Kandahar police chief general Abdul Raziq on Sunday warned the wealthy in the province against paying their Zakat (charity) to the Taliban amid reports that businessmen, company owners and landholders were donating money to the Taliban and the Quetta Shura.
He said that the money paid to the Taliban as charity funds the insurgents war.
Raziq said that police will deal with those who do not abide by this in accordance with the law.
"The Taliban fuel their war machine from the money they receive from the people, therefore we call on wealthy people to stop raising money, otherwise the police will deal with such people according to the law," Raziq said.
He said that police in recent years have arrested dozens of the people for giving donations to the Taliban. But they were later released with the mediation of tribal elders.
He called on the tribal elders to help in this regard saying it will bolster security in the country.
"We detained dozens of people in connection with the issue, but they were later released after tribal elders intervened. We request the people to cooperate with police in this respect and to not allow Afghans to be killed with their own money," he said.
Meanwhile, people in the province have warmly welcomed the move, asking the rich to rather donate money to the needy instead of the Taliban.
"We extremely support the move by the police. This will improve security and we are ready to cooperate with the security forces in this respect," a Kandahar resident Shahid Khan said.
"We call on all the people of Afghanistan to cooperate in improving the security, we also demand the wealthy people help the needy and poor not the Taliban," another resident Ahmad Shah said.
Taliban are known to collect donations from Afghans across the nation.
A member of Somali parliament Dahir Amin Jesow has voiced support for ratify the East African community Mutual Defence Pact for regional co-operation.
East Africa has an army?
Jesow has called the lawmakers of the federal parliament to unanimously endorse the proposed pact, that allows the country to join the east African rapid reaction force.
Somalia has a parliament?
Several legislators are reportedly opposing the deal which was put forward by Somali defense minister his excellence Gen Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Dini.
The Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF), with 5,000 soldiers from 10 nations, will help the region deal with its own rebellions, civil wars and coups, and reduce its reliance on foreign troops.
On the other hand, Somali parliament has summoned security and finance ministers for questioning over 8 month unpaid salaries of the Somali police forces who are in charge of the country’s security.
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A suspected US drone has on Sunday crashed in an Al shabaab stronghold in Somalia’s southern Lower Shabelle region, reports said.
The drone is said to have been conducting a surveillance operation before it crashed in a the Al shabaab-held Gobanle area, located some 70Km north of Balli-Dogle airbase in Lower Shabelle province. It is yet unclear which country belongs to the crashed drone, but Unites States military has been routinely carrying out airstrikes against Al shabaab in south and central Somalia over the past few years.
U.S. is said to be operating a secret drone base in Balli-Dogle village, where Somali troops are being trained by foreign military, including Americans, European union experts.
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[THEOLYMPIAN] Nigeria is firing dozens of senior officers accused of corruption and the theft of billions of dollars meant to buy arms to fight the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamic insurgency, the army and an officer privy to the list said Saturday.
The officer said more than 50 officers have been sacked. He spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because the matter is sensitive and he was not authorized to speak publicly.
Army front man Col. Sani Kukesheka Usman said only that "quite a number" were sacked Friday, mainly major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, lieutenant colonels and one major.
Some already have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly diverting billions meant to buy weapons, Usman said in a statement.
Others were found to have played partisan roles in the 2015 elections in the south of the country that favored former President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau.Other than that he's pretty useless as the Boko Haram debacle shows.. . He lost to former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari, who made fighting endemic corruption and Boko Haram a cornerstone of his campaign.
Usman did not name those fired.
Among officers on trial for corruption are two former chiefs of defense staff. The more recent chief, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, is in court for allegedly stealing some $20 million to build a shopping mall and buy other property in Abuja, the capital.
Also on trial is the former national security adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, who said he diverted $2.1 billion on Jonathan's orders to bribe officials to win Jonathan his party's presidential nomination. The entire annual military budget is about $6 billion.
Buhari blamed corruption for failures to curb Boko Haram and blamed those involved for the deaths of an unknown number of civilians and troops in the uprising that has killed more than 20,000 in six years.
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Let's see, Nigeria can fire people who have done wrong while in the U.S. (with our 'rule of law') transfers and promotes government employees who do wrong. Great!
[NEWS24.NG] [NEWS24.NG] Niger's defense minister says his country and Chad will send troops to neighboring Nigeria to fight Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... myrmidons.
Hassoumi Massaoudou said late Thursday that the military deployment by the two countries is meant to secure their borders from Islamic myrmidons, who have staged several attacks in recent weeks in Niger, including one in Bosso that killed at least 26 soldiers.
He would not give more details on the number of soldiers, or their timing, but said they will remain in Nigeria's Borno state until the zone is secured.
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Heads up to Typographers Everywhere (Leave yee copyee and get yee away) this is clearly a dangerous one.
CIA chief John Brennan said he expects 28 classified pages of a U.S. congressional report into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to be published, absolving Saudi Arabia of any responsibility.
'I think the 28 pages will be published and I support their publication and everyone will see the evidence that the Saudi government had nothing to do with it,' Brennan said in an interview with Saudi-owned Arabiya TV. His comments were dubbed into Arabic.
The withheld section of the 2002 report is central to a dispute over whether Americans should be able to sue the Saudi government, a key U.S. ally, for damages. The U.S. Senate passed a bill on May 17 allowing the families of September 11 victims to do so, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto.
Saudi Arabia denies providing any support for the 19 hijackers - most of whom were Saudi citizens - who killed nearly 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks. Riyadh strongly objects to the bill.
Brennan called the 28-page section merely a 'preliminary review.'
'It was found later, according to the results of the report, that there was no link between the Saudi government as a state or as an institution or even senior Saudi officials to the September 11 attacks,' he added.
The Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence is reviewing the material to see whether it can be declassified.
Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the congressional inquiry into the attacks, said in April that the White House will likely make a decision sometime in June on whether it would release the classified pages.
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'I think the 28 pages will be published and I support their publication and everyone will see the evidence that the Saudi government had nothing to do with it,' Brennan said in an interview with Saudi-owned Arabiya TV. His comments were dubbed into Arabic.
Brennan reassures the Kingdom, which is of course his first concern.
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It was widely reported that the 9/11 hijackers were supported by various Saudi entities in the US. Many of these entities worked within the embassy staff of SA. Others were merely business officials. Some were closer to the royal family than others.
Sadly the Bush adm was too closely tied to the royals to act on the information, IMO.
Brennan converted to islam long ago. He is a stooge for the SA regime.
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Brennan has been around for all of the Saudi disasters...Khobar towers, losing control of bin Ladin, 9/11, and now the rise of ISIS and establishment of a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. He has plenty of experience screwing things up, speaks Arabic, won't say Jihadist...just won't come outta his mouth...why shouldn't we trust him?
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Funny thing is, the Iranian Bomb, brought to the Saudis by That Friendly Guy, President Zero, combined with their own decision to never come clean, will do more damage than any US nationalist 'revenge for 9/11' ever will.
Germany and Turkey have reached an agreement on the construction of a guesthouse for German military staff at the İncirlik Airbase in southern Turkey despite recent tension between Berlin and Ankara over a recent Armenian “genocide” resolution in the Bundestag.
“An agreement has been reached during talks with Turkey on the issue of the construction of a guesthouse for the military staff in İncirlik and the preparation of some infrastructure,” said a statement from the German Defense Ministry.
Speaking to daily Hürriyet, officials said talks would continue although the agreement had been reached following demands by German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen during a visit to İncirlik at the start of 2016. “There are still kinks on some issues. They should be ironed out, too,” said a Turkish official.
Germany has tornado jets, a tanker aircraft and a staff of nearly 300 person for maintenance and ground services at İncirlik. Germany plans to build a 400-person guest house for this staff, a coordination center for operations and additional hangars for the maintenance of aircraft.
Although the German Assembly recognized the “Armenian Genocide” on June 2, it is noteworthy that talks have continued between Ankara and Berlin for the needs of German soldiers. Germany has deployed soldiers to İncirlik as part of the international fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Turkish military sources said defense undersecretaries would mainly conduct the efforts for the construction of the guesthouse and other infrastructure works and that foreign undersecretaries could participate in the talks if necessary. According to reports, Turkey has stipulated that the guesthouse, coordination center and hangars to be built by Germany be handed over to the Turkish Defense Ministry once the mission ends.
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ISIL puts beer bottles in front of cell houses to avoid police raids in Turkey’s southeast
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants put beer bottles in front of their cell houses as a ploy to avoid police raids or arrests in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Doğan News Agency reported on June 12.
A total of 128 objects seized in an operation on Oct. 26, 2015, including plenty of beer and perfume bottles, were destroyed according to the police report. The ISIL militants also put beer on their beards in order to give the impression that they consumed alcohol to avoid arrest.
Two police officers and seven militants were killed in the aforementioned operation and many seized objects were destroyed under prosecutor’s orders on June 11 for not having criminal elements.
Books used for propaganda purposes were also among the objects destroyed.
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He was told he should "delineate" between Islamist terror and homophobia after an attack killed 50 at gay Florida nightclub Pulse
Disgusted Owen Jones stormed out of Sky News after the presenter tried to distance the Orlando shooting from LGBT hate crime.
Mark Longhurst told the left-wing writer people should "delineate" between Islamist terror and homophobia after the attack which killed 50 at gay Florida nightclub Pulse. Islam is very inclusive on topics regarding hate and intolerance.
That prompted a furious response from Mr Jones, who is gay and said the attack was both things at once.
And he threw up his arms in denial after Mr Longhurst told him "you cannot say this is a worse attack than what happened in Paris".
Eventually Mr Jones tore off his microphone and stormed off the set of the channel's nightly newspaper review, where he was appearing with talk radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer.
He won swift support from commentators and MPs including comedian Matt Lucas and Labour shadow minister Caroline Flint.
Veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told the Mirror: "The line of questioning put to Owen Jones would never have been put to a black or Jewish person if one of their venues had been attacked in this way.
"I think the interviewer should sit down with people from the LGBT community to discuss our concerns. There was widespread anger in the LGBT community at that interview."
Labour MP Stella Creasy said she was "horrified" at Mr Jones' treatment while the SNP 's John Nicolson said the line of questioning was "utterly bizarre".
Saturday night's attack is the worst mass shooting in US history and has been described as the worst killing of LGBT people since the Holocaust.
It sparked fears the so-called Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attack, has begun targeting gay westerners it sees as 'deviants' after already killing many in brutal fashion in Syria.
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The Left & MSM have a problem. They habitually don't notice Islamic terrorism. At the same time, they are hypersensitive to anyone who thinks homosexuality is not the bestest thing ever.
But if the MSM idiots give this attack more attention than normal they will be guaranteeing more attacks against gays.
[Breitbart] Pulse, the Orlando gay nightclub targeted in a jihadist terror attack, was a "gun-free zone" by state law.
Per Florida's concealed carry law, those with a license to carry may not carry their firearms into an establishment that serves alcohol.
The establishment was touted as "Orlando's hottest gay bay" on its website, providing patrons with an "unforgettable night of fun and fantasy." Domestic terrorist Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a registered Democrat and Muslim from Port St. Lucie, killed 50 victims and wounded 53 more -- all of whom were prohibited from carrying weapons to defend themselves.
The state statute that covers the license to carry a weapon, Title XLVI Chapter 790, clearly states that guns are not permitted in bars
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The cops took 3 hours to get in there. While there's no excusing what the Muslim terrorist did, it appears that making sure every cop got to go home that day took precedence over saving lives.
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Not sure that's entirely fair, Zhang. The cops did need to figure out what was going on, and there was a fair bit of rescue.
I do agree that in these situations it's likely better for the cops to go in as quickly as they can -- but we don't want them to charge into an ambush. Count on the ISIS mooks to figure out how to set that up.
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Regardless of any law against patrons carrying in a bar, why didn't the bouncers have firearms?
Never mind moslem terrorism - homosexual bars must know they're targets for someone.
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Zf is right, 5 cops in 10 minutes doing their sworn duty would have saved many. But how many chances do you get to go full SWAT school?
It's one guy with a gun, man up assault and kill. Remember the Sergeant of Arms of the House Of Commons? Went to his his desk got his pistol and BANG! BANG! No history
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Three hours seems unbelievable, but there must be some planning even on the fly to understand the layout of the property and target. Also, the cops need to watch out for the ambush for cops AND first responders medical.
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Also could have been terrified there was a pipe-bomb or other explosive waiting for them. Still think 3 hours is ridiculous, but I bet you anything the SWAT team wasn't anywhere near ready when this was called in. Which...is actually kind of bad.
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I would like to know how much time it took for the SWAT team to get all dressed up, check their batteries, get reacquainted with their bad boy weapons, have a couple of doughnuts and refuel their assault vehicle.
Exactly, cops need to be cops, it's dangerous as hell sometimes, but you signed on the line, no special out. Uncle Charles would have blown thru the crowd and landed at least one slug on this POS, a shotgun slug. You take the Queens money and you take your chances.
The federal bureaucrat who blocked armed law enforcement agents from apprehending a man involved in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, then allegedly lied to investigators about her actions, has been reassigned to another post, but likely won't face charges of treason and sedition further investigation, FoxNews.com has learned.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services supervisor who an Inspector General’s report did not name but blasted for keeping Department of Homeland Security agents from Enrique Marquez is Irene Martin, who, according to her Linkedin.com account, has been with the agency for at least 16 years, 13 years as a field supervisor.
Marquez and his Russian wife Mariya Chernykh were scheduled for an interview with Martin’s staff on Dec. 3, the day after Marquez’s friend Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people at an office Christmas party. After the FBI learned Marquez allegedly supplied the guns, they sent five armed Homeland Security Investigation agents to the USCIS building to detain Marquez. Martin refused to allow the agents access to Marquez.
It is not clear what disciplinary action Martin could face,
This is the government. We can't discipline VA officials who allow veterans to die waiting for medical care. Take a guess what happens to Ms. Martin...
but the report last week faulted her for making agents wait more than 90 minutes before she gave them access to related files on the suspected terrorist, and then she dismissively ordered them to hand copy files, according to the federal report. Agents told building security they intended to arrest Marquez to prevent him from killing anyone, but Martin had them wait 30 minutes just to see her. When questioned by IG investigators later, Martin repeatedly changed her story and also contradicted what other witnesses said.
I think this is called, 'obstruction of justice'...
“We concluded that the USCIS Field Office Director at the San Bernardino office improperly delayed HSI agents from conducting a lawful and routine law enforcement action…” the report said. “We have also concluded that the Field Office Director was not candid with OIG investigators during her interview.”
I think this is called, 'lying'...
Jeff Carter, chief of media relations for USCIS, told FoxNews.com late Monday that "to his knowledge there is no further investigation into Martin," and her transfer become acting deputy district director was planned before the audit was released.
You got it -- not only was she not disciplined, she was promoted. Your federal government in action.
Martin, who formally oversaw San Bernardino and Riverside as well as Los Angeles counties, did not return emails to FoxNews.com. USCIS in California referred calls to its Washington headquarters, where officials refused to comment. However, experts and former law enforcement agents told FoxNews.com Martin’s actions amounted to obstruction of justice.
“The USCIS field director’s behavior was not only outrageous and reprehensible, but in violation of federal law and policy that ensure any law enforcement agency the ability to make arrests or conduct interviews in government facilities,” said Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research institute. “I cannot imagine any possible excuse for her actions, and it is doubly concerning that she apparently lied to the investigators about what she did. She needs to be fired, not to mention prosecuted.”
Although Marquez was only a “person of interest” a day after the attack, authorities were frantically trying to track down anyone associated with Farook and Malik. Both Farook and Malik were killed by law enforcement after their morning attack.
“When agents show up to CIS for a criminal investigation, they should never be impeded. That is obstruction of justice,” said Claude Arnold, retired special agent in charge for ICE’s Los Angeles bureau of Homeland Security Investigations.
Martin is not named in the Inspector General report released June 1, but large portions of the 9-page report to Congress are dedicated to documenting the field supervisor’s actions. Internal sources confirmed Martin’s identity and the USCIS web site still lists her as the field supervisor.
“When interviewed by OIG, the field office director denied telling the agents they were not allowed to arrest, detain, or interview anyone in the building,” the report states. “However, her account is contradicted by that of the other HSI agents present.
“She also gave inconsistent answers about when she discovered that the HSI agents were investigating the shootings from the day prior….Either version is contradicted by the building security officer….”
Arnold said the allegations in the Inspector General’s report indicate criminality.
“It is pretty standard across the federal government that if someone engages in criminal misconduct related to their professional duties, it is also a removable offense,” he said.
The report notes Martin had no authority to hold up the agents who were justifiably concerned that Marquez and Chernykh may pose a threat to the occupants and visitors of the USCIS facility. Marquez, who is now in jail and awaiting trial on charges related to supplying the guns as well as marriage fraud, has pleaded not guilty.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., requested the IG investigation.
“The DHS was created to unify and improve coordinated efforts to defend our homeland. Refusing to allow armed ICE agents into a USCIS facility to detain a suspected terrorist just a day after a deadly terrorist attack is disturbing,” Johnson told FoxNews.com. “It is my hope that the DHS takes this incident seriously and improves its coordination so that something like this never happens again. The safety of all Americans depends on it.”
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There is a proper way to handle her case, but the odds of California assembling a firing squad are slim.
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It is my hope that the DHS takes this incident seriously and improves its coordination so that something like this never happens again. The safety of all Americans depends on it.”
Dude, until you arrest her, throw her in jail, and make her face the full extent of the LAW - including time behind bars - this crap is going to continue to happen.
Its fairly obvious that her, and USCIS don't give a rats ass about the "safety of all Americans".
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She is a typical bureaucrat, especially of the liberal/Democrat sub-species.
Unless something effects one personally and immediately there is no reason to NOT delay and obstruct anyone else in a desire to exert your own power at a minimum.
Orlando terror attack gunman Omar Mateen was married to a 30-year-old woman, the mother of his young son, according to public records.
Mateen had lived in St. Lucie County, Florida, with his second wife, Noor Zahi Salman, but it is not clear if they were together or separated at the time of the shooting. Omar Mateen, 29, and Noor Zahi Salman, 30, have been married since at least 2013, according to a mortgage document. They have a 3-year-old son together.
The status of their relationship is not clear. The Washington Post reports that it appears Salman had left Mateen prior to the shooting. Salman did not respond to requests for comment from Heavy.com and also declined to speak to the Post.
Salman has lived in California and Illinois, and attended the now-defunct Heald College-Concord in California.
Little else is known about Salman, who has deleted her social media profiles, including her Facebook page, in the wake of the shooting.
Facebook may have banned Pam Geller but Ms. Salman, I'm sure, was in good standing...
Mateen was previously married to Sitora Yusufiy, a New Jersey woman, in 2009. Their marriage ended after only a few months when she left him. They were officially divorced in 2011.
That's the one featured in the story below.
In an interview with Heavy.com, Yusufiy said that she lived in Florida with Mateen between April 2009 and August 2009. She said that her parents then “rescued” her from the relationship and she never saw Mateen again. The divorce process took two years because of the long distance.
She posted a message to Facebook after the shootings, “Great Spirit I offer my deepest prayer and condolences to the victims of the Orlando shooting…May they transition in peace may their souls be healed, may the wounded victims recover and heal in peace, may the families and loved ones heal and find their peace….Archangel Michael Please protect us from suffering and the suffered…. Please protect us from hate, violence, anger and instability…. Amen.”
Mateen’s ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, who now lives in Colorado, said Mateen was abusive during their brief relationship.
“He was not a stable person. He beat me,” she told the Washington Post. “He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that…He seemed like a normal human being. He was a very private person.”
She said her parents “literally saved her life” when they rescued her from the Florida condo she shared with Mateen.
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He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that…He seemed like a normal human being.
Those elipses hide something, or she has an odd sense of "normal".
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This is a leaf. You need to go after the tree. The only way to be effective is to rip out the roots.Destroy ISIS and kill all the members wherever they are.
An get heartfelt thanks from Al Qaida, Taliban, Hizb'allah, and a dozen more?
Funny how, in all this ISIS vs Gasy talk we never hear about Islam vs Gays. Iran still hangs homosexuals - in public. I suspect other 'Islamic Governments' do the same.
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So now Rantburg mods oppose killing terrorists?
Last I checked, g(r)romgoru wasn't a "Rantburg mod". He's a commenter from Israel; someone who probably has a bit more experience with terrorism than some multi-nymed commenter from Virginia.
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We can go after the roots and the trees and the leaves--it doesn't have to be an either-or selection.
Further, we need to ridicule the *ideology* that intertwines them all. We must stop pulling our punches when it comes to talking of this backwards-ass "religion". The false-equivalence that we allow when comparing/contrasting Islam and Christianity must be shouted down (and not just by Christians). Even secularlists must surely see the difference between the two, and this tendency to pretend that "religion" is the problem in fact its ISLAM that is the problem must be shoved to the front of the public conversation.
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That's right, Crusader. They need to be ridiculed openly, publicly and often by media and politicians until they finally become desensitized to it. Ideally, we could reason with them but you can't reason with people who want to kill you for it. But if you can't reason with them you can't live with them either unless you want to submit to them. They need to be ridiculed, isolated and suppressed until such time as they decide to be reasonable.
A pro-Isis group has released a hit list with the names of more than 8,000 people -- mostly Americans.
But that wouldn't be enough "just cause" to get you a CCL in California these days...
More than 600-people live in Florida, and one security expert believes that many of those targeted live in Palm Beach County and on the Treasure Coast.
The "United Cyber Caliphate" that hacked U.S. Central Command, 54,000 Twitter accounts and threatened President Barack Obama is the same pro-Isis group that's reportedly created a "kill list" with the names, addresses and emails of thousands of civilian Americans.
Reports of the list came to light online when Vocativ reported the list was shared via the encrypted app, Telegram, and called on supporters to kill.
Former FBI agent-turned lawyer Stuart Kaplan says the threat is especially alarming, because the people on this list are civilians who don't have the security necessary to protect themselves.
"It's going to create some hysteria," he said.
In liberal enclaves, yes. It's going to create some grim determination in the heartland...
Kaplan is concerned the list will inspire "lone wolf" style attacks.
"If in fact a sympathizer gets ahold of this list and is readily able to identify you as being his neighbor and, then, decides (because they're a sympathizer) to go out and do something horrific to you, there is no way to calculate the potential or to prevent that."
There most certainly is, and people in the heartland will be making those calculations and preparing accordingly...
The list has not yet been made public.
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The list has not yet been made public.
I'm certain that the named citizens are being notified, privately, as we speak, and efforts are underway to assure their safety.
You'll find it comforting to know that:
Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen was a licensed and armed security guard for a multinational security company that had the Department of Homeland Security contracts to transport illegal alien caught by US Border Patrol agents.
Mateen is still licensed as a weapons eligible security guard through the Jupiter, Fla headquartered US subsidiary of G4S plc, a multinational British corporation that is the largest security provider in the world, according to the Palm Beach Post.
It does make you wonder: he was on the Watch List for a while. The FBI knew about him. Yet he could still carry heat and the DHS didn't seem to know about him.
Meanwhile we're still searching grannies at the airports...
A former Fort Pierce police officer who once worked with 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the assailant in an Orlando nightclub shooting that left at least 50 dead, said he was "unhinged and unstable."
Daniel Gilroy said he worked the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift with G4S Security at the south gate at PGA Village for several months in 2014-15. Mateen took over from him for a 3 to 11 p.m. shift.
Gilroy, a former Fort Pierce Police officer, said Mateen frequently made homophobic and racial comments. Gilroy said he complained to his employer G4S Security several times but it did nothing because he was Muslim. Gilroy quit after he said Mateen began stalking him via multiple text messages — 20 or 30 a day. He also sent Gilroy 13 to 15 phone messages a day, he said.
"I quit because everything he said was toxic," Gilroy said Sunday, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."
Gilroy said this shooting didn't come as a surprise to him.
PGA Village resident Eleanora Dorsi, however, recognized Mateen's face as a friendly one who guarded her gated community in western Port St. Lucie.
"Whenever I saw him, he was very polite," Dorsi said Sunday from her summer home in Connecticut. "He was always a gentleman."
Dorsi, who has lived in the community since 2011, estimatesd she saw Mateen a dozen times through the years, but he left a big impression on her because of his chivalry, she said.
"He even helped me with the car once, so I can't say he was creepy," she said.
Mateen helped her work the windshield cleaning function in her new car one time, she said.
Dorsi frequently gave Mateen and other guards at PGA Village pizza, cookies and candy for their hard work, she said. The last time she saw Mateen was a year ago, Dorsi said.
"He was always smiling and just seemed like a very nice, positive person," Dorsi said.
It sent chills down Dorsi's spine to imagine the man charged with keeping her and other locals safe carried out the deadliest mass shooting in the nation's history, she said.
"You would never ever think that he would have done anything like this," Dorsi said.
"Scary, scary. Very scary. I think everyone feels like that right now," she added. "It hits too close to home."
The media can't let the man be seen as evil, so they find a little old lady at the golf course villa to put in a good word. I know the world and people are complex, but this guy certainly does seem to be evil, and anything "nice" he did was part of the face he maintained until he could act on his rage.
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IMO, any Pathan hating homosexuals would find plentiful employment back home.
The only thing that surprises me is that WaPo is reporting this.
The father of Omar Mateen, identified by police as the man behind the carnage at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, is an Afghan man who holds strong political views, including support for the Afghan Taliban. In a video he posted on Saturday, he appears to be portraying himself as the president of Afghanistan.
Seddique Mateen, who has been referred to as Mir Seddique in early news reports, hosted the “Durand Jirga Show” on a channel called Payam-e-Afghan, which broadcasts from California. In it, the elder Mateen speaks in the Dari language on a variety of political subjects. He doesn't always make much sense.
Oh, the comments we could make...
Dozens of videos are posted on a channel under Seddique Mateen's name on YouTube. A phone number and post office box that are displayed on the show were traced back to the Mateen home in Florida. Mateen also owns a nonprofit organization under the name Durand Jirga, which is registered in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Funneling money back to the Taliban chapter of the Widows Ammunition Fund?
In one video, Mateen expresses gratitude toward the Afghan Taliban, while denouncing the Pakistani government.
“Our brothers in Waziristan, our warrior brothers in [the] Taliban movement and national Afghan Taliban are rising up,” he said. “Inshallah the Durand Line issue will be solved soon.”
The “Durand Line issue” is a historically significant one, particularly for members of the Pashtun ethnic group, whose homeland straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Durand Line is that border. It is not clear whether the Mateens are Pashtun. The Afghan Taliban is mostly made up of Pashtuns.
The line was drawn as a demarcation of British and Afghan spheres of influence in 1893. The British controlled most of subcontinental Asia at the time, though some parts, including what is now Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan, were only loosely held. The line was inherited as a border by Pakistan after its independence. Since it splits the Pashtun population politically, it is seen as a cause for their marginalization. Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in most of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
And we couldn't ever have a bout of international common sense that would simply move the line, or create a Pashtun state, now could we...
"I order national army, national police and intelligence department to immediately imprison Karzai, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad, Atmar, and Sayyaf. They are against our countrymen, and against our homeland," he says, while dressed in army fatigues.
The most recent video on Mateen’s YouTube channel shows him declaring his candidacy for the Afghan presidency. The timing of the video is strange, as it came a year after presidential elections were held in Afghanistan. Mateen appears incoherent at times in the video, and he jumps abruptly from topic to topic. His use of Dari, instead of Pashto, the language of Pashtuns, was another strange element of his presentation, given that he is discussing issues of Pashtun nationalism.
On Sunday morning, Mateen told NBC News that his son’s rampage “has nothing to do with religion.”
Neither does the Taliban...
Instead, he offered another possible motive. He said his son got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami a few months ago. He said his son was especially enraged because the kissing took place in front of his own young son.
“We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident. We weren’t aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country,” Mateen said.
Mateen could not be reached for comment by The Washington Post. His cellphone has been switched off.
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His use of Dari, instead of Pashto, the language of Pashtuns, was another strange element of his presentation, given that he is discussing issues of Pashtun nationalism. Not strange - Dari is the language used by the Afghan government. What is strange is a Taliban father and ISIS son...
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P2K - concur. I am curious how a family whose father has a program on Youtube, that previously hosted the current Afghan president, now supports his Taliban warrior brethren - pontificates while wearing camouflage, and has a son that is obviously radicalizing...escapes scrutiny until after the fact. This also happened in San Bernadino. Incompetence, impotence, deliberate indifference? All of the above?
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Reference #3. No one with that high a profile goes unnoticed. Nice home and cars Saddique. Your “The Durand Jirga, Inc.” non-for profit must be doing quite well.
It will be interesting to see if, like Anwar al-Awlaki, Saddique Mateen's contact(s) in Afghanistan suddenly become candidates for house cleaning.
I have a feeling much, much more will be learned in the days and weeks ahead. Too many dead 'entitlement class' victims in this one. I would not be surprised to see some high-level retirements or resignations. FBI Director Comey and possibly John Brennan could be likely candidates.
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What is strange is a Taliban father and ISIS son...
A) In Syria, North Africa and elsewhere we see lots of movement of jihadis between groups -- in Mali it's like keeping track of rock bands in the Monty Python skit, and B) the Taliban are the Afghan home team, while ISIS is definitely the international conglomerate. Papa was talking about home issues, Sonny Boy was embarked on world conquest.
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I have a feeling much, much more will be learned in the days and weeks ahead. Too many dead 'entitlement class' victims in this one. I would not be surprised to see some high-level retirements or resignations. FBI Director Comey and possibly John Brennan could be likely candidates.
Concur on Comey. This will be the prime opportunity to get rid of a guy that may cause Hillary problems. Obama was parroting Brennan's exact words last night - he will not go anywhere.
That said, the Feds have been consistently behind the curve on Nakoula and Eiad (the Fed prosecutors had Nakoula out as an informant on Eiad when he produced that Innocence movie that caused the riots) - Eiad was a criminal and apparent terror finacier; they screwed the pooch on the Tsaarnevs and the San Bernadino cell; and now the Mateens. I don't know how many times we can settle for excuses that they knew this could happen... Actionable intel is worthless unless it is well, actioned. The witches brew of the incompetence of our policy makers, impotence of weak kneed political minded prosecutors, and the resultant deliberate indifference of the crimint folks and some SACs (not all) equals blood in the streets.
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"This Politically Correctness bullshit is getting the wrong people killed."
FTFY, CF.
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Incompetence, impotence, deliberate indifference? All of the above?
Considering that a significant number of the armed opposition in the Bundy standoff have since been arrested (or killed,) one can make a reasonable summation.
Apparently we're becoming more European. Look at how we're copying the French. I can't predict the future but one could wonder if we're going to manage our immigration any better than the Europeans have managed theirs...
Between 2001 and 2013, the U.S. permanently resettled nearly 30,000 Afghan migrants on green cards. According to Pew, nearly all Muslims in Afghanistan (99%) support sharia law as official law.
As legal immigrants, these migrants will be granted lifetime resettlement privileges will be given automatic work permits, welfare access, and the ability to become voting citizens.
Between 2001 and 2013, the United States permanently resettled 1.5 million Muslim immigrants throughout the United States.
In the next five years, without changes to our autopilot visa dispensations, the U.S. will permanently resettle a Muslim population larger than the entire population of Washington D.C.
Immigration from the Middle East is on the rise. Based on 2014 data–the most recent available data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)– the number of green cards issued to Middle Eastern countries increased by 32 percent. The number of green cards issued to Afghan migrants increased by 379 percent in the course of that single year.
Hillary Clinton has made clear that under a Clinton Presidency, these numbers will grow substantially higher. Based on the minimum numbers Clinton has put forth thus far, the U.S. will resettle 730,000 permanent migrants from the Muslim world during her first term alone.
The Tampa Tribune reported last year that Florida now leads the nation as the number one state in resettling refugees.
According to the federal government, Florida resettled 43,184 refugees in 2013. While most of these refugees settling in Florida arrive from Cuba, many arrive from Middle Eastern countries. According to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the next largest countries to resettle in Florida are (in order) Iraq, Myanmar (Burma), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, and Palestine.
According to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 91.4 percent of recent refugees from the Middle East are on food stamps and 68.3 percent of recent refugees from the Middle East are on cash welfare.
The Tampa Tribune reported that many of these Muslim refugees are carving out their own Muslim communities within Florida (similar to what refugees have done in Dearborn and Minneapolis): “Many of the refugees finding homes in the Tampa Bay area are Muslim because the region has an established Muslim community.
Immigrants generally do this. It wasn't all that long ago that Chicago had ethnic enclaves for Italians, Slavs, Poles, Bohemians, Chinese, and so on. For the most part we had a melting pot back then and so over time most of the immigrants became "American". Apparently it's "racist" even to consider a melting pot and that kind of Americanization these days.
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Iran is going in a few days to file a suit in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the United States for its seizure of Iranian assets, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Parliament today.
Sue? You mean Champ didn't just roll over and send Kerry to Tehran with a bag of cash?
"We will use the occasion to show to the world how the US violates rules," Fars news agency quoted Zarif June 12.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on June 2 instructed the Foreign Ministry to implement a legislation passed by the parliament, committing the government to claim compensation from the US.
The decision by the Iranian parliament came after a US court ruled on April 20 that $2 billion of Iranian assets frozen in a US bank account had to be turned over to the families of the American victims of a 1983 bombing in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, and other attacks blamed on Iran.
The confiscated money belongs to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). The assets had been previously blocked under the US sanctions.
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BP has expressed readiness to invest in development of certain Iranian oil fields, Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, said.
Talks with the British company are underway for cooperation in oil fields' development, boosting recovery rate at old fields, and research projects, Javadi said, Mehr news agency reported June 11. The two parties are also negotiating to resume Iran's crude oil sale to the company, Javadi, who heads the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), said, adding no agreement has been reached on the issue yet.
BP also has expressed readiness to reopen its office in Iran, Javadi said, forecasting that the British firm's office will resume its activities in Tehran in summer.
BP and NIOC jointly share the Rhum gas field in the North Sea with an equal share distribution of 50 percent. According to the estimates provided by BP, the Rhum field contains 800 billion cubic feet of gas and accounts for about 4 percent of the UK's annual gas production.
Operations were suspended at the field in November 2010 after the EU introduced sanctions against Iran. Since the sanctions were lifted in January, Iran has increased the crude oil export to 2.2 million barrels per day aiming to redeem its previous place in the world market.
Iran's oil output also reached 3.5 million barrels per day in April, according to the OPEC.
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Orlando terror attack gunman Omar Mateen was married to a 30-year-old woman, the mother of his young son, according to public records.
BP has expressed readiness to invest in development of certain Iranian oil fields, Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, said.
