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I do not know why John Heinz Kerry made me think of Tom Daschle. Hope I did not scrape some old scabs off. Meanwhile, my mind surely must be in the gutter.
[Guardian] The Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of Afghanistan’s Haqqani militant group ‐ one of the most powerful and feared affiliates of the insurgency.
The Taliban said he died after "a long struggle with a disease", according to the monitoring group Site.
According to the statement, Haqqani has been buried in Afghanistan.
Haqqani originally founded the group to fight Soviet occupation in the 1970s, and was once funded by the CIA and lionised by some in the US.
Haqqani relinquished operational leadership of the group some years ago to his son Sirajuddin Haqqani, now deputy leader of the Afghan Taliban.
Haqqani joined the Taliban government as minister for tribal affairs after they captured Kabul in 1996, fleeing after they were ousted in late 2001 and taking up arms again.
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But since it did not, DooDahMan, the thought of a long and painful struggle with an embarrassing disease is quite comforting — sometimes justice is achieved in this world as well as the next.
[KhaamaPress] A U.S. soldier was killed and another soldier sustained injuries in an apparent insider attack in East of Afghanistan.
"One U.S. service member was killed and another maimed during an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, Sept. 3," the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led Resolute Support Mission said in a statement.
"The sacrifice of our service member, who volunteered for a mission to Afghanistan to protect his country, is a tragic loss for all who knew and all who will now never know him," said Resolute Support and U.S. Forces ‐ Afghanistan Commanding General Scott Miller. "Our duty now is to honor him, care for his family and continue our mission."
No further details have been given regarding the exact location of the incident but the alliance added that the maimed service member is in stable condition..
The U.S. forces are engaged in counter-terrorism operations against the ISIS and other terrorist groups in eastern 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.. and some other eastern provinces.
[KhaamaPress] At least ten Lions of Islam affiliated with 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 Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed or maimed during the operations in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the Lions of Islam were killed during the Arclight airstrikes and ground operations conducted in Suki district.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, the operations were jointly conducted by Afghan army, Afghan police, Afghan intelligence, andd public order police forces with the support of the Air Forces.
The statement further added that 7 Lions of Islam were killed and three others were maimed during the same operations conducted.
The operations were conducted as part of the Silab-2 (8) operations to eliminate the terrorist groups and pave the way for the elections, the 201st Silab Corps added.
The 201st Silab Corps also added that some villages have been cleared from the Lions of Islam and the security personnel and local residents have not suffered any casualty.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[IsraelTimes] Some 400 prisoners beat feet from a jail in the Libyan capital, authorities say, as fighting between rival militias that has killed dozens of people forced the UN-backed government to declare a state of emergency in and around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The inmates overwhelmed guards and forced open the doors of the Ain Zara prison after riots broke out there, police say in a statement posted on Facebook. The prisoners included many supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... who had been found guilty of killings during the 2011 uprising that ended his rule and plunged the country into chaos.
The fighting in Tripoli erupted last week when the Seventh Brigade, militias which hail from Tarhouna, a town about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Tripoli, attacked southern neighborhoods of the capital. The Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigades and the Nawasi Brigade, militias which support the UN-backed government, have come to the city’s defense.
At least 47 people, including civilians, have been killed, and another 130 have been maimed, the Health Ministry says.
[IsraelTimes] Nacer Bendrer is also accused of aiding the gunman in the Belgium attack; that trial is due to start in several months
A French court on Monday handed a five-year jail sentence for attempted extortion to Nacer Bendrer, the alleged accomplice in a 2014 terror attack at a Jewish museum in Belgium.
Frenchie Bendrer, 30, appearing in court in the southern city of Marseille denied the accusation, made by the brother of a local drug pusher, that he and another man ‐ one of them brandishing a Kalashnikov ‐ had demanded weapons and 100,000 euros.
"It’s false, completely false," said Bendrer, who had been under house arrest at the time of the 2017 extortion attempt.
The presiding judge said that the motive remained uncertain but could be linked to a dispute over a snack bar.
Bendrer has been accused in Belgium of being an accomplice to fellow Frenchie Mehdi Nemmouche,
...radicalized in prison and linked to Salim Benghalem, who was the leader of the Buttes-Chaumont terrorist network and France’s chief ISIS recruiter...
who will stand trial in Brussels for the killing of four people at a Jewish museum four years ago in a jihadist terror attack.
Their trial is expected to take place later this year or early next year.
On May 24, 2014 a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the centre of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum receptionist.
Six days later Nemmouche was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the southern French port city of Marseille getting off a bus from Brussels.
Nemmouche had returned from Syria where he had been fighting with Islamist myrmidons.
Nacer Bendrer was formally charged as an accomplice in the attack in February 2015 in Brussels, two months after his arrest near Marseille in possession of various weapons.
These included a Kalashnikov assault rifle like the one used at the Jewish museum.
Nemmouche has been linked to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015 Gay Paree gun and bombing attacks that killed 130 people and maimed hundreds of others.
Abaaoud died in a police shootout near the French capital days after the massacre.
The Gay Paree attacks were allegedly plotted in Brussels by the same cell that carried out the suicide kabooms in the Belgian capital’s airport and a metro train station on March 22, 2016, killing 32 people.
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 grabbed credit for the Gay Paree attacks and the Brussels 2016 attacks.
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"Adult? No, judge, not to my knowledge. He
Rejects un-Islamic chronology.
Please free him and polish
His knob, pay for college,
And offer the lad an apology!"
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Chicago's violent Labor Day weekend leaves at least 6 dead; more than 1,000 shot since Memorial Day
Is there a consensus among parts of the Chicago population that these shootings were fundamentally legitimate, that the shootings restored justice where injustice would have prevailed?
That might be the case for the core gang member subculture, but not for any significant parts of the general populace (I hope.)
My point was that the 'murder' of this German girl isn't seen as murder at all by ordinary law abiding and decent Afghans. She was the lawbreaker and she was punished as she deserved.
The perpetrators are not outlaws, defying authority. The see themselves as executors and executioners acting in the name of legitimate authority.
This is why this conflict is so serious and dangerous.
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A state that will not provide security in one's person, family or property has no legitimacy, neither does one that offers rituals rather than justice.
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It's not a matter of arbitration. Enforce the laws of the land. If you don't like them, change them. If you can't, then you can revolt, and let's sort it out with bullets.
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That might be the case for the core gang member subculture, but not for any significant parts of the general populace (I hope.)
We would all like to hope that.
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Elmerert Hupens2660
It's actually 10 years if the defendant is under 18.
If he is over 18 but under 21, he can be tried as a juvenile. In that case the maximum penalty for murder (with particular severity of guilt) is 15 years.
If he's tried as an adult, the maximum penalty is life. If you get life without particular severity of guilt, parole is possible (but not guaranteed) after 15 years.
Life with particular severity of guilt means that parole hearings will start later. Very few people serve more than 25 years.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) 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.... bully boyz have carried out an attack, west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... leaving seven people killed, the Baghdad Post website reported on Monday.
Several Islamic State members attacked al-Bu Shaher village, near Yayji town, west of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted saying.
The bully boyz left seven civilians killed and fled the village, the source added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi security source said on Monday that two people were wounded in a bomb blast near a mayor’s house in central Kirkuk.
Speaking to Alforat News website, the source said that “a bomb placed outside a mayor’s house in a district in central Kirkuk went off Monday afternoon, leaving two people wounded.”
“The injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment and a probe was opened into the attack,” added the source.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said that a man was arrested in Karbala governorate for pretending to be a policeman.
“The arrested was handed over to the competent judicial bodies for interrogation,” Maan noted.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Eight Islamic State members were arrested in an operation in west of Mosul, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Monday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the ministry, said “ the Rapid Response troops of Nineveh police managed to arrest eight Islamic State members, who are wanted for judiciary.”
One of the militants, according to the statement, “was working in the group’s so-called Security Department, while the others were working in the so-called Soldiers Department. They were fighting with the group, while it was in control of Mosul.”
The militants “were arrested in al-Islah al-Zera’ie district, west of Mosul,” it added.
This is impossible, of course, as we are assured members of the Master Religion never attack holy places or harm fellow believers.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Twelve people were wounded as Islamic State members carried out an attack against a mosque, south of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh province said on Monday.
“Islamic State members attacked a mosque in Hekna village, near Shirqat town, on the road linking between Mosul and Baghdad. The opened fire against worshippers, while praying last night,” the source told Noor News website.
The attack, according to the source, “left twelve worshippers wounded.”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State funder has been arrested, northwest of Mosul, the Iraqi military intelligence department said on Monday.
In a statement, the department said troops “managed to arrest one of the Islamic State’s funders after observing him. Troops followed the vehicle that he used to transfer the food commodities to militants near Badush mountain, north of Mosul.”
The militant, according to the statement, “was possessing lists with requirements to buy and provide other militants with. He was also possessing around USD1300.”
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The Prison Service’s chief intelligence officer says a plot by a Palestinian security prisoner to kidnap an Israeli soldier from inside jail has been thwarted.
Yuval Biton tells a conference in Herzliya the kidnapping was planned by Muhammad Naifeh, a commander in Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was the mastermind behind deadly terror attack in Kibbutz Metzer in 2002 in which five Israelis were killed.
Naifeh is serving 13 life sentences at the Gilboa prison for planning the massacre.
Biton does not offer any further details of Naifeh’s alleged plot, but says the incident highlights how some Palestinian security prisoners continue to plan abductions from their cells, hoping they will be swapped in a future prisoner exchange, because “they know that no other alternative exists.”
[Ynet] Two bombs were thrown overnight Monday at IDF forces near Jenin and at a refugee camp near Bethlehem. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said there were no casualties among the soldiers and the forces are working to locate the suspects.
[Ynet] A fire broke out Monday in Kibbutz Be'eri amid an incendiary balloon flown from Gazoo. Firefighting teams are operating at the scene. There were no reports of injuries.
[PRESSTV] Israeli soldiers have fatally shot a Paleostinian following an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank, the military says.
According to a statement released by the Israeli military on Monday, the incident occurred in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba, a hardline Israeli settlement, near the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) earlier in the day.
The Israeli army added that the victim, while "wielding a knife," had approached an Israeli military checkpoint in the area when he was rubbed out by the Israeli live fire. It further identified him as Wael al-Jabari, 27. No Israelis were hurt in the incident, the army added.
[Latin American Herald Tribune] The number of people killed in a bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Isulan increased to two on Monday while 14 others were injured. The attack, which occurred on Sunday night, was the second in less than a week after a similar incident five days earlier killed three people and injured around 30.
An 18 year old died in the explosion while another succumbed to his wounds at a hospital in Isulan, capital of Sultan Kudarat province, where four of those injured were in critical condition.
An improvised explosive device went off between an internet cafe and department stores in the center of Isulan. The blast occurred in the same area that another bomb went off on August 28, killing three people and wounding 36 during harvest festival celebrations.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, however authorities suspect the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, an Islamic State affiliated group.
National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde condemned the attack and said the number of security patrols has been increased in the Muslim-majority region of Mindanao which has suffered four attacks in a month. He also announced the resignation of the provincial director of the national police in Sultan Kudarat and the police chief of Isulan for their ineffectiveness in preventing the attacks.
On August 31, a group of unidentified armed men kidnapped the head of a civilian armed movement and his wife in the town of Sirawi in Bangsamoro, where they also murdered six people.
On July 31, a van explosion killed ten people on Basilan island. The Army blamed the Abu Sayyaf.
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[Guardian] The Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of Afghanistan’s Haqqani militant group ‐ one of the most powerful and feared affiliates of the insurgency.
[PRESSTV] Israeli soldiers have fatally shot a Paleostinian following an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank, the military says.
[Latin American Herald Tribune] The number of people killed in a bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Isulan increased to two on Monday while 14 others were injured. The attack, which occurred on Sunday night, was the second in less than a week after a similar incident five days earlier killed three people and injured around 30.
