[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... once again slammed the Taliban ...the Pashtun equiovalent of men... group for leading a baseless insurgency, claiming that the group is the main reason behind the presence of the US forces in Afghanistan.
Speaking during a gathering in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province in the presence of Second Vice President and other high level officials, Hekmatyar said the insurgency led by the Taliban has forced the American force to remain in the country, specifically pointing towards the attack on Kunduz city nearly two years ago.
Hekmatyar further added that the major attack on Kunduz city was a major mistake done by the Taliban holy warriors for launching the attack after the US forces had started withdrawal from the country.
He said Hezb-e-Islami joined grinding of the peace processor since the US had taken most of its forces out of the country but the growing insurgency led to revision of decision by US to keep troops in the country.
The Hezb-e-Islami leader called on Taliban group to get united with the Afghan people and build the country.
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[Daily Caller] BUDAPEST, Hungary -- When other countries welcomed refugees with open arms, Hungary decided it was time to eradicate illegal immigration at any cost.
The country succeeded, but that success damaged relations with the European Union in the process.
Hungary’s second border fence has just been completed in the southern town of Asotthalom. The 96-mile long, 14 ft. tall double-line of defense doesn’t look too intimidating from a distance. Go a little closer and you’ll notice several layers of razor-wire capable of delivering electric shocks, cameras, heat sensors and loud speakers ready to tell migrants they’re about to break Hungarian law if they as much as touch the fence.
Add a few hundred military officers and "border hunters" and it’s virtually impossible to break.
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There has to be the will to want to stop illegal immigration.
The 96-mile long, 14 ft. tall double-line of defense doesn’t look too intimidating from a distance. Go a little closer and you’ll notice several layers of razor-wire capable of delivering electric shocks, cameras, heat sensors and loud speakers ready to tell migrants they’re about to break Hungarian law if they as much as touch the fence.
It seems like that such a fence might work for our border as well with some tweaking.
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There has to be the will to want to stop illegal immigration.
Neither party has any interest in stopping it. Neither party *cares* if you or I feel safe (or if we *are* safe). They care only that THEY remain in their seats of power and money and private armed security and power and money and fine food and power and money.
I think a lot of us lost sight of that for a little while after Trump won--we mistakenly believed (in hindsight it was a mere wish) that since Trump was a "Republican" that the Republicans believed in and supported the same things that propelled Trump to the White House.
We've learned otherwise. The Republicans are, by and large, the same bullshit-talking *power* craven leaches that the Democrats are. They are as much the enemy as the Democrats are. They work WITH the Democrats rather than in opposition to them.
[IsraelTimes] Lieutenant had expressed myrmidon views in a 2014 academic paper, but officers ’looked the other way’.
Germany’s defense minister on Sunday vowed zero tolerance for far-right snuffies in the military amid a widening scandal over a soldier who allegedly plotted an attack which he planned to blame on refugees.
"We can tolerate many things, but not political extremism, right-wing or religiously motivated extremism," the minister, Ursula von der Leyen, told public broadcaster ZDF.
She was reacting to the strange case of a 28-year-old army lieutenant, named by German media as Franco A., who led what prosecutors called a "double life" pretending to be a Syrian refugee.
He was jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! last Wednesday on suspicion of planning a gun attack which he meant to blame on his alter-ego -- a fictitious Damascus fruit seller.
The scandal widened after news magazine Der Spiegel reported the suspect had expressed far-right views in a 2014 academic paper, but that no disciplinary action was taken against him.
The military intelligence service is currently investigating around 280 cases of suspected far-right sympathizers in the German armed forces, the report said.
Von der Leyen pointed to leadership failures within the Bundeswehr and criticized "a misunderstood esprit de corps" that had led superior officers to "look the other way" in the lieutenant’s case.
She and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, in charge of immigration and refugee issues, have vowed to clear up the embarrassing case, which has led one Social Democrat member to label them a "security risk" for Germany.
’Death list’
The lieutenant was first temporarily detained in February, by Austrian police at Vienna airport, after he tried to retrieve a loaded, unregistered handgun he had hidden in a toilet there days earlier.
This sparked an investigation in which a fingerprint check threw up an even bigger surprise: the suspect had in December 2015 created a false identity as a Syrian refugee.
The soldier, who has an Italian father and German mother, had pretended to be a Damascus fruit seller named "David Benjamin" -- ostensibly a Catholic with Jewish roots who had fled 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.... Lion of Islam group.
He had registered himself at a German refugee shelter and even launched a request for political asylum, said the prosecution statement. Incredibly, the request was accepted, even though the soldier speaks no Arabic.
He was allotted a place in the refugee home and from January 2016 onward received 400 euros (NIS 1,500, $435) a month in state assistance under this false identity.
The Bild daily has now reported that police found a "death list" compiled by the suspect, including left-wing anti-fascist activists.
Police last Wednesday also arrested a second German man, a 24-year-old student and alleged co-conspirator named by media as Mathias F, who was reportedly in possession of bullets, flares and other objects that breach weapons laws.
[SHABELLENEWS] Three western Kansas men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants colonists in Garden City are asking for a delay in their federal trial.
Attorneys for Curtis Wayne Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein and Gavin Wayne Wright jointly filed the motion Friday. Federal prosecutors joined in the request.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren did not immediately act on the motion, The Hutchinson News reported. The trial is currently scheduled to begin June 13.
The three men, all members of a small regional militia group, are accused of conspiring to detonate truck bombs at an apartment complex where about 120 Somali immigrants colonists live in Garden City.
The motion notes the case is complex, one of the defendants was recently appointed a new attorney and the large amount of evidence to be reviewed.
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[DAWN] Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday visited the Line of Control (LoC) in Haji Pir Sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmire and reiterated support for the Kashmiris "rightful political struggle for right to self determination."
After being briefed on the situation along the LoC, ceasefire violatons and operational readiness of the formation, the COAS appreciated the operational preparedness and high morale of troops.
According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) ─ the military's media affairs wing ─ the COAS said India had unleashed its aggression and frustration on the people of India-held Kashmire as well as Pak villages along the LoC and Working Boundary.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... he made it clear that Pakistain Army would keep its response purely in the military domain in accordance with its values.
"The violence perpetuated by the Indian forces in held Kashmire is state-sponsored terrorism by all definitions," he said.
"This violence riles up passions on this side of the LoC, as the people of Pakistain cannot remain indifferent to the barbaric treatment meted out to defenceless Kashmiris, including women and kiddies," he added.
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[Iraq News] The damages which 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.... (IS) organization caused to the infrastructure of Iraq are estimated to be around 42 trillion IQD (approx. 37 billion USD), according to a report by Turkish Anadulo news agency.
The report cited Abdulzahra al-Hindawi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Planning, as saying the total figure does not include the damages to the houses and personal possessions of residents of the war-torn areas.
The official added the Ministry of Planning conducted a survey in the areas which were under IS control and found the volume of the damages "extremely extensive, as 80% of the areas has been razed."
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And if the US is stupid enough to pay for it, it will be $370B.
[IsraelTimes] According to minister, 920 prisoners still refusing food in protest at conditions; jails to set up four medical centers instead of sending weakened strikers to outside hospitals.
They will all end the hunger strike eventually, one way or another. Update from Ynet at 12:10 p.m. EDT: Fifty more give up, taking the number of the hungry down to 870.
[Iraq News] 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.... snuffies executed 64 persons in Syria throughout April over charges ranging from adultery to collaboration with rival parties to the conflict, according to a Syrian war monitor.
The killings occurred from March 29th and until April 29th, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said the victims included 51 Syrians, including one woman, five of the group’s own fighters, six government forces personnel and allied fighters and two members of rival militias.
Those executed were accused of adultery, smuggling civilians outside IS domains and collaboration with the U.S.-led international military coalition and Kurdish forces, SOHR reported. The killings were carried out at Raqqa, Hassakah, Deir Azzour, Homs, Aleppo and al-Badia provinces.
The recent executions raise the total of those executed by IS since 2014 to 4694 civilians, regime soldiers, fellow and rival combatants, according to the U.K-based organization. Those include 87 children and 134 women, according to the organization, which said the methods of executions varied from gunfire to decapitation, burning, stoning and throwing from a high point.
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Beheading for adultery, espionage and collaborating with the other party? That just might just work in DC to drain the swamp.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian officials condemned the recent Turkish Arclight airstrikes that targeted positions for the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syrian and Iraq.
The officials also praised the Kurdish forces for 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.... organization, expressing more support for their right to defend their territories.
"On April 25, it was reported that Turkish jets carried out a series of strikes on the positions of Kurdish self-defence detachments near Mount Karachok in northeastern Syria and near Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharov said on Thursday.
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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.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
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[DAWN] Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday visited the Line of Control (LoC) in Haji Pir Sector of Azad Jammu and 
