[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has ordered to eliminate all individuals and groups posing threat to Afghan National Security Forces.
Deputy defense minister Baz Mohammad Jawhari said the President has made it clear that all those individuals or groups which poses threat or attacks the Afghan forces are the enemies of Afghanistan and therefore they should be eliminated.
Speaking during the completion of security transition of the Afghan national army training facilities, Jawhari said such claims are not correct that the government of Afghanistan is not having a clear policy regarding the enemies and friends of Afghanistan.
Jawhari said Afghan cops are prepared to counter all terrorist activities which are aimed at targeting the Afghan people and troops.
According to Jawhari the Afghan cops have foiled major plots by the terrorist groups who were looking to create sanctuaries in the country during the past one week.
The security of Afghanistan is currently fully in the hands of 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police forces as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... combat mission ended last year.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned yesterdays killing of a family, as well as the driver of the taxi they were travelling in when the vehicle hit a pressure-plate improvised bomb (PPIED) planted on a road in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. A statement released by UNAMA said the family group was composed of a husband and wife, as well as two sons and a daughter aged between 4 and 12 years-old. The incident took place in the Soor Kalai area of Lal Pur district.
The use of indiscriminate, victim-activated bombs in civilian populated areas is an outrage, said the Secretary-Generals Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, Nicholas Haysom. The use of indiscriminate weapons must stop immediately.
According to UNAMA, Improvised bombs were the second largest cause of civilian casualties in Afghanistan during 2014, with numbers up from 2013.
The statement by the UN mission further added that UNAMA will next month release its 2014 annual report on the Protection of Civilians, including detailed reporting on civilian casualties.
Mr. Haysom emphasizes that international humanitarian law explicitly prohibits the use of weapons whose effects may not be limited and attacks which are not directed at a specific military objective.
The statement by UNAMA also added that it extends its condolences to the families of all of those killed in the kaboom.
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KISMAYO, Somalia -- Jubaland administration in southern Somalia is gearing up for the formation of first parliament on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
Speaking at a press conference in the southern port city of Kismayo on Sunday, Jubaland Vice President Gen. Abdullahi Sheikh Ismael (Fartag) unveiled that following parliamentary selection process by local clan elders, the state will set up the chamber of representatives Tuesday. Gen. Fartag noted that IGAD and Federal Government officials will attend the inaugural ceremony.
Two steps forward and one step back: a parliament and a general for a 'vice president'...
Meanwhile, on visits to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, he said that the two troop contributing countries will assist Jubaland in dislodging Al Shabaab militants from the areas acquiesced to their rule.
Jubaland President Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) previously declared that Jubaland MPs will be cherry-picked from Lower Jubba, Middle Juba and Gedo by their respective elders.
As a result of IGAD-brokered bilateral talks in Addis Ababa, The federal state gained its recognition from Somalia Federal Government in August 2013.
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[IsraelTimes]. Rafah terminal, which connects the coastal enclave to Sinai, was shut down following a string of terror attacks
Egypt will reopen the Rafah crossing with Gazoo for three days starting Tuesday, for the third time since it was shut in late October after a deadly suicide kaboom, security officials said.
The crossing, the only access point to the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip not controlled by Israel, was to be reopened last week, but the decision was postponed after an Egyptian police officer working at the terminal was kidnapped and killed.
The reopening of the crossing will allow Paleostinians students who have been stranded on either side to travel through the frontier, a security official said.
The terminal was shut by Egypt after a deadly bombing in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30 soldiers in late October.
It was later reopened twice.
The Egyptian army has been battling an insurgency in the restive Sinai, which also borders Israel, ever since it overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
[Libya Herald] Mecca currency exchanges are refusing to accept the Libyan dinar these days, as Libyas political situation remains uncertain and the oil-rich countrys economy hangs in a balance .
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There's so many points of irony here.
Money changers in the temple... arab solidarity... someone who knows the value of a dinar... you just don't know where to start.
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[AnNahar]. The governor of Yemen's Shabwa province warned Sunday that oil companies will turn off their taps at midnight unless Shiite holy warriors in control of the capital free a presidency official.
President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi's chief of staff Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, who was kidnapped on Saturday by the Shiite Huthi militias who control Sanaa, is from the southern province of Shabwa in deeply-tribal Yemen.
"Oil companies in Shabwa will stop production starting midnight if Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak is not released," said the governor, Ahmed Ali Belhaj.
Yemen's only gas terminal of Belhaf, which is located in Shabwa, would also stop operating, he said.
An industry official confirmed to Agence La Belle France-Presse that Shabwa's oil companies had received orders to halt their operations.
Shabwa has three oilfields and produces about 50,000 barrels per day.
Political sources in Sanaa said Mubarak's kidnap was a bid to press for amendments to Yemen's newly drafted constitution.
It came just before a meeting of the national dialogue secretariat, headed by Mubarak, to present a draft charter that sets out the division of Yemen into a six-region federation, which the Huthis oppose.
Political sources said representatives of the Huthis and former strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's General People's Congress party walked out of a meeting on the process headed by President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on Saturday.
Hadi has been struggling to assert his authority since the Huthis seized Sanaa on September 21.
Mubarak was one of the representatives in the dialogue of the Southern Movement, which seeks autonomy or secession for the formerly independent south.
Since their takeover of Sanaa, the Huthis have pressed their advance into mainly Sunni areas south of Sanaa, where they have met deadly resistance from Sunni tribes as well as al-Qaeda loyalists.
Go ahead, turn off the taps and find out yourself how little we care.
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Go ahead, turn off the taps and find out yourself how little we care.
I don't think the threat is aimed at us, Redneck Jim, but rather a warning to the Houthis that their conquest of the capitol, Sanaa, will be useless without the oil income.
[ABC.NET.AU] Governments and security agencies around the world are struggling to contain violent extremism and need to invest more money to stop terrorist attacks, according to a leading Australian terrorism expert.
Dr Clarke Jones from the Australian National University said the threat from radicalised groups and individuals had been underestimated.
"This year is going to be a year of terrorism in the sense that I think we are going to see more small scale attacks," he said.
The warning follows last month's Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney and recent terrorist attacks in Gay Paree and Belgium.
Dr Jones said authorities were growing increasingly concerned about violent bandidosgunnies and the threat of so-called lone wolf attacks.
"Terrorism is changing and over the last 12 months ... where we are today is different from where we were before, we are seeing the nature of terrorism changing," he said.
Jailing people would be 'counter-productive'
Dr Jones is among a group of international experts working to set up Australia's first Centre for Intervention and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).
The centre's programs will focus on not just research but intervention for young people at risk of becoming radicalised.
"The individual is treated separately because there's not one pathway to radicalisation," he said.
"That would involve a social worker, a psychologist, maybe a psychiatrist in some cases - but [it would involve] trying to understand the situation and assess the level of radicalisation and work towards the other way," Dr Jones said.
He added the plan was for individuals to participate in one of the three programs depending on the level of radicalisation, following assessments done by psychologists and other experts.
"We can't just lock them away in maximum security prison, that's going to be incredibly ineffective and counter-productive."
The centre will also have the backing of international anti-terrorism research institute Hedayah, based in the United Arab Emirates.
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[IsraelTimes]. Experts highlight organized structure of jihadist groups as counter to increasingly popular postulate
The attacks in Gay Paree and the radical Islamist cell dismantled in Brussels have challenged the idea of the “lone wolf” terrorist who works alone, without the help of a jihadist organization, analysts say.
Every terrorist that has attempted or carried out attacks in the West in recent years — down to the Kouachi brothers who struck the Charlie Hebdo
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Apparently outside of Paris is a lodge hall, The Fraternal Brotherhood of Jihad, that has spaghetti dinners on Tuesday, and 'public affairs' discussions on Thursday.
A great place to network with your friends.
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Nearly everyone on the left and in this administration wants to define the jihadi terrorists as something they are not. It's been going on for quite a few years now. What's with that?
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What I love is Bin Laden called on followers to become lone wolves and attack. Then when followers become lone wolves and attack our leaderes claim no connection to radical Islam.
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appeared in the United States as part of the Bush administration’s ‘global war on terror’
All part of the biggest lie that Islam is the religion of peace. Can't put a real name to the war, gotta call it a war on terror. Can't mention the source documents and driving propaganda. Nope, can't do it no how no way.
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I'm gonna be the contrarian here, and surmise, given Mr. Bush's character and the situation and the mood at the time, he was trying to avoid a repeat of what happened in the days or WWI with the Germans, or WWII with the Germans, Italians and Japanese (never mind that it was a liberal Democratic President that incarcerated the third group.)
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Though I voted for him both times his in-born sense of noblesse oblige or compassionate conservatism led him to honestly believe that Muslims are incidental to Islamic violence.
W is a lot like my wife, too good and trusting for her own good. O is evil in a selfish, narcissistic way.
[FRANCE24] Nine suspects tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Friday in anti-terror raids following attacks in Gay Paree had their interrogations prolonged by 48 hours on Sunday, a step allowed under La Belle Frances tough anti-terror laws. Three female suspects were released on Saturday.
French police have released three women arrested Friday and will continue to interrogate nine others who were detained in an anti-terror sweep connected to last weeks attacks in Gay Paree that has put Europe on high alert.
Gay Paree prosecutor front man Denis Fauriat said the nine suspects will have their interrogations prolonged by 48 hours, a step allowed under La Belle Frances tough anti-terror laws.
Police in La Belle France, Germany, Belgium and Ireland have arrested dozens of suspects in recent days as part of the crackdown on terrorism sparked by last weeks bloody spree in and around Gay Paree, in which brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi and their friend Amédy Coulibaly killed 17 people at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , a kosher grocery, and elsewhere.
Fallout from the attacks has spread around the world. Demonstrations in support of the murdered Charlie Hebdo journalists have been held in countries from the United States to Brazil, and violent protests against the magazines depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have taken place in Niger, Pakistain and Algeria.
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[Ynet]. Italia has expelled nine suspected Islamist bully boyz so far this year as part of a heightened security alert throughout Europe and could make further expulsions, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Sunday.
Attacks in Gay Paree, in which Islamist gunnies killed 17 people, and a foiled plot to attack Belgian police have put security services across Europe on high alert.
Five Tunisians, a Turk, an Egyptian, a Moroccan and a Pak were expelled, Alfano told a presser, adding that he was "sure other expulsion orders will follow."
He also said more than 100 people were being closely watched on suspicion of sympathizing with or plotting to commit "jihadist, terrorist activities."
[NEWS.YAHOO] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen urged the government Sunday to denounce as "Islamists" the perpetrators of deadly Gay Paree attacks that left the country reeling.
The three-day killing spree that left 17 dead in and around Gay Paree -- starting when gunnies stormed the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... on January 7 -- have left the world reeling, with questions raised about how the perpetrators slipped through the cracks.
"Let us call things by their rightful names, since the French government seems reluctant to do so," Le Pen wrote in a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... op-ed.
"La Belle France, land of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism," the National Front leader continued.
"Moslems themselves need to hear this message. They need the distinction between Islamist terrorism and their faith to be made clearly."
Le Pen called for national border checks, more immigration restrictions, stripping "jihadists" of their French citizenship, as well as "zero tolernce for any behavior that undermines laicite (secularism) and French law."
She also condemned the foreign policy "mistakes that have plunged La Belle France into serious geopolitical incoherence from which it is struggling to extricate itself."
"Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Moslems themselves must fight it at our side," Le Pen added.
Her statements stand in contrast to those made by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has stated that La Belle France is at war with radical Islam, not with the Moslem faith or any religion.
On Sunday, a French court prevented a rally by anti-Islamist groups in Gay Paree on the grounds that they were promoting Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
In the wake of the French attacks and last week's Belgian anti-terror raids, EU foreign ministers were to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss ways to boost cooperation to combat the threat posed by radicalized Europeans returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria.
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"Those reporters actually granted access to the event were only permitted to cover the first 20 minutes before being asked to leave." Only true believers are allowed to stay for the review of their ever progressing of "Peace" initiatives?
GARLAND, Texas The protest over the Honor the Prophet conference nearly turned violent as the two sides clashed over an incident in the parking lot. The confrontation occurred as a Muslim driver was laying on his car horn as he attempted to leave the parking lot and a protester placed a sign with an image of Muhammad under the front tire of the Muslims vehicle.
The incident occurred shortly after another heated verbal altercation occurred in the parking lot driveway that served as a demilitarized zone of sorts. The crowds from both sides had filled the driveway and the Muslim driver was attempting to exit the parking lot. He was blaring his horn in an inflammatory manner. One of the protesters placed a sign with the image of Muhammad under the front right tire of the vehicle and the driver stopped before running over the image.
The vehicle was quickly surrounded by people from both groups and heated words were exchanged. One of the Muslim-side protesters wearing a La Raza brown beret a Che Guevara shirt attempted to remove the sign from in front of the vehicle and a scuffle ensued. Calm leadership on both sides de-escalated the confrontation before it got out of hand.
Garland police moved in quickly and moved both groups back to their side of the driveway and peace was restored.
Other verbal confrontations occurred throughout the event. No physical confrontations occurred and the protest remained peaceful. No arrests are believed to have been made by police who were present in large numbers.
People who rob, murder and rape are considered criminals in the USA. Politicians, if you want people who worship one such individual to occupy our communities, be on notice that the average Joe USA is not in your corner.
[ABC.NET.AU] A Lion of Islam group in Pakistain has urged supporters to boycott French products in protest against the magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... 's most recent cover, which featured an image of the Prophet Muhammad. Lashkar-e-Taiba is of course "banned" in Pakistain.
Fresh protests broke out Sunday in Pakistain where thousands gathered in almost all major cities, including Lahore, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Islamabad, chanting angry slogans and burning French flags.
Around 5,000 people demonstrated against the French magazine in Pakistain's eastern city of Lahore.
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... , the founder of Lashkar e Taiba - the group deemed to be behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks and several other attacks in India - told the demonstrators he had launch a movement against what he called the insulting caricatures of the beloved prophet.
Mr Saeed urged traders to stop importing French products and for Pak leaders to try to get an international law against blasphemy passed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan refugees residing in Lower Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province of Pakistain have been ordered to leave the area within the next three days.
According to political administration of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the notification was recently released asking the Afghan refugees to leave the country in three days.
The administration has also asked the local residents to prevent renting houses to the Afghan refugees.
Following a deadly 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. city of Pakistain, the federal government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa set a deadline for the expulsion of Afghan refugees on 20th December last year.
The provincial government front man Mushtaq Ghani quoted by local media agencies, said the Afghan refugees will be expelled from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province after a month.
Ghani further added that the government can no longer afford refugees, insisting that the time has come for the federal government to take practical steps for the repatriation of the refugees.
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[DAWN] Representatives of madressahs agreed on Saturday that religious seminaries found involved in abetting terrorist activities would be dealt with in accordance with the law.
In a joint declaration issued after a meeting with the politicianship, five representative organizations of madressahs assured the government of their support in identifying black sheep in their ranks.
The meeting was presided over by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
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[DAWN] Of the over 2,700 cases pending disposal before the 19 antiterrorism courts across the province, 192 cases of kabooms and Lion of Islam attacks by proscribed organizations have been prioritised for hearing on a day-to-day basis as provided under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1997, it emerged on Saturday.
Official sources told Dawn that Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali of the Supreme Court, who is also the monitoring judge of the ATCs in Sindh, chaired a meeting on Saturday that was informed of bifurcation of cases into militancy-related and others by the ATCs.
The meeting was attended by nine judges of the ATCs in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , judges in charge of the Sindh High Court for the ATCs Justices Munib Akhtar and Mohammed Ali Mazhar, member inspection team-II Judge Abdullah Channa, the home and finance secretaries and an additional inspector general of police.
The sources said that the performance of the ATCs in the province was reviewed at length and Justice Jamali expressed his satisfaction over the efficiency of the judges.
Nonetheless, they said, he directed the presiding officers to further improve their performance without any fear in view of the current wave of terrorism in the country.
They said some of the ATC judges complained to Justice Jamali that the investigation officers (IOs) often failed to produce prosecution witness in court.
The sources said that home and police authorities were directed by the monitoring judge to ensure production of accused persons, prosecution witnesses, case properties and IOs in the ATCs.
They said Justice Jamali asked the ATC judges to summon only those prosecution witnesses whose testimonies were required to be recorded.
The sources said that Justice Jamali also directed the provincial authorities to ensure foolproof security for the presiding officers of the ATCs, prosecutors, prosecution witnesses and the IOs appearing in the militancy-related cases.
They said the provincial finance secretary informed the meeting that 450 new mobile vans were being given to the police department. He said that some of them would be given for the security of the judges and prosecutors.
The sources said that the judges in charge of the SHC were also directed to hold monthly meetings with the presiding officers of the ATCs for the monitoring of the courts.
The provincial police were also directed to ensure the presence of IOs and witnesses for prosecution in the ATCs during trials.
The sources said that the provincial authorities were directed to immediately provide infrastructural facilities for all ATCs in the province.
An extraordinary meeting of chief justices of all the high courts, chaired by Chief Justice of Pakistain Nasir-ul-Mulk, had decided that the cases related to terrorism would be given priority and heard on a day-to-day basis, as provided under the ATA, 1997.
The meeting of superior court chief justices was called by the CJP on Dec 19, 2014 in Islamabad to take stock of cases pending before ATCs and discuss different strategies for the expeditious disposal of pending cases with different courts in the country.
The meeting had also tasked the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistain (LJCP) Secretariat to review ATA and formulate recommendations for improvement or amendments in the law.
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Making friends and influencing people in the inimitable Palestinian way.
[IsraelTimes]. John Baird calls on Ramallah to reverse ICC bid; PA demands apology from Ottawa for opposing Paleostinian statehood moves
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird traveled to Ramallah Sunday to meet with Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki. After the meeting, as Baird left the city, dozens of Paleostinian protesters pelted his convoy with eggs and shoes.
The protesters held aloft signs reading: “Baird you are not welcome in Paleostine” and “Baird, Jerusalem is our capital.”
Activists from Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’ Fatah party earlier had called for a boycott of Baird because of Canada’s Middle East policies. “This person backs up the Zionist movement,” protester Abdullah Abu-Rahmeh said. “This person diminishes the rights of our people, takes part and backs up building of settlements. We tell him that he’s not welcome.”
Baird said after the meeting with Maliki that he had asked the Paleostinians to refrain from diplomatic moves that would make reaching an agreement with Israel even more difficult.
Activists from PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party had earlier called for a boycott of Baird because of Canada’s perceived pro-Israel stance. Baird nevertheless reported the meeting with Mailki was productive.
Chief Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... demanded that the Canadian government apologize for backing Israel and its “apartheid policies” and for preventing the Paleostinian people from achieving statehood. He also called on Arab countries to foil Canadian diplomacy.
“The Paleostinian people as well as the rest of the Arab and Moslem countries deserve an apology from the Canadian government for years of systematic attempts at blocking the right of the Paleostinian people to a state of their own,” Erakat said in a statement.
“We regret the Canadian government’s decision to stand on the wrong side of history by blindly supporting the Israeli occupation and its apartheid policies,” he declared. “Canadian FM John Baird has contributed to Israeli violations of Paleostinian inalienable rights, including our right to self-determination, by systematically lobbying against all Paleostinian diplomatic initiatives.”
Baird has in the past voiced strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself and has called for the demilitarization of the Gazoo Strip. Recently he urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to reverse a decision to remove Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, from its list of terror groups.
A potent stimulant popular both with jihadist fighters and soldiers in the Syrian army was seized in the West Bank, police from the Judea and Samaria district said.
In a statement put out on Friday, district police said that while checking a Palestinian returning from Jordan by way of the Allenby crossing they found 1.3 kg. of hashish as well as thousands of pills of Captagon.
The Palestinian man, a resident of Jericho, told police that the pills were to treat his heart condition. He was arrested and taken for questioning by Ma’aleh Adumim police.
A representative for the Judea and Samaria police district was not able to say on Saturday night if this was the first seizure of Captagon in the West Bank.
Captagon is the brand name for a stimulant with the active ingredient fenethylline, a chemical linkage of amphetamine and theophylline. The drug was outlawed in most of the west by the mid-’80s but remains extremely popular in the Arab world, especially in Syria, where much of it is manufactured.
Bootleg and generic copycats are quite common.
Recent reports have stated that Captagon is highly popular with fighters on both sides of the Syrian war; both jihadists from Islamic State and other groups as well as soldiers in the Syrian army.
An article published in The Guardian last week “Captagon: The amphetamine fueling Syria’s civil war,” said that the trade in the drug continues to bring millions of dollars in revenue each year, almost certainly paying for arms for rebel and jihadist forces and serving as a popular battlefield stimulant for fighters on both sides.
Earlier investigations by Reuters and Time said that the drug has become popular with Syria’s war-wracked civilian population.
In recent years, reports have surfaced that Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah have been helping fund their activities through the production and trafficking of large amounts of fake Captagon, producing powerful methamphetamine pills sold across the Middle East. Lebanese authorities have also busted a number of drug labs in southern Lebanon that were reportedly used to cook methamphetamines.
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It's all a misunderstanding. There's a large group of people in Syria who want to loose weight, and amphetamine is the way to go.
Besides, have you ever seen how fast someone can do their prayers on speed? (They just bang their head on the ground.)
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Here's a joke that needs a punchline: what do you get if you cross a muzzie with a woodpecker?
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The Germans lost Prussia and Silesia in their wars to their neighbors in 1945, you lost your war to destroy Israel in 1948. Why should you be treated any different? Wasn't till the neighbors who lost territory they ruled, since '48, in '67 without a chance to recover it that they decided to play this nasty game of pseudo existence they never recognized prior.
Iran's revolutionary guards' corps (IRGC) has confirmed that one of its senior commanders, general Mohammad Ali Allahdadi (or Dadi), has been killed by an Israeli strike on the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights. The air raid, which also killed six members of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, occurred near Syria's Quneitra border crossing with Israel. "Following the Zionist aggressions against the resistance in Syria, General Mohammad Allahdadi, a former commander of the Sarollah Brigade of the Revolutionary Guard, was martyred along with Jihad Moughniyah and three others in the same car," the Dana news website said. The senior commander was recently reassigned to support Shiite militias in Syria fighting with President Bashar al-Assad against the opposition to the regime.
The Israeli strike killed a commander from Hezbollah, Abu Issa, and the son of the group's late military leader Imad Mughniyeh. It came just days after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said frequent Israeli strikes in Syria were tantamount to a major aggression which called for a strong response. The Hezbollah-run al-Manar news channel said the Israeli attack suggested "the enemy has gone crazy because of Hezbollah's growing capabilities and it could lead to a costly adventure that will put the Middle East at stake". Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned the attack "of the Zionist regime as well as all acts of terror".
[AnNahar]. Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has increased security measures in its stronghold of Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs in the wake of the blast in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in the northern city 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... on January 10, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah on Sunday.
It said that members of the party have set up checkpoints near those already manned by the army and security forces.
The members are searching vehicles and inspecting the identification papers of passengers given the recent security developments in Leb and fears of an attack 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.... of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, said the daily.
Two jacket wallahs killed nine people and maimed 37 others in an attack on a cafe in the flashpoint Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen on January 10.
[AnNahar]. The disputes between the various Paleostinian factions in the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole have been exploited by Islamist forces in the area in order to impose their control over the camp, reported Ad Diyar daily on Sunday.
It's clear whom the terrifying gangs of Ein Al Hellhole consider the strongest horse...
Paleostinian forces had informed Lebanese security forces that they refuse to engage in a confrontation with the Islamists in order to avoid bloodshed and casualties among its residents.
A rare outbreak of common sense...
They also said that they do not have the means to confront the Islamist forces, voicing their readiness however to cooperate with official powers to isolate the terrorists.
Ah, if only they'd had more guns and ammo. Where the hell is the Widows Ammunition Fund when you really need it?
Media reports had in recent days revealed that runaways Ousama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi are currently residing in Ein el-Hellhole.
The daily An Nahar reported on Sunday that contacts are ongoing to study how to arrest Mawlawi, mulling the idea of carrying out a swift security operation to apprehend him.
See confrontation, avoidance of, above...
Mansour and Mawlawi are reportedly recruiting youth to join al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front by running an operation cell in the refugee camp.
The two runaways have been charged in absentia with belonging to an armed terrorist group in order to stage terrorist acts.
Iran and Russia will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the expansion of military cooperation, Press TV reported. The letter of intent will be signed by Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and his Russian counterpart General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, who is due in the Iranian capital, Tehran, for a two-day official visit on Monday.
During his stay, the Russian defense minister is expected to discuss bilateral issues as well as international developments with his Iranian counterpart.
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Attempts are being made near the United Arab Emirates’ coast to disguise oil from Iran so that it can be sold to countries that are blocked by the U.S. from purchasing such shipments, global ship insurers said.
“In recent weeks it has become apparent that sophisticated attempts are being made to dupe shipowners,” the London P&I Club said in a notice on its website today. The attempts to transfer cargoes between ships off the U.A.E.’s coast are to allow the transportation of crude to countries that don’t have a waiver to U.S. sanctions blocking the purchase of Iranian oil, it said.
The terms of U.S. sanctions allow China, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Taiwan and India to buy oil from Iran.
Two calls to the U.A.E.’s National Transport Authority in Abu Dhabi weren’t answered outside normal business hours. Nor were two calls to the National Iranian Oil Co., which were also made outside normal working hours.
The alleged attempt to disguise cargoes was also reported by the West of England Club. The organizations provide protection and indemnity cover to their shipowner members against risks including oil spills.
Both West of England and the London P&I Club are members of the International Group of P&I Clubs. Andrew Bardot, the London-based secretary and executive officer of the International Group, also said attempts have been made to disguise Iranian cargoes “recently.” He declined to say where he got the information.
Dirty Bomb or Nuclear suitcase? These are according to experts the options ISIS seeks now for performing huge attacks in the west.
Last year, an ISIS militant has claimed that the group is now in possession of a nuclear weapon. A British ISIS member now based in Syria, claimed on social media that the group obtained the uranium from Mosul University and now possesses a “dirty bomb” that it is now considering detonating in a public area. Such a device is aimed at spreading radioactive material in a big area.
But in recent days another threat has been studied by intelligence bodies. This threat is in the form of “suitcase nuke”
This is the experts say is a very compact and portable nuclear weapon and could have the dimensions of 60 x 40 x 20 centimeters or 24 x 16 x 8 inches. The smallest possible bomb-like object would be a single critical mass of plutonium (or U-233) at maximum density under normal conditions.
The warhead of a suitcase nuke or suitcase bomb consists of a tube with two pieces of uranium, which, when rammed together, would cause a blast. Some sort of firing unit and a device that would need to be decoded to cause detonation may be included in the “suitcase.”
Another portable weapon is a “backpack” bomb. The Soviet nuclear backpack system was made in the 1960s for use against NATO targets in time of war and consists of three “coffee can-sized” aluminum canisters in a bag. All three must be connected to make a single unit in order to explode. The detonator is about 6 inches long. It has a 3-to-5 kiloton yield, depending on the efficiency of the explosion. It’s kept powered during storage by a battery line connected to the canisters.
After the Soviet Union was disassembled, there were reports that some “Suitcase Nukes” were stolen and are offered on the international black market. ISIS, according to the experts, is an organization that will not hesitate to use such a device. Does ISIS/L have what it takes to maintain these critters?
Many years ago we discussed here at Rantburg the issue of suitcase nukes in the hands of jihadi groups. Quite a few of us turned out to be qualified to have an opinion. The consensus at that time was that small nukes require frequent and very technical maintenance, without which the things rapidly turn into very shiny paperweights -- and that it was highly probable the jihadis did not have technicians capable of doing the work. But I have no idea if this is still true. What say you, Rantburgers?
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[Breitbart]. He warned that the Islamic State is much stronger than we think, and that their recruiting has brought motivated jihadis from across the globe. Each day, hundreds of new enthusiastic fighters are arriving, explained Todenhofer. There is an incredible enthusiasm that I have never seen in any other war zones I have been to. Animals. And, until we have leadership that recognizes them for what they are, I don't see much in the way of de-enthusiasm on the way .
ISIS seems to have stalled at the tens of thousands level for some reason... Eventually someone on their side will notice.
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Start with your own people, that'll be your ruin.
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Personally, I believe in strict adherence to the Golden Rule.
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Might want to open this and save it. NYPD is about to pull it from the site.
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Understanding this trend and the radicalization process in the West that drives
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Unremarkable people wanting to become "remarkable." For reasons unknown, many people today want to become famous or infamous. If fame is elusive, then infamous will do. Not long ago there were some local kids who wanted to shoot up and blow up their school and thus exceed the score of the Columbine duo. You have to wonder why getting the public spotlight and attention is so important to the unremarkable. There are plenty of legitimate and useful ways to get public notice--they do involve some work. When these legitimate means are used, usually those who are so needy of attention will find that getting attention is not the important part of doing something contributive.
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Unremarkable people wanting to become "remarkable." For reasons unknown, many people today want to become famous or infamous.
Oh, I get to play contrarian again maybe get to use a few generalizations.
Instead of 'famous' or 'infamous', how about 'matters'?
How about being marginalized by the culture? How many have intact, involved families? If you're not shuttled from day care or a nanny from the moment you leave the maternity ward to play dates or "supervised activities," you're left on your own.
Other marginalizations: You get told that, if you're a guy, you're a rapist-by-nature. Standing up to urinate is a crime against humanity. Males are hormone-driven idiots; certain skin colors even moreso. You get classed by society on whether you go or don't go to school or university, and which ones. You get told that blue-collar work is demeaning and a dead-end (and besides, you're taking a job away from some poor immigrant /sarc) If you're an immigrant, you either get used by politicians to advance their agenda, or in the case of Europe, you get shuttled off into separate areas.
Automation is increasing, yet the worthwhile alternatives for those not capable of going along for the ride are fewer. The pols are more than happy to put you on the dole, since it keeps you quiet and pays off political favors.
So you're on the dole, or get caught up in a culture that glorifies the thug life, or living with a parent or grandparent, or if you find work or push yourself to get schooling, you're given the impression that you've 'sold out'.
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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad 
[ABC.NET.AU] Governments and security agencies around the world are struggling to contain violent extremism and need to invest more money to stop terrorist attacks, according to a leading Australian terrorism expert.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
Iran's revolutionary guards' corps (IRGC) has confirmed that one of its senior commanders, general Mohammad Ali Allahdadi (or Dadi), has been killed by an Israeli strike on the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights. The air raid, which also killed six members of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, occurred near Syria's Quneitra border crossing with Israel. "Following the Zionist aggressions against the resistance in Syria, General Mohammad Allahdadi, a former commander of the Sarollah Brigade of the Revolutionary Guard, was martyred along with Jihad Moughniyah and three others in the same car," the Dana news website said. The senior commander was recently reassigned to support Shiite militias in Syria fighting with President Bashar al-Assad against the opposition to the regime.
Too bad, he wandered into the wrong kill box. Keep dancing. 
[AnNahar]. The disputes between the various Paleostinian factions in the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of 
