video at link - posted recently on youtube but filmed in 2015
these recruits are either simply not trying or they are more poorly coordinated than anything I've ever seen - notwithstanding this, some Afghan units do function well but a lot of units - well maybe they have guys like this
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This video goes a long way toward explaining the following: SAS in a fight. The good thing is that ISIS is not even quarter as well trained as the Afghan Border Police.
[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... has delivered its response to a list of 13 demands 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... and three other Arab countries that cut have ties with it and imposed a land, air and sea embargo amid a major diplomatic crisis.
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's foreign minister, was received by Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah on Monday to hand over a letter from Qatar's emir, according to state-run Kuwait News Agency.
Kuwait is mediating in the dispute. The content of the letter has not been released.
Qatar's response will be the focus of a gathering in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday of foreign ministers from the four blockading countries: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Al Jazeera's Saad al-Saeedi, reporting from Kuwait City, said there was "a sense of relief, tinged with caution" in Kuwait.
"Qatar's response to the demands was handed to the emir, followed by an extensive meeting between the Qatari foreign minister and his Kuwaiti counterpart for more than one and half hours. After that, the Qatari foreign minister headed to the emir of Kuwait's residence to attend another meeting over lunch before his departure," he said.
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ISIS widow Sally Jones desperately wants to return home to the UK ‐ but can't because leaders of the terror group won't let her go, according to a new report.
After marrying her ISIS hubby Junaid Hussain, Jones became a top terror recruiter in Raqqa, Syria, and was implicated in two plots to kill innocent Americans.
As a couple, they were dubbed "Mr. and Mrs. Terror." But since Hussain was killed by a US drone in 2015, Jones has been hiding out in hopes of one day returning home to Kent, England. "NO"
"She was crying and wants to get back to Britain but ISIS is preventing her because she is now a military wife," another military wife, identified only as Aisha, told SkyNews. "She told me she [wishes] to go to her country." "FOAD"
"She lost her husband in a battle last year. She has one boy," Aisha added, referring to Jones' 12-year-old son, a child fighter who is believed to carry out executions. Such a great family
Before Jones became a terrorist, whose nom de guerre is Umma Hussain al Britani, she was a guitarist in an all-girl punk rock band called Krunch.
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Got this feeling the Brits don't want her (aka Mrs. Terror).
[ITV] A teenager who plotted to bomb an Elton John concert on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has been jailed for life.
Haroon Syed tried to acquire weapons online, including a bomb vest and a machine gun.
The 19-year-old identified the Hyde Park event as a possible target and was caught by the British Security Service who posed as a fellow extremist who could help him source the weapons .
Key evidence was gathered from Syed's communications with the fake contact Abu Yusuf via mobile phone and social media.
The Old Bailey heard the trigger for his radicalisation was the arrest of his older brother for plotting a so-called Islamic State-inspired Poppy Day attack.
The teenager from Hounslow, west London, had admitted preparation of terrorist acts between April and September last year.
Mitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others.
The court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun (ALM), which is linked to jailed preacher Anjem Choudary.
Despite the risk around the time of his brother's arrest, Syed, slipped through the net of the Prevent anti-radicalisation team although his passport was seized in 2015.
Home Office approved de-radicalisation expert and Bradford imam Alyas Karmani told the court there should have been earlier intervention in his case.
Mr Summers added that Syed now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack at the Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester.
But Judge Michael Topolski QC said the risk Syed posed warranted a discretionary life sentence and ordered him to serve a minimum of 16 and a half years.
Judge Michael Topolski QC said Syed "remained intent" on carrying out an act of mass murder.
"You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.
"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it," he added.
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"...sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion..."
When are authorities going to stop providing cover for that abominable ideology? They don't seek to "hijack" Islam--they seek to *enforce* it. The *literal* reading of their holy texts instructs them to do these things.
[AlAhram] La Belle France, Germany and the EU's migration chief have pledged more money for Libya's coasties and increased efforts to help Italia cope with a surge of migrant arrivals from Africa.
The French Interior Ministry said in a statement Monday that it also will work on a "code of conduct" for aid groups working in the Mediterranean.
The EU migration commissioner and German, French and Italian interior ministers held a crisis meeting Sunday night after Italia pleaded for European help.
Some 10,000 migrants colonists were rescued from the sea in recent days.
The officials promised additional money and training for the Libyan coasties and to find ways to reinforce Libya's largely lawless southern border, which smugglers exploit to shuttle African migrants colonists to Europe.
[FOX] The Canadian government will apologize and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, an official said Tuesday.
An official familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that Omar Khadr
...full name Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr, he is a scion of a family so radical that the Pakistanis arrested his father in 1995 for terrorism...
will receive $8 million. The deal was negotiated with Khadr’s lawyers and the Canadian government last month.
Khadr was 15 when he was captured by U.S. troops
...in 2002...
following a firefight at a suspected Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of U.S. Special Forces medic, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer. Khadr, who was suspected of throwing the grenade that killed Speer,
...among other warlike actions in accordance with his training...
was taken to Guantanamo and ultimately charged with war crimes by a military commission.
The Canadian-born Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included murder and was sentences to eight years plus the time he had already spent in custody.
Actually, the GITMO military tribunal prosecutor asked for 25 years. The jury sentenced him to 40. President Obama's Pentagon Chief War Crimes Prosecutor, Navy Capt. John F. Murphy, clearly had his marching orders to settle the plea deal before the jury began deliberations, though it was not announced until after they had left the room, according to our archives.
He returned to Canada two years later to serve the remainder of his sentence and was released in May 2015 pending an appeal of his guilty plea, which he said was made under duress.
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that Canadian intelligence obtained evidence from Khadr under "oppressive circumstances," such as sleep deprivation, during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, and then shared that evidence with U.S officials.
But the apology and payout was made as Pretty Boy Trudeau dances around the prime minister's office, not on Stephen Harper's watch.
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Is this one of the Gitmo detainees who Obama released? Was he then sent to Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence under Trudeau? Trudeau and Obama are birds of the same feather--terrible. Will Speer's widow and the other soldier who was blinded in the same attack get the $8 million that Khadr receives since they sued for $20 million for harm and injuries?
[Al Jazeera] 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... Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed a French legal expert and former judge on Monday to head the UN investigative body that will help document and prosecute the most serious violations of international law in Syria, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.
UN front man Stephane Dujarric announced the appointment of Catherine Marchi-Uhel who has been serving as the ombudsperson for the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group and al-Qaeda.
She was previously a judge in La Belle France and an international judge with the UN mission in Kosovo and at the Cambodia court prosecuting leaders of the Khmer Rouge. She also served as senior legal officer at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and worked in legal positions at the French foreign ministry.
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French legal expert and former judge ... Catherine Marchi-Uhel
[AnNahar] Israeli authorities have reportedly issued a warning to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... over the alleged development of what they said were "rocket manufacturing installations in Leb mainly situated in Hizbullah strongholds," Israeli media reports said on Monday.
Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned "Hizbullah over the development of Iranian rocket manufacturing installations inside Leb," the reports said.
It added that the Israeli security services are "seriously" studying the possibility of "destroying the Iranian weapons factory."
Hizbullah and Israel have fought many battles including a devastating 34-day war in 2006 that killed 1,200 people in Leb, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Border skirmishes have broken out occasionally since then, and Hizbullah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said in his latest statement that any future confrontation would be "very costly for Israel".
Tensions were rising this week along the frontier, with Israel accusing Hizbullah of expanding observation posts to conduct reconnaissance missions across the border.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] One of the most wanted Paleostinian terrorists, believed by Israeli intelligence to have planned the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in the summer of 2014, has moved to Leb after being expelled last month from 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... Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is hosting Saleh al-Arouri in its Dahieh stronghold in southern Beirut, Channel 2 news reported Monday.
Citing unnamed Paleostinian sources, the television station said that Arouri and two other senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, figures have relocated to the Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in the Lebanese capital, an area heavily protected with checkpoints on every access road.
On June 5, Paleostinian sources confirmed that Qatar -- which is embroiled in a boycott by 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 four other Arab states -- had asked several top Hamas officials to leave for Leb, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Malaysia.
A few days later, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman charged that Arouri had resettled in Leb, where he has been planning, along with two other activists, terror attacks against Israel.
During a meeting with visiting American UN Ambassador Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... , Liberman alleged that Arouri has also been attempting "to boost the relationship between Hamas and Hezbollah," the Shiite Lebanese militia, "under an Iranian umbrella, and with the assistance of the Revolutionary Guards and [its leader] Qassem Soleimani," according to a Hebrew-language statement from the Defense Ministry.
Leb is a "sovereign country" that maintains high-level bilateral ties with the United States, Liberman said, urging Washington to pressure Leb into expelling the three Hamas activists.
In its report Monday, Channel 2 said that Arouri may have chosen Beirut because the list of countries willing to host him are now limited and he fears Israel may try to exact Dire Revenge for the murder of the teenagers.
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[Free Beacon] Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said Monday that during his travels in Syria, rebel fighters there cheered any mention of President Donald Trump's name.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Ignatius prefaced his comments by warning that he would say something "sympathetic to Trump." It was only the second airing of the show since Trump touched off a firestorm with his tweets mocking Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
"As I traveled across Syria meeting with Syrian fighters who were trying to take down the regime of Bashar al-Assad, every time the name President Trump was mentioned, there were cheers from the audience," he said in a clip flagged by Legal Insurrection.
One Syrian Kurdish commander, Ignatius said, colorfully remarked Trump had the equivalent of what would be called "cajones" in Spanish. Ignatius said Trump's looser approach allowed commanders on the ground to more expeditiously carry out operations.
"More seriously, the big attacks that have taken place around Raqqa, one in particular, a surprise landing by helicopter, I was told, by the top U.S. commanders, would not have taken place if it hadn't been for President Trump's decision to delegate military authorities down to the level of command," Ignatius said. "Under Obama, that would have taken a couple weeks of White House meetings, and they still wouldn't have made up their mind."
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