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Does it take that long for a serious Congress to strip state and local officials of immunity of office if they openly act or declared themselves in direct violation of federal immigration laws? When an illegal commits a felony against any member of the community, said citizen should have standing in federal courts to sue for damages. Tort lawyers rev up your TV spots!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan defense officials reacted at the allegations of a Pak official regarding the alleged destructive role of India, calling it as baseless.
General Dawlat Waziri, front man for the Ministry of Defense in response to the allegations of the Pak official, said that New Delhi has no military presence in Afghanistan, rejecting the misunderstanding of Islamabad claiming that the country is fuelling anti-Pakistain feelings with its presence in Afghanistan.
He said India is only providing training and study opportunities to the Afghan army cadets and that New Delhi has military presence in Afghanistan.
Pakistain’s Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, on Thursday, said that the state was serious about improving relations between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Speaking to a private news channel, the minister claimed the strained relations between the two countries was due to Indian influence on Afghanistan’s side, according to The Express Tribune newspaper.
India has played a major role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and has invested over $2 billion in various reconstruction and infrastructure projects.
The construction of the major Salma Dam, the new Afghan parliament building, Zaranj-Delaram highway, and some other projects are among the key investments India has done so far in the country.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Agoonyar, the sub-clan of Harti Abgaal said in a statement that it has withdrawn confidence from the new Somali Federal Government led by Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo.
The Abgaal sub-clan of Aqoonyar blamed the current government for negligence and discrimination from the power-share system of the new Federal government of Somalia.
According to the statement, the clan’s serving soldiers in the Somali National Army (SNA) will abandon the frontlines and they were summoned for urgent consultations.
Aqoonyar claimed it has been the frontrunner for unity of the people, previous reconciliations in Abudwak, Bosaso and towns in Gedo region, to unite and reconcile Somali people.
"We sacrificed the blood of our brave soldiers for sake of the country and the protection of the government, and today we are being ignored and lacked our rights," read the statement.
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[AlAhram] The total number of casualties in the two attacks climbed to 47 dead and 126 injured, in the deadliest murderous Moslem attack against civilians in decades.
Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi declared a state of emergency nationwide on Sunday after attacks by suspected jacket wallahs on two different Egyptian churches killed dozens and injured scores, in the deadliest recent attack against the country’s Christians.
On Palm Sunday morning, a bomb went kaboom! inside Mar Girgis Church in the Delta city of Tanta, killing at least 27 and injuring 78 others, according to health ministry figures.
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[Iraq News] 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.... group, on Sunday, released another statement via its website Amaq, revealing the details of the suicide kabooms that hit the Coptic Church of Mar Girguis in the city of Tanta and Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, as well as disclosing the identities of the jacket wallahs who carried out the attacks.
The group said in the statement that its member ’Abu al-Bara’ al-Masry’ blew up his boom belt in front of Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria Province, while another member, known as ’Abu Ishak al-Masry’ detonated his explosive vest "amid a gathering of crusaders’’ in Mar Girguis Church in the Egyptian city of Tanta.
Furthermore, in the statement, the terrorist group threatened, who it described as "crusaders and apostates" with more attacks.
The statement released by the Islamic State, revealing the identities of the suicide bombers who attacked the Egyptian churches.
Earlier today, during Palm Sunday celebrations, a suicide attack hit the Coptic Church of Mar Girguis, in the Egyptian city of Tanta, killing 30 persons and injuring more than 70 others.
Nearly four hours later, another suicide attack hit Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria Province, killing 17 persons, including the church security members, and wounding 35 others.
Following the attacks, the Islamic State group released a statement via its website ’Amaq’ claiming responsibility for the attacks on the Egyptian churches.
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The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials. Handwringing in the first paragraph?
Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency. The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million, one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic conversations. "I can say no more"
Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National Security Council is still working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review. Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015. #SellUsthedamnplanes
The Nigerian air force has been accused of bombing civilian targets at least three times in recent years. In the worst incident, a fighter jet on Jan. 17 repeatedly bombed a camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where civilians had fled from Boko Haram. Between 100 and 236 civilians and aid workers were killed, according to official and community leaders' counts
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Prime Minister of Sweden has vowed his country will 'never go back' to recent levels of mass immigration after it emerged the terrorist who killed four people in a truck attack was a failed asylum seeker. A nation of dumbasses. It doesn't matter what your intentions are. What matters is whether the other bastard hates you.
Stefan Löfven pledged to change his country's liberal attitude, insisting the massive influx allowed during the 2015 migrant crisis would never happen again. You can betcher booty the dumbasses will be up in arms over his "intolerance."
Rakhmat Akilov, from Uzbekistan, hijacked the lorry and deliberately drove into pedestrians on central Stockholm's main shopping street on Friday afternoon.
It was a copycat of the attack carried out in London last month, when Khalid Masood killed four pedestrians and injured dozens more with a Hyundai 4x4. Swedish police said there were clear similarities.
Akilov is thought to have carried out reconnaissance along his route days earlier.
Four were killed and 15 injured when he drove a 30-ton truck down a pedestrianised area and smashed into a department store. Chris Bevington, a 41-year-old father-of-two from Britannia, was killed close to his office.
But it emerged yesterday Swedish authorities had given Akilov four weeks to leave Sweden after his final asylum appeal failed in December.
He was being sought by police and immigration officials for deportation ‐ but evaded them simply by giving a false address.
'Sweden will never go back to the [mass migration] we had in autumn 2015, never,' Mr Löfven said yesterday.
'Everyone who has been denied a permit should return home.
'This makes me feel enormously frustrated. If you have been denied a visa you are supposed to leave the country.'
He added: 'Terrorists want us to be afraid, want us to change our behaviour, want us to not live our lives normally, but that is what we're going to do.
'Terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never.'
There are more than 3,000 migrants colonists living unlawfully in Stockholm alone, police said.
Akilov, 39, had expressed support for 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 world-wide holy warrior group Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... , whose UK members included tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! hate preacher Anjem Choudary ...Self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month... Akilov reportedly told police that he carried out the attack on the orders of Islamic State.
He allegedly said: 'The bombings in Syria must stop,' a Swedish newspaper reported.
Akilov has allegedly confessed to the attack and told Sherlocks he was 'pleased with what he had done' and had 'accomplished what he set out to do', it was claimed.
Police sources said a bomb, found in the truck but which failed to detonate, contained gas canisters, chemicals and nails.
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Got to give credit to Sweden for learning albeit a bit too late. Now for the problem at hand of sending them back to wherever they came from--call it "late term extreme vetting."
[IsraelTimes] Officials unsure if 17-year-old planned to use defused device to carry out attack.
A 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Russia was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sunday in connection with an bomb found near a busy subway station in Norway’s capital that police defused before it detonated, authorities said.
The youth was detained on suspicion of handling explosives, but Sherlocks do not know if he planned to carry out an attack with the homemade device, Signe Aaling, chief prosecutor for Norway’s PST security service, said.
Aaling described the explosive as "a primitive improvised bomb with limited damage potential."
"PST is now working on finding his intentions and find out whether others are involved," she said.
The youth was not identified, but security service head Benedicte Bjornland said Norwegian intelligence was aware of him. He is an asylum-seeker from Russia who arrived in Norway with his family in 2010, Bjornland said.
Bjornland also alleged that the youth was part of "extreme Islamism" circles in Norway. He was arrested based on a tip from the public, Bjornland said without elaborating.
"It is likely that that attacks in La Belle France, German, Great Britannia, Russia and Sweden can create a copycat effect in Norway with people with Islamic sympathies," Bjornland said, listing the locations of holy warrior attacks that have devastated Europe in the last year.
"The attacks demonstrate how easy such attacks can be carried out, and prove to others that it is possible to make something similar," she added.
The teenage suspect’s lawyer, Aase Karine Sigmond, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that her client denies wrongdoing and had distanced himself from 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.... group.
"We are talking about boyish stupidities," Sigmond told NRK.
The teen, who lives in Oslo, is scheduled for a pre-trial custody hearing on Monday.
Brace Belden had been reading about Rojava, a large swath of northern Syria that had been carved out by a Kurdish political party and its military wing, the YPG (or People's Protection Units). The YPG had become one of the most effective bulwarks against ISIS and Western volunteers, many of them military veterans, had started enlisting. But Belden was less interested in the YPG's battlefield victories than in what it was trying to build: a semi-autonomous region operating under a more or less socialist system. To Belden, who’d identified as a Marxist since he was a teen, Rojava looked like Spain in 1936: Capitalism reigned supreme, and fascism was on the march, but here was an opportunity to halt the latter and foment revolution against the former. After several months of wondering whether he was truly prepared to kill for his political beliefs, and several more figuring out how to actually join a Kurdish militia, Belden told his girlfriend that he was going to Syria to do humanitarian work and got on a plane.
[DAWN] Some may kill two birds with one stone but Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has the quality of killing many birds with one stone.
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[DAWN] The Moslem world must form an ’Islamic United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ’ to counter the proxy war thrust on the Islamic states by the colonial powers and the enemies of Islam, says Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Emir Senator Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... Commenting on the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the subsequent US missile attack there, he said the tyranny of Bashar al Asad on the Syrians was not something new as his father had also killed hundreds of thousands of Syrian Moslems and had set numerous habitations on fire.
Sirajul Haq said the arms and ammunition being manufactured in the West were being tested on the Moslem countries. The US, he said, had ransacked Iraq after accusing Saddam Husain of having WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) and put to death thousands of Iraqis Moslems. Subsequently, the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces attacked Afghanistan and killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
The JI chief said the colonial powers were repeating the same story in Kashmire, Burma, Paleostine and Syria, "but unfortunately the attitude of the Moslem rulers is deplorable."
Haq said in the prevailing situation, it was the duty of the Moslem rulers to sit together and chalk out a common line of action to foil the enemy designs and for the security of each and every Moslem. He said in Arakan (Burma), the Moslems’ habitations and mosques and madressahs were being torched. Hundreds of Rohingya Moslems were being killed in Arakan every day but the United Nations and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... bodies were silent.
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well there already is an OAS (organization of Arab States) which is an embarrassing waste of oxygen
and then there is the organization of Islamic cooperation which is less known but equally embarrassing
so per DAWN, the solution is another org
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that peace and stability in the world could only be established by strictly adhering to Islamic ideology.
Accompanied by Imam-e-Kaaba Sheikh Saleh Bin Muhammad Ibrahim on stage, Fazl said that Islam was the religion of peace and love and peace could only be established in world by strictly following the teaching of Holy Koran and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!) in a true spirit.
He was addressing a public gathering at the concluding ceremony of the JUI-F-sponsored three-day centenary celebrations in Azakhel, Nowshera.
He said that this historic congregation had passed the message of hope and peace in world and would remove a sense of deprivation among masses.
JUI-F chief addresses a gathering in Nowshera. ─PPI
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And we're supposed to believe a group that calls itself 'Islamic State' has nothing to do with Islam. Seems this guy is saying that if everyone strictly adhered to Islamic ideology there would be no terrorism. I guess if EVERYONE adhered to it... nah, then they'd just terrorize each other.
[DAWN] Secretary General Antonio Guterres has selected Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... to be a UN messenger of peace, the highest honour bestowed by the UN chief on a global citizen.
UN front man Stephane Dujarric announced on Friday that the 19-year-old education advocate would focus worldwide attention on the need for all girls to go to school. She will be officially designated at a ceremony on Monday.
Ms Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014.
"Now as our youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace, Malala can do even more to help create a more just and peaceful world," Mr Guterres said in a statement.
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[Iraq News] Hundreds of Christians flocked to the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh on Sunday to celebrate Palm Sunday for the first time in three years, packing into a church torched 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.... to take communion at its ruined altar.
In October, Iraqi forces expelled the Sunni Moslemforces of Evil from Qaraqosh as part of a campaign to retake nearby djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the country’s second-largest city seized by the group in June 2014.
Iraq’s biggest Christian settlement until the forces of Evil arrived, Qaraqosh has been a ghost town as most residents are still too afraid to come back with the battle for Mosul, located 20 kilometres away, still raging.
But on Sunday church bells rang again across the town.
Hundreds arrived in cars from Erbil, the main city in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan where most Christian had fled when Islamic State gave them an ultimatum to pay special taxes, convert or die.
"We need reconciliation," Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Butrus Moshe told worshippers in the Immaculate Conception Church guarded by army jeeps.
Islamic State has targeted minority communities in both Iraq and Syria, setting churches on fire.
Scribbled "Islamic State" slogans could be still seen on the church’s walls while torn-up prayer books littered the floor.
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[Iraq News] Nouri al-Maliki, leader of the Iraqi Shi’ite political party of Dawa, said they will endorse the outcome of the Kurdistan Region independence referendum provided that the referendum does not include Kirkuk province, according to Iraqi media.
Iraqi local news outlets have reported that Maliki, who is also the Iraqi VP, has stated that they will approve the result of the referendum for the Kurdistan Region independence if the process is held only in the three Kurdish provinces of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok.
He has stated that the referendum cannot be conducted in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... claiming that it is an Arabic city.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Salah Dalo, a Kurdish official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), told BasNews that Maliki does not have the right to intervene in the Kurdistan Region’s affairs.
He stated that the referendum will include all the disputed areas within the Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, stressing that the referendum will be held this year.
The Kurdish official described Maliki’s remarks as an attempt to cover his failures and gain Arab public support.
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The only thing Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria agree on is that there shall be no independent Kurdistan.
[Iraq News] Some 484 Yezidi members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have left the party and joined Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga forces, said a Peshmerga commander.
During an interview with the Turkish Anadolu agency on Sunday, Luqman Gli, a commander of Peshmerga, said these new recruits have been receiving training since March.
According to the official, they left PKK following the events in Khanasor parish of Sinjar.
On March 3, 2017, festivities erupted between Peshmerga and PKK affiliated guerrillas in Sinjar which ended with some causalities.
Since the restoration of a relative security in Sinjar and its surroundings, KRG has been calling on PKK to withdraw from the area but the Kurdish party from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is buttressing its stance by recruiting locals in its newly founded units.
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[DAWN] Imam-e-Ka’aba Sheikh Saleh Mohammad bin Talib on Saturday held separate meetings with President Mamnoon Hussain and 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 discussed with them relations between Pakistain and 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 challenges facing Moslems across the globe.
Both the president and the prime minister welcomed the Imam-e-Ka’aba and said Pakistain and Saudi Arabia were brotherly countries and their people had great religious and cultural relations. Relations between the two countries had become closer and stronger, they added.
They said Islam is the religion of peace and called for making concerted efforts to remove misconceptions about it.
President Hussain called for establishing an international group, comprising Ulema and religious scholars who should present the true picture of Islam in order to arrest the trend of extremism, said a blurb.
He said the people and the government of Pakistain had great regard for Saudi Arabia which had always supported Pakistain on all important issues at regional and international forums, including the kingdom’s support to Pakistain on the Kashmire dispute.
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the 'Islam is the religion of peace and terrorists misunderstand' speech is seen as a cruel joke in much of the world now but evidently some people can mouth the words while keeping a straight face
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What he should have said is that Soddies need a few million morons who are willing to do their bidding (for a price) and Paks need the money.
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The Pirates Code Hijackedku
The Holy Crayon
Is more what you call guidelines
Than actual rules
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evidently some people can mouth the words while keeping a straight face
A short, quick jab to the nose should fix that.
Personally, I'm all for removing misconceptions about Islam. I'll believe Islam is "the religion of peace" when Muslims are the people tackling suicide bombers and ratting out the radicals in the mosques.
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Islam isn't a "religion" nor do its adherents belong to any single "race". Its an *ideology*, and a poisonous one at that. Its more peaceful ones deserve mockery, and its more violent ones extermination.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Huge reinforcements have poured into the northern Hama countryside as the Syrian Army vowed to recapture all territories lost to jihadi groups recently.
The reinforcements include tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, MLRD rocket launchers, as well as a significant number of the Army’s elite troops who have been fighting 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.... in east Aleppo countryside.
According to a military source, the military campaign against the jihadi groups in northern Hama aims at not only restoring the villages and towns recently seized by the Islamic snuffies during their latest offensive, but also recapturing new areas under the holy warriors’ control in order to prevent potential attacks in the future.
An alliance of ultraconservative groups ‐ led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhet al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ) ‐ launched a massive assault on government positions in northern Hama, taking over large swathes of land.
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I seem to remember a phrase from the days of pencil -neck's father's regime, Hama Rules.
[RT] The Red Cross has characterized the current situation in Syria as an “international armed conflict” after the US missile strike on Syrian Shayrat airfield near Homs, the ICRC regional spokesperson told RT. Before, it was... something else.
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More background on this story from a few days ago because we wondered who he was.
[DailyMail]
Ahmad Abousamra, 35, was killed in early January when a missile struck a house where he was staying north of the Syrian city of Tabqa
Abousamra, born in Gay Paree, reared in an exclusive Boston suburb, set up publications including magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah
He travelled to Yemen, Pakistain and Iraq before returning to the US but fled after his plans for an armed attack with two accomplices on US soil were uncovered
In Syria he joined Al Nusra before transferring allegience to ISIS
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[Iraq News] Conflicts among 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.... fighters have been reported after nominating Abu Hafsa al-Mawsely, the group’s deputy commander of the "Nineveh State", to succeed His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , intelligence sources in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... said.
IS leaders and fighters are witnessing conflicts and divisions after the group’s shura council nominated ِAbu Hafsa to succeed Baghdadi, the sources said on Sunday.
Abu Hafsa is known to be one of the violent members and a senior politician of the group. He occupied several important military and administrative positions within the group.
The leaders, according to the sources, were divided between supporters and opponents to nomination of abu Hafsa.
Chief of staff at the Kurdistan Region Presidency (KRP) Fuad Hussein previously revealed information about the way through which Baghdadi could have beat feet from Mosul.
In an interview earlier this month with the Independent, Hussein said Baghdadi beat feet from Mosul two months ago when the road to the west was opened in the wake of a fierce attack launched by the Lion of Islams. IS "used 17 suicide boom-mobiles from Mosul and some of their units from Syria to clear the road leading out of Mosul for a few hours."
Baghdadi addressed his supporters at areas that IS controls, a local source from the province said in February. Baghdadi urged fighters to flee urban areas and resort to mountains after admitting defeat to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and militias fighting to retake the city of Mosul in his ’farewell speech’.
Baghdadi’s exact whereabouts have been unknown for long time. In June 2014, Baghdadi was declared "the caliph" and "leader for Moslems everywhere".
Iraqi forces have made remarkable gains after a new offensive started in February to retake western Mosul. The eastern side was recaptured from IS in January.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] As promised, immigration police have expanded their campaign to deport illegals with criminal records, announcing the seizure of 368 illegals in seven states and Washington, D.C.
That nearly a 250 percent increase over the 106 announced a week earlier.
The biggest seizures by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in Texas, but they made arrests as far north as Wyoming.
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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.
[Iraq News] The 
...Self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month...
[NY Mag] By Reeves Wiedeman 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[DAWN] The 
[DAWN] Secretary General Antonio Guterres has selected Nobel Peace Prize laureate 
[DAWN] Imam-e-Ka’aba Sheikh Saleh Mohammad bin Talib on Saturday held separate meetings with President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister 
[Iraq News] Conflicts among 
