[Iran Press TV] 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... ’s former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz says his country is supplying anti-Iran Death Eater groups in neighboring Pakistain with large volumes of ammunition.
According to Turki bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz, the kingdom’s former head of the presidency of meteorology and environment, Muqrin made the remarks when they paid a visit to former deputy minister of defense and aviation Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, where he had been hospitalized for some health problems earlier this month, Kuwaiti online newspaper Alaan reported on Wednesday.
Muqrin said, citing military sources, that Riyadh had sent the ammunition via C-130 military transport planes in five stages to hard boyz in Pakistain’s southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... which borders Iran. The aircraft unloaded their cargos at Dalbandin airport, which was constructed by the financial assistance of Saudi Arabia in the 1980’s.
He also said that the Saudi Arabia, via Kuwait, had also sent similar ammunition cargos to anti-Iran forces of Evil who are active near the border of Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Maqrin expressed his concern about these operations, saying that they would have adverse consequences for the security of the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz
Riyadh has reportedly spent $100 billion to nurture Wahhabism throughout the world, which is directly responsible for the rise of such terror networks as the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group wreaking havoc in several countries, mainly Iraq and Syria.
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[Bangla New Age] The anti-talk faction of separatist outfit United Liberation Front of Asom
Who?
has threatened to blow up Bangladesh’s largest gas transmission pipeline, prompting authorities to order an intensified security vigil, a media report said on Wednesday citing an Indian intelligence tip-off, reports PTI.
The Paresh Barua-led faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam recently issued the threat to blow up the transmission line of the Bibiyana gas field, which supplies 45 per cent of the gas.
The article said Indian intelligence agencies recently unearthed the plot tapping a telephone conversation of Barua with an ULFA commander when he asked him to blow up the pipeline in Bangladesh.
The 119 kilometre-long Bibiyana pipeline is Bangladesh’s largest transmission line that supplies gas to the national grid from the Bibiyana gas field in north-eastern Habiganj, bordering Assam to central Dhunat sub-district, operated by US oil giant Chevron.
Officials of state-run Petrobangla, which contracts out the gas plants to foreign and local oil companies, said they received the information last week and took up the issue with government authorities concerned and cautioned Chevron.
’We have sought necessary government steps for the security of the gas line and cautioned Chevron to enforce an extra vigil on the Bibiyana’s production and transmission systems,’ Petrobangla director M Kamaruzzaman told PTI. He said Petrobangla and Chevron already held a meeting with
the officials of the home ministry and security agencies concerned to ensure adequate security for the plant and the transmission line.
A home ministry official said the law enforcement and security agencies were asked to take necessary steps in view of the reported threat, enhancing their vigil as the outfit has record of carrying out sabotages on Indian gas pipelines.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... officials said they were assessing its authenticity and capacity of the outfit’s ’remnants.’
Home minister Asaduzzaman Kamal expressed his doubt about the authenticity of the threat and capacity of the ULFA faction as most of their top leaders gave up their separatist campaign in view of their negotiations with the Indian government.
’I cannot tell you anything about the threat before we could fully verify it, but I am in doubt about the capacity of ULFA remnants in carrying out any sabotage in our country,’ Kamal said. He added that Bangladesh long ago drove out the ULFA from its borders with India, evicting their makeshift hideouts.
’Paresh Barua, however, is still on the run but we understand India has kept a watch on his activities and so have we, as he once secretly took refuge in Bangladesh,’ Kamal said.
Barua was earlier handed down death penalty by a Bangladeshi court after in absentia trial for weapon trafficking through Bangladesh territory while media reports suggested he was currently hiding in Myanmar-China borders. He was given the death penalty by a south-eastern Chittagong court in 2014 along with 13 Bangladeshis including two former ministers, two ex-army generals and, after trial of the country’s biggest-ever weapon haul involving the separatist outfit.
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[RFA] Officials in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are offering a cash bounty of up to $774,000 for tips about suspicious activity linked to terrorism or religious extremism. One government official said, "The program is a necessary step that corresponds to the reality and development of Xinjiang."
While informants can earn cash, the amount of money they receive depends on the quality of information they give, local law enforcement officials said.
A Uighur police officer based in the Hoten (in Chinese Hetian) Prefecture said, "The reward amount depends on value of information. We report the information they provide to us to the local public security department, which evaluates the value of the information."
The rewards fall into different categories with information about bombs, bombers and bomb making raking in the most cash. Another police officer said, "Information about a bombing somewhere, or making bombs, or planning to make bombs for an attack is the most valuable. The top information will be awarded 5 million yuan."
The officer added, "This includes the planning stage. If someone informs us before the attack, the cash reward will increase because that is preventive work."
While the main aim of the program is interdicting terrorist activity, the officer said someone has already collected some money for turning in an illegal religious school. He said, "In our village we rewarded a guy who informed us about an illegal religious school. We have arrested that school teacher."
[Daily Caller] The German agency regulating advertisement laws wants to eliminate "gender discriminatory advertising" in response to the spree of sexual assaults in the country.
Heiko Maas, the German federal minister of justice and consumer protection, wants to modernize the "gender image" in Germany that is reducing "women or men to sexual objects," according to German news outlet Spiegel. The current gender image, Maas says, is to blame for the more than 1,000 sexual assaults reported in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
A majority of the perpetrators were under refugee status and originated from North Africa.
As the head of the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Maas and his cabinet has authority to impose regulations on advertisements. In the case of dispute between an advertiser and the ministry, a court will decide if an ad should be allowed or not.
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"Achtung, Muslim rapists! Your bender
Has come to an end! Please surrender!
Or we could appease you
By ceasing to tease you
And changing our 'image of gender.'"
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I guess the Germans are in the "at your feet" stage. Don't think that they'll ever be at anyone's throat again. All the ones with balls are long dead, unless you count the Muslim colonists.
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Nonsense that a socialist minister (SPD) says shouldn't be attributed to "The Germans".
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The socialist prime minister of France, Manuel Valls, has once again raised the thorny question of Muslim headscarves in the country, calling for a ban on the custom at the nation's universities, and causing outrage amongst party fellows.
Cognitive dissonance amongst the socialists: always fun to watch...
In an extended interview with the French daily Liberation, Valls outlined that French Muslims should be "protected" from what the politician considers to be contagious extremist ideas. Valls said that a scarf covering a woman's head stops being "an object of fashion or consumption like any other" and becomes a political gesture, undermining basic gender freedoms.
Answering the question on whether a ban on headscarves should be introduced in higher education institutes, he said that "it should." However, he noted that the current constitution makes such a move difficult.
His statements immediately caused a backlash among other socialist politicians.
They wouldn't have had a problem banning crucifixes, you see. They could ban a kippah without a second thought. But the headscarf is sacred amongst socialists. You could look it up...
"There is no need for a law on the headscarf at university," Thierry Mandon, the higher education minister, claimed, pointing out that this piece of clothing is not banned anywhere else in French society.
France's education minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, agreed, saying that university students are young adults who have constitutional rights, including freedom of conscience and religious liberty.
So long as they do so responsibly, of course...
"Our universities also have a lot of foreign students," she added. "Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?"
The Muslim headscarf debate has been ongoing in France for many years. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who restricted the wearing of niqabs (a face veil covering all but the eyes) in public places in France, spoke in favor of banning headscarves.
Air France has recently allowed its female crewmembers to avoid working on flights to Iran, a country where headscarves are required anywhere off the aircraft.
Valls said that Islam, the second-most popular religion in France,
...after socialism...
must be "fundamentally compatible with the Republic, democracy, our values and equality between men and women."
"Certain people don't want to believe it, a majority of French citizens doubt it, but I'm delusional convinced that it's possible," he said of conforming Islam with French values.
Commenting on the interview, a member of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, Abdallah Zekri, claimed that Valls statements represent "populist discourse which is worse than the far-right."
There's a clear-eyed thinker...
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I don't mind the headscarves - reduces the spread of lice.
[Iran Press TV] Russia has warned of the "clear and present threat" that Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... murderous Moslems in Syria could launch chemicals attacks in Europe.
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the remarks on Wednesday following a closed-door 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... Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the progress of investigations into chemical attacks in Syria.
"I have not heard anybody claim that they are concerned that the Syrian government may use chemical weapons in a subway in a European city -- all those things are happening with the terrorists," Churkin said.
The UN envoy noted that thousands of the Takfiris had relocated to Europe.
"Could some of them have brought with them components of chemical weapons? Could some of them have brought to a European city or European country their knowledge of how to build chemical weapons?" he asked.
During the UNSC meeting, Russia and China presented a draft resolution that calls on all countries, especially Syria’s neighbors, to monitor and report Lion of Islam activities related to chemical weapons.
"Our hope is that if they know that we are monitoring their activities, the incentive to use chemical weapons in the hope that the responsibility for that can be shifted elsewhere... will diminish," he added.
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[AnNahar] Germany deported 60 percent more migrants last year than in 2014, the government said Wednesday, with figures from January and February showing that the pace of repatriations further accelerating.
Some 22,369 people were forcibly returned to their countries of origin in 2015, up from 13,851 the previous year.
In the first two months of this year close to 4,500 people were repatriated -- twice as many as in January and February 2015.
Germany, which last year let in a record 1.1 million migrants and refugees, has been ramping up efforts to deport those who have failed to win asylum.
Meanwhile, the number of asylum seekers who have voluntarily left Germany also rose sharply, from 13,573 in 2014 to 37,200 in 2015.
From January to March this year, voluntary repatriations reached 14,095.
13/04/2016 -- STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Terrorist arrested at Airport
An internationally wanted terrorist was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant at Stockholm airport this morning in the departure hall. The man, who is not known to be an ordinary resident of Sweden, has not been identified by name but has revealed to be a member of the banned Kurdish PKK organisation. He was to fly to Turkey from Stockholm, reports Aftonbladet.
Other than that he is wanted by Germany, no more details have been released. Sweden’s secret police, the SAPO, are investigating.
13/04/2016 – HOLLABRUN, Austria – Migrant Home Closed After Accusations of Rape
An asylum home in the Austrian city of Hollabrun has been closed after a 13 year-old girl was sexually abused. The offender has been caught and is now in custody but the authorities have shut down the centre until further notice because there is a kindergarten in the same building and do not want to risk the safety of the other children.
22 asylum seekers lived in the building and the government is looking for another location to house them away from children, reports ORF.
13/04/2016 – IDOMENI, Greece – Three German Open Borders Activists Arrested
Greek police arrested three German nationals in Idomeni who are accused of circulating rumors among migrants to get them to storm the Macedonian border. Police found alcohol and a knife on one of the Germans and said to media that NGO’s and activists are creating tensions along the border, reports Speigel.
13/04/2016 – WESTPHALIA, Germany – Police Raid 33 Asylum Homes
German federal police raided 33 asylum homes in one day looking for illegal migrants and migrants who had forged identity papers. Migrants were fingerprinted and all suspicious North Africans were taken away or made to claim asylum if they had not already done so.
The raid was to combat the some 500,000 unregistered migrants living in asylum homes, reports Die Welt.
13/04/2016 – GAVLE, Sweden – Migrants suspected of kidnapping
Five Iraqis are suspected of abducting a 23 year old man off the street in Gavle, Sweden on the fourth of April. The man was pulled into a car in the centre of town which “screeched its tyres” as it made the getaway. Sweden’s Friatider reports one woman has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of the man, who is not a Swedish citizen, and are now seeking witnesses.
13/04/2016 – VARMLAND, Sweden – Migrant puts knife to two year old girls’ neck
Police were called to a Swedish asylum centre last week after a 31 year old migrant placed a knife at the throat of a two year old girl and threatened to cut it. When another man attempted to save the child, the migrant and his brother beat the would-be rescuer. Both men have been arrested, reports Sweden Radio Varmland.
Greek authorities say Macedonian police resorted to crowd control measures in an attempt to stop about 30 people from trying to get over the razor-wire border fence using blankets.
The country, which introduced temporary border control last year in a bid to stem the influx of migrants travelling from Turkey, has been told it must get a plan in place before April 26.
And a follow-up at 10:40 a.m. ET from Ynet on that arrest at Schiphol airport yesterday, which turns out to have involved a migrant, though not one from Dar al Islam:
A man who sparked a major security alert at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport was a homeless Polish citizen who claimed to be a "terrorist," Dutch military police said Wednesday. The 25-year-old man, who was carrying two backpacks, made the claim, "under the influence of alcohol," the police said in a statement after interrogating him. The man's identity was not released.
[Iran Press TV] Fifteen of the 9/11 "hijackers" from 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... were CIA agents working for the United States government , which was seeking to destroy the Middle East for Israel and to double the American military budget, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003.
Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday, after a number of US politicians called on the White House to declassify documents that shed light on Saudi Arabia’s possible complicity in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Dr Barrett, who has a PhD in french Literature is a 1993 oonvert to Islam. He taught at the Univ of Wisc at Madison until his writings got so crazy it was enough to embarrass the U. They found a way to dismiss him in 2006.
Would be interesting to know where his funding comes from these days.
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Crazy enough to get dismissed by U Wisconsin? That's some serious crazy!
Recently declassified U.S. government cables suggest Pakistan's intelligence service paid a U.S.-designated terrorist organization $200,000 to carry out one of the deadliest attacks against the CIA in the spy agency's history.
But a U.S. intelligence official said the information was uncorroborated and inconsistent with what is known about the 2009 suicide bombing at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.
Seven CIA employees were killed when a Jordanian doctor and double agent gained access to the base after tricking the Americans into believing he would lead them to Ayman al-Zawahri, then al-Qaida's No. 2. The correspondence released by the National Security Archive at George Washington University dates to the weeks after the attack.
A Jan. 11, 2010, document says the head of the Haqqani network, a Taliban-allied group the U.S. considers terrorists, held two meetings with senior officials of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence the month of the bombing.
"The first discussed funding for operations in Khowst province" and "funds were later provided to tribal elders in Khowst province for their support of the Haqqani network," the cable says, using an alternative spelling for the area. At the second meeting, Pakistani intelligence officials gave "direction to the Haqqanis to expedite attack preparations and lethality in Afghanistan."
A Feb. 6, 2010, cable, which like the other was heavily redacted, is more specific. Network leader Siraj Haqqani and another individual were provided $200,000, it says, "to enable the attack on Chapman." The document refers to several individuals involved in the plot, including an Afghan border commander, "to enable a suicide mission by an unnamed Jordanian national."
The Jordanian would have been Humam al-Balawi, the supposed al-Qaida turncoat whom the CIA codenamed "Wolf." As the CIA ushered him on to its base on Dec. 30, 2009, al-Balawi detonated a suicide bomb. A Jordanian intelligence official and an Afghan driver also died, while six people were injured. It was the most lethal attack against the CIA in the 15-year Afghanistan war and possibly since the 1983 embassy bombing in Beirut.
The reports aren't authoritative. Each one states: "This is an information report, not finally evaluated intelligence."
The U.S. intelligence official described the information as a "raw, unverified and uncorroborated report" that clashes with the general consensus of the attack as primarily an al-Qaida plot, and not one that involved the Haqqani network. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Pakistan's embassy in Washington had no immediate comment on the cables.
The U.S. has long cited the links between the Pakistani intelligence and the Haqqanis, a group that includes criminal and insurgency elements, and which uses Pakistani territory as a rear operating base. When Adm. Mike Mullen stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 3 1/2 years ago, he went so far as to call the network a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's ISI.
But no evidence of Pakistani funding of the group for the Camp Chapman attack had previously surfaced publicly. The source of the information on both cables is unclear. The National Security Archive received the documents after a Freedom of Information Act request. This must have sneaked through.
[TRIBUNE.PK] A Pak man who claims to be on a ’Kill List’ of people to be targeted in US drone strikes appeared on a BBC Radio programme on Monday to urge the US and UK governments to stop trying to kill him.
Malik Jalal, from Wazoo, claims to have narrowly missed at least four drone strikes and says he has been warned by various authorities that he is on a "Kill List".
Describing one such attack, Jalal said a car driving behind him was hit by a missile while he was out visiting another village. "I heard the kaboom and the back window of my car shattered. The car behind was in flames and the passengers were in pieces," he said.
Jalal, a tribal elder, has travelled to the UK on the invitation of Lord Ken MacDonald, the former Director of Prosecutions, to ask parliamentarians and the government to take his name off the "Kill List". He further says that his children are "terrified" of dying in a missile attack.
According to him, the US and UK is targeting him for his work with North Waziristan Peace committee (NWPC) ‐ a group attempting to bring peace between the Taliban and the government of Pakistain. Jalal’s role as an intermediary in settling disputes is recognised by the Pak government.
"I had a special role to improve security and we were making progress and that’s why I think America targeted us. I came close to being bombed four times, so in the end I realised they were on to me," Jalal told BBC.
In a letter addressed to Home Secretary Theresa May, who has oversight of MI5 and the NCA, and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who has responsibility for GCHQ and MI6, Jalal has asked for meetings to clear his name and get off the "Kill List". The US ambassador is also copied in the letter.
Recounting another drone incident, Jalal said a friend’s house he had intended to visit for dinner was hit by a missile while he was about 500 metres away in his car.
"I have had to leave Waziristan. In my own family there are six people who are mentally destabilised because of the strikes. In Waziristan there are more than 400,000 people who have mental problems because of the drones. My own son is too scared to go back to Waziristan," the tribal elder said.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] Amid growing Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in the west, Pakistain has voiced deep concerns at what it called a "sharp rise in hate speech, discriminatory acts and social hostility against Muslims", particularly in the countries where they are in minority.
"We are also witnessing an increase in instances of physical and psychological violence against Muslims and their businesses and places of worship. Muslim minorities are being alienated and marginalised. Many of them live in fear," said Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... in his speech at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Istanbul ahead of a summit meeting.
Aziz said western media’s ignorant portrayals of Muslims were providing fuel to the campaign of hate and bigotry. "At a time when there is a need to urge all communities to develop tolerance and respect for each other, we see the unfortunate rise of political opportunism by spreading fear and xenophobia."
He warned that "if left unchecked, such instances and political shortsightedness will grow rapidly in the years to come. It is our collective responsibility to reverse these trends."
"We attach importance to freedom of expression. We, however, refuse to accept that it allows insults against Islam and hate speech and incitement to violence against Muslims."
Aziz also spoke about the current challenges facing the Muslim countries, particularly disunity and problems of terrorism and extremism. In these difficult times, solidarity and unity of the Ummah is needed more than at any other time in our 1,400 years’ long history, he added.
"We must rekindle the spirit of brotherhood and one community that has characterised the Muslim people, for justice and peace, especially in Paleostine and Afghanistan."
Aziz maintained that resolving issues through mutual consultations, therefore, was not only our religious duty but also a political imperative for ensuring peace and security of our peoples.
He said any member state amongst the OIC that could assist in bridging the differences between the brotherly countries must step forward and play a role.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... acted in this spirit when he visited the Kingdom of 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 Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran in January 2016. We are thankful for the cooperation we received from our brothers," he told the conference.
Today, terrorism and violent extremism pose serious threat to international peace and security. The menace has inflicted immeasurable human and economic losses, he said. "Pakistain has always supported that a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy is needed to tackle this global problem."
He said the complexity of challenge also demands enhanced and shared understanding and deeper dialogue between countries, cultures and civilisations.
The meeting of the 57-member OIC comes at a time of turmoil in many Muslim nations, with conflicts in Syria and 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... dragging on and several states, including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , bloodied by turban violence.
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We attach importance to freedom of expression. We, however, refuse to accept that it allows insults against Islam...
Does this guy and Obama have the same speech writer?
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Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha decried the rising Islamophobia on display as he and his conquering army were driven back by the combined armies of Eastern and Central Europe before the Gates of Vienna.
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A phobia is an irrational fear. I don't believe concern about militant Islam is irrational, and I wouldn't use the word 'fear' either - maybe anger, disgust, concern ... but not fear.
The only thing we have to fear
Is fear itself... of Muslims,
But ain't it queer? It don't appear
To put the skeer... on Muslims;
So ring out clear, dear little bell
Of liberty... for Muslims,
And all kuffar can go to hell,
Or make things hot... for Muslims.
[Daily Excelsior] General Officer Commanding (GOC), 16 Corps, Lt Gen RR Nimbhorkar said today that a number of murderous Moslems continued to sit across the Line of Control (LoC), camping at the launching pads, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into this side but alert Indian Army hasn’t allowed their plans to succeed.
In a brief chat with newspersons during ’Rajouri Day’ celebrations in Rajouri this morning, Lt Gen Nimbhorkar, who had gone to the border district to join the celebrations and boost morale of the troops, said there was no "specific time" of the murderous Moslems for infiltration as they continued to wait for intrusion bid.
"You can’t say, they (the holy warriors) will make infiltration attempts when the snow melts. Though the snow will start melting some days afterwards but the murderous Moslems are always in search of opportunity to infiltrate. They don’t wait for melting of snow. They try to infiltrate every time but our brave and alert troops don’t allow them to succeed," the GOC Nagrota based 16 Corps, said.
The General said there were inputs available with the Army that a number of murderous Moslems were camping on other side of the LoC (Pakistain occupied Kashmire) along launching pads waiting for infiltration through twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... he added, the Army was well aware of the holy warrior designs and will not allow them to succeed.
"We are well versed with the holy warriors’ plan. They can attempt infiltration any time but we will not allow them to enter into this side,’’ he added.
Replying to a question on yesterday’s flag meeting between India and Pakistain at Chakan-Da-Bagh on Poonch-Rawlakote route in Poonch district, Lt Gen Nimbhorkar said the focus of the flag meeting was to maintain peace and tranquility on the LoC, which was going on since past September when the last Brigade Commander level flag meeting was held barring Shahpur incident recently.
He said Army wants to maintain peace along the LoC, which was in the interest of all including people living on both sides of LoC.
Only few days back, Pakistain Army had broken nearly six months long ceasefire on the LoC in Shahpur sector of Poonch district by resorting to heavy mortar shelling and firing on the forwards Indian villages causing damage to six houses and an Alto car. The Indian side had retaliated effectively, silencing the Pak guns.
The Commanding Officers level flag meeting at Chakan-Da-Bagh yesterday had reiterated commitment by both the sides to maintain peace and tranquility along the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts. The meeting had reaffirmed the commitment to September 21 Brigade Commander level meeting in which both sides had agreed to stick to ceasefire agreement of 2003.
Responding to another question on upcoming joint military exercises between India and United States and whether some of the exercises could take place in the area falling under jurisdiction of 16 Corps, Lt Gen Nimbhorkar said the Indo-US Army exercises are regular annual feature.
"If any of the area under our jurisdiction is selected for joint exercises, we will have no problems. We are ready for it," he said but made it clear that selecting any area for exercises depends on the Defence Ministry.
Lt Gen Nimbhorkar actively participated in the Rajouri Day celebrations.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi politicians have resorted to throwing water bottles and punching each other a day after a vote on a new Cabinet was postponed.
Wednesday’s chaotic scenes reflect a growing political crisis in Iraq, even as the country wages war against ISIS.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, following weeks of pressure from an influential Shiite holy man and thousands of his followers, drafted a list of new ministerial nominees.
Lawmakers were to vote on the make-up on Tuesday but the vote was postponed, prompting dozens of politicians to begin a sit-in inside parliament, demanding al-Abadi and others step down.
The scuffles broke out between the protesting politicians and others who tried to continue the previous day’s session.
Shiite politician Kadhim al-Saydi, one of the protesters, said al-Abadi should "resign immediately."
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[Guardian] At CIA meeting days after Obama called Libya the ’worst mistake’ of his presidency, remarks underline growing anxiety of Isis foothold in the country.
Efforts to stem the flow of Islamic State recruits into Syria and Iraq have been met by an increase in foreign extremists heading to Libya instead, Barack Obama has warned.
Just days after describing the failure to prevent extremists filling a power vacuum in Libya as the "worst mistake" of his presidency, Obama’s remarks underline growing White House anxiety about the foothold gained by Isis in the country.
"As we, and our foreign allies and partners, have made it harder for foreign terrorists to reach Syria and Iraq, we have seen an uptick in the number of Isis fighters heading to Libya," Obama told reporters at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a meeting with intelligence chiefs intended to review US strategy against the terror group.
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"We had a R2P, so we overthrew Muammar. We'd like to introduce you Libyans to your new and improved Islamic Masters™, the JV Team of beheaders. You're Welcome"
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[Iran Press TV] Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran has always seriously pursued the fight against terrorism and it has given assistance to other countries in this regard.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has always seriously followed the fight against terrorism in the Muslim world and practically any nation and government that has sought Iran’s help, Tehran has offered its help and assistance," Rouhani said before flying to the Turkish port city of Istanbul to take part in the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The Iranian president elaborated on Iran’s assistance to the Muslim countries in their fight against terrorism, saying the governments of countries such as Iraq and Syria have enjoyed Iran’s support in this regard.
Rouhani further noted that the Muslim world is currently grappling with such problems as terrorism, extremism and sectarianism, while "some countries are unfortunately invading other countries."
He stated that one of the goals of the OIC is to create unity among Muslim nations, expressing hope that the organization would be able to resolve differences among Islamic states.
"We hope there would be helpful discussions in this summit about the settlement of disputes in the Muslim world, fostering unity and solidarity among Muslim countries, and especially the issue of fighting terrorism," Rouhani said.
The OIC summit will be held under the theme, "Unity and Solidarity for Justice and Peace." A resolution on the Paleostinian issue and support for international efforts to re-launch a "collective political process" will be issued at the end of the summit.
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All depends on your definition of terrorism. They're terrified of gays, Zionists, Sunnis and infidels. Basically everybody except Iranian theocrats.
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[Iran Press TV] A top Syrian official has rejected the "dream" of a transitional government without Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , saying that such ideas are nothing short of a "coup d’etat."
"This will not happen, not now, nor tomorrow nor ever," Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was quoted as saying by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Wednesday.
"We believe such an idea has failed, it is outdated, it will never be acceptable. This amounts in fact to a coup d’etat. People organize a certain rebellion and then they get power. This will never happen in Syria," he added.
He went on to note that for the peace talks to proceed, "factual, actual solutions" most be reached.
"This includes the possibility of establishing a national unity government or a broad government that includes members of the opposition," he said.
Assad recently offered the notion of a unity government conclusive of both government and opposition while rejecting a "transitional body with full executive powers."
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[REUTERS] Syrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on Wednesday in what they called a show of support for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , while his opponents and Western powers denounced the poll as illegitimate.
The election went ahead independently of a U.N.-led grinding of the peace processor aimed at ending the five-year-long war. A second round of talks began in Geneva on Wednesday but an upsurge in fighting has darkened the already bleak outlook for diplomacy.
The government said the vote was held to comply with the constitution, a view echoed by its Russian allies.
The opposition, which wants the new peace talks to focus on a political transition, said the election was meaningless, while Britannia and La Belle France called it a "flimsy facade" and a "sham".
Voters were electing 250 MPs to parliament, which has no real power in Syria's presidential system. The state rallied them with the slogan "Your vote strengthens your steadfastness".
"Assad is already strong but these elections show that the people support him and bolster him," said Hadi Jumaa, a 19-year-old student, as he cast his ballot at his university halls of residence in Damascus.
Dozens queued to vote at one polling station where a portrait of Assad hung on the wall. Outside, some danced.
With his wife Asma at his side as he went to vote in Damascus, a smiling Assad told state TV that terrorism had been able to destroy much of Syria's infrastructure but not Syria's "social structure, the national identity".
Asaad al-Zoubi, chief negotiator for the main opposition body, the High Negotiations Council. dismissed the polls: "They are illegitimate - theater for the sake of procrastination."
The conflict has killed more than 250,000 people and created millions of refugees, splintering Syria into a patchwork of areas controlled by the government, an array of rebels, a powerful Kurdish militia, and 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. The government views all the groups fighting it as terrorists.
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[NYTIMES] Somewhere, there is a digital archive containing the portraits of 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.... ’s network of fighters in Europe. The image of each fighter was stored in this database months before last year’s attacks in Gay Paree, and after each new terror strike, the group has reached into it and released the photographs. So it was on Wednesday.
The latest issue of Dabiq, the Islamic State’s slick online magazine, includes an image of Najim Laachraoui, the 24-year-old former Catholic school pupil who was last seen wheeling a suitcase bomb into the Brussels airport. He is wearing military fatigues and sadistically winking at the camera. Next to him is a man with a bloody knife, suggesting they had just beheaded a captive.
It is worth noting that the two men’s uniforms exactly match those worn by the Gay Paree attackers last year, as shown in another set of photographs and an accompanying video, also pulled from the archive. Those were shot somewhere in Syria or Iraq before the attacks, and made public soon after. They have the same desert camouflage pattern, the same tan cap and tactical vest, the same cutoff gloves and grotesque scene of bloodshed.
Before returning to Europe, both the Brussels bomber and the Gay Paree plotters posed for carefully choreographed scenes, showing the atrocities they committed in Syria and Iraq. The purpose is clear: to show the West that the attackers really were sent from the heart of the group’s terror machinery.
In a short biography of Mr. Laachraoui, who is also identified by the nom de guerre Abu Idris al-Baljiki, the Islamic State says he was the bombmaker for both the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks. The biography also says the future jacket wallah’s first foray in Syria was as a recruit in the battalion of Amr al-Absi, the leader of a group calling itself the Mujahedeen Shura Council. In 2012, that group became a magnet for European jihadists, especially Belgians, who flocked to a walled villa in Kafr Hamra, just outside Aleppo, Syria, as Ben Taub reported in an excellent piece for The New Yorker.
Later, Mr. Absi’s group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIS. The biography says Mr. Laachraoui "was one of the first, along with the rest of his group, to pledge allegiance."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Daily Caller] The German agency regulating advertisement laws wants to eliminate "gender discriminatory advertising" in response to the spree of sexual assaults in the country.
[Iran Press TV] Fifteen of the 9/11 "hijackers" from 
Recently declassified U.S. government cables suggest Pakistan's intelligence service paid a U.S.-designated terrorist organization $200,000 to carry out one of the deadliest attacks against the CIA in the spy agency's history.
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...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
"We must rekindle the spirit of brotherhood and one community that has characterised the Muslim people, for justice and peace, especially in Paleostine and Afghanistan."
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
