[Stars and Stripes] CAMP ZAMA, Japan ‐ Some soldiers like the look of proposed retro-style uniforms unveiled by the Army last week but say they already have too many outfits.
The pinkish-brown trousers and dark olive jackets, modeled after World War II-era uniforms known as "pinks and greens," were presented by Program Executive Office Soldier at the Association of the United States Army’s annual exposition in Washington, D.C.
The gear was designed for everyday office wear. If adopted, the existing blue Army service uniform would be used only for formal occasions, officials said.
Some soldiers at Camp Zama, Japan, said Wednesday that they like the look of the pinks and greens.
Even better - put in a Federal reg that NO military service dress uniform can be changed (to an entirely new pattern) for 20 years after the last one.
Mike
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Well Mike, I don't have an issue with the P&G's, they look fine. There have been however far, far too many uniform changes in the Army over the past 25-30 years. I can't even count the changes. The USMC on the other hand, very few changes.
These changes cost the soldier, the officer, and the taxpayer a bundle of money.
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The Navy, until recently, had about 12 different sets of uniforms that an enlisted man was required to purchase and maintain. Including the 'blue fleck' fatigues that were known as 'kill the corpsman'.
The new Army dress blues, what with piping trim and all, are widely called 'gay'.
Somebody at the five sided funny farm is trying to justify their office and job.
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Are new uniforms the most serious question facing today's military? Seriously?
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SomebodyMany people at the five sided funny farm is trying to justify their office and job.
FIFY....and that doesn't count the Lobbyists, contractors and pols.
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Apparently the previous suppliers haven't been ponying up campaign contributions recently?
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Pinks and Greens were cited, usually with envy, by many WWII European historians and in Euro veterans memoirs as being a very visually impressive uniform that immediately identified officers. The leather belt for enlisted also made their jackets look less like a sack. And no matter what color current service coats look like sacks.
Now get rid of the beret with class A wear or office wear and bring back the saucer cap.
Berets belong to those who earn them. When everyone is special then no one is.
Berets were a Euro thingy, cause they all had them. Europhiles won out. As for earning, that is what the tabs are for. Ask them which they'd rather give up.
The SOP is that armies change uniforms after they lost (for morale building being the usual rationale).
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Berets suck. I stick with the Patrol Cap.
These uniform changes happen faster than I can keep up. It's is costly even with clothing allowance and very time consuming.
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Just bring back the ODs (with baseball or patrol cap) for Garrison, Khakis (and saucer hats) for office duty and "undress" wear w/wo the forest gree jacket and belt, reserve Blues for formal dress only, and leave the BDUs issued by the unit for the specific field environment. Change the camo as needed, leave the OD, Khakhi and Blues alone for ever.
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Berets, Stetsons Etc - reserved to specific where they are tradition - units where you earn them and cannot wear them until you do. Rangers, Airborne, SF, cavalry.
[Mil.com] On Monday, Vietnam veteran Gary Michael "Mike" Rose will receive the Medal of Honor for his heroism during a secret mission into Laos that he promised never to discuss.
The retired U.S. Army captain and 5th Special Forces medic is credited with risking his life on multiple occasions to treat about 70 wounded soldiers under enemy fire during Operation Tailwind.
The daring mission was launched into Chavane, Laos, Sept. 11-14, 1970 and would not be declassified until June 1998.
[Free Beacon] A New Yorker article warned Friday that White House chief of staff John Kelly's press briefing on Thursday could have been a "preview" of what an eventual military coup in the U.S. might look like.
"Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup," began Masha Gessen, a Russian journalist and an outspoke critic of Vladimir Putin. "You don't have to strain your imagination‐all you have to do is watch Thursday's White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump's phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson."
"The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments," she continued.
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"Microaggressed" by someone who actually/sacrificed for his nation, cupcake?
FOAD
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...Let me see if I have this straight: according to the Left, the US military is racist, sexist, cruel to people all over the world, and a waste of precious resources needed to take care of our own.
And they're also our only hope. Got it.
Mike
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[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump's tax reform framework could raise GDP by as much as 5 percent and wages by as much as 7 percent, according to a new study from Boston University economists.
"We find that, depending on the year considered, the new Republican tax plan raises GDP by between 3 and 5 percent and real wages by between 4 and 7 percent," the economists explain. "This translates into roughly $3,500 annually more annual real take-home pay for the average American household."
Economists believe this growth can happen due to the plan's aim to reduce the marginal effective corporate tax rate from 34.6 percent to 18.6 percent, which they believe will grow the capital stock by 12 to 20 percent.
While critics of the plan have said the tax cuts will add costs to the economy, the Boston University economists say the plan is essentially revenue neutral due to the economy's expected expansion. They point out that closing corporate tax loopholes helps keep the plan revenue neutral and increased revenues are a result of broadening the tax base.
The study also says every American can benefit from this tax reform framework.
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Yes, I continue to have my doubts about a tax overhaul. The chances for it happening this year look quite bleak. Next year is a 'nothing gets done' election year, so.....
[Breitbart] During Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s "Cavuto on Business," economist and former presidential speechwriter Ben Stein rejected what many NFL players have proclaimed to be the justification for their pre-game National Anthem protests.
According to Stein, there was no longer "institutional racism" in America and those players were "a bunch of sulking big babies."
"You know, these guys are a bunch of sulking big babies," Stein said. "They don’t know what they’re talking about. There’s no institutional racism at all in America anymore. If they want to do their free speech thing, God bless them. Let them do their free speech thing. But let’s ignore them from then on. Let’s just ignore them like they’re bad babies and we don’t want to hear them crying off in the corner ... yes, there’s racism in every human being’s heart. There’s no institutional racism in America anymore. It’s gone."
[Gatestone] Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic's parliamentary election ‐ by a landslide ‐ making the "politically incorrect" billionaire businessman the main contender to become prime minister after coalition negotiations.
With all of the votes counted, Babis's anti-establishment party ANO (which stands for "Action of Dissatisfied Citizens" and is also the Czech word for "yes") won nearly 30% ‐ almost three times its closest rival ‐ in elections held on October 20. The Eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the anti-establishment Czech Pirates Party and the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) came second, third and fourth, with around 11% each.
The Communists came in fifth with 7.8%. The Social Democrats, the center-left establishment party that finished first in the previous election, came in sixth with just 7.2%. The Christian Democrats, the center-right establishment party, won 5.8%, just enough to qualify for seats in parliament. In all, nine parties competed in the election.
The election outcome, the result of popular discontent with established parties, is the latest in a recent wave of successes for European populists, including in Austria and Germany. The populist ascendancy highlights a shifting political landscape in Europe where runaway multiculturalism and political correctness, combined with a massive influx of unassimilable migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, have given rise to a surge in support for anti-establishment protest parties.
[NY Post] Bowe Bergdahl, the Army deserter who walked off his base in Afghanistan, is whining that the US treated him worse than the Taliban.
The 31-year-old sergeant told British TV journalist Sean Langan in an interview reported in The Sunday Times of London: "At least the Taliban were honest enough to say, ’I’m the guy who’s gonna cut your throat.’ "
That got him less upset than the "administrative duties" the Army assigned him while awaiting trial, he said.
"Here, it could be the guy I pass in the corridor who’s going to sign the paper that sends me away for life,’’ he said.
"We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs."
During his nearly five years as an unwilling guest of the Taliban, he said, he was kept in a steel cage and tortured.
Bergdahl complained to Langan ‐ who himself was held by the Taliban for three months in 2008 ‐ about the "endless weeks, months, years on my own.’’
There are conflicting reports that six soldiers died searching for him.
He was traded for five Taliban officials freed from Guantanamo Bay.
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Sad that any effort or resources are wasted on him at all.
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Dear Bowe -
You know, I was actually willing to think that all things considered, they should give you a DD, RIR to E-1, forefiture of all pay and benefits, and then throw your sorry ass out the door.
But you just couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you?
The Taliban held you for five years, and the United States Army, in its wisdom and majesty, can put you away for a hell of a lot longer...and should. Twenty at Leavenworth, with no parole and all the trimmings, should give you sufficient time and perspective to reconsider your attitude.
Mike
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He's a traitor, wire, lamp post, and moron, some assembly required.
#5
D-bag gives Idaho a bad name. Other than the libtards in Hailey and the north end of Boise, everyone I talk to thinks life in prison is too light a sentence.
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The US Army and the US as a whole (except for progs) requires responsibility, the Taliban, eh, not so much.
"WAAA! My panties too tight!"
Keep him out of circulation for a very long time. Think of the ones that were killed or wounded looking for his sorry ass, thinking he was worth saving.
[Times of Israel] The Palestinian city of Qalqilya has named a street after Saddam Hussein and erected a memorial with his likeness, an NGO monitoring Arabic media reported.
The monument was unveiled Wednesday at a ceremony attended by the Qalqilya District Governor Rafi Rawajba and two other Palestinian officials. It bears the slogan "Saddam Hussein ‐ The Master of the Martyrs in Our Age," as well as "Arab Palestine from the River to the Sea," a slogan often used by Hussein that refers to the intended destruction of Israel.
One side of the memorial shows Saddam saluting, while another depicts him holding a gun.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, the ceremony during which the monument was revealed included speeches in praise of Hussein.
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Just a short list of some of Saddam's WND (that the left claims never existed) which the Palestinians and Iranians can no longer get their hands on:
[Wash Times] The head of the CIA lumped WikiLeaks with al Qaeda and the Islamic State and said his agency is working toward reducing the "enormous threat" posed by each of them.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo placed the antisecrecy website in the same category as terrorist organizations while speaking Thursday at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ National Security Summit in D.C.
"I talked about these non-state actors, and it’s not just Wikileaks. Indeed I may have overemphasized them ‐ they are an enormous threat, we are working to take down that threat to the United States as well, to reduce the threat from all of it," Mr. Pompeo said. "But Hezbollah, [the Islamic State], al Qaeda, none of them sit at the U.N., these are all non-state actors, each of which has not only cyber capacity, but they look and feel like very good intelligence organizations.
"All the tradecraft that you read about from the excellent work that the agency’s done and that our state competitors have done for decades and decades, you now see it being adopted by these non-state agencies," Mr. Pompeo continued. "They run assets; they run counterintelligence program; they lure dangles ‐ all the tradecraft that you read about from the excellent work that the agency’s done and that our state competitors have done for decades and decades, you now see it being adopted by these non-state agencies. "
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange scoffed at the CIA chief’s remarks.
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It doesn't matter - all that matters is that they want one world government and anything that opposes this goal is enemy.
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Herb, when I started college 50 yrs ago, (damn I'm old), one of the most aggressive recruiters at freshman orientation was the "One World Fedaralists".
Given my interest in the political and my inbred love of country federalism was very interesting so I took some time speaking to them and looking at their literature. It took little time to determine that they were very much of the pale red variety.
Amazing how OWF and Internat'l Socialism sounded the same when you translated the jargon and euphemisms and crushing desire for a "new" man.
[Townhall] Just when you thought liberals had sunk as low as they could, they break out the shovel and start digging. ....or swimming.
Nothing is sacred anymore. Nothing is off limits, and everything is political. This week showed us once again there is nothing Democrats won’t exploit, no grave they won’t dance on, if they think they can score political points. And there’s nothing "journalists" won’t spin, won’t lie about, and no hypocrisy too great to prevent them from smearing their political opponents.
The sad deaths of four soldiers in an ambush in Niger normally would not be a political football, but these times are anything but normal.
In the past week, a media narrative developed about how President Trump hadn’t spoken publicly about the deaths of the men at the hands of an ISIS affiliate group. This didn’t happen by accident, it happened suddenly and from multiple media outlets and "journalists," as if it were coordinated.
"Why hasn’t Trump said anything about this?" they asked.
Of course, the White House had spoken about it the day after it happened, but since it came from the president’s spokeswoman and not him directly, this fact was ignored. Presidents don’t speak about every death in battle and never have, but this one was manufactured to be different. It was going to be "Trump’s Benghazi," or so the media hoped.
But there were no warnings ignored, like in Benghazi. There was no 13-hour delay in sending aid. There was no blaming of an Internet video to cover up the failure of the administration to act, and no one was sent to prison for a year to aid in the re-election of the president. The only similarity with Benghazi is the body count.
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Besoeker - If we are to believe today's news..
The Cubans and Russians trained him but he went lone wolf and killed Kennedy. Then the Cuban agent Ruby shot him so he would stay shut up.
It really looks like another Mikhail Suslov plot. Just like the attempt to nuke Hawaii from the sub that the Glomar Explorer later raised.
His pet dictator was, at the end, Yuri Andropov.
The wise thing to do.. Yes I know D.C. never does the wise thing. ..would have been to kill Suslov and his main supporters after the Assassination.
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Besoeker - If were are to believe today's news. The Cubans and Russians trained him but he went lone wolf and killed Kennedy. Then the Cuban agent Ruby shot him so he would stay shut up.
Yes 3dc, I think we may soon learn that Lee Harvey Oswald was.... on the radar of the FBI and CIA.'
I certainly hope we do not also discover that his murderous rampage was due to a wage dispute or contract termination. That type of disclosure would be most embarrassing.
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The Kennedy assassination was because of one of two things
Either the mob was angry that JFK and Bobbie weren't playing along with the promises Poppa Joe made to the mob to get Illinois "delivered" OR it was factions in the Vietnamese government pissed at the presidential order to take out Diem.
Nothing else makes sense as to why they wanted to bury the investigation forever...way to embarrassing for every one involved
[PJ] In 2010, the FBI arrested ten Russian spies as part of "Operation Ghost Stories." According to a top FBI official, the agency had to act quickly because the "deep cover" agents had come very close to "a sitting US cabinet member." They had already infiltrated then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's inner circle, befriending a Democratic fundraiser close to Clinton.
Clinton's Russian connections have attracted more scrutiny following recent revelations of an FBI investigation into Russian company Rosatom, which gained control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium in the 2010 Uranium One deal. The fact that the Russian spies attempted to infiltrate Clinton's network just before the Uranium One deal has been previously reported by PJ Media's Pat Poole, and the connection to the recent revelations of the FBI investigation into Rosatom was reported by Center for Security Policy analyst J. Michael Waller in The Daily Caller Friday.
"We were becoming very concerned," Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI's assistant director of counterintelligence, told the BBC in 2012. "They were getting close enough to a sitting US cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue."
There are many reasons to suggest Clinton was this "sitting US cabinet member." In June 2010, Barbara Morea, president of Morea Financial Services in Manhattan, confirmed that "Cynthia Murphy," Russian External Intelligence Service (SVR) spy Lidiya Guryeva, was a longtime employee and vice president at the company. The company managed the finances of Alan Patricof, one of New York's top Democratic donors, who fundraised for Clinton's Senate and presidential campaigns.
Federal court documents reported that Guryeva had "several work-related personal meetings" with "a prominent New York-based financier." The complaint added that Guryeva and her husband reported back to Moscow that the financier was "prominent in politics," "an active fundraiser for" a major political party, and a "personal friend" of a current Cabinet official. Patricof fit every one of these descriptions.
Orders from Moscow suggested Patricof might "provide [Guryeva] with remarks re US foreign policy, 'roumors' [sic] about White house internal 'kitchen...'" Worse, the court document also noted that Guryeva "explained to [her husband] that he would not be able to work at the top echelons of certain parts of the United States Government ‐ the State Department, for example."
While the documents never mention Hillary Clinton by name, the evidence all points in her direction. Guryeva was focused on Patricof, a close friend of Clinton's, sought to gain information about the White House from a source close to Clinton, and expressed a familiarity with the State Department, the agency Hillary Clinton ran.
[Independent] New Zealand's new prime minister called capitalism a "blatant failure", before citing levels of homelessness and low wages as evidence that "the market has failed" her country's poor.
Jacinda Ardern, who is to become the nation's youngest leader since 1856, said measures used to gauge economic success "have to change" to take into account "people's ability to actually have a meaningful life".
The 37-year-old will take office next month after the populist New Zealand First party agreed to form a centre-left coalition with her Labour Party. They will be supported by the liberal Greens.
In her first full interview since becoming prime minister-elect, she told current affairs programme The Nation that capitalism had "failed our people".
"If you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that's a blatant failure," she said. "What else could you describe it as?"
[American Greatness] Fred Fleitz, who served as John Bolton’s chief of staff at the United Nations during the George W. Bush Administration, joined Fox Business host Lou Dobbs to discuss the fall of Raqqa (good), progress against North Korea’s nuclear program (better), and the appearance of insubordination among certain prominent members of President Trump’s cabinet (very bad).
Lou Dobbs: Joining us tonight Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst, chief of staff to Ambassador John Bolton at the United Nations, now a senior vice president at the Center for Security Policy and Fred great to have you with us.
Fred Fleitz: Good to be here.
Dobbs: And I think it’s terrific that tonight on this 20th of October, nine months ago the president inaugurated and today Raqqa is in the hands of U.S.-backed forces in Syria. ISIS is being rolled back, the successes as the president promised have been incredible, particularly compared to the passivity of the previous administration and its campaign against ISIS, such as it was.
Fleitz: I think that’s right, I mean, President Trump took the gloves off. There were so many restrictions on our operations in Iraq and Syria and it made a real difference against ISIS. Now, we’re not gonna hear this on other networks. I think we’re seeing some cautious signs of progress on North Korea but I don’t know that sanctions against North Korea will ever work but if they’re going to work, they’re gonna work under this president because he’s twisting the arms of the Chinese and the Russians and others to get them to enforce sanctions. We may have to attack but we have to go down the sanctions road and I’m encouraged.
Dobbs: And in the case of North Korea, the Secretary of State today suggesting it might be months before, only months, before North Korea has the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. This has been a stunning ratcheting up of the estimated timetable for the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.
Fleitz: They could have the capability now. We don’t know, the intelligence community says North Korea has 60 nuclear weapons. Whether they detonated a hydrogen bomb last month or not, we don’t know. It was a 250 kiloton weapon, which was 25 times their previous weapon. This is a very serious threat and I think North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is an offensive arsenal, not a deterrent and they will one day use it.
Dobbs: And as we are watching this, we hear from the secretary of state again, almost impossible to contemplate language. Tillerson’s saying that he wants to balance his views with those of the president. Are you kidding me?
Fleitz: I’m very angry with Secretary Tillerson, who told the Europeans today that they don’t have to worry about their trade deals with Iran, that we’re going to go after them. I immediately tweeted that Tillerson should be fired tomorrow for this. He undermined‐well he’s trying to undermine what the president did, but I think the Europeans know that Mr. Trump is serious about the Iran deal and if it isn’t fixed, and it isn’t going to be fixed, but if it isn’t fixed, he’s gonna get out.
Dobbs: This is a very difficult moment for many people to understand. The president is tolerating such abuse from his own cabinet that I mean, I don’t react well to it I will tell you. I just cannot imagine a person not deferring to the president of the United States, any American citizen and to have this kind of arrogant insubordination on the part of a secretary of state is just, it’s infuriating and I have to give the president all the credit in the world. This is a man I don’t think most of us would have ever expected to this tolerant, to be this generous and nor would of I expected Rex Tillerson to be such a small and silly person.
Fleitz: You know, I think we should think of this in light of the really inappropriate speech George W. Bush gave yesterday. The Bush circle is not in Trump’s circle and the Bush circle helps staff Trump’s national security team.
Dobbs: Yes.
Fleitz: And that’s why there’s been all this trouble in the Iran deal, the Paris climate accord, radical Islam. At the end of the year, the president has to take account of who gave him good advice, who gave him good advice on personnel and make some major changes.
Dobbs: Yeah, this is truly the . . . It looks to be the contest of purpose, direction, and will between Bush globalists and Trump nationalists, and I thank the Lord the president seems to be winning nearly all of the battles.
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If they want T-Rex fired that is reason enough for him to stay.
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Tillerson is the diplomatic channel and he is simply playing full court press on diplomacy. He wants to win that battle. He is competitive. At the same time Trump is Reagonizing the military as the military's Commander in Chief. The entire world heard Trump yesterday call up a huge number of airforce pilots. Nice cop tough cop duo. Tillerson did not deny calling Trump a moron. And thats OK with Trump as long as Tillerson maxes out diplomacy efforts. If that doesn't work, the enemy will be dealt with by an all out moron on the battle field.
[American Greatness] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has isolated himself from his own department and allowed subordinates to fill a handful of top positions with people who actively opposed Donald Trump’s election, according to current and former State Department officials and national security experts with specific knowledge of the situation.
News reports often depict a White House "in chaos." But the real chaos, according to three State Department employees who spoke with American Greatness on the condition of anonymity, is at Foggy Bottom.
Rumors have circulated for months that Tillerson either plans to resign or is waiting for the president to fire him. The staffers describe an amateur secretary of state who has "checked out" and effectively removed himself from major decision making.
Hundreds of Empty Desks
About 200 State Department jobs require Senate confirmation. But the Senate cannot confirm nominees it does not have. More than nine months into the new administration, most of the senior State Department positions‐assistant and deputy assistant secretary posts‐remain unfilled.
What’s more, the United States currently has no ambassador to the European Union, or to key allies such as France, Germany, Australia, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. Meantime, Obama Administration holdovers remain ensconced in the department and stationed at embassies in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East.
The leadership vacuum has been filled by a small group opposed to the president’s "America First" agenda.
At the heart of the problem, these officials say, are the two people closest to Tillerson: chief of staff Margaret Peterlin and senior policy advisor Brian Hook, who runs the State Department’s in-house think tank.
Peterlin and Hook are longtime personal friends who current staffers say are running the department like a private fiefdom for their benefit and in opposition to the president and his stated policies.
’Boxing Out’ Trump Supporters
The lack of staffing gives the duo unprecedented power over State Department policy. Since joining Tillerson’s team, Peterlin and Hook have created a tight bottleneck, separating the 75,000 State Department staffers‐true experts in international relations‐from the secretary. As the New York Times reported in August, "all decisions, no matter how trivial, must be sent to Mr. Tillerson or his top aides: Margaret Peterlin, his chief of staff, and Brian Hook, the director of policy planning." In practice, however, that has meant Peterlin and Hook make the decisions.
More important, sources who spoke with American Greatness say, Peterlin and Hook have stymied every effort by pro-Trump policy officials to get jobs at the State Department.
[Jpost] On Friday, October 20 a man entered a Shia mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan for Friday prayers. Soon after, according to reports, he gunned down the worshippers and blew up a bomb. At least 39 were killed. In Ghor province another attack at a Sunni mosque targeting a tribal elder killed 20. Overall around 180 have been murdered in terror attacks in Afghanistan in the last week.
Sixteen years ago, on the night of October 19th, US Army Rangers and special forces raided an airfield and attacked Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar’s headquarters near Kandahar. It was the first ground action of Operation Enduring Freedom, launched after the September 11th attacks. "It’s crazy to think about," says Rebecca Zimmerman, a Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation. "I have been trying to mark this anniversary and think more deeply about what it means to be there 16 years and the essential question we all need to ask if not just is it still worth it, it pretty well is worth it, but when will it not be worth it," she says. I wonder why Reagan was satisfied with a few bombings instead of invading Libya, overthrowing the Kadafy regime, and building a nation? Could it be that he knew something that Bush II didn't?
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We should have leveled everything that gave them even pretensions to the 21st century, and then if they showed any signs of rebuilding, done it again.
Mike
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Afghanistan will be marking 2500 years of war soon.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. strongly condemned the deadly mosque bombings in Kabul city and western Ghor province of Afghanistan which left more than 70 people dead.
He said the attacks holy places and all other places targeting the civilians, are a move against the humanity and all values and principles of Islam.
The Afghanistan's Caped President further added that the perpetrators of such attacks only deserve a total destruction.
According to President Ghani, the terrorist groups are attempting to misuse Islam as a tool to reach to their targets of sparking tensions among the people and harm the unity of the Afghan people.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he said the terrorist groups should understand that they will never achieve their goals and will soon be eliminated by the Afghan security and defense forces.
A jacket wallah detonated his explosives among the prayer participants in West of Kabul city late on Friday evening, leaving at least 39 dead and 43 others maimed, according to the ministry of interior.
In the meantime, a similar attack left more than 20 people dead and several others maimed in western Ghor province of Afghanistan.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The military commander for the Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... rebel faction was assassinated in the Dara’a Governorate, Friday, the group’s media wing reported.
According to Jaish al-Islam, the commander, Mazen Abu Wajdi, was traveling in his vehicle when a group of unknown assailants opened fire, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool.
Abu Wajdi was the commander of Jaish al-Islam’s 11th Brigade and deployed to the Dara’a Governorate before he was assassinated
on Friday.
No group has grabbed credit for the liquidation.
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[Al Jazeera] Gunmen mounted on pick-up trucks and cycle of violences have killed at least 12 paramilitary police and maimed several others in a new attack in Niger's restive southwest, near the Mali border.
The raid on the officers' base happened in the early hours of Saturday in the town of Ayourou in the Tillaberi region, 200km northwest of the capital, Niamey.
It comes after an ambush at the beginning of October killed four Niger and US soldiers along the border, which has been regularly targeted by gangs.
"There was a new attack. Twelve gendarmes were killed. We have launched search operations," Mohammed Bazoum, interior minister, told AFP news agency on Saturday
A security source on the scene said the attackers - believed to had crossed over from Mali - were heavily armed.
"They had rocket launchers and machine guns. They came in four vehicles each with about seven fighters," the source told Rooters news agency.
Several gangs and well-armed ethnic militia are known to operate in the area near the border with Mali, and there have been at least 46 attacks recorded there since early least year.
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[Al Jazeera] The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he is "rethinking" his decision to name Zim-bob-we's President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... a goodwill ambassador in the face of growing criticism over the move.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the UN health agency, had this week asked Zim-bob-we's 93-year-old leader to serve in the role to help tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart attacks, strokes and asthma across Africa.
The decision triggered confusion and anger among key WHO member states and opposition figures in Zim-bob-we who noted that the country's healthcare system, like many of its public services, has been rife with problems under Mugabe's decades-long leadership.
"I'm listening. I hear your concerns. Rethinking the approach in light of WHO values. I will issue a statement as soon as possible", Tedros, a former Æthiopian health minister, said on Twitter.
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There was no "thinking" involved in this fracas, why would you want to start now?
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian politician, academic, and public-health authority as well as Director-General of the World Health Organization. He has held the latter office since 2017. Wikipedia
Born: March 3, 1965 (age 52), Asmara, Eritrea
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Party: Tigrayan People's Liberation Front {SO FILE UNDER "COMMIES"}
Education: University of Nottingham, University of Asmara, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
[Al Jazeera] Billionaire Andrej Babis has won a thumping victory in the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, while eurosceptics and an anti-Islam group made strong gains.
State election officials citing results from 99.9 percent of polling stations on Saturday said Babis's anti-corruption and anti-euro ANO (Yes) movement won with 29.7 percent support, almost three times higher than any other party and giving it a chance to rule with just one partner in a coalition.
ANO was followed by the eurosceptic right-wing ODS party on 11.3 percent.
The far-right, anti-EU and anti-Islam SPD party made strong gains, capturing more than 10 percent of the vote, while another protest party, the Pirates, was set to win a number of seat by appealing to unhappy liberal voters.
At just 7.4 percent, the ruling Social Democrats of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka were on course for their worst result since the country peacefully split with Slovakia in 1993.
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[DAWN] A jacket wallah killed 15 Afghan army trainees as they were leaving their base in Kabul on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest deadly attack in the capital.
"This afternoon when a minibus carrying army cadets was coming out of the military academy, a suicide bomber on foot targeted them, martyring 15 and wounding four," defence ministry front man Dawlat Waziri told AFP.
Kabul Crime Branch chief General Mohammad Salim Almas said police have launched an investigation into the attack which happened in the west of the city.
"The minibus was carrying army trainees to their homes from Marshal Fahim military academy," Almas told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
It was the second suicide kaboom in the Afghan capital in 24 hours and the seventh major assault in Afghanistan since Tuesday, taking the total corpse count to more than 200, with hundreds more maimed.
The spate of deadly attacks underscores deteriorating security across the war-torn country as the resurgent Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... step up their attacks on police and military bases and 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.... continue to target Shia mosques.
It was the fifth time since Tuesday that turbans have launched a major attack against Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces already badly demoralised by high casualties and desertions.
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[DAWN] Former United States (US) President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... returned to the campaign trail on Thursday, railing against the "politics of division" after keeping a low profile and avoiding direct confrontation with his White House successor since leaving office.
Speaking at a rally in New Jersey to support the Democratic party candidate for governor, the 56-year-old former president took aim at the fear and bitterness that marked the 2016 campaign which led to 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... 's presidency.
"What we can't have is the same old politics of division that we have seen so many times before, that dates back centuries," Obama said at the event in Newark for Phil Murphy.
"Some of the politics we see now, we thought we put that to bed. That's folks looking 50 years back," Obama added. "It's the 21st century, not the 19th century."
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[DAWN] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. police on Saturday recovered the body of a transgender person, who had reportedly been murdered three days ago, police officials informed DawnNews.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sajjad Khan said that the body of a brutally tortured transgender person was recovered from Ashiqabad area near Warsak Road in Peshawar.
The corpse, the SSP claimed, was three days old and bore signs of torture. He further said that the police have not been able to identify the body so far, though fingerprints and DNA samples have been collected.
The police had asked the local transgender community if they could identify the body, however, none of them was able to recognise the dear departed. The head of transgender association, Laila Khan, said that the slain was not from Peshawar.
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Transgendered what? Man to Woman - Woman to Man?
Since TG is all in your head anyway, how could they tell?
[Dhaka Tribune] It has been nearly two months, 57 days to be precise, since the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked Myanmar armed forces outposts, igniting the biggest humanitarian crisis in the region in decades. Nearly 590,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh after the government forces began massacring village after village.
While refugees keep pouring into Bangladesh, ARSA has gone quiet. When they first appeared as Haraqah al-Yaqin in October 2016, the same scenario played out. A well-coordinated attack on Myanmar police camps put them on the map, but no other known operations took place till August 2017.
ARSA chief Ata Ullah Abu Ammar Al Jununi remains on the run with his guerillas in the hills and forests of Rakhine, which prevents him from communicating to direct queries. In his lieu, there are four deputies who are empowered to speak on his behalf and operate as they see fit per Ata Ullah’s orders. Maulvi Mostakim and Maulvi Noman coordinate recruitment and financing from Malaysia, Abul Kalam Haidery operates in Soddy Arabia
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[DAWN] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police on Saturday recovered beheaded bodies of two police constables from Elum Mountain in Buner district, DawnNews reported.
The constables, identified as Faisal Wahid and Tariq, had reportedly gone missing two days ago when they were on a patrolling duty in the area. There had been no news about them for the past two days, until today, when their bodies were recovered by the police.
Following the recovery of mutilated corpses, the law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and started investigations into the incident.
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[IMAGES.DAWN] Legal eagles say defamed executive is likely to be hit by out-of-court settlements that could lead him to bankruptcy
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WAT? Everything that has come out of liberal Tinseltown has been x-rated for quite a while. Rape and mandatory casting couch interviews is called "business" in that seedy place.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) launched a surprise offensive inside the Yarmouk Camp District of southern Damascus, yesterday, capturing several buildings from the rebel forces in the process.
ISIS managed to penetrate Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... ’s defenses in a swift assault, yesterday, forcing the latter to abandon several buildings east of the strategic Paleostine Roundabout.
According to the terrorist group’s official media wing, their forces killed at least 4 opposition fighters, including the Jaish al-Islam commander, Issam Abu al-Fadl.
Abu al-Fadl was the commander of Jaish al-Islam’s Brigade 229 before his death on Friday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... militias in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Friday launched a scathing attack against ousted President former President-for-Life former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , their former coup ally.
Accusing him of treason, the militia demanded that Saleh should "be killed and hanged at the Gate of Yemen," an important historical landmark and the entrance to old Sanaa.
The Houthi’s official broadcast channel, Al Masirah, called Saleh a traitor. The channel claimed that Saleh is working on abandoning his ally, Houthi leader Abdulk Malik al-Houthi, and attempting to escape Yemen.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Saleh has reportedly been considering an invitation from Russia to participate in a conference in Moscow.
Houthi radio station, SamFM Yemen, allocated the majority of their air time to attack Saleh in the past week.
Houthi official and SamFM Director Hammoud Sharaf al-Deen demanded that Saleh "be killed." He also accused Saleh and his party of supporting a campaign aimed at failing institutions run by Houthi elements.
The Houthi broadcast station welcomed calls from various Houthi leaders who also accused Saleh of treachery and deceit. They also called for Saleh to be "hanged" on the Gate of Yemen.
Similarly, a relative to the Houthi leader, Abdul Quddous Taha al-Houthi, ordered the militia to make their way to Saleh’s house and "drag him and hang him."
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[DAWN] At least 35 Egyptian coppers were killed in an ambush by gunnies near the Bahariya oasis in the country's Western Desert, security and medical sources said on Saturday, in a rare flare-up outside the Sinai Peninsula.
The interior ministry said security forces hunting down gunnies in the region were attacked late Friday on a road to the Bahariya oasis, some 200 kilometres southwest of Cairo.
An official statement said a number of the attackers were killed, but did not give any figures for losses on either side.
According to a source close to the security services, the convoy was hit by rocket fire. The attackers also used bombs.
There has not yet been a claim of responsibility. A fake claim in the name of the small Lion of Islam group Hasm, reported by multiple local media, spread on social media soon after the attack.
Since the army removed President Mohammed Morsi, of the Moslem Brüderbund, Lion of Islam groups have increased their attacks on the military and police.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants were killed in airstrike launched by the Iraqi army in western Anbar, a source from Anbar Operations Command said on Saturday.
“Iraqi jets managed to shell seven vehicles of IS in desert of Wadi al-Qathf, south of Rutba, leaving them totally destroyed and several militants inside them killed,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, “the operation was carried out while Maj.Gen. Mahmoud al-Falahi, Anbar Operations Commander, was on a mission in the western desert looking for hiding militants.”
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.
Qaim (IraqiNews.com) Warplanes from the United States-led coalition killed 40 Islamic State militants west of Anbar as operations approach for the recapture of the group’s last havens in Iraq.
Alghad Press quoted a security source saying that the fighter jets pounded militants’ locations near the “phosphate company” in the town of Qaim, killing 40 members.
More than 15 vehicles belonging to the militants were destroyed in the raid, according to the source.
Since Islamic State militants took over large areas of Iraq and Syria to establish a self-styled “caliphate” in 2014, Iraqi government forces, backed paramilitary troops and U.S.-led coalition, launched a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have gained control on two regions and 44 oil wells in Nineveh, the military media reported on Friday.
A statement by the Joint Operations Command’s War Media Cell on Friday said “the army’s 15 division regained control on Zimar and Ain Zala regions, located northwest of Nineveh.”
Moreover, “troops retook oil wells of Batma and Ain Zala as well as all of the wells, estimated at 44,” the statement added.
Iraqi troops, backed by PMFs, took over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier this week, fulfilling instructions previously made by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to retake areas where sovereignty is disputed with Kurdistan Region’s Government.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Eight Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike launched in west of Mosul, the Iraqi army’s air force command has announced.
“Army launched airstrike against IS militant in Tal Faris region, southwest of Mosul, leaving eight militants killed,” the command said in a statement on Saturday.
A family composed of a woman and her two sons were reportedly killed by IS militants, who infiltrated via Tigris river toward Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul.
On July 10, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25000 militants were killed throughout the campaign, which started in October 2016.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS) last pocket in northeastern Deir Ezzor is on the verge of being cleared by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), a military source told al-Masdar News this morning.
Units from the Syrian Arab Army’s 4th Mechanized Division and 5th Legion have been advancing at a rapid pace inside this terrorist pocket in northeast Deir Ezzor, leaving the remaining ISIS murderous Moslems with little-to-no time to safely withdraw.
On Saturday, the Syrian Arab Army resumed their operations inside this pocket, liberating two towns from the Islamic State near the large village of al-Husseiniyeh.
According to a military source, the Syrian Arab Army liberated al-Hasan and Shaqrah after a short operation this morning along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
With the aforementioned towns under their control, the Syrian Arab Army only needs to liberate Safirah Tahtani and Safirah Fouqani in order to clear the entire pocket.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Afghanistan was killed along with his lover companions in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army in the East said the holy warriors were killed in the US dronezap in Achin district.
A statement by the Silab Corps said the US forces carried out Arclight airstrikes in Mamand area of the district on Friday, leaving at least ten holy warriors dead.
The statement further added that the ISIS leader killed in the Arclight airstrike has been identified as Abu Tahir al-Bajawari.
At least nine other holy warriors accompanying Bajawari were also killed in the Arclight airstrike, the statement added.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as holy warriors affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group suffered heavy casualties in the similar Arclight airstrikes in this province last week.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said Wednesday that the latest Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the past 24 hours in Nazian and Achin districts of the province.
The statement further added that 23 ISIS holy warriors were killed in total in the Arclight airstrikes and another bully boy was maimed.
The first Arclight airstrike was carried out using the unmanned aerial vehicles in Bandar Dara area of Achin district earlier today, leaving at least 11 holy warriors dead, the statement said.
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[DAWN] The body of a 23-year-old man was found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Rawalpindi district, police said Saturday.
The family of m-color:gray;' title='the deceased'>the dear departed, identified as Mubashir, alleges that he was killed for 'honour' by Muneer, who suspected his wife to have been in a relationship with the dear departed man.
On the complaint of the dear departed man's brother, police have registered a murder case against four men, including Muneer, who are suspected to have fled after killing the man and hanging his body to a tree in Thalla Kalan, on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, on Thursday.
The investigating officer, Sub-Inspector Ahmed Nawaz, told DawnNews that Mubashir was a herder. He said whether the man was poisoned or strangled to death could only be confirmed after reports of his postmortem examination are received. He said police are conducting raids to arrest the suspects.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... because the man's body was found hanging from a tree, police are also investigating the angle of suicide, he said.
The complaint filed in Chontra Police Station by Mubashir's brother names four suspects.
The brother, Mohammad Iqrar, told police that Muneer had suspected that his wife had relations with Mubashir and he, therefore, murdered him without any investigation or proof.
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[PRESSTV] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed no retreat from his diplomatic row with the United States, accusing Washington of what he said was 'uncivilized' behavior over recent US charges against his security officers.
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Then he should fricking withdraw from NATO ASAP as he can't be associated with non-civilized forces.
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Turkey in NATO lets us flank Russia and present them with two axes of attack, not just one. The Germans tried the same thing in WWII but were refused by the Turks. That's why they're in. If the Russians had faced a two-front invasion, it likely would have succeeded.
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I'm sure the Turks would be as supportive against Russia as they were against Iraq.
Who do you think spends more on tourism in Turkey?
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The end of the secular political system in Turkey, another Islamic jerk with visions of grandeur and another Iranian inroad, all brought to you courtesy of Champ and Val-Jar policies.
Sure hope any special weapons have been ex-filtrated.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni government announced on Saturday that it had seized an Iranian ship carrying 19 sailors off the coast of the Socotra archipelago, east of the country.
"The Iranian ship was seized on the coast of Hadibu, the capital of the Socotra archipelago between the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea," Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr said on his Twitter account.
He explained that "the ship was caught by fishermen on the island of Abdul Kuri, one of the islands of Socotra archipelago".
According to Saba News Agency, Yemen’s Council of Ministers held a meeting chaired by bin Daghr in the city of Aden where the seizure of the ship and the investigation into its cargo and source of supply were discussed.
The news coincided with renewed accusations against Iran of transferring weapons to its 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 ... militia allies across the Yemeni coasts, and the announcement by the US administration of the government’s support to meet these challenges.
There was no immediate comment from the Iranian authorities on the seizure of the ship on Saturday.
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"the ship was caught by fishermen on the island of Abdul Kuri,
Simple, but well armed, fishermen
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[DAWN] Polish police say eight people have been hospitalized in southeastern Poland after a 27-year-old man attacked them with a knife at a shopping mall on Friday.
Andrzej Wierszyna, front man for the police in the town of Stalowa Wola, said the attack took place on Friday afternoon with a sharp tool.
Police officer Anna Klee, quoted by the PAP news agency, said it was a knife. The man has been detained.
Eight people have been taken to hospitals in Stalowa Wola, Tarnobrzeg and Sandomierz. Authorities say six of them have serious wounds.
The attack, which police said did not appear to be terrorism-related, happened at around 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) before shoppers apprehended the knifeman, and handed him over to officers.
"The man acted irrationally, stabbing people in the back. One of the wounded women died. Nine other injured people were hospitalized," police said in a statement.
Officers said the man, identified only as Konrad K., had no criminal record, was sober, and is being tested for drugs.
"For now, we can say that this attack did not have any terrorist or ideological motives," regional police chief Krzysztof Pobuta said, quoted by Polish PAP press agency.
Pobuta said he believed the attacker was suffering from depression.
Such attacks are extremely rare in Poland, an EU country of 38 million, which has so far escaped the terrorism-related carnage experienced elsewhere in the bloc in recent years.
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Shoppers took him down. Pack, not herd. That said, in a shopping mall you're likely to find a lot of things to hit guys over the head with.
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"Quick, lock up the steel and the vodka whiskey
So Cossack and gangsta
Attacking the Szlachta
Can't whack us like Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki!"
[Al Jazeera] The Kurdish collapse in Kirkuk was shockingly sudden.
Iraqi troops, police and Iranian-backed militias known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) had massed south of the ethnically mixed city for days, prompting defiant messages from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its Peshmerga fighters. But Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had denied that the movements were preparation for an attack, dismissing such claims as "fake news".
On Monday morning, Baghdad's units finally advanced. After isolated festivities, the Peshmerga swiftly withdrew from their positions, after one Kurdish faction apparently struck a deal with the government.
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I confess, I'm ambivalent. Almost everything I read tells me that the Kurds are good people, getting screwed, including by the US.... but several people who dealt with them in the various Iraq wars REALLY don't like or trust them. Plus you can say Peshmerga has nothing to do with the PKK (AKA Kommie Kurds), but then they said the same about Sinn Fein and the IRA ...
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I have, g, but the saying is better expressed by "the enemy of my enemy is ...my enemy's enemy". Friendship doesn't enter into the equation..or are you saying Stalin was our "friend"?
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I'm kind of saddened myself that the Kurds did this to themselves. Though I think the Talabani faction has GREATLY miscalculated the repercussions to themselves among the Kurdish people.
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[PRESSTV] Catalonians cannot accept the central government’s "illegal" move of imposing direct rule on Barcelona, says regional President Carles Puigdemont.
"I ask the parliament to meet in a plenary session during which we, the representatives of the citizens' illusory sovereignty, will be able to decide over this attempt to liquidate our government and our democracy and act in consequence," said Puigdemont (seen below) in a televised speech on Saturday.
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Luckily, the Spanish have a long-standing tradition of dealing gently with uppity natives. /sarc
[PRESSTV] The United States Air Force may recall as many as 1,000 retired military pilots to tackle an "acute shortage" in its ranks amid a national pilot crisis.
The measure amounts to an expansion of a state of national emergency declared by former President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
It is meant "to mitigate the Air Force's acute shortage of pilots," said Pentagon front man Navy Commander Gary Ross in a statement on Saturday.
"We anticipate that the Secretary of Defense will delegate the authority to the Secretary of the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired pilots for up to three years," Ross said.
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Gonna need 'em to beat the snot out of the Norks.
"We're going to be a smaller Air Force, we project over the next five years, and we have a plan on what's going to happen when," James said. "It's heavily in FY15, a little bit in FY16. That was a conscious choice. We're going to do it as quickly as possible and get it behind us."
James, who was previously an executive at SAIC, said that her experience conducting downsizings in the private sector has convinced her it is best to get them over with quickly.
I believe there was also a large pilot reduction in force in the 2008 time frame. More Soetoro administration dividends.
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The Navy may have to call back watch qualified personnel before they do anything big. (joke)
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If they are looking for more Drone Drivers then train NCO (quote) Drone Pilots (un-quote) and tell the Ring Knockers in Air Force Blue to pound sand.
If they want to force someone to fly a multi-million dollar jet.... The idea is insane at a casual glance.
[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... has failed to bridge differences between Libyan rival factions amid efforts aimed at breaking a political stalemate and helping bring about peace and stability in the North African country.
In October, Ghassan Salame, the newly-appointed Libyan envoy to the UN, announced a one-year "action plan" for a transition toward presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya.
The measure reportedly aims to amend a current political agreement in the country and prepare the ground for a constitutional referendum and possibly general elections afterwards.
Since the announcement, the UN has hosted in Tunisia delegations from rival parliaments from eastern Libya and the capital 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... to draw up amendments to a previous UN-mediated plan signed in December 2015. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... at the end of the second round of discussions Salame only said talks would go on without giving a new date.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcement agencies are yet to track down four notorious trainers of the new iteration of Jama’at ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) suicide squad.
The four trainers, identified as Samshu, Rashed, Safiq and Salma, the only woman among them, are on the run.
Evidence suggest of their direct contacts with holy warriors killed during counter-terrorism operations at Atia Mahal hideout in Sylhet and Nasirpur and Borohat hideouts in Moulvibazar.
Police first learned about the four from confessional statements of a Lion of Islam couple, who were jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Chittagong’s Sitakunda on March 15.
In their statements, the couple ‐ Jahirul Haq alias Jasim and his wife Arjina alias Rajia ‐ claimed that they had joined New JMB for financial reasons.
They said the four leaders trained them and another couple for a month. They identified the other couple as Kamal and his wife Jobaida, who reportedly blew herself up at their Sitakunda residence during operation "Assault 16" in March this year.
The couple said they were ordered by their trainers to blow up their boom jackets to avoid capture.
In his confessional statement on April 28, Jasim, a native of Bandarban, said: "I was unable to support my family by cultivating betel leaf. I was introduced to militancy by a Rubber plantation worker named Sohel Rana about a year and a half ago."
Law enforcers found that Sohel, who posed as a plantation worker, was in fact a trainer of the New JMB suicide squad and a bomb-making expert.
Sohel went kaboom!, along with his wife and five kids, during "Operation Hit Back" in Moulvibazar on March 30.
Jasim said Sohel had indoctrinated him, his friend Hasan and his brother-in-law Kamal. "Withing the next year, Sohel, Kamal and Hasan left the village.
"Sohel lured me to Patiya Upazila at the beginning of this year, by assuring me that I could live with him at his rented house free of charge. I also accepted a proposal from him to marry off my sister Marjina to his brother Fahim, who was also living there."
He added: "I came into contact with many New JMB members, including the four trainers ‐ Samshu, Rashed, Safiq and Salma. They trained us for a month. Then Sohel instructed me to take my family to Sitakunda and settle there.
"Sohel regularly visited us. He told us to choose suicide over surrender if the law enforcers manage to sniff us out."
He continued: "When police finally surrounded us, my wife attempted to detonate the boom jacket, but I stopped her. The law enforcers then arrested me and my wife."
Police managed to track down Lion of Islam hideouts in Sylhet’s Atia Mahal, Moulvibazar’s Nasirpur and Borohat areas after interrogating Jasim and his wife.
On the other hand, a Lion of Islam named Elias aka Mahbub, who allegedly murdered a shrine priest in Noakhali on August 16, had also reportedly told police that he received training from the four trainers.
During interrogation, Elias revealed the names of around 25 New JMB leaders.
The names of these four trainers had come up in statements of both Elias and Jasim, a police brass hat stationed at Noakhali said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... speaking to the Dhaka Tribune, Sitakunda cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Iftekhar Uddin said: "Elias has connections with many important leaders of the New JMB, who are currently on the run.
"We will continue to interrogate him to collect more information on the terror group and its leaders."
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In the comments is a link to acoustic analysis demonstrating a second shooter.
BLUF - video recordings show two different lag times between round hits and reports. One is Mandalay Bay range and another is more like 250 yards away.
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The reconstruction was very thorough given the limited access to all of the available information. I found it curious that there seemed to be almost no hospital follow-up stories that you usually see after mass shootings, certainly not at the level of past events. Any ideas about the utter silence from the FBI? By now they would have had some assessment, consider the follow-up from the San Bernardino shootings for example.
[Spiked] In Britain a journalist can now have his career destroyed on the basis of one accusation. Just like in the GDR. Yes, just as the Stasi and its myriad snitches could dispatch from public life writers and reporters they didn’t like simply by accusing them of something, simply by pointing a bony finger at them and saying, ‘I saw that person do a bad thing’, so in Britain in 2017 journalists can be hounded out of their profession by allegation alone. By claims. By hearsay. By whispers, all amplified, of course, by the time-rich shit-stirrers of Twitter who love nothing more than naming, shaming, humiliating and destroying. Twenty-first-century intolerance, that queer lust of the cultural elite to cleanse public discussion of every voice and personality they dislike, has just gone from bad to deadly serious.
Consider the cases of Sam Kriss and Rupert Myers. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them. Most of us who are too busy and too given to self-respect to spend our lives on Twitter hadn’t heard of them until this week, and what bliss that was. The former is apparently a Corbynista pseud who writes for Vice, the bible of Shoreditch shitheads, and the latter is reportedly political correspondent for GQ, which last published an interesting article when John, Paul, George and Ringo were still a thing. Well, that’s what they used to do. They don’t anymore. Mr Kriss has been dumped by Vice after someone wrote a Facebook post accusing him of being a creep. And Mr Myers has been let go by GQ because he’s married and yet letches after female journalists (allegedly). Imagine that: someone on Fleet Street who has extramarital affairs. Next you’ll be telling me they get pissed at lunch and write most of their articles on Alka-Seltzers.
There are two extraordinary things about these cases. The first is the accusations themselves. All they really add up to is that these two men are tossers and losers who aren’t very good at dating. Mr Kriss is accused by an anonymous person of repeatedly kissing and fondling her when they were on a date. She didn’t like it, which means he should have stopped or she should have gone home earlier. That’s a bad night out with a weirdo who doesn’t know how to court, not sexual assault. Mr Myers is accused of telling a journalist he wanted to fuck her (his language, allegedly) and lunging at her like an idiot for a snog. She said no. The End. What’s going on here? Since when has a man crudely asking a woman if she’d like to have sex and the woman saying ‘No way’ been sexual harassment? It’s the opposite. It’s an assertion of a woman’s fundamental right to tell strange men to jog on. Yet today, the conflation of bad sexual etiquette with assault, of unwelcome advances with violence, is so complete that bad dates can be misremembered as terrible acts of violation. It’s the new version of recovered memories.
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Stay off Twitter (and other social media) and there's no problem. The people getting crushed are in love with their own opinions and infatuated with the idea of broadcasting said same. Everything comes at a price, and as Vir Kotto said, sometimes that price is too high.
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I don't think it's quite that simple. Organizations that rely on good PR (which seems to include universities), when faced with bad press, seem to be more interested in making the bad press go away than treating employees fairly. Whether the victims were ever on Twitter needn't matter.
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[Libya Observer] A spokesman for the Shura Council of Derna, Mohammed Al-Mansouri, said on Friday that two members of their forces were killed during an encounter with Khalifa Haftar`s forces that are currently besieging the city.
Al-Mansouri said that Salim Al-Qarbadi and Abdullah Al-Qaba'ili were killed in the clashes in Dahr Al-Ahmar region, southwest of the city.
He added that the two fighters were well known for their stance in defending Derna against ISIS in the previous war yet today they were killed in their fight against Haftar`s armed groups.
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[TakiMag] The only woman who has not been sexually harassed and possibly raped by Harvey Weinstein is Mata Hari, and that’s because she was executed by the brave French a hundred years ago this month for spying. She was not a German spy and she blew kisses to the firing squad that shot her full of holes. Otherwise, I may have spoken too soon last week when defending Weinstein. It now looks very bad for him, with even Hillary Clinton joining the Greek chorus condemning him. Apparently it was not only boorish behavior toward the fairer sex, it was also alleged rape, something that he and his lawyers strenuously deny.
Mind you, I thought someone was innocent until proved guilty, but not in this hyper-feminist time. Captain Renault’s reaction to gambling taking place in Rick’s Café comes to mind. To believe that Bill and Hillary were unaware of Harvey’s shenanigans is worthy of the Captain’s shock, not to mention the reaction of the sleazy bunch that is Hollywood. But everyone took the moola and turned a blind eye, and now the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. I may have gotten it wrong about him in my last column, so the only thing left to say is that at least Bill Cosby had the decency to anesthetize them. George Clooney, Ben Affleck, and his brother, Casey, are all under the feminist microscope for what they knew about Harvey, and what they themselves may have done to the weaker sex. But examining the hypocrisy involved smacks of the Soviets back in the ’30s, when any charge by anyone led to arrests and possible execution. Money for silence is being exchanged as I write, and let us not forget that Bill Clinton paid close to 800,000 big ones to alleged victims, while collecting tens of millions for his foundation by the Saudis, the same Saudis who are at the forefront of women’s liberation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish movement in Syria are only calling for a federalization of the Syrian Arab Republic, and is not looking for a partition of the country or an independent Syrian Kurdistan. This was said by recently elected co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Shahoz Hassan in an interview with Sputnik Turkiye.
"We are open for a dialogue with the central government. We do not want the partition of Syria, do not harbor plans of separating from the country and do not want to set up an independent Kurdistan. Such rumors are not true," Hassan stated.
The PYD Chairman furthermore said that he considered the Syrian government’s declaration to be open to negotiations on the matter, as "late in coming".
In September, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had declared that "This topic [limited Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria] is open to negotiation and discussion and when we are done eliminating ISIS (ISIS) we can sit with our Kurdish counterparts and reach an understanding on a formula for the future."
Commenting further on the conflict with ISIS that has been dragging on for six years now, Hassan stressed the importance of the Russian Federation in negotiations for the future.
"We think that Russia’s statements that any talks in Geneva or any other negotiation process are ineffective without Kurdish participation are very important. Russia can facilitate the settlement of the conflict, ensure that Kurds are invited. This could largely contribute to the settlement of the crisis and find a democratic, peaceful and political solution," he said.
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They saw what happened next door. If they can't hold Kirkuk, what's the point?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Prominent Swiss Moslem theologian, Tariq Ramadan, has denied allegations of rape and sexual assault and has served notice of his intention to sue for slander, according to his lawyer Yassine Bouzrou.
French media outlets are reporting that Ramadan intends to file a complaint for "slanderous denunciation" on Monday with the public prosecutor of Rouen.
Henda Ayari, a French former Salafist turned secular liberal activist, filed a complaint on Friday against Ramadan at the Rouen public prosecutor’s office.
The complaint concerns "rape, sexual assault, wilful violence, harassment and intimidation."
Ramadan, 55, is the grandson of the founder of the Moslem Brüderbund group in Egypt. He is a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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[DAWN] A man with a knife has lightly maimed four people in Munich and officers are looking for the assailant, police said on Saturday.
Munich police called on people in the Rosenheimer Platz area, located close to the German city's downtown, to stay inside after the incident on Saturday morning.
The perpetrator expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Police said he appeared to be about 40 years old and had a black bicycle, gray trousers, a green jacket and a backpack.
The police department said on Twitter that officers are looking for the assailant "with all available police forces". It said the motive for the attack was not immediately clear.
Munich police have detained a suspected knife-wielding man after several people were attacked at various locations across the Bavarian capital. The attacks prompted a citywide manhunt.
Eight people were wounded in a series of knife attacks in Munich on Saturday morning, but none of them sustained life-threatening injuries, police said.
A SWAT team arrested a 33-year-old German suspect after a three hour manhunt.
Police chief Hubertus Andrae said that investigators had ruled out terrorism or religion as a motive for the attack.
The suspect is believed to suffer from mental health problems. Police said the man was known by authorities for other offenses.
The eight wounded were aged between 12 and 77-years-old.
During the manhunt, police described the suspect as a thickset man of about 40, with short blond hair, unshaven, wearing a green jacket, gray pants and a backpack with a sleeping pad attached. He was reportedly riding a black bicycle.
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The Syrian Army, in cooperation with allied forces, on Saturday restored security and stability to al-Qaryatain city in the south-eastern countryside of Homs after the elimination of ISIL terrorist groups which earlier infiltrated into the city, SANA reporter said.
The military engineering units, according to the reporter, removed the explosive devices and mines planted by ISIL terrorists in houses, streets, squares and governmental institutions in the city.
Last September 27, about 300 ISIL terrorists moved from the areas close to al- Rukban to the city of Al-Qaryatain in the south-eastern countryside of Homs using dozens of SUVs vehicles. ISIL terrorists benefited of the highly accurate coordinates obtained through aerial reconnaissance of the US-led international alliance.
Source: SANA
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[DAWN] The Spanish government moved to activate a previously untapped constitutional article on Saturday so it can take control of Catalonia, illustrating its determination to derail the independence movement led by separatist politicians in the prosperous industrial region.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's Cabinet was meeting to outline the scope and timing of the measures the government plans to take under Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution.
The article allows central authorities to intervene when one of Spain's 17 autonomous regions fails to comply with the law.
It's never been used since the 1978 Constitution was adopted, but Rajoy's conservative government says establishing direct control over Catalonia was a move of last resort.
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Catalonia provides a very large portion of tax revenue to Madrid. I think it was something like 20%, so I getting them to leave is... unlikely. It's much more logical they just panicked.
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[Al Jazeera] Iraqi forces have claimed control of all of Kirkuk province after intense fighting against Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
The army says it captured the last town, Altun Kupri, near Erbil, with the help of Shia paramilitaries early on Saturday after a three-hour battle.
Peshmerga were sending reinforcements to fight the army and their allied militias on the front line north of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... while Iraqi forces were trying to push the Peshmerga further towards Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital.
The fighting continued around Altun Kupri, about 40km northwest of Kirkuk, on the Erbil-Kirkuk road.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's ordered the army not to enter Erbil's city limits, saying they will protect civilians and their property, while respecting what he called the 2003 perimeters of the disputed area.
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[DAWN] Syrian government forces and their allies regained control on Saturday of a predominantly Christian central town that sleeper cells of the Death EaterIslamic 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.... (IS) group captured late last month.
The government-run Syrian Central Military Media said "the Syrian army and its allies have restored security and stability to Qaryatayn" after clearing the town of out IS fighters.
The capture of Qaryatayn came after nearly three weeks of fighting that saw IS capture areas it had earlier lost in an offensive by Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed holy warriors under the cover of Russian Arclight airstrikes.
Earlier this week, IS lost control of the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of its self-declared caliphate, after a four-month offensive by the United States (US)-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Last week, IS lost its stronghold of Mayadeen in eastern Syria.
IS still holds parts of Syria's eastern Deir el-Zour province and Iraq's Anbar province, as well as small, scattered pockets elsewhere. The loss of Qaryatayn is another blow for the Lion of Islam group.
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[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Friday two men suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs.
The arrests were made during raids on the residences of Anwar Aadil in Railway Carriage Factory Colony and Wajid Rasul Malik in al-Noor Colony in the city. Following the arrest, the duo was shifted to an undisclosed location.
Earlier, in the light of an FIR lodged by one Ibrar Ahmed, resident of Islamabad’s Dhoke Gujjar area, the FIA conducted an inquiry which established that Aadil and Malik, with mala fide intentions and ulterior motives, had uploaded and, through their Twitter accounts, disseminated defamatory and disgraceful material and contents against judges of the Supreme Court as well as members the armed forces and the government.
The FIR stated that such illegal activities were causing disharmony and unrest among the public and inciting hatred and contempt against the government and state institutions.
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Blow up buildings and kill people in Pak, boys will be boys.
Say something bad about the gov on twitter in Pak, shackles and manacles.
Good to know what their priorities are.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militant has been killed as the pro-government paramilitary troops have repulsed an attack in north of Salahuddin, a security source said.
“Al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] managed to repel infiltration attempt against units in north Salahuddin in direction of southwest of Nineveh desert,” the source told Baghdad Today on Saturday.
“Troops managed to kill an IS militant who was trying blow up himself,” the source said, adding that forces are still looking for others.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command announced on September 21, the launch of first phase of operations to liberate Hawija and eastern Shirqat, north of Salahuddin. 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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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A whole family was killed by Islamic State militants after they infiltrated via Tigris river to south of Mosul city, a security source was quoted saying.
IS militants sneaked from the islands in Tigris river toward Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, late on Friday, the source who preferred anonymity told the Russian Sputnik agency.
The militants accessed a house of a woman who works at a hospital of Hammam al-Alil camp, the source said. They slaughtered her, along with her two sons, who are tribal fighters in Nineveh.
The islands are totally covered by thick trees, which prevents observing the sneaking militants, who have hideouts and tunnels there, the source said.
Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) Four persons were killed and injured as a bomb blast occurred west of Sinjar, a Yazidi activist was quoted saying on Saturday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, Farhan Ibrahim, Yazidi activist, said, “a bomb, placed inside a school in a village near al-Domeiz district, west of Sinjar, exploded while four persons were accessing the school.”
“The blast left two victims and two wounded,” Ibrahim said.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were wounded as mortar missiles fell, north of Kirkuk, a security source said on Friday.
“Mortar missiles fell on Dour al-Kahrabaa region in Dibs town, north of Kirkuk, which left two civilians wounded,” the source told Mawazin News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, “security troops, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] cordoned off the accident spot. Ambulances transferred the wounded to hospital for treatment.
Iraqi troops, backed by PMFs, took over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Tuesday, fulfilling instructions made earlier by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to retake areas where sovereignty is disputed with Kurdistan Region’s Government.
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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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[Wash Times] The head of the CIA lumped WikiLeaks with al Qaeda and the Islamic State and said his agency is working toward reducing the "enormous threat" posed by each of them.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[DAWN] Former United States (US) President 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[IMAGES.DAWN] Legal eagles say defamed executive is likely to be hit by out-of-court settlements that could lead him to bankruptcy
[PRESSTV] The 
[Spiked] In Britain a journalist can now have his career destroyed on the basis of one accusation. Just like in the GDR. Yes, just as the Stasi and its myriad snitches could dispatch from public life writers and reporters they didn’t like simply by accusing them of something, simply by pointing a bony finger at them and saying, ‘I saw that person do a bad thing’, so in Britain in 2017 journalists can be hounded out of their profession by allegation alone. By claims. By hearsay. By whispers, all amplified, of course, by the time-rich shit-stirrers of Twitter who love nothing more than naming, shaming, humiliating and destroying. Twenty-first-century intolerance, that queer lust of the cultural elite to cleanse public discussion of every voice and personality they dislike, has just gone from bad to deadly serious.
[DAWN] The Spanish government moved to activate a previously untapped constitutional article on Saturday so it can take control of Catalonia, illustrating its determination to derail the independence movement led by separatist politicians in the prosperous industrial region.
[DAWN] Syrian government forces and their allies regained control on Saturday of a predominantly Christian central town that sleeper cells of the
