[RADIOSHABELLE] The leaders of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state and its rival self-proclaimed Ahlu Sunna administration are expected to travel Sunday to Djibouti for IGAD-brokered peace talks.
Delegations led by Galmudug President Ahmed Dualle Geelle and Ahlu Sunna leader Sheikh Mohammed Shakir will attend the meeting in Djibouti which aims to end their differences.
This is the second phase of the peace talks between Galmudug and Ahlu Sunna who are in deadlock over the leadership of the central regions for several years.
Last week, the two sides met in Nairobi and agreed to hold the second meeting in Djibouti.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has on Sunday appointed former Somalia’s Ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Mohammed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman as the new defence minister.
PM Khaire has also sacked the minister of religious affairs, Iman Abdullahi Ali over undisclosed circumstance.
Somalia’s Information Minister Abdirahman Yarisow has confirmed the appointment of the new Defense Minister and dismissal of the Endowment and Religious Affairs Iman Abdullahi Ali.
Last October, Somali defence minister Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohammed has resigned from his post. citing personal reasons.
The dismissal of the minister of religious affairs will be the first time that PM Khaire has sacked a member of his cabinet since taking office in March this year.
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If you're ever in a jam, here I am.
If you're ever in a mess, S.O.S.
If you're so happy, you land in jail. I'm your bail.
It's friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgot, ours will still be hot
[AnNahar] 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... has opened bank accounts for Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leaders in Algeria, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday.
So possibly it is true.
"The money that has been injected into these accounts was transferred from local banks in Algeria and from accounts belonging to individuals who are loyal to Hizbullah and are residents of the Algerian capital," the Okaz daily quoted a source close to Hamas as saying.
"The new bank accounts were opened under the name of Hamas leader Sami Abu Zahri, who had moved from the Gazoo Strip to Cairo before moving to live in Algeria last month," the source added.
[IsraelTimes] Security officials say IS murderous Moslems told Sinai village elders to stop collaborating with security forces and suspend Sufi rituals.
Why did the mosque’s congregation not provide themselves with armed guards?
Elders of the village in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula where murderous Moslems killed 305 people in a mosque had been warned by 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.... operatives to stop collaborating with security forces and to suspend rituals associated with Islam’s mystical Sufi movement, security officials and residents said Sunday.
“It’s a mistake to claim that the site that was attacked was a mosque," Abou Abdelrahman al-Maqdesi, an Islamic State-aligned jihadist in Gazoo, clamed to Breitbart Jerusalem. "It was a house of worship where infidel activities were performed against sharia. Those who were harmed were not civilians. They are people who call themselves ’Sufis.’ That’s another name for one of the infidel groups. They committed acts against Islam and our supreme sharia."
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[Al Ahram] Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... signed a deal Sunday with 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... aimed at boosting commercial ties with the Gulf state which is under blockade by its Arab neighbours, Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
The broadcaster's website said the agreement provides for the creation of a "joint working group to facilitate the transit of goods between the three countries".
It also said the three nations aimed to tackle "obstacles to sending goods from Iran and Turkey to Qatar".
Qatar's relationship with Shia-dominated Iran, seen as the major rival to Sunni-ruled 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... in the Middle East, is one of the major factors underpinning the crisis between Qatar and its former allies.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt all cut ties with Qatar in June, accusing Doha of backing extremism and fostering ties with Iran, charges that Qatar denies.
Since the crisis erupted, Iran and Turkey -- whose relations have warmed considerably in recent months -- have sought to help break Qatar's isolation, including by increasing food exports to the emirate.
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[RT] British members of the Ahmadi sect, seen as heretics by most Moslems, have had to install "airport-style" metal detectors and conduct searches in their mosques to avoid a spillover of religious antagonism that is currently rocking the Islamic world.
"Our community is under attack by holy warriors but our commitment to peace and love is unshakeable. We appreciate the work of the authorities and they must continue to work diligently for the protection and safety of all citizens," Farooq Aftab, a member of the Ahmadiyya Moslem Community UK (AMC) told the Times.
"People who don’t think we are Moslems are entitled to their own point of view, but a line must be drawn because violence cannot be justified," said Aftab. "We can disagree, but we have a right to freedom of religion.
Inspired by the teachings of a 19th century Ahmadis diverge from mainstream Islamic teachings, primarily in believing that Mohammed was not the last prophet of Allah, and in rejecting military jihad. They comprise 30,000 ‐ fewer than 1 percent of UK’s Islamic population ‐ but have had to relocated their headquarters to London to avoid persecution elsewhere.
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but we have a right to freedom of religion.
According to whom? From all I've seen about Islam there is no such thing for anyone.
[RT] Martin Strid, of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD), made the comments while addressing party faithful gathered for the SD’s national conference. Other members have distanced themselves from Strid who now faces expulsion.
Addressing the crowd, Strid, according to various local sources said that there is a scale of humanity from 1 to 100, that Moslems can be placed upon and that not all are 100 percent human.
"On one end of the scale you are 100 percent human, a person, everything that’s part of that concept. At the other end, you are 100 percent Mohammedan," he said. He continued, saying that "all Moslems are somewhere on that scale" with ISIS hard boyz "close to being 100 percent Mohammedan."
Though he wasn’t finished: "If you are an ex-Moslem you have come quite far towards being fully human" while also stating that he wanted to "free Moslems from Islam, the goal is for them to join SD instead."
Strid’s inflammatory speech was recorded by Swedish broadcaster SVT and was shared online, in one instance by the group "Inte rasist, men" (Not racist, but) whose mission is to "showcase the inexhaustible source of humor and horror that the Sweden Democrats stand for."
SD members distanced themselves from Strid’s comments, with party secretary Richard Jomshof, branding them "racist" and that he expected Strid to be expelled from the SD. Party leader, Jimmie Åkesson, echoed these sentiments, saying in an interview with SVT that Strid’s comments "may be the worst I have ever heard in such a context" and that it is "very close to racism."
For his part, Strid apologised for his remarks. "It was very unfortunate and I expressed myself very clumsily," the Local reports him as saying in an interview with news agency TT, he further said that he was aware his speech could be interpreted as saying Moslems are not 100 percent human.
"I have realised [this] and it’s very unfortunate. I know a lot of Moslems and am good friends with a lot. People are people, of course," he said.
The Local describes Mr. Strid as a local politician from the town of Borlänge.
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Funny. Strid’s comments "may be the worst I have ever heard in such a context" and that it is "very close to racism."
So Strid's comments about muslims on a human scale put him close to the end of the racist scale?
[RT] Riot police in Athens had to intervene in festivities between Greek soccer club fans heading for a game and the Pak community celebrating a religious holiday marking the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. Tear gas and stun grenades have been deployed.
Brief but ferocious festivities happened in the center of the Greek capital on Sunday, AP reported. While there have been no serious injuries or arrests, law enforcement had to use tough anti-riot methods to stop the violence. A video from the scene shows utter mayhem in the street as hooligans trampled on Islamic flags, while Paks try to defend themselves, with some fighting back.
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A murdered young person of Smyrna,
Upholding her murky lanterna:
"The Turks were so kind
That I don't really mind,
But I'm certain I'll never return-a."
[Ynet] India's Supreme Court will begin hearing a case on Monday that prosecutors say shows how 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.... sympathisers are using "Love Jihad" marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam to win recruits and spread their message.
Over the past 28 months, the National Investigation Agency has picked up dozens of interfaith couples in the southern state of Kerala to question them about their marriages. The women ‐ all Hindus who married Moslem men were asked "extremely personal" questions during the interrogations, two coppers from the agency said: "Did you sleep with your husband before getting married? Did he blackmail you before you converted to Islam?" They were looking for cases of "Love Jihad," a term publicized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other hardline Hindu groups soon after they helped propel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in 2014. It refers to what these groups say is an Islamist campaign to convert Hindu women through seduction and marriage.
Police investigations at the time found no evidence of any organized strategy, and the claim was widely ridiculed. But since then, the NIA began focusing on Kerala - a southern state along the Arabian Sea with strong economic links to the Middle East. It investigated 89 cases of "Love Jihad" and found nine to be alliances planned by people linked to the Islamic State, two NIA sources said, requesting anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Muslims do this to Coptic girls in Egypt, too, though without it being reported that they are connected to jihadi groups. And there has been the occasional report of the same behaviour in England... The Jerusalem Post adds:
The NIA’s nine "Love Jihad" cases were based on complaints lodged by the parents of the Hindu girls and all were found to have links with IS, the NIA police sources said.
Across India, over 270 men and 20 women have been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for working directly or indirectly with the IS, according to data at the federal Home Ministry. But Kerala was the only state where the NIA found a direct link between cases of "Love Jihad" and the IS, the NIA sources said.
The agency says it has uncovered attempts by IS sympathizers to possibly send the women in "Love Jihad" marriages off to marry or stay with fighters from the holy warrior group, the NIA sources said.
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[DAWN] The events of Saturday saw Faizabad Interchange become a Waterloo for law enforcement agencies, who despite their superior numbers, were unable to contain the demonstrators and ensure their dispersal.
Even though they were able to push the protesters back considerably and isolate them on the Murree Road bridge over Faizabad, participants of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah sit-in first lured law enforcers into a false sense of security, cornered them and then beat them within an inch of their lives, eyewitnesses told Dawn.
Besides, the operation was conducted half-heartedly and security personnel found themselves falling back more times than they were able to advance.
On Saturday morning, when the capital administration’s final deadline for protesters to vacate the interchange expired, preparations had been made and over 8,000 police, Frontier Constabulary and Pubjab Constabulary personnel were stationed around Faizabad, on I.J.Principal Road and on both sides of the Islamabad Expressway and Murree Road.
Just before 8am, the troops began to converge on Faizabad from all four sides, and in response, the protesters began pelting them with stones and slingshots.
The security personnel countered this with teargas shells, rubber bullets and restored to batoncharging the protesters. In the melee, it emerged that the demonstrators had teargas canisters of their own, which they lobbed towards police to devastating effect.
According to eyewitnesses, the protesters’ canisters were more advanced than the ones police had. In addition, police found themselves firing teargas into the wind, which ended up debilitating the force rather than the protesters.
Initially, as media reported the action blow-by-blow, the protesters kept getting information about their movements from the media and were able to resist the initial onslaught, which lasted until 11am.
By this time, the demonstrators had been beaten back and limited to a small portion of the Faizabad Bridge.
Here, they formed a defensive ring around the truck which carried the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah leadership ‐ including Khadim Hussain Rizvi ‐ and repelled the advance of security forces.
Police officials told Dawn that personnel did not want to target the truck, as there were young children on it at the time. The standoff here continued for around 90 minutes.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... when the tired police force backed off, they were able to regroup. The protesters were also very well prepared, having masks and shields to protect themselves from teargas shells, stones and batons. The sit-in leaders even made announcement in Pashto addressing FC personnel, asking them to stop their action and leave.
During this initial clash, over 300 personnel and 53 protesters were maimed and were shifted to various hospitals for medical treatment.
Some personnel were given treatment on the spot and asked to remain there, amid fears of a shortage of manpower.
Over 300 protesters were also enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! from around Faizabad in this time. FC and police even vented their anger on the hapless demonstrators, beating the injured and the arrested persons even as they were being shifted to ambulances and prison vans.
Sources said that four pistols, several axes, and numerous slingshots were recovered from some of the men.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... protesters and their supporters gathered in different places, including Banigala, Bhara Kahu and Lehtrar Road, police said, and began to engage the contingents positioned around Rawal Dam Chowk and Islamabad Expressway.
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[DAWN] The federal government on Sunday evening called in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Rangers to assist civilian law-enforcement agencies and tasked them with handling the agitated law and order situation in Islamabad and clearing the sit-ins held in Faizabad and adjoining areas, DawnNews reported.
According to a notification issued by the interior ministry, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, Punjab Rangers DG Maj Gen Azhar Naveed will lead the whole operation.
The notification mentions that the Rangers have been given a week's time to carry out the orders, since the special powers have been extended to them with effect from November 26 until December 3, 2017.
Earlier in the day, Rangers were given charge of the Faizabad operation, in a bid to control the chaos in the capital. Around 1,000 Rangers personnel, who were deployed in Islamabad yesterday, have been repositioned to the frontlines of the security operation.
Top civil and military officials had earlier decided against the use of force to disperse protesters in Islamabad, opting instead to engage in political negotiations with agitators in the capital, DawnNews reported.
There had been no official confirmation of the development.
Chief of Army Staff Qamar Jawed Bajwa, who flew in from the United Arab Emirates, attended the over two-hour-long meeting headed by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, along with Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... Naveed Mukhtar.
The officials decided to engage in protest leaders "with influence", DawnNews reported, adding that the use of force against protesters has been discouraged in favour of a political settlement.
The meeting was held at Prime Minister House to discuss the unstable law and order situation in the capital in the aftermath of a botched operation to disperse protesters at the Faizabad Interchange on Saturday.
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[AnNahar] Iraq is to build a new pipeline to allow oil exports to resume from the northern province of Kirkuk to neighbouring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the oil ministry said Sunday.
Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaybi has ordered documents to be prepared towards building the new pipeline to "transport crude oil from Kirkuk's oilfields to the port of Ceyhan" in Turkey, a ministry front man said in a statement.
An older pipeline was "too damaged by attacks by ISIS terrorist gangs to be rehabilitated," Assem Jihad said, using an Arabic acronym for 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.
Iraq had exported 250,000 to 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) through that pipeline before IS jihadists swept across large parts of the country in 2014.
The new pipeline is to stretch for around 250 kilometers (150 miles) from the area of Baiji, in the province of Salaheddine to the south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... to the Fishkhabur border post with Turkey further north.
Earlier this month, the oil minister said Iraq aimed to double the output of Kirkuk oilfields to one million bpd after retaking the province from Kurdish forces in October.
Iraqi government and paramilitary forces moved in to take over Kirkuk and its oilfields after Iraqi Kurds in September voted for independence in a controversial referendum opposed by Baghdad.
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[Jpost] The US-led coalition to defeat 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.... will continue to provide assistance to groups comprising the Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Syria "as long as they remain committed to the goal of fighting and defeating ISIS." In response to an inquiry by The Jerusalem Post, the coalition said it "continues to provide material support, training, advice and assistance to the SDF in their ongoing effort to defeat ISIS in Syria."
On Friday, Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu claimed US President Donald Trump
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[OANN] The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Europe that if it threatens Tehran, the Guards will increase the range of missiles to above 2,000 kilometers, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Somehow, I suspect that what constitutes a "threat" will be considerably elastic.
France has called for an "uncompromising" dialogue with Iran about its ballistic missile program and a possible negotiation over the issue separate from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran has repeatedly said its missile program is defensive and not negotiable.
"If we have kept the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers, it’s not due to lack of technology. ... We are following a strategic doctrine," Brigadier General Hossein Salami said, according to Fars.
"So far we have felt that Europe is not a threat, so we did not increase the range of our missiles. But if Europe wants to turn into a threat, we will increase the range of our missiles," he added.
The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards military force, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said last month that Iran’s 2,000-kilometre missile range could cover "most of American interest and forces" within the region, so Iran did not need to extend it.
Jafari said the ballistic missile range was based on the limits set by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the head of armed forces.
Iran has one of the Middle East’s largest missile programs and some of its precision-guided missiles have the range to strike Israel. More at link.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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 events of Saturday saw Faizabad Interchange become a Waterloo for law enforcement agencies, who despite their superior numbers, were unable to contain the demonstrators and ensure their dispersal.
