[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! architect of 9/11 revealed that al Qaeda's plan to kill the United States was not through military attacks but immigration and "outbreeding nonmuslims" who would use the legal system to install Sharia law, according to a blockbuster new book.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also predicted that intelligence officials using so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques such the waterboarding he experienced would eventually come under attack from weak-kneed U.S. politicians and media.
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Wow - while I am not a fan of EIT or the CIAs employment of them to educe information (no more effective than standard techniques) Mitchell's notes on Abu Zubaydah and KSM's insights are extremely valuable. If the rest of the book is as good as the hook in this article...it may be a game changer.
[Daily Excelsior] Maintaining that there was no readymade solution to Kashmire problem and it needs to be addressed by sitting together with an open mind, spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shanker today said that the conflict was a cash cow for bully boyz and their promoters, who have vested interests to keep the pot boiling.
"The vested interest don’t want resolution of Kashmire problem and return of peace in the Valley as state of unrest has become a cash cow for them," he said while talking to the Excelsior on sidelines of a day-long conference on `Kashmire: Back to Paradise’, organized by South Asian Forum for Peace, an organization of the Art of Living Foundation, here today.
Admitting that these vested interests may try their best to sabotage his initiative on Kashmire, Sri Sri, however, stressed that such elements would not be able to deter him from raising the voice of common people in Valley who want peace as they are fed up with unrest. "People have been caught between Hartal and curfew, they want peace and education to their children but are scared of armed bully boyz and their promoters. We will give voice to these people," he said and exuded confidence of winning over hearts of the misguided youth once they come in his contact.
In response to a query, the spiritual Guru informed that in connection with the peace initiative, he had also met the PoK Governor though he did not elaborate on their meeting and only said that majority people in Pakistain also wanted peace between the two countries.
Regarding cross border terrorism and repeated ceasefire violations, Sri Sri said that the Government would deal with these gun wielding bully boyz and Mighty Pak Army while he would concentrate on resolving Kashmire by involving the people here.
Terming trust-deficit as another major hurdle in forging peace in trouble torn Kashmire, Sri Sri said that his organization has tried to provide a platform to all the stakeholders for sharing their ideas. "Trust deficit is the biggest problem. People don’t trust Government and the system but we can do away with this by involving all the stakeholders, who will sit together without any prejudice and find out a solution for peace, which can be evolved by none but only people of Kashmire," he said and predicted that intellectuals and spirituals would bring Kashmire back to paradise.
Earlier, during a media briefing and also while delivering key note address in the conference, Sri Sri drew attention towards radicalization of youth as well as drug abuse in Valley and lamented that no work was done so far on the de-radicalization and de-addiction.
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"...drug abuse in Valley..." Not content with poisoning Pakistani youth, the Pakistan military's ISI (which controls most of Afghanistan's opium trade) now infects the Vale of Kashmir.
[DAWN] Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... on Tuesday approved death penalties awarded by military courts to 10 more snuffies of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... (LI) who were involved in the killing of security personnel.
"Today Chief of Army Staff confirmed death sentences awarded to another 10 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism," the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
This will possibly be the last batch of faceless myrmidons whose death sentences have been approved by Gen Sharif before his retirement next Tuesday.
The military courts were set up through the 21st Amendment to the Constitution in January 2015, after the tragic Army Public School incident, for a period of two years for speedy trial of terrorism cases. The special courts have so far decided over 200 cases in which 136 people have been given death sentences. Ninety-six others have been awarded life imprisonment.
Only 12 convicts have been executed so far, according to figures available with Dawn.
Military courts would cease to function in January after the expiry of their constitutionally mandated term. Neither the total number of cases referred to military courts by provincial governments nor that of remaining cases is publicly known.
It isn’t clear if a mechanism has been devised to deal with cases that will remain pending after the completion of the constitutional term of the courts.
The government is still undecided about the future of leftover cases from courts established under the Protection of Pakistain Act (PoPA), 2014, another anti-terrorist legislation, which lapsed earlier this year after completing its two-year period.
The faceless myrmidons whose death penalties have been approved by the army chief include Hanifa s/o Umar Zareen (TTP) for kidnapping and slaughtering of Captain Jonaid Khan, Captain Najam Riaz Raja, Naik Shahid Rasool and Lance Naik Shakeel Ahmed during operation in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... in 2009.
Tirah Gul s/o Khan and Mohammad Wali s/o Faulad Khan (LI) were found to be involved in the killing of Havildar Noor Mast, Naik Farman Ali, Naik Shabbir Akhtar, Sepoy Humayun, Sepoy Fakhar Alam, Sepoy Ismail and injuries to many other soldiers during an attack on a camp of the Frontier Constabulary in Jhansi Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... in 2010.
Zahid Khan s/o Kitab Shah had earlier been given death sentence in the same case.
Others who have been given capital punishment are Khaista Mohammad s/o Abdul Jalil (TTP) for attacks on army personnel and destruction of girls’ schools and phone company tower; Ali Rehman s/o Habibur Rehman, Fazal Ali s/o Fazal Wahid and Mohammad Ali s/o Abdul Rehman (TTP); Nisar Ali s/o Damsaz Khan (TTP); Khial Jan s/o Sayel Jan (LI); and Payo Jan s/o Asal Jan (LI).
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[DAWN] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) on Wednesday passed a stay order preventing the government from deporting Pak-Turk school officials.
A two-member bench of the PHC comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ikramullah heard a writ petition filed by students and parents of Pak-Turk schools.
The petitioners maintained that the federal government had ordered the expulsion of teachers due to a political issue which the teachers had no connection with.
The writ petition mentioned that there were 26 Pak-Turk school campuses across the country, in which around 11,000 students were enrolled.
The PHC issued a stay order on the federal government's earlier order of expulsion of staffers and issued a notice to the federal government to clarify its stance on the issue.
The government issued an order to the Turkish staff of its schools to leave the country ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... visit to Pakistain earlier this month.
The Turkish government believes that the Pak-Turk schools are part of a network operated by Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , a political rival of President Erdogan, and has reportedly called upon Pakistain to close them down.
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[DAWN] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally cleared the long-pending purchase of 145 M777 ultra-light howitzers from the United States, the US media reported on Monday. Great for cross-border firing!
The $737 million arms deal is part of a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement between the United States and India, which aims to promote greater defence cooperation between the two countries.
The Pentagon’s FMS programme facilitates sales of US defence equipment and services to foreign governments.
Under the arrangement, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency serves as an intermediary, handling procurement, logistics and delivery of the purchased equipment.
"The contract will be signed within the next two months, and the deliveries are expected to start in mid-2017," an Indian defence official told news hounds in New Delhi.
"India is certainly looking forward for a much greater defence partnership under the leadership with newly elected US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ," the official said.
The official also told news hounds that the artillery pieces would help India target Death Eater bases inside Pakistain without crossing the border and that’s why acquiring the howitzers was a top priority. "It will be a game changer," he added.
Last year, the Indian Ministry of Defence approved a proposal to buy M777A2 (LW155) howitzers from the US only after a commitment from the manufacturers to set up assembly, integration and test (AIT) facilities in India to boost India’s domestic defence industry.
Under the arrangement, US subsidiary of BAE Systems will dispatch 25 M777 artillery guns in fly-away condition; remaining guns will be assembled in India in partnership with private sector company Mahindra Defence Systems.
"Developing a supply chain in India is key to our vision to develop technologies and solutions in India for both the home market and for export," the US manufacturer said.
The two companies will jointly set up an AIT facility for M777 artillery guns near New Delhi.
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[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday sentenced five men to death on two counts for their involvement in the burning alive of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014.
ATC-I Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Azam imposed a fine of Rs200,000 on the five men identified as Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and Hafiz Ishtiaq ─ a local prayer leader ─ for their involvement in the lynching.
Eight others have also been charged with involvement in the lynching and sentenced to two years each in prison.
The eight men were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Noorul Hasan, Muhammad Arsalan, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Muneer, Muhammad Ramazan, Irfan and Hafiz Shahid.
A challan ... list of charges ... submitted in court claimed the five men handed the death penalty gathered a large mob of hundreds by making announcements over a mosque loudspeaker and incited them to violence with incendiary speech.
Kot Radha Kishan lynching
A mob of around 400 people lynched Shahzad and Shama for their alleged role in desecrating the Holy Koran in November 2014. Both husband and wife were brick kiln workers from Chak-59 of Kot Radha Kishan, a town in Kasur district. The woman, mother of three, was pregnant.
Police and witnesses told Dawn in Nov 2014 that announcements had been made from mosques on Tuesday asking villagers to gather at the Yousaf brick kiln where 25-year-old Shama and her husband Shahzad Masih worked as bonded labourers.
Over 1,000 charged people from three villages took out the couple from a room (where they had taken shelter) after tearing apart its roof.
The mob tortured the couple before putting them into the kiln’s furnace.
The mob held hostage five coppers who tried to rescue the couple. The villagers also manhandled some media personnel and snatched their cameras.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 660 villagers, including 60 who were nominated in a First Information Report lodged on the complaint of Sub-Inspector Muhammad Ali of Chowki Factory Area.
The FIR said the mob had thrashed the couple and dragged them to a kiln where Mohammad Yousaf Gujar, the kiln owner, and his accountants Shakeel and Afzal, allegedly removed a lid from one of the openings of the furnace and threw the couple into it.
"Both Shama and Shahzad were reduced to ashes in no time," the FIR stated.
'No one listened to her'
Bilqees, a local Moslem resident, recounted the horrific incident to Dawn in 2014.
She said that Shama, known in the village as Saima, married Shahzad Masih about 10 years ago. They had three children aged between two and seven. She said Shama was pregnant at the time of the incident.
Nazir Masih, father-in-law of Shama, was a faith healer and died a few weeks ago. After his death, Shama had burnt some of his belongings, including papers. She added that Shama was illiterate.
Bilqees said a vendor who had visited the brick kiln found the pages of the Holy Koran and showed them to the villagers.
Later on Tuesday morning, hundreds of villagers gathered at the kiln and burnt the couple alive without even listening to Shama.
"She was screaming that she was unaware of what the papers were about, but no one listened to her," Bilqees said.
International uproar
The lynching of Shama and Shehzad caused international uproar. In 2014, A top Vatican official described the lynching of the couple as a humiliation for all of humanity.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic church's council for interfaith dialogue, had said he was profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad and Shama.
"How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?," Tauran had earlier said on Vatican Radio, urging Moslem leaders in Pakistain to vigorously condemn the killings.
"It is all of humanity that is humiliated," he had said, adding: "The first victims are in fact Moslems because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible."
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[DAWN] Contact between the DGMOs of Pakistain and India was established today, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The Pakistain Army DGMO demarched his Indian counterpart regarding the earlier targeting of a civilian bus on the Pak side of the disputed border.
"We reserve the right to respond at the time and place of our choosing," said Pakistain’s DGMO, added the ISPR statement.
The latest incident of cross-border firing comes just a day after the Indian army claimed three of its soldiers were killed along the LoC and threatened Pak forces of retribution.
The Indian army also claimed that the body of one of the dead soldiers had been "mutilated."
The Foreign Office however rejected the claim, saying that the "reports are a fabrication and a blatant attempt to malign Pakistain".
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[BLOOMBERG] Iraq will shoulder part of the burden of oil-output cuts, said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, reversing the nation’s previous insistence for an exemption and potentially removing an obstacle to an OPEC deal next week.
"Iraq will cut its output to preserve prices," al-Abadi told news hounds in Baghdad on Wednesday. The country wants OPEC to reduce production by a total of 900,000 barrels a day when it meets next week in Vienna because low prices are hurting global investment in the industry, he said.
The premier’s statement could improve the chances that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will implement its September pledge to reduce crude output to remove a global oversupply and boost prices. OPEC failed to finalize the details of supply curbs Tuesday, largely because of Iran and Iraq’s resistance to making any reductions. The government in Baghdad had argued that it needs all possible resources for its fight against 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.... OPEC agreed on Sept. 28 in Algiers to reduce output to 32.5 million to 33 million barrels a day. OPEC estimates it pumped 33.6 million barrels a day last month, meaning a 900,000 barrel cut would place production in the middle of that range.
A $1 increase in the price of oil boosts Iraq’s revenues by $1 billion a year, al-Abadi said. "If OPEC cuts down output at 1 million barrels a day, this will help prices to go up and Iraq will make gains from this," he said.
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Iraq will shoulder part of the burden of oil-output cuts, said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, reversing the nation’s previous insistence for an exemption and potentially removing an obstacle to an OPEC deal next week.
Male bovine scatalogical material. The Iranians, after just getting production UNsanctioned, aren't going to throttle it back again. Not to mention that as soon as this is approved and prices do their reflexive upwards twitch, the sound of the fracker will be heard again in the land.
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With any luck, one day soon, The Mad Mullahs will regret paying less attention to economics than "mischief."
[JPOST] Almost every Shiite village or neighborhood in southern Leb is being used by Hezbollah fighters, according to Brig.-Gen. Ram Yavne, head of the IDF Strategic Division.
One civilian village pointed out by Yavne called Chakra, which has 4,000 Shi’ite inhabitants, "reflects the situation of every Shi’ite neighborhood, town, or village in Leb. In that village, 1/3 of the homes are military assets of Hezbollah."
Speaking at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, Yavne told the crowd that while it is also a military challenge, "this use of civilians as human shields should be condemned" by the world. According to Yavne, the Middle East until 2010 was like the one that was seen on a map ‐ a region of states with set borders. But six years later, the international community is dealing with various non-state actors, some quite extreme.
The region, he said, is overrun with four major political rifts, each one clashing with the other: the Iranian-Shi’ite camp, the Sunni camp headed by 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 including Egypt, the global jihad camp which includes 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.... and al-Qaeda, and the Moslem Brüderbund camp. In addition to those four political camps, the last two years has also seen the intervention of the United States and Russia in the region.
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It's ok -- Israel mapped their location years ago. Come the deluge, the secondaries are going to be amazing.
Purchasing new fighter jets is on the agenda of Iran’s army, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the second-in-command of Iranian Army, said.
The Iranian army has plans to upgrade the capabilities of its Air Force by purchasing new fighter jets, Pourdastan said, Fars news agency reported Nov. 23. He further said that the Air Force of the Islamic Republic has overhauled its fighters as well and is fully prepared to respond threats at any point.
Which is why they want new ones...
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Flush with cash from the US treasury. Thanks Champ, I wonder how the pilots of the Israeli AF think of you...
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Though it's hoped they buy from Pakistan, the likely seller is Russia, though the Chinese may make a play (unproven engines, but Lavi-derived electronics.)
[REUTERS] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies returning from Syria could carry out mustard gas attacks after learning how to use the toxic substance in battle zones, a bigwig from the global chemical weapons watchdog warned on Wednesday.
An inquiry by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded in October that Syrian government forces were responsible for chlorine gas attacks and that Islamic State snuffies had used mustard gas.
"It seems that one of the dangers that we need to face and have a response for - since Islamic State has learnt how to make mustard gas - is that sadly one of the people who learnt how to do it comes back to one of our countries and helps carry out an attack like this," Philippe Denier, director at the verification division of the OPCW told a defense conference in Gay Paree.
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Are they going to open up gluten free vegan Mexican restraunts or what?
[BREITBART] The American government has revealed they have "credible information" 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.... and al-Qaeda are planning to attack Christmas celebrations in Europe this year.
The warning comes days after French counterterrorist police seized a haul of weapons and tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! seven people, taking orders from Syria, thought to have been plotting to hit Christmas events. What else is new? They do that every year.
With a "focus on the upcoming holiday season and associated events", the State Department in Washington D.C. said organised attacks, such as those in Gay Paree last November and in Brussels in March, as well as lone-wolf attacks, were possible.
"U.S. citizens should also be alert to the possibility that krazed killer sympathizers or self-radicalized murderous Moslems may conduct attacks during this period with little or no warning," they said.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[DAWN] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally cleared the long-pending purchase of 145 M777 ultra-light howitzers from the United States, the US media reported on Monday.
[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday sentenced five men to death on two counts for their involvement in the burning alive of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014.
[DAWN] Contact between the DGMOs of Pakistain and India was established today, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
