[AnNahar] Islamist militias in the eastern Libyan town of Derna say they have formed a new coalition ahead of an expected assault by pro-government forces.
"Everybody saw what happened in Benghazi: disaster; institutions destroyed; houses demolished; mosques and universities burned by the criminal hands of Haftar's supporters," said the newly formed Mujahedeen Shura Council.
Forces loyal to former general Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... and Abdullah al-Thani, Libya's internationally recognized prime minister, are fighting to wrest full control of 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... and the eastern city of Benghazi from Islamist krazed killers.
The jihadist 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) group that has seized chunks of Iraq and Syria is thought to have gained a foothold in Derna amid the chaos in Libya since the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse...
In its statement issued late on Friday, the Mujahedeen Shura Council called on everyone in Derna to join the new coalition. It also addressed Islamist fighters in Benghazi, saying: "We are with you in the war against the criminal Haftar and his soldiers".
Ahead of the announcement, the Islamists staged a military parade in Derna, with tanks and combatants carrying black flags.
Since the 2011 uprising, Libya has been sliding deeper into crisis, torn by rival governments, parliaments and powerful militias, despite U.N. efforts to broker talks on ending the violence.
Western countries have been increasingly worried that the political turmoil could provide fertile ground for Islamic bully boys.
A top U.S. military general said last week that the IS group has set up training camps in eastern Libya and that the American military is closely monitoring the situation.
Analysts say a number of factions in Derna have pledged loyalty to the IS group, but it remains unclear how much support they enjoy.
Egypt's top prosecutor referred 439 people to military tribunals on Saturday for acts of violence including the killing of three policemen last year, while authorities denied entry to a prominent American scholar arriving at Cairo's international airport, the latest incidents in the country's sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Security officials said that one group was 139 men he described as Islamists from the southern province of Minya, while another was comprised of 300 from the Nile Delta province of Beheira. The cases involve last year's wave of violence that came in retaliation to a bloody police dispersal of an Islamist sit-in.
In October, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi ordered the military to join forces with police in guarding vital state institutions. The decree stipulated that perpetrators of any attacks against state facilities will be tried in front of military tribunals.
Human Rights Watch said Egypt's military courts "lack even the shaky due process guarantees provided by regular courts." The group said the decree “risks militarising the prosecution of protesters and other government opponents."
In other words, business as usual in an Arab state...
Nowadays Egyptians no longer think of themselves as Arab -- that was Nasser's silliness, they explain. Now they emphasize that they have their own ancient culture that, like Iran's, long predates the Arab conquest. They seem to forget that the last time they ruled themselves for any length of time was before the Macedonian conquest...
Earlier this month, 188 people were sentenced to death on charges of killing 11 policemen.
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[AnNahar] Its main battlegrounds are far away and its true influence hard to judge, but 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.... 's black banner is attracting the attention of jihadists in Africa, particularly in Nigeria.
IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Qatar broke an "explicit" promise by allowing a former Guantanamo detainee who had trained with al-Qaeda to leave the country and visit Britain, a new report has found.
No problem. Send the CIA to whack him. Problem solved.
Jarallah al-Marri, who attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan before the terrorist attacks on September 11, was freed from Guantanamo in 2008.
Mr Marri was allowed to go home to Qatar in return for a formal promise from the government of the Gulf state that he would not be allowed to leave the country. But a report from the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in Washington said this pledge was broken.
Promises made to unbelievers are not binding, as I recall.
Mr Marri was allowed to leave Qatar to visit Britain twice in 2009, where he spoke at events alongside Moazzem Begg, another former Guantanamo inmate. On his second visit, he was arrested by the British authorities and returned to Qatar.
How about arresting him and returning him to us?
A diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Qatar states that Mr Marri was allowed back to the Gulf state "with the explicit understanding (made via exchange of diplomatic notes) that he would be subject to a travel ban".
If Mr Marri tried to leave, the Qatari government promised to inform America.
Oops...
Nonetheless, he was still allowed to visit Britain. The US cable concludes that the Qatari authorities "deliberately withheld information on Jarallah al-Marri's travel outside of Qatar".
This case added to the impression that Qatar has a "historical legacy of anti-US hostility negligence" in the struggle against Islamist extremism that "stretches back over two decades," says the report.
Marri was captured in Pakistan in December 2001 and transferred to US custody in Guantanamo in January 2002. He admitted attending an al-Qaeda camp and transferring money that could have been used by the movement, but there was no suggestion that he directly engaged in terrorism himself.
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Not a promise to the 'U.S.' It was a promise to the Champ regime. Please be more specific.
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Solution to the problem: ARCLIGHT Doha, the capital, and turn the country over to Bahrain. It will serve as a lesson for the rest of the Muddled East not to mess with the US, and will instill knowledge that they need to keep their promises to the US. Of course, Chump would never do anything like that, which is one reason it HAS to be done now.
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The U.S. Congress has passed legislation that requires the government to submit a report on North Korea's political prison camps amid mounting international pressure on Pyongyang over its human rights violations, sources said Friday.
The bill, H.R.4681, passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, the sources said. It was believed to be the first time that Congress has requested a report on the North's prison camps.
The move came as international pressure has been mounting on North Korea to improve its human rights record, with a U.N. General Assembly committee passing a landmark resolution last month that calls for referring the issue to the International Criminal Court.
When the bill was first initiated in the House by Mike Rogers (R-MI), it did not require reporting on the North's prison camps. But the section was included in the Senate version of the bill submitted by Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and was later added to the final legislation, the sources said.
The legislation calls for the government to submit a report on the North's prison camps to the intelligence committees of the House and the Senate, and to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The report should describe the actions the United States is taking to support implementation of the recommendations of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the North's human rights, including the eventual establishment of a tribunal to hold individuals accountable for abuses, the legislation said.
It should also include the estimated prisoner population of each such camp, its geographical coordinates, the reasons for confining the prisoners at each camp, a description of the primary industries and products made at each such camp, and the end users of any goods produced at each camp.
A fair bit of that has already been assembled by refugee groups. Rather impressive the way they've been using Google maps and other bits of public information.
The legislation also calls for information identifying individuals and agencies responsible for conditions in each political prison camp at all levels of the North's government, a description of the conditions under which prisoners are confined, with respect to the adequacy of food, shelter, medical care, working conditions, reports of ill-treatment of prisoners, and unclassified imagery, including satellite imagery, of each such camp.
North Korea has long been labeled as one of the worst human rights violators in the world. The communist regime does not tolerate dissent, holds hundreds of thousands of people in political prison camps and keeps tight control over outside information. But Pyongyang has bristled at such criticism, calling it a U.S.-led attempt to topple its regime.
We wish...
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North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un visited a naval unit and called for efforts to boost its combat capabilities next year, the North's media reported Saturday.
During the visit to the naval unit, code-named 189, Pudgy Kim was briefed on "the ongoing combat and political training" and guided "the maneuvers of submarines," the (North) Korean Central News Agency) said in a report, monitored in Seoul.
The North Korean military has been carrying out winter drills since earlier this month in an attempt to stay warm "unusually intensive" way, according to South Korean defense sources.
Calling for making 2015 "a year of bringing about a fresh turn in the strengthening of the navy," the corpulent Kim urged the servicepersons there "to effect a collective innovation in the training for the new year," the KCNA report said.
He also stressed the need to employ "advanced training methods ... and set forth the tasks and ways for rounding off sub unit's war preparations," the report said.
During his latest inspection, Kim was accompanied by Choe Ryong-Hae, the Workers' Party of Korea secretary, Hwang Pyong-so, director of the general political bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA), and other commanding officers, according to the KCNA. It's Choe's first public appearance since his visit to Russia last month as the leader's special envoy.
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Until he has a "Faith healing" he's worthless.
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Apparently the units Pudge has been visiting over the past two years are all designated "O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment."
O Jung Hup supposedly fought the Japanese alongside Kim Il-Sung. I'll go out on a limb and assume that these units are combat-ready.
Undated and unattributed photo of Pudge visiting Unit 189 here.
The Portuguese parliament passed a resolution Friday recommending that the government recognize a Palestinian state, the portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reported.
Only nine members of the 230-member Assembly of the Republic voted against the resolution, which was jointly sponsored by the country's three largest parties: Social Democratic Party, the People's Party (both right-wing parties despite their names), and the Socialist Party.
The resolution called on Portugal’s government to "recognize, in coordination with the European Union, the State of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, in accordance with the principles of international law," Correio da Manhã reported.
Just three days before, Ireland's lower house of parliament approved a similar nonbinding resolution calling on the Irish government to formally recognize the state of Palestine. This resolution, sponsored by the left-wing Sinn Fein party, passed unanimously. A similar resolution was passed by Ireland’s upper house of Parliament, the Seanad, in October.
France's upper house of parliament voted 154-146 in December in favor of a non-binding resolution "inviting" the French government to recognize Palestine. The country's lower house of parliament adopted a similar measure a week earlier but by a much larger margin.
Spanish lawmakers also urged their government to recognize Palestine as a state in November, albeit only when the Palestinians and Israel negotiate a solution to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In October, The British parliament voted Monday in favor of a non-binding motion to recognize the state of Palestine, in a majority vote of 274-12.
The Swedish government officially recognized Palestine as a state in October.
None of them have to live with the result.
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The American war against the Islamic State has become the most opaque conflict the United States has undertaken in more than two decades, a fight that’s so under-reported that U.S. officials and their critics can make claims about progress, or lack thereof, with no definitive data available to refute or bolster their positions.
The result is that it’s unclear what impact more than 1,000 airstrikes on Iraq and Syria have had during the past four months. That confusion was on display at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing earlier this week, where the topic — “Countering ISIS: Are We Making Progress?” — proved to be a question without an answer.
The dearth of information by which to judge the conflict is one of the difficulties for those trying to track progress in it. The U.S. military, which started out announcing every air mission almost as soon as it ended, now publishes roundups of airstrikes three times a week. Those releases often don’t specify which strikes happened on what days or even whether a targeted site was successfully hit. McClatchy has discovered that in some cases, the location given for bombings has been inaccurate by nearly 100 miles.
In previous recent wars, the military offered either regular updates or a chance for reporters to embed with troops and see the conflict for themselves. But with the war primarily an air campaign or involving famously secretive special operators, that access isn’t available. There are no extra seats on the fighter jets for reporters, and the furtive special forces now training Iraqi troops aren’t allowing journalists to join them.
I'd say the special forces have learned from experience.
While the U.S. military has discussed embedding reporters, as it did during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it’s unclear how such an embed would work with no major troop presence in Iraq and none in Syria. The Iraqi military, which is supposed to be leading the fight, has shown no interest in allowing foreign reporters access to its forces.
And the Iraqis learned something from the last war or two as well...
It’s not just journalists, however, who report difficulty gaining a picture of what’s going on in the conflict. In Congress, legislators who receive classified hearings on the U.S. effort said they, too, didn’t get definitive details on the effects of the air and ground campaign.
Pentagon officials privately concede that they could release more, and more timely, information. But the problem, they say, ultimately is a lack of a strategy. President Barack Obama said in a White House address Sept. 10 that the goal was to “defeat and destroy” the Islamic State, but the military approach so far is more of a containment policy. Releasing more details about the strikes would expose that divide, critics said privately.
And the media can't let that happen now, can it?
Lauren Squires, a counterterrorism analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, which tracks the anti-Islamic State campaign, said the delay and lack of specificity from the Pentagon had consequences. The cost of less detail is that the American public is lulled into a false sense that not much is happening.
“There is a false sense of distance. Unless there are embedded reporters, there is a distance and less understanding how ubiquitous this group can be,” Squires said, referring to the Islamic State. “Just because we ignore it doesn’t mean the threat will go away.” Sorry, lady. Much as I agree on the need for reporters, I don't trust them. The media needs a professional housecleaning and a serious search for ethics. Substitute "White House" for "Pentagon" and see how it reads.
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the "Journolists" could embed themselves with IS. That works out well
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But with Western journalists targeted for kidnapping and death by the Islamic State, it’s become nearly impossible for them to cover the conflict in Iraq safely, and most news organizations quit sending people to Syria long ago.
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In this case, absence of evidence IS probably evidence of absence. Sorority Social Committee spokeswomen Jen Psaki and Marie Harf can't articulate what success is when they don't even know what the strategy is
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Frank, I don't think Jen and Marie know what strategy is, let alone "the" strategy.
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heh heh
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You guys are, like, soooo mean.
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But with Western journalists targeted for kidnapping and death by the Islamic State, its become nearly impossible for them to cover the conflict in Iraq safely, and most news organizations quit sending people to Syria long ago.
In other words, they're going to have to do what we've been doing here at Rantburg all along: rely on local and regional news sources, and try to estimate how inaccurate they are.
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Wehell, its only fair, as both pre-911/Bush43 and post-911/Bush43 mainstream Amerika has to depend on the Russians for info as per space threats, not our own NASA-JPL, etc. so why not for the GWOT includ ala the Islamic State.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly reacted on Saturday to Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's 'provocative' statement saying the country was fully capable to defend itself and thwart any aggression. According to a report published on The Times of India website on Friday, Parrikar warned Pakistan of a “strong response” after alleging it for aiding and abetting cross-border terrorism.
"I feel that there has to be some strong response which will once and for all reduce these blatant attempts. It's an open secret that they (militants) came from Pakistan," said the newly sworn-in defence minister who has replaced Arun Jaitley -- the current finance minister of India.
Jaitley was also criticised by Pakistan for issuing a statement in which he threatened the neighbouring country to choose between Indian government and Kashmiri separatist leaders.
"Allegations levelled against Pakistan in such statements by Indian Ministers are unfounded and provocative," Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in a statement issued here today.
She said such statements were not conducive to peace in the region. The spokesperson warned that there must not be any miscalculation about Pakistan's resolve to defend itself and thwart any aggression.
Parrikar’s statement came following his first official visit to Indian-held Kashmir to review the security situation there. India had called off foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan in August after the Pakistani envoy met Kashmiri separatists on the eve of the dialogue.
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[IraqiNews.com] The Iraqi Army and Police Forces imposed the curfew in Haditha district of western Anbar province.
Security source reported to IraqiNews.com ?The security forces have been heavily deployed in all areas inside Haditha district and decided to impose the curfew on Sunday.?
The article in itself contains little that any Rantburg reader doesn't already know, however, it is a notable one. Not for the numbers of refugees, which will make our resident Columbia School of Journalism reader yawn. It's the news source (Hint: it's not The New York Times.)
[IraqiNews.com] Hundreds of British soldiers are to be sent to Iraq to help the fight against 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.... , Sky News understands.
They will make up a training mission to assist the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga.
The soldiers -- expected to number a few hundred -- will go to the region “within weeks” senior military sources have said. Although small groups of British troops have conducted similar missions over the past few months, this will be much greater in size and on a more permanent basis.
[IraqiNews.com] The Police Directorate in Wasit province announced on Saturday the success of the security plan of the Arbaeen pilgrimage. The Director of the Media Department in Wasit police Hassan Awad Gafla told IraqiNews.com “Te security plan of the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Wasit province was successful without any security breach or terrorist attack.”
The Times of Israel has a different perspective than Ha'aretz, below -- a useful contrast.
[IsraelTimes] Negotiations on a UN resolution to revive Israeli-Paleostinian peace prospects are making little headway, with Europeans waiting for a US response to proposals as the Israeli election campaign steams ahead.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... is heading to Rome on Sunday for a key meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss initiatives at the United Nations
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There is something that the UN could do to pave the way for peace: It could create an orderly path to the termination of UNRWA, which is the largest United Nations program. UNRWA is a major cause of the unwillingness of "Palestinian Refugees", who control both Hamas and the PLO, to accept peace. They believe that peace would mean the end of UNRWA, which is a welfare system for "refugees", and force them to work for a living.
The three leading European Union countries, France, Germany and Britain, are drafting a UN Security Council resolution outlining the principles of an Israeli-Palestinian final-status deal and setting a two-year timetable for completing negotiations on such an agreement.
Oh, oh, a 'timetable': that'll do the trick. Everyone knows how devout the Palestinians are at meeting a timetable...
Senior Israeli diplomats familiar with the draft resolution's provisions said the Europeans have also briefed Washington on it.
The Israeli diplomats said the move was initially led by France.
Of course...
Over the last two weeks, however, the French have managed to persuade both Britain and Germany. The latter's support is important due to both its international influence and its close ties with Israel.
The EU draft is meant to serve as a counterweight to an extreme, one-sided resolution drafted by the Palestinians, which is being backed by the Arab League and formally sponsored at the Security Council by Jordan. The Palestinian draft calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank within two years and the immediate acceptance of Palestine as a full UN member. The Palestinians would like their resolution brought to a vote in the second half of December, before the Christmas holiday.
Some counterweight. Just vote 'no' on the Jordanian resolution and be done with it.
These UN moves come at a particularly bad time for Israel, given that the government has just fallen and an election campaign has begun. Moreover, a diplomatic crisis over such a Security Council resolution is liable to focus the election campaign on the Israeli-Palestinian issue and push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, due to pressure from his right-leaning electorate, into more extreme retaliatory measures against the Palestinian Authority.
It's not yet clear to what extent the recent political developments in Israel will affect either the Palestinian or the European timetable. Senior PA officials said their effort to push their own resolution wouldn't be affected. "It's impossible to freeze everything and wait for Netanyahu to fall, since after the election, perhaps the negotiations won't be about a Palestinian state, but about an apartheid plan," one said.
Haaretz of course lets that comment go without further probing or 'balance'...
The French, British and Germans want to present a more balanced resolution that could serve as a basis for renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks and win American backing. Thus, for instance, the European draft doesn't call for immediately recognizing Palestine as a full UN member. Moreover, it allots two years for final-status negotiations and envisions an Israeli withdrawal beginning only after that.
But the three European powers still haven't agreed among themselves on all the issues. There's a consensus on calling for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines, with territorial swaps. But there's an argument over whether the resolution should address the issue of Israel being the nation-state of the Jewish people – a clause Germany is pushing to include.
Isn't it up to Israel to decide what kind of nation-state it is?
Over the past week, French, British and German diplomats have held talks at UN headquarters in New York with the Palestinians, Jordanians and representatives of other Arab states in an effort to come up with a mutually acceptable draft. But so far, the Palestinians oppose the European proposal and insist on advancing their own.
Israeli diplomats said their impression is that the Palestinians want to advance their extreme draft in order to isolate the United States and force U.S. President Barack Obama to veto it.
Assuming that he would...
But senior Palestinian official involved in the talks with the Europeans rejected the claim that PA President Mahmoud Abbas opposes any European initiative or wants a confrontation with America.
"Our insistence stems from one simple reason, which is that in every conversation we've had with the Americans and Europeans so far, we haven't heard a proposal that could meet the Palestinians' minimum demands," one said.
The Palestinians' impression from their talks with the Europeans, one PA official added, is that Germany is trying to soften the European draft by eliminating the fixed timetable -- which would instead simply lead to another round of talks that could last for years. "We can't accept a draft that doesn't include agreement on the border and a timetable for ending the occupation," he said.
How about a timetable that ends aggression against the Israelis?
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has briefed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the European initiative, but the Americans aren't yet actively involved in the negotiations over its wording. Israeli diplomats said the Americans' position on the European proposal is unclear, and it seems they haven't yet made a decision.
And Champ won't if he can possibly help it...
The Americans very much want to avoid casting a veto on any resolution relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, due to their efforts to forge a coalition of Arab states against the Islamic State. And Israeli diplomats noted that the European resolution would be even harder for the Americans to veto than the Palestinian one.
Some people in the U.S. administration, headed by Kerry, are even considering submitting an American resolution to the Security Council, but the White House currently opposes this. Right now, Obama and his team want to focus on their negotiations with Iran and the war against the Islamic State rather embarking on a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative.
Since the last 22 or so have worked so well...
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I'll go and read about European birth rates---to calm my nerves.
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Why the big push from the Euros on this issue now?
I know all the normal bilge about their own Muzzie pops. getting frisky and so forth but this seems to be a frantic exercise on the part of the Euros that would seem to be in answer to some crisis.
What's changed that got them to poop their collective pants?
I've seen no changes in the status quo that would warrant this response, so, what am I missing?
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If you're correct BP things are a whole heck of a lot worse than I thought. Just had a bunch of Brits with us for T'giving and there was nothing mentioned that rang any warning bells.
[Jpost] The Pak terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , accused of carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is now reportedly engaged in charity work in Gazoo.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor has found evidence that the Pak group’s charity arms – Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) – are active in the Gazoo Strip.
Tufail Ahmad, director of the South Asia Studies Project at MEMRI, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that “the move by Lashkar-e-Taiba to establish a footprint in Gazoo seems to be part of a well-thought-out jihadist strategy from Pakistain.”
It also “validates the global jihadist ambitions of the Pak jihadist groups, especially Lashkar- e-Taiba and its charity arms,” he said.
The founder of these charities is Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... , a former academic-turned-terrorist leader whom India accuses of playing a role in the November 26, 2008, terrorist attacks in Mumbai, according to the MEMRI report, which was released Monday.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation are seen as a branch of the Pak 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... agency, says Ahmad, and “their presence in Gazoo could pose a long-term security threat to international peace, especially because Pakistain sees its national interest in Paleostine.”
Moreover, Pakistain’s army chief Raheel Sharif “recently warned that world peace depends on resolving the Paleostine and Kashmire issues,” he added.
On December 4-5, the charity groups’ leaders organized a two-day mass rally in Lahore, where Saeed “called for jihad in support of oppressed Moslems everywhere, but especially in Kashmire,” reported MEMRI.
The “Paleostine”-based Muhammad N. Ziara addressed the rally on the first day as well, the report continued, and tweets by FIF appear to show that Lashkar-e-Taiba and the two charity arms are actively offering aid in Gazoo.
Ziara’s speech was tweeted at the rally. The opening tweet was “Mohammad N. Ziara Addressing to #IjtemaJUD live from Paleostine #Gazoo. Discussing #FIFRelief in #Gazoo,” according to MEMRI, which also cited tweets such as “We Performed two huge projects in #Gazoo Supported by FIF Pakistain: Mohammad N.Ziara #IjtimajUD” and “We had ditributed meat to needy and homeless people of #Gazoo: Mohammad N.Ziara #IjtimaJUD.”
Another tweet from the speech read, “Paleostinians Suffered a lot under the Jewish occupation of Paleostine & now Its time 4 #Ummah to stand together & fight the enemies of islam.”
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There's some charity dollars well spent - constructing stuff that will be bulldozed, blown up or fabricated at exhobitant costs by dudes on the take.
Just head back to Lahore. Hamas has their gig down. They don't need help identifying the least rational alternative in each situation. They just use their instincts.
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The only difference between Pakistan and Palestine is size.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korean leader 
The Portuguese parliament passed a resolution Friday recommending that the government recognize a Palestinian state, the portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reported.
