[IsraelNationalNews] Israel has been secretly backing 12 different rebel groups fighting the Assad regime in southern Syria, Foreign Policy magazine claimed in an exclusive report Thursday, providing both weapons and money in an effort to combat both the ISIS terror group and Iranian-backed forces in the area.
According to the Foreign Policy report Thursday which cited anti-regime groups in Syria, Israel furnished arms and equipment for 12 different rebel groups in southern Syria, including transfers of machine guns and assault rifles, mortar launchers, and transport vehicles.
[IsraelNationalNews] Sweden has plans to launch a Holocaust museum with a focus on Holocaust survivors from the Scandinavian country and a center devoted to the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
Announcing the decision to create the museum, Swedish Minister of Social Affairs and Sports Minister Annika Strandhall said Tuesday on Twitter that the news "feels more important than ever."
The museum is likely to be built in Malmo, a city of approximately 350,000 where dozens of anti-Semitic incidents are recorded annually. It is tentatively slated to be ready to open in 2020, the Dagen news website reported. Teaching Muslims how to do it?
Cory Booker's Secret Twitter Messages With Stripper Revealed
The Newark mayor -- backed by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and other Hollywood heavyweights in his Senate campaign -- was outed by 26-year-old Lynsie Lee, who posted her flirtatious correspondence with him online.
Is Newark Mayor Cory Booker taking a page out of Anthony Weiner's playbook?
h/t Instapundit
When Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum released some records Tuesday related to two trips he took with a lobbyist in 2016, he was trying to clear the air around an FBI investigation that has clouded his campaign since before he became the Democratic nominee for Florida governor.
But the campaign, which uploaded several documents after Gillum met with a state ethics investigator Tuesday, released a poorly redacted printout of his bank statement among some invoices and receipts for Gillum’s trips to New York City and Costa Rica that year. The bank statement included a $15,000 deposit into his personal checking account. On the same page and not redacted was an entry showing a $400 cash withdrawal that the campaign says was cash used to pay for lodging in Costa Rica.
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Brand athletic shoes and clothes were one of the prime vectors of virtue siganalling before $h*tter and farcebook came along. Those who agree with the message will buy.
Those who do not want to be associated with the message will not buy.
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Before the announcement, Nike had a net +69 favorable impression among consumers, it has now declined 34 points to +35 favorable.
The private Christian school located south of Branson, Missouri, said Wednesday that it would be dropping its affiliation with Nike over the Kaepernick “Just Do It” ad campaign. It’s not the first time the school has taken a stand with something Kaepernick-related.
Nike ‘promoting an attitude of division and disrespect toward America’
The school’s president Jerry Davis said Nike’s ads were promoting disrespect towards the United States.
“College of the Ozarks is unique among higher education institutions in America: no tuition is charged, all students work on campus, debt is openly discouraged, and no federal, state or private loans are made.”
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New Balance - better shoes and made in 'Merica
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Not all New Balance, check the model.
Some great memes going on.
'Believe in something. Even if you take a knee.'
1. Picture of Nancy Karrigan, Tonya Harding in the background giving a look.
Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan accidentally drowned in the bath after a night of heavy drinking alone in her hotel room, an inquest heard today.
The Irish singer was found 'face up in the bath dressed in her pyjamas' fully-clothed in the bath of her room at London's Hilton Park Lane on January 15.
The 46-year-old mother-of-three from Kilmallock, County Limerick, who had battled alcoholism, had drunk spirits and champagne and was four times over the legal drinking limit when she died.
Her inquest was held today at Westminster Coroner's Court on what would have been her 47th birthday. There was no evidence or self-harm and no suicide note in her room.
The inquest heard that there were empty bottles in the room - five miniature bottles and a bottle of champagne. That and some Lorazepam. Bummer.
And if anyone makes any "berried" jokes, the ghost of Pappy will come back to smite you.
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Lament of a Morus
That poor immemorial chorus,
Henceforth to compete with Dolores!
A huge, pallid thing...
Oh, but how she could sing!
Lord, why did you make her so porous?
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has carefully crafted an image of himself as a big-picture visionary, tasked with turning China into the world’s preeminent superpower. While Xi has focused on taking over the world, however, the average Chinese citizen appears increasingly frustrated with his inability to provide competent government functions like adequate education and health care.
The result has been a wave of unprecedented public protests against Xi’s party, which has promised to bring all of China into a "new era" as a "moderately prosperous society." From angry parents whose children received faulty vaccinations to Maoists outraged that a communist government would stand in the way of worker unionization, the outrage is coming from communities that Beijing once considered safely tamed, not the typical crowd of political dissidents and human rights activists.
Within the past week, Xi’s regime has had to contend with two major protests ‐ one by parents in Leiyang, Hunan, who hurled bricks at police when they found out they were going to be forced to pay for private schooling because of a lack of government resources ‐ and a protest that wasn’t in Shenzhen, Guangdong, where police arrested and broke up a coalition of Maoist students uniting in defense of laborers’ union rights.
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Xi spent too much time inside the Beijing bubble and not enough time taking care of business among the people.
However the CPC isn't in any danger of falling. The Western media loves to play up these protest stories but most people are either content or know that they don't have a voice. Plus these days the CPC has put transponders in every car and scooter, has the entire population's facial recognition data, and has spent the last 12 months furiously installing cameras in every public place. People can't gather and organize to overthrow the regime. It is simply impossible. Any large gatherings will be detected and broken up.
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In one particularly embarrassing comparison, one user placed a photo of Pooh and his lanky pal Tigger next to an image of Xi standing next to former President Barack Obama.
(Reuters) - Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in "provocation" and that it had lodged a strong complaint.
The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious warship carrying a contingent of Royal Marines, exercised its "freedom of navigation" rights as it passed near the Paracel Islands, two sources, who were familiar with the matter but who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.
The Albion was on its way to Ho Chi Minh City, where it docked on Monday following a deployment in and around Japan.
One of the sources said Beijing dispatched a frigate and two helicopters to challenge the British vessel, but both sides remained calm during the encounter.
The other source the Albion did not enter the territorial seas around any features in the hotly disputed region but demonstrated that Britain does not recognize excessive maritime claims around the Paracel Islands. Twelve nautical miles is an internationally recognized territorial limit.
The Paracels are occupied entirely by China but also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has given his first time line for denuclearization, aiming for the end of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, Seoul officials said on Thursday, prompting thanks from Trump who said they would "get it done together".
Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will also meet in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20 for a third summit and discuss "practical measures" toward denuclearization, Moon’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said a day after meeting Kim.
The summit could provide renewed momentum to talks over denuclearization between North Korea and the United States, after Trump canceled a visit to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month citing lack of progress.
Kim told South Korean officials his faith in Trump was "unchanged" and that he wanted denuclearization and an end to hostile relations with the United States before Trump’s first term in office ends in early 2021, Chung said.
"He particularly emphasized that he has never said anything negative about President Trump," Chung said.
Trump welcomed Kim’s remarks in a trademark Tweet.
Generous Americans give more than $2.5 billion a year to some 40,000 charities with missions designed to help veterans.
Lately, however, this crowded field has been inundated by fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The FTC launched Operation Donate with Honor in July to spotlight the problem of fraudulent and deceptive fundraising on behalf of military and veterans’ causes.
"It’s war profiteering," Joshua Starks, commander of the 300,000-strong Oklahoma Veterans of Foreign Wars told Fox News. "They’re stealing from people who raised their hand and took an oath to serve our country and then went overseas to protect the rights of all of us--including the people who are stealing from them."
As part of Operation Donate with Honor, the FTC distributed a list of 102 law enforcement actions 34 states have lodged against bogus veterans’ charities. Some are recent. Others are newly filed. The FTC is a partner in two of the new cases.
The list laid bare the many ways these groups solicit donations‐online, on the phone, by mail, door-to-door and at stores and supermarkets.
Officials said these legal actions share a common theme: the false promise to help needy and disabled vets, to provide veterans with employment counseling, mental health counseling or other assistance and to send care packages to deployed service members.
In many cases, the lion’s share of each dollar donated was paid to telemarketers instead of veterans. In some cases these telemarketers charged a fee of 85 cents of every dollar.
One charity that is named is Help the Vets.
Donors contributed $20 million to the Florida charity from 2013 to 2017. But the charity spent few of the dollars that were collected to assist veterans, the FTC said.
"Help the Vets spent more than 95% of the millions it collected paying its founder, fundraisers, and on expenses," FTC Chairman Joe Simons said.
The charity swindled donors through shameless solicitations, according to a lawsuit the FTC filed to coincide with the kick-off of Operation Donate with Honor.
"But for thousands of disabled veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, ’giving an arm and a leg’ isn't simply a figure of speech- it's a harsh reality," says one Help the Vets solicitation. "Your $10 gift will mean so much to a disabled veteran."
However, Help the Vets’ assistance to these unfortunate veterans consisted of vouchers for chiropractic treatment at a clinic, the FTC charged. Only five vouchers were ever redeemed.
[DW] The German minister has claimed migration is at the heart of society's disillusionment with politics. Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, said she would have put it a bit differently and called migration a "challenge."
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, head of the CSU, the conservative sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has said that migration was the "mother of all political problems" in Germany and one of the principal reasons for waning support for the established parties, German media report.
"Many people now associate their social problems with the issue of migration," he told the Rheinische Post, adding that if Germany didn't change its migration policy major political parties would continue losing ground. He went on to link the "order of humanity" with balancing the political concerns of migrants and Germans.
Merkel: That's not how I'd put it
Merkel, however, said she would put it differently than her interior minister.
"I say that the question of migration poses challenges," she said in an interview with RTL television, adding that there are problems and success that come with the challenges of migration.
[Wash Examiner] President Trump on Thursday thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for saying he has "unwavering trust in Donald Trump" after a bilateral meeting between North and South Korea.
"This trust, despite some difficulties surfaced during the negotiation process between the US and the North, will continue," South Korean special envoy Chung Eun-young said, according to Yahoo News.
Kim and Chung met in Pyongyang Wednesday to arrange a new leaders' summit later this month. According to the BBC, the North Korean leader told Seoul officials that he wants to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula during Trump’s first term.
Trump thanked Kim for his words, and confirmed that he is committed to working toward denuclearization of the peninsula.
"Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims 'unwavering faith in President Trump.' Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!" Trump tweeted Thursday morning.
[Wash Examiner] On Day Two of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, a number of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appeared to be sizing themselves up for black judicial robes.
If they weren’t doing that, they were lamenting the fact that someone of their own great wisdom couldn’t sit on the Supreme Court ‐ the highest legislature in the land, they seem to think ‐ and rule the country from their lifetime position.
Democrats placed themselves one after another into Kavanaugh’s seat on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals to second-guess rulings, which is only natural for those who think the courts are there to make policy decisions. Ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., complained that Kavanaugh had, in an opinion on D.C. gun control laws, deemed that semi-automatic rifles are in "common use" and thus not, under Supreme Court definition, something the D.C. government could ban. Feinstein was weirdly outraged about this characterization, given that private citizens in the U.S. own something on the order of 50 or 60 million such rifles, and possibly more.
Sen. Dick "Dick" Durbin, D-Ill., complained that Kavanaugh had dissented from an emergency ruling that ended up rushing a minor migrant girl in the care of the U.S. government off to get an abortion without parental consent. Durbin also complained about Kavanaugh’s interpretation of a complicated Supreme Court case that had deemed illegal immigrant workers unable to vote in workplace unionization elections.
For Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the problem was that Kavanaugh had written an opinion favoring two mergers in the grocery and health insurance industries.
All these opinions about Kavanaugh’s rulings have one thing in common: They come from politicians who seem to think judging is a lot like what they do for a living. But judges don’t make policy, and the Supreme Court is not a super-legislature. That’s why a good judge who decides cases based on law and precedent will not like all the outcomes of the cases he hears.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., complained that Kavanaugh had dissented from an emergency ruling that ended up rushing a minor migrant girl in the care of the U.S. government off to get an abortion without parental consent. Durbin also complained about Kavanaugh’s interpretation of a complicated Supreme Court case that had deemed illegal immigrant workers unable to vote in workplace unionization elections.
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They DO think that legislating from the bench is what the Supreme Court does. After all, when you can't get things done democratically, you resort to the courts. Judges make political decisions and work backwards to justify them.
Coming to an end, though, and don't expect them to like it one bit.
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Yep. Several federal circuits have been filled with non-legislative judges as well. Trump gets two terms and you can expect the most liberal circuits to get flipped as well.
The left knows that it is the Supreme Court where the buck stops and Trump is ending that dream as well. If any libtard judges go down in the next 2 years expect full revolt and violence to keep the seats from being filled with a non-legislative judge.
[The Intercept] NOBODY WANTS TO talk about Abdelbaki Es Satty. When pressed, those who knew him call him "evil" and "savage" and a disgrace to the communities he’s lived in. Some of his neighbors are just surprised that the imam next door was capable of masterminding an attack. But most of his acquaintances from recent years didn’t know his past: that he’d been investigated and had his phone tapped in one of the largest international terrorism cases in Spanish history; that he had two smuggling convictions and had spent four years in prison. Despite all that, he was able to live under the radar while he organized the most deadly terrorist attack in Spain since the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
The Spanish government especially does not want to talk about Es Satty. The investigation into his case is sealed by a judge. Spanish police won’t offer much comment on the case, nor will police for the region of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital. The director of Spain’s intelligence agency ‐ referred to as the CNI, for its initials in Spanish ‐ has given one closed-door briefing on Es Satty in the Spanish Parliament, and did so only after politicians began calling for a public investigation.
And so, over a year after the attack, the public has been provided few answers as to how Es Satty was able to convince a group of young men to kill and injure innocent people on a mass scale ‐ and how he evaded police attention while doing so. Lengthy, but revealing.
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The Man Behind the Barcelona Attacks Was on Police Radar for Years. How Did They Let It Happen?
[NTK Network] Fox News host Tucker Carlson started his show Wednesday night claiming he had a "pretty good idea who wrote" the controversial anonymous New York Times op-ed and added that representatives from his show had called the White House for comment.
Earlier in the day, The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed that was allegedly written by a "senior official in the Trump administration."
According to the op-ed’s anonymous author, "there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment," against President Trump because of the "instability" many witnessed.
"We think we’ve got a pretty good idea who wrote this piece. We’ve called the White House for comment on it tonight. But until we confirm the identity, of course, we’re not going to accuse anybody in public," Carlson said.
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Somewhere in the deep background, think about the cabal operating out of that compound up the street protected by the Secret Service that houses ValJar and her minions....and then think about the places they salted away people.
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I agree with Bright Pebbles. Trump wrote it and released it. Classic misdirection and typical Trumpian trolling. He and whomever was in on it are probably splitting their sides laughing.
[The Hill] President Trump on Wednesday renewed his attack on veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book detailing the inner workings of the White House, calling it a "work of fiction."
"The book means nothing. It's a work of fiction ... He likes to get publicity, sell some books," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with the emir of Kuwait.
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"Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis didn’t favorably receive former Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s repeated requests to get the retired Marine Corps general to appear on numerous talk shows, according to an excerpt from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House.”
According to one passage in the book, an exasperated Mattis, having answered “no” a number of times already, lashed out at Spicer, who is an officer in the Navy Reserve.
“Sean, I’ve killed people for a living,” the secretary of defense said. “If you call me again, I’m going to f–king send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?”
Heh. So, maybe there is some truth in the flotsam, just a bit so as to give it provenance.
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“Sean, I’ve killed people for a living,” the secretary of defense said. “If you call me again, I’m going to f–king send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?”
Another favorite of mine:
"I've killed better people than you!"-anon
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The book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, is a subsidiary of CBS. You should have seen CBS News anchor Jeff Glor on Tuesday hawking this book for all he was worth for at least the first 10 minutes of the so-called news broadcast. It's one thing for CBS to advertise a book and it's quite another to call that advertisement news. It isn't news. It's anti-Trump, globalist and socialist propaganda and crass commercialism. CBS has abandoned all pretense of being a reliable source of news.
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Remember the hysteria in the MSM over Wolff's book? Didn't last long. Oomooroosa's book fell out of the news even quicker. I think I see a trend approaching...
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Germany will tighten control over foreign influence of its Muslim community, State Secretary for the Interior Ministry Markus Kerber said Monday, after a week of violent far-right clashes in eastern Germany.
"We have watched foreign forces dictate to German Muslims how to practice their religion for far too long," Kerber told Tagesspiegel in an interview published Monday. "And because they also have their home here, we will now lend them more support in strengthening their self-confidence."
"We want to create more discussion formats for German Muslims," Kerber added. "The minister will also actively encourage German Muslims to conduct a debate on a German Islam." Why am I thinking: The Muslim Units of the Waffen SS (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/747153/posts)?
h/t Gates of Vienna
China sees Islam as a growing problem and has increased its actions against Uighur Muslims in the country. According to UN and U.S. officials, around one million Muslims have been put in Chinese internment camps until now.
..."Although a certain number of people who have been indoctrinated with extremist ideology have not committed any crimes, they are already infected by the disease. There is always a risk that the illness will manifest itself at any moment, which would cause serious harm to the public.
That is why they must be admitted to a re-education hospital in time to treat and cleanse the virus from their brain and restore their normal mind."
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Although a certain number of people who have been indoctrinated with extremist ideology have not committed any crimes, they are already infected by the disease. There is always a risk that the illness will manifest itself at any moment, which would cause serious harm to the public.
Seems the Left will always be the Left. They have the same position here about those who do not toe the Party line. See - conservatives, Americans (vs globalist), et al
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(a) There's a principal difference between ChiComs and "western left", P2k: Chinese work to strengthen their country, "western" to destroy their particular country and western civ in general.
(b) No matter how you dislike ChiComs, do you really believe they're wrong about Islam?
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...just want to make sure its not the old Stalin vs Hitler choice thingy again. Given that the Chinese seem to be far more rational (as in the old Cold War MAD), I'll go with them.
Socialism’s legacy is heaps of bloody corpses scattered across a landscape of hunger and despair, but the youthful neo-commie hipsters infesting our colleges and coastal cities want to give it another try here and now since they’re smart and they won’t screw it up this time. Uh huh. Because when I look at millennials, I see a generation of achievers ‐ achieving unbroken eye contact with their iPhones, achieving hitherto unimagined heights of undeserved self-regard, and achieving convincing their parents to support them into middle age. If anyone can make socialism work ‐ by which I mean the pipe dream of it not being a slaughterhouse of soul crushing tyranny ‐ it’s these winners. At least that’s what Chet thinks.
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Millennials have lost faith capitalism because they've been brainwashed and then graduated into a tepid economy the media was saying was great. Now the Trump has fixed the economy they'll start to come around.
[Mercer - March 2017 article] Donald Trump is making a HUGE mistake that could cost him the midterms and/or make him a one-term president. He thinks he can defang the snakes he has gathered around him in the administration. President Trump has hired individuals who do not articulate the principles he ran on and jump at every opportunity to stick it to him.
"Hiring different perspectives in business could well be a strength. But it’s not a strength when it comes to politics and policy. In politics, you want a team that shares a political philosophy."
The main mamba is Paul Ryan, much loved and admired by MSNBC (see: "An Ode To Paul Ryan By MSNBC’s Left-Liberal Lawrence O’Donnell"), CNN and most liberal media. The GOP news media love Ryan, too, but are scared to come out as fans lest Trump Nation retaliate.
Like Pavlov’s dog, Ryan, the Damien look alike (I’m only ever referencing the old, excellent, 1970s-19802 Omen/Damien movies; there is no other, as far as I’m concerned) can’t but appear to please the CNN interviewer while making the president look bad. (See: "Ryan: I’ve seen no evidence wiretap occurred.")
Poor Damien, purr CNN’s empaneled women. The lovely, wonkish young Ryan [despised by Trump Nation] would rather legislate than have to defend The Donald.
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) ‐ Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street.
According to Miami Beach Police, 39-year-old Diego Berrio and 30-year-old Edwin GiraldoCortez were in the front seat of a car performing oral sex.
Police got a 911 call about a lewd and lascivious incident taking place in the 1300 block of Ocean Drive.
When officers arrived, the police report states, the two were performing sex acts on each other "in full view of the public passing by on Ocean Drive and the sidewalk."
[AlMasdar] Massive reinforcements were seen heading to the northern Syria as the Syrian military amasses forces for the upcoming assault on Idlib.
The recent convoy, which belongs to the 1st Armored Division, consists of dozens of tanks, BMPs, armored vehicles, as well as more than 1000 soldiers.
The long-awaited attack on the jihadi-held province will be spearheaded by the elite Tiger Forces with great support from the Russian air force.
While no ground invasion has yet been initiated, non-stop artillery and rocket shelling – as well as precise airstrikes – are being conducted on a daily basis to undermine the military capabilities of jihadi groups.
[AlMasdar] On Tuesday night, Russia’s Hmeymim Airbase in Syria destroyed two terrorist drones with surface-to-air missiles, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
“On the 4th of September, at night, the anti-aircraft weapons of Hmeimim Airbase destroyed two terrorist assault UAVs. In total, last month, 47 terrorist unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed… in the area of Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase,” Konashenkov told reporters.
“On the same day [September 4], four planes from the Russian air unit deployed at the Hmeymim Airbase carried out strikes on Nusra Front* terrorist group targets in Idlib province with precision-guided munitions,” Konashenkov said.
According to the spokesman, the strikes were carried out on the terrorists’ storage facilities where they kept drones, located outside settlements, as well as “detected sites where assault drones were launched to carry out terrorist attacks on Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase and settlements in the provinces of Aleppo and Hama.”
“The Russian aircraft carried out all strikes solely on the identified terrorist targets, as confirmed through several channels, located far from settlements,” Konashenkov said.
He added that two Su-34 jets had also destroyed a workshop where terrorists assembled drones and a warehouse of explosives for them.Konashenkov noted that the multipurpose Su-35S fighter, equipped with high-precision ammunition, also destroyed a warehouse in which the man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) of terrorists were stored.
Russia, alongside Iran and Turkey, is a guarantor of the ceasefire in Syria. Moscow has also been assisting Damascus both through supporting the struggle against terrorist groups and providing humanitarian aid to the residents of the crisis-torn country.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian and Russian air forces unleashed flurry of airstrikes in northern Syria tonight after the jihadist rebels targeted a resort town in the Latakia province.
According to a military source in Latakia, the jihadist rebels fired several rockets towards the civilian neighborhoods in the resort town of Slunfeh on Wednesday afternoon.
While no one was hurt, local activists did report material damage to a number of buildings in the town.
In response to this attack by the jihadist rebels, Syrian and Russian air forces conducted a plethora of airstrikes over the Jisr Al-Shughour District in the province of Idlib.
The Russian reconciliation center has repeatedly warned the jihadist rebels against targeting these towns in western and northern Syria.
[AlMasdar] On Tuesday, the Russian Air Force carried out a large number of airstrikes against the jihadist rebels in the Northwestern provinces of Syria.
Using their Sukhoi jets, the Russian Air Force hammered the jihadist rebels with airstrike after airstrike in order to weaken their resolve in northwestern Syria.
In response to the Russian attack, the jihadist rebels unleashed flurry of missiles towards the Syrian government stronghold of Joureen in the Al-Ghaab Plain this evening.
According to a military source, the jihadist missiles that targeted Joureen missed the Syrian army’s positions and hit the surrounding farms.
The Syrian Army then retaliated by firing several ground to ground missiles at the jihadist defenses in the area.
[Dailly Caller] A protester interrupted a hearing on social media censorship in the House of Representatives Wednesday by standing up and shouting about Twitter and President Trump.
The woman shouted over Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who was testifying about censoring conservatives and other political voices on the platform, as well as congressmen and others testifying, while she filmed herself. The chairman of the committee, Rep. Greg Walden, called for police to remove the protester. But one member of congress had another idea.
Missouri Congressman Billy Long, who also happens to be a former auctioneer, began spitting fire, giving a fast-talking auction and pointing at the audience. When the protester was finally removed and Long finished his expertly delivered auction, the audience erupted in applause.
[AlMasdar] Earlier today, the Syrian Arab Army continued their military buildup in northwestern Syria by sending more reinforcements to the Hama and Idlib governorates.
Units from the 1st Division of the Syrian Arab army made their way from southern Syria to the province of Hama, where they met up with other pro-government forces.
The 1st Division, which was primarily deployed in the southerns provinces of Damascus and Daraa, will be taking part in their first offensive in northern Syria.
In addition to the 1st Divison, the elite Fifth Army Corps has also sent their troops to northwestern Syria.
These two large Syrian Army forces comprise of thousands of battle tested soldiers that have taken part in many battles from Syria.
In the coming days, the Syrian Arab army is expected to kick off their long-awaited offensive against the jihadist rebels in northern Syria.
[The Federalist] After a summer of anticipation and agitation, the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began yesterday. As has been typical for the last several decades, this Supreme Court hearing was even more rancorous than the last. Here’s what we learned from the first day’s events.
1. Protesters Are Clueless
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley called the meeting to order in the morning, but had hardly begun when loyal members of the Trump resistance showed that, as usual, they have no idea of how to behave in public. Reenacting the customs of social media in real life, they screamed, yelled, and stomped their feet even before Grassley and the other senators had a chance to say anything to which they might object.
Their quickness to act gave the game away: these protestors did not object to the content of the hearings, but to the hearings themselves.
It is unclear what they hoped to accomplish, but that is not unheard of among protesters, right or left. Since the 2016 election, opponents of the president and his agenda have excelled at making loud noises and wearing silly costumes, yet once the cosplay elements are stripped away, the concrete steps they demand are maddeningly unclear. Their agitprop, while no doubt gratifying to themselves, will never convert an opponent and might only repel an undecided observer.
Perhaps it is just a sign of the times. For all of the complaints about President Trump’s lack of decorum, the average denizen of the far left has always been less decorous than his counterpart on the right. Should we now expect the loutish manners of social media to bleed into all areas of civic life?
Things may well get worse in this regard before they get better. In any case, about two dozen protesters made enough sound and fury to get themselves removed and arrested. The atmosphere got so heated that Kavanaugh’s children had to be escorted out of the room. Four additional 'takeaways' follow:
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IMO, these Donk-arranged stunts will backfire on them. These stunts are so 1960s radical left. They have become trite, hackneyed, and worn-thin. They do little to change minds and end up just being annoying.
[AlMasdar] Syrian bomb disposal engineers trained by Russian military experts are ready to start demining territory in the demilitarized zone near the Golan Heights on the border between Syria and Israel after its liberation from Death Eaters, Deputy Commander of the Russian Contingent in Syria Lieutenant-General Sergei Kuralenko said on Wednesday.
"The Syrian Armed Forces’ sappers are ready for work to demine terrain and roads in the demilitarized zone, which will guarantee the security of the UN convoys along the patrol routes," he said.
Kuralenko added that Russian military servicemen will provide assistance in maintaining security during the Syrian sappers’ work in the region.
GOLAN HEIGHTS ISSUE
The Golan Heights had been part of Syria since 1944, but the territory was seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1981, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passed a law on the Golan Heights, which unilaterally proclaimed Israel’s illusory sovereignty over that territory. The annexation was deemed illegal under UN Security Council Resolution 497 of December 17, 1981.
Later on, part of the territory and the town of Quneitra were returned to Syria on the condition that the territory will be demilitarized and a UN mission will be deployed there.
According to earlier reports, a UN mission, accompanied by the Russian military police, entered the region from the territory of Syria for the first time since the start of the Syrian conflict. Prior to that, UN forces headquartered in the capital Damascus had to enter the area via the Lebanese border, because the Syrian part of the demilitarized zone was held by Death Eaters.
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When my wife and I visited Israel in 2012, part of the tour included the Golan Heights. We passed signs that said, in English, Hebrew and Arabic, "Danger! Mines!". I suggested to the Israeli tour guide that the Arabic should be changed to something like "Come pick the flowers ".
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) captured a large cache of weapons this week that belonged to the jihadist rebels in the al-Quneitra Governorate.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Syrian Arab Army uncovered the large weapons cache while combing through the liberated town of al-Rafid in the al-Quneitr Governorate.
The SANA report said that the Syrian Arab Army uncovered a large number of US-made TOW missiles, Israeli-made grendes, rocket launchers, night vision goggles, varius kinds of ammunition, RPGs, and mortar rounds.
The SANA report added that there was also a large quantity of medical supplies and "fake blood, cosmetics, and plastic body organs."
[AlMasdar] The Syrian forces continue to grab more lands from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in east Swaida countryside amid massive jihadi retreat.
Using heavy artillery and missile shelling, the Syrian Army managed to advance into the rocky cliffs surrounding Safa Hilltops; the last ISIS stronghold in the area.
The strikes killed more than 20 ISIS Lion of Islams, including 3 snipers whose fire curbed the Army’s advance at one point.
The area where the Death Eater jihadists are holed up is completely surrounded by the government troops, who periodically finish off ISIS murderous Moslems attempting to flee.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army, backed by the National Defense Forces, continued their field operations in eastern Syria today.
Led by the first and third divisions, the Syrian army stormed the Islamic states last major pocket in the Al-Sweida Governorate.
According to field source, the Syrian Army manage to liberate several points from the Islamic State, forcing the letter to fall back further in the strategic volcanic region.
The source said that several Islamic State terrorists were killed during the clashes, including a number of foreign combatants.
In addition to the ground advances, the Syrian Army also captured a large cache of weapons that were left behind by the Islamic State in this volcanic region.
The Syrian Army is now working for the remaining areas still occupied by the Islamic State terrorists; this battle should conclude in the coming days.
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Time to get 0bumhole and Kerry in there so they can surrender to them before it's too late.
[AlMasdar] Two homegrown rockets went kaboom! in Slinfah town in northeast Latakia as a result of a rocket attack launched by jihadi rebels in neighboring Idlib.
Jihadi groups in Idlib said they shelled the town in retaliation of the intense Arclight airstrikes conducted yesterday by Russian fighter jets against rebel positions in Jisr al-Shughur.
The Russian aerial bombardment came to avenge the repeated drone attacks against its forces in Hmeimim air base.
The coastal base has been frequently assaulted by armed drones operated by jihadi groups in Idlib and northern Hama.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesperson for atomic agency says Tehran’s program ’considerably more advanced’ than when 2015 accord was signed
Exactly the reason why Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump said the”deal”was pointless.
Iran will begin uranium enrichment beyond previous levels if the remaining parties fail to uphold the 2015 nuclear deal, its Atomic Energy Organization told local media on Wednesday.
"We will not return to previous levels if our counterparts leave the JCPOA (nuclear deal), but will instead reach even more advanced levels," the organization’s front man Behrouz Kamalvandi said, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB.
"We are at a considerably more advanced status than when we signed the deal. The country is moving ahead in nuclear activities at a favorable pace," he added.
Iran has repeatedly said it will resume high-level uranium enrichment if the 2015 agreement ‐ which limits its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief ‐ falls apart.
Following the withdrawal of the United States in May, the other parties ‐ Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China, Russia and the EU ‐ have vowed to provide Iran with enough economic benefits to keep the agreement alive.
But Tehran is increasingly skeptical that those countries can counter the effects of renewed US sanctions, which have already battered Iran’s economy.
Last week, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran should be ready to "set aside" the agreement if it is no longer in the country’s national interests.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly stated that Iran is sticking to its commitments.
The administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... says the deal did not prevent Iran from eventually working towards a nuclear weapon ‐ which Tehran has denied it is seeking.
[IsraelTimes] Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ronen Bergman reveals yet more details about the Israeli raid to steal Iran’s nuclear archive and what’s in it: selfies.
"The Iranians documented everything: the equipment, the building of factories and secret sites and even themselves during tests, with entertaining selfie photographs."
Bergman writes that the documents point to IRGC officer and physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi as the brains behind the nuclear program.
"According to foreign reports, he was a preferred target for Israeli intel gathering and the idea of harming him was even considered. It didn’t happen and now it seems there are those who are sorry about the decision to let him get away with his life," he writes.
A love letter from a faux conservative (David Frum) to whomever wrote the NY Times article about Trump. The Ovoid David Frum
[Atlantic] Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism. Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president’s own appointees—now that’s a constitutional crisis.
If the president’s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high office, they have a duty to do their utmost to remove him from it, by the lawful means at hand. That duty may be risky to their careers in government or afterward. But on their first day at work, they swore an oath to defend the Constitution—and there were no “riskiness” exemptions in the text of that oath. As far as I can tell everything Trump has done has affected the government. There's no crisis except among those in government, and their supporters.
On Wednesday, though, a “senior official in the Trump administration” published an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times, writing:
Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them.
The author of the anonymous op-ed is hoping to vindicate the reputation of like-minded senior Trump staffers. See, we only look complicit! Actually, we’re the real heroes of the story.
But what the author has just done is throw the government of the United States into even more dangerous turmoil. He or she has enflamed the paranoia of the president and empowered the president’s willfulness.
What happens the next time a staffer seeks to dissuade the president from, say, purging the Justice Department to shut down the Mueller investigation? The author of the Times op-ed has explicitly told the president that those who offer such advice do not have the president’s best interests at heart, and are, in fact, actively subverting his best interests as he understands them on behalf of ideas of their own. The subtext is that Trump's advisers have told him to fire AG Sessions, which In my opinion he should have done. But these all are political acts, so shutting down a bogus "investigation", steeped in political maneuvering by Trumps' political opponents, will require a political end.
He’ll grow more defiant, more reckless, more anti-constitutional, and more dangerous.
And those who do not quit or are not fired in the next few days will have to work even more assiduously to prove themselves loyal, obedient, and on the team. Things will be worse after this piece. They will be worse because of this piece.
The new Bob Woodward book set the bad precedent. The high official who thought the president so addled that he would not remember the paper he snatched off his desk? Those who thought the president stupid, ignorant, beholden to Russia—and then exited the administration to return to their comfortable, lucrative occupations? Who substituted deep-background gripe sessions with a reporter for offering detailed proof of presidential unfitness, or worse, before the House or Senate? Yes, better than the robotic servility of the public record. But only slightly. In other words, White House documents being drafted for the purposes of posterity won't show what Frum contends. Frum is hedging his words even in this screed.
Speak in your own name. Resign in a way that will count. Present the evidence that will justify an invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, or an impeachment, or at the very least, the first necessary step toward either outcome, a Democratic Congress after the November elections.
Your service in government is valuable. Thank you for it. But it is not so indispensable that it can compensate for the continuing tenure of a president you believe to be amoral, untruthful, irrational, anti-democratic, unpatriotic, and dangerous. Previous generations of Americans have sacrificed fortunes, health, and lives to serve the country. You are asked only to tell the truth aloud and with your name attached.
[IsraelTimes] The essay immediately triggered a wild guessing game as to the author’s identity on social media, in newsrooms and inside the West Wing, where officials were blindsided by its publication.
And in a blistering statement, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused the author of choosing to “deceive” the president by remaining in the administration.
“He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people,” she said. “The coward should do the right thing and resign.”
Sanders also called on the Times to “issue an apology” for publishing the piece, calling it a “pathetic, reckless, and selfish op-ed.”
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White House livid over op-ed by unnamed insider; Trump questions if ‘treasonous’
The Left has been loose with the word for months and no one in their cabal has reigned them in. Another aspect of destroying the language. They also failed to notice how many other torpedoes they've fired at Trump seem to come back and hit them. So, the Left expands the definition of treason, then pearl clutches when its used about them.
Personally, I'd rather use the terms sedition and insurrection*, but I'm not the one altering the language. Let those who are, live with the consequences.
* No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. - 14th Amendment
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The NYTs published an anonymous sourced op ed saying there is a subversive element within the Trump administration. The NYTs has done this before often to find they have egg on their collective faces. I have my doubts whether this happened. Lanny Davis seems to be missing from the story.
[Ynet] Alistair Brett, British Minister for Middle East and North Africa, wrote in his Twitter account Wednesday: "Today I announced the transfer of another £7 million to UNRWA. This helps ensure Paleostinians can continue to access vital healthcare and education."
[IsraelTimes] Army says Erez to remain closed until damage by Paleostinian rioters is repaired; humanitarian cases to be approved on case-by-case basis
Israel announced the temporary closure of its sole pedestrian crossing with the Gazoo Strip on Wednesday after the border terminal was damaged during festivities between Israeli troops and Paleostinians.
Hundreds of Paleostinians took part in a violent riot at the Erez Crossing on Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces, during which infrastructure on the Paleostinian side of the crossing was damaged by rioters.
"As a result, the crossing has been closed until the repairing of the damage caused as a result of the riot is completed," the army said in a statement.
It did not indicate when the repairs would be completed.
The army added that the closure does not include humanitarian cases, which it said would be approved on a case-by-case basis.
An average of around 1,000 Gazooks cross through Erez each day, mostly those in need of medical care but also businesspeople, students, and others, Israeli authorities say.
A second crossing with Israel, Kerem Shalom, is used for transporting goods. It was reopened by Israel on August 15 after it was closed on July 9 to everything but food and medical equipment, following weeks of violence along the border, including arson attacks.
The announcement Wednesday comes after the Erez Crossing was shuttered by Israel for a week last month in response to violence along the border with the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-run enclave.
During Tuesday’s riot at Erez, several Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli fire, Gazoo’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said. The IDF said Paleostinians hurled rocks at the crossing in the Strip’s north and damaged infrastructure, prompting troops to respond with tear gas and live fire.
Such protests are rare at Erez, the only terminal for travel into Israel or the West Bank from Gazoo.
The violent protest broke several days of calm, which came after understandings were reportedly reached between Israel and Hamas.
[Dawn] Former US ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad would join the State Department as an adviser on Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during his flight to Islamabad on Wednesday.
"Ambassador Khalilzad is going to join the State Department team to assist us in the reconciliation effort; so he will come on and be the State Department’s lead person for that purpose," Pompeo told news hounds travelling with him.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has expressed frustration at the lack of progress towards a US withdrawal from the Afghan conflict after 17 years. In a policy shift during a June ceasefire, Washington said it would "support, facilitate and participate" in any Kabul government-led peace talks with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... The surge in recent Taliban attacks has, however, raised questions about its interest in talks.
Khalilzad’s appointment signals that the administration is serious about an Afghan grinding of the peace processor. In addition to his experience advising or working for four US administrations and his knowledge of Afghanistan’s main languages, culture and politics, he is from the ethnic Pashtun majority.
As an aide to President George W. Bush, Khalilzad helped plan the US invasion of Afghanistan that followed the Sept 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda, which had been based in that country. That invasion also ousted the Taliban, whose Islamist government ruled the country beginning in 1996.
Known by many in Washington as "King Zal", the 67-year-old Khalilzad has decades of experience in the region. Now he has what Mr Pompeo has described as a "singular" mission to get the Taliban and the Afghan government to reconcile.
The mission marks Khalilzad’s return to focus on the country of his birth and childhood, and the place where he served as US ambassador from 2003 to 2005 under President Bush, helping to guide regime change in the messy aftermath of the fall of the Taliban.
[AlMasdar] The Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels suffered anther setback this week, when the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) carried out a fresh ambush against them.
According to the YPG’s Press Office, their forces ambushed a group of Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) inside the Afrin region’s Shera District, killing four of the rebels in the process.
"On September 3rd, our forces carried out a successful action in the Mariamin village of Afrin’s Shera district, targeting a military vehicle belonging to the Liwa al-Shamal mercenary fraction."
The YPG also managed to confiscate the belongings of the FSA fighters, which alowed them to identify the rebels killed in the attack.
"As a result, all 4 mercenaries in the vehicle were killed. Their names are as follows: Abdoulkarem Shihade (from Homs), Dibo Ismail (Aleppo), Omer Heshesh (Idlib) and Muhammed Mustafa (Menagh)."
They would conclude their statement by providing details regarding the deadly attack:
"Also, concerning the operations that had been carried out by our forces on the night of September 3rdin Afrin city center and in the countryside of Afrin’s Sherawa district and which resulted in the death of 15 mercenaries, including a commander Ahmed Semir Brier, we have been able to confirm that 4 soldiers of the Ottoman Turkish invasion army were killed. We couldn’t share this detail in our previous blurb because the exact number of the killed Ottoman Turkish soldiers wasn’t yet clarified."
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[AlAhram] A Giza criminal court sentenced four people to fourteen years in prison on Wednesday in the retrial of a case over the killing of a prominent Shia leader and three other members of the shrinking Egyptian Shia Moslem community in June 2013.
The court convicted the four men of manslaughter of the Shia leader Hassan Shehata and three members of his family and his followers.
The case dates back to June 2013, when an angry mob led by Salafist sheikhs torched Shia residences in the small village of Zawyat Abu Musalam in Giza governorate, killing four citizens.
The mob of hundreds gathered outside a house where the Shias were sheltering, beat them and set the house on fire.
Shehata was visiting one of the families in the village when the attack happened.
The attack was videotaped and the footage sent shockwaves across the country.
This is not the first time that an Egyptian court has issued sentences on the case, which has seen a number of appeals.
In the first sentencing of the case in 2015, 23 defendants, including 18 in absentia, were sentenced to 14 years prison for killing the four men. Eight others were acquitted.
In 2017, nearly two years after the first sentence, Egypt's Court of Cassation rejected an appeal presented by nine of the defendants, upholding their 14 year sentences.
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[KhaamaPress] At least 19 people including local Taliban ...Arabic for students... commander'>Taliban Überstürmbannführers and security personnel were killed or maimed during the festivities in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said at least six bandidosgunnies have been killed during the festivities with the security forces in Lakan village.
The statement further added that the festivities broke out amid ongoing operations being conducted as part of Nawid-15 operations.
According to the 209th Shaheen Corps, a local commander of the Taliban group identified as Qari Jawid is among those killed.
At least 11 Talibs also sustained injuries during the festivities together with 2 security personnel whose health condition has been reported as stable, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Baghlan has been among the relatively calm provinces in the North but the security situation of the province has tanked during the recent years.
The Talibs often carry out coordinated attacks and other types of terrorist related activities in some remote parts of the province.
Two maps can be seen at the link. The first is of the territories held by the various key groups as of 31. July 2018, the second of the planned Syrian Army conquest of Idlib, showing the situation as of 5 August.
[Jpost] Early in the conflict, fighting splintered Syria into a complex patchwork of areas held by rival groups, but fighting in recent years has simplified the frontlines and the country is now split into only a few zones of control.
GOVERNMENT-HELD TERRITORY
At its weakest point in 2015, the Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... Continued on Page 49
[Daily Mail] Some people swear vehemently by their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence contradicting their standpoint.
It’s a phenomenon that’s given rise to movements such as the ‘flat Earthers’ and climate change deniers, among many others in recent times.
While it might seem baffling, new research suggests it may have something to do with how we value feedback compared to hard evidence.
In a new study, researchers found that the positive and negative reactions that spring up in response to people’s opinions tend to hold more weight than logic or scientific data.
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Holocaust deniers are lumped with climate change deniers and round earth deniers? Each of these is very different. Apples and oranges. Lumping them together to come up with a unifying theory of why people hold on to certain beliefs is bad science. Has the politization of science been considered?
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A physical feline of Cheshire,
Observing her prey under pressure,
Found mice she befriended,
Surprisingly, tended
To join her to dine, and with pleasure.
[IsraelTimes] A roadside kaboom killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, front man for the provincial governor.
No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , who are active in the province and frequently target security forces and government officials.
[IsraelTimes] Abdel Rahim Abbas said killed at police bomb disposal unit’s headquarters after kabooms catch fire
A member of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", security forces was killed Wednesday in an accidental kaboom in the Gazoo Strip, the Paleostinian terror group reported.
The military wing of Hamas announced the man was Abdel Rahim Abbas, 42, a local commander of the Hamas security forces.
The Hamas-run Gazoo interior ministry said the kaboom happened at the administrative headquarters for the police’s bomb disposal unit and was a result of kabooms catching on fire during an inspection.
Police and civil defense units extinguished the fire caused by the kaboom, the ministry added.
A Hamas security source said he was trying to neutralize an Israeli munition.
[IsraelTimes] Even though Iran has rescinded a request to repatriate 300 million euros ($347 million) it has in a Hamburg-based bank, German authorities say financial regulators are still examining the proposed transaction.
Finance Ministry front man Steffen Hebestreit says financial regulator Bafin is still examining whether regulations on money laundering and terrorism financing were being followed.
Bafin confirmed the investigation but wouldn’t comment further.
The US had been pressuring German authorities to reject Iran’s request to transfer the cash from the European-Iranian Trade Bank, over concerns of how it would be used.
Though the request has been dropped, a new one could be made.
Germany’s Bundesbank last month changed its conditions allowing it to block transfers unless it receives assurances a transaction doesn’t violate financial sanctions or money-laundering rules.
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Germany’s Bundesbank last month changed its conditions allowing it to block transfers unless it receives assurances a transaction doesn’t violate financial sanctions or money-laundering rules.
Basra (IraqiNews.com) A protester has been killed in Basra province as security troops opened fire to disperse demonstrations on Wednesday.
One of the protester was killed as he was shot by security forces in his head, Alghad Press reported.
News reports said security troops have opened fire against protesters in the vicinity of the local government building to disperse the demonstrations, a local source from Basra said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said “protests are ongoing in the vicinity of Basra provincial council.”
Security troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, “are attempting dispersal of the protests through opening fire heavily against protesters, in addition to using tear gas bombs that cause them asphyxia.”
[AlAhrqm] Protesters blocked the entrance to Iraq's Umm Qasr commodities port on Wednesday to demand better services, said port employees and local government officials, raising the stakes in some of the worst unrest in southern cities in months.
The move came hours after protesters set fire to the main government building in the oil hub of Basra.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Federal police forces have arrested a judge of the Islamic State group and 15 more wanted criminals during different security operations in southwestern Kirkuk, a security source was quoted saying.
“Acting upon a tip-off, security forces arrested a judge who was working for Islamic State in Tal al-Zahab village in southwestern Kirkuk,” the source told Iraqi website Baghdad Today.
According to the source, “the troops also apprehended 15 suspects in different areas in Kirkuk.”
“The security forces found three bombs and stormed four hotbeds of Islamic State in the province,” added the source.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State members were wounded in an attack carried out by the militant group, southwest of Kirkuk, an official from the pro-government paramilitary troops said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, Karim al-Ezzi, an official from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “Islamic State members attacked a checkpoint of the troops in al-Shalalat region, located between al-Multaqa and Hawija, west of Kirkuk.”
PMFs, according to Ezzi, “repelled the attack, while some militants were injured before fleeing.”
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[ToloNews] Government forces have cleared Badakhshan’s Nusay district of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in military operation which is ongoing for the past 15 days, local officials said on Wednesday.
Badakhshan Police Chief Saber Aryan said Taliban has suffered heavy casualties in the military operation.
He said Taliban are under siege by government forces in a rural village in the district.
"We have tightened surroundings of the villages in Nusay where Taliban still poses threat to security. The reason behind a delay in the military operation is that we want to protect civilians during our mission," he said.
The police chief said the operation will continue until all threats are removed from the district.
"Our operation will continue until all threats against Nusay district are removed. We have strictly ordered our forces not to let the Taliban to pose threat to security of the district," he added.
Badakhshan officials meanwhile said some parts of the province are still under threat by the Taliban.
"We have plans on hand to conduct military operations in other areas too," said Akhtar Mohammad Khairzada, deputy governor of Badakhshan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... a commander of public uprising forces, Nazir Mohammad Niazi, said to gain a good result from military operations, there is a need for government to call for the help of public uprising forces.
"Government does not have sufficient troops to maintain the safety of the areas therefore it will be good if it calls for the help of public uprising forces in this respect," said Niazi.
Military affairs analysts in Badakhshan said Taliban’s main hideout is in Wardooj district in the province therefore, they said they call on government to launch military operation for clearing of this part of Badakhshan.
Nusay is the link to Maymi, Kof Aab, Sheki and Khwahan districts. The only bridge into these districts, which share a border with Tajikistan, is located in this district and all these districts get supplies through Nusay.
[Dawn] KARACHI: The three suspected Death Eaters, who had been killed in a ’shootout’ with police in Ittehad Town on Tuesday, were identified on Wednesday.
One of them was identified as Zubair alias Waqas who was stated to be the chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (Swat) in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... A senior police official said the mobile phone of the TTP chief showed he had remained in touch with two hardcore forces of Evil of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... who had beat feet from prison recently.
"Zubair might have helped them escape from the prison. He was a resident of Korangi and according to his family, which has received his body, he did matriculation," the policeman added.
The other deceased were identified as Rehmat Ramzan and Faisal Rasheed.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Seven coppers, including three coppers, were maimed Wednesday in a kaboom in al-Razaza area between Karbala and Anbar provinces.
"A kaboom targeted a police force while on duty in al-Razaza area between Karbala and Anbar provinces, leaving seven coppersmaimed, including three police forces," the source told Baghdad Today.
"The injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment," added the source.
[Dawn] KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday handed down a collective imprisonment of 29 years to a former student on charges of terrorism, possessing explosives and illicit arms.
Syed Rehan Zaidi alias Ali Budha was found guilty of possessing explosives and an illicit weapon, terrorism, encounter with law enforcers and attempting to murder in the remit of Mochko cop shoppe on Oct 2, 2017.
The ATC-X judge, who conducted the trial in the judicial complex inside the central prison, pronounced his verdict after recording evidence and arguments from both sides.
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[TheTrace] A group of nuns and other Catholic activists who want gunmakers to actively monitor violence committed with their products have met stiff resistance from the industry. In a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing, they have a message for one of those corporations, the parent company of popular gun brand Smith & Wesson: refusal to acknowledge the danger of your wares amounts to a self-inflicted injury to your bottom line.
After the Parkland school shooting, the activists, including the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and the Catholic Health Initiatives network of clinics, bought stock in the American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), which owns Smith & Wesson. They did the same with Sturm, Ruger, the other major publicly traded gun company. The activists then used their status as shareholders to ask fellow investors to join them in demanding that the gunmakers publicly report on public safety risks caused by their products.
Ruger’s shareholders were first to consider the nuns’ proposal at their company’s annual meeting in May. The initiative passed with 69 percent of the vote. It was an unprecedented victory for the activists: no gun company had ever been forced by its shareholders to consider the public safety implications of its products.
American Outdoor Brands is the next test for the activists’ campaign. They have submitted a nearly identical motion to be voted on at the company’s shareholder meeting on September 25.
The company officially acknowledged the proposal in an August 17th filing, in which the board of directors urged other shareholders to oppose the activists’ proposal. The board argued that producing such a report would not reduce gun violence, and was redundant because the company already cooperates with federal law enforcement and complies with regulatory requirements that acknowledge the risk associated with firearms.
The nuns and their allies have now pushed back, saying that they don’t believe a report alone would reduce shootings and injuries: instead, they are asking the company to engage in basic responsible corporate governance. As they note, AOBC has become dependent on so-called fear-based sales that spike in response to anticipation of potential new gun control laws that rarely actually materialize. But in the post-Parkland school shooting moment, enthusiastic gun control activists have managed to push through real reforms ‐ 55 new state gun laws have passed since the killings.
The Catholic allies have also pressured financial firms to impose conditions on the gun companies they work with. Continues.
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Convents and nuns should not own investments. They're literally getting too invested in this world and ignoring their faith. If they were truly dedicated to Christ, they'd sell the stock and donate the proceeds to the victims of gay priests.
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[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Unidentified motorcyclists on Wednesday rubbed out an Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... leader and his nephew in Tehkal area of the city, police said.
SP cantonment Waseem Riaz said the incident took place in Subhan Abad neighbourhood, when unknown motorcyclists opened fire, killing Ibrar Khalil and his nephew, Arshad on the spot.
An official at Tehkal cop shoppe said Mr Khalil had contested elections on ANP ticket from PK-74 constituency in the July 25 general elections.
The official said Mr Khlil along with his nephew was going in a vehicle when two assailants opened fire on them. He said the motive behind the attack was not clear and the family had yet to nominate anyone in the FIR.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... in a statement, ANP provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak condemned the killing of Mr Khalil and said there was no security in the picturesque provincial capital and the PTI government had left the general public at the mercy of terrorists.
Another statement issued here said Mr Khalil and his nephew’s funeral prayers would be offered on Wednesday night and they would be buried in their ancestral graveyards.
ANP has been at the crosshairs of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacks and hundreds of its workers and leaders have been killed during past some years.
Would that be the Afghan Taliban, who are Pashtuns, or Tehreek-i-Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, who are Punjabis? One wants to file things properly.
In July, ANP provincial information secretary Haroon Bilour was killed in a suicide kaboom along with 20 others during the election campaign.
[KhaamaPress] At least thirty twenty people were killed and nearly seventy others sustained injuries in twin explosions in Kabul city earlier this evening.
Security sources confirm the first blast took place inside a sports complex in the 6th police district of the city in Qala-e-Nazir area in west of Kabul.
The sources further added that the second blast took place among the reporters in the same area.
The Ministry of Public Health confirmed that the dead bodies of at least 20 people along with at least 70 wounded people were shifted to the hospitals.
The security officials have not confirmed the type of the explosions and the exact casualties toll but preliminary reports indicate the first blast has taken place due to a suicide attack.
No individual or group including Taliban and ISIS loyalists has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.
The Kabul police chief's spokesman told TOLOnews that a second explosion targeted first responders at the scene of Wednesday night's bombing in the city.
Officials confirmed the first explosion, just after 6pm, was a suicide bombing and the second, about an hour later, had been a car bomb.
Sources said that the second bombing targeted police and civilians, including journalists, who had gathered outside the Moalem wrestling club in Qala-e-Nazer in PD6, which had been targeted about an hour earlier by a suicide bomber.
A suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shia neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, home to many members of the mainly Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic minority which has been targeted in the past by Sunni militants of Islamic State group.
The Hazaras are a Persian-speaking minority that has long faced discrimination and which has borne the brunt of attacks claimed by Islamic State group in Kabul.
[KhaamaPress] A gang of Haqqani Network members involved in destructive activities and killing of the officials has been busted in capital Kabul.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), in a statement said a gang of Haqqani Network consisting of 11 militants was busted during separate operations in Kabul.
The statement further added that the militants were arrested during the operations from the 5th and 12th districts, Paghman and Bagrami districts.
According to the National Directorate of Security, the detained militants were involved in some major terrorist related activities, including attacks on government and security officials, tribal elders, and roadside bombings.
The Afghan forces also confiscated a Ak-47 rifle, a pistol, three kgs of explosives, and a motorycle during the operations, NDS added.
The detained militants have been identified as Momin Khan, Azizullah, Sardar Wali, Hamid, Mustafa, Mir Agha, Mohammad Rasool, Nawab, Lal Agha, Munir, and Ehsanullah.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Haqqani Network and Taliban militants have not commented regarding the report so far.
[IsraelTimes] Reza Khandan charged with ’conspiring against national security, propaganda against the system and campaigning against Iran’s Islamic dress code’
The husband of the imprisoned award-winning Iranian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , their lawyer told AFP on Wednesday.
"Reza Khandan was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in Tehran by agents of Iran’s intelligence ministry," their lawyer Mohammad Moghimi said.
He was transferred to Evin prison in northern Tehran where a judge charged him with conspiring against national security, propaganda against the system and campaigning against Iran’s Islamic dress code.
The last charge was based on the fact that badges were found in the family’s home, saying "No to compulsory hijab," the lawyer said.
Khandan’s wife is one of Iran’s most famed rights activists and won the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights award in 2012.
Earlier this year, Sotoudeh took on the cases of several women arrested for standing in public areas without their headscarves, which have been mandatory in Iran since shortly after the Islamic revolution of 1979.
She was arrested in June and told she had already been found guilty "in absentia" on spying charges by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
Her legal team said she is now serving a six-year jail term, one year longer than previously reported.
She began a hunger strike on August 25 in protest at the pressure brought on her family.
Khandan’s bail was set at 7 billion rials ($50,000), which Moghimi called "legally unacceptable."
Khandan and Sotoudeh’s 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were home at the time of the arrest and are now being cared for by their aunt, he added.
Moghimi said that Khandan’s charge of propaganda against the state was due to his interviews with international media on his wife’s imprisonment and ongoing cases.
Human Rights Watch said Iran had "ramped up their crackdown against human rights defenders."
"Iranian authorities continue to dig a hole for their domestic and international credibility as they lock up scores of lawyers and activists for the ’crime’ of defending citizens’ fundamental rights," said the NGO’s Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson.
One of Sotoudeh’s lawyers, Payam Derafshan, was himself arrested last week along with colleague Farokh Forouzan, according to a Facebook post by another human rights lawyer.
[IsraelTimes] Convict, along with his two brothers killed in shoot-out with security forces, drove around home town in pickup truck firing into the air and then retreated to booby-trapped house
A Jordanian court has sentenced an alleged 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.... group member to 20 years of hard labor for a 2016 attack on security forces, an AFP correspondent at the trial said.
The 25-year-old was charged with acquiring automatic weapons along with his two brothers and turning their house in Ma’an, 210 kilometers (130 miles) south of Amman, into a bomb factory.
The brothers booby-trapped the house then raised black IS flags on a roundabout and on the minaret of a mosque in the town to attract the attention of security forces, the charge sheet read.
They also raised an IS flag on a pickup truck which they drove around town, shooting in the air, it said.
"When the accused saw a vehicle belonging to security services they opened fire, wounding those inside," the charges said.
Officials said they then returned to their house, leaving the pickup outside to attract attention.
Security forces arrived, triggering a shootout which maimed several security personnel and killed two of the brothers. The third was able to blow up the house before being incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... Jordanian courts regularly try suspected jihadists, usually linked to IS.
Jordan is part of the US-led military coalition against IS and has carried out air strikes targeting the murderous Moslem group. It also hosts coalition troops on its territory.
The kingdom was hit by several attacks in 2016, including an IS suicide kaboom in June that killed seven guards near the border with Syria.
Islamist stronghold Ma’an has a bloody and rebellious past dating back to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
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If we had a profession dedicated to seeking out information, they'd track these people down and ask them why they say such ludicrous things.
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"A vote against Kavanaugh is a vote to kill ME!" - an unborn baby
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If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test! If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal, wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like to be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his. If a conservative read this, he'll forward it, so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended."
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The whole 'different heads same voice' montage is a stale 10 years old, the production is horrible, the actresses not charismatic, and the script poor.
No dancing boys, pretty guys, or soccer players? Being a bit exclusionary eh gals?
As a personal note, whenever I am listening to someone and they do that voice inflection that 'and as a non-binary' chick makes, I'm done, shouldn't have to make pikachu noises to emphases an opinion.
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This vid's got c. 5k views. The guy who posted it, Ady Barkan, is apparently an ALS patient best known for "confronting" Jeff Flake on a plane. Another of his videos (probably his magnum opus), framed as advice and encouragement for his (now very young) son has also gotten c. 5k views (probably the same people, more or less) despite being quite the tearjerker. Over 5 months. Fishy. Wish I could bet on his longterm survival.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... on Wednesday held a meeting with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Joseph Dunford at the PM House in Islamabad.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar were also present in the PM's meeting with the US delegation.
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[FreeBeacon] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the Islamic Republic has had a long and successful working relationship with the Open Society Foundations, a massive philanthropic organization run by liberal billionaire George Soros.
"Zarif claimed that the Open Society Foundation was legally operational inside Iran ... with significant collaborations with city councils and other organizations," according to a translation of recent remarks by Zarif performed by Iran Gateway.
Zarif went on to claim "he made sure these meetings with Iranians were under strict rules and scrutiny, lest it jeopardizes national security," according to the translation of remarks before Iran's Parliment.
Zarif also claimed" he was briefed regularly on the content of these meetings by the Iranian counterparts" and referenced similar claims by "Kian Tajbakhsh, head of Open Society Foundation in Iran, as mostly confirming his claims."
Soros's foundation is a prolific funder of liberal organizations, including J Street, Human Rights Watch, and a cadre of other organizations critical of Israel.
[Ynet] According to the IDF, the Iranian entrenchment in Syria was expected to attract thousands of soldiers loyal to the Revolutionary Guards; the revealing of more than 200 Israeli attacks on Iranian targets in Syria exposes an entire intelligence front active at any given moment. Tehran doesn't stop, and Israel is determined to attack even at the price of war.
The IDF revealed on Tuesday that as of the beginning of 2017, more than 200 Iranian or pro-Iranian targets were attacked across Syria.
An entire system of pilots, officers, analysts, and officials has been working around the clock to execute the strikes.
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[IsraelTimes] The US Navy says a recent arms seizure from small ships near war-torn 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... netted over 2,500 Kalashnikov assault rifles.
The Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet gives the updated total in a statement. It boarded the skiff and the dhow, a traditional ship in the Persian Gulf, during a routine check in the Gulf of Aden on Aug. 28.
The Navy adds: "The origin and intended destination of the skiff have not yet been determined."
In early 2016, US-allied warships in the region stopped three dhows carrying thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles as well as sniper rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-tank missiles and other weapons believed bound for Yemen from Iran.
[IsraelTimes] Explosions destroy two large hangars and reveal tunnel entrances leading underground, says imaging service.
An Israeli satellite company published images Wednesday it said showed the damage at a military site in Syria from an Arclight airstrike a day before that was attributed to Israel.
The rare daytime strike reportedly targeted Iranian assets between the town of Masyaf and Wadi al-Uyun.
Photos taken from space showed two large hangars, 60 and 35 meters in length, destroyed in the attack, said ImageSat International (ISI).
The raids also revealed entrances to underground tunnels, one leading from each hangar, which were previously covered by tarpaulins, ISI said.
"Due to its location close to other surface-to-surface missile Iranian-Syrian facilities within the Russian S-400 [air-defense system] deployment range, and following recent media reports about past airstrikes, ISI assesses that this site might be related as well to the other mentioned sites," the company said.
The Syrian military claimed air defenses successfully intercepted several missiles launched by Israeli warplanes, though Damascus often inflates the number of missiles it intercepts.
Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes in Syria, though the reported attack came hours after the IDF confirmed it had carried out over 200 strikes in the country over the past 18 months.
Also Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is working to thwart the production of precision missiles that can be used against the country "both near and far."
"Israel is determined to prevent Iran and its proxies from establishing a military presence in Syria," Netanyahu told ministers at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.
"We are taking strong action against these attempts and against the attempts to produce precision weaponry in all sectors, near and far. We will continue to take such action on behalf of the security of Israel," he said.
The 202 targets hit in the Israeli airstrikes since 2017 were mostly shipments of advanced weaponry, as well as military bases and infrastructure, which the IDF officials said drove Iranian forces to abandon some posts.
In addition, Jerusalem has tried to get the Islamic Theocratic Republic out of Syrian through diplomatic means by appealing to the two main power-brokers in the region: Russia and the United States.
While Russia does not seem to have accepted Israel’s demand for Iran to be completely removed from Syria, it has agreed to force the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s forces and proxies to leave the areas closest to the border with Israel.
According to some reports, pro-Iranian forces would be required to stay 40 kilometers (25 miles) away from the border; others indicate that range would be set at 80 kilometers (50 miles).
[Ynet] Gazoo's terror head Yahya Sinwar says weekly violent marches were used to divert pressure onto Israel and prevent an 'internal kaboom' after reconciliation efforts with Fatah were 'sabotaged'; Sinwar also clarifies no ceasefire agreement reached with Israel.
Gazoo’s Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leader Yahya Sinwar openly admitted on Tuesday that the weekly "March of Return" protests staged on the Gazoo border in recent months were intended to avert an internal crisis and divert pressure onto the Israelis.
"After the reconciliation efforts (between Hamas and Fatah) reached an impasse, a number of factions planned to cause an internal kaboom in the Gazoo Strip, but the Marches of Return thwarted the plan," Sinwar said during a Hamas conference in the coastal enclave.
"Paleostinian officials collaborated with Israeli intelligence in order to sabotage the reconciliation efforts," he claimed.
Sinwar also said that no arrangement has been reached with Israel to put an end to daily hostilities, despite the quiet that has prevailed on the volatile border in recent days.
"I will state clearly: So far there is no agreement and not outline for an agreement for a ceasefire with Israel," the terror leader said.
In August, it was reported that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire under Egyptian mediation, as Israelis living in the south urged the government to stem the daily launching of incendiary balloons and near-daily barrage of rockets that threatened to drag the two sides into yet another conflict.
"Gazoo did not want to to stand idly by when the American Embassy was transferred to Jerusalem," Sinwar explained. "The Paleostinian people succeeded in turning this provocation into an opportunity to confront the Israeli enemy."
Sinwar heaped praise on the Gazoo residents, saying "our people create a means of pressure, like the incendiary balloons, and they write the history of those under siege in Gazoo, who have nothing, and they cause Israel to think again."
Telling his listeners that Hamas was not seeking war, and was instead interested in maintaining the ceasefire reached in 2014 at the end of Operation Protective Edge, Sinwar emphasized that "we are ready to fight off any aggression."
Sinwar addressed rumors circulating about possible solutions to the crisis gripping the Gazoo Strip.
"Anyone who thinks there is a discussion about an airport (in Sinai), does not know anything. The discussion at the moment is about a maritime route between the Gazoo Strip and Cyprus and about finding a systematic solution to the problem of UNRWA," Sinwar attempted to clarify.
Sinwar also turned to UN Mideast Envoy Nikolay Mladenov. "Your role has changed from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... envoy for the grinding of the peace processor to the UN envoy to prevent war," Sinwar said.
"As the pressure on resistance increased, so did the intermediaries. Mladenov came to Gazoo twice a day during the recent escalation and not he hasn’t been to Gazoo in weeks," he complained.
Judicial Watch today released 424 pages of FBI records, including an email revealing that recently fired FBI official Peter Strzok created the initial draft of the October 2016 letter then-FBI director James Comey sent to Congress notifying lawmakers of the discovery of Hillary Clinton emails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Another email suggests that the FBI had not yet completed its review of Clinton’s emails by the time Comey sent a second letter to Congress on November 6, 2016, reconfirming his belief that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
The documents reveal that on October 27, 2016, Peter Strzok emailed other senior FBI officials a draft notice letter from Comey to Congress about the Weiner laptop discovery and the reopening of the Clinton investigation. The emails indicated that Strzok and another official Jon (Last Name Unknown) authored the notification to Congress. The notification, according the DOJ IG, came a full month after the emails were discovered by the FBI on the Weiner laptop.
According to the documents, at 11:04 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2016, FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki sent Comey an email containing a redacted draft document which he referred to as a "New Proposal" saying: "Folks, Per our 1000pm conversation, below is a revised straw man for discussion. Again, we could use this if the review when completed supports our conclusions. My comments again in ALL CAPS and bold italics."
Rybicki’s "New Proposal ... straw man" apparently refers to a draft of Comey’s letter to Congress concerning the FBI’s review of the 650,000 Clinton emails found Weiner’s laptop. At the time of the Rybicki email, Comey was preparing his letter informing Congress of the FBI’s findings, and according to page 390 of the June 2018 report from the DOJ Office of the Inspector General, the deliberations regarding the letter began on the afternoon of November 3 and concluded "very early on November 6."
Despite Rybicki’s email suggesting late on November 5 that the review of the new emails had not been completed, Comey’s November 6 letter to Congress stated, "[W]e reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton." Continues.
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Does anyone ever try to understand why Huma stored all these communications on Weiner's laptop, or allowed him to do it?
It violated numerous laws, since many classified communications were among these; and keeping all Clinton communications on a private unauthorized server apparently without permission from anyone seems a strange thing to do.
There are a number of possible motives:
1. she hoped to sell this information
2. she hoped to use it in writing a book
3. she held it as protection against a rift with Ms. Clinton, to be used for blackmail if necessary.
4. She just liked breaking security laws for the fun of it.
Can you think of anything else?
On another matter, there have been reports that the entire FBI investigation of the 650,000 items was done by several people within a 12 hour time span. That they found nothing sufficient to overturn Comey's decision to exonerate Ms. Clinton. a decision made long before any investigation of anything, is not surprising.
I believe Comey made his first message to Congress to prevent some loose cannon in the NY FBI making it public. This was just like Lois Lerner revealing the campaign against pro-Republican organizations by the IRS which was done so she could control what was said, and be the go to person for further information, rather than this being some Republican.
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Does anyone ever try to understand why Huma stored all these communications on Weiner's laptop, or allowed him to do it?
I assume some client replication rule was in effect to maintain an offline cache which then synchronized when the Outlook client found it's server. Technology strikes again.
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Does anyone ever try to understand why Huma stored all these communications on Weiner's laptop, or allowed him to do it?
Yea, his laptop but who was the designated operator? Thumb drive library no doubt. The stuff from Foggy Bottom had to be migrated to something. I doubt any unauthorized distro mas made from inside the State Dept.
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The FBI did a sloppy, half-arsed job of examining HRC's records. The process was corrupted. HRC had many classified documents on this computer inter-mixed with Weiner's pron. The FBI exonerated Hillary, thus obstructing justice via an elaborate cover-up.
The question is "What is to be done with HRC, the DOJ and FBI higher-ups?" So far, not much has happened except a few deck chair shufflings and a few firings. If there are no consequences, such things are likely to happen again.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Sixteen 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.... members were locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in a security operation in south of Mosul, the Nineveh Operations Command said on Wednesday.
Speaking to BasNews, Mostafa al-Jabouri, spokesperson for the command, said "security troops carried out an operation in the islands of al-Bu seif village, south of Mosul."
The operations, according to Jabouri, "resulted in arresting 16 members of Islamic State dormant cells. They were possessing weapons, which were confiscated and taken to the command headquarters."
The bully boyz "were taken to the headquarters for investigations ahead of standing trials," Jabouri added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has carefully crafted an image of himself as a big-picture visionary, tasked with turning China into the world’s preeminent superpower. While Xi has focused on taking over the world, however, the average Chinese citizen appears increasingly frustrated with his inability to provide competent government functions like adequate education and health care.
(Reuters) - Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in "provocation" and that it had lodged a strong complaint.
[DW] The German minister has claimed migration is at the heart of society's disillusionment with politics. Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, said she would have put it a bit differently and called migration a "challenge."
[Wash Examiner] President Trump on Thursday thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for saying he has "unwavering trust in Donald Trump" after a bilateral meeting between North and South Korea.
The Man Behind the Barcelona Attacks Was on Police Radar for Years. How Did They Let It Happen?
[Mercer - March 2017 article] Donald Trump is making a HUGE mistake that could cost him the midterms and/or make him a one-term president. He thinks he can defang the snakes he has gathered around him in the administration. President Trump has hired individuals who do not articulate the principles he ran on and jump at every opportunity to stick it to him.
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) ‐ Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street.
[IsraelTimes] Army says Erez to remain closed until damage by Paleostinian rioters is repaired; humanitarian cases to be approved on case-by-case basis
[AlAhram] A Giza criminal court sentenced four people to fourteen years in prison on Wednesday in the retrial of a case over the killing of a prominent Shia leader and three other members of the shrinking Egyptian Shia 
[Daily Mail] Some people swear vehemently by their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence contradicting their standpoint.
[IsraelTimes] A 
[IsraelTimes] Abdel Rahim Abbas said killed at police bomb disposal unit’s headquarters after 
[ToloNews] Government forces have cleared Badakhshan’s Nusay district of 
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
Mehmood 
...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...
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