[DAWN] The United States on Saturday vehemently denied claims by Afghan officials that it had killed several civilians in an air strike in volatile eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials had said 11 civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed when a private vehicle was struck in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, a hotbed of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... activity, on Thursday.
But United States Forces in Afghanistan said in a statement the air strike "killed a number of Death Eaters".
"The snuffies were observed loading weapons in to a vehicle and were under surveillance until the vehicle was destroyed by an air strike," said Bob Purtiman, a front man for American operations in Afghanistan.
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"None of your bastards are civil!" sorta thing?
[Libya Observer] Derna Local Council (DLC) has issued a distress call to local and international organizations to intervene and lift the siege imposed by Dignity Operation militia groups on the city.
In a statement on Wednesday, the DLC said the city, which has a population of more than 130.000, is dying due to the siege, describing it as genocide.
"We call on Libyan authorities, international organizations, the UN, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the AU and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to lift the siege and send basic supplies immediately through the city’s port," read the statement.
"Humanitarian conditions have become catastrophic; no medicines, no food, no fuel and no oxygen," the statement added.
The DLC also warned that garbage is piling up in the streets of the city due to fuel shortages, which threatens an environmental disaster.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... local media reports said four bakeries had closed down due to fuel shortages caused by Dignity Operation siege, adding that life in the city is going from bad to worse.
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...Derna has a long, loooong history - going back a few hundred years - of thinking and acting independently of whatever authority claims it, as well as being a rabidly Muslim city.
If they're paying for their actions...well, tough.
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first read as "Dems say city is dying," and i wondered which one.
[Al Jazeera] A former Afghan fighter turned mediator says 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 the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tried to host the Taliban ...Arabic for students... before the gang set up an office in 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... Abdulla Anas, a former friend of the late al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... , told the Middle East Eye on Friday that he was "bewildered" by Saudi Arabia's claim that Qatar supported terrorism by allowing the Taliban to open an office in Doha.
That initiative was first established in Saudi Arabia, Anas said.
"There were also some rounds in the Emirates. So if Qatar is accused of hosting terrorists, someone hosted the same 'terrorists' before this," he said.
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[DW] Masoud Aqil was an 'Islamic State' prisoner in Syria. After fleeing to Germany, the Kurdish journalist realized that IS Lions of Islam were also in Europe and he began to track them.
Six minute video of the interview at the link.
His fingers fly across the keyboard, and his hard drive is full of information on possible so-called "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) terrorists. Masoud Aqil is looking for screenshots he took off Facebook profiles after a suspected IS supporter wrote very openly to him about his radical views after arriving in Europe.
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suggested that parliament make the blasphemy law tougher by fixing the same punishment for any person misusing it or falsely accusing someone of blasphemy.
In a detailed order issued on Friday, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui also ordered a complete ban on the social networking site Facebook in case the website management does not conform to Pak laws.
The court on March 31, 2017, had issued a short order on a petition seeking elimination of blasphemous content from social media.
In the 116-page detailed judgment, Justice Siddiqui discussed in detail the common criticism of the blasphemy law.
He said due to the misuse of the law critics even demanded abolishing it, adding it was better to stop exploitation of the law rather than abolishing it.
"Admittedly, not a single convict whether Moslem or non-Moslem has ever been executed for blasphemy in Pakistain," the judgment added.
It also explained how people due to their personal enmity managed to drag their rivals into blasphemy cases endangering the life of not only the accused person but all his family members and relatives.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... under the existing law, the false accuser can only face proceedings under Section 182 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC), it added.
Section 182 of the PPC entails the maximum punishment of six months or a fine up to Rs1,000 only.
According to the judgment, this is a very minor punishment for such a serious offence of accusing someone of blasphemy.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of The Sadrist Movement in Iraq, stated that visions were aligned during his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah last month.
Al-Sadr said that Riyadh serves as a “father figure” in its efforts to bring peace to the region.
In an interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on August 11, 2017, al-Sadr said that the two parties discussed several files of concern to the region, including Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Jerusalem, Iran-Saudi relations, as well as Baghdad’s ties to Riyadh.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s Kurds are sticking to a plan to hold an independence referendum on Sept. 25, despite a US request to postpone it, a high-ranking Kurdish official told Rooters on Saturday.
The United States and other Western nations are worried that the vote could ignite a fresh conflict with Baghdad and turn into another regional flashpoint. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Iran and Syria, which together with Iraq have sizeable Kurdish populations, all oppose an independent Kurdistan.
"The date is standing, Sept. 25, no change," said Hoshyar Zebari, a close adviser to Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked Barzani to postpone the referendum.
Tillerson made the request in a phone call with Barzani on Thursday, Zebari said.
"On the issue of the postponement of the referendum, the President (Barzani) stated that the people of the Kurdistan Region would expect guarantees and alternatives for their future," said a statement issued on Friday by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) presidency, after Tillerson’s call.
The US State Department said in June it was concerned that the referendum will distract from "more urgent priorities" such as the defeat of ISIS holy warriors.
ISIS’s self-proclaimed "caliphate" effectively collapsed last month, when US-backed Iraqi forces completed the takeover of the holy warriors’ capital in Iraq, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , after a nine-month campaign in which Kurdish Peshmerga fighters took part.
The hardline Sunni bandidosforces of Evil remain however in control of territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria. The United States has pledged to maintain its backing to allied forces in both countries until the holy warriors’ total defeat.
The Kurds have been seeking an independent state since at least the end of World War One, when colonial powers divided up the Middle East, but their territory ended up split between modern-day Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Barzani, whose father led struggles against Baghdad in the 1960s and 1970s, told Rooters in July the Kurds would take responsibility for the expected ’yes’ outcome of the referendum, and pursue its implementation through dialogue with Baghdad and regional powers to avoid conflict." We have to rectify the history of mistreatment of our people and those who are saying that independence is not good, our question to them is, ’if it’s not good for us, why is it good for you?’," he said in an interview in the KRG capital, Erbil.
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The US State Department said in June it was concerned that the referendum will distract from "more urgent priorities" such as the defeat of ISIS holy warriors.
Translation: Do you have to do this now? It's just gonna get the Turks all spun up again.
[Iran Press TV] A report has revealed that hundreds of Israeli soldiers have abandoned their duties without permission, and are intent not to return in a show of disapproval of the military conscription policies of the Israeli regime.
The Hebrew-language news website Walla reported on Saturday that 300 Israeli troops had left or remained absent from their units over the past week.
The report added that Israeli military officials have leveled charges against 60 soldiers, who have been dropped from their unit rolls and listed as deserters.
The report came as the Israeli military announced earlier this year that suicide was the main cause of death among Israeli soldiers, and that 15 troopers - all of them male - had taken their own lives last year.
The army added that four soldiers were killed in the course of military operations, nine in on-base accidents, seven in off-duty car accidents and six died from illness or other medical reasons.
Another 43 soldiers were seriously hurt during the course of 2016.
Most of the soldiers injured or killed were conscripted troops. A smaller portion were career soldiers, and a handful were reservists who were in service at the time of their deaths, the Israeli army said.
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Occupied lands? I supposed they are talking about the so-called Palestinian territory since Muzzies lay claim to this land. I used to have a pooch who peed on fire hydrants and laid claim to fire hydrants.
[Ynet] Ten years after leaving Gazoo, the former head of the Paleostinian Preventive Security Force may return to the strip a leader, as part of a move being devised by Egypt, Soddy Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, the US and Israel. The plan, an Israeli expert says, is Dahlan’s dress rehearsal, as he strives to conquer the Muqata’a and take Abbas’s seat.
It’s incredible to see how the events around the terror attack at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound actually improve the chances of implementing "the plan of the century"--a complex, ambitious plan taking shape behind the scenes, which focuses on the highly controversial figure of Mohammad Dahlan (Abu Fadi).
The leaders involved in the plan include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and his intelligence chief Khaled Fawzy, as well as the Saudi king and crown prince, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf and his deputy, the king of Bahrain, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and US President Donald Trump
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[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suggested that parliament make the blasphemy law tougher by fixing the same punishment for any person misusing it or falsely accusing someone of blasphemy.
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[Iran Press TV] A report has revealed that hundreds of Israeli soldiers have abandoned their duties without permission, and are intent not to return in a show of disapproval of the military conscription policies of the Israeli regime.
[Ynet] Ten years after leaving 
