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Looks to be Lebanese, lookin over her shoulder for wearin a skirt.
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I think she started out as a Sennett babe, so it's the makeup not the ethnicity. She had a fairly decent career, but then she started hitting the bottle and packin' on the weight. Warner Brothers dumped her and she died of alcoholism in 1937, leaving an estate valued at $300.
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So you're saying she's available?
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https://youtu.be/c3dTc4kyIOU
Of course.
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Hillary DID IT AGAIN!!!
Just called the veterans presser "Disgraceful".
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Sounds like the stupid little ants walked into it thinking like fatheads.
Birther is what they wanted. The script has always gone this way.
But oh, when their funny little prejudices and expectations are wrong, it is Trump's fault.
I don't care much if it was on accident or on purpose, it shows that the media does not have a decision loop, it has a decision yarn. Always suspected, now confirmed.
h/t Instapundit
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said today that he's not in favor of requiring a prescription to purchase birth control. In a taped interview on "The Dr. Oz Show," Trump said, "I would say it should not be a prescription; it should not be done by prescription." A covert strike at Dem voters?
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"A covert strike at Dem voters?". You got it. Trump is a master at this game and plays to win. He is always ahead of most in media. Why because they are managed.
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Planned Parenthood would loose a lot of taxpayer money.
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He just cut the legs out the the Donk wing of the screaming garbage baby feminists who keep playing the 'War on Women' mantra. What are they going to fallback on? That the drugs are dangerous with terrible side effects, the same drugs they've insisted on access to for generations?
h/t Instapundit
A team of Russian weather experts claim that their station on an ice-covered Arctic isle is "besieged" by polar bears, according to a report by Russian news agency TASS.
The five researchers charged with staffing the outpost on Troynoy Island say that there are about 10 adult polar bears as well as cubs circling their base. A female polar bear spends nights perched outside the station's windows, making it dangerous for the scientists to exit. They have reportedly run out of flares and have lost at least one of their two dogs to the arctic beasts. Relax. The bears are just protesting AGW.
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I was told Polar Bears are almost extinct because of global warming. Meddle ye not in the affairs of Polar Bears as ye be crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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I was involved in the transfer of Point Barrow to the locals back in the day.
Point Barrow had a special siren for Polar Bear warnings. The instructions were to close the blinds, shut the windows, turn off the lights and move to the interior corridors and DO NOT MAKE A SOUND.
Seems a full grown Polar Bear snatched a weatherman at Barrow by coming right through the wall of the building he was in.
A human is not at the top of the food chain in those regions. The Polar Bear is the Great White Shark of the Artic...and probably more dangerous.
A Coast Guardsman at Barrow told me they were out on patrol about 100 miles off shore and came across a Polar Bear swimming along...hunting seals. Seems Polar Bears are bouyant and can swim for hundreds of miles without difficulty.
So much for a fragile endangered species, a Polar Bear is not a kangaroo rat or a moth.
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Getting rid of polar bears is easy if you know this old Eskimo trick. First you cut a hole in the ice and place peas around the edge. When a polar bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.
The two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man." The world today has two new nuclear bombs.
One is named "Fat Bill." The other is named "Little Hillary."
The "Bill Clinton" bomb is the one getting the most headlines as North Korea continues testing its nuclear weapons. The Communist dictatorship is on its fifth test already and achieved an explosion almost at the level of "Little Boy" which was dropped on Hiroshima.
North Korea has let it be known that this test has allowed it to produce standardized nuclear warheads "able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets" so that it can "produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power."
Kim doesn’t just want a nuke. He wants a lot of nukes. And at the rate he’s going, he will have them.
And the man to thank for all that is Bill Clinton.
In the fall of ’94, Clinton told the American people that his deal with North Korea would help bring "an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula.
...Bill Clinton sold America the same bill of goods on North Korea that Obama did on Iran. North Korea would have its isolation eased and "our relationship" with it would develop.
He was right about that. Our relationship developed to the point of North Korea threatening us with the nuclear weapons that he promised us it wouldn't have. Bill’s relationship with North Korea developed to the point of a paid speaking gig that was turned down by the ethics office at the State Department.
That’s the first Clinton Bomb. It’s named "Fat Bill." North Korea has also supplied nuclear technology to Iran. And that’s the other Clinton Bomb.
It’s called "Little Hillary."
Hillary Clinton has been very eager to claim credit for the Iran Deal. Indeed her boss’ worthless deal with the nuclear terror state closely echoes her husband’s worthless deal with another nuclear terror state.
Even the rhetoric was the same. In Bill’s speech, he claimed that the deal with North Korea "does not rely on trust." In Obama’s speech, he insisted that, "this deal is not built on trust."
Except that it did and it does.
Iran got to collect its own samples and turn them over to the IAEA. That’s the definition of trust.
...For the Iran Deal to be credible, we have to trust that Iran doesn’t want a nuclear bomb.
Hillary initiated the pivot to let Iran continue enriching uranium. As her campaign adviser said, "She recognized the difficulty of reaching a solution with zero enrichment."
As with the rest of her politics, Hillary Clinton has held an infinite number of positions on Iran’s nuclear enrichment. But behind closed doors, this was her true position.
North Korea’s "Fat Bill" bomb and Iran’s "Little Hillary" bomb are interconnected. The two terror states, one red and the other green, one left-wing and the other Islamic, help each other.
Much as Bill helped North Korea and Hillary helped Iran.
The world faces the prospect of two terror states armed with nuclear weapons as the legacy for two politicians named Clinton who sold out their country and ushered in a new age of nuclear terror.
If a North Korean bomb is used in war, it will be Bill’s bomb. And if Iran uses nuclear weapons, it will be Hillary’s hellish explosion.
Stopping the two Clinton bombs may be the biggest national security challenge for a future president.
[Free Beacon] CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday it was likely that hackers would continue to target political computer systems in the weeks leading up to the November presidential election.
Brennan discussed the cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee and state election systems during an interview with CBS News, saying that he "wouldn’t be surprised" if more breached information was leaked.
"I think there are capabilities that a number of our adversaries have‐and again, I’m not just talking about nation states or other countries‐I’m talking about individuals who may want to demonstrate that they’re able to hack into systems and release things for whatever their agenda might be, whether it be a political agenda or one that is just trying to undermine our system of democracy here," Brennan said.
Intelligence officials suspect that Russian government hackers were behind a series of cyber attacks targeting Democratic organization and staff. While Brennan refused to specially blame the Kremlin for the breaches, he pointed to Russia’s known history of breaking into U.S. political websites.
President Obama warned in July that it was possible Russian hackers would attempt to sway the U.S. election. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has maintained that the Kremlin was behind the DNC attacks in an attempt to help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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... STATEMENT: "I wouldn't be surprised at more leaks."
TRANSLATION: "You people wouldn't believe the shiat coming down the pike - or at least, you wouldn't if the media would cover it, and we've made it very clear to these people what will happen if so much as one cub reporter writes just one word about it."
Mike
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[Ynet] Serbian authorities say that joint police and army patrols have caught 71 migrants and arrested two people smugglers who transported them in vans and cars. A police statement said Thursday that a vehicle carrying 50 migrants was stopped near the border with Bulgaria, while 21 were caught farther west. The two drivers were detained.
Serbian officials said Thursday that migrant pressure on the Balkan country's borders has increased in the past two weeks, with more than 7,500 migrants attempting to cross from Bulgaria and Macedonia since mid-July.
[Ynet] Hungary says it is setting up a special department to coordinate the assistance and rescue of persecuted Christians around the world. Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said Thursday that the 10-person office will seek to organize international aid for persecuted Christians when the work of private and nonprofit groups proves insufficient.
Lazar says the new department within the Ministry of Human Resources was inspired by a recent trip the prime minister took to Rome, where he met with representatives of Eastern Christian churches. Lazar says the meetings made clear "there would be a great need for European government organizations to take this issue more seriously." Orban has said that taking in large numbers of Muslim refugees will destroy Europe's Christian identity.
[Ynet] Eight asylum seekers are taking legal action against Macedonia for expelling them back to Greece after a chaotic mass border crossing earlier this year. The migrant advocacy group ProAsyl said it helped the group file a complaint Monday with the Council of Europe's Court of Human Rights. Karl Kopp of the Frankfurt, Germany-based group said Thursday that the asylum seekers were from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. He did not disclose their names.
[Ynet] Prosecutors in Kosovo have brought charges against the leader of the country's only Islamic political party, accusing him of inciting viewers to resist state authority during a television broadcast two years ago. Charges were also filed against four imams in the predominantly secular Muslim state, where authorities are concerned about militant Islamist recruitment after more than 300 people left in recent years to fight in Syria and Iraq.
In a 2014 television broadcast, Fuad Ramiqi, leader of the then recently-founded LISBA party, criticised authorities over the arrest of several imams on incitement charges and said: "We will not remain idle in the face of terror."
[AnNahar] Scuffles broke out on the Greek island of Chios, police said Thursday, during a protest by locals demanding the departure of some 3,500 refugees and migrants held there. Riot police were deployed late on Wednesday to keep a crowd of 800 people from approaching two migrant camps, a police source told Agence France Presse.
There are now over 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece, most of them seeking to travel to Germany and other affluent EU countries. But they are unable to do so after a succession of eastern European and Balkan states shut their borders earlier this year.
Brawls are common in the eastern Aegean island camps facing Turkey, with many desperate to avoid being returned to Turkey or their home countries after spending a small fortune and risking their lives trying to escape poverty and persecution. Another row between African and Afghan migrants broke out late on Wednesday in a camp on the island of Lesbos, ANA said.
[AnNahar] Some 235,000 migrants in Libya are ready to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Italy as soon as the opportunity arises, UN envoy Martin Kobler said in an interview published Thursday.
According to Italy's interior ministry, nearly 128,400 migrants have arrived via the Mediterranean since the start of the year -- which is a five percent jump over the same period in 2015.
[AnNahar] Belgian authorities are preparing guidelines for shopkeepers on how to report suspicious customers to the police in order to foil potential terror attacks, an economy ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
The ministry is drawing up a manual telling owners of businesses such as pharmacies, paint shops and hardware stores what to do if a customer acts suspiciously, such as buying a large quantity of products that could be used to make homemade explosives.
"Shopkeepers are asked to report thefts, disappearances of products or purchases in abnormal quantities," economy ministry spokesman Etienne Mignolet told AFP.
"If there is a suspicious transaction, shopkeepers are urged to inform the police," he added. "Our main objective is to stop the criminal use of home-made explosives."
Explosives made from shop-bought chemical products were used by jihadists in the November 2015 Paris attacks and the March 22 attacks in Brussels. In May, a court found that a Belgian terror cell raided by police in January 2015 had large quantities of chemical products used to make TATP, the homemade explosive used by Islamic State terrorists in the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Certain products such as acetone, fertilizer and sulfuric acid are treated as suspicious if bought in large quantities. Shopkeepers are also expected to inform police if a customer is unable to explain how he or she will use the chemicals, pays using an unusual method of payment or is unwilling to provide proof of identity or address.
Shopkeepers could incur fines of up to 600,000 euros ($673,932), or a prison sentence of between one and five years if they fail to inform the police about a suspicious transaction.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s navy managed to foil two irregular immigration attempts of 440 people through the Mediterranean Sea during the Eid Al-Adha holiday, the Egyptian armed forces announced.
The navy stopped a fishing boat carrying 198 people from different nationalities in addition to its seven-member crew in the northern city of Burullus in Kafr Al-Sheikh governorate. The navy also stopped a fishing boat carrying 242 people from different nationalities and its five-members crew in the northern city Ras El-Hakima, Marsa Matrouh governorate. Both fishing boats were led to Abu-Kir naval base in Alexandria where the 440 people received medical care and were referred to prosecution.
In recent years, thousands of refugees and migrants have attempted to cross the Mediterranean in search of better jobs and opportunities. Hundreds have been arrested in Egypt for attempting to migrate irregularly.
[Breitbart] Chief Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman says a 17-year-old home invasion suspect did not survive the shotgun blast that greeted him early Thursday morning. The incident on Sugar Hill Street in Anderson County, South Carolina.
According to WYFF, Boseman said the suspect - Demacio Robertson and two other individuals "broke into the home" around 2 am. Once inside, Robertson moved toward the back of the house "and was shot through the bedroom door."
Boseman said that Robertson "stumbled outside and was found in the yard." He was pronounced dead approximately 35 minutes later at a local hospital.
WSPA reports that Robertson "was shot in the stomach with a shotgun." The two other suspects fled upon hearing the blast. One individual has since been "detained" for questioning and the hunt for the other suspect is ongoing.
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I'm sure he had good reason to be inside some stranger's house at 2am. You know, part of the grand plan to become a Nobel Prize winning scientist or doctor.
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His momma, preacher, teacher and bassetbaw coach will all come forward to say that Demacio "was a good boy, with a bright future that has been tragically cut short..."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said on Thursday that Germany needed "viable solutions" to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired fewer than 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year. "Sprechen sie Deutsch?"
"Allahu akbar!"
German employers have very high standards for their incoming employees, only in part because it is so hard to fire one. As I recall, eighteen months of formal training is required to earn a certificate to be a grocery store cashier.
Merkel, fighting for her political life over her open-door policy, summoned the bosses of some of Germany’s biggest companies to Berlin on Wednesday to account for their lack of action and exchange ideas about how they can do better.
Many of the companies contend that a lack of German-language skills, the inability of most refugees to prove any qualifications and uncertainty about their permission to stay in the country mean there is little they can do in the short term. Merkel told rbb-inforadio that if needed, special provisions could be developed to speed up the integration of refugees into the workforce, but she acknowledged this would still take time.
"Many are in integration courses or waiting to get on them. So I think we will need to show some patience, but must be ready at any time to develop viable solutions," she said.
A survey by Rooters of the 30 companies in Germany’s DAX stock index found they could point to just 63 refugee hires in total. Several of the 26 firms who responded said they considered it discriminatory to ask about applicants’ migration history, so they did not know whether they employed refugees or how many.
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The first option that comes to mind is something of a 'kickstarter' movement where the residents of each block buy a broom and put one to work sweeping streets and sidewalks daily. Low talent, high immediate visibility.
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So my choices are spend a couple years seriously learning to read and write German, and some kind of trade OR I can go on the dole and lay around bitching about the Infidel. Hmmm, lemme think...
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"DHS denied it is holding back the report, but sources say it was completed in November and that it shows roughly half of adults who attempt to cross the border make it - approximately 250,000 in total."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dozens of coppers intervened as groups of far-right Germans and asylum-seekers clashed in an eastern German town that has previously seen racist incidents, officials said Thursday.
Around 80 Germans and 20 migrants colonists attacked each other Wednesday night in Bautzen, a town between Dresden and the Polish border, local police front man Thomas Knaup said.
Officers trying to separate the groups as they brawled in a town square were assailed with bottles thrown by some of the asylum-seekers.
The far-right protesters shouted nationalist slogans and followed the asylum-seekers back to their shelter while police tried to keep the groups apart, according to police.
Later, some members of the far-right group threw stones at an ambulance, preventing it from reaching the shelter to attend to an injured migrant.
Bautzen Mayor Alexander Ahrens condemned the violence and vowed to deploy more police and social workers to prevent future incidents.
"I’m shocked and very worried about the escalation," Ahrens wrote on Facebook. "I sharply condemn the growing violence in confrontations between the various groups."
Ahrens said there had been problems between far-right German youths and young asylum-seekers during the last two weeks in the Kornmarkt square. Town officials already had discussed imposing an alcohol ban there, German news agency DPA reported.
In February, onlookers celebrated as a fire damaged a former hotel that was being turned into a refugee home in Bautzen, a case of suspected arson. And when German President Joachim Gauck visited Bautzen in March to talk about democracy, he was insulted by some locals.
Hundreds of thousands asylum-seekers arrived in Germany last year, leading to tensions in some regions. The state of Saxony, where Bautzen is located, has seen several anti-migrant incidents, although it has one of the lowest percentages of foreigners in the country.
The Daily Mail says there were 100 locals, and the colonists taunted them until they reacted.
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[RUDAW.NET] Co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Figen Yuksekdag, said that she will refuse to answer any summons to court to face charges of supporting terrorism because there is no fair or impartial judicial mechanism in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "The government had already amassed their cohorts in judiciary posts and a purge of the high judiciary was concluded well before the July 15 coup attempt. After that, thousands of judges and prosecutors have been discharged and placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! ," Yuksekdag wrote in an editorial for Newsweek on Thursday.
"Public confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low. In this situation, there is no judicial mechanism that we can go to seek justice," she wrote, noting that "every member of the high judiciary has pledged their loyalty to Erdogan," president of Turkey.
"Therefore, we are doing what is legitimate and right: we refuse to go to the prosecutors and the courts."
Yuksekdag and 58 other HDP MPs, including her co-chair Selahattin Demirtas, face charges on supporting terrorism tied to accusations from Ankara that they support the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The charges against Yuksekdag stem from a speech she made in 2015 in which she expressed support for the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the PYD and their fight against the terrorist group 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.... (ISIS).
She concluded her speech by saying, "Let’s join together with Syrian Kurds in a historical alliance and make Turkey a safe, secure, strong and the democratic center of gravity in the region."
The Turkish parliament voted in May to lift immunity from a select group of politicians, including many HDP MPs, accused of terrorism-related offenses.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The deputy permanent representative of India to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Ambassador Tanmaya Lal has questioned the lack of steps to designate the Taliban supreme leader a terrorist individual.
In his speech during the UN Security Council Debate on situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security, Lal said "The fact that the leader of Taliban, a proscribed entity, is not yet designated as a terrorist individual remains a mystery to us."
The Indian envoy insisted for a clarification for the approach, saying "Can we know the rationale for such an approach? Is it now the thinking that leaders of proscribed entities will not be held accountable for the deeds of the listed groups that they head? Is this how we now intend to address of the most serious threats to international peace and security?"
Lal further added that Afghanistan has India’s full support for strengthening its defense capabilities and in preserving its illusory sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.
"India remains strongly committed to Afghanistan. The Prime Minister of India has conveyed to the President of Afghanistan H.E. Mr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. during his ongoing visit to India, our offer of an allocation of a further sum of USD 1 billion for requirements of Afghanistan for capacity building in spheres of such as education, health, agriculture, skill development, empowerment of women, energy, infrastructure and strengthening of democratic institutions," he added.
He also pointed towards the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and said "We believe that the path to reconciliation in Afghanistan should be through Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process in adherence to the internationally accepted lines reflecting the aspirations of the people of Afghanistan."
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[PJ] Near my father's home, something that looks like a large birdhouse has appeared on someone's property. It's one of those "little free libraries" that you might have seen -- they've popped up all over the place.
The idea is simple: If you want a book, you take a book and leave another in its place. It's a nice, sweet idea that has worked out remarkably well, considering how many folks out there are Grade A jerks.
Speaking of jerks, however, the government is cracking down on such book sharing. Because of course it is:
Last summer in Kansas, a nine-year-old was loving his Little Free Library until at least two residents proved that some people will complain about anything no matter how harmless and city officials pushed the boundaries of literal-mindedness:
The Leawood City Council said it had received a couple of complaints about Spencer Collins' Little Free Library. They dubbed it an "illegal detached structure" and told the Collins' they would face a fine if they did not remove the Little Free Library from their yard by June 19.
Scattered stories like these have appeared in various local news outlets. The L.A. Times followed up last week with a trend story that got things just about right.
"Crime, homelessness and crumbling infrastructure are still a problem in almost every part of America, but two cities have recently cracked down on one of the country's biggest problems: small-community libraries where residents can share books," Michael Schaub wrote.
"Officials in Los Angeles and Shreveport, Louisiana, have told the owners of homemade lending libraries that they're in violation of city codes, and asked them to remove or relocate their small book collections."
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can't have nice things.
Keep in mind that these structures are on private property, and are typically not large enough to do much of anything except hold a handful of books. Wronging another human in any way with these structures may be literally impossible.
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some people will complain about anything no matter how harmless Kind of like bitching about a little kid's lemonade stand. It is the whiner--PC--annoying era. It will pass at some point (he said hopefully).
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See - tool shed. It's all about power in the hands of people who should never be permitted near it.
'Some people complained' - the fundamental right of the accused to face their accuser. Put it in writing with your name and address on it for public view and access.
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Many zoning / property maintenance regulations are only enforced when someone complains. I legally parked my slide-on truck camper in my front driveway from 1983-2005, when that suddenly became illegal. I continued to park it from 2005 to 2011 when someone complained & I was forced to move it to a paid parking lot.
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The California Coastal Commission used to have a cow when a person installed such things as bird houses or flagpoles (or anything that one might have to dig a hole to install) within a certain distance from the ocean. My Dad found out the hard way when he put up a trellis in his yard.
Don't know if it is still that way or not.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.
An organization that monitors the war also said the Syrian army had begun moving away, but Death Eater groups in Aleppo said they had not seen the army withdrawing from the Castello Road, needed to allow aid deliveries into the city, and would not pull back from their own positions near the road until they did.
The Pentagon said it could not confirm reports of a withdrawal but US State Department front man Mark Toner said the ceasefire was holding "by and large", adding both Washington and Moscow believed it was worth continuing.
But there were growing accusations of violations by each side, with a Syrian military source saying the rebels were responsible for dozens of breaches including gun, rocket and mortar fire in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Latakia. The rebels said Syrian army jets had struck in Hama and Idlib, and used artillery near Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said it had documented attacks by both sides, and that despite widespread calm between rebels and the army, the first civilians had been killed since the truce began on Monday.
Two civilians killed on Thursday were children in government-held areas, one in Aleppo and the other in Syria’s southwest, it said. In addition, air strikes against ISIS bandidosbully boyz in the town of al-Mayadin near Deir al-Zor had killed at least 23 civilians, it said.
Control of the Castello Road is divided between the government and rebels who have been battling to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... for more than five years. It has been a major frontline in the war.
"The Syrian army... began the staged withdrawal of vehicles and personnel from the Castello Road to ensure the unimpeded delivery of aid to eastern Aleppo," said Lieutenant-General Vladimir Savchenko, head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre in Syria in remarks broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The Observatory said the army had started to withdraw from positions on the road, but that Russian troops, whose air force has helped Damascus blockade rebel-held Aleppo, had replaced it.
An official in an Aleppo-based Syrian rebel group said late on Thursday the army had not pulled back. "There is no withdrawal by the regime from the Castello Road," Zakaria Malahifji, of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim, told Rooters.
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[AnNahar] Indonesian security forces Wednesday captured a senior member of an 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.... -linked krazed killer network once headed by the country's most wanted holy warrior, police said.
...with this capture down to thirteen members, unless they've had another shipment of Uighers from China...
was caught in a joint operation between the police and military in Poso district, on rugged Sulawesi island, while another member of the group was rubbed out.
...not thirteen, then, but twelve. How nice!
"He was caught on Poso's south coast this morning," police front man Boy Rafli Amar told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding he had been taken to a nearby city.
It came two months after the group's leader and Indonesia's most wanted holy warrior, Santoso, was rubbed out by troops, ending a years-long hunt for the Islamic State (IS) group supporter.
His death was a major victory for authorities in the world's most populous Moslem-majority country. Santoso and his group were responsible for deadly attacks on domestic security forces and had trained faceless myrmidons from around the archipelago.
Basri had been the deputy leader of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen, which has been hiding out in the jungles of Sulawesi for years but now has just a handful of members.
He was seen as a successor to Santoso, although it is not clear if he had officially taken over leadership of the group.
After Indonesia suffered a string of Islamic holy warrior attacks in the early 2000s, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, authorities launched a crackdown that weakened the most dangerous networks.
But Santoso repeatedly evaded attempts to capture or kill him, with the long-haired, gun-toting krazed killer regularly appearing in videos urging gunnies to launch attacks.
The picture changed recently, with other IS-linked cells on the main island of Java considered a greater threat.
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[IsraelTimes] Man attended a Port St. Lucie synagogue for about a month last year but was not known in the community
A 32-year-old Florida man has been jugged You have the right to remain silent... and is facing a charge of arson and hate crime in a fire that heavily damaged a mosque that Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent... attended, authorities announced Wednesday.
Joseph Michael Schreiber was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon and was being interrogated by Sherlocks looking into the fire set late Sunday at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, said Maj. David Thompson of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.
Thompson told a news conference that Schreiber was taken into custody on a street in Fort Pierce by authorities acting on tips from members of the community and aided by surveillance video taken from the mosque and elsewhere. He said the arson charge, coupled with a hate crime enhancement under Florida law, carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
Thompson said detectives were still questioning Schreiber on Wednesday evening, and he didn’t say if Schreiber had a lawyer.
The fire was set late Sunday on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The blaze also coincided with the Moslem holiday Eid al-Adha. No one was injured in the blaze, which burned a 10-by-10-foot hole in the roof at the back of the mosque’s main building and blackened its eaves with soot.
Thompson said a search warrant was executed at Schreiber’s home, where Sherlocks reported finding evidence linked to the arson, as well as anti-Islamic social media posts.
A July post placed on Facebook by Schreiber, who is Jewish, stated that, "IF AMERICA truly wants peace and safety and pursuit of happiness they should consider all forms of ISLAM as radical. ... ALL ISLAM IS RADICAL, and should be considered TERRORIST AND CRIMANALS (sic) and all hoo (sic) participate in such activity should be found guilty of WAR CRIM (sic) until law and order is restored in this beautiful free country."
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, a front man for the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... Florida, said Schreiber "obviously doesn’t know about the efforts our community is engaged in with our cousins, the Jews, not only in Florida but throughout the nation."
Omar Saleh, an attorney for CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... , described both Schreiber and Mateen as "degenerates" and "punks."
"Just like on June 12, when I was stressing that Mateen’s actions do not speak on behalf of Islam, I know that whatever religion Mr. Schreiber is, his actions do not speak on behalf of his religion," Saleh said.
Mateen was killed by police after opening fire at the Pulse nightclub on June 12 in a rampage that left 49 victims dead and 53 maimed. He professed allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group. His father is among roughly 100 people who attend the mosque.
Schreiber was previously sentenced twice to state prison for theft, according to records from the Florida Department of Corrections. The records show he served his first sentence from March 2008 to July 2009 and his second from June 2010 to August 2014.
A weekend surveillance video from the mosque showed a man on a cycle of violence approaching the building with a bottle of liquid and some papers, then leaving when there was a flash and shaking his hand as though he may have burned it, Thompson said. The first 911 calls were made about 45 minutes later after the fire had spread to the attic. It took about four-and-a-half hours for firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
Rabbi Bruce Benson, a chaplain with the Port St. Lucie Police Department, was outside Schreiber’s home Wednesday night. He said Schreiber attended his Temple Beth El Israel synagogue for about a month last spring to study the Torah, but left little impression, and no indication that he might act violently in the future.
Benson said Schreiber’s father showed up at his office Wednesday afternoon after his son was arrested, even though he wasn’t a member of his synagogue.
"I guess he didn’t know where else to go," Benson said, adding that Schreiber’s parents are "shocked, just like any of us would be if it were our child."
Benson said his Reform synagogue, Temple Beth El Israel, has tried unsuccessfully in the past to reach out to the mosque.
"We would welcome the opportunity," Benson said. "They’re a community feeling under attack. If we could all talk a bit, maybe things like this wouldn’t have to happen."
So much for the efforts of the Muslim community as exemplified by the Mateen family's mosque to engage with their cousins, the Jews...
The fire was part of an escalating series of threats and violence perpetuated against the mosque and its members, Ruiz said. He said the mosque began receiving threatening phone calls shortly after the Pulse massacre. And in July, he said, a member was punched in the face as he arrived for morning prayers.
Sunday’s fire has left the mosque’s members "saddened and scared," said assistant imam Hamaad Rahman.
[IsraelTimes] An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended, and said he was embarrassed by the crime, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.
St. Lucie County sheriff’s detectives writes in the affidavit that after Joseph Michael Schreiber was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Wednesday, he told detectives that he had set the fire at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce on Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Schreiber, 32, told detectives he never intended to hurt anyone.
That's one small part of the story: the bigger part is that Pencilneck is violating the ceasefire...
Russia accused the US of covering up opposition violations in Syria on Thursday as the three-day old ceasefire came under increasing strain.
The Russian defence ministry said that Syrian regime forces had pulled back from the Castello road, a key access route into Aleppo, but that opposition groups had not withdrawn.
The Russian foreign ministry also complained of opposition shelling. “Only the Syrian army has been observing the ceasefire regime, while the US-led ‘moderate opposition’ has been increasing the number of shellings of residential quarters,” the ministry statement said. “Moreover, it appears that the ‘verbal curtain’ of Washington is aimed at hiding the non-fulfilment of the US obligations.”
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[Libya Herald] Delegates from across the country have been heading to Nalut in the far western Jebel Nafusa, near the Tunisian border, for a conference on Friday on national reconciliation.
A number of delegates flew in today from Tobruk to Zintan while others drove over from Tunisia.
The conference is being organised under the auspices of the municipal council in Nalut, which has earned itself the reputation of being relatively impartial in Libya’s current divide. The gathering also has the support of Zintan municipality and the Libyan National Army’s head of its Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... operations room, Colonel Idris Madi. He was at Zintan airpott today to welcome arriving delegates from the east.
It is reported, though, that the Presidency Council’s defence minister Mahdi al-Barghathi ordered a stop to the conference on the grounds that security could not be assured, but the organisers ignored him.
Delegates are expected to attend from Misrata and Tripoli.
It was reported earlier today that there has been a row over the planned attendance by David Jerbi, the Rome-based psychologist and political activist who is Jewish and originally from Tripoli. Having issued an invitation to him to the conference, Nalut municipality is now allegedly saying he is not welcome, apparently on the basis that he is Jewish.
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[RUDAW.NET] The town of Jarablus on the Turkish border, recently liberated from 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.... (ISIS), still has the many signboards put up by the Islamic State. Perhaps the most obvious reminder of the terrorist group is their name written in Arabic calligraphy on the gate to the town.
The only difference appears to be the presence of two fighters from the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA).
In the downtown, a main public square bears in a placard that reads "deaders’ square" in black. The many ISIS writings on the walls in various neighbourhoods are untouched.
Official offices look empty and their doors are locked. Very few people are out. Military vehicles of the Syrian opposition forces are the prevalent presence on the streets.
"There is no electricity. There is no running water, no health care, or schools. There is little bread," a frustrated middle-aged man said. "We demand the creation of a local council so that they can take care of running the town's administration.
A blackboard displays the names of non-Syrian Arab ISIS fighters. Instructions and guidelines for life under ISIS are written on walls.
A shop owner who sells very limited food items to those who can afford them, said the children in the town are bothering his small business. The solution, he said, is education. One of the many basic needs the town urgently needs but lacks to this date.
"There is no schooling here for the children or the youth. There is no education for girls or boys. We call on those who can to open schools for the children. They are playing on the streets. They are coming here stealing my stuff. Let them receive education in the school," said the shopkeeper.
Cars are being stopped on the streets for security check ups. An old man driving his truck says with laughter that he does not know whether the Free Syrian Army in Jarablus is any better than the Islamic State or not.
Some writings on boxes show aid distribution under ISIS from the Syrian Red Islamic Thingy.
Parts of the town remind the residents of total destruction. Despite that, some are seen coming back to the town, hoping they can rebuild.
"Thanks be to God, the new life here is a rebirth. There are a lot of civilians in Jarablus now. People have started coming back to the town again," said a man who was interrupted by what appeared to be gunfire.
"It might be a landmine" he said, promising he is going to bring his family back to the town.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Well placed sources in Nineveh revealed that ISIS has declared a state of emergency in Mosul and withdrew all its patrols from streets, after the outfit suffered great losses in several areas in Qayyarah, Sharqat and Bashiqa.
Sharing further details with Iraqi News, the sources informed, “The international coalition airstrikes on Tuesday and Wednesday, destroyed gatherings points and headquarters of ISIS in the forest areas in Mosul, and also destructed an ISIS headquarters in al-Imam al-Azam College.”
“ISIS have panicked after the waves of assassinations and have begun to cut off the main roads to the residential neighborhoods, after declaring a state of emergency in the city,” the sources added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Senior al-Hashed al-Shaabi leader Jabbar Maamouri informed on Thursday, that a woman in Sharqat was killed by ISIS for she hurled stones at a detachment of the outfit, avenging the death of her son who was killed by he outfit itself.
In a statement issued to the media, Mamouri said, “A woman in Sharqat was killed by the ISIS after she hurled stones at the members of the outfit as they had killed her only son right in front of her eyes. The lady, her son and few others were trying to escape from Sharqat when they came face-to-face with ISIS militants.”
It may be mentioned here that ISIS executes persons trying to flee Sharqat almost daily. Dozens of bodies lie in open along the paths and due to this, the paths have turned into a sort of open grave.
[ARA News] RAQQA – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) arrested seven women in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province, activists reported on Thursday.
The women, who were arrested on suspicions of leaking security information about the group’s movements in Raqqa to the US-led coalition, were publicly flogged by ISIS extremists.
The ISIS-led Hisba Police raided a number of houses in the Rumela district of Raqqa and arrested more than 10 civilians.
“Among the arrestees were seven women, who were flogged in front of hundreds of people in central Raqqa on Thursday evening, after the Sharia Court accused them of cooperating with the US-led coalition and rival groups,” local media activist Aiman al-Issawi told ARA News.
A statement by the ISIS Sharia Court of Raqqa claimed that the arrested women have been involved in leaking security information about the Islamic State’s military movements to the “crusader coalition”–in reference to the US-led coalition that has been bombing ISIS positions across Syria and Iraq for over two years.
“At least four other civilians were detained by ISIS militants, but the group has not yet revealed what their charges were,” al-Issawi reported.
The extremist group has recently arrested and beheaded dozens of civilians under the pretext that they have cooperated with coalition forces against the ISIS self-declared Caliphate.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The UK government used the RAF to help depose Colonel Gaddafi in 2011
Libya has been in chaos ever since and IS have stepped into the vacuum
The terror group has shipped thousands of fighters into the country
It plans to utilise the porous borders and flood Europe with terrorists
The fact remains that Qadaffy was a bloody-handed tyrant who went the Mussolini route. We were glad to see him go. The problem with the whole thing was that the Paragons of Brilliance® in Washington, London, Gay Paree, and Moskva had no imperialistic plans for when he was gone. The Moslem Brüderbund did, as did ISIS. Both groups swarm like flies around failed states and what we did about it was minimal.
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Qadaffy was a bloody-handed tyrant
Subsequent events show that this is the only way to rule Libyan "People". Qadaffy was the only ME leader who gave up a WMD program. The rest drew the obvious conclusion.
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From: Hillary Clinton To: Oscar Flores Date: 2011-09-02 15:28 Subject: TICK TOCK ON LIBYA
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05788648 Date: 10/30/2015 RELEASE IN PART B5,B6From: hrod17@clintonemail.com > Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 10:28 PM To: Oscar Flores Subject: Fw: tick tock on libyaPIs print for me.From: Mills, Cheryl [mailto:MiIIsCD@state.gov] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 12:37 PMTo: H Subject: FW: tick tock on libya Here is DraftFrom: Jake Sullivan [mailtc Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:40 PMTo: Mills, Cheryl D; Nuland, Victoria Subject: tick tock on libya
This is basically off the top of my head, with a few consultations of my notes. but it shows S' leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's libya policy from start to finish. let me know what you think. toria, who else might be able to add to this? Secretary Clinton's leadership on Libya HRC has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations, at NATO, and in contact group meetings — as well as the public face of the U.S. effort in Libya. She was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime. ...
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Obastard's and Hellery's approach to the world seems to be to knock down the ugly house in the neighborhood (ugly according to their taste) and replace it with either a drug den or toxic waste dump.
He spent his life in the military. He knows that loose lips sink ships, but blithely discussed secrets not his own with those who were not cleared to know them, using methods he knew were insecure... as is now demonstrated. This is very different than catty gossip about his dearest friends.
[IsraelTimes] While discussing Iran nuclear deal, former secretary of state apparently reveals extent of Jewish state’s alleged atomic arsenal
Former US secretary of state and four-star general Colin Powell alleged that Israel possesses some 200 nuclear weapons, in an email apparently leaked by Russian hackers this week.
Discussing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 2015 speech to Congress about the dangers posed by the Iranian nuclear deal, in an email he sent to US Democratic party donor Jeffrey Leeds, Powell wrote that he doubted the Iranian regime would use an atomic bomb even if it could get one, since "the boys in Tehran know Israel has 200, all targeted on Tehran, and we have thousands."
The email was published by the LobeLog foreign policy website.
Israel maintains a policy of so-called nuclear ambiguity, neither publicly confirming nor denying the existence of an atomic arsenal.
According to a 2014 report by the Federation of American Scientists, however, the Jewish state is believed to possess between 80 and 400 nuclear weapons, though that document’s authors estimated the figure was closer to 80.
Powell’s email, sent on March 3, 2015, more than doubled that approximation. As a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, his figure of 200 nuclear weapons would appear to carry more weight than the approximations of the "news media reports, think tanks, authors, and analysts" cited in the FAS report.
A trove of Powell’s emails was posted on the website DCLeaks.com and first reported by Buzzfeed News late Tuesday. Powell, 79, did not deny the emails’ authenticity when asked for comment by Buzzfeed.
The emails, which run from March 2015 through last month, offer rare insight into the unvarnished opinions of the respected retired US Army general, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush.
DCLeaks.com has been alleged to be an outlet for hackers tied to the Russian intelligence groups. The website, which says it intends to expose the misuse of political power, has previously released emails from other Washington political figures.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... his March 3, 2015, email dealt specifically with the Iranian nuclear deal and Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress that day about it. Powell told Leeds, his business partner, that he had watched "parts of it," and that is was "well done, but nothing new. I could have mouthed it."
He challenged some of the assertions made by Netanyahu in the speech. According to Powell, the Iranians "can’t use [a nuclear bomb] if they finally make one," because of Israel’s overwhelming arsenal.
"As Akmdinijad (sic) [said], ’What would we do with one, polish it?'" he wrote, referring to former Iranian president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad.
Powell said that while all his "buddies" in Abu Dhabi wanted an Iranian nuclear deal and had been working for over a decade to reach one, he was unconvinced.
"I don’t trust Iranians -- almost went to jail over Iran-Contra," he wrote, referring to a political scandal in the United States in the late 1980s, in which American officials were caught facilitating weapons sales to Iran, despite an arms embargo.
Powell also cast doubt on the amount of time that Netanyahu and others estimated that it would take Iran to develop a nuclear bomb.
"Bibi likes to say ’a year away,’ as do our intel guys. They say it every years (sic)," Powell wrote.
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"According to a 2014 report by the Federation of American Scientists, however, the Jewish state is believed to possess between 80 and 400 nuclear weapons, though that document’s authors estimated the figure was closer to 80."
The 80 figure goes back to the nineteen eighties.
It is believed that Israel now has enough neutron bombs to eliminate Dar al-Islam were Israel ever threatend with extinction. The Saudis know this, and as Mekka and Medina would be the first to be hit they act very circumspectly.
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whether it's 5,000 or 1. The difference is the will to use them to survive
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One of the most underrated outcomes of the last Bush administration is that we will never have to worry about a Colin Powell or Condi Rice GOP candidacy for prexy
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Powell thinks the Mad Mullahs won't use a nuke because the Juice have 200 of them aimed at Tehran? What a fool. They don't call 'em Mad Mullahs for nothing. They really are crazy and there is no telling what they might do.
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A Quark Bomb
A next generation atomic weapon, suggested in some scientific journals as possible.
Essentially it is a weapon which somehow splits open protons to release their quarks, the subatomic particles which make up protons, in theory releasing masses of energy. (possibly about 1200 times more energy than an atomic bomb of similar size)
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Powell thinks the Mad Mullahs won't use a nuke because the Juice have 200 of them aimed at Tehran?
Since they believe that if they are losing Allah will be forced to intervene to tip the scales in their favour, starting a nuclear war they are bound to lose is logical. Al Qaeda believed the same thing before 9/11; it was the massive damage that the Ummah recoved at the hands of George W. Bush's coalition that changed minds about that whole hard jihad of the sword thing until President Obama proactively left the battlefield.
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Also, some or all of the Ayatollahs are Twelvers - they believe that the 12th imam is hiding in the well and a nuclear war will bring him out. He will bring about peace, justice, and/or the end of the world. Which they think is a good thing.
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Condi also agreed with Powell's assessment of Benghazi a "witch hunt". She has been fully assimilated.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source in the Peshmerga forces stationed in Tuz Khurmatu district revealed that they have thwarted an ISIS attack.
“Some ISIS members yesterday tried to approach the front lines of the Peshmerga forces near Zarka area, west of Tuz Khurmatu. The Peshmerga forces repulsed the attack and forced the ISIS members to flee.”
“The ISIS received a lot of casualties. But no one from our side received any injuries,” the source added.
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QUETTA: Two people were killed in a landmine explosion in Balochistan's restive Naseerabad district on Wednesday, it has been learnt.
The incident happened when a motorbike hit a landmine planted on the roadside in Puleji area of Naseerabad district, police officials said.
The officials said the victims Ghullam Rasool Gola and Mehmood Gola, the workers of Pakistan People’s Party, were travelling on their motorbike when it hit the landmine.
Ghullam Rasool died on the spot while Mehmood succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.
Following the blast, police personnel reached the spot as investigation into the incident went underway. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
In the meantime, PPP’s Central Executive Committee member Mir Sadiq Umrani strongly condemned the incident and demanded of the provincial government to bring the perpetrators to book.
Militants in the area have been targeting vital national installations and security forces for more than a decade.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Salahuddin province informed on Thursday, that security forces backed by al-Hashed al-Shaabi fighters foiled an ISIS attack east of Tikrit.
Sharing details the source said, “A unit of the Oil Police Force, supported by al-Hashed al-Shaabi members, thwarted an ISIS attack which was targeted on Ajil oil field, 20 km east of Tikrit. ISIS suffered severe casualties in the attack.”
“A large force of al-Hashed al-Shaabi went to Ajil oil field to assign the security forces, which led to the escape of ISIS militants,” the source added.
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[DAWN] Police say they have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the father, husband and brother of a woman who was tortured and hanged alongside her alleged boyfriend in a family courtyard in the village of Mian Channu in eastern Punjab.
Local police official Allah Ditta said Khalida Bibi, a married mother-of-three, and her alleged boyfriend, 21-year-old Mohammad Mukhtar, were murdered Thursday in a so-called honour killing in their village.
He said the three arrested relatives confessed to killing Bibi and Mukhtar for having an affair.
Ditta gave no further details.
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[Libya Herald] Six soldiers belonging to 115 infantry brigade from Marj are reported to have been killed today in a mine kaboom in Benghazi’s Gwarsha district.
Intermittent festivities have continued in both Gwarsha and Ganfuda, but mines ‐ and snipers ‐ have been the main reason for its slow progress in the area, the Libyan National Army says.
Vast quantities of mines across the east of the country, left unsecured following the revolution, subsequently fell into the hands of forces of Evil who have used them in Benghazi, Sirte and other conflict zones.
De-mining experts say they warned the Zeidan government about this nearly four years ago but that it did nothing.
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They are due to stop in several ports on the way, including Ajaccio in La Belle France's Corsica, to take other activists on board and hope to arrive in Gazoo in early October.
[Ynet] The World Bank says less than half the money pledged by donors to rebuild the Gazoo Strip after the 2014 war between Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Israel has been disbursed.
The shortfall is among several reasons the Paleostinian economy is stagnating, with unemployment at 42 percent in Gazoo and at 18 percent in the West Bank.
The report released Thursday will be delivered to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, a forum of donors to the Paleostinian Authority, in New York next week.
The thrill is gone, as more immediate concerns force themselves into the headlines.
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If Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn were in the flotilla, I'd say sink em. As you might recall this lovely couple was in a flotilla prior to the Arab Spring kicking off.
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the women have a portion of a website (several sub sites) and a cool logo and feed twitter
https://www.freedomflotilla.org/
apparently, unlike a past flotilla, the boats will not carry supplies for Gaza --- just supplies for the people on the boat (place tampon joke here), so its just basically a pro terrorism Lillith fair
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Why do all lefty women look like raging sea hags, to borrow a phrase?
[Observer] Wells Fargo fraud department inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what's supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign website, multiple sources tell the Observer.
The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation's biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton's small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton's campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state's attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.
"We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary's low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges," a source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of job security, from the Wells Fargo fraud department told the Observer. The source claims that the Clinton campaign has been pulling this stunt since Spring of this year. The Hillary for America campaign will overcharge small donors by repeatedly charging small amounts such as $20 to the bankcards of donors who made a one-time donation. However, the Clinton campaign strategically doesn't overcharge these donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate the fraud.
"We don't investigate fraudulent charges unless they are over $100," the fraud specialist explained. "The Clinton campaign knows this, that's why we don't see any charges over the $100 amount, they'll stop the charges just below $100. We'll see her campaign overcharge donors by $20, $40 or $60 but never more than $100." The source, who has worked for Wells Fargo for over 10 years, said that the total amount they refund customers on a daily basis who have been overcharged by Clinton's campaign "varies" but the bank usually issues refunds that total between $700 and $1200 per day.
The fraud specialist said that Clinton donors who call in will attempt to resolve the issue with the campaign first but they never get anywhere. "They will call the Clinton campaign to get their refund and the issue never gets resolved. So they call us and we just issue the refund. The Clinton campaign knows these charges are small potatoes and that we'll just refund the money back."
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The banks and credit card processor are involved in this. I used to work for a credit card processor and when a cardholder complains to the bank about a charge and do a chargeback, the merchant gets fined. Used to be $200 per chargeback. Get so many in a year and they canceled your account too, usually 5-7. So somewhere in these lines a deal has been struck for the banks to essentially donate to Hillary since if they were charging these back, the campaign wouldn't be allowed to continue accepting cards. So yes, it's fraud but more than just the campaign is involved here.
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Wells Fargo fraud department - Didn't Wells Fargo just rob 2.1 million Americans with fraudulent credit cards? Was this tied into the Clinton campaign fundraising?
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They have often been referred to as grifters. Grifters are people who engage in petty swindles. There is nothing petty about the swindles/crime going on. Malfeasants might be a better tag to hang on them but that is often used to refer to crooked public officials. We need a new noun to describe what they do. What is surprising is how many people they are able to drag into their web of deceit.
Recent polls in Arkansas: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnson vs. Stein Emerson Trump 57, Clinton 29, Johnson 5, Stein 3 Trump +28. The people in Arkansas know this couple.
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They were creating millions of fake accounts at Wells Fargo then defrauding those people. 5500 Wells Fargo Emplys fired. Lady who was head of that group was allowed to retire early with a 160 million in bonuses and stock options. Oh and Rantburg's English accounting expert say Buffet is a big investor in Wells Fargo. Lots of circles might or might not be connected.
Imagine how life in a SuperMax is going to affect his health...
WikiLeaks on Thursday released medical records claiming its founder Julian Assange's mental health was at risk if he remained in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, ahead of a court hearing in Sweden to decide whether to maintain an arrest warrant for him.
More than four years since Assange moved into the Ecuadorian embassy to escape extradition to Sweden -- where he faces a police investigation into rape claims -- WikiLeaks argued his confinement there needed to be brought to an end as a matter of urgency.
"Mr Assange's mental health is highly likely to deteriorate over time if he remains in his current situation.... It is urgent that his current circumstances are resolved as quickly as possible," said a report published by the organisation on Twitter.
Urgent for him but not for the rest of us...
The 27-page medical report is attributed to an unnamed "trauma and psychosocial expert" in London and dated December 11, 2015.
It comes ahead of a decision expected on Friday by a Swedish appeals court on whether to maintain an arrest warrant for Assange over the rape accusation. The judges will decide whether to grant Assange's request to hear legal arguments on the European arrest warrant issued by Swedish prosecutors in 2010.
The newly-released medical report, accompanied by supporting documents, is said to be based on interviews with Assange and includes comments from others at the embassy. According to the report, Assange often goes up to 22 hours without sleeping, although he has access to a treadmill for physical exercise.
So the poor baby is keeping the same hours I did as a medical resident. Wimp.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Jazeera Operations Command in Anbar province informed that armed men killed four ISIS leaders in central Qaim.
Sharing more details with Iraqi News, the source revealed, “Unidentified gunmen attacked an ISIS gathering at al-Moalmeen neighborhood in central Qaim, using light and medium weapons.”
“In the attack, four ISIS leaders, including the official of Diwan al-Hisba in Qaim Abu Ibrahim al-Mohajer was killed. The gunmen also set fire to a vehicle of ISIS and seized weapons and communication devices, before fleeing to an unknown destination,” the source added.
The source also revealed that the ISIS militants prevented the residents of Qaim from approaching the area of incident, and also raided and searched the houses and nearby buildings to search for the gunmen.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar province informed on Thursday, that a men from the provincial police foiled an ISIS attack on a checkpoint to the west of Ramadi.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS launched an attack on a security point west of Ramadi, on the international highway.”
“Clashes erupted between the security point forces and the ISIS militants, in which a number of ISIS men were killed and forced the rest to flee,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
The security points and the headquarters of the federal police, border guards and police of Anbar, in the recent past have witnessed several attacks by ISIS.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A well placed source in Anbar Operations Command declared that nine ISIS members were killed in the explosion of a booby-trapped vehicle while they were trying to equip it with explosives. The incident took place west of Anbar.
Sharing more details the source revealed, “A booby-trapped vehicle exploded, this morning, while ISIS members were trying to equip it with explosives inside an explosives factory in Rawa district, destroying the factory completely and killing nine ISIS members.”
“ISIS prevented the civilians from approaching the destroyed factory for concealing the losses,” the source added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A well placed source in Baghdad has revealed that the security forces dismantled an ISIS cell that was planning to launch a series of suicide attacks in Baghdad during Eid al-Adha.
Sharing more details, the source informed, “Intelligence information indicated that ISIS is intending to target the crowded areas in Baghdad during Eid al-Adha with suicide bombers.”
“The security forces managed to arrest ISIS member Abu Mohamed al-Iraqi in Taji district in northern Baghdad who cooperated with the security forces and shared the locations of other militants, who were later arrested by the security forces and dismantled the terrorist cell,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command announced arresting a number of suspects and seizing explosive belts, grenades and IEDs in Baghdad in the last 24 hours.
The command in a statement, said, “Forces of the 25th brigade’s 1st Regiment conducted a search operation in Albu Awsaj in southern Baghdad, and discovered 22 mortar shells, 17 detonator, a rocket, two grenades and 5 kilograms of explosives.”
“The security forces also seized two IEDs in al-Abeid area, mortar shell in al-Karaghoul area in southern Baghdad, in addition to seven explosive belts, six thermal bombs and 13 mortar shells in Amiriyah Fallujah in western Baghdad,” the statement added.
The command also revealed that its forces managed to arrest a number of suspects in the last 24 hours in different areas of Baghdad.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A well placed source in the Ministry of Interior, Iraq informed on Thursday that in a bomb blast targeted on an army patrol to the south of Baghdad, killed two army personnel and injured five others.
“The bomb exploded on Thursday evening, targeting an Iraqi army patrol at Arab Jabour village in Doura, to the south of Baghdad. Two army personnel were killed and five others injured. The army vehicle was also damaged severely,” the source said seeking anonymity.
“Ambulances rushed to the area and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital and the bodies of the deceased to the forensic department. The security forces later cordoned off the area,” further said the source.
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[WAPO] Army Gen. Raymond "Tony" Thomas, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, rarely talks specifics about the troops under his command. Direct action raids in Iraq, rescue missions in Afghanistan, Special Operations forces deployed in places like Syria, Somalia and Yemen are all -- if even acknowledged -- described in broad platitudes.
But when asked about the propensity of some of his elite forces to write books, star in movies and help advise on the production of certain video games, Thomas is outspoken -- and angry.
"It is a phenomenon that is anathema to me. It runs counter to everything that any of us who ever entered special operations know [is] the right way to do business," Thomas said during a conference hosted by the Institute for the Study of War in Washington on Wednesday. "It baffles me that people don’t hold true to that standard."
"We won’t tolerate it," he added.
Thomas's remarks come on the heels of a $6.6 million settlement in August between Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette and the U.S. government. Bissonnette, who wrote a best-selling book titled "No Easy Day" about his role with SEAL Team Six during the 2011 raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, will have to forfeit all of his profits and royalties after violating a nondisclosure agreement and failing to get his book cleared by the Pentagon.
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And Flag Officers are Sailors. Comparable Soldiers and Flyers are Generals, although they also have flags but are not referenced as Flag Officers. A Flag Officer is a starred Sailor.
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You're correct Pappy, he wasn't SF, but he controlled the pre-SF and pre-CIA OSS in the ETO.
Flag officers in the Army are O7 and above and are issued their flag upon promotion. All general officers are issued the appropriate rank flag and a corresponding National Color. These flags become the general's personal property and are authorized for retention by the individual upon promotion to the next higher grade or retirement from active duty. The are controlled and issued by the Clothing and Heraldry PSID.
In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the term "flag officer" generally is applied to all general officers authorized to fly their own command flags—i.e., brigadier general, or pay grade O-7, and above. - wiki
[Libya Observer] Leaked air traffic control recordings obtained by Middle East Eye have unveiled the sinister role Emirati military has been playing in eastern Libya as the leaks show UAE’s fighter pilots are involved in carrying out Arclight airstrikes in support of rogue General, Kahlifa Haftar, and his Dignity Operation forces against rival gangs in eastern Libya.
In a report on Tuesday, MEE confirmed that the Emirati pilots are part of an international operations room made up from Britannia, La Belle France and the US as well and that all those countries are all in support of Haftar.
In a previous report, MEE disclosed information that proves the presence of UAE personnel in an international operations room at the Benina air base in Haftar-controlled Benghazi but the new tapes offer the first confirmation of the presence of the Gulf state’s pilots in the skies over Libya as well.
"In one audio file, a pilot with an Emirati accent is heard relaying coordinates to a Libyan officer in the operations room. He is then told to "check for movement" because they "don't want to waste any bombs". MEE reported.
These newly leaked tapes are revealed while Haftar’s militias have reportedly seized a third oil terminal in eastern, which was right away condemned by the US, La Belle France, the UK, Germany, Italia and Spain in a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire.
"Yet pilots and air traffic controllers speaking in Arabic and American-, British-, French- and Italian-accented English can be heard in the latest batch of tapes, confirming the international nature of the air operation in support of Haftar’s campaign to gain control of eastern Libya from groups he has declared to be "extremists"." MEE concluded.
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[Libya Observer] Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday that the Sunday attack on Libya's oil terminals is aimed at destabilizing the country.
Briefing the Lower House and Senate defence committees of the Italian Parliament on Libya, he indicated that the attack was conducted by Sudanese and Chadian forces of Evil loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... "The situation is still unstable, one cannot say that Haftar has control nor that others have it, festivities are ongoing, albeit on a smaller scale," he said.
The country's defense minister Roberta Pinotti told the parliament that the Italian government had agreed to set up a field hospital in Libya's Misrata to treat maimed al-Bunyan al-Marsoos fighters.
Pinotti said the military hospital will be set up at Misrata airport and will feature 60 doctors and nurses, 135 logistics personnel and 100 'protection force troops.
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[RUDAW.NET] A Turkish attack on Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria in late August killed 24 civilians, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... stated in a report released Thursday, saying that both the SDF and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... share the blame for the civilian deaths.
Among the 24 killed were six children; in addition between 10 and 15 SDF fighters were also killed in the attack.
"Two local residents told Human Rights Watch that before sunrise on August 28, Turkish aircraft struck SDF forces who had just disembarked from military vehicles among residential buildings in which about four dozen civilians had sought shelter from nearby fighting," reads the report. "Artillery shelling soon after resulted in additional casualties."
The human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. monitor stated that both Turkish and SDF forces could have done more to protect civilian lives.
"The deaths of 24 civilians could have been avoided if the SDF fighters hadn’t positioned themselves among buildings filled with civilians and Turkish forces had made a better effort to determine whether civilians were there," said the deputy emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, Ole Solvang.
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[DAWN] At least four people were killed and several others injured as a passenger train collided with a goods train on late Wednesday night at Buch Railway Station near Multan, rescue officials said.
The Awami Express, heading to 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... from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , struck a goods train which was standing on the tracks. Rescue officials said that around 50 injured were shifted to Nishtar Hospital, Multan, while more than 50 were provided first aid on the spot.
Dr. Kaleem, a Rescue Emergency Officer said that the rescue operations had been completed. He added that 40 ambulances, along with 200 rescuers from Lodhran, Muzafar Garh and Multan participated in the operations.
Personnel of the Pakistain Army also participated in the rescue operations.
Saima Khizar, Director Vigilance of Pakistain Railways, Multan Division, said that the affected people were being shifted to Multan through private transport, from where they would be transported to Karachi.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... will take Hurriyat and Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) leaders on board for his speech in the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... General Assembly later this month.
"Prime Minister Nawaz will visit Muzaffarabad on Friday (tomorrow) before leaving for New York. He will consult the Kashmiri leadership regarding his speech at the UN session," AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider told DawnNews.
Nawaz will hold separate meetings with AJK politicians and with a delegation of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, AJK chapter.
The prime minister will take the Kashmiri leadership into confidence over the content of his speech to be delivered at the UN General Assembly session on Sept 21.
Welcoming the decision, AJK PM Raja Farooq Haider said the gesture would send a positive message across the Line of Control (LoC).
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[Libya Observer] Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s warplanes bombed Derna four times on Wednesday and no casualties were reported.
The front man of the Derna Shura Council, Hafith al-Dabea, said Haftar’s fighter aircraft attacked many locations in Daher al-Hamer, adding that a helicopter for Haftar’s militias had also targeted the western entrance of the city.
Haftar’s militias have been besieging Derna for months and have been carrying air attacks on the city day and night targeting both vital locations and residential areas amidst a continued suffering among the residents, who were not able to receive humanitarian aid nor foods as all efforts to break off the siege went in vain.
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[Libya Herald] In the latest response to the Libyan National Army’s takeover of the eastern oil crescent terminals, the Moslem Brüderbund’s Justice and Construction party (J&C) has warned that it will trigger counter attacks. Without mentioning the LNA by name, a J&C statement this afternoon said that the use the force by certain sides in Libya in order to impose a new reality would be resisted.
In its statement, the party said that all strategic locations and institutions had to be under the authority of the Government of National Accord (GNA), and that included the Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG).
Reaffirming its view that the Libyan Political Agreement remained the sole basis for any political progress in the country and rejecting any attempt to impose military rule in Libya, the J&C however called on Presidency Council (PC) members to bring some order to their proceedings.
The LNA takeover of the oil terminals has caused a deep split within the PC. There have been conflicting statements about it from various members and Serraj is said to under pressure from both sides. A source close to PC member Ali Gatrani told the Libya Herald that Serraj phoned Gatrani calling him to an urgent meeting to agree a joint response, suggesting that if they failed all PC members should resign.
It followed a statement issued jointly by Gatrani and Fathi Majbri, both from the east, hailing the takeover of the terminals. In contrast, Musa Koni, who was acting chairman of the PC until today, issued a condemnation of it. It was condemned too by fellow members Abdelsalam Kajman and Mohammed Ammari
Ahmed Maitig, during an interview with LANA two days ago has showed himself to be changing sides, however, holding out an olive branch to the east of the coutry and noting that "our brothers in the east have been attacked unfairly for a long time . . . but they have proved devotion and their love of Libya and its illusory sovereignty," he said.
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"[Libya Herald] Faiez Serraj the head of Presidency Council (PC) has arrived in Cairo for a series of meeting the most important of which will be with the president of the House of Representatives, Ageela Saleh, for discussions over the proposed list of members of the new Government of National Accord (GNA)."
I feel certain that Egypt's Sisi will do everything in his power to isolate and then eliminate the J&C.
[Libya Herald] Faiez Serraj the head of Presidency Council (PC) has arrived in Cairo for a series of meeting the most important of which will be with the president of the House of Representatives, Ageela Saleh, for discussions over the proposed list of members of the new Government of National Accord (GNA).
Serraj is also expected to discuss Libya with top Egyptian officials.
Egypt is seen as the key to persuading Khalifa Hafter to work with the Presidency Council rather than his present policy of constantly opposing it.
Hafter is said to also have been invited to meet Serraj in Cairo but so far has not responded.
Sources claim that UN Envoy Martin Kobler will also be in the Egyptian capital on Saturday to give his support to the Serraj-Saleh discussions.
Today, Thursday, Kobler was in Misrata and met numerous key payers from the city including the municipal council, its members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the head of the State Council, Abdulrahman Sewehli, apparently to ensure their support for the Cairo meetings.
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[NEWSWEEKPAKISTAN] A jacket wallah injured four coppers, one critically, outside a Shia mosque in southern Pakistain in an attack claimed by the Pak Taliban as the country marked the beginning of the religious festival Eid al-Azha on Tuesday.
The incident occurred in Shikarpur in Sindh province, the same district where at least 61 were killed in a suicide kaboom on another Shia mosque in 2015.
Officials said two suicide bombers tried to enter the Khanpur Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... but were intercepted by police. "Four of our men are injured of whom one is critical," said Umar Tufail, a senior local police officer. He added doctors were also trying to save the life of the other suspected bomber, who was injured when the first one went kaboom! but failed to detonate himself.
"The attackers came as the worshippers were gathering to offer Eid prayers. Police were able to stop him at the gate outside the mosque," A. D. Khawaja, chief of police for Sindh province said.
Worshippers overpowered the second would-be suicide bomber as the police were reeling from their injuries, he added.
A faction of the Pak Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, grabbed credit for the attack in a statement sent to media. Spokesman for the group Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... said it was a part of an operation that would be spread to every area of the country.
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Special because it is company sized, I bet
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province informed on Thursday, that the ISIS has deployed an elite security formation founded by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the entrances to Mosul because it fears of a domestic collapses.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS deployed the ‘Gray Battalion’- an elite security formation, founded by al-Baghdadi, at the main entrances of Mosul to oversee the processes of inspection of vehicles and people. ”
“What is known as the Islamic Police, whose task is to supervise the checkpoints near Mosul, handed over the task to the Gray Battalion,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
The source noted that “the deployment of the Gray Battalion comes from the existence of serious concerns of the occurrence of an internal collapse in the ranks of the ISIS.”
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...Boodle wasn't quite making it through, eh?
Mike
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[USATODAY] Just one day before a movie about Edward Snowden is set to hit theaters, the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday unanimously adopted an investigative report portraying the former National Security Agency contractor as a disgruntled employee who violated Americans' privacy rights rather than protecting them.
"Edward Snowden is no hero -- he’s a traitor who willfully betrayed his colleagues and his country," said Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif. "He put our service members and the American people at risk after perceived slights by his superiors. In light of his long list of exaggerations and outright fabrications detailed in this report, no one should take him at his word. I look forward to his eventual return to the United States, where he will face justice for his damaging crimes."
Snowden is famous for revealing the existence of an NSA program that collected the phone data of millions of Americans with no ties to terrorism. The 2013 revelations spurred Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act in 2015. That law ended the mass surveillance program, which had been carried out under Section 215 of the Patriot Act anti-terrorism law passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Although privacy advocates have hailed Snowden as a brave whistleblower who exposed an out-of-control surveillance state to the American people, his critics have long accused him of treason for revealing classified information and endangering national security. Snowden took more than 1.5 million classified documents from the NSA.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] The 13-year-old boy shot and killed by an Ohio cop was carrying a BB gun that looked "practically identical" to a police weapon, authorities said Thursday.
Tyre King was fatally shot when police in Columbus responded Wednesday night to a call about an armed robbery.
Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs displayed a photo at a presser Thursday of what she said was a "replica" of the BB gun held by Tyre, which had a laser scope on it.
"Our officers carry a gun that looks practically identical to this weapon," she said. "As you can see, it looks like a firearm that could kill you."
Jacobs said officers were responding to a call about armed robbery -- a group was sticking people up for money on the street, and one of them was armed, witnesses told cops.
The black 13-year-old was shot multiple times by Columbus police officer Bryan Mason, who is white. Mason, a nine-year veteran of the department, opened fire when Tyre pulled what appeared to be a weapon from his waistband, police said.
Only later did Sherlocks realize it was a BB gun, police said.
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I'm a dog person but my wife is a real animal lover supreme. Since I started dating her we've had 14 hourses, several chickens, 5 or six cats, 5 dogs, innumerable hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs for the kids and a hedge-hog. When the last dog was getting too old she wanted a cat but I refused mainly on the grounds that inside cats destroyed things and I think it's unfair to declaw a cat.
She found a shelter that had an older cat that was declawed so I caved in.........we're now on the 3rd of that kind, no more than two at a time. Except for shedding they're not too bad. The second one came with the gun..
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Oh yeah, I forgot the 40 gallons worth of fish takes and the two cock-a-tiels. Lucky that I met her after she lost her 12' long boa. A real country girl. 6^)
To be accurate, they shot at the Israeli jets, and missed.
[Observer] Syria shot two surface-to-air missiles at Israeli jets--and they shot at the Israeli jets not even over their own air space.
These were not errant missiles or spillover shots which is military parlance for mistakes. These missiles were calculated and intentionally targeted shots from an S-200 Russian missile system aimed at Israeli jets that were, quite frankly, targeting Syrian rocket launchers.
Rocket launchers that, quite frankly, had just -- accidentally or not -- launched rockets into Israel.
This is a major change in Syrian engagement. It could signal an escalation of tensions between Israel and Syria, especially because three mortars were shot from Syria into Israel later that day.
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Large widespread wars often begin with single incidents, e.g. assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Gulf of Tonkin, etc.
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Israel has a lot of folks who speak Russian. If Russia cares about these folks like they care about the folks who speak Russian in Crimea, Syria may have a problem.
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I suspect Putin's people are speaking roughly with Syrian generals about the wisdom of expanding a war they are not clearly winning.
If you were to go to war with Israel i would think the opening shot would best be some kind of raid on Israeli air fields to give your own airforce some kind of chance. A smart fella would find a way to get Palestinians to stage that raid from the ground so if/when they fail it doesn't track back.
[Ynet] In the first six months of 2016, two more bully boyz released from the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to fighting, the US government said on Wednesday.
Washington has confirmed that a total of nine people freed from Guantanamo have rejoined bad boy groups since President Barack Obama I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something... took office in 2009, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Office of Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI.
The report said the number of bully boyz freed by the B.O. regime whom US agencies "suspect" of having returned to action dropped to 11 from 12 between January and July.
An official familiar with the latest statistics said this number dropped because a freed detainee previously categorized as "suspected" of returning to the battlefield now has been confirmed to have done so.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The new chief prosecutor of an international effort to bring to justice those responsible for atrocities during Kosovo’s battle for independence pledged Thursday to carry out his investigations "without fear or favor."
David Schwendiman, a former US federal prosecutor who has also worked in Bosnia and Afghanistan, told news hounds he is "aware of the political sensitivity of what I am doing," but stressed "I will be guided only by the facts and the law."
Schwendiman was speaking at his first presser since his appointment Sept. 1 as lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a separate branch of the Kosovo courts that will have its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.
Schwendiman is investigating allegations made in a 2010 Council of Europe report that senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including current Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, ran detention centers where civilian captives including Serbs were killed and their organs sold on the black market during Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia. Thaci denies the claims.
While the Council of Europe named suspects it alleged were involved in such atrocities, Schwendiman said he would not identify suspects until he was ready to file charges.
"You will know when someone is accused when an indictment or charging document accusing them is made public," he said.
The court’s registrar, Fidelma Donlon, said it aims to begin "judicial activity" in the first half of next year. That will likely involve judges adopting rules to govern how trials will be run.
Key to the new court’s success will be its ability to protect witnesses willing to testify. United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... attempts to prosecute former KLA fighters for crimes including murder and torture were largely unsuccessful because of what judges called widespread intimidation of witnesses.
Donlon said the court would "implement the highest standards of protection" for witnesses and others involved in trials.
"This is something we take very seriously," she said.
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Going to find the (approx) 97000 missing "Kosovar" bodies?
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Call for police won't help other than to create more confrontation between them and the 'thug' culture, for which you already sided with. Long past the time for you to look into the mirror and understand you tolerated the environment that created the behavior that has now confronted you.
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Skidmark submitted a WND article with more information about the gentleman's recent activities. link
Guys, please check the entire site before submitting your articles to make sure they aren't duplicates -- people categorize things differently. In this case, Lurid Crime Tales and Culture Wars were both reasonable choices, but Besoeker's article was part of the original set at midnight, so I've brought Skidmark's here.
[RUDAW.NET] Senior Iranian general Qasem Suleimani, who leads the country's elite Quds Force, said he will stay in his military position "for life." He made the comments responding to "divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... remarks" aimed at "creating divisions and confrontations between the united revolutionary people [of Iran]."
In a short statement published by the Iranian general on the website of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Sepah News, Suleimani said "The front of the enemies (against) the Iranian revolution and the sacred system of the Islamic Theocratic Republic make statements to create divisions and confrontations between the united revolutionary people (of Iran)".
He did not make clear indications as to which allegations he was responding to, but Sepah News said his statement came following "allegations" by the "enemy media" and "some US officials" regarding the general's position.
"God willing, I will stay in my ’military service’ position for life," his statement read while confirming his devotion to the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian nation.
Suleimani has played a big role in Iran’s foreign military operations, especially in Syria where the Quds Force is helping pro-government forces in their fight against Syrian rebels, and also in Iraq where Shiite groups affiliated with Iran are engaged in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
Last month, Suleimani was reportedly in Iraq to prepare for the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... battle with Iraqi government forces and leaders of the Shiite militia known as Hashd al-Shaabi.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has called for the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council to put an end to the smuggling of Iranian weapons to militias in 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... as it constitutes a violation of Resolution 2216.
In a letter addressed to New Zealand, who takes over the council’s presidency, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United Nations Abdallah al-Mouallimi made clear the number of violations to the resolution including cross-border militia rocket attacks by Houthis and Abdullah Saleh forces.
"On August 31 2016, Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebel militias and their supporters fired a ballistic missile of the type "ZilZal-3" ("Earthquake-3") at the city of Najran, in the south of Saudi Arabia. Rocket "ZilZal-3" is a short range ballistic missile produced in Iran," the letter, which Al Arabiya News Channel obtained, read.
Mouallimi also mentioned how the smuggling of weapons did not only pose as a violation to Security Council resolutions but also threatened the stability of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the wider region as a whole.
"We further urge he Security Council to take all necessary measures to demand that Iran complies with all the relevant Security Council resolutions, cease and desist from any illegal actions in Yemen," Mouallimi added.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two children, who were found at a Death Eater den in Azimpur, have been handed over to their respective families.
Pinki, 7, and 10-month-old Ruhi were handed over their families on September 12, Additional Deputy Commissioner (media) Yousuf Ali told the Dhaka Tribune on Thursday.
Police found three children during the raid at Azimpur den on Staurday night.
Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit captured three suspected female forces of Evil during a raid while another killed himself.
Besides, CTTC officials‐ Mahtab, Jahiruddin, Lablu, Ram Chandra Biswas and Shajahan Ali ‐ were maimed in the incident.
Invetsigators said 14-year-old Tahrim Quaderi alias Rasel, son of dead Death Eater Tanvir Quaderi alias Abdul Karim, had attacked police with knife during the raid.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. spoke regarding the ’Fifth Wave of Political Violence and Global Terrorism’ at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) during his 2-Day State visit to India.
Describing the ’fifth wave’ as probably one of the "most well-financed movements in history" he observed that "in the absence of rules of the game", and due to the willingness of some states to sponsor non-state actors, the phenomena has evolved over the years with deepened and broadened techniques. The understanding of the current political violence has largely been reactive, due to which global actions have been sporadic and not sustained, he observed.
Elaborating on the revolution in networking as a striking feature of the fifth wave, the Afghan president observed that the terrorist networks that previously used to be face-to-face or in small groups have now become face-to-faceless, resulting in a distinct form of mobilization, according to a statement by IDSA.
Political violence is not owned by a specific culture, religion or geographic space, and requires careful analysis. Criminality and political violence have become organically related, he said, adding that there is a distinctive form of violence that is inflicted on the citizens and that results in erosion of state authority.
Insisting that the minority groups should not be allowed to hijack civilisations, the President pointed out that the murderous Moslems target public spaces to disrupt the compact between the citizens and the state. The objective is to induce fear in a systematic manner which effectively breaks the bond of trust between citizens and state.
President Ghani also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his generous offer of $1 billion assistance for Afghanistan’s development.
Director General, IDSA, Shri Jayant Prasad lauded President Ghani for his message of optimism and confidence that reflected the resilience, patience and perseverance of the Afghan people.
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become face-to-faceless
That solves the problem of using ear counts to quantify bodies. Takes longer to collect though.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – Clashes broke out between Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate, military sources reported on Thursday.
At least 38 ISIS militants and nine YPG fighters were killed in the skirmish. Five ISIS radicals were subsequently arrested near the Shaddadi City, in Hasakah’s southern countryside.
“Daesh terrorists attacked our basis near Shaddadi by carrying out three car bomb attacks,” YPG fighter Hajar Osman told ARA News, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“Then clashes broke out between our [YPG] forces and Daesh militants in the villages of Keshkesh and Zenat in Shaddadi suburb. We forced the group to withdraw after killing 38 terrorists and arresting five others,” the source said.
ISIS militants reportedly withdrew towards their bases in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
The YPG leadership said that their forces seized four ISIS vehicles and a great deal of ammunition after the clashes.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Three suspected female bandidossnuffies jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Azimpur were married to three top bad boys, the counter-terrorism unit says.
Officials say the women knew each other from before and that their husbands had coaxed them into militancy. Two of the arrested women are highly educated.
Counter-terrorism unit Additional Deputy Commissioner Sanowar Hossain said the bandidossnuffies were undergoing treatment. Once they get well, they would be produce before the court.
"We hope to get more information after interrogation," he said.
Counter-terrorism sources say the three female bandidossnuffies are Afrin alias Priyoti, 25, wife of JMB leader Nurul Islam Marjan, Abedatul Arfin alias Khadiza, 35, wife of dead bad boy Tanvir Qadri alias Abdul Karim, and bad boy leader Jaman alias Basharuzzaman’s wife Shaila Afrin, 23.
Names of their husbands were mentioned in a case filed against them.
A source says, Priyoti is the daughter of one Abdul Jalil who lives in Pabna’s Ishwardi. Marjan is her maternal cousin. The couple went into hiding soon after they were married this January. Priyoti has reportedly passed Alim from a local madrasa.
According to the internet, the Alim exam appears to be Bangladesh's madrassah equivalent of a high school diploma.
Militant Jaman’s wife Shaila, daughter of one Abul Hashem, had gone missing two years ago when she was an undergraduate student. The family filed a complaint with Kalabagan police. She reportedly got involved in militancy after her marriage to Jaman.
Shaila’s one-year-old child was at the Azimpur den. She (Shaila, not the kid, ed.) attacked the coppers with knife and tried to escape by leaving her child behind.
Counter-terrorism sources say bad boy Tanvir’s wife Khadiza, daughter of one Kawsar Ahammed, is a highly-educated woman. Her ancestral home is at West Batkamari area under Boali Union of Gaibandha Sadar upazila.
She used to work at a private company like her husband. Tanvir coaxed his wife into militancy. Shortly after that, the couple left their jobs.
Counter-terrorism officials say Tanvir’s whole family is involved in militancy. Their two sons followed in their parents’ footsteps. One of them, Tahrim Qadri alias Rasel, was arrested from the Azimpur den. Police named him in a case filed over the raid. Rasel’s brother is said to have been sent on the path of ’Jihad’.
Jebunnahar, the wife of New JMB’s military trainer Maj (retd) Jahidul Islam, who was killed in a police raid, escaped with her daughter before the police raid at Azimpur.
Her passport and bank documents have been seized from there.
Counter-terrorism officials said they found out about the hideout when looking for Jebunnahar. Raids are being conducted to arrest her.
One of the officials say they suspect Jebunnahar had managed to get in touch with another bad boy and is laying low at a different hideout.
Her family members said Jebunnahar led a modern life and got involved in militancy through her husband. She started wearing veil at her husband Jahid’s insistence. They said Jahid used to offer prayers but he started taking religious activities too seriously for about a year and tried to influence the family members.
The counter-terrorism unit raided a building at Azimpur on Saturday night. The body of bad boy Tanvir alias Jamshed Hossain alias Shamser Uddin alias Abdul Karim, 40, was recovered from there. Police say he did away with himself.
Three suspected female bandidossnuffies and a 14-year-old boy were arrested. Police said two of the women tried to kill themselves during the raid. The third woman was arrested when fleeing.
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Kenya reaffirmed on Thursday its plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp by November, rejecting allegations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that it is harassing and intimidating Somali refugees to return home when it is not safe to do so.
The rights group said Kenya is not giving the refugees a real choice between being repatriated or staying,
International law doesn't require them to...
and that the United Nation’s refugee agency, UNHCR, is not giving refugees accurate information about the risks they face in Somalia.
“Our timeline is November 30th for closure of the camp,” Karanja Kibicho, principal secretary for Kenya’s interior ministry, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We are trying to restore sanity in matters of refugee affairs. We are a sovereign country that is trying to address a security concern and we are as humane as possible.”
Kenya isn't a wealthy country, and can't afford to feed indefinitely a large number of refugees who aren't working and don't contribute.
A spokesman for UNHCR in Kenya said the agency would have to study HRW’s report before responding.
Kenya announced in May that it would close Dadaab, home to more than 300,000 mostly Somali refugees, by November, following deadly attacks on Kenyan soil by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab. The government says al Shabaab has used the camp as a recruiting ground for its attacks.
Kenya softened its stance in June, following an outcry from rights groups who said much of Somalia was not yet safe for return, and agreed a goal of halving Dadaab’s population by the end of 2016. Kibicho’s comments suggest the government is sticking to its original November deadline.
There has been a surge in departures from Dadaab in recent months with more than 24,000 refugees returning to Somalia since December 2014, the United Nations said.
So apparently it's safe enough...
HRW interviewed 100 refugees and asylum seekers in Dadaab, some of whom said in a report released on Thursday that they agreed to return home because they fear the Kenyan government will deport them if they stay.
Community leaders told HRW that a government official intimidated them at a meeting in July.
“When I tried to tell the (official) that people can’t go back, that it is not as safe as he suggests, he pointed his finger at me and told me to sit down,” HRW quoted one elder as saying. “He told me to pick up a gun and defend my country … After that meeting, people began to really worry that we would be put into lorries come November.”
It's rather sensible advice -- defend your country. I don't expect the wimmin and children to pick up a gun, but if you're a military aged man, you have a job to do, and it isn't fleeing to a refugee camp in Kenya or relocation center in Germany.
In 2014, Kenyan authorities deported more than 300 people to Somalia in a crackdown the United Nations said violated the 1951 Refugee Convention which prohibits refoulement — the forcible return of refugees to areas where their lives would be threatened.
“These people are voluntarily taking themselves (home)…” Kibicho said. “We are a country that respects our obligations to the international conventions.”
Refugees who choose not to return to Somalia will be taken to Kakuma, he said, referring to Kenya’s second refugee camp, which mostly hosts people fleeing war in South Sudan.
Oh joy, I'll bet that camp is another barrel of laughs...
The United Nations has struggled to raise funds to provide health and education services to refugees returning to Somalia.
Strangely, the U.N. hasn't had any trouble at all raising funds for the apparatchiks' per diems, Land Cruisers and house girls...
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I don't expect the wimmin and children to pick up a gun, but if you're a military aged man, you have a job to do, and it isn't fleeing to a refugee camp in Kenya or relocation center in Germany.
Dunno. I think some of them think it really is their job to go to Germany.
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Moved to Non-WoT: Lurid Crime Tales based on Ebbusogum Smith4370's link, which has photographs. It looks like setting women's clothes on fire is the new yoot amusement, replacing their previous game of suddenly pouncing on a passerby and beating him or her to a pulp... or until dead on occasion. I was apparently wrong about mental health issues as such. We now return you to the article.
--trailing wife at 7:30 p.m. ET
...or her sleeve as he walked by, anyway. This sounds like someone with mental health issues.
[IsraelTimes] 5th Avenue attack on hijab-clad Brit caught on video, being investigated as possible hate crime
Police were on the hunt Tuesday for a man who set fire to a veiled British woman’s clothing in Manhattan, as the American Moslem community says it faces growing Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... The attack took place late Saturday in front of a luxury boutique on 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
The British woman, age 35, said she was walking when she suddenly felt her shirt sleeve on fire.
Police declined to provide further details on the attack, saying only that they were investigating a potential hate crime. On Monday, the police released images of the incident caught by surveillance cameras and asked the public to help find the suspect.
The New York branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , which is in touch with the victim and is providing legal help, said it could not confirm whether the suspect was motivated by anti-Moslem sentiment, though his victim was wearing a hijab at the time.
"It’s another (piece of) evidence that Moslems are increasingly vulnerable in this hostile political climate," said Zainab Chaudry, a CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... spokeswoman.
"Even in places like New York City, one of the most diverse in the US, we are seeing a spike in anti-Moslem bigotry."
In August, a holy man and his assistant were shot to death on the street near their mosque in the borough of Queens. An investigation into that incident has not yet established that it was Islamophobic.
After that attack, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that additional coppers would be deployed to secure mosques and the Moslem community.
Authorities would not immediately confirm the identity of Saturday’s victim. The New York Post said she was a dentist from Glasgow, Scotland.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The world witnessed 11,774 terror attacks in 2015, in which 28,328 people were killed and 35,320 injured. India was the fourth worst-affected country after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistain, with 43% of 791 attacks in the country carried out by Naxalites. A total of 289 Indians died in terror strikes.
Data collected by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism contracted with the US state department revealed that Taliban, 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.... and Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... were the three deadliest terror groups globally. They were followed by CPI(Maoist), a banned outfit.
The CPI(Maoist) was responsible for 343 terror attacks in 2015, killing 176 people. Taliban were involved in 1,093 strikes in which 4,512 people bit the dust, IS launched 931 attacks which claimed the lives of 6,050 people and Boko Haram was involved in 491 attacks killing 5,450 people. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which rounded off the top five in the list, was involved in 238 strikes, killing 287.
Over half the terror attacks in India took place in four states -- Chhattisgarh (21%), Manipur (12%), J&K (11%) and Jharkhand (10%). Chhattisgarh, which has been hit hard by Left-wing extremism, reported a doubling of terror attacks in 2015 -- from 76 in 2014 to 167.
The report said there was great diversity in the perpetrators/terrorist groups involved in attacks in the country, with 45 outfits active across the country. The Naxals alone accounted for 43% of terrorist attacks in India last year. The report said the number of people kidnapped/taken hostage by murderous Moslems and Lion of Islam groups in India almost tripled in 2015, increasing to 862 from 305 in 2014. Of this, Naxals alone kidnapped/took hostage 707 persons last year compared with 163 in 2014. In 2014, there were no attacks in which 50 or more people were kidnapped or taken hostage while in 2015, there were seven such attacks, all of them attributed to Maoists.
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The world witnessed 11,774 terror attacks in 2015, in which 28,328 people were killed and 35,320 injured.
Wow! Just about the same numbers as 2015 car accidents in the US.
We should be supporting the 'War on Traffic'
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Hezbollah, carried out a successful ambush against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) today, striking the latter near the Jaroud Jarajeer border-crossing into Leb.
According to a military source, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah carried out the assault near the border village of Ma'ber Abu Hadeej in the Qalamoun Mountains.
This surprise attack by the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah resulted in the death of a number of terrorists, along with the destruction of their armored vehicle.
The ISIS forces of Evil that were attempting to enter Syria today were likely heading towards the eastern slopes of the Qalamoun Mountains, where their comrades are currently engaged in a fierce battle against Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... .
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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.
[RUDAW.NET] Co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Figen Yuksekdag, said that she will refuse to answer any summons to court to face charges of supporting terrorism because there is no fair or impartial judicial mechanism in 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Libya Herald] Delegates from across the country have been heading to Nalut in the far western Jebel Nafusa, near the Tunisian border, for a conference on Friday on national reconciliation.
[DAWN] Police say they have 
[WAPO] Army Gen. Raymond "Tony" Thomas, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, rarely talks specifics about the troops under his command. Direct action raids in Iraq, rescue missions in Afghanistan, Special Operations forces deployed in places like Syria, Somalia and Yemen are all -- if even acknowledged -- described in broad platitudes..jpg)
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[USATODAY] Just one day before a movie about Edward Snowden is set to hit theaters, the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday unanimously adopted an investigative report portraying the former National Security Agency contractor as a disgruntled employee who violated Americans' privacy rights rather than protecting them.
[Observer] Syria shot two surface-to-air missiles at Israeli jets--and they shot at the Israeli jets not even over their own air space.
[RUDAW.NET] Senior Iranian general Qasem Suleimani, who leads the country's elite Quds Force, said he will stay in his military position "for life." He made the comments responding to "
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
