[ARABNEWS] Egypt's chief prosecutor on Tuesday referred a police officer to trial for the killing of a female protester during a peaceful demonstration nearly two months earlier in a widely documented shooting.
The death of 32-year old Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, a mother of a young boy, in January on the eve of the 2011 uprising's anniversary caused an intense public outcry. Despite widely circulated footage that showed two masked, black-clad coppers pointing their rifles in El-Sabbagh's direction as gunshots rang out and a voice commanded "fire," authorities initially denied that police had any involvement in her death.
Almost all of the over 100 coppers tried for killing protesters during Egypt's 2011 revolution were acquitted, with judges citing shoddy investigation or lax evidence in cases largely probed by the police themselves.
The uproar over El-Sabbagh's death prompted Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi ...former general under Mubarak, then Defense Minister. Egypt overthrew Mubarak and endured a year of ham-fisted Moslem Brüderbund rule so al-Sissi could run for President-for-Life... to urge an investigation but he hinted that individual mistakes should not undermine public confidence in the police.
That's only true if individual mistakes, and the individuals who commit them, are investigated and prosecuted appropriately. Otherwise yes indeed it will undermine public confidence, and for good reason. Despotic states never quite figure this out...
Chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat said in a statement that the investigation revealed El-Sabbagh died from birdshot fired toward her and other protesters by an officer ordered to disperse the protest. Barakat charged one police officer with involuntary manslaughter, punishable by up to seven years. No trial date has been set.
El-Sabbagh's family lawyer Mohammed Abdel-Aziz said authorities had denied him access to the investigation or the right to attend the interrogations.
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[Libya Herald] The Indonesian government has become the latest to warn its nationals to avoid travel to Libya because of deteriorating security.
The Indonesian foreign ministry has encouraged Indonesians to contact the embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and to prepare for evacuation. It has said that they should be aware of their surrounding at all times and stay abreast of all developments.
Though it is not known how many Indonesians are working in Libya, it is not thought the number is large.
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I would have thought this was a no brainer, but then we're talking about the country where Obama received his primary education.
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When the only jobs to be had are in places like Libya, ed, what are the working poor to do?
* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FOPRUMS > MALAY MUSLIM GROUPS CALL FOR [full] NATIONWIDE SHARIA LAW, to be implemented ASAP AMAP.
* Also from TOPIX > [Malaysian Chronicle] MALAY VIDEO "WILL BOOST SUPPORT" OF ISIS IN MALAYSIA.
* RELATED WORLD NEWS > GOVT. PULLS/BANS VIDEO SHOWING INDONESIAN CHILDREN ARMED WID ASSAULT WEAPONS.
VERSUS
* WORLD NEWS > THAI MUSLIMS "UNLIKELY" TO JOIN WITH ISIS MILITANTS.
Gonna prove difficult to prevent given that Malaysia is just across the border from Thailand per se, and Muslim-populated Southern Thailand in particular.
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I suspect the USDOD may want to dust off the old SEATO plans + think about setting up a dedicated, independent or autonomous SE Asia or South Asia CENTCOM agz the Hard Boyz???
* TOPIX > [UPI] US NAVY COMMANDER SUGGESTS ASEAN PATROLS FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA | [Bloomberg] US NAVY URGES JOINT SE ASIA PATROLS OF [for] SOUTH CHINA SEA.
USN 7th FLT Chief = El Supremo Navales = VADM. Robert Thomas.
Again, iff the EU can have its own army independent of US-led NATO, why not similar for EU-wannabe ASEAN???
[Hurriyet Daily News] Rather than drawing closer together, the EU and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... are drifting apart due to growing authoritarianism in the latter, stuttering growth, and a faltering Kurdish grinding of the peace processor, non-governmental organization the Independent Turkish Commission warned on March 17.
Turkey is no longer "the rising regional star" that it was during the first half of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's 12 years in office, stated the Commission, which is led by Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
"Today, Turkey faces myriad challenges: Growing authoritarianism, unimpressive growth, and a faltering Kurdish grinding of the peace processor," the Commission said in an open letter addressed to the Turkish government and the EU.
"With a 900-kilometer border with Syria, it is hosting nearly two million Syrian refugees and is vulnerable to attacks and infiltration 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, ISIL]. Tensions with both Iran and Israel have become deeply entrenched, and the country has become increasingly dependent on energy from a revanchist Russia," it stated.
"Turkey cannot confront these challenges alone," the Commission added, pointing to the fact that the EU accounts for almost 40 percent of Turkish trade, 70 percent of its foreign direct investment, and more than 50 percent of its tourism industry. "The country's economic ties with its southern neighbors have spiraled downward since the Arab Spring in 2011," it said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on March 17 rubbished suggestions that talks should be held with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , saying that negotiating with the Syrian leader would be no different from shaking hands with Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... .
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THat means in the opinion of Erdogan Al Assad is a great man.
[DailyCaller] President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... 's appointees have airbrushed Iran out of the terror section of the 2015 annual report on national security threats, just as he tries to negotiate a nuclear weapons deal with Iran's theocratic leaders.
The 2015 "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community" excludes Iran and its network of jihadi groups who are motivated by Islam's Shia sect, from the report's terror section.
Instead, the assessment focuses entirely jihadis motivated by the Sunni sect of Islam, including those in al-Qaeda and ISIS, sometimes known as 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.... "Sunni violent snuffies are gaining momentum and the number of Sunni violent Death Eater groups, members, and safe havens is greater than at any other point in history," the report admits.
That's a big shift from the 2014 report, when Iran's network of jihadis -- chiefly, the Hezbollah army in Leb -- got their own subsection.
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[REUTERS] Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a high school friend his older brother was "very strict" and might not like him because he was not Moslem, the friend testified on Tuesday.
Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and shooting dead a university police officer three days later.
Stephen Silva, who federal prosecutors contend loaned Tsarnaev the gun used in the shooting, said he had long been friends with the defendant but had never met his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died following a shootout with police four days after the bombing.
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[DAWN] The second victim of Lahore lynching incident has been identified as Babar Noman, a garment worker who had come from Sargodha in search of employment at a factory, DawnNews reported on Tuesday.
The family members of Noman have come forward to claim the dead body of the dear departed. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... police officials are persistent that the identity of the dear departed can only be confirmed after the reports of DNA tests.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... police buried the dead body of the victim on Tuesday evening which will now be exhumed on court's order following the application from victim's family.
The first victim was identified when Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore's Nishtar Colony cop shoppe on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his brother Naeem.
Muhammad Saleem said his brother worked as a glass cutter and had nothing to do with church bombings in Lahore.
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[DAWN] Rangers officials on Tuesday filed a case against 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) Chief Altaf Hussain for threatening the paramilitary force, DIG South Abdul Khaliq Sheikh said.
The case has been registered under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 506 of the Pakistain Penal Code at the Civil Lines cop shoppe in the metropolis on the request of the paramilitary force, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com.
Rangers spokesperson Col Tahir Mehmood has filed the case against the political party.
The Rangers official maintained that following the raid on MQM Headquarters, Altaf -- in an interview on Geo News -- threatened members of the paramilitary force who were involved in the operation.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... has reiterated his strong condemnation of the mob that brutally killed two men in the aftermath of the deadly church bombings in Lahore's Youhanabad area, saying that the lynching witnessed on Sunday is "the worst form of terrorism".
Nisar, speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, invoked the example of earlier attacks on imambargahs and mosques, and said that a violent mob reaction like that in Youhanabad was not witnessed in those incidents.
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Except maybe for the other methods that involve various means for removing sections of people, fast or slow. (Bombs at one end of the scale, knives at the other.)
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by death row convict Saulat Mirza against the return of the second review plea.
Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk presided over an in-chamber hearing of an appeal against a decision of the Supreme Court office to return the second review petition by hit man Saulat Mirza who is to be hanged at Machh Jail in 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... .
The court office returned the petition, filed by Advocate Sardar Latif Khosa on Jan 6 on behalf of Saulat Mirza, on the grounds that a three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Syed Deedar Hussain Shah had already dismissed the earlier review petition on March 9.
Advocate Sardar Latif Khosa then submitted a petition challenging the office's decision to return the petition however the court rejected the petition, reinforcing the office's objections.
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[ARA] Abu Saad al-Ansari, the imam of the Zahra mosque in the sub-district of Qayyarah in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in northern Iraq, called upon people of the city during Friday prayers to urge their sons to volunteer in the ranks of 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/ISIS) in order to protect the lives of civilians from the attacks of what he described as "Safawis" (in reference to Shiite Popular Mobilization forces), a local source told ARA News.
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Mosul, you say? COntrolled by the Sunni crackpots for over a year? Whadddidja think he'd say, "Peace and love, Brother"?
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[APNEWS.MYWAY] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory after a tight national election appeared to give him the upper hand in forming the country's next coalition government.
In a statement released on Twitter, Netanyahu says that "against all odds" his Likud party and the nationalist camp secured a "great victory."
Initial exit polls showed Netanyahu's Likud Party deadlocked with the center-left Zionist Union.
But the results indicated that Netanyahu will have an easier time cobbling together a majority coalition with hard-line and religious allies. Netanyahu said he had already begun to call potential partners.
With 75 percent of precincts reporting before dawn on Wednesday
Likud 31 seats
Zionist Union 24 seats
Yesh Atid 11 seats
Joint Arab List 11 seats
Kulanu 9 seats
Bayit Yehudi 8 seats
Shas 8 seats
Yisrael Beytenu 7 seats
United Torah Judaism 6 seats
Meretz 5 seats
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With nearly 90 percent of precincts reporting before dawn on Wednesday, the Likud opens up a significant edge over Zionist Union in the distribution of Knesset seats.
According to the official up-to-the-minute tally, Likud wins 30 seats while Zionist Union comes in second at 24 seats.
The parties that follow are Joint Arab List (13); Yesh Atid (11); Kulanu (10); Bayit Yehudi (8); Shas (7); United Torah Judaism (7); Yisrael Beytenu (6); and Meretz (4).
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Dir, I saw as low as 17 seats. Apparently the thought of Arabs in charge of the government, along with Obama's interference in the election, swung things to Likud BIG. It also didn't help the opposition that their leader said he'd trust Obama to get a good deal with Iran.
I think that more than anything else panicked people and won Likud the day. But what do I know, I'm not an Isreali.
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As per #6, Netanyahu's fear of Israeli Arabs-Muslims "voting in droves/large masses" indics to me that the clock is ticking agz traditional Israeli policies.
However imperfect or unsettling, DEMOGRAPHICS DON'T LIE - THE TIME IS NOW FOR ISRAEL TO LOOK "OUTSDIE THE BOX" + FORMALLY JOIN NATO-EU + OTHER POLITIES IN ALLIANCE.
Moreso wid OWG Globalism leading or inducing the US to engage in WORLD-WIDE STRATEGIC SELF-RETREAT = "MILPOL/GEOPOL SELFIE". GOD HELP ISRAEL + WEST IFF THE BAMMER'S POST-JAN. 2017 SUCCESSOR IS ANOTHER SUPER-PC, ANTI-US US = ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN GLOBALIST.
* FYI TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > NYT COLUMNIST THOMAS FRIEDMAN CALLS FOR US TO ARM ISIS AGZ IRAN.
IIRC Mr. Friedman is Jewish - not unlike the USA vee Rising Iran, Friedman is calling on the US to support-n-arm the anti-Israel, anti-US ISIS in order to offset Going-Nuclear-wid-US-n-Western-Help-n-Support Shia Iran, I.E. EMPOWERING = MAKE STRONGER AN ENEMY OR RIVAL, + ALIGNED, THAT COULD TURN AROUND + EXISTENTIALLY DESTROY ISRAEL + US-WEST.
Such is the flux we are in.
WESTERN CHRISTIANS ARMING THE OTTOMANS IN ORDER TO DEFEAT CONSTANTINOPLE = BYZANTIUM.
[RUDAW.NET] Aerial attacks in November by Syrian forces on the city of Raqqa -- the "capital" of the so-called 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.... (ISIS) -- killed scores of civilians and "may amount to war crimes," Amnesia Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday.
I've heard that war is Hell, especially for women, children, small, fuzzy things, and the human shields of the evil ones. It seems this is herewith once again demonstrated.
A series of Arclight airstrikes between November 11-29 "led to the deaths of up to 115 civilians, among them 14 children," the London-based international watchdog said in the report, titled "Al-Raqqa under attack: Syrian air force strikes against civilians."
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115 deaths over the course of 20 days? Putin needs to transfer some Badgers to Assad so he can speed things up. Assad will run out of cash long before ISIS runs out of human shields.
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Assad will run out of cash long before ISIS runs out of human shields.
Could it be that Assad is reminding ISIS that Raqqa is not as safe as they'd previously believed? That their aura of invincibility is nothing more than the play of light on air, not an expression of Allah's shield over his most faithful?
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] UN Sherlocks offered Tuesday to share information from secret lists of alleged Syria war criminals with prosecutors, to help bring perpetrators to justice.
The commission of inquiry on the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... situation in Syria has been compiling lists of people suspected of committing war crimes in the brutal Syrian conflict for the past four years, but kept them secret for use in future prosecution.
The Sherlocks have repeatedly appealed to a blocked UN Security Council to refer the cases to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , but in vain.
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish forces want to exchange 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.... captives for a group of captured Peshmerga who were seen paraded through an ISIS-held village in metal cages, an official told Rudaw on Tuesday.
A propaganda video released last month by ISIS, showing at least 18 caged Peshmerga on public display in Hawija, sparked outrage from the families of the victims and the Kurdish street. More than 70 friends and relatives of the hostages staged a protest in Kirkuk,
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I'd bet a whole dollar that the savages will otrch or otherwise-horribly-murder their captives, just to show how 'rightous' they are. And to see if the Kurds have the stones to do something equally savage.
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[ARA] Subsequent to the atrocities committed by bad boy fighters of 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.... group (IS/ISIS) against the Yezidi Kurdish minority in northern Iraq, many Yezidi children who were displaced with some family members from Shingal area took shelter in Newroz refugee camp in the countryside of Derik (Malikiya) in Hasakah province, northeastern Syria.
The Yezidi refugee children suffer severe psychological problems, medical sources in the camp reported.
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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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[Hurriyet Daily News] Rather than drawing closer together, the EU and 
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[REUTERS] Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a high school friend his older brother was "very strict" and might not like him because he was not 
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