[AnNahar] British aid worker David Haines was a former military man who spent years helping the neediest in warzones, but his dedication led to him becoming the latest hostage to be beheaded by Islamic State faceless myrmidons in Syria.
To his family, the 44-year-old was a loving father, husband and what his brother described on Sunday as "just another bloke" who could be the life and soul of the party, but they said he was "most alive" when working in the toughest of circumstances.
Haines, a father of two children, trained with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and worked with relief agencies in the Balkans, Libya, South Sudan and Syria. He was working in Syria for the Gay Paree-based NGO Acted when he was seized by faceless myrmidons in March 2013, along with an Italian colleague, Federico Motka.
Motka was freed in May but there was no news of Haines until he was threatened in a video released this month showing the beheading of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff.
It subsequently emerged that Britannia tried unsuccessfully to rescue Haines, and just on Friday his family had appealed directly to the faceless myrmidons holding him to contact them. But IS made good on its threat and Haines has become the third Western hostage to be beheaded in a month.
In a statement, his brother Mike said he had been "murdered in cold blood". He said he would be "missed terribly", and recalled a loving childhood growing up with his brother, with holidays in caravans and tents and youthful japes.
"David was like so very many of us, just another bloke," he said.
"David was a good brother, there when I needed him and absent when I didn't. I hope that he felt the same way about me.
"He was, in the right mood, the life and soul of the party and on other times the most stubborn irritating pain in the ass. He would probably say the same about me."
Haines was born in 1970 in Yorkshire in northern England but moved to Scotland as a child, attending school in Perth. He worked for the Royal Mail postal service before joining the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircraft engineer. With the military he worked in "various positions covering security and threat assessments in a number of different countries", according to his online CV.
It was during a posting in the Balkans that he began to turn towards humanitarian work, which he would go on to do in brief bursts between work as a security consultant.
"He helped whoever needed help, regardless of race, creed or religion," Mike Haines recalled.
He added: "David was most alive and enthusiastic in his humanitarian roles.
"His joy and anticipation for the work he went to do in Syria is for myself and family the most important element of this whole sad affair."
He left the RAF and after a stint with Scottish railway company, Scotrail, went to work for the German group Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, which carried out post-war reconstruction work in Croatia.
In 2011, he worked in Libya as head of mission for Handicap International, which helps disabled people in poverty and conflict zones around the world. The following year, he was in South Sudan with the US group Nonviolent Peaceforce, which deploys unarmed civilians as unofficial "peacekeepers" in conflict zones.
In a statement, Nonviolent Peaceforce said Haines "saved many people's lives through his good work", adding that they were "outraged by his brutal murder".
Haines was married twice, first to his childhood sweetheart Louise. They had a daughter, Bethany, now a teenager of whom he was "exceptionally proud", his brother said. In 2010 Haines married Dragana Prodanovic, a Croatian woman with whom he had a four-year-old daughter, Athea.
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[Ynet] Libya's Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said on Sunday Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... had sent three military planes loaded with weapons and ammunition to a Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... airport controlled by an armed opposition group.
"Unfortunately they (the planes) reached (Tripoli) Matiga airport," he told UAE-based Arab TV channel Sky News. "We will consider... breaking off relations if this interference into Libya's internal affairs continued."
Equally unfortunately, currently the prime minister of Libya has about enough power to order his secretary to fetch tea, but not to add milk and sugar.
[Ynet] Algeria's Caliphate Soldiers led by Khaled Abu Suleimane break from al Qaeda, join ISIS; significant attacks considered unlikely.
A new gang calling itself the Caliphate Soldiers in Algeria has split from al Qaeda's North African branch and sworn loyalty to the radical breakaway group Islamic State fighting in Syria and Iraq.
A breakaway of key Algerian commanders from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, would show deepening rivalry between al Qaeda's core command and the Islamic State over leadership of the transnational Islamist militancy.
In a communiqué, AQIM central region commander Khaled Abu Suleimane, whose real name is Gouri Abdelmalik, claimed leadership of the new group, joined by an AQIM commander of an eastern region in Algeria, where the al Qaeda wing has its base.
"You have in the Islamic Maghreb men if you order them they will obey you," Suleimane said in reference to 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... , the leader of the Islamic State. "The Maghreb has deviated from the true path."
The communiqué was posted on jihadi websites. Algerian officials did not immediately comment on the statement.
The Algeria splinter group is the latest to side with Baghdadi over al Qaeda's aging chieftain Ayman al-Zawahri, as the Islamic State appeals to younger Death Eaters with successes in gaining territory in Iraq and Syria.
Baghdadi, who has declared himself "Caliph" or head of state, fell out with al Qaeda in 2013 over its expansion into Syria, where his followers carried out beheadings, crucifixions, and mass executions.
For some Death Eaters, Islamic State's creation of a jihadi bastion spanning western Iraq and eastern Syria, and its strong online presence, compare with al Qaeda's failure for almost a decade to carry out a major attack in the West.
North African jihadists
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is just one of the fractured Death Eater groups operating in North Africa, which has been a source of thousands of young fighters travelling from Libya, Tunisia and Morocco to Syria and Iraq.
Algeria, which itself recovered from a decade of conflict against its own Islamist fighters during which some 200,000 people died, is a strong US ally in its fight against Death Eaters in the region.
But experts said the announcement will likely not have a major operational impact on the ground as AQIM has been focused on the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... rather than OPEC member Algeria. Attacks are rarer now in Algeria though Death Eaters still have potential.
"The new group will try hard to make some noise, but it will be very difficult to execute big terrorist actions as Algerian security forces have knocked out most of the gangs in Algeria," local security analyst Anis Rahmani said.
But it may appeal to new Islamist recruits in the Maghreb seeking to fight in Syria and Iraq, where Baghdadi's forces now control large swaths of territory and towns.
The newly created "Caliphate Soldiers" or "Jound al Khilafa fi Ard al Jazayer" is the second group to break with AQIM, the first one being Mokhtar Belmokhtar's group "Those who sign in Blood" who observers say are likely based now in southern Libya.
Belmokhtar, a veteran Algerian Death Eater and former al Qaeda commander, was blamed for criminal masterminding the attack on Algeria's In Amenas gas plant in early 2013, in which 40 oil workers, most of them foreigners, were killed after a four-day siege.
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[Iran Press TV] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi has emphasized that any international coalition against terror should not merely target the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz but all terror groups across the Middle East and Africa.
Al-Sisi made the remarks on Saturday in a meeting with visiting US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , during which the top American diplomat underlined that Egypt would be playing a key role in the so-called US-led coalition to combat the ISIL bully boyz across Iraq and Syria, the Egypt-based Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported Sunday.
According to the report, the Egyptian president and the top US diplomat further agreed that the strategy to combat terrorism should involve not only military measures but also initiatives by religious entities such as Egypt's al-Azhar University to raise people's awareness regarding the danger of terrorist organizations.
This is while Egyptian presidential spokesperson Ihab Badawi also stated that during his meeting with Kerry, al-Sissi further warned about the consequences of foreign holy warriors getting involved in some Middle East conflicts, especially Syria and Iraq, and their role in fuelling such wars.
During the meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo, which was also attended by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson, Kerry pointed to the maintenance of strong ties between Washington and Cairo.
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So Egypt is joining France as the adult supervision for the US "foreign policy?"
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I get the feeling Sisi is itching to clean Hamas out of Gaza.
#4
We should be, but Muslim Brotherhood, which I'm told has nothing to do with islam, Moe Morsi was the Oministration's choice; attacking MB members is attacking his people. After the odd vibe at this last Israel/Paleo cease fire, I'm not sure if either side is over that.
That would be great to have MB and Hamas smashing on the table.
[IsraelTimes] Egypt will hunt down exiled Moslem Bruderbund leaders and seek their arrest, a top official said Sunday, after Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... ordered them to leave its territory despite initially hosting group members following the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year.
The tiny Gulf nation's expulsion of the Brotherhood, branded a terrorist organization by Egypt, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates, signals it is moving to mend a diplomatic rift triggered by its support of the group. Analysts described the move as a political victory for Egypt's current leadership.
Minister of Interior Mohammed Ibrahim said that Qatari authorities gave Brotherhood leaders one month to leave the country, and news hounds for the Doha-based al-Jazeera Egypt channel two months to leave. It was not immediately possible to confirm the ultimatum with Qatari officials, who rarely comment on the issue.
A number of the group's senior members and allied holy mans had already said Saturday that they would leave "to avoid embarrassing" Qatar, which suffered severely strained relations with Egypt and other Gulf countries for hosting the Brotherhood.
A Brotherhood member in Qatar, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns for his safety, said the Qataris conveyed to them that they were under constant pressure led by Egypt to serve Egyptian arrest warrants for the Islamists. He said he will travel to Malaysia while other members will be traveling to Britannia or Turkey.
He added that the group had started discussing the possibility of leaving Qatar after Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ascended to the presidency. El-Sissi led Morsi's ouster after millions of protesters rallied to demand his resignation last summer.
The head of a Brotherhood-allied Egyptian Salafi party living in Qatar said that Egyptian Islamists there know the country has been under pressure to expel them and that Cairo has been encouraging countries to consider them just as dangerous as brutal hard boyz who have taken over swaths of Iraq and Syria.
"Egypt wants to brand the Brotherhood with the stamp of the Islamic State group," Ihab Shiha said by telephone, adding that he himself was not asked to leave the country.
Officials and observers say that Qatar had resisted Gulf pressures to move against the Brotherhood until its ruling emir met with top Saudi officials.
Egyptian security and military officials say Qatar agreed to "gradually" expel the group's members and allies. They said that up to 120 people could leave as part of the agreement, including some facing charges of inciting violence in Egypt.
The officials also said that broadcaster al-Jazeera would tone down its criticism of Egypt as part of the deal. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Egypt has accused al-Jazeera and its affiliates of serving as a Brotherhood mouthpiece in its campaign against the Egyptian government, an allegation the network has repeatedly denied. Its Egyptian branch, al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr, however, devotes nearly its entire broadcast to cover near-daily, scattered demonstrations by Morsi's supporters.
Live programs often host Brotherhood spokesmen and allied Islamists who, along with the group's members, fled Egypt after security forces unleashed a sweeping crackdown on Morsi's supporters, killing hundreds in street festivities and jailing thousands.
"Qatar thought it is better to end its isolation from the Gulf countries and not to remain in one corner with the Moslem Brüderbund," said Anwar Ashki, a Saudi political expert. It eventually became an "embarrassment" for Qatar to host the group, he added.
In March, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Qatar in an unprecedented move for the countries of the six-nation group known as The Gulf Cooperation Council. The countries in the group sit atop some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves.
The three countries linked their move to what they see as Qatar's failure to implement a security agreement which obligates members of the group not to interfere in any of its members' domestic affairs or support organizations that threaten the Gulf's stability.
The agreement also stipulated that countries would not support "hostile media" that threaten the security and stability of member countries "either through direct security work or by attempting to influence politics."
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There is no mention of Brotherhood powerhouses Sheikhs Qaradawi and Goneim. Both are Egyptian radical clerics, both broadcast on Al Jazeera, and both are Muslim Brothers to the core.
[Iran Press TV] Former CIA contractor Steven Kelley says the claim that ISIL came to power by the failure of the US to investigate 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... for the 9/11 attacks is "a massive case of denial" and the kingdom is acting the "lapdog role" for Washington.
Kelly made the comments after former US senator Bob Graham said Washington's failure to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks emboldened Riyadh to engage in harmful actions including supporting the ISIL terrorist group.
"I believe that the failure to shine a full light on Saudi actions and particularly its involvement in 9/11 has contributed to the Saudi ability to continue to engage in actions that are damaging to the US -- and in particular their support for ISIS (or ISIL)," said Graham, who was the co-chairman of the official inquiry into 9/11.
"We also know that ISIL is a fabrication, it is a child of the US and Mossad."
Kelly said, "what we're seeing is a massive case of denial [because] most of the US government structure was aware and behind and involved in the planning and carrying out of the actions on 9/11."
"We all know that was a massive false flag operation directly benefiting and involving [Israel's] Mossad," Kelley told Press TV on Sunday.
"We also know that ISIL is a fabrication, it is a child of the US and Mossad."
Kelley said, however, that the Saudis were only playing "the lapdog role" and solely blaming them for the September, 11 attacks is an attempt by the US government to "deflect blame."
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We also know that ISIL is a fabrication, it is a child of the US and Mossad."
The guy who heads ISIL has a degree in Islamic Studies. He (ISIL) threatens to kill people if they don't convert to his warped version of Islam.
Convert or Die are the options people of conquered areas are given. Hard to assign a motive the CIA or Mossad would have in all this.
What would either group stand to gain?
The sheer depravity of ISIL's crimes alone make me skeptical that ISIL would be a false flag operation. Besides, this dudes stated goal is to establish an Islamic Caliphate. Like Americans and Israelis would want to do that???
Only self-delusional Iranians would even postulate such a story.
[Iran Press TV] Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) has called on Yemeni authorities to probe the use of recent unnecessary force against anti-government protesters in the capital Sana'a.
The international rights group released a statement on Sunday, saying that the Yemeni government must bring to justice military personnel and other security forces accountable for opening fire on demonstrators, which led to unnecessary loss of life and numerous injuries last week.
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[Dhaka Tribune] 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... , many of whose top leaders have been convicted for 1971 crimes, has once again launched a campaign to influence US policymakers against the ongoing trial of war crimes in Bangladesh, spending thousands of dollars.
In March and April this year, two pro-Jamaat organizations based in the USA hired two lobbyist firms to work for engaging the US Congress in condemning the actions of the war crimes tribunal and raise public awareness among the US public.
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[Iran Press TV] Senior Shia and Sunni holy mans in Britannia have held a meeting to exchange views on ways to promote unity among Moslems and thwart a media campaign to create sedition in the Islamic world, Press TV reports.
On Saturday, a group of prominent Shia and Sunni holy mans took part in the 18th annual conference on Proximity Amongst Islamic Schools of Thought in Birmingham, where they discussed promotion of dialogue and respect among different Moslem sects.
The annual conference, which is organized by the Islamic Center of England, brings together scholars from various Islamic schools of thought to hold talks on the latest developments in the Moslem world.
"Unfortunately, when extremism comes, it can make two brothers work against each other. We have to be working together as one family. We are all brothers," Mohammad Ali Shomali, the head of the Islamic Center of England, told Press TV.
Alammah Rabbani, the secretary general of Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, also described the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... groups operating in Middle Eastern states as "real terrorists" and said that they are "bringing bad name to Islam by killing innocent people."
The forum was held amid recent attempts by Western media to falsely portray the crises fueled by Takfiri snuffies in Syria and Iraq as Sunni-Shia conflicts.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... senior Shia and Sunni leaders have repeatedly stressed that what is taking place in Syria and Iraq is not sectarian strife as the Takfiri criminals have threatened all communities and religious groups during their terror operations in both neighboring states.
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Still in denial? Cheeze.
[ABCNEWS.GO] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said today that the brutal beheading of a British aid worker by the terror group ISIS, which follows the execution of two American journalists, showed exactly why the U.K. needed to work to destroy the organization, "the embodiment of evil."
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Cameron must walk a delicate thin line, else he'll offend the sensibilities of Muslim world leaders such as Mamnoon Hussain of Pakistan, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, and Barack Hussein Obama of the United States.
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Moslems are Moslems. Its simply a matter of praying with your butt in the air.
WELL, good, I am glad we cleared all that up.
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Obama said the other day in his speech, that ISIL is neither Islamic nor a state. Is ISIL an exception to Islam? This can't be denial as Obama knows better-- he was indoctrinated in Islam as a child. Cameron says ISIL members are not Muslims but monsters. Agreed they're monsters but they are still Muslims. Seems that both Obama and Cameron are still holding onto the "moderate" Muslim meme. The "Headchopper Next Door" posted at RB today is worth reading.
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Pappy: Third offense, listening to audio book of "Dreams of my Fathers".
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“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. "One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple
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"My third volume, Dads of My Dream,
Lauds the dudes who conceived of this scheme.
Many sired my success,
So thanks, pops (and the press)
For your chef de regime's self-esteem."
#3
she is right but the reason you have heard of this is the media is publicising it
and that is because jacqui lambie is seen as a poorly educated, ignorant simpleton
it is the same thing as pauline hanson
the media is emphasising it not because she is right (even though she is) but because she is an easy mark to attack for those other reasons: her broad accent, she has made previous gaffes that make her look unprofessional
so what they are doing is smearing the message by trying to make it seem that anyone who agrees it is true, is a redneck
#4
Jacqui may be a bogan, but that don't mean she's wrong. Simply put, Sharia law is incompatible with Western values in general, and the US Constitution specifically.
You want examples?
- equality in the eyes of the law vs three separate categories: believers, infidels, women
- no state religion vs Islam
- freedom of religion vs death for apostasy
- women are people vs women are property
Yeah, it's considered mean to point this stuff out, but a fact's a fact, Jack.
#5
As A fifth generation Aussie redneck myself I have no problems with her on that score- but declaring herself an Aboriginal ( response from Aboriginal community: "since when?") and a couple of days later calling for a fixed quota of seat in Parliament reserved for Aboriginals (got anyone in mind, Jacquie?) is too much.
And anyone who signs on with Clive Palmer needs to be put to sleep.
[Iran Press TV] A former US ambassador to Ankara has accused Turkey of directly supporting al-Qaeda's terrorist activities in Syria.
Francis Ricciardone, who was the US envoy to Ankara until late June, said the Turkish authorities thought they could work with bully boy groups operating inside Syria and at the same time push them to become more moderate.
Ricciardone further noted that he tried to convince the Turkish government to close its borders to the groups, but of no avail.
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Turkish authorities thought they could work with bully boy groups operating inside Syria and at the same time push them to become more moderate.
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["NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" WILY USAF GENERAL EUGENE BUSH = "THATS RIDICULOUS ABOUT TURKEY, ITS NOT EVEN 2040-2050 YET"!].
IMO The more likely or pragmatic outcome is that, over time = few decades [2030-2050], the ISIS aka ISIL will be effective in destabilizing + taking over most or all of the Turkish Govt-Army.
Ditto IRAN???
* GROONG > [American Thinker] THE END OF TURKEY AS AN ALLY!?
* SAME > ISTANBUL: WILL NATO SET UP MILITARY BASES IN AZERBAIJAN?
[Tolo News] The Punjabi Taliban in Pakistain has said that the group will shift its focus to Afghanistan and fight the enemies of Islam on Afghan soil.
Punjabi Taliban Chief Ismatullah Muawiya announced that the group would no longer carry out Lion of Islam activities on Pakistain's soil, instead will guide the focuses of all Pak and Afghan Taliban on Afghanistan.
"After talking to the tribal elders, we have decided to focus on the enemies of Islam in Afghanistan," Muawiya asserted. "From now on, the Punjabi Taliban will focus their attacks on Afghanistan."
In response to the assertions of the Punjabi Taliban, officials of the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) have warned that any attacks on Afghanistan would face harsh response from the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
"We have a death message for those who want to attack Afghanistan," MoD front man Gen. Zahir Azimi said. "Afghanistan would be a cemetery for those who want to attack it."
Afghan MPs have asserted that the proclamations made by Punjabi Taliban's are another plan of Pakistain's Inter-service Intelligence Services (ISI).
"This is another ISI stunt," MP Rehana Azad said. "Pakistain has never wanted stability in Afghanistan."
The Punjabi Taliban are mostly active in the Punjab regions of Pakistain, but have been accused of multiple attacks on Afghanistan also.
The group does not have any links with the Pak Taliban.
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The one that was claimed by "al-Qaeda in the Subcontinent/' Could they be one and the same?
[DAWN] Intelligence agencies have completed a report into the preliminary investigation into the attack on the naval dockyard in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... last week which revealed the involvement of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain's (TTP) Sindh chapter in the attack, DawnNews reported.
[DAWN] Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar on Sunday cautioned Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... against misleading the people by asking them to scribble on currency notes.
"Scribbling or writing on currency notes is illegal and would render them useless," said the minister in a statement.
He said such notes would neither be acceptable as legal tender by the business community for trading of goods and commodities nor by the banks.
The minister urged the people not to pay any heed to such calls from those who he claimed had already inflicted incalculable loss to the national economy and were "now trying to rob the people of their hard earned money."
Dr Qadri, earlier today, had launched a movement by writing "go Nawaz go" on currency notes and urged the masses to follow him.
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[Telegraph] Leader of the Punjabi Taliban, one of Pakistain's most effective terror groups, says it is to end its insurgency and embrace charity work
One of Pakistain's most deadly Taliban groups has abandoned its armed struggle and announced it will focus on a peaceful campaign calling on the country to adopt Islamic sharia law.
The Punjabi Taliban is believed to have carried out a number of significant terrorist attacks, including the 2009 assault on the Pakistain army's general headquarters in Rawalpindi, in which nine soldiers were killed; the commando raid on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the same year, and the 2011 attack on the naval airbase at Mehran in which 18 servicemen and two US-donated aircraft were destroyed.
It has also been blamed for a number of sectarian atrocities, including attacks on the country's Ahmadi Moslems and the liquidation of Pakistain's Christian minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti in 2011.
The announcement is seen as a further setback for Pakistain's alliance of 'Taliban' terrorist groups, which has suffered a number of fractures in recent weeks.
The Tehrik e Taliban Pakistain umbrella group broke into three factions earlier this month after a group of commanders, mainly Mehsud and Wazir rustics from North Wazoo, announced they had broken away to form their own group.
Observers said they were divided over the Pakistain army's offensive in the tribal areas which has driven thousands of people from their homes and fuelled dissent over whether the gunnies should fight their own country's army. There is also opposition to the umbrella group's leader, Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , who is based in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... in Afghanistan and regarded as an outsider by Wazir and Mehsud rustics.
The rift has been credited with yielding intelligence which led to the arrest of a gang of turbans Pakistain's security forces believe carried out the failed liquidation attempt on Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old schoolgirl who defied the Taliban's ban on female education.
The Punjabi Taliban's existence and the success of its terrorist operations has been a long-standing challenge to government attempts to portray its insurgency as one led by distant gunnies from the country's unruly tribal frontier rather than strongly rooted in Pakistain's heartland.
Its announcement that it was abandoning its "armed struggle" was made with a declaration of its patriotism and desire to defend Pakistain from "outside threats".
Punjabi Taliban chief Ismatullah Muawiya said that after consulting other Moslem leaders, the organization would now limit its use of force to "infidel forces" and would focus on promoting sharia law.
In a video message, Muawiya said the Punjabi Taliban would continue to operate in Afghanistan but would focus on "Dawat Tablig" preaching and called on other Taliban factions to abandon their insurgencies in Pakistain.
He called on the Pakistain government to compensate those affected by its offensive in Waziristan and other tribal agencies and to rehabilitate them with "honour and dignity".
"Peace is the need of the hour to foil conspiracies against Pakistain and its people," he said.
The announcement was welcomed by military sources in Pakistain who said it was a significant development involving a group which had inflicted heavy casualties on the army. Questions remained, however, about the group's intentions in Afghanistan.
"This is a very important group which had been committed to attacks and terrorism, they have been very effective in the past. This [announcement] will demoralise the others. It shows the military operation in North Waziristan is having an effect. It would be very unfortunate though if Pakistain allows them to go to Afghanistan -- we have to make sure they don't use their energies in Afghanistan", said retired Lieutenant-General Talat Masood, a leading strategic analyst.
[ARABNEWS] Iraq's Vice President Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... endorsed Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi on Sunday, a move that will be seen as a step toward reconciliation in a political system that desperately needs to rebuild to allow Baghdad to fight Islamic State.
For years Allawi, a secular Shiite, has been an outspoken critic of former Premier Nuri Al-Maliki whom he has accused of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence his opponents.
His endorsement will lend political capital to Abadi, who comes from the same Dawa political party as Maliki but has been regarded as more inclusive.
"I frankly believe very strongly that (Abadi) understands the problems and he means well. We hope to help him," Allawi said in a Rooters interview at his home in Baghdad.
Allawi, a former prime minister, is also a key figure in reaching out to disaffected Iraqi Sunnis who Abadi hopes he can bring back to the government side to battle Islamic State.
Maliki's use of force against protesters deepened Sunni hatred of Baghdad, militarized their communities, sparked an armed revolt and allowed Islamic State to exploit grievances.
Until now, many Sunni tribal fighters and members of armed factions have sided with Islamic State, convinced the government is the greater of two evils. The extent of Allawi's influence on Sunnis was shown by the 2010 election in which his coalition, which included leading Sunnis, won every province where Islamic State is now fighting.
Abadi has promised to offer amnesties and to stop the bombardment of cities, a move Allawi said convinced him of Abadi's resolve.
"I told (Abadi) we will be with him all the way if he moves along the right road to recovery," Allawi said. "What we need to do is create a new political landscape where we don't discriminate against the people, we don't disenfranchise the people based on their sect, religion or beliefs," he said.
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[BOSTONGLOBE] Several Arab countries have offered to carry out Arclight airstrikes against Lions of Islam from the Islamic State, senior State Department officials said Sunday.
The offer was disclosed by US officials traveling with Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who is approaching the end of a weeklong trip that was intended to mobilize international support for the campaign against the group.
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All the help we can get. Get on with it already. Assign each country a zone and let them have at it.
Let 'em have all the jet fuel, bombs and plane maintenance they need.
[VOA News] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said he was "extremely encouraged" by pledges of military assistance against Islamic State Death Eaters by countries inside and outside the Middle East and that some nations had offered ground troops.
Kerry has been touring the Middle East to try to secure backing for U.S. efforts to build a coalition to fight the Islamic State Death Eaters who have grabbed territory in Syria and Iraq.
"We have countries in this region, countries outside of this region, in addition to the United States, all of whom are prepared to engage in military assistance, in actual strikes if that is what it requires. And we also have a growing number of people who are prepared to do all the other things," Kerry said in remarks aired on Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation.
On the CNN program State of the Union, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was asked if this coalition would need ground troops beyond opposition forces in Syria and Kurdish and government forces in Iraq.
"Ultimately, to destroy ISIL, we do need to have a force, an anvil against which they will be pushed - ideally Sunni forces," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
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( As long as Kerry himself doesn't have to go ). I am sure the Moslems who are Kerry's friends will really put their hearts into fighting for what's right.
Who are we to judge Moslem values, after all?
Moslems, the world over, do wonderfully well in combat against people who are tied up, or old and helpless ( wheelchairs are best )...or women and children or naked people down in a hole already. If you don't have any weapons and are blindfolded...Moslems tend to be killer heroes. Allah Akbar all round.
But against actually armed soldiers ?...meh...Baghdad Bob all round.
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"All sorts of people are lining up, offering to help the U.S."
What sort of countries are lining up?
"All sorts of people. They just want to remain anonymous in case Champ folds."
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IMO, its make sense for Jordon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, IRAQ, Turkey to have "boots on the ground" to deal with ISIL. They stand to benefit the most. We carry the water all too often for everyone else in the M.E. with little return.
Oh, so you all say that this region occupied by people calling themselves Islamic State really is not representative of Islam? and something should be done about that?
Show me.
Because I don't think Anabasis II, starring weepy media, rules of engagement, and duffy the handicap slayer, sounds like a good flick.
[Iran Press TV] President of the National Paleostinian Unity Government the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has halted government attempts to try Israel at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... for war crimes particularly those committed in Gazoo.
Abbas says the move is necessary to relaunch negotiations with Israel. The latest Israeli offensive on Gazoo killed more than 2,100 people and destroyed over 10,000 buildings and homes. However Abbas snubbing the decision has angered Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, that argues the process to take Israel to the ICC should have taken place well before the recent onslaught started. Hamas says signing the Roman Statute is the right of every Paleostinian victim not osnly from the war on Gazoo but further from the West Bank, where the population is facing violations from the Israeli forces on a daily basis. Abbas is under fire for his decision to block all attempts for the Paleostinian Authority to take Israel to the ICC. Critics say this move deprives Paleostinians' basic right to try Israel for war crimes in Gazoo.
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[IsraelTimes] A Canadian Islamic preacher detained for being a security threat in the Philippines was flown back to Canada after agreeing to be deported, the immigration bureau said Sunday.
Jamaican-born Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips was returned to Canada late Saturday after being detained last weekend in the southern Philippines while on a lecture tour.
This came after immigration commissioners approved his request for voluntary deportation, effectively cutting short the deportation proceedings, the bureau said in a statement.
"He was charged for being an undesirable foreign national and for being inadmissible at the time of entry," the bureau said, explaining Philips's detention.
The bureau earlier said he was blacklisted based on information that he might conduct activities that were a threat to national security.
Police said Philips may have ties to Lion of Islam groups as they prevented him from holding a series of lectures in the south where the Philippines's restive Moslem minority is based.
In a post on his Facebook page dated September 14, Philips said: "Rejection can be utterly disappointing but we must never forget that every closed door is a redirection to what is better for us."
Philips also acknowledged that he was blacklisted in the United States, Britannia, Australia and Kenya, but said this was based partly on statements that were taken out of context.
He was the second Islamic convert preacher to be detained by the Philippines since July, when it incarcerated Please don't kill me! and later deported Robert Edward Cerantonio to Australia.
Police said Cerantonio had used the Internet to urge people to join "jihad" in Iraq and Syria, though they said they had no evidence to show he had managed to recruit any Filipinos.
Two southern Philippines-based Moslem guerrilla groups, the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, have uploaded videos on the Internet pledging alliance to the Islamic State faceless myrmidons who have overrun large swaths of the two Middle Eastern countries.
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Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is already banned from United States, Britain, Australia and Kenya. Suppose Canada said "No" we don't want him. There are probably any number of Islamic countries that would take him.
[Breitbart] On August 28, a contingent of UN peacekeepers from the Philippines found themselves under siege and were allegedly ordered to surrender. They refused the order, choosing instead to fight, and after three days, secured an avenue of escape and their freedom.
Their plight demonstrates a problem in the structure of the UN chain of command, where peacekeepers turn to the command of their "commanders at home" once bullets are fired. In this case, a life saving feature, as opposed to a Command and Control bug.
According to Reuters, the incident began when "al Qaeda-linked militants" battling the Syrian rebels "crossed a ceasefire line in the Golan Heights on Israel's border and seized 45 Fijians" serving as peacekeepers. This left 40 Filipino peacekeepers surrounded.
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[PJ Media] Champ's hope to do anything of substance in Syria took another severe blow yesterday as the U.S.-backed and armed Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) struck a peace deal with ISIS, according to both Arabic and English language news reports.
The SRF had only a few months ago been deemed by the U.S. foreign policy establishment as "the West's best fighting chance against Syria's Islamist armies." Better plan on stopping soon. Our gauge is broken, and I know we're running low on moderates.
For some reason America doesn't look like the strong horse these days -- I can't imagine why. Still, now no one need wonder when or whether they'll go over.
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Taking sides in these Arab wars is ill advised to say the least. It doesn't matter whether it's Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, etc.
You just become a lightning rod for Arab - it's all somebody else's fault - mentality.
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Wait, this is a good thing. Obama, bringer of Light and Peace, has gotten 2 groups of armed crazies to stop fighting with each other. I swoon with admiration for His diplomatic skills.
#6
Fear is a prime factor in all this.
If you were operating in this area, you would try and make peace with ISIS too, sorry to say.
The US needs to land a couple of divisions of crack front line troops and fight ISIS WWII style using planes and drones to the fullest.
I believe ISIS could be wiped out in a few weeks and champ would be a world wide hero.
[AnNahar] The head of the main Syrian opposition group in exile said Sunday he expected the support of the international community to press the fight against Damascus and Islamic State jihadists.
"Give money, weapons and training to us -- we're the legitimate opposition!"
The United States is pushing for the formation of a broad international coalition to tackle IS which has captured swathes of Iraq and Syria, and has already secured the backing of 10 Arab states including 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... "The role of (the) international coalition against terrorism should be very clear," Hadi el-Bahra, head of the Syrian National Coalition, said at a news conference in Abu Dhabi.
The SNC gathers together various groups seeking the overthrow of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... but has been weakened by divisions despite the support of Western countries and Saudi Arabia.
"We are the Syrians, we are the people in charge," he said, adding "the international community should support our effort".
Bahra said the SNC was "100 percent" capable of fighting the IS "with a proper plan which we have put in place and which we ask the international community to support".
The group would launch two offensives at the same time, "one against the regime and one against IS", Bahra said.
U.S. President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... said on Wednesday he had authorized the expansion to Syria of the U.S. air campaign against IS he launched in Iraq in early August.
There have been no U.S. strikes on Syria so far, but Obama's announcement drew protests from Damascus and its Iranian and Russian allies.
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You heard the man. Give him what he needs.
After the first shipment of weapons, watch how he responds. "Let the line out" as he performs. We don't have much to lose and everything to gain.
[Iran Press TV] Deputy secretary general of Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, says Iran's support for the Paleostinian resistance was instrumental in its victory against the Israeli regime's recent military offensive on the Gazoo Strip.
Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said in an interview with the Sunday edition of Iran's Arab-language daily, al-Wefaq, that the Paleostinians would not have won the war in the Gazoo Strip had Iran not supplied weapons and logistics to the holy warriors of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, resistance movement.
Israel unleashed a massive offensive on the Gazoo Strip on July 8. Almost 2,140 Paleostinians were killed during the onslaught on the coastal enclave and around 11,000 others were maimed.
Elsewhere in the interview, touching on the threat posed by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIL group to the world, Qassem said the current situation would not have happened if the United States and its Western and Arab allies had not provided unlimited support to the terrorist group.
He said the Western governments and their regional allies wrongly imagined that they would manage to topple the Syrian government and change political equations in Iraq by financing ISIL terrorists.
The West and its allies aimed to use the ISIL to change the map of the Middle East region and create a new Middle East, Hezbollah official said, adding, "So, at the beginning of the terrorist group's attack on Syria, they provided it with extensive support, but have now found out about their mistake and do not know what to do."
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Someone needs to explain to this guy that the Gazan Palis (hamas) lost the war, by any measure.
Being self-delusional is a terrible way to go through life.
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Being self-delusional is a terrible way to go through life.
In their case, it's the untimate defense mechanism. Without self-delusion, they would have to admit that the Holey Crayon was full of...um...holes and, thus, their collective pious histories were a waste of their own lives and their ancestors.
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And a stunning victory it was! Mind the rubble...
[Iran Press TV] The United States is planning to interfere in the Middle East affairs under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIL holy warriors operating mainly in Iraq and Syria, a former Iranian diplomat says.
"In a bid to interfere in the [Middle East] region, particularly in Iraq and Syria, the US has brought up the pretext of confronting the ISIL," former Iranian ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Sheikholeslam, said on Saturday.
He noted that the West is now facing the threat of the ISIL which it financed and trained, adding, "The ISIL Lions of Islam have repeatedly held meetings in different cities and countries like Doha, London, Jeddah, New York, Tunis and Istanbul and have been supported by the Western states."
US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... announced on Friday that Washington is assembling an international coalition to "snuff out" the ISIL terrorist group. The development followed the US inaction regarding the massacres in Iraq and Syria while the rise of the ISIL Takfiri holy warriors has been directly attributed to the Western interventionist policies in the region.
Sheikholeslam further said that Iran condemns the beheading of two American journalists by the ISIL terrorists, noting, however, that ISIL holy warriors had previously carried out numerous criminal acts but the US and its allies refused to take action against them, and their current effort to fight ISIL is "shameful."
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"holy warriors" tells you all you need to know.
Always consider the source.
Well, of course not, if we're not at war with them. [Iran Press TV] The United States says it will not coordinate future Arclight airstrikes on ISIL Death Eaters inside Syria despite warnings by Damascus that any unauthorized strike on its soil is an act of aggression.
"We're not going to coordinate it with Syria... it's not a cooperative effort," US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said during an interview aired Sunday with CBS News.
"We will certainly want to deconflict to make certain that they're not about to do something that they might regret even more seriously, but we're not going to coordinate," he added.
"We will do that with allies," the top US diplomat said in the interview, which was taped in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday.
Kerry has been traveling throughout the Middle East over the past week working to build a coalition of nations to fight ISIL.
During a speech on Wednesday, President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... authorized US Arclight airstrikes against ISIL bases in Syria.
The Pentagon has already conducted more than 150 Arclight airstrikes against the targets of the terror network in neighboring Iraq.
Analysts say the military strikes will add Syria to the list of countries attacked by a Washington-based government that speaks loudly about international law at the same time that it violates international law at will.
The hard boy group now controls large parts of Syria's northern territory and sent its fighters into neighboring Iraq in June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border between the two countries.
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This is a job for Milo Minderbender. I see no reason the syndicate cannot both coordinate air strikes with Syria and also bomb the crap out of them.
Note: this is yet another example of how free market capitalism can make War better. For everyone.
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"We will certainly want to deconflict to make certain that they're not about to do something that they might regret even more seriously, but we're not going to coordinate," he added.
How can target deconfliction not entail some degree of coordination? Someone please help me here.
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I feel like I'm watching an old Looney Tune where the fat guy keeps hitting himself on the head with a mallet and twiddling his mouth going blah-di-di-blah-di-blah.
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The jury is still out on whether the Bammer's anti-ISIS strategy in Syria is wholly or partly also about getting rid of Baby Assad.
What I want to find out is iff Globalist Obama = pro-OWG Co-Superpower(s) Obama is giving Vlad = SCO-CSTO El Supremo Russia an opportunity to finally militarily engage the ISIS + other in Syria alongside Assad + Iran???
[Ynet] US officials, experts say terror group earns more than $3 million per day from a variety of smuggling, trafficking, and extortion.
Islamic State Lion of Islams, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to US intelligence officials and private experts.
The murderous Moslem group's resources exceed that "of any other terrorist group in history," said a US intelligence official who, like others interviewed, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified assessments. Such riches are one reason that American officials are so concerned about the group even while acknowledging they have no evidence it is plotting attacks against the United States.
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The group's reliance on oil as its main source of revenue could easily be disrupted by American Arclight airstrikes, officials say. But so far, no decision has been made to target Iraqi or Syrian oil infrastructure, which is serviced by civilian workers who may have been conscripted.
Drop notices 1/2 hour before the precision bombing begins. A couple of cruise missiles, strategically placed, will take any oil refinery out of action. And every one of theirs must be disabled immediately.
Why the fuck are we even deliberating this.
Take those refineries off line NOW.
The illicit oil is generally transported on tanker trucks, analysts said.
Which are filled from storage tanks located in the general vicinity of the producing wells. Tanks and tank trucks, both making excellent aerial targets.
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In addition to the tanks and truck, the small building in the foreground is the 'dog house' where the fellow facilitating the illicit oil transportation process [the pumper] hangs out. If your timing is right, hitting the dog house and pumper will impact the knowledge base and delay the illicit process significantly. Even if your timing is slightly off, word will get around.
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Regardless of their oil capabilities, I have doubts a large part of this will be used for terror. Muslims do love to horde money for themselves, as we know. Granted it doesn't negate the millions that DOES end up financing terror.
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..some of which goes from the Treasury to the State Department to fronts for 'moderate' Muslim organizations in the ME that ultimately goes to ISIL.
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But my dears, think of all the pollution that would result from bombing the refinery -- thick, black, greasy smoke fill of particulates, oil flowing across the earth and getting into rivers and the formerly pure groundwater that little children drink... No, it's quite, quite unthinkable.
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[Ynet] Algeria's Caliphate Soldiers led by Khaled Abu Suleimane break from al Qaeda, join ISIS; significant attacks considered unlikely.
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[Iran Press TV] A former US ambassador to Ankara has accused Turkey of directly supporting al-Qaeda's terrorist activities in Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] A Canadian Islamic preacher detained for being a security threat in the Philippines was flown back to Canada after agreeing to be deported, the immigration bureau said Sunday.
If only we had supported my moderates, none of this would be happening. 
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