[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said on Sunday that in dealing with the country's security situation, the Mujahideen and religious leaders in Badakhshan must not be ignored.
Rabbani, who visited Badakhshan on Sunday, said: "The absence of the Mujahideen in government and within security forces is an issue that the Afghanistan government needs to address. The presence of the Mujahideen is effective and efficient."
"They have fought for 30 years in the name of religion and honesty in terms of defending the country. They have fought for freedom without a salary. They are again ready to serve their people and their country and they must not be ignored."
He went on to say that "neighboring countries are trying to make Badakhshan a Daesh base. "Big powers, a neighboring country including Daesh, al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks, even foeigners, are trying to position Badkhshan in the heart of north Wazoo," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... provincial council and civil society members are concerned about the province's insecurity and say if government ignores the security issue, the insecurity in Badakhshan will have a detrimental effect on the entire security situation of the northern parts of the country.
"In some districts of this province we noted that Lions of Islam have better equipment compared to security forces; unfortunately there is no strong will within the government to equip and strengthen the security forces in Afghanistan, especially in Badakhshan," civil society member Sayed Omer Baher said.
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[ARABNEWS] The Council of Senior Scholars The Learned Elders of Islam...
praised the Saudi security forces for dismantling a cluster of terror cells linked to Daesh in the Kingdom and said that those linked to terrorism have drifted away from Islamic values.
The council condemned terrorism, saying the actions by deviant groups are only serving the agendas of the enemies of Islam and Muslims, local media reported.
It emphasized that all citizens, including students, preachers, teachers and media persons are responsible for uncovering such deviant and evil designs emitting from these terrorist groups.
The council also noted that families have a major role to play in keeping their children away from such evil ideas and thoughts.
Meanwhile, a man who threatened to kill Saudi satirist Nasser Al-Qasabi last month is among the 144 Daesh-linked suspects detained, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
Al-Qasabi’s sketch comedy show “Selfie” earned him death threats from Daesh after mocking the extremists. In one scene, a group of warriors at a “girl market” pick concubines from a line of chained women abducted from the battlefield.
In a response from a supporter of the militants, a Twitter user named Jalabeeb Al-Jizrawi wrote to Al-Qasabi: “I swear to God you will regret what you did, you apostate.”
“The holy warriors will not rest until they cut your head from your body, in just a few days hopefully,” he wrote in a post that was retweeted over 3,000 times.
It is now believed “Jalabeeb Al-Jizrawi” has been arrested as part of a crackdown.
“God is my protector. I’m an artist, and the artist’s essential role is to reveal society’s challenges even if he pays a price,” Al-Qasabi had said following the threat. “Warning the people about Daesh is the true jihad, because we’re fighting them with art not war,” he added.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says at least 142 civilians have been killed in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... over the past 10 days, sending the total civilian corpse count in more than three months of violence above 1,600.
Air strikes and ground fighting have continued despite a U.N.-brokered truce between Iranian catspaws known as Houthis and Yemen's internationally backed exiled government and its allies.
Rupert Colville, a front man for the U.N. human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office, said in Geneva that at least 142 non-combatants were killed between July 3 and Monday and another 224 were maimed. That included a total of 76 deaths and 38 injuries in a pair of Arclight airstrikes on markets July 6.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] UNHCR: Some 10,500 new arrivals to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have been recorded since the start of the conflict on 26th March, latest UNHCR figures reveal. Since the start of the year, over 37,000 refugees and migrants have arrived by sea, the majority from Æthiopia as well as Somalis and other nationalities.
Many are tricked into making the journey by smugglers who tell them that the conflict is over and all is safe in Yemen. The usual risks associated with such sea crossings of abduction, attacks, drowning, exploitation and sexual assault still exist. Due to the ongoing conflict and reduced access, UNHCR and partners are unable to bring arrivals to urban centres in order to receive full assistance.
Mass information campaigns are planned for Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... and Somaliland and other points of departure to discourage crossings. At the same time, over 51,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti, Somalia, Oman, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Sudan.
- See more at: http://yemenonline.info/special-reports/631#sthash.djxLflwD.dpuf
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But was the terrorist being "advocated" Genghis Khan?
[AFP] Chinese police say that foreign tourists arrested and later deported from northern China "admitted" to watching videos advocating terrorism, Xinhua reported yesterday.
Police from Inner Mongolia region said the tourists "first watched a documentary in a hotel room. After some of them left, the rest proceeded to watch video clips advocating terrorism."
They added that police seized "similar" videos from a cellphone "belonging to Hoosain Ismail Jacobs, a South African national."
The report said that nine of the foreigners - five South Africans, three British and one Indian - were suspected of "organizing, leading or joining terrorist groups."
All of the nine "admitted to their illegal acts and repented" before police imposed the "lenient sentence" of deportation, it added.
A total of 20 visitors from South Africa, Britain and India were held at an Inner Mongolian airport on Friday last week, causing diplomatic concern. The group included doctors, executives and a former anti-apartheid activist, who were on a lengthy sight-seeing tour of China. They were arrested thirty days into their trip, before they were able to board a plane to the city of Xian.
A statement released on Friday by a spokesman for two of the tourists, Mr Hoosain Jacobs and his wife Tahira, said the detentions may have been made after an "unfortunate misunderstanding" concerning Genghis Khan. It said, "They watched a documentary on Genghis Khan to further their understanding of the region they were in at the time, and this may have mistakenly been deemed as 'propaganda' material'.
"It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English, it added.
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"It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English
Debatable whether they were unfamiliar with history.
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But was the terrorist being "advocated" Genghis Khan?
Actually, it was one of the original terrorist group, the cult of the assassins who sent agents to kill Möngke Khan that resulted in the expedition that laid waste to their domain, Persia, and Baghdad. Not a 'kinder gentler' campaign, but the terrorism ended, mainly because the Mongols could out do anyone else on 'terror'.
[AA.TR] Rolling rallies by Reclaim Australia group continue across country, with anti-racism protesters confronting the right wing Islamophobes. That's the actual blurb on the article from Andalou.
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nothing annoys me more. The protesters are not *right wing*. They are *nationalist* - a completely different thing.
Right wing = capitalist, free market fan, protects the individuals right to private property against the state
left wing = socialist, big government fan, promotes the idea that the state should confiscate the private property of individuals through taxation for redistribution
Reclaim Australia has no economic outlook, it is neither right nor left wing.
They are flag=draped nationalists, which for some bizarre reason ignoramus 18 year old know-nothing reporters describe as *right wing*.
Perhaps they confuse the flag draped nationalism with nazi nationalism - which was left wing I might add. The Nazis were socialists. Left wing, racist socialists.
That is also why Reclaim Australia get called racist even though there are black white and asian members of that group. They are actually against the rise of Islamofascism but just express themselves really badly like the rank amateurs they are. They drape themselves in the Aussie flag because they dont really know how to express what they really want - the protection of secular law against the Islamofascist political push. That is complicated. They dont form that thought they just know they hate sharia and halal certification. So they get an aussie flag and wear it like a superman cape and get called nazis.
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I wonder, what kind of a -phobe
Strokes a scimitar under his robe,
With a heart full of dread
That he might fail to spread
His insanity over the globe?
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Anon1 the confusion is natural because the left tends to hate their country (whichever that country is). So different groups that love their country (right wing or nationalist or whatever) are easily mixed up.
[Rooters] Lawmakers will examine possible shortcomings in law enforcement or intelligence in the case of a Tennessee shooting that killed five servicemen, a top Republican said on Sunday, adding that the case may be linked to Islamic State. Skipping to the closing paragraph.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Friday approved immediate steps to beef up protection of military sites. The Marine Corps closed all recruiting stations within 40 miles of the incident in Chattanooga, and told recruiters not to wear military uniforms, said Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright.
[Al Ahram] Addressing his congregation on the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, Imam Mohammed Abdul-Azeez implored worshipers to combat Moslem extremism in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that killed five servicemen in Tennessee.
The suspect, a young Moslem who grew up in the Chattanooga area, also died in the shootout on Thursday, the last day of Islam's holy month of fasting.
It was the latest reminder to American Moslems of the need to find ways to keep teenagers and young adults from being drawn to ideologies promoted by such groups as 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.... , the turbans also known as ISIS who control part of Syria.
"When they talk about Syria, when they talk about Tennessee ... what will they say about the American Moslem community?" Azeez asked the 2,000 congregants at the rented hall in Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, on Friday.
He went on to rail against bully boys, whom he said usurp the spirit of Allah for their own purposes.
The FBI is investigating the Chattanooga shooting as an act of terrorism, though law enforcement officials said it was premature to speculate on the gunman's motive.
Hours before the attack, the suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, had texted his close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
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I hope the U.S. Muslims can discourage the interest in radical Islam on the part of mostly young Muslims.
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At the start of World War 2 a number of Japanese joined the US military to prove they were not on the side of the enemy. This was despite real grevances as FDR and cronies grabbed up property owned by Japanese American families.
At the start of the War on Terror a number of Muslims joined the enemy while the rest stayed at home nit-picking and complaining about the injustice they faced during a war started by their co-religionists. Most (one might even say all) of the complaints turned out to be based on untruths.
[ARABNEWS] A British man who was last year sentenced by a US court to 12-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to running a website that supported the Taliban, has been released, his family said on Sunday.
Babar Ahmad's sentence included 10 years he had already served. US prosecutors had said his crimes included recruiting fighters for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington.
But the judge who sentenced Ahmad said she had not given him the maximum penalty of 25 years as she did not believe he had been directly involved with Al-Qaeda and was not at risk of being involved in future crimes.
"We, the family of Babar Ahmad, are delighted to announce that ... Babar has returned home to us after 11 years in prison," his family said in a statement.
Ahmad was extradited from Britannia in 2012 along with a second man, Syed Talha Ahsan. Both were charged in Connecticut as authorities argued they used an Internet service provider in the state to run at least one of their websites.
Ahmad's lawyers had argued that while he tried to help Moslems under attack in Bosnia and Chechnya through his publications in the 1990s, he regretted supporting the Taliban and condemned the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Eleven years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words here and now," Ahmad said. "In time, I look forward to sharing reflections on my experience to help inform others."
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[NATION.PK] In an embarrassing disclosure for Pakistain, Chinese official media today reported that the "spy" drone Mighty Pak Army shot down along the LoC, claiming it belonged to Indian security forces, was made in China.
The drone was "recognised in Beijing as the Chinese made DJI phantom 3," the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC)-run People's Daily said in a report on its website.
Quoting Shanghai-based Observer website, the report said that the Phantom 3 advanced drone represents the most intelligent, most powerful, and most accessible drone to date.
Observer says the drone sells for USD 1,200 each. DJI is a Chinese technology company founded in 2006 by Frank Wang and headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.
The firm manufactures commercial and recreational unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial photography and videography, it said.
The People's Daily report confirming the Chinese identity of the drone may put Pakistain military in a spot considering the close and strategic ties between Islamabad and Beijing.
The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) had already denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Questioning the Pak allegations, foreign secretary S Jaishankar had said the "photograph of the drone in question indicates that it's not of Indian design, nor of any UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) category held in the inventory of the Indian armed forces.
"It appears to be of Chinese design, and is commercially available off-the-shelf."
India's rebuttal came as tension escalated along the LoC, following firing and mortar shelling by Pak forces. Indian forces have responded to the Pak action.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... 's (MQM) Rabita Committee late on Sunday night appealed to Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... asking him to take back his decision regarding the hunger strike. From the looks of him, he could go six or seven months without eating and still wouldn't have his schoolboy figure back, assuming he ever had one.
Earlier, Altaf Hussain on Sunday released a statement in which he announced his decision to go on a hunger strike unto death in protest.
The MQM chief has decided to go on a hunger strike against what he calls 'illegal' detention of his party activists by security forces.
According to the statement given, preparations are being made for the hunger strike, and it will commence once permission is received from the local administration in London.
"I have promised the people that I will die rather than bow my head in front of tyrants," said Hussain on Sunday.
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[Breitbart] Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz once promised "anywhere, anytime" access to Iran's nuclear sites, known and unknown. In the end, he and the rest of the crack Obama administration negotiating team gave up on that pledge. Instead, they accepted a limited inspections system that will allow Iran to delay disputed inspections by at least 24 days. On Sunday, Moniz made the rounds of the talk shows, claiming that 24 days would be sufficient to detect whatever traces were left of nuclear activity. That is partially true, but does not actually solve the problem.
There are aspects of the nuclear deal that have non-nuclear components. For example, Iran is supposed to limit its research into advanced centrifuges. Yet a centrifuge is simply a machine that separates lighter and heavier uranium isotopes. It is possible to conduct research on centrifuge technology far beyond what is allowed in the agreement, and without generating new isotopes. A mechanical lab could easily be dismantled and hidden in 24 days.
#2
Why all the complaining? After all inspections worked so well in North Korea..
... oh wait...
OK now riddle me this: How long between Iran telling is to tale a Flying F at a rolling doughnut and the site being obliterated? 24 years? It'll probably take 24 months for the sternly worded letter to be finalized.
#3
Some magician guy (James Randi?) once said the easiest people to fool are smart people because they are convinced they can't be fooled. If you think you are the Smartest Guy in the Room(tm), no one can put one over on you, eh?
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Checking in on the soldiers captured by Al Nusra on Lebanon's Syrian border almost a year ago.
[AnNahar] The relatives of the servicemen kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated 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 were allowed to visit their loved ones over the Fitr holiday, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Saturday.
It said that 60 family members were allowed to visit on Saturday the 16 captives held on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The relatives told the daily that the hostages "are in good health and are being treated in the best possible way."
In addition, they revealed that the captors are demanding the release of Saja al-Dulaimi, 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... , and Joumana Hmayyed, who is affiliated with al-Qaeda-linked groups, from Roumieh Prison.
Another demand, made by Emir of al-Nusra Front in al-Qalamoun, Abou Malek al-Talli, is allowing the safe passage of Syrians in encampments to the Syrian town of Fleita, said the relatives.
The families of the captives accused the Lebanese state of neglecting the case of their loved ones, saying: "Some sides are practicing political spite."
The servicemen were kidnapped from Arsal in August in the wake of festivities with al-Nusra Front and Islamic State gunnies in the area.
A few of the captives have since been released, four were executed, while the rest remain held.
The families told al-Hayat that they are scheduled to meet with General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday to discuss the latest negotiation efforts in the case.
The official had recently visited 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... to that end.
[DAWN] Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate has offered to release three Lebanese soldiers in exchange for an ex-wife of the leader of the jihadist 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 and four other female prisoners.
Al-Nusra Front, which along with IS has held 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers hostage for almost a year, issued the offer in a statement aired on Leb's MTV television on Saturday night.
"If five of our sisters leave prison... we will hand over three soldiers in exchange," said Abu Malek al-Shami, Al-Nusra's "emir" in the Syrian region of Qalamun bordering Leb.
Among the five hostages he named was Saja al-Dulaimi, who was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Leb in December and is a former wife of IS leader 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... , as well as a wife of an Al-Nusra leader.
Dulaimi's background is complicated as she reportedly belongs to a tribe that straddles Syria and Iraq and she was said to have been closer to Al-Nusra than her ex-husband's rival jihadists at the time of her arrest.
Shami's face was not shown in the interview, which MTV conducted as part of an arranged visit by family members to loved ones held by Al-Nusra in what it called "a cave in the Qalamun mountains".
The channel showed footage of the three-hour reunion between parents, spouses and even children of the hostages, many of them unable to hold back their tears.
The hostages, all with long beards, appeared in healthy condition inside a tent.
Sixteen of the 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers who were taken hostage near the border with Syria in August 2014 are in the hands of Al-Nusra.
The rest are held by Baghdadi's Islamic State group.
Since their capture, Al-Nusra and IS have repeatedly made demands for the soldiers' release, seeking the release of Islamist prisoners or the withdrawal of Leb's Hezbollah movement from the Syrian conflict.
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[ARABNEWS] Daesh fired chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq last month, Kurdish fighters and weapons experts have said.
The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) group and Sahan Research said in a statement Friday that Daesh targeted Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga with a projectile filled with a chemical agent on June 21 or 22.
The organizations also documented two such attacks against Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on June 28.
The YPG said the attacks targeted the Kurdish-held Salhiya district of Hasakeh city and Kurdish positions south of the town of Tel Brak.
"Upon impact, the projectiles released a yellow gas with a strong smell of rotten onions," the YPG said in a statement on Friday.
It added that the ground around the impact sites was stained with a liquid that was green at first but turned yellow on contact with sunlight.
"Our troops exposed to the gas experienced burning of the throat, eyes and nose, combined with severe headaches, muscle pain and impaired concentration and mobility. Prolonged exposure to the chemicals also caused vomiting."
The YPG reported no deaths in the attacks and said that exposed forces subsequently recovered from their symptoms.
They added that YPG fighters had captured industrial-grade gas masks from Daesh forces in recent weeks "confirming that they are prepared and equipped for chemical warfare along this sector of the front."
CAR and Sahan Research, who conducted research in coordination with Kurdish forces, said in a joint statement that seven projectiles were fired in the Hasakeh city attack, and 17 in the attack near Tal Brak.
They said urine samples taken from those affected in the Tal Brak attack tested positive for a compound that is commonly found in agricultural pesticides.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... Daesh executed an Iraqi journalist in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on charges of spying, local officials and colleagues said Saturday. Jala Al-Abadi was taken from his home with his phone and laptop on June 4 and executed on Wednesday by firing squad after being sentenced by a Daesh court.
A former senior security officer in the area and a medical source in Mosul confirmed the young journalist's death.
The father of two was born in 1988 and had worked as a cameraman for a local channel before Daesh took over Iraq's second city in June 2014.
He left his city then but, according to a someone who was close to the journalist, he returned to Mosul for personal reasons. He did not elaborate.
Abadi was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! when he tried to leave again and charged by Daesh, which has run the city since June 10 last year, with "leaking information" about the group to the national press.
Mohammed Al-Bayati, the head of the Nineveh Media Network, condemned the latest execution and urged the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to support the families of murdered journalists.
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[RFE/RL] The sharing of baby and toddler photos is a disturbing new trend among Daesh recruits who've come from Russia and the Central Asia region. That Daesh militants are having babies in Syria is not surprising, as foreign fighters are are encouraged to marry. Many others brought their children with them to Daesh-controlled territory.
But these babies are now being used by their fathers to prove they are "good" jihadis. Militants are sharing pictures of themselves holding their babies or toddlers and calling them "future mujahedin."
The trend is particularly fashionable among North Caucasian militants from the Chechen-led Daesh faction Katibat al-Aqsa. One Chechen militant, Mansur Shishani, was photographed in May posing with a toddler named Askhab. Both Mansur and the toddler are holding guns. Another Katibat al-Aqsa militant, Zakaria Kureish, posted an image of his two babies with the caption, "My children are growing up in the caliphate."
But it is not only rank-and-file terrorists who have posted such photos. The notorious Tajik militant Nusrat Nazarov (alias Abu Kholidi Kurobi) had a photograph of himself taken wearing military fatigues and a black beret with a Daesh logo, while holding a baby. Nazarov was reported killed in Syria earlier this month. The leader of Katibat al-Aqsa, a Chechen named Abu Umar Grozny, has photographed himself holding his baby daughter dressed in a camouflage-patterned head scarf.
These photographs are being used for recruitment purposes. The message is clear, in Daesh-controlled territory, even toddlers are taking up arms and are therefore more "manly" than those who stay at home and refuse to fight.
The future for the youngsters shown off in the photographs is bleak. Unless they are killed in fighting, or unless Daesh is dislodged, the male babies will undergo military training and ideological indoctrination from an early age. Unless Daesh is defeated before they are tweens, it will likely recruit them as "caliphate cubs." Daesh continues to use children under 18 as front-line fighters, and even as suicide bombers and to carry out execution-style killings.
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How long before these Islamic State babies are all starving in famine and we are asked to feed them.
some primitive civilisations we should have just denied access to technology. Never sold them weapons or anything tech. Just let them trade their caravans and smile and shake hands and take all our goods with us when we left. Not trade with them, not sell to them.
they would still now be fighting with swords and riding camels.
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perhaps we should cut off the flow of education to the Islamist world. That means saudi arabia, pakistan, any islamist or proto=jihadi is barred from western university education no matter how much money is waved. No Western contractor should go to Saudi to work or train or educate the local rubes.
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If I read a book about ISIS back in the 80s there is no way I'd have believed this nonsense. Too over the top. Now I wonder if the fine folks we helped fight the Soviets in Afghanistan were more of the same or if we've now developed a newer, sicker brand of Islamist.
I think ISIS is the least tayiqa using brand of Islamist. I think that is one thing that has made their recruitment efforts far more effective than AlQ or the Taliban, etc.
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Militants are sharing pictures of themselves holding their babies or toddlers and calling them "future mujahedin."
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[AA.TR] Turkish professor on international relations says nuclear deal will not fundamentally change Iranian policy
