[Wash Times] President Trump has left the tumultuous days of publicly combating his own intelligence community for a more workmanlike relationship coached by his team of loyalists, insiders say.
As interactions improve at the top, however, a former CIA officer says Mr. Trump is up against a determined, embedded bureaucracy that will leak to damage him.
Loyalists say the president has come to appreciate the daily flow of insights on, for example, North Korea and Iran, even if he doesn’t like everything he hears.
They credit key players such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his first CIA director, and National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, a voracious intelligence consumer. Mr. Pompeo elevated Gina Haspel as his deputy at Langley, Virginia, and then recommended her to succeed him as CIA director.
"Pompeo worked very hard to show the president the value of intelligence in making decisions, and Pompeo was briefing him fairly frequently when he was CIA director," said Fred Fleitz, Mr. Bolton’s former chief of staff at the National Security Council. "He brought some of the best CIA analysts to brief the president.
"The situation has greatly improved from the terrible situation in 2016 and early 2017 because of political activities by current and former intelligence officers saying they would refuse to brief Trump," Mr. Fleitz told The Washington Times.
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As interactions improve at the top, however, a former CIA officer says Mr. Trump is up against a determined, embedded bureaucracy that will leak to the Washington Post and other MSM outlets to damage him(/em>. FIFY. As Trump said the MSM is the enemy of the people.
I don't know but judging from what is open sources, there is still considerable reorganization and cleaning out needed.
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a June 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department after it failed to respond to a February 2018 request seeking records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Democratic Senator Ben Cardin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:18-cv-01381)).
The documents reveal the Obama State Department urgently gathering classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Donald Trump taking office.
[Chicago Tribune] Why? This was the response of nearly everyone who encountered the 797-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye. From the group of men clustered in the cold to hear that hellfire supercharged V-8 engine come to life, to the kids sprawled out on the wide rear seats of the retro muscle car, to the new owner of a 392-horsepower Challenger SRT: Why? Why build something so powerful for the street? Why buy something so powerful that you can only use it for all its worth on the drag strip?
The same interrogators came up with the same answer: Because you can. Because bigger, faster, more. Because America. Because 707-horsepower, which is now 717-horsepower for the 2019 Hellcat, is not as big as a 797-horsepower Redeye.
Because Dodge did. The lovely lunatics in the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) team at Dodge seem to have no end to squeezing more and more power out of the aging muscle car. If the Challenger were a dog, it would be due for its last trip to the vet before it ran off to the great field in the sky. The third-generation Challenger got its last full redesign in 2008, and a new one isn’t expected until 2020 or 2021, so it is riding on some old architecture. The Chevy Camaro has been redesigned twice in that time span, and maybe will get a third next year. Same with the Ford Mustang, if you count the 2010 model that used the same platform as the 2005.
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if thats not enough, you can toddle on down to the local dodge store and buy your very own 1,000 hp 426 hemi Helephant crate motor, street legal in any 25 year old or greater mopar.
grammas 69 aliant sedan? super sleeper, and thy have adspter kits and wiring harnesses to make it plug and play.
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Saw a guy that once had a vette LS-1 motor in a Saturn Sky Redline. How he shoe-horned it in I don't know. As you say, USN Ret., a heavily reinforced frame and drivetrain.
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Actually for a old Mopar the first modification would need to be hefty brakes and a real suspension
Actually we used to grab old Mopar posi rear-ends and axles for modified GM products. As it was said at the time "Almost new as they have never been stressed".
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I am amazed at the high hp offerings coming out from all manufacturers; and they corner better, stop better and have all kinds of creature comforts only dreamed of back in the 'good old muscle car 60's'
but there is still something viseral about solid lifters chattering before the oil gets pumped up to them and the smell of M & H Racemacemasters laying down a streak.
AND NO NITROUS!
(coming from a guy who once had a 300hp 6 cyl. Maverick......but now races lawn mowers)
[Judicial Watch] Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discusses his testimony this week to Congress on the Clinton Foundation, Clinton going under-oath on her email server, and the Obama State Dept. Targeting Trump.
[UPI] U.S. aircraft launched several airstrikes that killed 62 al-Shabaab militants in Somalia over the weekend, military officials said Monday.
The attacks targeted known al-Shabaab encampments and the latest assessments show no civilians were injured or killed.
Al-Shabaab militants use the remote region as a safe haven to attack the people of Somalia.
"U.S. Africa Command and our Somali partners conducted these airstrikes to prevent terrorists from using remote areas as a safe haven to plot, direct, inspire or recruit for future attacks," U.S. Africa Command said in a statement. "In particular, the group uses portions of the southern and central Somalia to plot and direct terror attacks, steal humanitarian aid, extort the populace to fund its operations and shelter radical terrorists."
On Saturday, U.S. aircraft killed 34 militants. On Sunday another 28 were killed, U.S. Africa Command said. *BOOM*
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[IOL Business Report] JOHANNESBURG - An award-winning businessman has embraced the much-touted Fourth Industrial Revolution as a vehicle to help grow his already expanding global automation company.
The entrepreneur Quinton Uren, 53, from Nelson Mandela Bay, is founder and managing director of Jendamark Automation.
He was named Africa’s Industrialist of the Year during the All Africa Business Leaders Awards in Johannesburg in December.
He beat the likes of Nampak chief executive André de Ruyter, Likoebe Innovation Consultants founder Nneile Nkholise, and Thata uBeke Manufacturing chief executive Nana Sebelo, to claim the top spot.
The Port Elizabeth-based Jendamark Automation, which was established in 1992, exports manufacturing assembly solutions to 18 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America.
The company’s exports account for more than 90 percent of the group’s business. Jendamark link
I forget the nuances of SA's racial categories, but that should provide at least a bit of protection when the hyenas come calling. As long as the cash flows...
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One aspect I neglected to mention, Affirmative Action (Black Economic Empowerment or BEE in South Africa) certainly applies. Big firms can afford to sprinkle 'notional' minority executives into high-paid/high-visibility positions. Oftentimes Black entry is 'mandated' by the gov't. Sound familiar ?
Farmers don't generally have those types of positions or flexibility.
[Local] Suspicions that Switzerland and the UK have been quietly working behind the scenes to draw up a post-Brexit economics and trade agreement have now been confirmed.
On Friday, the Swiss government announced it had signed off on the text of the new agreement it said should form the basis of business and trade relations between the two countries after the UK quits the European Union.
"This agreement guarantees, as far as possible, the continuation of the economic and commercial rights and obligations arising from the agreements between Switzerland and the EU," the Swiss Federal Council said in a statement.
Trade between Switzerland and the UK was worth 17.5 billion Swiss francs (€15.5 billion) last year. The UK was Switzerland’s sixth biggest export market in 2017 and its sixth largest direct investor in 2016.
Text still under wraps
The text of the new agreement remains under wraps for now because the UK is officially barred from negotiating with third countries until it leaves the EU.
But behind the scenes, there have been extensive talks between Bern and London and the arrival of the agreement won’t surprise observers in the Swiss and British business communities.
Those talks come in the context of a determined push to ensure there is as little disruption as possible in bilateral relations because of Brexit.
At present, these relations are chiefly based on a package of agreements between Switzerland and the EU. But after Brexit, those agreement will cease to apply and will need to be replaced.
[Weasel Zippers] Eighteen people, including a father and son, have been charged with trafficking cocaine to hundreds of customers in the Chicago area and using drivers to make door-to-door cocaine deliveries.
The federal charges were part of a multi-year investigation into the drug trafficking called "Operation Flawed Deal," in which officers seized bank accounts, over a kilogram of cocaine, a Mercedes SUV, guns and multiple Chicago properties, according to a statement by the U.S. States Attorney office.
Many of the 18 defendants were arrested Thursday on charges that carry a maximum of 20 to 40 years in the prison, prosecutors said.
Father and son, Tony F. Cayuela, 64, and Tony J. Cayuela, 39, allegedly conspired with Walberto Olivio, 46, to distribute over half a kilogram of cocaine in the Chicago area in the spring and summer, according to prosecutors.
The feds forfeited three properties from the younger Cayuela ‐ two homes in Brighton Park and one in Chicago Lawn ‐along with $108,000 in cash, prosecutors said. Another man, Jesus Hernandez, 41, of Chicago, was also charged with distributing drugs.
Two brothers, Anees "Ace" Usmani, 41, and Nafees Usmani, allegedly worked together with Juan Bautista Dominguez, 41, to distribute over half a kilogram of cocaine in the Chicago area from the fall of 2017 to spring of 2018, prosecutors said.
The indictment lists several people charged with conspiring with the Usmani brothers: Alfonso "Fonz" Trotter, 48, of Chicago; Ronald Allen, 47, of Chicago; Muhammad Sabih, 30, of Chicago; Muhammad Bilal Khan, 24, of Chicago; Ahmed Fatah Kahn Malik, 24, of Skokie; Odeh Alshobaki, 22, of Worth; Ahmed Hussein Yousef Alsawalhi, 21, of Chicago; Wesam Abdel Fattah, 32, of Chicago; and Lisa Usmani, 41, of Lincolnwood.
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The family that delivers coke together stays in jail together
Given the generic absence of fathers in the lives of their children, it's nice to see Dad and the kids doing things together. Sure are a lot of 'mohammeds' on that list! Nation of Islam expanding it's business interests?
[Wash Examiner] Outgoing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday called for the creation of a transparency office nestled under the White House that would be dedicated to declassifying government information.
"Our investigation is essentially over. We have everything that we need. What we're lacking now is that we're lacking the declassification by the president," Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News of his panel's probe into the Justice Department and the FBI's handling of the Russia inquiry.
"For various reasons, the president or his staff doesn't want to do it. Therefore, I think it's important if the president doesn't want his hands on it, we have to have somebody, some office, that's going to look at all of these issues and all of these documents that need to be declassified," Nunes said. "I'm going be working with my colleagues to work on and send some example over to the president of a transparency type of office, so that the Congress, the American people, others can put in requests of documents or issues that they want declassified. That way the president doesn't have to take this full burden on and the Congress has somewhere where we can go to try to avoid the swamp creatures from getting involved and ensuring that the American public is kept in the dark."
Nunes' proposal follows the delayed release of Russia-related materials after Trump changed his mind in September about ordering their immediate declassification. Instead, the president delegated the responsibility to the DOJ inspector general. The change was reportedly prompted by meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other officials.
[Wash Examiner] A court will overturn former national Security Adviser Michael Flynn's conviction for lying to the FBI, a House Judiciary Republican predicted Sunday.
The prognostication by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is retiring from Congress in January, comes after a federal judge demanded more information about Flynn's dealings with the FBI ahead of his expected sentencing on Tuesday. Last December, Flynn pleaded guilty as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's federal Russia inquiry to lying during a January 2017 interview with investigators. He told them he did not discuss sanctions with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn's lawyers have argued their client should not receive prison time due to the casual nature of the sit-down, including how Flynn was not advised he was under scrutiny from the government.
"I would not be surprised a bit if the conviction of Flynn is overturned because of the Justice Department and the FBI's misconduct," Issa told Fox News.
Issa then criticized fired FBI Director James Comey, who last week said the bureau was able to question Flynn without following established procedures because the Trump White House was not as "organized" as previous administrations.
Mueller recommended earlier in December that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, the judge overseeing Flynn's case, not hand down a prison sentence to Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and 2016 Trump campaign surrogate, given his "substantial assistance" to the Russia probe.
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Surely there must be some legal technicality of which we peons are not aware that will keep the judge from overturning this case. But it'd make a nice Christmas present if there isn't.
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[Hot Air] Since it’s never too early to start the 2020 election cycle, CNN got out ahead of the pack this week and put a poll in the field in Iowa, the first caucus state for the presidential election. They were looking to see who the hot prospects for the nomination are. The results aren’t all that much different from some national polls we’ve already looked it, but there were a few juicy bits of goodness in there.
At the top of the pack (as usual) were Joe Biden
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and Bernie Sanders.
...age 77. Either or both might be dead in two years.
The only real shocker was to see Beto O’Rourke moving up into third place. But there was one name missing from notable contention and Chris Cillizza read the tea leaves. Iowa Democrats have pretty much no interest in seeing Hillary Clinton
...merely 71, but decidedly unhealthy despite the efforts of her medical staff and her personal cosmetologist...
darkening their doorways for a third try. (CNN)
Hillary is a non-starter
There is some chatter within the Democratic Party that Clinton, who has run for president twice before unsuccessfully, might try one more time. This poll suggests that Democrats simply are not pining for her to run. More Democrats view her unfavorably (49%) than view her favorably (47%). But it gets worse! More than one in five (22%) have a "very" unfavorable view of Clinton while 26% have a mostly unfavorable view. Just 17% have a "very" favorable view. But it gets even worse. Almost three-quarters ‐ 72% ‐ think she would detract more than she would add to the race. Reminder: This is among Democrats! Not good.
This clearly not a case of Hillary Clinton just being "less interesting" to Iowa voters than others. Her favorable numbers are underwater, with nearly a quarter of them seeing her "very unfavorably." And that figure regarding whether she would "add to" or "detract from" the race by being in it at all is just brutal. She lost that one by more than 70%. So it’s not just case of liking someone else better. Iowa Democrats don’t even want her on the stage.
[Political Insider] According to two experts, the Clinton Foundation should have never been a registered non-profit and should have been seen as a foreign agent.
This testimony was given before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which was convened by Rep. Mark Meadows. (RELATED: Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Scheduled to Make ’Explosive’ Allegations This Week.)
Investigative journalist Sarah Carter reports:
The Clinton Foundation operated as a foreign agent ’early in its life’ and ’throughout it’s existence’ and did not operate as a 501c3 charitable foundation as required by its and is not entitled to its status as a nonprofit, alleged two highly qualified forensic investigators, accompanied by three other investigators, said in explosive testimony Thursday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Earlier this week, we learned that over 6,000 documents on the Clinton Foundation turned over to the FBI may have proof that the Clinton Foundation was engaged in illegal activity. We’re still waiting to learn more from that trove of information. before they're shredded and burned
What we did learn from the testimony of those two forensics experts is what we’ve long suspected: the Clinton Foundation was a clearing house for foreign graft. More from Carter’s report, referencing witness John Moynihan:
[RADIOSHABELLE] A huge kaboom was heard on Sunday noon in Mogadishu, the Somali capital amid tight security measures that have been in place in the past few months.
Local Police are investigating a blast resulted from an bomb planted under a car seat that detonated in downtown Mogadishu. No injuries were reported.
No group has immediately claimed the responsibility for the attack which shattered a period of calm in Mogadishu, which is stabilizing after nearly 25 years of chaotic violence.
The Somali government has deployed additional police personnel on the main roads to prevent Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... from carrying out more attacks in the city.
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So, the Monday morning traffic kicks off again...
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[Guardian] Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, pushes initiative in the state amid questions over his own political aspirations.
Ro Khanna is not running for president.
Unlike many of his colleagues in Congress, the Silicon Valley congressman was not in Iowa to test the waters for a White House run. His visit was decidedly more ambitious: to bridge the deepening economic divide between urban and rural America.
On a recent Saturday night, Khanna, a progressive Democrat who was recently re-elected in the diverse, deep-blue California district where Apple, Intel and Yahoo have headquarters, joined tech leaders here in Jefferson, an Iowa town of 4,200 people. It is located in a predominantly white, rural swath of the state represented by congressman Steve King, a far-right conservative whose questioning of Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, during a hearing on Capitol Hill this week fueled criticism that Congress doesn’t understand how technology giants operate.
The gulf between the two districts is precisely why Khanna came to Jefferson.
"The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in," he told an audience of local leaders and out-of-town tech industry executives.
They gathered in the town’s History Boy Theatre to learn about an initiative that promises to bring high-paying tech and software design jobs to Jefferson. If it succeeds, they believe the program could be a blueprint for revitalizing other rural communities.
[PJ] U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is scheduled to sentence General Mike Flynn on Tuesday morning, and there’s a lot at stake. To begin with, there’s the future of a fine man who transformed the way we do battlefield intelligence and the ensuing operations against our enemies in Iraq, where we won in large part because Flynn’s (and General Stan McChrystal’s) new tactics, and then in Afghanistan, again in tandem with McChrystal.
General Flynn’s radical reforms were not embraced by our top brass in the Pentagon, or by officials in the intelligence community. because he effectively relocated our warfighting decisions from Washington to the battlefield, weakening the bureaucrats and strengthening our men and women in the field. He thereby greatly increased the speed and accuracy of our operations. He also enhanced the status of lower-level officers and enlisted soldiers.
We need such trailblazers, and I hope he will be freed from the shackles that special consel Robert Mueller has attached to him. We badly need better intelligence, and General Flynn is a real rarity. Whether in or out of government, his is an invaluable voice and should be heard as widely as possible.
Second, is the importance of slapping down a corrupt justice and intelligence leadership, whose behavior in the Flynn affair should enrage and frighten all concerned citizens. It is incredible to say that after two years, we do not know what happened. We do know that Flynn’s principal FBI accusers have mostly been fired for lying, while Flynn still faces a possible jail sentence. But no CIA or NSA or NSC officials, who illegally "unmasked" Flynn to the Washington Post, have been charged with anything. Justice still refuses to release documents that might explain it all. Intolerable! Hell, we don’t even know who called whom as between McCabe and Flynn. And the bureau apparently has caused to disappear the 302 of the Strock/Pientka/Flynn conversation. And Comey’s claims change daily.
I’ve been told, I believe reliably, that General Flynn had either ordered, or intended to order, a full accounting of decades of intelligence community malfeasance. This was likely to reveal vast sums of money that were never spent to carry out the missions for which they were appropriated. This would have intensified the IC’s desire to get rid of him.
[Breitbart] Movie actress Ashley Bratcher said that she became fully convinced of the pro-life position when auditioning for the part of Abby Johnson in the biopic Unplanned.
Known for Princess Cut, War Room, and other films, Ms. Bratcher said in an essay this week that while researching about the life of Johnson ‐ a former Planned Parenthood employee ‐ her "eyes were opened to the harsh reality of abortion."
After Ashley got the part, her mother informed her that she had had an abortion when she was 16 years old and that her next pregnancy was with Ashley
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“I was at the clinic sitting on the table when the nurse who was very pregnant came in to talk to me. I felt sick. I couldn’t do it. I got up and walked out,” Ashley’s mother told her.
A powerful story; many young women come to regret an abortion. Maybe Planned Parenthood should be required to hire pregnant nurses throughout their organization?
I was tempted to ask "What kind of shotgun?" but didn't want to get too snarky over a something this serious.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Four 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.... murderous Moslems were killed Sunday in an air raid that targeted their hotbed in Nineveh province, the Iraqi army said.
Troops of the Nineveh Operations Command found during a security campaign in Atshana Mountains a tunnel being used as a hideout by Islamic State Lion of Islams, Mawazin News quoted the Security Media Center as saying in a statement.
The Iraqi Air Force immediately launched an Arclight airstrike targeting the IS murderous Moslems hiding inside the tunnel, leaving four of them dead, the statement dead.
"The airstrike left the tunnel completely destroyed," the statement added.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that two 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.... murderous Moslems were jugged You have the right to remain silent... in Mosul city after they had infiltrated from neighboring Syria.
"Troops of the Military Intelligence Directorate arrested two murderous Moslems during a security campaign in Badush city, west of Mosul," Iraqi news website Almaalomah quoted the directorate as saying in a statement.
The pair, according to the statement, "had infiltrated from Syria and hid among the displaced people coming from the al-Haul camp in Syria."
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish warplanes have struck PKK targets in northern Iraq, ignoring protests from Baghdad which says The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's repeated Arclight airstrikes violate Iraqi illusory sovereignty and endanger civilians.
The air raid on Saturday came a day after Baghdad summoned Turkey’s ambassador over an airstrike which killed eight people in northern Iraq.
Turkey said the operations "will continue as long as terror organizations nest on Iraqi soil and as long as Turkey’s security needs require it to."
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[PRESSTV] More than a dozen civilians, mostly women and kiddies, have been killed after the US-led coalition purportedly fighting 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 carried out a series of aerial assaults in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that 17 people were killed on Sunday when US-led warplanes bombarded residential buildings in Albu Khatir village, which lies southeast of the town of Hajin.
The report added that the air raids also severely damaged private property in the targeted area.
Local sources told The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s official Anadolu news agency on December 12 that a US-led coalition Arclight airstrike targeted a residential building in al-Kashmah neighborhood of al-Shaafah town, which lies in Abu Kamal district of Dayr al-Zawr province, the previous night, leaving 15 people dead.
Sources noted that the victims were all members of the same family.
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[PRESSTV] At least eight civilians have been killed and dozens more injured after an explosives-laden vehicle went kaboom! at a marketplace in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the kaboom struck al-Hal market in the city of Afrin, situated 43 kilometers north of the picturesque provincial capital city of Aleppo, on Sunday afternoon.
The Britannia-based monitor group added that security forces have sealed off the attack scene, members of the so-called White Helmets are rushing to the area to provide help to the victims
The corpse count is expected to rise as some of the injured are in a critical condition.
No turban group has grabbed credit for the attack so far.
Afrin was captured in March this year from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) by Ottoman Turkish armed forces and Ankara-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... turbans.
The kaboom came as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... said that there would be a campaign against "terrorists" in the eastern Euphrates region.
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[PRESSTV] Tens of thousands of Paleostinians have attended a huge rally in the besieged Gazoo Strip to mark the 31st anniversary of the establishment of the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, resistance movement.
Hamas was established in 1987 soon after the first Paleostinian Intifada or uprising broke out against the Israeli occupation. The movement has been administering Gazoo since 2007 when it scored a surprise parliamentary victory.
On Saturday, Hamas marked the anniversary of its foundation with a military parade featuring the Paleostinian resistance movement’s new defensive hardware.
Members of the group's military movement, the Izzddin al-Qassam Brigades, showcased various military vehicles and weapons.
The ceremony was held in the southern city of Khan Yunis in the Gazoo Strip which is ruled by the movement.
The movement's special units staged a march-past during which truck-mounted missile defense systems were driven through the streets.
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the Ankara government would consider working with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... if he won a democratic and credible election. Say as democratic and credible as Erdogan's...
The Ottoman Turkish foreign minister made the remarks while addressing the 18th edition of Doha Forum on Sunday.
Asked whether The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... would consider working with Assad, Cavusoglu said there must first be an election in Syria and "if it is a democratic and credible one, then everybody should consider that [working with Assad]."
"It has to be very credible, transparent, democratic and fair elections. At the end, Syrian people should decide who is going to rule the country after the elections," Cavusoglu added.
He further noted that the constitution for Syria should be drafted by the people of their own country.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Cavusoglu said he believed US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was considering a policy of leaving Syria.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad demanded on November 4 that "occupation" forces from Turkey must leave, emphasizing that the troops must depart the territories of his conflict-plagued Arab country in order for security and stability to be restored there.
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[PRESSTV] At least 12 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and dozens of others have gone missing following festivities with 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... Lions of Islam in the northeastern state of Borno.
Three unnamed military sources told media outlets Sunday that the attack targeted a military base and a nearby community in the Gudumbali local government area.
The fighting followed an attack on Friday by Lions of Islam in the troubled area, where a splinter group 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... called "ISIS in West Africa" is influential. The poor communication network in the remote area delayed the relay of the details of the attack. The army officially said it had repelled the attack, in which it said one soldier was killed and another was injured. Militants opened fire on troops while aid materials were being distributed in Gudumbali. "The troops, however, fought gallantly and outmanoeuvred the attackers inflicting heavy casualties on them. Unfortunately, a soldier paid the supreme price during the encounter, while another was maimed in action," the statement read.
In late November, about 100 soldiers were killed by ISIS Takfiri Death Eaters who attacked an army base in Metele, Borno.
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[DailyCaller] The Supreme Court held long ago in Brady v. Maryland that the Constitution requires the prosecution, which holds all the cards in a criminal case, to give the defense all evidence favorable to the defendant, whether it impeaches a witness, mitigates punishment or shows his innocence. Indeed, the burden is on prosecutors to find anything in the possession of the government that is favorable to the defense.
From the minute Judge Emmet G. Sullivan received the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, which will be decided on Tuesday, he ordered Mueller to provide the defense with all Brady material. Last week, Judge Sullivan specifically ordered Mueller to produce any FBI interview reports ‐ called 302s ‐ or memoranda relevant to the original interview of Gen. Flynn. Ironically, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has been requesting the agents’ notes and 302s for two years. Did Mueller comply?
Remarkably, but not surprisingly to those who have read my book, Mueller has thumbed his nose at Judge Sullivan’s order. He produced only a 302 created by his own squad seven months later from his own agent’s interview of none other than the infamous, fired-for-bias, disgraced, Trump-loathing, former Agent Peter Strzok ‐ the guy who swore he’d "stop" President Trump and devised "an insurance policy" with his mistress Lisa Page and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in case Trump won the election. We are watching Mueller execute that insurance policy by the day.
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Mueller has shown abject contempt for the wrong court. Judge Sullivan is a real judge who believes in the rule of law and has the integrity to enforce it equally. The evidence strongly suggests Mueller violated Brady, destroyed or suppressed evidence, and obstructed justice in violation of 18 USC §1512(c). He has disgraced himself and the Department of Justice. Mueller’s time is up.
Let's hope Judge Sullivan is God's instrument here.
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Let's hope Judge Sullivan is God's instrument here.
We'll see. He has thrown prosecutors out of his courtroom before for bad and illegal behavior, but when those same prosecutors were brought up on charges he let them walk.
I guess it depends on what the deep state has on him and if he feels like getting suicidal while walking in parks at night.
[PRESSTV] North Korea has denounced the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning that disarming Pyongyang could be blocked forever.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that the US Department of State was "bent on bringing the DPRK-US relations back to the status of last year, which was marked by exchanges of fire."
The statement added, "If the US administration believed that heightened sanctions and pressure would force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons, it would count as (its) greatest miscalculation, and it will block the path to denuclearization on the Korean peninsula forever - a result desired by no one."
Washington has resorted to "sanctions measures for as many as eight times against the companies, individuals and ships of not only the DPRK but also Russia, China and other third countries...," the statement included.
On Monday, the United States said it had introduced sanctions on three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , for alleged human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses.
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[PULSE.NG] Georgia on Sunday swore in its first female president, Salome Zurabishvili as opposition parties continue to denounce her election as fraudulent and demand snap parliamentary polls.
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Stacey Abrams just doesn't give up
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had issued a warning to Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, after recent deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank, including two shootings claimed by the Paleostinian faction.
Netanyahu referred to a controversial Gazoo ceasefire in November that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war.
"I conveyed a clear message to Hamas - we won’t accept a situation of a truce in Gazoo and terror in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting, using the biblical name for the West Bank, as is Israel’s official policy.
"We will exact a high price over them," he said of the attacks.
Hamas runs the Gazoo Strip but also has a presence in the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s comments came after two soldiers were rubbed out at a central West Bank bus station near a settlement on Thursday.
On the same day, a baby prematurely delivered after his mother was shot and maimed in a separate attack nearby on December 9 also died.
Hamas grabbed credit for the December 9 shooting and another in the West Bank on October 7 that killed two Israelis.
The two Paleostinians behind those attacks were rubbed out by Israeli forces during arrest raids last week, Israeli officials said.
Israel’s security forces say they have also tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... at least 37 Hamas operatives in connection with recent violence.
The attacks came after a deal to restore relative calm to the Gazoo Strip that included Israel enabling 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to bring fuel and tens of millions of dollars to the besieged territory for salaries.
Hardline Israeli politicians opposed the Gazoo agreement and have also criticized Netanyahu over the recent West Bank violence.
On Sunday, hundreds of settlers protested outside Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem to call on the government to increase security measures as well as settlement construction.
Those moves would make Paleostinian turbans understand that "there’s no point to terror and hope in it," said Hananel Dorani, chairman of settler group the Yesha council.
Participating in the protest were a number of ministers, including Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the far-right Jewish Home.
A ministerial committee headed by Shaked later gave initial approval to a bill that would help legalize settlement homes built on state land without government approval.
"The snuffies will know that we’re here to stay," she said following the vote. "We won’t be deterred by attacks."
On Thursday, Shaked said that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit had also approved of a way to help legalize some 2,000 West Bank homes considered illegal by Israel as they are located on privately owned Paleostinian land.
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[PRESSTV] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , has commended the West Bank for its "resistance" in the face of Israeli occupation, as thousands of Paleostinians marched in the Gazoo Strip to express their support for the movement on its 31st anniversary.
"We place our hopes in the West Bank, which is the main area where events are occurring and the most appropriate area to resolve the conflict with our Zionist enemy," Haniyeh told the massive crowd, who waived green Hamas flags on Sunday.
"The West Bank has shaken and stood up with glory, strength and skill, as if it wanted to say to our people on the occasion of this glorious anniversary that it was with the resistance, in total harmony."
Also present during the celebrations were Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, which showcased various military vehicles and weapons.
Haniyeh affirmed that al-Qassam Brigades had succeeded in obtaining accurate information about the recent Israeli operation that was carried out by Israeli special forces in Khan Younis, describing the security assets it had obtained as priceless and useful in managing "the brain warfare" against the occupation in the next stage.
Undercover Israeli special forces infiltrated into the territory in a civilian car near Khan Yunis, opening fire and killing local commander Noor Baraka when they were discovered.
The unit was chased by Hamas fighters who killed a ranking Israeli officer. Israel then launched dozens of Arclight airstrikes on Gazoo, drawing Hamas retaliation. During a two-day flare-up, more than 500 rockets were fired at Israel, forcing Tel Aviv to accept a hasty declaration of a ceasefire.
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[Ynet] Four years of intense intelligence gathering led in early December to the launch of an operation to uncover and destroy Hezbollah's tunnels on the Lebanese border. From top secret discussions kept from half the General Staff to combat engineering soldiers who didn't even know what they were training for—this is how Operation Northern Shield came to be.
During its covert construction, the IDF's high command post in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv—also known as "the pit"—still had a secret code name. But last week, when it was opened for the first time to manage Operation Northern Shield, it got its permanent name: "Fort Zion."
The planning and construction of the new "pit" lasted ten years. It's a giant space, several dozen feet underground, with several floors. The Operations Division's personnel sit in areas separated from one another by glass walls, with each being used for a different control center. Everyone can see everyone. Above this is an office floor, which is used by the IDF's top brass, such as the IDF chief, the head of the Operations Directorate, the head of the Operations Division who commands over the "pit," and others. The communications and control technologies installed there are state-of-the-art. The opening of the new "pit" was timed to coincide with the launch of the operation to expose Hezbollah tunnels on the Lebanese border.
The decision to open "the pit" under the command of the IDF chief is reserved for big operations, usually beyond the state's borders, that entail high risk of escalation leading to war. And indeed, when Operation Northern Shield was announced, the level of alert was raised not just in the Northern Command, but in the entire General Staff, including preparations for immediate deployment of the army's quick-response units: The Commando Brigade, which was sent to the north last week; Special Forces units; and the Israel Air Force (IAF).
In such a situation, at least based on past experience, dozens of IAF fighter jets stand ready at the different air bases. The situation assessment on the eve of the operation may have determined there was a low chance of escalation, but the operations area on the northern border—Syria and Lebanon—is so unstable that any situation assessment is almost considered an educated guess.
It's enough for a series of military operations—which started with a strike in Syria in early December, which was attributed to Israel, and continued with the massive IDF presence on the Lebanese border and the discovery of Hezbollah's tunnels—to be misconstrued, for the other side to feel threatened. This is why there has been criticism, coming from inside the IDF as well, of the boastful rhetoric used by the political echelon weeks before the operation and upon its launch, which could be seen on the other side as preparing public opinion in Israel for war.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As part of a five-year project financed by a $50.4 million donation from the United Arab Emirates, Iraqis on Sunday laid the cornerstone in rebuilding djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret, national emblems destroyed last year in the ferocious battle against ISIS.
Abu Bakr Kenaan, head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Nineveh province, told AFP remnants of the minaret would be preserved, while other parts of the mosque would be built afresh, along with a museum about its history and adjacent homes.
The famed 12th century mosque and minaret, dubbed al-Hadba or "the hunchback," hosted His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... ’s only public appearance as ISIS chief, when he declared a self-styled "caliphate" after murderous Moslems swept into Mosul in 2014.
The structures were ravaged three years later in the final, most brutal stages of the months-long fight to rid Iraq’s second city of ISIS.
On Sunday, dozens of government officials, religious figures, United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... representatives and European ambassadors gathered in the large square in front of the battered mosque to see the foundation laid. Abdullatif al-Humaym, the head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Iraq, set down the stone in a simple ceremony.
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[PRESSTV] Iran says it is fully ready for joint anti-terror operations with neighboring Pakistain after gunnies killed six Pak troops in an ambush near their joint border Friday.
Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned the attack on a border checkpoint in Pakistain's Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
He also expressed condolences to the Pak government and people as well as the families of the victims and those maimed in the terrorist attack.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, Qassemi said, is fully ready to take part in any joint campaign "against the evil phenomenon of terrorism in all its forms and shapes in the region," IRNA reported.
Six Pak soldiers were killed when a paramilitary convoy came under attack by button men during a routine patrol in the mountainous district of Kech on Friday.
Pakistain authorities said some 30 turbans attacked the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... convoy, also wounding 14 soldiers.
The separatist Pak group the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) grabbed credit for the attack, which also left four attackers killed in the shootout.
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[PULSE.NG] The Nigerian Army has repelled attack by 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... Lions of Islam who disguised as humanitarian workers at Gudunbali community in Borno.
In a statement on Sunday, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed that the myrmidons, on Dec. 14, attempted to infiltrate the community, disguising as a humanitarian assistance team.
Nwachukwu said that the Lions of Islam took advantage of the ongoing distribution of relief items in the community and opened fire on troops’ location.
He revealed that another set of Lions of Islam on mounted gun truck engaged the troops in fierce gun duel, adding that the troops successfully repelled the attack.
Nwachukwu said: "Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, located at Gudumbali in northern Borno, on Friday Dec. 14, repelled infiltration attempt by suspected Boko Haram murderous Moslems that disguised as humanitarian assistance team.
"The murderous Moslems took advantage of the ongoing distribution of relief materials at Gudumbali and opened fire on troops’ location, which was followed by rapid fire from other murderous Moslems in gun trucks along Gudumbali-Kukawa axis.
"The troops, however, fought gallantly and out maneuvered the attackers inflicting heavy casualties on them.
"Unfortunately, a soldier paid the supreme price during the encounter and one other maimed in action, while a Cobra Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and a truck belonging to the unit were damaged."
The army spokesperson added that the troops recovered bodies of some of the neutralised terrorists, large quantity of ammunition and 8 Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) charges.
According to him, the troops have been reinforced and normality restored to the area.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi fighter jets launched an air raid in Syria’s Sousa east of the country, killing 16 aides of ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , according to the Iraqi interior minister.
A military source revealed that the 16 bad boyz were potted during a gathering they were holding in the area.
He added that a second strike targeted another location killing 13 would-be jacket wallahs, who were preparing to enter Iraq through the desert bordering Syria to execute terrorist operations targeting the Iraqi capital Baghdad , Karbala, Samarra and Kirkuk.
The source revealed that among those killed were senior ISIS leaders, one of them is Mushtaq Anad Haram al-Mouhamadi, an Iraqi national known as Abu Omar and carries the title war minster responsible for what is classified by ISIS as the "Middle Euphrates State."
Also killed is al-Baghdadi's deputy Sijad Ali Hussein who is known by the name the Iraqi Abu Saffia, accused of overseeing the implementation of the bombings of the recent massacre in Karrada in Baghdad, and participating in the implementation of a number of terrorist operations in Iraq and Syria.
Four other senior ISIS leaders were also killed including: Abdul Hamid al-Salmani who was in charge of transporting suicide bombers from Syria to Iraq and vice versa, the director of the terrorist organization’s operations room Omar Abdul Salman al-Fahdawi, who was charged with overseeing terrorist operations in Syria, Iraq and abroad, Shaker al-Hardani, known as Shaker Rocket, for overseeing the program of engineering effort to manufacture rockets within ISIS, Abu Saleh al-Obeidi responsible for security matters in the myrmidon group and Abu Hamza, a Yemeni national in charge of the so-called suicide bombers in Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Political prisoner and lawyer, Narges Mohammadi, sent a letter to Iran’s attorney general, saying that she is not getting her right to receiving medical care and treatment in prison.
In 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Iran had sentenced Mohammadi to 16 years in prison for "belonging to a campaign protesting the death penalty , colluding against national security, and spreading propaganda against the regime."
In an interview with the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Mohammadi revealed that her request to be seen by a doctor had been ignored several times, with no clear reason by the Iranian officials.
In her last letter, Mohammadi also stated that she suffers from lung disease, gynecological problems and as well as issues with her gallbladder. The prison’s doctors asserted that she should be treated outside of the prison.
"I have no hope in my country’s judiciary; all I ask of Tehran’s attorney general is to provide me the right conditions so that I can receive the necessary treatment and see specialized doctors," she said.
Narges often sends letters from her prison cell to Iranian officials since she was imprisoned in 2015. She usually criticizes security and defense governmental entities and their control over the country’s judiciary.
YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT One Mohammadi’s most famous letters sent from her prison cell said: "I do not have a real and clear image of my twins, anymore."
She had not seen them for three years. In another letter she sent months ago to president Rouhani, she said: "The people did not vote to support the regime, but rather to apply the law and fulfill civil society activists’ demands in the country."
The Defenders of Human Rights Center website published Narges Mohammadi’s last letter, a few days after announcing the death of political activist Wahid Sayadi Nassiri in the central prison in Qom, who died of a hunger strike that he began last October.
She was heavily involved with the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran headed by Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and first Moslem woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
In September 2016, the Tehran Court of Appeals sentenced her to 16 years in prison, 10 of which could not be appealed.
She was accused of "propaganda against the state," "assembly and collusion against national security" and "membership in the [now banned] Defenders of Human Rights Center."
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[PULSE.NG] Nobel laureate and former jihadist captive Nadia Murad called for the protection of women belonging to her Yazidi minority until 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.... leaders are tried for crimes against the community.
"All the victims need a safe haven until ISIS is brought to the international courts," the 25-year-old Iraqi said at an international conference in Doha, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist group.
Murad also renewed calls for Iraq and other countries to investigate the fate of members of her Yazidi minority kidnapped by IS.
Murad was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo earlier this month with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege for her work highlighting the plight of Iraq's Yazidis.
Like thousands of other Yazidi women and girls, Murad was kidnapped by IS in 2014 as the jihadists overran the minority's stronghold of Sinjar in northern Iraq, close to the border with Syria.
They were held captive, tortured, raped and sold as sex slaves by IS.
Attending the Doha Forum, Murad -- the first Iraqi to receive the Nobel prize -- said on Sunday that she dreams of returning home.
"I dream about returning to Sinjar and living a noble life, opening a beauty salon as a way to help Yazidi women," she said.
More than 3,000 Yazidi women and kiddies are still missing, probably still held captive, according to Murad.
IS captured large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
The jihadists have since lost most of their territory to offensives by multiple forces in both countries, retreating to desert holdouts.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on Saturday blasted television news anchor Fatih Portakal over his questioning of whether it was possible to hold a peaceful protest in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... without fear of the government, Ahval News quoted independent news site T24.
"Some morally deficient person is calling people to take to the streets. What a low life. The judiciary will respond to this," Erdogan said, in an apparent reference to Portakal. ’"What are you doing? Is this Gay Paree? Everyone got their lesson during the Gezi Park protests. And in the July 15 [2016 coup attempt]. They will pay a heavy price for this."
Fox TV news anchor Portakal last week said that people are afraid to take to the streets to protest, while criticising Ankara’s response to the ongoing Yellow Vests protests in La Belle France, labelling the police intervention as heavy-handed. Erdogan has said that the ongoing "yellow vests" protest movement reveals Europe’s failure in democracy, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and freedom.
’"Do you think we can do it? How many people will be able to take the streets without fear? For the sake of God, can you tell me how many people would demonstrate? They are trying to discourage social opposition and keep it under pressure. It is a most natural right, but cannot be exercised. Whether it’s La Belle France or Turkey, it doesn’t really matter all that much,’" Portakal said on Fox TV.
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Watching "The Sound of Music" tonight on ABC, at the point where the movie typically drops into the Intermission, then resurfaces with the magnificent cinematography of landscape, churches and bells of Maria's wedding, well this got chopped out. This stuff is certainly quite Christian and nationalistic, and it's a bit too obvious that the Globalists are involved here.
[IOTReport] It was reported recently that a couple of nuns out in Southern California had ripped off the Catholic school where they worked for many years to the tune of at least $500,000. They spent the money on gambling sprees to Las Vegas, among other pursuits. The habit-less sisters, who were henned up together in a Torrance townhouse inside a gated community (the neighbors, according to the Los Angeles Times, wondered how they afforded their matching Volvos), hail from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet ‐ a "social justice" religious order, naturally.
But even richer than that, it is the order that played an important role in Obama’s Alinskyite education. It was at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, a college founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, that Obama went for a ten-day seminar in the 1980s to learn Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals. As reported in No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom, the Gay Mafia socialist from Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, paid for Obama’s trip out to Mount St. Mary’s College for that event.
The left-wing nuns in the order had long maintained a chapter for the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a group of socialist agitators that Saul Alinsky established with the help of Chicago priests who would later honor Obama at Notre Dame. The sisters were happy to let Alinskyite activists use their campus in the summer to train the next generation of subversives.
According to Obama’s latest biographer, David Garrow, those ten days at Mount St. Mary’s, where Obama rubbed shoulders with radical priests and nuns, proved seminal in Obama’s political education: more here
[PULSE.NG] Cambodia seized more than 3.2 tonnes of elephant tusks hidden in a storage container sent from Mozambique, a customs official said Sunday, marking the country's largest ivory bust.
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[PRESSTV] Saudi Arclight airstrikes and fierce festivities have shaken the outskirts of Yemen's Hudaydah despite a UN-brokered ceasefire that Yemenis already feared could collapse at any moment.
Residents were hoping that the ceasefire reached in Sweden Thursday would provide them a respite after months of festivities which have seen a push by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates to seize Hudaydah thwarted.
But heavy festivities broke out on the outskirts of Hudaydah overnight following fresh attempts by Saudi and Emirati troops and their mercenaries to advance into the city amid aerial bombings.
A military source loyal to Yemen's former Saudi-backed regime told AFP that least 29 fighters, including 22 Houthis, had been killed on Saturday night.
He also claimed that seven 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 ... fighters had been taken captive during an attack by pro-Saudi Lions of Islam in Hudaydah Province's Durayhimi district.
A Hudaydah resident said the fresh fighting was "fierce" and that the sounds of fighter jets, operated by Saudi Arabia and its allies, could be heard throughout the night until Sunday morning.
Yemen's army front man Brigadier Yahya Sare'e said on Saturday that dozens of Saudi air raids had targeted residential neighborhoods across the impoverished country and dropped cluster bombs on citizens' farms in Hudaydah.
In a statement carried by Yemen's official Saba news agency, Sare'e said Saudi mercenaries, supported by heavy shelling of artillery and rockets, had tried to infiltrate into Durayhimi from several directions.
"They tried to sneak into the positions of our forces but the army and Popular Committees responded, killing and wounding a number of them," he added.
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UN-brokered ceasefire that Yemenis already feared could collapse at any moment
what was their first clue? The heavy fighting or the airstrikes?
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[Gateway Pundit] Mueller’s Special Counsel team of 13 angry Democrats scrubbed Peter Strzok’s phone and then turned it over to the Office of Inspector General investigators AFTER Peter Strzok was fired from the special counsel.
Peter Strzok was fired from the Special Counsel after text messages surfaced showing that he had a strong hatred for Donald Trump and his supporters.
Peter Strzok was reassigned in the summer of 2017 to the FBI’s human resource department after his dismissal from the Mueller witch hunt in July 2017.
His lover Lisa Page reportedly resigned from the FBI in May 2018 ‐ and was removed from Special Counsel on July 15th, 2017. She was fired two weeks before Strzok was fired from the special counsel.
Lisa Page’s phone was scrubbed and not turned over to OIG until September 2018.
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If there is justice anymore, Judge Sullivan ought to throw out the case and harshly penalize punish those who brought it and restore what Flynn lost plus punitive damages.
The entire Mueller proctology probe was based on lies. Fruit of the poisoned tree.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a group of Israeli envoys serving in Africa, Asia and Latin America that Israel is pushing ahead with forging ties with the Arab world despite moribund efforts to reach peace with the Paleostinians.
"I won’t suspend efforts to reach peace with the Arab world until the Paleostinians make peace with us. I won’t do it," he says, describing a process of "normalization" with the region.
"We are going to the [Arab world] and are not subject to the whims of the Paleostinians," he says, repeating hopes that ties with the Arab world will open up new opportunities to reach a deal with the Paleostinians.
He also says Israeli bilateral trade with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... is on the rise, despite diplomatic tensions between the two former allies.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The government will deploy at least one thousand additional police reservists along the Kenya-Somalia border in Wajir County as efforts to counter violent extremism intensify.
Northeastern regional coordinator regional Mohammed Birik says the process of training the police reservists has been concluded and the officers are properly equipped.
And in efforts to enhance cohesion among security agents and local communities, authorities in the area have launched sporting activities in the frontier counties of Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir as a way of building trust among the two groups.
The al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia has often taken advantage of the porous Kenya-Somalia border to gain entry into the country to launch terrorist attacks with often fatal consequences.
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Strongly condemn killing of innocent Kashmiri civilians in Pulwama IOK by Indian security forces. Only dialogue & not violence & killings will resolve this conflict. We will raise issue of India's human rights violations in IOK & demand UNSC fulfil its J&K plebiscite commitment
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The appointment of President Hassan Rouhani’s son-in-law as head of Iran’s geological survey has renewed accusations of nepotism and led on Sunday to the resignation of a bigwig, according to conservative media.
The appointment of Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani’s daughter in a low-key wedding this August, was widely criticised by Iranians on social media.
It also triggered the resignation of Jafar Sargheyni, head of the mining section in the industries ministry, who criticised "unprofessional appointments" without directly naming Mehdizadeh, the conservative Tasnim news agency reported.
Mehdizadeh is a PhD student in petroleum engineering, who has also served as an advisor to Iran’s oil ministry, taekwando federation and national youth organization, Tasnim said.
Iranians on social media renewed criticism of nepotism that had spread last year with the hashtag "#good-genes" -- a reference to the son of a prominent reformist politician who attributed his business success to inheriting "good genes" from his parents.
"I had no idea even sons-in-law could inherit #good_genes!," wrote one Twitter user on Sunday in reference to Mehdizadeh’s appointment.
Another online campaign this summer called on bigwigs to come clean about the privileges their children enjoy, particularly those studying in the United States and other Western countries.
The "#Where_is_your_kid" campaign pressured several government figures to respond, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who said his children had returned to Iran after studying abroad.
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[PULSE.NG] The security court in Comoros has handed down life sentences with hard labour to four senior opposition figures and lengthy jail terms to several others for plotting against the state.
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[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... says President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of the United States has told President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... that Washington is working on extraditing the US-based Ottoman Turkish dissident Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , whom Ankara accuses of having criminal masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against the Ottoman Turkish leader.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the comment in a forum held in the 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i capital of Doha on Saturday, Turkey's English-language Hurriyet Daily News newspaper reported on Sunday.
"In Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing [Fethullah] Gulen and other people," Cavusoglu said, refereeing to the G20 summit held in the South American country two weeks ago.
In mid-July 2016, a faction of the Ottoman Turkish military declared that it had seized control of the country and the government of President Erdogan was no more in charge. The attempt was, however, suppressed a few hours late
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[IsraelTimes] A Revolutionary Guard general who fought in Syria and Iraq has accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.
...almost as innocent as dying from a fall in the bathroom, which is why I put it on Page 3: Non-WoT despite his Lion of Islam status.
A Sunday report on the Guard’s website says Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri earlier Sunday accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning his pistol.
It’s clearly my complete inexperience in the subject that leads to my inability to imagine the biomechanics of the situation.
The report said Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who fight the bad boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria and Iraq.
Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard’s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers (nearly 560 miles) east of the capital Tehran.
Hundreds of Iranian forces have been killed fighting IS in Syria and Iraq.
Iran, the regional key supporter of Syria’s government, says its forces there only perform an advisory role.
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It’s clearly my complete inexperience in the subject that leads to my inability to imagine the biomechanics of the situation.
This commonly happens when you are cleaning your weapon and your ear itches so you decide to scratch it with the cocked and loaded gun - often after falling down the stairs once or twice.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Not only did the statements from Iranian and Ottoman Turkish officials during the Doha Forum recently, underline simmering tension within the Arab Gulf region and its US ally, they demonstrated 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s risk of breaking away from the Arab orbit and posing a serious threat 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... , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, according to experts.
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What name is missing in Iran, Turkey and Qatar?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian news outlets have released mixed reports on whether or not an Iranian general allegedly shot himself in the head by accident while cleaning his pistol.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the website of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is reporting that Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri, who fought in Syria and Iraq, has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.
The report added that Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard’s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers east of the capital Tehran.
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"Not his own gun, of course"
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[PULSE.NG] Police deployed teargas and water cannon after scuffles broke out Sunday as thousands of people answered a call by far-right groups to reject a UN migration pact.
Police said some 5,500 people rallied in Brussels' European quarter housing a number of EU institutions. Some held aloft banners bearing slogans including "Our people first" and "We have had enough, close the borders."
Police stepped in to disperse the crowd after projectiles and firecrackers were thrown, an AFP journalist on the scene reported.
Many marchers were supporters of the Vlaams Belang party, which opposes last week's signing of the UN accord in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.
The agreement is designed to frame an effective international approach to migration -- a deeply divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... issue across Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and beyond.
A counter-demonstration drew around 1,000 people to another Brussels district, according to police.
Belgian authorities initially banned both rallies fearing unrest but the country's supreme administrative court the Council of State overturned the decision.
More than 150 states last Monday approved the pact, a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
But NGOs have voiced doubts about its implementation both on the ground and the high seas.
Pope Francis on Sunday voiced his support for the agreement and urged the international community to show "responsibility, solidarity and compassion" in dealing with migrants colonists.
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If the paedo protecting pope is for it, I'm against it.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The developmental shift Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is witnessing is not only limited to economic growth or common traditional plans but it also includes other fields such as culture and education. News that philosophy will be introduced to high schools in Saudi Arabia has been the talk of those interested in the field, and also got its share of media coverage, educational analysis and intellectual debate.
There has been an old debate between experts in teaching philosophy and it can be summed up in two points. The first one thinks that teaching philosophy in certain manners may produce a mentality that lacks comprehension and understanding. This is an extreme elitist vision, as philosophy is not a scientific branch but a non-written critical thinking system. The second opinion is that teaching philosophy marks the minimum of critical thinking and liberation of the mind from the captivity of ready-made answers.
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A more moderate Islam would be good. Are they going to dump Sharia Law and the Quran? Are they going to clean out Wahhabism and Salafism?
Also They better check out some of the stuff in Western philosophy that passes as philosophy very carefully and with great deliberation--Just saying.
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Philosophy, at some point, exalts Human Reason. Islam the submission to the Will of Allah that can not be understood by humanity. Notice the problem here?
TL/DR: I think BP's #2 FeckAll^-1, pretty much summed it up admirably.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... said on Sunday that 157 air and land permits were issued to convoys headed to Yemen within the past three days.
The coalition issued 19 permits for vessels on Sunday destined for Yemeni ports, while 12 air permits were also given. Sixteen vessels carrying Yemeni aid were also allowed into the country.
In a statement, the coalition said that the vessels authorized to dock at Yemeni ports were carrying oil derivatives as well as food and medical supplies.
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[DAWN] TAXILA: The body of a woman who was buried alive in a well on the premises of her home was recovered after a 30-hour search operation by Rescue 1122 officials.
Shabana Bibi, 38, was allegedly killed by her brothers Mohammad Farhan and Mohammad Kamran, who buried her alive in the well on Dec 4 and then filled it with debris to ’rid the family from evil forces’ on instructions from a local spiritual figure. The well was on the premises of their home in Banni Mohallah.
Speaking to press at the site of murder, investigating officer Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Mohammad Shahzad said Shabana Bibi’s mother left a tip regarding the presence of the body. She had said the victim was bundled into a blanket and thrown in the 300-metre deep well, which was then filled with debris.
He said the family had been ’treated’ by the spiritual figure as the doors, walls, windows and kitchen items had crosses on them, which according to the suspects in the case was to keep ’evil forces’ away from the house. ASI Shahzad said a dressing table mirror had also been blinded with white paint.
ASI Shahzad said Farhan and Kamran are in police custody. A murder case has been registered against them, and they have begun interrogations.
He added that although the body of the victim is mutilated, it has been taken to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
It took around 30 hours to retrieve the body from the well, Rescue 1122 official Yasir Mehmood said, because the well was full of debris.
He said a number of rescue officials dug up the well, and dozens of oxygen cylinders were consumed in order to retrieve the body.
The victim’s uncle Abdul Lateef told the press that the suspects killed the victim because they believed she was under the influence of ’evil forces’ and wanted to protect the rest of the family.
He said both men’s wives had returned to their parents’ homes some time ago, and they also believed that the disturbance with their wives was because of their sister, and killed her to get rid of her.
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What's that, Lassie? Ruh-roh? You're gettin' the heck outta this crazy place before Gramps and Uncles Mohammed get back? Gee, girl, sounds like a plan! [Flintstones feet sound, etc.]
[DAWN] A 30-member jirga is in Diamer to negotiate with the people responsible for the burning of more than a dozen schools ‐ half of which were girls-only centres ‐ in August this year.
The jirga is working towards getting the fighters to surrender, said Faizullah Faraq, the spokesperson for the Gilgit-Baltistan government, on Sunday.
An initial report suggested that miscreants carried out the attacks in an organised manner, first vandalising the buildings and then setting them ablaze.
It also said that important evidence uncovered during the investigation suggested involvement by foreigners and some local controllers.
An operation was subsequently launched in the area to track down and arrest the culprits. A total of 40 people have been incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... so far in connection with the torching of GB schools, while 15 others still remained on the lam.
According to Faraq, the GB government has given the jirga the mandate to conduct these talks, which are being held up in the mountains, where these bully boyz live with their families.
Faraq said that the government does not want to use force with these murderous Moslems as their wives and children are also living with them in the mountains.
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[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has approved death sentences awarded to 15 hardcore bandidosLions of Islam by military courts, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday.
The convicts committed offences related to terrorism, attacked the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, abetted suicide kaboomers in the Christian Colony bombing near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , destroyed educational institutions and killed innocent civilians, the military's media wing stated.
The atrocities resulted in the deaths of a total of 34 persons, 21 of them belonging to the armed forces, nine to Frontier Constabulary, and 2 who were police officials. Besides these, two civilians were also killed and 19 others injured.
The sentences were handed down to the convicts after they were tried by special military courts. They confessed to their offences before a judicial magistrate and in their statements during the trial.
All 15 of the bandidosLions of Islam were found to be members of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations. Details of the convictions provided by ISPR are as follows:
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[DAWN] A case was registered against seven men on Sunday after their alleged blackmailing forced a 22-year-old woman in Punjab's Muzaffargarh district to take her own life, police said.
The victim, Alina*, was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in their house in Shehr-e-Sultan area of Muzaffargarh's Jatoi tehsil on Friday.
According to a first information report (FIR) registered on a complaint of Alina's mother, the primary suspect in the incident, who lived in the same area, wanted to marry the victim. The suspect, Zafar*, and his accomplices started threatening and blackmailing Alina after her family refused his marriage proposal around three months earlier.
On Thursday, December 13, some of Zafar's accomplices barged into the victim's house and threatened the family, saying Zafar possesses alleged compromising material concerning Alina that he would upload on social media if she was married off to someone else.
As the blackmail and harassment continued, Alina took the extreme step the next day by allegedly hanging herself from the ceiling using her dupatta, according to the FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com.
The victim took her life because of the harassment and mental anguish she was subjected to by the suspects, her mother stated.
According to Station House Office Talib Babar, a case has been registered against the seven nominated suspects, including Zafar, under Section 322 (punishment for qatl-bis-sabab) of the Pakistain Penal Code at Police Station Shehr-e-Sultan.
Police are further investigating the incident.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).
[UPI] U.S. aircraft launched several airstrikes that killed 62 al-Shabaab militants in Somalia over the weekend, military officials said Monday.
[Local] Suspicions that Switzerland and the UK have been quietly working behind the scenes to draw up a post-Brexit economics and trade agreement have now been confirmed.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
... 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...
North Korea
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[Gateway Pundit] Mueller’s Special Counsel team of 13 angry Democrats scrubbed Peter Strzok’s phone and then turned it over to the Office of Inspector General investigators AFTER Peter Strzok was fired from the special counsel.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
[IsraelTimes] A Revolutionary Guard general who fought in Syria and Iraq has accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
