[Tolo News] In response to recent statements by President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. regarding the Taliban and other Lion of Islam groups in Afghanistan, a number of commentators have said that the hard boyz should not be legitimized by being called a "political opposition" so long as they resort to violence against the government and the Afghan people.
On Wednesday, President Ghani addressed a crowd at a national Teachers Day celebration in Kabul. At one point in his remarks, Ghani referred to the Taliban as a "political opposition."
"I call upon all political opposition groups; you shouldn't deprive your children from learning like you were," President Ghani said.
The phrasing of his statement sparked frustration among some analysts, many of who also criticized former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... when he was in office and referred to Talibs as "brothers."
Commentators have argued the government must pursue a more clear policy toward the Lion of Islam groups, as in it cannot be fighting them on the one hand and lending them credibility on the other.
"In consideration of the ongoing situation in the country, the president must undertake a clear policy regarding the Taliban and armed opponents," university lecturer Faizullah Zaki said.
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At one point in his remarks, Ghani referred to the Taliban as a "political opposition."
S'funny. Here the political opposition gets called "Taliban."
[Tolo News] According to the Kandahar Director of Public Health Abdul Qayoum Pakhla, three cases of positive polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... have recently been registered in Panjwayee and Dand districts and Kandahar city .
Reports indicate that the disease was spread by residents of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Uruzgan provinces, who have been displaced to Kandahar.
"The disease has spread through contact with kids of displaced families," Pakhla stated.
"There are very limited cases. We are planning to resolve the issue by meeting with the locals. Districts like Ghorak, Nesh, Shorawak and some other insecure districts are the places where vaccinations cannot be implemented," he added
A polio vaccination campaign is ongoing in 11 districts of the province. But due to insecurities and lack of health employees, the program has not been implemented in some parts of these districts.
Residents of Kandahar criticize the Public Health Directorate, adding that campaign vaccination is only implemented in the districts near the capital of the province and that their kids have not been vaccinated in the past few years.
Two years ago, there were no signs of polio in the province and the recently registered cases have created apprehensions among Kandahar residents who have called on the government as well as anti-government forces to allow vaccination employees in insecure areas. Earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) had also asked all sides involved in the conflict to stop preventing polio campaigns in insecure areas.
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[Libya Herald] According to Khalifa Hafter, Libya is awash with foreign fighters that must be purged from the nation.
Hafter, speaking to the Libya Herald before yesterday's operation in Benghazi, said that foreign fighters from Sudan . . . That's all we get. Rest of it's behind the paywall.
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[Libya Herald] Libyan and Egyptian authorities have both rushed to deny Cairo's involvement in Arclight airstrikes on Benghazi as pro-government forces routed a key Islamist base in the city.
Spokesmen for Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, Alaa Youssef, categorically denied that Egypt had played a role in bombing missions over Libya, Egyptian state media reported. Youssef's brief statement was made less than an hour after reports to the contrary from News Agency that Dare Not be Named began circulating.
The agency cited two unnamed Egyptian officials as saying "the use of the aircraft was part of an Egyptian-led campaign against the forces of Evil that will eventually involve Libyan ground troops recently trained by Egyptian forces".
They said the operation was requested by the government in Tobruk. "This is a battle for Egypt not Libya," one of the bigwigs was quoted as saying. "Egypt was the first country in the region to warn against terrorism and it is also the first to fight it," he added.
Libyan Authorities also flatly rebuffed claims of Egyptian involvement. The Commander of Operation Dignity's Airforce, Adam Saqr Geroushi, told the Libya Herald that the operations yesterday in Benghazi had been carried out in totality by Libyans, refusing to comment on the matter further.
His son, Tareq Geroushi, a member of the House of Representatives for Benghazi, had told News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Egyptian warplanes were being used in raids over Benghazi, but that they were being flown by Libyan pilots. He said the planes were "rented" by the Libyan administration from Egypt.
Another senior military official, who asked not to be named, told this newspaper cryptically that it would be "surprising" if the Egyptians were involved secretly but then at this late stage decided to make it public. He said he could not confirm that Egyptian warplanes were aiding the Tobruk government.
Representative for Misrata Fathi Bashaga, who leads the group of parliamentarians boycotting the House of Representatives, has meanwhile said if the accusations of Egyptian involvement in the attacks are true, it would change the current situation fundamentally.
Buwabat Al-Wasat reported that Bashaga had stated the boycotters would have to reconsider their position with regard to the UN-sponsored dialogue started in Ghadames and that the UN should make clear their position with regard to Egyptian aggression.
This is not the first time Egypt has been implicated in Arclight airstrikes on Islamist held positions in Libya. In August, US officials said Egypt had been helping the UAE carry out bomber missions on Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces in 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... .
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[ARABNEWS] Minister of Culture and Information Abdulaziz Khoja said the GCC information ministers approved a number of plans to boost cooperation among the GCC states and fight terrorism.
Khoja, who attended the GCC ministers' meeting on Thursday, said the ministers approved GCC Cultural Activities Plan for the years 2015-2016 consisting of ten main points including the establishment of a cultural training and qualification center in the Kingdom in 2016.
[ARABNEWS] The deputy speaker of the Shoura Council, Mohammed bin Amin Al-Jafri, said that 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... had forewarned the world of the danger of terrorism.
Addressing the 131st session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, Al-Jafri said the Kingdom has repeatedly called on the international community to bear responsibility for the birth and spread of terrorism.
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A threat to the world that will be brought to bear upon the sins of the fathers, and fore-fathers and sharply delivered unto the sons, Al-Jafri. Repent.
I think about no mecca. You dream of not paying parking tickets at the UN.
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That's curious, when the Saudis did not foresee the Al Qaeda terrorist treat spawned in their own back yard. The Bin Laden Group remain one of the largest Saudi contractors, with mega building and service contracts, and possibly still funders or extremist groups. Whose responsibility Al Jafri?
[Dhaka Tribune] Key BNP ally 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... is developing a myrmidon network in the subcontinent in different ways including with financial support from West Bengal's Trinamool Congress, campaigner of war crimes trial Shahriar Kabir has alleged.
He said Jamaat was the godfather of all myrmidon networks in South Asia including Bangladesh and its activities in the name of Jihad had threatened the country's security.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Members of banned krazed killer outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) have reportedly adopted a "cut-out" strategy, which isolates its big shots from the field-level operatives, in an attempt to carry out subversive activities by attacking important persons of state.
Under the system, which the police are calling the "cut-out" strategy, JMB activists are kept in the dark about the identities of top leaders of the outfit as they blindly carry out orders that they consider part of their "religious duty." As a result, even when any JMB member is locked away
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The authorities of Crimea (now Russian) have given Muslims three months to voluntarily surrender the literature on Islam, authorized under Ukraine but outlawed by the Russian Federation.
"We call on Muslims in possession of this material to deliver it to the religious authorities over the next three months," said the president of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, as reported by Interfax. Until the end of December the police will not confiscate the "forbidden literature", but on the first of January, "everything must be in compliance with Russian norms". He guaranteed that the list of banned books will be published in the press and there will be an awareness raising campaign among the local population.
#8
Buddy get my windshield, check my oil and set me straight,
Top my tank with gas and point me t'ward the interstate,
Brother don't you tarry, I'm telling you I just can't wait,
take me back to Houston, everything about her's great.
I won't need a menu, get a case of Lone Star beer,
And a two-inch slab of that prime-cut
Texas steer,
I can hardly stand it, it's too damn crazy here,
Take me bcks to Houston, give my head a chance to clear.
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Talkin' 'bout the Yankees, you know they got some funny ways,
And they talk so fast that you never hear a word they say,
Oh it's cold up north, and how I miss the sunny days,
Take me back to Houston, how I miss the southern ways.
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Heavy on the pedal, rollin' out on highway ten,
My engine's makin' music, carburetor's
kickin' in,
I'll be so elated, when I come rollin' in,
Take me back to Houston, gotta' see her once again,
Take me back to Houston, gotta' see her
once again.
[Ynet] A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... has left open the possibility of arming the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as part of efforts to defeat Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) krazed killers.
Germany is sending weapons to Kurds in northern Iraq but Merkel has previously ruled out supporting the PKK, which has spent decades fighting for autonomy for Turkey's Kurds and is listed as a terrorist organization by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States.
Turkey, which has so far resisted pressure to join US-led efforts to fight IS bandidosDeath Eaters in northern Iraq and Syria, would oppose such a move.
[AFP] The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that cycle of violence gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime.
"Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it's no longer forbidden," public prosecutor front man Wim de Bruin told AFP.
"You just can't join a fight against the Netherlands," he told AFP after reports emerged that Dutch bikers from the No Surrender gang were fighting IS gunnies alongside Kurds in northern Iraq.
The head of No Surrender, Klaas Otto, told state broadcaster NOS that three members who travelled to near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in northern Iraq were from Dutch cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda.
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[An Nahar] Turkey is planning to expel a group of Syrian Kurds who fled the besieged town of Kobane but were then detained for over a week on suspicion of having links to rebel Kurdish groups, a Turkish politician said on Thursday.
Ibrahim Ayhan, a politician for the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), said the group of over 150 Kurds still being held did not want to return to Syria amid the advance by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) jihadists.
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[MILITARY] The rising national-security threats posed by Islamic turbans and the Russian military raise fresh doubts about the U.S. Army's plans to downsize, the service's top general said. "Mr. President!"
"Yes, General Odey?"
"Odierno, sir. We're faced with a resurgent Russia led by a guy who thinks he's Ivan the Terrible. And he's the easy problem!"
"What's the hard one?"
"We threatened with militant rug-hugging turbanry that threatens the existence of both our civilizations!"
"See, if you were the smartest man in the room the answer would be obvious."
"It would?"
"Sure. We'll cut the size of the military and concentrate on keeping the Senate!"
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno on Monday suggested proposals to decrease the size of the active-duty force due largely to automatic budget cuts and an end to the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are based on outdated assessments. "Then we can do away that silly Combined Arms thingy that lets our military cut through enemy forces like a cheese knife through Liederkranz, put the Defense Department under the CDC, and use all those uniformed guys to fight communicable diseases that have a 90 percent mortality rate! Think of all the pension money we'll be saving!"
"The problem is ... the world is changing in front of us," Odierno said during a military conference in Washington, D.C. "We've seen Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, we've seen ISIS, we've seen some increased instability in other places, so I now have a concern whether even going below 490,000 [soldiers] is the right thing to do." "If you were the smartest man in the room, you'd see that it's the only thing to do! Trust me! Remember, I know more about policy than my policy guys. I know more about military affairs than my military guys!"
The active-duty Army, which has more than half a million soldiers today, is on pace to shrink to between 440,000 soldiers and 450,000 soldiers by 2017. That figure could fall to as low as 420,000 soldiers if automatic budget cuts known as sequestration remain in effect. "Eventually we could get down to a couple dozen guys with really nifty uniforms who could hold my coffee while I'm getting on Air Force One. They'd all be generals, of course..."
"My thought is it should all be on the table as we look at the security environment," Odierno said during a briefing with news hounds during the opening day of the annual conference organized by the Association of the United States Army.
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Carter gutted the Army, and we had to pay to rebuild it. The problem now is we are losing combat experienced people, the very people who cause problems in peace-time conditions, but the kind who win wars.
[DAWN] Independent candidate Malik Amir Dogar, backed by Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI), defeated senior politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Thursday in the much anticipated by-election for NA-149 (Multan), which fell vacant after the latter's resignation from the seat on August 18.
According to unofficial and unconfirmed results of all 286 polling stations, Dogar defeated Hashmi by a margin of more than 10,000 votes. Dogar bagged 57,972 votes while the former PTI president managed to secure 47,500 votes in the NA-149 by-poll.
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[DAWN] Lawyers for a leading activist from Pakistain's embattled Shia Hazara community made a last-minute bid on Thursday to stop his deportation from Britannia despite having received death threats from snuffies in his homeland.
Liaquat Ali Hazara, 36, told AFP in a phone interview from the detention centre where he is being held in England that his lawyers had applied to cancel the expulsion set for Tuesday.
"I fear they can disappear me from the airport upon my arrival," Hazara said, speaking from Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre near Lincoln, central England.
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[Ynet] Britannia said on Thursday it was sending armed drones to Iraq to help it fight Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lions of Islam and support British Tornado aircraft already conducting air strikes.
Britannia is part of an international coalition, led by the United States and including Middle-Eastern partners, which is trying to counter the advance of IS fighters who have seized large amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The "Reaper" drones, built by privately owned US firm General Atomics, were being re-deployed from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said in a written statement to parliament.
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[ARABNEWS] More than 12,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq so far this year, mainly by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), and minorities facing ethnic cleansing are the principal victims, according to a report published on Thursday.
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) said several minority communities, including Christians, Yazidis and Turkmen, had been subjected to liquidations, kidnappings and sexual violence and were in danger of extinction in Iraq.
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Actually, it's the other way round. Militant Muslim Arabs have been joining ISIS in increasing numbers because fighting the juices is supremely unsatisfying, as it provides neither infidel deaths, nor sex slaves, nor beheading fun, nor the immediate victory that is proof of Allah's favour. But its The Second Smartest Man In The Room, the one who got a Purple Heart for a splinter, and his clarity of vision is about all that can be expected in the situation.
[Ynet] The Jerusalem site holy to Islam and Judaism is a cacophonous location, where Moslem trust officials are vigilant for signs of secret Jewish prayer, and police try desperately to keep the peace.
Example number 100030503020025 of the soft jihad of the law.
The overlapping of Jewish and Moslem holidays this year, and the increased tensions felt between the two faiths have highlighted the already volatile atmosphere in the Temple Mount complex. As a site holy to billions of people around the globe the compound is one of the thorniest sticking points in the Israel-Paleostinian conflict.
To an outsider, a visit to the Temple Mount complex and the Al-Aqsa Mosque seem to reveal a delicate dance between two faiths and security forces, but a closer examination reveals a powder keg ready to explode and set the entire region ablaze. With Jews attempting to enter the complex, Moslem religious officials and worshipers fighting against their presence and scores of Christian tourists, it resembles a surreal action movie in the making.
[Ynet] Khaled Mashal accuses Israel of taking advantage of Arab world upheavals, urges Moslems to 'hurry' to al-Aqsa mosque to defend it.
The political leader of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Khaled Mashal, called Thursday for Moslems to defend the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, saying Israel was trying to seize the site, which is revered in both Islam and Judaism.
Mashal, speaking in the 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... i capital Doha where he lives, said: "We call on all our people inside the country to hurry up to al-Aqsa to defend it."
The site has been the location of festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli police earlier this week when security forces arrived for what a police front man said was an attempt to stop the Paleostinians from "staging a riot and disrupting visits".
Mashal accused the Israeli government of taking advantage of Arab preoccupation with regional turmoil, particularly in Syria and Iraq, to try to take over al-Aqsa, the third holiest shrine in Islam - also revered by Jews as the site of the two ancient Jewish temples.
"We call on the nation to be angry and to send a message of painful anger to the world that the Paleostinian people, the Arab and Moslem nation, will not be silent at the Israeli crime," Mashal said.
Paleostinians accuse Israel of trying to restrict their access to the mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem to allow Jews to pray there, something which is banned under a long-standing agreement between the two sides. Orthodox Jews, meanwhile, are pressing for easier access to the compound.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied there are any moves to restrict Paleostinian access to the compound and blamed Paleostinian Lions of Islam for the violence.
Asked if he was worried his call may lead to a new conflict soon after 50 days of fighting between Hamas and Israel in Gazoo, Mashal said: "Nobody wants a war, but it's our right to resist and preserve our rights. We are under occupation ... We have been resisting for one hundred years and will continue.
[ARABNEWS] European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... judges struck down anti-terrorism sanctions against the Tamil Tigers that were imposed by the EU but said on Thursday that the assets of the Sri Lankan group should remain frozen for the time being.
The court said a decision by EU leaders in 2006 to place the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on a list of terrorist organizations had been based on "imputations derived from the press and the Internet" rather than on direct investigation of the group's actions, as required by law.
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EU trying to bring it back from extinction? Well, they do have a thing for creatures of terrorism. What next, an order to protect Ebola?
[Ynet] The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) said on Thursday it had delivered its first medical supplies in a year to Paleostinian refugees living in a camp in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk in Syria.
Around 20,000 people are believed to be living in Yarmouk, once home to hundreds of thousands of Paleostinian refugees and Syrian nationals, where food and water supplies are now scarce. The camp is caught between Syrian government forces and opposition forces including al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Too many years making friends and influencing people in the inimitable Palestinian way has consequences.
[An Nahar] Fugitive Islamist holy manAhmed al-Asir ...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war... on Wednesday warned the supporters of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement in Leb of a possible "confrontation" with the hard boyz of the Islamic State
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[ARABNEWS] Globe-trotting top US diplomat 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... was left hoofing it back on a commercial flight from Vienna Thursday, after his ageing Air Force plane broke down for the fourth time this year.
After marathon talks on Iran's nuclear program in the Austrian capital Wednesday, Kerry's party of more than 40 State Department staff and journalists were checking out of their hotel rooms before dawn Thursday when the news came that his Boeing 757 needed unspecified repairs -- again.
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any story about JF'nK and an airplane makes me think of Calvin sitting in a box making jet noises.
Nothing but a deranged child with a vivid imagination.
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Jawnny had to fly commercial? Oh, I'll bet that frosted his patrician ass. I only hope that first class was booked up too so he had to sit with the great unwashed in the back.
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tu, I'm sure JFK has enough pull to get everyone in first class kicked off the flight. Anyone who resisted can stand by for an audit in the near future.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] According to the Kandahar Director of Public Health Abdul Qayoum Pakhla, three cases of positive 
[Libya Herald] Libyan and Egyptian authorities have both rushed to deny Cairo's involvement in 
[Dhaka Tribune] Key BNP ally 
[MILITARY] The rising national-security threats posed by Islamic 
[ARABNEWS] 
[ARABNEWS] Globe-trotting top US diplomat 
