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Sri Lanka - Inside help?
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Page 4: Opinion
Press freedom hero	3 10:09 JohnQC [8]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Sri Lanka - Inside help?	4 22:11 746 [15]
PLO Terrorist Who Became US Citizen Faces Deportation	0 [6]
Turkey indicts third U.S. Consulate worker in Istanbul on terrorism charges	0 [4]
Five Accused of Murdering Palestinian Boy (from Lebanon) in Belgian Asylum Centre	0 [6]
Pentagon set to send 300 more troops to Mexico border, some in contact with migrants	8 20:56 Unetle Hatrack6709 [10]
Egypt heightens security ahead of Coptic Easter	0 [4]
5 ISIS sympathizers killed during a clash with Afghan Special Forces in Nangarhar	0 [5]
205th Corps adventures in Zabul: 53 Talib hostages rescued, Talib big turban toes up, 3 Talibs self-boom	0 [4]
3 prominent Taliban leaders arrested by Afghan forces in Logar province	0 [5]
Turkey detains 115 soldiers over Gulen ties: state media	1 06:30 Raj [6]
Turkish jets hit alleged PKK position in Duhok province: reports	0 [6]
Iraqi police arrest suspect rigging IDs for Islamic State members	0 [4]
Kirkuk: 16 turbans toes up, gov’t to investigate 3 cops airstruck by Coalition fire	0 [9]
Russian Air Force lets loose massive attack on Idlib and Hama	12 21:34 Zhang Fei [15]
Haftar-led Libyan Army captures key area en route to Tripoli	0 [6]
#Syria: for 1st time Rebels targeted #Russia\|n Airbase today with their newly produced long range rockets	0 [7]
Huge crowd floods Khartoum, demands military cede power	1 20:24 Skidmark [4]
Palestinians say 31 60 wounded as Gazans riot along border	0 [5]
Islamic State Women Terrorizing Refugees in Syria Camps While Waiting to Come Home	2 22:46 trailing wife [15]
Day 7: Sri Lankan police hunt 140 people after Easter bombings, 15 turbans toes up after gunbattle in Eastern Province	0 [7]
Page 2: WoT Background
Hundreds of migrants board 'the Beast' train in Mexico in risky move to get closer to US border	0 [6]
Iraq: Yazidis to accept children of IS rape into community	0 [5]
Germans increasingly hostile towards asylum-seekers	4 20:27 Skidmark [3]
More than 7,000 Syrians quit camp near Jordan border: UN	1 20:28 Skidmark [13]
Ghani Inaugurates Afghanistan’s Parliament	0 [6]
ISIS has plans to retake Palmyra from Syrian Army	0 [7]
Assyrians in Sweden consider forming police force after receiving death threats	1 20:29 Skidmark [7]
Iran unveils 3 new domestically-made missiles	2 06:37 Raj [10]
U.S. Aims Lethal Blow at Tehran’s Finances by Prohibiting Oil Exports	2 21:39 Zhang Fei [12]
PIJ is expected to launch an attack to disturb the silence in the south	0 [4]
Haftar may be planning attack from sea and land troops on Tripoli beaches to relieve pressure on LNA forces fighting in southern suburbs	2 21:48 Zhang Fei [9]
Panel recommends action against people involved in polio scare	0 [3]
PML-N to take part in JUI-F’s anti-govt march	0 [5]
Why is Afghanistan's upcoming grand jirga significant?	0 [4]
Florida’s Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Begins	0 [5]
Salvini Demands Security Services Increase Observation of Islamic Cultural Centres	0 [5]
Page 3: Non-WoT
BREAKING: Shooting at San Diego-area synagogue causes injuries, man detained: police	7 19:01 P2kontheroad [8]
Another player expands a reef and builds an AFB in the Spratlys	2 14:52 Neville Glolutch8436 [2]
Aliens are interbreeding with ~~humans~~ Herb to create a new hybrid species that will save our planet, claims Oxford lecturer	23 22:26 Skidmark [8]
Donald Trump to withdraw US from Arms Trade Treaty	5 16:37 Frank G [7]
California killer accused of beheading, torturing cellmate	5 20:39 Skidmark [5]
Hiring Illegals via a Staffing Company	0 [9]
Former State Department Official Spied for China Since 2007	4 14:57 Neville Glolutch8436 [6]
Swine Flu - why in China.	6 22:34 Beau [9]
Kim Jong Un left Russia seven hours ahead of schedule, invited Putin to visit, badmouthed US	1 20:42 Skidmark [3]
Krasmash military plant is on fire in Krasnoyarsk	4 20:43 Skidmark [9]
Kim Jong Un, in his policy speech delivered at 14th Supreme People's Assembly, stressed the problem of food	3 06:41 Raj [3]
China accuses France of illegally sailing warship in Taiwan Strait	1 06:43 Raj [7]
Rawalpindi police make arrests after minor boy sexually assaulted by schoolmates	0 [3]
The universe is expanding way faster than astronomers thought	8 20:43 Woodrow [6]
Mohamed Noor, cop who killed bride-to-be, expresses regret over joining force	1 20:39 Woodrow [3]
USC official fired over college bribery scandal, now drives for Lyft	2 06:50 P2kontheroad [11]
Page 6: Politix
CBO Report: 1.4 Million Lost Health Insurance Since 2016 ‐ And Obamacare Is To Blame	7 22:17 746 [11]
Raids signal ‘something bigger’ in Baltimore mayor probe: expert	9 23:37 Zhang Fei [15]
Trump renews claim that Mueller probe was attempted ‘coup’	4 22:15 746 [8]
World leaders begged me to run, claims Joe Biden	13 22:20 746 [9]
Trump Says He Will Declassify FBI’s Russia Probe Documents, ‘And Much More’	5 22:14 746 [11]
Byron York: When did Mueller know there was no collusion?	10 22:18 746 [9]
‘Criminal Indictments Are Coming For Obama/Clinton Associates’	14 23:21 Elmaling Greresh1620 [14]

India-Pakistan

Press freedom hero

[DAWN] IF evidence of the perils of being a journalist in Pakistain today were still needed, the IPI’s Press Freedom Hero Award for this year provides it ‐ resoundingly so.

Dawn’s Cyril Almeida has endured an over two-year long campaign both overt and insidious, conducted with the express objective of silencing him, even if it put his life at risk.

Since October 2016, when he reported on civil-military differences over tackling militancy in the country, Mr Almeida has been put on the ECL twice and subjected to relentless legal harassment through frivolous petitions, with charges of treason against him (the trial is ongoing).

Alongside that, there are threats of physical violence against him and relentless character liquidation on social media.

But for a Pak journalist to be given this prestigious award by an association of print, broadcast and digital media professionals in nearly 100 countries, also has wider implications.

Consider the nationalities of some past recipients, and the extent of the unravelling of democracy in Pakistain becomes clear. They include, among others, journalists from Egypt, Syria, Iran, Angola, Æthiopia, ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
and Russia.

All of them have shown remarkable resilience and integrity in standing up to autocratic regimes, doggedly uncovering state corruption, reporting from theatres of war, etc. Sadly, Pakistain’s once vibrant, questioning media ‐ albeit not without its faults ‐ is largely in retreat, browbeaten into a supine conformity where self-preservation is predicated on self-censorship.

True journalism, the kind that holds power to account, has become a scarce commodity.

As noted by numerous press freedom reports, media persons have been kidnapped, beaten, placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
on flimsy pretexts, charged with terrorism and maligned as ’foreign agents’ to destroy their credibility and mislead the public. (An entirely unwarranted, and still pending, FIR against the journalist Shahzeb Jillani accuses him of cyberterrorism.)

And that is not even taking into account the various pressure tactics exerted on media outlets which target their sources of revenue.

Only through a united front can journalism in Pakistain shake off this stranglehold and regain its real purpose.

            Posted by: Fred  ||
            04/27/2019            00:00   ||
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#1 The US press wasn't even beaten into submission. They rolled over all on their own. The Vichy France of the media.

                Posted by: Herb McCoy     ||
                04/27/2019 5:23                Comments ||
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#2 They rolled over all on their own.

Rolled over is a bit harsh. I'd say they willingly enlisted. Same end result, I guess, but they seem to enjoy their work.

                Posted by: SteveS    ||
                04/27/2019 9:15                Comments ||
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#3 Pakis have a Freedom of Press hero? Hey, that is more than we have in the U.S.--we've got a bunch of MSM Dem party hacks.

                Posted by: JohnQC    ||
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5	Moslem Colonists
4	Commies
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2	Arab Spring
1	PLO
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1	Govt of Sudan
1	Hamas
1	Islamic Jihad (Palestian)

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2019-04-27
Sri Lanka - Inside help?

Fri 2019-04-26
Jihadists 'blow themselves up' as soldiers raid suicide vest factory in Sri Lanka

Thu 2019-04-25
Trump says sending ‘armed soldiers’ to US-Mexico border

Wed 2019-04-24
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes, most of them minority Shiites

Tue 2019-04-23
IS claims Sri Lanka blasts

Mon 2019-04-22
Sri Lanka explosions, 24 arrested, 290+ dead, 8 kabooms

Sun 2019-04-21
3 churches bombed at Easter services in Sri Lanka 262 Dead

Sat 2019-04-20
Woman killed after shots fired during violent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Fri 2019-04-19
Islamic State Declared A New Wilaya In Africa

Thu 2019-04-18
German Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Recruiting ISIS Members To Syria

Wed 2019-04-17
Houthis in Yemen introduced a new airburst ballistic missile that spreads 14,000 pieces of shrapnel over a large area

Tue 2019-04-16
Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood

Mon 2019-04-15
Notre Dame Cathedral is burning

Sun 2019-04-14
Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand succumbs to injuries sustained in an airstrike

Sat 2019-04-13
Algerian police fire water cannon at protesters

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