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As sated, Biden will pull over a white girl and he doesn't need a police car to do it. He's to chicken shit to even do a ride along in a police car.
[Red State] President Donald Trump was triumphant in announcing the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Among other remarks, Trump described the event, "He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way."
Apparently descriptions like that were too much for former Obama CIA deputy director Mike Morell.
While he praised the action on "Face the Nation," he and criticized Trump’s response, according to the Washington Examiner.
"You don’t want a locker room kind of feel to this," said Morell. "That was the one thing we worked really hard on after the bin Laden raid, is don’t make those kinds of statements, because it does inspire other people."
Morell, who was widely expected to become Hillary Clinton’s CIA director if she had won the 2016 election, said it was troubling that Trump said he wanted to show footage of Baghdadi’s death to deter his followers.
"I think it’s all right to say we used DNA matching to figure out that it was him," said Morell. "But to actually talk about body parts and actually bringing them back with us, right, so that we have them here with us I think is going too far."
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Morell, who was widely expected to become Hillary Clinton’s CIA director if she had won the 2016 election, said it was troubling
Yes Mr. Morrell, virtually anything the Orange Man would say would fall under your rubic of... "troubling."
Do I also sense some misgivings about a DoD 'Tier One' success story? Did they perhaps, use organic intelligence assets and capabilities ?
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I think the trend to mealymouth approach to serious human conflict began when they renamed the old War Department to the Department of Defense. War is destructive and evil but far less than slavery and servitude. Don't do it if you can avoid, but if you must, don't hold back. Fuzzy thinking and language is what has gotten us into endless war.
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I think what he said and the way he said it was pitch perfect. Keep the whole audience in mind. Moslems absolutely detest dogs and any people who keep, like or tolerate them. The intense visual imagery that President Trump used in the announcement is going to hit them where it hurts.
They will carry the image of their boy being run down by a weaponized American military dog while using his own children as human shields, crying and wailing for mercy all the while.
If the words of the enemy are so very important to these DC sages, perhaps they should reconsider bin Laden's comments about 'strong horses'. Islam is so very anxious to take the world back to the 6th century? Well, the Donald was only too happy to oblige, with the noxious, serial raping shite stain thrown to American dogs. I like it.
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I suppose it was troubling for some when Churchill called Hitler "Corporal Schicklgruber". Maybe Trump should send Baraq on another Middle East tour so he can apologize for the killing of a murdering terrorist.
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Apparently descriptions like that were too much for former Obama CIA deputy director Mike Morell.
Disrespectful? B.S. Bagdhdadi was a worthless POS and a coward. Morrell has always struck me as a narcissistic moron who talks too much and likes to see his picture on TV.
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And don't expect us to give him a burial within the three day period either. Our doctors get to pick through his remains before tossing them into the garbage.
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Said when they can't celebrate a victory for the country because it might shine a positive light on the president for a day or two. And folks question their patriotism.
[Newsweek] Back-to-back U.S. operations Saturday and Sunday have resulted in the deaths of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and spokesperson Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir in Syria, but the organization has already designated a successor, Newsweek has learned.
Abdullah Qardash, sometimes spelled Kardesh and also known as Hajji Abdullah al-Afari, was said to have been nominated by Baghdadi in August to run the group's "Muslim affairs" in a widely-circulated statement attributed to ISIS' official Amaq news outlet, but never publicly endorsed by the group. Though little is known about the former Iraqi military officer who once served under late leader Saddam Hussein, one regional intelligence official asking not to be identified by name or nation told Newsweek that Qardash would have taken over Baghdadi's role‐though it had lost much of its significance by the time of his demise.
Baghdadi, who died after detonating a suicide vest following a Delta Team operation first reported by Newsweek, built ISIS' self-styled caliphate out of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch, but the official said that the influential hard-line cleric's role had become largely symbolic.
"Baghdadi was a figurehead. He was not involved in operations or day-to-day," the official told Newsweek. "All Baghdadi did was say yes or no‐no planning."
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Potential alternative Newsweek Headline:
Trump's secret mission to kill terrorist leader fails. ISIS supreme leader Baghdadi escapes attack in mini-bus.
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A variation of the "bellwhther election" because a dem won or "no message in this election" if a dem lost.
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Love the peaceful no collusion no snarky no bully no lies no illegal use of courts or law enforcement or abuse of power in electing the leader of a terrorist group whatever! Anyways what does that say about a bunch of useless dipshit idiots with degrees and think tanks and teleprompter anyways? Does anyone have a.lead yet on a group of ads wipes. Fags that like using energy weapons burning tree tops and attacking wounded old pets?
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And with all the HVTs that have been killed, we're still no closer to winning any of these wars. One gets the distinct impression that killing is not the way to victory. One gets the impression that victory would end the wars, which would be the worst thing ever.
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One gets the distinct impression that killing is not the way to victory.
To the contrary, I can think of a great number of wars that were brought to an end by killing. You just have to be serious about it and not consider it a hobby.
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I've had no luck finding the sources of these quotations, but they apply.
"Killing is the sine qua non of war." The point being, don't go to war unless you are going to kill.
An American general speaking at a congressional committee hearing:
"My job is to blow things up and kill people. If you want to arrest somebody, send a policeman. If you want some things blown up and some people killed, call me."
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Wow, you've never read Sun Tzu? Or even Boyd? You really have no idea whatsoever what war is about. You think it's about killing? No wonder you have so many criminally wrongheaded ideas about the Middle East. You're deeply ignorant, and apparently the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full effect here. You're so ignorant about war that you lack the knowledge to even realize you're ignorant.
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The US targeted Baghdadi twice with limited success, both times getting someone else. The last time he was actually injured was in 2015 I think - Al-Baaj, Nineveh. Abu Muath al-Jazairi, an Algerian ISIS fighter made a play for the leadership and began a fierce campaign which lasted for a week and saw about 200 daesh dead. ISIS under Baghdadi issued a kill order on Jazairi who fled to Riyadh.
Now, Jazairi (also called Abu Muath al-Hazimi) was a follower of Sheikh Ahmed Bin Omar al-Hazimi, a Saudi cleric with his own ideas of how the caliphate must operate. Mainly that it was just too soft and tolerant. Yupp !
Since the splitting of factions within the ISIS, the play for leadership backed by Iraq based and Saudi based leadership grew fiercer. A lot of decentralization and diffusion of authority was already begun when Baghdadi was fighting off the Al-Hazimi attacks and recuperating, in 2015.
The al-Hazimi faction is ideologically distant and opposed to Turkic islamists. Although the Sheikh was captured by the Saudis and most of his supporters killed, the faction still remains entrenched and vies for power. They may have an inside man, a Tunisian - set to take Baghdadi's place. ISIS will be fighting among themselves as Baghdadi's side has no strong enough leaders but more numbers. The Al Hazimi faction has strong Al Qaeda links and finances but fewer numbers.
On the ISIS proper side, Abu Othman al-Tunisi, a Tunisian jihadi has a reputation among the foreign fighters and heads the Shura council.
Abu Saleh al-Juzrawi is more of a controller of 'exterior actions' and a recruiter.
Mohamed Ben Salem al-Ayouni (or Jalaluddin al-Tunisi) was closest to Baghdadi and commanded local forces in Libya. These three are however of questionable origin and not from the Quraysh tribe descendants of mohammed like Baghdadi, and will not be readily accepted as Caliph.
Due to foreseen succession problems, there has already been a lot of decentralization and autonomously functional cells have continued to proliferate resources and men from Iraq to North African regions.
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By all rights, we were getting whollopped at Issus until I saw an opportunity for us Companions to get ol' Darius...that's Darius II. When he fled, his mercenaries were unsure if they would be paid and his countrymen were greatly despaired. I guess technically we had to engage Darius a couple more times, but what do i know about it?
Jules! Hey, Julius Caesar! I know you and Tacitus are hanging out, but come explain war and what High Value Target means, I'm going to go catch the show...Quisling is up next and they are doing that Classic Viddy I love, where they pull out his tongue with dolphin hooks and then shove it back in place through his rear using staves.
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"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." Gen. Curtis LeMay, CO U.S. Strategic Air Command.
[Right Scoop] There are still details being gathered, but there was a mass shooting at the Texas A&M University-Commerce homecoming celebration last night in Greenville, Texas. The shooter got away.
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I heard he was aiming for one person; needed more range time.
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All the way back when I was in college, locals used to try to crash campus parties and got the bum's rush. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that didn't devolve into a shooting situation these days.
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Gang-banger drive-by, Islamic terrorist or FF operation by remnants of the DS?
[Hot Air] Now that Rahm Emanuel doesn’t need to worry about running for reelection as the Mayor of Chicago or grooming any Clintons for the White House, he has time on his hands and the freedom to say things that may be unpopular in his own party. This weekend he took full advantage of his unfettered position with an op-ed in the Washington Post where he takes his party to task for their obsession with Medicare For All.
By the time I finished reading the piece I was seriously surprised. This is some clear-eyed thinking that will see him burned to the ground among supporters of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the rest of the significantly more socialist 2020 hopefuls. But this one section of the essay should really inject a dose of reality into the Democratic debates, assuming anyone is willing to listen.
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It's all an unworkable pipe dream, but we're still getting free stuff, right?
The interesting questions are why is Rahm saying this and why is he saying it now. Trying to stand out among possible Dem candidates as the only one who isn't insane?
1) he's in close contact with the moneymen - remember, dialing for dollars was Rahm's only talent, the one that made him dear to Clinton in 1992 and for years afterward-- and those moneymen know that Warren is a buffoon who doesn't know WTF she's talking about
2) Rahm knows what everyone in the Dem elite knows but won't admit: Warren and Sanders are fools driving the Party toward the cliff, cheered on by The Squat and the rest of the Children's Crusade.
[RedState] The House Ethics Committee announced that they were also investigating Delegate Michael F.Q. San Nicolas (D-Guam) over allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a staffer & campaign finance abuses. They are looking into allegations that he converted campaign funds to personal use and accepted improper or excessive campaign contributions.
NEW ‐ The House Ethics Cmte is investigating Delegate Michael F.Q. San Nicolas (D-Guam) over allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a staffer & campaign finance abuses.
‐ John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) October 24, 2019
According to the Washington Times, legal counsel for San Nicolas said, "The congressman welcomes the opportunity for due process."
Territories of the United States, like Guam, have non-voting delegates instead of representatives. San Nicolas has represented Guam’s at large district since January. He was elected to serve as the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services by fellow committee members.
Kuam News reported that in San Nicolas’ former chief of staff John Paul Manuel had filed a complaint with the Guam Election Commission about his former boss’ actions.
Here’s what Manuel said in September before the House announcement and he didn’t hold back.
From Kuam News:
Manuel told KUAM News, "How can you truly be supporting our troops when he is engaging in sexual relations with their wives while they are away? There is never a convenient time to reveal a friend’s wrong-doings. But the truth needed to be said. How is it responsible to have your chakmak on government payroll for $85,000? Powerful men need to realize the era of using political office as their own personal sexual playground is over. Government budgets don’t have any more room for chakmaks."
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In their long hunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi intelligence teams secured a break in February 2018 after one of the Islamic State leader’s top aides gave them information on how he escaped capture for so many years, said two Iraqi security officials.
Baghdadi would sometimes hold strategy talks with his commanders in moving minibuses packed with vegetables in order to avoid detection, Ismael al-Ethawi told officials after he was arrested by Turkish authorities and handed to the Iraqis.
"Ethawi gave valuable information which helped the Iraqi multi-security agencies team complete the missing pieces of the puzzle of Baghdadi’s movements and places he used to hide," one of the Iraqi security officials said.
"Ethawi gave us details on five men, including him, whom were meeting Baghdadi inside Syria and the different locations they used," he told Reuters.
#9
I don't know why, but the photo in comment #1 with the dog and special operator jumping from the airplane makes me so proud to be an American. We are indeed a Great Country of Great People.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The largest banking lenders to the oil and gas sector are becoming more cautious, marking down their expectations for oil and gas prices that underpin loans in a move expected to put further financial stress on struggling producers, industry and banking sources said.
Major banks including JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), Wells Fargo (WFC.N), and Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) have, as part of regular biannual reviews, cut their estimated values for oil-and-gas companies’ reserves, which serve as the basis for those companies to receive reserve-based loans (RBLs), according to more than a dozen sources familiar with the activity.
While the size of the RBL market is unclear, it is estimated that a few hundred companies take such loans, with the cumulative size in the billions of dollars.
Those lenders have marked down the perceived value for both oil and natural gas for the coming five years, with the changes kicking in as early as this month.
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This is either an unprecedented disaster (oh noes!) or simply the result of lower oil prices (thank you frackers!) and a long-term outlook that prices will stay low.
Note that none of the recent disturbances in the Middle East sent oil prices skyrocketing as they would have in the past. I wonder why that is.
[AmGreatness] Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy. But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people. The Left, remember, had called in a Yale psychiatrist to testify that Trump was demented, during the lulls between the first impeachment, the serial "Russian collusion" hoaxes, the emoluments clause psychodrama and Robert Mueller’s "walls-are-closing-in," "turning-point," and "bombshell" investigation.
h/t Instapundit. The f*cking headline makes this little conformist f*ck sound like a hero instead of an establishment hack.
[NBCNews] One man is an island: Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.
The 72-year-old former Republican presidential nominee has isolated himself from Republicans in the Senate, in his home state and across the country by occasionally ‐ but strongly ‐ criticizing President Donald Trump, including the president's efforts to enlist the aid of foreign governments to probe a leading political opponent.
"By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling," Romney tweeted earlier this month.
In recent weeks, the senator's acts of rebellion against the commander in chief have been flagrant: from publicly confirming "Pierre Delecto" as the secret identity he used to counter Trump on Twitter to bashing Trump's Syria policy on the Senate floor to positioning himself on the front edge of any move by GOP lawmakers to break away and either censure the president or vote to remove him from office if the House follows through with impeachment.
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I'm sorry to say I voted for Pierre Delecto when he ran against Obummer. I regret I didn't know better at the time (went for the evil of two lessers) and write in my pooch. He had much more character.
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Hindsight is 20-20 (or there abouts) As bad a Bath House was, I often wonder if McSssssschtain and Mittens would not have been worse. I'm going to guess a traitor is more unpalatable than an enemy pretending to be my friend.
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Ibliss, I don't remember if any of the crap directed at you was from me or not but if it was you have my sincere apology.
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Iblis, if I did, it was only because the alternative was worse in the General Election. Still maintain that...
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M.Murcek, my campfire had the same conversation and conclusion.
[Townhall] ...And those who want to see Trump removed wouldn’t just need a simple majority, something that could be obtained even without the votes of RINO squishes like Romney, Collins, and Murkowski, but a SUPER majority, or 67 senators. In other words, 20, yes 20 Republican senators would have to defect and vote to remove Trump in order to make it happen.
So we’re safe, right? ... Right??
Uh, not so fast! At least that’s what embattled Trump confidante Roger Stone says, warning Trump via a Friday media interview to take the ongoing impeachment inquiry "very seriously" and not to assume an automatic Senate acquittal.
The former Trump associate speculated that "wobbly Republican senators" could vote against the president unless pressure from their constituents is brought to bear.
...Stone said the notion that anything in Washington these days is simply "Republicans vs Democrats" is "outdated thinking."
"This is insiders versus an outsider," he said. "This is the status quo versus a disruptor."
So, is Stone onto something here? I sure would love to say no way, that is if my Daily Caller colleagues hadn’t contacted EVERY SINGLE Republican Senate office just last week to ask them if they would rule out impeaching and removing Trump from office. Out of 53 senators, how many do you think responded in the affirmative?
Twenty? Thirty?
How about ... seven. Sure the voters will butcher them afterwards - but are they un-delusional enough to grasp this?
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 3 Talibs, detained another Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighter and destroyed three caches of weapons in three provinces.
The military officials said Sunday the Special Forces conducted the operations in the past 24 hours in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , Ghazni and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed the 3 faceless myrmidons in Zurmat district of Paktika provinces.
The Special Forces also arrested a Taliban fighter and destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation, the officials added.
In another operation in Ghazni city of Ghazni province, the Special Forces destroyed a small cache of weapons, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces destroyed another cache of weapons in Garm Ser district of Helmand.
[OneIndia] Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... gave the world probably one of the most awaited news. He declared that Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead in a US operation. He also said that Baghdadi had blown himself up during the raid.
The ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... had already set a succession plan. Baghdadi had declared a few months back that he would be succeeded by Abdullah Qadarsh. He had in fact tasked Qadarsh with re-building the ISIS, which had faced considerable losses over a period of time.
Qardash, who is around 40 years old is a former officer in the army led by Saddam Hussein. When he was tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Basra by the US forces, he met with Baghdadi. Both were tossed in the calaboose in 2003 for their links with the al-Qaeda. It was after their release that the ISIS was formed.
Qardash, also known as Professor was also close to Abu Alaa al-Afri,
...former physics professor and head of regional emirs for ISIS, he was briefly temporary head of the organization during Abu Bakr al-Baghdad’s recovery from being airstruck, but then an American missile reached out to touch al-Afri more permanently...
who was a deputy to Baghdadi before he was killed in a gun raid in 2016. Experts describe Qardash as ruthless and he rose in the ranks of the ISIS due to his policy making. Baghdadi believes that Professor has the right qualities to lead and most importantly re-build the ISIS.
Qardash, who currently handles logistics in the ISIS is also popular among the ISIS fighters and other cadres. The biggest challenge for Qardash would be to unite the ISIS, which is currently split three ways.
There are differences between the leaders of Iraq, Tunisia and Saudi, but they have been able to hold on because of Baghdadi. Professor would have his task cut out to unite the three factions in the event of Baghdadi's death.
Qardash, who has been in charge of logistics would look for precise attacks. Unlike in the past when ISIS operatives carried out large attacks, this time around they would look for more specific attacks, with louder messages. The message from Baghdadi where he calls for coordinated attacks is also a signal that the style of functioning would change.
[ToloNews] The attack took place about 8:30 pm in Pashtun Kot after dozens of bully boyz attacked security check points.
A Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attack on Pashtun Kot district in Faryab was thwarted on Saturday night, the 209 Shaheen Military Corps said in a statement.
The attack took place about 08:30 pm in Pashtun Kot after dozens of bully boyz attacked security check points and clashed with security forces, the statement said.
"At least 53 Taliban were killed and dozens of others were maimed in the attack," the statement read, saying that the Taliban had been routed and were retreating.
The statement also claimed: "The fighting lasted for several hours and Qari Alauddin, Sofi Hamidullah and Qari Mohammad, key Taliban members, are among the dead."
The Taliban have confirmed the festivities but have rejected the casualty numbers.
Khaama Press adds it was in the Khwaja Namosi area of Pashtun Kot, the dead were airstruck, and named one of the emirs as Qari Mohammad Din.
[DW] German authorities are looking for a former embassy worker who allegedly sold visa documents to members of a Lebanese clan. The clan then used the documents to smuggle Syrian refugees into Germany, according to a report.
A Lebanese man who used to work at the German embassy in Beirut is wanted by authorities over alleged "irregularities" involving visa documents, according to a report by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"We are working closely with the relevant criminal investigative authorities in this case," the German Foreign Office told the paper, adding that the suspect no longer works at the embassy.
The man reportedly worked in the embassy's visa department until 2017 and is believed to have taken so-called "visa stickers" ‐ papers that are inserted into passports and are necessary to travel to Germany.
He then allegedly sold the visa documents to a Lebanese clan, who in turn used them to smuggle Syrian refugees into Germany.
According to Bild am Sonntag,German authorities were tipped off to the man's activities following nationwide raids against suspected people trafficking gangs last Thursday.
The visa documents were reportedly used to smuggle 26 Syrian refugees to Germany and the Netherlands between August 2018 and September 2019.
The refugees had to pay the clan between €4,500 and €15,000 ($4,980 to $16,600) per person in order to secure the visas, reported news agency DPA.
Lebanese clans have increasingly come under scrutiny in Germany in recent months, and have been the target of several raids in Berlin and the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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In the late 1980s Paraguayan officials sold thousands of visas and travel documents to Lebanese Hizbollah. The result was an explosion of arabs in the Brazil-Argentina-Paraguay borderland, and, later, murderous attacks on Jewish organizations in Argentina.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's army says an attack by Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria has killed one of its personnel and maimed five others, bringing Turkey's military corpse count to 11 since the launch of its operation.
In a tweet Sunday, the military said the attack occurred near the border town of Ras al-Ayn where its forces were conducting reconnaissance. The area falls within a 30 kilometers (19 miles) deep border zone Kurdish forces are withdrawing from, under a U.S.-backed cease-fire.
Despite that ceasefire and a second brokered by Russia, occasional skirmishes have continued. The Ottoman Turkish military said its forces responded "within the framework of self-defense'' to the rockets, mortars and heavy machine gun attack.
A 150-hour truce brokered by Russia, allowing Syrian Kurdish fighters to complete their withdrawal, runs out Tuesday evening.
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But the Syrians only just arrived - they probably haven’t even had time to set up their tents and wire up the big screen teevees for multiplayer games during their down time,
[AlAhram] Syrian state news agency SANA said on Sunday there were festivities between the Syrian army and Ottoman Turkish forces in the countryside around Ras al-Ain, a town on the Ottoman Turkish border in northern Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] QAMISHLI, Syria ‐ The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslem group’s front man was killed today in northern Syria, a top Kurdish official says, hours after the jihadists’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was announced dead.
The official with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ‐ who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak on the issue ‐ says IS front man Abu Hassan al-Muhajir
...slightly more formally as Abu Al-Hassan Al-MuHajjir...
had been killed, after SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said he had been "targeted" in a fresh raid.
"Al-Muhajir, the right-hand of Baghdadi and the front man for IS, was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Jarablus, in a coordinated operation between SDF intelligence and the US army," Abdi writes on Twitter.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eight migrants colonists including four children were found suffering from light hypothermia Sunday inside a refrigerated lorry that was about to travel from a French port on the ferry to Britannia, judicial sources said.
At least this time they caught them before they died of asphyxiation in an English parking lot.
The migrants colonists, who said they were Afghans, were found during a routine check at the French port of Calais in the early morning, a source said, asking not to be named.
The temperature inside was just seven degrees Celsius (45 degrees Fahrenheit). The two drivers, both Romanians, have been detained, while the migrants colonists were taken to a local hospital.
And then what? Amy chance at all the Afghans will be shipped back home instead of just being turned out on the street?
The discovery came after 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated truck in Britannia this week, laying bare again the risks of illegal migrant routes to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... On Saturday, twenty migrants colonists were found in good health in two separate trucks in Belgium, according to local prosecutors.
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And the pro illegal immigration crowd here is complaining about ICE...
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Heh. Looks like outdoor temps for most of Sunday morning ran just a couple of degrees above the cited 45.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As the protests in Leb moved into their 11th day, tens of thousands of Lebanese protesters successfully formed a 171-kilometer-long human chain throughout the country from 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... in the north down to Tyre in the south. How cute!
Cars whooshed by honking with flags waving. Others handed out water to protesters forming the chain. Videos quickly emerged on social media of people filing in all over the country to participate.
Mostly peaceful protests have taken place across the country, with protesters uniting across sectarian and class lines in a country where sectarianism is rooted in its every fiber. The Taif Agreement, put in place at the end of the civil war in 1989, installed a power sharing agreement that mandated that the president be Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Moslem and the speaker of parliament a Shia Moslem.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Navy has denied threatening any vessels belonging to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an organizations, concerned with rescue operations in the Mediterranean, refuting the statements made by German NGO Sea-Eye that Libyan security forces fired warning shots at Alan Kurdi vessel while rescuing migrants colonists on Saturday. Go ahead. Sink a few of these assholes
The Libyan Navy has said in a statement that its patrol boats did not intercept or threaten any NGO vessels, stressing that it will not cede in any way its sovereign rights which it exercises within its territorial waters.
At the same time, it called on international organizations to abide by the memorandum of conduct on working in Libyan waters, in a way that achieves saving lives and secures the rights of all cooperating parties.
As reported in a comment last evening by our own Anomolous Sources.
Goodness gracious — however did they ever find time to work?
[True Pundit] One America News Network is reporting that Andrew McCabe had an affair with his subordinate Lisa Page who was also reportedly having an affair with Peter Stzok.
The FBI love trio set out to destroy President Trump and Gen. Mike Flynn, according to the report.
All three FBI bosses ‐ or would-be lovebirds ‐ have been either fired from the FBI or removed and are targets of a newly-minted criminal probe targeting the FBI’s role in concocting the Russia collusion hoax.
McCabe was the boss of both Page and Strzok.
The new revelations take this unfolding saga to an entirely new level of bizarre.
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I wouldn't be surprised if all 'never Trumpers' attended those goat-head parties with all o' them shucking their robes and shagging each other well into the night.
[PULSE.NG] Bolivia's President Evo Morales claimed on Sunday his political rivals were "preparing" a coup d'etat next week as strike action and protests against his controversial reelection continued.
But that’s a good thing, you silly person — it makes it so much more efficient to find and whack the moles.
[TOWNHALL] Before President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... 's presser on Sunday confirming the death of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" to discuss what he was hoping to hear the president say.
One of the biggest things Clapper was interested in was seeing "the contributions the intelligence community made" that lead to al-Baghdadi's death.
He admitted "taking down" al-Baghdadi has "huge symbolic meaning," especially because he has been a target for quite some time.
But Clapper warned the move could "galvanize" the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "What is going to be interesting is to the extent to which this negatively affects ISIS or does it galvanize ISIS, the remnants of ISIS, which still survives as an ideology and has franchises in other places besides Syria," he explained.
As somebody who once worked at an American Fortune 50 where being "Galvanized" was supposed to be something to strive for ... well when push came to shove it wasn't worth the certificate paper it was printed upon. Clapper might consider that some words have different meanings to some citizens.
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One of the biggest things Clapper was interested in was seeing "the contributions the intelligence community made" that lead to al-Baghdadi's death.
This would be that small subset of the intelligence community that was busy doing their job and not trying to overthrow America.
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Now that Mr. Clapper is no longer working there, the details are no more his business than the rest of us plebs, and to tell him would be breaking OPSEC. Really, he should know better than to get his former people in trouble like that.
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I could, but I doubt they would be able to do much after running out on the flat and seconds later being perforated by 30mm depleted uranium rounds.
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Let's stop and consider for a moment, could ISIS be anymore ISIS than they already are? If they really had tons of guys here in the US ready to go, why would they already not be attacking us? What more can they do that they aren't already doing?
These people are on a death cult crusade, if they can attack, they do attack. So if they aren't doing it already, it's because they can't.
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This wasn't such a big concern by Heir Klapper during the Obummer days. There was more concern with domestic spying and taking down candidate Trump and then POTUS Trump.
I sense a new, green renaissance approaching. Leave them alone, they'll do fine.
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Welcome to the third world, where neighbors will set up their own neighborhood ad-hoc electric utilities and fire fighting volunteer brigades. HINT: use natural gas for your generators until the govt shuts it off. Stand watches for the CARB police.
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Note to all millennials that think socialism is a great thing. CA is the example of a near socialist state. The power company is government run. The power is off because they failed to keep the lines maintained and the transformers up to date. A lot like Venezuela. The poor are filling the streets, homeless and now sick with disease. The rich are barricaded in their castles. And the working, tax paying, middle class are leaving. Vote for Bernie or warren, this is your future...
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The Democrat plan for every state in the US. Centrist and right-wing news sites and channels should shout this out 24/7. Make this the only issue, louder than the lynching on in Washington, the elections, or Syria. Expose what happens if a liberal or libertarian fool plan is allowed.
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Talked to my friend in Alamo, California today. He and his wife went to South Africa and Namibia to go hunting. Went well, but Namibia is in a SEVERE drought. Was gone for a month and came home and power outages caused freezers to fail and thaw in garage. Lots of game meat, salmon, ducks, geese thawed out. Smelled like some serial killer's garage. I told him to get a standby generator running on an emergency circuit to take care of the freezers, refrigerators, and some lights. Maybe 5 to 7 kw natural gas. There is a YUGE backlog of installations to go right now. Welcome to the turd world.
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Going to need border controls and law changes to keep the Californicators from moving into red states.
yeah, theyre arriving in droves with their entitled mindset
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s remains will be “disposed of properly,” and DNA confirmation came this morning, says the White House national security adviser.https://t.co/j4RIdiyHuPpic.twitter.com/s3zRcmDOdO
“He was in an eight-meter long underground tunnel with a width of five to six meters … the hiding situation was good,” says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s companion to Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview after the ISIS leader’s death in a US operation.https://t.co/YNg0bji2CGpic.twitter.com/aBBdIeni5z
[Jpost] The U.S. special operations raid into northwest Syria against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was staged from an airbase in western Iraq, a U.S. official told Rooters on Sunday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed the important role of Iraq in the mission.
"Iraqi intelligence and security officials contributed to the successful outcome of the operation," the official said.
[IsraelTimes] The dominant jihadist group in northwest Syria blocks access to the site of a suspected US-led operation against Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an AFP correspondent reports.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , an organization that includes former operatives from Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, seals off the village of Barisha, near the Turkish border, following US media reports of the jihadist leader’s killing.
At least nine people were killed in the operation, which lasted about two hours.
Excavators were at work near the flattened remains of the house that appeared to have been the main target of the airborne operation.
Ankara has some sway over HTS but has failed to rein it in despite deals Turkey has stuck with Russia, Damascus’s main backer and the most powerful foreign broker in Syria.
Al-Qaeda and IS have long been rivals.
According to the Observatory and local sources, IS fighters — who have been operating underground since the group lost its last fixed positions in Syria earlier this year — were also present in the area.
Reeeeeely? How very odd.
Another organization with a presence in the area is Hurras al-Deen, a hardline jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda that has smaller numbers but seasoned fighters.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Turkish official says “to the best of my knowledge” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi arrived at a location in Syria 48 hours prior to the US military raid that is believed to have targeted the Islamic State jihadist group leader.
The Turkish official says in a written statement today that there has been “close coordination” among relevant parties and the Turkish military had advance knowledge of the raid.
In a tweet earlier, the Turkish army said it had “information exchanged and coordination” with US military authorities prior to the operation but did not elaborate.
The official adds: “I can neither confirm nor deny that any intelligence was shared to facilitate last night’s operation.”
[IsraelTimes] Some information is emerging about how the United States might have been able to track Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A senior Iraqi intelligence official says that a few months ago, an Iraqi aide to Baghdadi was killed in western Iraq by a US airstrike. The official says the aide’s wife was arrested in the operation and handed over by the Americans to Iraqi authorities.
Really? How very interesting.
The official says the wife ended up being a key source of information on Baghdadi’s whereabouts
...that’s the period when President Trump’s tweets were wilder than ever, leading to all sorts of the usual comments by the usual suspects, as I recall...
and that through her, the Iraqis ultimately were able to pass along to the United States coordinates on Baghdadi.
A second Iraqi security official says Baghdadi’s brother-in-law was recently arrested by the Iraqis and also helped with information about Abu Bakr’s whereabouts
How very helpful those nice people were, to be sure.
The officials aren’t authorized to publicly discuss intelligence operations and speak on condition of anonymity.
Iraq’s intelligence services provided US forces with the location of elusive Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ahead of the raid that killed him, the security forces said Sunday.
In a statement distributed to journalists, the forces said intel units had created a “specialized team” that worked for a year to track Baghdadi.
“The Iraqi national intelligence service, according to precise information, located the hideout of Daesh chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” it said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
An Iraqi intelligence source told AFP the service had been closely tracking Baghdadi’s movements across Syria but could ultimately pin down his location due to a phone call from one of his multiple wives, who was with him.
A second Iraqi official said the intelligence services relied on information from two women in custody: another one of Baghdadi’s wives as well as the wife of one of his couriers.
Iraq's intelligence service learned of Baghdadi's location after arresting an Iraqi man and woman from within his "inner circle" who provided information that led to a secret location in Iraq's western desert housing documents containing it, the official said.
Really good job, guys!
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Here's a vote for the Snatch method of disposal.
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his location due to a phone call from one of his multiple wives,
A self assumed Pasha of gall,
was done in by his 'hippest' moll.
He was hounded into a hole,
from whence he saw sheol,
and whined in the end in creole.
If only he'd known,
'...that fucking phone ! Allan ! Nisa' mustn't make call.
Bitch, I hope you see Al-hol !'
With that he lit up the hole.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Police found more than 40 skulls, dozens of bones and a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico City during a raid this week, authorities said on Sunday.
Four of the skulls were built into the altar in the central Tepito neighborhood, where police arrested 31 people on Tuesday on suspicion of drug cartel activity, the city government said in a statement. A judge ordered 27 of the suspects released.
A photo distributed by the Mexico City attorney general’s office showed skulls clustered around the altar, which had a cross behind it adorned with a horned wooden face mask.
To the right of the altar was a painted wall full of symbols that included a pyramid topped with a hand, celestial bodies and the head of a goat with a hexagram between its horns, according to photos of the room published by local media.
In front of the wall stood a variety of objects, including dozens of wooden sticks with colored markings.
A spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office said authorities were still investigating the provenance of the skulls, at least 42 of which had been found.
Investigators also discovered knives, 40 jawbones, the fetus and 30 leg or arm bones at the site, the office said. It was not yet clear whether the fetus was human, the spokeswoman said.
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I could see Hillary as the incarnation of the Aztec god of Bitchiness and Ill Humor
Speaking of skulls, wouldn't a pyramid of skulls make a nice addition to the White House lawn? When the Media go berserk, we can say it's for Halloween.
[BREITBART] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... snubbed President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... when issuing a congratulatory statement on Sunday upon news that U.S. forces had killed ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"I congratulate our special forces, our intelligence community, and all our brave military professionals on delivering justice to the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," the former vice president said shortly after the White House announced it had successfully killed the ISIS leader during an overnight raid in Syria. "It is thanks to their courage and relentless determination to carry out their mission that ISIS has suffered a vital loss."
Biden, in his short statement, followed the trend of other presidential candidates, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (D-VT) and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro, by not once mentioning Trump. The snub came despite the fact that Trump gave the order to go after al-Baghdadi, who led ISIS since 2014 and was responsible for most of the group’s terrorist activities in the past few years.
[Libya Observer] US Africa Command Director of Public Affairs Colonel Chris Karns said four Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s this year had killed 25% of the ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... forces of Evil remaining in Libya, "where ISIS forces had been gathering in camps and recruiting new fighters."
In an interview with Voice of America, Karns said the US wanted to make sure that threat did not grow, adding that the US would continue to monitor the situation to prevent Libya from becoming a safe haven for terrorists.
"Since US forces were relocated in April, we’ve continued to watch and monitor the situation in Libya. Our concern was that with the civil war, these terrorist groups, in particular ISIS, would look to leverage this opportunity to grow, to recruit, to train and create additional chaos in a situation that is already chaotic." Karns explained.
He indicated that when the opportunity presented itself ‐ and this was through careful observation by US forces ‐ there were instances where US forces saw a regeneration of the ISIS capability as they were gathering in camps, where they were doing some of the basic training and starting to do some of the recruiting.
"So we wanted to make sure that threat did not grow. And consequently, airstrikes were conducted. Four this year." He remarked.
The Colonel that ISIS murderous Moslems' number is under 150 as 43 ISIS fighters have been taken out of Libya permanently.
"We will look to continue to monitor the situation, and we just do not want Libya to become a laboratory for ISIS to feel that they have safe haven and take advantage of a difficult situation." He explained.
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Four Iraqi parliamentarians resign in anger at the government’s perceived failure to respond to mass protests, piling more pressure on embattled Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.https://t.co/NdoBspO7d7pic.twitter.com/6zKSOo4E7m
[Jpost] A nighttime raid. Helicopters. Special forces. A high-value terrorist target. Concerns about identifying him. All this would have been on the list of challenges facing the Bin Laden raid planners in 2011. On Sunday morning, it was another group of Americans hunting ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which had to go through the same complex set of obstacles to kill the bearded bully boy hiding out in Idlib province near the Ottoman Turkish border.
The raid began just after midnight when locals in towns near Barisha, just a few kilometers from the Ottoman Turkish border, reported hearing helicopters. Drones were already in the air from just before midnight. Newsweek says that US President Donald Trump
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Lots of dumb questions. The US got the intel on the guy and acted on it. Disinformation helps. Read Sun Tzu again. And al Baghdadi is still dead.
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In my opinion, these are questions the answers to which are best left to the public imagination. How who knew what and what placed whom where ?
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When you don't know why actions are taken, they can seem "erratic". Only an idiot decides they know everything and thus "erratic" represents the other guys stupidity.
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Or was everyone in the dark? How could US helicopters operate so close to Turkey’s border and not trigger Ottoman Turkish air defense, unless Turkey was in the loop? Did the helicopters fly from Incirlik or from another base?
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ President Donald Trump’s low-profile appearance Sunday night at Game 5 of the World Series came at a high-profile moment of his presidency. Yet he still drew loud boos and jeers when introduced to the crowd.
Wearing a dark suit and a tie, Trump arrived at Nationals Park just before the first pitch of the Houston Astros-Washington Nationals matchup. Hours earlier, he had announced that U.S. forces had assaulted the hiding place of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in the raid in northeast Syria.
A military success against a most-wanted enemy of the U.S. and its allies could have provided the president a rare moment of bipartisan comity, especially amid a divisive impeachment inquiry.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump entered a lower-tier box to the left of home plate as the game got underweay. At that point his presence wasn’t formally announced, but baseball fans in the section just below Trump’s suite turned to look toward the box as he arrived. Some waved at the president as he smiled and gave a thumbs-up.
At the end of the third inning, ballpark video screens carried a salute to U.S. service members that drew cheers throughout the stadium. When the video cut to Trump and his entourage and the loudspeakers announced the Trumps, cheers abruptly turned into a torrent of boos and heckling. Chants of "Lock him up!" broke out in some sections.
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F--- these people.
I have nothing but contempt for those who would politicize the World Seies and openly disrespect the nation's president when he Honors this national event with his presence.
Landslide 2020 = the best revenge. Get out the vote next November.
[Politico! - I KNOW!] Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after facing allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional campaign, according to two Democratic sources.
"It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community and our country," Hill wrote in a letter announcing the news after it was first reported by POLITICO.
"This is what needs to happen so that the good people who supported me will no longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives who seem to happily provide a platform to a monster who is driving a smear campaign built around cyber exploitation," she added. "I will, however be represented in my future career by my Attorney, Mike Avenatti, for marital advice and 'yoga' videos"
Hill did not specify a date in her letter but multiple people with knowledge of her plans said she could step aside as soon as Nov. 1.
Hill was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of an improper sexual relationship with a male congressional staffer, a claim she denied. Hill admitted to and apologized for an "inappropriate" relationship with a female campaign staffer earlier this week.
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And on your way out, go over to SCOTUS and APOLOGIZE to the fine and totally innocent man you and your creepy colleagues slandered last year, you disgusting POS.
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It has been opined that another shoe was to drop that would make the sex stuff her least problem. I just love all these voters - of either party - who send crooks and creeps to DC.
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^ Drug Dealer?
Or is this POS also in on the Dems' grand mindf--- whereby every one of their hysterical accusations against Trump, his campaign or his appointees turns out to be an actual crime that his opponents have committed?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algeria’s election authority has registered 22 candidates for a December presidential election, including two former prime ministers under former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... , the official APS agency reported on Sunday.
Former premiers Ali Benflis and Abdelmadjid Tebboune had submitted their candidacies for the December 12 vote before the deadline for nominations passed on Saturday.
Both are considered front-runners in an election which however is opposed by the mass protest movement that alongside the army forced Bouteflika to resign in April
Activists are demanding sweeping reforms before any vote takes place, and say Bouteflika-era figures still in power must not use the presidential poll as an opportunity to appoint his successor.
Polls originally planned for July 4 were postponed due to a lack of viable candidates. Observers are predicting a weak turnout in December.
Benflis, 75, served as premier under Bouteflika from 2000 to 2003.
After his dismissal, Benflis ran as Bouteflika’s main opponent in 2004 and 2014, coming a distant second both times as the president was re-elected with over 80 percent of the vote.
Tebboune, 73, was a senior civil servant before serving as a minister from the 1990s.
After Bouteflika assumed the presidency in 1999, Tebboune was minister of communication, obtaining further portfolios in 2002.
Bouteflika appointed him prime minister in May 2017 before sacking him less than three months later against a backdrop of factional fighting in government.
Other Bouteflika-era stalwarts are also running, including Azzedine Mihoubi, leader of the Democratic National Rally party (RND) which was the main ally of the former president’s party, and Islamist former tourism minister Abdelkader Bengrina.
[RUDAW.NET] Russian women who were held in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria as Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) supporters have recorded emotional appeals to President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... to help them return home.
The audio recordings released by RBK news website late Saturday were provided by Chechen rights ombudswoman Kheda Saratova, who has been involved in repatriating ISIS widows and children. It was not clear when they were made.
The women referred to two different camps holding alleged IS family members ‐ al-Hol in northeastern Syria and Ain Issa near the Ottoman Turkish border.
Thousands of Russians joined ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq. Russia has repatriated some of the women and kiddies.
"My request is to help me return home. I don’t want to go back to the ISIS," says one woman, who gives her name as Yulia Kryukova from the city of Saint Petersburg, her voice breaking as she starts crying.
"I appeal to President Vladimir Putin, Kheda Saratova and Natalya Moskalkova," she says, misnaming Russia's rights ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova.
She says she fears she could be beaten up by other women in the al-Hol camp who still support ISIS.
"They are very aggressive, they set fire to tents and beat up people, I don’t know what to do."
Saratova told RBK that the women’s relatives had been in contact with her. She said the women had all travelled to Syria to live with ISIS fighter husbands who were later killed.
In the final recording, a woman, who does not give her name, says she and other women have fled their camp and are on the road to Tal Abyad five kilometers (3 miles) away.
Since Kurdish fighters withdrew, Tal Abyad is under the control of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and its Syrian proxies.
Saratova told RBK that the women in the recordings eventually fled their camps and reached a Ottoman Turkish-controlled area where the military helped them.
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Ok, consistent with the notion of Christian redemption for the truly penitent, put Yulia in a nunnery with no access to any digital communication with the outside world and have her spend the next 20 years caring for and feeding Russian orphans, who are severely neglected by Russian society.
All the while, meditating on her misspent youth, and thinking in her sins.
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I think only those women ought to be allowed to return who would convert to christianity. Like Lex said, they should be bound by law to live a life of penitence - a sort of life sentence of service.
And the ones creating a ruckus over there should be shot. They can say they were trying to kill guards.
[Libya Observer] Tawergha General Hospital said on Friday it had received more than 150 new patients suffering from leishmaniasis, pointing out that the number of leishmaniasis cases in the city has exceeded 950 people.
For his part, Mayor of Tawergha, Abdul Rahman Al-Shakshak said in a press statement that the National Center for Disease Control had provided Tawergha Hospital with vaccines that are hardly sufficient to address the cases until the end of this month, calling on the Presidential Council to take a serious stand and concrete steps in order to curb the spread of leishmaniasis in the city.
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[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... on Sunday announced that Islamabad has denied New Delhi's request for use of airspace for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Indian government had sought Pakistain's permission to use the country's airspace on October 28 for the Indian premier who will be visiting 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... to participate in an international business conference on October 29.
According to Radio Pakistain, the foreign minister in a statement said that the decision has been taken in "context of today's Black Day and in view of the continued gross human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ".
Corrupt Black Caucus POS (BIRM). Next up? Maxine?
[10 News] Former Rep. John Conyers, a longtime Michigan Democrat who represented parts of Detroit for more than 50 years before his resignation in 2017, died Sunday, his son, John Conyers III, told CNN.
John James Conyers, Jr. was born in Highland Park, Michigan on May 16, 1929.
He graduated from Detroit's Northwestern High School, served in the Korean War and went on to law school.
He initially turned down a job in the office of longtime Congressman John Dingell, but then realized his mistake and pleaded for a second chance.
"He listened to me go through all this and put his arm around me and said let's go down to Sanders and have a milk shake and that started me off working in his office," Conyers remembered.
Conyers became active in the civil rights movement before making his own first bid for Congress and picked up some powerful support.
"I was endorsed by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Central United Methodist Church," he remembered.
He often said he was flattered to be the only member of Congress endorsed by Dr. King.
Conyers held on to his seat even as district lines were redrawn. He held positions of leadership on powerful committees and was the only member of the Judiciary Committee to take part in the impeachment hearings of both Presidents Nixon and Clinton.
The congressman also played a major role in more than 100 pieces of key legislation, including the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In 1968, 4 days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Conyers introduced the original bill for a King holiday. He kept pushing, and 15 years later, it was signed into law.
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[Al Jazeera] Colombians are heading to the polls to elect regional politicians, provincial governors and mayors nationwide after several months of violence and threats against candidates.
Sunday's elections will be the first at the regional and local level since the signing of the controversial peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) in 2016, which ended a bloody 52-year long conflict.
"This is the first local election after the peace agreement, so it's very important for peace-building, especially in the most peripheral territories," said Yann Basset, a political science professor at Rosario University.
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[LewRockwell.Com] In January of 2013, Tulsi Gabbard (then just 31 years of age) was being promoted as the next rising star of the Democratic Party. At the time, Representative Gabbard was everything the Democratic Party alleges to care about as a walking embodiment of cultural diversity. Gabbard was one of the first female combat veterans elected to Congress and a member of both a religious and ethnic minority (as the first Hindu and American Samoan ever to sit in Congress). Being from Hawaii, Gabbard is also an avid surfer and is active in both physical conditioning and martial arts training. As a young, fit, and socially dynamic progressive woman committed to public service and ending wasteful regime-change wars, she was showered with praise from party leaders as she was unanimously elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee:
"Congresswoman Gabbard’s story is an inspiration and her dedication to public service showcases the best of our party’s values." ~Former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
"She’s an emerging star." ~House Leader Nancy Pelosi
"I think she’s wonderful. She’s been in combat in a leadership role, and she knows how to lead. She deals well with men and women, young and old, Republican and Democrat. She’s got an extraordinary political talent." ~Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
So what changed? How and why did Tulsi go from DNC darling to Establishment enemy #1? (Well, maybe #2 behind Bernard Sanders). To understand the vitriol that Hillary Clinton and Establishment Democrats hold for Tulsi Gabbard, it’s imperative to put her trajectory in its historical context.
It was on the morning of February 28, 2016 that Tulsi Gabbard’s political life would forever change. I remember that day perfectly. It was a crisp, sunny winter morning in Kittery, Maine where I found myself drinking coffee at one of my favorite local cafes, when a headline buzzed across my phone:
[DAWN] United States President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... 's top negotiator for Afghanistan was in Kabul on Sunday to brief the Afghan president on peace efforts on his first trip back since Trump ended talks with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... aimed at ending America's longest war.
The visit by Zalmay Khalilzad comes after a flurry of low-key meetings that he has held, including with the Taliban this month in Pakistain.
"The aim of his visit is clear, to report to President Ghani on his recent visits and meetings in some countries regarding the Afghan grinding of the peace processor," an official in Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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... 's office said.
Talks with the Taliban on a plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban security guarantees were halted by Trump last month following the death of a US soldier and 11 other people in a Taliban kaboom in Kabul.
[Libya Observer] The front man for the Libyan Army Mohammed Gununu said Sunday that the Volcano of Rage Operation forces under the command of the Presidential Council's government captured eight fighters from Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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 forces on Khallatat frontline in southern 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... Gununu said the fighters were caught while trying to advance on positions had been seized by the Libyan Army for days.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Fat Tony demanded his rosco back. He didn't say please... the commander of Tripoli Airport frontline Abdelsalam Zubi said the Libyan Army seized vast areas in al-Tawaisha near the Tripoli International Airport.
The Libyan Army forces launched Sunday an attack on Haftar's forces on al-Tawaisha frontline in southern Tripoli in order to regain positions lost two weeks ago due to shortages of ammunition and supplies.
The Libyan Army forces started the attack after the reinforcement arrived, thus they seized areas in al-Tawaisha and al-Tughar around al-Sabea frontline, according to a source from Volcano of Rage Operation.
The source said the Libyan Air Force carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on al-Sabea and al-Tawaisha frontlines that helped the ground forces to advance, adding that Haftar's warplanes also raided the festivities' areas but made no advances on the frontlines.
[FRANCE24] Incumbent President Filipe Nyusi was declared the landslide winner in Mozambique's election this month, despite claims of widespread cheating, the electoral commission announced on Sunday.
Nyusi of the ruling Frelimo party scored 73 percent of the vote, ahead of Ossufo Momade of Renamo, the rebel group turned opposition party, with almost 22 percent, commission chairman Abdul Carimo told a press briefing.
Nyusi had been widely predicted to win, based on unofficial results from the October 15 vote, and Frelimo had already organised victory celebrations in the capital on Sunday.
"For this election, Frelimo worked hard and our candidate Filipe Nyusi worked hard to achieve these results," Frelimo member Veronica Macamo told AFP.
"All Mozambicans like him as a president," she added.
But last week Renamo urged the Mozambique people to reject the "massive electoral fraud" it claims took place during the polls.
It called for fresh elections, accusing the government of breaching a peace deal by using violence and intimidation on voting day.
Mozambican civil society and international observers have flagged numerous alleged attempts to stuff ballot boxes and chase away election monitors, as well as hundreds of thousands of so-called "ghost voters" on the electoral roll.
[Britbart] Host Jake Tapper asked, "What do you make of the president’s‐ he painted a very vivid picture of al Baghdadi dying a very cowardly death, which I don’t doubt for a second, a lot of these terrorists are cowards. It was very vivid. He talked about him crying and whining, detonating his vest, killing his three children while he did so. I don’t doubt it, they’re monsters, but is there any concern on your part because now there is a question what ISIS will do in response to this move, in response perhaps to the president’s rhetoric. Does that concern you at all in terms of galvanizing or motivating isis terrorists?" Feelings, Comfort levels, likes, dislikes, emotions...WTF? Sorry Jake, I'm completely 'Out of Schlitz.' Have been for several years now.
Thornberry replied, "It probably makes me a little uncomfortable to hear a president talking that way. Again Baghdadi was the inspirational leader for the ISIS network across the world from Africa to Southeast Asia. If you can take a little bit of the glamour off him and make him less inspirational, there is a value to that for all of these folks who are on their computers or in these networks looking to attack." Saying he died a cowardly death imparts glamour to it? Remember, this is a Texas Cong Pub saying this. In case you're wondering if anything will change with a GOP win next year.
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The people complaining about what Trump said are confused. To his jihadi followers, Baghdadi is a glorious martyr, nothing else. They aren't talking about him being pathetic and humiliated. I wouldn't be surprised if a jihadi could get killed for talking like that.
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It was very vivid. He talked about him crying and whining, detonating his vest...
Entirely believable. In those last few fleeting WTF moments, many have been heard screaming into their cellies. Generally doesn't bode well for the fellow on the other end either as I recall.
#5
Being from his district, I can tell you this: he was a mundane Amarillo lawyer without notable intellect or accomplishment, first elected as a place holder in deeply Republican district. Slowly rose to committee chair through seniority alone. Has chosen now to retire, thanks be; hope someone with a pulse will replace.
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Baghdadi was using his 3 kids as human shields so the troops wouldn't shoot at him. He blew himself and his children when a dog was sent take him down.
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Terror is about marketing and PR as much as racking up bodies. I believe Trump understands this in a way that whiny-ass bitches on both sides of the do not.
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Okay, I looked at the video of Thornberry. He makes me feel Uncomfortable! That said Muddy never made me feel uncomfortable. It’s must be his bald head and snake oil salesman look.
#15
This man sounds like every faggot fuck that stands by and lets things happen because he'd 'rather not piss off the aggressor'. Like the kind of people who teach 'retreat' first in fight class.
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... 's (JUI-F) leader Mufti Kifayatullah was taken into custody for 30 days under Section 3 (power to arrest and detain suspected persons) of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and shifted to Haripur jail, sources in police confirmed to DawnNewsTV on Sunday.
Sources said that Mufti Kifayatullah was taken into custody in early hours from Islamabad's E-11 area by Mansera police with the help of Islamabad police after Mansera deputy commissioner issued his arrest orders.
Earlier in the day, conflicting reports emerged regarding the arrest of Kifayatullah. Ameer of JUI-F Islamabad Abdul Majeed Hazarvi told DawnNewsTV that Kifayatullah was arrested on Sunday morning.
The spokesperson for JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... had also confirmed the arrest and said that Kifayatullah had been arrested under Section 3 (power to arrest and detain suspected persons) of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
According to Hazarvi, Kifayatullah was arrested at 4am near Masjid Tooba in Islamabad's E-11 area. He had been holed up staying at a hideout friend's apartment.
He added that the JUI-F leader has been shifted to Haripur Jail.
[CBSNEWS] Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... , a Democratic candidate for president, conceded that the U.S. special forces operation over the weekend that led to the death of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... founder and leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, represents a political victory for President Trump. But she stressed that she believes Mr. Trump's foreign policy ‐ which has veered from both traditional Republican and Democratic orthodoxy ‐ has been filled by consequential mistakes. "Get me a salad. And a fork comb!"
"Look, I have in the past, for instance, when the president made the decision to respond to Assad's use of sarin gas, I commended him for that decision," Klobuchar said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "But just because you make some decisions ‐ and you must as a commander in chief and you must make those decisions for the security of this country ‐ doesn't mean that his foreign policy overall has not been a disaster."
#2
Trump's economic policy is also a disaster despite record low unemployment numbers, big trade agreement resets that fix some long-standing problems, and manufacturers bringing production back home. All this winning, simply awful!
[DAWN] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) 'Azadi March', led by the faction's chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... , set out on Sunday afternoon from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Sohrab Goth area towards Islamabad.
Thousands of people, including seminary students, are participating in the march. In addition, convoys of political parties, including the PPP, the PML-N, the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) and others, joined the march.
Besides JUI-F leadership, PPP leaders Raza Rabbani, Saeed Ghani, PML-N leaders Mohammad Zubair, Nihal Hashmi, ANP's Shahi Syed and others, are onboard the leading container.
[Victory Girls] The Washington Post, in it's infinite wisdom, wrote a glowing obituary mourning the death of ISIS terrorist leader al-Baghdadi. Behold their headline:
"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48"
When I first saw that via Twitter I thought it was a joke, but quickly found out that it was indeed real. Upon reading this slavering piece of dreck, I had to laugh at how much pretzeling it took to carefully gloss over the fact that this guy was the leader of one of the worst terrorists groups this world has seen.
"When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing."
Oh sure, in the next paragraph they admit that his leadership spawned a group known for it's shocking brutality. However, as you read further, we find out that he was a messianic figure of some sort.
"And yet, despite the group's extremist views and vicious tactics, Mr. Baghdadi maintained a canny pragmatism as leader, melding a fractious mix of radical jihadists and former Iraqi Baathists and army officers into an effective military force. It was this combination of extremist ideology and practical military experience that enabled the group to seize and hold territory that would form the basis of a declared Islamic caliphate."
He built bridges between factions don't you know! What leadership! What intelligence! Super cool dude! He was very religious, very conservative, didn't like Western clothing, and as a college student was extremely critical of men and women dancing in the same room. But sure WaPo! Tell us again how his austerity and religious views meant he was reluctant to fight or kill?
And the reaction has already started. Trump was being MEAN when he described how al-Baghdadi died. He was heartless in his description of al-Baghdadi's running into the dead end tunnel and then blowing himself and three children up.
Sorry Dana, but I'm absolutely thrilled that a major terrorist leader is dead. I'm not alone in this either. Furthermore, we've celebrated the deaths of other terrorists in the past. Bin Laden's death is a prime example. People danced in the streets, New Yorkers wept in relief, and Americans all over the world took to social media to celebrate his ending.
First of all, those dogs are military K-9 soldiers. Heroes one and all. Secondly, the remaining terrorists in the region were just shown that our military doesn't mess around. Third, I disagreed then with giving Bin Laden a proper Muslim burial and disagree now. He was a terrorist and should've been treated as such. So no, Dana, I could care less about your hand-wringing over how al-Baghdadi died.
Back to the WaPo obituary. While writing this post, the WaPo changed their obituary headline for the THIRD time. Now he is the "extremist leader of Islamic State…"
It is indeed a major insult to Kayla's memory, to her parents, and to the other families such as the parents of James Foley. Speaking of whom, they are very glad this particular terrorist is dead.
The operation was named after Kayla Mueller. A fitting tribute to a young lady who died horribly at the direction of al-Baghdadi, an evil terrorist. A young lady whom the obituary only mentions in passing in favor of ‘be nice to dead terrorist guy!'
The Washington Post Compost should've written a piece about all those who this terrorist and his organization brutalized and murdered. But NOOOOO… instead they write an obituary. A fawning sniveling piece of dreck that celebrates and glorifies a serial rapist, criminal and terrorist.
For the Washington Compost – here's a suggestion for a new motto. Decency Dies In The Darkness
[Al Jazeera] An initial agreement between 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... 's southern separatists and the internationally backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, designed to end a power struggle in the country's south, would see the separatists included in a new cabinet, according to a draft of the deal obtained by Al Jazeera.
The Saudi-brokered deal includes arrangements for a system of power that involves both Hadi's government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC), whose forces have been at loggerheads in Aden for months.
The draft agreement, expected to be announced in the coming days, followed weeks of negotiations hosted by 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... Yemen's Information Minister Muammar Eryani said on Saturday that the agreement would be signed within two days.
[FOXNEWS] President Trump said Sunday morning that he did not tell House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... about the U.S. military raid in Syria that resulted in the death of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi because he was worried about leaks that could have compromised the mission.
Vice President Mike Pence said this was not an indication of a lack of trust. Riiiiiiggghht
When asked if he notified Pelosi beforehand, Trump said he did not because he did not want any members of the U.S. forces to die.
"No, I didn’t. I didn’t do that. I wanted to make sure this kept secret," Trump said. "I don’t want to have people lost." He knows they'd have thrown the troops' safety to the wind if it scored some cheap news and political points *spit*
Pelosi issued a statement after al-Baghdadi's death was announced, criticizing Trump for not informing leaders in Congress beforehand.
"The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified of in advance, and on the Administration’s overall strategy in the region," Pelosi said. "Our military and allies deserve strong, smart and strategic leadership from Washington."
Trump said that he did notify Russia beforehand that the U.S. would be active in the region, because Russia currently has a presence there. The president said he did not reveal the purpose of the mission.
Pence downplayed Trump’s decision to keep Pelosi in the dark in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" immediately following Trump’s address. The vice president claimed that Trump did not mean to say he did not trust the House Speaker.
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Are the Democratic House leaders secure, probably... but why risk it? Are their aides reliable... doubtful. Is the IT network that those charming Pakistani IT engineers worked on secure, doubtful ... why risk it?
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Congress can't be trusted. As a group, they are a very poor risk. Loose lips sink ships still applies. A briefing to a congressman in world war 2 had him blabbing about Japanese depth charges set to go off too shallow had the Japanese resetting the depth charge settings deeper.
10 subs and 800 sailors lost because of his big mouth. That's why, Nancy.
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This is surely a joke.
The Democratic Party + their administrative Deep State friends aren't leakers; they're a SIEVE.
Info they get passes directly to their pals - spouses, mistresses, f-buddies in some cases - at NYT WaPo CNN-MSNBC-ABC-CBS-NBC-Politico-Buzzfeed.
This isn't opinion or spin; this is fact.
Glenn Simpson said it all: "hack that I am."
Stop whining, bitches. Just admit it: you declared war on this president. Leaking is what you do by default. It's not even "leaking," as you see it; it's more like pissing. You e been pissing on this POTUS from before Day One of his presidency.
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This congress is all but one thing. A great big giant piece of shit.
Pearls to swine is out as an option with the dirty, nasty, filthy, democrats.
If you were not such leaches and shitty human beings, you could be part of the plan instead of the destructor of ANY plan.
So Fuck off Pelosi, you worthless government grifter from hell, and all your flying monkeys too., You have nothing at all to do with the survival of this Nation or it's preservation.
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After the Ukraine thing, I'd be surprised if he let them know if an alien invasion was coming. The House is clearly a separate, parallel govt for now; functioning through proxies trying to usurp elected executive power. A kangaroo council.
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These are people who think nothing of sending and storing classified info using private, unsecured email servers.
People whose spouses use those exact same servers to send naked photos of themselves to strangers -- to children, as well as to honeypot / entrapping women.
People who commission and pay Ukrainian and other foreign agents for outlandish lies and nonsense under the guise of "opposition research" about their rivals.
And you morons want us to trust you with details of special ops against terrorists?
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Makes me laugh that the Dems are complaining of how its unprecedented not to inform the gang of 8 (or whatever they are called) on this type of thing while simultaneously carrying out an unprecedented behind closed doors/not vote impeachment.
Act like a traitor don't be surprised when you are treated like a traitor. I just wish we treated modern traitors the way we once did, then i wouldn't be seeing Jane Fonda in the news these days.
[Libya Observer] The Director of the Ambulance Service Office of 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... International Airport, Abdul Majid al-Ferjani, was killed by shrapnel in an attack on Khallet al-Furjan area, by Haftar's forces.
"Haftar's forces continue to target medical teams through indiscriminate shelling in different areas of Tripoli," the Media Office of the Volcano of Rage Operation has said.
The UN mission in Libya has condemned the targeting of field hospitals, refusing the allegations that it had gave coordinates of field hospitals to Haftar's forces.
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Damn. I had Bee Lebanon
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Interesting in that most airports have car rentals, limo services: here you can get your very own meat wagon. wonder if they also offer Quincy Charters?
[The Hill] Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) admitted Friday that his stance toward China was wrong.
Gingrich told Hill.TV that like many conservatives at the time, he was initially in favor of the country joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, but argued that China gradually started playing by different rules that were "driven by fundamentally different beliefs than we thought they were."
"We thought getting them into a rules-based system would gradually permeate their culture and that’d be a big step in the right direction ‐ that was all wrong," Gingrich, who served as House Speaker in the 1990s, told Hill.TV. "The Chinese, in fact, decided to corrupt the WTO rather than be changed by it."
Gingrich said it was this realization on China’s approach to trade that served as the inspiration behind his new book, "Trump vs. China: America’s Greatest Challenge."
"I decided I really wanted to put together a book ‐ partly for myself ‐ but also because I thought it was useful to have somebody who had been part of the consensus on China to say, ’Wait a second, here’s what went wrong, here’s people like me to change their opinions and this is how big the challenge is going to be,' " he said.
The conservative figure also expressed confidence in Trump’s ability to reach a trade deal with China, predicting that the president will refocus his attention on the issue if re-elected.
"I have every confidence about the year two or three of his next term he’ll be right back at the Chinese again," he told Hill.TV.
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This is significant.
A member of the Uniparty admitting he was wr-...
uh, wro-.... [darnit! can't quite get the word out!]
EFFING WRONG about the central postulate of the 30+ year reign of foolish Globalism.
No, Virginia, there is no Democracy Fairy that will magically transform the world's oldest, proudly non-democratic, anti-Western cultures (Chinese, Persian, Russian) into Norman Rockwell pictures of New England town halls.
Clue: They don't want to be like us - except in the sense that we're very rich and very powerful.
Clue #2: wealth & power to them are part of a zero-sum game.
In their reading of the last 80 years, we gained at their expense. They now believe it's their turn to gain - at our expense.
They don't believe in "win-win." Doesn't translate into mandarin, Farsi or russkii.
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Sam Huntington told youze.
But ya didn't listen. How you tried to set them free...
How you suffered for your sanity..
They did not listen - they did not know how...
Perhaps they'll listen... now.... tra-la-la
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getting them into a rules-based system would gradually permeate their culture
The hubris inherent in this attitude is clearly amazing.
As far as term limits go, the one big down side is that it would increase the power of the bureaucrats as they'd be the only source of institutional memory.
I'm coming around to the idea that the first thing that needs to be done is a total revamp of the Civil Service system.
#9
They don't want to be like us. They sneer at our concepts of human rights. They guffaw at our stupid Hollywood movies. They have nothing but contempt for our identity politics.
History did not end in 1991. To the Chinese, Persians and Russians, it has never ended.
Their histories are long, as are their memories, and unlike us, they are not impatient people. "Winter will come."
#11
It's the typical embarrassing naivete only an academic can master and wield like a club. In that sense, Newt was just doing the same harm on the legislative side that people like Rice (Condi and Susan) and Samantha Powell did on the NatSec side. The only academics who have ever on balance done more good than harm in our government are Kissinger (almost a break even, could tilt either way) and George Kennan (more like this one please.)
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[DAILYSABAH] Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party doubled its votes in state elections in the eastern state of Thuringia on Sunday, while Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's conservatives suffered the worst results in their history.
The anti-immigrant, anti-Moslem AfD was projected to come in second with 23.8% of the vote, up from 10.6% in the last election, according to projections by public broadcaster ARD.
Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) could manage to win 22.5%, down 11 points from the last election, historically the worst result for the party in Thuringia.
The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) was projected to win 8.5%, down from 12.4% they had secured in the last election in the ex-communist state.
The socialist Left Party (Die Linke) came first in the state elections by securing a record 29.7% of votes, up from 28.2% in the last election in 2014.
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The leader of the AfD in Thuringia is a Nazi, not some "far right" politician.
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You mean Bjorn Höcke ? Hocke is only about excising the historic guilt over the Holocaust from German politics I think. What's more important is his anti-muslim stance. And since the more danger to jews in Germany is actually from muslim immigrants, he's not really wrong in that sense, is he ? Just as Merkel is neither democrat nor christian, I think Hocke is more of a nationalist centrist than a Nazi.
However, you'd know better. This is what I perceive from afar.
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.
[Newsweek] Back-to-back U.S. operations Saturday and Sunday have resulted in the deaths of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and spokesperson Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir in Syria, but the organization has already designated a successor, Newsweek has learned.
[Hot Air] Now that Rahm Emanuel doesn’t need to worry about running for reelection as the Mayor of Chicago or grooming any Clintons for the White House, he has time on his hands and the freedom to say things that may be unpopular in his own party. This weekend he took full advantage of his unfettered position with an op-ed in the Washington Post where he takes his party to task for their obsession with Medicare For All.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The largest banking lenders to the oil and gas sector are becoming more cautious, marking down their expectations for oil and gas prices that underpin loans in a move expected to put further financial stress on struggling producers, industry and banking sources said.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
Qardash, also known as Professor was also close to Abu Alaa al-Afri, 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
Yet another "doofus" to be concerned about. 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[IsraelTimes] Some information is emerging about how the United States might have been able to track Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
[Libya Observer] Tawergha General Hospital said on Friday it had received more than 150 new patients suffering from leishmaniasis, pointing out that the number of leishmaniasis cases in the city has exceeded 950 people.
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
In January of 2013, Tulsi Gabbard (then just 31 years of age) was being promoted as the next rising star of the Democratic Party. At the time, Representative Gabbard was everything the Democratic Party alleges to care about as a walking embodiment of cultural diversity. Gabbard was one of the first female combat veterans elected to Congress and a member of both a religious and ethnic minority (as the first Hindu and American Samoan ever to sit in Congress). Being from Hawaii, Gabbard is also an avid surfer and is active in both physical conditioning and martial arts training. As a young, fit, and socially dynamic progressive woman committed to public service and ending wasteful regime-change wars, she was showered with praise from party leaders as she was unanimously elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee:
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[Britbart] Host Jake Tapper asked, "What do you make of the president’s‐ he painted a very vivid picture of al Baghdadi dying a very cowardly death, which I don’t doubt for a second, a lot of these terrorists are cowards. It was very vivid. He talked about him crying and whining, detonating his vest, killing his three children while he did so. I don’t doubt it, they’re monsters, but is there any concern on your part because now there is a question what ISIS will do in response to this move, in response perhaps to the president’s rhetoric. Does that concern you at all in terms of galvanizing or motivating isis terrorists?"
...Deobandi holy man, known as 
[Victory Girls] The Washington Post, in it's infinite wisdom, wrote a glowing obituary mourning the death of ISIS terrorist leader al-Baghdadi. Behold their headline:
He was right about this. 
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
