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Al-Shabaab Terrorists Seek Successor to U.S-Killed Leader
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Page 6: Politix
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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: Heroes of Boko Haram War
[ALLAFRICA] Nigeria is at war and there have continued to be fallen heroes on daily basis. It appears as if Nigeria easily forgets her heroes in the face of continuous casualties. Many of our gallant soldiers continue to lose their lives. Our heart goes to their families and comrades who they left behind. We hope that our government will begin to give these heroes a befitting honor. Fallen heroes should be buried like heroes who they are. Other countries do the same thing, no matter the rank of an American fallen hero, Barrack Obama, the president of United States of America with his wife, the defense secretary, and the veteran affairs secretary will be at the burial ground specially designated for falling soldiers, join others to give the last honor to the dead and show gratitude and compassion to the family which they left behind.

Mitchell Obama, the wife of the president of United States of America will have a one on one meeting to console the widow and children of the falling heroes; assuring them that America is grateful for the sacrifice of their bread winner and that America will forever be grateful to the family for their sacrifice and promise that America will take care of them until they can take care of themselves. She will assure them that their basic needs will be met and the secretaries of Veteran affairs, Defense, and every agent relevant to the case will be at hand to give details to the family of the plan to help the family.

Veteran affairs office is a ministry of its own headed by a secretary (minister) and it ought to be a ministry of its own in Nigeria too headed by a minister. The ministry is responsible for the affairs of retired soldiers, maimed soldiers and their families It is important to mention that the responsibilities of veteran affair's ministry should among others include welfare and care of maimed soldiers and their family as well as welfare of retired soldiers.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Europe
Putin's Nuclear Option
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/06/2014 01:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks Champ or Chump for trying to disarm us (reduce our nuclear capability) and cut the military. Thanks for using our military as a social experiment. Oh yeah, and thanks for the Green Fleet (run on biofuels).
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2014 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  In the 21st century this is the face of NATO's article 5, and this is the face of American deterrence.

Actions and messages have consequences.

Submission to a pathetically weak and sadistically evil enemy has consequences.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/06/2014 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  In April 2014 Russia tested a new version MIRV (&ICBM). Meanwhile,back on the ranch, our noble leader has dismantled the last Minuteman MIRV in July of the same year. Few seem to have made this connection or be worried about it.
Posted by: borgboy || 09/06/2014 15:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Siege of Islamabad: what next?
[DAWN] THOUSANDS of fanatical followers, led by the holy man-cricketer combination of Tahirul Qadri
...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him...
and Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
, hold Islamabad hostage. A year ago such a possibility seemed remote. What of the future? In the years ahead, this pair may become irrelevant.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Send in the clowns
[DAWN] REWIND to 2007: seminary students at the Lal Masjid
...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
-affiliated Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad, occupy the children's library next door, and then attack video shops and beauty parlours. They also rough up several police constables.

Musharraf's government looks on passively for months as Lal Masjid students, reinforced by armed Lion of Islams, escalate their campaign under the leadership of the two holy mans Abdul Aziz and Abdul Rashid Ghazi. The brothers declare that Pakistain army soldiers who die fighting the Taliban will not be entitled to Moslem burials.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Don't bother. They're here.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2014 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Kerry's going to Pakistan?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2014 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it my imagination or is 'The Media' a problem just about everywhere?

Maybe an intense campaign of wet-work directed at the media might bring some circumspection to their ranks.
Posted by: Sonny Glarong6820 || 09/06/2014 13:15 Comments || Top||


Win some, lose some
[DAWN] WITH various news related to the crisis triggered by the Islamabad protest sit-ins dominating almost the entire front page of Dawn earlier this week, one item, albeit occupying the final lone column, was way too significant to ignore.

It was a story based on a statement by ISPR, the military's media wing, providing the latest on Operation Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
, the ongoing clear and hold, counterterrorism operation in North Wazoo Agency.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Split in militant ranks
[DAWN] CRACKS within the holy warrior edifice in Pakistain seem to be widening as the banned TTP and Jamaatul Ahrar
...a splinter group of the Pak Taliban led by Maulana Qasim Khurasani. The group has pledged allegiance to Mullah Omar and has agreed to follow his ideology, such as it is. It's probably the latest incarnation of the splinter group Ahrarul Hind since Khurasani used to head that group...
, a splinter group that parted ways with the parent outfit recently, have been engaging in an intense war of words. In a 'charge sheet' released on Thursday, Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
, now the JA front man, claimed that "the killers" of some leading holy warriors, as well as 200 Mehsud fighters, were "sitting beside" TTP supremo Mullah Fazlullah
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Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  As like HAMAS-VS-FATAH???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/06/2014 0:39 Comments || Top||


Iraq
From the Thousand Year Reich to the Global Caliphate
This is more than a "managable problem."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2014 05:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  What happened to "Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/06/2014 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  The Caliphate and the 1000 year Reich are cut from a similar cloth--both into domination, destruction, killing, and supremacy. Der Führer and the Muslims.

Brennan on ISIS:

We are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are.


Does this guy know what's going on? Is he delusional?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Does this guy know what's going on? Is he delusional? Posted by JohnQC


Delusional, no. Mooslim, yes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2014 12:36 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Al Qaeda in India declaration. Dangerous or desperate?
[CSMONITOR] Terrorism researcher JM Berger wrote in Foreign Policy on Tuesday about Al Qaeda's apparent growing difficulties in handling its affiliates.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, one of the most prominent leaders of al-Nusra Front, posted an extraordinary open letter saying that the Syrian al Qaeda affiliate had repeatedly tried to contact Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
since the caliphate announcement but had received no response. In addition, the letter noted reproachfully, Zawahiri had made no public statement condemning the Islamic State's declaration.

The letter has been underreported, in part because about every other week, a new spate of rumors crops up online that Qahtani is on the outs with al-Nusra's top leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani. While these rumors may or may not be true, Qahtani nevertheless remains one of Nusra's most prominent holy mans, seemingly always living on to be fired another day.

Whether or not Qahtani has been cut out of the loop as far as private communications (and there is no particular reason to think he has been), Zawahiri's public silence so far has done little to offset the growing perception that the core al Qaeda has been weakened and put off balance by the Islamic State's dramatic military advances and its audacious religious demands.

It's highly likely that Zawahiri is fully aware of his perceived weakness. This could have prompted the latest tape. Whether it will do him or his movement much good is another question.

The idea of a centrally-controlled global network of salafi jihadists has always been a stretch, and even more so today. Yet 13 years after 9/11 much of the mainstream media and analysis in America seem to lack a firm grasp of what Al Qaeda is, who its affiliates are, and how jihadi groups grow. Consider CNN's treehouse of terror from the other day.

A nice, linear presentation. The genealogy of jihad starts with Al Qaeda, and various iterations all lead back to that early root. Unfortunately, it's not true. It elides the chaos and egos and competing agendas of the welter of Sunni Arab groups that fight to impose their version of Islam. Have these various groups had links or affiliations with Al Qaeda in the past? Yes. But the vast majority of them have operated almost completely independently, based on their own local cultures and conditions.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  A little bit of both, perhaps!?

No surprise to me that Ayman-the-Z-Man has reaffirmed AQ support for Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar as the latter is one of the younger members of OBL's inner circle - anyone whom argues differently doesn't know shit anything about Osama despite their PCorrect-Deniable rhetoric.

Ditto as per the ISIS/ISIL'S EL SUPREMO AL-BAGHDADI, hence I personally do not believe that Ayman + Al-Baghdadi are truly at odds over the ISIS' alleged super-violent extremism.

IIRC AYMAN was quoted on the MSM-Net as saying this move into India was being done, in part, to allow Radical Islam to "fight the Enemies of Islam/Jihad" - MORE SUCCINTLY, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE FIGHTING MANPOWER + OTHER RESOURCES CAPABLE OF COUNTERING OR DEFEATING ALREADY NUKE-ARMED WESTERN SECULAR STATES + JUDEOCHRISTIANITY.

* See also TOPIX > [New Hampshire Public Radio]WILL AL-QAIDA FIND FOLLOWERS IN INDIA?

AND

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "PAKISTAN ARMY, [PAK Intel]ISI STAGE-MANAGING AL-QAIDA ADVANCE INTO INDIA".

Bruce Reidel.

AFAIK Ayman's declaration establishing "AL-QAIDA IN INDIA" is OFFICIAL NOTICE TO THE US-WORLD THAT THE ISLAMIC JIHAD + CONQUEST OF INDIA, RUSSIA, + CHINA, ETC. HAS BEGUN, TO INCLUDE STRUGGLE OR WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE LATTERS' NUCLEAR + WMD ARSENALS.

Ayman's declaration should show Washington + US Allies thats its NOT enough to militarily isolate or contain, i.e. "tolerate", the ISIS, but to utterly or absolutely destroy it as an organized polity + movement.

TO NOT DO SO PUTS THE US, WEST AT DE FACTO NEAR-TERM + LONG-TERM EXISTENTIAL RISK.

A mucho larger, poten Nuke-WMD armed ISIS will be at the center of what I like to call the "Mason-Dixon Line" in Eurasia between OWG Northern Hemisphere + South.

More popularly known as the Equator - maybe youse heard of it???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/06/2014 0:37 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2014-09-06
  Al-Shabaab Terrorists Seek Successor to U.S-Killed Leader
Fri 2014-09-05
  Abbas Rejects Egyptian Offer To Settle Refugees In Sinai
Thu 2014-09-04
  Al-Qaida Declares New Branch in Indian Sub-Continent
Wed 2014-09-03
  Vandals Deface Three Indiana Christian Churches With Islamic Graffiti
Tue 2014-09-02
  Militiamen storm US embassy in Libya
Mon 2014-09-01
  Suicide Bomber Kills 37 In Western Iraq
Sun 2014-08-31
  Suicide Bomber Targets Iraqi Forces, Killing Seven
Sat 2014-08-30
  Obama under fire for admitting he has no ISIL strategy
Fri 2014-08-29
  Sinai Group Says It Beheaded 4 Egyptian 'Mossad Agents'
Thu 2014-08-28
  Online photos show ISIL executing Syrian soldiers
Wed 2014-08-27
  TTP commanders form new splinter group 'Jamatul Ahrar'
Tue 2014-08-26
  Thousands flee to Cameroon after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Mon 2014-08-25
  Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria
Sun 2014-08-24
  Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes
Sat 2014-08-23
  Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa


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