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I am voting for a database that can't remove bad entries.
This where I still get letters (gov and party junk mail) for my dad who died a long time ago. I even told my congress critter to demand the pub party delete him from the roles pointing out I had provided his death certificate and the pubs are not supposed to believe in allowing the dead to vote.
Resisting the system (litigiously?)
Which profiled Muhammad (religiously!),
His sister, a Jewess,
Condemns, truly clueless,
What Muslims must do most prodigiously!
[ShabelleNews] AMISOM is seeking a new approach to bringing peace and stability to Somalia.
The AU Special Representative for Somalia and Head of AMISOM Ambassador Francisco Caetano Madeira told a high-level meeting of AU officials, donors and other stakeholders, that the current arrangement that relies on military onslaught against the Al Shabaab militants may not achieve its desired goals, of delivering sustainable stability in the Horn of Africa country.
Ambassador Madeira is asking for a surge in AMISOM troops, to help the new Somalia government and its security forces exercise authority over areas already liberated by the Mission.
“We are now ten years, we have achieved a lot (in the past ten years); we are keeping the government in place; nobody can question that. We are keeping the regional governments in place; we supported the two elections, the latest one, we secured that election; and the president was elected in a very consensual way; we did all these things,” Madeira observed.
AMISOM has been in Somalia for exactly a decade this week. Thus, the two-day meeting in the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, is taking stock of the Mission’s performance within that period and charting the next way forward. The meeting is part of events that culminate in May, to mark ten years of the Mission’s presence in Somalia.
Ambassador Madeira said the Somalia security forces in their current state cannot adequately exercise authority on areas liberated by AMISOM. “The way we handled it militarily is that we’d go there, flash out Al Shabaab and protect the government. We then started training Somalis to take over. We were to liberate Mogadishu (Somali Capital). We felt that we’d do it and the Somalia National Army (SNA) would come in later.”
He stated that SNA has its inadequacies and has not been able to take full charge of Somalia’s security, as it should. “Those who should be fighting expect us to protect them,” he said, adding that AMISOM was fighting Al Shabaab and protecting the Federal Government of Somalia, at the same time.
“It’s time we made it known that AMISOM is not going to stay forever,” he noted.
Pertinent, is to form a full functional national Army, have government exercise authority and address the problems facing the population – historical clan rivalry, land ownership and sharing, cattle rustling, power sharing, and stealing wimmin reasons that attract the youth to the Al Shabaab, the Head of AMISOM advised.
“They (Somalis) have to have an army. And how will that be done? I think again we have identified; these things must be done concomitantly, and what are the things that need to be done concomitantly? We have to form the army, we have to help the government to exercise its authority all throughout the country and we have to have the government address the real problems that are dividing the people of Somalia.”
He drew parallels between the Somalia strife and the terrorism conflict that almost tore apart Algeria and said it was possible to bring peace to the former.
“Algeria succeeded in ending the conflict. They trained their forces.”
Those forces then killed a lot of people...
“What we are doing in Lower Jubba is what we should have done from the beginning,” he explained, in apparent reference to a region in South Central Somalia, where the SNA and AMISOM troops have actively encountered Al Shabaab.
He urged donors to stay with Somalia at this critical hour, when the country has a promising and forward-looking federal government. Apart from additional troops, the Mission also requires more funds for Land Cruisers and houseboys to engage in a comprehensive approach to peace, which involves not just military response, but also mediation, negotiation and engaging an all-inclusive mechanism to conflict resolution.
“It is also clear that as the mission moves into the next challenging phase of security transition, it should engage with the diverse range of distinguished experts as represented here to ensure the best practise is understood and a clear way forward identified,” Colonel Richard Leakey, the Commander of the British Peace Support Team in Eastern African (BPST-EA) told the meeting.
He described the meeting in Nairobi as critical because its outcome would be a “stepping stone” to talks scheduled May in London, United Kingdom, expected to draw a comprehensive architecture for peace in Somalia. Britain is sponsoring and facilitating the Nairobi meeting.
“London is very interested in these talks,” he said, expressing his gratitude to the African Union Commission for taking up the idea to stabilize Somalia. He added to say that the people in Somalia deserve a chance for a new beginning.
Maj. Gen. Francis Okello, AMISOM former Force Commander, is representing the African Union Commission (AU Commission) at the meeting. He said the outcome of the deliberations would “provide basis for strategic engagement and future of AMISOM”.
The Commission “expects frank, critical, forward-looking and constructive engagement (at the meeting),” Maj. Gen Okello said.
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Very known wolf exceeds British tolerance, is sent to jail.
[DailyMail]
Bangladesh-born Jaded Hussain, 22, could barely contain his glee as he talked of 'big ops' in UK
Planned to get together 'bunch of brothers' and to 'pop it off,' referring to bomb
Huge stash of IS propaganda found on Hussain's devices after he was arrested
Detained at An Noor Cultural and Community Centre on Church Road in Acton, west London in sting operation on April 28 2016 and faces being jailed at Old Bailey
Previously arrested at the Syrian border in 2015 by Turkey and sent back
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[ShabelleNews] A terror suspect has lost a human rights fight against a decision to bar him from returning to Britain and strip him of his UK citizenship.
Go to Sudan, stay in Sudan. Seems to be ample punishment...
The Sudanese national was suspected of taking part in terrorism-related activities linked to the extremist group al Shabaab.
In 2010, the British Government deprived him of his UK citizenship and barred him from re-entering the country.
The man, who has not been named, brought a case against the measures at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). He claimed they violated his right to respect for private and family life, and had been discriminatory.
But judges at the Strasbourg court unanimously declared the application inadmissible.
The man, referred to as K2, was born in Sudan in 1982 and arrived in Britain as a child. He became a naturalised UK citizen in 2000. Nine years later he left the country after being arrested and charged with a public order offence arising out his participation in protests against Israeli military action in Gaza.
He says he went directly to Sudan, where he currently lives. But UK authorities assessed he first travelled with two extremist associates to Somalia, where he engaged in terrorism-related activities linked to al Shabaab.
In June 2010, then home secretary Theresa May made an order depriving him of his UK citizenship. She also notified K2 of her decision to exclude him from the UK on the ground he was “involved in terrorism-related activities” and had “links to a number of Islamic extremists”.
K2 fought the moves in the UK courts, saying he could rebut the terrorism allegations but was unable to do so while he remained in Sudan. He claimed he feared his communications were subject to surveillance and communicating about his case would expose him to a risk of harm.
This argument was rejected by British judges, who also went on to dismiss his appeal against the decision to deprive him of his UK citizenship.
The man’s complaint at the ECtHR centres on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The clause states everyone has a right to respect for their private and family life.
Which means whatever the elites want it to mean...
In its decision, the court said it accepted an “arbitrary” denial of citizenship may, in certain circumstances, raise an issue under Article 8. But it found no such issue arose in this case, and concluded the claim that deprivation of citizenship breached Article 8 was “manifestly ill-founded”.
Judges also concluded the decision to exclude the man from the UK was not disproportionate with the legitimate aim of protecting the public from the threat of terrorism.
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Huh, another reasonable measure by a state to protect it's citizens.
North Korea last year tried to sell lithium-6, a core material for the production of hydrogen bombs, on an open website, a report by a UN Security Council panel said Thursday.
If the North had enough lithium-6 to sell overseas, it also seems more likely that it really tested a so-called boosted fission nuclear weapon, a precursor to a hydrogen bomb, in tests last year. Making nuclear weapons with tritiated water using lithium-6 would also make it easier to miniaturize nuclear warheads so they fit on a missile.
The UNSC panel of experts last summer discovered a lithium-6 sales ad on Global Companies, a website that introduces businesses around the world. The ad said, "We are General Precious Metal Complex (GPM) based in Beijing, China. We can offer 10 kilograms of the lithium metal..." It adds it can ship out the material from Dandong within a month.
The sale of lithium-6 is banned around the world.
The UNSC panel soon found out that GPM is an alias for Chongsong Yonhap, a North Korean arms exporter. Chongsong Yonhap was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2010 over its sales of the CHT-02D torpedo, the model that sank the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan in March that year. It has been under fresh sanctions imposed by the UNSC since 2012.
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[Breitbart IS] Attacking European politicians who he accused of failing to show migrants a sufficiently warm welcome, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief compared the rhetoric of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to that of Nazi Germany.
Speaking in Geneva on Wednesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein also slammed "false claims that migrants commit more crimes" and claimed that Europeans welcome mass migration.
"Many ordinary people in Europe have welcomed and supported migrants, but political leaders increasingly demonstrate a chilling indifference to their fate.
"I am particularly disturbed by lurid public narratives which appear deliberately aimed at stirring up public fear and panic, by depicting these vulnerable people as criminal invading hordes," he told a meeting of the UN human rights council.
The Saudi Arabian prince blasted "increasing calls" by politicians in Europe to work with African nations in an attempt to slow the migrant tide.
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IMO, in the future there will be a lot of PhD theses in history, as well as popular history books, seeking an answer to a single question "Why didn't USA nuke Saudi Arabia after 9/11?".
#2
The hallowed halls of government have polished floors. Incautious missteps can lead to a fall, Grom.
I think it was easier for them to swallow their national pride and take the money than set the world on fire.
[AnNahar] The leader of Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday appealed to Ottawa for help and additional resources amid a spike in the number of asylum seekers flowing in from the United States.
According to Premier Brian Pallister, the number of migrants colonists who have crossed the border between Canada and the United States in Manitoba has "more than doubled" in recent weeks, with related costs for the government more than doubling as well.
"This significant increase in demand is placing extreme pressure on those who deliver our services and on the resources that we have available to address the situation," the conservative leader said.
"We are proud to be part of team Canada but we need the federal government to step up and do its job."
US Homeland Security chief John Kelly is set to meet Friday with his Canadian counterpart Ralph Goodale and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to discuss the issue.
The uptick of asylum seekers seeking refuge in Canada comes as US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pledges to round up and deport undocumented immigrants colonists, as well as impose "extreme vetting" on travelers from several Moslem-majority countries.
From January 1 to February 21 about 4,000 people filed refugee claims in Canada, up from 2,500 during the same period last year, the Canada Border Services Agency said earlier this month.
The figure includes border jumpers and those arriving from the United States at border checkpoints.
Canadian authorities said some of the migrants colonists appeared to have intended from the start to come to Canada after flying to the United States on a visitor visa, while others came after being denied asylum south of the border or because they feared deportation.
Under a bilateral agreement, asylum-seekers from the United States are usually turned back at Canada's border crossings. But this does not apply to those crossing the border illegally in other places.
Manitoba shares a mostly non-existent border with the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Update from An Nahar at 12:15 p.m. ET, after Secretary Kelly met with his Canadian counterparts yesterday:
Canada and the United States on Friday pledged to cooperate to determine why migrants are increasingly attempting to cross the border illegally into America's northern neighbor.
The pledge came after talks between Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and visiting US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
"No one is suggesting the construction of a wall along the Canadian border," Goodale told a news conference, referring to US President Donald Trump's plan to do just that on the Mexican border.
The "biographical and biometric data" of those who arrive in Canada seeking asylum will be further analyzed to try to understand how they got there, and to rule out "any concerns about terrorism," he added.
Kelly met with Goodale and other Canadian ministers away from the glare of the media's cameras.
In an interview with CBC public television, Kelly said he was "undecided" as to whether the flow of migrants into Canada was linked to Trump's revamped travel ban targeting refugees and citizens from six mainly-Muslim countries.
Most of those entering Canada illegally were legally in the United States, and "many of them have only been in the United States for a very short period of time -- days -- before they come over," Kelly said.
[AP] MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family looking to escape their war-torn homeland by fleeing to Wisconsin.
The ruling likely is the first by a judge since Trump issued a revised travel ban on Monday, according to a spokesman for the Washington state attorney general, who has led states challenging the ban.
A Syrian Muslim man who was granted asylum and settled in Wisconsin has been working since last year to win U.S. government approval for his wife and 3-year-old daughter to leave the devastated city of Aleppo and join him here. The man, who is not identified because of fears for his family's safety, filed a federal lawsuit in Madison in February alleging Trump's first travel ban had wrongly stopped the visa process for his family. U.S. District Judge William Conley set that challenge aside after a federal judge in Washington state blocked the entire Trump travel order.
Trump signed a new executive order on Monday. The Syrian man filed a new complaint on Friday afternoon, alleging the new order is still an anti-Muslim ban that violates his freedom of religion and right to due process. He asked Conley to block its enforcement against his family.
Judge Conley granted that request, saying there were daily threats to the Syrian man's wife and child that could cause "irreparable harm." He issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement against the family. The order doesn't block the entire travel ban. It simply prevents Trump's administration from enforcing it against this family pending a March 21 hearing.
After the Trump ban was blocked the first time, the approval process restarted for the Syrian family and they're now preparing to travel to Jordan for visa interviews at the U.S. embassy, the last step before U.S. customs officials decide whether to issue them visas. But the family doesn't have dates for the interviews yet and Trump's new travel ban goes into effect March 16, stirring fears that the process could halt again before visas are issued, according to the Syrian man's attorneys.
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very simply - "your interviews are scheduled for March 10, 2020"
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That may be why AG Sessions asks remaining 46 US attorneys to resign. We need attorneys who can make effective arguments, instead of wimpy arguments like the former administration attorneys are wont to do.
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A Syrian Muslim man who was granted asylum and settled in Wisconsin has been working since last year (to win U.S. government approval for his wife and 3-year-old daughter)
Almost had me there, AP - I thought this guy had a job!
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Obama selected Judge Conley has been the lawfare 'go to guy' for many liberal causes, including a major Planned Parenthood ruling.
In that one, he struck down the new Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic.
Plus, he was a long-time member (maybe still is) of the Southern Poverty Law Institute.
No more need be said.
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[FoxNews] "When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ’met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC," Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
"The ’resistance’ allegedly occurred a few weeks before the 2016 election, and local authorities believed the lack of progress in this case was handled inadequately," Johnson wrote.
At some point, the Iraqi entered the U.S. through the refugee program. His activities "Activities," you say.
in the U.S. triggered an investigation by JTTF members, who planned to charge him with visa fraud while they investigated possible further charges.
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It happened on President Obama's watch, but until the rules are changed, could easily be happening now. More from the article:
The suspect is an Iraqi man who had entered the U.S. under a false name. His real name was not released.
Fox News has learned the JTTF confirmed through U.S. Special Forces who encountered the suspect during operations that he claimed to have participated in attacks against American troops as an insurgent.
U.S. officials said earlier this week that nearly a third of the FBI’S 1,000 ongoing domestic terrorism investigations involve those admitted to the U.S. as refugees.
“Refugees are admitted to the U.S. based on the story they tell of persecution, and they are not required to produce identity documentation or other types of documentation,” Arnold said. “If the person seeking entry is a persecutor, he would have specificity in his story that matches information obtained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Services personnel adjudicating the events.”
[IsraelTimes] Brooklyn Jewish senior center received a bomb threat on Friday, in the latest scare this month, coming a day after the Jewish Children’s Museum in the same New York borough was evacuated due to a similar threat.
According to local reports, the Jasa Senior Citizen Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn received the threat in the form of a text message at 8:45 a.m. local time. It was not clear if the center was evacuated.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the United States Central Command General Joseph L. Votel has said the Pak military and security services have not taken lasting actions against the notorious Haqqani terrorist network inside its soil so far.
In his statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Votel said "Pakistain remains a critical partner in the counter-terrorism fight. Twenty U.S-designated terrorist organizations operate in the Afghanistan-Pakistain sub-region; seven of the 20 organizations are in Pakistain."
Gen. Votel further added "So long as these groups maintain safe haven inside of Pakistain they will threaten long-term stability in Afghanistan. Of particular concern to us is the Haqqani Network (HQN) which poses the greatest threat to coalition forces operating in Afghanistan."
"To date, the Pakistain military and security services have not taken lasting actions against HQN. We have consistently called upon the Paks to take the necessary actions to deny turbans safe haven and improve security in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region," he added.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... he said "We have seen some promising coordination between the Pakistain and Afghanistan militaries aimed at addressing instability in the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region. The Pakistain military in particular continues to conduct counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in the FATA and facilitate, via ground and air lines of communication, the sustainment of coalition operations in Afghanistan."
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"Well, of course not. He's our tool"
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If your actions won't be lasting, why take them at all?
[Daily Excelsior] An influential US politician has sought a "radical reset" of ties with Islamabad and introduced a bill in the Congress that pushes the American government to declare Pakistain a "state sponsor of terrorism".
Congressman Ted Poe, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, introduced the Pakistain State Sponsor of Terrorism Act (HR 1449) in the US House of Representatives yesterday.
Introducing the bill, Poe said, "not only is Pakistain an untrustworthy ally, Islamabad has also aided and abetted enemies of the United States for years."
"From harbouring the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... to its cozy relationship with the Haqqani network, there is more than enough evidence to determine whose side Pakistain is on in the War on Terror. And it’s not America’s," he said.
"It is time we stop paying Pakistain for its betrayal and designate it for what it is: a state sponsor of terrorism," the Texas politician said.
The bill requires US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to issue a report within 90 days, detailing whether Pakistain has provided support for international terrorism.
Thirty days after that, the Secretary of State is required to a submit a follow-up report containing either a determination that Pakistain is a "state sponsor of terrorism", or a detailed justification why it does not meet the legal criteria for such a designation.
Separately in a joint piece in The National Interest magazine with James Clad, who was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Asia in the George W Bush administration, Poe called for a "radical reset" of ties with Pakistain.
Arguing that all efforts to change Pakistain’s behaviour have failed, they said it was time that the US "sets, unilaterally, the limits of its indulgence".
They urged the US Government not to let the next crisis in South or Southwest Asia deflect America’s focus. "Don’t rush to shore up Pakistain’s balance of payments via the IMF or other intermediaries, as we’ve done in the past," they said.
"Let China pay that, if the Paks wish to mortgage their future in that way. (China’s ’One Belt, One Road’ infrastructure plans for Pakistain are running into big problems)," the two said in the piece.
They said, "something must change in US dealings with a terrorist-supporting, irresponsible nuclear-weapons state, and it must change soon." "Acquiescing in the current trends is not an option."
"Changing our reactive accommodating stance vis-a-vis Pakistain won’t come quickly. But it must change--irrespective of trends in US-India relations, which have steadily come to be on a sounder footing since the George W Bush administration. There’s a tendency to think of Pakistain as part of a troubling duality, with India and Pakistain in a death spiral. That’s out of date--and we have our issues with India too," Poe and Clad wrote.
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[Iraq News] An Iraqi Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by 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.... forces of Evil says her advocacy for other victims has left her completely exhausted and frustrated that her captors have not faced justice.
Nadia Murad and her attorney Amal Clooney appeared at a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... event on Thursday to ask that the crimes of Islamic State forces of Evil be investigated and prosecuted, and they criticized the international body for inaction.
Murad, who turned 24 on Friday, was among thousands of women and girls kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused by myrmidon fighters in northwest Iraq in 2014.
She first spoke before the U.N. Security Council in 2015 and has become an advocate for the Yazidi, speaking to governments and appealing to the international community to act.
"It is very hard to come here every time, and nothing tangible takes place," Murad told the Thomson Rooters Foundation after her appearance at the United Nations. "It’s very hard for the victims as well to hear there is no progress."
Murad said she was kidnapped from her village in Iraq and taken to the Islamic State stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . She was tortured and repeatedly raped before she escaped three months later.
The Yazidi, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
In her speech at the U.N. event on accountability for crimes committed by Islamic State, the slight, soft-spoken Murad said: "I am physically and emotionally exhausted.... I have put my personal life aside to seek justice, rather than focusing on my own healing."
Six of Murad’s family members, including a toddler not yet 3 years old, remain captives of Islamic State, and her sister-in-law escaped after nearly 30 months.
Murad said her advocacy has put others in her family in danger.
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It's not that we don;t care, it's what can we do? It's not like the cops can simply go in, investigate and arrest the perpetrators.
[Iraq News] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... sought to build cooperation with Russian leader 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... on Friday over military operations in Syria, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... attempts to create a border "safe zone" free of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and the Kurdish YPG militia.
Erdogan, referring to Islamic State’s remaining stronghold, told a joint Moscow news conference with the Russian President "Of course, the real target now is Raqqa".
Turkey is seeking a role for its military in the advance on Raqqa, but the United States is veering towards enlisting the Kurdish YPG militia ‐ something contrary to Ankara’s aim of banishing Kurdish fighters eastwards across the Euphrates river.
Turkey considers the YPG the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has been fighting an insurrection on Turkish soil for 30 years. Washington, like Ankara, considers the PKK a terrorist group, but it backs the YPG.
Russian-backed forces of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... are also operating in the north of the country, close to Turkish borders. Washington and Moscow are concerned fast-moving military developments could lead to serious festivities between Turkish forces and the YPG.
"It should now be accepted that a terrorist organization cannot be defeated with another one," Erdogan said, referring to the enlistment of YPG by the United States to fight Islamic State.
"As a country that has been battling terror for 35 years, terrorist organizations like ISIS (Islamic State), the YPG, Nusra front and others are organizations we face at all times."
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[Iraq News] The Syrian government has called on the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to force The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to pull "its invasion forces" out of Syria, state media said on Friday.
Turkey’s military shelled Syrian government forces and their allies in northern Syria on Thursday, causing deaths and injuries, state-run SANA news agency reported.
Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria in August, deploying tanks and air power in support of rebel groups opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... Turkey’s operation aims to drive 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.... from the border and stop Kurdish militias from gaining ground in their wake.
Syria’s foreign ministry urged the U.N. secretary general and security council to "force Turkey to withdraw its invasion forces from Syrian land and stop the attacks", SANA said.
The Syrian government blames Turkey for "killing tens of thousands of its innocent sons and destroying Syrian infrastructure", it added.
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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.
[ShabelleNews] A terror suspect has lost a human rights fight against a decision to bar him from returning to Britain and strip him of his UK citizenship.
North Korea last year tried to sell lithium-6, a core material for the production of hydrogen bombs, on an open website, a report by a UN Security Council panel said Thursday.
[Breitbart IS] Attacking European politicians who he accused of failing to show migrants a sufficiently warm welcome, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief compared the rhetoric of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to that of Nazi Germany.
[AnNahar] The leader of Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday appealed to Ottawa for help and additional resources amid a spike in the number of asylum seekers flowing in from the United States.
[FoxNews] "When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ’met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC," Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the United States Central Command General Joseph L. Votel has said the Pak military and security services have not taken lasting actions against the notorious Haqqani terrorist network inside its soil so far.
...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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
