GALGALA, Somalia -- The President of Somalia’s Puntland Government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has extended amnesty offer to terrorists militants fighting alongside Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group by one month during a news conference in the rugged terrain of Galgala on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
"We give Al Shabaab terrorists members a new opportunity, the government extended the previous 45-day deadline for one month," said Ali, adding that his adminsitration will concentrate on repatriation of fleeing Galgala farmers.
Puntland leader once again reiterated government's commitment to the elimination of terror threats.
Do that by killing terrorists...
Galgala is rich in agriculture, and more than hundred families remain displaced as a result of fierce clashes between army troops and militants.
Meanwhile, insiders confirmed to GO that terrorists militants fired mortar shells from their hidouts over the course of the visit to army positions.
Puntland forces have engaged in sporadic battles with Al Shabaab fighters on battlegrounds near Golis Mountain ranges. As a result of intense military campaign in south-central regions, terrorists militants have begun to migrate northwards towards rough hotbeds in Galgala, and along Golis.
Doing a 'Long March'?
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Nairobi, Kenya -- Joseph Ole Lenku became a casualty of the rising insecurity in the country when he was fired after barely serving for 20 months. At the same time, Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo threw in the towel and resigned from his position in huff.
President Uhuru Kenyatta immediately nominated Kajiado Central MP Major General (Rtd) Joseph Nkaissery as new Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Interior. Nkaissery takes over amid serious security breaches including the second massacre in Mandera County within two weeks after another cold blood attack left 36 dead Tuesday dawn.
Uhuru addressed the nation as Opposition leader Raila Odinga piled pressure and threatened unspecified action against the Jubilee Administration.
There has been a public outcry over the security lapses linked to terror attacks including the Kapedo incident in which at least 19 police officers were killed. Parliament will vet the new nominee.
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[Ynet] The Somali Islamist myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... grabbed credit for Wednesday's boom-mobile targeting a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... convoy near Mogadishu's international airport that left at least three people dead.
"Our Mujahideen (fighters) based in Mogadishu have today targeted a convoy of foreign mercenaries and their apostate allies nearby the airport," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military operations front man, said.
[Ynet] A jacket wallah rammed his vehicle into a UN convoy near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, killing three people, Somali police said.
"The boom-mobile hit near the front gate of the Mogadishu airport. Several people, including an army officer, (were) killed after he tried to stop the vehicle," said police front man Kasim Ahmed Roble.
[Ynet] A prominent Moslemholy man said on Wednesday the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes on 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.... Death Eaters should widen its scope to include all other Lion of Islam groups that were tarnishing Islam.
Islamic State, an offshoot of al Qaeda, has seized wide areas of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate to try to revive theocratic rule that prevailed in the region more than 1,000 years ago.
"The international coalition must call on all its material and moral energies to eradicate this terrorism, in all its manifestations, doctrines and schools, and to confront the countries that support it," Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, told a conference on fighting extremism.
"If it does this, the coalition is defending its own people first, before the people of the east."
Or, we could evict all Muslims living outside the current extent of the Ummah, and make it an internal problem. Or another possibility, you-all get rid of the jihadis and jihad supporters in your midst, starting at the ancient and renowned Al Azhar, O Grand Sheikh.
What started as mere suspicion in Nigeria’s security circles is now being treated with utmost seriousness: Chad may be the major backer and staying power of Boko Haram ─ with eyes on the oil deposits in the Chad Basin, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state.
The lukewarm attitude of Nigeria’s neighbours, particularly Chad and Cameroon, to the Boko Haram threat has long been attributed to regional rivalry rather than economic interest. However, circumstances surrounding the phantom ceasefire deal brokered in October by Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, have alerted the security agencies to a possible involvement of the west African country in the insurgency. The Cable recently reported that Nigerian government officials are furious about the phantom ceasefire deal which misled the Nigerian military into dropping its guard, a situation that saw the terror group reinforce and take over more Nigerian towns and villages.
“Chad might be eyeing control of the Chad Basin in Borno state, which is believed to be very rich in hydrocarbon reserves,” a senior military officer told TheCable. "We now have enough grounds to suspect that the staying power of Boko Haram is Chad. While the terrorists have been striking against Cameroon, they have never carried out any attack in Chad. Their arms may be passing through the Chadian territory.”
Unconfirmed reports have linked the Chadian government to arms supply to Boko Haram as Nigerian authorities try to understand what has kept the insurgents fully armed in the last five years. Although the militants have looted Nigerian armouries on several occasions, some of the weapons recovered from them have turned out to be different from what they stole.
If indeed Chad is fuelling the insurgency, Boko Haram may gain access to more sophisticated weapons, such as surface-to-air missiles, which are legally sold only to sovereign entities. The transportation of armoured tanks and other heavy hardware into Nigeria may also be facilitated by Chad, but the insurgents are unlikely to acquire aircraft as no terrorist group has yet used the aerial route in launching attacks.
Security sources said they have established that Chadian citizens are serving as foot soldiers for Boko Haram, which most recently made its biggest gain on the Nigerian territory since the insurgency began in 2009.
A retired diplomat said if Chadian links are verified, “then we have a potentially dangerous development in our hands. It could be a copycat scenario, considering how Muammar Ghaddafi destabilised West Africa as Libyan leader. Déby was very close to Ghaddafi and he may be copying his style.”
Another senior intelligence officer told TheCable that the federal government is “seriously studying” possible links between Chad and Boko Haram.
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The French will likely not let Chad fall out of their sphere.
UN Ambassador Warns of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants have reportedly developed a nuclear weapon from the radioactive material they seized from the Mosul University in Iraq. ISIS bragged about the nuclear device on social media as a British extremist fighter claimed it would wreak havoc in London when it explodes.
That'll be dirty bombs made from the Mosul U. supply, not a proper nuclear device. If I understand correctly, they scare the ignorant more than causing actual harm.
Which means it'll scare a hell of a lot of people in Washington, and perhaps a few in Mosul...
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Terrorism is as much about theater as doing actual damage. Setting of a dirty bomb in a Western capital would make a great Act Two.
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Why London, not Paris, Berlin, etc?
Remember all the arab "royalty" with homes and property around London, and think of the opportunities for blackmail tribute.
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Perhaps more realistically, how many American Citizens in the ME does the ISIS/ISIL have to kidnap, kill or behead, before Globalist Obama sends US Milfors back into the ME.
I'm aware that the OWG European Union of EU is NOT the OWG North American Union or NAU, etc. but thats beside the point.
North Korea is inching towards developing nuclear-tipped mobile missiles, claimed Adm. Samuel Locklear, the outgoing commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.
"That particular security issue remains kind of foremost in my mind, particularly as we look at the potential, you know, weaponization of nuclear material and the ability to put these things -- on road-mobile missiles," Locklear said.
So far South Korea and the U.S. have said that the North has not made much progress in miniaturizing its nuclear weapons sufficiently to mount them on missiles.
"In general, peace and prosperity has been maintained in the Asia-Pacific," he said. "Now, there's a lot of -- been a lot of changes in that environment."
"North Korea continues to be extremely dangerous, and I don't see an end state at this point in time for North Korea," he added.
A spokesman for the Defense Ministry here said Locklear's remarks reflect U.S. worries about the nuclear threat from the North.
The North has already deployed or is developing various ballistic missiles that could in theory be tipped with nuclear warheads, but the warheads themselves are believed to lie beyond the scope of the North's ability so far. Pyongyang has recently tested a range of missiles and rockets fired from mobile launch platforms.
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Meanwhile, HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY fans, not to be outdone by NOKOR Missle TELS ... ...
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > IS CHINA SECRETLY BUILDING REINFORCED SUBMARINE PENS/BUNKERS [protected berths], OVERTLY DISGUISED AS SHORE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING + PERSONNEL QUARTERS, FOR A NEW LR NUCLEAR SUB BASE IN THE NANSHAS?
* RELATED SAME > ANALYSTS: CHINA'S NEW LR DONG-FENG-41 ICBMS + JL-2 SLBMS POSES A VERY REAL, SERIOUS NUCLEAR THREAT TO AMERICA'S MILITARY PRESENCE IN EAST ASIA AND WESTERN PACIFIC.
Artic read, CHINA = "GO BACK TO HAWAII + US WEST COAST = CONUS, WHITEY".
North Korea has a new anti-ship missile with a range of 130 km that poses a big threat to South Korea's elderly patrol corvettes.
A recent propaganda film shown on North Korean state TV shows the missile is similar to the U.S. Harpoon missile, a military source here said Sunday. "It's probably either the Russian-developed Kh-35 Uran or a cheap copy."
The missile was shown among the country's closely guarded submarines, which were also featured for the first time.
The Kh-35 was developed in Russia in the mid-90s and has been exported to Burma, India and Vietnam. It is hard to intercept as it flies 4 to 15 m above the waters.
South Korean Aegis and other newer destroyers are equipped with rapid-fire machine guns and electronic warfare systems that can intercept or disturb such a missile. But older patrol corvettes or escort ships, whose duties lie mainly near the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border, have no such weapons so the missiles could pose a significant threat to them.
Until recently, the North Korean Navy had only the Styx missile, which was developed in the 50s with a range of 46 km, rising to 80 km in the improved version, and that is vulnerable to electronic jamming.
Military authorities here are reportedly trying to find out where the North bought the Kh-35 missiles, on the assumption that it was clandestinely imported from a third country like Burma.
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Don't fergit the USN's CVN + BG based in Nippon, i.e. the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Do not underestimate or ignore the Kim Regime's penchant for UNILATERALLY-N-INTENTIONALLY starting a major US-China war, including Nukulaar, to preeempt de facto NOKOR State collapse.
A North Korean defector claims North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's aunt Kim Kyong-hui died of a stroke during a heated argument with her nephew over the execution of her husband Jang Song-thek .
9 mm cerebral hemorrhage?
CNN reports that Kang Myung-do, a defector and now a professor of Kyungmin University, said Kim Kyong-hui suffered the stroke while she was arguing on the phone with Kim Jong-un a matter of days after Jang's execution. The defector says she was taken to hospital but later died.
North Korea experts say the claims could be true but are almost impossible to confirm.
What else would we expect experts to say?
Kim Kyung-hui has not been seen in public since Jang's execution late last year, sparking rumors of ill health or possible death.
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Kinda gives you an insight into what it might be like trying to negotiate with the NORKS
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The Nork system's primary dictum:
Take care not to irk Little Big Kim!
One stroke of his phone or
His pen, you're a goner,
A cranial hemorrhage victim.
In a caliphate, all work to serve the will of the caliph.
[AnNahar] Turkey's parliament has passed a contested bill further tightening the Islamic-rooted government's control over the judiciary, state media said Wednesday.
The new legislation, adopted late Tuesday after heated debate, seeks to restructure the higher echelons of the judiciary, stripping top judicial bodies such as Supreme Court of Appeals of their power to appoint judges and prosecutors.
The law also grants police and prosecutors greater powers to search, detain and arrest suspects without charge, the official Anatolia news agency reported.
"Reasonable doubt" will justify a police search as opposed to the current "strong suspicion based on concrete evidence."
Under the law, the police will be able to to seize the property of anyone accused of "committing a crime against the government", Anatolia reported.
The legislation is the latest round in a bitter feud in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has accused his former ally Fethullah Gulen of using his influence over the police and judiciary to damage the government with corruption allegations.
The president, who also ruled Turkey as premier for over a decade, has already sought to curb the judiciary and sacked hundreds of police and prosecutors believed to be linked to the Gulen movement.
Parliament passed a law in April that also gave the government greater powers over the judiciary, raising concerns among critics both at home and abroad over the state of democracy in Turkey.
Turkey's constitutional court later annulled key sections of that law, saying it was unconstitutional.
[AnNahar] U.S. congressional negotiators late Tuesday approved an emergency funding package to pay for military operations against 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.... jihadist group in Iraq and Syria, and a vote is expected in the coming days.
A plan to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels, proposed by President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... , is also expected to be extended. Lawmakers in September had approved it to last only until December 11.
The armed services committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate late Tuesday released the final text of the defense authorization act for the 2015 budget year, which runs from October 2014 to September 2015, after months of negotiations.
The House should adopt the bill by the end of the week, said Democratic Senator Carl Levin ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... and his Republican counterpart James Inhofe. It then goes to the Senate.
The text includes $3.4 billion for the deployment of U.S. forces as part of operation "Inherent Resolve" and $1.6 billion for a program to equip and train Iraqi Kurd forces for two years.
The plan to finance moderate Syrian rebels is to come from existing Pentagon money.
In another area, the law extends restrictions on the closing of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The ban on transferring detainees from the prison to the United States, in force since 2011, was renewed despite opposition from Obama.
Congress bars the Pentagon from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the United States. Republicans fear they might be freed by a judge and thus constitute a threat to national security.
Thirteen prisoners have been sent to other countries this year, and 142 men remain in the prison.
Overall the defense authorization bill calls for $584 billion in military spending for fiscal 2015, including $63.7 billion for overseas operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Defense spending accounts for just over half of all the U.S. government's budget for so-called discretionary spending, which excludes social welfare.
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[IraqiNews.com] A Police source within Baghdad Police Command revealed to IraqiNews.com that some of the Pilgrims of Arbaeen has arrived in Babel province.
The source added to IraqiNews.com The number of the arrived Pilgrims to Babel is more than one Million pilgrims.
[IraqiNews.com] The Minister of Health, Adela Hamod, assured completing all the preparations related to Arbaeen pilgrimage for Karbala health department.
Hamod reported in a statement received by Iraqi News The allocations assigned to this event are not enough to meet all the needs since the financial budget of the State is not endorsed yet.
The Ministry of Health took a loan to meet the needs required to Arbaeen pilgrimage and allocated a IQD one billion from the revenues of public clinics, the statement added.
The MoH obtained the consent of the Council of Ministers to allocate more funds from the operating budget to the health departments including the health department of Karbala province, she concluded.
[Ynet] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has begun investigating Israeli attacks that hit UN facilities during last summer's Gazoo war and how Paleostinian gunnies came to store weapons at several UN schools, officials said on Wednesday.
A team of UN Sherlocks arrived in Gazoo on Tuesday to conduct the inquiry, three months after the war ended. They had already met with Israeli representatives in Jerusalem. The investigation is expected to last three weeks.
"They are visiting the affected sites, they are conducting meetings and interviews with people who were involved," Robert Turner, the director of operations for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gazoo told news hounds. "It is specifically to look at violations of neutrality of UN installations."
[IsraelTimes] 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 has been trying to recruit Israeli Arab doctors and medical students to help out in its field hospitals, which are suffering from a dearth of qualified personnel, Channel 2 reported on Wednesday.
Using social media, the jihadists have been targeting Israeli medical and pharmacy students who are studying in Jordan in an effort to recruit them before they return to Israel to focus on their specialties.
To convince the Israeli Arabs, many of whom come from communities in the north and south of the country, IS members would appeal to their Islamic duty to treat injured Moslems by quoting relevant verses from the Koran, the report said. They would then ask the students to fly to Turkey and from there make their way to the terror group?s bases in Iraq and Syria to apply their skills to maimed fighters.
An unnamed close family relative of one student doctor described how IS was attempting to sway the impressionable young students.
?They try to develop a personal connection with them, that they are obligated as Moslems to treat the organization?s maimed who are fighting against [Syrian President Bashar] Assad?s regime,? the source said. ?They give them all kinds of verses from the Koran to drill into them the belief that they are doing the right thing and a great deed, and [say] that they are not required for fighting.?
IS has brutally carved out large swaths of Syria and Iraq for its self-declared Islamic caliphate and drawn widespread condemnation for its execution of captives, including some Western hostages.
While in some cases the families of students talk them out of answering the IS call for help, the report said, Israeli security services have also intercepted some would-be jihadist medics before they left the country and persuaded them to abandon their plans ? or face prison sentences upon their return to Israel.
Othman Abdelkayan, an intern who worked at the Barzilai Hospital and was reportedly killed fighting for the Islamic State group (photo credit: Barzilai Medical Center)
In October the family of Othman Abdelkayan, from the Bedouin Negev town of Hura, said he was killed in fighting in Syria.
Abdelkayan, an Israeli doctor, left the country in May to join IS in Syria. He was slated to do a residency program at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba in May.
Abdelkayan studied medicine in Jordan, and after he passed the certification test, he was granted a temporary license in Israel.
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So Israel trains them, so they can patch up militants who would attack Israel?
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Israeli security services have also intercepted some would-be jihadist medics before they left the country and persuaded them to abandon their plans ? or face prison sentences upon their return to Israel.
As opposed to free education, food stamps, housing, and hiring preference in the U.S. and the UK.
[IsraelTimes] The first large-scale project to remove tons of rubble in the Gaza Strip left over from this summer?s fighting between the Islamic terrorist group Hamas and Israel began on Wednesday, a significant step forward in rebuilding the war-torn area.
The project is taking place in Gaza City?s Shejaiya neighborhood, an area that was devastated during the fighting.
In other words, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad men lived and shot off rockets.
Workers manning bulldozers and other heavy machinery began gathering and crushing the rubble. Others, wearing fluorescent vests, were busy extracting twisted rebars for recycling. People used horse-drawn carts to carry bags of cement to repair damaged dwellings.
Palestinian Minister of Public Works Mufeed al-Hasayneh said the 50-day war in July and August left 2.5 million tons of rubble in Gaza.
Sweden is paying $3.2 million for the project through the United Nations, where officials hope to crush and clear 140,000 tons of rubble in Shejaiya over the course of a year.
About 100,000 buildings or structures were damaged in the fighting. The UN says this includes over 18,000 housing units that were entirely destroyed.
More than three months after the end of the war, delivery of building materials is slow.
A UN-sponsored mechanism allows some people to obtain cement and steel based on vouchers from the ministry. The vouchers are issued after Israel is briefed on the amounts of the materials each family would get, to make sure that supplies are not diverted to Hamas to build attack tunnels or other militant infrastructure.
?This is a painful way because there is still a long course and we have not started real rebuilding until now,? al-Hasayneh said.
Sweden?s Consul General in Jerusalem Ann-Sofie Nilsson has announced a $3.4-million fund for the more than 1,500 families whose homes were destroyed.
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Here's a thought: rather than rebuild in a disputed area, take these people and give them homes in your country
Oh wait, you've tried this. How's that experiment working out, Sport?
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Clear the rubble and use it to extend Gaza land into the Mediterranean. Repeat enough times and they could fill the whole thing in, since it seems unlikely they'll ever change their behavior relative to Israel.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Secretary of State John F. Kerry effectively gave the green light Wednesday for Iran to use direct military force against 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.... movement in Iraq, but said there are no plans for U.S. forces to coordinate with their Iranian counterparts in battling the hard boys. Normally I wouldn't think of giving diplomatic advice to the secretary of state, but JFK and I are almost like old friends--we were in Danang at approximately the same time, even though I didn't trip over any dead kids going up Monkey Mountain; I probably just wasn't looking close enough. So I'd suggest that Iran's national interest and its ambitions as a regional power demand pounding IS to paste by air, land, and/or sea to be a good thing. The U.S. national interest categorizes Iran's govt with bygone enemies like Nazis and Fascisti and Ostrogoths and such. Therefore they should be left uncommented and uncourted as they pursue their own interests and we pursue ours. If we occasionally bounce each other's rubble that's fine, but they can do their own targeting and their own BDA. If there's an occasional Hezbully or IRGC general standing under our ordnance that's too bad and we should stay out of their way, too. If they decide to do nothing or they do it wrong they don't rate our advice. The enemy of my enemy doesn't necessarily deserve a place on our national Christmas card list.
"I think it's self-evident that if Iran is taking on ISIL in some particular place and it's confined to taking on ISIL and it has an impact, it's going to be -- the net effect is positive," Mr. Kerry told news hounds at meeting in Brussels of the U.S.-led coalition taking military action against the group in Syria and Iraq.
His comments came amid news reports that U.S. military officials believe Iran has conducted Arclight airstrikes against targets of the Islamic State inside Iraq during recent days.
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About on the level of wanting the Soviets to join the war against Japan around 31 July 1945. Guess who's already done most of the work? Why do I read ValJar all over this one?
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IIRC, the Bammer Admin still desires a unified, centralized, Federalist Iraq - however, as things stand its likely ar best any post-ISIS Iraq will be a SWISS-STYLE GOVT-STATE WID THREE OR MORE AUTONOMOUS "CANTONS".
In the worse case, Iraq will break up into three or more sovereign Nations including but a possible sovereign Shia State likely independent andor dominated by neighboring OWG Co-Superpower Shia Iran.
WHY DO MANY US POLITICOS + AMERIKAN NETTERS ACT, BELIEVE LIKE THE US IS IMMUNE FROM ABOVE???
ASIA-PACIFIC, OR EAST ASIA-PACIFIC, NOT THE US, NATO-EU VERSUS RUSSIA, AS PER THE GLOBALIST AGENDA WILL BE THE CATALYST FOR ANY US BREAKUP OR "CANTONMENT".
* See RELATED TOPIX > [CBS Local] US, IRAN BOTH STRIKING/BOMBING THE ISIS, BUT DENY ANY OFFICIAL ALLIANCE.
Again, iff the Bammer = OWG Globalists intend for Iran to be a Co-Superpower, as Principal or One of them in any future OWG ME Union, Persian GUlf Union, West Asia + Mediterranean,etc. not only does Iran need NucWeaps but also a STRONG NATIONAL MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TO SUPPORT ITS + GLOBIES' GEOPOL/ MILPOL AGENDUM, ESPEC VEE THE USA-NAU + EUROS-EU.
To that end, iff the US doesn't give or sell Iran F-22's + F-35's, etc. Advanced Miltechs, I suspect working samples of same will weirdly-n-mysteriously crash in the region + end up in the good hands of Iran's reverse engineers.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] New cruise missiles, torpedoes, warships, combat helicopters unveiled Death rays, interstellar transports, boson discombobulators, interdimensional forceps, the whole nine yards...
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They've got an Illudium Q-96 Explosive Space Modulator.
(Expect Earth-shattering kaboom in 5,4,...)
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Interdimensional Forceps are rarely used as weapons, originally devised when it was discovered that Schrödinger's cat was or was not preggers and was getting ready (or not) to deliver muons or anti-muons as the case may be.
Oooooohhh, they are upset that the big man's wifie was picked up by the authorities.
[AnNahar] 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... Front warned that it will execute all soldiers and coppers in its custody and inflict more damage in retaliation for any assault against children and women.
?The Lebanese state showed weakness by detaining women and kiddies, and proved that it is Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's ally,? the Nusra Front told Anatolia news agency.
It stressed that it will ?not only execute soldier Mohammed Hammiyeh and the remaining captives in Dire Revenge for every killed or homeless child.?
The group also pointed out that it tried ?over and over again to open the door of negotiations regarding the case of the soldiers and coppers in its custody but the Lebanese army didn't cooperate.?
The Army Intelligence has reportedly detained ten days ago an alleged wife of 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.... chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... and the family members of an al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front official who has links to the August abduction of several Lebanese troops and coppers from the northeastern border town of Arsal as the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front jihadists withdrew from the area.
Media reports said that the Lebanese state could use the detained suspects in negotiations to release the kidnapped servicemen.
So far the two groups have executed three servicemen and a few were released but they are demanding the release of Islamist inmates in return from their freedom.
[AnNahar] The arrest of the wife of al-Nusra Front official Anas Sharkas, aka Abu Ali al-Shishani, was the result of intense investigations and the wire-tapping of cellular phones.
The detainee, who was arrested two-months after her surveillance, reportedly communicates with her husband and other gunnies through Skype.
She was apprehended along with her brother Rakan in the Zgharta area of Hilan in northern Leb at a public school hosting Syrian refugees.
The woman chose the town of Hilan where her friends and husband's acquaintances reside.
Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State group are negotiating with the Lebanese state the release of captive soldiers and coppers, who were taken hostage after the forces of Evil withdrew from the northeastern border town of Arsal in August.
The arrest of the two women, this one and the ex-wife of al-Baghdadi are seen as a pressure card to safely release the captive men.
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[AnNahar] Coalition strikes against 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 are having no impact, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... said in an interview to be published Thursday, as members of the U.S.-led offensive claimed to be winning the fight.
"You can't end terrorism with aerial strikes. Troops on the ground that know the land and can react are essential," he said in this week's edition of French magazine Gay Paree Match.
"That is why there haven't been any tangible results in the two months of strikes led by the coalition.
"They would of course have helped had they been serious and efficient."
the U.S.-led coalition announced that the jihadist group's advance across Iraq and Syria is finally being stopped.
"Participants noted that the global campaign against ISIL/Daesh is beginning to show results. The ISIL/Daesh advance across Syria and into Iraq is being halted," a coalition statement obtained by Agence La Belle France-Presse said, referring to the group by its alternative names.
The statement, issued after a meeting in Brussels led by U.S. Secretary of State 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... , said Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by coalition air strikes, "are now reclaiming territory in Iraq."
The coalition of around 60 mainly Western and Arab nations was formed after the first U.S. air strikes in August against IS, which has proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
They also agreed at the Brussels meeting to develop a "multifaceted" strategy to combat IS, including stopping the flow of imported muscle, cutting finance and "delegitimization" of its powerful, social media-driven brand.
Kerry had earlier warned that the fight against IS could take "years."
Separately, Assad said he does not think about "death or life" when asked whether he was afraid to suffer the same demise as the late Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... , who were both toppled after international interventions in their countries.
"I am doing my best to save the country," he said.
"But I would like to emphasize one thing. My goal has never been to remain president, neither before, during, or after the crisis."
Assad's role in any future transition to end the bloody, nearly four-year Syrian conflict is the subject of much controversy.
A year ago, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said that Assad would remain president and lead any form of transition, ahead of January peace talks that ended in failure.
But the opposition -- as well as countries such as Turkey and La Belle France -- insist that the Syrian leader must go no matter what happens.
Assad insisted he was "neither a personal enemy or rival of (French President Francois) Hollande."
"I think that Daesh is his rival, their popularity is very much the same," he said, in a dig at the French leader's record low popularity ratings.
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Translation: "They're moving in the wrong direction!"
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[IsraelTimes] Iranian hackers have managed to penetrate and steal information from governments and companies around the world since 2012, posing a grave security threat, researchers say in a new report.
The report by the security firm Cylance released Tuesday said the hackers have ?extracted highly sensitive materials? from government agencies and major critical infrastructure companies in the United States, Britannia, Canada, China, La Belle France, Germany, India, Israel, Kuwait, Mexico, Pakistain, 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... , 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... , South Korea, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Cylance researchers called the effort ?Operation Cleaver? and said it has ?conducted a significant global surveillance and infiltration campaign.?
The group is believed to work from Tehran, with help from others located in the Netherlands, Canada, and Britannia, the report said.
Targets include government networks as well as companies involved in military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals, telecommunications, technology, education, aerospace and other sectors.
?During intense intelligence gathering over the last 24 months, we observed the technical capabilities of the Operation Cleaver team rapidly evolve faster than any previously observed Iranian effort,? the report said.
?As Iran?s cyber warfare capabilities continue to morph, the probability of an attack that could impact the physical world at a national or global level is rapidly increasing. Their capabilities have advanced beyond simple website defacements.?
Retaliation for Stuxnet worm
The report said Iran appeared to ramp up its cyberwarfare capabilities after being hit by attacks including the Stuxnet worm, a program widely believed to be led by the United States or Israel, which targeted its nuclear energy program.
?Stuxnet was an eye-opening event for Iranian authorities, exposing them to the world of physical destruction via electronic means,? Cylance researchers said.
?Retaliation for Stuxnet began almost immediately in 2011.?
Cylance said it has likely uncovered just ?a fraction of Operation Cleaver?s full scope,? and added that ?if the operation is left to continue unabated, it is only a matter of time before the world?s physical safety is impacted by it.?
Cylance said the effort is a ?state-sponsored campaign? with the potential to affect airline safety, industrial systems and other critical networks.
?This campaign could be a way to demonstrate Iran?s cyber capabilities for additional geopolitical leverage, due to the breadth and depth of their global targets,? the report said.
It also said the hackers may be looking at collaborating with counterparts in North Korea to attack companies in South Korea. The group is also recruiting from universities in the United States and elsewhere and potentially using ?hackers for hire.?
?Perhaps the most bone-chilling evidence we collected in this campaign was the targeting and compromise of transportation networks and systems such as airlines and airports in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Pakistain,? the report said.
The infiltrations mean ?their entire remote access infrastructure and supply chain was under the control of the Cleaver team, allowing permanent persistence under compromised credentials.?
This led to ?complete access to airport gates and their security control systems,? and a takeover of payment systems to allow fraudulent purchases.
The 86-page report says evidence of Iranian involvement is clear, with Persian hacker names used throughout the campaign and many domains used registered in Iran.
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Got to be crowded on those IO buses with Norks, ComChis and Russians there already too. Not to mention the freelancers. Real geeks would set up a honeybucket to entertain themselves just watching all the hacking.
[AnNahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed Wednesday that a woman detained in Leb is a divorcee of 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.... chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... ?The detained woman is a lady who has been married three times, one of them to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and they have a daughter from their marriage, the thing that has been confirmed through DNA tests,? Mashnouq said during an interview on MTV.
?She is now married to a Paleostinian man and she is pregnant,? the minister added.
He confirmed that the woman's name is Saja al-Dulaimi and that the daughter was traveling with her in a car when they were both jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by the Lebanese army several days ago.
Media reports have said that the army detained Dulaimi along with her 4-year-old daughter and two sons around 10 days ago at a checkpoint on al-Madfoun Bridge in the North.
?Saja al-Dulaimi has ties to myrmidon groups and she has been in Leb for the past year and a half,? Mashnouq revealed.
?The children who were with Saja al-Dulaimi are now at a child care center and she can help us in the investigations,? he noted.
Earlier on Wednesday, An Nahar newspaper said Dulaimi's DNA results ?and those of her daughter Hajar matched al-Baghdadi's DNA samples that were provided by a Western source.?
Mashnouq, however, said al-Baghdadi's DNA samples were provided by Iraqi authorities.
The detainee said that her father wedded her to Ibrahim al-Samerai, who is believed to be the real name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but Dulaimi didn't admit to marrying him.
Investigators said that Dulaimi is highly trained and knows how to deal with such circumstances.
Dulaimi hails from a family that is linked to terrorism as her father was a prominent leader at Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , while her sister, Douaa, is a jacket wallah who failed to detonate herself in Iraq's Irbil, and her brother Abu Ayyoub al-Iraqi is an 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... Front commander.
Lebanon's interior minister says DNA tests have confirmed that a child held by authorities is the daughter of the Islamic State group's leader.
Nohad Machnouk also says that the child's mother, who is also in custody, was married to Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi six years ago for a period of three months. He says they are no longer married.
Three months? The poor thing was nothing more than a bed warmer, a party favour for visiting jihadis.
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[IsraelTimes] The tide is beginning to turn on 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, analysts say, with the jihadists losing ground in Iraq and only able to hold on to their positions in Syria.
Harassed by air strikes and facing better coordination among their opponents, IS fighters have suffered a string of defeats in Iraq and had to retreat from some areas they had conquered in June and the following months.
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Don't underestimate their opponents ability in incompetency, corruption, petty self interests, or just outright stupidity.
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[IsraelTimes] Iranian hackers have managed to penetrate and steal information from governments and companies around the world since 2012, posing a grave security threat, researchers say in a new report.
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[AnNahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed Wednesday that a woman detained in 
