[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, an official newspaper revealed, that two Ebola cases and 26 AIDS cases have been reported and registered in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn....
No wonder ISIS started killing doctors.
The Iraqi official newspaper ?Al-Sabah? said in its today?s issue, ?Many diseases and epidemics have spread among residents of the city of Mosul,? and added, ?Two Ebola and 26 HIV AIDS cases were registered.?
The newspaper quoted medical sources in the city,?These diseases moved to Nineveh by bully boyz and expats from different countries, especially Africa.?
On November 23, 2014, the Parliamentary Committee of Health and Environment warned from the entry of the Ebola into Iraq by 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.... (IS), while confirming that the Commission had taken the necessary measures to prevent the entry and spread of this disease in the country.
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Can't see ebola getting to Mosul without significant cases across Syria and probably Turkey too.
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If true, this is bad, because now it would be all over their neighborhood. Probably though, they are just making it up to get aid money from their pals. Let's hope.
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If true about the ebola, I would be concerned about the vector, i.e. how did it get there?
(I mean, with no stops in between...)
There are other hemmoragic diseases besides ebola, that look a lot like it, if you don't run culture tests.
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If you consider both as STDs, then a possible vector could easily be trainers, recruits and/or zealots from the home planet in Africa.
[Ynet] The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that a US Arclight airstrike killed the intelligence chief of the al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Death Eater group in Somalia.
In a brief statement, the Pentagon said the strike killed Tahlil Abdishakur on Monday. It said US drone aircraft fired several Hellfire missiles to hit a vehicle carrying the al-Shabaab intelligence chief.
The Pentagon said his death will "significantly impact" the group's ability to conduct attacks against the Somali government and its people, as well as US allies in the region.
[ARABNEWS] Tunisia's new president pledged a rule of reconciliation and consensus as he took his oath Wednesday before the newly elected parliament to complete the country's democratic transition.
The inauguration of Beji Caid Essebsi, an 88-year-old political veteran, comes in a year in which Tunisians wrote a new constitution and elected a new Parliament and president, ending a transition kicked off by a revolution.
Tunisians overthrew longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and inspired similar pro-democracy uprisings across North Africa and the Arab world, but only in Tunisia did fierce political rivals find common ground.
The victory of Essebsi, who served under Ben Ali and his predecessor and whose party includes many members of the previous regime, is widely seen as search for stability after the post-revolutionary turmoil.
Essebsi won over 55 percent of the vote Dec. 21 after a campaign marked by bitter exchanges with outgoing president Moncef Marzouki, who feared a return to dictatorship. A human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist, Marzouki represented the fervor and possibilities of the revolution but his tenure was marked by unrest, terror attacks and economic problems.
"We will work today to replace fear with hope," Essebsi said before parliament as he began his five-year term. "There is no future for Tunisia without consensus and without harmony between all the parties and civil society."
He said his priorities would be to re-establish security and stability, create jobs and fight poverty. Essebsi must now designate a prime minister from his party, Nida Tunis, to form a new coalition government.
The question remains whether the conservatives will be part of any new government.
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[ARABNEWS] The 12th conference of World Assembly of Moslem Youth (WAMY) will be in the historical Moroccan city of Marrakesh from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1. The head of WAMY's got a gray beard. Can they be sued for false advertising?
Announcing this, Saleh Al-Wohaiby, secretary general of the WAMY, told a presser here that WAMY conference is themed "Youth in Changing World."
"The theme for this edition of the conference stemmed from the fact that youth makes up about 60 percent of the population in Moslem countries, which is a great boon for all communities, but also puts pressure on service providers whether from government agencies or the private sector, especially education, health care and job market. Government and non-government organizations should give due care to them," he said.
"Also, choosing Marrakesh as a venue for our conference was not accidental, but rather part of the policy of conducting our big events in all the continents. This time it was the turn of Africa, and we saw the city most suitable for our event because it has the modern infrastructure and the capability to accommodate our event that will host participants from over 80 countries," he added.
"We have been warmly welcomed by Moroccan government to have our event there. The Embassy of Morocco in Riyadh played a big role in getting the matter progress smoothly," he added.
Al-Wohaiby highly lauded the support of Morocco in hosting the conference, noting that WAMY conferences always received very high level support in all the editions of its conference in all hosting locations over the years.
"For instance, the leaders of 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... were always supportive. King Faisal patronized the 1st and 2nd editions. King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah patronized extended his support when he was the chief of the National Guard. Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, patronized the 3rd and 9th editions. President Daniel Arap Moi of Kenya patronized the 5th edition, and President Mahathir Mohammed the 7th one," he pointed out.
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An Egyptian appeals court will review the convictions of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues in a hearing beginning later today.
Earlier in the week, Greste's brothers Andrew and Mike Greste said all their hopes rested on this appeal, with Egyptian president al-Sisi believed unlikely to issue any pardon while the legal process is ongoing.
Greste was working for the Al Jazeera satellite TV network when he was detained late in 2013. He and his colleagues were accused of broadcasting "live news harming domestic security" and were referred to Egypt's criminal court. They were accused of helping banned terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood.
On June 23, Greste was found guilty of spreading false news and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. He and acting bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy were sentenced to seven years and the network's local producer Baher Mohammed was sentenced to an extra three years because a spent bullet was found with his possessions.
[AnNahar] The UN World Food Program (WFP) said Tuesday it will resume full food rations to refugees in Kenya in January following a successful appeal to foreign donors.
Last month WFP announced it had been forced to slash food handouts to nearly half a million people living in two camps in northern Kenya and who have fled conflict in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
"Refugees depend on food assistance for their survival and we are relieved that we can now once again meet the full food needs of refugees in Dadaab and Kakuma," said Thomas Hansson, WFP's Acting Country Director for Kenya.
The Dadaab camp complex in Kenya's northeast is home to one of the world's largest refugee populations, housing over 350,000 Somali refugees.
The Kakuma camp in the arid northwestern Turkana region mainly houses refugees from South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia.
WFP said the $45 million in fresh contributions had come from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Britannia, Denmark, Germany, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United States, adding that rations would only be cut by 40 percent in December and return to normal levels in January.
WFP spends almost $10 million a month to hand out the 9,700 tonnes of food needed to feed some 500,000 refugees in Kenya.
[ARABNEWS] The Saudi Border Guard foiled the attempts to enter the country of over 14,000 infiltrators in the past two months, a report in local media said quoting data released by the Ministry of Interior.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the government deported 50,262 foreigners for violating work and residence regulations over the same period, with plans to deport a further 2,474, the report said recently.
The Border Guard in Jazan seized 847 weapons, 78,079 rounds of ammunition, 238,035 narcotic pills, 187,513 kg of qat, 2,240 kg of hashish, 489 kg of foodstuffs, 7,135 kg of snuff, 3,453 pieces of fireworks, SR228,946 in cash, and 2,243 head of livestock over a one-month period, media front man in Jazan, Maj. Hasan Al-Qisaibi, was quoted as saying.
Spokesman of the Border Guard Maj. Gen. Mohammed Al-Ghamdi said the Saudi-Yemeni border area is calm with the exception of periodic attempts by individual smugglers and human traffickers to cross into the Kingdom.
Experts say the Saudi-Yemeni border area is the most monitored region in the region because of repeated attempts at smuggling narcotics and drugs into the Kingdom.
Last year, the Ministry of Interior deported more than 700,000 foreigners for violating work and residence laws and foiled more than 290,000 attempts by infiltrators to enter the Kingdom illegally, according to media reports.
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So glad they made this change after Mr. Wife's company offered him assignments in the Magic Kingdom. I was his excuse to get out of doing what he really didn't want to do, though he did support them from the home office for several years. Still, this is major progress for that part of the world -- the unofficial interactions with Israel about Iran are clearly resonating elsewhere.
[IsraelTimes] Jews are allowed to work 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... , the Saudi Labor Ministry told the Kingdom?s daily Al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday.
Al-Watan reported that the Saudi Labor Ministry?s website now lists Judaism as one of the 10 religions acceptable for foreign workers to practice. Among the other options were ?Communism? and ?no religion.?
The paper further cited an unnamed government source who said work permits were issued based on nationality, and not religion, and there was no official ban issuing work visas to Jews, only Israelis.
?We bar entry [into Saudi Arabia] only to those with Israeli citizenship. Other than that, we are open to most nationalities and religions,? he said, adding that the policy was proof of the Kingdom?s openness to other religions, according to a translation of the report by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
?For example, if a worker is a citizen of Yemen but practices Judaism, the [Saudi] Embassy [in Yemen] would not object to issuing him a work visa for the kingdom,? the source added.
Saudi Arabia, which has some of the most restrictive travel policies in the world, does not grant visas to Israelis or people with Israeli visa stamps in their passport. And although the government has officially said that it does not discriminate against tourists based on religious affiliation, some would-be visitors in the past have reported having trouble in obtaining a visa after identifying as Jewish.
Saudi Shura Council Foreign Affairs Committee member Sadaqa bin Yahya Fadhel expressed his support for the Labor Ministry?s decision, saying, ?We Moslems have no problem with the Jews. Our biggest problem, as an Arab and Islamic nation, is with the Zionist movement, and not with the Jews or Christians,? he said.
According to MEMRI?s report, the committee member went on to explain that the Zionist movement exploits Judaism in order to achieve its goals.
MEMRI noted that there is a divide in the Saudi religious establishment over the differing interpretations of a hadith from the Koran that states, ?Remove the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula.?
Saudi Arabia is the only Gulf state that still bans the establishment of houses of worship belonging to religions besides Islam.
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Trailing Wife,
This is not exactly new. I new a fellow student in grad school (1980's) who was Jewish and had worked in the Yemeni and Syrian oil fields. He just stuck close to the oil company facilities and kept a low profile.
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One could get into Saudi Arabia in the '80s if discrete as well, Frozen Al, though it was forbidden. The problem is that a) I sometimes forget to be to keep my mouth shut, and b) Mr. Wife loathed the place. But the article states that Jewishness is now legal there for foreigners, though Israeliness is still not... presumably for Christian and Muslim Israelis as well.
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It is interesting that they also ban people who have an Israeli visa stamp on their passport. When I visited Israel in 2011, I noted that they did not stamp my passport.
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The militants who committed the recent attack in Grozny on December 4 intended to bomb dozens of facilities, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Tuesday.
"They brought with them about 30 mines. They planned to mine dozens of objects to make victims of civilians," Kadyrov said during his speech at the opening ceremony of a school which was destroyed during the raid and restored in 25 days.
He said that the school was not the sole purpose of the attackers. According to Kadyrov, all their plans are known because there is a video of negotiations with the terrorists.
A Kiwi jihadist who claimed to be fighting in Syria with the IS has been mistakenly broadcasting his exact location after forgetting to turn off the tracking function on his phone.
Mohammad Daniel, also known as Abu Abdul Rahman, and formerly known as Mark John Taylor, has now deleted dozens of posts from Twitter after discovering that he had been revealing his location to intelligence agencies and enemies keeping tabs on him.
Daniel's posts apparently show that in October this year he was with IS in Kafar Roma. His tweets stopped around the time that the Syrian Army made a strong push into the area. He then went off the grid for several months while fighting in the desert and finally retreating to IS stronghold Al Tabqah in early December.
Daniel sent several tweets from Al Tabqah which allowed Canada-based open source intelligence research group iBRABO to pinpoint a specific house in the southwest of the city that he had "predominantly used" from December 3-10.
A recent photo update - which shows the face of another IS fighter - showed Daniel to be on the move again. Weyers said, "No doubt this is a better alternative than being targeted by a drone strike or any group with the operational capabilities to target his short lived home in Al Tabqah."
Daniels' tweets will further hamper future plans of a return home. While in Aleppo in September, he claimed to have been in touch with the New Zealand's government in a bid to get a new passport after burning his last one.
Daniels was friends with another New Zealand extremist, Muslim Bin John. He went to see John in Yemen in 2009, which led to him being recommended for travel restrictions. John, suspected of ties to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in a drone strike last year.
In 2009, Daniel was arrested in Pakistan while trying to gain access to an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold near the Afghanistan border and was subsequently subjected to travel restrictions.
He left New Zealand again in May 2012 and worked as an English teacher in Indonesia for two years. In June of this year, he entered Syria across the Turkish border "as a soldier for Allah".
[BREITBART] Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... will use her televised new year's eve address tonight to call on Germans to reject the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, remarking it "goes without saying" that Germany should accept mass immigration and refugees from the third world without questioning it.
Only last week PEGIDA, which started as a small 'stroll' in the east German city of Dresden in October of 200 like-minded people, had grown to a significant march of 17,500. After three months of weekly Monday strolls, PEGIDA called a special Christmas protest, and the crowd met to sing Carols against radical Islam. Thanks to the organization, the Islamisation of Europe has hit the top of the German news agenda for the first time, and has goaded the political establishment into a reaction.
Chancellor Merkel's speech, which will be televised tonight, has been previewed by European media and will instruct German citizens to shun the PEGIDA movement, and to accept what it protests with open arms. In the pre-recorded tape, Merkel made reference to the rally slogan of the Patriotic Europeans 'we are the people', a phrase inherited from strollers in a previous generation who campaigned against censorship and oppression in Communist East Germany.
The chancellor said: "Today many people are again shouting on Mondays: 'We are the people'. But in fact they mean: You do not belong ‐ because of the colour of your skin or your religion.
"So I say to everyone who goes to such demonstrations: Do not follow those who are appealing to you! Because too often there is prejudice, coldness, even hatred, in their hearts".
Asylum applications to Germany have quadrupled in the past two years, and immigration is at a twenty-year high. This sudden spike in new-comers to Germany, along with a series of fierce pitched battles between immigrants bringing foreign conflicts with them to the streets of Europe are among the main inspirations for the PEGIDA movement, alongside parallel Sharia legal systems and a perceived failure by many to integrate. Despite that, Merkel was full of praise for migration.
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[CTVNEWS.CA] Turkish news agencies say police subdued a man after he threw grenades and fired a weapon at officers near the offices of the prime minister.
Istanbul Police Chief Selami Altinok told the state-run Anadolu Agency that officers destroyed two unwent kaboom! grenades. The man was also armed with a small weapon and an assault rifle. He was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! after the incident near the offices at the Dolmabahce Palace in downtown Istanbul.
The nearby offices are used by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and previously by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... . The agencies said neither was present during the attack.
Altinok said the man is suspected to be a member of a terrorist organization. "The individual's identity and affiliation is obvious to us. . He has spent time in prison," he said.
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[Ynet] Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the US military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility.
The transfer of the five men followed a recent pledge by President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... for a stepped-up push to shut the internationally condemned detention center where most prisoners have been held without being charged or tried.
The United States moved a total of 28 prisoners out of Guantanamo this year - the largest number since 2009 - and a senior US official said further transfers are expected in coming weeks. The inmate population there has now been whittled down to 127.
The Pentagon identified the Tunisian nationals transferred Tuesday as Adel Al-Hakeemy, and Abdullah Bin Ali Al-Lufti.
The three Yemenis who were transferred were identified as Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna and Sabri Muhammad Ibrahim Al Qurashi.
[DAWN] The last days of the outgoing year saw a sudden increase in killings in 'encounters' with over 30 suspected Lions of Islam bumped off by law enforcers while a total of 925 suspects were killed in such shootouts and 160 personnel of police and Rangers fell in the line of duty during the year, it emerged on Wednesday.
The sudden spike was seen by many as 'vengeance' for the massacre of schoolchildren in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. school attack.
According to official figures, 701 suspects were killed in 'encounters' with police and 224 were bumped off in shootouts with the paramilitary Rangers while 143 personnel of police and 17 of Rangers were killed in targeted attacks in the metropolis, said spokespersons for police and Rangers.
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[DAWN] The alleged criminal mastermind of Mumbai attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, on Wednesday challenged his arrest in a 'six-year-old' kidnapping case.
The police implicated him in the case after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended his detention order under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Islamabad on December 18, 2014 granted post arrest bail to Lakhvi in Mumbai attack case but the government issued his detention order the same day.
The IHC bench on December 29 suspended the detention order after Lakhvi challenged it and ordered for his conditional release directing him to appear before the ATC during proceedings of Mumbai attack trial.
Besides Lakhvi, six other suspects are also being tried by the ATC in Mumbai attack case. Lakhvi's counsel claimed before the additional district and sessions judge, Zeba Chaudhry, that the government under the pressure of the Indian government was reluctant to release his client.
He pointed out that soon after the ATC granted post arrest bail to Lakhvi, the government issued his detention order which was too was set aside by the IHC.
When his client was awaiting his release he was implicated in a six-year-old kidnapping case, the counsel added.
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[DAWN] The government's infrastructures worth one billion rupees have been turned into rubble in the conflict-stricken North Wazoo Agency, according to damage need assessment report.
The line departments of Civil Secretariat, Fata have carried out damage need assessment survey of the government owned properties in Mirali and Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... sub-divisions of North Waziristan. Survey of the damaged infrastructure was conducted after security forces cleared these areas of myrmidons.
The report said that 115 facilities including education and health and 102 kilometres roads had been either completely or partially damaged in the affected areas. Officials said that assessment was carried out in August this year.
The government has set up Temporarily Dislocated Population Secretariat in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. for overseeing overall activities including damage assessment in North Waziristan Agency. A senior military officer has been appointed head of the secretariat.
Security forces had launched operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... against local and foreign murderous Moslems in North Waziristan in June. Before ground offensive, air force carried out strikes to soften targets of the murderous Moslems in Miranshah, Mirali and Datakhel sub-divisions of the tribal region.
The military operation had forced half million civilians to flee their homes and take shelter in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and other parts of the country. The army said that over 80 per cent area had been cleared of myrmidons. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... return plan for internally displaced persons has not been announced.
The residents of the tribal area said that murderous Moslems had occupied government buildings including schools and health centres, which were used as offices and for accommodation purposes.
The main offices of town committee and government higher secondary schools for girls in Miranshah Bazaar were also occupied by myrmidons.
Fata Disaster Management Authority is yet to receive signal to start damage need assessment of private properties including residential and commercial. There are reports that military operation had left trail of destruction especially in Mirali and Miranshah bazaars.
The local people, who have visited the affected areas after operation, said that commercial properties and houses had received widespread damage and residential compounds had been flattened.
"Magnitude of destruction in Mirali Bazaar is unbelievable," said a primitive, who recently visited Miranshah for burying a deceased relative there.
The administration has allowed the local tribal people to bury their relatives in their ancestral graveyards. Two relatives are permitted to go along with the coffin for burial to North Waziristan while the grave is dug by security forces. The tribal people have to get permission from security forces for burying their relatives in North Waziristan.
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2 outhouses blew up!
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[DAWN] PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that his party would support the government’s counter-terrorism measures, including the establishment of military courts.
“We will continue supporting the government to counter terrorism in every regard, including setting up (of) military courts,” Mr Zardari said in a statement issued by his spokesman from Islamabad.
The former president distanced from his earlier stance which he had taken in Naudero on Dec 27 in which he had warned that under the new law on military courts one could not rule out the possibility of both him and Prime Minister Nawaz ending up behind bars.
While saying that his party would not allow the ‘misuse of military courts’ he, however, had mollified his stand by demanding assurances that the new law would not be used against “any political party, scholar or journalist”.
In his latest statement, however, he stressed the need to sort out certain modus operandi for the establishment of military courts.
He said it was time that the nation and politicians should get together to fight terrorism.
“That is the only way we can try to heal the wounds of families of the students killed by terrorists at the Army Public School in Peshawar.”
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[IraqiNews.com] Iran and Iraq on Wednesday signed an MoU on felicitating transport cooperation between the two neighboring countries.
The agreement was signed between Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi and Iraqi Minister of Transportation Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi.
According to the agreement, Tehran and Baghdad agreed to increase their cooperation on different areas of transport, including airlines, railway networks and maritime.
Binding the two countries more closely together... at least the Shiite part.
The two sides also agreed on executive measures to dredge up the bordering Arvand River to make it possible for big vessels to ferry along the waterway.
Another part of the agreement was about the two country?s cooperation on constructing a 37-kilometer railway between Iranian western city of Shalamcheh and the Iraqi major city of Basra, which is expected to much help the travel of people and cargo shipment between the two neighboring countries.
The railway requires a 700-meter suspension bridge to be constructed over Arvand River.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... another railway is to be constructed joining Iranian Kermanshah-Khosravi railway to eastern Iraq.
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[ARABNEWS] The Palestinian consensus government has failed to meet its commitment to rebuild the war-torn Gaza Strip, former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said.
Speaking late on Monday shortly after a ministerial delegation from the West Bank arrived in Gaza, Haniyeh accused the government of failing “to keep its commitments, by not carrying out reconstruction, nor unifying institutions under the Palestinian Authority nor organizing elections.”
The national consensus government took office in June following a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, ending seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza.
Technocratic in nature, its mandate was to unify governance of the two territories and prepare for elections. It was later tasked with rebuilding Gaza after a deadly summer war with Israel, which claimed nearly 2,200 Palestinian lives.
A spate of bombings last month targeting the property of Fatah officials in Gaza prompted Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to cancel a scheduled visit.
Haniyeh accused the government of acting selectively in a manner that was “harmful” to Gaza and said he was “not optimistic” that the current visit would manage to get things “back on track.”
“Unfortunately, the government has not managed to prove it is the government of the entire Palestinian people,” said Haniyeh, the Gaza-based deputy head of Hamas’s politburo.
His remarks, broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa television, were made several hours after eight ministers and more than 40 other government officials from Ramallah arrived to kickstart the reconstruction of Gaza, which has yet to begin.
The massive task of rebuilding the territory, where more than 96,000 homes were damaged or destroyed leaving more than 100,000 people homeless, has hardly begun, with Palestinian officials accusing Israel of restricting the entry of crucial building supplies.
The unity government was tasked with managing the reconstruction but the process has been bogged down by infighting between Hamas and Fatah.
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[IsraelTimes] Construction worker suffocates as thousands squeeze through security gate from West Bank to Israel, report says
A Paleostinian man died on Wednesday when he was caught in a press of workers heading through an Israeli checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel, Paleostinian sources said.
The independent Paleostinian Ma?an news agency identified the man as Ahmad Samih Bdeir, 39, a construction worker from the village of Farun in the northern West Bank, and said he died at the Shaar Ephraim, also known as al-Tayba, checkpoint.
Witnesses said that pressure built up due to protracted security checks at the installation where thousands of workers are made to pass one at a time through turnstiles and metal detectors.
According to the report, Bdeir ?choked to death in extreme overcrowding.?
The Ephraim checkpoint, located near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, is operated by IDF soldiers together with private security contractors.
The Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a Times of Israel request for comment on the incident.
old man died in January under similar circumstances.
The Paleostinian Federation of Trade Unions says that over 15,000 Paleostinians who have permits to work in Israel pass through the checkpoint every day.
Earlier this month some 5,000 Paleostinian worker refused to go through the checkpoint in protest over what they termed the ?humiliating? conditions.
Israel has maintained stringent security controls on Paleostinians entering the country since the jacket wallah onslaught of the Second Intifada of 2000-2004.
[IsraelTimes] The Gazoo-based Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement denounced Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Wednesday for what it termed his ?failure? to push through a UN statehood resolution that called for a Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines within three years.
?This was a unilateral decision taken by Abu Mazen [Abbas] who has taken the Paleostinian decision-making process hostage,? Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum told AFP, describing it as a ?new failure? by the Paleostinian leader.
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council rejected a resolution on Paleostinian statehood, with the Paleostinians failing to get the minimum nine ?yes? votes required for adoption by the 15-member council: Eight voted for the resolution and two voted against, with five abstentions.
Last week, Hamas deputy political chief Moussa Abu Marzouk criticized Abbas for not consulting his Gazoo-based Hamas government partners on the draft resolution, and panned the statehood bid for not going far enough to secure Paleostinian rights.
Hamas and Fatah have been at odds over diplomatic issues since the swearing in of a national-unity government in June, officially ending a seven-year political schism between the two movements.
On December 22, Abu Marzouk complained that the original draft resolution submitted to the UN was ?different from one presented to the national and Islamic factions? and included ?many compromises on our national rights and principles.?
?Abbas has submitted a shameful document to the Security Council, void of all our rights and with no one knowing its contents, and they want us to stand behind it,? he told labor union leaders in Gazoo last week.
Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar also voiced his opposition to the resolution prior to the vote, calling it ?disastrous? and saying it had ?no future in the land of Paleostine,? earlier this month. He also opposed any deal that would have Jerusalem as a shared capital or be based on the 1967 ?borders? rather than the 1948 demarcations.
The Paleostinian resolution was also opposed by nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Paleostinian leader Marwan Barghouti last week, who said he supported the unilateral move to go to the UN in principle but slammed the latest bid as an ?unjustified fallback which will have a very negative impact on the Paleostinian position,? Paleostinian news agency Ma?an reported.
Barghouti, serving five life terms in jail in Israel for his involvement in Second intifada killings, said any mention of land swaps with Israel should have been removed and that the bid should focus on the major issues: settlement expansion, Jerusalem, and the blockade on Gazoo.
Ramallah -- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to apply immediately to join the International Criminal Court, senior officials said on Wednesday, after the UN Security Council rejected a resolution on ending the Israeli occupation.
You're on a roll Mahmoud, go for it!
Abbas will sign the Rome Statute later Wednesday, adhering to the founding treaty of the ICC, where the Palestinians could sue Israeli officials for war crimes in the occupied territories, several top officials told AFP.
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Can't wait for him to end up in the dock himself
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[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, Saudi newspaper ‘al-Hayat’ reported, that Israel’s Mossad anticipates
...and we are informed of this by an article published in the Iraqi News, which makes one wonder if any Israelis are connected to this prediction...
that the year 2015 is likely to witness the emergence of a “Small Syria” led by Assad’s regime.
“Israel’s Mossad and Syrian experts along with the Iranians who are working together in Syria have come to a conclusion which anticipates the emergence of a small Syria led by Bashir al-Assad,” al-Hayat reported.
“The Syrian Army will not be able to achieve the desired change in Syria, and that’s why they will try to compromise between the rebels and al-Assad’s regime…There would be a small Syria with a stable Gulan and separate war zones.”
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Iran has 80m people. Iraq has 16m Shiites. Syria's Sunni Arabs aren't just fighting the Alawites. They're fighting Iranians and Iraqi Shiites. Iraq has a long border with Syria, so getting Iranians and Iraqi Shiites across isn't a big deal. And then there's Lebanon's 1.5m Shiites, who have a much bigger stake in the festivities because of Syria's territorial claims. If IS takes Lebanon, what will Israel do? Bottom line is that the road ahead for IS is paved with obstacles, unless Allah makes himself known by smiting the infidel.
[Ynet] Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, claimed that Iranian backed local forces are active in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and outnumber those of Hezbollah in Leb in size.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... Syrian opposition forces claimed that Iran had set up a "Syrian Hezbollah" which serves as the Revolutionary Guard's long arm in the region. They confirmed the claim that there was a large number of forces present in both Syria and Iraq.
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At first I thought this was from the Onion where articles such as "Owls are Assholes" and "Presidential Castrato Brought Into Oval Office To Soothe Obama’s Nerves" are published, but no, and alas, it seems to be true. Rates right up there with the The Chinese Penis (The Sky Penis in Changchun, China) Sky Penis.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ARABNEWS] Tunisia's new president pledged a rule of reconciliation and consensus as he took his oath Wednesday before the newly elected parliament to complete the country's democratic transition.
An Egyptian appeals court will review the convictions of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues in a hearing beginning later today.
The militants who committed the recent attack in Grozny on December 4 intended to bomb dozens of facilities, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Tuesday. 
A Kiwi jihadist who claimed to be fighting in Syria with the IS has been mistakenly broadcasting his exact location after forgetting to turn off the tracking function on his phone.
[DAWN] The last days of the outgoing year saw a sudden increase in killings in 'encounters' with over 30 suspected 
[DAWN] The alleged 
Wazoo
