two can play that game
(remember when they made promises to pro-life Donks and independents in order to pass Obamacare? as their acts show, they can't remember either)
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These people haven't seen white people riot. Think French Revolution. Big turn over in the bureaucracy, special interest groups, and one percenters.
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How about conspiracy to violate existing federal law (ie legal immigration statutes)? Oh, wait, Holder would have to investigate himself. Never mind.
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Garcia-Blase is also head of Somos Republican (We Are Republican), the largest Hispanic GOP group in the nation... Garcia-Blase concedes the idea for the Tequila Party was not originally hers. She credits Fernando Romero as being the inspiration behind the movement. Romero is president of the nonpartisan Nevada group Hispanics in Politics... Romero first got involved in politics more than 30 years ago as a volunteer for now-Sen. Harry Reid's campaign for lieutenant governor of Nevada.
When asked if any political leaders are backing the movement, Garcia-Blase said that the group has reached out to Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) to be its national spokesman, but is still "waiting to hear back" from his office. Democratic State Rep. Steve Gallardo is scheduled to speak at Saturday's event. For now, Garcia-Blase is running the show with help from political consultant Gus Garcia and 55 fellow political activists she's chosen from around the country to serve as leaders. As for funding, Garcia-Blase said it has yet to be established but she is in talks with a woman in Florida whom Blase says she prefers not to name at this time.
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It's a draft rule. When the EPA finalizes it in September they'll be taken to court, whereupon they'll be enjoined from enforcing the rule. Then they'll lose and pay the opposing sides' legal fees.
I have foreseen this.
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The EPA should be more concerned about employees pooping on the floor.
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I am old enough to remember when the environment was in fact much worse than it is today. The EPA has done some good. Of course, in many cases, what they did was shut down industries.
The problem is that they keep looking for new things to regulate - CO2, dust from farms, etc. Like all beauracracies, they keep trying to expand their reach and their powers.
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Yes, the air and water are far cleaner today than in 1970 with only 2/3rd as many people back then. However, the first principle of a bureaucracy is self preservation rather than 'mission accomplished'. Other than the original departments established in the Washington administration, all other should have a sunset date requiring renewal every dozen years or so.
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Last Tuesday Colorado began issuing restricted (cannot be used for voting, boarding a plane ect) drivers licenses to illegal aliens. That morning the website had more than 60,000 hits and crashed. Sixty K, and that does not count the number that swarmed the DMV offices.
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They should have manditory jail time (or/plus deportation for illegals) for driving without insurance.
They should issues international drivers licenses to non-citizens. Illegals and legal migrant workers. They should require renewal more often than normal licenses and to be caught driving with no license should result in mandatory sentence (or/plus deportation for illegals).
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And congress sits on its collective arse and does nothing. We are a broken government.
The Republican-controlled house passes all sorts of desirable bills, Alaska Paul, which then languish in committee in Harry Reed's Senate, backed by President Obama's promise of a veto of everything that's not something he actually wants. We don't have a broken government, but rather a deliberately obstructionist Democratic Party-controlled upper house of Congress.
You want change? Vote in your Republican candidate for Senate, even if he/she is a rhino. Remove Democratic control of the Senate, preferably with a veto-proof majority. That way actual politicking can take place, instead of this petty nastiness.
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So next year he uses an executive order and grants them citizenship. The rights heads explode and file suit under constitutional grounds. He says its the rights fault the poor are being kept down. The population is further polarized. The Supreme court sides with the right and riots ensue. Constitutional crisis as Obama desired, elections put on hold, the coup is complete.
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49pan, if that happens, it's open season on politicians, starting with Obama. I predict that he and other would-be dictators would be shot dead and strung up Mussolini style within weeks.
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How soon will these illegals with their new drivers license show up at the polls under the motor voter law passed under Clinton and be allowed to vote Donk (SARC ON)?
[The Blaze] A top member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the FBI on Thursday when it first learned that the IRS lost more than two years' worth of emails from Lois Lerner and other officials, and asked why it didn't seem to be aware of this problem much earlier. ...and report that fact [missing e-mails] to the Congress.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to FBI Director James Comey to ask why Comey didn't seem to be knowledgeable about the lost emails last week. In the letter, Jordan said the FBI's criminal investigation should have been unable to uncover this loss very early in its criminal investigation of the IRS. Could it be there was actually was no FBI investigation at all? [rhet]
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If Lois Lerner and her cell were the IRS liaison for White House, Senate, or Other Government Agency political, criminal or counterterrorism contacts, was the FBI one of her clients ?
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Well it is a bit telling. The FBI possesses one of the most sophisticated computer forensics capabilities in the entire world and no one has even suggested so much as a inter-gov't helping hand [assistance] be extended the poor, befuddled IRS ?
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The FBI has reason to believe that the person in the photograph to the right may have been involved in the Boston Marathon Bombings nefarious activities involving sensitive federal documents. If you or any other proles know this person or her whereabouts, please contact your local FBI office.
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Hey, even FBI agents don't like to get audited.
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Government's confidence ratings are so low that stooped people would have to die to get it any lower. The only institution in which the people have a bit of confidence is the military. Sort of like Egypt...
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..except in Egypt the military are running the government. Apparently, that's the best the Egyptian people can get.
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U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered a federal court hearing on the missing IRS emails be set for July 10! (Judicial Watch v. IRS (No. 1:13-cv–1559)
Maybe something will come of this. Sullivan is supposed to be a straight-up, no BS, judge.
[Ynet] The Egyptian authorities have reportedly sent Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim 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... in Gazoo a message from Israel, warning them Israel's will respond with more force should rocket fire continue, Al Hayat reported.
A senior Paleostinian source spoke with the paper and said Egyptian intelligences officials spoke with Musa Abu Marzuq, Hamas' officials in Cairo and Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Ziad Nahla, and told them that "Israel would hit Gazoo hard if the two movements refuse to accept calm."
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Israel has shown considerable patience and restraint. Possibly this restraint is to try to shift the negative image that Obama, his administration, and the leftists have created for Israel. Israel has chosen the right way. However, were it to me me, I would not be the sweet voice of reason,patience and restraint. I would be tempted to go medieval on them.
An suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan killed four NATO service members and 12 others Tuesday. The Czech Defense Ministry said the four soldiers killed were Czechs.
In addition to the service members, the blast killed two Afghan police officers and 10 civilians. Eight others, including a child, were injured, said Wahid Sediqi, a spokesman for the governor of Parwan province.
The soldiers were patroling an area in Bagram when the bomber on a bicycle detonated his explosives vest. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international investigation into attacks against Palestinians.
What monumental arrogance. Of course, he appreciates that no one in the 'International Community' will be interested in an investigation into the murder of Israeli teenagers. [retch]
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John McCain states John Kerry should visit Israel to promote enhanced calm or something
[Ynet] Move comes after more than 70 rockets were reportedly fired at south; Iron Dome intercepts 12 rockets; Israel instructs southern residents to remain near shelters, as Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, takes responsibility for rocket fire.
The IDF on Monday night anounced the start of a military operation in Gazoo aimed at halting the rocket fire that has increasingly plagued Israel's southern communities in recent days.
The "IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in Gazoo against Hamas, in order to stop the terror Israel's citizens face on a daily basis," said the IDF Spokesman's office in a tweet posted after 1am.
More than 30 rockets were fired towards communities in southern Israel in the span of 30 minutes on Monday, and more than 70 were reportedly fired throughout the day. One Israeli was injured by shrapnel in Ashdod. The heavy barrage was launched from Gazoo, at the same time as the funeral procession for the six Hamas members killed in a tunnel kaboom Sunday night.
Hamas grabbed credit for the heavy rocket fire, as Code Red sirens blared across the south, in towns and cities including Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod, Netivot, and Be'er Sheva. The Iron Dome missile defense system shot down a total of 12 rockets over Netivot and Ashdod.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior ministers held a three-hour Security Cabinet meeting Monday afternoon to discuss the option of an escalation with Gazoo, and decided that for the time being Israel will act carefully, but also steadily increase military retaliation to rockets from the Gazoo Strip.
As tensions continued to escalate throughout the day, a senior military source said that the IDF had called up "some 1,500 reservists who will arrive in waves. Most of them are commanders and part of the home front command."
The heavy rocket barrage led to a suspension of rail service in southern Israel. Residents of towns in southern Israel close to the Gazoo Strip were also warned to stay 15 seconds from bomb shelters at all times.
It was also cleared for publication Monday that Iron Dome missile defense batteries had been deployed in strategic positions throughout Israel.
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Iran denies supplying rockets to the Palestinians, but does anyone believe them? (Kind of like our Prez, at some point you just stop believing anything he says).
[Ynet] Leader from Abnaa el-Balad movement is suspected of incitement to violence and organizing recent rioting in wake of Arab teen's murder.
Police nabbed You have the right to remain silent... one of the leaders of the Abnaa el-Balad movement on Monday on suspicions of incitement, organization and involvement in protests and riots in Umm al-Fahm and other places.
He is suspected of organizing solidarity rallies with the Paleostinian people in Wadi Ara over the weekend, as well as a protest two weeks ago during which participants called for the kidnapping of soldiers.
The suspect, who will be brought in front of a judge at the Haifa Magistrate's Court for a remand extension on Tuesday, told Ynet on Sunday: "We're planning a protest this coming Friday in Nazareth in solidarity with the Paleostinian people, and in protest of the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir from Shuafat." Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam, however, said there won't be a protest in the city.
The suspect is a political activist well known in the Arab sector, and a member of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel.
Abnaa el-Balad is a movement that includes mainly Israeli-Arab members, that believes in the right of return for Paleostinians and in a binational state for Jews and Arabs from the sea to the Jordan River.
Sources close to the suspect told Ynet: "Large police forces arrived at his home and arrested him. We understand he's being suspected of incitement. The police's behavior towards him is disgusting and we hope he is freed soon. If he isn't - the anger will grow and the protests will continue."
Police said the suspect was arrested on suspicion of involvement in riots and forbidden gathering over the past week in Wadi Ara. "After we receive the authorization of the attorney general, the suspect will be investigated on suspicion of incitement as well."
This is the first time a central Israeli-Arab leader is arrested. So far, police arrested protesters and focused on attempts to restoring the peace, urging mayors, sheiks and local leaders to help quell the rioting.
Northern District police will bring on Monday some 50 suspects arrested during rioting in the past 24 in front of a judge for a remand extension at Nazareth courts. Among those arrested were close to 20 minors.
[Ynet] Military source says six Paleostinians killed in tunnel kaboom were Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members planning 'significant' operation, who 'touched the explosives' and they detonated.
A senior IDF official said Monday evening that the six Hamas men killed in an kaboom Sunday night in a Gazoo had come into contact with kabooms, and hinted that the explosives had been placed there days earlier by the Israeli military.
The senior source said that the six Paleostinians were Hamas members "who were in the tunnel with explosives" and that "the tunnel was intended for a significant terror attack with specialist infrastructure and an anti-soldier force."
"The operation against the tunnel was undertaken several days ago," source said, "the Hamas members touched the explosives ... and it caused the tunnel's kaboom." One side of the tunnel, he said, opened in Israeli territory close to the southern Gazoo Strip.
According to the source, the IDF will continue to attack similar targets in the coming days.
The Israeli Air Force attacked concealed rocket launching pads in the Gazoo Strip, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit announced Monday. A "direct hit was identified" the military announced at the end of the Arclight airstrike.
Paleostinian media sources reported that a 4-year-old boy was moderately injured in the attack. Earlier Monday a rocket went kaboom! in a community within the Eshkol Regional Council, damaging a chicken coop; there were no injuries.
The IDF airdropped leaflets from the sky in which they warned Gazoo residents against supporting bad boys: "The people who dig tunnels are a danger to you, your children, and your property. Do not sit idly by."
The leaflets contain a telephone number and email address to which the local population can send any information about terror tunnels.
[Ynet] BEIRUT - Syrian troops were advancing inside Aleppo on Monday in what appears to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the country's largest city, activists said.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that reinforcements, including elite government forces and allies from Leb's Hezbollah group, arrived in the city recently.
Abdurrahman and an activist based near Aleppo who goes by the name of Abu al-Hassan said Monday's fighting is concentrating near an army base that rebels captured two years ago.
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Prolly safe to say that both Jordan + Iraq are next on the ISIS/ISIL's list for annexation to the Caliphate.
Question is will likely Globalist-desired, future OWG Co-Superpower RISING IRAN tolerate such a move by a potential regional + geopol rival that is Sunni + also NOT-SAUDI-ARABIA???
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OOOOPPPSSSSS, forgot to mention that Twitterheads on DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS are repor that lotsa Rockets have been fired into the KSA from the Iraq side of their common border, albeit another Twitteratti claims the rockets were actually fired into Yemen???
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This all seems to be kicking off. I expect the locals to take it as a sign that it's ok for them to rise up as well, that's OK, nearer to bitch-slap heaven for them, I say.
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[Gulf News] India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition seeking to ban Sharia courts, but stressed that they had no legal power over Mohammedans and that their decisions could not be enforced.
India's 150 million Mohammedans follow their own laws governing family life and other personal issues such as marriage and divorce, with Sharia courts often ruling on such matters and offering a mediatory role during disagreements.
The top court said that Islamic judges, who interpret religious law, could only rule when individuals submitted voluntarily to them and their decisions, or fatwas. The fatwas were not legally binding either, the court ruled.
"Sharia courts are not sanctioned by law and there is no legality of fatwas in this country," C.K. Prasad said on Monday as he read out the judgement from a two-judge bench.
The different personal laws followed by India's religious minorities are a sensitive political issue. The new Hindu nationalist government is committed to bringing in a common legal code for all.
Vishwa Lochan Madan, who petitioned the Supreme Court to disband Sharia courts, told AFP on Monday that his demand had been rejected. "The Supreme Court observed that Sharia courts have no legal sanctity. But if people still want to approach these courts, it's their will," he said.
He filed his petition in 2005 and cited a case in which a woman was told to leave her husband and children and live with her father-in-law who had raped her. "No religion is allowed to curb anyone's fundamental rights," the court added in its judgement while taking note of the case.
Qasim Rasool Niyazi, from the Mohammedan Personal Law Board, said the Supreme Court ruling vindicated his group's contention that Sharia courts were not a parallel judiciary.
They issue notices which are not legally binding, he explained. "It is just like an arbitration," he told the NDTV news channel, adding that qadis (Islamic judges) were required to follow the law of the land.
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[Gulf News] A man was sentenced to one month in prison followed by deportation after he was apprehended for wearing women's accessories and makeup in Bahrain.
The expatriate Arab was nabbed Please don't kill me! by a police patrol as he was walking "in a feminine way" in the Bahraini capital Manama and attracted the attention of the servicemen.
He said that he worked in a women's beauty salon and that his profession demanded that he always looked elegant and wore the latest fashion accessories to set a positive example for his clients.
The public prosecution was not convinced by the arguments and charged him with encouraging debauchery. He was subsequently referred to a court that ruled to keep him in jail for one month.
Cross-dressing is banned in Bahrain and in the other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, 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 UAE.
Foreigners who are apprehended for their "unacceptable looks" in public are often tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for a short period before they are sent home.
Local conservatives have regularly called for tougher measures against cross-dressers and gays, accusing them of spreading vice, particularly among young people.
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[CHANNELSTV] A combined team of security operatives, in the early hours of Sunday, have killed a suspected 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... kingpin and his brother in Kinkinau area of Kaduna South Local Government of Kaduna State.
Reports say soldiers traced the house of the suspect in Kinkinua GRA, Imgwan Mu'azu, and shot the man whose name was given as Usman.
Eyewitness account said that the soldiers broke through the wall to gain access into the house, got his family out, and engaged him in a shootout for about three hours before overwhelming him and his brother.
The district head of Ungwan Muazu and Cikasauron Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Idris, after visiting the scene, blamed landlords who let out their houses without confirming the character of their tenants for being responsible for the high rate of insurgency in the North.
He asked landlords and residents to be security-conscious and ascertain the identities of tenants in their houses.
It was also gathered that the agent who gave out the house to the suspect and the landlord of the house have been taken away by the security operatives.
A security source who would not want his name mentioned revealed that the suspected Boko Haram member fled from Maiduguri to settle in Kaduna, adding that the team of security operatives that stormed the area had been on the trail of the suspect and were provided with support by troops on ground.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] He could become the Willie Horton of the immigration crisis.
Milton Mateo Garcia, 28, was caught one year ago entering the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border and was deported back to his native Honduras.
But Mr. Garcia soon re-entered the U.S. illegally — federal authorities either don't know how, or they won't say. He settled with relatives in Philadelphia, where Mayor Michael Nutter had signed an executive order in April declaring it a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants.
Since then, it's the city's official policy to defy federal authorities seeking to deport illegal immigrants unless the person sought by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has been convicted of a violent felony. More than 100 communities nationwide have enacted similar policies, with the tacit blessing of the Obama administration.
Living and working in sanctuary, Mr. Garcia last month, according to police, approached a 26-year-old Philadelphia doctor who was walking to her home in the city's fashionable Rittenhouse Square neighborhood after a night out with friends. He is accused of forcing the woman into her apartment and raping her repeatedly.
Police said Mr. Garcia then stole the victim's cellphone and rode away on his bicycle. In perhaps not the smartest of moves, Mr. Garcia kept the victim's smartphone in his possession. Police said they found him, in part, by calling the phone and locating its signal.
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So has Mayor Michael Nutter been arrested as an accessory to Rape yet?
Seriously we need to hold these politicians personally responsible for the results of their 'sanctuary city' bullshit.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Authorities say an airline passenger was tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Michigan after being found with a knife inside the bottom lining of a shoe in his carry-on luggage.
The Transportation Security Administration says the knife was found Sunday during security screening at bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Metropolitan Airport in Romulus.
The TSA says the knife should have been placed in checked luggage.
Airport front man Brian Lassa line (LASS'-uh-leen) says the incident happened about 7:30 a.m. at the airport's North Terminal.
He says airport police arrested and then released the man while the Wayne County prosecutor's office decides on charges.
Lassaline says finding the knife in the man's carry-on luggage shows "the security screening process working as it should" and says the incident didn't present a threat to public safety.
Authorities haven't released the man's name.
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Can't take over a plane with a knife these days. Sure you might kill one, perhaps two people before you were beaten to death with carry on luggage but you could probably ramapage and kill one or two with a pen or set of keys if you were determined.
[CSMONITOR] Provisional results of Afghanistan's presidential runoff election have finally been released. But while the numbers show former World Bank official and finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai a winner in a landslide, his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , has been positioning himself for weeks to reject the outcome, complaining that he suspects electoral fraud and tampering by members of the independent election commission could have skewed the outcome.
Election results were delayed to allow for more auditing — something Mr. Abdullah welcomed — but in an interview on July 2 he also said that if fraudulent votes were winnowed out, the result would be "very different from what is perceived at this stage." At that time, Mr. Ghani was felt by many to be in the lead.
The results released today give Ghani just under 4.5 million votes, 56.4 percent of the total, with Abdullah's share 3.46 million, or about 43.6 percent.
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56% to 44%? That's a 'mandate' even Champ would envy!
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[An Nahar] The United States stuck to its position Monday that uniting Iraq's sectarian factions was the only way to repel advances by Sunni jihadists, despite the deepening dysfunction of the country's political system.
Washington is looking on with increasing dismay as political structures set up under the U.S. occupation are increasingly unable to fill a political vacuum exploited by Islamic State (IS) turbans who have seized vast tracts of the country.
On Monday, bickering in Baghdad led to the delay of a key parliamentary session to select a new government until August 12 -- likely meaning any fresh administration will not be in place until well after that.
Last week, Iraq's Kurds further rattled the political structure by confirming plans for an independence referendum, in a blow to hopes of a unified federal government.
The White House on Monday admitted it was disappointed in the developments, but did not see an alternative to its position that the only solution in Iraq was political.
White House front man Josh Earnest said that IS posed an "existential threat" to Iraq.
"To confront that threat, the country will need to be united," Earnest said.
"I don't think anybody's tried to minimize ... the difficulty of making these kinds of decisions and reaching these kinds of agreements.
"But to be blunt about it, reaching those agreements and making those difficult decisions are necessary for Iraq to survive."
Top U.S. officials have delivered a series of hints that they believe that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who they blame for exacerbating sectarian divisions with strongman rule, must step aside.
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[Al Ahram] The French and American presidents on Monday urged their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to pressure pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine to hold talks with Kiev, a Gay Paree statement said. Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and Barack Obama Because I won... spoke by telephone for 45 minutes and "called on President Putin to pressure the separatists so that they agree to a dialogue with the Ukrainian authorities and to reinforce control over the Russian-Ukrainian border," said a French presidency statement.
Obama and Hollande also called for a meeting "as quickly as possible with separatist elements, with the view to reaching a bilateral ceasefire," it said. "A durable solution to the crisis in Ukraine can only be a political one."
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The Narendra Modi government has asked the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to vacate the government bungalow housing its office in the heart of the Capital, in a sign of its toughening stand towards the UN mission.
The Indian Express has learnt that South Block has asked the UNMOGIP to vacate the bungalow — 1AB, Purana Qila Road — which has been serving as its office for the last four decades. The government accommodation — a Type VII bungalow, about 7,000 square feet — was allotted to the UN mission "free of charge".
Sources said in its recent communication to the UN, the government has conveyed that the UNMOGIP's role has been overtaken by the Simla Agreement and the consequent establishment of the Line of Control. New Delhi is of the view that the UNMOGIP has "no relevance or role to play whatsoever".
The UNMOGIP, established under a UN Security Council Resolution, was meant to supervise the ceasefire line established under the Karachi Agreement of July 1949.
The government's decision is being seen as a move to convey Delhi's desire to not engage with the UN mission in Delhi. "They should stay in Srinagar and do what they want. In case they want to be stationed in Delhi, they should hire premises in a private property and not occupy the government accommodation," said a senior official requesting anonymity.
When contacted, UNMOGIP's Military Information Officer Major Tomas Malm, who is based in Srinagar, confirmed that the government has asked them to vacate the premises. "UNMOGIP's response is to relocate to another location in Delhi," he said. Asked if they have been told the reason for this directive, he said, "The Indian authorities' reason is unknown to UNMOGIP."
Asked if the move reflected New Delhi's stand towards UNMOGIP, he said, "You have to ask the Indian government regarding their attitude towards us".
According to a source familiar with the arrangement between South Block and UNMOGIP, the bunglow "was allotted to the UNMOGIP as part of a gentleman's agreement between Indian officials and the UN mission over 40 years ago. It was meant to be a short-term arrangement, and the UNMOGIP officials were supposed to move to a private hired accommodation. But that never happened."
Even as South Block officials are yet to get the property vacated, the Ministry of External Affairs' finance department has told them that it will not be able to provide budgetary support for such "goodwill gestures".
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[DAWN] Federal Information Minister Pervez Rasheed said on Monday that the military operation against Lions of Islam in North Wazoo tribal agency was launched after the complete failure of peace talks between the government and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
Talking to a private television channel the information minister said that the economy of Pakistain was improving and would not be affected by the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb operation.
Rasheed said that due to the strategy adopted by the government there had been a decline in terrorist activity in the country and added that the Pakistain Army was conducting its operation with success and would continue till the elimination of last terrorist in the region.
"The residents of areas under Taliban control were not able to run their businesses nor send their children to schools. They could not even vaccinate their children against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... ," added the information minister.
Rasheed admitted that internally displace persons (IDPs) living in camps had to face hardships as there could not be any alternate to their peaceful abode.
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[An Nahar] Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Monday 28 people with belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , the state-run National News Agency reported.
The NNA said that seven suspects are already in jug. They were detained in security raids on hotels. The 28 felons are charged with belonging to ISIL, planning to carry out suicide kabooms by using boom belts and preparing explosive-rigged vehicles.
They are also accused of buying detonators, explosives, boom belts and weapons and training jacket wallahs to carry out terrorist acts in residential areas in the capital Beirut.
The case was referred to First Military Examining Magistrate Riad Abou Ghida.
Earlier in June, security forces raided the Napoleon Hotel in Beirut's Hamra district after obtaining information on a plot to target hospitals and high-ranking security officials.
Over 100 people were interrogated during the security raid but only a Frenchie who is originally from the Comoros islands was enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and has reportedly confessed to being sent by the ISIL to carry out a terrorist attack in Leb.
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A federal judge has cracked down on the travel and computer activities of a Dearborn cleric popular worldwide with ISIS, the extremist militant group that announced last week the formation of an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen ordered that Ahmad Jebril, 43, stay within the eastern half of Michigan and tell his probation officer about his activity on social media accounts, if requested.
Jebril, who is on probation until March after serving 6˝ years in prison on fraud convictions, has become the most popular religious figure for Western fighters flocking to Syria to battle its government and continues to gain fans online who sympathize with ISIS, the group that now calls itself the Islamic State.
The probation report, filed the week after a Free Press report detailed how Jebril is popular with Western fighters with the militant group ISIS, also noted that Jebril told his probation officer he was going to Raleigh, N.C., on Nov. 21-23, 2013, for a short vacation to visit friends.
But the probation officer found out he was instead visiting to speak about Islam at East Carolina University, North Carolina State University and the Islamic Association of Raleigh. The officer said Jebril was unable to prove who paid for his trips.
In April, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London said in a report that Jebril has become the most popular cleric for Western fighters in Syria who belong to ISIS now known as the Islamic State or another radical group, Jabhat al-Nusrah, which is based in Syria.
Jebril was released from prison in 2012 after serving time for several counts of fraud worth almost $400,000; his offenses included trashing his rental properties in metro Detroit in order to collect insurance money and trying to bribe a juror.
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[Gulf News] A crucial parliament session kickstarting the government formation process was delayed and an Iraqi general was killed on Monday as solutions to the country's worst crisis in years appeared increasingly distant.
The developments highlighted bickering among politicians despite calls for unity to see off an offensive by murderous Moslems that has overrun swathes of territory and which the security forces have struggled to repel.
The swift advance has displaced hundreds of thousands, alarmed the international community and heaped pressure on incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki as he bids for a third term in office.
But the government formation process, which international leaders and top holy mans have urged be expedited, was dealt a blow when a parliament session scheduled for Tuesday was postponed due to persistent disunity.
Multiple officials and a politician, all speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the meeting had been rescheduled for August 12 because MPs could not agree on a new speaker.
More than two months after elections in which Al Maliki's camp won the most seats, though not a majority, parliament has yet to begin the process of choosing the country's top three positions, which according to an unofficial deal are split between the Shiite Arab, Sunni Arab and Kurdish communities.
A session last week ended in chaos, with MPs trading heckles and threats before some of them eventually walked out, forcing an adjournment, with the UN's special envoy warning that further delays risked plunging the country into "Syria-like chaos".
Despite telling AFP in a 2011 interview he would not seek a third term, Al Maliki vowed last week he would not bow to mounting international and domestic pressure to step aside and allow a broader consensus.
Iraqi forces have largely regrouped after the debacle that saw soldiers abandon their positions and, in some cases, even weapons and uniforms as murderous Moslems led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (Isil) group conquered second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and advanced to within about 80km of Baghdad.
But while Iraq has received equipment, intelligence and ground help from the United States, Russia, Iran and even Shiite militias it once shunned, languishing government efforts to push back the turbans were dealt a blow by the killing of a senior general on Monday.
Major General Najm Abdullah Al Sudani, the commander of the army's 6th division, "was killed by hostile shelling in Ebrahim Bin Ali," Lieutenant General Qasim Atta told AFP by text message.
Ebrahim Bin Ali is in the Abu Ghraib area, just west of Baghdad, near where security forces have been locked in a months-long standoff with murderous Moslems who have seized control of the city of Fallujah.
Security forces have for more than a week also attempted to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isil fighters, other holy warrior groups and former Saddam Hussain loyalists but have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough.
Iraqi forces have been hamstrung by a lack of combat experience and dearth of intelligence in Sunni areas, due largely to distrust of the Shiite-led authorities among minority Sunni Arabs, analysts say.
"The army and the police are seen as sectarian... and therefore the Sunni community doesn't provide support or, crucially, intelligence to the security forces," said John Drake of the AKE Group security company.
"If you don't have good intelligence on the ground, your strikes are not precise, they involve collateral damage and casualties ... making everything worse."
While most observers have argued Baghdad was not about to fall, violence and suicide kabooms have continued.
The latest struck a cafe in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in western Baghdad Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 12, officials said.
An Isil-linked Twitter account posted on Monday a picture purported to be of the jacket wallah, apparently a Lebanese national, posing in front of the black flag of the turbans before his operation, holding a sword and surrounded by assault rifles and rocket launchers.
The authenticity of the image could not immediately be verified.
And while government forces were still looking for a major victory, Isil jihadists appeared to be brimming with confidence.
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[Gulf News] Visiting troops on the front lines in North Wazoo tribal region Monday, Pakistain army chief General Raheel Sharif "once again emphasised on the officers and men to eliminate all local and foreign murderous Moslems and their sanctuaries".
According to a blurb issued by the military's public relations wing, the army chief talked to "valiant troops in the middle of operation in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... ," the main town in North Waziristan.
Alluding to the end objective, he affirmed that murderous Moslems "will be chased and hunted down across the country till their final elimination."
He lauded the troops for their "courage, dedication and high state of morale" and expressed his satisfaction over the progress achieved so far since the start of the operation on June 15
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) commended the entire chain of command for their determined efforts in planning, preparation, mobilisation and execution of the operation.
"He acknowledged and appreciated the support of the entire nation and avowed that Inshallah (God willing) with unflinching national resolve and clear direction, we will accomplish our mission and rid Pakistain of the scourge of terrorism," the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
General Raheel Sharif especially paid tribute to Shuhada (soldiers killed in battle) and those maimed.
Paying tribute to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) for their sacrifices to restore writ of the state, he acknowledged the national spirit and support for them from across the country.
The general reaffirmed that the army will not abandon tribal brethren in their hour of need and all possible assistance will be rendered to the government and various organizations in bringing maximum relief to IDPs.
The COAS also assured of the army's role in rebuilding and restoring normality in the restive North Waziristan region after the completion of the operation.
According to the latest official report 572,529 IDPs have been registered since the evacuation of the civilian population from North Waziristan began after the launch of the operation.
Camps for the IDPs have been set up in neighbouring Bannu district and other places in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, where Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... 's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) party runs the regional government.
Khan, speaking to tribal elders during a visit to Bannu on Sunday, urged the Pakistain army to allow foreign aid agencies to do relief work for the displaced families.
The PTI leader said the required no-objection certificates should be immediately issued to NGOs so that they could bring relief goods from abroad.
Khan said he along with the provincial chief minister would talks to the army chief to permit donor agencies' access to IDPs.
In an interview to BBC, Khan described the events of the last few weeks as an "unfolding human tragedy" and emphasised that without NGOs assistance his party's government in the region would not be able to cope with the situation.
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[Al Ahram] Tunisians have shown a wave of cynicism on Twitter over the government's decision to impose taxes on marriage. Social media activists believe the decision will only increase the reluctance of young people to marry.
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In the past few years Tunisia has been exposed to high rates of spinsterhood due to poor economic conditions.
According to the new budget law, a new tax is to be imposed worth 30 Tunisian dinars (TNDs). The tax imposed on marriage is among many other taxes aimed at reducing the budget deficit.
An official report revealed a high rate of spinsterhood in the country. The rate has increased to reach 60 percent this year.
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[Al Ahram] Bahrain's foreign ministry said Monday that US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Tom Malinowski, is "unwelcome" in the Sunni-ruled kingdom and should "leave immediately." The ministry accused Malinowski of "meddling in Bahrain's internal affairs" by meeting "with a particular party to the detriment of other interlocutors", in an apparent reference to the Shia-led opposition, according to a statement carried by BNA state news agency.
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[Yemen Post] Suspected Al Qaeda snuffies killed six troops when they ambushed their vehicle in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , three Interior Ministry said. The snuffies escaped unharmed in two pick up vehicles.
Last week, al-Qaeda launched a carefully planned attack against Seyun airport, seemingly quite determined to seize control of the ground to better a foothold in the city. It is important to note that it is not the first time al-Qaeda has targeted Seyun with such force.
Back in May, the terror group left a dozen soldiers dead after its men balsted their way into a military outpost. The second largest city of Hadhramawt, Seyun offers much geo-strategic importance, as its control would allow Islamic faceless myrmidons to direct attacks against Yemen's oil industry and thus suffocate the state.
Recalling the assault, a security officer said, "They bumped off three soldiers at the entrance to Seyun airport in south-eastern Hadhramawt province, which is also used by the air force, before capturing the control tower and other parts of the facility."
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[SUNTIMES] Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.
Marina Davitashvili said Shevardnadze died after a long illness. She did not say where he died.
Shevardnadze swept heroically across the international stage in the final years of the Soviet empire, helping topple the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, but as the leader of post-Soviet Georgia his career in the public eye ended in humiliation and he was chased out of his parliament and forced into retirement..
As Soviet foreign minister, the white-haired man with a gravelly voice was the diplomatic face of Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika. Following the wooden Andrei Gromyko, Shevardnadze impressed Western leaders with his charisma, his quick wit and his commitment to Gorbachev's reform course.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A spokesperson for banned Tunisian terrorist organization Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which in Tunisia has declared fealty to ISIL. There are groups of the same name in Libya and Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... on Friday (July 4th) declared fealty to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Tunisie Numerique reported Speaking at the Okba Ibn Nafaa mosque in Kairouan, Seifeddine Rais also called for followers to "liberate" tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! members of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia..
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Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of magic and love.
[Iran Press TV] Heavy festivities have reportedly erupted between Houthis and Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... Lions of Islam in northern Yemen.
On Monday, the festivities took place between the Shia fighters and a myrmidon group on the outskirts of Amran city.
The Takfiri Lions of Islam also attacked houses of civilians by mortar shells in a village located north of Amran.
Footage of the attack also shows direct shootings at civilians in the village.
On Saturday, local officials said that Yemeni air force fighter jets bombed Shia 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" ... positions around Amran, adding that "a large number of casualties" were caused in the violence.
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[Iran Press TV] Foreign-backed holy warriors fighting against the Syrian government say they have received the second batch of US-made anti-tank missiles.
The Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... holy warriors have reportedly received TOW anti-tank rockets in the strategic Qalamoun region.
The Saudi daily Akkaz has confirmed the report.
On April 15, an unnamed Lion of Islam source said that members of the Hazm movement "have for the first time received more than 20 TOW anti-tank missiles from a Western source."
"More have been promised, should it be proven that the missiles are being used in an effective way," the source said.
Online videos showed holy warriors using the American-built weapons in the same month.
The foreign-backed holy warriors are said to have been trained with "international assistance in the use of these missiles" which have been used in flashpoint areas of Syria's Idlib, Aleppo and Latakia provinces.
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Although I'm quite certain that proper precautions have been taken I still have to wonder how long it will be before these arms end up in the hands of ISIL jihadis in Iraq?
Eight members of a communist militant group have surrendered to the military in the southern Philippines.
Army Capt. Alberto Caber said among those who surrendered were two women. He said the group surrendered on June 6 to the 27th Infantry Battalion in in South Cotabato province. He identified those who yielded to the army as Ruben Dalisan, Ruben Timbang, Torib Tuan, Dicky Tuan, Banas Sodaw, Jomer Dalisan, Jemma Dalisan and Finish Timbang.
Caber said the villagers had been exploited by the NPA. He said, "They were deceived and exploited. The NPA and the Communist Party of the Philippines use these people in anti-government rallies, extortion activities, and as support role in the conduct of atrocities and other criminal activities."
He said some 450 members of the group had surrendered to the Eastern Mindanao Command this year.
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian security sources say they have defused a boom-mobile abandoned near a school in the volatile northeastern city of Gombe.
On Monday, bomb experts detected improvised explosives in the car that was found near a secondary school, said Fwaje Attajiri, a police front man.
"Our ordnance experts discovered 12 IEDs (improvised bombs) in the trunk of the car left in the vicinity of the school after we were alerted," Attajiri noted.
"The explosives had the capacity of causing maximum damage and would have caused huge casualty had they detonated in the school with a high student population."
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I was going to say, 'Did they detect it by the loud noise it made?'
Twelve bombs in one car is kinda dumb; you really want to spread them out to get better blast and frag dispersion. (And then there's the 'fratricide' grouping issue...)
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese army said on Monday that it has placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! several people, including foreigners, on suspicion of involvement in attacks and "security activities" in the northern city 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... Five suspects were arrested for tossing hand grenades at restaurants and for threatening citizens, the military command said in a communqiue.
The army also apprehended a Sudanese and a Tunisian for residing illegally in the country, They are "suspected of involvement in activities that threaten security," it said.
The seven men are being questioned under the supervision of the judiciary, the communique added.
The state-run National News Agency said an unknown assailant tossed a percussion grenade near cafes in al-Qobbeh area at noon Monday.
Security forces opened an investigation into the attack, it said.
Several hand grenade attacks rattled Tripoli last week. One of them involved an assault on a cafe, which left four people injured.
The city has been witnessing relative calm since security forces and the army began implementing a plan in April to end deadly gunbattles between rival neighborhoods.
Clashes between Bab al-Tabbaneh, whose residents are Sunnis, and mainly Alawite Jabal Mohsen have left scores of people dead and injured.
The fighting was a direct spillover of the civil war in Syria where Sunni rebels are fighting Alawite Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's troops.
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Investigations are under way as it was not immediately clear if the killing was criminal or political.
Since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last summer, a Lion of Islam insurgency by Sinai-based fighters has gathered pace, killing hundreds — mostly coppers and troops in bombings and shootings.
The violence has more recently spilled over into the capital Cairo and the Nile Delta.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said on Sunday a referendum on the independence of Iraq's Kurdish region would lead to a "catastrophic" break up of the country, which is facing an onslaught by Sunni Islamist holy warriors.
The comments from Sisi, leader of the most populous Arab nation, indicate a growing fear in the region that the division of Iraq could further empower the turbans who have declared a "caliphate" on land seized in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
"The referendum that the Kurds are asking for now is in reality no more than the start of a catastrophic division of Iraq into smaller rival states," Egypt's MENA news agency quoted Sisi as saying during a meeting with local journalists.
The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north, Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , asked the region's parliament on Thursday to prepare the way for a referendum on independence.
Iraq's five million Kurds, who have ruled themselves in relative peace since the 1990s, have expanded their territory by up to 40 percent in recent weeks as the Sunni Islamist bully boyz seized vast stretches of western and northern Iraq.
Egypt, a traditionally regional diplomatic heavy weight, has been embroiled in domestic turmoil for three years since a 2011 uprising ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... Sisi said he warned the United States and Europe about the ambitions of the Islamic State holy warriors, which have shortened their name from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
"ISIL had a plan to take over Egypt," Sisi said. "I had warned the United States and Europe from providing any aid to them and told them they will come out of Syria to target Iraq then Jordan then 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... ."
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[Al Ahram] La Belle France's defence minister warned Monday that violence in the Central African Republic was becoming "more serious" as he started a visit to the former French colony, amid reports of more deadly festivities.
Jean-Yves Le Drian said political efforts to end the bloody conflict have stalled despite the election of a new leader six months ago, and the deadlock has further inflamed tensions between Christians and Mohammedans.
"The settlement to all this can only be political, yet politics have broken down," he told AFP before arriving in the capital Bangui on Monday.
Central Africa's transitional president Catherine Samba Panza took power in February in a bid to end the deadly sectarian violence, which erupted when the mainly MohammedanSeleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... alliance seized power in a March 2013 coup.
Brutal attacks by rogue former Seleka splinter groups prompted the mostly Christian majority to form "anti-balaka" ("anti-machete") vigilante militias, unleashing a wave of tit-for-tat killings.
Several people died in sectarian festivities between the rival groups in the central town of Dekoa on Sunday, a policeman told AFP on condition of anonymity.
In the north, at least three people were killed by gunnies who rode into the village of Kouki on cycle of violences and shot at residents, said a source in peacekeeping forces.
Some 34 Mohammedans were also injured, four of them critically, by a grenade attack on a mosque during Ramadan prayers in a village near the Chad border, the MISCA source added.
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[An Nahar] Retreating pro-Russian turbans dug in on Monday in Ukraine's sprawling industrial hub of Donetsk after government forces scored a string of morale-boosting victories in the bloody battle for the future of the ex-Soviet state.
The eastern home of one million mostly Russian speakers has been flooded with convoys carrying hundreds of fighters and scores of anti-aircraft guns from five smaller surrounding cities where Ukrainian flags were flying for the first time in three months.
The rebels erected checkpoints along the main roads leading into Donetsk while the center of the riverbank city itself saw several restaurants and shops shutter their doors.
And two rail bridges were blown up just north and east of the city -- adding to another link damaged on Friday as part of a seeming campaign to help barricade Donetsk. Pictures showed a cargo train balancing perilously over a highway and one of the broken spans sagging under its weight.
The separatists' "tactical retreat" began on Saturday with the fall of their symbolic bastion Slavyansk and continued until government forces had reached the very gates of the region's main metropolis.
Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council deputy head Mykhailo Koval said on Monday that soldiers now intended to complete a "full blockade" of Donetsk and the neighboring stronghold of Lugansk -- both capitals of their own "People's Republics".
Koval said their containment would be followed by "corresponding measures that will force the separatists, the bandidos to lay down their arms."
His carefully-worded comments underscored the dilemma facing Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko as he seeks to fulfill his May 25 election promise to quickly end Ukraine's worst crisis since independence in 1991.
The conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 500 people and displaced tens of thousands across an economically-vital region that has long viewed the more nationalistic west of Ukraine and Kiev with a mixture of hostility and mistrust.
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[Tolo News] Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... 's running mate Mohammad Mohaqeq spoke with TOLOnews following the release of preliminary results from the runoff election Monday night. He said his team would not accept the results, which gave their opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai a sizable lead, unless their demands are honored and fraudulent votes are pulled from the count.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Monday the first installment of publicly released results from the June 14 runoff. The preliminary figures put Ashraf Ghani ahead by over one million votes, garnering about 56.4 percent of votes, while Abdullah trailed with 43.5 percent.
Mohaqeq warned that if their team denounces the results, so to will people in various provinces, and then the government and the election commission will be responsible for the consequences.
"We want to say to the people of Afghanistan that if our conditions aren't accepted and the assigned commission doesn't reach an outcome and our condition that invalid votes be distinguished from genuine votes is not accepted, we will not accept the results and consequences will follow and responsibility will be on the government, the rigging commission and rigging team," Mohaqeq said.
Abdullah's team has entered into talks with Ashraf Ghani's camp about de-escalating the tensions that have risen around this year's process since Abdullah accused top election officials and the Presidential Palace of engineering fraud. Although Abdullah remains officially estranged from the election commission's process, and asked for the preliminary results to be withheld until fraud complaints were resolved, election officials have pushed on for the most part according to schedule. The preliminary results were announced only four days later than originally scheduled.
The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is likely to be the last hope for the Abdullah team if they want to see fraud investigations impact the current results spread between them and their rivals. The ECC will recommend to the IEC how many votes should be invalidated before the final results are announced.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Mohaqeq expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about the ECC under the leadership of Abdul Sattar Saadat, who was appointed by President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... . "The designation of Sattar Saadat as head of Electoral Complaints Commission was a big mistake, Karzai must not designate the elements that break national unity, we are against his work at the concerned institution," Mohaqeq told TOLOnews.
In response, ECC Chief Saadat has maintained that he was appointed to his post by the members of the commission on the basis of the law and not on the demands of any particular individuals.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) also showed signs of concern with the announcement of preliminary results. "The election process must return to a normal routine before the preliminary results are announced and both candidates must be involved in the process," FEFA front man Fahim Naeemi said. "Efforts should be made to discard fake votes from genuine votes, preliminary results must not lead to fighting, because it would have devastating impact on Afghanistan."
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed bail plea of a local leader of the All Pakistain Moslem League, Sialkot, facing charges of killing eight members of a family.
The suspect, Bilal Gondal, in his petition stated the case registered against him was fake and politically motivated.
The prosecution told the court that the suspect killed eight members of a family, including an eight-month-old girl. It further said the suspect was also involved in dozens of criminal cases, including kidnap for ransom and murder.
The suspect had also hired tribal men to execute his criminal activities, it added.
Justice Abdul Sattar Asghar heard both sides and dismissed the bail petition.
Private security guards of Gondal offered resistance when Sialkot police tried to arrest the suspect after cancellation of his bail plea. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the police placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! him.
LHC security summoned Mozang police who also arrested the guards.
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Ernst Rohm died in NAZI 1934 -"Night of the Long Knives" - probably most famous Nazi homosexual. (Seinfeld: "Not that there is anything wrong with that.") /sarc off
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Being an American, I am, of course, completely ignorant of geography. But isn't there like an entire country between Central America and the United States?
Hard to believe a literal army of illegals could move that far without some very pointed looking the other way at a number of levels.
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the flood which is not expected to stop coming any time soon.
Why would it stop? Obama's been inviting them for years, and has yet to send the first one back.
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SteveS, the entire coyote program takes in money which includes the usual lubricant to pols in Mexico. The only stipulation is that the product keeps moving and those that do stay are for the use of locals (sex slaves et al). How do you think the cartels move product. Same mechanism.
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I am beginning to see the end game. Declare them refugees and decendants of the first citizens and create a Gaza strip for them. And we'll all just live happily ever after in a two-nation state.
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My guess is that most of the refugees are of Indian heritage. They've always been mistreated south of the border. In fact most of our illegals are from Mexico's Indian populations.
I think a number of governments are taking the opportunity to get rid of a population they aren't fond of, exporting their poor and hoping the poor will then send checks back home that will help their corrupt economies.
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According to Rush today, there is a law dating from the Clinton era that if an unaccompanied minor crosses into the USA and he's not from a bordering country, he can't be deported. e.g. Nicaragua. Is this true?
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The 2008 law during W's administration took aim at human trafficking. These kids could be sent back if they were not at risk. Whether they will be sent back is doubtful under Obama. His answer is to ask for $3.7B to hire lawyers for these kids. His end game is to force passage of amnesty by creating a problem. Right out of Alinsky.
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They were trying to get these guys into the military recently but the outcry shut that down, for the moment. When they can pull it off, the military no longer is America's, its Obama's.
[Tolo News] Three jacket wallahs attack an Afghan army bus carrying soldiers in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province near the airport injuring three soldiers, local officials said.
The incident took place on the road toward Herat airport when two of the three suicide bombers started shooting at the military bus while the third holy warrior detonated his explosive near the bus, said Afghan military commander in western Afghanistan.
The two suicide bombers who were firing at the bus expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Security forces are on the hunt for the holy warriors.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,holy warriors in Gazoo have fired 'dozens' of rockets into southern Israel after six of its men died in an Israeli Arclight airstrike, the Islamist group said.
The bombardment was confirmed by the Israeli army which said holy warriors had launched 'a few dozen rockets' within a short period of time.
The exchange of fire comes amid mounting tension around the Paleostinian enclave following the killing of a Paleostinian teenager, in what is widely believed to be a Dire Revenge™ attack for the earlier kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths by suspected Hamas myrmidons.
The Israeli army said the air force and the navy had struck around 50 "terror sites" overnight in a joint operation which had three aims -- returning calm to the south, "eliminating Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s capabilities and destroying the terror infrastructure" in Gazoo.
It also destroyed the homes of four forces of Evil from Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, it said were responsible for rocket fire.
Since June 12, when the current round of tit-for-tat violence began, Gazooforces of Evil have fired more than 320 rockets over the border, with 250 of them hitting Israeli territory and another 40 intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.
So far there have been no Israelis killed.
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A ranger was killed and three other security force members wounded in attacks in Pattani and Yala provinces on Monday. Police said a regular soldier and a volunteer ranger were seriously injured when a bomb exploded at a school in Pattani's Sai Buri district. They were members of a unit providing security for teachers at the school.
In Yala, a ranger was killed and another slightly injured when their patrol was ambushed by terrorists militants in Thanto district.
A foot patrol was attacked while providing security for teachers along the Thanto - Puyut road. Terrorists Militants hiding on both sides of the road detonated a land mine and then opened fire at the rangers in an ambush. The soldiers returned fire and the terrorists militants withdrew after a 15-minute gun battle.
The incidents occurred as Gen Udomdet Sitabutr, the deputy army chief and secretary-general of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and officials of the National Security Council (NSC) flew south to Yala on Monday morning. Gen Udomdet said this was his first visit to the far South since Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, chief of the military junta, last month assigned him to chair a new panel to implement government policies in the region. He said Gen Prayuth wanted improved cooperation between different security agencies in the deep South.
[MAGHAREBIA] A radical Tunisia holy man who refused to officiate at a slain soldier's funeral will appear in court on Monday (July 7th) on charges of public defamation, AFP reported.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday fired Moncef Gharsallah, the imam of the Ben Guerdane mosque, for refusing to perform the funeral prayer for "one of our deaders", the ministry said in a statement.
According to witness Radhouane Azlouk, the imam said: "I won't pray for the taghout." The imam was evacuated by police after an angry mob tried to attack him.
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The three Haredi schoolboys were not the first to be kidnapped and killed.
[IsraelTimes] A taxi driver from the Galilee village of I'billin was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! last month in connection with the death of Shelly Dadon, 20, with officials saying the slaying was likely nationalistically motivated, police said Sunday.
Yusef Hussein Halifa was tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on June 16. Halifa, 36, admitted he drove Dadon on May 1 to the Migdal Haemek industrial center, where she was headed to a job interview, and later stabbed her to death.
The motive has yet to be determined, but police and the Shin Bet assess the killing was likely nationalistically motivated.
According to Halifa, after disposing of the body in a parking lot, he threw out Dadon's cellphone and the weapon and cleaned the bloodstains from his car. After escaping the scene of the crime, Hussein disposed of her wallet near Beit Zarzir.
Dadon was stabbed 17 times, the Ynet news site reported.
Officials initially said they believed the killing was nationalistically motivated, but later walked back the statements, saying only that they were still searching for a motive. Dadon's parents insisted on June 30 that the attack was nationalistically motivated, and called on the police to publicly declare it as such.
"My daughter's murder was nationalistically motivated, and I won't accept anything else," Yaakov Dadon said of his daughter Shelley during a press conference at the family's Afula home. "[She was] a girl who never hurt anyone, and now the entire family is broken."
In mid-June, a gag order on the murder investigation was partially lifted, revealing that six Israeli-Arab suspects — some of them minors — were arrested in connection with the case and later released. While the interrogations yielded no developments, the investigation then found a separate lead, but information about it remained under a court order.
In May, Aharonovitch said Dadon's murder may have been criminally motivated and not a terror attack as previously suspected. Aharonovitch said that it was not clear if Dadon had been killed in a act of terror because she was a Jew. He added that the investigation was still ongoing.
The six detainees who were released denied their involvement in the killing after being arrested on May 4. One of the minors was released on May 15; two days later the remaining suspects were freed, the Haaretz newapaper reported.
The murder ignited passions in Afula, where a protest calling to stiffen penalties against murderers drew over 2,000 people.
Hussein Khalifa had previously been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for brutally attacking a bailiff; residents of his village call him a difficult man with a history of violence.
Sell some antiquities into the black market, as they've been doing in Syria to raise funds, destroy others as an offense against Islam, like the Taliban did the Bamiyan Buddhas when they ruled Afghanistan, and the House of Saud has been doing for decades to Muslim shrines and buildings in the various places the Prophet Mohammed lived. The taqfiris allow no evidence of history that contradicts their claims.
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FREEREPUBLIC Artic says they have destroyed the tomb of Jonah [Younas].
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Time to start planning to hide the contents of the Iraq Museum again before the rabid Sunnis get control of Baghdad. Good luck with that. Insecure heathens.
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Maybe they can get the Iranians to protect some of the Shiite treasures - after all, that Maliki's new bedtime partner. Other religions - well, I hope they've been photographed.
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[DAWN] THE fundamentals of the Constitution are clear. Policies will be formed by the elected civilian government, laws will be made by an elected parliament, and the same laws will be interpreted by the judiciary. Lacunae in foreign, internal and external security policy and in state departments will be dealt with by the government, which must also oversee its citizens' economic wellbeing, the equitable distribution of power and fair implementation of the rule of law.
Failure to do so because of vested interests and inefficiency would be a failure of the state itself.
It is against this backdrop that we must view extremist violence resorted to by militias representing a particular type of religious interpretation. Their formation divests people of their share in the social contract outlined in the Constitution
Militias, whether they strike against the state itself or against other states, negate the principles of the social contract. Complaints against the state can be addressed through mechanisms designed to bring about amendments to the social contract or to implement the latter. The government has a monopoly on power, for a specified tenure under the Constitution. It has at its disposal institutions that can act on behalf of the people to counter internal and external forces that jeopardise public security.
Civil society is the major stakeholder in the social contract, comprising as it does professional groups, trade unions, academia, non-profit organisations and political parties. It must resist and stand up to any violation of constitutional basics. That is its right and responsibility.
Any decrease in instances of violation of basic rights is seen as directly proportional to an increased level of vigilance and the adoption of due process by civil society. In fact, such checks help raise the level of trust that ordinary people have in the state. This in turn helps the state move towards a better future for its people.
On the basis of this, lobbying for bringing peripheries into the mainstream and advocating equity in the distribution of power and resources is a prime responsibility of civil society. And one place where such change is necessary is Fata, whose administrative, political and economic structure is more than simply anachronistic — the area has become a breeding ground for militias and for organised crime to thrive in.
Militias and crime cartels are manned by both Pakistanis and non-Pakistanis. They have developed a lethal nexus with sectarian groups and international jihadists in and around Pakistan to embark upon a three-pronged strategy to disrupt the social contract of the state.
First, they have perpetrated terror to instil fear in civil society and to convince the people that their social contract with the state is not worth their trust. Second, these networks and cartels have disrupted the governance machinery, putting pressure on the state in an attempt to bankrupt it and isolate it from countries in the neighbourhood and beyond. Third, the network has achieved some success in developing ideological, political and financial constituencies among certain elements, groups and areas.
Those that have stakes in fomenting extremist violence, supported by crime cartels, aid the overall terror network by extending a helping hand to each other when the state uses force prescribed by the Constitution to disrupt the terrorism structure.
What they are capable of is well known. They spread irrational propaganda to misguide the common people, often resorting to their own print and electronic media resources to reach as many people as possible to put pressure on the state. Additionally, they mobilise their 'welfare' wings to create a trust deficit between the state and its citizens. By winning the people's trust, the terror network finds the space to melt away, re-organise and reshape its anti-state strategies.
This can best be observed in the current military operation in North Waziristan. The humanitarian tragedy, in the shape of thousands of IDPs, could have been easily managed. The space that 'welfare' wings of militant groups achieved could easily have been denied to them with a little hard work and some coordination among civilian relief departments.
The Fata Disaster Management Authority and KP's Provincial Disaster Management Authority should have coordinated their efforts, and a workable liaison among various departments of the KP government would also have been welcome under the circumstances.
A system of coordination could have easily been developed among the local Bannu administration, KP's social welfare department and local civil society groups to minimise IDP suffering. One can see that those espousing extremist violence want to push matters to a stage where the federal government and military come under immense pressure to halt the much-needed operation in North Waziristan.
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[360NOBS] Chibok indigenes have alerted the federal government to a quit notice served on the community by the terrorist group 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... At a presser in Abuja, Friday, The Chairman of the Chibok nation, Dr. Pogu Bitrus said that residents of Kautikari and Kaya town had received what the Boko Haram sect termed final notice to attack the towns again and ordered the residents to vacate the village or face total annihilation on their next visit.
"As a matter of urgency, we wish to alert the general public and the international community that after the attack on four villages of Kautikari, Nguradina, Kwada/Kaumutayahi and Kakulmari on Sunday 29th June, 2014, which recorded 105 deaths, the residents of Kautikari and Kaya town have received what the Boko Haram sect termed final notice to attack Kautikari again by advising residents to vacate the village or face total annihilation on their next attack which has been promptly reported to the security agencies".
Bitrus disclosed further that Kaya town in Damboa Local Governemaent Area attacked on July 3, 2014 received a stern warning from the Boko Haram Death Eaters after the attack to vacate their town; given that they constitute an obstacle on their way to invading Chibok (Kibaku) Nation.
The Chibok Nation also expressed dismay over "the inability of the federal government to provide adequate security for the people."
Bitrus said the capacity of the military in the villages "is just like a platoon, which is not more than forty."
"Today is 81 days since the abduction of our girls and in spite of the categorical statements by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), that the location of the girls is known to the government, the appalling situation and agony encompassing the unfortunate abduction saga and detention of the Chibok girls by the Boko Haram Death Eaters continues and the rescue efforts by the government is yet to yield result.
"While this unfortunate situation persists, many distressed parents are dying of heart attack and frustration as their dejection has become unbearable. On record, seven parents have bit the dust due to the trauma of the situation.
"Unfortunately, again, the Federal government has not provided adequate security in the Chibok area since the unfortunate abductions of April 14 even in the face of persistent attacks by the Boko Haram Death Eaters."
According to Bitrus, Boko Haram had so far carried out 15 attacks on the Chibok Nation involving 19 villages with over 229 killed and over 100 injured.
"Some of the victims of these attacks are parents and relations of the kidnapped girls, thereby adding more pains to the traumatic condition already inherent in the Chibok (Kibaku) Community."
Bitrus disclosed further that the inhabitants of Tsilari and Shawa villages had already been completely dislodged and the villages taken over by the Boko Haram Death Eaters and their flag hoisted.
"Worthy of note is the fact that 90% of the attacks were carried out with advanced notice to the residents by the Boko Haram Death Eaters which were subsequently reported to the relevant security agencies concerned but no action was taken to avert any of the attacks or even respond during the attacks."
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A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Moslem Brüderbund and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in the Mideast region.
Large portions of the report follow with my commentary interspersed for added context:
Herewith a taste for fair use. Click on the headline to read the whole thing.
Dubai: For the past decade, two successive US administrations have maintained close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya, to name just the most prominent cases.
The Obama administration conducted an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 and 2011, beginning even before the events known as the "Arab Spring" erupted in Tunisia and in Egypt. The President personally issued Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood and other "political Islamist" movements, including the ruling AKP in Turkey, ultimately concluding that the United States should shift from its longstanding policy of supporting "stability" in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for "stable regimes" even if they were authoritarian), to a policy of backing "moderate" Islamic political movements (emphasis in bold added throughout).
And we have certainly witnessed this shift. Chaos and the Islamic ascendancy in the Middle East and North Africa never flourished as under the Obama administration—and precisely because the administration shifted from supporting stability under secular-minded autocrats.
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In light of all the chaos the Islamists have been responsible for in Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, et al—is it now obvious why Arab autocrats like Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, and currently Bashar Assad have always “banned” and “fiercely pursued” the Brotherhood and its affiliates?
The overthrowing of autocratic regimes generally presents the opportunity for confusion, constructive turmoil, deal brokering, and political re-starts. None of these events fit together or form a logical pattern if you're a firm advocate of coincidences.
Section 2381 Treason
Section 2382 Misprision of treason
Section 2383 Rebellion or insurrection
Section 2384 Seditious conspiracy
Section 2385 Advocating overthrow of Government
Section 2386 Registration of certain organizations
Section 2387 Activities affecting armed forces generally
Section 2388 Activities affecting armed forces during war
Section 2389 Recruiting for service against United States
Section 2390 Enlistment to serve against United States
Section 2391 Repealed.
- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/115#sthash.LgpMmCKy.dpuf
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g(r)om says: Never invoke malice where simple stupidity (going back to long before the Messiah) will suffice as an explanation.
Problem with that is that it excuses the malevolent for their malice. Malice exists and can be seen in many forms, especially in off the cuff comments.
Thankfully malice and stupidity/incompetence are NOT mutually exclusive.
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Hey, FF, if the one refuses to enforce other USC law, why should any of the rest apply other than selectively and prejudicially? Capricious and arbitrary application undermines the very nature of law. Get a hint.
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Except when the name of tghe President is Barack Hussein Obama, when he writyes a book about praising a Muslim father who in fact was a despicable man, when part of his life jhe was raised as a Muslim and when he has told things like "most beautiful sound in world is call to prayer".
Don't assume every fuck up is due to malice instead of mere incompetency but keep your eyes open for astute bad guys masking malice as mere incompetency.
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Never invoke malice where simple stupidity (going back to long before the Messiah) will suffice as an explanation.
The problem is, if it were stupidity, some of the mistakes should go the other way. Obama has been consistent and on target when it comes to hurting the American people.
So no, I don't think he's stupid at all.
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It's easy to say "Ooops" when you meant the shit to happen all along.
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#14 ROFLMAO!! The Archie Bunker's on the Right still can't swallow having a black man as President!!
You can't be serious. I know Chinese Mormons blacker than Manly Momjeans. Anyhoo...
If one-drop were rain, you'd be pouring;
If bullshit had horns, you'd be goring;
If hooting were shooting,
You'd have us all scooting.
If you're so bright, why are we snoring?
Via the Other McCain. A not heretofore known instance of trickery in advancing an agenda, the BBC decides that they will only present one side of the debate, since, their words, the science (and therefore debate) is settled. And why not? After all, 100 years of pressing the Robin Hood ideals until it just about collapses societies didn't bring on the Socialist Millenium, spurious scientific claims should, as long as they don't include alternative opinions.
Mark Steyn was right: Stalinists wished they had the pliant press our fascist overlords have. They could have avoided the stigma of arresting writers and smashing printing presses. Instead, printing handouts and calling it journalism is the order of the day.
BBC journalists are being sent on courses to stop them inviting so many cranks onto programmes to air 'marginal views'
The BBC Trust on Thursday published a progress report into the corporation's science coverage which was criticised in 2012 for giving too much air-time to critics who oppose non-contentious issues.
The report found that there was still an 'over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality' which sought to give the 'other side' of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.
Some 200 staff have already attended seminars and workshops and more will be invited on courses in the coming months to stop them giving 'undue attention to marginal opinion.'
"The Trust wishes to emphasise the importance of attempting to establish where the weight of scientific agreement may be found and make that clear to audiences," wrote the report authors.
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Welcome aboard Spano. Always great to have a counter-view from time to time. In case you missed yesterday's parade article, [which was an absolute hoot] slide on over to this link.
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That's rather odd because Marxism is VERY alike a form of economic-creationism, In that the market forces serving to reward those who match actual demand cause growth and change and accurate pricing and thus a surplus we call wealth, whereas those who deny complexity can arise without a economic god (aka marxists) seem to always end up with shortage AKA famine and murder.
[IsraelTimes] Arab Israeli politicians and community leaders met to call for calm in Arab cities Sunday, even as riots in several locations reignited for a third evening.
The High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an umbrella organization representing Arab civil society and municipal politicians, held the meeting in 'Arara in the Wadi Ara region Sunday afternoon, after Arab Israelis burned tires and clashed with security forces over the weekend to protest the death of Paleostinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16.
Police made 31 arrests and said more were expected.
On Sunday evening, rioters faced off against police in Tamra; near Nazareth; and at other locations in the lower Galilee, hurling stones, shooting fireworks and setting tires on fire.
Around 35 Paleostinians and 13 coppers were lightly maimed over the weekend events.
Peaceful demonstrations have also been taking place in all major Arab cities since Abu Khdeir's killing on July 2.
"The situation in the Arab towns and in Wadi Ara is very worrying," said Muhammad Athamneh, head of the Kfar Qara regional council, according to the website of Kul Al-Arab daily. "The youth are still at the entrance to the Arab towns and we must take responsible decisions to ensure the safety of Arab towns."
Athamneh called on parents to rein in their children and not disrupt "public order" by congregating.
Mazen Ghanayem, mayor of the Galilee city of Sakhnin and head of the Follow-up Committee's national committee, said that an emergency meeting was scheduled between Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Arab leaders Sunday evening. He said that President Shimon Peres has made a number of phone calls to Arab leaders "in order to restore things to normal."
According to Kul Al-Arab, the media was closed out of the meeting, attended by Islamic movement chief Raed Salah and his deputy Kamal Khatib, so members could discuss "secret propositions."
[DAWN] IT has not gone unnoticed that ever since Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched, details emerging about the operation are completely one-sided. Few details are appearing from the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and those trapped in the area. The ISPR has been constantly issuing blurbs making various claims, such as killing scores of turbans, on a daily basis. But my clandestine trips to Mirali and Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... and the ordinary people that I met in Bannu show a different picture.
I met 65-year-old Zahir Shah from Miranshah in Bannu who was with his family in a truck. He had one of the most heart-rending stories to narrate about his difficult journey. "It feels like the Day of Judgment. I may seem alive to you but inside I am dead. No warnings were given about the impending operation. The kabooms started suddenly and I had to leave two of my sick children behind. I handed them over to Shawwal Scouts belonging to the Afridi tribe requesting them to bury my children should they die."
Shah's version appears to have some basis because some local journalists and I had managed to slip into Dattakhel, a village west of Miranshah in North Wazoo Agency, and were present on June 15 when a curfew was imposed unexpectedly and the operation was launched without a proper announcement. The aman jirga and the tribal maliks had been meeting officials for nearly a month to delay the operation. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... this did not happen.
According to Shah and other IDPs, Miranshah Bazaar, a source of livelihood for many, has been completely destroyed. "Air strikes have killed many civilians including women and kiddies and hardly any terrorists. Ordinary civilians have also been shot at sight," claimed Shah. Though Shah said this with authority, his claim — like those of the military — cannot be independently verified.
I was in Mirali nearly 20 days ago. There I saw a house reduced to rubble and I could smell decomposing human flesh. A bystander claimed that the house was bombarded at 1:30am in which 24 members of a family were killed. A girl of about seven to eight years of age survived. Noor Behram, a journalist friend, also undertook an arduous 26-hour journey from Miranshah to Bannu with his family when the operation began unannounced. "There was no way to get out. Roads were closed. We walked all the way to the Sadgai checkpoint on the Bannu-Miranshah Road. My wife and children traversed hidden paths; climbed mountainous tracks all day and night to somehow reach the checkpoint, which is a mere 25-minute drive by car from Miranshah. But it took us 26 hours to reach the checkpoint."
Behram also spoke about the ordeal he and the other IDPs have faced at the hands of security forces during registration. First is the seemingly never-ending wait with thousands of men, women, children, senior citizens and invalids waiting for their turn. Then, everyone goes through a body search, their CNICs are checked, they are cross-questioned and are handed chits which basically say that they are not Taliban and are going to Bannu.
And there are numerous such tales. Mohammad Saiyyid said that air strikes nearly flattened his house. "I was picking bits of rubble when my wife screamed at me and said leave all this, let's take whatever remains of our essential belongings, grab the children and get out of here. We thought we were the only ones but when I turned to look at my house for the last time I saw a sea of people behind me with their belongings and their families. We went uphill and covered a path of many kilometres. Women in our households observe strict purdah, to see them like this in the open..." Saiyyid couldn't speak further.
After hearing everyone's stories, I cannot help but recall Operation Rah-e-Nijaat launched in 2009 in South Waziristan. At the time, the army claimed that within two months the operation would end. It has been five years and the operation is ongoing. Thousands of Mehsuds were displaced and are now living a difficult life in Tank, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... with some of them subsisting on leftover rotis. The Taliban are present in South Waziristan where they are engaged in an insurgency against the state.
A Taliban capo Gilamand Mehsud called me up and admitted that their men have been killed and injured but not in the hundreds as claimed by the army. "So far nine men have been killed and five injured," asserted Mehsud.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... my sources tell me that four days ago, six bodies were found lying in Mirali Bazaar and by their appearance they seem to be Taliban. So far neither the army nor the Taliban have claimed them.
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My sense is the operation to move children from Central America north has been in the planning stages for months. Under the current regime, I suspect it would have happened with or without so-called immigration reform.
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A community organizers dream; moving liabilities right into the heart of your enemies territory. And making your enemy look like the bad guy while doing it.
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ValJar has now invited Perry to a 'round table style substantial meeting' discussion with the Champ and other "leaders." Looks like a PR/photo ambush. I hope Perry declines and invites Champ to his office for a one-on-one instead.
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Refusing Champ's photo-op? Texas will pay -- send in a few more 100k disease ridden gang members from Central America.
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Rick Perry trying to talk to Obama would be like the Israelis trying to negotiate with Hamas. How do you negotiate with an enemy whose central aim is to destroy you?
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Took the Iraq fiasco and Benghazhi fiasco off the front pages and created a crisis the left could slough off as humanitarian but which would obviously upset the right. Lots of coincidences in there that help the One, or at least Democrats.
Republicans really shoudl be using words such as human trafficing and suggesting that if these are indeed refugees that there are some failed states down south that perhaps the Marines should be looking into (as was the case with Haiti a decade or so back).
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He's doing it to be oppositional. To piss people off, and make them scream louder, which makes him feel important. Everyone is paying attention to him, and arguing about the chaos, misery, and destruction he's sowing. He has probably never felt so powerful, and is likely to transgress more and more boundaries. The same way a drug addict needs more and more to feed the addiction.
Unfortunately, it's pointless to impeach him without a good chance the Senate will then convict and remove him. But the longer consequences are delayed, the more emboldened he will feel, and the more damage he will do.
[DAWN] THERE may be two ways of looking at the latest episode involving an angry Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... . It could be frowned upon as fresh proof of old tribal tendencies, of how personal egos can make individuals act in strange ways in the most demanding of times, with Chaudhry Nisar pulled up for making a habit of it. Or it can be taken as an example of someone asserting his democratic choice to dissent within the party, rather than submitting blindly to the leadership. In either case, it is ill-timed, and in both scenarios, it can be presumed that we are far from having seen the last of it. 'Informed' reports about the meetings in Rawalpindi and Lahore, which pictured the PML-N leadership as trying to pacify an old party lieutenant, indicate only partial success. Chaudhry Nisar, who happens to be in charge of the interior ministry of a country that is fighting a crucial battle, is said to have been persuaded to continue in the post even when he stands by his right to disagree. Thus, this could well be momentary relief rather than a long-term solution. With speculation about factions within the PML-N filling the vacuum created by silence on the actual reason behind the differences, the problem could resurface soon.
If a democracy is strong enough to allow visible disagreement between a prime minister and his interior minister, the next level should be where these differences are identified and are seen to be discussed. Also, it is inevitable for a party of the parliamentary size of the PML-N to have groupings. But by creating the impression that the Chaudhry Nisar issue is something that can only be resolved by secret parleys and a resort to old notions of loyalty, the PML-N is fanning all kinds of rumours. At this stage of his long political career, the prime minister must be able to display not only tolerance of intra-party dissent but the skill and patience to address and resolve it.
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Philippine security forces arrested before dawn Monday an Abu Sayyaf terrorist militant wanted by authorities for a series of kidnappings in Basilan province.
Officials said Salih Ali, alias Abu Ali, was arrested in Panigayan village in Malamawi Island. He faces at least nine counts of kidnapping. Police are currently interrogating Ali in Zamboanga City.
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[MoscowTimes] Ramadan began in Moscow on June 28, as it did throughout the Arab world. When that period of fasting ends one month later, tens of thousands of believers will gather at each of the capital city's four mosques. The structures cannot hold so many of the faithful, and, as always, the mass of worshippers spills over and fills the side streets.
Such a scene might sound more typical of Cairo or Tehran, but it is just one face of the rapidly changing capital. Muscovites nervously joke that the city will soon turn into the Islamic metropolis of Moskvabad, but in that quip can be discerned the outlines of a very possible future.
Russia is a Moslem land — an estimated 10 million to 15 million Moslems live here, or 10 percent of the population. Although this number is too small to put Russia in the same category as Egypt, Pakistain or Indonesia, it is large enough to seriously change the country's familiar cultural landscape.
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[FRANCE24] Three representatives of the Algerian military will take part in La Belle France's "Bastille Day" celebrations on July 14, a decision that has caused anger among far-right groups as well as in the former French colony.
"Algeria will participate in the same way as 80 other nations whose citizens were killed on the battlefields of the First World War," he told news hounds. "Algeria recognises its history and honours its contribution to world freedom."
In June, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said there was "nothing shocking" about the presence of Algerian troops in Gay Paree.
Between 1914 and 1918, some 170,000 Algerians, many of them French settlers, took part in the fighting in La Belle France. 23,000 of them were killed.
In Algeria, many feel that remembering the First World War alongside La Belle France is unacceptable, as many of the Algerians who fought were conscripted by force, often in the belief that fighting would give them citizenships and equal rights with French colonists.
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[Al Ahram] 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... on Monday reported three shells hit the Arar area inside the country along its border with Iraq, where jihadist-led forces of Evil have gone on the offensive.
"Three shells struck near a residential complex in the northern border area, without causing casualties," a border guards front man said, adding that an inquiry into the origin of the shelling was under way.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Pakistain Awami Tehrik chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... says his agenda is different from that of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... .
Talking to news hounds here on Monday, Mr Qadri said election rigging in 'four constituencies' was not an issue for him, a reference to Imran Khan's demand for verifying thumb impressions of voters in four National Assembly constituencies. Rather, he was working for ridding the masses of the 'exploitative system' in vogue in the country.
He said as 'mullahism' had damaged the country the most there would be no room for extremism, militancy and terrorism in the 'post-revolution Pakistain'.
He said those who were crying that "the country is passing through a critical phase" were themselves responsible for the ills Pakistain was faced with and they plundered the country instead of developing it.
The PAT chief said he was ready to offer any sacrifice to eliminate the corruption culture from the country as "revolutions always demand sacrifices".
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... has indicated that some of his cabinet colleagues nursing grudge may be covertly spreading propaganda against him.
In a belated explanatory note released to media here on Monday, he said his recent meeting with 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... and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... had focused on national and political matters and had nothing to do with his reported differences with the PML-N leadership.
"How can I raise any personal issue when the country is engulfed in a quagmire of problems. It neither happened in the past nor will it happen now," he added.
He said the meeting was not meant to lodge a complaint against any minister. Neither any minister is interfering in his ministry nor can someone meddle in it. "As a matter of fact my terms with not only parliament but also with the entire parliamentary party are pleasant in nature."
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[Tolo News] A Taliban leader, Mullah Jamaluddin and six other holy warriors were killed in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) media officials said in a statement late Sunday.
Six other holy warriors were tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! with improvised bombs.
The leader was killed in a clash with NDS forces in Lashkargah the capital of Helmand province, the statement said.
"The arrested Taliban holy warriors have confessed that they were involved in terror attacks and placing of roadside kabooms in Nad Ali district and Lashkargah highway," the statement said.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the NDS in the statement did not provide details about the casualties of Afghan forces during the clash.
Taliban have not yet commented about the incident.
The Taliban holy warriors have recently become active and targeting the Afghan security force ooutpost in Sangin, Nad Ali and other parts of the province.
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[Tolo News] District Police Chief of Farsi district of western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province and four other coppers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack early Monday, local officials.
One other policeman was injured in the attack.
The incident took place in Qaleen Bafa area, while the Police Chief, Shir Ahmad, was on his way to his office when the Taliban hard boyz targeted his vehicle, said Sami Wafa, Head of Herat Governor Office.
"Colonel Shir Ahmad and four coppers were killed after their vehicle was struck by a Taliban rocket propelled grenade at around 8 a.m. in the morning," he said.
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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.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead....png)
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[Yemen Post] Suspected Al Qaeda 
[SUNTIMES] Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.
Eight members of a communist militant group have surrendered to the military in the southern Philippines.
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Philippine security forces arrested before dawn Monday an Abu Sayyaf 
[Tolo News] A Taliban leader, Mullah Jamaluddin and six other 
