "will use the base for a very short and fixed span, corresponding (to) operation in Syria." So far, Russia has carried out three days’ worth of strikes from the base.
Responding to a question about why Iran didn’t initially announce Russia’s presence at the airfield, Dehghan appeared prickly on the state TV broadcast. "Russians are interested to show they are a superpower to guarantee their share in political future of Syria and, of course, there has been a kind of show-off and ungentlemanly (attitude) in this field," he said.
His remarks also suggest Russia and Iran initially agreed to keep Moscow’s use of the air base quiet. Its announcement likely will force a response from Iran’s Sunni-ruled Mideast neighbors, which host American military personnel.
For Iran, allowing Russia to launch strikes from inside the country is likely to prove unpopular. Many still remember how Russia, alongside Britannia, invaded and occupied Iran during World War II to secure oil fields and Allied supply lines. But while Britannia withdrew, Russia refused to leave, sparking the first international rebuke by the nascent United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council in 1946.
Analysts have suggested Russia potentially leveraged Iran into allowing it to use the airfield over either economic or military interests, such as Tehran wanting to purchase Sukhoi-30 fighter jets or its deployment of Russian S-300 air defense missile systems. Russia initially held off on supplying the missile system to Tehran amid negotiations over Iran’s contested nuclear program.
Over the weekend, photographs of President Hassan Rowhani were published in Iranian state media near a Bavar-373 missile defense system. That system is designed to be the local equivalent of the S-300 - perhaps an Iranian signal back to Moscow that it’s capable of defending itself without the Russian missile system.
In his comments Monday, Dehghan said the Bavar-373 can hit targets at the height of 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) - the same height the S-300 can reach. "When we make Bavar-373 operational, we will not need to purchase another high-altitude and long-range air defense system," he said.
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Hope this news has legs, a gentle reminder of their neighbor.
The New York Daily News is best known these days for its desperate trolling stories and covers trying to make some headway on Twitter. Their piece on the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom in which the Dinkins administration's tolerance for racist black activism led to sustained racist attacks on the Jewish community in Crown Heights is more like old-fashioned media sleaziness.
The opening frame is the Cato family. The implicit worldview here is that of the anti-Semitic rioters. And the rest of the story reeks of the same dishonesty.
Here's how the disturbingly biased piece by the Daily News' Rich Shapiro and Ginger Adams Otis describes the racist mob attacks on the Jewish parts of the area.
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Yes, a 'Stereo Camera'. Probably French made, based on the postcard's 'country of origin'.
Likely a Gaumont, Leullier or Jeanneret & Cie.
Those French manufacturers used the flip-up viewfinders for both their 'mono' and 'stereo' portable cameras. Usually the larger 'frame' was at the rear, though. That allowed the user to get the whole image background aligned and then center it with the smaller front sight as a reference point. Putting the larger frame at the front would be more difficult for stereo photos, in my opinion.
Tricky to use in either configuration. The advent of the optical viewfinder made it much easier.
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Yup. Or it's early version of a stereoscope and she's looking at the 'wrong' end.
RAQQA – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) has launched a campaign of arrests in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province, targeting civilians the group says have been involved in cooperating hostile parties, activists and eyewitnesses reported on Monday.
The ISIS-linked Hisba police arrested over 100 people in Raqqa on Sunday and Monday, mostly young men.
“They were accused of cooperating with and supporting anti-ISIS forces, such as the western coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),” a local media activist told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity for security concerns.
This comes amid continues advance by the SDF against ISIS, taking over key territory from the militant group including the city of Manbij on the Syrian-Turkish border–which has for long served as a key jihadi border pocket for ISIS.
Also, the US-led coalition has recently bombed major headquarters for ISIS in Raqqa –the de facto capital of the group’s self-declared Caliphate– causing heavy losses in ISIS’s ranks.
“The SDF has made advances against the group in the northern countryside of Raqqa, coupled with heavy airstrikes by the coalition on ISIS positions in western Raqqa,” a local rights activist told ARA News, adding: “This has raised the group’s concerns about the presence of what they call ‘spies’ leaking security information to those anti-ISIS forces in Syria, which explains the recent arbitrary arrests by the group.”
Six Iraqi civilians were killed on Monday when a bomb planted by the ISIS group went off as they tried to flee the Hawijah area, security officials said.
Thousands of people have been fleeing ISIS rule in Hawijah, which lies about 220 kilometres (140 miles) north of Baghdad, in recent weeks.
“Six civilians were killed and five wounded by an IED (improvised explosive device),” a colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces told AFP.
“It happened during an attempt by families to flee areas southeast of Kirkuk and reach peshmerga positions,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Among them were women and children,” he added.
Other local officials confirmed the information.
Much of the area is littered by bombs and booby traps rigged by ISIS to prevent movements by Iraqi security forces.
The militants have repeatedly tried to prevent an exodus of the population before a government military operation to retake their areas.
In June this year, ISIS fighters opened fire on families trying to slip out of the city of Fallujah as Iraqi security forces prepared to move in.
A provincial official in charge of displaced people, Ammar Sabah, said 650 people who had successfully escaped ISIS areas were taken to camps east of Kirkuk on Sunday.
Peshmerga fighters and allied forces have been tightening the noose around Hawijah and neighbouring villages that ISIS has controlled since June 2014.
More and more civilians have fled Hawijah and its surroundings lately, with Sabah putting the number at 3,000 over the past week alone.
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[Guardian] Finland says it is close to concluding a defence cooperation agreement with the US, the latest in a series of steps the formally neutral Nordic country has taken to bolster its security in the face of heightened Russian military activity.
The country's defence minister, Jussi Niinistö, said he hoped the deal ‐ incorporating joint military training, information sharing and research ‐ would be signed before the US presidential election in November.
"It's one of the reasons to have it done this autumn. But I'm certain we will continue to work together with either one of main candidates winning," Niinisto told Reuters news agency. There was no immediate response from the Pentagon on a potential agreement.
The deal would provide a framework for increased cooperation between the armed forces of the two nations but would not involve any binding commitment for either country to come to the defence of the other. Finland signed a similar agreement with the UK in July.
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...This may not be the smartest thing in the world - the Soviets Russians are VERY touchy about Finland and might start poking back just out of pure spite.
Mike
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...considering it is with Mr. Read Line himself and I doubt Finland is in a position to out donate Putie to the Clinton Foundation.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Taliban Death Eaters intensified a third day of attacks Monday near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, cutting off main roads to adjacent provinces and reportedly blowing up a bridge that links Afghanistan to neighboring Tajikistan. The sustained assault deepened fears that Kunduz could fall again into bully boy hands, as it did for two weeks in September and October in one of the worst setbacks for government forces in the 15-year war.
Senior Afghan military officials, as well as the civilian defense minister, have rushed to Kunduz to take charge of the fighting. Government forces have waged seesaw battles with Death Eaters since Saturday, and the Taliban has gained control of two s near the historic provincial capital as well as another area in adjacent Takhar province.
The latest fighting comes days after a major Taliban push into Baghlan province just south of Kunduz and several weeks after Taliban forces began closing in on Lashkar Gah in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. Lashkar Gah is another strategic city the Death Eaters have long sought to seize, forcing both Afghan and U.S. reinforcements to rush to the region.
Speaking to news hounds in Kunduz on Monday, the deputy army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Murad Ali Murad, vowed not to allow the Taliban to retake Kunduz. In Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , the senior U.S. military front man, Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , told journalists Monday that U.S. officials are "very confident that Kunduz will not fall. We will be there to assist."
Cleveland said that the Taliban Death Eaters "are still clearly a threat" but that they have "still not been able to achieve their main strategic goal, to seize a major population center." He would not specify what role U.S. forces are playing in Kunduz, but he said A-29 light-attack aircraft have been deployed there, with U.S.-trained Afghan pilots.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] After nearly a month of Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters dug in around the Libyan city of Sirte, U.S. helicopter gunships have been dispatched to help root out the Death Eater group from some of the denser parts of the city.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations, said Marine AH-1W SuperCobra helicopters participated in strikes against the Islamic State over the weekend. According to a U.S. Africa Command release, U.S. forces conducted nine strikes from Friday to Sunday, targeting Islamic State fighting positions and vehicles.
The Islamic State fighters have retreated "to the densest, most built-up part of the city," the official said. "[The AH-1] is a platform that lends itself well to that kind of mission."
Helicopter gunships are usually best directed to their targets when they receive directions from combat air controllers on the ground, known as JTACs. While the United States has a small detachment of Special Operations forces in Sirte, most of the targeting information for the Arclight airstrikes there is being relayed to U.S. forces through Libyan government troops.
Outfitted with a 20mm cannon, rockets and missiles, the AH-1W SuperCobra is one of the newer variants of a helicopter that first saw combat in the later years of the Vietnam War. Currently, the United States Marine Corps operates the AH-1W SuperCobra and AH-1Z Viper as its premier gunships when it comes to supporting Marines on the ground. The Cobra and Viper often fly in what is called a mixed section, meaning the gunship usually flies along with UH-1 Huey, a transport helicopter outfitted with sensors and armed with heavy machine guns and rockets.
Until recently, the Arclight airstrikes in Sirte have been carried out by fixed-wing aircraft, such as the AV-8B Harrier ground attack jets. Helicopter gunships, such as the Cobra, fly low and slow and are able to attack targets more directly and systematically than, say, a jet that releases a bomb while screeching overhead at hundreds of miles an hour. Yet gunships, flying at low altitude and low speed, are more at risk of getting shot down by ground fire and shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, or MANPADS. The man-portable launchers have been widely proliferated throughout Libya and the region after large stocks of the devices were looted from government stores after the collapse of Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... ’s regime in 2011.
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The man-portable launchers have been widely proliferated throughout Libya and the region after large stocks of the devices were looted from government stores after the collapse of Muammar Qadaff’s regime in 2011.
Why buy more arms for the Islamic Moderates when the arms were right there in Libya? Unfortunately the plan suffered a dreadful cock-up.
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widely proliferated throughout Libya and the region after large stocks of the devices were looted from government stores under the watchful eye of SoS Hillary Clinton.
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....widely proliferated throughout Libya and the region after large stocks of the devices were looted from government stores under the watchful eye of SoS Hillary Clinton.
Very likely Skid. Very likely indeed. HRC watched the Champ get credit for the 'made for media' UBL takedown and go on to win the election. Think of the credits should would harvest in an election run-up with an Assad overthrow under her colostomy belt.
Not sure what that looks like under clothes, but I saw a recent photo of her and wondered what was causing her to suddenly look so very round about the middle.
KARACHI: Violent protesters attacked an ARY News office in the Saddar area of the metropolis on Monday evening, which resulted in clash between police and the angry mob — killing one person and injuring several others.
Police later confirmed that "MQM workers pelted stones at police officials and the ARY office", adding that they also resorted to aerial firing outside the office.
Head of Emergency at Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Dr Seemin Jamali said, "At least one person was brought dead [to JPMC] while several others were injured." Dr Jamali later identified the deceased as Arif Saeed.
The ARY office is located in a busy part of the metropolis above the popular Zainab Market. Traffic came to a standstill due to the violent protests and all roads leading towards Governor House were sealed.
ARY News has alleged that the protesters were members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). The TV channel further reported that the protesters entered the building and attacked the staff.
According to TV channels, MQM chief Altaf Hussain in his speech earlier today told protesters "to storm the offices of TV channels".
Senior ARY anchor Kashif Abbasi said, "They are Muttahida people. He (Altaf) ordered them to do it and within 10 minutes all this happened."
A Samaa DSNG van was also attacked. Additionally, a police van and motorcycle of a traffic police official were reportedly set on fire.
Eyewitnesses at the Karachi Press Club said Rangers men with their faces covered ransacked the MQM camp in the area and arrested workers of the political party.
Alluding to a conspiracy against the MQM, MNA Syed Ali Raza Abidi tweeted, "MQM has been protesting since past 3 years non-violently. Regretfully masked men pre-present at Fawara Chawk created these deplorable scenes."
In a second tweet, Abidi said: "Disassociate yourself from violent mobs sent for a purpose!"
People were protesting peacefully at ARY office against biased media coverage when suddenly police started firing on peaceful protestors, claimed MQM leader Wasay Jalil.
Police resorted to shelling to disperse the angry mob and fired rubber bullets, injuring the protestors, DawnNews reported.
Meanwhile, Pak Sarzameen Party’s chief Mustafa Kamal, while addressing a press conference, said "whatever we had been saying has been proven right".
"The MQM chief has been creating a law and order situation in the metropolis by taking funding from Indian intelligence agency RAW," he claimed.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned the attack on the offices of private news channels in Karachi, and termed it “an attack on freedom of Press and expression”.
Nawaz directed the concerned authorities at the federal and provincial levels to immediately bring the culprits to task and ensure the safety of the civilians in general and journalist fraternity in particular.
Director General Sindh Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar, while issuing statement following the incident, guaranteed protection to the citizens.
“The attackers will be made to pay for their wrong deeds,” he said, adding, that no one is allowed to carry out violent protests.
Meanwhile, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif telephoned DG Rangers Sindh and asked him to expedite action against the culprits behind today’s incident, DawnNews reported.
A Sindh Police spokesman said that "Sindh IG has taken notice of violent attacks and firing at ARY News office".
The IG also ordered that security at media offices across the city should be increased while sealing the red zone.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also took notice of the attack.
[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] An al-Qaeda-linked krazed killer has admitted wrecking holy shrines during Mali's 2012 conflict and apologised at the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... on Monday, the court's first case to focus on cultural destruction as a war crime.
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi asked for forgiveness and said he had been swept up in an "evil wave" by al-Qaeda and the Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... Islamist groups which briefly seized control of Timbuktu during the fighting.
Prosecutors said they hoped the case would help put an end to wrecking of cultural sites reported in wars from Libya in the west to Afghanistan in the east.
Prosecutors say Mahdi led a group of inquisitors religious police using pick-axes and crowbars to destroy nine mausoleums and the door of a mosque, and at times took part himself.
Most of the sites dated from Mali's 14th-century golden age as a trading hub and centre of Sufi Islam - a branch of the religion seen as idolatrous by some hardline Moslem groups.
Timbuktu's very name evokes centuries of history and has been dubbed "the city of 333 saints" for the number of Moslem sages buried there.
"This is the first and last wrongful act I will ever commit," Mahdi told The Hague court in a measured and grave opening address.
"I regret what I have caused to my family, my community in Timbuktu, what I have caused to my home nation Mali," he added.
Court officials said the trial would proceed despite his confession, as the judges still needed to be satisfied he was guilty. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... lawyers are armed with videos, graphics and 360 degree landscapes, all aimed at documenting the destruction, ICC prosecutors said.
In the build-up to the hearing, prosecutor Fatima Bensouda compared the attacks to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's smashing of monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra and the Taliban's 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
On Monday, she praised Mahdi's cooperation while setting out the charges against him and saying she hoped his case would help bring an end to destruction of cultural objects by drawing attention to the fact it is a war crime.
"What must it have felt like in that fateful day in 2012... to witness the wanton destruction of that cultural heritage, a deliberate assault on one's identity, spiritual beliefs and prized cultural possessions?" she said.
"All of this was reduced to dust by a destruction operation led by the accused," she added.
Mahdi faces a maximum sentence of 30 years, but prosecutors are expected to ask for a lesser sentence, given his cooperation. He told the court he was not sure of his age, but estimated it at 45.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four prominent commanders of the Taliban group were killed during an operation in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the Taliban capos were identified as Naeem Khalid, Mohammad Arif, Al Badar and Abdul Rahman.
According to a statement by MoI, the Taliban capos were killed along with several others Death Eaters during a clash in Hesarak district.
The statement further added over all 21 Taliban Lions of Islam were killed and 27 others were maimed.
The Afghan cops also confiscated 3 PK machine guns, 3 Ak-47 rifles, 1 rocket launchers and some ammunition and explosives from the miliants, MoI added.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Hesarak is among the relatively volatile districts in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan where the Taliban Lions of Islam and Death Eaters belonging to the other krazed killer groups are actively operating.
The Talibs launched a coordinated attack on Hesarak district earlier this week but the security officials said the attack was repulsed by the Afghan forces.
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[Chicago Tribune] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... vowed Monday to fight Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters at home and to "cleanse" the group from its borders after a weekend suicide kaboom at a Kurdish wedding, an attack that came amid recent gains by Syrian Kurdish militia forces against the forces of Evil in neighboring Syria.
The bombing Saturday in the southern city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, killed at least 54 people -- many of them children. Nearly 70 others were maimed in the attack, the deadliest in Turkey this year.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but officials said it appeared to be the work of the Islamic State group. Authorities were trying to identify the attacker, who President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... initially said was a child. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Monday that it was unclear whether the bomber was "a child or a grown-up."
"A clue has not yet been found concerning the perpetrator," Yildirim told news hounds following a weekly Cabinet meeting. He said the earlier assertion that the attacker was child was a "guess" based on witness accounts.
At least 22 of those killed were children younger than 14, according to a Turkish official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Turkish government rules.
The attack came after the Syria Democratic Forces, a coalition led by the main Kurdish militia groups in Syria, captured the former IS stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria under the cover of Arclight airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
"It appears to be an act to punish the PYD," said Nihat Ali Ozcan a security and terrorism expert at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, referring to a Syrian Kurdish group whose militia is fighting IS. "It's the cross-border settlement of scores by two actors fighting in Syria."
[Hurriyet] Details continue to emerge regarding the Aug. 20 suicide blast carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, with the mechanism of the bomb used in the wedding attack that claimed at least 54 lives reportedly being the same type as ones used in previous attacks.
ISIL militants used iron marbles to strengthen the effect of the bomb and most of the deaths occurred because of the marbles hitting people, according to the preliminary autopsy report on the attack that killed a total of 29 children, daily Hürriyet reported on Aug. 22.
The mechanism of the bomb was the same as the ones used in the Oct. 10, 2015 suicide attack at the train station in central Ankara and the ISIL attack in the Suruç district of Şanlıurfa. Both claimed a total of 142 lives and wounded scores of others.
In footage obtained from nearby surveillance cameras, two people can be seen fleeing the scene shortly after the attack. Investigators are exploring whether the duo dropped the suicide bomber to the area and watched the child’s actions, the report said.
Police are also investigating whether the order to stage the attack was given by Deniz Büyükçelebi, the ISIL militant “responsible” for the group’s actions on the Turkish Syrian border.
Büyükçelebi reportedly replaced Yunus Durmaz, an ISIL “emir” who blew himself up in a police operation targeting the jihadist group on May 19. Durmaz was the mastermind of the Suruç and Ankara bomb attacks and the former Turkey “emir” of ISIL, according to an indictment of a case opened in March.
The police on had found notes regarding ISIL plans to attack Kurdish weddings during the operation in which Durmaz blew himself up, according to a separate Hürriyet report. Durmaz had written to “higher-level” jihadists within the organization and asked for permission to carry out attacks in the aforementioned places, according to the report.
“There are weddings taking place these days. If you approve we will take action,” Durmaz wrote.
According to daily Cumhuriyet, Durmaz also asked for Kurdish-speaking militants to join ISIL, in order to “infiltrate them” to carry out the attacks.
Meanwhile, police caught ISIL militants linked to Durmaz on Aug. 11 in a secret operation in Gaziantep, sending a warning the next day to police units that ISIL could stage attacks on sites linked to the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) or the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in retaliation for the operation, daily Milliyet’s Tolga Şardan reported.
Three ISIL militants, identified only by the initials as T.G., A.D. and G.D., were arrested in the operation in which suicide vests and bomb-making objects were found. It was also reportedly determined that G.D. is Durmaz’s sibling.
The Hurriyet daily said that DNA tests were under way to ascertain the identity, nationality and gender of the bomber.
It is possible that the bomber had come over the border from Syria but IS is also known to have built homegrown cells inside Turkey in Gaziantep and even Istanbul, wrote its well-connected columnist Abdulkadir Selvi.
Turkey has “no clue” who was behind the attack on a Kurdish wedding in a city close to the Syrian border that left 54 people dead, the prime minister said on Monday.
“We do not have a clue about who the perpetrators behind the attack were. Early information on who did the attack, in what organization’s name, is unfortunately not right,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the bomber was a child aged between 12-14 acting on orders of Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Appearing on MSNBC during the 11 a.m. ET hour on Monday, attorney and former Republican National Committee counsel Mark Braden denounced an attempt by anchor Tamron Hall to dismiss claims of voter fraud as "extraordinarily rare" and "minuscule." He also called her out for citing statistics from liberal "advocacy group" that she labeled "nonpartisan."
Hall began the discussion by touting that slanted source: "We’ve cited this before, but I'll remind people. According to a study by the nonpartisan Brennan Center ‐ this is in 2007 ‐ and they were discussing how extraordinarily rare voter fraud would be." She added: "And looking at some of the numbers from different organizations, as well. Arizona State, for example, they found in 2012, just 2,000 cases of election fraud nationwide in the year 2000. So the numbers are minuscule."
While Braden acknowledged that "our election system actually works quite well," he immediately corrected her "nonpartisan" claim:
I wouldn't call Brennan Center nonpartisan, I think they’re pretty much an advocacy group. But the notion that vote fraud doesn't exist, is, of course, lunacy. People steal cars, people steal money, why anybody would think you wouldn't steal votes is a mystery to me. Vote fraud is rare but it absolutely occurs, and sometimes occurs on a massive basis.
In fact, the Brennan Center’s so-called "Democracy Agenda," spelled out on its website, is a left-wing wish list of supposed electoral "reforms," among them: Overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, establishing public financing of campaigns, and restoring voting rights to convicted felons.
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It beyond their comprehension to understand that allowing unqualified voters to vote actually suppresses the legitimate vote of qualified voters. If you truly value something, you protect it.
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No, they comprehend all too well. You see, these ineligible voters all vote in their favor, so it's all good. You can be assured that if a majority of the ineligible voters were voting Republican they would be all up in arms for Voter ID.
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#2 has it right. It's all about political expediency and has absolutely nothing to do with principles whatsoever. It rarely does with the Democrats, if at all.
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I've had a number of debates with liberals on line. They inevitably claim that voter fraud is nonsense. Then I post a link to the felon voters that put Al Franken in his Senate Seat, the one vote that allowed Obamacare to go through on a party line vote. Hot and heavy debaters seem to fade away at that point. It's not the number of illegal votes so much as the careful placement.
We had an election out here - rural Kansas, hotly contested issue with lasting ramifications, numerous loud town hall meetings, literally takes five minutes to vote, advanced voting available.
Turnout was something like 35% of eligible voters.
The State of Kansas is in court right now to defend its voter ID law. Something like 50,000 illegally/contested registered voters. They may not yet put a democrat in the US Senate, but can make the difference at State and below.
A beauzeau who broke into a house, drank a bottle of rum then fell asleep on his victim's sofa has been checked in at the Gray-Bar Hotel.
Dawid Grzelewski, 32, broke into Paul Hatton's home in Bournemouth, Dorset, while he [Hatton] was at work.
Mr Hatton received an alert to tell him that his burglar alarm had been activated so he went home, took pictures of the sleeping burglar, ejected him from his flat then called police. "You need a place to stay? The bobbies'll give you one."
He was soon spotted in bushes by police nearby with a bag of amphetamine in his mouth and given matching bracelets.
Prosecutor Simon Edwards told Bournemouth Crown Court: ‘Mr Hatton received an alarm telling him the burglar alarm in the flat had been activated.
‘At 8.30am Mr Hatton went to the flat and found the defendant asleep on the sofa in the lounge. "Who are you!?"
"Zzzzzzzzzz!"
‘He took two photographs of him on his mobile phone. Next to [the defendant] was a hammer and a large screwdriver.
‘He had drunk a quantity of rum belonging to Mr Hatton.' "Where's the rum gone?"
Mr Edwards added: ‘Police attended and a blood-stained tissue was found on a worktop.
‘The defendant had injured himself. [The blood] matched the profile of this defendant.' "Here, end table! Hold my rum and watch this!"
Grzelewski, of no fixed abode, admitted charges of burglary, possession of a class B drug and breaching a suspended sentence. "It's a fair cop. You got me."
He asked for one further domestic burglary and three commercial burglaries to be taken into consideration by the judge.
He was placed in durance vile for 60 weeks and will be extradited to Poland when he is released.
[THEHILL] The FBI has uncovered almost 15,000 previously undisclosed documents sent directly to or from Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... , State Department lawyers confirmed before a federal judge on Monday.
The documents were found during the course of the FBI's investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee's use of a personal email server during her time as secretary of State. The number is almost 50 percent more than the 30,000 work-related documents that Clinton’s lawyers turned over to the State Department in 2014.
The agency has pledged to release the approximately 14,900 documents and State Department lawyers told District Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that the agency is "prioritizing" the appraisal of the new emails.
But it remains unsettled whether the full set will be out before the presidential election on Nov. 8. Lawyers for the conservative watchdog group that has demanded the release have accused the agency of slow-walking the production.
"FBI found almost 15,000 new Clinton documents. When will State release them?" Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton tweeted Monday morning.
[NEWSWEEK] Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... called on the world’s Moslems to reject the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... myrmidon group (ISIS) and throw their weight behind the Afghan Taliban, in a new video released on Sunday.
The leader of one of the world’s largest jihadi groups said that ISIS and his rival leader of the group, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , was only intent on trying to "split the ranks of the mujahideen," or jihadis.
In the video entitled ’Be Not Divided Among Yourselves,’ Zawahiri continues to say that the world’s Moslems should "rally around the emirate" in what is a reference to the Afghan Taliban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, according to The Long War Journal.
ISIS frequently attempts to paint Al-Qaeda as lesser Moslems, than its own followers. The two titans of the global jihad fell foul of one another when ISIS was on the rise. The Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), the radical group’s previous incarnation, had attempted to capitalize on the instability amid the two-year civil war in Syria in 2013.
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[al-Monitor] The United States is struggling to sideline Hezbollah without further splintering faction-ridden Leb.
Congress and the Barack B.O. regime have adopted a dual strategy of trying to starve the Shiite militia of funds while bankrolling state institutions they hope can provide a US-friendly counterweight. To that end, the president signed into law new financial sanctions on Hezbollah in December, while Congress and the State Department have been steadily increasing economic and security support for the Lebanese government and its police and military forces.
Neither approach is without risk.
Lebanese politicians and banking officials have made it clear that undermining the country’s vital financial sector would be devastating to a country already reeling from the crisis in next-door Syria. A parliamentary delegation visited Washington in February to urge restraint, while the powerful Association of Banks in Leb is spending more than half a million dollars a year lobbying Congress and the State and Treasury Departments on the issue.
"We told those that we met with that any potential damage to our banking sector, or any restrictions on those remittances -- which amount to about $7.5 billion per year -- would lead to a financial and economic disaster in Leb that would turn into a security catastrophe and a total collapse of the Lebanese state," parliament member Alain Aoun told Al-Monitor at the time. The Treasury Department issued its regulations implementing the law on April 15, without causing a panic in Beirut.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... 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... has nixed a $3 billion military aid grant and what remained of a separate $1 billion commitment to Leb’s internal security force to protest Hezbollah’s continued political clout. The move earned a rebuke from the State Department.
"Our point to [the Saudis] is if the ultimate objective here is to limit the ability of Hezbollah to do what it’s doing, the solution is to invest in Lebanese institutions and not to withdraw support from them at this critical time," US Ambassador to Leb Elizabeth Richard testified at her nomination hearing in March.
The Saudi stance does have some sympathizers on Capitol Hill, however. Pro-Israel hardliners have long questioned the wisdom of providing difficult-to-track assistance to a country where a US-designated terrorist group retains major influence.
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The United States is struggling to sideline Hezbollah without further splintering faction-ridden Leb.
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Pro-Israel hardliners have long questioned the wisdom of providing difficult-to-track assistance to a country where a US-designated terrorist group retains major influence.
If the money is in Swiss francs and palletized, no harm done.
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Lebanese politicians and banking officials have made it clear that undermining the country’s vital financial sector would be devastating to a country already reeling from the crisis in next-door Syria. A parliamentary delegation visited Washington in February to urge restraint, while the powerful Association of Banks in Leb is spending more than half a million dollars a year lobbying Congress and the State and Treasury Departments on the issue.
Note: A half-million is peanuts. The Lebanese banking sector is strong with strong allied banks in Europe and the Gulf. It did not send a delegation, the politicians did. They probably visited the Clinton Foundation as well.
DAMASCUS – In response to an earlier Syrian strike on its territory, Israeli air force bombed Monday a target in Syria, military sources said.
According to Israeli army officials, an errant fire from ongoing fighting between Syrian factions hit inside Israeli territory. Reportedly, the Syrian fire had struck an open area in the Golan Heights near the Syrian-Israeli border, without causing any injuries.
“In retaliation, the air force [of Israel] targeted a Syrian army launcher,” the Israeli military said on Monday.
"Hey! It wudn't us!"
"We don't care."
In November 2015, Israel conducted an airstrike near Damascus airport in the Syrian capital. Activists said in the time that the Israeli strike on Damascus had targeted a weapons shipment believed to be intended for Lebanese Hezbollah militia –which supports pro-Assad forces in the battles against rebel factions in Syria.
The Israeli army has conducted dozens of airstrikes on Syria since the outbreak of the civil war there. Israeli officials have repeatedly said that those strikes were to prevent Syrian regime and allied Hezbollah militia from obtaining advanced Iranian weapons.
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The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka after calling on pro-government militias to surrender, Kurdish forces and residents said.
They said Kurdish forces began the offensive after midnight to take the southeastern district of Nashwa, close to where a security compound is located near the governor’s office close to the heart of the city.
The powerful YPG militia had earlier captured Ghwairan, the only major Arab neighborhood still in government hands.
The fighting this week in Hasaka, which is divided into zones of Kurdish and Syrian government control, marks the most violent confrontation between the Kurdish YPG militia and Damascus in more than five years of civil war.
The Syrian army deployed warplanes against the main armed Kurdish group for the first time during the war last week, prompting a US-led coalition to scramble aircraft to protect American special operations ground forces.
The YPG is at the heart of a US-led campaign against ISIS in Syria and controls swaths of the north, where Kurdish groups associated with the militia have set up their own government since the Syrian war began in 2011.
Syrian state media accused the YPG-affiliated security force known as the Asayish of violating a ceasefire and said its members had torched government buildings in Hasaka.
It accused the Asayish of igniting the violence through escalating “provocations”, including the bombing of army positions in Hasaka, and said the Asayish aimed to take control of the city.
“We will not retreat”
The YPG denied it had entered into a truce. It distributed leaflets and made loudspeaker calls across the city asking for army personnel and pro-government militias to hand over their weapons or face death.
“To all the elements of the regime and its militias who are besieged in the city you are targeted by our units,” leaflets distributed by the YPG said.
“This battle is decided and we will not retreat ... We call on you to give up your weapons or count yourselves dead.”
The YPG, known as the People’s Protection Units and which has ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party, appeared intent on leaving a nominal Syrian government presence confined to within a security zone in the heart of the city, where several key government buildings are located, Kurdish sources said.
The complete loss of Hasaka would be a big blow to President Bashar al-Assad’s government and would also dent efforts by Moscow, which had sought through a major military intervention last year to help Damascus regain lost territory and prevent new rebel gains.
Kurdish forces have expanded their control of the city despite the bombing of several locations by Syrian jets.
Thousands of civilians in the ethnically mixed city, including members of the Christian community, have fled to villages in the countryside as the fighting intensified, residents said.
The confrontation appears to have undone tacit understandings between the YPG and the Syrian army that had kept the city relatively calm.
Many critics and residents say the YPG was handed weapons and territory by the Syrian army at the start of the conflict as Assad sought to focus on crushing the mainly Sunni Arab rebels who sought to topple him.
Hasaka’s governor told state media after the flare-up of violence the military had armed the YPG with weapons and tanks to fight extremist elements but had not expected them to turn against them.
Hasaka’s population, swelled by displaced Syrians fleeing areas that fell under ISIS control, is broadly divided along ethnic lines, with Kurds mainly in the city’s eastern neighborhoods and Arabs in the southern parts.
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