RIYADH: International investigators have found a suspected “weapon pipeline” from Iran through Somalia to Yemen where Shiite rebels are battling the government, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have accused Iran of arming the Houthi rebels in Yemen, but Tehran denies the charges.
Since March last year Riyadh has led an Arab coalition fighting the Houthis and their allies in support of Yemen’s internationally recognized president, Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, after the rebels overran much of the country.
The analysis by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) is based on the seizure in February and March this year of weapons from dhows, traditional sailing vessels, in the Arabian Sea.
British-based CAR, which is primarily funded by the European Union, analyzed photographs of weapons confiscated from the dhows by the Australian warship HMAS Darwin and the French frigate FS Provence.
The ships were part of a joint international task force that operates separately from the Saudi coalition.
HMAS Darwin seized more than 2,000 weapons, including AK-type assault rifles and 100 Iranian-manufactured rocket launchers, from the dhow bound for Somalia, CAR said.
The seizure by FS Provence included 2,000 assault rifles “characteristic of Iranian manufacture” and 64 Hoshdar-M Iranian-made sniper rifles, all of which were in new condition, CAR said.
There were also nine Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missiles, it said.
UAE forces within the Saudi-led coalition reported recovering in Yemen a Kornet which CAR said is part of “the same production run” as those on the dhow.
This “supports allegations that the weapons originated in Iran and that the dhow’s cargo was destined for Yemen,” CAR said.
French government sources said the dhow was headed to Somalia “for possible transhipment to Yemen,” CAR said.
Light machine guns, suspected to be North Korean made, were found with the same serial number sequence on both dhows, “which suggests that the materiel derived from the same original consignment,” the report added.
It also referred to the US Navy’s seizure from a dhow in March of AK-type assault rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns which the US believed “orginated in Iran and were destined for Yemen.”
Two of the dhows were made by Al Mansoor of Iran, CAR said.
Although their findings were “relatively limited,” the investigators said their analysis “suggests the existence of a weapon pipeline extending from Iran to Somalia and Yemen.”
This involves “significant quantities of Iranian-manufactured weapons and weapons that plausibly derive from Iranian stockpiles,” they said.
It said that traffickers offload weapons in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia “for local arms markets or as transhipment points for onward supply to Yemen.”
Other analysts have questioned the extent of Tehran’s influence over the Houthis, a minority group which fought six wars against Yemen’s government from 2004 to 2010.
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Bolton would be the piece that fits the puzzle. And when done, gird your spines and loins as it will mean we're finally serious about addressing the jihadi issue, particularly on the domestic front.
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Needs a law from Congress to grant him a waiver from the long-standing prohibition of someone less than seven years after active duty service from assuming that position. Such a law might be filibustered.
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Good. Mattis to make Defense into warriors again. Session to clean up the SJW in Justice. Now get Bolton to clean out the State Dept and we are well on the way to rolling back Obama's damage.
[DAWN] The family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali student and child of a refugee, who maimed 11 people in a car-ramming and knife attack on an Ohio university campus, lived in Pakistain for seven years before moving to the US with his family in 2014, New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. I suppose I'm repeating myself, but if something Evil happens in the world Pakistain is involved somewhere. So he's really a Somali-Pakistaini-American...
Federal law enforcement officials said that Artan was admitted to the US in 2014 as the child of a refugee ─ his mother ─ and before that he lived for seven years in Pakistain.
He was studying at Ohio State University as a third-year transfer student of logistics management.
Artan's shocking attack lasted just a few minutes ─ from a car careening into the crowd until the suspect was rubbed out.
Artan was a "soldier" of the turbanIslamic 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, a turban-linked news agency alleged Tuesday.
"The executor of the attack in the American state of Ohio is a soldier of the Islamic State," the Amaq agency quoted an insider source as saying, according to a translation by the SITE monitoring group.
"He carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of international coalition countries," Amaq claimed.
A post made by Artan and quoted by ABC television said, "I can't take it any more. America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Moslem Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that."
"If you want us Moslems to stop carrying (out) lone wolf attacks, then make peace," the post reads.
"We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Moslems."
Ohio is home to the second largest Somali community in the United States, numbering around 38,000 in in the Columbus area alone, according to the state's Somali community association.
The country's largest Somali community, in Minnesota, was rocked when one of its members stabbed 10 people at a mall in September. IS later claimed the attacker was a turban "soldier," the same claim as for Artan.
[NBCNEWS] Minutes before his car-and-knife attack on the Ohio State University campus, Abdul Razak Ali Artan posted a message to his Facebook page -- a rant full of anger at the United States with vague references to ISIS and "lone wolf attacks."
But friends of the Somali refugee said Tuesday that the screed and the violence that followed it did not square with the mild-mannered Somali refugee they knew.
"He actually loved America," Ameer Kadar, who last saw Artan two weeks ago, told NBC News. "He loved the fact of the opportunity he had here to go to school... He loved the fact that he was able to get a college degree."
Haroon Khan, who met Artan and his family when they lived in Pakistain, said he could not believe the young man plowed his car into a crowd and stabbed people with a butcher knife before being rubbed out by a police officer.
"He was a very sweet and humble person," Khan said. "He can never do such an act, honestly."
Investigators have not yet pinpointed a motive for Monday's ambush, which sent 11 people to the hospital, but none with life-threatening injuries.
But the Facebook post is a valuable clue to Artan's state of mind as they try to determine if the ambush was rooted in terrorism or if he had a personal problem or grudge that pushed him over the edge.
Two U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News there are no known contacts between Artan and ISIS or any other foreign terrorist organization, disputing an unsubstantiated claim from ISIS' media arm -- which has become routine with attacks -- that he was working in service 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.....
This Daily Mail article reports a neighbour claimed Mr. Artan lived in squalor in a two bedroom apartment with his mother and six siblings not far from the OSU campus.
Squalor is a relative term for a Somali, and especially for a college student...
His mother is in her fifties, apparently, so student standards won't apply. On the other hand, this Daily Mail article suggests our dead miscreant may actually have somewhat more than the 18 years the FBI keeps quoting. Also that he harmed two more than the eleven previously stated -- though not seriously -- and that he ran over to Washington, DC the previous week and bought a knife there, possibly intending to create there the kind of excitement he ended up doing with a new knife bought at a local Wal-Mart at home.
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"He can never do such an act, honestly."
Except, he did...
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Loved America, hated Americans.
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"He actually loved America," Ameer Kadar, who last saw Artan two weeks ago, told NBC News. "He loved the fact of the opportunity he had here to go to school... He loved the fact that he was able to get a college degree."
He actually loved the fact that the Kafir and Christian charities paid for his school and settlement in America. He loved the free stuff, contributed nothing but mayhem. America is a bit more than just "free stuff" there Ameer.
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Muslims have no problem with loving their wife and then beating the crap out of her. Loving a female family member and then throwing acid in her face for not wearing the proper coverings.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday restrained the government from deporting Turkish teachers working for the PakTurk International Schools and sought a reply from the interior ministry on the matter.
Justice Shams Mahmood Mirza passed the interim order on a writ petition filed by Mehmet Ali Seker and other teachers associated with the PakTurk Educational Foundation.
Advocate Asma Jahangir argued before the court that the petitioners were residing lawfully in Pakistain on visas issued under the "NGO category" and enjoyed an unblemished record as they abided by the relevant laws.
She said the interior ministry declined to extend the petitioners’ visas without disclosing any reason and asked them and other Turkish national employees of the foundation to leave the country.
Some of the petitioners and their family members, who possessed visas valid till January, were also ordered to be deported, the counsel said.
She also argued that the ministry was "planning a smooth takeover" of the foundation in favour of a different organization owing to domestic politics in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . She said the government also cancelled registration of the foundation by promulgating the Companies Ordinance of 2016.
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[NEWSX] Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) terrorist, Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda was attacked in Karnal jail on Wednesday.
Tunda, accused of criminal masterminding over 40 bombings in India was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! by Delhi Police in August from Uttarakhand's Banbasa area near Nepal border on the basis of an information received by central intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a team of Central Investigation Agency (CIA) has reached the spot to investigate the matter.
Security in jails has become a major concern in India. Earlier this week, 5 prisoners including chief of Khalistan Liberation Front holy warrior outfit Harminder Singh Mintoo had escaped Punjab's Nabha jail.
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[INDIATODAY.INTODAY.IN] The murderous Moslems who attacked Uri and Samba both seemed to have used the same explosive- nitroglycerin. Also, both the Uri and Chamliyal murderous Moslems are suspected to be from Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... While sources indicated that the trio bumped off by the BSF in Chamliyal in Samba district of Jammu were tasked with carrying out another Uri-like attack in the Valley, the agencies point out that this was not the only link between the two incidents.
Both the Uri and Chamliyal murderous Moslems are suspected to be from Lashkar-e-taiba.
The bottles containing liquids and seven Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which were recovered from the slain terrorists, links them to those who attacked Uri.
The BSF explosive expert identified the liquid as 'nitro glyceride', commonly known as the nitroglycerin- another similarity with the Uri attacks.
Nitroglycerin is a high grade incendiary matter which is powerful but an unstable explosive, with an effect to cause massive fire.
While the NIA is yet to establish the nature of the inflammable substance that the murderous Moslems used to set the tents on fire in Jammu, Sherlocks suspect it to be a high grade incendiary material that the murderous Moslems carried with them into the brigade HQ.
6 Bihar Regiment soldier told NIA that the murderous Moslems were carrying with them a "slurry liquid" in what appeared to be a coke bottle, used with a long wick. It was lit, and thrown to cause incendiary fire.
The four murderous Moslems who sneaked into the army facility in Uri in the early hours of September 18 set fire to several tents, housing both men and ammunition. The toll of Uri went upto 19.
A top BSF source said, " It appears that Uri attacker and Chamliyal attacker were using same type of explosives. But it will only be confirmed after investigation."
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The Senate voted on Thursday to extend American sanctions against Iran for a decade, sending to President Obama a measure that supporters said would help ensure that the United States could fully respond if Iran were to violate its obligations under the nuclear agreement. It appears when there really is a gun pointed at their heads, they do vote to keep it unloaded.
Iranian officials, rankled that the legislation to extend sanctions was being considered ‐ the House overwhelmingly passed it last month ‐ have threatened to respond if the United States goes through with the renewal.
The 99-to-0 vote Thursday showed the desire of lawmakers to maintain a tough posture toward Iran amid uncertainty over the future of the nuclear agreement, which President-elect Donald J. Trump railed against during his campaign. A giant F-U to Obumble from the Senate
"Given Iran's continued pattern of aggression and the country's persistent efforts to expand its sphere of influence across the region, preserving these sanctions is critical," the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on Thursday. He said he expected the Trump administration and the new Congress to "undertake a total review of our overall Iran policy."
Asked on Wednesday if the president would veto the extension of sanctions, the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said that the administration would review it. "The administration continues to retain substantial authorities that can be used to impose financial sanctions on the Iranian regime," he said.
Mr. Earnest suggested, however, that the president could still sign the legislation. "There are plenty of times where the president has signed into law bills that Congress has passed that we're not sure are entirely necessary," he said.
The future of the nuclear agreement with Iran is one of the major looming foreign policy questions facing the Trump administration. During the campaign. Mr. Trump pledged to dismantle the agreement deal, which he described as "the stupidest deal of all time" in the last presidential debate.
Some hope that Mr. Trump will change course. In an interview published Wednesday, the departing director of the C.I.A., John O. Brennan, said that ending the nuclear agreement would be "disastrous" and "the height of folly."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[DAWN] The family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali student and child of a refugee, who 
[NBCNEWS] Minutes before his car-and-knife attack on the Ohio State University campus, Abdul Razak Ali Artan posted a message to his Facebook page -- a rant full of anger at the United States with vague references to ISIS and "lone wolf attacks."
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday restrained the government from deporting Turkish teachers working for the PakTurk International Schools and sought a reply from the interior ministry on the matter.
[NEWSX] 
[INDIATODAY.INTODAY.IN] The 
The Senate voted on Thursday to extend American sanctions against Iran for a decade, sending to President Obama a measure that supporters said would help ensure that the United States could fully respond if Iran were to violate its obligations under the nuclear agreement.
