I'm pretty sure that ship has already sailed...
As we detailed earlier, in a stunning capitulation from one of the most controversial sports figures in recent memory, former San Francisco 49ers backup QB Colin Kaepernick told CBS Sports that he would stand during the national anthem if given the chance to play football again.
Kaepernick, who has been training rigorously in New Jersey in an effort to re-enter league play after severing his contract with the 49ers in March, said he would not kneel for the anthem if he signs with a team. He also said he plans to donate the money from his jersey sales to charity.
"He's not planning on kneeling - if given the opportunity," said Jason La Canfora, who sat down with Kaepernick for an interview.
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ESAD you jackass! The tradgedy is that you are too stupid to see what your race-grifter girlfriend got you into. The even greater revelation was how many ungrateful black athletes in the NFL were equally dumb in following your lead and deeply damaging the game. Nothing will undo the damage but time and the financial collapse for many teams unless the salary cuts for pampered little sh*ts are deep and lasting. The only benefit is you publicly humiliated by folding ....and god help the team that takes pity on you!
[Townhall] This week, writer-director Nick Cassavetes released his new movie, "Yellow," about a woman having an affair with her brother. "I have no experience with incest," says Cassavetes. "We started thinking about that. We had heard a few stories where brothers and sisters were completely, absolutely in love with one another. You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want."
But Cassavetes wasn't done: "Who gives a s--- if people judge you? I'm not saying this is an absolute, but in a way, if you're not having kids, who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn't that what we say? Gay marriage -- love who you want? If it's your brother or sister, it's super weird, but if you look at it, you're not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you're in love with one another."
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You know what I want? I want not to be preached at by amoral idiots! Especially by someone whose whole existence and job experience is based on fantasy. Movies used to be for enjoyment, not virtue sharing.
The Darul Uloom Deoband in India issued a fatwa on Saturday banning women from plucking, trimming and shaping their eyebrows and also cutting their hair.
Darul Iftaa, which issues the Darul Uloom Deoband’s edicts, termed the act as “un-Islamic”.
A Muslim man from Saharanpur had asked Daul Iftaa on Islamic laws about eyebrow trimming and hair-cutting. “Do Islamic laws allow my wife to go for eyebrow plucking and hair-cutting?” the man asked Darul Iftaa.
In response to his query, the Darul Iftaa issued a fatwa saying that both the acts were ‘un-Islamic’ and banned under Islamic laws. “If a Muslim woman is involved in such acts then she is violating Islamic laws,” read the fatwa in Urdu.
Darul Iftaa clarified that there are 10 acts, including eyebrow plucking and hair-cutting which were banned for Muslim women under Islam. “Hair adds to the beauty of Muslim women and they should never get them cut, pointed the fatwa. Issuing the fatwa, Darul Iftaa head Maulana L. Sadiq Qasmi said, “Muslim women should stay away from beauty parlours as Islam does not permit them to have make-up that attracts other male members.”
He added that Muslim men too were not allowed to shave under Islam, trim eyebrows, wear make-up etc is.
“The trend of Muslim women going to beauty parlours has increased in the country. It is not a good sign and it should be stopped immediately. We should have issued a fatwa in this regard long ago,” he maintained.
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[Buzzfeed] The same week Mark Zuckerberg delivered his live video remarks about Russian election interference on Facebook, he picked up the phone and called Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
At one point during the nearly 30 minute conversation, Schiff asked why Facebook took so long to find the $100,000 in ads a Kremlin-linked entity bought in an effort to disrupt the 2016 US Presidential election and its aftermath. Zuckerberg’s answer apparently did not fully satisfy, and Schiff told BuzzFeed News he plans to follow up.
The Russian ad scandal has captured lawmakers' attention in a way Facebook’s previous political crises ‐ from allegations of bias in its Trending column to its role in spreading fake news ‐ have not. It has crystallized a trio of individual fears ‐ Facebook is too big, has too much influence, and cannot effectively monitor itself ‐ into one big expression of all of them.
And now, with Congress scrutinizing it and the world watching, Facebook is scrambling to contain an metastasizing crisis that has tarnished its public image and conjured the threat of possible government regulation. In November, the House Intelligence Committee, of which Schiff is a key part, plans to hold an open hearing to discuss Russian election interference. And Schiff would very much like to see Facebook there. "We have an interest in having them come into our committee," he said.
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And now, with Congress scrutinizing it and the world watching,
Schiff talked to Zuckerberg for 1/2 an hour and we're supposed to believe that 'Congress scrutinizing it'? Not buying it. Repubs would be stupid to give this any consideration.
[Breitbart] A Fox News television reporter has become the latest individual to accuse Hollywood movie executive and Democratic Party mega-donor Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, alleging that he masturbated in front of her in a restaurant hallway in an incident she claimed happened more than a decade ago.
Talking to the Huffington Post, Lauren Sivan claimed that whilst working as an anchor on a local cable channel in New York, Weinstein approached her at a private event in the Socialista nightclub in New York, before attempting to kiss her.
After Sivan rejected his advances, stating that she had a long-term boyfriend, Weinstein allegedly began to masturbate in front of her until he ejaculated into a potted plant, before zipping his trousers up and returning to the party.
’Well, can you just stand there and shut up,’ Weinstein allegedly told Sivan before completing the lurid act.
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Does this qualify her for her own show on NBC now?
No, because Harvey Weinstein is a liberal. And a progressive. And a social justice warrior. The way women are degraded in Hollywood is disgusting and mind-boggling. Not that any liberal would complain.
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From another report: "Sivan says she rejected Weinstein’s advances, in part, because she was in a serious relationship at the time. "
So.. if she wasn't in a relationship at the time?
If someone really doesn't want to do something, any reason will suffice, doesn't matter which. She could have said she was a tranvestite with AIDS, for that matter.
[Facebook] Many people don’t understand what would be in a person’s heart to spray bullets into a crowd to kill and wound as many as he can. Or what’s in the heart of a person who drives his car across a bridge in London and into a crowd of people, get out with a knife, and stab innocent people and police officers. Or what’s in the heart of a person who would take a knife and cut off the head of another human being. Many don’t understand what’s in the heart of a person who’s a senior attorney for CBS and says she has "no sympathy" for those killed or wounded in Las Vegas simply because people who listen to country music might be Republicans.
The common thread that runs through the heart of each of these is evil.
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Progressive don't like to be faced with black and white, good and evil, etc, they want to live in a grey area of non-absolutes, of situational ethics. It must have been something he ate, a medication, or a gambling debt.
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Coward. Graham pulled his punch. The common thread is Salafi or Shia Jihad, or fear of same. Franklin knows that. Evil has a face, always and anywhere it surfaces. It concretizes, has a face and a name that can be clearly understood and treated. Graham is an incompetent theologian.
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BottomRev, really? I can show you a face and via ignorance you couldn't tell me whether that person is good or evil. You a primary part of the problem with zero solutions.
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The reason they can't find a motivation is he didn't have one, except saving his own skin.
He was money laundering and his problem gambling put him in debt to very bad people. Let's say drug smugglers with Middle East connections. They sold his services to ISIS or similar to recoup what they were owed by Paddock, and he was told do this or meet a very unpleasant end. Being something of a sociopath made it easier for him.
[Breitbart] A gay coffee shop owner in Seattle kicked a Christian pro-life group out of his coffee shop because he felt offended by their presence, according to video footage of the incident.
The Washington Times reports that the group, called Abolish Human Abortion, decided to order drinks at Seattle’s Bedlam Coffee after passing out pro-life pamphlets in the area when the owner angrily asked the group to leave.
"I’m gay. You have to leave," owner Ben Borgman said in the Facebook video.
"Are you denying us service?" activist Caytie Davis asked.
[Breitbart] The Communist Party of China (CPC) is boasting of over 100 smartphone applications designed to allow senior party members to more accurately track their underlings’ loyalty, based in part on how much communist propaganda the individual consumes on the app.
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times notes that these apps "place additional pressure on members to properly and timely show their loyalty and enthusiasm for the Party." Party members can be reprimanded if their superior notices they have not been interacting with other party members, reading speeches by president Xi Jinping, or taking online communism classes often enough through the app. The article notes that those who excel and indoctrinate themselves with the apps may be eligible for prizes such as pens and notebooks.
The apps offer a variety of indoctrination media aside from Xi’s speeches, according to the Global Times‐among these quizzes to hone knowledge of Maoist thought and broader classes on communist philosophy with required homework.
"The apps not only provide online classes to learn Party doctrines, but also enable users to pay their CPC membership fees or socialize with each other," the Times adds. "More importantly, the apps will help the CPC evaluate the performance of their nearly 90 million members in a visible, traceable and interactive manner."
The article provides a number of reasons for there being so many apps, including the use of separate apps for different regional Communist Party structures, different features‐like paying Communist Party dues‐and different developers. They are all being organized under an umbrella project called "China’s Good Party Member."
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The article notes that those who excel and indoctrinate themselves with the apps may be eligible for prizes such as pens and notebooks and not "eating the peanut".
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Here, we map Deep Learning on credit card purchases. No 'apps' required!
[Sunday Post] Oor Wullie’s mischief might keep him busy, but he’s still had time to master a new language. For the first time, our iconic cartoon character ‐ or Uilleam Againne as he might now be called ‐ has been translated into Gaelic.
A new version of the Oor Wullie annual is set for release later this month. Gaelic publisher Cuilean Craicte spent a year translating some of Wullie’s classic strips.
"We want to publish books that kids will love and we couldn’t think of anything more fitting than Oor Wullie," explained the publisher’s Mairi Kidd.
But "Jings! Crivvens! Help ma Boab!" proved tricky to translate.
"His catchphrase is so iconic and we spent a lot of time debating our version," Mairi added.
"There isn’t a direct translation so we used popular exclamations."
They settled on "Lochd! Mo chreubhag! Dìgean mise!"
"Lochd is an expression meaning ’mercy’ that is especially common in Harris," Mairi explained.
"Mo chreubhag literally means ’my body’ and sounds quite like ’crivvens’ as the ’bh’ sound in Gaelic is a ’v’.
"Dìgean mise derives from a phrase which means ’protect and keep me’."
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"We want to publish books that kids will love and we couldn’t think of anything more fitting than Oor Wullie," explained the publisher’s Mairi Kidd.
A satire on Poor Willie Clinton would be a big seller.
[NYT] CONCORD, N.H. ‐ In the state morgue here, in the industrial maze of a hospital basement, Dr. Thomas A. Andrew was slicing through the lung of a 36-year-old woman when white foam seeped out onto the autopsy table.
Foam in the lungs is a sign of acute intoxication caused by an opioid. So is a swollen brain, which she also had. But Dr. Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, would not be certain of the cause of death until he could rule out other causes, like a brain aneurysm or foul play, and until after the woman’s blood tests had come back.
With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history, routine autopsies like this one, which take more than two hours, are overtaxing medical examiners everywhere.
"It’s almost as if the Visigoths are at the gates, and the gates are starting to crumble," Dr. Andrew said. "I’m not an alarmist by nature, but this is not overhyped. It has completely overwhelmed us."
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Yes, I have heard NH is bad. The ski resorts are the only areas that look good. Small towns are looking neglected. Seems small town and city alike are infected with this plaque. We don't need Halloween, we have the walking dead zombies now.
[Mauldin Economics] I’ve written a lot about US public pension funds lately. Many of them are underfunded and will never be able to pay workers the promised benefits‐at least without dumping a huge and unwelcome bill on taxpayers.
And since taxpayers are generally voters, it’s not at all clear they will pay that bill.
Readers outside the US might have felt safe reading those stories. There go those Americans again... However, if you live outside the US, your country may be more like ours than you think.
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The underlying 'problem' with pensions is that the ruling class is afraid that they might be forced to do something tangible and productive, so we need to import some serfs.
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"I'll hold this money for you. It will be safe and sound and will definitely be there when you need it in your old age..."
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Wait til they offer an IOU for your 401K money
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The End-of-Europe-as-I-know-it has already come.
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There isn't a pension problem. The problem is governments spending money they don't have, and leaving the problem for someone else to clean up.
Which is why I am hoping for a massive wave of government bond defaults that will force lenders to properly price risk and make borrowing much less attractive.
Although that won't work with central governments that print their own currency.
[Iran Press TV] Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi warns the United States and the Israeli regime are behind a "dangerous and treacherous" plot to partition Iraq, following an independence referendum held in the Arab country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
"It is crystal clear that the US and Israel are the architects of this dangerous move and plot in the region and they seek to create a new Israel in the region," Hashemi Shahroudi said during a meeting of the council in Tehran on Saturday.
He expressed great sorrow over efforts to instigate another act of sedition in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and break up the Moslem country, emphasizing that the secessionist "move is undoubtedly a major act of treachery against the region and the Moslem world."
The senior Iranian holy man added that the US was playing a "dangerous" role in regional developments and noted Washington supported the Kurdistan independence referendum and sought to compel Baghdad to accept the secession plan.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Hashemi Shahroudi, said the Iraqi government and nation were vigilant and "regional countries, including the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , have adopted a firm and principled stance vis-à-vis this new plot."
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This is no plot. Someone very High Above You decided they get a state.
Deal with it.
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have seized several mass graves containing relics of civilians and security personnel in southwest of Kirkuk.
The media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said in a statement on Saturday, “troops ran into ten mass graves containing relics of security personnel and civilians who were executed by Islamic State in southwest of Hawija.”
The troops, according to the statement, “coordinate with specialized teams to check the relics and identify them.”
Some of the relics were for women and children, he added.
On Thursday, PMFs said two other mass graves were found containing relics of security personnel and civilians in Hawija. Troops recently ran into three mass graves at the villages of Abu Sakhra and al-Therban, also southwest of Hawija, as operations proceeded to clear the town.
The United Nations said last week that nearly 78,000 people could still be trapped in their homes.
Late September, 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.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A prominent Islamic State leader, who has been known for transferring of the group’s weapons and explosives, was killed in aerial shelling in northeast of Diyala, a local source said.
“One of IS main members who used to transfer the weapons, explosives and medicines to the group, was killed in the evening in aerial shelling that targeted his vehicle, which he was driving, along with a close aide, to transfer anti-tank weapons on the road between Bouthja and Kuseiba villages at the outskirts of al-Waqf basin, northeast of Diyala,” the source told Alghad Press on Friday.
The militant, according to the source, used to carry out terrorist crimes for Al-Qaeda.
Earlier on the day, airstrikes targeted an IS haven in northeast of the province.
“Fighter jet shelled a pivotal IS haven in al-Waqf basin,” the source said. “The airstrike was accurate. News indicate death and injury of several militants who were inside.”
Attacks launched by Islamic State militants against security troops, the pro-government forces and civilians surged over the past few weeks in northeast of Diyala, which urge the Iraqi forces to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Six Islamic State members, including a leader, were killed in airstrikes by the Iraqi army and U.S.-led Coalition jets in northeast of Diyala, according to sources on Saturday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, “Coalition jets launched in the evening two airstrikes that targeted a secret headquarters for IS cells at the outskirts of al-Leheib village, located in al-Zor basin, northeast of Diyala.”
“The shelling fully destroyed the headquarter, which turned out to be a rest house,” the source said. “The two airstrikes left five militants, including a leader, who were in a meeting, killed.”
Earlier on the day, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of the Dijla Operations Command, said an IS militant was killed in army airstrike.
“Army bombarded a pivotal target on the agricultural road between Bouthja and Kuseiba villages, killing an IS member,” Azzawi told AlSumaria News.
Earlier on the day, Iraqi troops regained full control on mountains that stretch out between Diyala and Kirkuk provinces, retaking areas between Zgheitoun bridge reaching until al-Fatha bridge, an area that stretches out 45 kilometers with depth of 15 kilometers.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An American official asked President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... why they held the referendum now and why they rejected all demands to postpone it.
Barzani told his American guest that Baghdad’s government began to receive heavy and advanced weapons from the US, including military jets, which means that in few years, the balance will be in favor of the Iraqi army. Barzani also told the American official what worries him and said he expects "the Shiites, supported by Iran, to win and the Shiites to be defeated."
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[AlAhram] Some 120 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group fighters and 60 foreign mercenaries were killed in a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defence ministry in Moscow said on Saturday.
"A command post of the gunnies and up to 80 (IS group) fighters including nine natives of the Northern Caucasus were destroyed in the area of Mayadeen," the ministry said, adding some 40 IS fighters were killed around the town of Albu Kamal.
As a result of an air strike more than 60 foreign mercenaries from the former Soviet Union, Tunisia, and Egypt were killed south of Deir Ezzor.
The ministry said the "large numbers of foreign mercenaries" were coming into the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal from Iraq.
Mayadeen is one of the Islamic State group's last bastions in Syria.
The advances against IS group in Deir Ezzor have cost a heavy civilian corpse count from Russian and coalition air raids.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian air strikes on Thursday night killed 14 people, including three children, fleeing across the Euphrates on rafts near Mayadeen.
Russia has not acknowledged any civilian deaths from its strikes since it intervened in Syria in 2015, and dismisses the Observatory's reporting as biased.
Moscow has been carrying out air strikes in support of its ally Damascus targeting both IS in Deir Ezzor province and rival jihadists led by al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate in Idlib province in the northwest.
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Of course the article blames civilian deaths on the airstrikes and not Is is hiding behind them.
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But what about the puppies and kittys.
I wonder what would be said if Trump had done that, or Oblamo.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty eight rounds of the artillery landed 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 in the latest wave of shelling from the other side of the Durand Line.
The provincial government in Nangarhar in a statement said the shells landed in Nazian district of Nangarhar.
The statement further added that the shelling started at around 11 am local time and continued until 4 pm.
The Nangarhar government said there are no reports regarding the possible damages and casualties as a result of the shelling.
This comes as more than 80 artillery shells were fired on Nangarhar province last week.
According to the local officials, the shelling took place on Nazian and Achin districts of the province but no casualties were incurred to the residents.
The Pak officials are claiming that the majority of the attacks on their security posts take place from the Afghan soil.
The Pak military said last week that a soldier was killed and another was maimed after bandidosforces of Evil opened fire on their check post in Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of the country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pak officials have expressed deep concerns regarding the Jihadi Fatwas circulated online as they fear such moves would turn the country into a battlefield.
The Pak interior minister Ahsan Iqbal informed regarding the Fatwas during his speech at the national assembly on Friday.
Iqbal further added that no individual or group has the right to declare Jihad against each other, insisting that only the government of Pakistain has the right to declare Jihad.
He called on religious leaders and holy mans to raise their voices against such moves, warning that the country would be turned into a battlefield if necessary and immediate steps are not taken.
According to the minister of interior of Pakistain, the Fatwas are being circulated online in social media websites, urging the government to incorporate changes in clauses about Khat-e-Nabuwwat.
The Pak officials are voicing concerns regarding the Jihadic Fatwas at a time when Afghanistan has long been expressing concerns regarding the similar Fatwas issued against the war in Afghanistan.
Numerous Pak religious holy mans have issued Fatwas in the past, endorsing fight and suicide kabooms in Afghanistan.
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In other words, a day ending in 'y' in Pakistan.
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Syrian Army units concluded their military operations in the eastern countryside of Homs province after reclaiming an area of 1,800 square kilometers and eliminating the last gathering for ISIL in the area.
A military source told SANA that army units concluded their military operations in the eastern countryside of Homs after eliminating the last gathering for ISIS in the area and liberating an area of 1,800 square kilometers.
The source said that the operations also resulted in restoring security and stability to tens of towns, villages, and farms, in addition to eliminating hundreds of terrorists and destroying their weapons and equipment.
Earlier, SANA’s correspondent in Deir Ezzor said that army units operating in Deir Ezzor province advanced further in the efforts to uproot ISIL in the southeastern countryside of the province by eliminating many terrorists in the western outskirts of al-Mayadeen town.
He said that army units clashed on Friday with terrorists from ISIL in the western outskirts of al-Mayadeen, which resulted in killing many terrorists and inflicting heavy losses in equipment on the terror organization.
The correspondent added that army units established control over the brad production plant at the town’s outskirts after eliminating the ISIS terrorists who were barricaded inside it after they covered it to a weapons and ammo depot.
Residents from at least three villages in Badghis province, in the west of Afghanistan, said the Taliban attacked the area on Thursday evening and torched a number of houses.
The incident, which took place in Sina Ordo, Tagab Rabat and Bai villages in Ab Kamari district, left at least 200 families displaced as public uprising forces tried to fight off the Taliban.
“We had no option but to leave our houses during the evening by walking across difficult terrain. The Taliban took our belongings from our houses when they came to our village. They set fire to some houses (in our village),” said Hafizullah, one resident who was forced to flee.
“Taliban destroyed men and women and burnt our houses and there were some copies of the Holy Quran which were burnt. Where should we go?” asked Mullah Mohammad, another displaced resident.
The displaced families said they are now living out in the open with no shelter.
“All my belongings and my wife were in the house when the Taliban came and set alight everything,” said Bibi Roshan, a member of a displaced family from Ab Kamari district.
“The only reason that the Taliban attacked our villages is that we support government and we would not bow to the terrorists,” said Qari Rahmatullah, a resident of the district.
Mirza Ali Bedar, the district governor of Ab Kamari, confirmed the incident and said at least 200 families have fled their homes in search of safety.
He said the district council is doing what it can to help the displaced families.
“Taliban has taken all the belongings of the residents of the villages,” the district governor said. “We are trying to help these displaced families.”
According to residents, the Taliban has also taken control of the villages and are using civilian homes as their strongholds.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two persons were killed, while eight others were wounded in a bomb blast and armed attack in south and west of Baghdad, a security source said.
“A civilian was killed, while six others were wounded as a bomb, placed near a market, exploded in al-Zidan village in Abu Ghraib region, west of Baghdad,” the source told Baghdad Today on Saturday.
Moreover, the source, who asked to remain anonymous, said “unknown gunmen opened fire against a civilian in al-Sihha district in al-Dora, south of Baghdad.” The victim was immediately killed.
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.
[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Saturday said they rubbed out four 'terrorists' belonging to Al Qaeda in the Subcontinent (AQIS) after a raid turned on a house on the Northern Bypass turned into a full-fledged shootout.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar said police had acted on a tip-off from an intelligence agency to apprehend suspects involved in various terrorism-related incidents in Karachi when they encountered them near the Northern Bypass.
"In a shoot-out with the police, four terrorists, including the notorious Ibraham, aka Afia, were killed," SSP Anwar said.
A sniper rifle and three pistols were recovered from the suspects.
"The hard boyz were wanted for an attack on the Rangers in Korangi No 5 and a deadly grenade attack on police personnel in Awami Colony," the police official said.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A powerful bomb kaboom has destroyed a military convoy carrying 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... forces near Wajid district, located in Somalia’s southwestern Bakool region.
The blast which has resulted from a remote-controlled landmine planted on the roadside struck Æthiopian troops traveling in the convoy while moving on to the outskirts of Burdhuhulle village.
Local residents said the attack has inflicted heavy losses on the Æthiopian soldiers, but, the exact number of casualties has not been confirmed yet.
There were no immediate comments on the incident from Æthiopian military and Somalia army.
Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has grabbed credit for the attack, according to a statement posted on its affiliated online media outlets.
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To start understanding Africa, read “The Fate of Africa; The History of the Continent Since Independence” Meridith, Martin
Each individual country is analyzed in detail. For example, the politicians in the Somalian south stopped international aid shipments from being distributed to the North which is poplulated by Muslims. This allowed 1.5 million to starve to death. The politicians the food in the south.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Navy’s elite Marcos commandos on Friday foiled a piracy attempt against an Indian carrier with 26 crew members in the Gulf of Aden, a key shipping route near the southern tip of the Red Sea between Somalia and Yemen.
The Marocs on board INS Trishul ‐ on an anti-piracy mission ‐ responded quickly and rescued the boat that was targeted by 12 pirates.
"The piracy attempt was made on the Indian ship MV Jag Amar at 12:30 pm and the INS Trishul, which was on an anti-piracy deployment in the region, responded immediately," Navy spokesperson Captain DK Sharma said.
All 26 Indian crew members on board the Indian ship were safe. The Marcos commandos carried out a swift operation to rescue the 85,000-tonne bulk carrier. An AK 47, one magazine with 27 rounds, ropes, fuel drums, and ladders were seized by the commandos.
The Navy has been actively engaged in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. In April, it rescued a Liberian vessel, MV Lord Mountbatten, in the Gulf of Aden after helicopter-borne marine commandos fired at the pirates who were attempting to hijack the ship.
Earlier this year the Navies of India and China rescued 19 Filipino crew members on board a ship in the Gulf of Aden hijacked by Somali pirates after a 10-hour standoff. Pirates stormed into a foreign merchant vessel registered in Tuvalu, an island nation in the South Pacific. The merchant ship was traveling from Kelang in Malaysia to the port city of Aden in Yemen.
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hope the pirates became shark meals...make em swim
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[Channel NewsAsia] Eight suspected militants, including those with alleged links to Abu Sayyaf and Islamic State, have been arrested in anti-terror raids, Malaysian police said on Saturday. The arrests were made in the states of Sabah, Selangor and Perak, between September 27 and October 6.
In the first series of arrests in Sabah, two Malaysians, two Filipinos and a Filipino with Malaysian permanent residency are accused of helping Abu Sayyaf rebels infiltrate Malaysia through Sabah. The raid is a follow-up to the arrests of Abu Sayyaf suporters on September 14, when seven Filipinos were arrested, according to Inspector-General of Police Mohamed Fuzi Harun.
In a separate raid on October 1, an Albanian man was arrested in Selangor for allegedly communicating with IS militants overseas. The 35-year-old is a guest lecturer at a local public university.
As for the remaining two suspects, they were previously arrested for terror links in 2013. One of them had allegedly tried to recruit inmates from Tapah prison in Perak for an unnamed terror group. A former Internal Security Act detainee, he had also planned to launch attacks at places of worship belonging to Muslims, Christians and Hindus. The suspect also withheld information about a Tandzim Al-Qaeda Malaysia (TAQM) militant, who is on the run.
The last suspect is a 37-year-old who is believed to have recruited two Malaysians to join TAQM.
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[Al Jazeera] Alphabet Inc, the company that controls Google, is sending special balloons to Puerto Rico to help restore phone service after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria last month.
The US Federal Communications Commission said it had approved the company's application to provide the emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has struggled to regain communications services. The FCC said on Friday that 83 percent of cell sites remain out of service, while wireless communications company are deploying temporary sites.
Alphabet, which announced its Project Loon in 2013 to use solar-powered, high-altitude balloons to provide internet service in remote regions, said in an FCC filing it was working to "support licensed mobile carriers' restoration of limited communications capability" in Puerto Rico.
Earlier on Friday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced he was forming a Hurricane Recovery Task Force with an emphasis on addressing challenges facing Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
"It is critical that we adopt a coordinated and comprehensive approach to support the rebuilding of communications infrastructure and restoration of communications services," Pai said in a statement.
Separately, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello said in a Twitter posting late on Friday that he had a "great initial conversation with @elonmusk tonight. Teams are now talking; exploring opportunities. Next steps soon to follow."
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc, said on Friday the company would send more battery installers to Puerto Rico to help restore power after Hurricane Maria knocked out all power on the island over two weeks ago.
Musk said he was diverting resources from a semi-truck project to fix Model 3 bottlenecks and "increase battery production for Puerto Rico & other affected areas".
In late September, Tesla said it was sending hundreds of batteries that can store power generated by solar panels to Puerto Rico to provide emergency help in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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Kool, balloons as COs and DAs with a satellite backbone infrastructure.
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So after you deploy all the 'gee whiz' technology to temporarily restore vital services, what will you do when nobody rebuilds the basic infrastructure to get things back to normal?
(Because frankly, 'normal' there rated as fairly crappy by usual standards.)
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Saudi guards were rubbed out and three others injured on Saturday after a man drove up to the western gate of the royal palace in Jeddah and began shooting, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news.
A security front man of the Ministry of the Interior said the attack happened at 3:15 pm local time when a person began shooting at the post from a car.
The shooter was immediately dealt with by the Royal Guard soldiers, resulting in his death.
At least three other officers were maimed during Saturday’s attack.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s interior ministry has identified the two soldiers killed on Saturday as Agent Sergeant Hammad bin Shallah al-Mutairi and First Soldier Abdullah bin Faisal al-Subaie.
Corporal Walid bin Ali Shami and First soldiers Ahmad Saleh al-Qarni and Abdullah Hindi al-Subaie were maimed in the attack and are receiving necessary treatment.
According to the Interior Ministry's security front man, investigations into the incident identified the shooter as Mansour bin Hassan bin Ali al-Fahid al-Amiri, a 28-year-old Saudi national.
A Kalashnikov gun and thee Molotov bombs were found on his person after the attack.
Speaking to Al Arabiya News Channel, Saudi Interior Ministry Spokesperson Mansour al-Turki confirmed the external guard post was located on a public street. An investigation into the shooter’s motives and links are currently ongoing, he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A British court has tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a pharmacist for six years after it was revealed that he attempted to radicalize children by showing an ISIS beheading video to a primary school pupil.
Zameer Ghumra, 38, was found guilty of spreading terrorist propaganda and "brainwashing" two young brothers into becoming ISIS fighters.
According to the Guardian, Ghumra "taught children how to survive a kaboom and fight with knives, rewarding them with sweets to keep them onside."
Judge, Gregory Dickinson QC described his crimes as "shocking" and as causing "offence to the vast majority of law-abiding Moslems."
Ghumra has shown no signs of remorse over his actions, Dickenson said.
One of the boys being trained by Ghumra reportedly said in court that he was shown "ISIS training videos and people being beheaded."
"There was talking and then the American soldier was beheaded.
"It made me feel disgusting. He said: ’If you truly love Allah, then you do it.’ I told him I get a horrid feeling when I see this."
One of the boys also said: "He believes in a very, very, very extreme Islam. He believes if anyone’s non-Moslem and they say anything bad about Islam you kill them. And you can’t make friends with any non-Moslem."
Ghumra was said to have been setting up an Islamic school as well as working as a pharmacist.
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Ghumra "taught children how to survive a kaboom and fight with knives, rewarding them with sweets to keep them onside."
Was he showing them ISIS videos or teaching them soccer?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As they say, all good things must come to an end. Just as we reluctantly bid farewell to MSN messenger this time four years ago, the time has come to say goodbye to AIM.
With technology advancing quickly and new communication mechanisms seamlessly blending into our everyday lives, old-school "instant messaging" is no longer a hot ticket.
AIM announced their decision to shut down through their twitter handle on Friday. December 15 of this year will be the messaging platform’s final day.
Michael Albers, Vice President of Communications Product at Oath said: "AIM tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift, but the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed."
Various AIM users shared their feelings in response to the news. Many were upset to see another childhood friend disappear, while other users thought the platform had already been shut down nearly a decade ago.
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[Libya Herald] Around 80 demonstrators in Misrata yesterday demanded the unification of Libya armed forces, the return of the police and an end to militias such as the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council and the Benghazi Defence Brigades. Gathering in the city’s main square they said they fully supported the Libya army and the country’s other security forces.
The protest came in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly attack on Misrata’s court buildings by elements of the so-called 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.... . The corpse count remains at four, but the number of maimed is now put at 41, some of them seriously injured.
There were attempts to prevent the demonstration. According to one of those present, around 30 people turned up and accused the demonstrators of being Hafter supporters. This was denied and led to counter accusations that those trying to stop the event did not support the 2011 revolution. The right to demonstrate was part of that revolution, the demonstrators said. It was also pointed out that a number of those who were now trying to stop the demonstration had themselves turned up in the same place the previous week and demonstrated in support of Baset Igtet.
There would have been more people at the event, the demonstrator claimed, but people were worried about being accused of backing Hafter.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the deputy head of the Presidency Council, Ahmed Maetig, has ordered the ministries of justice and finance to fund urgent repairs to the court complex so that it can resume its work.
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[Libya Herald] The bodies of 21 Christians murdered by the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Sirte in February 2015 have been recovered and taken to a mortuary in Misrata for identification and a coroner’s inquest.
The announcement from the investigation bureau of Misrata’s Crime Prevention Department has been confirmed by the Attorney General’s office.
According to the bureau, all the heads were severed, the bodies were dressed in the orange "execution" outfits seen in a video of them being killed, and hands were been tied behind the backs.
Twenty of the murdered men were Egyptian, 13 of them from the same village of al-Our in Egypt’s Minya governorate. The 21st was a sub-Saharan African, believed to be a Ghanaian.
The head of investigations at the Attorney General’s office, Sadek Assour, last week announced that the location where the bodies had been buried had been revealed by one of the IS members during interrogation.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on Saturday 14 Lions of Islam in Menoufiya governorate whom it has identified as members of the Lion of Islam group Hasm, an official statement by the ministry's media office said.
The Lion of Islams, who include a leading member of the group, were plotting terrorist attacks against police targets, state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... MENA reported.
Police arrested the suspects during a raid, where they confiscated three shotguns, kabooms, three cycle of violences, and EGP 160,000.
Hasm has grabbed credit for a number of attacks against Egyptian security personnel in recent months, mostly targeting police checkpoints.
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[Ynet] The Lebanese General Security Directorate jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three Lebanese nationals suspected of collusion with Israel, reported Lebanese paper al-Akhbar.
The three transferred information to the Mossad, the report said, whereas the group's operator was a Lebanese man residing in Israel.
One of the suspects admitted to acting on behalf of the Mossad while he was being interrogated, and electronic equipment and a computer were seized at his home, the newspaper's account concluded.
The security operation, which began with the arrest of two suspects in Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath, was completed Friday evening with the arrest of a third suspect in the town of Deir Qoubel, it added.
According to information, “one of the suspects identified as Abbas S. has confessed to have knowingly assisted the Mossad. Another suspect, a teacher, told interrogators that he was communicating with the Israeli enemy for amusement,” added the daily.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Nine Islamic State suicide attackers were killed in northern Salahuddin, Interior Ministry said.
Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, Interior Ministry’s spokesperson, said in a statement on Saturday, “nine IS suicide bombers were killed, today, by police of the eastern side of Shirqat, north of Salahuddin, while combing Shatei’ al-Jadar village.”
Federal Police announced, late September, liberation of eastern Shirqat, the group’s holdout in north of the province. 225 militants had been killed since the launch of operations in Shirqat.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command announced launch of first phase of operations to liberate Hawija and western Shirqat. Federal Police, Rapid Response and the pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) took part in the attack, according to the command.
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[FREEBEACON] Alan Dershowitz derided the theory of intersectionality as the "phoniest academic doctrine I have encountered in 53 years" in academia, during a lecture at Columbia University on Wednesday evening.
Dershowitz called out the concept that sees all historically persecuted groups as targeted by the same oppressors, making all minorities allies in resisting that common oppression, as an oversimplification of reality that makes for the "strangest of strange bedfellows."
Through intersectionality, LGBT activists stand in solidarity with with advocates of shariah, said Dershowitz, even though Islamic law denies the rights with the former.
Dershowitz slammed the hard left and hard right for their similar use of such "identity politics" to bolster their positions, saying both political extremes do not evaluate ideas or individuals on the basis of the quality of their character.
The renowned criminal defense lawyer primarily discussed the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict and how it is perceived on U.S. college campuses. He issued a challenge to tenured liberal, Zionist professors to "come out of the closet" and openly defend Israel on campus.
"Stand up for you students," urged Dershowitz, as he condemned the "propagandistic" use of the lecture podium by many academics who push their anti-Israel views on a "captive audience."
Dershowitz's talk proceeded without interruption, despite expectations from event organizers, the campus group Students Supporting Israel, that members of Columbia University Apartheid Divest would disrupt the lecture, as anti-Israel protesters have done at numerous other SSI programs.
Dershowitz thanked Columbia students for not shouting him down, telling them, "You're better than that."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A row has broken out over the use of the Kurdish flag rather than Iraq’s colors at former president Jalal Talabani’s funeral, at a time of Iraqi-Kurdish tensions.
Social media is abuzz with chatter over the choice of flag at Friday’s funeral in Sulaimaniyah, Talabani’s fiefdom in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Central government figures and Iraqi Kurdish leaders including long-time rival Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... attended the funeral ceremony in honor of Iraq’s first non-Arab president, who died in Germany on Tuesday aged 83.
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[Al Jazeera] Ndele, Central African Republic - Dieu-beni Celestin Tebefra sits alone in his narrow office, a portrait of the president who named him to this post hanging over his shoulders.
He is the sole representative of the central government in this strategic northern town - but his administrative toolbox is empty.
"I don't have gendarmes or police. It's hard to lead and assert my authority. If I make a decision, who's going to enforce it?" Tebefra asked with a sad shrug. "There are no judges, no magistrates."
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[Iran Press TV] A dozen civilians have bit the dust and several others sustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets targeted a residential area in Yemen's southwestern province of Ta'izz as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor.
Local sources told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the military aircraft bombarded a house in the al-Zahari area of the port city of Mukha, situated 346kilometers south of the capital Sana'a, on Saturday afternoon.
The sources added that there were women and kiddies among the victims, noting that people were desperately searching for loved ones trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building.
At least five people were killed and four others maimed on October 2, when Saudi warplanes struck a car as it was travelling along a road in the al-Barh area of Maqbanah district in Ta’izz province.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has been incessantly pounding Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
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[Iran Press TV] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says he is ready to work towards normalization of his country’s strained ties with Germany.
In a Saturday interview with Der Spiegel weekly, Cavusoglu offered a strikingly conciliatory response to the question about whether there would be any normalization in Ankara-Berlin relations.
"Yes. And I am ready to make an effort towards that," he responded.
"If you take one step towards us, we will take two towards you," Cavusoglu added, noting that there was no reason for problems between the two countries.
Pointing to Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s recent comparison of Germany with the Nazi era, Cavusoglu said the analogy was a kind of "response to the hostility" from Germany, stressing that Berlin had to learn to respect Ankara.
The remarks came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. is expected to appoint Cem Ozdemir ‐ a prominent politician with Ottoman Turkish parents and a staunch opponent of Erdogan‐as the next foreign minister in her new cabinet.
"Whoever comes to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as foreign minister will meet the same respect as he shows us," Cavusoglu said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth told Welt am Sonntag weekly that Germany was prepared to hold talks with Turkey and expressed hope "that we can soon move closer together again."
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State leader was killed in an airstrike by the international coalition in western Anbar, a security source from the province said.
“The airstrike targeted an IS headquarters in the desert of Qaim leaving Majid Mete’b Ojail al-Mahallawi, and five of his guards killed,” the source told Alghad Press on Friday. “Mahallawi pledged allegiance to the group in 2006. He took part in the first attack against Fallujah as well as the operations in Mosul and Qaim, where he settled.”
“Mahallawi kidnapped and tortured a lot of police and army personnel in Qaim after the group took control on it. He also recruited many youth in Iraq and Syria,” the source added.
On Thursday, the U.S.-led Coalition pounded IS locations in Qaim killing five militants.
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.
Iraqi army announced the total recapture of the town of Annah, hours after recapturing neighboring Rayhana area, last month. Troops also liberated Akashat region, between Rutba town, on borders with Jordan, and Qaim, on borders with Syria.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three suicide attackers were killed as they attempted infiltration into a train station in west of Anbar, the military media reported.
“The Jazeera Operations Command managed to kill three suicide bombers who attempted infiltration into al-Feheimi train station, south of Annah,” the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell reported on Saturday.
Military operations have been ongoing to comb liberated regions in western Anbar.
Iraqi army announced the total recapture of Annah, hours after recapturing neighboring Rayhana area, in September. Troops also liberated Akashat region, between Rutba town, on borders with Jordan, and Qaim, on borders with Syria.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Forty-six Islamic State militants, including leaders, were killed in three airstrikes carried out by Iraqi fighter jets in Anbar, Interior Ministry said.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the ministry said “the first airstrike a meeting for IS military leaders in al-Jamaheer district in Qaim, as they were planning to target each of Baghdad and Najaf. The airstrike totally destroyed the location, killing 20 militants, some of whom were leaders of the so-called Baghdad, Al-Furat and Anbar states and wounding others.”
Among the main killed members, according to the statement, were “Abu Tareq, the military emir of the so-called Baghdad State. He used to be a former officer. He was close aid of the group’s supreme leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He planned for several operations in Baghdad including Karrada operation in 2016.”
The second airstrike left “a booby-trapping workshop in al-Furat district, Qaim, destroyed, which exploded three vehicles and killed 12 experts, including booby-trapping experts of several nationalities.”
The third airstrike “targeted a rest house of suicide attackers of the so-called Baghdad State in Qaim,” the statement said. “13 militants were killed, while others were wounded.”
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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... said Saturday that diplomatic efforts with North Korea have consistently failed, adding that "only one thing will work."
Trump has engaged in an escalating war of words with North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un, trading insults amid rising tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid," Trump tweeted.
It "hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of US negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!"
The US has not ruled out the use of force to compel Pyongyang to halt missile and nuclear tests, and Trump has threatened to "totally destroy" the country.
The mercurial American president also told journalists at a recent gathering with military leaders to discuss Iran, North Korea, and ISIS that this "could be the calm before the storm," declining to clarify his remarks.
Last week, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew home from meeting with top Chinese officials, Trump tweeted that his envoy was "wasting his time" in trying to probe North Korea’s willingness to talk.
The message came after Tillerson had revealed there were backchannels between US and North Korean officials.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two weeks after the murder of the Syrian opposition activist Orouba Barakat and her daughter Hala, their killer has finally confessed.
Ahmed Barakat, their Syrian relative, was shortly tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Istanbul on suspicion of killing his cousins and has now revealed that he was responsible for the crime.
Standing before The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Magistrate's Court and the penalty judge, the accused said that: "I am the one who killed Orouba and Hala Barakat, I admit it. They are both my relatives. Orouba is my father’s cousin".
"When I was in Syria, my father and my older brother were killed in the war. I decided to escape in order to get rid of the pressure that was exerted on me to join the forces of the Syrian regime. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... Orouba told me that I could come see her if I’m ever in Turkey," he said. "So I came to Turkey illegally and started working with Orouba."
’She didn’t give me my salary’
The killer claims that she Ourouba did not give him a promised salary despite hiring him to work for her.
"After I’ve quit, Orouba invited me to her house to pay me. I went to see her that night (the night of the crime) in her house. In the morning, I asked for my money. She said she gave the money to someone else and she had no money left. I got angry and started yelling at her face. She slapped me so I pushed her," he told the court.
"Before I left the house, Orouba brought a knife and pointed it at me, but I took it from her and killed her. Her daughter, Hala, came out of the bathroom. She started screaming when she saw her mother soaked in blood. I asked her to stop but she didn’t comply so I killed her too. I left the knife in the kitchen and returned to Bursa (south of Istanbul)," he said.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians died Friday when a leftover explosive device went off northwest of Mosul, sources told Iraqi channel Dijlah TV.
The source said the blast occurred at Soni in Sinjar region.
Meanwhile, Alghad Press said two suspected Islamic State militants were arrested in eastern Mosul while taking snaps of the region’s with their cell phones.
The website quoted Rahman al-Obaidi, a memberr of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), saying that the pair was arrested taking photos of al-Nour district.
Iraqi government forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMFs, declared the recapture of Mosul early July, ending nearly nine months of offensives to recapture the group’s former capital.
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said on Saturday that it and Syrian rebel groups it backs are starting a military operation in Syria's Idlib, where a jihadist alliance is blocking efforts to impose a truce between turbans and the Syrian government.
Idlib and surrounding areas of northwest Syria are among the largest bastions for rebel groups fighting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , but have increasingly fallen under the sway of jihadist bully boy factions.
Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the operation, part of a de-escalation deal agreed between Turkey, Iran and Russia, will involve Syrian rebel groups crossing into Idlib supported by Ottoman Turkish soldiers from inside Turkey's borders.
"There's a serious operation in Syria's Idlib today and it will continue," Erdogan said in a speech to his AK Party.
"Now this step has been taken, and it is underway," he said, adding that Ottoman Turkish forces were not yet involved and that it was a rebel operation so far.
Russia, an ally of Assad, is backing the operation from the air, he said.
Much of Idlib is controlled by the jihadist Tahrir al-Sham alliance, spearheaded by a former al Qaeda affiliate that changed its name last year from the Nusra Front.
"We will never allow a terror corridor along our borders in Syria," Erdogan said. "We will continue to take other initiatives after the Idlib operation."
Tahrir al-Sham has pledged to keep fighting Syrian government forces and their allies, casting doubt on the de-escalation agreement, but Ankara has worked to lure snuffies from it and two groups have defected from the jihadist alliance.
Turkey launched an incursion into Syria further east of Idlib last year, backing Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) groups in the Euphrates Shield operation against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and Kurdish groups.
The FSA groups supported by Turkey are now ready to enter Idlib, Mustafa Sejari, a bigwig in the Liwa al-Mutasem group said.
"The Free Syrian Army with support from Ottoman Turkish troops is in full readiness to enter the area but until this moment there is no movement," he said.
Erdogan said last month that Turkey would deploy troops in Idlib province as part of the de-escalation agreement brokered by Russia in August.
Another FSA rebel in the Euphrates Shield campaign told Rooters he believed an incursion into northwest Syria was imminent.
The Hamza Brigade, also part of Euphrates Shield, posted video online of what it said was a convoy of its forces heading for Idlib.
Residents near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Syria sent Rooters photographs of what they said was a section of the frontier wall being removed by the Ottoman Turkish authorities.
Idlib's population has ballooned to at least two million as thousands of civilians and combatants have left areas seized by the Syrian army in other parts of the country, with the help of Russian jets and Iran-backed militias.
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This has to do with a valley and a pass that communicates between Turkey and Syria. I do not know the names. But given the geography it is high-prize strategic. Wish I could be more specific. It also involves the Syrian Kurds, who are just east of it. Again, wish I could be more specific. A relief or contour map of the area would show the geography = strat-comms.
Turkey and Russia agreeing on partitioning Syria. USA and Russia have been doing parallel in re Syria. Those talks should be formalized. Russia has strategic interests with Turkey in the area but not globally, where she does have strategic interests with USA. Ergo, to Russia, USA is a far more valuable strategic partner than Turkey ever can be, especially with Turkey decimating her military command structures.
With Luck, all four Kurd groups, or at least three of them, sit with the big boys (USA, Russia and India) to draw the sovereignty boundaries in MENA.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Danish police said Saturday they have found the decapitated head and two legs belonging Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who vanished after interviewing a Danish inventor aboard his homemade submarine.
Copenhagen police inspector Jens Moller Jensen told news hounds police had found one bag with her missing clothes, and another bag containing her head and legs. "Last night our forensic dentist confirmed that it was Kim Wall," Jensen said.
Wall's headless torso was found floating in waters off Copenhagen on August 21. Submarine inventor Peter Madsen has been accused of her death.
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Aimless thought: It would be odd to find a head that wasn't decapitated.
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Swedish court sentences Syrian asylum seeker to prison for posing with war dead
25 September
[Ynet] A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a Syrian asylum seeker to eight months in prison after he posed for photos with dead bodies during the conflict in his home country. The man admitted to posing with dead or severely injured people while fighting for the Syrian army in 2014 and that he knew the pictures would be used for propaganda, the district court said. He denied wrongdoing, however, saying he was following orders.
"The man has by his actions exposed the five persons, all of whom were protected under international humanitarian law in armed conflicts, for humiliating or degrading treatment aimed at seriously violating their personal dignity," the court said.
The man sought asylum in Sweden in 2015 and was detained this year after a member of the public sent the photo to the police.
4 men on trial in Germany accused of killings in Syria
25 September
[Ynet] Four asylum-seekers have gone on trial in Germany accused of executing 36 members of the Syrian security forces while they were members of the Nusra Front extremist group. Prosecutors say the four men killed their victims—police officers, security officials and soldiers—at a garbage site in the Syrian city of Tabqa in March 2013. The defendants appeared before Stuttgart's regional court Monday on charges of war crimes, murder and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
With Highest Jihadist Per Capita Rate in EU, Belgium Moves To Repatriate Children Taken to Islamic State
7 October
The mass retreat of the Islamic State group from its territories in Syria and Iraq has left Europe grappling with the risk of foreign fighters returning home. But in Belgium, authorities are also turning their attention to repatriating children stranded
‘Mafia Effect’ Keeps Islamic Terrorism at Bay in Italy: Report
6 October
Italy has managed to avoid the brutal consequences of Islamist terrorism thanks to its decades-long war on powerful organized crime, according to a new article in the UK-based Economist magazine.
Austrian Police Find 18 Migrants in Back of Truck
5 October
Austrian police say they have arrested a Bulgarian national after 18 migrants were found in the back of his truck during a search on the border with Hungary.
Man Arrested Near Marseille with Kalashnikov Rifle, Ammunition, Rocket-Launcher
5 October
An arsenal of weapons including an anti-tank rocket launcher with a rocket, a Kalashnikov-type rifle, and ammunition were seized by police near Marseille, France, Monday.
Greek Police Arrest Eight Smugglers who Brought in 38 Migrants
1 October
Greek police announced they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who reportedly smuggled 38 migrants through Greece’s land border with Turkey.
OSCE: ‘The Threat of Terrorism Will Occupy Europe For Many, Many Years’
30 September
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world-leading security organisation has warned the spectre of terrorism will continue to haunt Europe for many years to come against an increase in radicalisation in European nations.
Vatican Launches Two-Year Campaign to Provoke a ‘Shift in Thinking’ on Immigration
28 September
Pope Francis launched a two-year campaign Wednesday to educate people about the plight of migrants, and to encourage a more welcoming attitude toward them worldwide.
As Boat Arrivals Slow, EU Set to Create ‘Legal Routes’ for Mass Migration
27 September
The European Union (EU) has announced plans to allow huge numbers of migrants from the third world to migrate legally, now that migrant flows to Italy and Greece have been brought “under control”.
Pope Francis: Jesus Christ Himself Asks Us to Welcome Migrants ‘With Arms Wide Open’
27 September
Pope Francis has once again launched an appeal for greater acceptance of migrants and refugees, insisting that it is Jesus Christ who urges us to welcome them.
Dutch Lorry Firm Stops UK Deliveries Due to Calais Migrant Violence
27 September
A Dutch logistics firm has said they will stop making deliveries to the UK because of the risk of attack by migrants and asylum seekers as trucks pass through Calais.
After Disaster Election, Potential Merkel Coalition Partner Demands Migration Cap
26 September
Potential coalition partners in the new German government are expected to extract a high price from the leading Christian Democrats in return for their cooperation, and fears persist that the country may not be able to form a government at all.
Swedish Lawyer: Majority of Rape Suspects In Cases Are Migrants
7 October
Swedish lawyer Elisabeth Fritz claims that in the majority of rape cases she has had to work on the suspects have been individuals from migrant backgrounds and has called on the government to “lift the lid” on the issue.
Number of Violent Jihadists in Germany up 64 Per Cent to over 1,800
6 October
The German Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, the country’s domestic intelligence service, claims there are now more than 1,800 violent jihadists in the country and the number continues to grow.
Swiss ‘Sugar Mama’ Faces Jail for Trafficking Younger Migrant Boyfriend
6 October
Swiss national Barbara Schwager, 56, faces potential prison time in Switzerland after she smuggled her 27-year-old illegal migrant boyfriend out of Switzerland to avoid his deportation back to Pakistan. The 56-year-old claims that she wants to marry her much younger partner Nadeem Akram
Migrant Youth Gangs Turn Berlin Area into Borderline No-Go Zone
6 October
The area around the Alexanderplatz metro in Berlin has become a centre for migrant youth gang violence and drugs, leaving the police to lose control and the district to demand more resources to fight the lawlessness.
Migrants Open New Illegal Route to UK Via Normandy
6 October
Illegal migrants are attempting to reach the UK by breaking into lorries leaving from a port in Normandy as security around Calais continues to be tightened.
‘Forcing Migrants on Nations Will Mean the End of the EU’: Polish President
6 October
Brussels’ insistence on ordering European Union (EU) nations to accept third world migrants could lead to the bloc’s break-up, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has warned.
‘Islam Is Further to the Right Than the Entire Populist Party,’ Says Leftist Filmmaker
6 October
German filmmaker and critic of Islam Samuel Schirmbeck has claimed that intellectuals in the West are totally uncritical of Islam and that the religion is further to the right than the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could ever be.
Identitarian Activists Donate Goods to Hungarian Border Guards to Congratulate Their Success in Reducing Mass Migration
5 October
Identitarian activists from Austria and Slovenia travelled to Budapest to join Hungarian members of the movement to donate supplies to border officers working along the Hungary-Serbia border.
Swiss Government Admits It Does Not Know True Identities of 90 Per Cent of Asylum Seekers
5 October
Swiss national councillor Simonetta Sommaruga has revealed that the problem of asylum seekers arriving into the country with no papers is so extensive that the government does not know the true identities of nine out of 10 migrants.
EU: ‘Illegal Migrants in Morocco Have European Union Refugee Rights’
4 October
The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling that migrants who cross border fences which are still outside European Union territory have ‘rights as refugees’ – meaning Spanish authorities will no longer be allowed to return illegal immigrants to Morocco who storm border fences at the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.
Psychiatrist Warns of ‘Time Bomb’ in Germany: ‘Today’s Migrants Are Not Integrable’
3 October
A psychiatrist has warned that Germany faces a “time bomb” as a result of the mass migration of young men who have “crazy potential for aggression”.
Left-Wing Politician Guilty of Trafficking 24 Migrants
2 October
A Left-wing Swiss politician has been sentenced in court for illegally smuggling 24 African migrants into the country.
Swiss City Votes to Greatly Reduce Money Benefits Paid to Failed Asylum Seekers
28 September
The people of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, have voted to greatly reduce failed asylum seeker social benefits which could see the canton save as much as 10 million Swiss Francs (£7.6 million).
Ghanaian Migrant Who Raped Camping German in Front of Her Boyfriend Calls Victim a ‘Prostitute’
28 September
The Ghanaian migrant accused of raping a German student whilst threatening to kill her boyfriend if he intervened has branded his victim a “prostitute” in court.
70 Per Cent of Italians Say Country Has Too Many Migrants, Want ‘Strong Leader to Defend People’
27 September
Seven out of ten Italians believe there are too many migrants in their country, and some 67 per cent think “a strong leader is needed to defend the people”, according to a new poll.
Italian TV Broadcasts Alleged Footage of ‘Save the Children’ Working with People Smugglers
26 September
Italian television programme Matrix has shown footage of what they claim is of members of the pro-migrant rescue NGO Save the Children cooperating with people traffickers.
Almost Half of Crimes in Berlin Committed by Migrants
25 September
Almost half of the individuals suspected of a recorded crime in Berlin last year were individuals who don’t have a German passport, the latest police statistics show.
Asylum Seeker Who Tried To Kill Wife With Axe in Sweden Found In Austria
24 September
A 39-year-old Somalian asylum seeker who fled Sweden after attempting to kill his wife with an axe has been found and arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The 39-year-old Somalian had carried out the attack on his wife in
Asylum Seeker Faces Life Sentence for Killing Female ‘Refugee Helper’
24 September
A 27-year-old Nigerian migrant in on trial for killing refugee helper Soopika P. earlier this year and prosecutors in the case have demanded he face a life sentence.
Migrant Ikea Killer Demands Permission to Leave Prison So He Can Visit McDonald’s
24 September
Failed Eritrean asylum seeker Abraham Ukbagabir, who murdered a woman and her son in an Ikea in Västerås, Sweden, is now demanding he be let out of prison temporarily so he can visit McDonald’s and do some shopping.
Danish Prime Minister Warns of the Emergence of Muslim Parallel Societies, No-Go Zones
22 September
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has warned that his country may be seeing a rise of Muslim “parallel societies” and no-go zones and has promised to take steps against them. Thanks TW. Excellent 'replacement citizen' rundown.
[Iran Press TV] Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s "ridiculous and rehashed" accusations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic, saying the promotion of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... extremism and terrorism is among obvious hallmarks of Riyadh’s foreign policy.
"Threatening and the employment of military force and language of bullying against small neighboring countries, the undeniable war crimes dossier in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and the promotion of Takfiri extremism and terrorism have been among the obvious traits of Saudi foreign policy in recent years," Qassemi said on Saturday.
In order to cover up its record, Saudi Arabia has no option but to put the blame on others, distract public opinion and spend huge sums of money; however, such methods would fail, he added.
The Iranian spokesperson said whenever Saudi officials feel under pressure from world public opinion for their military aggression on Yemen and their support for terrorism they move to level preposterous and hackneyed allegations against Tehran.
Surprisingly, Riyadh, which has a long record in spreading of terrorism, violence and aggression, is shamelessly and delusively setting conditions for Iran's active presence in the international community, he said.
Qassemi made the remarks in response to recent accusations by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who claimed that Iran supports terrorism and destabilizes the region. In another allegation, he said that Iran must give up meddling in the affairs of other countries to become a constructive member of the international community.
Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group is mending relations with Egypt, which is fighting a bitter conflict with IS in the Sinai
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces in the Gazoo Strip have tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! four senior Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members, including the group’s leader in the coastal enclave, the terror group said Saturday.
"This morning, security forces arrested Nour Issa, 27, who is a leader of the deviant thought movement and is from Bureij Camp in central Gazoo, along with others," a Hamas source said, using a phrase routinely used to refer to jihadists, including IS.
The internal security service confirmed on its Facebook page that it had made a number of arrests.
"One of the leaders of the deviant thought has been arrested along with others," it said, without giving a name.
Issa and three others were holding a meeting in the house of one of the members in the southern Gazoo city of Rafah when they were arrested. A large stash of weapons were also found, Hebrew media reports said.
Hamas has run Gazoo for a decade but it has been challenged by small hardline factions, some of them inspired by IS, who advocate a stricter, Salafist interpretation of Islam.
Some have carried out sporadic rocket attacks into Israel in defiance of an informal truce agreed by Hamas.
In August, a jacket wallah allegedly linked to IS killed a Hamas guard in southern Gazoo along the border with Egypt, in a rare attack against the Islamists.
The arrests also come amid attempts by Hamas and the Fatah party to resolve a decade-long split and see the Paleostinian Authority return to rule over Gazoo. Talks are set to continue in Egypt next week.
Egypt has been key to facilitating the deal after Hamas and Cairo mended long-strained ties.
Relations between Hamas and Egypt were hampered, particularly over Hamas’ support for Islamic forces of Evil fighting Egypt in the Sinai and Hamas ties to the Moslem Brüderbund.
As part of the rapprochement, Hamas has been trying to convince Egypt that it is a reliable security partner. It has deployed more troops along the border with Egypt’s northern Sinai region, where the Egyptian military is battling the so-called "Sinai Province" of IS.
Hamas also recently made a gesture toward Egypt with a new policy document that dropped its longtime association with the Moslem Brüderbund and identified itself as a Paleostinian movement fighting only against what it calls Israeli occupation.
Egypt also controls the enclave’s southern border, which is mostly closed for the 2 million residents of Gazoo as part of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade. Israel and Egypt have enforced the blockade, citing security reasons, since the Hamas terror group seized control of Gazoo a decade ago.
Hamas previously had close cooperation with IS.
Hamas had refused to crack down on smuggling by IS through tunnels run by its members under the Gazoo-Sinai border. Instead, the Paleostinian terror group has looked to this activity as a source of income, taxing imports.
[AyPee] A Filipino doctor accused of plotting terrorist attacks in the U.S. was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! months ago in the Philippines for alleged involvement in kidnappings and beheadings blamed on pro-ISIS bad boys.
Chief State Counsel Ricardo Paras said that a Philippine court is considering a request that Russell Salic be extradited to face terrorism financing complaints. U.S. officials said Friday that they disrupted a plot by Salic and two other ISIS sympathizers to carry out attacks at various New York City locations, including concert venues, subway stations and Times Square in the summer of 2016.
Even if the U.S. extradition request is granted, the Department of Justice in Manila would have to decide whether to let Salic face criminal complaints in the Philippines first or be allowed to be flown to the U.S. to answer those terror allegations.
Paras said, "The U.S. can also request for a temporary surrender of Salic to its custody, but it's in our options to require him to face criminal complaints here first."
Salic is accused of sending money to help finance the planned attacks, according to U.S. court documents. He allegedly told an undercover FBI agent that his ultimate goal was to join the ISIS in Syria but that "it would be a great pleasure if we can slaughter" people in New York.
One of the defendants, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, was arrested after traveling from Canada to New Jersey in May 2016 to stage the attacks. An American suspect, Talha Haroon, was arrested last year in Pakistain.
Haroon's extradition was halted in March by a Pakistain court. At the time, Haroon's lawyer Tariq Asad said that his client's father, Haroon Rashid, told the court that his son is innocent and that his life would be in danger if he is extradited to the U.S. where President Trump has "biased and prejudiced policy against the Moslems."
Filipino state prosecutors say Salic was taken into custody around April of this year for alleged involvement in the abduction of six sawmill workers, two of whom were later beheaded, in the southern Philippine town of Butig in Lanao del Sur province in 2016. The kidnappings and beheadings have been blamed on the Maute group.
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Girls as young as four are being 'forced' into wearing hijabs in the classroom as part of the compulsory uniform of state-funded Islamic schools, campaigners warn
24 September
[DailyMail] In eight state-funded Islamic schools in England, including three primary schools, the hijab appears to be compulsory, according to research carried out by the National Secular Society. A further 51 private Islamic schools of the 176 surveyed said it is compulsory for female pupils to wear the hijab, reports the Sunday Times, while 18 said wearing it was optional. And on the website of one school it says the face must be covered outside school, not just in class.
'I heard knocking - then I saw a face!' Four illegal migrants ask 'Is this England?' as they are hauled out of the ENGINE of a coach bringing British shoppers back from Calais
06/10/17
Four migrants were hauled out of the engine of a coach returning from France after the driver heard knocking and stopped at Beaconsfield services, MailOnline can reveal.
Somali killer who tried to get himself deported the day after stabbing a man to death is jailed for 18 years
06/10/17
Mohamed Abdillahi, 25, and his friends savagely attacked 27-year-old Augustus Fenton ‘like wild animals’ as children made their way home from school in Southall, West London.
Migrants find new back door to Britain: Group are pictured trying to jump aboard lorries arriving at quiet port 200 miles down the coast from Calais
06/10/17
Migrants have been seen pouncing on lorries headed for the port of Ouistreham in Normandy, while others return to Calais in their droves, in an effort to find a passage to the UK.
Ethiopian migrant sneaked into British holidaymaker's car at Channel Tunnel terminal before jumping out at his home in Wales after five-hour journey
25/09/17
Paul Edmunds only realised the man, believed to be Ethiopian, was in the boot of his Nissan Navara when he got home to Caersws, Wales.
[Libya Herald] Fighting today in the east Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... district of Arada, near Suq al-Juma, is reported to have left four people dead and 17 others injured, seven of them seriously.
The cause of the festivities, which resulted in locals fleeing the streets and forced to remain indoors, is unclear. According to reports, it was a continuation of fighting that started last night in Ain Zara district further south between the members of the 42nd Battalion and the Abdul Raouf al-Jabari Brigade. The former are based in Ain Zara, the latter in Arada. Both are said to have been legalised by the Presidency Council’s interior ministry.
The Jabari brigade was then counter-attacked today at its headquarters in Arada by the 42nd. A nearby building belonging to economy ministry is said to have been set alight in the fighting.
According to another report, though, the fighting was about drugs dealing. This this has not been confirmed.
The situation is now said to have calmed after Rada (deterrance) forces were sent in to re-establsh order in the district.
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[Libya Herald] Sabha and the south are still without fuel despite promises from the fuel depot in Misrata that 100 fuel tankers would arrive 12 days ago.
Fuel tankers drivers had stopped delivering to the south because of attacks and theft by criminal gangs. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Sebha Mayor Hamed Rafeh told the Libya Herald a fortnight ago that there had been an agreement to transport the fuel first from Misrata to Jufra in a military convoy with security provided by Misratan forces and then from Jufra accompanied by a detachment of the Libyan National Army.
Nothing has arrived, although this newspaper was told during the week by a reliable source that 40 tankers had arrived in Jufra from Misrata and were ready to move on to Sebha. They did not travel further south, however, and it appears that the fuel has gone elsewhere.
There is no reason now not to send tankers, Mayor Rafeh said today. The road between Jufra and Sebha was now secured by the LNA and safe.
He said that he had again been promised by the depot there would be a delivery of fuel arriving tomorrow, but he did not believe it. He had had too many promises and nothing had come. He said that although the authorities in Misrata had approved deliveries, he believed others in the city were preventing it.
It is suggested that the problem is with the forces that were forced out of Tamenhint airbase.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Operations at one of the three factories of India’s largest carmaker came to a halt on Thursday morning when a leopard entered its premises and decided to stay put.
The adult leopard that was first sighted at 3.40am by a guard, prompting an immediate evacuation of Maruti Suzuki’s 600-acre Manesar premises, a Times of India report said.
Operations remained suspended between 4am and 3pm to allow it to be rescued, said the report. The leopard, which made fleeting appearances through the day on CCTV screens, had managed to evade rescuers but did not attack anyone.
According to the report, the leopard managed to dodge the 15-member forest department team that tried to catch and rescue it all day.
"This area is not directly connected to the production facility, so we resumed operations. There was only nominal impact on our production," said a Maruti official. The leopard is believed to have strayed from neighboring forest areas.
When the alert was sounded, there were around 500 people on the factory premises -350 workers and 150 guards, besides several truck drivers and loaders, who were all immediately evacuated.
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Trying to find the snack bar.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ‐ In another sign of escalating tensions between President Donald Trump's administration and California, the nation's top immigration official said Friday his agency will have "no choice" but to arrest immigrants who are in the country illegally in California's neighborhoods and worksites.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will also likely have to place immigrants arrested in California in out-of-state detention centers, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement.
Homan's comments came a day after Gov. Jerry Brown signed bill SB54, or sanctuary state legislation. This could lead to eventual conflict and violence between state and federal law enforcement personnel. Worst case, state ordered military confrontation.
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As a Los Angeles resident I agree with the federal government overriding Governor Brown.
If California is not going to cooperate with the federal government to protect all Americans, then the federal government will have to act on its own to protect us Californians who do not agree with our governor as well as protect the rest of our country from the states overrun with corruption.
BTW, I'm thinking there is all kinds of discretionary federal spending that no longer needs to be done in California. I hate to say it but if Moonbeam won't cooperate with the federal government, the federal government should no longer cooperate with Moonbeam. No more research grants, no more block grants, highway funding pared to the bone, etc., etc. Then maybe some federal investigations into campaign funding for California politicians. That'd be like turning on the light in a dark room full of cockroaches.
It's not like Trump is ever gonna get California's electoral votes anyway.
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..just like local LEO won't support Antifa over free speech.
Depends on the municipality. In places like Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco and Los Angeles you might be right. But in other places the police still do their jobs.
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Decades ago, my wife was an accountant for a chrysanthemum grower in Portola Valley. When the word was passed that ICE was coming, all the workers would go out and hide in the chrysanthemums in the large greenhouses. ICE would round up a token group of them and depart.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State member, known to be close to the group’s supreme leader, was killed along with several snipers in an airstrike in southwest of Kirkuk, a local source said.
“The leader in charge of training the group’s snipers, known as Abu Abdullah al-Tajiki, along with other snipers, were killed in an airstrike in a village in north of Hawija,” the source told AlSumaria News on Saturday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, “al-Tajiki is one of the front line leaders. He was known to be close to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group’s leader. He was in charge of the snipers brigade in Nineveh.”
Iraqi joint troops killed 385 IS members, including five snipers, as Hawija Operations Command announced accomplishing targets of the second phase of operations earlier on the day. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared on Thursday liberation of Hawija. The second phase of the offensive was launched in late September.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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