[FreeBeacon] Women's March co-organizer Linda Sarsour encouraged those at a social justice rally in New York City Sunday to be ready to "put their lives on the line" for "the movement," according to footage of her speech seen by the Washington Free Beacon.
"I am willing to die for black people, for indigenous people. I am willing to die for Muslim people, I am willing to die for the most marginalized people in this country. I am not afraid. Prove it please.
The question is, are you ready to do that?" chanted Sarsour at the March for Racial Justice.
Sarsour also once again chanted her oft-repeated cry that "we will not be intimidated by right-wing Zionists,
Of course. You and your fellow travelers have been intimidating the still more numerous left wing Zionists into silence, a situation you don't find even slightly hypocritical or "racist".
by white supremacists, by racists."
In remarks that Zionist attendees said they believed were directed toward them, Sarsour said she "didn't feel safe" by elements in the crowd.
"If your approach is to shove your issue down our throats and center you then this not the movement for you. If your approach is to tell me there you have conditions to your participation, we don't want you in the movement," continued Sarsour. Say what?
Sarsour also made pointed remarks toward Zionist activists who participated in the march across the Brooklyn Bridge, which was organized to include those unable to attend a similar march in D.C. on Saturday, due to it being the Jewish high holiday fast of Yom Kippur. Continues.
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So, Johnny, keep your barrel bright,
And go where you are told to go,
And when you meet, by day or night,
Our friend the enemy, lay him low;
And you must neither boast nor quake,
Though big guns roar and whizz-bangs whizz—
Don’t die for your dear country’s sake,
But let the other chap die for his.
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland(1917)
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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"I am willing to die for black people, for indigenous people. I am willing to die for Muslim people, I am willing to die for the most marginalized people in this country. I am not afraid. "
Well Linda, good luck with that. If God is willing maybe we'll both get our wish
[Reuters] A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity surged to a near 13-1/2-year high in September as disruptions to the supply chains caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma resulted in factories taking longer to deliver goods and boosted raw material prices.
Still, details of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) survey on Monday underscored the economy’s underlying momentum, with factories reporting stronger order growth last month. A measure of factory employment hit its highest level since 2011.
"Much of the gain is presumably linked to the aftereffects of the hurricanes. Nonetheless, manufacturing growth is strong," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
ISM said its index of national factory activity surged to a reading of 60.8 last month, the highest reading since May 2004, from 58.8 in August. A reading above 50 in the ISM index indicates an expansion in manufacturing, which accounts for about 12 percent of the U.S. economy.
The ISM said Harvey and Irma had caused supply chain and pricing issues in the chemical products sector. There were also concerns about the disruptive impact of the storms on the food, beverage and tobacco products industries.
[Red State] In a blog post on his website, former Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly, shared his thoughts on last night’s tragedy in Las Vegas at the hands of a shooter.
"Once again, the big downside of American freedom is on gruesome display. A psychotic gunman in Las Vegas has committed the worst mass murder in U. S. history," O’Reilly wrote.
He’s not wrong. With the rights bestowed on American’s in the 2nd Amendment comes a certain risk and responsibility.
We have yet to learn full details, but the automatic gunfire coming from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel last night indicates that the shooter almost assuredly gained his weapons illegally or modified them illegally.
In that regard, O’Reilly states that those intent on killing "will find a way."
"This is the price of freedom. Violent nuts are allowed to roam free until they do damage, no matter how threatening they are."
He also gave little hope to the idea that much will change or advocates on both the anti-gun and pro-2A sides will become any less divided.
"If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter."
BRUCE LEE, The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
[Mercer] The NFL is now part of the progressive, predatory racial coalition. The goal: Get something from ordinary, innocent folks, who owe this pigment-driven coalition absolutely nothing.
[American Thinker] Within hours of a man carrying out a horrifyingly successful mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which the death toll as of this writing is almost sixty, Democrats are out in public demanding gun control legislation. As disgustingly cynical as this is, it is not in the least bit surprising. Many more will join the chorus in the coming days, while a complicit news media will keep the horror fresh to facilitate the Democrats' exploitation of sadness and pain.
Never wishing to appear to their neo-communist handlers as weaklings inclined to put humanity before politics, or willing to pre-empt the revolution out of respect for human suffering, progressive politicians at America's moment of "fundamental transformation" seem to want to look callous and inhuman, even as they claim to represent the interests of the suffering and downtrodden.
Rahm Emanuel's infamous cat-out-of-the-bag moment ‐ "never let a crisis go to waste" ‐ has quickly evolved from an awkward instance of progressive self-revelation into the proud mantra of the American left. Leftists are no longer even ashamed at the old accusation of "politicizing a tragedy." Tragedy ‐ the bigger, the better ‐ is the grease in their wheels. Politicizing hardship has always been their stock in trade, and now, through years of practice, they have trained to the public to regard this extreme cynicism as the norm, so that the accusation no longer carries any meaning.
Democratic congressman Seth Moulton, refusing to participate in the moment of silence for the Las Vegas victims on the House floor, tweets this perfect example of crisis exploitation: "Now is not a moment for silence; it's a time for action." Action, of course, means laws restricting individual liberty and property rights, in defiance of the U.S. Constitution.
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believe when the facts come in we'll find he's a hard core lefty and that his weapons were purchased or modified illegally. This proves existing laws don't work so more laws wouldn't help.
If ISIS is to be believed they claim him as one of their own. I imagine if they did help him it was in the manner of getting the weapons in which case another lefty pillar or two collapses.
The left must control the narrative now (as they did in Ferguson and other areas before the facts proved them wrong) or else.
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Democratic congressman Seth Moulton, refusing to participate in the moment of silence for the Las Vegas victims on the House floor, tweets this perfect example of crisis exploitation: "Now is not a moment for silence; it's a time for action."
I wonder of the Good Congressman felt that way when an Islamic terrorist knifed a bunch of college students. Or when an illegal returns to the country after being exported only to rape/kill again. Those are times for introspection and not rushing to conclusions.
[Breitbart] Twelve Floridians have been charged with running an alleged $20 million food stamp fraud scheme in one of the "largest" food stamp fraud crackdowns in history, according to the Justice Department.
Federal prosecutors told the Miami Herald that the 12 defendants who reportedly defrauded the federal government of $20 million were charged with food stamp fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The list of those charged include Mohammed Alobaisi, 37; Mohammad Alteen, 33; Joe Ann Baker, 56; Reynold Francois, 38; Omar Hajje, 43; Jalal Hajyousef, 42; Andy Javier Herrera, 24, and his father, Javier Herrera, 49; Ihab Hassouna, 44; Maria Jerdana, 36; Hasan Saleh, 59; and Yousef "Joe" Homedan Zahran, 60.
"In this instance, eight small convenience stores in South Florida committed a staggering amount of fraud in a relatively short amount of time," said Karen Citizen-Wilcox, special agent in charge, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Office of the Inspector General, in a press release.
Some of the defendants owned, operated, or worked at retailers who accepted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as payment. Others worked at unauthorized stores, but allegedly used point-of-sale terminals of authorized retailers to carry out the fraudulent transactions.
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#1 No photographs were made available. The names are not common in Counties Kerry, Galway, Clare, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo, if that helps.
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The election expert from the University of Oklahoma no longer helps state legislatures draw new district lines to maximize their partisan advantage.
He was still wearing those spurs back in 2011 when he provided data that helped Wisconsin Republicans enact a legislative redistricting plan aimed at maximizing their power for the foreseeable future.
But now he's reversed course and filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the practice is undemocratic.
The high court hears arguments Tuesday testing whether extreme partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. The case from Wisconsin has the potential to radically reorder politics in America.
[WashingtonPost] Ignore their advice to settle this "peacefully." The same goes for China. It seems both of them are up to their eyeballs in the Nork Nook program.
A state-owned Russian telecommunications firm has given North Korea a new Internet connection, potentially increasing Pyongyang's ability to stage cyberattacks and protect the embattled country's online infrastructure.
The new connection was first spotted by Internet analysts at Oracle Dyn, who noted that a new connection for North Koreans provided by the Russian firm TransTeleCom appeared in Internet routing databases about 5:38 p.m. Pyongyang time Sunday.
The new connection appears to supplement a connection run by China Unicom that has operated since 2010. With two connections, experts argue, North Korean Internet users could expect a higher international bandwidth capacity as well as a greater ability to withstand attacks.
"In practical terms, [having multiple connections] will allow additional resiliency if one of those connections were to be rendered inactive for any number of reasons," said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Oracle Dyn.
The new connection "will improve the resiliency of their network and increase their ability to conduct command and control over those activities," Bryce Boland, cybersecurity firm FireEye’s chief technology office for the Asia-Pacific region, told Reuters.
On Saturday, The Washington Post reportedthat a U.S. Cyber Command operation had targeted hackers at North Korea’s military spy agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau. The U.S. operation used what is known as a denial-of-service attack, choking off access to the Internet for North Korean users. It ended Saturday, shortly before North Korea's new Internet connection went online.
Martyn Williams, an expert on North Korean technology who first reported on the new connection at the website 38 North, wrote that "relying on one Internet provider has always left North Korea in a precarious situation." In 2014, after a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that was widely attributed to North Korea, the country suddenly lost its connection to the Internet in what many suspected was U.S. retaliation.
TransTeleCom is part of Russian Railways, a huge state-owned infrastructure and transport company formerly headed by Vladimir Yakunin, a U.S.-censured former KGB agent considered a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although Yakunin was reportedly ousted in 2015, the organization still has deep ties to the president, experts say.
"This means that the opening of the connection has Russian government backing behind it," said Andrei Soldatov, co-author of the book "The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries."
TransTeleCom did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for the company told the Financial Times that it has a long relationship with Pyongyang and has "historically had a backbone network interface with North Korea under an agreement with Korea Posts and Telecommunications Corp. struck in 2009."
Madory said it was not clear to him exactly how TransTeleCom built the infrastructure needed for the new network. If it needed to lay fiber optic lines, it would likely have taken "days or weeks," Madory said, though that installation time may have been shorter if there was existing infrastructure that could have been reused.
U.S. officials say that as China has increased economic pressure on North Korea in line with U.N. sanctions, Russian entrepreneurs have stepped into the gap, quietlyundermining sanctions with illicit trade and smuggling. In an email, Kent Boydston of the Peterson Institute for International Economics said it was unclear if the new network broke any sanctions.
"Telecommunications haven’t been specifically targeted by U.N. Security Council resolutions, although it’s hard to see how this wouldn’t violate UNSCR 2375’s proscription of joint ventures with the North Korean government," Boydston wrote, referring to the strict sanctions imposed in September by the United Nations.
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Whoops! I hit italic instead of yellow for my leading comment. Sorry.
Fixed at 10:10 a.m. ET, though it was bold, not italic. ;-) Also, anything to do with North Korea is filed on P. 3: Non-WoT unless Iran is involved, so I changed that, too.
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Be interesting to see the traffic on the new line.
No suggestion it is bonded with the Chinese pipe.
I often popped up dedicated circuits for real time video and data feeds of special events. Perhaps the Russians want to 'watch' some testing.
No doubt the Daily Beast thought Robertson's comments to be the humorous rant of an aging religious fanatic. A deeper, more compelling argument might find the "disrespect" for human life as the cause. Too obvious perhaps, but possibly at the root of Robertson's comments. Something to ponder.
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It's the reaping of the unending sowing of hate and envy by the ruling class who just got their butt handed to them in November. Welcome to Bleeding Kansas.
[Politico] The CIA has denied a request by the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee to let them view some of the same information about Russian meddling that the intelligence committee has already seen, according to the panel’s top Democrat.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had asked CIA Director Mike Pompeo last week for access to certain unspecified material related to their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election ‐ information that the Senate Intelligence Committee has already received, a sign that turf battles between the two panels may be heating up. Feinstein told reporters Monday evening, however, that she and Grassley were unsuccessful. The question of who actually runs this country finally answered.
[the Navy is not subject to posse comitatus. They have a adjunct men's department. Maybe someone from the WH needs to visit the offices with some of the boys and do some onsite correction of who is in charge.]
[Free Beacon] The Internal Revenue Service was involved in a $5 million push to pressure Americans to buy Obamacare coverage, according to documents obtained from the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Under former president Obama, the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House's Behavioral Sciences Team created a $5 million program to target and pressure those who refused Obamacare and either decided to pay a penalty instead or were exempt from being forced to purchase coverage.
"Attached are drafts of the letters that IRS will send to selected taxpayers who paid a penalty for failure to have coverage or who claimed an exemption from the coverage requirement for tax year 2015," said Janet McCubbin, director of individual taxation at the IRS. "As you know, we are planning to send several different versions of the letter to see which types of messages work best."
To craft and develop these letters, the IRS spent an estimated $5 million.
[Free Beacon] NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams said Monday that the motivations behind the June shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice are still unknown, and will never be known, despite widespread agreement that the targeting of the attack was political.
Williams was discussing Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas, and how the gunman's motivation for the attack may never be completely known. Williams then tried to tie the Las Vegas shooting investigation to the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.).
"It would not be unheard of if at the end of all this it remains a puzzle," Williams said. "For example, just the recent shooting at the congressional baseball game here outside Washington, D.C. that wounded Steve Scalise and you know, was a devastating attack on that institution; the authorities can never say for sure what drove the gunman in that case."
"His life was falling apart, he was experiencing financial problems, he was depressed. He came here, he said, hoping to talk to federal authorities in Washington about taxes, but why he targeted Republicans, what specifically he had in mind here, they have never answered that question," Williams said.
James T. Hodgkinson, who shot and wounded two U.S. Capitol Police officers in addition to Scalise, had been a vocal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) supporter. He had previously ranted on social media against President Donald Trump and Republicans, including Scalise specifically.
Karbala (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi army said late Sunday it had killed 21 suicide attackers from the Islamic State near the holy city of Karbala where Shia pilgrims marked a major, annual religious festival.
The militants were killed in an air and ground operation on the borders between Anbar province and the holy city of Karbala, where millions of Shia Muslims marked Ashura, the anniversary of the death of Imam al-Hussein, the grandson of Islam’s Prophet Mohamed.
The announcement was made in a press conference by Maj. Gen. Qais al-Mohammadawi, head of the Defense Ministry’s Central Euphrates Operations.
The “preemptive” operation was carried out by government forces backed by the Popular Mobilization, according to the military official.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led coalition jets have killed 100 Islamic State militants using vacuum bombs, an Iraqi army officer said describing the airstrike as ‘the strongest’ against the group in Anbar.
“The airstrike was carried out on the eve of a leaders meeting in a camp. Vacuum bombs were used,” Col. Majid Hamid told the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera network. “The airstrike left more than 100 militants killed and a weapon stash destroyed. The airstrike is the strongest in the province since the Iraqi army recaptured most of the cities in Anbar late 2015.”
“The U.S.-led Coalition shelled on midnight Sunday/Monday a huge IS camp, where tens of militants were gathering. Huge amount of weapons and explosions were inside the camp, located in Ramadi desert, located parallel to al-Tash region,” he added.
Ramadi was recaptured by government and tribal forces from IS in December 2015, however, several occasional attacks by the group have occurred since then.
The militant group invaded, last week, al-Tash and the 5th Kilometer regions, south and west of Ramadi. The militants reportedly took over al-Tash and al-Jamea (university) areas after invading them with 20 pickup trucks, however, troops were able to repulse the attack. 40 IS militants were killed, while three injured others were wounded, Brig. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson of Baghdad Operations said in a weekly press conference on Thursday.
Iraqi army announced the total recapture of the town of Annah, hours after recapturing neighboring Rayhana area, earlier this month. Troops also liberated Akashat region, between Rutba town, on borders with Jordan, and Qaim, on borders with Syria.
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Place your bet, dear Reader: was the culprit a member of the mosque creating a narrative or a native Swede objecting to being colonized?
[IsraelTimes] Swedish police say they arrested a man suspected of involvement in a fire that partly destroyed a mosque west of Stockholm.
Police say firefighters worked overnight to extinguish the fire that started Tuesday at 2 .a.m. local time in Orebro, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Stockholm. No one was injured in the blaze.
Mosque spokesman Jamal Lamhamdi tells local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda that it was “a sad day for Muslims in Orebro and in Sweden.”
Investigator Lars Bergman says the suspect, who is not identified, was arrested on suspicion of arson early Tuesday. He declines to comment on possible motives behind the fire.
Sweden has seen growing anti-migrant sentiment and an increase in xenophobic attacks as asylum-seekers flooded into the country in recent years. In January, a fire caused major damage at a mosque near Stockholm.
[Ynet] Satirical cartoon, which has in the past angered Muslims around the world, posted following decision museum not to include drawing in a new exhibition about blasphemy since the Reformation.
“It is the museum’s own choice and they have their full right to do it, but I think it’s a shame,” said Inger Stojberg, minister for immigration and integration, in her Facebook post.
The Facebook post is accompanied by a screen shot of the minister’s iPad background screen, which shows a cartoon of a bearded man with a bomb in his turban. Stojberg said in the post she uses the cartoon as her background screen because it reminds her that Denmark is a country with freedom of speech, which includes the right to criticize religions.
“Honestly, I think we should be proud of the Mohammad cartoons,” Stojberg said.
Three Danish embassies were attacked and at least 50 people were killed in rioting in 2006 in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, after drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, images many Muslims consider blasphemous, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
[Ynet] Spanish police say Belgian agents have arrested a Spaniard suspected of leading a cell that worked to recruit and indoctrinate members for the Islamic State group.
A National Police statement said the 26-year-old of Moroccan origin was arrested Wednesday in the city of Zaventem. It said he was the last part of a five-member Belgian-based cell and its chief provider of propaganda material, using his house and cafes for meetings.
Police said the group started in 2014. Three members, including the detainee's brother, were arrested by Spanish police over the past two years and one was arrested in Morocco.
It said the Spaniard maintained contact with IS combatants and tried twice to travel to conflict zones. He then concentrated the group's efforts in locating targets for attacks in Belgium.
[AlAhram] The EU unveiled plans Wednesday to take at least 50,000 refugees directly from Africa, the Middle East and Turkey to discourage migrant boats from making the risky Mediterranean crossing.
The European Commission said in a statement that it was "recommending a new EU resettlement scheme to bring at least 50,000 of the most vulnerable persons in need of international protection to Europe over the next two years."
[AnNahar] The EU released plans Wednesday to allow countries in the passport-free Schengen area to reintroduce border controls for security reasons for up to three years.
[Ynet] Norway's Immigration and Absorption Minister Sylvi Listhaug says the recent wave of terrorism in Europe made Europeans finally empathize with Israel.
"We are now experiencing the fear that you have been experiencing in Israel for decades, and many people now understand the situation in which you live," she said in an interview with Ynet held in the Foreign Ministry in Oslo, Norway. "European countries and their residents should now understand the situation in Israel better because of the terror attacks in Israel."
[Ynet] The mother of a French jihadi who joined the Islamic State group in Syria has been sentenced to two years in prison for sending money to her son. The mother, Nathalie Haddadi, vowed to appeal Thursday's sentence, saying "This is the trial of a mother for helping her son." She was charged with financing terrorism, according to interviews she gave before the sentencing. The sentence is longer than the prosecutor requested, but Haddadi was not taken into custody immediately.
She is accused of sending about 2,000 euros ($2,357) to her son, Belabbas Bounaga. Haddadi says he was vacationing in Malaysia and she was trying to help him. He ended up in Syria, joined the Islamic State group and is believed to have died.
[IsraelTimes] Unprecedented use of soldiers in capital since World War II follows deadly attacks in 2015 and with national terror threat level at 'serious'. The synagogue and the Israeli embassy have been under police protection since two deadly attacks in 2015. The latest deployment is not a response to any new threat, but rather aims to assist Copenhagen police strained by operations in other parts of the city. Police will continue to guard the Jewish museum and the school.
[TheLocal.dk] Less than a quarter of Danes oppose a ban on the burqa and niqab, according to a new survey. A majority of the population support banning the two types of Islamic veil in public, according to an opinion poll carried out by Epinion on behalf of broadcaster DR.
According to the poll, 62 percent said they support a full ban on wearing the burqa and niqab in public, while 23 percent said the veils should continue to be allowed.
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[MACON] Georgia's highest court has reversed the conviction of a man who was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on a disorderly conduct charge after he held up his middle finger and shouted at his pastor during a service.
The unanimous opinion issued Monday says David Justin Freeman's behavior amounts to speech protected by the First Amendment. But heaving him off the front steps isn't?
Pastor Jason Berry of 12Stone Church in Flowery Branch, 45 miles (72.42 kilometers) northeast of metro Atlanta, asked teachers to stand for recognition during a service in August 2014. The court's opinion says Freeman, a homeschooling father, stood and raised his middle finger in the air and then began yelling after the pastor finished his prayer.
A sheriff's deputy arrived and Freeman was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Berry testified at trial that Freeman's actions made him scared for his and his congregation's safety.
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They should have given him his beat down inside 'because those sitting near him feared for their safety'.
Reports from Parwan’s Seyagerd district indicate that on Monday the Afghan security forces were able to retake parts of Fandoqistan valley that collapsed to the Taliban on Thursday.
Sources from Seyagerd district told TOLOnews that air operations on Taliban strongholds have intensified and security forces have advanced.
Meanwhile, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the military operation will not only concentrate on Seyagerd’s Fandoqistan valley, but will also cover other areas in the district.
“Airstrikes were carried out today and yesterday (Monday and Sunday). Enough forces have been deployed in the area including national army, local police and special forces,” said Danish.
Fandoqistan is a wide valley with dozens of villages. The valley shares borders with Kabul’s Paghman, Stalif and Shakar Dara districts – which has raised concern as this could pose a serious threat to the security of Kabul city.
“Ghorband’s valleys are the most vulnerable places in terms of security in Parwan province. Now Taliban, from parts of Baghlan province and Pul-e-Khumri city, have entered Ghorband valleys,” MP Zakia Sangin said.
On Sunday a number of villagers in the valley told TOLOnews that security forces had not been actively fighting the Taliban. They also said some people from Parwan province were cooperating with the Taliban.
“It is better that government investigates the issue that such things (cooperation with Taliban) is true. If it is true, then again government will remain silent and that is why the country is facing a crisis,” MP Abdul Satar Khawasi said.
On Thursday the Taliban launched coordinated attacks on parts of Fandoqistan valley and took control of some areas.
Sources from the area said a number of security forces stationed in the valley left their check posts during the attack – instead of fighting the insurgents.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Indian officials are saying that a large scale attack planned for Jammu in Kashmire was foiled after a tunnel dug from Pakistain was discovered by the security forces.
The officials are saying that the tunnel having a length of 14 feet was discovered by the Border Security Force personnel in RS Pura sector in Jammu district.
A senior office of the Border Security Force told The Hindustan Times "Today (Saturday) BSF foiled another nefarious design of Pakistain to infiltrate terrorist groups through a tunnel from Arnia sector to cause havoc in the festival season."
The officer further added that the tunnel was 14-feet long and spacious enough for snuffies to crawl with arms and ammunition and enter Indian territory.
Another official from the intelligence sector has told the paper that "Some ultras or laboruers engaged were inside the tunnel, when BSF personnel detected it. The BSF jawans opened fire but they escaped back to Pakistain."
This comes as the situation remains tense along the international border line as the security forces of the two countries exchange fire sporadically.
Indian officials have long been criticizing Pakistain supporting the terrorist and Jihadi groups who have been staging attacks in India since a long time.
In the meantime, the officials are saying that the 14-feet tunnel was the fifth discovered by the security forces since 2012.
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My laundry room is close to 17 feet, I can almost see the end of it.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] An Istanbul court has ordered a ban on online sales, promotion and distribution of a book detailing the mass rape of 7-year-old boy, as well as the removal of related posts on social media, according to an Oct. 2 statement by the Ottoman Turkish Publishers Association.
An Istanbul court has ordered a ban on online sales, promotion and distribution of a book detailing the mass rape of 7-year-old boy, as well as the removal of related posts on social media, according to an Oct. 2 statement by the Ottoman Turkish Publishers Association. The order came after a complaint filed by the lawyer of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Celalettin Guvenc on Sept. 9, on claims that "Mahrem: Gizli Belgelerde Turkiye’nin Sirlari" (Confidential: The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Secrets Through Secret Documents), co-written by journalists Baris Terkoglu and Baris Pehlivan, "violates personal freedoms."The book, first published in April 2015 by Kirmizi Kedi Publications, covers the story of the raping of a boy in Erzurum in eastern Anatolia in 2007 and alleged efforts to cover up the crime, according to the statement.
No publication bans on the book have been issued, but the Istanbul court order banned sales, promotion and distribution of it. The association has protested the court ruling, saying that "banning the promotion and sales of a book effectively means banning a book and prevents readers from accessing the text.""It is a constitutional right to protect freedom of expression and publishing," it stated. "Protecting these freedoms is determining element of being a democratic society," it added.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Jubbaland forces, backed by Somali National Army (SNA) launched an attack against Al shabaab stronghold in Gedo region, southwest of Somalia on Monday.
Heavy confrontation broke out between the allied forces and Al shabaab at Qondhood, a small town located about 40Km away from Buurdhuubo district in Gedo region.
Local residents have confirmed the festivities, but the casualties had not been confirmed.
Jubbaland and Somali government troops began last week offensive aimed to recapture the remaining areas under the control of Al shabaab, according to the local authorities.
Al shabaab has been driven out of key areas in the region since 2012, but the Lions of Islam still continue to hold large swathes of territory in south and central Somalia.
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Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Local sources informed that unidentified warplanes carried out air strikes, on Monday, on the residential neighborhood in the city of Mayadin, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, Qasioun News reported.
The sources revealed that more than 60 air strikes were carried out on Mayadin city, in less than 3 hours, leaving several civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, Russian warplanes carried out another air strikes on the city of Mayadin, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in addition to conducting similar air strikes on Bolel Town.
In a related news, clashes broke out between the Islamic State militants and Syrian army forces, backed by Iranian militias, in the outskirts of Deir Ezzor Airbase, amid mutual rockets and missiles shelling.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least five copperswere maimed after a "terrorist bombing" in Bahrain’s capital Manama, a statement from the interior ministry read.
Bahrain’s interior ministry said the coppers were securing an area during the annual Ashoura processions on the Budaiya Highway near the village of al-Daih when the kaboom hit on Monday night.
"Necessary steps are being taken," the statement added.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A nude drawing that bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa may have been done by Leonardo da Vinci, experts have said.
Scientists at the Louvre in Gay Paree, where his masterpiece is held, have been examining a charcoal drawing known as the "Monna Vanna" which had been attributed to the Florentine master’s studio.
The large drawing has been held since 1862 in the huge collection of Renaissance art at the Conde Museum at the palace of Chantilly, north of the French capital.
Curators from the museum believe that after a month of tests at the Louvre the "drawing is at least in part" by Leonardo.
"The drawing has a quality in the way the face and hands are rendered that is truly remarkable. It is not a pale copy," curator Mathieu Deldicque said.
"We are looking at something which was worked on in parallel with the Mona Lisa at the end of Leonardo’s life," he added.
"It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting," he added, with the obvious inference being that it is closely connected to the Mona Lisa. The hands and body, Deldicque said, are almost identical to Leonardo’s inscrutable masterpiece. The drawing is almost the same size as the Mona Lisa, and small holes pierced around the figure point to the fact it may have been used to trace its form onto a canvas, he argued.
Louvre conservation expert Bruno Mottin confirmed that the drawing dates from Leonardo’s lifetime at the turn of the 15th century and that it was of a "very high quality."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Recent reports on the presence of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... ’s son, Hamza, has proven to be inaccurate, the front man for the northern front of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... confirmed to Al Arabiya.
Earlier in the day, several British media outlets ran stories suggesting Hamza, 28, was being hunted in a "kill or capture" mission by Joint Coalition Special Operations Unit which includes UK special forces.
Colonel Ahmed al-Hammadi told Al Arabiya that what was being raised on the subject at the present time was "nothing more than mere analyses and does not amount to information from facts on the ground".
The front man, however, did not rule out the potential role of the Iranian regime in the transfer of Hamza bin Laden, who has lived with his family for several years in Iran.
"There are terrorist groups and countries that facilitate the transfer and movement of forces of Evil to and from Syria," he said.
British tabloid Daily Mail published a report on Monday suggesting Hamza bin Laden was being hunted by SAS forces after intelligence suggested he has moved to Syria after being holed up in Pakistain for years after his father’s capture and death.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have managed to retake a region from Islamic State in Salahuddin and raise the Iraqi flag on the highest peak of a mountain there, news agencies reported on Monday.
“Al-Fatha region, northeast of Tikrit, has been liberated. The Iraqi flag has been raised on the highest peak of Hamreen mountains,” Wanas al-Jabbara, commander of the 88th brigade of the Tribal Mobilization Forces, was quoted saying. Troops reached its targets after killing four militants and seizing their militants.
“Liberation of al-Fatha will make declaration of Salahuddin as an IS-free province a matter of time. Troops deployed in the region will reinforce others coming toward Hawija,” he added.
Al-Fatha is considered a pivotal region as Tigris passes through it between Makhoul and Hamreen mountains. On its west bank, where IS still exists, Biji refineries and electricity generation stations are located.
Late September, Federal Police announced liberation of eastern Shirqat, after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command announced earlier the same month the launch of first phase of operations to liberate Hawija and western Shirqat.
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[HOTAIR] Opinion is divided this morning on Twitter among people who, unlike me, know more than the most basic basics about firearms. It’s not a matter of mere curiosity; as you (should) know, fully automatic weapons have been illegal in the U.S. for decades, which is why even mass shooters hellbent on murder unto death never use them. If Stephen Paddock used a machine gun, how on earth did he get it?
That’s a big “if” but listen to the shots in the clip below. The rate of fire is fantastically fast, way too much for a “one pull, one shot” semiautomatic. That’s an automatic, no? Unless the YouTube clip is fake, it sure sounds like an automatic weapon, with a pretty big magazine. It'll be interesting to see how he acquired it.
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It's Vegas!
Millionaires can buy anything.
A LV shop rents autos to tourists.
Sounded like an AK firing rate to me. There are some dependable 50 round drums available. Need more data.
M16 bolts and trigger groups are available to retrofit AR15s.
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Heck, maybe it came from Fast and Furious for all we know.
Given the 600s or so the shooter had to operate, and some 600 casualties, it had to be an automatic of some kind, assuming one in 10 rounds found a target.
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This shooting happened at night. By the looks of the bump fire video, it seems it should have been very obvious where the shooter was located. Yet I read somewhere it took the police over an hour to enter his hotel room. Am I missing something? Supposedly he was shooting for about ten or maybe 15 minutes. Something doesn't add up.
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Bump fire will empty a 30 round mag in about 2 seconds.
If you use steel ammo it will quickly jam due to melting schellac off the steel.
I looked into purchasing a full auto years ago, expensive and lengthily, not difficult. I think you could pick up a full auto Uzi for under $15K.
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Massive gambling debts yet he had a small arsenal of potentially expensive weapons.
I wouldn't be surprised if ISIS isn't telling the truth and they supplied him with weaponry or something. Hopefully they'll find a note to put things together.
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From Hot Air. "Two officials familiar with the investigation say authorities found at least 17 guns in the hotel room of the Las Vegas shooter.
Stephen Paddock also had two devices that are attached to the stocks of semiautomatic guns to allow fully automatic gunfire. The bump-stock devices have attracted scrutiny in recent years from authorities."
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Gorb, The dude was likely using cellular trail cameras or similar devices in the hallways and stairwells to alert him when the police approached...and allow him to direct his fire through the walls..to disrupt their assault. This is an advanced drug dealer tactic we have encountered for years...nothing new. He was a hunter and probably used cellular trail cams in the past. When someone can see you and directs aimed rifle fire in your direction it slows you down and eliminates the direct approach...until you eliminate his cameras and get a base of fire or HE set to suppress his fire...which is what I assume they did.
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If you got him trapped, and he had ceased fire to counter the siege, might as well take your time, do it as safe as possible. Could be traps galore.
I have not come across the splits between shooter damage and stampede damage. I am sure a stat (wo)man is on that and info not released.
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"Yet I read somewhere it took the police over an hour to enter his hotel room. Am I missing something? Supposedly he was shooting for about ten or maybe 15 minutes. Something doesn't add up."
I think the after action report on this will consider this a reasonable time line from outbreak to conclusion. If you figure it took 20 minutes to get the swat assembled, geared up and develop and communicate the action plan. If the trip up to 32 was with elevator or by stairwell, or some combination. If the plan involved both the knowns and the unknowns. How the shooter spent his time should be discernible after action. (disclaimer- I once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, but not recently.)
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The last time I wired a Simplex alarm system there was a sample call-out protocol template provided by the vendor. Maybe you've seen something like this, KS.
And it goes on and on until some human gets a message to send building security to verify. Local First Responders are likely to get notice of 'an event warning' but directed not to activate until a human verified 'incident' is reported.
I think the days of automatic sprinklers are over.
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The two windows fairly far apart in the suite makes me wonder about a second (or more) room occupant. Since the suite was at the end of the hall, there would be a stairway. Up one or two flights after leaving weapons in the suite, pop into an unrelated room and you are another guest to be evacuated. Paddock doesn't even know he is left behind until first hotel security arrives, gets shot by Paddock and it played out.
The number of weapons and forensics will tell the tail. The depth of planning and the June Vegas warning by ISIS plus the missing girlfriend.... too many threads?
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It was two adjoining rooms. the daily mail did a good piece on it.
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Dang Skid, post got gobbled up. Try again later, short answer is there is neat stuff out there and auto-sprinklers are going the way of the horse hair plaster.
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This seems pretty well planned, funded and executed for your basic "guy with gun goes nutso" scenario. Especially given that the shooter doesn't seem to have any military or even hunting experience.
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auto sprinklers are Building Code requirements
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If I had an auto-sprinkler kick on every time I overcooked a meal, I'd have a canoe in the basement. Top end hotel, I'd wager there is at least smoke, temperature, probably moisture (broken water pipe). I'd wager that is the procedure Skid, with maybe an alert to the front desk in case resident calls with a report.
A lot of hotel fires can be solved with a simple ABC extinguisher with fire fighters showing up to verify the fire is out.
If there are bang detectors, I could see how that would auto-dial police/SWAT, but here false alarms would be obnoxious and even dangerous, and even then this event would likely be outside set sensitivity (cued for single/semi handgun).
Auto-rolling fire every time someone had a good/bad night and lit up a cigar is also obnoxious and dangerous.
I would guess that the event alert was triggered before anyone had a good idea what was going on. Security en-route to investigate smoke alert when the radio starts blowing up.
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I don't mean to imply there isn't a suppression system, just that they would want to make sure it was necessary to activate it before unleashing a heap of water damage. I would guess the building has a on-hand supply of water, priority access to water mains, and various hook-up points for pumpers to continue a supply of water to the system if/when the on-site runs out. If a designer really wanted to get into it, a way of injecting foam into the suppression system.
One room smoke, go check it out. One room smoke heat check it and take an extinguisher just in case it was only someone ashing in the trash can but keep the radio handy. Two rooms smoke and heat, now that is a problem, so maybe get those rooms activated especially if operations can select individual rooms.
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"One does not simply put a bump stock on a rifle and start off by going seamlessly through drums of rounds."
Heck, with those things, sometimes you are lucky to get off 5.
Something still looks practiced.
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Sounded like 50 capacity. If the video is to be believed, multiple flawless feeds.
Even if I got that success rate from a drum, my shoulder would be smoked and I'm not in my 60s after a white collar career. Would it be unreasonable to think drugs and/or weapons bracing is involved here?
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#32 - I've been thinking that, I guess Hotel and his video will back/shoot that down. None of the "evidence" we hear jibes (with at least MY history observations/preconceptions/white privilege/tunnel vision) with a retired accountant with NO military (or shooting buddy's recollections)
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#32 Or an extra shooter.
As suggested in another thread...
If it was a detective story - he wouldn't be the perp, but the first victim.
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You'd think in a place like Vegas, at least one security camera would capture the muzzle flashes, which would tell us if there was more than one shooter.
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'Las Vegas also has a camera system like Cincinnati. Dozens of camera watch the Strip. Now, investigators are going through all of it, trying to figure out how this happened. '
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Well barrel gets hot so you need to change barrel or weapons. If tripods were set up, anyother reason presents itself. Also, if you stay in the same place, they can zero in I guess. I played OPFOR before so that's what I did. The echo changes in urban environment throwing everyone off.
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If you listen carefully to the audio on the clips, you'll notice that not only is the rate of fire low for a machine gun, but that it is somewhat irregular, likely an artifact of Paddock changing pressure of his shoulder and trigger finger to sustain the action of the bump stock. It is sort of reminiscent of a Ma Deuce with the head space and timing set incorrectly.
Pictures leaked from the crime scene show that he had bipods on some of the rifles. That would have helped him compensate for muzzle rise stemming the very long bursts he was shooting (NB, IMHO, and experienced shooter would have fired 3-6 round bursts, not the very long ones you hear on the videos, therefore a good possibility that he was self-trained).
Also, the shot is not as challenging as the press has been making it out to be. I went into Google Maps and measured the distances from the furthest window and it worked out to be ~500 ft to the stage and ~1,500 ft to the what I assume to be the concession stands at the rear of the concert venue. The furthest range is well within the effective range of the AR-pattern rifles he was using, especially if they were chambered for 7.62 NATO.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Brexit, the election of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , and the ascent of populist‐nationalist leaders to power in Hungary and Poland has prompted panic among liberals and democrats in Europe. The rise of populism narrative has even been fueled by recent elections in the Netherlands and Germany.
While Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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Uh, let's see...oh, right! Islam!
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democratic lawmaker Rep. Seth Moulton from Massachusetts said he would not be participating in the moment of silence on the House floor for the innocent Americans killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas Monday.
As previously reported, a crazed shooter slaughtered over 50 people Sunday night at a Las Vegas country western concert in a mass shooting. Another 400 people were injured. The Las Vegas shooter was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock from Mesquite, Nevada.
Instead of saying a prayer for the victims with the leaders of our country, the Dem lawmaker argued that Congress should instead be taking action on more gun control.
Moulton tweeted, “As after #Orlando, I will NOT be joining my colleagues in a moment of silence on the House Floor that just becomes an excuse for inaction.”
“Now is not a moment for silence; it’s a time for action.”
Moulton isn’t the only Democrat screaming about the NRA and more gun control.
Democrat Hillary Clinton wasted no time politicizing the terrorist attack and immediately went after the NRA in response to the mass shooting. Hillary tweeted, “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
“Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”
FOX News analyst Chris Stirewalt called Hillary Clinton a “blight on her party” who “won’t go away… Nothing will stop her.”
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Idiot. One minute of silence vs. weeks of PR recovery efforts to re-build your public image. When the enemy is shooting themselves in the foot, it's best to let them continue.
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The guy is a true Mass-hole. I found some errors on his wiki page, and wrote him so that he could correct them. I got a sarcastic response, topped off by the observation that I wasn't in his district and he didn't care.
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[FOXNEWS] CBS has parted ways with one of the company’s top lawyers after she said she is "not even sympathetic" to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because "country music fans often are Republican," when discussing the tragic mass shooting that occurred in Las Vegas late Sunday night.
"This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS. Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families," a CBS spokeswoman told Fox News.
Hayley Geftman-Gold, the network's now-former vice president and senior counsel, took to Facebook after a gunman shot up the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people and sending more than 520 others to hospitals.
"If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs [sic] will ever do the right thing," Geftman-Gold wrote in a now-deleted message that was first reported and captured by The Daily Caller.
Geftman-Gold continued: "I’m actually not even sympathetic bc [sic] country music fans often are Republican gun toters [sic]."
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"not even sympathetic" to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because "country music fans often are Republican,"
Perhaps Geftman-Gold had political beliefs similar to those of the wealthy shooter.
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That's what you get for allowing the mask to slip in public. Now she has time to contemplate why she didn't have the courage to do it herself with those beliefs.
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Hayley Nicole Lattman was married last evening to Ryan David Geftman at the Prince George Ballroom in New York. Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor officiated.
Why I'm not surprised? (40 years of dealing with Israeli leftists, that's why.)
[DAILYCALLER] The mayor claimed, "There are people at all municipalities literally starving, dehydrating. We have had our hospital try to go back to speed but then the electricity goes off and we have to do all the bacteria testing, which takes three to four days."
Rivera said, "But are people dying? I’ve been traveling around, I don’t see people dying. I spoke to the doctors, they say they saw 53 patients and they had a person who was septic, but nobody dying."
Cruz responded, "Dying is a continuum. If you don’t get fed for seven, eight days and you’re a child, you are dying. If you have 11 people like we took out of a nursing home, severely dehydrated, you are dying."
The Fox News news hound followed up after the video interview, stating, "More houses destroyed, not people killed‐the Mayor’s wrong about that."
"The death count was 16 a week ago. It remains 16 today. People are not dying. That does not mean that they have all the supplies they need. That does not mean that this power company, this corrupt inept power company should not be hounded," he added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent local leader of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has been killed in an ambush of the Afghan national defense and security forces in northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army in the East said the Taliban leader killed in the ambush has been identified as Qari Zabiullah.
The officials of the Silab Corps of the army said Qari Zabi was killed in the vicinity of Qarabagh area of Tagab district.
The officials further added that the security forces laid an ambush against Qari Zabi late on Sunday night that resulted into his killing.
According to the Silab Corps officials, no one else including the security personnel sustained any casualties during the ambush and clash.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups in Kapisa continue to destabilize the province amid rampant insurgency led by the Taliban in the key northern and eastern provinces.
The group assassinated the Ulema Council chief of the province earlier this month but the main suspect involved the killing was nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the Afghan intelligence forces days after the brutal attack.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Vanuatu hopes to evacuate all 11,000 people from its northern island of Ambae by Oct. 4, with a flotilla of boats ferrying people to nearby islands as a volcano spewing rock and ash into the air threatens to erupt, disaster officials said on Oct. 2.
Manaro Voui volcano, the South Pacific island nation's largest, was seen hurling steam and rocks into the air by New Zealand vulcanologist Brad Scott who flew over it on Sept. 30.
National Disaster Management Agency front man Michel Buleban said it was possible everyone would be off the island by Wednesday, but that would depend on the ships available.
A flotilla of small boats, barges and supply ships have ferried people off Ambae to the closest islands, Maewo, Pentecost and Espiritu Santo over the past few days.
"The evacuation of Ambae is expected to be completed over the coming days and our focus is on helping the government of Vanuatu meet the immediate needs of those who have been affected," New Zealand Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee said on Oct. 1.
New Zealand was airlifting tarpaulins, hygiene kits and generators to Vanuatu, while Australia was sending a Bay Class landing ship HMAS Choules, due to arrive by Oct. 4.
"There's a certain camlness about the evacuation, but there's a deep sadness behind it. They don't know what's ahead," said Red Thingyfront man Joe Cropp, who spoke by phone from a relief camp in Santo.
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Adding more heat to the planet, which will be included in the (man-made) global warming numbers.
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Actually, the smoke will work to cool the planet. Also, any lava that flows from the volcano will increase the size of the island so it will not sink due to global warming and rising sea levels. An inconvenience for those who are forced to evacuate but they'll return to a bigger island when the volcano settles down.
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Pretty obviously this is due to our SUV and Truck usage
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And think of the fund raising opportunities, perhaps I dare say...
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The magma released also heats the ocean, and not man-made CO2, resulting in Cat 5 hurricanes and typhoons. Acts of God must be frustrating the control freaks to no end--how to tax and regulate them must be exhausting especially when the playgrounds of the world's elites are being destroyed. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, oh, my!
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Not to bring facts to the hysterical argument about environmental legislation but a single volcanic eruption can belch more particulate, NOx, CO2, CO, SO2, etc, into the atmosphere than all of the cars, coal fired furnaces, power plants, steam engines, and baroque pits that have ever existed produced.
Volcanoes and the sun are the prime movers in our planets climate, not SUVs or lawnmowers.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Three people accused of sexually abusing a child at a Koran school dormitory in the eastern province of Agri are facing a criminal probe, following a school instructor’s complaint.
The case, which involves the alleged rape of a nine-year-old boy by a 17-year-old instructor, emerged after Mehmet Arslan, another instructor at the course, filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office in 2016.
One month after Arslan was stationed at the Imam Buhari Men’s Koran School in November 2016, he noticed bruises on the nine-year-old victim’s face and neck, Arslan said in his court testimony back on May 31.
The accused course instructor was "kissing and sitting [the victim] him in his lap," Arslan told the court, citing information he said he obtained from other students.
Before Arslan filed a complaint about the incident, the case was covered up by the dormitory authorities, which said the victim and the perpetrator were "just joking around."
"They said the [victim’s] family saw the bruises and came to school to make a scene," Arslan said.
"They told me the administration had sent the victim’s brother and sister back home, saying the children were just joking around by kissing, wrestling and falling down the stairs," he added.
Arslan, who also said he was unjustly fired from the facility after filing the complaint, said the perpetrator remained stationed at the school for 33 days after the complaint.
Prosecutors are now investigating three officials at the dormitory, with school head Faruk Baykal and two other instructors accusing Arslan of defamation.
The 17-year-old suspect is currently on trial on charges of "sexual assault of a minor" and "deprivation of personal freedom."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has called the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Monday "an act of pure evil" after a gunman opened fire, killing at least 50 people.
Trump added during his brief address on the situation that "the nation is joined together today in sadness, shock and grief".
The American president had earlier tweeted his "warmest condolences and sympathies" earlier Monday morning.
The gunman opened fire from inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Authorities say 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock killed himself after the shooting. Police have yet to determine a motive.
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The leftists at Youtube may have just removed the above video of who appears to be the Las Vegas shooter at an anti-Trump rally in August in Reno, Nevada. It had over a quarter of a million views before it was taken down. This is a screenshot from the video.
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For whatever reason, your video has been removed from YouTube HS8196.
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"This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams."
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From Hot Air this morning. "Two officials familiar with the investigation say authorities found at least 17 guns in the hotel room of the Las Vegas shooter.
Stephen Paddock also had two devices that are attached to the stocks of semiautomatic guns to allow fully automatic gunfire. The bump-stock devices have attracted scrutiny in recent years from authorities."
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He fired for 10 minutes. The police knew from what room he was firing pretty quickly due to the smoke alarm. Yet they didn't break into the room until 72 minutes after he started shooting. Why the delay?
My poorly educated guess, the shooter stopped firing (committed suicide) and the police apparently realized that. (How? I'm not sure, but there are ways.) So the urgency was no longer there. Checking for booby traps and all that takes time. Unlike the shooter, the police tend not to be suicidal if there's no urgency.
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Look at you Grom!
We'll know from the GSR at autopsy.
Possible associates did the deed, popped the financier then scampered up or down the adjoining stairway.
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Nimble, SWAT isn't like patrolling LVPD or visible presence officers on the Strip.
Some may have actually been on crowd control security for the concert.
When they get the alert recall they return to the team room and armory for gear, then redeploy.
Easy to lose 1/2 hour in each transit, more with the kickoff briefing.
Even with armor, weapons and breaching gear in the trunk, got to get to the car then to the assembly area.
Don't want to be walking around a free fire zone looking like a target.
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But one online timeline says this: "....officers asked permission to enter Paddock's room sooner [than 11.20pm] but were told to wait for SWAT teams." Where is Dirty Harry when you need him?
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They did the right thing.. The guy had cameras up looking down the hall. It's a tactical set up.
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Vegas SWAT should consider a drone to peek into the next high story attack. Maybe consider an armed drone just in case they do not like what they see.
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"I would like to take this opportunity to thank God for each of these people's lives. Thank you for keeping us protected and unbelievably unharmed. Thank you for the brave men and women who stayed behind to help when everyone was running terrified for their lives. Thank you to the man who pulled me over the fence when my boot was stuck. Thank you to the girls who grabbed me and ran with me when they saw I'd been separated from my husband and friends. Thank you to the friends that came and got me from my place of refuge even when the shooter was still active. Thank you for the man who was willing to pile us in his car and drive us to safety. Thank you for all the brave officers who responded to the scene after the terror took place, and for the paramedics who saved lives tonight. Thank you for the bravery and tactical skill of the Las Vegas Police who found the shooter quickly and took him down. Thank you for the nurses and doctors currently still working on the victims.
Above all thank you for my brave husband who used his own body to shield me and others from bullets as those next to us were shot. When we were separated and he realized he could no longer protect me he stayed behind to hold pressure on gunshot wounds and carry people to trucks for departure to hospitals.
He and all the other off duty officers, military personal, and anyone else in the venue and out who helped save a life tonight are the true heroes.
I already do and will continue to thank God he brought this man into my life. We made it. We are safe. We will walk away from this tragedy and live to die another day.
It pains me so much to see so many not as fortunate as us. If you get the chance today I urge you to thank an officer. I know I will hold mine a lot closer today and forever 💙 "
Aden – The Yemeni National Army announced on Sunday the death of a Houthi commander in the Taiz province south of Sana’a.
The 35th Armored Battalion tweeted that “Houthi commander Major Hamid al-Mudai was shot dead by the 35 Armored Battalion in the Salu district southeast of Taiz.”
Arab coalition fighters targeted military reinforcements belonging to the Houthi militia on their way to the coastal front, while 18 Houthi and Saleh militants were killed and eight wounded in a raid by the Arab coalition fighters in al-Hamili front, west Taiz Governorate, according to a military source.
Two members of the militia were killed and others were injured in an attack by the National Army on coupist sites south of Taiz.
Meanwhile, a field commander in the ranks of Houthi-Saleh militia was killed on Saturday in an ambush carried out by the Popular Resistance fighters in al-Soma’ah district of al-Bayda province.
The Resistance confirmed that militia supervisor, Abu Abed, was killed in the attack in al-Hazimieh.
Abu Abed was appointed by militia rebels instead of Abu Serag, the previous supervisor, who was killed too in the same district.
In addition, the Yemeni army announced Sunday that it has achieved significant progress in its battles against Houthi and Saleh militias in Khabb and al-Sha’af district north of the Yemeni province of al-Jawf.
Following the ongoing clashes since last Friday, Commander of the Sixth Military Region Colonel Mohammed Saleh Rasia said that the army forces of the First Brigade border guards were able to clear the camp of Ghreemil and areas of Ajashr and Ramle north of the directorate.
[Libya Herald] Three people, including a civilian, were killed in fighting last night in Tripoli’s Gurji district, west of the city centre, between the powerful Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade of Haithem Tajouri and the Nawasi Brigade.
The clashes occurred late last night after Tajouri sent in forces to Gurji’s Massara area to clear it of a Nawasi unit consiting of an extended local family, the Alwad Radiah, said to be in control of it.
Tajouri’s forces are reported to have succeeded.
As well as the civilian killed in the fighting, one on the leaders of the Alwad Radiah was also reported killed. The third person was unidentified.
The fighting was triggered by a move earlier in the evening by Nawasi to take over Tajouri’s headquarters on the corniche (Shara Al-Shatt), just opposite the TV station next to the foreign ministry buildings. There was no serious fighting, just shooting in the air, but Tajouri called in reinforcements and the corniche east of the Mahari Radisson Blu hotel was closed off. His forces were then dispatched to Gurji.
The pro-Islamist Nawasi brigade was at one point linked to Abdul Raouf Kara and his Rada brigades but the link was broken when, with the arrival of the Presidency Council in Tripoli last year, he supported it while the more radical Nawasi continued to support the crumbling Libya Dawn “government” of Khalifa Ghwell. It still does so, although like him, it is said to have now transferred its support to Baset Igtet.
It is claimed that it tried to move against Tajouri yesterday following the rumours that he was going to have discussions with Khalifa Hafter.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saada, the Yemeni governorate that is adjacent to the south of 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... , is home to the Houthis and Ansar Allah militias affiliated to Iran. We are not exaggerating when we say that Iran wants to be present on Saudi Arabia’s southern borders through them.
This presence poses serious threats not only to Saudi Arabia but also to any authority that rules Sanaa. The Houthis, who are Iran’s allies, fought five wars against the government forces during the presidential term of President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
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The Syrian army and allies managed on Monday to regain a number of strategic towns from the terrorist groups, controlling also several positions on the border with Jordan.
The Syrian Army further foiled a fierce terrorist attack attempt by ISIL terrorists on military positions at the surrounding of al-Soukhna town to the east of Palmyra city in Homs province.
Source: Al-Manar Website and SANA
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[NYTIMES] Thousands of civilians fleeing the Iraqi military’s push to evict the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... from its last major urban stronghold in Iraq now include hundreds of suspected fighters for the Lion of Islam group, dirty and disheveled, who arrive at checkpoints claiming innocence and begging for mercy.
While civilians from the stronghold, the city of Hawija, have sought safety in Kirkuk and elsewhere in Iraq’s Kurdish region, this past weekend was the first time they came in large numbers with men of fighting age.
According to Iraqi Kurdish officials in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... 90 percent of these men are suspected of having been Islamic State fighters ‐ including some who may have committed beheadings and other atrocities ‐ and they are being aggressively interrogated.
Iraqi Kurdish officials were taking no chances on Sunday as they prepared one suspected fighter in a small office as his wife and four children squatted on the dirt outside.
A lieutenant in the Asayish, the Iraqi Kurdish region’s intelligence service, put one hand on his holstered pistol and pointed with the other hand at a spot on the tiled floor. The prisoner understood and knelt on that spot, as an Asayish corporal tied the man’s hands behind his back with a scarf.
"It doesn’t matter what you do, I’m not going to spy for you," said the man, Salah Hassan, 32, who described himself as a former construction worker.
"We don’t care about that," the lieutenant said. "Just tell the truth."
"Yes, tell them you’re ISIS," the corporal said, brandishing a pipe in the prisoner’s face. "Don’t lie."
Mr. Hassan hung his head and admitted it, then looked up. "I was only a cook."
The lieutenant laughed good-naturedly. "Tens of them tell me they were cooks," he said. "They had so many cooks, you’d think all they did was eat."
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Let's make a deal. If you can cook me a great meal I will let you go. If you can't, I shoot you between the eyes.
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And I am a little suburban housewife and former soccer mom... with a carefully chosen recipe collection suitable for a variety of occasions and dietary requirements. I could describe myself as a cook, too, if the term is interestingly defined, as one does when practicing kitman.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The U.S.-led coalition said on Oct. 2 that a service member was killed and another was maimed the previous day in Iraq when an kaboom from a bobby-trapped device struck their vehicle.
According to the statement from the coalition, further details would be released once next of kin are notified.
So far, seven American servicemen have been killed in Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), including two in the battle to retake the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Additionally, a French paratrooper was killed in the fight against ISIS last month, though officials did not specify if the individual died in Iraq or Syria.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in August that more than 1,200 Iraqi forces were killed in the battle for Mosul and more than 6,000 were maimed.
In July, Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, declared victory against IS in Mosul. The following month, the Iraqi military retook the IS-held town of Tal Afar.
Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, are now fighting to retake the ISIS-held town of Hawija, 240 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Hawija is one of the last pockets of ISIS-held territory in Iraq. Iraqi forces are also fighting the forces of Evil in the western province of Anbar where IS launched a counterattack against Iraqi forces holding the historic provincial capital of Ramadi last week. The city had been declared "fully liberated" from the group in Feb. 2016.
The U.S. launched military operations against IS in August 2014. IS fighters began growing in power in Iraq in early 2014 in the country’s west and in the summer of 2014 swept across much of the country’s north, capturing a third of Iraq’s territory.
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A group named Call to Action on Puerto Rico, which is a union of Puerto Ricans living in the mainland United States, organized the demonstration and ordered its participants to adopt "rebellious and militant" behavior for the event, according to Caribbean Business. The protests descended on San Juan’s iconic Roberto Clemente Coliseum and demanded the US government halt its plan to create a federal financial control board for Puerto Rico.
Predictably, the protest quickly turned into a riot: local media reports at the time indicated it was marked by "aggressive" behavior and ended in fights.
In September of 2016, Cruz admitted that she and the San Juan People’s Assembly had financed the violent protest to the tune of $20,000, according to Tu Noticia Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican public officials and media alike were furious at the revelation.
Senator Itzamar Pena Ramirez denounced Mayor Cruz for misusing public funds and demanded she started respecting taxpayer money. Moreover, local San Juan television could hardly believe the city’s chief elected official had the audacity to spend her constituents’ money on violent protests:
At least two policemen were killed in a roadside mine blast in southern Zabul province on Monday morning, local officials confirmed.
In addition, another policeman was wounded.
The blast took place in Kharan area of the provincial capital, Qalat, when the vehicle the policemen were driving in hit an IED, a police security official, Gelani Khan Farahi, said.
However, he did not provide further details.
No group including the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the blast yet.
[ForeignPolicy] Imagine if a foreign country launched a nuclear attack on the continental United States and the Pentagon had only six minutes to respond. That’s the potential of a new generation of weapons on the horizon, according to a recent Rand Corp. report.
Rand is urging the United States, China, and Russia to form an agreement on how to handle hypersonic missiles, which travel at more than five thousand kilometers per hour (about 3,100 mph). Hypersonic weapons are more than five times faster than a regular cruise missile and would not be detected by U.S. air defense systems as early as ballistic missiles.
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The broad term "hypersonic missiles" actually refers to two distinct weapons: hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles. The former is propelled throughout its flight by a specialized "scramjet" engine, while its glider counterparts are propelled at the start by a rocket but glide dexterously using aerodynamic forces in flight. That maneuverability means gliders can conceal their eventual target until seconds before they hit.
Yet the very complexity of the technologies needed to develop a usable hypersonic missile could on its own limit the spread of such weapons, according to Werner Dahm, a former chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and the founding director of the Security and Defense Systems Initiative at Arizona State University. "Hypersonic missiles are not transformative in the way that nuclear weapons were in the late 1940s," he wrote to Foreign Policy. "Instead, the warfighting capabilities they can provide are best viewed as part of the natural evolution of missile technology. As such, the existing [Missile Technology Control Regime] or additions to it may be sufficient to support efforts at limiting access to those technologies."
The United States, in the meantime, is making progress on its own hypersonic technology, and not just in missiles. A suspected "demonstrator vehicle" related to Lockheed Martin Corp.’s hypersonic activities was sighted in July flying into the U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., according to an Aerospace Daily & Defense Report story on Wednesday.
Lockheed did not comment on the sighting in that report, but Orlando Carvalho, its executive vice president of aeronautics, speaking at an exhibition in Texas, gave a clear picture of the future. "The United States is on the verge of a hypersonics revolution," he said.
[RADIOSHABELLE] A policeman rubbed out on Monday the chief of security at an airport in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region and also his bodyguard, police said.
The assailant’s motive for killing Colonel Abdisalan Sanyare Owke and his bodyguard at the airport in Galkayo, a city in Puntland, was not immediately clear.
Police detained the assailant and have begun an investigation of the incident, said Mohammed Jama, another police officer working at the airport.
Somalia has been mired in conflict since 1991, but Puntland has been spared most of the violence. It has a dispute with the neighbouring semi-autonomous region of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... that has in the past resulted in fighting.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the Lion of Islam group that aims to topple Somalia’s Western-backed government and impose its strict version of Islam on the Horn of Africa state, has become more active in Puntland after being pushed out of its stronghold further south by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeepers and the Somali army, officials say.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has been killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces with unmanned aerial vehicles on Sunday.
The statement further added that two ISIS members were killed in the Arclight airstrike carried out in Achin district.
According to the provincial government, a key member of the terror group identified as Qari Zahid was among those killed.
This comes as operations are underway for the elimination of the ISIS and krazed killer of the other groups in Nangarhar province.
At least four people including two Paks have been tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on charges of supplying weapons and ammunition to the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups in this province on Saturday.
The provincial government in a statement said Sunday that the men were arrested during an operation from Momand Dara district and as the suspects were attempting to smuggle eight rounds of rocket launcher missiles placed in a vehicle.
Two of the detained Lions of Islam have confessed that they belong to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... of Pakistain while the two others are residents of Momand Dara district, the statement said.
The provincial government also added that the detained individuals have also confessed that they were attempting to transport the weapons to the krazed killer groups.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has followed more than six fleeing families, killed two civilians and arrested the rest in western Anbar, a security source from the province said.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Monday, the source said, “IS followed more than six families in the desert of Qaim, killed two youths and arrested the rest before they reached security troops.”
The militants, according to the source, “take the arrested youth to unknown place and hang their bodies in al-Dawar region, near borders between Iraq and Syria from the Syrian side, and write ‘this is for the apostates.”
Earlier on the day, Emad al-Dulaimi, mayor of the city of Rutba, west of Ramadi, said in press remarks that 50 families fled the towns of Rawa and Qaim towards areas held by security forces and that they were going to be transferred to more secure areas.
Anbar’s western towns of Qaim and Rawa have been held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic “Caliphate”. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them in 2015 and 2016.
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops ran into a mass grave of army and police conscripts who were executed by Islamic State in south of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) issued on Monday said, “the fourth brigade of PMUs and Federal Police found a mass grave containing the relics of police and army conscripts at the liberated village of al-Therban.”
PMUs and Federal Police troops managed to free the village, along with others, on Monday.
Earlier on the day, Lt.Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of the Hawija Operations, announced launching wide-scale military operations to free al-Rashad region, as part of the second phase of operations to liberate Hawija.
The Iraqi joint troops announced on Sunday retaking 28 villages near Hawija.
On Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command announced beginning of the second phase of Hawija offensive.
According to Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell, 557 IS militants were killed, while more than 100 villages and regions were liberated during the first phase, which launched on September 24th.
Hawija and other neighboring regions, west of Kirkuk, have been held by IS since mid-2014, when the group emerged to proclaim an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.
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Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces recaptured on Monday a strategic area on their way to retake Islamic State bastion Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, paramilitary commanders reported.
Hadi al-Ameri, a high-profile commander within the Popular Mobilization Forces, said the force, backing the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service, liberated al-Rashad region, southeast of Hawija. He said troops began clearing the region from booby-traps.
Earlier on Monday, Iraqi military media said Iraqi forces advanced towards al-Rashad as part of the second phase of operations to liberate Hawija, which launched Friday.
The first phase of operations launched on September 24th, and managed to retake eastern Shirqat, an Islamic State haven in neighboring Salahuddin province.
Parallel operations were launched late September targeting IS havens in western Anbar.
On Sunday, military media said joint forces recaptured 28 villages around Hawija with a few hundreds of militants killed since the launch of operations.
A wide-scale campaign launched with the backing of a U.S.-led coalition in 2016 to recapture areas occupied by IS since 2014, when the militants declared a self-styled “caliphate” rule in Iraq and neighboring Syria based in Iraq’s Mosul.
Iraqi government, coalition and paramilitary forces recaptured Mosul, the group’s former capital, and the neighboring town of Tal Afar early July and late August.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State senior commander was killed along with a companion when warplanes bombarded their vehicle in southwestern Kirkuk, sources said as operations press on to clear the province from the last militants’ strongholds.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that Abu Karim al-Iraqi, who led Islamic State’s elite “special unit”, was killed along with a companion while driving their vehicle near al-Riyad region., an area close to Hawija, Islamic State’s last bastion in the province.
The so-called “special unit” is mostly composed of Iraqi nationals, and is tasked with combat raids, according to the source.
Earlier on Monday, Iraqi military media said Iraqi forces advanced towards al-Rashad as part of the second phase of operations to liberate Hawija, which launched Friday.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s sniper unit has been destroyed in an airstrike in southwest of Kirkuk, a local source from the province said on Monday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “a sniper unit composed of between five to six members were hiding in a rest house at the outskirts of al-Rashad region, southwest of Kirkuk. The unit was destroyed in an airstrike, depending on intelligence information.”
The group, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, highly depends on the sniper units to face the advance of joint security troops.
Earlier on the day, Lt.Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of the Hawija Operations, announced launching wide-scale military operations to free the region, as part of the second phase of operations to liberate Hawija.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An Arab Islamic State leader has been killed in confrontations with the pro-government paramilitary troops in southwest of Kirkuk, a local source said.
“Abu Bilal al-Masri, a prominent Arab IS leader was killed in clashes with al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] in Hawija, southwestern Kirkuk, as the militant was at the group’s defense lines,” the source told AlSumaria News on Monday.
“Al-Masri used to be nicknamed as Hummer, thanks to being good at using RPGs and targeting the Hummer vehicles. He was one of the main Arab leaders in the group’s so-called Kirkuk State,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Several Arab and foreign IS leaders are deployed in Hawija, which is one of the group’s pivotal strongholds. Hawija and other neighboring regions, west of Kirkuk, have been held by IS since mid-2014, when the group emerged to proclaim an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.
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Now you know why Trump beat your milquetoast @$$.
Trump? How about everyone else? The key difference between Kasich and all the other losers is that he was clearly a no-hoper early in the race, whose delusions of grandeur kept him in it. Like Rubio, he was a sore loser who did not have the grace to bow out when it became clear that all he could do was act as a spoiler, which he did for Ted Cruz. The only thing nice I can say about him, despite the fact that he only won one state, is that unlike Rubio, he did win his home state.
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Was he ever really in the GOP? I know he had an R next to his name but really, so do a number of other GOP members who seem to have joined the GOP because their district wasn't going to vote for a D.
A new report claims twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not return donations given to her campaign by the former co-owner of a website linked to underage prostitution.
The report ‐ published by the Washington Free Beacon ‐ states the ex-official from backpage.com donated $5,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund in 2016.
A number of Democrats have been linked to donations from the website’s former co-owner as reports suggest he has donated more than $160,000 over the last few years.
Backpage has come into the spotlight recently for allowing sex trafficking ads to appear on its site.
[DrRichSwier] On this day in history, September 28, 1868, Democrat Judge James Dickinson led a mob that killed over 300 black residents in Opelousas, Louisiana. The event is known as the Opelousas Massacre.
It started when local blacks expressed outrage when a white newspaper publisher, Emerson Bentley, was severely beaten. Bentley was beaten because he published an article that criticized white democrats for beating and removing black Democrats from the local party.
Dickinson, and a small army of heavily armed KKK members, converged on the city to wipe out its black population. This is a photo of the remaining blacks being hung for speaking out against the Democrats for beating Emerson Bentley.
According to BlackPast.org:
The Opelousas Massacre occurred on September 28, 1868 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. The event is also referred to as The Opelousas Riot by some historians. There is debate as to how many people were killed. Conservative estimates made by contemporary observers indicated about 30 people died from the political violence. Later historians have placed the total as closer to 150 or more.
While most Reconstruction-era violence was sparked by conflicts between black Republicans and white Democrats, the initial catalyst for the Massacre was the attempt by some Opelousas blacks to join a Democratic political group in the neighboring town of Washington. White Democrats in Opelousas, mainly members of the Seymour Knights, the local unit of the white supremacist organization Knights of the White Camellia, visited Washington to drive them out of the Party. In response Emerson Bentley, an Ohio-born white school teacher and editor of The Progress, a Republican newspaper in Opelousas, wrote what many local whites thought was a racially inflammatory article which described the violence that the Seymour Knights had used against the African American Democrats in Washington. Bentley argued that such violence should persuade the blacks to remain loyal to the GOP.
Shortly after the article appeared, Bentley was assaulted by a group of whites while he taught his class. He was severely beaten and whipped although he survived the assault. In response he fled the town, literally running for his life for nearly three weeks before escaping back to the North.
Meanwhile numerous reports circulated that Bentley had been killed in retaliation for his news article. His mysterious absence was enough to support rumors of his death. Now black Republicans urged retaliatory violence on the Knights, who in turn viewed this as the beginning of the long anticipated, and inevitable, "Black Revolt" and race war. The Knights of the White Camellia mobilized thousand of members. Both sides were armed and prepared for conflict as they gathered in Opelousas.
It is unclear as to who initiated the battle that began on September 28. What is clear is that the white Democrats had the overwhelming advantage in numbers and weapons. By the afternoon of September 28 the battle had become a massacre. A number of blacks were shot and killed or captured and later executed. Those who were not captured were chased into the swamps and killed on sight. Twelve leaders of the black Republicans who surrendered were executed the next day on the edge of town. Those executions seemed to encourage a wave of anti-black violence that spread throughout the parish. No one will ever know how many people were killed but the best estimate is that the number was at least 150 and may have exceeded that total.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On Sept. 25, the region woke up on a decisive moment with 92.7 percent of Kurdish people voting for independence from Iraq.
Then events accelerated and the Iraqi government announced, in coordination with Ankara and Tehran, its willingness to restore control over four cross-borders (two with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and two with Iran) and to impose an air-embargo on flights from and to Iraqi Kurdistan with scenarios of likely armed conflicts in disputed regions especially the oil-rich Kirkuk.
Two days before the referendum, the Iraqi Army advanced to launch an offensive on ISIS strongholds in Hawija ‐ the scene foresees a spark of military confrontation that would break out anytime.
True that the local government in Kurdistan confronted the international community with its insistence to carry out the referendum, but the tension in Iraq and the region wasn’t caused only by it. Announcing the referendum is not something new, its date has been previously set and the Kurds reiterated several times their determination to separate from Iraq.
Kurds attribute this demand to years of abuse that have made them realize that it is time to establish their own state. Where was this international rejection before? (Especially that of the US, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Turkey and Iran) Back then, none of them attempted to reform ties between Kurds and the central state, especially that Kurdistan government has been accusing the central government in Baghdad for years of depriving the Kurds from fair shares in power and resources.
Despite all that, the dispute was neglected and this pushed Kurds to insist on the referendum, whose outcome came as expected. This gives Iraqi Kurdistan a strong card to use in upcoming negotiations with the central government on natural resources as well as reinforcement of its political position as a self-ruled region.
Severe escalation
The severe escalation by the Iraqi central government, Iran and Turkey with the unprecedented siege and threats of starving the Kurds, disregard the fact that Kurds announced earlier that the referendum is not an announcement of independence ‐ it only acknowledges the necessity to move to the next step and to negotiate with Iraq and neighboring states in addition to the international community the conditions of separation, if it happened.
Confederation with enhanced conditions and possibly a new version of the current self-ruling which means that Kurds moved on with the referendum after they lost hope in any of the main powers to understand the situation. They moved on with a referendum that enhances their condition and urges European countries to focus on reforming ties between Kurds and the central government.
It should be mentioned that it is difficult for Kurdistan dream of independence to come true in the midst of this regional and international rejection. Geographically, the anticipated Kurdish state has no navy border and is surrounded by states that reject its independence.
Economically, Kurdistan government economy depends on oil transported via pipes that pass through Turkey or is exported via the central government. Iraqi Kurdistan exports around 550,000 bpd ‐ out of daily produced 600,000 bpd ‐ via a pipe in Ottoman Turkish Jihan’s Port overseeing the Mediterranean Sea. All these basic-income sources would be hindered if the tension remains. How would Erbil establish a state without the ability to export its oil?
With the referendum card in its hand, the government of Kurdistan has a strong negotiation card that permits it to move on with a confederation that maintains its status, doesn’t marginalize its people -as it is the case now- and ensures that Iraq remains united as everyone wishes.
This would contribute to finding solutions for pending topics, including the disputed regions between Erbil and Baghdad based on the Iraqi constitution and providing joint market and currency as Kurdistan maintains its independent cultural, economic, political and foreign policies.
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Odd, the Kurds can vote peacefully in a war zone but the Cats got beaten at the polls.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two jacket wallahs attacked a cop shoppe in Damascus on Monday, killing a number of civilians and coppers, the interior minister said, in the first such attack in the Syrian capital since July.
Four Death Eaters carried out the attack, killing more than 10 people, the pro-Damascus TV channel al-Mayadeen said. Russia's RIA news agency reported that 15 people were killed.
Militants targeted the station in the al-Midan neighborhood and clashed with coppers there, Interior Minister Mohammad al-Shaar said in comments broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
from the cop shoppe.
One attacker went kaboom! at the main entrance and another detonated his bomb on the first floor, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Footage broadcast by state TV showed bodies wrapped in shrouds at the scene and fire fighters putting out flames.
Previous suicide kabooms in Damascus have been claimed by both ISIS and the Tahrir al-Sham murderous Moslem alliance, which is led by the group formerly known as the Nusra Front.
The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack at a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus a day earlier that killed at least 17 people.
In a statement circulated on its social media accounts, the group said three of its fighters armed with guns, grenades and explosives were involved in the attack in the southern neighbourhood of Midan on Monday.
The Syrian interior ministry said on Monday that the attack involved two suicide bombers, one of whom managed to penetrate the police station and reach the first floor before his explosives detonated.
But a monitor reported a third explosion involved a car bomb outside the police station, and the IS claim also referred to the third attacker blowing himself up separately from the other two.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said at least 17 people were killed in the attack, among them 13 police officers.
The Midan police station has itself been targeted before.
In December 2016, three police officers were wounded when a seven-year-old girl walked into the police station wearing an explosive belt that was remotely detonated.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Seven pro-government paramilitary troops were killed, while ten others were wounded in a blast west of Mosul, Nineveh, a security source was quoted saying.
“A booby-trapped house in al-Qalaa region, in Tal Afar, exploded on Sunday while al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] were defusing the explosives. Seven personnel were killed, while ten others were injured, four of whom are in serious condition,” Cap. Mahdi abdul Hadi told Anadolu agency.
“The victims were transferred to the PMFs security center, while the wounded were taken to hospital,” he added.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Wasting no time, ABC on Monday jumped to gun control and finding possible villains for the mass slaughter in Las Vegas. Reporter Cecilia Vega cited a Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... tweet bashing the NRA and worried about GOP gun legislation in the House. With the facts still unclear, Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos lectured, "This is going to re-open the debate over guns in this country."
During later live coverage, Vega alerted, "The House could decide soon on a measure that would make it easier to buy silencers. This is a very controversial measure proposed by a Republican member from South Carolina." She added, "Hillary Clinton is weighing in this morning, blaming and calling out the NRA for a measure like this."
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According to one conservative woman who was in lockdown and not knowing what was going on during the massacre, everyone in the room she was in was wishing they had a gun.
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You know I am getting tired of being informed concerning these idiots. I need news showing what is being accomplished. Giving these people airtime keeps them alive. Then possibly Oprah PALEEASE.
Any sites suggested would be appreciated.
[NewYorker] "Was it a jihadist or just a guy?” So the seventeen-year-old girl asks, on hearing the news, landing at once on the central black-comedy question as the annals of American mass murder expand this morning. If the author of the at least fifty dead and more wounded—the word “wounded,” of course, fails to capture the extent of the maiming, just as the blank word “dead” fails to capture the dawning of grief for so many families—was someone who had, even once, communicated with or been radicalized by isis, no matter how remote or long-distance that radicalization, or if he was merely a Muslim from a Muslim country, then a massive act of terrorism would have been committed and a militant response, including travel bans and broad suspensions of rights, would be essential. If you run that last sentence by our very own TW for shortening, I think she might be able to work it in by Friday.
Forget it, it's the New Yorker. But take out half the dependent clauses because they're nothing more than pointless padding, and we'll have made a start.
If it was just one more American “psycho,” then all we can do is shrug and, as the occupant of the Oval Office put it, send “warmest condolences and sympathies...”
President Trump, deprived from birth by some genetic accident of all natural human empathy—one should listen to a recently recovered tape of Trump, speaking to Howard Stern, in which he is actually boasting of his indifference to a man he thought was dying—speaks empathy as a foreign language and makes the kinds of mistakes we all make in a second language that we have barely mastered, placing adjectives in places that no native speaker ever would. Who sends warmest anything to the families of murder victims?
Vice-President Mike Pence, who is not a sociopath, merely a Republican, knew that the right language is the language of bafflement, talking about “senseless violence” and the rest.
So far, all signs are that it was just a guy—just one more American killer who got his hands on some collection of weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing people, and who then killed people.
We know that if it was a Muslim with a foreign name, we would be in full panic mode and all we would be hearing about is the ever-greater dangers of terrorism. Indeed, the killings in France, on Sunday, which were surely terrorism, have already begun to attract that kind of attention from the right wing here. But when it happens here, what we’re told by the entire power structure of American life—both houses of Congress, the White House, and now the Supreme Court, locked and loaded to sustain the absurd and radical pro-gun ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller—is that there is nothing at all to be done, save to pray. Mandalay Bay, as I understand it, was a gun free zone to begin with. So, if anything, the shooter showed in one grisly moment how gun control really works, and the result was predictable.
The facts remain facts. Gun control acts on gun violence the way antibiotics act on infections—imperfectly but with massive efficacy. Yet, even with that knowledge, some of us, in our innocence, proposed a sort of truce about Second Amendment issues in the face of the ongoing national emergency—the Trump Presidency—in which it seemed essential to make common cause, even with those who have the strange American fixation on the right to own military-style firearms. Nothing strange about it. There is a strong correlation between private gun ownership and civil liberties. It may be more subtle than attempts to control the transfer/ownership of firearms, for example, but it is provable.
They don’t have a reason for this fixation—no reason can be found. None so blind as one who will not see, I guess.
There’s no argument for it—such weapons are useless in sport, except for the sport of using them; they play no role in hunting, or not hunting anything except helpless people; and they protect no one from a tyrannical government, since the tyrannical government, if it would ever come to that, is hardly in need of small-arms fire to assert its will. It is about cost. Absolutely the government can use force and its great preponderance of weapons against its citizens, but private gun ownership shows that there will be a cost. The first cost will be in blood, but the second is far reaching and permanent: a government that has lost the Mandate of Heaven, and is therefore doomed to be extinct.
Gun ownership shows first that the citizen is and should be the first concern for government policies, and second that should that consideration be ignored, there will be a cost. The leadership in government may be willing to pay it, since they will not be harmed hiding behind the masses of Kops and military, but there's always this: you gotta go to the grocery store sometime. One day your personal assistant won't return from the grocery store, or your secretary won't show up. Gopnik thinks that calls on his followers to wage war on a Constitutional Amendment will be cost free, but that is terribly misleading people down a dark path that has no good end for any of us. All on the Holy Alter of Public Safety.
Absent an argument for it, they merely have a fixation about it, but it remains practically religious in its intensity. Between the consolidated power of the pro-gun right, and the truth that gun control has slipped down the agenda of even anti-violence liberals, this means that the only American response to regular mass gun killings will be a shrug and faked sympathy. It is hard to know how to stay too far ahead of despair. Step One: Admit you have a problem.
Step Two: Stop trying to destroy rights through shaming or any other means you have just to satisfy your own sense of moral outrage.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... has opposed with the bid to close the Taliban ...Arabic for students... office in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... as he insisted that his party supports the legitimate demands of the group.
Hekmatyar made the remark during a meeting with the trial elders of Hood Khel in his office on Sunday.
He said we want t the government that the office remain in its place and the grinding of the peace processor with the group should be launched in a serious manner.
According to Hekmatyar, those who are attempting to extend the war in Afghanistan and stand against peace and reconciliation, have became hopeless.
He once again reiterated his previous claims regarding the individuals and groups who had paved the way for civil war, emphasizing that with the return of him, the individuals and groups have failed to implement their conspiracies.
This comes as reports emerged earlier suggesting that the US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has stepped up efforts and pressures on President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. for the closure of the Taliban office in Qatar, a move which is apparently aimed at increasing pressures on the group as part of the new US strategy to combat terrorism and eliminate their sanctuaries from the region.
Sources privy of the development have said President Trump has discussed the issue with Afghan counterpart President Ghani.
The sources have told The Guardian newspaper that a decision is expected from President Ghani soon as he may likely agree with the closure of the Taliban’s political office in Doha.
The decision was reportedly taken as several years have passed since the office was opened but no positive results were obtained.
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[DAILYWIRE] San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, a Democrat, went on a tirade on Saturday, accusing President Trump of allowing Puerto Ricans to die because he just doesn't care.
But now it turns out Cruz is not in the loop and hasn't even bothered to participate in meetings with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or other federal agencies.
In a Sunday morning interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC's This Week, the former Clinton press secretary grilled Cruz on what she's been up to since Hurricane Maria hit:
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The Unraveling begins. Keep pulling the thread and see what else comes unxone.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Five civilians were killed and injured in a bomb blast that occurred in south of the capital Baghdad, a security source said on Monday.
“A bomb exploded near a market in al-Mashrou’ region, south of Baghdad, killing one and injuring four others,” the source told Baghdad Today.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
A monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which excludes security members deaths, said 196 civilians were killed, while 381 others were wounded due to violence and armed conflicts during the month of September. The fatalities included 10 foreign nationals. Baghdad was the most affected province with 37 deaths and 157 injuries. Dhi Qar province came in the second place with 82 killed and 93 injured. Anbar came in the third place with 20 killed and 46 injured.
The total figure of September’s casualties marked an increase from the figure in August, which reached 297 Iraqis dead and wounded.
While most of of the explosions and attacks went without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State has claimed several incidents.
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.
[Politico] The CIA has denied a request by the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee to let them view some of the same information about Russian meddling that the intelligence committee has already seen, according to the panel’s top Democrat.
[Free Beacon] The Internal Revenue Service was involved in a $5 million push to pressure Americans to buy Obamacare coverage, according to documents obtained from the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
A 'weaponized' IRS? Shocking, absolutely shocking. 
[Free Beacon] NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams said Monday that the motivations behind the June shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice are still unknown, and will never be known, despite widespread agreement that the targeting of the attack was political.
Predictably, the protest quickly turned into a riot: local media reports at the time indicated it was marked by "aggressive" behavior and ended in fights.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
A number of Democrats have been linked to donations from the website’s former co-owner as reports suggest he has donated more than $160,000 over the last few years.
Dickinson, and a small army of heavily armed KKK members, converged on the city to wipe out its black population. This is a photo of the remaining blacks being hung for speaking out against the Democrats for beating Emerson Bentley.
Hillary Clinton
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...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. ..
