[IsraelTimes] A radical Moslem killed a soldier outside Canada?s Parliament. A right-wing bully boy opened fire on buildings in Texas? capital and tried to burn down the Mexican Consulate. An al-Qaeda-inspired assailant hacked an off-duty soldier to death in London.
Police said all three were snuffies and motivated by ideology. Authorities and family members said they may have been mentally ill. A growing body of research suggests they might well have been both.
New studies have challenged several decades of thinking that psychological problems are only a minor factor in the making of terrorists. The research has instead found a significant link between mental problems and ?lone-wolf? terrorism.
Now academics and law-enforcement officials are working to turn that research into tools to prevent deadly attacks.
?It?s never an either-or in terms of ideology versus mental illness,? said Ramon Spaaij, a sociologist at Australia?s Victoria University who conducted a major study, funded by the US Justice Department, of lone-wolf bully boys. ?It?s a dangerous cocktail.?
The study preceded the end of a 16-hour siege involving a gunman who took hostages in a cafe in Sydney. The gunman, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, was already facing charges including sexual assault and accessory to murder in separate cases, and his former lawyer said the standoff was ?not a concerted terrorism event? but the work of ?a damaged-goods individual.?
With groups like 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.... spreading violence in Syria and Iraq ? and bloodthirsty rhetoric on the Internet ? authorities around the world have issued increasingly insistent warnings about the threat posed by lone-wolf attackers.
They can be difficult to stop with a counterterrorism strategy geared toward intercepting communications and disrupting plots.
Solo terrorism ?doesn?t take an awful lot of organizing. It doesn?t take too many people to conspire together. There?s no great complexity to it,? London Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC recently. ?So what that means is that we have a very short time to interdict, to actually intervene and make sure that these people don?t get away with it.?
Police forces and intelligence agencies are examining whether insights from research by Spaaij and others could help.
Spaaij said a number of law enforcement and intelligence agencies have shown interest in his work. In Britannia, a police counterterrorism unit is using a major study of lone-wolf snuffies to develop risk-assessment analysis.
A British security official who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to talk on the record, said many attackers display warning signs, but that recognizing them is easier in retrospect. He said British intelligence officials are studying the link between mental illness and lone-actor terrorism.
Most people with mental health problems are neither snuffies nor violent, and mental illness alone can?t explain lone-wolf attackers. Some experts dispute whether there is a link at all.
After Michael Zehaf-Bibeau?s deadly attack on a soldier October 22 in Ottawa, Jocelyn Belanger, a psychology professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal, told the Canadian Senate?s national security committee that ?to believe that radicalized individuals are crazy or not playing with a full deck will be our first mistake in developing effective counterterrorism strategies.?
But the new research suggests that solo snuffies are much more likely to have mental health problems than either members of the general public or participants in group terrorism.
Spaaij and Mark Hamm of Indiana State University studied 98 lone-wolf attackers in the US. They found that 40 percent had identifiable mental health problems, compared with 1.5 percent in the general population.
Their conclusion? Mental illness is not the only factor that drives individuals to commit terrorist acts, but it is one of the factors.
Spaaij said mental illness can play a part ?in shaping particular belief systems and in constructing the enemy, externalizing blame for one?s own failure or grievances onto this all-threatening enemy.?
A second study by Paul Gill and Emily Corner of University College London looked at 119 lone-wolf attackers and a similar number of members of violent bully boy groups in the US and Europe. Almost one-third of the lone wolves ? nearly 32 percent ? had been diagnosed with a mental illness, while only 3.4 percent of terrorist group members were mentally ill.
?Group-based snuffies are psychologically quite normal,? the researchers said. They said one reason may be that terrorist recruiters are likely to reject candidates who appear erratic or mentally ill.
Mental illness could make lone-wolf attacks easier to foresee: Gill said 60 percent of the attackers he studied leaked details of their plans, sometimes telling friends or family.
He and Corner are working with a British counterterrorism unit as police try to develop ways of distinguishing genuine threats from hot-headed talk. The unit declined to discuss the project, but recent cases suggest that determining who really is a threat is fraught with difficulty.
More than a year before he hacked a soldier to death in London in 2013, Michael Adebowale?s online extremism drew the attention of Britannia?s intelligence services.
Domestic intelligence agency MI5 told a parliamentary inquiry into the murder that it uses a range of factors to assess the threat from potential lone wolves, including an inability to cope with stress and anxiety, social isolation and mental health problems.
MI5 agents suggested that Adebowale ? who is now serving a life sentence in a psychiatric hospital ? be assessed by the agency?s Behavioral Science Unit, a team of psychologists and social scientists, but the assessment was never done. The politicians? report called that a missed opportunity, and recommended that ?MI5 should ensure that the unit?s advice is integrated more thoroughly into investigations.?
Signals also were misread in the case of Nicky Reilly, a 22-year-old convert to Islam who walked into a restaurant in the English town of Exeter in 2008 with a homemade bomb. The device went off in the restroom, injuring Reilly and no one else.
At his trial, jurors were told that Reilly had learning difficulties and had had many years of contact with mental health services. In 2003, he talked to a psychiatrist about making a bomb. The information was passed on to the police, who judged that Reilly wasn?t a serious threat.
American authorities, in contrast, have been accused of being too aggressive in pursuit of lone attackers. The FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice and equipment. Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn?t have the wherewithal to act alone.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the fundamental question of whether there is a link between mental health problems and terrorism remains controversial.
The most lethal lone-wolf attacker in recent years was anti-Moslem bully boy Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun rampage in Norway in 2011. Breivik was unrepentant. One psychiatric report found him to be insane, while a second concluded that he was sane ? and judges agreed, sending him to prison indefinitely.
The killer was happy with the outcome. For Breivik, it was recognition that his views were legitimate and not those of a madman.
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"Can Identifying Mental Illness Stop Terror Attacks?"
Only if treated with lead pellet therapy.
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Ever the same denial about the possibility of an ideology no matter if political or religious being evil. The ideal nazi, the one the regime tried to build was the mmember of the Einsategruppen or of the SS Totenkopf Verbande not the guy who after having voted for Hitler in 19933 ended saving KJews. The ideal Communist was ready to kill his own mother if ordered by the Party (Lenin's words: "We must steal, lie and kill even our own mothers if needed") not the guy that sincerely tries to helmp the poor (help not convert). And the ideal Muslim, the one Muhammad would favour if he were alive is not the so-called moderate Muslim but the Jihadist and the suicide bomber. His own writings and sayungs are full of imprecations against the hypocrites, that is those who don't go to jihad and don't supoort it financially. Moderate Muslims, like moderate Nazis or moderate Communists are failures in the manufacturing process.
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Always the same thing, a protracted political lecture about what is ostensibly a practical dilemma and all by yet another individual who lacks the basic initiative to actually read their book.
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The lone wolf theory will probably satisfy many people and allow them to go about their business. Certainly it explains why the other dude blew himself up in the bathroom. Still, Richard Reid didn't pack his own shoes with semetex nor did he design his own matyrdom scenario.
This guy seems an unlikely candidate for a lone wolf attack in that he had accomplices in some of his other crimes and had thousands of Twitter followers. Parlaying this incident as a lone wolf attack seems as unlikely as finding a quarter behind a kid's ear. Sure this is a handy time for this guy to trot out his discertation, but it is probably a non sequitur. Investigate his bimbo sidekick and all his buddies before they comete whatever he had originally planned before he detoured into the coffee shop.
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I doubt our CiC would accede to such an evaluation.
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I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with the Surgeon General or HHS Secretary determining what is or is not mental illness, as what Pappy said. You know that will spiral out - (email pops up) The Director of EPA has determined coal advocates contribute to global warming which is contrary to their health and you must report to such and such place for screening and sensitivity training and tracking device implantation within 48 hours. Failure to report will be cause for suspician of conspiracy to commit a crime and you will be contacted by your local DHS representative.
I'm not sure how much of a straw man that is. The non-partisan IRS would never be used to punish political opponents, right? Our new surgeon general kinda says that only loons would want a firearm. Sebelius is a straight party hack.
It wouldn't work anyways without political machinations because we no longer have equal application of law.
China said it is shocked by violent protests last week at a Chinese-owned sugar plant in Madagascar.
The Chinese Embassy in Antananarivo blamed Madagascar officials for not doing their duty to protect Chinese interests.
Last week, at least four people died in clashes between police and workers at the plant in the town of Morondava. Workers at the plant are demanding better contracts for seasonal workers.
The Chinese embassy called the demands "unreasonable."
Madagascar Prime Minister Roger Kolo pledged to try to resolve the problems at the factory.
China is Africa's largest trading partner, but closer ties have resulted in sometimes violent labor disputes.
The president of Democratic Republic of Congo told foreign nations on Monday to respect his country's sovereignty after several urged him to comply with the constitution and not to run for re-election.
Though Joseph Kabila has yet to publicly declare his intentions, Congo is rife with speculation that he is looking for ways to remain in charge of the vast, mineral-rich nation after his second elected five-year term in office ends in 2016.
“We are always open to the opinions, advice and suggestions of our partners, but never to injunctions,” Kabila said during a rare public speech before a joint session of parliament.
Kabila came to power in 2001 when his father, Laurent, was assassinated in the middle of a conflict that sucked in regional armies and killed millions of Congolese.
Boko Haram, the insurgency in northern Mali, and the crisis in the Central African Republic. One thing unites these three conflicts: the country of Chad. This large, central African nation is becoming something of a regional power.
Earlier this month, protesters belonging to the #bringbackourgirls group, which is pushing for the release of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram earlier this year, marched on an unusual target: the embassy of Chad.
Poor, and with a long history of wars and coups, Chad recently has been playing an outsized role in west and central African affairs.
A short-lived cease-fire between the Islamist group and Nigeria’s government was brokered in Chad's capital N’Djamena. The country lies close to territory that Boko Haram has effectively taken over both in Nigeria and in Cameroon. Yet, the group never seems to bother attacking Chad.
About 300 Chinese people are fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Monday, a rare tally that is likely to fuel worry in China that militants pose a threat to security.
China has expressed concern about the rise of the Islamic State group in the Middle East, nervous about the effect it could have on its Xinjiang region. But it has also shown no sign of wanting to join U.S. efforts to use military force against the group.
Chinese members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are traveling to Syria via Turkey to join Islamic State fighters, said the Global Times, a tabloid run by China's ruling Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily.
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If they ever make it back to the Middle Kingdom, they will qualify for being undocumented organ donors.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected bids to impose a United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... deadline on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict amid a flurry of talks led by US 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... Addressing a renewed drive to push the Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor to the top of the global agenda, Kerry and Netanyahu met for nearly three hours in the US ambassador’s sumptuous residence in Rome.
“The attempts by Paleostinians and some European countries to impose conditions on Israel will only deteriorate regional security and endanger Israel, so we strongly oppose it,” Netanyahu said after rejecting the proposed withdrawal to Kerry.
The Americans are seeking to avert an end-of-year showdown at the United Nations Security Council, which could place them in a diplomatic quandary.
The Paleostinians have said they will submit an Arab-backed draft text — setting a two-year deadline for an end to Israel’s decades-long control of the West Bank — to the UN as early as Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... La Belle France has been leading European efforts to cobble together a more nuanced resolution that could prove more palatable to the US administration.
Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian UN ambassador, said Monday the Paleostinians were planning to put a resolution in a form that could be voted upon on Wednesday, though the council was unlikely to vote immediately.
What that resolution says will depend on the outcome of the high-level negotiations in Europe, Mansour said. He told a group of news hounds Monday that the Americans are key.
They have two options: to negotiate on the Paleostinian and French texts, or produce their own draft resolution, he said.
Mansour said the French draft is “very, very close to the Arab ideas” and includes a timeframe for negotiations, but the Paleostinians “want to define clearly the end to occupation.”
He stressed that the Paleostinians will not return to direct negotiations with Israel and strongly support the French proposal for an international conference to promote a peace deal that would include the five veto-wielding Security Council nations, key Arab countries and others.
“We tried direct negotiations for 20 years and they failed,” Mansour said. “That is history.”
The French text would set a two-year timetable, but for concluding a peace treaty without mentioning Israeli withdrawal.
Gay Paree is also hoping to seize more of the initiative by not leaving the negotiations solely in the hands of the US.
“What we are hoping for is a resolution which everyone can get behind,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told AFP.
“Even if the Paleostinians have a text in their hand, the Americans have already said that they will veto it,” he said. “So on the one hand this resolution cannot be accepted, but on the other that will clearly get a strong reaction from the Paleostinian side.”
“The absence of a grinding of the peace processor is fueling tensions on the ground, so it is imperative to make rapid progress on a UN resolution,” said French Foreign Ministry front man Romain Nadal.
“It is vital to relaunch the peace talks as soon as possible and on a credible basis to offer some kind of concrete political horizon to the parties,” he told AFP.
US officials have said Kerry is aiming to learn more about the European initiative during his hastily arranged pre-Christmas trip.
Traditionally, the US has used its power of veto at the UN Security Council to shoot down what it sees as moves against its close regional ally, Israel.
But there is a growing impatience in Europe over the peace impasse amid fears the Middle East risks spiraling into even greater chaos.
Several European parliaments have called on their governments to move ahead with the recognition of a Paleostinian state.
US officials told news hounds accompanying Kerry that Washington has not yet decided whether to veto or back the French-led UN initiative.
The US administration opposes moves to bind negotiators’ hands through a UN resolution — particularly any attempt to set a deadline for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Kerry also met with the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and thanked Pope Francis for “his engagement to try to reduce tensions in the region.”
The secretary of state was due to fly to Gay Paree for a dinner meeting with his French, German and British counterparts and the new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at Orly Aairport.
He will then travel to London to meet with the chief Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... and the secretary general of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Nabil Elaraby, on Tuesday.
Fabius, the French foreign minister, is also to meet with Elaraby on Tuesday.
Diplomatic sources say Gay Paree is hoping to persuade the Paleostinians to back their compromise resolution, rather than risk a US veto of the more muscular Arab version.
But the Paleostinians appear divided, as frustration grows over the snail’s pace of diplomatic efforts, with the decision resting with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial....
[AnNahar] Jordan said Monday it had no immediate plans to push for a vote on a U.N. Security Council resolution to end the Israeli occupation of Paleostinian territories despite Paleostinian statements that the move was imminent.
Jordan's U.N. Ambassador said she was awaiting the outcome of meetings that 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... is having with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European governments on the next step at the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... .
Jordan, which represents the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... at the council, had circulated the Paleostinian text setting a deadline of November 2016 for a full Israeli withdrawal.
"Right now, I have no news," Ambassador Dina Kawar told news hounds. "Secretary Kerry is having meetings in Europe with a number of ministers so we are waiting to see what happens."
Lots more blah-blah at the link, for those interested in the details.
[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, Samarra Operations Command confirmed, that the Army forces alongside the police elements and volunteers have completely liberated the district of Samarra and its surroundings.
Maj.Gen. Emad al-Zuhairi, the commander of Samarra Operations, said in a presser attended by IraqiNews, ?Iraqi forces and elements of the police have taken control of the district of Samarra and the surrounding areas.?
Al-Zuhairi added, ?Security forces are working to establish several checkpoints in the district, consisting of elements of the local police, federal police, armed volunteers and government intelligence.?
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[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, an official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Kurdish regional president, Masoud al-Barzani, revealed that ISIS snuffies have started digging a ditch around djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Baashiqa for the purpose of resisting military operations to liberate the province of Nineveh.
The official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, named Saed Memozeni, stated for IraqiNews.com that, “The ISIS organization snuffies have begun to dig a ditch around the cities of Mosul and Baashiqa,” adding it is for the purpose of “resisting military operations to liberate Nineveh”.
Memozeni added, “This step does not pose an obstacle before the operations to liberate Mosul,” asserting that, “It does not affect the operations in any fashion.”
Noteworthy, on November 20th, 2014, General Commander of the Armed Forces, Haider al-Abadi revealed he issued a bureau order to form an Operational Command to liberate the province of Nineveh from ISIS. He also confirmed that operations to liberate the province of Anbar and areas near Mosul had been started.
Once the moat's complete, do whatever's necessary to get them to come up to the edge to shoot at their "enemy"; flood the moat with gasoline; light it off. Hilarity would ensue.
I can dream, can't I? :-D
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[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, the ISIS group banned residents of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from leaving ahead of an expected assault by Iraqi forces, according to British newspaper ?The Telegraph.?
The Telegraph reported, that the ISIS group gunnies cut all phone communications ahead of an expected offensive by Iraqi forces to free the city from them, which caused great resentment among the residents of the city.
?You have to bring a guarantor to say you will come back in 10 days. If you don?t come back, they are punished. People are trying to leave Mosul,? a local resident, named Ghazwan told The Telegraph.
Another resident said, that the group has cut all phone communications due to security purposes, pointing out that, the gunnies fear that local residents are revealing their positions to government intelligence.
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I thought the Iraqi forces pulled a Brave Sir Robin and bugged out when this first started? Are these new guys / contractors?
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Oh yeah, they will protest...they will be the media prop allies trying to square the circle between orthodox islam and progressive collectivism. 3:1 tack on Rumsfield and branch into Cheney and Bush doctrine, many pictures of Mosul wailing woman, and protests for peace.
All the while ignoring that OEF was a reaction not a cause, and that ISJV just held hostage an enitre city. A goodly part of the ISJV agitprop was establishing that if they said they would gut you for doing something out of orders...they would gut you. I will remind people of the video of them chasing down specific license plates and cars with fighting age men and shooting them down in daylight and selfies.
By guarantor, they mean hostage, preferably close family member, like daughter...preferably son IYKWIM I'd guess, punishment meaning enslavement or murder or sexual abuse. Nevermind, the latter probably will happen anyways until relieved and housing & food bill paid.
[AnNahar] At least 2,700 people, mostly soldiers, are missing as a result of attacks by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Iraq, the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... ministry said on Monday.
More than half of those registered as missing by the government are soldiers who were at the Speicher base which the jihadists captured six months ago near Tikrit.
"The number of missing from Speicher base has reached 1,660, from Badush prison 487, in addition to 554 from other areas, including 38 women," the ministry said in a statement.
Badush is a prison outside the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which IS has used as its main hub in Iraq.
The ministry said those numbers are based on applications filed by relatives and subsequent checking with the relevant ministries.
"The number of missing is likely higher than this," ministry front man Kamel al-Amin told AFP.
Ya think??
He said some families who have been displaced by the violence or live in areas under jihadist control were not able to report a missing relative.
He added that the ministry had asked the families of those confirmed to be missing to provide DNA samples "in order to identify victims who might later be found in mass graves".
According to Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... , IS gunnies executed up to 600 inmates from Badush prison on June 10, forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine before pushing them in and setting fire to the bodies.
The following day, they seized the Speicher base and claimed to have executed 1,700 Shiite troops. The rights group was able to find evidence that at least 560 had been killed.
Major attacks on army bases in the western province in September are also believed to have left hundreds of troops dead or missing.
Rights organizations say the fate of hundreds of women and girls from the Yazidi minority who were kidnapped by IS during an August attack is still unknown.
Not really -- we all know about the memo ISIS issued explaining the rules for the treatment of captured Unbeliever females and children. Let's take that as read.
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[IraqiNews.com] One of the few western prisoners who have returned home from the ISIS-controlled area in Iraq and Syria said a small town in Syria seized by the group has been nicknamed ‘Little London.’
According to the British newspaper ‘The Sunday Times,’ Ahmed Walid Rashidi, Danish charity worker who traveled to Syria, trying to find whereabouts with two British twin sisters who had left Britannia and moved to Syria. Rashidi said that Manbij, a town located in north of Aleppo in northern Syria, is populated by so many imported muscle, especially from Britannia, to the level it has been nicknamed ‘Little London’ or ‘Little Berlin’ among the Jihadists.
Rashidi has pointed out, that English and German are commonly spoken in the small town of Manbij.
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Looks like NYC, the Brits, Aussies, + Kiwis [New Zealand] are all worried about similar Sydney-style hostage situations = "lone wolf" terrstrikes occurring in their respective countries.
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