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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Judy Geeson[Filmography](age 65)



Post War English Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/10/2013 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember being in love with her.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/10/2013 14:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Mini Skirts and Judy Geeson, together at the right time.
Posted by: Phusosh Bonaparte6402 || 09/10/2013 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I think that kid in the background agrees.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/10/2013 15:41 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt army kills 9 gunmen in Sinai
[Ynet] Egyptian security forces killed nine gunnies and locked away
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
10 others over the past 24 hours in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah in the northern Sinai Peninsula, the MENA news agency reported.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 03:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Troops Kill Two Islamist Gunmen East of Algiers
[An Nahar] Algerian troops have killed two armed Islamists east of the capital, the defense ministry said on Monday, as media reported an attack on a military convoy left two soldiers dead.

The ministry said two Islamists were killed in separate operations on Sunday evening, one of them during festivities with security forces in the Tadmait area of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) from Algiers.

The second gunman was killed in an army ambush in the Baghlia area of corpse-littered Boumerdes, some 50 kilometers outside the capital.

The El-Watan newspaper, meanwhile, reported a kaboom targeting an army convoy in the restive region of Kabylie killed two soldiers and maimed five.

It cited sources in the area saying the attack took place late on Sunday evening, about 40 kilometers southeast of the main Kabylie city of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, with the assailants detonating the homemade bomb from a distance.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Egypt Military Seizes Gaza-Linked Weapons in Sinai
[An Nahar] Egypt's military says it has seized caches of weapons in a Sinai operation including a mortar apparently belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
group in neighboring Gazoo.

The military has launched a sweeping offensive in the north of the peninsula to quell an Islamist Death Eater insurgency that surged after the army deposed president Mohammed Morsi in July.

In a picture of seized weapons posted on its front man's Facebook page on Sunday, three soldiers stood next to captured machineguns and mortars.

One mortar had a scale used for aiming with the caption "Saraya Al Quds".

That is the military wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad movement, which had previously defied the ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement by firing rockets at Israel when Hamas wanted a truce.

Egyptian authorities say the Sinai Death Eaters, who have launched attacks on Israel from Egyptian territory, are linked to hard boyz in Gazoo.

The relationship between Gazook Death Eaters and their Sinai counterparts is vague.

An expert on Gazook movements said some members of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad chafed at restrictions against attacking Israel and took on roles with more extreme splinter groups.

"It's more with Islamic Jihad than Hamas that you have this moonlighting phenomena," said Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem based analyst with the International Crisis Group.

"A huge percentage of Salafi jihadis in Gazoo were former members of Islamic Jihad or Hamas, and left out of frustration out of the fact that they were not attacking Israel," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula


Tribal clashes resume in western Libya
[MAGHAREBIA] Fighting between the Zawia and Warshefana tribes resumed Sunday (September 8th), following the withdrawal of Libya Shield peacekeepers, Libya Herald reported. No casualties were reported.

Late last month, Libyan security forces moved in to ensure a ceasefire brokered by tribal elders and local politicians. The August festivities claimed six lives.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Tunisia arrests foreign terror suspects
[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian troops on Sunday (September 8th) jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
three Libyan and two Algerian terror suspects in Jebel Mghila, Sidi Bouzid governorate, Mosaique FM reported.

In other security news, Assabah reported that Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active...
official Mohamed Akkari received death threats for submitting information to authorities about planned liquidations of Tunisian officials and intellectuals by the organization.

Akkari was arrested with other jihaidsts in Iraq in 2005 and handed over to Tunisia in 2010. After he was freed from prison under a general amnesty, he joined Ansar al-Sharia.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Benghazi gang kills Libyan soldiers
[MAGHAREBIA] Two Libyan Special Forces soldiers died Sunday (September 8th) in separate Benghazi drive-by shootings, Libya Herald reported.

Four gunnies in military uniforms opened fire from their car, killing Abdel-Salam Obeidi near the Omar Mukhtar Mosque. The same men later shot Ramadan Faraj Shukri in the Al-Hadaaiq district.

Another Libyan Special Forces was injured after being shot in front of his house in Keish, not far from the site of the second attack.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  Freedom from Tyranny is understood differently in different cultures.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/10/2013 2:28 Comments || Top||


Moroccan terror suspect caught in Melilla
[MAGHAREBIA] Melilla police captured a "suspected jihadist terrorist" wanted by Morocco, the Spanish interior ministry announced last week.

Mohammed El Bali was picked up at his residence on the Spanish enclave on Tuesday (September 3rd).

The subject of an international arrest warrant issued by Morocco, he is accused of being the ringleader of the two Nador terror cells dismantled in May.

Bali was residing in Belgium at the time the cells were dismantled, but had recently moved to Melilla, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz stated.

The "Al Mouahidoun" and "Attawhid" cell members had been "indoctrinated with takfir
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
ist ideology" and had "forged links with like-minded people abroad, in Melilla and in Belgium", the Moroccan interior ministry said after their May 5th arrests.

"This arrest shows the danger of the proliferation of salafi jihadist theories among young Moroccans living in Europe," Azzeddine Matoub, a journalist covering terrorist crimes, told Magharebia.

"This is not the first time that Moroccans residing abroad have links with terrorist cells in Morocco, or with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)," he added.

The arrest indicates a change in the landscape for terrorism, according to Ahmed el-Miloudi, an analyst of Islamist movements.

"European countries are increasingly becoming strongholds of terrorist networks specialising in the indoctrination of young fighters for AQIM," said el-Miloudi said.

Bali's two terrorist cells "specialised in the recruitment of radical elements, dissemination of jihadist ideology, financing of terrorist plans and the creation of training camps", he added.

Moving between Morocco, Belgium and Melilla, Bali was also a member of another krazed killer cell: Sharia4Belgium.

Belgian security services considered the Assabile Islamic Centre to be a haven of salafi thought in the country, and Bali was in constant contact.

The arrest also put Melilla in the limelight as a stronghold of suspected terrorists. In a statement to the Spanish press, central government representative Abdelmalik El Barkani said the risk was actually "lower compared to other areas".

The judge of the National Court of Madrid, Spain's highest criminal court, Ismael Moreno, ordered the detention of Bali.

According to Spanish news agency EFE, Bali refused to be extradited to Morocco. Moreno ordered him to remain in jail until Morocco makes a formal extradition petition.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Two militants killed, two held in Tunisia
Tunisian security forces on Monday killed two militants from the extremist group Ansar Al Sharia and arrested two others in a Tunis suburb, the interior ministry said. The two men arrested, Mohamed Khiari and Mohamed Aouadi, are leaders of the Salafist movement’s military wing and are implicated in the assassination of opposition lawmakers Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, a ministry source said.

The killings and arrests came during a sweep in a northern suburb of Tunis by the anti-terrorist squad, the source told AFP. The slain militants died after a heavy exchange of fire, the ministry said in a statement, naming just one of the deceased, Adel Saidi.

Prime Minister Ali Larayedh last month linked Ansar Al Sharia, the largest such movement in the North African country, with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and accused it of carrying out the worst “terrorist” attacks since the uprising. The group is also believed to be supporting jihadists holed up in the remote Mount Chaambi region, along the Algerian border, who have been hunted for months by the Tunisian army.

But Ansar Al Sharia insists it has no ties with foreign groups, while expressing its “loyalty to the principles of jihad and to jihadist groups around the world”.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Arabia
Saudi Bans 'Terrorist' Propaganda on Internet
[An Nahar] 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...
said Monday it will outlaw the dissemination of information on the Internet for the benefit of "terrorist" groups, in line with a decision taken by Gulf Arab monarchies.

The official SPA news agency said the cabinet approved the "unified legislation against cybercrime," which the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) adopted in December.

The legislation targets those who "create sites and publish information on the Internet or a computer network for the benefit of a terrorist group to enable contacts among its leaders or its members, to promote its views or funding," said the agency.

It also prohibits "the dissemination of ideas that could affect public order or morality," said SPA, without providing further details.

Most members of the six-nation GCC -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- have tightened their laws against cybercrime in recent years.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  How about cracking down on the Saudi donors of sunni terrorism worldwide?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Calling for democracy in the UAE is considered "terrorism", and is the same with most gulf states. These places make Tehran look like Amsterdam.
Posted by: Nobcheese || 09/10/2013 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I remember a quote from a terrorist on why UAE is never attacked. He replied that's because they were their paymasters.
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 9:37 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
'Anti-islam' comments: Four Bangladeshi bloggers indicted
[Dawn] A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against four bloggers for making "derogatory comments about Islam" on social media.

The trial of the two cases against them will begin on November 6.

The four bloggers, who are now on bail, pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
and demanded justice.

If convicted in the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, each of them will face 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Tk 1 crore, under the Information and Communications Technology Act, 2006.

The cabinet, however, had approved the draft ICT (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, proposing that the maximum jail term for an offence covered by the law be increased to 14 years.

The four are Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, 24, a master's student at Dhaka University; Russel Parvez, 36, a teacher at an English medium school; Mashiur Rahman Biplob, 42, a resident of the capital's Pallabi area, and Asif Mohiuddin, 28, an ex-student of a private university.

Shuvo, Parvez and Biplob were tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
on April 2, under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in different areas in the capital on suspicion of making derogatory comments about Islam.

Police later filed a general diary against the trio for uploading "contents insulting to Islam" on social media platforms.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  seven to fourteen years for saying Moslems are against Freedom of Speech probably.
Put a bag on your head and go sit in the corner.
And if you look at the judge that way again we will cut off your head. ( PBUH )
Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 || 09/10/2013 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, that comment made less sense than usual (if possible.)
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 10:06 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
4 more die in northern Sinaloa state

For a map, click here. For a map of Sinaloa state, click here.

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A total of four armed suspects were killed in northern Sinaloa, two of them in El Fuerte municipality Monday, according to Mexican news reports.

According to a news report in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez news daily, Sinaloa state ministerial agents encountered armed suspects near the village of El Chiripa in El Fuerte municipality, killing one suspect.

A separate report posted on the website of Vanguardia news daily identified the suspect as Gabino Zamora Flores, 31. Sinaloa state police observed a vehicle at around 1110 hrs with armed suspects aboard, but were fired on. Police seized one AK-47 rifle following the encounter.

Police then requested reinforcements from Choix, Ahome and El Fuerte to continue pursuit of other armed suspects fleeing the scene.

Police eventually intercepted the fleeing suspects, killing a second suspect.

Choix municipal president, Juan Carlos Estrada Vega was quoted in a news report in El Debate news daily saying that he has requested an increased "federal presence" in his municipality, claiming the problems in Choix have been building over a number of months. He said that 600 people in 10 villages in the area have been affected by the problems caused by local criminal groups, although he did not elaborate.

Members of the Sinaloa state bar association have been critical of the government's response to problems in the region, according to a separate El Debate news report. Roberto Perez Jacobo and Martin Lopez Felix charged that Sinaloa state government "apathy" has kept federal forces from the area in the face of increasing violence over the previous months.

The fighting, especially in Choix has been the result of increasingly hostile competition between the Beltran Leyva Organization and groups sympathetic to the Sinaloa drug cartel. The Beltron Leyva Organization has enlisted aid from allied drug cartels such as the Juarez cartel and Los Zetas.

Meanwhile in Los Mochis municipality, some 60 kilometers southwest of Choix, two armed suspects were killed and four were wounded in two separate incidents Sunday, according to an El Universal wire dispatch which was published in the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila news daily.

The first incident took place in Tabachines colony near a mall. Two unidentified individuals were shot to death by armed suspects with AK-47 rifles. The victims were traveling aboard a vehicle when they were struck by gunfire.

In the second incident, four unidentified individuals were shot and wounded in a drive by shooting on Calle 7th in Ruben Jaramillo colony.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale September 1st at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.
Posted by: badanov || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


India-Pakistan
Pakistan's New President Hussain Takes Office
[An Nahar] Pakistain's new President Mamnoon Hussain took office on Monday, presiding over a government battling to overcome a Taliban insurgency, resolve an energy crisis and repair the economy.

A respected businessman from the financial capital of 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...
but with no political powerbase of his own, Hussain is Pakistain's 12th president and a ceremonial head of state.

His time in office should cement Pakistain's transition back to a strong prime minister and parliamentary democracy after his predecessor reversed amendments made by military rulers.

Hussain was sworn in by chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in a short ceremony after politicians gathered together for cross-party talks on how to tackle growing insecurity.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Militant attack in Kohat kills two policemen, injures several
[Dawn] At least two coppers were killed and several persons injured during an attack at the District Police Officer's (DPO) office in Kohat on Monday, DawnNews reported.

Security sources told Dawn.com that faceless myrmidons hurled a hand-grenade at the DPO's office in Kohat after which an exchange of fire took place between coppers and the attackers. Two coppers and as many faceless myrmidons were killed whereas seven persons were maimed in the attack.

Later, security forces' personnel sealed the area and a search operation went underway during which two suicide jackets and nine-hand-grenades were recovered and defused.
Posted by: Fred || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


31 Killed In India Riots Between Muslims And Hindus
[Jpost] India's political parties blamed each other for religious riots that killed at least 31 people and forced hundreds to flee from their homes on the weekend, in a sign of rising tension between Hindus and Mohammedans ahead of a general election due by May.

Police evacuated both Hindus and Mohammedan villagers on Monday in the district of Muzaffarnagar, 127 km (80 miles) northeast of New Delhi in the state of Uttar Pradesh and at the epicenter of some of the worst communal violence in years.

Others, fearful after attackers beat children and burned property, hid in fields and cop shoppes, or fled in ox carts and tractors on Sunday. The state's top security official R.M. Srivastava said 31 people were killed in the violence.

"We are on a high alert and curfew will remain in parts of Muzaffarnagar city, while security forces are doing regular rounds in the affected villages," said deputy police chief Arun Kumar.

Violence pitting Mohammedans against Hindus has been a defining feature of Indian politics since the country's traumatic separation from Pakistain in 1947, when hundreds of thousands of people were killed and millions were displaced.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These Hindus are worse than Copts for starting conflicts!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/10/2013 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, they are.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Those Buddhists down in Pattaya are pretty bad as well.
Posted by: Bertie Dingle9960 || 09/10/2013 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Remove the Islamists and the Buddhists and Hindus will display much better behavior.
Posted by: mossomo || 09/10/2013 20:53 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Gunmen ambush doctor in southern Thailand
A doctor from Yala's Raman district was shot yesterday and police suspect a subordinate of leading terrorist insurgent Ustas Rohing Asong did it.

Dr Sa-uding Salaereh, 51, was returning home on a motorbike after working as a village security volunteer at midnight when he was shot by unknown gunmen hiding in a roadside bush. Sa-uding fled from the bullets but fell 100 meters away after being chased and shot at by two men on a motorbike, prompting him to fire back at them. Soldiers nearby heard the gunshots and rushed to his aid, causing the attackers to retreat.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Muslim Rebels In The Philippines Take Control Of Several Villages, Shut Down Major Port In Bold Raid
[Jpost] Rogue Moslem rebels launched an audacious assault in the southern Philippines on Monday, taking control of several villages and shutting down a major port in the biggest challenge to a peace deal signed by the government last year.

The attack by hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas on Zamboanga City highlights the fragility of the deal agreed last October with a larger rebel group to end four decades of conflict.

Transport officials suspended commercial flights and ferry services to the city of around 800,000. Schools, public offices and businesses were closed as gunfire rang out from festivities between soldiers and the estimated 200-300 invaders.

Six people were killed and 24 maimed as the rebels tried to force their way to the city center, Mayor Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said in a statement. About 3,000 people had fled their homes, she said.

Army commanders said the rebels landed in two coastal villages early on Monday and were trying to reach the city center to raise their flag over the city hall.

"They want to hoist their flag. We will not allow that," Colonel Andrelino Colina told a radio station.

Army front man Brigadier General Domingo Tutaan said about 200-300 people were "stranded" in a village occupied by the rebels. Officials had earlier said that dozens of civilians had been taken hostage.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No matter how good the peace deal sounds, they always have some kind of "splinter" group or "rogue" group, don't they?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/10/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The New Peoples' Army (NPA) isn't much better. However (based on experience,) unlike the Arabs with their "groups of convenience", the Filipino movements actually do have separate groups.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe the NPA is more Communist then Islamic and operates more to the north (Luzon).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/10/2013 13:25 Comments || Top||

#4  That's true (I've dealt with both - professionally.) However, neither of them are benign.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 18:24 Comments || Top||

#5  See also TOPIX > [ABS-CBN News] MNLF RETURNS TO REBELLION.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Malaysian Insider] MNLF FOUNDING CHAIRMAN NUR MISUARI HAS DECLARED SARAWAK + SABAH PART OF THE BANGSAMORO MORO REPUPLIK [aka BMR].

* GOOGLE NEWS > 4000 FIGHTERS READY TO STRIKE IN EAST MALAYSIA, SAY FILIPINO REBELS.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MNLF FACTION NOT JOINING MISUARI-LED ATTACK IN ZAMBOANGA CITY - INQUIRER.NET.

The PHIL Muslim separatist problems go on, now wid resurgent Commies.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2013 20:08 Comments || Top||

#6  * TOPIX > [Xinhuanet] ATTACK ON ZAMBOANGA CITY COULD DERAIL PEACE PROCESS IN SOUTH PHILIPPINES.

So called Filo-Malay confrontation + conflict, espec as per inspiring new foreign MilTerr Fighters, Groups to travel to Mindanao to fight the PHIL Govt-Army.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2013 23:36 Comments || Top||

#7  All things equal, the danger is very real that the Commie NPA over time may find themselves slowly but steadily becom outnumbered + outgunned, etc, vee pro-war Muslim separatists.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2013 23:38 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli Report Maps Assad's Chemical Arsenal
[Ynet] Report by IDC counter-terrorist think-tank presents inventory of Syria's chemical munitions production, storage facilities, argues Syrian regime has been stockpiling since 1980s, arms could reach Hezbollah, Paleostinians
Detailed map at link. Well worth downloading for future reference, if you know how to do such things, which sadly, I don't. Sorry.
New report reveals Syria is the owner of one of the world's largest chemical stockpiles.

The report, presented Monday by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya's International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, states that as of June 2013, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
holds one of the world's largest caches of mustard gas, sarin and the lethal nerve gas VX.

The institute's report described the manner in which Assad attained his impressive inventory as well as warning of the possibility the unconventional munitions could fall into the hands of terrorist groups active in Syria.

By the 1980s, the report stated, the Syrian regime had begun storing chemical stockpiles in 50 different towns throughout the country. In case the army is in need of the arsenal, aerial bombs, artillery shells and ballistic missiles and rockets have already been prepared in advance.

The sarin and VX gases, according to the report, is manufactured in five different locations throughout Syria: The main facility in Al-Safir, and the others in Homs, Latakia, Hama and Palmyra. The poisonous gas is transferred to storage facilities at Al Furqus, Dumayr, Khan Abu Shamat as well as in the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center in Damascus.

Different reports show that the Damascus center, which is under Assad's direct control, also houses biological weapons. The chemical arms are held by the Syrian regime or by militias loyal to it. In the areas neighboring major cities, in which the military situation is constantly changing as a result of battles between rebels and government forces, the West is uncertain who controls these storage facilities.

'Hezbollah could use arsenal'
Even before the chemical attack on a Damascus suburb three weeks ago took the lives of some 1,400 people, the report claims there was chemical weapons usage as part of the fighting Homs in December 2012. Between March and May of 2013 the report cites four different incidents of chemical attacks, which left some 150 people dead.

Even if an American attack on the stockpiles was to take place, and even if such an attack would topple Assad's regime, the report stresses that the threat that such weapons would reach the wrong hands still exists. "Hezbollah could use the arsenal under Syrian or Iranian instruction," the report's authors claim.

They further not that "under certain conditions, Assad could decide to provide the arms to Paleostinian organizations with whom he is connected, specifically with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
headed by Ahmed Jibril."

A scenario in which these arms reach rebel organizations, or worst, radical Islamist Jihadist organizations is Israel's worst nightmare, the report's authors claim.

Dr. Ely Karmon, a senior research at the institute, claims that the West came to grips with Assad's unconventional capabilities a little to late. "Already in the 80s, states like Russia, La Belle France, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
and even the US were supplying ram materials and equipment which now serve as Syria's chemical infrastructure," Karmon claims.

"Only now, when Assad used the weapons, the world has awaken."

During his research, Karmon found two plausible explanations for Assad's choice to use chemical weapons. "There are claims that Syrian rebels, who were trained by the US, left Jordan for Syria and reached the outskirts of Damascus." Fearing their abilities, Karmon claims, it is possible that Assad decided to stop them at any price.

The second possible reason, according to Karmon, is that Assad had just survived an liquidation attempt and had decided to exact Dire Revenge™.

According to the senior researcher, it is the responsibility of Israel and the US to prevent these arms from reaching Hezbollah or rebels: "In such a case, the usage (of chemical weapons) would spiral out of control. No one could guarantee that there wouldn't be future usage."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 03:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/10/2013 4:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Please note from the date, this data is more than 18 months old. As is most of the other Syrian content from ESRI.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/10/2013 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  On the road and this box won't permit me to drag a link, but appears from this morning's news the Germans have picked up some SIGINT that indicates Assad did not order chemical attack, a rogue unit or officer directed it. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/10/2013 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, but the buck stops there, right, guys/gals?

Assad is still 'responsible'.

But it doesn't matter - Putin is playing chess and our Amateur Hour is still learning Checkers.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/10/2013 8:55 Comments || Top||

#5  The orders most likely came from Tehran.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/10/2013 9:36 Comments || Top||

#6  This is a bit off topic but I am listening to John Kerry and I must say he is one of the most dispecable human beings ever produced.
Posted by: bman || 09/10/2013 10:13 Comments || Top||

#7  And those are his good points bman.
As I said yesterday Kerry is a proven liar who has shown he is willing to lie, even under oath, to advance his political agenda.
I wouldn't believe him if he told me water was wet.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/10/2013 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Please note from the date, this data is more than 18 months old.

The map is most certainly dated 24. February 2012, Skidmark. But the latest bit of data, an attack by Assad from the direction of Damascus toward Ain Tarma, Jobar, Zamalka is marked "1429 killed" and dated 21.08.13.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 11:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Nobody ever said Assad was a nice guy. But sending a ragtag band of al Qaeda affiliated jihadis after him doesn't sound like a very effective plan. And what if the jihadis get their hands on Assad's toys? Will they be responsible?

So the Soddies, Qataris and their lapdog Obama conspire to bring about regime change in Syria and then they cry foul when they get their butts kicked. Did they think Assad would greet US trained terrorists with flowers, soft drinks and cake?

I still think this is a tragic little sideshow sponsored by people who don't have the guts, integrity or the wherewithal to go after the real problem in Iran.

I don't know what their real objective is. But their explanations have all been so disingenuous as to be laughable and I don't believe it's chemical weapons. Obama started calling for Assad's removal as soon as this little rebellion started. McCain and Graham started calling for air support for the rebels long before there were any chemical attacks. Why? How will it be better when Assad is gone? How will it be better than Libya or Egypt? They won't say. It stinks.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/10/2013 12:15 Comments || Top||


#11  Policy in Syria
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/10/2013 16:43 Comments || Top||

#12  And I must add that I just purchased an upper end 60 inch HDTV that makes Nancy Pelosi's face look even more "rode hard , hung up wet"... I just hope viewing it doesn't void my warrenty.
Anybody know where I can get some brain bleach?
Posted by: Capsu78 || 09/10/2013 18:54 Comments || Top||

#13  FYI ASSOCIATED PRESS > ASSAD SLAMS USE OF US, ISRAELI CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

May be its just me but IMO no one should be surprised iff Syria links Israel's Nuclear + non-Nuclear WMDS to his Regime's turnover of his country's ChemWar weapons to international control + also becoming signatory to the CW Convention???

* SAME, ABC NEWS > KERRY: SYRIA SHOULD DO MORE THAN JUST DECLARE WEAPONS.

As for ISRAEL ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REPORT: CIA BELIEVES ISRAEL ACQUIRED CHEMICAL WEAPONS DECADES AGO.

* SAME > DOES ISRAEL POSSESS CHEMICAL WEAPONS TOO?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2013 23:27 Comments || Top||


Saudis sent death-row inmates to fight in Syria
Saudi Arabia has sent death-row inmates from several nations to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences, the Assyrian International News Agency reports.

Citing what it calls a "top secret memo" in April from the Ministry of Interior, AINA says the Saudi offered 1,239 inmates a pardon and a monthly stipend for their families, which were were allowed to stay in the Sunni Arab kingdom. Syrian President Bashar Assad is an Alawite, a minority Shiite sect. According to an English translation of the memo, besides Saudis, the prisoners included Afghans, Egyptians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Somalis, Sudanese, Syrians and Yemenis. All faced "execution by sword" for murder, rape or drug smuggling.

AINA also published the original Arabic memo.

Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course no discipline problems or atrocities expected. /s
Posted by: tipover || 09/10/2013 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  What is the end game for Syria?

Surely not a Saudi/Qatar backed intolerant Sunni state which will persecute all Christians/minorities.
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Personally, I rather send worse low lifes - congresscritters and lobbyists. At least death row inmates can't hurt anything beyond the walls. Can you say 'term limits'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/10/2013 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  You think we have a big naval base in Bahrain to protect freedom?

It's to protect Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. We'll die for those guys so they can export their peace loving religion like they did on 911.

Remind me, who many drone strikes on Saudi????
Posted by: Nobcheese || 09/10/2013 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey, I seen this movie...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/10/2013 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought about that when I posted it...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Pappy

We have had our run ins but explain to me US hate Iran and Syria mainly because of their hostility to Israel but also because they are backed by China/Russia.

However we are our allies with Saudi, Qatar and UAE where religious tolerance/democracy is dead?

We are friends with the funders of sunni extremist? This leads to war jihadis versus the West.

Has radical Islam replaced communism re continual war and war makes some people rich.
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  The Syrian "Christians" and Druze etc chose the wrong side, just like the Palestinian "Christians" did against Israel. The Syrian "Christians" could side with the Saudis, or Iran. They chose Iran.

In the end the Christians are pretty small population in Syria, really this is about Shiites (Iran) vs Sunnis (Saudi).

Toppling Assad will leave Iran the only barrier to a Saudi (and hence US) dominated Gulf.

Don't oppose it just because you don't like Obama and Kerry. They are just the figureheads, the real thinking is being done within the CIA irrespective of who is in power. Its up to us to support our Saudi and Israeli friends and to do our part. Make sure your congressman knows that you're a friend of Israel and not Iran.
Posted by: FreedomFighter || 09/10/2013 11:45 Comments || Top||

#9  The Syrian "Christians" and Druze etc chose the wrong side, just like the Palestinian "Christians" did against Israel. The Syrian "Christians" could side with the Saudis, or Iran. They chose Iran.

Good lord. Are you serious, "FreedomFighter"? (You see, you are not the only one who can use scare quotes, though I suspect based on no information whatsoever that mine are more appropriate than the ones you gave to those of the Christian faith in Syria and the Palestinian territories.)

The ten percent of Syrians who are of various Christian denominations, some resulting from conversions by St. Paul himself during his peregrinations around the Roman empire have, according to all the evidence I've seen, been very carefully keeping their heads down while Shiite and Sunni clients fight for dominance across Syria. It must be noted, however, that it is the Saudi-supported Al Nousra/Al Qaeda hard boys who are eating enemy organs (yes, the silly man filmed himself eating a lung, which he thought was a liver -- the usual Lions of Islam kind of failure) and giving neutral Christians the choice of conversion or beheading, not Assad's troops or Hizb'allah bullies. Under the circumstances, what kind of idiocy is it to expect the minorities in this minority majority country to not prefer those who merely keep them poor and suppressed?

As for the Christians of Palestine, most of them have left over the past century, giving up the dubious pleasures of Dar al Islam for the freedoms of erstwhile Christendom. I have a Khoury and a Sameha among my friends, one third generation American, the other her parents' first venture upon settling on our shores. Christians have been leaving the Middle East since before the fall of the Ottoman empire, my dear.

I myself am half Israeli-American. My congressman, Speaker John Boehner, is aware that I want America to concentrate on Iran, leaving the Syrians to work it out among themselves while we take care of Shiite nukes. Assad the Younger, after all, never had the intestinal fortitude to use his large cache of chemical weapons on Israel, nor his father either. We cannot, however, trust the Mad Mullahs, imminently expecting the emergence of the thirteenth imam, or whatever his number is, from the well to wipe the hated "Zionist Entity" (not scare quotes, that's how they actually refer to Israel) off the face of the planet.

Honestly, Mr. "FreedomFighter", I am only a little Midwestern housewife. If you cannot persuade me that you are anything more than a tool of the Iranian government, how can you expect to affect the opinions of those more interested in world affairs?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 12:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Sorry, I misspoke. You want us to support the Al Qaeda-loving Saudis, whose own nukes are stored in Pakistan. It's so hard to keep the keyboard jihadis separate these days.

Is your father a retired pilot in the Saudi air force, too?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 13:12 Comments || Top||

#11  US hate Iran and Syria mainly because of their hostility to Israel but also because they are backed by China/Russia.

It has very little to do with either, frankly. I suggest you do a bit of historical research on US-Iranian relations, beginning with the fall of the Shah and work your way through 'Lebanon', Khobar Towers, the Iran-Iraq War, Al-Quds Force and the current day issue of Iran's nuclear program.

However we are our allies with Saudi, Qatar and UAE where religious tolerance/democracy is dead?We are friends with the funders of sunni extremist? This leads to war jihadis versus the West.

Yes. I don't know what experience you have with the Middle East - that makes it rather difficult to know how in-depth the explanation needs to be.

Has radical Islam replaced communism re continual war and war makes some people rich.

The same argument was made for "why didn't someone shoot Hitler early on," you know.

Again, I don't know what what your background is. That makes all the difference in explaining things.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 13:31 Comments || Top||

#12  I'll give FreedomFighter one thing: His English is much better than the Levant or JUSTICE. But I still can't decide if he's pulling our leg or if he's working for the Soddies. Either way I hope my congress critter votes to stay the hell out of Syria. I just hate to see US service men and women being ordered into mercenary service for a bunch of chicken shit sheiks and emirs.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/10/2013 14:31 Comments || Top||

#13  We fight wars for countries where Christianity is banned. Why?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 15:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Pappy

My uncle worked in Saudi for years where Christians could not wear crosses/pray etc.

Why do we fight for the most intolerant countries ie Saudi,UAE and Qatar?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 16:06 Comments || Top||

#15  whether its political islam eg MB in Egypt or Wahabbi Islam in Saudi.They both preach hatred of other religions. Do Syria?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 16:10 Comments || Top||

#16  You want us to support the Al Qaeda-loving Saudis, whose own nukes are stored in Pakistan. It's so hard to keep the keyboard jihadis separate these days.

Newsflash - we've been doing that for years.

So McCain and the Republicans? They are all jihadists too?

No - they know the big picture, they know what is really going on in Syria and its bigger than a bit of gas or a few Christians/Alawites/Shia getting a bit of bother. Its about toppling a tyrant and getting one of ours in there, someone friendly to us, like the Saudis, rather than someone who isn't, like the Mullahs in Iran.

Its terrible that in their desire to knock Kerry and Obama these people and some congressman would consider helping Syria and the Iranians.

Posted by: FreedomFighter || 09/10/2013 18:28 Comments || Top||

#17  My apologies - for Iran, one should really go a lot farther back, when the US enabled the Shah to take power.

We fight wars for countries where Christianity is banned. Why?

Why did the US ally itself with the USSR during WWII?

Why do we fight for the most intolerant countries ie Saudi,UAE and Qatar?

Do you have a grasp of foreign policy, or are you just merely "playing obtuse"? I'm not trying to be insulting - I asked you what your background and experience was, because it does make a difference in explaining things.

whether its political islam eg MB in Egypt or Wahabbi Islam in Saudi.They both preach hatred of other religions. Do Syria?

You left out Shiism in Iran, Paul. They're not exactly inclusive there.

As for Syria, it managed to carefully balance its religious groups for a long time, aside from the occasional urban artillery displays the elder Assad engaged in.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 18:37 Comments || Top||

#18  Its about toppling a tyrant and getting one of ours in there, someone friendly to us, like the Saudis, rather than someone who isn't, like the Mullahs in Iran.

What an amazing display of specious logic.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 18:40 Comments || Top||

#19  Just watching Sky News and the Christians in Syria cannot believe that the West are targeting the Syria regime. They are protected under the Assad regime but would have to flee if the rebels were in control.
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 19:09 Comments || Top||

#20  Bottom line we support countries like Saudi, UAE and Qatar who have terrible human rights, religious intolerance and no democracy.

Like Pakistan we are funding/supporting our enemies!

We are funding the countries who are killing our soldiers! Why?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/10/2013 19:45 Comments || Top||

#21  We are funding the countries that are killing our soldiers! Why?

We are not funding them. We are buying their oil, and America is not their primary customer. See here, scrolling down for the pie chart "Saudi Crude Oil Exports By Destination") In fact, we are stripping them of some of their oil profits by allowing them to buy all sorts of wonderful weapons that will only work so long as Western mechanics continue maintaining them. And despite the heartfelt efforts of our president to stymie shale oil exploitation here at home, oil and natural gas will soon be available in surplus due to shale bed exploitation around the world -- Poland is the latest surprising entrant into the field -- cutting Gulf profits at the same time as Egypt and the other low-oil Arab Spring countries suck up trillions of subsidies to keep them from utter collapse and falling into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. It will be very interesting to see how much support the Gulf states are able to give to their pet jihadi groups in five and ten years hence.

We have discussed this before, Paul D. Please print this out so you have it for future reference, or save the link for this thread in your favourites against the next time your anguish pushes through.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 20:35 Comments || Top||

#22  We are funding the countries who are killing our soldiers! Why?

Why do you keep asking questions you want no answer to?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 20:48 Comments || Top||

#23  cuz he can't do snark?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2013 20:53 Comments || Top||


Syrian army attacks hills around Christian village
A Syrian activist group says the army is attacking hills overlooking a rebel-held Christian-majority village near the capital Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says fighters from the Jabhat Al Nusra or Nusra Front and the Qalamon Liberation Front still control Maaloula, an ancient village that is home to two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria.

Rami Abdul Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said troops attacked the hills around Maaloula early on Monday under the cover of heavy shelling.

Rebels captured the village on Saturday. The battle has thrown a spotlight on the deep-seated fears that many of Syria’s religious minorities harbour about the growing role of extremists on the rebel side in Syria’s civil war.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/10/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  I guess Assad gets blamed for the massacre (count on massacre) of Christians.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/10/2013 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Christians in the Middle East aren't real Christians like us. In Lebanon they support Hezbollah against Israel. In Syria they support Assad against our allies and Israel.

Don't be fooled just because they describe themselves as Christian. Even their bible is a translation into Arabic, its more like there Quran therefore - most of them don't even speak english.

If you support these guys then you support Iran and you oppose Israel, its that simple.
Posted by: FreedomFighter || 09/10/2013 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Christians in the Middle East aren't real Christians like us

Seriously? You think the language in which the Bible is written matters, "FreedomFighter"? You, my dear sir, must be secretly Muslim -- they are the only ones who insist that the Qur'an can only be read in the original Arabic (although there are cogent arguments that much of it is merely transliterated from the original Aramaic -- vocabulary being like neon lights to the linguists).

And OMG, Arabs who don't speak English??? You do realize that most of the residents of the region, outside of Israel, do not speak English, but rather speak their native tongue plus the Arabic of their Arabian conquerors? Or are you really so stupid as to think that Americans are not aware that in other countries people speak other languages?

Still, you are highly amusing. I think we've got this week's chew toy, O Rantburgers. One of that lot that settled in Chicago or Detroit, I imagine based on language patterns, who fondly believe themselves unnoticed by the authorities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Eh... I'm fairly sure Jesus didn't speak English either. I don't know if he could speak the Latin of current superpower of the time (Rome) but I seriously doubt 'English as a Second Language' was offered in school.
He didn't speak Arabic either.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/10/2013 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Jesus? Aramaic, at least market Greek and Latin, and fluent Hebrew, as he is described as a religious prodigy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 13:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Aramic. There are several Christian villages in Syria where it's still spoken.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm still trying to work out how Jesus spoke in red typeface.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/10/2013 13:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Seriously? You think the language in which the Bible is written matters, "FreedomFighter"? You, my dear sir, must be secretly Muslim

Actually I'm an atheist, so you're wrong.

We didn't have a problem when the Christians were being expelled from Iraq after Saddam was gone, and we don't have a problem with them being expelled from the West Bank, or Egypt so why the sudden concern about the Syrian ones?

Don't let a dislike of Obama (that I share) pervert your views about what is right.

We have to topple Assad. Once that is done, Iran stands alone, and we can finish them. Don't you guys remember the hostages? Them toppling our ally the Shah? What they did to that poor sick man?
Posted by: FreedomFighter || 09/10/2013 18:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Them toppling our ally the Shah? What they did to that poor sick man?

If I recall correctly, the Carter administration applied pressure to "our ally the Shah" to have Khomeini returned from Paris to act as a 'moderating force'.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/10/2013 18:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Actually I'm an atheist, so you're wrong.

Then you shouldn't have written in your previous post:

Christians in the Middle East aren't real Christians like us

And the Christians, who you don't believe to be true members of your faith because of the language in which their bibles are printed are not being expelled from Iraq. They are fleeing unpleasantness that can be downright nasty, but expulsion is a government order. Nor have the Christians been expelled from the West Bank, nor from Egypt, where it is decidedly difficult for Christians to leave. In Egypt they've been sending the kids abroad for school with instructions not to come back, and West Bankers have quietly joined the Christian Arab diaspora in the nations of Christendom, but then Palestinian Arabs have been decamping for more hospitable climes since 1948, regardless of personal faith. A survey some years back revealed that some three quarters of young Gazans would dearly love to emigrate, if only they could -- and according to the CIA Factbook the under twentyfives make up almost two thirds of the Gazan population.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/10/2013 19:32 Comments || Top||

#11  The Militants have repor taken Christian Nuns hostage, forced others to convert to Islam, + may threaten to use any Christian hostages as "bargaining chips" agz US-led attack agz Assad???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/10/2013 23:30 Comments || Top||



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