"Be careful what you say. Be careful what you wear. Be careful what you believe.
In an era when truth is becoming treason, it is unlikely to surprise anyone to learn that the Obama administration is pushing to crack down on complaints of racism, sexism, and belief of traditional gender roles.
Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursued a workplace complaint filed by one employee claiming that another employee wearing a cap displaying the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me") was creating a 'hostile work environment.'
As reported by Eugene Volokh in the Washington Post, a man filed a formal complaint with the EEOC in January of this year alleging that a co-worker's wearing of a cap with a Gadsden Flag "subjected him to discrimination on the basis of race (African American).'
The unnamed complainant reported that 'he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a 'slave trader & owner of slaves.'"
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There will be no slow motion or still life of Uncle Sam strolling through DC in a Red, White and Blue liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving for just the proper occasion.
On November 6, Moradi went with his wife to the office where she worked and asked to speak to human resources about what happened in the mall. Eventually, they met with Ross Undershute, the CEO of the health consulting organization.
Moradi told him "No men are allowed to speak to his wife and she can’t speak to any men."
When Moradi was told that wouldn't happen, he became enraged. He "clawed and scratched" Undershute's face before spitting at him. Franklyn added that he also also unsuccessfully tried to kick, knee, slap and bite Undershute.
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send him home. Now. But let females beat on him a little, first. For HONOR™
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This is what muslims do in their own country and plan to do in ours, with the help of jackass Juste Un Trou D’Eau, mayor Tas de Coderre and fat Sheikh Couillard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAycEJeq5o
Mohammed decapitated 900 persons by his own hands in Medina and this is what all muslims must emulate. They come here to kill us all and sell the women and children in sex slavery since 1500 years in fifty countries…So, this guy just did the minimum, really!
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[Nat Interest] The last two administrations have followed a bipartisan policy of constant war. Unfortunately, the consequences have been ugly: every intervention has laid the groundwork for more conflict.
Yet the architects of this failure claim that all would be well if only Washington had acted more often and more decisively. In their view, the problem is not that America goes to war, but that it doesn’t go to war nearly enough.
This approach is based on the belief that Washington is capable of solving every international problem. If only unnamed bright people implemented theoretically brilliant strategies backed by unidentified resolute citizens, terrorism would be suppressed, ISIS would be defeated, Russia would be compliant, Iraq would be successful, Syria would be peaceful, Libya would be united and China would be respectful.
Alas, our experience suggests that such people and policies don’t exist. Otherwise, why would recent military operations have turned out so badly? If the right conditions for success weren’t present in the last fifteen years, why should we expect them to occur in the next fifteen?
The biggest problem is the belief in immaculate intervention. More troops should have stayed longer, more bombs should have been dropped, and more no-fly zones should have been established. Advocates rarely bother to explain the practical requirements and consequences of those policies.
For instance, no intervention is more universally criticized by serious foreign policy analysts than the Iraq invasion. That war triggered widespread sectarian conflict; caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis; wrecked the historic Christian community; spawned Al Qaeda in Iraq, which morphed into ISIS; and empowered Iran.
The official neoconservative line, however, is that the war was a great success won by President George W. Bush. Victory was squandered by President Barack Obama, who withdrew U.S. forces.
Yet Bush, with troop levels at their highest, providing maximum leverage, was unable to win Iraqi consent to a status-of-forces agreement, essential for any U.S. garrison. Had Washington attempted to force Baghdad to accept continued occupation, U.S. troops would have been targeted by Shia extremists as well as Sunni terrorists.
The only way America could have blocked the rise of ISIS and ousted Iraq’s sectarian regime would have been to intervene militarily, with potentially disastrous consequences. There was no domestic support for such a course after the Bush administration’s earlier failed promises and unrealistic predictions.
Intervention in Libya, it is said, would have worked if only the West had intervened to nation build. Yet people the world over want to rule themselves. Having overthrown the Qaddafi government, victorious Libyan forces wouldn’t have welcomed a U.S. occupation force. There is no reason to believe the results of such an effort would have been any better than in Afghanistan or Iraq.
In Syria, contend committed interventionists, America should have acted against Bashar al-Assad. He would have been overthrown, the Syrian Thomas Jefferson and George Washington would have taken charge, and ISIS would never have emerged. It’s a great story, but overlooks the rise of sectarianism after America overthrew Iraq’s secular dictator. Defenestrating Assad would have merely triggered the next stage of a bitter struggle for control.
Nor was there domestic U.S. support for greater involvement: opposition to air strikes was overwhelming when the administration tossed the issue to Congress. Belief that halfhearted involvement would have led to swift victory by so-called moderate insurgents ignored the latter’s consistently disappointing experience.
In Afghanistan, a continued U.S. military presence is supposed to allow the Kabul government to create a stable, efficient, honest democracy in Central Asia. Yet the Afghan authorities are losing ground after fifteen years, despite support from tens of thousands of allied military personnel and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars. Keeping a few thousand combat personnel on station will only slow the collapse of a government known mostly for corruption and incompetence.
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Kinder and gentler are the recipes for perpetual war. Sherman is correct - War is hell. Don't hide the fact. Avoid if at all possible, but if not make sure the people on the other side experience that hell, if for no other reason to deter those who might want to play the game.
[Wash Times] President Obama is prepared to enter into the Paris climate accord as early as this week even though Republicans have insisted that the pact must be ratified by the Senate, according to a report out of China.
The South China Morning Post reported that Mr. Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are "set to jointly announce their ratification" of the ambitious international climate-change pact on Friday, two days before the start of the 11th G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
"There are still some uncertainties from the U.S. side due to the complicated U.S. system in ratifying such a treaty, but the announcement is still quite likely to be ready by Sept. 2," an unnamed source told the English-language newspaper.
In addition, "[s]enior climate officials from both countries worked late into the night in Beijing on Tuesday to finalise [sic] details," said the article, citing "sources familiar with the issue."
The Thursday report touched off alarm among foes of the Paris Agreement, which calls for nations to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions with the aim of holding global temperatures to an increase of "well below" 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
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The Imperial President who has not sense of limits or the Constitution. His give away of the Internet to the UN will trump Carter's Panama Canal fiasco to assure Champ's place as the worst President ever, and not even the Grant administration was as corrupt as this one.
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Treaties have to be ratified by congress so it doesn't matter what he does with it. He can play games to make his voters happy but they can't even vote for him again so its harmless nonsense that will make him look good at all the parties in his post-presidency.
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Originally reported by the the South China Morning Post, most likely written by a Chinese reporter communist party apparatchik. Baraq only wishes he could be like Xi but with all the RINOs in the US Senate...you never know.
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[NBC] Hillary Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin will separate from her husband, disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, following a report in the New York Post suggesting he had fallen back into his sexting habit.
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Abedin said in a statement. "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
The report in The Post, which included conversations and photos that the paper said Weiner swapped with a 40-something Trump supporter while his wife Abedin was on the campaign trail, was published Sunday. And on Monday morning, Weiner's public Twitter profile was gone.
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Thereby conveniently deflecting attention and questions about her key role in access to Clinton and the pay for play scandal.
Who says Weiner isn't supportive of his wife?? He's even willing to make a bigger fool of himself on her behalf. Or more precisely, because the Clintons are his only way to make a living now, as they've been for a long time.
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The marriage seems to have been a marriage of convenience since his first scandal (possibly from the start for all I know). I think Zebulon and Tenille2425 is right, they kept it together until she needed sympathy and a distraction.
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Its a Clinton model marriage, except here they got caught with a live boy.
I wonder how common the Clinton model is. Two people meet, one in politics and one a machine cog, may not even like each other, maybe one or both are queer as a three legged fish, but ambitious as all get-out and their career depends upon being married and having at least one child - especially the politician.
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It’s easy to make fun of him. He's a putz. I've been happy to mock him. Huma gets no sympathy from me either.
But in all seriousness: Anthony Weiner spent his adult life building a career, a marriage, a child, and a political reputation. He was going to be someone. A senator, a governor, mayor of New York, all of that with the trophy wife and the requisite one child. Power. Money. Fame. The inside track.
Gone, all of it. Just gone. He threw it all away despite the repeated warnings, the repeated chances to change his ways, the repeated remonstrations both public and private from people who cared about him. He is his own worst enemy and has been from the first moment. He couldn't conquer his inner demon, and in the end, his inner demon has conquered him.
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...and maybe a sense of entitlement through connections that he thought allowed him to be above it all. Bill never had the technology to do selfies of himself.
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...We were coyly told that the little island of Ventotene off Naples was where, in 1941, a prisoner of Mussolini’s had written the visionary manifesto that looked forward to building, after the war, a "United States of Europe". What somehow got omitted was that Altiero Spinelli was a Communist (the Today programme merely described him on air as a "Fascist prisoner", although, lest this be misunderstood, that was edited out of their online report).
We were not told that Spinelli’s Ventotene Manifesto proposed that his future government of Europe should be quietly assembled by its supporters over many years; and that only when all its pieces were in place would those supporters summon a convention to draw up a "Constitution for Europe", which would finally reveal to the European people just what they had been up to.
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I am slowly working my way thru Churchill's The Second World War and if there's one thing I got out of the 1919 to 1936 time period is "No more war".
Maybe the empire-builders in Brussels co-opted that desire into making one big happy (EU) family.
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Yep. Plan for no war for a minimum of 10 years.
Violence in Mexico has been on the rise in recent months as fragmented criminal organizations clash around the country, competing with Mexican authorities and one another for control of illegal enterprises.
Data released by the Mexican government reveals that homicides, perhaps the most visible aspect of the country's violence, reached an ugly milestone in July.
The 2,073 killings recorded that month were the most of any month since the President Enrique Peña Nieto entered office in December 2012, and it was the first time the country exceeded 2,000 homicides in a month since August 2011.
2011 was the bloodiest year in the six-year term of Felipe Calderon, Peña Nieto's predecessor who launched a heavily militarized crackdown on narco mobs and criminal organizations throughout the country.
The previous high in monthly homicides registered under Peña Nieto was 1,895, recorded in May.
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You will have to begin by removing control of immigration from Latinos. Only them are allowed to immigrate, legally or not...Euros and canadians are watched like by eagles, despite bringing billions...be late a week and they are jailed then barred for life while tens of millions of illegal mexicans are drawing welfare checks their whole life!
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A Narvik imam and a marabout
Were having to do with two caribou:
"Does Allah permit this?"
"As God is my witness...
But now they're haram for your BBQ."
[PJ] No matter how extreme the future revelations of Julian Assange and others turn out to be, the truth about the Clinton Foundation is already clear. Whatever its original intentions, this supposed charity became a medium to leverage Hillary Clinton's position as secretary of State for personal enrichment and global control by the Clintons and their allies. We also now know--as the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel made clear in her recent oped--why Hillary decided to hide all her emails on her "infamous server."
To my knowledge, nothing like this has ever been done in the history of the United States government. It calls to mind, if anything, the United Nations' scandalous Oil-for-Food program in which millions were siphoned off from a plan to feed Iraq's children during the war.
It could even be worse, because of the national security implications. The Clinton Foundation and the State Department were commingled to such an extent we may never know the truth, certainly not before the election since that same State Department has refused to release Hillary's official schedule before then.
This means, quite simply, that the United States of America has abandoned the rule of law. Maybe we did a while ago. In any case, we are now a banana republic--a rich and powerful one, at least temporarily, but still a banana republic.
The election of Hillary Clinton--our own Evita--will make the situation yet more grave. Consider something so basic as how you raise your children in a country where the president is most probably an indictable criminal and most certainly a serial liar of almost inexhaustible proportions. What do you tell them? What do their teachers tell them? A far cry from George Washington, isn't it? What does this say about our basic morality and how does that affect all aspects of our culture? The fish, as they say, rots from the top.
Equally importantly, what does our government do as further actionable information emerges as it inevitably will? The Department of Justice, as we have seen, is already corrupt, unable to indict those in power, indeed colluding with them aboard airplanes. The same personnel will undoubtedly be in place. Can we rely on congressional oversight for justice and/or a potential impeachment? What if the Democrats control the Senate?
In the far less serious Watergate era, Republicans like Howard Baker stood up against Nixon. Democrats, however, cling to power the way they accuse Republicans of clinging to their guns and religion and will no doubt avert their eyes, pretending, with their friends in the media, that nothing out of the norm is happening. But plenty is and will. Look to Sweden for the future of America. And with expanded entitlements and immigration, Syrian and otherwise, don't look for a Republican revival in 2020. Those days will be long over.
"A republic, if you can keep it," Benjamin Franklin reportedly said when emerging from the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Yes, it may be apocryphal, but so are many important statements that are true in concept.
Some very hard hitting and insightful comments follow the article.
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I guess we will have a ring-side seat whether we want to or not. At some point we may have to chose up sides whether we want to or not--much like a Civil War scenario. What surprises me is that there is not more widespread outrage across the country with the unvarnished corruption. The attitude is "I'm doing this, getting away with it, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it." The only varnish provided is that provided by the MSM. They spent a great deal of time covering up cat scat. My 95 year old mother-in-law, who grew up in Europe prior to WWII and a survivor of the Holocaust, said the present times feel a lot like pre-WWII Europe and the Nazi rise to power.
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Those in power often do not anticipate "unintended consequences." They tend to figure they have everything arm-chaired and under control whereas the reality is much different.
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It took four terrible Emperors to get Rome beyond the point of no return. Depending upon where you count we've still got a terrible President or two left after this election.
Of course Rome had more history and might have had a stronger foundation than the US so its hard to tell.
[AP] An explosion has rocked Belgium’s criminology institute in the capital Brussels, but there were no injuries reported, local media said.
State broadcaster RTBF reported Monday that a car forced its way into the site “before exploding a bomb” about 2 a.m. (0000 GMT). No source for the information was given.
RTBF says no one was injured but that damage at the site is significant.
Police have deployed in force and sealed off the area.
The institute assists and advises Belgium’s justice authorities in carrying out their inquiries.
Belgium has been on high alert since a March 22 attack on the Brussels airport and subway killed 32 people.
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So if nobody was injured, the driver must have gotten away before the detonation.
Unless that there is one of those new-fangled autonomous vehicles that was off its meds.
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Attackers rammed a car through the gates of Belgium's national crime laboratory on Monday in Brussels and then started a fire in what officials said may have been an attempt to destroy evidence.
Five people were arrested nearby but later released, while prosecutors said there was no confirmed link to terrorism so far. No one was injured in the fire or by a large explosion which shook houses nearby.
"This location was not chosen randomly," said Ine Van Wymersch, a spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor's office, adding that the institute deals with "sensitive information in connection with several ongoing cases."
Prosecutors had opened a investigation into "deliberate arson of a building and damage by explosion," while bomb disposal experts attended the scene.
"The possibility of a terrorist act is not confirmed. It goes without saying that several individuals may have wanted to destroy evidence related to their legal cases," Van Wymersch added.
She said that "several attackers forced their way into the institute using their car and were able to attack the building" and had apparently deliberately targeted the wing where the laboratories are located.
Part of the building was scorched and burned out, an AFP reporter saw, while a burned out car was lifted from the scene by a crane.
Fire service spokesman Pierre Meys said there was an "extremely powerful" explosion, adding: "Windows of the lab were blown out dozens of meters away."
He said about 30 firefighters were at the scene at around 3:00am (0100 GMT) fighting the blaze.
Federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."
CNN aviation and regulation correspondent Rene Marsh investigates the state of the country's bridges, railways, airports and pipelines in a four-part series: America's Crumbling Infrastructure. Check back here from now through Monday.
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What happened to the $700 billion that was supposed to go to "shovel ready" projects? Did the check not clear? How could we spend that much on infrastructure and still be behind?
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Most of the money went to "human infrastructure". ..the bloating of the federal bureaucracy with tens of thousands of liberal arts and wymyn's studies majors. That's why your roads, highways, bridges and electric stink on ice.
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My state's cut went to keep teachers on the payroll and avoid the layoffs and firings that were happening in the taxpayer world. Then again it was a Donk governor. Need to keep the checks rolling in to the party.
BEIRUT: At least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Syria’s Aleppo city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
The Britain-based group said regime aircraft had dropped two explosive-packed barrel bombs several minutes apart on the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo.
The strikes hit “near a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighboring district of Bab Al-Nayrab,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“There was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered and the ambulances arrived, a second barrel struck and there were more deaths,” an AFP reporter in the rebel-held part of the city said.
“One ambulance was completely destroyed,” he added, citing the local civil defense unit.
The Observatory said dozens more were injured in the two strikes and the death toll was expected to rise.
Saturday’s deadly strikes come after 15 people, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on Bab Al-Nayrab on Thursday.
The local Shabha Press news agency said 23 people were killed in Saturday’s attack, and published photos showing several of the dead, including a man who appeared to have been riding a motorbike at the time of the strike.
Most of his blood soaked body lay on one side of the overturned bike, but his severed leg lay on the other side.
Once Syria’s economic powerhouse, Aleppo city has been ravaged by the conflict that began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
The city has been roughly divided between rebel control in the east and government control in the west since mid-2012.
Syria’s regime has been accused of regularly using barrel bombs — crude, explosive devices — on rebel-held areas that are home to civilians.
Other parties to the conflict are not known to have used the weapons.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that the leader of ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ... , was injured in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the country’s airforce.
"We learned that in an Arclight airstrike by the Nigeria air force he was maimed," Buhari said in a statement on Sunday from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where he is attending a development conference.
He also went on to claim that the Lions of Islam were in a bad position.
"Indeed their top hierarchy and lower cadre have a problem," Buhari said, adding, "They are not holding any territory and they have split into small groups attacking soft targets."
Last week Nigeria’s military said Shekau was maimed in an Arclight airstrike but released no further evidence or statement on his condition.
PressTV reported that according to ISIS-linked media, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, a former front man for Boko Haram, has replaced Shekau, who had been in charge since 2009. It was not clear why the change has taken place.
Shekau later released an audio message saying, "People should know we are still around," apparently defying ISIS and the decision to oust him.
Barnawi claimed his group remains "a force to be reckoned with," adding that the fight would go on against West African countries.
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[ ] Dead
[ ] Mostly dead
[ [ Dead last week
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[x] An unexpected e-mail from Nigeria arrives....
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Saturday, 27 August 2016
The Houthis militias in Yemen have refused to surrender their ballistic missiles in an implicit rejection of the initiative put forward by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, two days ago in Jeddah, according to Anatolia news agency.
According to the statement, the Houthis pledged to carry on with the will to fight, and to retain the necessary capacity and capabilities as he promised to redouble his efforts at all levels in order to achieve that.
Kerry's initiative called to form a national unity government with the participation of the militias, their withdrawal from Sanaa, and handing their heavy weapons. The Houthis did not comment on Kerry’s initiative.
This includes weapons and ballistic missiles, which he described Kerry's threat to Saudi Arabia and the region as well as the United States.
Houthi attempt to lay Taiz under siege
The Yemeni army has made a series of advances with the assistance of the UN-backed Saudi-led coalition forces, army spokesman Brigadier General Samir Haj has said.
But he added that Houthi militias had launched a strong attack on Mount Han off the western entrance to Taiz in an attempt to regain control.
He said Houthi militias and the ousted Ali Saleh were deploying more heavy weaponry around Taiz province in an attempt to lay the city under siege.
In recent days, government forces in Yemen’s third largest city unleashed a major military offensive to push rebel forces out of Taiz and put an end to the more than a year of siege which has brought its occupants to the brink of starvation.
The mountain is located in the western entrance of the city that overlooks a vital road that links it to the port city of Aden.
Earlier this year in March, residents enjoyed a brief respite from the Al Houthi-imposed siege when government forces liberated the western side of the city and opened up the road to Aden.
Last Update: Saturday, 27 August 2016 KSA 16:07 - GMT 13:07
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The Houthis militias in Yemen have refused to surrender their ballistic missiles in an implicit rejection of the initiative put forward by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, two days ago in Jeddah, according to Anatolia news agency.
This Putz gets slapped around by everyone from Putin to Houthis. I'm beginning to think he likes it
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[Philippine Star} At least 22 Abu Sayyaf militants have been killed in ongoing military operations in Patikul, Sulu that began on Friday, following President Duterte's orders to crush the rebels.
Joint Task Force Sulu commander Arnel dela Vega yesterday reported no casualty among Philippine troops in the clash.
The security force launched an attack an Abu Sayyaf stronghold in Barangay Latih on Saturday, killing three militants. The soldiers gave chase to the more than a hundred Abu Sayyaf militants that managed to escape following the encounter on Friday in Barangay Bungkaong.
Last Friday's encounter left 11 rebels dead, including Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Mohammad Said, alias Ama Maas. Eight other rebels were confirmed dead, based on reports about bodies found at the scene of the firefight.
President Duterte had ordered the military to go after the Abu Sayyaf following the beheading of James Patrick Almodovar last week. The militants kidnapped Almodovar last July 16 outside his home in Jolo. The rebels beheaded the 18-year-old after the deadline to pay P1-million ransom lapsed Wednesday afternoon.
Responding to the incident, Duterte vowed on Thursday to annihilate the insurgent group. He said,"My order to the police and to the armed forces: seek them out in their lairs and destroy them."
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[RFE/RL] Turkey has extradited five Macedonians for attempting to join Daesh.
Macedonia's Interior Ministry said on August 27 that the five were nabbed by Turkish police, in collaboration with their Macedonian counterparts, two weeks ago in Istanbul. The five were aged between 18 and 24 years old.
The ministry said several other people were also captured in the raid in Istanbul. It added that those who were extradited were charged by Macedonian authorities and remain in custody.
Over the past year, Macedonia has sentenced 11 people attempting to join Daesh and has charged seven others.
Macedonian authorities said 25 of its citizens have been killed fighting with Daesh militants in Syria or Iraq and estimate that another 50 are still fighting there.
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Part and parcel of that Alt-Right CRAZY CAT LADY meme is advertising scientific studies about the fact that hormonal birth control makes women act and smell different — act less sexy — during the most fertile days of their monthly cycle.
Making this study popular study is a huge indictment of feminism in general and first-generation feminists in particular. It is intended as such. Such offensive but hard-truth lines are intended as an opening move of a seduction routine for career women on the “cat lady track”.
That Hillary as a “first generation feminist” is parroted by Milo Yiannopoulos in a Presidential-candidate address citing that birth-control study shows that the Alt-Right is living in Hillary’s head rent-free.
It was Hillary’s Megyn Kelly moment.
That Trump, who Hillary accuses of being Alt-Right, recognizes that point goes without saying.
Trump is going to use this “Hillary the CRAZY CAT LADY” meme for all that is worth between now and election day.
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But she has no cats. There is no room in her life for cats. She is a power-hungry narcissist with a sense of entitlement like Obama. The meme will have to be changed to CRAZY FAT LADY.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] A teen has reportedly died after getting a hickey from his girlfriend that caused him to have a stroke .
Julio Macias Gonzalez started having convulsions at the dinner table with his family in Mexico City after spending an evening with his girlfriend.
Paramedics were dispatched to the scene but the 17-year-old could not be saved.
It is thought that the suction of the love bite – also known as a ‘hickey’ – caused a blood clot that traveled to Julio’s brain and caused him to have a stroke.
His 24-year-old girlfriend has now disappeared and the boy’s parents are apparently now blaming her for his death.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghanistan has reportedly deported 250 Pak workers as deadlock persists along the Durand Line near Chaman with the crossing remaining closed for the 10th consecutive day.
A Pak official quoted in reports by local media said the Afghan officials had expelled over 250 Pak laborers during last 10 days after the border was closed.
The crossing, Friendship Gate, was closed ten days ago after the Pak officials claimed that several Afghan demonstrators attacked the gate and set the Pak flag on fire.
Numerous attempts have been made to resolve the issue and reopen the crossing but no breakthrough has been made so far.
The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supplies and cross border trade activities were also suspended on 10th consecutive day on Saturday.
Earlier tensions intensified between the two neighboring countries on several occassions during the past recent months, mainly due to the establishment of gates and other installations.
The Afghan and Pak forces exchanged fire in Torkham earlier in June which resulted in to the closure of the gate for several days.
Both the Afghan and Pak forces suffered casualties during the festivities that erupted due to the construction of a gate by Pakistain which the Afghan officials called a unilateral move and against a bilateral agreement between the two nations.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three athletes were maimed in an kaboom in Jalalabad city the picturesque provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place earlier today near Behsud bridge.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani confirmed that 3 athletes were maimed after the explosives planted near a park close to Behsud bridge exploded.
Khogyani further added that the incident took place around 6:00 am local time and the injured individuals were shifted to hospital for treatment.
According to Khogyani the health condition of the injured individuals is satisfactory and are being treated in the hospital.
No group including the Talibs has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Taliban turbans and Death Eaters loyal to 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Nangarhar province.
Today’s incident comes as the Afghan cops are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against the Taliban and ISIS loyalists in this province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom took place in the vicinity of the 8th police district of 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.... city earlier today leaving at least one person maimed.
According to the security sources, the incident took place in Qala-e-Hashmat Khan area after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded near a security check post.
The sources further added that the victim of the incident was a civilian who sustained injuries when the incident took place.
No group including the Taliban gunnies have so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Earlier one person lost his life in a similar incident in Qala-e-Zaman Khan area of the city around a week ago.
The latest incident in Kabul comes three days after a deadly attack rocked Kabul city with a group of Death Eaters launching a coordinated attack on American University in Kabul.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty handed down to a member of banned murderous Moslem outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for carrying out a suicide kaboom that killed two judges in Jhalakathi in 2005.
A five-member Appellate Division panel headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the verdict, rejecting the review plea filed by Asadul Islam on Sunday morning.
Senior assistant judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in the suicide kaboom on November 14, 2005.
The Appellate Division had upheld death sentence of seven JMB leaders, including its chief Abdur Rahman, second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and Asadul, in the case.
The death sentences of all the turbans but Asadul were executed in 2007. Asadul was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the same year and has remained in jail. He filed the review petition against the apex court verdict this year.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Hats off to our law enforcement agencies on another successful raid.
The killing of Gulshan attack criminal mastermind Tamim Chowdhury as well as two other hard boyz in a coordinated and precise operation is a major step towards rooting out militancy in the country.
The success of Operation Hit Strong 27, along with the July 26 raid on a Kallyanpur building, has shown that Bangladesh is taking the threat of terror very seriously, and our law enforcement agencies -- the counter-terrorism and transnational crime unit, RAB, and police -- are more than up to the challenging task of hitting back at terrorists.
This is tremendously reassuring for the public, and goes a long way toward restoring faith in our institutions.
Now, let us build on this success and truly put an end to terror and militancy in Bangladesh. As shown by Operation Hit Strong 27, we have the capability as well as the capacity to do so. All that is needed is the political will to take the battle to the terrorists.
It is a pity that Tamim, a Bangladeshi-Canadian, could not be captured alive, as it is possible that useful information could have been obtained from him. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... there is good reason to believe there was no other recourse, and the shootout that ensued after law enforcement officials tried to enter the three-storey house necessitated the killing of Tamim and his two accomplices.
Outcomes of such raids are hardly ever perfect, but we have no reason to think more force was used than was needed in yesterday’s operation.
The entire nation was shaken after the horrific attack on Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1. Clinical and professional operations of this nature, then, are the need of the hour to root our hard boyz from our society, and to ensure the safety of the public.
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I'm hoping that someone is going through and reestablishing his actions and circle of acquaintances for all that time he was here in the West.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A bully boy coordinating the movement of fighters for 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Jalalabad city, the thriving provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said Abdul Rahman also known as Badam son of Bahram was arrested from the 2nd police district of Jalalabad city.
According to a statement by NDS, Abdul Rahman was involved in coordinating the movement of fighters for the terror group from Jalalabad city to Kot district.
The statement further added that three individuals were also arrested together with Abdul Rahman as he was attempting to shift them to Kot so that they can join the terror group.
The Afghan intelligence operatives arrested four other individuals belonging to Taliban capo Amin ul Haq from Jalalabad city, NDS added.
According to NDS, the group was involved in bombing, kabooms and liquidation of tribal edlers in Jalalabad.
The detained individuals have been identified as Abdul Razaq son of Malang, Sher Mohammad son of Abdul Zia ul Haq son of Hazrat Mohammad, and Zakir also known as Bozorg son of Juma Khan.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Moslemturbans supporting the ISIS group freed eight fellow gunnies in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday.
About 20 heavily-armed fighters of the Maute bad boy group stormed the Lanao del Sur provincial jail in Marawi city before nightfall on Saturday, disarmed the guards and rescued their eight comrades. The attackers also seized two rifles from guards, police said.
The eight who escaped were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a week ago when they were caught with a homemade bomb in van at a security checkpoint.
The others who escaped, apparently to divert the attention of authorities, were facing murder and illegal drugs charges.
The Maute group is a new band of armed Moslem radicals, who have pledged allegiance to the ISIS group and use black flags with logos of the Middle East-based turbans.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Erdogan has sworn at the "Unity, Solidarity, and Brotherhood" rally held in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s southeastern Gaziantep province on Sunday that he will eradicate all forms of terrorism from its border with Syria. He was referring to ISIS and the Kurdish YPG who are aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party of Turkey that Ankara recognises as a terrorist group.
He continued that Turkey is "ready and determined" to rid the borders of gunnies and that "our operations against terrorist organizations will continue until the end."
"If necessary, we will not hesitate to take responsibility in other regions," without specifying which regions.
Although Turkey’s Euphrates Shield operation is only meant to extend on the western side of the Euphrates river, Kurdish sources have suggest that Ankara is preparing to attack Kobani on the east side of the river.
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even Erdogan's fan boys will start losing faith in him after he keeps making these kinds of 'final victory' statements and terrorism in Turkey keeps happening
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Since Turkey itself, being a Muslim country, is full of potential terrorists...
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History might point to Turkey as a festering pustule of malignant ooze. The specifics of the malignancy are at long-last being recognized. The 'Sick Man' yes, but not of Europe.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Units from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) foiled a major 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.... offensive on Ummal district of Deir El Zor city.
About 15 bad boyz were potted or injured forcing the remaining Death Eaters to retreat.
It appears that the notorious terror group hasn’t launched a major attack on the embattled city for over a week due to a lack of manpower in the group’s ranks.
Many jihadists were sent to southern Hasakah for the Shaddadi offensive while others were sent to the eastern countryside of Aleppo to defend the city of Al-Bab.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a member of the negotiating team that reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary front man said on Sunday.
The suspect was released on bail after a few days in jail but is still under investigation, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said at a weekly news conference, calling the unidentified individual a "spy who had infiltrated the nuclear team," state media reported.
The deal that President Hassan Rowhani struck last year has given Iran relief from most international sanctions in return for curbing its nuclear program, but it is opposed by hardliners who see it as a capitulation to the United States.
Ejei was responding to a question about an Iranian politician’s assertion last week that a member of the negotiation team who had dual nationality had been arrested on espionage charges.
Tehran’s prosecutor general on Aug. 16 announced the arrest of a dual national he said was linked to British intelligence, but made no mention of the person being in the nuclear negotiations team. On Sunday, Ejei did not explicitly confirm that the arrested person had a second nationality.
Britannia said on Aug. 16 that it was trying to find out more about the arrest of a joint-national.
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Wrong one. Try again
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Apparently they aren't aware of the spies amongst the hardliners, either.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was pressing members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, to condemn the Syrian regime following a report that found Syrian government troops used chemical weapons.
"I see no reason that could be given, or any arguments that could be made, for not condemning the use of chemical weapons," he said, when asked if Russia would support the resolution.
A joint investigation by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW found that Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks and ISIS turbans used sulfur mustard gas.
The inquiry found there was sufficient information to conclude that Syrian Arab Air Force helicopters dropped devices that then released toxic substances in Talmenes on April 21, 2014 and Sarmin on March 16, 2015, both in Idlib province. Both cases involved the use of chlorine.
On Saturday, Ayrault said the UN report represented a chance to push Russia to accept a resolution condemning the Syrian regime and resume political negotiations.
Russia said on Thursday it was prepared to work with the United States on a response to the UN report.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea hit back on Sunday at a UN Security Council statement condemning its latest test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, and threatened to take further steps as "a full-fledged military power".
The 15-member council agreed on Friday to "take further significant measures" against North Korea, just days after the SLBM launch.
North Korea is barred under UN resolutions from any use of ballistic missile technology, but has carried out several launches following its fourth nuclear test in January.
A front man for the North’s foreign ministry labelled the UN statement a "product of brigandish acts of the US" and said Washington had ignored a warning about "hurting its dignity."
"Now that the US posed threats to the dignity and the right to existence of the DPRK (North Korea) defying its serious warning, it will continue to take a series of eventful action steps as a full-fledged military power," the front man said.
"The DPRK has substantial means capable of reducing aggression troops in the US mainland and the operation theatre in the Pacific to ashes in a moment," the front man added in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Thursday described the latest SLBM test as the "greatest success" and said it put the US mainland and the Pacific within striking range.
The missile was fired from a submarine off the northeastern port of Sinpo on Wednesday. It flew 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, far exceeding the range of the North’s previous sub-launched missiles.
A proven SLBM system would take North Korea’s nuclear strike threat to a new level, allowing deployment far beyond the Korean peninsula and a "second-strike" capability in the event of an attack on its military bases.
Analysts say that while Pyongyang has made faster progress in its SLBM system than originally expected, it is still years away from deployment.
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[Breitbart] NEW YORK CITY, New York -- Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who served for more than two years as the director of President Barack Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), leveled explosive charges against the President and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an exclusive hour-long interview with Breitbart News Daily on Friday.
Specifically, during an exclusive interview about his book The Field of Fight, Flynn said that Obama and Clinton were not interested in hearing intelligence that did not fit their "happy talk" narrative about the Middle East. In fact, he alleged the administration actively scrubbed training manuals and purged from the military ranks any thinking about the concept of radical Islamism. Flynn argued that this effort by Obama, Clinton and others to reduce the intelligence community to gathering only facts that the senior administration officials wanted to hear--rather than what they needed to hear--helped the enemy fester and grow, while weakening the United States on the world stage.
"The administration has basically denied the fact that we have this problem with ’Radical Islamists,’" Flynn said during the interview. "And this is a very vicious, barbaric enemy and I recognize in the book that there is an alliance of countries that are dedicated basically against our way of life and they support different groups in the Islamic movement, principally the Islamic State and formerly Al Qaeda--although Al Qaeda still exists. The administration denied the fact that this even existed and then told those of us in the government to basically excise the phrase ’radical Islamism’ out of our entire culture, out of our training manuals, everything. That was a big argument I had internally and I talked a little bit about it in the Senate testimony that I gave two years back."
Later in the interview, Flynn was even more specific, calling out Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not wanting to hear all the facts about what was happening in the Middle East--only some of them.
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I don't know who he voted for. None of my business. I can however say that, nothing I've seen that he has written or said appears to be anything but entirely accurate. Only my opinion of course.
Unfortunately, no one in our feckless congress seems capable or will to 'level explosive charges' against our Kenyan master and his regime.
AMUDE – Syrian Kurds have accused Turkish troops of committing a massacre against civilians in the villages of Jeb al-Kousa and Megher-Sresat, south of Jarabulus. According to human rights organisations, at least 20 Arab civilians were killed and 50 injured under Turkish bombardment.
“Turkish artillery shelling and airstrikes left dozens of casualties among civilians in the villages Megher-Sresat and Kousa,” spokesman of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) Sharvan Darwish said on Sunday.
“While our forces fighting ISIS, some Turkey-backed militias are attacking our positions and hampering our and international Coalition’s fight against terror,” he stated.
Also, the Kurdish organization TEV-DEM, linked to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), on Sunday accused the rebels and Turkish army of killing dozens of unarmed civilians, saying it’s a sign of the ‘Turkish occupation’.
Turkey claimed they had killed ’25 militants from the PKK’, despite the fact that many international human rights organizations said that civilians were killed. Injured civilians were transported to hospitals in Kobane and the city of Qamishli.
“This massacre, which resulted in killing dozens of innocent civilians, proves that Turkey-backed rebels continue their attacks against all Syrian groups and seeking to deepen the Syrian crisis, in order to divide Syrian territories,” TEV-DEM said.
“We condemn the massacre being committed in the villages of Jeb al-Kousa and Megher-Sresat by Turkish occupier troops and the mercenaries who occupied Jarabulus city,” the organisation added.
TEV-DEM called on human rights organizations and the international community to intervene to stop the Turkish occupation of Syrian cities. Moreover, the ‘Free People Initiative’ called on Syrians to protest the ‘Turkish occupiers.’
“We call on all Syrian groups to do everything possible until the withdrawal of the Turkish occupier, hand by hand until the expulsion of the last occupier,” the group said.
HOMS – Clashes broke out between Syrian army forces and militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) near the ancient city of Palmyra in Homs province, activists reported on Monday.
ISIS fighters launched an offensive on a Syrian army base in the al-Talela district in the vicinity of Palmyra in eastern Homs, bombing the base with a number of mortar shells.
“At least seven soldiers were killed and over a dozen more wounded in ISIS bombardment in the al-Talela base,” media activist Khaled al-Abdullah told ARA News in Palmyra.
In response, Syrian warplanes hit ISIS fighting positions near Palmyra, forcing the militants to withdraw.
“The ISIS withdrawal came after the group lost a number of its militants in clashes with Syrian army forces, and five of its vehicles were destroyed under airstrikes,” the source reported.
The Islamic State takes al-Sawami district in eastern Homs as a main stronghold, from which the group launches its attacks on pro-regime troops in the province.
In May 2015, ISIS took over Palmyra after fierce battles with Syrian regime army forces.
In March 2016, the pro-regime troops supported by Russian air force were able to impose full control over Palmyra downtown after ISIS extremists retreated towards the northern villages of Palmyra and its eastern outskirts. The group’s leadership has later ordered its militants to withdraw towards its main bastion of Raqqa, northeastern Syria.
SHANGLA: Police on Sunday arrested three suspected terrorists and recovered a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition from their vehicle.
“A team of Diamer police stopped a white Toyota Corolla at a post in Chilas and recovered one SMG, one shotgun, a M-16 assault rifle and around 850 bullets,” said a security official.
The official added that a tip of regarding the vehicle had been received.
Weapons seized by the police. -Photo provided by author
Weapons seized by the police. -Photo provided by author
“The arrested individuals are the brother and close relatives of wanted terrorist Mujib ur Rehman, and the government has announced head money of Rs2 million for his arrest,” said SSP Diamer Shoaib Khurram Janbaz.
The police official added that a case has been registered against the arrested individuals and further investigation is being carried out.
In March, two soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in a gunfight in Chilas town.
Nine foreign tourists and one of their Pakistani guides were killed in a Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan-claimed attack at the 4,200-meter base camp of Nanga Parbat, the country’s second highest peak on June 23, 2013.
An army colonel, a captain and a senior superintendent of police (SSP), investigating the massacre were later killed in Chilas on August 6 2013.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A would-be jacket wallah’s explosives failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass, and he injured a priest with an axe before being restrained, police said.
The 18-year-old assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar, but a bomb in his backpack only burned without exploding, said national police front man Maj. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.
Before he was restrained by members of the congregation, the man managed to take an axe from the backpack and attacked the Rev. Albert Pandiangan, causing a slight injury to the 60-year-old priest’s hand, Amar said.
The motive for the attack at the Roman Catholic St. Yoseph Church in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, was not clear, but the perpetrator carried a symbol indicating support for the ISIS.
Police were interrogating the man, who told them he was not working alone, Amar said, without providing details.
Eyewitness account
An eyewitness, Markus Harianto Manullan, said the assailant wore a jacket and carried a bag.
"He sat in the same row as I did... I saw him fiddling with something in his jacket, and then I heard a small kaboom and he immediately ran to the podium," Manullan said.
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"The motive for the attack was not clear".
Yeah, right.
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The Palestian Water Authorrity and the Sa’ir Municipality are at odds over the disappearance of large amounts of water from Sa’ir, a town of 25,000 northeast of Hebron, as the region experiences water shortages.
The PWA, which coordinates and regulates the distribution of water in the Palestinian territories, said August 12 it had uncovered an ongoing water-theft operation in the village.
A number of Sa’ir residents have long made illegal openings in the village’s pipes, diverting water without the knowledge of the water authority. However, in this case, the authority accused the Sa’ir Municipality of being behind the theft and, in coordination with the Palestinian Customs Authority, arrested 13 municipal employees, including Mayor Kayed Jaradat.
[Dhaka Tribune] Police have identified Jessore native Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dhaka's Dhanmondi resident Tausif Hossain as the two bully boyz who were killed along with suspected Gulshan attack criminal mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury during Saturday's raid in Narayanganj.
The chief of DMP’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Monirul Islam, confirmed the names to the Dhaka Tribune.
"We found a national identity card in Rabbi’s pocket that helped us in identifying him," Monirul said.
"Jessore police had made an anti-militancy poster that contained the pictures and names of some bully boyz from the district. His [Rabbi’s] name is also there in the poster.
"We think the other myrmidon is Nibras Islam’s friend Tausif Hossain, but we are not a hundred percent sure," the CTTC unit chief said.
On the other hand, one of the doctors who carried out autopsies on the three myrmidons, said all of them had bullet wounds on their heads and bodies.
Dr Sohel Mahmud, an assistant professor at the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College, said a three-member team carried out the post-mortem examination of the men who were still unidentified to them.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the person who the media identified as Tamim had a single bullet wound to the head, he said.
The other two men also had bullet exit wounds to their heads and bodies, as well as having bomb splinters embedded in their bodies, Dr Mahmud said.
Blood, hair and tissue samples from the myrmidons’ bodies have been sent to a chemical laboratory in Mohakhali, he added.
The other two members of the autopsy board were Dr Prodip Bishwas and Dr Kabir Chowdhury.
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"We found a national identity card in Rabbi’s pocket that helped us in identifying him," Monirul said.
"The Justice Department claims requesting additional work-authorization documents from these workers may violate a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) designed to protect individuals from excessive employer demands based on their nationality."
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So our Justice Department, charged with enforcing the law, is now ordering employers to violate the law.
Perfect!
This country is in dire need of a Cleansing.
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Crony Capitalism 101: selective application of the law to benefit the favored. What would happen if a known Republican supporter was caught in this Kafkaesque situation.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Footage emerged of Turkish-sponsored Islamist rebels beating up captured fighters from the predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Clashes are intensifying between the two western-backed factions as the former advances on the latter south of Jarablus.
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By AFP, Najran, Saudi Arabia
Saturday, 27 August 2016
A rocket fired from Yemen killed a three-year-old boy Saturday in the Saudi border region of Najran, a civil defense official said, in the latest cross-border attack by Iran-backed Yemeni rebels.
Major Ali al-Shahrani, civil defense spokesman in southwest Saudi Arabia, told reporters a nine-year-old brother of the boy was also wounded when a Katyusha rocket hit their family’s home.
The attack came a day after rockets fired from Yemen struck a power station in Najran, marking a rare hit on Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure after months of periodic bombardment of the area.
Attacks have intensified since the suspension in early August of UN-brokered peace talks between the Shiite Huthi militia and their allies, and Yemen’s internationally-recognized government which has the military support of a Saudi-led Arab coalition.
Ten people have been killed in Najran since Aug. 16, when a single strike claimed seven lives.
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Last Update: Saturday, 27 August 2016 KSA 21:32 - GMT 18:32
[Daily Caller] Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis warned the next U.S. president against engaging in isolationism, explaining that maintaining a role in the chaotic Middle East is the only way to fight terrorism.
The Middle East is currently "experiencing the most turmoil since the end of the Ottoman Empire -- that’s the World War I time frame -- and it’s getting worse," said the 40-year Marine Corps veteran, while speaking at Washington State University Tuesday. "At the same time, U.S. influence in the region is at its lowest ebb in 40 years."
Mattis said that while military experience isn’t necessarily required for the presidency, it is crucial that whoever occupies the White House is able to resist America's "always present appetite for isolationism."
If anyone is familiar with the Middle East's problems, it is Mattis. The retired general spent 40 years in the Marines, much of that in the Middle East itself. Mattis' hardened, yet sober, view on the region would eventually earn him the top job at U.S. Central Command.
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Is this the one and same James ""I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all"-Mattis? He was sacked in a very chicken $hit manner by the WH; they sent him an unexpected note (no face-to-face) from left field. Apparently he pissed off the civilian warfighters (sarc)contingency, Susan Rice, etc. This was a part of the purge by Obean.
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Mattis said that while military experience isn’t necessarily required for the presidency, it is crucial that whoever occupies the White House is able to resist America's "always present appetite for isolationism."
The general seems to forget the principle of war known as 'economy of force'. We no longer have a million man Army to spread around the world. You have to pick your fights and not let others pick them for you. To paraphrase Fredrick the Great - he who defends everything, defends nothing.
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Although I respect the General, I really don't understand his message here.
In the caffeine induced clarity of this Monday morning...even I realize that we (Obama and Bush) lost this war. We can't jump back in at this point and win it with more "influence", advisers, or strategic air power.
However, we can take time, learn our lessons, rebuild a military and intel capability that can win wars in the ME as well as confront and contain the strategic threats...to include our first priority - stopping the clear and present illegal narcotics danger flowing across our southern border.
We are not there either in capability or national will. No need to rush back in to the ME at this point. We have fish to fry closer to home.
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Middle eastern conflicts should be viewed through the lens of hundreds, possibly thousands of years of history. Let them continue to slug it out. If they get out of their lanes, push them back in. The entire region [less Israel] isn't worth a pale of camel piss.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk revealed that in an armed clash between ISIS members in Hawija district injured eight members of the outfit and killed two others.
Sharing details the source informed, “This morning, a number of ISIS members tried to flee Hawija district and surrender in front of the Peshmerga forces. These members were intercepted by some other members of the outfit and both the parties got engaged in an armed clash. In the clash, two ISIS men were killed while eight others were severely injured.”
“ISIS has summoned an additional force of 40 members to search for the fleeing members inside the nearby villages, agricultural lands and farms,” the source added.
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That woman is frog-in-a-box mental.
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her counterpart here merely awaits her coronation
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Germany is like Germany because it is filled with Germans, or more precisely, people with German culture.
The Arab world is a mess because it is filled with Arabs, again more precisely, people with Arab culture.
In the best case, adding more Arab culture will make Germany more like the Arab world, an outcome that, to my narrow prejudiced mind, hardly seems desirable.
In the worst case, the two incompatible cultures will react exothermically and give you all the things you see in the news and more This seems even less desirable. I am puzzled why the Germans would do this.
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I just had a thought: maybe Merkel is a secret national socialist --- because importing Muslims is, IMO, the surest way to restore German sentiment for the Reich?
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I thought 1939-45 taught a good number of Germans to ditch the blind obedience to orders by higher authorities trait. She better get a clue before someone calls Claus von Stauffenberg to the courtesy phone.
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Refuse Muslims and expel those who are already in your midst, or perish. That is your choice.
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One wonders. In her youth Merkel joined the German Democratic Republic's Free German Youth (FDJ). Following university, at the Academy of Sciences she was a member of the FDJ district board and secretary for "Agitprop." Merkel herself has claimed she was their Secretary for Culture. Following the unification of Germany, and through a series of fortuitous events she acheived her present status. Like I say, one wonders.
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Seems elections are no longer about the populace choosing their leaders, but rather the other way around. Now, it's how the leaders choose a new populace.
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If they couldn't get along with Jews how the hell are they gonna get along with Arabs?
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We can't refuse them, otherwise we'd look like Trump!
- Frau Merkel
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Merkel baffles me. The fact that she hasn't been tossed on her ear baffles me even more. I was married to a German for a decade and I know they are filled with guilt but this is suicidal levels that will lead to the end of Germany or another genocide as the crazy nationalists gain control in response to the suicide.
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We're no better here. As a society we can't call Islamaniacs out for what they are. We are all going to politely die if we don't get the guts to speak up about the basics of behavior, and what ideologies tend to adhere to those basics and which ones don't.
[Dhaka Tribune] Tausif Hossain, one of the holy warriors killed in Saturday’s Narayanganj raid, had a quite privileged background, just like some other holy warriors so far killed in Gulshan siege, Kallyanpur raid and from the RAB’s suspect list.
"He was very quiet, polite boy and I’ve never seen him misbehaving with anyone. I’ve neither seen him hanging out with anyone nor anyone from the similar age-group ever visited him," that’s how Nannu Miah, a caretaker of the apartment building where Tausif’s family lives in Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi area, describes the dead krazed killer to the Dhaka Tribune.
Tausif, according to Nannu, had gone missing since February. Confirming the timeline. Nur-e-Azam Mia, officer-in-charge of the Dhanmondi Model cop shoppe, told the Dhaka Tribune that Tausif’s father Dr Ajmal Hossain filed a general diary (GD) with the cop shoppe on February 5, two days after his lone son had gone missing.
During the drive, police found two binoculars, few jihadi books and other essentials at the Narayanganj house Dhaka Tribune/Collected
During the drive, police found two binoculars, few jihadi books and other essentials at the Narayanganj house Dhaka Tribune/Collected
Connected with Gulshan, Sholakia, and Kallyanpur krazed killers?
The Holey Artisan attackers ‐ Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, and Meer Saameh Mubasser; Sholakia attacker Abeer Rahman; and Shazad Rouf Arko, the krazed killer who was killed during Kallyanpur raid last month went missing around the same time.
Like Nibras Islam, one of the five young attackers who was killed after a 12-hour siege on July 2 at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area, Tausif had also attended the Kuala Lumpur campus of Australia’s prestigious Monash University, the head of the Dhaka police counter-terrorism unit Monirul Islam informed news hounds on Sunday morning.
Quoting Malaysian police, Rooters reported last month that at least two of the holy warriors behind the posh eatery attack had attended Monash, although they did not name them. The holy warriors singled out non-Moslems and foreigners in the attack, killing Italians, Japanese, an American and an Indian.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Tausif’s name was not quite unfamiliar to the law enforcement agencies even before the RAB list had surfaced. Back in February, one 23-year-old Ahmed Shammur Raihan, jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by Shahbagh police in connection with a case for allegedly being involved in subversive activities, named Tausif as one of his known associates.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Syrian opposition fighters seized a number of villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Sunday amid Turkish Arclight airstrikes and shelling that killed at least 35 people according to opposition and a monitoring group.
Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian opposition fighters drive the ISIS group out of the frontier town of Jarablus last week in a dramatic escalation of its involvement in the Syrian civil war.
The operation, labeled Euphrates Shield, is also aimed at pushing back US-allied Kurdish forces.
Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said Turkish Arclight airstrikes killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" and destroyed five buildings used by the fighters in response to attacks on advancing Turkish-backed opposition fighters in the Jarablus area.
The Turkish military is "taking every precaution and showing maximum sensitivity to ensure that civilians living in the area are not harmed," Anadolu reported.
A Turkish soldier was killed by a Kurdish rocket attack late Saturday, the first such fatality in the offensive, now in its fifth day.
The SDF crossed the Euphrates River and drove ISIS out of Manbij, a key supply hub just south of Jarablus, earlier this month. Both Turkey and the United States have ordered the YPG to withdraw to the east bank of the river.
YPG leaders say they have, but their units play an advisory role to the SDF and it is not clear if any of their forces remain west of the Euphrates.
ANHA, the news agency of the Kurdish semi-autonomous areas, said Beir Khoussa has "reportedly lost all its residents."
SDF front man Shervan Darwish said the Arclight airstrikes and shelling started overnight and continued Sunday along the front line, killing many civilians in Beir Khoussa and nearby areas. He said the bombing also targeted Amarneh village. He said 50 Turkish tanks were taking part in the offensive.
An News Agency that Dare Not be Namednews hound in the Turkish border town of Karkamis spotted at least three Turkish jets flying into Syria amid heavy Turkish shelling from inside Syrian territory on Sunday morning.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The killing yesterday of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury by law enforcement agencies has closed one chapter in Bangladesh's struggle with violent extremism. But will the vacuum caused by his death open another?
Tamim had been identified as Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s operational leader in Bangladesh and was also known by the nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif. He was believed to have criminal masterminded the attacks this year on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka and Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj.
Operation Hit Strong 27, a precision sting operation on a residential building in Narayanganj, left three suspected bully boyz including Tamim dead. He and his associates were killed after they rejected an opportunity to surrender.
The demise of the "shadowy Canadian leader of IS in Bangladesh", to use the words of Amarnath Amarasingam, a fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism, raises questions about the future of terrorism in Bangladesh.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A case has been filed with Narayanganj Sadar Model cop shoppe on Sunday over killing of three snuffies in Narayanganj raid yesterday.
Officer-in-charge of the cop shoppe Asaduzzaman filed the case under Anti Terrorism Act 2009 as amended in 2013 accusing deceased Lion of Islam Tamim Chowdhury and two unidentified Lion of Islams, including several other unidentified persons, said Faruk Hossain, additional police super of the District Special Branch.
Two other killed snuffies will be included in the case as identified accused after the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit discloses their identities.
Earlier, Narayanganj District Police Super Moinul Haque said landlord Nur Uddin Dewan was shown locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for not providing the police with the tenants’s information.
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Although warned by US Vice President Joe Biden to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates or not receive US weapons and support, evidently this has not occurred.
[ALMASDARNEWS] With the capture of Amarnah village south of Jarabulus by the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Islamist proxies, many weapons and ID cards of Kurdish YPG Lions of Islam were taken.
Although warned by US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates or not receive US weapons and support, evidently this has not occurred.
Along with the ID cards held by Islamist fighters, many weapons formerly belonging to the YPG are now in the hands of the jihadist forces as their release photos demonstrate.
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you could hide 10 illegal immigrants, a suitcase nuke, and all the Fast and furious weaponry in that do - dude is all "ah, your eyes, all I see is your eyes" - Obama regime, MSM, Academia etc
Fred, dunno where you find these pics, scan old mags lots?
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A good start to Big Hair Week!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government pushed Sunday into the last areas of Sirte held by ISIS in what was the krazed killers’ coastal stronghold, a front man said.
"Our forces entered the last areas held by ISIS in Sirte: district number one and district number three," said Rida Issa, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"The final battle for Sirte has started," said the front man for forces backing the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based Government of National Accord.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... 18 fighters loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government were killed and 120 others maimed in festivities in Sirte, a medical source said.
A field hospital for the forces backing the GNA listed the names of the 18 fighters killed in the coastal city.
About 1,000 pro-GNA fighters were taking part in the offensive, he said, adding a tank had destroyed a bomb-rigged car before ISIS Death Eaters could use it to target the forces at the start of the assault.
An AFP photographer saw several tanks and armed vehicles move towards district number one and heard gunfire and rocket kabooms as they entered the northern neighborhood.
The pro-GNA forces said on their Facebook page that the offensive came "after air strikes overnight by the warplanes of international support."
Pro-GNA forces, backed since August 1 by US air strikes, began an assault in mid-May to expel ISIS from Sirte.
The Death Eaters seized control of the city, which had been the hometown of Libya’s slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... , in June 2015.
The pro-GNA forces fought their way into Sirte on June 9 and seized the krazed killers’ headquarters at the Ouagadougou conference center on August 10.
Since entering the city, they have faced a barrage of sniper fire, suicide kabooms and booby traps, pinning down the Death Eaters in a downtown area near the sea.
More than 350 pro-GNA fighters have been killed and nearly 2,000 maimed in the battle, according to medical sources. ISIS casualty figures are unavailable.
Bunyan Marous today fighter paid a heavy price as they advanced on the last two IS-held Sirte districts. At least 35 were killed and more than 180 injured. Throughout the day, Misrata Central hospital reported the death toll mounting.
BM media said that the terrorists had launched five car bombs. It appears that only one of them was destroyed before it could do any damage. This weapon, together with IEDs, booby traps and sniper fire has again accounted for the majority of BM casualties.
Some BM fighters still think the most effective way of attacking is to run into the middle of an open area and let off a belt of ammunition in the direction of the enemy.
It is clear from footage published today that some BM fighters still think the most effective way of attacking is to run into the middle of an open area and let off a belt of ammunition in the direction of the enemy. They then duck back to rejoin their comrades. Today, one such act of bravado came very close to hitting the cab of a technical that had reversed toward IS positions. These single acts of exposure without covering fire provide terrorist snipers with excellent targets.
BM says that around 1,000 fighters are closing in on districts 1 and 3 where IS fighters are still holding out. The break in the fighting since Thursday was reportedly to allow wives and children of terrorist fights to leave, though there is no clear evidence that this has happened. The battle for Sirte has progressed with a series of pauses of several days in between attacks.
The final stages of the advance are proving expensive in human lives. It now seems that more than 400, mostly Misratan fighters have been killed and well over 2,000 wounded since May. As of yesterday, BM was admitting that 370 men had been died but hospital sources suggest the toll is higher.
Approaching 100 US air strikes by fast jets, drones and more recently helicopter gunships have targeted IS strong points and suspected vehicle bombs. Overnight there were more air attacks, very probably by American warplanes, to soften up the terrorists before this morning’s assault. Through the morning, a black pall of smoke was rising from within IS territory.
Fighting had actually begun last night in District 2. One report said that the terrorists had tried an abortive counterattack. A maritime blockade, led by a converted Misratan Free Zone tug has sought to stop terrorists escaping or being resupplied by sea.
From Libya Observer Death toll of Sirte battle against IS terrorists rises to 450
The spokesman of the Misrata Central Hospital, Akram Gliwan, said the number of deaths for Al-Bunyan AL-Marsoos operation since its start in May has risen to 450 fighters so far, adding that the hospital has hospitalized over 2,100 injured fighters up until August 27.Gliwan said the hospital has very limited equipment and very insufficient capacity that allows it to hospitalize no more than 120 injuries (with only 120 beds), yet this capacity has been exceeded more than once over the last three months.
Speaking on the phone with The Libya Observer, Gliwan said the Misrata Central Hospital is suffering from acute shortages in medical staff and nurses, which made mandatory for the hospital to fall back on the medical students instead. He added that almost all of the medicines stock of the hospital has been used; leaving the hospital completely reliant on the aids it receives from private and public sectors and civil societies.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Houthi-run governing council said on Sunday it was ready to restart peace talks with the country’s exiled government provided a Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and besieging Houthi-held territories.
UN-sponsored negotiations to end 18 months of fighting in the impoverished country on 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... ’s southern border collapsed earlier this month and the dominant Iran-allied Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement there resumed shelling attacks into the kingdom.
At its weekly meeting at Sanaa’s presidential palace, the council said that its willingness to restart peace talks was contingent on the "total cessation of the aggression and lifting of the unjust siege on the Yemeni people."
In talks in Jeddah this week, US 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... said the conflict had gone on too long and needed to end.
He said the Iran-backed Houthi militia group must cease shelling across the border with Saudi Arabia, pull back from the capital Sanaa, cede their weapons and enter into a unity government with their domestic foes.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government, based in Saudi Arabia, has made similar demands but insisted that the Houthis fulfill all those measures before any new government was formed. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Kerry suggested they could move ahead in parallel.
The exiled government suggested in a statement carried by the Saba news agency that it was prepared to consider the ideas outlined by Kerry.
It said: "The government is prepared to deal positively with any peaceful solutions ... including an initial welcoming of the ideas resulting from the meeting in Jeddah that included the foreign secretaries of the US, the United Kingdom and Gulf states."
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"Hudna! Re-Arm!"
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[ALMASDARNEWS] China’s Xinhua News has reported that more than 5,000 Yemeni fighters have been recruited by the Saudi regime from Aden and other areas of southern Yemen.
This new fighting force will be trained to fight alongside Saudi border guards who are finding it difficult from stopping Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces penetrating from northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... into 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... ’s southern Najran province.
The newly-recruited fighters will most likely be operating along the Najran Saudi-Yemeni border.
Xinhua News also reported that the first 350 recruited fighters have already left Aden to an Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n island enroute to Saudi Arabia.
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This new fighting force will be trained to fight alongside Saudi border guards die gloriouly as Allah's own cannon fodder - or might just bite the hand that feeds em
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Hire southerners to guard the northern border. Smacks of desperation to me.
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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When you hear about the possible insufficiency, unreliability, or lack of resiliency of the U.S. power grid, your mind might naturally move toward the extreme, perhaps National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers. Talks about what a U.S. power grid failure could really mean are also often likened to survivalist blogs that speak of building faraday cages and hoarding food, or possibly some riveting blockbuster movie about a well-intentioned government-sponsored genetically altered mosquito that leads to some zombie apocalypse.
But in the event of a power grid failure—and we have more than our fair share here in the U.S.—your survivalist savvy may be all for naught.
This horror story doesn’t need zombies or genetically altered mosquitos in order to be scary. Using data from the United States Department of Energy, the International Business Times reported in 2014 that the United States suffers more blackouts than any other developed country in the world.
Unfortunately, not much has been done since then to alleviate the system’s critical vulnerabilities.
In theory, we all understand the wisdom about not putting all our eggs in one basket, as the old-adage goes. Yet the U.S. has done just that with our U.S. power grid. Sadly, this infrastructure is failing, and compared to many other countries, the U.S. is sauntering slowly behind many other more conscientious countries, seemingly unconcerned with its poor showing.
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Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ, I certainly wouldn't trust these clowns with my life on their planes. That sort of failure is beyond stupid. I worked for a credit card processor and not only did our HQ have back up power but back up phone lines through separate carriers so that if one carrier went down, their phones still worked.
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I've pretty much resigned myself to the idea that our government is so sure that everyone will have solar in the next 20 years that it has abdicated responsibility for taking care of the grid so they can steer the money towards servicing entitlements.
"Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ,..."
From what I read (sorry, no link) the problem occurred when Delta transferred power from the primary source (Georgia Power) to Delta's backup generators. The backup generators caught fire and the fire spread to the primary transfer point, thus knocking out both primary and backup.
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Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ, I certainly wouldn't trust these clowns with my life on their planes.
Exactly. No excuses. This was Delta's failure. You have backup generators and from time to time you test those generators. Not only that but you have remote, standby data centers where your database is replicated so when your primary data center goes offline your remote data center automatically goes online. Delta's CIO needs to be sacked and while they're at it the shareholders should demand the ouster of the CEO as well.
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As Frank Borman is alleged to have said "a stain on the carpet implies bad maintenance"
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Trust me. The NIMBY factor has a LOT to do with why we haven't done a lot of major overhead grid upgrades, P2K.
Both Farmers and City folk alike.
Some folks in certain areas of the country understand the problems and actually help facilitate any improvements. They are a rarity, though.
We can upgrade power plants all day long, but when you try to feed the 'new, improved' capacity into an ancient grid and switching system, very bad things happen. Very seldom does a newer power plant run at anywhere near capacity for just that reason.
Now, just try and imagine when we suggest burying the cables into Mother Gaea.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A family has identified one of the bully boyz killed in Narayanganj raid as their son Kazi Fazle Rabbi.
Kazi Habibullah, a retired principal of a school in Jessore, identified his son Rabbi on Sunday morning.
He said: "I know my son was killed yesterday [Saturday]. You can report about it, I have no problem but why isn’t the government catching those who made my son bad boy?"
Regarding Rabbi’s body, he said: "I will obviously collect my son’s body."
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It was the Juice all along!!!! They have wicked holy mans!!!!
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Local officials in Kunduz said that a large-scale military operation has been launched in order to reopen the Kunduz-Takhar Highway, which has been closed for the past 10 days.
According to officials, the operation will focus on pushing Taliban back from the highway, but a number of security forces said this will not work and that another plan should be implemented in this crackdown.
TOLOnews' Wali Aryan says that according to a number of military officials, the Taliban has planted mines on both sides of the road and that they have hidden inside civilian houses and attack security forces at every chance.
Aryan said Taliban fighters have been pushed back from parts of the highway after the operation started.
Wali said the outskirts of Kunduz city have however become safe havens for Taliban fighters, because no military operation has so far been launched there.
[Dhaka Tribune] One of the turbans killed during Saturday’s Narayanganj raid, Tausif Hossain, was friends with one of the Gulshan attackers, Nibras Islam, and both men bravely ran away from home on the same day ‐ February 3 this year, police confirm.
Tausif, who completed his O Level and A Level from Maple Leaf International School, was reportedly a student at a Malaysian university, similar to Nibras.
The last time Tausif spoke to his parents at their Dhanmondi home, he told them that he was going out for lunch with his friends including Nibras, said Dhanmondi cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Nur-e-Azam Mia.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Three Jabhat Fath Al-Sham (JFS) top field commanders were neutralized in the festivities in southwestern Aleppo in the region of the Ramousah Artillery Base.
The terrorist commanders were identified as the following: Abu Madeen Al-Askri, Abu Khaled Al-Libi, and Abu Hurirah Mutana’a.
Both sides continue to exchange blows in that battle-ridden, volatile region in Aleppo with the jihadists failing to capture the Umm Al-Qara’ hill and the government troops failing to secure foothold in the Ramousah Base.
The coming weeks will prove fateful in shaping the directory of the conflict in the embattled province of Aleppo as ISIS, SDF, Turkish-backed jihadists, and the Syrian Army battle in all corners of the province.
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LAHORE: Four terrorists were killed in an operation by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday night at Manawan, arms and explosives were also recovered.
According to the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Punjab police, seven terrorists attacked a CID team in Manawan area of Lahore where offices of the department are located.
"The police team which came under attack of terrorists returned the fire, killing four of them on the spot while the remaining three managed to escape by taking advantage of darkness," a CTD spokesman said.
Sources said these terrorists were involved in Moon Market blast and attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team. There were total of seven terrorists who attacked CTD team, but four of them were killed and three fled from the scene.
The dead terrorists were identified as Zubair alias Naik Muhammad, Abdul Wahab, Adnan Arshad and Atiqur Rehman. A search operation was being conducted for those who managed to escape, during the raid.
CTD officials said that the terrorists were involved in December 7, 2009’s Moon Market bomb blast. 54 people had lost their lives, while more than 150 were injured in the blast.
In June, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore had indicted six members of banned LeJ in the Sri Lankan cricket team attack case.
The LeJ suspects who were charged by the ATC were -- Obaidullah, Javed Anwar, Ibrahim Khalil, Muhammad, Wahab and Arshad.
Obaidullah, Anwar and Khalil were on bail while the remaining had been lodged in Kot Lakhpat Jail and they had pleaded not guilty.
The ATC had already declared two other suspects - Mohsin Rasheed and Abdul Rehman - proclaimed offenders.
In March 2009, a bus carrying the Sri Lankan team was allegedly attacked by the LeJ terrorists with sophisticated weapons and grenades at Liberty Chowk, near Qaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
[ALMASDARNEWS] ISIS have claimed a suicide car bomb attack on YPG militant forces north of Manbij in the village of Al-Mulhumia. No word on casualties, flagged as breaking news.
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I thought the democratization occurred in 1791. The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments comprising the Bill of Rights.--A fundamental freedom to prevent tyranny by an-out-of-control government and to protect the country from threats by foreign invaders.
Security sources report that about 10 districts in the country are under serious threat and that they are afraid these districts could fall to the Taliban. This is in addition to 10 other districts already controlled by the insurgent group.
A security source told TOLO News that Sancharak district in Sar-e-Pul, Gezab in Uruzgan, Hesarak in Nangarhar, and a number of other districts are seriously threatened by insurgents.
Security departments have said the National Unity Government leaders (NUG) share the same vision in terms of cracking down on terrorists, but that powerful groups interfere in appointing security officials.
Meanwhile, military analysts have said that weaknesses within the security forces and the interference in appointing military officials are the main reasons for the Afghan National Army losing districts to insurgents.
In the past two years of the NUG, control of many districts has flip-flopped between security forces and insurgents.
In addition, the geographical move of battles from the south to the north has put Dasht-e-Archi, Qala-e-Zal, Chahar Dara and Khanabad districts in Kunduz; Darqad and Khwaja Ghar districts in Takhar, Baharak district in Badakhshan, Qush Tepa district in Jawzjan, Qaisar district in Faryab, Nawa and Sangin districts in Helmand and many others at risk – some of which have almost fallen to the Taliban.
Currently 10 districts are under Taliban control – with some residents having had to live under insurgent rule for months.
In the meantime, parliament members have said corruption within the NUG has marginalized military activities and that now important districts are under threat.
Mohammad Asif Sediqi, a senator said: "Powerful men interfere in appointing security officials. Thus they cannot manage the war and government loses districts to Taliban."
Currently insurgents are trying to cut off supply routes for security forces in Sancharak, Khwaja Ghar, Hesarak, Kot, Waygal in Nuristan, Giro in Ghazni, Khashrod in Nimroz, Pasaband in Ghor and Gezab district in Uruzgan.
Along with these problems, security departments are reportedly worried about the interference by powerful groups in appointing security officials.
Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said: "It is important that security officials, especially commanders must be appointed by security departments. If non-military individuals interfere in the process, then we would have commanders with poor management skills who cannot carry out their responsibilities properly."
It has also been reported that in a number of districts, government officials only control their actual building and the rest of the district is under Taliban control. However the spokesman for the independent local government office said government services are ongoing in all districts of the country.
Munira Yosuf Zada, spokesperson for the office of Independent Local Governments said: "None of our district' have closed completely. In every district there is a district chief offering services to the people. If a district shuts down completely, the governor offers the services in a neighboring district."
(IraqiNews.com) Mosul – A local source informed that an ISIS leader was killed in airstrikes by the US-led coalition in the ISIS-occupied city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
“Abu Yahya Alwaizi, who is considered to be a top ranked ISIS leaders and who also fought in the Syrian city of Aleppo, was killed at al-Shurah district,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
Anticipating offensive, coalition aviation were prepared and the airstrikes came before ISIS could launch an attack and thus were able to liberate Mosul. The city was an ISIS stronghold since June 2014.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy festivities erupted between the Southern Front conglomeration of rebel factions and the ISIS-affiliated Jaish Khalid Bin Al-Walid on the outskirts of Hawd Al-Yarmouk located in the southern western part of Dara’a province.
After months of inactivity on that front, the MOK-operated rebels seem focused on banishing ISIS from the province. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... 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.... Lions of Islam have fortified the Hawd Al-Yarmouk blob for many months building strong defense lines on all its perimeters.
Should the rebel forces wipe out the ISIS blob that is on the Israeli-Jordanian borders, they would be better-positioned in the province to fight the Syrian government forces should the ceasefire break.
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iiuc, the Hawd Al-Yarmouk blob is only a dozen acres in size
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