[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has rejected the involvement of the group in today’s deadly suicide kaboom in Kabul that left at least 26 dead.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that the fighters of the group have no links with today’s kaboom in Kabul.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack but the loyalists of the ISIS terrorist group have always grabbed credit behind such attacks.
The Ministry of Interior says at least 26 people have been killed and at least 18 others have been maimed after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives not far from Sakhi shrine in West of Kabul.
The incident took place at around noon time as scores of people had gathered in Sakhi shrine to mark the start of the new solar year.
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"It was ...uh...somebody else.
Probably the Juice"
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[ARABNEWS] Simon Slama and his family are the only Jews left in the Tunisian city of Monastir, once home to a thriving Jewish community. But instead of joining the exodus, he is running for office ‐ as a candidate of Tunisia's Islamist party.
Slama's candidacy with the Ennahdha party in May municipal elections is causing a sensation in this overwhelmingly Moslem country, and some controversy.
Critics see it as a calculated tactic by Ennahdha to regain power and to restore its reputation among Western allies like the United States. Others however see it as an example of Tunisia's long-standing traditions of tolerance.
A sewing machine salesman and repairman, 56-year-old Slama says he just wants to serve his country and the city where he was born, suffering from economic difficulties and social tensions.
"I chose Ennahdha because I found that because of the crisis the country is going through, everyone is turning toward this party," he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in his workshop.
"I see no difference between the Islamic and Judaic religions. We are all one family and we are all Tunisian citizens and we should go hand in hand to build the Tunisia of tomorrow," he said.
Slama returned to Monastir, on the Mediterranean coast about 170 kilometers (105 miles) south of the capital, Tunis, after studying in the French city of Strasbourg even as other Jewish families left because "we love the city and it has the spirit of my ancestors."
Tunisia is home to an estimated 1,500 Jews nationwide. Monastir "used to have 520 Jewish families. Today mine is the only one left," Slama said.
He wants to enter public service because he sees towns and cities "as essential in the evolution of society."
Tunisia is holding its first municipal elections since the 2011 revolution that overthrew a long-time autocrat and unleashed uprisings across the Arab world. Tunisia is the only country to emerge with a new and carefully constructed democracy, though the going has been rough.
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Well, Soros was a Nazi, so I guess there's a precedent
[AlAhram] Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gazoo Strip on Friday for humanitarian cases for a period of two days, the Paleostinian embassy in Cairo said.
This is the third opening of the border crossing this year so far.
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About twenty-four hours. I just posted an article about a bomb in Alexandria that went off sometime this morning. Though this may be a coincidence of timing, not be a direct result of opening the gate.
[CBSNEWS] The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... captivity after the bully boyz released 104 classmates said Thursday her daughter was blocked from boarding the vehicle to freedom and told to convert to Islam. Fifteen-year-old Leah refused, Rebecca Sharibu told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"She was about to board the vehicle that was to bring them back. Then Boko Haram said she should convert," the mother said.
"Her friends said they tried to convince her but she said she will not convert to Islam. Boko Haram said since she will not convert to Islam she should remain behind. That was how they left her. She is alone."
Leah Sharibu asked her departing Moslem classmates to pray for her.
CBS News' Debora Patta said similar cases have been seen before. In the kidnapping of the Chibok girls several years ago, "some of them did refuse to renounce their Christianity, they refused to wear Moslem attire, to chant Moslem prayers, as was shown over and over again in those 'proof of life' videos," Patta said.
President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that Sharibu was the only schoolgirl still held by Boko Haram after the extraordinary release of the girls on Wednesday and vowed that she "will not be abandoned."
Buhari, himself a Moslem, said "true followers of Islam all over the world respect the injunction that there is no compulsion in religion." E pur si muove.
He added that he looked forward to meeting with the girls who were freed.
The president's statement had no word on the five girls still unaccounted for.
Also Thursday, the father of one of the five girls said he has been told his daughter and the others are dead. ... thereby contradicting the previous paragraph.
Inuwa Garba told the AP that friends of his daughter who were freed told him the 16-year-old died from injuries in the frightened stampede that occurred during the mass abduction in Dapchi a month ago.
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[Al Jazeera] Self-exiled Saudi journalist says Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will never open the kingdom for democracy. Since it's never been a democracy, what's his bitch? You'd think a bit more personal freedom would be considered an improvement.
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I wonder if this Khashoggi's related to the old arms runner, Adnan Khashoggi?
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Khashoggi was able to get close to Osama Bin Laden when the latter was residing in Khartoum. Self-exiled simply means that he would be arrested if he returned to Saudi Arabia.
[AnNahar] Anti-Islam protesters placed funeral candles outside German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. 's electoral office together with photos of young women who have been stabbed to death, some by asylum seekers, police said Friday.
The protest -- with the message "Islam is part of Germany?" written in yellow chalk on the pavement -- bore the logo of the far-right Identitarian Movement, which is under surveillance by Germany's domestic security service.
The pictures, candles and red roses were put there Thursday, hours after a German court placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for life Hussein Khavari, an asylum seeker claiming to be from Afghanistan, for the 2016 rape and murder of a medical student.
An image of his victim, Maria Ladenburger, 19, was among those of four young women placed in picture frames on the pavement, together with 14 candles and the flowers, outside Merkel's office in the Baltic Sea town of Stralsund.
Merkel has faced a harsh backlash against her decision in 2015 to open German borders to a mass influx of mostly Moslem asylum seekers.
It has sparked the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the anti-Islam Pegida street movement, and the white pride Identitarian Movement.
Merkel this week further angered the extreme right by reiterating that, although Germany is historically mainly shaped by its Christian-Judaic tradition, today, with four million Moslems in the country, "Islam has become part of Germany."
Police told AFP they had removed the objects and were investigating whether a criminal offense had been committed.
The other photos were marked with the names Mia, Mireille and Keira.
A girl publicly identified only as Mia, 15, from the town of Kandel was stabbed to death in December in a supermarket by her former boyfriend, a refugee from Afghanistan believed to be around 20 years old.
Mireille, 17, was stabbed to death in March in Flensburg, and police have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! as the chief suspect an 18-year-old Afghan asylum seeker.
And Keira, 14, was killed in a knife attack in early March in Berlin. Initially false reports spread online pointing to an Afghan attacker, before a 15-year-old German fellow student confessed to the killing, police said.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] A Ottoman Turkish regional governor last weekend declared while wielding a double-bladed scimitar above his head that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s forces would soon march into Jerusalem and other cities in the Middle East.
Necati Senturk, the government-appointed governor of the Kirsehir province, raised eyebrows with a speech from the balcony of the governor’s office as Ottoman Turkish troops were poised to take the Syrian city of Afrin from Kurdish militia.
"God willing, we will take Afrin. We will take Manbij," he said in videos posted on Ottoman Turkish news websites, referring to another Kurdish-held city in Syria.
Waving a sword known locally as a zulfiqar above his head with one hand and holding a megaphone in another, he added: "We will also go to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and we will go to Jerusalem!... God is Greatest!"
The Ottoman Turkish sultans controlled both the Iraqi city of Mosul and the holy city of Jerusalem for long periods during the Ottoman Empire.
Justice delayed... One wonders why it took so long to go to trial.
[Breitbart] The trial for a refugee from Uzbekistan charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by wiring money to the "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU)
...on the American list of terror groups hosted by Pakistan for use in Afghanistan and elsewhere...
began in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday.
Prosecutors claim Bahktiyor Jumaev developed a closeness with fellow Uzbek Jamshid Muhtorov when the pair shared an apartment and that the two men discussed joining the IJU through phone calls and emails by using code words such as "wedding" to describe jihad.
"It’s a crime to send money or property to a terrorist organization," said prosecutor Gregory Holloway at a courthouse in Denver. "That’s why we’re here."
In 2011, prosecutors say Jumaev sent $300 to Jamshid Muhtorov and later admitted to FBI agents that he knew it was going towards the IJU.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Jumaev’s attorney David Barry Savitz argued that the FBI illegally extracted a false confession from him by arresting him after a night’s work and interrogating him for three hours.
He went on to claim that his client merely intended to pay back Muhtorov for a $500 bond required to get Jumaev out of jail and was not related to the IJU.
"He considered himself trapped. He was scared. He was exhausted," Savitz said in his opening statement. "It was strictly intended to pay his debt and has nothing to do with the IJU."
The FBI’s tough questioning allegedly reminded Jumaev of an experience he had in 1999 where Uzbekistan National Security agents questioned him before severely beating him.
In January, Jumaev’s lawyers asked a judge not to allow the prosecution to show jurors a video showing the beheading of FBI agents found on Muhtorov’s computer.
"There is no evidence that Mr. Jumaev viewed any or most of the Muhtorov electronic evidence, particularly the most violent ones," the motion read.
Muhtorov was first locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! before boarding a flight in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... back in 2012 and is currently being tried separately. He has already served five years in jail without trial, and a decision last year to release him on bail was eventually reversed by a federal judge.
The men are two of a number Uzbek migrants colonists charged with terrorism-related offenses in the past year. Last August, 22-year-old Uzbek-American Abror Habibo pled guilty to charges of agreeing to fund terrorist activity, after buying another man a plane ticket to Syria in order to join 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.... Uzbek migrant Sayfullo Saipov also faces charges of terrorist after carrying out a truck attack that killed eight people and injured at least a dozen others in the city’s deadliest attack since 9/11.
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guard-linked hackers accused of stealing sensitive information from hundreds of American universities, private companies and government agencies
The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against 9 Iranians in a government-sponsored hacking scheme that pilfered sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and government agencies.
The Iranian defendants are accused of working at the behest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to steal large quantities of academic data from hundreds of universities in the United States and abroad as well as email accounts belonging to employees of government agencies and private companies.
Prosecutors say the defendants were affiliated with the Mabna Institute, an Iranian company that since at least 2013 has contracted with the Iranian government to conduct hacking.
The defendants are unlikely to ever be prosecuted in an American courtroom since there’s no extradition treaty with Iran. But the case is part of the government’s "name and shame" strategy to publicly identify foreign hackers and put their countries on notice.
It’s something, however symbolic. It also puts academics and others on notice that they ought to think about installing effective security measures.
Also Friday, the Treasury Department designated the Mabna Institute and the nine Iranians for sanctions.
"Today, not only are we publicly identifying the foreign hackers who committed these malicious cyber intrusions, but we are also sending a powerful message to their backers, the Government of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran: your acts do not go unnoticed," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.
"We will protect our innovation, ideas and information, and we will use every tool in our toolbox to expose those who commit these cybercrimes. Our memory is long; we will hold them accountable under the law, no matter where they attempt to hid," he added.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council ended its first and longest session of the year Friday by adopting five resolutions critical of Israel's behavior toward the Palestinians or throwing support behind their long, fruitless cause for statehood.
Another two "country-specific" resolutions focused on Syria, where hundreds of thousands have died in a seven-year civil war. South Sudan, Myanmar, Iran and North Korea garnered one each.
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"United Nations Human Rights Council". That august body is more like Oxymoron's are Us.
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Current Members:
COUNTRY TERM EXPIRES IN Afghanistan 2020 Angola 2020
Australia 2020
Belgium 2018
Brazil 2019
Burundi 2018
Chile 2020 China 2019 Côte d’Ivoire 2018
Croatia 2019 Cuba 2019
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2020
Ecuador 2018
Egypt 2019
Ethiopia 2018
Georgia 2018
Germany 2018
Hungary 2019 Iraq 2019
Japan 2019
Kenya 2018
Kyrgyzstan 2018
Mexico 2020
Mongolia 2018
Nepal 2020
Nigeria 2020 Pakistan 2020
Panama 2018
Peru 2020
Philippines 2018
Qatar 2020
Republic of Korea 2018
Rwanda 2019 Saudi Arabia 2019
Senegal 2020
Slovakia 2020
Slovenia 2018 South Africa 2019
Spain 2020
Switzerland 2018
Togo 2018
Tunisia 2019
Ukraine 2020
United Arab Emirates 2018
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2019
United States of America 2019 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2018
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And a lovely offering it is, too. Thank you, dear Snowy Thing. I’m also glad you remember the details of that conversation about President Trump, as I’d completely forgotten it.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran's gambit is apparently based on assessment that Israel wouldn't dare strike for fear of tangling with Moscow
As it works intensively to deepen its military presence in Syria, Iran is building military facilities very close to Russian forces there, The Times of Israel has learned.
The construction of these facilities is being carried out secretively, and in some cases it has begun under the guise of residential building for civilians, and only later revealed as facilities for accommodating Shi’ite fighters deployed by Iran, well-placed sources told The Times of Israel, insisting on anonymity.
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And paid for with Osama Bin Obama's cash for terrorism billions.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ARABNEWS] Simon Slama and his family are the only Jews left in the Tunisian city of Monastir, once home to a thriving Jewish community. But instead of joining the exodus, he is running for office ‐ as a candidate of Tunisia's Islamist party.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
