[IsraelTimes] Israel is working to keep chemical weapons out of Hezbollah's hands, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday, clarifying comments a day earlier that hinted the terror group was attempting to obtain mass-casualty arms.
In a conversation with the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Liberman again seemed to confirm that Israeli forces had been behind two recent strikes inside Syria that had been blamed on the Jewish State.
The defense minister again insisted that Israel has "absolutely no interest" in getting involved in the Syrian civil war, but will work to defend itself.
"Our policies and our positions are very clear and are based on three red lines: We won't allow any harm to the citizens of the State of Israel, we won't allow any harm to the sovereignty of the State of Israel and we will not allow the smuggling of high-quality advanced weapons and chemical weapons from Syria to Lebanon for Hezbollah," Liberman said.
The comments echoed a statement he made a day earlier to ambassadors from the European Union addressing recent airstrikes in Syria.
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[PJ] It appears that the intelligence community and counter-intelligence community are at odds over discerning motives for the Russians hacking of DNC emails and other efforts at hacking the election.
The CIA offered an assessment that Russia "quite" clearly intended to help Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton and clinch the White House. But the FBI was far more circumspect in its analysis, giving rise to confusion on Capitol Hill.
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During a similar Senate Intelligence Committee briefing held the previous week, the CIA’s statements, as reflected in the letter the lawmakers now held in their hands, were "direct and bald and unqualified" about Russia’s intentions to help Trump, according to one of the officials who attended the House briefing.
The FBI official’s remarks to the lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee were, in comparison, "fuzzy" and "ambiguous," suggesting to those in the room that the bureau and the agency weren’t on the same page, the official said.
The divergent messages from the CIA and the FBI put a spotlight on the difficulty faced by intelligence and law enforcement officials as they try to draw conclusions about the Kremlin’s motives for hacking Democratic Party emails during the 2016 race. Officials are frequently looking at information that is fragmentary. They also face issues assessing the intentions of a country expert at conducting sophisticated "influence" operations that made it hard -- if not impossible -- to conclusively detect the Kremlin’s elusive fingerprints.
The competing messages, according to officials in attendance, also reflect cultural differences between the FBI and the CIA. The bureau, true to its law enforcement roots, wants facts and tangible evidence to prove something beyond all reasonable doubt. The CIA is more comfortable drawing inferences from behavior.
"The FBI briefers think in terms of criminal standards -- can we prove this in court," one of the officials said. "The CIA briefers weigh the preponderance of intelligence and then make judgment calls to help policymakers make informed decisions. High confidence for them means ’we’re pretty damn sure.’ It doesn’t mean they can prove it in court."
The FBI is not sold on the idea that Russia had a particular aim in its meddling. "There’s no question that [the Russians’] efforts went one way, but it’s not clear that they have a specific goal or mix of related goals," said one U.S. official.
The murky nature of the assessments is maddening many lawmakers who are demanding answers about the Kremlin’s role in the presidential race. The FBI, under Director James B. Comey, is already under fire for dropping a bombshell letter days before the election on the discovery of new emails potentially related to the Clinton private server investigation. The emails proved irrelevant to the case. On Saturday, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called on Comey to resign, saying the FBI director deliberately kept quiet evidence about Russia’s motives before the election.
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the CIA has a political motivation for being certain about Russian government interference. After all, if the CIA is right, the reason for losing wasn't that the Democrats fielded the absolute worst candidate for president in their history. Instead, those mean Russians who gave Donald Trump surreptitious support are responsible for the Dems' debacle.
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So if Russia was trying to help Trump why didn't the CIA etc. stop them? Or say something? I guess maybe they didn't want Hillary to win either? Then again, why in the world would Russia prefer Trump to Clinton?
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Rhinos such as McCain are in on this scam investigation. DHS claimed to be involved with all states but two, one of which Georgia had third party security which detected only the DHS trying to hack the system after the election.
Corrupt feds are scheming to find some way to stay in power against the will of the people.
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This reminds me of Cold War reds under beds scares.
Overseas help was overwhelmingly for Hillary.
And if you want to draw any conclusion from this, its that the Russians under Putin were more astute than almost everyone else, having picked the winning horse.
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OS, thanks for posting. CD3 is where my peeps are from. Very American, heavily armed, yet surprisingly feminist. If you get a trigger warning, they're not kidding.
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Source link fixed. [Daily Caller] Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said on Twitter Saturday that the United States is funding and arming Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
"If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Why does our gov get a free pass on this?," the congresswoman from Hawaii
That's why she's a Democrat. Hawaii appears to be a one-part state, so she had no choice.
wrote. Gabbard is a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Armed Services.
She introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act Thursday. While introducing the bill, Gabbard cited New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles that said the rebels the U.S. is supporting in Syria are allied with Al-Nusra, an Al-Qeada affiliate.
"The CIA has also been funneling weapons and money through Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others who provide direct and indirect support to groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda," Gabbard said. Gabbard’s claim is backed up by a speech former secretary of state Hillary Clinton delivered to Goldman Sachs. Clinton said Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates are funding Jihadists in Syria.
"This madness must end. We must stop arming terrorists," Gabbard said. Her bill will prohibit any federal agency from supporting a terrorist group or funneling support through other countries that directly or indirectly support terrorists.
A few weeks ago Gabbard met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Her bill is co-sponsored by Trump ally California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.
She said on CNN Friday that she’s glad that Trump’s "talking about ending our country’s interventionist regime change policies." "Tho' I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
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Gunga Din a great classic. I was at the worlds fair many years ago and saw a preview of the movie with the fellows jumping off the cliff to escape the followers of Kali(followers of death). To my surprise several turbaned men watched as well. Cuba had its pavilion and of course it was filled with Fidel's propaganda.
An explosion on Sunday near the Cairo's Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and injured 35, Egyptian security sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
On Friday, two roadside bombs - one in Cairo and one north of the capital - killed six policemen and wounded six others.
#Breaking explosion reported in the St Mark Orthodox Cathedral in Abbassiya #Cairo, injuries reported pic.twitter.com/hcYTuXO6sD
-- Michael Horowitz (@michaelh992) December 11, 2016
Egyptian security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency led by Islamic State's branch in North Sinai, where hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed. The insurgents have also launched deadly attacks Cairo and other cities.
The Coptic Church's official spokesperson Rev Paul Halim told Al-Ahram Arabic that the explosion took place in the small church of St Peter and St Paul (El-Botroseya), attached to the Coptic Cathedral.
A security source told the Middle East News Agency (MENA) that the explosion was caused by a 12 kilogramme TNT bomb.
Member of the Coptic Papal residence Samuel Metias told MENA that the explosion occurred in the ladies section of the St Peter and St Paul church. The St Mark Cathedral was left undamaged.
It could be Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai or it could be Hasm/Muslim Brotherhood, which has been getting feisty in the Cairo area recently.
Update from the same Al Ahram link at 2:00 p.m. ET: the number of injured increased to 49, mostly Copts, according to the Minister of Health, and President el Sisi declared three days of mourning.
[Ynet] French judicial authorities have locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and charged a sixth suspect in a foiled bully boy plot to attack sites in the Gay Paree region, a judicial source said on Saturday.
La Belle France has been under a state of emergency since a wave of Islamist attacks last year, giving police wider powers, and the arrests come at a sensitive time ahead of next spring's presidential elections in which security will be a major theme.
The 31-year old suspect has been placed in preventive detention and accused of cooperation with "criminal terrorists" and of having supplied weapons to his accomplices, the source said.
Five other men suspected of being part of the plot are in jug after simultaneous police swoops last month in the southern port city of Marseille and in Strasbourg in northeast La Belle France. Investigators uncovered a plan to attack a Gay Paree metro station and the Disneyland theme park east of Gay Paree in the name of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , the judicial source said.
More than 230 people have been killed in Islamist bully boy attacks on French soil since January 2015, including 130 in [coordinated attacks in Gay Paree November 13, 2015.]
...the new prime minister. The old PM stepped down to run as the Socialist candidate for president next year, since President Hollande's deep unpopularity convinced him retirement is a better idea...
. says 17 attacks thwarted so far this year, extension ‘absolutely necessary’ to ensure citizens’ safety ahead of election year.
[Huff Poo] WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump will nominate John Bolton to be the nation’s No. 2 diplomat, handling day-to-day operations at the State Department, according to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and confirmed to HuffPost by a source close to the transition.
Extreme, baby!
Bolton, who had been on Trump’s short list for secretary of state at one point, is among the most hawkish members of the Republican foreign policy community, a bellicose enemy of Russia and Iran.
He is a former acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but served less than two years, as Democrats banded together to block his long-term appointment. His time at the U.N. was marked by a rapid uptick in anti-American sentiment among the global diplomatic community. Bolton remains one of the most disliked foreign policy operators on the world stage.
Trump’s search for State Department leadership has been particularly dramatic. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in the running, and then he bowed out on Friday. The GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, was also considered. But media outlets reported Saturday that Trump had settled on Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson for the top State Department job.
Even as the second in command at State, Bolton is an aggressive selection from Trump, shattering the president-elect’s pledge to work peacefully with other countries. Bolton, who has called for the bombing of Iran, held high-level roles in three different Republican administrations between 1998 and 2006. He is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank whose vice president has described Trump as "an idiot."
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As I look at the Trump administration nominees as a group, I become more and more convinced that he will have to at some point, neuter or destroy the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Trump's mission and the AFGE appear to be diametrically opposed.
The AFGE is the largest federal employee union representing 650000 federal and D.C. government workers. I fear Trump's greatest challenges to success lie ahead.
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Bolton is good. He doesn't have to fire the people in the State Dept. Bureaucracy, he can transfer individuals strategically to places where their careers are in a trailer next to a dumpster. Some will get the message or they are next. Break up clusters and don't rehire is another method. Lots of ways to encourage people to leave.
Then replace or don't fill the vacancy whichever is more effective. Funding is another way. Starve and strangle an individual uncooperative dept. and leave it to turn in the wind. Union personnel have to have a power base..look and identify. Apply pressure and keep it up. A lot you can do in the next 8 years. Don't be concerned about being "liked". Win and reward your Values among the ones who support them. Create an environment. Organize and create a wave.
If you don't fight you better learn to suck. Better to fight. No prisoners.
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One little problem about getting Bolton confirmed: Senator Rand Paul.
"I'll do whatever it takes to stop someone like John Bolton being secretary of state," said Paul; opposing Bolton and perhaps Giuliani "would include all of the tools, would include the filibuster as well, but I hate to prematurely offer that up."
You only need 51 votes - Thank You Harry Reid for that. 52 GOP senators. If the Dems stick together, and just one RINO joins Paul and the Dems, Nomination is DOA.
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FYI - latest tweet Paul say "ANY Position", not just SoS.
Here's the recent quote: “I think John Bolton is so far out of it, and has such a naïve understanding of the world, if he were to be the assistant or the undersecretary for Tillerson, I’m an automatic ‘No’ on Bolton,” Sen. Rand Paul said of President-elect Donald Trump’s reported choice for Deputy Secretary of State.
“He should get nowhere close to the State Department, if anybody with a sane worldview is in charge,” Paul continued.
Something sure has Rand's panties in a wad when it comes to Bolton. This has got to be something personal to be this petty. Pres Elect Trump needs to call him to the Trump Tower and talk some sense into him. NY Style.
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So, is George Voinovich, deceased senator from Ohio spinning in his grave, or mere weeping again?
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Trump, along with Pence, Newt, Huckabee, Giuliani, and a few others are taking the long view, the strategic view. They're setting America up for success well beyond themselves, or many of the others. I just hope and pray we can stay the course.
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My respect for Rand Paul and his panties is diminishing.
I have two theories:
1) Trump is picking these people to flush out the opposition as whiny little bitches and make their heads explode.
2) Trump is determined to succeed in his new job and is picking people to help him do that, regardless of the traditional paybacks and patronage system.
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Bolton remains one of the most disliked foreign policy operators on the world stage.
Because he puts US interests first, last, & always. Let them hate us as long as they fear us. And put a big poster of the "Darth Bolton" pic about every 10 feet in the State Dept. hallways.
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"Extreme Militant". Wear that Huffpo badge proudly
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The SoS Tillerson nominee is solid, will carry out negotiations and policies, etc. Good background for the job. But where to put Bolton? I think this is the perfect place for him - operations, not policy. Bolton can clean house at State. He's just the black-and-white kind of guy you need wielding an axe in that overgrown thicket of progressivism and careerism that State has become.
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I'm thinking a lot of housecleaning... $6 Billion lost worth
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1) Trump is picking these people to flush out the opposition as whiny little bitches and make their heads explode.
2) Trump is determined to succeed in his new job and is picking people to help him do that, regardless of the traditional paybacks and patronage system.
Yes and yes. My Facebook feed is full of Democrats/Liberals/Progressives and NeverTrumper Republicans outraged that Mr. Tillerson "has been picked." When I point out that he has not been picked, that the various reports that he is the front runner are based on Trump Tower elevator watching and anonymous sources who may well be nothing more than the hotel cleaning staff, they wax indignant that Mr. Trump would even dare consider such persons for the job.
They're going to drive themselves to nervous breakdowns before the man is even sworn into office.
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Call the NSA and get all the emails of the Rhinos to their mistresses and such. That'll help get rid of the opposition. (Where have I seen this before?)
[The Hill] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Saturday he has concerns about the possibility of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson being nominated for secretary of State, given his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I don’t know what Mr. Tillerson’s relationship with Vladimir Putin was, but I’ll tell you it is a matter of concern to me," McCain said in an interview with Fox News. NBC News reported earlier on Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump had settled on Tillerson to head the State Department, though the transition team has not confirmed the report.
McCain is the first Republican to raise questions about the potential nomination, and Tillerson could fail to make it through the confirmation process if just three GOP senators join a united Democratic opposition.
"I’d have to examine it," McCain said of the potential nomination. "You want to give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt because the people have spoken. But Vladimir Putin is a thug, bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying."
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WHAT 'relationship" to Putin? Spell it out, clown. Open your book and read us the evidence, not the innuendo.
Sound like self interest and BS to me, Mr. McCain.
You aren't exactly a winner in the "relationship" venue, yourself, you know. i seem to remember something about Syria with your name on it.
I see you as a politician on the outs and am not in any hurry to listen. Get some rest.
[WAPO who else?] THE WEEK started with a hopeful sign for those concerned about climate change: Former vice president Al Gore met with Donald Trump for about 90 minutes on Monday, leading some to believe that the president-elect might be ready to accept facts and evidence. By the end of the week, however, Mr. Trump had selected Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Pruitt wrote this in National Review in May: "Global warming has inspired one of the major policy debates of our time. That debate is far from settled. Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind. That debate should be encouraged -- in classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is not a crime."
Dissent, indeed, is not a crime, and acknowledging the uncertainties in climate forecasts is reasonable. But rejecting or playing down the near-unanimous warnings of experts, which are based on decades of substantial and continually accumulating evidence and suggest vast implications for future generations, should disqualify a nominee from leading an expert agency charged with making science-based decisions. Among scientists there is virtually no dissent
Oh yes there is...
from the conclusion that human activity -- the burning of fossil fuels, which releases heat-trapping gases that stay in the atmosphere -- is leading to planetary warming, and that the coming changes pose severe risks.
No doubt we would disagree with Mr. Pruitt on any number of issues. He is a leading voice against the Clean Power Plan, President Obama’s centerpiece climate policy. Even before his nomination, the New York Times had uncovered extremely close ties between Mr. Pruitt and the oil and gas industry. He has been tapped to run an agency much of whose work he believes should cease.
We might not oppose Mr. Pruitt’s nomination based on these differences. There are legitimate arguments, based in states’ rights and concerns over overregulation, against the Obama administration’s assertive application of clean water and clean air laws. A president is entitled to advisers, if they are qualified, who reflect his views.
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If the [settled] science of polling cannot predict a Trump win over Hillary one day in advance, how can meteorological science forecast years in advance?
The term "settled science" is a PC dogmatic catch phrase equivalent to "the world is flat".
Darwinism slow evolution was "settled science" until the big bang theory evolved to replace it.
"Global warming" evolved into "climate change".
One day "settled climate change" will evolve into duh, yeah the climate does change! But the climate change will be as unpredictable as a presidential election.
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Some are convinced we buggered the litmus test (and law) regarding citizenship for the highest office in the land. I don't see the harm in a Climate Change denier. To borrow a boring phrase, 'Fair and balanced.'
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20-30 years ago, a Scientific American article showed (I think) 11,000-year cycles of warming/cooling, based on orbital cycles. The author supposed global warming started 8,000 years ago, with agriculture and - yes, you knew it! - cow ... ummm... methane.
But, the author observed without this man-made (and domesticated animal) climate change, we would now be smack in the middle of an ice age.
Thank heaven for cows! And they make beef.
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Walk down just as far as the corner without a jacket. Then tell me about Global Warming.
Its BS and always was. It used to be Global Cooling 20 years ago. That was BS too.
What is is REALLY about is CONTROL. And Manipulation.
People are not stupid....like I say..walk down to the Corner without your jacket.
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And political hacks who have no experience or contract with the military culture should ever be appointed as SecDef, but that hasn't stopped you before.
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Many people die of dihydrogen monoxide every year worldwide. It is an alarming and significant problem that needs to be studied to understand this phenomenon and to try to prevent these needless these deaths.
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I believe the concept that human activity increases atmospheric CO2 is settled science. And that increased atmospheric CO2 creates more retained heat is settled science.
What is NOT settled is 'how much increase?' Or what other linked changes occur? Or 'is it good, or bad?'
What is not science is 'can we really stop it?' Or are we even interested in the 'science' of it, or just the politics?
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I guess that makes me a "Denier", Glen. I think we have too many cooked data reports, too many bad models, and grant-whores who subsist on "a new Ice Age" "Global Warmening" "Climate Change".
REAL Science™ doesn't try to shut down debate, hide data and mods, argue that the other side is "unethical or immoral" for questioning theory and results
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Sorry Glen. The fact that climate changes, and has been for millions of years is what is pretty much settled science.
The idea that mankind is responsible for Climate Change is what is most definately *not* settled.
The climate people are taking the settled science of climate change and attempting to apply it to the idea that it's mankind caused.
Kind of like the assertion that if you are against people who violate our borders then you are against immigrants. Entirely unrelated issues but they assert that they are the same.
The fact that climate change has been happening long before we climbed out of the trees [to free our hands for other uses...] is never mentioned. And that the data is bludgeoned until it meets their pre-determined conclusions makes their 'studies' irrelevant.
Washington will send another 200 troops to Syria to help an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters seize the Daesh group bastion of Raqa, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Saturday.
"I can tell you today that the United States will deploy approximately 200 additional US forces in Syria," Carter told Gulf policymakers in the Bahraini capital Manama.
They will complement 300 American special forces already in Syria to assist US-backed Kurdish-Arab fighters who in recent weeks began their offensive on Raqa. That operation coincides with a US-backed Iraqi effort to retake Mosul.
The two cities are the last major urban centres under Daesh control after the militants suffered a string of territorial losses in Iraq and Syria over the past year.
Carter told the Manama Dialogue security forum that the troop reinforcements will include bomb disposal experts and trainers as well as special forces.
"We're now helping tens of thousands of local Syrian forces to isolate Raqa," from which they are only about 25 kilometres (15 miles), he said.
Raqa, which has also served as a hub for militants plotting attacks abroad, is being isolated according to plan, Carter said. With the offensives against Mosul and Raqa, the US-led coalition against Daesh has reached "a critical milestone", Carter said.
Iraqi forces are battling militants deep inside Mosul, edging closer to the River Tigris that divides the city and looking for a breakthrough in the seven-week-old offensive.
"This is a complex mission that will take time to accomplish but I'm confident that militants' days in Mosul are numbered," Carter said.
He warned that it is unclear what form Daesh will take after its eventual defeat in Iraq and Syria, so the coalition of Western and Middle Eastern nations battling it will need to remain vigilant.
[ARA News] Erbil – The US will provide additional arms support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting in Raqqa.
US President Barack Obama has waived prohibitions in the US Arms Export Control Act, which will allow the US to arm the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and their partners that launched the second phase of the Euphrates Wrath Operation on Saturday.
US officials said the waiver will not be used to arm groups in Aleppo, only groups fighting ISIS in northern Syria. “We’re talking about partner forces that we’re working with in northern Syria,” US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said, in an indirect reference to the SDF forces.
The waived sections of the law will allow the US to provide defence articles and services to forces within Syria allied to the US, a decision described by the White House as “essential” to national-security interests.
“Since Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism, from time to time the President has to enact – or waive, I guess – restrictions that would otherwise prohibit the US military from providing assistance, lethal assistance to our partners who are carrying out these activities against Daesh or ISIS,” Toner said.
“We have provided some level of assistance to the Syrian Democratic Forces that are fighting in northern Syria against Daesh. That’s on top of the advice and training that we’ve provided these groups. And the reason we’ve done that is that they’ve been highly effective in going after and destroying Daesh on the battlefield in northern Syria,” Toner added.
“(By enabling) the Syrian Democratic Forces to liberate territory in Syria, we work to bring and provide stability back into these cities, work with local governments, local councils to re-establish stability in these areas,” Toner said. “Our special envoy, Brett McGurk, is in constant contact with many of these groups, as well as with Turkish authorities and others in the region, on what comes next,” he stated.
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[Wash Times] As recently as Nov. 17, James Clapper, the nation’s top intelligence officer, told Congress his agencies "don’t have good insight" into a direct link between Wikileaks and the emails supposedly hacked by a Russian operation from Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
During the campaign, Wikileaks released reams of embarrassing internal emails between campaign chairman John Podesta, other campaign officials and the Democratic National Committee. One emailed showed candidate Clinton was provided the questions ahead of a CNN town hall appearance.
Democrats are now on a campaign implying that the hacking won the election for Donald Trump and have pressed the Obama administration for a far reaching investigation.
The Washington Post reported Friday that the CIA has secretly concluded that the Vladimir Putin regime directed hackers to penetrate the Democrats’ emails expressly to help Republican Trump win the election. The Post said the CIA has identified people with connections to the Russia government who supplied the stolen emails to Wikileaks.
That is not what Mr. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told the House Intelligence Committee at an open hearing on Nov. 17.
Asked about Russia and Wikileaks, Mr. Clapper said, "As far as the WikiLeaks connection, the evidence there is not as strong and we don’t have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided. We don’t have as good insight into that."
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I still think that a disgruntled DNC партком person(s), perhaps of the Bernie persuasion, was responsible for the Donk Central Committee email leaks, not the russkies.
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Maybe Wikileaks has some evidence to back up the Dem claims?
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I think a Keystone Cops graphic might be more appropriate for this post.
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The dems have painted themselves in a corner on this one. They had no problem with barky ignoring intelligence briefings, but they will screech if Trump discounts CIA emanations. Hypocrites always...
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Wikileaks has evidence of Dem corruption that they must censor and ban at all costs....
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Maybe Wikileaks has some evidence to back up the Dem claims?
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The Dems won't be on the dance floor with Wikileaks anytime soon.
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#7 The dems have painted themselves in a corner on this one. They had no problem with barky ignoring intelligence briefings, but they will screech if Trump discounts CIA emanations. Hypocrites always...
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M. Murcek,
Perhaps I've heard one too many conspiracy theories, but maybe this is a stoke of genius on Trump's part:
1. "We'll tell Trump in the briefings that we've got vague concerns about Russian hacking. Then we'll go public saying 'Trump knew' but hasn't done anything about it. Makes him look bad."
2. Trump says, "Sorry. I only want specific briefings, and we'll tell you which ones," or, "I'll let you know when I want to hear the brief."
3. Dems/CIA: "How can we discredit or undermine Trump if he won't cooperate??? We'll tell everybody that there's a direct link!!"
4. "Really? Told POTUS yet? Gimme details."
5. "Ummmmmm....sorry, don't have good insight. Magic 8-ball says 'Ask me again later.'"
Mike
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My guess (and only a guess) is Trump has already established his own intelligence fusion and reporting cell. Getting a weekly Klingon dump (or as often as needed - they're only an hour away) verifies or refutes his own cell.
Under the existing circumstances and track record, that's what most of us would do.
"FBI is saying evidence isn’t there. And this isn’t about the vote itself, it’s about the DNC hack. Which had already been claimed, before the election, so we factored it or didn’t in our votes already. So what Democratic attempt is actually giving Russia what they want- a vehicle by which to attack our elections."
A military convoy carrying Kenyan forces serving with African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) , along with Somali National Army (SNA) were targeted in a roadside bomb in Lower Jubba region.
According to sources, several soldiers are feared dead, after their convoy was hit by a remote-controlled roadside bomb tore through the troops’ convoy as they were travelling to Qoqani town.
Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted KDF and Somali forces left from Tabta area and heading to Qoqani district near Kenyan border in a devastating landmine blast. AMISOM and SNA have yet to release its own statement concerning the attack.
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Al shabaab has claimed full responsibility for the a deadly suicide car bomb explosion targeted a security checkpoint near Somali capital, Mogadishu on Saturday morning, killing at least 9 people.
According to a pro-al shabaab website, at least nine people, including a bomber have lost their lives in the massive attack at Siinka Dheer , which lies about 18KM north-west of Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Somali officials have vehemently rejected the Al shabaab claims of the high number casualties, saying a soldier serving with Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) lost his life in the attack.
The independent sources confirmed at least two people, including a bomber who carried out the attack died in the incident, which has rocked a main security checkpoint manned by Somali special forces.
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[Wash Times] It is a miracle on 34th Street, perhaps. Macy’s will no longer donate money to Planned Parenthood according to 2ndVote, a conservative watchdog that monitors corporate funding of liberal causes.
The famous department store group has dropped the role of benefactor to Planned Parenthood, the researchers report -- their decision prompted by pro-life customers who complained about the practice. And Macy’s responded. Still, 36 other major retailers and businesses continue donating to the cause, including Ben & Jerry’s, Nike, American Express, Starbucks and Verizon.
"This Christmas, pro-lifers should consider shopping at Macy’s. Because, as it turns out, the giant chain listens to its conservative consumers," notes Katie Yoder, an analyst with Newsbusters.com who also monitors corporate advocacy efforts, including this development.
"It’s unlikely that the liberal media -- which boast strong ties to Planned Parenthood and have been instructed to cover for the abortion giant -- will publicize Macy’s funding halt," she adds.
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Still,36 other major retailers and businesses continue donating to the cause, including Ben & Jerry’s, Nike, American Express, Starbucks and Verizon.
We're their future customer base sis, I don't know why they hate us.
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Dear Santa,
I wish all funding of PP was private and voluntary, ending fed subsidies....I am pro-choice but took responsibility for those I brought into the world, providing basic needs and education. It is my choice alone to make and wish we could all stop imposing our personal choices upon everyone else. Acessible birth control and morning-after pills for the young and poor via OTC would prevent abortion. Liberty and responsibility go hand in hand but you cannot legislate love so we should settle for common sense. Enjoy your Starbuck's Salted Caramel Macchiato.
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Damn. I wish I could just go buy a pair of socks or a cup of coffee without having to worry about my money going to pay for an abortion. I wish I could go to a movie or buy a CD without worrying that some of the profits will be contributed to the election campaign of some idiot politician. Why can't these people just do their jobs and leave the politics out of it?
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#3 - "Acessible birth control and morning-after pills for the young and poor via OTC would prevent abortion"
Absolutely, which is one reason Republicans (even this Roman Catholic) support easily accessible OTC BC. It's the PP/Donk abortion religion that opposes it: "On Monday, the political action arm of Planned Parenthood issued a statement accusing Gardner and other Republicans of trying to “muddy the waters around their unpopular positions on women’s health,” and called the endorsement of over-the-counter birth control pills an “empty gesture.”"
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[ARA News] Raqqa – Syrian Elite Forces, headed by former chief of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Ahmad Jarba, have joined the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Raqqa, officials said on Saturday.
Jarba, a prominent Syrian opposition figure and leading member of the Shammar Arab tribe, has established the Elite Forces with support from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Officials from the SDF and the US-led coalition confirmed on Saturday that the Elite Forces have joined the second phase of the Euphrates Wrath Operation–aimed at isolating and eventually eliminating ISIS in Raqqa.
The Syrian Elite Forces, the military wing of Jarba’s Syrian Tomorrow Party, have been cooperating with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Shaddadi near Deir ez-Zor, but did not join the SDF forces.
Initially, the Jarba-led forces were based near Shadadi and only fought in the Hasakah Governorate and near Deir ez-Zor. But now the coalition forces and officials of the Syrian Democratic Forces say the Elite Forces are an official part of the Raqqa campaign.
“One notable faction joining the Raqqa campaign is the Syrian Elite Forces, who are led by Ahmad al-Jarba, an influential member in the region who has the ability to mobilize local forces in support of the offensive,” said Colonel John Dorrian, spokesman for the US-led coalition.
“The SDF now consists of approximately 45,000 fighters, more than 13,000 of which are Arab,” he said, while Kurds remain a majority in the Syrian Democratic Forces.
[ARA News] Raqqa – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday announced the begin of the second phase of Euphrates Wrath Operation to combat Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants in their de facto capital Raqqa.
Cihan Shekh Ehmed, spokesperson of the SDF-led Euphrates Wrath Operation, told a press conference: “The Syrian Democratic Forces decided to launch the second phase of the Euphrates Wrath Operation. This stage is aimed at liberating the western countryside of Raqqa from ISIS, beside completing the isolation of Raqqa City.”
“The operation will continue until all goals are accomplished,” she said.
According to the SDF spokeswoman, more than 1500 Arab fighters have joined the Kurdish-led SDF in the fight for Raqqa.
“We also announce that the Euphrates Wrath Operation has been expanding with new factions joining the SDF ranks to eliminate ISIS in Raqqa,” Cihan said. “More than 1500 Arab fighters have joined the Syrian Democratic Forces in battle for Raqqa, and they’ve been equipped by the US-led coalition.”
“The new factions include the Deir Ezzor Military Council, Raqqa Revolutionary Battalion and the Elite Forces affiliated with the Syrian Future Movement.
“We want to stress that the coordination between the SDF and the Western Coalition has reached a high level,” she said, adding: “This coordination and cooperation will ensure a successful second phase of the Euphrates Wrath Operation.”
The Kurdish official also stressed that after expelling ISIS from Raqqa, the city will be run by a local civilian council.
“Once liberated, the city of Raqqa will be run by its own people, by a civilian council established locally and representatives elected by the people of Raqqa,” she said.
Four weeks ago, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces launched the Euphrates Wrath Operation, with support from the US-led coalition. The operation’s long-term objective is the isolation and elimination of the Islamic State in Raqqa.
During the first phase of Euphrates Wrath, SDF soldiers captured an area measuring approximately 560 km2, containing dozens of towns, villages and farms. Military sources told ARA News that more than 185 ISIS jihadists have been killed since November 6.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), Syriac Military Council, Raqqa Revolutionaries Battalion and Tel Abyad Revolutionary Brigade are participating in Euphrates Wrath. In addition to these local fighters, foreign soldiers from a half-dozen nations are participating, either as YPG volunteers or under the auspices of the US-led coalition. Video report at the link
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[Iran Press TV] The Syrian army says reinforcements have been deployed to the ancient city of Palmyra in the west-central Homs Province to prevent the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISISmurderous Moslems from further advancing toward the city.
The army said in a statement on Saturday that festivities are underway between government forces and the terrorists, who have advanced to the city’s outskirts.
The statement said that the Lions of Islam had seized areas to the northwest and southeast of the historic city.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the terrorist group launched the recent offensive late on Thursday, when it seized grain silos northeast of Palmyra, and has since taken at least partial control of oil and gas fields to the city’s northwest.
The Syrian army, backed by popular forces and a wave of Russian Arclight airstrikes, retook the ancient city from ISIS on March 27 following weeks of military operations.
Syrian army and allied forces are also busy driving the Takfiri murderous Moslems from the strategic northwestern city of Aleppo. On Friday, government forces liberated 52 blocks in the eastern parts of the city and are now in control of 93 percent of the whole city, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The recent army gains come despite the persistent financial and military support that many foreign states have been providing to the Lions of Islam since 2011 to bring about the ouster of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath....
BEIRUT: Fighters of the Daesh group on Saturday re-entered Syria’s famed ancient desert city of Palmyra from which they were driven out eight months ago, a monitor said.
“IS entered Palmyra on Saturday and now occupies its northwest. There is also fighting with the army in the city center,” said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The jihadists began an offensive in recent days near the town which is on UNESCO’s world heritage list.
In May last year, Daesh seized several towns in Homs province including Palmyra, where they caused extensive damage to many of its ancient sites.
They were ousted from Palmyra in March by Syrian regime forces backed by Russia.
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Daesh militants on Saturday captured most of the ancient city of Palmyra after penetrating Syrian regime’s army defenses and securing strategic heights around the ancient city in eastern Syria following a surprise assault, a monitoring group and rebels said.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were fears for the lives and safety of civilians inside the city because many of them were pro-regime.
The opposition and the war monitor said with the exception of the southern parts, most of the city was now in the hands of the militants who had waged an attack on several fronts.
Meanwhile, the regime’s army tightened its grip Saturday on opposition fighters besieged in Aleppo along with thousands of civilians.
Airstrikes pummeled the shrinking opposition enclave in east Aleppo as US Secretary of State John Kerry said the regime’s “indiscriminate bombing” amounted to crimes against humanity.
Western powers meeting in Paris called for peace talks to resume and for civilians to be allowed to leave Aleppo, where tens of thousands have already fled the offensive.
UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said the world is watching “the last steps” in the Aleppo battle and evacuating civilians must be a priority.
Meanwhile, the US-led coalition has killed a key leader of Daesh in Syria, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
“Coalition warplanes targeted and killed Tunisian Boubaker Al-Hakim, in Raqqa, Syria” on Nov. 26, Pentagon spokesman Ben Sakrisson said in a statement.
“Al-Hakim was a Daesh leader and longtime terrorist with deep ties to French and Tunisian radical elements,” he added.
Al-Hakim is also suspected of involvement in extremist attacks against Tunisian political leadership in 2013, Sakrisson said.
“His removal degrades Daesh’s ability to conduct further attacks in the West and denies Daesh a veteran extremist with extensive ties,” he added.
Hakim’s death also “denies Daesh a key figure with extensive historical and current involvement in facilitation and external operations and degrades their ability to conduct terror attacks around the world,” the statement read.
Separately, the Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered the Daesh bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria, the observatory said.
“They entered Al-Bab from the northwest after violent clashes with the radicals as Turkish artillery bombarded the town,” the observatory said. Heavy fighting was ongoing late Saturday in the town near the Turkish border, he said.
Ynet relates Babouker al Hakim's pre-death history:
Hakim, a 33-year-old French Tunisian, was a mentor to the brothers who gunned down cartoonists at the French paper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.
Soon after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, el Hakim wound up in a network of French jihadis and fought with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. ISIS began as an al-Qaida affiliate in Iraq led by al-Zarqawi, until Zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike in June 2006.
El Hakim was arrested in Syria and sent to France, where he was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was considered at the time to be among the most radicalized of the network of young extremists from the Paris area, which included the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.
Released from prison in early 2011,
...he must have been credited with time served while awaiting trial, or else he was a seriously model prisoner...
el Hakim is believed to have moved to Tunisia, where he claimed responsibility in 2014 for the assassinations of two political figures. By then, he was high up in ISIS's ranks and was believed to play a role in the group's external operations.
El Hakim moved back and forth between Syria and Iraq using networks of smugglers and jihadis, according to court records obtained by The Associated Press. He appeared on French television calling on friends in Paris to join him.
"I am in Iraq, I'm doing jihad. And all my brothers who are there, should come and defend Islam," he said.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran's chief Armed Forces front man has warned the United States against any possible act of aggression against the Islamic Theocratic Republic, vowing a harsh response to enemies’ moves. Saber rattling and vitriol spewing, blah blah blah.
"If the US warmongers and their stooges carry out an immature and unprofessional act, they will definitely face the Iranian combatants’ tough response," Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, said on Saturday.
"The current military and security conditions of the Persian Gulf are in such a way that the enemy’s forces and equipment are completely within the reach of Iran's military forces," he added.
He emphasized that the Iranian military forces have "full dominance and control over the Persian Gulf region more than ever."
Jazayeri said the Islamic Theocratic Republic and the Iranian Armed Forces would not joke with anybody when it comes to defense and security matters and would "definitely respond to any move that seeks to endanger the country’s security."
The commander pointed to earlier US threats against Iranian ships and said, "Those who seek to cause Iranian boats to sink in the Persian Gulf have no military common sense."
Back in September, US President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said during his election campaign that Iranian ships attempting to provoke America "will be shot out of the water" during his presidency.
On November 10, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri played down Trump’s harsh anti-Iran rhetoric, saying, "That person, who has just risen to power, has talked off the top of his head."
Back in August, Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... said the country’s Armed Forces must boost their preparedness to deter any enemy aggression.
"In the face of such an enemy, which seeks to undermine the country’s defensive prowess, the Armed Forces’ preparedness must be boosted to an extent that the enemy would not even dare to think about any aggression," Ayatollah Khamenei stated.
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We oughtta sink a ship every time these assholes mouth off
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"In the face of such an enemy, which seeks to undermine the country’s defensive prowess, the Armed Forces’ preparedness must be boosted to an extent that the enemy would not even dare to think about any aggression," Ayatollah Khamenei stated.
I'd love to see a B-52 run over Bushehr or Natanz (or pick a target) on January 21, just to shut these fuckers up (and destroy half of the shit those pallets of cash and wire orders were used to buy).
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I'd love to see a B-52 run over Bushehr or Natanz (or pick a target) on January 21, just to shut these fuckers up (and destroy half of the shit those pallets of cash and wire orders were used to buy). Posted by Raj
Few will say it, but that really is what it's going to take. After that, the shi* stops for a generation or two. For permanent results, destroy the entire nest.
[DAILYCALLER] A transgender police officer in Washington, D.C., who has repeatedly been praised as a community role model has also quietly been reprimanded for improper sexually-tinged antics with underage police interns.
In a story published Thursday night, NBC4 News profiled Jessica Hawkins as a police officer who "helps build trust in [the] D.C. community" due to his work on an LGBT outreach unit. Hawkins, who previously went by Billy, is biologically male but identifies as a woman, and publicly transitioned two years ago.
NBC4’s story is just the latest positive one about Hawkins, who has also been profiled by NPR, Metro Weekly and other outlets.
But a new report by local D.C. station Fox 5 shows another, more disturbing side of Hawkins that hasn’t appeared in profiles. According to the report, Hawkins has repeatedly landed in hot water because of his conduct around interns for D.C.’s police department.
"Sgt. Hawkins showed the interns a ’homemade video of her having sex with 4 men while she was intoxicated,'" Fox’s report says. Another complain filed against Hawkins accused him of taking under-21 interns to an Arlington gay bar, where she helped them buy alcohol and laughed at one intern’s possession of a fake ID.
According to Fox, Hawkins has admitted that both complaints against him are accurate, and was quite cavalier in the admission. Hawkins even volunteered that he had shown other interns an inappropriate picture on his phone.
In a statement, D.C. police told Fox that Hawkins’ case is still ongoing.
"That investigation has concluded and the findings are currently with the MPD’s disciplinary review division," the statement said. "The DRD will review and determine an appropriate penalty. Throughout the investigation, Sergeant Hawkins remained in her current assignment and is still widely considered a valuable MPD team member in our special liaison division."
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Good plot for a Roger Corman or William Castle flic.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 45 soldiers were killed in an kaboom at the al-Sawlaban army camp in the Yemeni port city of Aden, Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent has reported.
Sources confirmed that the kaboom was a result of an unknown jacket wallah who was able to break into the camp and detonated his suicide belt as soldiers were gathering to collect their salaries.
ISIS turbans have repeatedly grabbed credit for carrying out attacks on military personnel in the southern port city.
The turbans have taken advantage of Yemen's civil war between the government and the Iran-aligned 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.
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[CNS] The predominantly Christian country of Slovakia passed a law on Nov. 30 that effectively bans Islam as an officially recognized religion, which also blocks Islam from receiving any state subsidies for its schools, reported Reuters.
The prime minister, Robert Fico, said in May that "Islam has no place" in Slovakia. Prior to the law being passed, Slovak National Party Chairman Andrej Danko said, "Islamization starts with a kebab and it's already under way in Bratislava -- let's realize what we can face in 5 to 10 years."
"We must do everything we can so that no mosque is built in the future," said Danko.
The new law says that a religion must have at least 50,000 members to qualify for state recognition; the previous threshold was 20,000 members. According to Slovakia's latest census, as reported by Reuters, there are 2,000 Muslims there and "no recognized mosques."
The law passed with a two-thirds majority in the Slovakia Parliament.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Slovakia and the United States established diplomatic relations, in 1993. Slovakia is a member of the European Union and NATO. The country sits in the center of Eastern Europe, bordered by the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Ukraine and Hungary.
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Never been there, but I understand they still burn a lot of wood for heat Woodrow. It's a warmer heat, and saves a lot on the electricity bill. Nothing like waking up in the morning to a hot stove.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has appointed Brigadier General Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar as the new commander of Iran’s Basij (mobilization) Forces after years of serving as the commanders of the country’s forces.
He replaces Mohammad Reza Naqdi, who served as the Basij’s leader for nine years.
Gheibparvar served as the commander of Iranian forces in Syria since October 2015.
He is known as a strong critic and silencer of Iranian internal opposition members, especially the student opposition groups in universities and the popular Green Movement that that arose after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, in which protesters demanded the removal of former President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad from office.
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[Libya Observer] Benghazi Shura Council has denied any connection with gangs in 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... including the armed force located in Arada, Tripoli.
The disavowing statement by the Benghazi Shura Council comes to refute responsibility for the footage that went viral on social media showing confessions of a member of an gang in Tripoli to raping a woman along with other men then saying he and they have connections to the Benghazi Shura Council.
"The man who appeared in the confession video and the others in the raping footage are not members of the Benghazi Shura Council." An official at the council told Ajwa Net on Friday.
The video that went viral on Thursday showed a person tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade. The man said he and other men from his brigade raped a Libyan woman in the headquarters of the brigade in Tripoli, confirming that they share the building with Benghazi Shura Council fighters, led by Ali al-Adouli.
On December 01, the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade attacked an armed force’s building in Arada, eastern Tripoli, clashed with its fighters, killing its commander and three fighters for their involvement in murders, banditry, kidnap and smuggling illegal immigrants colonists.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Benghazi Shura Council official refuted the claims and said they have no military camps in Tripoli or in its suburbs and they have no fighters or members from the council located in the capital.
"We only have a formal office, through which all our communications, individual and institutional, are conducted in the capital."
"On November 19, 2014, we told all public and private organizations and authorities not to deal with any person claiming relations to the council except if they had official letter sealed and dated by our council and the date should not exceed one month backward." The Benghazi Shura Council remarked.
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The Russians have played this game before, and they know all they have to do is not lose.
ALEPPO, Syria: US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Syrian regime’s “indiscriminate bombing” amounted to crimes against humanity as air strikes pummelled the shrinking rebel enclave in Aleppo on Saturday.
Western powers meeting in Paris called for the resumption of peace talks and for civilians to be allowed to leave Aleppo, where tens of thousands have already fled a fierce regime offensive.
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[al-Manar] The Lebanese Armed Forces carried out at dawn on Saturday extensive raids of Syrian encampments in Qaa in search of terrorists and illegal arms.
Tens of Syrians were apprehended and numerous weapons were confiscated along with illegal motorcycles.
[al-Manar] The Syrian army on Saturday restored al-Faqi’a village and farms in the northern countryside of Daraa southern province, chasing the fleeing terrorists, according to SANA.
The Syrian army also secured the Old International Road to the north of Daraa city by striking Nusra Front posts in the area.
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[Clinton News Network] Ex-CIA operative: We may need a new vote. Former CIA Operative Robert Baer says if the CIA can prove that Russia interfered with the 2016 election then the US should vote again. Robert Booker "Bob" Baer is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East. He is Time's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Wikipedia
[IsraelTimes] Soon to be former Senator Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority minority leader ... accuses agency chief James Comey of withholding information, urges Senate investigation.
Were any of this true, this would be appalling. To summarize: the CIA, which should have known and prevented it neither knew nor prevented, while the FBI knew and both said and did nothing. If electing Hillary Clinton would have given us a third term of this kind of nonsense, it is a very good thing that she threw it away.
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Notice how little we've heard from Islamist Brennan of late? Annuitants and freelancers such as Mr. Baer provide a convenient mouthpiece.
The Islamists (and the left), having fallen on hard times on the battlefield of ideas. They would like nothing more than a U.S. and Russian confrontation.
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Trump WILL be sworn in in about another month. Yrump WILL be the President of the United States. There isn't going to be another Election. The recount will turn up nothing. AND there are at least three Generals ( retired ) in Trump's Cabinet. Bolton will be the Executive Officer at the State Dept. and the Lefties are in for 8 long years of hurt.
Smell the panic? Obama won't have a L:legacy....he did everything by "executive Order" and twenty minutes after Trump sits down in the Oval Office he can write an executive order canceling al Obama NEVER got approved by Congress....PLUS he has his Cabinet appt. to carry on the fight for the next 8 years. And it WILL be a long 8 years for the piggies to squeal.
A LOT of anger to be worked off. And the good news is we WON and payback is due. You like PC? You like Liberals? You like having their you can keep your doctor and your Medical plan? You LIKE being lid to?
You like a failed economy and seeing Obama BOW and apologize and the DEBT? WORK. And remember the Left did this to you. Used you, lied to you , shoved you around.
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If the CIA can prove - in a court of law, to criminal justice standards, that this was done and they have names, dates, witnesses and confessions, then bring it to the SCOTUS and let them decide.
If not, then shaddup.
I knew by lunch on November 9th that the whining and b!tching from the Democrats would be at Biblical levels this year, but as far as I'm concerned this isn't sour grapes any more - this is a intentional, concerted effort at sedition now (I respectfully suggest to my Democratic friends that they take a good hard look at 18 USC Chapter 115) and consider that they are playing a very dangerous game as if they were toddlers on a playground.
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Because "Make America Great Again" is something the Kremlin can really get behind.
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I've stated it before: The CIA needs to be broken up and recreated with an eye on preventing the flaws currently there that have produced multiple failures in the past 25 years.
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I've stated it before: The CIA needs to be broken up and recreated with an eye on preventing the flaws currently there that have produced multiple failures in the past 25 years.
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'Break up' the shadow gov't puppet masters? Best of luck with that.
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I have a buddy who served as an intelligence officer at Forward Operating Base 1 (FOB 1) at Phu Bai, RVN. He was in charge of pre and post deployment briefings of teams being inserted into hostile areas.
During the prep and isolation phases, the local Agency nug got into a habit of injecting additional and quite lengthy collection taskings to the inserted teams.
Finally my buddy, a no-time-in-grade Captain pulled the guy aside and said (paraphrasing) "hey Vern, we've got a primary mission here. Your stuff is add-on's. If you want to know more, you've got an M-16, get off your arse, ruck-up and tag along." The additional OGA taskings began to drop off.
President Obama is right — if President-elect Donald Trump succeeds, America succeeds. But the opposite is equally true. The costs of a failed Trump presidency would be profound for the security of the United States and countries around the world.
With each passing day, we grow increasingly concerned that President-elect Trump fails to grasp the solemn, serious responsibilities that come with being our nation’s commander in chief. Protecting and advancing our national security interests is arguably the president’s most important duty.
As elected representatives of a separate and co-equal branch of government, we are honor-bound by our oaths to protect and defend the Constitution. We will also offer our advice and opinions to the president and share these views with the American people, particularly when it concerns our national security. And there is much to be concerned about.
First, Donald J. Trump will pledge to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States when he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20. But by any objective measure, the president-elect is on a collision course with the Constitution, which states that federal office holders cannot receive monetary gifts or otherwise financially benefit from foreign governments or affiliates.
But Trump’s company and its many dealings stand in direct conflict with this prohibition. Trump has announced he will address his future with his business empire next week, and we expect nothing less than an utterly clear, concrete, black-and-white decision that prevents any actual or perceived conflict with the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
Second, Trump is treating the secretary of State nomination like a reality television show.
When it comes to the selection of our nation’s chief diplomat, we expect Trump to nominate someone who possesses unquestioned expertise, experience and judgment — not a political loyalist or ideological firebrand, characteristics of many of the individuals already surrounding the president-elect.
Finally, we have been alarmed by the cavalier manner in which the president-elect appears to be approaching his initial interactions with foreign heads of state and other political leaders, potentially setting the stage for multiple diplomatic crises that could easily escalate.
In his calls with foreign leaders, President-elect Trump has unnerved our partners, raised questions about U.S. commitments and even reportedly expressed tacit support for extrajudicial killings. Moreover, in preparing for these conversations he has ignored experts in U.S. intelligence agencies and the State Department.
Indeed, we find it particularly troubling that President-elect Trump has mostly declined to take the daily intelligence briefing. Presidents and presidents-elect going back decades have begun their day this way — understanding national security threats and opportunities, asking probing questions, and making tough decisions.
The information and analysis that our intelligence community provides to decision-makers is invaluable for developing a full and nuanced picture of the world.
Candidate Trump’s comments on an array of foreign policy issues were disturbing at best and frightening at worst. This conduct cannot become the norm.
At stake is America’s role as a global superpower: building coalitions, fostering development, combating disease, fighting terrorism, upholding democratic institutions and values, and filling leadership voids where other nations come up short.
We do not yet know how President-elect Trump will treat these issues once he occupies the Oval Office, but we have little optimism at this time based on what he has presented thus far.
Provocative tweets might satisfy a political base, but they do nothing to advance the national security interests of the United States. On the contrary, such missives could lead to serious misunderstandings with our allies and potential conflicts with our adversaries.
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Why does media even give these people airtime. I pay no attention to them and long for the greater potential prospects to come presented in a new media. PBS, ESPN, CNN, MSN, NBC, ABC the long goodbye.
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I pay no attention to them
Go 'em one better. Cut the cord and stop paying for them. I canceled DirecTV and stopped subsidizing the NBA and NFL kneelers on ESPN in the bargain. Win-win-win-WIN!
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Propaganda BS
Trump's picks are good ones. Bolton as Exec at State Dept is particularly good. He knows the system from the git-go. He will hit the ground running. State Dept. NEEDS a house cleaning. They behaved like tools for Clinton.
Bolton has strong Values. And a few Generals in the Cabinet is a good thing. The Left needs to see it...and feel it.
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Wikileaks: It seems that the building(Premise Data/T&C) they are using is owned by CBRE. The name on the public records is Mark Raggio. Mark Raggio is the First Vice President of CBRE. CBRE seems to be the real estate reps for either the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton campaign, or both. This site is surmised to be a front company, registered in Panama. Feinstein has reason to deflect to the Russians--Feinstein's husband owns CBRE. "Thou dost protest too much"
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Wasn't removing the US superpower status Obama's goal for the last 8 years? One of the few he actually made progress on?
(Reuters) Turkish jets carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in the Gara region of northern Iraq on Friday and killed 19 militants, Turkish military sources said on Saturday.
The warplanes took off from an air base in Diyarbakir in response to threats that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were preparing an attack on military units at the border, the sources said.
Turkey frequently launches air attacks against PKK targets in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq near the Turkish border, where the Kurdish militant group’s leadership has camps.
A ceasefire between the autonomy-seeking PKK and the state fell apart last year, triggering some of the worst violence in the three decades of the Kurdish insurgency.
More than 40,000 people, most of them Kurds, have been killed in Turkey’s conflict with the PKK, which Ankara, the United States and European Union designate a terrorist organization.
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[DAWN] An infant died of burn injuries after allegedly being set on fire by his mother in G-6/2 on Friday, police said. Doctors confirmed that Haider, the three-month-old child, died in the hospital within hours.
The incident occurred at the child’s home while his father was away and he was at home with his mother and grandmother. The incident came to light when the child’s father informed the police.
The police said the infant was in a stroller when he was allegedly set on fire by his mother, a psychiatric patient. The child’s grandmother shouted for help and caught the neighbours’ attention, who rushed to rescue the child and informed the child’s father.
The child was shifted to a hospital and admitted to the burn centre under the observation of doctors, police said. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the infant did not survive.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian authorities are pardoning some of their most notorious criminals from its prisons as long as they agree to volunteer to fight in Syria, a local media outlet has reported.
Al-Hissar News, a local human right news website focused on Iranian prisoners, revealed how Tehran coaxes Iranian and Afghan prisoners with promises of amnesty if they returned intact from the war.
According to the source, prisons authority confirmed that the volunteered prisoners would be considered "deaders", in addition to benefits and perks to be rewarded to their families if they are killed while fighting on the frontlines.
Thousands of Iranian soldiers and militia fighters have been killed in Syria’s civil war, laying bare the scale of Iran’s intervention to preserve Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s grip on power.
Tehran has also been covertly recruiting hundreds of Iraqis, Paks, and Afghan to fight alongside the Syrian government forces.
A prisoner at Rajaai Shar Karj prison, who refused to be identified for security reasons, said prisoners are restricted from disclosing their intention to volunteer to fight in Syria or clarifying the grounds of their pardons, according to news report.
"My mother staunchly rejected the idea of volunteering and told to let Khamenei and Rafsanjani send their children, not the helpless prisoners and Afghans," the prisoner was quoted as saying.
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Probably to be placed in 'penal battalions' a la Stalin. Remember guys to be very careful when walking over the mine fields...
[DAWN] The Bannu police claimed on Friday to have jugged Please don't kill me! a bad boy wanted to law enforcement agencies in various cases of terrorism in the district.
Officials of Kaki cop shoppe said that they were on a routine patrol in the area when they spotted a suspected person, and arrested him.
They said a pistol, cartridges, and a fake NIC card in the name of Mulla Dad were recovered from his possession.
The police officials said that the alleged terrorist was wanted to police in 12 high profile cases of militancy, including carrying out a blast on a school, assassination'>assassinations, blowing up a military vehicle, killing of Kaki nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... and other crimes of heinous nature. Whoa! He had the death sentence on twelve systems!
He was carrying a Rs1 million head money.
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[MSN] Boko Haram continues to pose a major threat in the remote north of Cameroon. The military has made some gains since it declared war on the Nigeria-based armed group but in two and a half years nearly 2,000 people have been killed and thousands. The al-Jazeera video is worth watching. People can do what govt can't.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s Court of Cassation rejected on Saturday a final appeal by Islamist Death EaterAdel Habara
... big man in Ansar Bayt al Maqdis since back when it was a mere Al Qaeda affiliate murdering police and soldiers in the Sinai. His full name is Adel Mohamed Ibrahim, but he is sometimes called Adel Mohammed...
against a death sentence for plotting an execution-style killing of 25 soldiers in an ambush in August 2013.
The court also rejected the appeals of 15 other defendants in the case whose sentences ranged from three years to life in prison.
Habara's lawyer Adel Moawad told Ahram Online that his client "is still on trial in other cases, including insulting the judiciary, attempted escape during transport, and [and has received another] death sentence for the murder of an informant in Sharkiya governorate."
"However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... today's death sentence is final and enforceable, and [the implementation of which] cannot be postponed until other cases are concluded."
Habara, who gained notoriety over his reported involvement in the attack, is appealing another death sentence against him for his role in a major 2012 attack in North Sinai that left 16 soldiers dead.
Habara's death sentence has to reviewed by the country's Grand Mufti, though the Mufti's recommendation to the court is not legally binding.
Possibly this is actually the end of the road for Ol' Adel. With all those cases at various stages of the process, he's probably grateful to escape the circuit between prison and courtroom. Hell, with its roasting intestines and red hot iron stools, will surely be more interesting.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A suspect was rubbed out in an ’encounter’ in the early hours of Friday morning in PIB Colony, police said.
The police conducted a raid at ’Karnal Basti’ near Jhanday Shah Qabristan on information about the presence of suspects. It led to an exchange of fire, resulting in injuries to one suspect, identified as Imran, alias Decoration Wala. He died while being taken to hospital, said PIB SHO Safdar Mashwani.
The other suspects, identified as Sharifullah, alias Kaki, Azmat Bajori, Anwar, alias Rao Anwar, Ali Hasan, alias Allati, Shahid, Nomi and Amir, escaped.
The officer claimed that the killed suspect was involved in a recent grenade attack on a police checkpoint in the same area. Besides, he was wanted in 17 heinous crimes. The killed suspect was a ’gangster’ belonging to the Darvesh gang linked with Uzair Baloch.
The police claimed to have seized a TT pistol from his custody.
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But in the end, all Assad will do is play Islamic Whack-a-Mole in six months or so. A lot of blood and treasure has been expended for what will likely be a temporary win
ALEPPO: Syria’s President Bashar Assad is on the verge of recapturing all of Aleppo from opposition fighters, but the victory won’t be his alone. The battle for Syria’s largest city has attracted thousands of foreign forces backing Assad — including Russian soldiers and Shiite fighters from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The remarkable political and sectarian alignment underscores Aleppo’s symbolic and strategic importance, which goes beyond the confines of Syria’s civil war. Syria’s former commercial center has long been regarded as a major gateway between Turkey and Syria.
[Iran Press TV] The detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and his wife have been relocated to an undisclosed safe location amid fears of assassination attempts.
According to reports, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and Zeenat were moved to the unnamed detention center in the capital Abuja on Saturday.
In early December, the Abuja division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria announced that both of them should be released unconditionally. After a few days, Kaduna State authorities called for Zakzaky’s prosecution for the alleged "lawlessness" of the IMN.
In October, authorities in the state declared the mainstream Shia group as illegal as part of the state crackdown against the Muslim community.
The prominent cleric and his wife were taken into custody on December 14, 2015, after deadly clashes between the supporters of the IMN movement and Nigerian troops.
Nearly 350 members of the Shia movement were killed in the clashes. The sheikh was brutally injured and his house was reportedly destroyed by the army in the incident.
After detaining Zakzaky, the Nigerian government stepped up its crackdown on the IMN. In November, nearly 100 IMN supporters were killed when Nigerian forces fired live rounds and teargas at mourners during a peaceful march ahead of the Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), the third Shia imam. Authorities also destroyed a number of buildings belonging to the IMN.
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[ARA News] Homs – Subsequent to fierce clashes with Syrian Army forces, militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) seized control of several areas in Syria’s central Homs Governorate on Saturday.
ISIS militants launched a major offensive on military bases of the Syrian regime’s armed forces in the vicinity of al-Mahr oilfield, in Homs’ eastern countryside.
The group shelled the army headquarters with mortar and artillery fire, forcing Syrian soldiers to evacuate main positions near al-Mahr.
“At least 19 pro-regime soldiers were killed in Saturday’s offensive,” media activist Amro al-Hussein told ARA News in Homs, citing a military source.
“The army was forced to retreat from the Ertiwaziyah District and al-Burj Hill, east of Homs. ISIS is now in control of both locations,” the source reported.
ISIS has repeatedly tried to storm the fortified hilltops which abut the al-Mahr oilfield, employing VBIEDs and suicide squads.
Islamic State militants also seized control of three military checkpoints in eastern Homs after clashes with Syrian army forces on Saturday evening.
ISIS has recently brought reinforcements to the eastern countryside of Homs in a bid to protect its positions and push into Homs City. However, the group’s movement has been considerably restricted in central Syria due to intensified Russian airstrikes, that often hit the ISIS’s tactical units and fighting positions in support of the Syrian regime’s forces.
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And there you have it: honesty in its rawest form.
[DAWN] The Council on Islamic Ideology discussed the minorities bill recently passed in Sindh, which criminalises forced conversions and bars conversion of minors.
Sherani said the law is "illegal, unconstitutional and un-Islamic". The council further declared that the legislation was against basic human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ."The law was not correct and it was not fair either," Sherani said. "If anyone is forced to convert from his or her religion, then that is unfair, even if the person who has converted is a hundred years old."
He added that the country's constitution allowed every person to adopt Islam as per their own will.
"...even if it takes roughing them up a bit to help them discover they want it," he added.
"Anybody who is sane and has decision making power has to be allowed to adopt Islam, but limiting this choice to the minimum age of 18 years is not correct," he added.
"You don't have to rough them up as much when they are eight, donchaknow."
"This law is against the spirit of Islam too and we will write to all concerned including Governor Sindh against this law," he said.
"The Prophet Mohammed (bees pee upon him) said there is no compulsion is religion, which means that kidnapping and roughing them up a bit is not compulsion," he continued. "Therefore it's ok to do it even to toddlers!"
The meeting also opposed any proposed amendment in the blasphemy law.
Sherani said the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights had called to discuss the blasphemy law but that "disturbing the existing laws" wouldn't be right.
"Parliamentarians should instead focus on making the remaining laws Sharia compliant," he added.
Sherani, who is also an MNA from the Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), is set to retire from the chairmanship of the CII on December 16, 2016 after completing two terms of three years each.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top al-Qaeda leader who was channeling funds to the gunnies in Afghanistan was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! during an operation 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 Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Friday that suspect was arrested during a special military operation conducted in Khogyani district late on Thursday night.
According to MoI, the suspect was injured during the operation and was arrested by the security forces.
MoI further added that the suspect is originally a resident of Pakistain and another Lion of Islam was also killed during the operation.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as a top al-Qaeda leader was killed in Afghanistan during Arclight airstrike by the US forces in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The al-Qaeda leader Faruq al-Qatani was killed in the dronezaps carried out in Kunar in mid-October.
Al-Qatani, considered as the terror network’s leader for the region, was targeted along with another al-Qaeda leader Bilal al-Utabi in a series of dronezaps on 23rd October.
The officials in Kunar also added that several gunnies including foreigners were also among those killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
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At least 14 militants were killed in separate airstrikes conducted in southern and western parts of the country, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
According a statement by MoI, at least 12 of the militants were killed in Bala Bolok district of Farah prvince on Friday.
The statement further added that 2 militants were killed in a separate airstrike conducted in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province.
MoI further added that several weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also destroyed in the airstrikes.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents are actively operating in its various districts and frequently conduct insurgency activities.
However, Farah is relatively safe as compared to southern Helmand although insurgency activities by Taliban and other militants are often reported in this province.
Reports emerged earlier suggesting that the loyalists of ISIIL terrorist group are attempting to expand foothold from this province.
[al-Manar] Turkish warplanes destroyed 39 ISIL targets and killed four militants in northern Syria, the Turkish army said on Saturday.
Turkey’s ramping up of its air strikes in northern Syria are part of Ankara’s almost four-month-old “Euphrates Shield” operation with Turkish-backed militants, which aims to push the extremists and Kurdish militia fighters away from the Syrian border area.
Turkish jets destroyed shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, and ammunition depots the latest air strikes in the al-Bab and Zarzur regions of northern Syria, the army said.
The Turkish army on Friday said its air strikes destroyed 34 ISIL targets, while a statement from the day before said it said it had hit 10 targets.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday the Turkish-backed militants closed in on the key ISIL-held city of al-Bab in northern Syria, with Turkish tanks and warplanes supporting the assault.
[AlAhram] The Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered 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.... (IS) holy warrior group's bastion of al-Bab in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
"They entered al-Bab from the northwest after violent festivities with the jihadists as Turkish artillery bombarded the town," the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... was ongoing late Saturday in the town near the Turkish border, he said, which has been under IS control since 2014.
Al-Bab is the last bastion IS has in northern Aleppo province.
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[DAWN] SHANGLA: Death toll from the measles outbreak has reached 10 as four more children are reported to have become victims of the disease in Shangla during last four days.
Residents of Koz Kana village said four more children died and several others were hospitalised due to measles in the last four days. They identified the dear departed children as Ishrat Bibi (7) of Kotkay Alpuri, Mustafa Khan (4), Anas Shah (2) and Adil Zada of Koz Kana.
The fear-gripped residents demanded the government to take notice of the outbreak of the disease and sent medical teams to the affected areas forthwith. They alleged that despite media reports the health department was yet to come into action.
District health officer Dr Shafiul Mulk told Dawn that about 800 children had been vaccinated in the last two days during the anti-measles drive.
He, however, said they were facing shortage of vaccine, adding a demand notice for the purpose had been sent to the provincial health department.
He admitted rapid spread of the disease, and said they were using all available resources to bring the situation under control.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... district council member Gul Mohammad told Dawn that he had informed the district nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... and other authorities concerned about the outbreak of measles, but no measures were taken to control the outbreak.
He demanded of the chief minister and the health minister to take notice of the situation and dispatch special medical teams to the affected areas to vaccinate the children.
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Sometimes I play a game where I try to guess the country from just the headline. Here I went with California, or possibly Boulder, Colorado. Come on, it's not like Pakistan is the *only* backward, superstitious place on the planet.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The police counter-terrorism department (CTD) on Friday claimed to have detained a ’police locator operator’ for leaking sensitive information about raids to holy warriors owing to which the police failed to apprehend suspects involved in several high-profile cases, said a police brass hat.
CTD SSP Naveed Khowaja told Dawn that his team was working on recent high-profile cases and traced mobile phone numbers of some suspects. But whenever the CTD team conducted a raid with the help of locator to capture the suspects, their mobile phones were found off at that particular moment.
The senior officer said that it triggered suspicions that someone was leaking information to holy warriors about such raids.
The SSP revealed that with technical help, the police placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! a policeman identified as Irfan who worked as locator operator in the police special branch. The officer said the CTD police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him over charges of ’facilitating’ terrorists.
It was being probed as to whether the held policeman used to provide the sensitive information to holy warriors in return of some money or he was ideologically affiliated with them.
The CTD SSP admitted that due to the activities of the detained policeman, they had failed to apprehend at least eight holy warriors involved in terrorism and sectarian cases.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... another police officer, who wished not to be named, told Dawn that the held policeman’s two brothers were also working in the police department.
The officer said that the held policeman had ’sectarian affiliation’.
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Seriously, I thought the article was referencing Mexico.
[Libya Herald] Four Libyan families and three foreign workers were evacuated from Ganfouda today during a six-hour ceasefire announced by the Libyan National Army (LNA) to enable remaining civilians trapped in the area to leave.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... according to LNA front man Colonel Ahmed Mismari, the turbans did not abide by the ceasefire, which came into affect at 10am local time today, and started firing when the families tried to leave.
Announcing it last night, LNA front man Colonel Ahmed Mismari said that it would suspend operations and allow families to come out of the district, if there were any left there. The LNA would not go in and try to rescue anyone.
Three weeks ago, at the time turbans were finally crushed in neighbouring Gwarsha, the LNA said that with all efforts now concentrated on Ganfouda, families still there should try to head towards its front lines.
The LNA had previously said that it allow women, children and the elderly to leave freely but males of fighting age had to be considered as potential Death Eaters and therefore had to be tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and interrogated.
So far, there has been no statement that anyone has taken advantage of the ceasfire and left. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... there are reports that two members of the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council have been arrested while trying to flee Ganfouda.
The six-hour ceasefire has been welcomed by UN Special Envoy Martin Kobler.
"I call on parties to the conflict in Ganfouda area to ensure smooth and safe evacuation process during the ceasefire period. Civilians must always be protected and should not be subjected to any form of harassment or maltreatment during this process," he said.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 90 Iraqi soldiers have bit the dust when fighter jets from the United States Air Force (USAF) mistakenly struck their position in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as government forces and allied fighters are trying to flush ISISLions of Islam out of the strategic northern city. Ayep. Jimmy cracked corn, too.
An Iraqi army source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Saturday that the Arclight airstrike had targeted soldiers from the 9th Armored Division of the Iraqi army the previous day, destroying eight infantry fighting vehicles as well as four Humvee military trucks. Some 100 soldiers were also maimed as a result of the attack.
On Saturday, the commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement that Iraqi counter-terrorism forces had managed to free the entire neighborhoods of al-Qadisiyah and al-Morour in the eastern quarter of Mosul from ISIS.
Yarallah added that security forces had also raised the Iraqi flag over several buildings in both districts, and inflicted heavy human and material losses on the terrorists.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) also stated that Iraqi F-16 fighter jets had carried out Arclight airstrikes on designated targets inside Mosul, destroying three bomb-making workshops and as many arms depots.
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"Friendly fire is never friendly."
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I wonder if this is from the hospital in East Mosul. Daesh allowed the 9th Armored to reach the hospital, then surrounded and ambushed them. The counter terrorist division had to fight their way through and rescue them.
Any vehicles left behind would be targeted by the air coalition.
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[AlAhram] Twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers on Friday killed 45 people and maimed 33 others when they detonated their explosives in a crowded market in Nigeria's restive northeast, the emergency service said
The army had earlier put the corpse count at 30.
"From our updated records we have 45 dead and 33 injured in the twin suicide bomb kabooms in Madagali," said Sa'ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Adamawa state.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the blasts bore all the hallmarks of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , which regularly uses women and maidens to carry out suicide kabooms in its seven-year Lion of Islam campaign in the troubled region.
Military front man Badare Akintoye had earlier said "at least 30 people have been killed in the suicide kabooms carried out by twoexploding trollop female suicide bombers in the market."
A local government official and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the attack.
"The two bombers who (were) disguised as customers, detonated their suicide belts at the section of the market selling grains and second-hand clothing," said Yusuf Muhammad, the chairman of Madagali local government.
The attack on Madagali, which was recaptured by Nigerian forces from Boko Haram jihadists in 2015, was the third time the town has been targeted since December last year when twoexploding trollop female suicide bombers killed scores.
Market trader Habu Ahmad said Friday's blasts happened around 9:30 am (0830 GMT).
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[Libya Observer] The front man for the Third Force that is securing the southern region in Libya, Mohammed Glaiwan, confirmed Saturday that the security apparatuses in Sabha and its surrounding districts had declared the alert state for fear that IS turbans, who managed to somehow escape Sirte, would venture to regroup in the south.
In a statement to the press, Glaiwan stressed that the alert state is a natural procedure to be taken in Sabha and its suburbs to prevent any possible regrouping of IS turbans in the southern Libyan region.
"The Third Force personnel are ready to respond powerfully to any security violations in the southern region." Glaiwan added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the Third Force denied the news that said the pro-Haftar forces of Mohammed Ben Nayel had seized the Barak al-Shatti military base in the south, saying it is under the control of its forces as usual.
Misrata-led forces liberated the last hideout of the IS snuffies in Sirte last Tuesday and announced full eradication of the terror group from the coastal city of Sirte after seven months of all-out war.
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[DAWN] Both chambers of the United States Congress have finally passed the 2017 National Defence Authorisation Act, which includes $1.1 billion for reimbursing the nations supporting US military operations in Afghanistan.
The largest chunk from this amount, $900 million, is available for reimbursement to Pakistain but almost half of it, $400m, has been put out of its reach. To get those $400m, Pakistain will have to get a ’good conduct’ certificate from the US defence secretary.
Like a schoolmaster waiving the punishment given to a student, the defence secretary will have to certify that Pakistain is "taking demonstrable" steps against the Haqqani network of Afghan Lion of Islams.
The measures also include a "sense of Congress that Dr Shakil Afridi is an international hero and that the government of Pakistain should release him immediately from prison".
Dr Afridi led US forces to the compound where Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... was hiding and is regarded in the Western world, particularly in the US, as an international hero.
Passed by the Senate by 92 to seven votes on Thursday and by the House of Representatives by 375 to 34 votes last week, the bill now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... to sign it into law.
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ok so 2k per day for what, about 40 more days or so? djt then has 2 years, or 700+ days to ship them back. that gives him a lower daily minimum bag limit.
[GUARDIAN.NG] The Chairman of Borno Elders’ Forum (BEF), Ambassador Usman Gaji Galtimari, yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to "amicably intervene and resolve" the brewing religious crises in Kaduna State before it becomes another Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect in the country.
Galtimari, in a statement made available to journalists in Maiduguri, the state capital, said: "The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has been branded as an insurgency group and therefore outlawed.
"We see what is happening in Kaduna State as similar to what happened in Borno State back in 2009, leading to a sorry state of affairs in the state.
"The BEF has no interest whatsoever in the existence or otherwise of the IMN. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... we are deeply concerned that a dark history appears to be repeating itself, and given our most horrifying experiences in the Northeast, we, as elders, owe you and our country the shared responsibility of pointing at potential
danger and advising on ways to averting it."
He stressed the need to draw lessons from the ongoing Boko Haram crisis in the Northeast and pockets of other crisis across the country, adding: "It is necessary to take all the available routes to avert any further incidents.
"We wish to appeal to you to arrest the Kaduna situation and amicably settle all contending issues, so that peace will reign in Central Nigeria.
"Our harrowing experiences in the Northeast should be enough to guide us, as a nation, to cultivate peace and peaceful co-habitation.
"Your administration has done tremendously well to curb the activities of the Boko Haram. We are all hopeful to return to peace and the nightmare of igniting another religious crisis should be avoided."
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[All Africa] Freetown -- Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... has been thrown into a state of anxiety and confusion after long serving leader Yahya Jammeh annulled last week's presidential election result, citing irregularities. Golly, I'm glad that sort of thing can't happen here.
President Jammeh, in a surprise announcement on state TV Friday evening, called for a rerun of the poll that was won by opposition candidate Adama Barrow. He alleged that the election had been rigged in favour of the opposition and cited irregularities in the counting.
President Jammeh also said investigations by his party suggested that many of their voters were deliberately discouraged from casting their ballots.
"After a thorough investigation, I have decided to reject the outcome of the recent election," he said in a statement aired on the Gambia Radio and Television Services.
"I recommend fresh and transparent elections which will be officiated by a God-fearing and independent electoral commission."
Swift condemnation
The move has provoked swift condemnation from the international community.
Mr Barrow, backed by a coalition of seven parties, won the three-man race on on December 1 with 43 per cent of the total votes cast, against president Jammeh's 40 per cent.
The third candidate, Mr Mama Kandeh, received 17 per cent.
The new president was expected to be inaugurated at the end of January 2017.
The coalition
A front man for the coalition called for calm in a brief statement.
The head of the coalition transition team, Mr Mai Ahmed Fatty said: "We are working round the clock to restore sanity. The world is with us."
Neighbouring Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... hinted at a possible action, calling for an urgent UN Security Council meeting.
In a strongly-worded statement, the Senegalese Foreign ministry also urged the Gambian authorities to respect the will of the people, calling on the regional blocs, Ecowas and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , as well as the United Nation, to take all measures to protect the illusory sovereignty of the Gambian people.
A serious violation
"Senegal considers null and void Jammeh's Friday declaration which is a serious violation of the basic principles of democracy," said Foreign Minister Mankeur Ndiaye.
The Senegalese government also warned against any harm befalling its citizens in Gambia.
The US State Department dismissed the reversal of President Jammeh's concession speech as "null and void," while urging the military and other national institutions to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.
"This action is reprehensible and unacceptable breach of faith with the people of The Gambia and an egregious attempt to undermine a credible election process and remain in power illegitimately," said State Department front man Mark Toner.
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The car bomb targeted a riot police bus outside the stadium after Besiktas' 2-1 win at home against Bursaspor
Riot police officers are believed to be among the 166 injured, while 13 29 people are reported to have been killed
A second blast went off in nearby Macka Park, said to be the work of a suicide bomber
Turkey's radio and television board issued a temporary coverage ban citing 'national security concerns'
This information is as of 11:00 p.m. ET on Saturday. But it's the Daily Mail, so regular updates can be expected. The Times of Israel adds:
Twenty-seven of those killed were police and two were civilians, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters in Istanbul, adding that 10 suspects had already been detained over the bombing.
An eyewitness said that the stadium is close to famous tourist sites Taksim Square and Istiklal Avenue that are frequented by Europeans and Arabs.
"There were nearly 500 people near Taksim Square and Istiklal Avenue when the kabooms detonated. A lot of the hotels near the stadium that are often frequented by Arab tourists were evacuated by security forces for fear of another attack during the night," said Bashir Ayash, a Syrian journalist who was close to the scene of the attack.
Speaking at a press conference early on Dec. 11, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş detailed the bombings saying that the first attack was staged by the detonation of a moving car in which he said directly targeted riot police near the stadium. The second attack came 45 seconds after the first one when a suicide bomber blew self up at Maçka Park just across the stadium, Kurtulmuş said.
The interior minister later announced that 27 police officers and two civilians were killed while 166 people were wounded in the twin bombings. He also added that some 10 suspects were detained in connection with the attack.
Daily Mail update dateline 7:07 a.m. ET, same link as above:
Witnesses said gunfire heard after the explosions, in what appeared to have been an armed attack on police.
Suspected attacks were orchestrated by Kurdistan Workers party and 19 people have been detained.
Number of dead increased to 38.
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[NAIJ] Members of IMN and their leaders have been unrepentantly a torn in the flesh of Zaria people, where its headquarters is domiciled; Kaduna, Kano states and elsewhere in the North where it parades membership. These are facts re-echoed repeatedly.
Each time the IMN sect members embark on their lengthy religious processions, they do not only possess crude and dangerous weapons, including dane guns, but flagrantly abuse laws of the land, harass, intimidate and bully law-abiding citizens.
Public complaints against their demonic acts were not addressed and so, they developed a thick, mindboggling and abhorring impunity to attack security agents.
These hooligans detestable conduct came to the fore when they had the guts to attack the army in Zaria. Indeed, El-Zakzaky himself ignored calls put across to him by Governor el-Rufai to prevail on his unjustifiably incensed sect members to open the aisle for the Army boss who was on an official engagement.
It is important to note that shiism is not under attack in Nigeria because there are at least two other shiite sects operating peacefully in Kaduna, but it is IMN that has turned itself into a terror group
It is their ready inclination to disregard laws of Nigeria, stick to violence and the display of terror instincts that also led them to brutally confront the police in Kano who attempted to foil their procession from the ancient city of Kano to Zaria for the annual Arbaeen Trek to Zaria, in memory of martyred Imam Husain (AS).
This was after Kaduna state officially banned the IMN sect and the police in Kano also slammed a ban on their unlawful processions.
The Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) has disclosed the recalcitrance of Nigerian IMN in floating details in the report it has submitted to government.
Acting on the white paper, the state government adopted the recommendation branding the Iranian backed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), an turban group. "For all intent and purposes, the IMN is an turban group and ought to be treated as such," the white paper noted.
The various violent protests the IMN staged for the release of El-Zakzaky in disregard of constituted authority is a tip of the iceberg. But to decode the snuffies bent of the IMN, the declaration by its alternate leader, Sheik Abdulkadir Koki during the burial of some Shiites members in Kano state unequivocally stated it;
"As followers of Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, we shall never submit ourselves to the dictates of the Nigerian government even if our own lives will be taken away by the forces of its security agents."
This was after the recently redeployed Iranian envoy to Nigeria, Amb.
Saeed Koozechi emboldened the Nigerian Shiites which has sponsorship from Iran’s ISIS, by daring Nigeria’s illusory sovereignty when he said, "Nigeria is pouring fuel on fire," by the continuous detention of Sheik El-Zakzaky by Nigerian security agents.
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You mean the hashtag didn't work?
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To summarize: it's highly likely those still missing have been sold on or died (though this is not mentioned by the article), and the ones who escaped or were rescued are being abused by their relatives and neighbours.
[al-Manar] Over the past 48 hours, up to 50,000 people have been evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov has reported.
“More than 20,000 residents left eastern Aleppo in the first part of Saturday, and 1,217 militants laid down their weapons,” Konashenkov said.
“The Russian Center for Reconciliation, through humanitarian corridors near Karim El-Hun and Mahayar, has organized the evacuation of civilians from the eastern parts of Aleppo to the safe areas of the city,” Konashenkov added.
“We warn terrorists and militants of the so-called ‘moderate opposition,’ and also their patrons: Do not attempt any provocations, especially attacks on civilians leaving through humanitarian corridors,” the Russian Defense Ministry statement says.
Konashenkov also addressed those who, over the past few months, have declared their readiness to send humanitarian aid to Aleppo.
“Representatives of the US, UK, France, Canada, the European Union, and international organizations: Over the past two days, nearly 50,000 civilians have been evacuated by the Russian Reconciliation Center from the eastern parts of Aleppo. They are in need of the humanitarian assistance you promised. It is time to check the validity of your intentions.”
The statement added that the Syrian government now controls 93 percent of Aleppo, and the civilians who exited eastern Aleppo have been placed in special humanitarian centers where they are provided with hot food and medical help.
The Russian Reconciliation Center is monitoring the evacuation of civilians from the blocked districts round-the-clock with the use of drones.
Earlier this week, Moscow slammed a statement by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who said the EU was the only party providing aid to Syria.
“It’s outrageous twisting of facts which ignores what Russia has been doing for a long time,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russia, “unlike other international players, has been actively supplying thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to various regions across Syria, including the liberated areas in eastern Aleppo, at the risk of Russian military lives.
“If the high representative [Mogherini] means providing assistance to terrorists and extremists, then we don’t participate in this, indeed,” the statement added.
Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokeswoman claimed that Russia was blocking aid intended for Aleppo’s civilian population.
“The Syrian regime and their influencers [Russia, among others] are preventing aid” from reaching the city, the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
“It seems that the UK government has lost an objective view of what is happening in Syria, including Aleppo, due to Russophobia,” Konashenkov responded, noting that the UK has not sent “a single gram of flour, any medicine or blankets to help” civilians in Aleppo during the entire Syrian conflict.
“If the UK government really wants to send humanitarian aid to residents in the eastern neighborhoods [of Aleppo], it has all the conditions for doing this, just tell us where it [the aid] has been held up,” he added.
[Iran Press TV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has presented a bill to the parliament, which would change the country’s constitution and expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s powers. The package would also bring structural changes to Turkey's security and judiciary. The Turkish legislature’s second- and third-biggest parties, the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), both oppose the intended constitutional reforms.
Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of American Herald Tribune, believes this is yet another move to transform Turkey into a one-man rule, adding that the Turkish government is acting according to the "Israeli written playbook".
"This is an ongoing trajectory. Erdogan is emerging as a Sultan Erdogan. It is a dictatorship. Turkey is emerging as a dictatorship. We see a crackdown on universities, on judiciary, on public servants especially on the Kurds," the analyst told Press TV.
"It is becoming clear that the playbook here, the script seems to be the war on terror. Anybody who you do not like, any dissent, you just put this word of terror or terrorism on them," he added.
Hall further stated Erdogan definitely enjoys support among many Turks. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... he argued, it remains to be seen whether the failed July 15 military coup attempt in Turkey was "authentic" or it was in fact engineered to give the pretext to Ankara do these actions.
This comes as Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said that Ankara continues "to work on changing the system to ensure instability is removed from Turkey's political history absolutely."
The Turkish prime minister further said that the bill would protect Turkey against any future coup attempt.
Turkey has been on high security alert following the failed coup attempt as well as a string of terrorist attacks that have hit the country over the past year.
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The parliamentary action is a mere formality. They have already arrived.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Iraqi commander says reinforcements have been sent to eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... after a major ISIS counterattack drove troops back last week, further slowing a nearly two-month-old offensive to retake the city.
Major General Najim al-Jabouri said that Federal Police and Iraqi army units have moved from the southern front to the city’s east, where most of the fighting has been concentrated in recent weeks.
On hold
Iraqi commanders had hoped to push up from the south to take Mosul’s international airport, but those plans appear to be on hold.
Iraqi troops were driven back last week within hours of seizing the al-Salam hospital in eastern Mosul, which ISIS had been using as a base. More than 20 soldiers were killed before special forces opened a corridor for them to retreat.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Anti-Terrorism Directorate announced on Saturday killing seven members of the Islamic State, after repulsing their attack using booby-trapped vehicles and motorcycles, in eastern Mosul.
Commander of the Anti-Terrorism’s 3rd Special Operations Directorate Sami al-Aredi, said in a press statement, “Troops of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate repulsed, this morning, a fierce attack launched by ISIS using a car bomb and a number of suicide bombers on Hayy al-Bareed, in eastern Mosul.”
“The [Anti-Terrorism] forces managed to kill seven suicide bombers, as well as detonating the vehicle before reaching the security forces,” Aredi added.
Furthermore, Aredi revealed that the suicide bombers included foreign members, who attacked the security forces using booby-trapped motorcycles.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command announced on Saturday, that the Iraqi F16 fighter jets destroyed explosives factories and caches of weapons in Mosul.
Commander of operations, Lieutenant General Abdel Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement, “Iraqi F16 fighter jets carried out an air strike on selected targets in the city of Mosul.”
Yarallah also added that the air strikes resulted in the destruction of three explosives factories and three caches containing different types of weapons.
Noteworthy, international coalition and Iraqi Aviation are carrying out several air strikes targeting the Islamic State group, within the battle that was launched in 17 October 2016, by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, to liberate the province of Nineveh.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command declared on Saturday liberating two neighborhoods in eastern side of Mosul.
Commander of Operations, Lieutenant General Abdel Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement, “Troops of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate managed to free the entire neighborhoods of al-Qadisiyah and al-Morour, in the eastern side of the city of Mosul.”
Yarallah further added that the security forces also raised the Iraqi flag over the buildings of the two neighborhoods, in addition to inflicting heavy human and material losses on the terrorists.
Yesterday, Commander of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate, Major General Abdel Ghani al-Asadi announced finishing the first phase of the battle to liberate Nineveh.
[ARA News] Duhok – Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Units on Saturday captured two new districts in the war-ravaged city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate.
“Counter-Terrorism Units liberated the districts of al-Murur and Qadissiyah al-Oula in Mosul,” the Iraqi Army General Command said in an official statement.
“ISIS suffered heavy losses under heavy bombardment by our forces on Saturday,” it added.
Also on Saturday, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) seized control of three neighborhoods in the eastern part of Mosul city after fierce clashes with ISIS fighters.
“The ISF have secured the neighborhoods of al-Adil, Taamim and al-Eylam,” the Iraqi General Command said.
Although the Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants have shown heavy resistance in defense of Mosul, the Iraqi forces have been able to continue their progress in the operation.
Mosul is the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Iraq. The group took over the city in June 2014, and immediately afterward announced its self-proclaimed Caliphate.
On October 17, the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga launched a major operation to liberate Mosul city and its surroundings. According to military sources, more than 2,200 ISIS militants have been killed in the operation so far.
Supported by the US-led coalition, the Iraqi forces have so far captured some 28 neighborhoods in the war-torn city since the launch of Mosul operation, forcing the Islamic State back towards the downtown core.
Informed sources inside Mosul told ARA News that the Iraqi forces currently control approximately 50% of Mosul city, beside tightening the siege on the ISIS-held downtown districts.
Human Shields
Haidar al-Khalidi, a journalist inside Mosul, told ARA News that ISIS is impeding the army’s advance by using civilians as human shields. This tactic has “prevented the army from using its heavy weapons during the clashes.”
“ISIS is using residential buildings as bases for its attacks on the Iraqi forces. Many civilians are located in Mosul’s ISIS-held districts. [They’re] being used as human shields,” al-Khalidi reported.
According to Michael Stephens, the head of the Royal United Services Institute–Qatar, there are a few reasons, mostly tactical decisions taken early on in the campaign, which have led to too many civilians being present in areas of heavy fighting. This has severely limited the ability of the Iraqi forces to use artillery and call in air power.
Resistance
“Additionally, ISIS militants are well dug in, moving in amongst houses and launching traps and huge numbers of suicide bombers to slow down the advance. To date, ISIS has utilized some 600 suicide bombers to defend Mosul which gives them tactical advantage in small enclosed areas,” Stephens told ARA News.
“There is little doubt that the fight ISIS has put up is more than was expected. The problem is made worse by the lack of available forces that can successfully close the noose around Mosul and get ISIS to divert resources away from defending the eastern side of the city,” he said.
“As such, it’s placing undue pressure on those units operating in the eastern neighbourhoods of Mosul, hugely slowing down the advance,” he added.
Nicholas Heras, a Washington-based Middle East researcher at the Centre for a New American Security, agreed with Stephens. “ISIS fighters are providing far greater resistance inside the city than the Coalition expected,” Heras told ARA News.
“The Coalition, Baghdad, and the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] will also be very cautious with the campaign plan to take the more densely populated districts of Mosul, fearing an even greater outflow of refugees from the city,” he said.
“With winter approaching, the humanitarian pressure on the KRG and other areas of Nineveh and further into Iraq could be catastrophic,” Heras concluded.
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[Iran Press TV] Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says a peace accord between Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) after over half a century of a bloody armed conflict could be viewed as a "model" and "a ray of hope" for resolving the conflict in Syria.
Santos made the remarks during his acceptance speech in the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize in the City Hall of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Saturday, more than two months after the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded him the prize for "his resolute efforts" to put an end to the civil war in the Latin American country.
The landmark deal to end five decades of bitter fighting is a "model for the resolution of armed conflicts that have yet to be resolved around the world," Santos said, addressing an audience including victims of the war as well as Norway's King Harald.
"It proves that what, at first, seems impossible, through perseverance may become possible even in Syria or 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... or South Sudan."
"The Colombian peace agreement is a ray of hope in a world troubled by so many conflicts and so much intolerance," he said.
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[DAWN] Chairing the last session as the head of Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Thursday, Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani decried the proposal to rename the Quaid-e-Azam University's (QAU) physics centre after Professor Abdus Salam. Toldja so.
The council discussed the proposal after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... forwarded a summary to President Mamnoon Hussain of his approval to rename the National Centre for Physics at QAU the "Professor Abdus Salam Centre for Physics".
Addressing a presser after the council's meeting, the CII chairman said changing the department's name would not set the right precedent.
"We have concerns over the change of its [physics centre's] name as it was earlier named to honour Dr Riaz," said Sherani, but declined to offer any reason for the opposition.
He was also asked if the CII had objections over renaming of other institutions or roads but Sherani declined to offer any comment over the subject.
Nuclear physicist and Pakistain’s first Nobel laureate Professor Abdus Salam hailed from the country’s Ahmedi community.
Pakistain declared Ahmedis non-Moslems in 1974. In 1984, they were banned from calling themselves Moslems. They are banned from preaching and even from travelling to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for pilgrimage. Their publications are prohibited.
In May 2010, jacket wallahs killed 80 people at two Ahmedi places of worship.
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"Ahmedis are Icky"
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has offered new demands for ending the group’s insurgency in the country, including direct talks with the United States, it has been reported.
The new conditions include recognition of the political office of the group in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and removal of group’s members from the UN blacklist.
"That is why there is need for America and its allies to come to the table for direct talks with the Islamic Emirate (the Taliban) for negotiating an end to the occupation," Sohail Shaheen, a Qatar-based front man of the group, quoted by The News said.
Shaheen further added, if peace is the objective of the other side, then the Taliban must be allowed to open their "political office" in Qatar and names of their senior members be removed from the UN blacklist.
"These obstacles in the way of establishing peace cannot be simply ignored," Shaheen said, warning that "mere slogans and statements" (by the other side) would further complicate the issue rather than promoting Afghan peace.
This comes as reports emerged earlier suggesting peace talks could likely kick off between the Afghan government and Taliban group.
The Afghan government opted military option against the group after it rejected to participate in direct peace talks earlier this year and after the group announced its annual spring offensive.
The government was forced to withdraw from the peace efforts after the group grabbed credit behind a number of deadly attacks across the country, including a major attack on VIP protection unit in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... that left over 400 people dead or maimed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former foreign affairs minister of Pakistain Hina Rabbani Khar has said Pakistain should change course in neighboring Afghanistan, a recommendation which comes amid deteriorating relations between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Islamabad, mainly due to war against terrorism.
In an interview with Gandhara/RFERL, Khar urged urged Islamabad to revive their administration’s foreign policy approach of maintaining good relations with neighboring countries.
In response to a question regarding Kabul’s stance against Pakistain, accusing it for harboring the Afghan krazed killer groups, Khar said "That is the most disheartening thing to see. It causes me personal grief because we had literally poised Pakistain within the region. When I was foreign minister, we tried to concentrate on relations closer to home. And I, as well as my prime minister at that time, have categorically said that Kabul is the most important capital for Pakistain. We invested a great deal of energy and effort to make Kabul as the most important capital for us. As foreign minister of Pakistain, I visited Kabul three times in two years. In contrast, I visited Washington only once. It was because we thought Kabul is more important."
Khar further added "What this government has been able to do is let the opportunity that came with President 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. .. go by. We lost that window of opportunity that opened when Ghani came into power. He gave Pakistain a pretty reasonable deal. He offered pretty much everything that Pakistain was asking for. I do not know the internal dynamics of the current government to be able to say what they should do to make amends, but I can say for sure that this government has not been able to sustain its relationship with Afghanistan, India, and Iran."
The remarks by Khar came as President Ghani once again slammed Pakistain for its reluctance to take actions against the Afghan krazed killer groups using its soil.
President Ghani said during his speech at the 6th Heart of Asia conference on Sunday that "Despite our intense engagement with Pakistain on bilateral and multilateral basis, the undeclared war ‐ the name that I gave to the phenomenon in the winter 2014 ‐ not only has not abated but also intensified during 2016, with special intensity right after the Brussels Conference."
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Syrian government artillery bombarded the fast-shrinking rebel enclave in the heart of Aleppo on Friday despite its ally Russia’s announcement of a new humanitarian pause, a monitor said.
Air strikes halted on Thursday evening following Moscow’s announcement but shelling continued throughout the night and into the morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An AFP correspondent in the rebel-held enclave reported hearing the boom of artillery through the night.
“There was heavy shelling of several besieged districts and fierce fighting, particularly in Bustan al-Qasr,” one of the biggest districts still in rebel hands after the army’s blistering three-week offensive, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
After talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced a pause in the army’s assault to allow for the evacuation of some of the tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the now tiny rebel enclave.
The army has recaptured 85 percent of the eastern sector of the city which the rebels had held since summer 2012.
“I can tell you that today combat operations by the Syrian army have been halted in eastern Aleppo because there is a large operation under way to evacuate civilians,” Lavrov said. “There is going to be to a column of 8,000 evacuees.”
In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Lavrov’s announcement was “an indication that something positive could happen.”
The army’s bombardment of rebel-held districts killed at least 18 civilians on Thursday, according to the Observatory, a Britain-based monitoring group which has a wide network of sources on the ground.
Beirut- Regime air forces in Syria renewed aerial bombardment of rebel-held Aleppo eastern neighborhoods on Friday. All eyes have turned to the Turkish-led Operation Euphrates Shield making advances on al-Bab grounds, an ISIS controlled city in northern Syria.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the body was “gravely concerned” both for those “being squeezed into ever-shrinking areas” as regime forces advance, and for those who have fled. He also pointed out that over a 100,000 civilians have stayed inside rebel-held grounds in eastern Aleppo, and areas closed off by war.
Unfolding developments in Syria, especially the Turkish-led advance, have shaped a great challenge to be later faced by senior Russian and U.S. diplomats.
Euphrates Shield forces have stunned Syrian regime forces by resuming operations and attacks after a pause that surpassed 20 days, making a deafening advance of two kilometers.
The United Nations General Assembly voted 122 to 13 on Friday to demand an immediate cessation of hostilities in Syria, humanitarian aid access throughout the country and an end to all sieges, including in Aleppo. Among objecting states, were Russia, Iran and China, 36 other states abstained.
Thirty-six countries abstained in the vote on the Canadian-drafted resolution on the nearly six-year Syrian conflict. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, but can carry political weight.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday delivered a “promised” victory being imminent for Syrian regime forces and their allies in the city of Aleppo. “There are great events taking place now in our region … (such as) what is happening in Aleppo, and the ramifications of the promised and coming victory for the whole battle in Syria and the region,” he said in a speech broadcast.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Friday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of gang-rape suspect, former office-bearer of PML-N youth wing, as he failed to join proceedings of a prosecution’s appeal against the bail granted to him by a lower court.
The bench headed by Justice Shahid Hameed Dar directed the police to produce the suspect on Dec 23.
Additional prosecutor general Abdul Samad appeared before the bench and asked it to issue non-bailable warrants for the arrest of the suspect for his constant failure to appear before the court.
The prosecution department in its appeal contended that a sessions court granted bail to the accused after the aggrieved girl tendered an affidavit in his favour. It said the affidavit filed by the girl was a result of pressure exerted on her family by the accused party.
The appeal stated that the girl in her first statement recorded before a judicial magistrate had maintained that `S’ was the prime suspect.
It said after the victim’s statement the suspect could not be given concession of bail. It asked the court to declare the affidavit of the girl void and cancel bail granted to the suspect.
The Racecourse police had tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the prime suspect and his seven accomplices on charges of abducting a teenage girl and subjecting her to gang-rape.
All the suspects, except the main accused, joined the high court’s proceedings through their counsel.
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[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian official says resistance is the only path to the Paleostinian people’s victory against the Israeli regime.
"Today, Paleostine’s supporters across the world believe that reliance on their own will and Islamic resistance are the only ways to [the Paleostinians’] victory and the restoration of people’s rights," Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said in a meeting with Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, the head of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... movement, in Tehran on Saturday.
"Any strategy other than the continuation of resistance against the infanticidal Zionist regime will be a move towards a mirage," he added.
He noted that support for the Paleostinian cause and the liberation of (Jerusalem) al-Quds are the most important priorities of the Moslem world.
"Any moves leading to deviation in the path of the fight against the Zionist regime [Israel], as the main threat to the Moslem world, will be regarded as betrayal of Moslems across the world," Shamkhani pointed out.
The SNSC secretary said the Israeli regime and some regional countries are "strategic partners of terrorist and Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... groups."
He added that the Israeli regime and its allies provide the Takfiri murderous Moslems with arms, financial and intelligence assistance and treat the injured murderous Moslems as part of their measures to kill Moslems and intensify conflicts among Moslem countries.
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I would have said stop being murderous asshats. But hey, to-MAY-to, to-MAH-to.
Suspected militants on Saturday shot dead a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in Peshawar.
Police officials said that DSP Riazul Islam's vehicle was ambushed on Charsada road.
"Riazul Islam and his son was on their way to home after offering evening prayers in a near by mosque when terrorists targeted them," said Superintendent of Police (SP) Furqan.
The police official was killed while his son sustained bullet injuries, added Furqan.
Police launched a search operation in the area after the attack on the police official and started their initial investigation in to the incident.
Last week, suspected terrorists had a targeted Frontier Constabulary (FC) vehicle with an improvised explosive devise (IED), killing four FC troopers in the same area.
[HollywoodReporter] "I'd never seen the mainstream media sell their souls for a candidate the way they did for Hillary, and she still lost," says Sabo, who plastered faux movie posters all over Hollywood Boulevard.
The faux Star Wars poster features a heroic-looking image of Trump with an ominous image of Clinton lurking in the background. Huddled around Trump are his senior counselor Steve Bannon, pundit Ann Coulter, Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, an early Trump supporter.
At the bottom of the poster, the title of the film has been altered to read, "Rogue Won: A Culture War Story." The pic of the poster is a scream - wish I knew how to post it here.
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Sweetest part is, it's impossible to say it isn't parody.
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Ever had a nightmare about being gummed to death by a foaming Granny?
Hillary with her dentures removed and snarling ?
The Left with a mouth full of drooling Mashed Potatoes ?
Hideous.
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Is it just me, or is GOOGLE actively conspiring to BURY this image? I just did a Google search of Rogue Won, clicked that NO I was not looking for Rogue One, and still didn't pull up the correct image?
[Iran Press TV] Four people have been locked away Please don't kill me! in Indonesia on suspicion of plotting a major kaboom in the capital, Jakarta.
Police said on Saturday that the four were planning an attack on Sunday on "a vital location in Central Jakarta," adding that bomb disposal teams managed to safely detonate a bomb on the outskirts of the capital.
Police discovered the three-kilogram bomb encased in a pressure cooker in a boarding house in Bekasi, where a female suspect was staying. Two others were arrested in a separate location in Jakarta, while the fourth, presumably the bomb-maker, was arrested in central Java island.
Officials said all the four were strongly believed to be linked to an Indonesian myrmidon currently in Syria working with the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group. The man, identified as Bahrun Naim, is thought to have orchestrated a deadly terror attack in Jakarta in January.
...the former Solo boy is suspected of orchestrating every other excitement of note in the region...
The attack, which targeted a Starbucks café, killed four people and was claimed by a branch of ISIS in Southeast Asia. The assault was the first of its kind by the branch.
The arrests were the latest in a string of similar security operations in the country.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Scores of protesters rallied in the center of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Friday evening to protest the gang rape of a woman by members of militias that control the capital of Libya.
The protesters marched to the municipality council headquarters holding banners denouncing the silence of the national accord government over the crime and are demanding punishment for the rapists.
On news outlets and social media, people showed their outrage toward the crime and denounced what they saw as a security mayhem in Tripoli as the government turns a blind eye to the myrmidons' human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations.
Protesters raised banners with the victim’s plea to her rapist saying: "Shame on you, you have mothers, sisters, and wives as well."
The rape video that was posted by the "Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade" on its Facebook page last Wednesday showed three men taking turns in abusing the naked victim in a manor owned by "Naeem al Oshaibi", a leader of the sixth battalion and one of the main supporter of Benghazi Shoura Council.
The brigade claimed that the video was one of the core motives of their attack against the battalion last week.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Anbar Operations Command announced on Saturday discovering 125 Jahannam (Hell) rockets belonging to the Islamic State, in addition to large quantities of weapons and IEDs, through search operations in Hayy al-Bakr in Heet, west of Ramadi.
Commander of Anbar Operations, Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi, said in a press statement, “Security forces, while searching the liberated area of Hayy al-Bakr in Heet (70 km west of Ramadi), found a large cache of weapons and rockets inside one of the houses.”
“The cache contained 125 Jahannam rockets that were used by the Islamic State to attack security forces,” Mahalawi explained.
Mahalawi added that the cache also contained ten boxes of explosive materials, as well as six Katyusha rockets.
Furthermore, Commander of Operations revealed that security forces from the army and police continue search operations in the areas that were liberated from the ISIS, especially in Heet that was the extremist group’s key stronghold for more than three years.
Security forces managed to liberate the majority of cities of Anbar from the ISIS control in early 2016, and now they are preparing the freed areas for the return of thousands of displaced families.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IsraelTimes] Israel is working to keep chemical weapons out of Hezbollah's hands, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday, clarifying comments a day earlier that hinted the terror group was attempting to obtain mass-casualty arms. 
[PJ] It appears that the intelligence community and counter-intelligence community are at odds over discerning motives for the Russians hacking of DNC emails and other efforts at hacking the election.
[Daily Caller] 
[The Hill] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Saturday he has concerns about the possibility of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson being nominated for secretary of State, given his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
[WAPO who else?] THE WEEK started with a hopeful sign for those concerned about climate change: Former vice president Al Gore met with Donald Trump for about 90 minutes on Monday, leading some to believe that the president-elect might be ready to accept facts and evidence. By the end of the week, however, Mr. Trump had selected Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Plotting a bad leave. No surprise here. 
[Wash Times] As recently as Nov. 17, James Clapper, the nation’s top intelligence officer, told Congress his agencies "don’t have good insight" into a direct link between Wikileaks and the emails supposedly hacked by a Russian operation from Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
[Wash Times] It is a miracle on 34th Street, perhaps. Macy’s will no longer donate money to Planned Parenthood according to 2ndVote, a conservative watchdog that monitors corporate funding of liberal causes. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Meanwhile, the US-led coalition has killed a key leader of Daesh in Syria, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
[DAILYCALLER] A transgender police officer in Washington, D.C., who has repeatedly been praised as a community role model has also quietly been reprimanded for improper sexually-tinged antics with underage police interns.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 45 soldiers were killed in an 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has appointed Brigadier General Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar as the new commander of Iran’s Basij (mobilization) Forces after years of serving as the commanders of the country’s forces.
[Clinton News Network] Ex-CIA operative: We may need a new vote. Former CIA Operative Robert Baer says if the CIA can prove that Russia interfered with the 2016 election then the US should vote again.
Harry Reid
He's not one of them either. 
(Reuters) Turkish jets carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in the Gara region of northern Iraq on Friday and killed 19 militants, Turkish military sources said on Saturday.
[DAWN] An infant died of burn injuries after allegedly being set on fire by his mother in G-6/2 on Friday, police said. Doctors confirmed that Haider, the three-month-old child, died in the hospital within hours.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] The Bannu police claimed on Friday to have 
[MSN] Boko Haram continues to pose a major threat in the remote north of Cameroon. The military has made some gains since it declared war on the Nigeria-based armed group but in two and a half years nearly 2,000 people have been killed and thousands.
[Iran Press TV] The detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and his wife have been relocated to an undisclosed safe location amid fears of assassination attempts.
At least 14 militants were killed in separate airstrikes conducted in southern and western parts of the country, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
[Iran Press TV] At least 90 Iraqi soldiers have 
[Iran Press TV] 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[DAWN] Chairing the last session as the head of Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Thursday, Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani decried the proposal to rename the Quaid-e-Azam University's (QAU) physics centre after Professor Abdus Salam.
...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. ..
[HollywoodReporter] "I'd never seen the mainstream media sell their souls for a candidate the way they did for Hillary, and she still lost," says Sabo, who plastered faux movie posters all over Hollywood Boulevard.
[Iran Press TV] Four people have been 
