[DAWN] A new round of peace talks between the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the United States (US) starts on Wednesday in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , an official for the snuffies said, as the foes seek a way out of America's longest war.
The talks mark the sixth round of negotiations between the two sides in recent months, and come as pressure builds for some sort of breakthrough in Afghanistan's gruelling conflict, with Washington jostling for a resolution.
According to Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid, the talks "will start in Doha today".
The US embassy in Kabul did not immediately comment, but the US State Department has already said its peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad will visit Doha, the Qatari capital, this month to meet the Taliban.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algeria’s army chief called on Wednesday for dialogue between protesters and state institutions, a day after pushing back against demonstrators’ demands for top politicians to quit.
"I remain entirely convinced that adopting constructive dialogue with the institutions of the state, is the only way to exit from the crisis," General Ahmed Gaid Salah said in a statement published by the defense ministry.
This is "the wisest way to present constructive proposals, bring points of view closer and reach a consensus around the available solutions," he added.
Salah was for years an ardent supporter of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... , until demanding on April 2 that impeachment proceedings be launched against the ailing leader -- who stepped down the same day.
An interim president has been put in place and elections set for July 4, but protests which pushed Bouteflika from power have not abated.
On Wednesday hundreds of people rallied outside the General Workers’ Union in the capital Algiers, marking May Day, where they clutched Algerians flags and shouted slogans against the "system."
Police prevented them from joining other protesters gathered outside the city’s iconic post office, the focal point of demonstrations which began in February and have regularly drawn vast crowds.
Salah on Tuesday rebuffed calls by demonstrators for interim leader Abdelkader Bensalah, the former upper house speaker, and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui to step down.
In a speech, the army chief said the upcoming polls -- which fall within the timeframe allowed by the constitution -- amount to "the ideal solution to end the crisis."
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Looks like he carries a switchblade and gives cut-rate tango lessons on the side. He might be a movie star though. I think I saw him in one, wearing nothing but a domino mask and a pair of black socks with garters.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... has spoken out against Washington’s decision to block all exports of Iranian oil, saying unilateral sanctions were "unwise because they hurt the countries that rely on the supplies."
That’s ok — America will be happy to frack more.
The United States has demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face the prospect of sanctions, ending six months of waivers that had allowed Iran’s eight biggest customers, mostly in Asia, to import limited volumes.
"The sanctions should not be extended because they have an adverse impact on countries benefiting from Iranian oil," Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Wednesday.
"In Qatar, we do not believe unilateral sanctions bring positive effects for crises which must be solved through dialogue and dialogue only," he told a news conference following a meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue in Qatar’s capital Doha, which was attended by his Iranian counterpart.
Qatar is at odds with other Gulf Arab states who are strong supporters of tighter US sanctions on Iran.
The White House has said it is working with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates to ensure oil markets, which have already tightened this year due to supply cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), were "adequately supplied."
Qatar, which despite its large gas exports sells comparatively little oil, quit OPEC in December.
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"The sanctions should not be extended because they have an adverse impact on countries terrorists benefiting from Iranian oil,"
Ok do what you want, but don't dictate what the US economic policies should be.
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Qatar is a major league bomb thrower, between its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, possibly al Qaeda, as well as Iran. Regime change might be indicated here. The problem, as usual, is you can't replace something with nothing.
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Major Kong say, "Though not so specific
(or, pace Lao Tzu, too terrific),
At end of the day
Wise man know, if not say,
Desolation profoundly pacific."
[DAWN] A British judge on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 80 children have arrived in Tajikistan from Iraq where their parents were sentenced for joining the ISIS holy warrior group and other Death Eater outfits, Tajikistan’s foreign ministry said online Wednesday.
Eighty-four children, all Tajik citizens, had been "forced to join the ranks" of the Death Eater groups after their parents were recruited, according to the statement on the ministry’s website.
They returned on a special flight from Baghdad to Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe on April 30, it added.
In February Tajikistan’s foreign ministry said it was seeking the repatriation of 75 children marooned in Iraq where 43 Tajik women are serving jail sentences for extremism-related crimes.
That’s almost two children per woman over about five years. So much for the vaunted ISIS Lion of Islam fertility...
Repatriating the tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! women would be far more difficult, Tajik foreign minister Sirodjidin Mukhriddin admitted at the time.
The ISIS group seized large swathes of Iraq in a lightning 2014 offensive, before the Iraqi government dislodged the Death Eaters from urban centres and eventually declared victory in December 2017.
The fall of the ISIS’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria has left many countries grappling with what to do with the Death Eaters and their relatives who want to return.
Tajik authorities have said over 1,000 citizens left the country to fight on the side of Death Eater groups in Iraq and Syria after 2011, some after stints working abroad in Russia.
The most famous ISIS recruit from Tajikistan was Gulmurod Halimov, who headed the interior ministry’s special forces unit before sensationally announcing his defection to ISIS in a video attributed to the group in 2015.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... have both criticized a US plan to designate the Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist organization.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told news hounds in Doha on Wednesday that "the US is not in a position to (..) start naming others as terror organizations and we reject by any attempt by the US in this regard."
"The US is supporting the biggest terrorist in the region, that is Israel," Zarif said.
Turkey, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that if the United States designated the Moslem Brüderbund a foreign terrorist organization, it would hamper democratization efforts in the Middle East and serve murderous Moslem groups like ISIS.
Omer Celik, the front man for Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party, said such a decision by the US would "undoubtedly yield extremely wrong results regarding stability, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , basic rights and freedoms in countries of the Islamic world", he said.
"At the same time, (Trump’s move) is the biggest support that can be given to the propaganda of ISIS," he said, referring to ISIS.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is working to designate the Moslem Brüderbund as a foreign terrorist organization, the White House said on Tuesday, which would lead to sanctions against Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement.
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It's nice you have something to say, and nicer still because of the US constitutional disposition that you can say it without repercussions. Don't expect it to carry more weight than a gnat fart though.
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The reactions of Erdogan and the Ayatollahs to listing the Moslem Brotherhood as a terrorist organization is enough in itself to justify doing that very thing.
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Huge change since the traitor n thief was in the White House.
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House Azeez’s bio also reveals him as a founding member the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter. CAIR has also allegedly funneled money to Palestinian terror groups and was also started by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
[DAWN] The Trump administration is asking Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency spending for border security as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrants colonists at the southern border.
That's according to two people familiar with the request who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly before a formal announcement.
A summary of the request obtained by the AP says the White House wants $3.3 billion for humanitarian aid to increase shelter capacity for unaccompanied migrant children and the feeding and care of families.
An additional $1.1 billion would go toward operational support, including personnel expenses, detention beds, transportation and investigative work on smuggling. And the final $178 million would be used for mission support, including technology upgrades.
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[LATIMES] The U.S. Army veteran charged with planning a terrorist attack in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, was kicked out of the service several years ago following a clash in Afghanistan, sources told The Times on Tuesday.
Mark Steven Domingo, a 26-year-old Reseda man who the FBI said Monday was plotting to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb at a rally in Long Beach, was discharged following the incident in 2013, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because information regarding a soldier’s discharge status is not subject to public disclosure.
One official described the incident in Afghanistan as "violent," saying it led to an accusation that Domingo violated the the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The former infantryman was demoted and eventually forced out of the Army before completing his enlistment contract, the official said. It’s unclear whether Domingo clashed with a civilian or fellow soldier. Multiple sources have told The Times that Domingo did not receive an honorable discharge from the military.
Domingo served in Afghanistan from September 2012 to January 2013, and had previously been stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, according to court documents made public Monday. He joined the military in February 2011 and left the service a month after his return from Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Domingo’s military discharge was part of a broader portrait emerging Tuesday of a man described by federal Sherlocks as "consumed by hate" and depicted in court documents as an erratic and violent person who sought to kill coppers and members of other religions in retribution for the killings of Moslems in other parts of the world.
What odds the gentleman will turn out to have been a gang member before he signed up, dear Reader?
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[DAWN] Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday expressed his disappointment at some "elected representatives and ministers' opposition" of the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2018 in the National Assembly, terming it a "scary moment" for the society.
"What hopes can one really attribute to a society whose fifty elected representatives and even ministers actually voted for underage marriage?" he tweeted.
The politicians who opposed the bill also included MNAs from Chaudhry's own political party, the 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), most prominent of whom were Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri and State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Khan.
Chaudhry, in his tweet today, rued that elected representatives had voted in favour of child marriage, adding that the fact alone "should be enough to give sleepless nights to the world and intelligentsia of our own".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sri Lanka’s police Wednesday named nine people who staged Easter Sunday suicide kabooms that killed 253 people, and said the attackers’ assets will be confiscated in line with anti-terror laws.
Police front man Ruwan Gunasekera confirmed that two of the luxury hotels were bombed by two brothers from a wealthy Colombo family involved in spice exports.
The group of murderous Moslems had used one bomber at each of the locations hit on Easter Sunday, except at Shangri-La hotel where there were two suicide kabooms.
One of the Shangri-La bombers was Zahran Hashim, the leader of the local Death Eater group responsible for the audacious attacks that were claimed by ISIS.
Hashim headed the National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) which has since been banned. He attacked the Shangri-La in the company of fellow Death Eater Ilham Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim.
Ilham’s elder brother Inshaf Ahmed was the man who bombed the nearby Cinnamon Grand hotel.
The third hotel to be targeted, the Kingsbury, was bombed by a man identified as Mohammed Azzam Mubarak Mohammed. His wife was now in police custody, Gunasekera said.
The St. Anthony’s Church was targeted by a local resident named Ahmed Muaz. His brother has been incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! . The St. Sebastian bomber was Mohammed Hasthun, a resident from the island’s east where Hashim was based.
The Christian Zion church in the eastern district of Batticaloa was hit by a local resident, Mohammed Nasser Mohammed Asad.
Another man who failed to set a bomb off at a de luxe hotel, but blasted his explosives at a guest house near the capital. He was identified as Abdul Latheef
...known more fully as Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, he’s the gent who studied engineering in England and was mentored by ISIS execution cell leader Jihadi John...
who had studied both in Britannia and Australia.
Shortly after the hotel kabooms, Fathima Ilham, the wife of the younger of the two brothers, blasted explosives strapped to herself, killing her two children and three coppers who rushed to the family home in Colombo.
"We are going to use prevention of terrorist financing laws to confiscate their property," Gunasekera said.
[AlAhram] Sri Lanka stepped up security Wednesday as political parties staged low-key May Day commemorations after calling off scheduled rallies following fears of Islamist kabooms.
Officials said more police were deployed for cordon-and-search operations in many parts of the country, while the military also re-inforced road blocks and patrols.
Several roads in the capital were closed Wednesday as President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe attended a tightly guarded public ceremony marking the 26th anniversary of president Ranasinghe Premadasa liquidation.
Officials said police used extraordinary security measures for Sirisena's public appearance to commemorate Premadasa, who was killed by a jacket wallah during a May Day rally in 1993.
"His security used three identical convoys to bring the president to the commemoration," a police official at the function told AFP. "This was to make sure that no-one has advance warning about the vehicles used by the president."
Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) cancelled its May Day celebrations and instead was holding a closed-door meeting with senior stalwarts later in the day, officials said.
Former president and current leader of the opposition, Mahinda Rajapakse -- who leads a breakaway faction of the SLFP -- also cancelled his May Day event, and was attending a low-key meeting just outside Colombo.
The country has been under a state of emergency since Easter Sunday attacks killed 253 people at three churches and three luxury hotels.
The emergency gives sweeping powers to police and the military to arrest and detain suspects for long periods.
Police say they have placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! over 150 people suspected of links to jihadists who carried out the bombings.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said Tuesday that some suspects remained on the lam.
"A few more people involved in the attacks are out there and we hope to arrest them soon," Wickremesinghe said. "Even if we arrest all of them, the threat will not disappear."
He said Sri Lanka will have to work closely with international partners to neutralise the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , which grabbed credit for the audacious bombings -- the worst single-day attack against civilians on the island.
Sri Lanka blamed the local National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) for the bombings. The group had pledged an oath of allegiance to IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , who in a recent audio message praised the Sri Lanka attacks.
Schools were due to open on Monday, but authorities put it off by a week. The Roman Catholic church cancelled its Sunday services fearing a repeat of Easter bombings, but announced Tuesday that they will resume May 5.
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Bouteflika
[LATIMES] The U.S. Army veteran charged with planning a terrorist attack in Southern 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
