[HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Rupert Murdoch is speaking out after Gay Paree was hit by terror attacks earlier in the week.
The 21st Century Fox Chairman and CEO tweeted that "Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible," going on to tweet "Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy."
He was criticized in December after he tweeted congratulations to the Australian Daily Telegraph, which is part of his News Corp empire, for scooping the competition in its coverage of a siege in Sydney.
Two groups of holy warriors took hostages in Gay Paree Friday, where they hand standoffs against French security forces. At one location, French police freed a hostage and killed two brothers linked to al-Qaeda. The brothers were suspected of killing 12 people at a Gay Paree newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... on Wednesday. At a separate location, a kosher supermarket, four hostages died after a gunman took the store. Police eventually rescued the surviving hostages and killed the gunman.
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Q: Are all cases of Islam equivalent?
A: Are your militants not very virulent?
Are your Mussulman immigrants
All mired in ambivalence?
Good news! Your malignancy's indolent!
Kabul - The Afghan Taleban have turned down the offer of government posts made by the new dispensation in Kabul under President Ashraf Ghani. The offer came from new President Ghani in a bid to end the insurgency that threatens the recovery of the country, BBC reported.
More than three months after assuming office, President Ghani is still to announce the shape of his cabinet. The process has been delayed because of disagreements with President Ghani's partner and Chief Executive Officer, Abdullah Abdullah.
The president's spokesman has denied that the jobs were offered formally. But a source close to President Ghani said the government should be drawn "not just from the two teams, but from all parties in Afghanistan".
The three men whom President Ghani had hoped to draw into his government are Mullah Zaeef, the former Taleban ambassador to Pakistan who has lived relatively openly in Kabul for some years, Wakil Muttawakil, the former Taleban foreign minister and Ghairat Baheer, a close relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose forces are allied to the Taleban.
The ministerial posts earmarked for them were rural affairs, the borders, giving the Taleban responsibility for collecting customs, and the Hajj, the religious pilgrimage to Mecca.
There have also been negotiations over appointing Taleban governors in three southern provinces -- Nimruz, Kandahar and Helmand. This would have been the most contentious part of the deal for the international community. Most of the NATO casualties in Afghanistan were in efforts to keep the Taleban out of the south.
But the government's offer has now been turned down. A source close to the Taleban leadership said security deals signed by the new government allowing some international troops to remain in Afghanistan when combat troops left at the end of 2014 was the main stumbling block.
The Taleban also want changes in the constitution and immunity from prosecution before they enter into negotiations on joining the government.
The Taleban disagrees with deals allowing some NATO troops to remain in Afghanistan but the offer of posts shows that Ashraf Ghani is different from his predecessor Hamid Karzai -- willing to make bold and controversial gestures to secure change.
His supporters say that he has secured better cooperation with Pakistan to crack down on the Taleban inside their borders, and a number of Pakistani delegations have visited Kabul.
President Ghani has also called on China and Saudi Arabia to use their influence over Pakistan to improve relations.
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The Afghan Taleban have turned down the offer of government posts
The key difference btwn a Taleban and a democrat have now been established.
MOGADISHU -- Djiboutian government has announced that it will send additional peacekeeping force into Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Addressing reporters in Mogadishu, Djibouti’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Ali Yusuf revealed that his country would make the deployment to stand by Somalia in its quest for peace. Yusuf added that the some 1000 peacekeepers would be drawn from police and military.
Djibouti is part of 22,000-strong peacekeeping mission in Somalia which is fending off terrorist threats in Central and Southern Somalia.
IGAD Foreign Affairs Ministers are in Mogadishu to review the progress being made over the last few years in the stabilization operations.
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Tripoli — The United Nations announced on Saturday a new round of peace talks between Libya’s warring factions in Geneva next week, as the European Union warned the country was at a “crucial juncture”.
Apparently Tripoli and Benghazi aren't safe enough to be a venue for talks about Libya. Geneva also has better food...
“This dialogue is an important opportunity for the Libyans to restore stability and prevent the country’s slide towards deeper conflict and economic collapse that should not be missed,” the UN mission in Libya said in a statement.
The announcement came after UN envoy Bernardino Leon met with rival camps and urged them to resume peace talks “before it is too late”.
Leon has proposed a freeze in military operations for a few days “in order to create a conducive environment for the dialogue,” according to the UN statement.
It said the talks were aimed at reaching an agreement on the formation of a unity government and to create “a stable environment” for the adoption of a new permanent constitution.
Yes, just what Libya needs, another government...
“Discussions will also seek to put in place the necessary security arrangements in order to bring an end to the armed hostilities raging in different parts of the country,” it added.
It did not give a specific date for the talks.
Difficulties finding a safe venue for the talks contributed to the delay, the UN said.
Like I was just saying...
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Just another expense report for the UN drones.
Just another pile of paper and platitudes for the press.
[ARABNEWS] 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... flew into Munich on Saturday and met with Omans ailing Sultan Qaboos. "Sultan Caboose"??
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... said the purpose of the private meeting was to express his gratitude for their longstanding and strong relationship.
The sultan has not returned to Oman since traveling overseas for medical tests six months ago.
Kerry was only accompanied by one aide for the private talks, with the small number of news hounds traveling with the top US diplomat en route for India barred from access or from photographing the event.
Qaboos, 74, traveled to Germany in July for medical tests. Since then, he has made only one appearance, in a brief video that was broadcast on national television on Nov. 5.
In it, Qaboos spoke of what he called the good results of his treatment, but added that his condition requires monitoring.
Kerry last met with the sultan in May 2013 during an official trip to Muscat.
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...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State...
[Dhaka Tribune] 'The partys high-command directed us to get ready for resisting any anarchic situation created by BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat-e-Islam'
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in OPEC's leading oil producer Saudi Arabia for talks Sunday, officials said, after he visited Iran to discuss the impact of plummeting crude prices.
Venezuela has said it is willing to cut production to support prices but OPEC decided in November to maintain an output ceiling of 30 million barrels per day.
The decision intensified the price slide that began in the middle of the year, blamed on softer growth in demand and a stronger United States dollar as well as oversupply.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, his oil minister and other top officials have criticised Saudi Arabia for not backing steps to bolster prices. "you're killing us here"
During his meeting with Maduro on Saturday, Rouhani again appeared to single out Riyadh, in remarks carried on the Iranian government's website. "thank you, Captain Obvious"
"Without doubt, cooperation of countries that are on the same line in OPEC can neutralise the plans of some powers who are against OPEC, stabilising a reasonable price for oil in 2015," Rouhani said. "about $150/bbl should do it!"
According to the official remarks, Maduro echoed Rouhani, "calling for the cooperation of oil exporting countries to bring back stability." We got nuthin else!
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tfsm on his mom's comp here.... it occurs to me that if Maduro and Yugo before him hadn't dismantled the Venezuelan oil industry they'd be able to threaten to increase production themselves.
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but they have the loyalty of the block captains...til they start starving too
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...What's cute is that Maduro thinks the Saudis give a rat's behind about him. The fact that he's even IN the Magic Kingdom should tell you just how bad it is right now in the Workers Paradise.
"So sorry, Nicolas, but thanks for playing, and as a parting gift here's a case of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!!!"
Mike
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I expect that Obama has asked the Saudis to undercut our oil industry.
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Meanwhile, back on Baltic Avenue, Maduro has mortgaged his hotel. All kidding aside, Maduro got a loan of desperation from his Chinese benefactors, in turn for managing his oil industry and the Chinese getting 600K bbl/day of low cost oil. BUT WAIT, there's more! 200K bbl/day goes to servicing the debt.
China cares about Maduro's plight as much as they care about Fat Boy's feudal kingdom. And the Saudis don't want to bankroll a loser, so.....he's on his own.
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Mike K., that's cold right there, cruel even. Oh yeah, it's as funny as hell. LOL!!!
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AP he didn't forget a new loan, it was all blather about previous Chineese investments. If Maduro had gotten even 5 billion he would have cut the trip short and took his loaner Cubana Air straight hope and commene to cut the pie.
[THEWEEK] North Korean official news agency KCNA reported on Saturday that the country used "a relevant channel" to send Washington a proposal on Friday, Rooters reports.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the floated deal North Korea will halt its nuclear tests if the U.S. stops conducting military drills with South Korea is similar to others made by Pyongyang before. They never stick, Rooters notes. North Korea calls its goal of creating a nuclear arsenal its "sacred sword" in 2012, the country agreed to halt nuclear tests in exchange for an easing of tensions with the U.S. But Pyongyang called off the deal two months later.
For its part, the U.S. State Department denounced the "proposal" as something more aggressive.
"The DPRK statement that inappropriately links routine U.S.-(South Korea) exercises to the possibility of a nuclear test by North Korea is an implicit threat," spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... said.
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The linked TRS-80's are providing enough processing power to go full simulation now? Or maybe they are using this.
North Korea made an attempt to purchase advanced fighter jets from Russia by sending a special envoy, a senior South Korean military official told the JoongAng Ilbo on Thursday.
"Choe Ryong-hae, who visited Moscow as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in November last year, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets," the military source said.
Little has been disclosed about the discussions between Choe and Putin. Choe, a member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of North Korea, met with Putin on Nov. 18 and delivered a letter from Kim, the Russian presidential office has said, without providing further details. The Kremlin said the meeting was not open to the press, and no press conference was arranged afterward.
"The North produces many weapons systems domestically, but it appears to have sought Russia’s help because building fighter jets requires more complex technologies," said the official. "But because of international sanctions imposed on the North, Russia won’t likely sell it readily."
It is unknown how many jets the North attempted to acquire.
Each one is $40-50 million -- that's a lot of food aid...
During Choe’s visit to Russia, his delegation visited Khabarovsk in the Far East, where a major factory producing Sukhoi jets is located.
Vlad to Champ: let me show you how much trouble I can cause without actually doing much...
North Korea operates a fleet of aging and obsolete Soviet and Chinese aircraft. The North Korean air force is comprised of Soviet MiG fighters and some early versions of Sukhoi, hardly a match for the warplanes of the South and the U.S. 7th Air Force based in South Korea.
Military intelligence authorities in the South believe that Choe’s request for the twin-engine multirole fighters with advanced arms is related to the North’s recently created war plan. Kim approved a new operations plan in August 2012, the JoongAng Ilbo reported this week, quoting senior military officials, designed to complete a Southern invasion within a week using asymmetric capabilities including nuclear weapons. Seoul obtained the new war plan from a former senior North Korean military official who recently defected to the South.
Seoul and Washington have already shared information on the war plan and are creating a new joint deterrence strategy, another senior South Korean government official told the JoongAng Ilbo on Thursday.
"At the last Security Consultative Meeting in October last year, defense ministers of the two countries agreed to create a plan for comprehensive counter-missile operations because the North is at a final stage of completing its nuclear and missile programs and it is willing to use them," the official said. "As of now, militaries of South Korea and the United States are materializing a joint operations plan to counter the North’s new war plan."
At the latest annual meeting, Minster of National Defense Han Min-koo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel "reaffirmed their commitment to reinforce the alliance’s deterrence and response capabilities against North Korean missile threats through the establishment of ‘Concepts and Principles of ROK-U.S. Alliance Comprehensive Counter-missile Operations’ to detect, defend, disrupt and destroy missile threats including nuclear and biochemical warheads."
The two countries are also mulling a plan to use not only the capabilities of U.S. Forces Korea but also fighter jets, missiles and aircraft carriers of the U.S. military in Japan.
Assuming we have the will to fight when the time to fight comes...
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BEIJING -- China on Friday offered its clearest signal yet it was ready to work with North Korea toward warmer ties this year, vowing efforts to boost friendship and cooperation with Pyongyang. China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the comments in a statement, which also reconfirmed that Beijing sent a message of congratulations to North Korea on the birthday of its young leader Kim Jong-un.
"In the new year, the Chinese side will push forward its traditional friendship and cooperation with the DPRK (North Korea) in keeping with the principles of carrying on the tradition, looking to the future, developing good-neighborly and friendly relations, and enhancing cooperation," Hong said in the statement.
During a regular press briefing Thursday, Hong told reporters that China had sent the congratulatory message to North Korea but failed to comment on bilateral relations.
His comments are widely seen as stressing the principle of North Korea-China relations, which was approved by North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-il and then Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 2001. Over the past year, Chinese officials have not made comments to that effect.
Political ties between China and its only treaty ally, North Korea, remain strained, particularly after the North's third nuclear test in February 2013. In what many analysts believe was a message to North Korea, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to South Korea last year, breaking a long-standing tradition by Chinese heads of state of visiting Pyongyang before Seoul.
The congratulatory message by China on Kim's birthday also came as North Korea is trying to deepen its ties with Russia.
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[NYPost]. La Belle France has declared war against Islamic terrorism and hate, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Saturday in defiant speeches aimed at rallying his country in the aftermath of a three-day jihad spree that left 17 dead.
"We are at war -- not a war against a religion, not a war against a civilization, but to defend our values, which are universal," Valls said.
"It's a war against terrorism and radical Islamism, against everything that would break our solidarity, our liberty, our fraternity."
The French people need to stand up for freedom of speech and faith -- which in La Belle France means keeping religion separate from government, Valls said.
"Everyone must take responsibility -- politicians and citizens alike," he added.
"We cannot let pass a single one of these messages, or a single one of these acts. Our indignation must be clear, total and last longer than three days. It must be permanent.
"We need standards, values and authority. There must be a firm message about the values of the republic and secularism.
"Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you," he said.
[BBC] The family of murdered French Moslem police officer Ahmed Merabet, bumped off by the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... attackers in Gay Paree, have appealed for calm.
Malek Merabet said his brother had been "very proud of being a policeman and defending the values of the Republic".
He added he had been "killed by people who pretend to be Moslems".
Ahmed's partner Morgane said she had seen TV reports of the attack without recognising him as the police officer shown lying on the ground.
Both spoke at a news conference on Saturday.
Malek said Ahmed had helped look after his mother and other family members since their father's death 20 years ago.
"Our family is devastated by this act of barbarity, and shares the pain of the families of all the victims," he said.
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[DailyMail]. Editor of Britannia's Jewish Chronicle claims people are fleeing terror-hit French capital
Stephen Pollard says terror attack on Kosher store in Gay Paree is no 'fluke'
'Every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave', he said
Experts believe that more than 100,000 French Jews have left since 2013
We'd been wondering what that number was. Most clearly went somewhere other than Israel -- Britain and Montreal, Canada being popular choices for French expats during the Hollande period.
La Belle France's Chief Rabbi has said after a number of attacks on Jews in the past year: 'Jews murdered were targeted specifically because they were Jewish'
Policing stepped up across British Jewish areas, community body says
Mayor's office has announced closure of shops in famous Jewish area
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Watched Christiana Amanpoor singing a different tune today on CNN at the rally in Paris. Is it sincere? We will see what comes out of this. What will happen to the Muslim enclaves? Will there be some house cleaning or will there be an exponential decay of outrage and back to denial as usual.
Is O golfing today? Just wondered.
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President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein, is working on organizing a Global Security meeting in order to try to save face for Islam, and try to grab more power for the Democratic party.
"There is no war on terror."
But.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel
However, in Germany of all places, and other EU States, there is a movement to counter Islamic fascism. Geert Wilders is not the only movement.
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"Is O golfing today?"
Does the day end in "y," AP?
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Uh..... I'll get back to you on that, Barbara....
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Muslims in Europe fear anti-Islamic mood will intensify after Paris attacks
Well, I certainly would hope so.
And if the Muslims want to do something about it, they had better root out the snakes in their midst. Otherwise, we will learn that they are all snakes, to some significant degree.
[AnNahar]. A large and growing majority of Germans believe Islam does not belong in the Western world and more than half see it as a threat, a poll published Thursday showed. Buncha racists. They should shuddup and listen to their betters.
In a survey conducted in November, before Wednesday's massacre by Islamist gunnies at a French satirical paper or widespread media coverage of a new German anti-migrant movement, 61 percent of non-Moslem Germans said Islam had no place in the West.
The figure was up from 52 percent in 2012, according to the study released by the Bertelsmann Foundation think tank.
More than half -- 57 percent -- said they felt threatened by Islam, four percentage points higher than in 2012.
Forty percent said they felt like "foreigners in their own country" because of the presence of Moslems.
And one in four (24 percent) said that Moslems should be barred from migrating to Germany.
About four million Moslems live in Germany, around three-quarters of them of Turkish origin, among a population of 80 million people.
"For Moslems, Germany has become home. But they are confronted with a negative image apparently shaped by a minority of radical Islamists," Bertelsmann Foundation Islam expert Yasemin El-Menouar wrote in the study's findings, which also looked at Moslem immigrants' views of Germany.
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The authors said that anti-Islam stances could be found regardless of class or education level, but that younger people and those with personal contacts with Moslems showed less prejudice.
The poll was by the TNS Emnid independent opinion research institute among 937 non-Moslem Germans.
Germany has been rocked by anti-migrant marches in the eastern city of Dresden, which began small in October but have grown in support over the last month, now attracting around 18,000 people each week.
They are organised by a right-wing populist group calling itself PEGIDA or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident.
It issued a statement on its Facebook page saying that the killing of 12 people by Islamist gunnies at the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... in Gay Paree Wednesday confirmed their views.
"The Islamists, which PEGIDA has been warning about for 12 weeks, showed La Belle France that they are not capable of democracy but rather look to violence and death as an answer," it said.
"Our politicians want us to believe the opposite. Must such a tragedy happen here in Germany first???"
Chancellor 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... has urged Germans not to attend the marches, accusing them of stoking "hatred", and encouraged counterdemonstrators, who have managed to outnumber PEGIDA protesters in recent weeks at gatherings across the country.
[DAWN] A banned radical Turkish Marxist group has retracted its claim for a suicide kaboom in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district, saying it did not carry out the attack that killed the bomber and one policeman. Why, if you were a Marxist-atheist pinhead, would you piss the only life you'll ever have away on politix? If you're determined to end it all, get hit by a bus walking from where you've just gotten laid to where you intend to get drunk.
Reports earlier this week suggested Tuesday's attack was carried out by a Russian woman from the Moslem Caucasus region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , and not the female bomber that the far-left bully boy group initially said had executed the strike.
The attack on January 6 in Sultanahmet... was not carried out by our organization, the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) said in a statement on its website.
We therefore withdraw our claim for the action. We apologise to our people and our supporters, it said.
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“There’s absolutely no reason the Department of Justice can’t provide to the public its analyses of the President’s executive actions. The administration has proven this through selective release of some material,” Grassley said.
Grassley first made his request for disclosure a year ago after the President stated, “I’ve got a pen and a phone.” But the Justice Department cited executive branch privilege in withholding the documents.
Grassley then followed with a request for the legal analysis about the release of five high-level Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Taliban-captured U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl without the congressional notification required by law. But again, the Justice Department denied the request.
[DAWN] Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) big shot Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan on Saturday assailed Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... for retracting from his stance in the multi-party conference over establishment of military courts in the country, DawnNews reported.
Speaking at a ceremony here, he said that Rehman had agreed to the collective decision on National Action Plan (NAP) taken against the backdrop of deadly Taliban attack on an army-run school 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. that killed 150 people, mostly school children.
Establishment of military courts to decide terrorism related cases is a part of the NAP. The JUI-F chief has opposed the national strategy to tackle terrorism, terming the 21st Constitutional Amendment as a collective suicide kaboom on democracy by parliamentary parties.
Our stance against terrorism should be understood. Terrorists have been given an escape route through this law... for instance if any terrorist shaves his beard off and takes off his turban renaming himself as Saulat Mirza or Ajmal Pahari, then terrorism would be accepted and the terrorist would not be presented in a military court, he said during a presser on Thursday only to draw severe criticism from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM).
A petition has also been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the establishment of military courts. The petition states that the contentious amendment to establish military courts in the country is against the basic structure of the Constitution.
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[DAWN] Pentagon front man Rear Admiral John Kirby on Friday said the sanctuary that some terrorist groups enjoy in Pakistain has long been an issue of concern for the United States, adding that the subject has long been a topic of discussion between the American and Pak leadership. Lip-hand disconnect here. Check back this time next year. Betcha nothin' of substance happens.
During a press briefing at the Pentagon on Friday, Kirby added that bully boyz hiding in Pakistain and militancy in the region were common challenges facing the two countries.
He further said that it was imperative to keep in mind that the Pak people are victims of terrorism "just like the people in Gay Paree are this week".
In response to a question regarding the US helping Pakistain as well as "putting pressure" on the government on the other hand, the press secretary interjected that terrorism was a shared threat and America would continue to maintain interest in helping Pakistain overcome this threat.
"It's not about us putting pressure on the Pak government," said Kirby. "It's about the Pak government continuing to address this threat in keeping with their best interests and the interests of their people."
Kirby also mentioned that cooperation with Pakistain is persistently improving, and the US would continue to help Islamabad in dealing with this challenge.
"It's a common threat, a common challenge that we all have to continue to work on together and to look for ways to improve that cooperation," Kirby added.
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In Grand Guignol subcontinental,
The surface is unsentimental,
But under the bleeding
These poor souls are pleading
For us not to be so judgmental.
[DAWN] The FIR of Friday's kaboom at an imambargah in Rawalpindi's Chittian Hattian area was registered at the Waris Khan cop shoppe on Saturday.
A Joint Investigation Team (JIT), headed by SP Rawal Town, was also constituted to probe the incident and submit its report within 14 days.
SHO of Waris Khan cop shoppe Raja Abdul Rasheed was selected as the investigating officer in the case.
The case was registered on a complaint lodged by the custodian of the Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... Ibne Mohammad Rizvi under charges of murder, attempted murder, terrorism, possessing and using banned kaboom.
At least eight people were killed and 16 others maimed in the powerful blast which rattled Imambargah Aun Mohammad Rizvi in the garrison city's densely populated Chatian Hatian area.
A group of over 100 Shia devotees were celebrating a milad a function held to mark the birth of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) when the kaboom took place. In Shia tradition, the Holy Prophets (peace be upon him) birth anniversary is celebrated on the 17th of Rabiul Awal.
Angry locals insisted that the heinous act was a sectarian attack. This area, they said, had been the site of tensions in November 2013, when a standoff between the Taleemul Koran seminary and the Muharram procession resulted in full-blown riots in Rawalpindi.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Army announced on Friday the establishment of the first group of nine military courts for trying civilian terror suspects.
The process of establishing military courts has been initiated. Initially, nine military courts are being established across the country, a military front man said.
Of the nine military courts, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Punjab would have three each, while Sindh and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... would have two and one, respectively.
The ball has set rolling, Director General ISPR Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said.
These courts will start functioning soon, the front man further said without elaborating the time-frame.
According to a military source, the courts could start functioning in 7-10 days. The time is required for logistics, mobilisation and referral of cases by the federal government.
The provinces have started scrutinising terror cases, which would later be vetted by the Ministry of Interior before referring them to the Ministry of Defence for trial by military courts.
The military courts are being set up under 21st Amendment in the Constitution and through an amendment in the Army Act.
President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday accorded his assent to the legislation that allowed the setting up of military courts for a period of two years.
Both houses of the parliament had unanimously passed the legislation.
The courts are part of the National Action Plan adopted by the politicianship after the Dec 16 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.
Religious and sectarian terrorist outfits would apparently be the focus of the new courts.
Two petitions challenging the legislation on military courts have been filed with the Supreme Court.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , during his visit to Bahrain, said that military courts should have been there long ago.
The military statement suggested that more such courts would be set up subsequently.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the army was tight-lipped on the composition of the panel of judges and the cities where these courts would be set up.
During the martial law in the late 70s and early 80s, there used to be two kinds of military courts summary military courts with single-judge benches, with an officer of the rank of major as the judge, and special military courts with two- to three-member benches, mostly headed by a colonel.
The system of General Field Court is different.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... its still not clear what system the army is planning to introduce. Its also unclear if the people convicted by these military courts will have the right to appeal outside the military justice system.
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Medieval Muslim artists often created paintings and illuminated manuscripts depicting Mohammed in full. Several examples are presented here. Other artists of the era drew Mohammed, but left his face blank so as to technically comply with a sporadically enforced Islamic ban on depicting the Prophet; these faceless images are shown in the second section of the Archive.
In 1999, Islamic art expert Wijdan Ali wrote a scholarly overview of the Muslim tradition of depicting Mohammed, which can be downloaded here in pdf format. In that essay, Ali demonstrates that the prohibition against depicting Mohammed did not arise until as late as the 16th or 17th century, despite the media's recent false claims that it has always been forbidden for Muslims to draw Mohammed. Until comparatively recently in Islamic history, it was perfectly common to show Mohammed, either in full (as revealed on this page), or with his face hidden (as shown on the next page). Even after the 17th century, up to modern times, Islamic depictions of Mohammed (especially in Shi'ite areas) continued to be produced.
On this page are many examples of full-faced Mohammed portraits produced by Muslim artists across the centuries. Attributions for each image are given where known.
[NEWS.AU] HACKING collective Anonymous has declared war on Islamic terrorism vowing to destroy jihadist websites and social media accounts.
In response to the horrific terrorist attacks in Gay Paree that began with the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , Anonymous posted a video on YouTube directly confronting Al-Qaeda and 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.... .
In the video a person in a Guy Fawkes mask which is the groups unofficial symbol reads out the warning in French.
We are declaring war against you, the terrorists, the figure says, adding that the hacktivist group plans to shut down all terrorist accounts on social media in Dire Revenge for the killing of staff at the satirical magazine.
Anonymous
The video was uploaded to the groups Belgium YouTube account and an English version also appeared online.
Earlier, Anonymous posted a statement on Pastebin, titled: Message to the enemy of the freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech has suffered an inhuman assault Disgusted and also shocked, we cannot fall to our knees. It is our responsibility to react.
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Now if they would have taken that approach from the beginning, they would have done just fine.
#2
Good luck skript kiddiez. If these guys find you in your mom's basement or your dorm room, you will die, quite messily. Unlike law enforcement, these radicals dont give a shit about laws or humanity.
#6
Well, let's give them a chance and see how much damage they can do to the jihadi and fanatic websites before boredom sinks in.
I've wondered before why our best and brightest in the cyber commands haven't taken this approach and fried hard drives throughout the world. If sysnex could do such a good job on Iranian centrifuges, why can't a liberal dose of THAT help in the GWOT?
Of I forgot there isn't a GWOT...the terrorist went away when he was elected.
[Breitbart] In today’s edition of Political Correctness Makes You Stupid, while referring to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the Islamic terrorists killed by French police in a hostage standoff Friday, instead of describing him as black (which he was), CNN’s Chris Cuomo described the man as “African-American.”
Thankfully, Anderson Cooper was on the scene to immediately correct Cuomo, “Not American – the man of African descent.” File under subcategory: Confused PC cultural ignorance.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Rupert Murdoch is speaking out after 
Kabul - The Afghan Taleban have turned down the offer of government posts made by the new dispensation in Kabul under President Ashraf Ghani. The offer came from new President Ghani in a bid to end the insurgency that threatens the recovery of the country, BBC reported.
[ARABNEWS] US Secretary of State 
[THEWEEK] 
North Korea made an attempt to purchase advanced fighter jets from Russia by sending a special envoy, a senior South Korean military official told the JoongAng Ilbo on Thursday. 
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