[Tolo News] A security official said Saturday that Spanish officials had taken cover in a safe room in a guest house that came under attack by the Taliban on Friday night.
At least four bandidos krazed killers launched the attack on the guesthouse in the Spanish Embassy compound in Sherpor area, in downtown Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , on Friday evening shortly before 6pm - leaving eight dead, said officials Saturday.
Spanish officials in the house at the time had to take cover in a safe room. Among them was the deputy ambassador to Kabul, said the security official on condition of anonymity.
Eight people were however killed in the incident -- excluding the four krazed killers. Two were foreigners, five were coppers and one was an Afghan civilian.
Residents in the area meanwhile told TOLOnews on Saturday of the heavy initial kaboom followed by a shootout that lasted 10 hours.
"I fled the area when the kaboom happened, my car's windows were shattered and I was injured," one Sherpor resident said.
"The kaboom happened and security forces came to the blast scene, they rescued me and I got away but I could still hear gunfire coming from inside the embassy [compound]," another local resident Mohammad Wali said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Engineer Mohammad Khan, first deputy of CEO Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... blamed Pakistain on Saturday for being behind the attack.
"Such attacks are planned in Pakistain, this will not be the last attack until sustainable peace is restored in the country," Khan said.
"This is another trick by Pakistain, the attack probably indicates that Pakistain has surrendered to U.S and Chinese pressure to endorse peace negotiations, in other words, Pakistain could try to score more points in the talks through such attacks," former deputy minister of interior Mirza Mohammad Yarmand said.
The attack happened shortly before 6pm on Friday night when one krazed killer detonated a boom-mobile, blowing through a wall into the compound. Three others then stormed the property.
According to officials, high-ranking Spanish officials had been in the house at the time of the attack -- including the deputy ambassador to Kabul.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... all residents took cover in a safe room where they hid until the raid ended at 4am on Saturday morning.
Kabul police confirmed a ten-hour shootout took place but ended with the three bandidos krazed killers being killed.
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The Gambia has been declared an Islamic republic by President Yahya Jammeh who said he wanted to further distance the west African state from its colonial past. The tiny, formerly secular country – named after the river from which British ships are said to have fired cannonballs to fix its borders – joins the ranks of other officially Islamic republics such as Iran and Afghanistan.
Good company...
“In line with the country’s religious identity and values I proclaim Gambia as an Islamic state,” said Jammeh on state television. “As Muslims are the majority in the country, Gambia cannot afford to continue the colonial legacy.”
The Gambia’s population of 1.8 million people are 95% Muslim. Jammeh said citizens of other faiths would still be able to practise.
I think there's a book somewhere that describes exactly how that is to be done...
Jammeh, an animated orator who has earned the reputation for making surprise declarations over the course of his 21-year presidency, pulled the Gambia out of the Commonwealth in 2013, calling it neo-colonial. In 2007 he claimed to have found a herbal cure for Aids.
A loon leads an islamic republic. What could go wrong?
Despite strong commercial ties with Britain and other European countries whose citizens are regular visitors to the Gambia’s white-sand beaches, relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.
The European Union temporarily withheld aid money in 2014 over Gambia’s poor human rights record. The Gambia, whose main industries are agriculture and tourism, ranks 165 out of 187 countries on the UN development index.
I think I'll take the waters elsewhere...
The blogger Sidi Sanneh, a former foreign minister who has become a US-based dissident, said: “Starved of development funds because of his deplorable human rights record and economic mismanagement, Jammeh is looking towards the Arab world as substitute for and source of development aid.”
I guess El Jefe didn't hear about the collapse in the price of oil and the problems of the Soddies...
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I guess El Jefe didn't hear about the collapse in the price of oil and the problems of the Soddies...
...True enough, but on the other hand the Saudis could be down to a buck fifty they found in the throne cushions and a couple of bus tokens and they'd still have more money than the Gambia.
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See RELATED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GAMBIA DECLARES ITSELF TO BE AN ISLAMIC STATE, SECOND TO DECLARE AFTER MAURITANIA. PRO-TAIWAN, ANTI-BEIJING PRESIDENT JAMMEH ONCE TOLD FORMER US POTUS GEORGE BUSH [Dubya = Bush 43] IN 2007 HE CAN SEND GAMBIAN TROOPS TO ATTACK MAINLAND CHINA'S COASTAL ECONOMIC ZONE TO DETER EXPANSION BY BEIJING ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT, + TO BASE GAMBIAN TROOPS ON TAIWAN TO HELP DETER ANY MILITARY ATTACK FROM BEIJING.
The above being said, looks like LIBERIA + SOUTH AFRICA are now that much important to US AFRICOM.
The BDS people should get what they deserve: a one-way trip to Raqqa...
An IDF officer in reserves who fought in Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014 was detained upon landing in the UK a few weeks ago due to a complaint made against him that he was involved in war crimes, Ynet has learned.
Any soldier who fought in the 50-day war, whose details or photos were posted online, may find himself on the blacklist of pro-Palestinian organizations who filed and are still filing complaints at European police stations.
The officer, who came to Britain on a business trip, was released a few hours after being detained, thanks to the intervention of the Foreign Ministry with the assistance of the IDF's Operations Directorate and the IDF's international law division. British authorities apologized to Israel following the incident.
The defense establishment believes that the name of the reserve officer, who served on the home front during the operation, got mixed up in the lists of soldiers and officers which pro-Palestinian organizations drew up. These organizations submitted these names to countries worldwide, especially in Europe, claiming that the soldiers and officers were allegedly involved in war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"Every soldier and officer who served in Operation Protective Edge whose name and picture were published in the media in the standard manner by the army but also on social networks, is liable to encounter such incidents while abroad," a source from the IDF's prosecutor's office told Ynet.
"This includes 60 recipients of citations for excellence during the operation whose names and photographs were released by the IDF. For the Israeli public, it's a badge of honor, but for pro-Palestinian organizations it's the bread and butter of their deligitimization war against Israel," the source continued.
"It is not just arrest warrants or delays of chiefs of staff or former generals, such as (former IDF chief) Gabi Ashkenazi, or (former head of Military Intelligence) Amos Yadlin, but the persecution of the every last soldier who served in the operation and whose identity was officially released," the source concluded.
These complications can also affect soldiers who took part in incidents in the current wave of terror attacks. A month ago, the IDF Spokesman's Unit released a visible facial image of Corporal T, a fighter in the Kfir Brigade who killed three terrorists in two attempted attacks at the Gush Etzion junction. The official image of the soldier became the focus of Palestinian threats against him and calls to harm him on social media.
Simultaneously, the IDF is attempting together with the Foreign Ministry to take preventative action against the arrests of soldiers and officers abroad, among other means, by having representatives of the IDF's prosecutor's division and the Operations Directorate brief soldiers and officers about traveling abroad. They also work with foreign countries regarding the issue and in exceptional cases also provide security to senior officials who travel abroad.
At times, trips abroad of IDF personnel are limited depending on the particular case. Military Intelligence's research division follows the activities of BDS organizations in an attempt to "return fire" in forums and international meetings abroad related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to prepare in advance of attack against the IDF from those organizations.
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No problem. Cut intelligence sharing with British until the cops involved are fired.
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Dave Cowens once had an altercation with an official.
After a ticky tack foul was called on a teammate, the next trip down the court Dave "bumped" an opposing player into about the 3rd row and continued over to the official saying "Now THAT'S a foul!!"
I think the attitude needs to be messaged "Now THAT'S a war crime!" as BDS organizers start having fatal accidents.
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Some of the BDS organizers are Scandinavian governments and the EU settlement-labelling committee, not to mention President Obama's Hanukkah candle lighter. So no.
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The EUnuts seem to like to play free and loose with the rule of law. Remember the arrest of Pinochet, while he was travelling under diplomatic immunity?
The Europeans might find themselves on the hook for funding terrorist organizations one day...
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......was released a few hours after being detained, thanks to the intervention of the Foreign Ministry with the assistance of the IDF's Operations Directorate and the IDF's international law division. British authorities apologized to Israel following the incident.
Er, huh, oh fok Lionel! they're preparing to terminate our bloody terrorist intelligence data sharing ?
Oh sorry, here's your man back. Sorries all around, our bad. How about a nice beer, chips, or beans on toast ?
The U.N. human rights chief has told the Security Council it is "essential" that the council refer North Korea's bleak human rights situation to the International Criminal Court, a proposition that the reclusive country views with alarm.
Zeid Raad al-Hussein spoke Thursday after China tried to keep the meeting from happening. China, North Korea's neighbor and a traditional ally, demanded a rare vote on whether to discuss the issue, saying the council is not the place to discuss human rights.
You can see why discussing human rights would make China nervous...
Russia, Venezuela and Angola backed China,
...thus demonstrating their nervousness as well...
but the United States and eight other countries voted to go forward. Nigeria and Chad abstained.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, the current council president, replied to the objections with an incredulous "Really?"
She then giggled like a schoolgirl...
And without mentioning China by name, she called for an end to the practice of sending North Korean refugees back to their country, where they can face imprisonment and torture.
The council put North Korea's rights situation on its agenda a year ago, and this was its second meeting on the issue. The council took up the issue after a U.N. report, based on interviews with scores of defectors, detailed widespread government abuses such as mass starvation.
The U.N. report also recommended a referral to the ICC, an idea that 112 countries supported last month in a vote in the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee. The assembly itself is expected to vote on the non-binding resolution next week.
North Korea rejects criticism of its human rights record, but in September its foreign minister extended an unprecedented invitation to Zeid to visit the country. Zeid told reporters after Thursday's meeting that he hopes to go to North Korea "in the near future" and that discussions on the details continue.
Whereupon an accident will happen and Zeid will never be seen again...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last month that he will try to visit North Korea "at the earliest possible date" in an effort to promote peace on the Korean peninsula. Zeid said Thursday that "mine is a separate invitation."
[Ynet] Salah Abdeslam, still on the run, drove thousands of miles across Europe to buy gear, rent cars, book rooms, scout locations and move people into place for the Nov. 13 carnage that killed 130 people.
the height of Europe's vacation season, a young man with French and Belgian IDs caught a ferry from southern Italia to Greece. He and a companion returned to Italia four days later, then hit the road for La Belle France. The beginning of August marked the first known steps in a mission that crisscrossed Europe - taking advantage of the continent's open borders - to lay the groundwork for the Gay Paree attacks.
Over the next three months, authorities believe Salah Abdeslam drove thousands of miles across Europe to buy gear, rent cars, book rooms, scout locations and move people into place for the Nov. 13 carnage that killed 130 people and maimed hundreds. Sometimes his older brother helped out. At least twice he was accompanied by a friend from Brussels' Molenbeek neighbourhood, where many of the attackers had roots.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Christmas carols sound in the medieval square, and the scents of hot spiced wine, anise cookies and beeswax candles waft through the air at Zwickau's traditional Christmas market.
The four children of the Habashieh family, Muslim Syrian refugees, wander from stand to stand, looking with big eyes at all the mouthwatering delicacies -- filled with joy that they will be spending their first German Christmas in the warmth of their own home.
Only weeks ago, Khawla Kareem, the matriarch, was so desperate about life in Germany that she said she would rather brave the bombs in Damascus than spend another day in a cramped shelter with no privacy, no school for her children and fear of racist attacks.
Today, she couldn't be happier: Following months in a succession of squalid asylum centers, German authorities found them an empty apartment where they could live with modest dignity. The family has joined in the Christmas spirit of their neighbors, decorating the door of their flat with glittery red bells and tree branches in green and gold.
"We're fully integrated now," Reem Habashieh, the family's oldest daughter, says with a twinkle in her eye. Her little sister Raghad, 11, even has a toy Christmas calendar like most German kids, where each date is a door that opens to reveal chocolate in the countdown to Christmas eve.
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[Rudaw] Civilians in Sur, a troubled district in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeast, have been fleeing their homes since Friday, fearing another curfew and renewed festivities between security forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reported on its website that residents had been fleeing in large numbers, taking whatever possessions they could carry.
The Turkish army declared a curfew in several neighborhoods of the Kurdish district on December 3. That followed the resumption of fighting with the PKK and the murder of a prominent Kurdish lawyer, Tahir Elci, in Diyarbakir city in early December.
"We were not able to go outside because of the intense festivities. We ran low on water and food and our homes were damaged," the Dogan News Agency quoted one Sur resident as saying.
Homes, mosques and civilian properties have reportedly been damaged in the intense festivities.
Mehmduh Tura, a junior governor in Sur, had justified the reason for the curfew to "ensure the security of life and property of our citizens," according to Turkish news agencies.
Following the curfew, the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) expressed outrage, saying it was "worried about loss of lives."
"After the curfew declared in Sur, the district has been blockaded by security forces and afterwards festivities have begun. We want to note that we are worried about loss of lives following the curfew," the HDP had said in a statement.
Clashes and curfews have been the order of the day in parts of Turkey, ever since the government declared a war on terrorism in late July. But instead of smashing jihadi groups that have been operating with impunity from Turkey, the military began an intense and deadly campaign against the PKK.
[ARABNEWS] Canada has set a humanitarian example by swiftly taking in some of the desperate Syrian refugees who continue to arrive in Europe in significant numbers in December, aid agencies said on Friday.
After months of promises and weeks of preparation, the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto, aboard a military aircraft met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The 163 refugees will be followed by a second military airlift to Montreal on Saturday. Trudeau has said 10,000 will be resettled by year-end and a further 15,000 by the end of February, fulfilling his government's pledge to accept 25,000.
"Canada's programs are an expression of support to Syrian refugees but importantly for us they are a demonstration too of solidarity to countries in the region hosting more than 4 million Syrian refugees," UN refugee agency front man Adrian Edwards told a news briefing in Geneva.
"We encourage other states to engage in these programs."
Leonard Doyle, front man of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said Canada's intake was "impressive by any standards." "The main point is that the program is going to unfold very rapidly. The Canadians are extremely welcoming."
The reception in Canada contrasted sharply with that in the neighboring US, where fear of Syrian refugees following the deadly Nov. 13 Gay Paree attacks spurred opposition to allowing them entry. Some US governors said their states would not accept Syrian refugees.
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canada's 'hate speech' laws discourage actual facts about the 'refugees' from being known
probably a bit of this 'extremely welcoming' is by professional charity types and career leftists
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The president will visit the Pentagon on Monday to discuss the country's strategy against the Islamic State with members of his national security team.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday that the president's meeting will focus on steps to "strengthen the execution of our strategy and hasten the defeat of ISIL."
Obama will hear from the Defense Department, senior commanders in the field, and the National Security Council during Monday's meetings, after which he is expected to address the press.
It will mark his second visit to the Pentagon this year. During the first in July, he championed progress in the fight against the terrorist group, while stating that there will always be set-backs in any military campaign.
The meetings come as both lawmakers and the public are calling for the president to step up his strategy against the terrorist group.
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The president will visit the Pentagon on Monday to discuss the country's strategy against the Islamic State with members of his national security team.
Thought they met every morning?
he is expected to address the press
Ohhh, a fotop.
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Pure P.R. Remember, everything is political with this bunch. Everything.
He must have some really horrific polling & focus group data if he is doing this.
Even flatworms have enough of a nervous system and will turn away from pain stimuli.
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I'll go with a sub-agenda of "enforcing discipline." He's getting grief from the Pentagon and there's been quite a few press-leaks from the Puzzle Palace. I suspect there's also DOD and service-wide morale issues to be "addressed."
I might even go out on a limb and speculate on there being retirements over the holidays and the January-February doldrums.
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Checking on the political reliability of his appointees. How'd that work in Iraq? The fool doesn't understand its the middle grades that make it work. He can remove people from their duty appointment, but he can't fire them. Just hanging on obstructs promotions of subordinates as the law restricts the number of officers and ranks. The management of which resides basically with Congress.
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"One last bullshit photo op to calm the rubes then I'm off for Hawaii"
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One small point: I always thought that the NSA was the puzzle palace. The Pentagon was Fort Fumble or something like that.
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Tried placing a call, and who answered?
You'd swear it was old mother Bamford:
"I've sent your brochure,
And would like to assure
You, our AI has set a new standard!"
[ARABNEWS] The father of a Muslim middle school student says a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. Somalia-born Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb.
"The teacher said she knew her joke went too far, especially because of 'the things happening in the world right now,'" Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) quoted the daughter as saying.
"It was very disrespectful. I came there to learn... At the end of the day I will still get my A or B and leave her class," she said.
Aden told AJC that his daughter was upset when she sent an SMS to tell him about the incident.
Sloan Roach, a Gwinnett County Public Schools spokeswoman, said the teacher's comment was inappropriate and the school's principal has apologized to the family. She said the comment came as the teacher was telling students to put away their backpacks and school officials don't believe it was made with ill intent.
Aden, a truck driver and grocery store owner, said he is going to pull out his daughter out from the school.
"We are from Africa, we are Muslims, we live in America. I didn't teach my children to hate people or to think they are better than other people. I don't want nobody to treat them like that," AJC quoted him as saying.
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ABOARD THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP MILWAUKEE, VIRGINIA CAPES – The littoral combat ship Milwaukee, the Navy’s newest ship, broke down Dec. 11 and had to be towed more than 40 nautical miles to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia.
The ship suffered an engineering casualty while transiting from Halifax, Canada, to Mayport, Florida, and ultimately its home port of San Diego. The cause is being evaluated by ship’s crew and technical consultants.
Initial indications are that fine metal debris collected in the lube oil filter caused the system to shut down, according to a Navy statement provided to Navy Times. The cause of the metal debris in the lube oil system is not known and assessments are ongoing.
The ship was commissioned Nov. 21 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been making the long trek to San Diego through the Great Lakes since.
Problems with the propulsion plant began almost as soon as Milwaukee got underway from Halifax. The ship’s computer system triggered an alarm and the ship called away an engineering casualty.
Engineers cleaned out the metal filings from the lube oil filter and locked the port shaft as a precaution. In the early hours of Friday morning, the ship was conducting steering tests and lost lube oil pressure in the starboard combining gear due to the presence of the same metal filings in that filter.
The metal filings in the lube oil have not been a class-wide issue, according to the Navy.
The ship then dropped anchor while the engineers worked on the system. By mid-morning, the salvage ship Grapple rendezvoused with Milwaukee and connected a towing hawser line for the trip back to Little Creek.
The ship is currently manned by Crew 104, and was scheduled to swap with Crew 108 in Mayport. The crews will now swap in Virginia while the ship’s system is repaired.
News of the breakdown reached Capitol Hill by late Friday. Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement to Navy Times that the plant issues were troubling and called for accountability.
“Reporting of a complete loss of propulsion on USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) is deeply alarming, particularly given this ship was commissioned just 20 days ago,” McCain said. “U.S. Navy ships are built with redundant systems to enable continued operation in the event of an engineering casualty, which makes this incident very concerning. “I expect the Navy to conduct a thorough investigation into the root causes of this failure, hold individuals accountable as appropriate, and keep the Senate Armed Services Committee informed.”
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...Okay. On the one hand, Milwaukee is actually still in trials status, so yes, it's very bad this happened but better it happened now instead of once she was cleared for service. On the other hand, the USN BETTER be yanking a bunch of people at the yards by the neck. This is simply inexcusable.
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The avoidance of the ugly expense of keeping expert contractor teams on pay while you systemically reduce the "military-industrial complex" means you limit yourself to the lowest 'qualified' bidder, who just so happens isn't half as qualified as granddad was in the 50s and 60s.
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While I like the grinding to fit theory, whaddabout sabotage?
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Bobby, from what I've read the LCS is self-sabotaging. I think we built these in the hope that the Chinese navy would copy them.
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The 2 Rolls Royce MT30 gas turbines have independent lube oil systems. A double failure points to something as simple as the wrong oil in the system or a more intentional act.
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Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama still has 1-1-n-1/4 year to come up wid more anarchies-n-chaoses in US FP.
D *** NG IT, THIS IS NO TIME FOR THE USN TO START BEING THE RUSSIAN OR INDIAN NAVIES, WHERE THE MOST IMPORTANT SHIP IN THE COMBAT TASK GROUP OR TASK FORCE IS THE FLEET SALVAGE TUG(S).
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Engines making metal is bad Juju. At least the chip detection systems kept the turbines from blowing up. Though both engines showing chips is not good at all.
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Turbines on a boat that size is dumb. fuel consumption and (gads!) the carbon foot print compared to bunker fuel oil.
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USN, the steam powered ships (except for nukes) went away a long time ago. Yes, the turbines are gas hogs, but they don't take hours and hours to build up a head of steam to get underway.
Of course, eventually they will probably try sails again - those are definitely carbon neutral, as long as you have a favorable wind.
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Of course, eventually they will probably try sails again - those are definitely carbon neutral, as long as you have a favorable wind.
I wouldn't be surprised to see that as a requirement coming out of Paris - at least for developed nations.
[DAWN] Police have arrested 16 people in connection with an attack on the election office of a PML-N leader and the main accused in the murder of the nephew of former Punjab law minister Raja Basharat.
On the other hand, Numbardar Asad Mehmood, who was the ruling party candidate for the slot of chairman UC-86 Dhamial, was brought back to Rawalpindi along with his two facilitators after his arrest in Karachi. The ex-law minister’s nephew, Raja Shoaib, was killed outside a polling station in Dhamial on December 5.
When contacted, SP Ghayas Gul confirmed that Asad Mehmood had been arrested and police were also hunting for his brother, Ikhlaq. He said 18 suspects had already been detained in connection with the murder, including Asad’s father.
The SP said police had also detained 16 people suspected to be involved in the attack on the election office of Asad Mehmood at Dhamial Chowk. The protest was held against police failure to arrest the main accused in the murder case.
When asked how the police identified the suspects, the SP said they were traced during an investigation though there were no CCTV footages of the incident.
As many as 60 protesters were booked on the charge of damaging the election office of Asad Mehmood. However, none of the protesters was nominated in the FIR registered with Saddar Barooni police on the complaint of Constable Mohammad Imran.
The constable in his complaint stated that 60 unidentified people, chanting slogans and carrying sticks and batons, attacked the office and damaged its furniture and windowpanes.
The protesters also stormed Chaudhry Subtain’s mansion located in the neighborhood and set a vehicle on fire.
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[DAWN] In a series of tweets, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa on Saturday said that phenomenal success has been achieved during Operation Zarb-i-Azb and the last pockets of militants are being cleared near the Pak-Afghan border.
The head of the army's media wing was tweeting to mark a year and a half since the launch of Operation Zarb-i-Azb and gave an overview of significant achievements.
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Long piece from last week shows that West Bank Palestinians, at least, are capable of learning from experience.
[Ynet] Jenin, once the home of jacket wallahs, is now the quietest city in the West Bank. After 4 attempted attacks at the Jalamah checkpoint, the residents realized their economic prosperity could stop, and rushed to restore calm; 'an attack at the checkpoint is an attack against us,' says local businessman.
...But no kids have been seen on the Paleostinian side of the checkpoint for the past month. In fact, nobody walks there, stands there, or sells krembos there. The reason is that 100 meters away from the checkpoint, plain-clothed Paleostinian coppers are stationed, wearing black caps that broadcast their identity to all Paleostinians. Some check some of the cars that want to go through the checkpoint, others look around, trying to spot potential suspicious activity. Someone told us that there are also more coppers there, whose job is to see and not be seen. The efforts have borne fruit: The guards have already managed to stop three different women who each wanted to perpetrate a stabbing attack.
"The Paleostinian security forces are indeed on the Paleostinian side of the checkpoint and they prevent kids from coming to it, since we don't want these kids to die," says Jenin Governor Ibrahim Ramadan. "They've been there for 30 days, in several places, taking care of the Paleostinians' security."
[IsraelTimes] Leaving children, jobs behind, 50 soldiers in new battalion hope to push back jihadists
They're not going to go back to meek little dhimmis after this.
Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State
With its limited combat experience, the unit for now focuses mainly on protecting majority Christian parts of Hasakeh province.
...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 Syria.
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Real feminists. Not the coddled middle class prigs at American universities and in the media and government.
[Dhaka Tribune] Late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... 's son Hannibal has been sprung after being briefly kidnapped by an gang in Leb, security sources say.
In a video shown on Lebanese TV, the captive businessman was seen appealing for more information concerning the 1978 disappearance of the prominent Lebanese Shia holy man Musa al-Sadr.
He was freed in the city of Baalbek and dispatched to Beirut, police told AP.
The 40-year-old former playboy was given sanctuary in Oman in 2012. His father Muammar was tossed by rebels in a 2011 uprising.
Al-Sadr, one of the most prominent Shia holy mans of the 20th Century, disappeared along with two others during a trip to Libya in 1978.
Muammar Qadaffy denied any involvement in his disappearance, but many suspect him of having orchestrated it. The case has long soured relations between the two countries.
It is not known how long Hannibal has been in Leb. He was under house arrest while in Oman with his sister Ayesha and mother Safiya.
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...Likely the lad has a pretty good idea what happened to al-Sadr - Dad was never shy about keeping things from the family, and Hannibal was almost certainly being raised to join the family business until things went south.
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[PJ Media] As the House Armed Services Committee released a lengthy report on President Obama's swap of five Taliban detainees for Bowe Bergdahl, one former Guantanamo detainee took a bow this week as a new spokesman for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The House report covers the transfer of Taliban communications chief Mohammad Nabi Omari, deputy minister of intelligence Abdul Haq Wasiq, interior minister Khairulla Said Wali Khairkhwa, deputy minister of defense Mohammad Fazl, and senior military commander Mullah Norullah Noori in May 2014 to Qatar.
Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) noted that since that moment, the committee has been conducting an investigation into the actions of then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and senior Pentagon officials.
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.
[DAWN] In a series of tweets, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa on Saturday said that phenomenal success has been achieved during Operation Zarb-i-Azb and the last pockets of militants are being cleared near the Pak-Afghan border.
