[YourNewsWire.com] The Facebook fact-checking organization recently "debunked" claims that CNN had staged a scene during one of their news broadcasts that involved Muslim protestors protesting the recent London Bridge terror attack.
[Al Jazeera] 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... will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbours and won't change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar's foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks in Doha on Thursday, just days after Bahrain, 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... , Egypt, the UAE and several other countries cut relations with Qatar.
They accuse Qatar of supporting gangs and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.
"We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.
He also said Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani would not leave the country while it was "in blockade", and therefore could not attend an offered mediation by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... at the White House.
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Qatar not backing down. This will not end well for them I think.
Their airline can't operate, and 2 LNG tankers bound for Europe turned back. I assume because Egypt will refuse Suez passage.
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On an historical note. Both the Saudis and Bahrain controlled Qatar, before the British came along and essentially created Qatar as a separate entity.
[DAWN] 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... -based broadcaster al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster.
"Al Jazeera Media Network under cyber attack on all systems, websites & social media platforms," it said on Twitter.
The attack was also confirmed by a source at al-Jazeera, who said the broadcaster was attempting to repel the hack.
"An attempt has been made, and we are trying to battle it," said the source.
Following the initial reports of a cyber attack, some viewers in the region said they could no longer receive al-Jazeera television.
Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... , one of the largest news organizations in the world, has long been a source of conflict between Qatar and its neighbours, who accuse the broadcaster of bias and fomenting trouble in the region.
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Happy dance!!!
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Gee, that's too bad...
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[RT] The mother of Youssef Zaghba, one of the three men responsible for the deadly vehicle and stabbing attack on London Bridge, says she never believed her son’s terrorist intentions, especially after years of close police surveillance.
“I never thought he could have done anything violent I always tried to talk to him, there are no words, the pain is too big, the pain I feel as a mother. I don't know if it makes sense to ask for forgiveness, if it would make sense I would ask for it,” Valeria Khadija Collina said during an interview at her home in Bologna, in northern Italy.
Collina believes her son was “not dangerous” at the time, and that the only reason he got stopped in Bologna on his way to Istanbul was because he carried only a small backpack, had a one way ticket and that he misspoke at the border, saying, “terrorist instead of a tourist.”
Collina met her Moroccan husband and converted to Islam before giving birth to Youssef in 1995. Zaghba was identified earlier this week as the third terrorist involved in the London Bridge attack which left eight people dead and 48 others injured.
The Moroccan-born Italian attacker was briefly detained in Bologna last year, presumably while trying to reach Syria through Turkey to join the ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
According to his mother, Zaghba planned his trip to Syria for at least a year prior to his detention in March 2016. His motive, to start a new life.
“When my son wanted to go to Syria, in 2015, what he said, and I believe that, was that he didn't want to go for fighting but to live in an Islamic country, to work and make a family,” Collina says.
Collina believes her son was “not dangerous” at the time, and that the only reason he got stopped in Bologna on his way to Istanbul was because he carried only a small backpack, had a one way ticket and that he misspoke at the border, saying, “terrorist instead of a tourist.”
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I'm not interested in anything a Muslim has to say.
[Iran Press TV] Saudi Arabia’s national soccer team has come under criticism for its refusal to observe a minute’s silence for the London attack victims during a recent match with Australia.
Before the World Cup qualifier in Adelaide on Thursday, the Australian national soccer team lined up in the center of the field to keep silence over the killing of two Australian women killed in last week's terror attacks in London.
However, the Saudi team continued jogging, passing the ball and taking their positions on the field. Pictures show a Saudi player, Salman al-Faraj, facing the Australian team with his hands behind his back.
[DailyMail] Pictures show the Australian team lined up at the halfway mark, with the Saudi players ignoring the gesture as they get in formation to start the game.
Saudi players on the bench refused to stand for the minute's silence.
A spokesperson from the Football Federation Australia told Daily Mail Australia they had been advised prior to the match that the Saudi team would not be taking part.
'The FFA sought agreement from the Asian Football Confederation and the Saudi national team to hold a minute's silence in memory of those lost in Saturday night's terror bombings in London and in particular the two Australian women,' the spokesperson said.
'Both the AFC and the Saudi team agreed that the minute of silence could be held.
'The FFA was further advised by Saudi team officials that this tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture and they would move to their side of the field and respect our custom whilst taking their own positions on the field.
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Am sure there are several politicians who are eager to explain to us that it wasn't what it seems.
[IsraelTimes] Belgian security experts say there was little pooling of info between various levels of law enforcement after 2016 bombings.
An investigation into the Brussels suicide kabooms last year has highlighted failures in intelligence sharing among the security services as well as their "limited" information about radical networks.
The parliamentary committee probe also found that the security services failed to thoroughly follow up information about the men would carry out the attacks on the metro and airport in March 2016 that killed 32 people.
"The absence of an information-sharing culture constitutes the main gap within and among the security services," the report said.
Fifteen years after major reforms, the committee complained of "compartmentalization which blocks comprehensive information management."
Belgian security experts said just after the attacks there was little sharing of information among the six police zones in Brussels or between the federal police and local police or between the state security services and local forces.
The report said there was a failure to follow up in the cases of Khaled and Ibrahim El Bakraoui before the former went kaboom! at Maalbeck metro station and the latter set off his suicide bomb at Zaventem airport.
Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... claimed that Belgium ignored intelligence about Ibrahim El Bakraoui after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! him near the Syrian border as a "foreign terrorist fighter" and deported him in June 2015.
It recommended that the security services deploy liaison officers at Belgian embassies in countries that play an important security role, such as in Turkey.
"The information position of our security services is too limited in radical circles and on social networks, for example," the report said.
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.... , which claimed the Brussels attacks, communicate using social networks.
The report also recommended better coordination among the different police, intelligence and security services as well as reinforcing and streamlining their resources.
It called for better handling of evidence or potential evidence, referring to the February 2015 seizure of the cell phone of Brahim Abdeslam, who took part in the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, in a drugs case.
An analysis of the phone’s contents revealed nothing and officers did not follow up until after French police found that Brahim Abdeslam had blown himself up in Gay Paree and that his brother Salah Abdeslam was a runaway in the case.
But it said the phone had disappeared and was only found a year later under a pile of papers in the Brussels cop shoppe where Brahim Abdeslam had been questioned in the drugs case.
[POLITICO] The Turkish government must waive diplomatic immunity for individuals involved in a clash with police and protesters earlier this month, a bipartisan group of senators wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson earlier this week, or else face rescinded visas and revoked diplomatic credentials.
Dark-suited, gun-carrying men that appeared to be security personnel accompanying Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... reportedly to assault peaceful protesters gathered outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence earlier this month. Video of the incident shows them charging past a line of coppers to attack the protesters in Northwest Washington’s Sheridan Circle.
On a separate video, Erdogan himself can be seen calmly watching the fighting unfold from the driveway of the ambassador’s residence before turning his back and walking inside.
The U.S. politicians, led by Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... (D-Mo.), wrote in a letter dated Tuesday that Erdogan’s security had "engaged in a brutal, unprovoked, and inexcusable attack against protestors" and labeled their actions "wholly unacceptable."
"It is clear to us that both the Turkish government and its representative in the U.S., Ambassador Serdar Kilic, bear responsibility for the unjustifiable actions of the Turkish security personnel," said the letter, a copy of which was provided to POLITICO. The letter’s other signatories included Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
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Simply declare them 'Persona Non-Grata' (PNG) and sent them to Dulles for a flight home.
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Just PNG them and have done with it. The question to me is the ordering of priorities for our six (6) Princes of the Senate -- How much is Genuine Concern, How much is Posturing for the Press, and How much is just stirring up excrement that Trump's diplo's are going to have to clean up.
27-year-old spent two months in 2016 traveling with militants in Syria and Iraq
He was detained by Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in March 2016
27-year-old faces five years to life in prison when he is sentenced on October 13
Khweis was reportedly asked to be a suicide bomber because he had no skills
During his time, he cleaned up for fighters, bought groceries, and made lunches
In February 2017, the US military recovered his ISIS intake form and a camp roster that included his name with 19 other Islamic State fighters
This is the Palestinian-American idiot who ran away from ISIS with three cell phones, three forms of ID including his Virginia drivers licence, and a large amount of cash, only to miss the Turkish border and find the Peshmerga instead. His Peshmerga inteview video can be seen at the link.
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The lesson is, if you intend to join ISIS take a weapons course first.
Perhaps the "leading NGOs" should commit a few thousand of their troops to dig the murderous bastards out on the ground then. [RT] Human Rights Watch, Amnesia Amnesty International, War Child and other advocacy groups have banded together to condemn the use of "inherently indiscriminate weapons" during the campaign to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from 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.... (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS).
"All warring parties should cease using explosive weapons with wide area effects and inherently indiscriminate weapons in densely populated west Mosul. ISIS’s unlawful use of civilians as ’human shields’ and the difficulty of identifying civilians in buildings increases the risk of civilian casualties."
Iraqi forces, with air support provided by the US-led coalition, has been engaged in fierce urban combat, trying to wrestle Iraq’s second city back from the jihadists since October last year.
The remaining Islamic State forces, who Iraqis believe are readying to die in battle, are housed in fortified positions in the densely-built western side of the city, where civilian houses have been booby-trapped and turned into passage ways for the jihadists.
"Thousands of families are trapped by ISIS in west Mosul, with its fighters preventing civilians from fleeing to safety," said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"Iraqi and coalition forces should recognize that in the crowded Old City, using explosive weapons with wide area effects puts civilians at excessive risk."
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Drop them behind ISIL lines for a closer look.
Historically ignorant bastards need a refresher on urban warfare.
[RT] A military investigation into a US Arclight airstrike on a mosque in Syria’s Aleppo province found that the strike was "lawful," even though it likely resulted in the death of a civilian. More than 40 people died in the attack, which targeted an al-Qaeda meeting.
On Wednesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) released the findings and recommendations of an internal investigation into the March 16 Arclight airstrike in al-Jinah, Syria. The conclusions were first announced in a series of tweets.
The US initially refused to take credit for the strike, admitting only to striking a nearby terrorist gathering in the bordering Idlib. The Pentagon also insisted that the mosque was still intact, despite video evidence to the contrary. In early May, however, CENTCOM acknowledged that it destroyed the mosque.
The CENTCOM report outlined the events of May 16. The military commanders received intelligence about a meeting location about a group of "al-Qaeda holy warriors and those collaborating with them," which was confirmed by follow-up surveillance. The decision-makers believed the meeting would take place in "a warehouse, with a shed and residence in near proximity."
At that point, the military began the targeting process.
"The strike cell followed procedures to confirm that the meeting was a valid military target, ensuring the strike would be proportional, and taking all feasible precautions to minimize collateral damage or civilian casualties," Major Josh T. Jacques, media operations chief for CENTCOM, said in a statement provided to RT.
The strike used F-15 fighter jets and MQ-9 Reaper drones to target the warehouse. It caused "superficial damage" to the adjacent mosque. CENTCOM followed up with a secondary strike against "Lions of Islam who were seen outside the building after the initial strike."
Approximately two dozen al-Qaeda members or affiliates were killed, and several others were maimed, CENTCOM said. It also resulted in the death of one "non-combatant, who may have been an adolescent."
An April report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which was based on witness accounts, said that the mosque had been used daily and saw dozens of people gathering inside during prayer calls. It accused US forces of failing to double check the facts on the ground before launching the strike because "aerial surveillance of the building would have shown this."
"The Arclight airstrike took place in between the sunset and the evening prayer, at a time when US officials should have known that there would be people gathering in the mosque," deputy director of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division, Lama Fakih, told RT in April.
The human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organization did not find any evidence that would have backed up the claim that an al-Qaeda meeting was being held there.
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[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has released the names of and other information about the five 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... ISISDeath Eaters who carried out twin attacks in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Wednesday.
The Intelligence Ministry on Thursday released a statement detailing information on the five Death Eaters and "affiliated nuclei," whose full identities it said had been determined after intelligence work by the Ministry.
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It hasn't occurred to them yet that The Great Satan is pulling the strings of ISIS? They're not blaming the Juice?
That's got to be a quantum shift!
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A disturbing video emerged this evening depicting the five ISIS Death Eaters who conducted two highly coordinated attacks on the Iranian parliament and Khomeini Mausoleum on Wednesday morning.
Speaking on camera in a pre-recorded Amaq Agency video, the heavily armed 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.... members read a chapter from the Koran in Arabic and then proceeded to make several statements in Farsi (Persian/Iranian):
The leader of the jihadist infiltration group initially explained that the incident represented the first ISIS attack in Iran and far from the last.
He then proceded to call on supporters of ISIS to create unrest in Iran by conducting similar attacks in the name jihad on behalf of the Islamic State.
In the latter part of the video, the ISIS hard boy called on ’real Moslems’ in Iran to rise up against the government to punish it for its actions in Syria, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Yemen.
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this group appears to be native sunni persians who fought with other ISIS troops in Iraq and returned to Iran to carry out the attack
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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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