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The people pushing the retaliation are the Courtney Massengale types that Obama and the Progressives have promoted. Progressives do this sort of vindictive retaliatory punishment (for exposing their incompetence and failures) thing on a regular basis outside the military, so its unsurprising they should do it inside the military as well.
[NZHERALD.CO.NZ] An African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... summit meeting meant to discuss development issues was being overshadowed by the possible participation of Sudan's president, who risks arrest on international criminal charges if he enters host nation South Africa. Never happen. Heads of state don't get arrested, not since Richard the Lion-hearted was held for ransom.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. is travelling to the talks along with dozens of other leaders in South Africa's largest city Johannesburg, risking arrest due to standing International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... warrants for genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a report by the country's state media published on Saturday.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said South Africa was under a legal obligation to arrest al-Bashir and surrender him to the court. Her office has been in touch with South African authorities on the Sudanese president's reported visit, she said in a telephone interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"We've been in contact and we are basically reminding them of their obligation under the Rome Statute to have him locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! if he gets to South Africa," Bensouda said, referring to the court's founding treaty.
If al-Bashir is not arrested, the matter will be reported to the court's assembly of states and 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... Security Council, which first referred the case of Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court in 2005, she said.
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International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said South Africa was under a legal obligation to arrest al-Bashir and surrender him to the court.
They'll let you know when his plane has left J'burg.
[TIMESOFOMAN] Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Paleostinians to travel in and out of the Gazoo Strip for the first time in three months, in a possible sign of easing tension between Cairo and Gazoo's dominant myrmidonHamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement.
Gazoo, a small impoverished coastal enclave, is under blockade by neighbouring Israel and Egypt has kept its Rafah crossing largely shut since Cairo's the country's president was toppled by the army in 2013.
Two weeks ago, Egypt reopened Rafah for three days but only in one direction -- for Paleostinians stranded outside Gazoo to return home.
But Saturday's move, allowing travel in both directions, might signal a cautious improvement in relations between Cairo and Hamas after two years of high tension.
Local residents said an initial bus with passengers had crossed into Egypt and a source at Cairo international airport said Paleostinians were flying in to set out overland for Gazoo.
The Rafah border crossing will operate for six hours a day for the coming three days and 15,000 people Paleostinians have applied to exit to Egypt, said Maher Abu Sabha, head of the Gazoo side of the crossing.
He said those were humanitarian cases and included medical patients, students and Arab residents whose residency permits were about to expire. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... he said only 1,500 of those were actually expected to pass through.
According to Rooters a Paleostinian official said seven trucks with building materials for the private sector entered Gazoo on Saturday, the first time since 2007 that Egypt has allowed a commercial shipment via Rafah, which is mainly for passengers and humanitarian aid.
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Chinese soldiers on Thursday shot and killed a man trying to cross from North Korea into China when he resisted arrest, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
"Around 3:55 a.m. Thursday, a person suspected of illegally crossing the border was shot dead while resisting arrest by Chinese border guards in the area near Nanping Town in Helong, Jilin Province" Xinhua quoted a Helong city statement as saying.
It did not say whether the man was a soldier or a civilian.
Chinese border guards have drastically stepped up vigilance after several North Korean Army deserters murdered Chinese civilians.
Life is deteriorating in North Korea; army guards desert frequently now.
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But don't call China communist! They only shoot escapees from North Korea for the bounty! See? Pure profit motive!
[AnNahar] A French former Guantanamo detainee was barred from flying to Montreal, where he was to address a conference on Western youth radicalization, he said Friday.
Mourad Benchellali told public broadcaster Radio-Canada that he was stopped in Lyon, La Belle France from boarding an Air Transat flight because of U.S. concerns the aircraft would fly through U.S. airspace.
He said he was shocked to learn that he was on the U.S. no-fly list.
"I was coming to Canada to talk about prevention, to talk about my story. The goal is to dissuade young people from falling into a downward spiral," he said.
Conference organizers decried the application of "inconsistent measures that are both unjust and ineffective, and have been taken in an indiscriminate way in the fight against terrorism."
U.S. flight tracking website FlightAware showed the Lyon to Montreal flight did not cross into U.S. airspace. But the return flight would have flown over the U.S. state of Maine.
Benchellali, 33, was released from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba in 2004 after spending two years in detention.
He had been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, where he said he trained with al-Qaeda to gain the respect of his myrmidon brother.
But at a subsequent French trial he denied fighting U.S. forces or planning attacks.
The youngest in a French-Algerian family of radical Islamists, all of whom had been convicted for acts of terrorism, Benchellali recently told AFP he had been young and "naive" and eager to travel.
"At the time, al-Qaeda, bin Laden did not evoke anything for anyone. I wasn't going there with bad intentions," he said.
Since his release from French custody in 2007, Benchellali has published a book about his experiences and lectures often in La Belle France, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and Belgium on the perils of radicalization.
Six men accused of membership in Somalia’s Islamist militant al-Shabaab group go on trial in Germany. The Federal gave details of the charges, he says, “The federal public prosecution has brought a charge against six people. We accuse five of them of having travelled from Germany to Somalia and join the criminal and terrorist organization ‘al-Shabaab’, where they received training with heavy weapons and were sent on fighting operations.
We accuse one further person of having joined the group. Al-Shabaab has suspected this person of being a spy and therefore he was not accepted into their group.”
The defence lawyer for one of the accused says it is too early in the trial to reply to the prosecution.
According to media reports the accused men travelled from Frankfurt via Kenya to Somalia. On their way back in September 2014 two of them were arrested in Kenya and then deported to Germany. Three others were arrested in Frankfurt.
The trial is expected to continue until the end of August.
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Boeing is the lead contractor for A-10 sustainment and is fulfilling a contract for 173 sets of new wings for the fleet. The company has delivered 105 sets and does not expect that the contract will be canceled even if the Air Force retires the aircraft. The new wing is close to returning the A-10 to zero-time condition. [emphasis added]
A new engine "is one of the items on the agenda," The current TF34 is little changed from the original 1970s design and a number of suitable engines in the same thrust class are available. Boeing is also looking at a new targeting pod and a helmet-mounted display system with more integrated functions than today's A-10 offers with the Thales Scorpion.
The modernized A-10 is billed as a "low-cost counterterrorism" system, implying that it is aimed at Middle Eastern customers, which have shown increased interest in affordable attack aircraft since the rise of the ISIS movement. Of the two largest potential customers â the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia â Boeing has the closest relationship with the latter.
Affordable? There goes that lie the fighter mafia was trying to use as an excuse to dump the A-10. I guess if we are stupid enough to get rid of them, someone else will use them. Sounds like they can completely modernize this aircraft on the cheap, and operate inexpensively and effectively for a long time, like the BUFF. Give these to the Army, put them in Fort Rucker if the fighter snobs in the USAF dont want them.
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Think about it - replace the engines with better performing lower maint ones, replace the targeting system with better performing lower main ones, and you have a zero-time airframe with all that - what's not to like, other than the fact its not glamorous and not big budget for the fighter mafia and their pet congresscritters. And who cares about the fighter mafia - they should face the facts - they are going to be replaced for the most part by automated systems in the next 20 years.
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...You have to feel some pity for the idiot officers in the USAF's section of the E-ring - when they spend so much time finding proof that we can't afford the Hog, only to be helpfully presented with just as much (if not more) evidence that we can.
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Yes, and say a thank you to the Boeing executive, who pointed the information out to the press. He is probably in hot water with the Air Force brass right now. His Vice-President will be pissed too.
[AnNahar] U.S. 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... -- upon his release from hospital after breaking his leg -- insisted Friday he would soon head to Vienna as the deadline to finalize an Iran nuclear deal approaches.
"I talked to our team in Vienna. I will be absolutely fully and totally engaged in those talks. I am now. I haven't missed a tick," Kerry -- on crutches -- told news hounds as he left Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"I will be traveling over there at the appropriate moment in the next days in order to press forward at this critical moment of the negotiations," said the visibly tired Kerry.
The 71-year-old Kerry
Goodness. Those Democrats sure are oooold...
broke his right femur on May 31 in a fall on his bicycle in the French Alps during a working visit to Geneva for talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tehran's nuclear program.
He was flown home and underwent surgery in Boston on June 2.
In April, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany agreed in the Swiss city of Lausanne to the outlines of a deal aimed at ending the decade-old standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
According to this framework, due to be finalized by June 30, Iran will dramatically scale down its nuclear activities in order to render any dash to making nuclear weapons all but impossible.
In return, Iran, which denies wanting nuclear weapons, will see painful sanctions lifted by the six powers -- the United States, Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany.
Negotiations resumed Thursday in Vienna, but Russia's negotiator said there has been a "very worrying" slowdown in progress.
Kerry was expected to rest throughout the weekend in Boston.
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oh good. He brings a special incompetence and grovelry to the talks
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That and his new pain meds, Frank.
Could be an interesting meeting.
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He needs to get there before they run out of shrimp cocktails. They've been holding them for him.
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Youse wouldn't want us to break your other leg, would yez Jawn? Sign here, pass the shrimp more shrimp.
[AnNahar] The U.S. has largely blocked terror groups from moving money through banks, but tens of billions of dollars in illicit funds still transit the financial system each year, the Treasury said Friday.
In two new reports on money laundering and terror financing risks, the Treasury said some $300 billion in illicitly generated funds each year enters the economy, most of it from fraud but large chunks from the drug trade and other activities.
It said efforts to crack down on laundering these funds continue to expand, and for the most illegal activities -- drugs and terror -- have been increasingly successful.
Terror groups have been forced to move to physically transferring money amid crackdowns on their use of banks, money transfer businesses and charities to obtain and move funding, according to the reports.
"Because other more effective funds transmission routes are disrupted, the use of cash smuggling to move funds across U.S. borders -- while slower, less efficient, and more expensive than regulated or unregulated financial institutions -- continues to be employed by a variety of terrorist groups," they said.
But that is "making them more vulnerable," a senior Treasury official said.
The U.S. system itself still has important and evolving vulnerabilities, the reports said.
One is an increase in ostensible charity collections by individuals not tied to registered and recognized charities.
Another is the rise of online networks for money transfers, including encrypted, anonymous transfers of virtual currencies like Bitcoin.
Such networks "have attracted the attention of various criminal groups, and may be vulnerable to abuse by terrorist financiers," one of the reports said.
"For example, a posting on a blog linked to ISIL [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] has proposed using Bitcoin to fund global jihadist efforts," it said.
Washington -- A pause in prisoner transfers from Guantanamo Bay has ended with the arrival on Saturday in Oman of six Yemenis long held at the US prison for suspected terrorists. It was the first movement of detainees out of Guantanamo in five months as Congress considers new restrictions on transfers.
The six men boarded a flight on Friday from the US facility in Cuba, and their transfer reduced Guantanamo’s population to 116. President Barack Obama has now transferred more than half the 242 detainees who were at Guantanamo when he was sworn into office in 2009 after campaigning to close it. But he is far from achieving that goal. With just a year and a half left in his second term, final transfer approvals are coming slowly from the Pentagon and lawmakers are threatening to make movement out even harder.
The transfers to Oman are the first to win final approval by Defence Secretary Ash Carter, who has been on the job four months. The six include Emad Abdullah Hassan, who has been on hunger strikes since 2007 in protest of his confinement without charge since 2002. In court filings protesting force-feeding practices, Hassan said detainees have been force-fed up to a gallon at a time of nutrients and water.
And that's why he's alive today...
The US accuses him of being one of many bodyguards to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and of being part of a group planning to attack Nato and American troops after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
The five other detainees sent to Oman were identified by the Pentagon as:
— Idris Ahmad ‘Abd Al Qadir Idris and Jalal Salam Awad Awad, also both alleged bodyguards to bin Laden.
— Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Mas’ud, whom the US said fought American soldiers at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, before his capture in Pakistan.
— Saa’d Nasser Moqbil Al Azani, a religious teacher whom the US believes had ties to bin Laden’s religious adviser; and
— Muhammad Ali Salem Al Zarnuki, who allegedly arrived in Afghanistan as early as 1998 to fight and support the Taleban.
“The US is grateful to the government of Oman for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,” the Defence Department said.
The state-run Oman News Agency reported that the men arrived in the sultanate and would be living there “temporarily.”
Until they report back to Houthi HQ...
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman approved the men being in the country to aid the US government while also taking into account the men’s “humanitarian circumstances,” the agency reported.
The 11 detainees transferred so far in 2015 have all been from Yemen. Forty-three of the 51 remaining detainees who have been approved for transfer are from Yemen.
The Obama administration won’t send them home due to instability in Yemen, which has seen Houthis take the capital, Sanaa, and other areas despite a campaign of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting them. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network’s Yemeni branch that the US considers to be the most dangerous affiliate, also remains active.
“We are working feverishly to transfer each of the 51 detainees currently approved for transfer,” said Ian Moss, who works on detainee transfers at the State Department. “It is not in our national security interest to continue to detain individuals if we as a government have determined that they can be transferred from Guantanamo responsibly.”
Some lawmakers want to impose stiffer requirements for transferring Guantanamo detainees to other countries. Obama has threatened to veto a House bill in part because of the Guantanamo restrictions.
An administration official said Oman agreed to accept the six Yemeni detainees about a year ago. But the defense secretary must give final approval to the move, and that has been a slow process at the Pentagon.
The US administration official, speaking on a condition of anonymity without authorization to go on the record, said the Pentagon has sent no further transfer notification to Congress, which is required 30 days before detainees can be moved.
In a better world there would be consequences for ignoring the law...
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[DAWN] The army is finalising plans to launch the final phase of Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in mid-July to flush out Taliban bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems from their remaining strongholds along the border with Afghanistan.
"Preliminary preparations for the final push have started, which will begin next month," a senior military official told Dawn during a background briefing on the eve of the first anniversary of the commencement of Zarb-e-Azb.
The final drive will be in south of Dattakhel towards the border through the forested and mountainous Shawal Valley.
A large number of snuffies fleeing the operation in other parts of North Wazoo are believed to have taken refuge in Shawal Valley, which is considered to be an Al Qaeda sanctuary and a stronghold of Gul Bahadur, a warlord once considered pro-government.
Shawal has also been the focus of US drone attacks this year with seven of the nine strikes hitting targets in the valley in which at least 43 suspected snuffies were killed.
"Operation ZeA moves to last few pockets close to Pak-Afghan border," military front man Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, meanwhile, said in a twitter posting.
At the same time, in Khyber Agency, which the army claims has been mostly cleared through Operations Khyber I and II, troops would be clearing "a remaining small pocket," abutting on Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , besides "consolidating their earlier gains".
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[DAWN] The government is likely to take action against those responsible for granting last-minute reprieve to death row prisoner Shafqat Hussain who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday morning, according to sources in the Presidency.
The sources said the execution was apparently put off on the orders of the Sindh jail authorities.
Following an initial inquiry, they said, President Mamnoon Hussain had been informed about how the execution had been postponed and on whose instructions.
"The president has been told that an NGO, the Justice Project Pakistain (JPP), wrote a letter to the Sindh jail authorities requesting them to postpone the convict's hanging because his (fresh) plea had been accepted by the Supreme Court for a formal hearing," the sources said.
"In exercise of clause 104 of the jail manual, the jailer then stopped the execution," they said.
The halting of Shafqat Hussain's execution, hours before he was supposed to be hanged in the 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... Central Jail, had stunned all concerned, including the convict's own counsel.
The president's spokesperson had said at the time that neither any summary had been sent from the Prime Minister's Office for grant of mercy to the convict nor had President Hussain approved it.
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[DAWN] In a series of tweets, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... on Saturday marked a year since the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... with an overview of significant achievements.
While the information shared by the military's public relations wing cannot be independently verified, the short statement today said that so far 2,763 suspected gunnies have been killed in the North Wazoo operation. It added that 837 hideouts have been destroyed and 253 tons of explosives have been recovered.
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[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah constituted a three-member task force on Saturday to examine the report given by Rangers about the alleged generation of terror-funding in the metropolis through unlawful means.
The committee comprising Justice (retd) Ghulam Sarwar Korai (as it's chairman) and District and Session Judge (retd) Arjun Ram K. Talreja and Home Secretary Mukhtiar Hussain Soomro (as members) has been asked to submit its detailed assessment in four weeks' time.
Earlier, in the meeting of Sindh apex committee on June 4, the Rangers had given a detailed presentation that terror financing was done through collection of extortion money, land grabbing, China cutting and smuggling of Iranian oil.
The chief minister, keeping in view the information given in that presentation, has constituted a three- member task force to examine the report.
The committee has been given the mandate to examine the report and evidences about various modes of terrorism financing provided by Rangers. It will then fix the responsibility in the light of its findings.
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[DAWN] After over six months of unemployment, Murad Gul breathed a sigh of relief when he landed a job at 'Save the Children'. But in a cruel twist of fate, the government ordered the international aid group to pack up operations in Pakistain, rendering him and several others jobless.
Gul had previously served as a monitoring and evaluation manager at an international non-governmental organization (INGO) in Islamabad. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... after completion of the project he had been working for on a contractual basis, Gul faced unemployment for more than six months until the brief stint at 'Save the Children'.
"Despite eight years of experience in the development sector, it was still difficult for me to get a job after my project ended," Gul says.
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[AnNahar] Iran has asked Austria's government to take immediate measures to protect the cyber security of nuclear talks, media reported Saturday after reports emerged of suspected espionage at negotiation venues.
Swiss and Austrian authorities said on Thursday they had opened separate investigations into alleged spying in hotels where the nuclear talks with Iran are taking place.
IT experts pointed the finger at Israel, but deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely on Thursday denied that its secret services were involved.
In a statement, Iran's embassy in Austria, "demanded Austria's foreign ministry immediately provide all required security measures for the talks, including enhanced security for the venues as well as better cyber protection," the ISNA news agency reported.
Iranian embassies in Vienna and Bern, in separate notes, also asked the Austrian and Swiss foreign ministries to inform them of "the results of spying investigations" by both governments on nuclear talks.
A Russian-based security firm said on Wednesday the malware dubbed Duqu, a sophisticated spy tool believed to have been eradicated in 2012, appeared to have been used to spy on the nuclear negotiations.
The investigations come as the clock ticks down to a June 30 deadline for an accord between Iran and world powers.
Iran and the P5+1 group (Britannia, China, La Belle France, Russia, the United States and Germany) have held numerous rounds of discussion since November 2013, mostly in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and Austria.
Deputy ministers and experts from both sides are now in Vienna seeking to clinch a deal that curtails Tehran's nuclear program in return for relief from punishing sanctions.
Iran denies western allegations that it is covertly pursuing a nuclear weapon and insists its atomic activities are for peaceful energy purposes.
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[Ynet] A Salafist group which sympathizes with 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.... grabbed credit on Friday morning for the rocket fired at Ashkelon on Thursday night, which fell inside the Gazoo Strip.
The "Omar Brigades" grabbed credit for the last several rocket attacks on Israel.
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yay for us; we shot a rocket that didn't leave gaza; see how mighty we are
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[Ynet] Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, head of the Iranian military unit in charge of combatting sabotage, was quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying Saturday that instructions for the ban have already been drawn up, and await ratification.
Jalali argued that the main danger is the possibility that smartphone manufacturers, all of whom are based in Western countries, could have access to data stored on the phones.
And Israel, of course. Also China, though why they would be interested is beyond me.
Iran considers itself to have been the target of a complicated cyber war since 2010, when a virus known as Stuxnet disrupted controls on some of its nuclear centrifuges.
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As long as they don't mess with the roaches all is good.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Unified Command of Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus called on Nusra Front to join its alliance instead of forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta,' according to statement issued Friday,
"Please don't kill us!"
The statement of the key rebel group in embattled Suburbs of Damascus came in response to a call by al-Qaeda's Syria wing for rebel groups operating in Eastern Ghouta to form Ghouta's version of Fatah Army, like what Nusra did in Idlib province and Qalamoun region.
The Unified Command that includes Islam Amry, Ajnad al-Sham, al-Rahman Legion and al-habib al-Mustafa said its better for Nusra to join us that merging in new group.
Army of Fatah, a reference to the conquests that spread Islam across the Middle East from the seventh century, has seized swathes of territory northern Syrian since late of March 2015 including Idlib city, Jisr al-Shughour and Ariha towns.
In relevant development, Nusra Front with three rebel groups active in eastern Qalamoun have formed their own version of Fatah Army on Thursday as fighting with ISIS enters new stage after Palmyra takeover where the hardline group is pressing hard to seize control of Syria desert and Qalamoun region, activists said on Thursday.
Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... , Ahmed al-Abdo Gathering and Islam Army refused to join the new alliance while Jaysh Tahrir al-Sham, Rejal al-Malahem, Mujahedi al-Baddiya joined the Nusra Front.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Iran is bringing home the body of a top-ranking military officer killed in April in southern Syria, Iranian news agencies reported, at least the second senior Iranian to die there this year while supporting Damascus in the war.
Hadi Kajbaf, a major general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was killed near the rebel-held town of Busr al-Harir, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Damascus, the IRGC-linked Tasnim agency reported late on Friday.
Three other Iranians were killed alongside Kajbaf including a mid-ranking Shi'ite Moslemholy man, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iranian military and financial support have been crucial to helping Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... survive the war, now in its fifth year. The conflict is a focal point for Shi'ite Islamist Iran's power struggle with Sunni Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , which supports the bandidos bully boys battling to topple Assad.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front acknowledged on Saturday that its members were involved in the killing of Druze villagers in northwestern Syria this week, saying they had violated orders and would face justice.
Twenty Druze villagers were reportedly killed in the village of Qalb Loze in Idlib province on Wednesday when Nusra Front members opened fire in an incident that spiraled from their attempt to confiscate a house.
The Druze community, which is spread across the Levant, practices a religion viewed as heretical by the puritanical brand of Sunni Islamism espoused by 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.... , the two most powerful myrmidon groups in Syria.
In a statement, the Nusra Front said it had received with "great sorrow" news of the incident in which "a number of Nusra Front members" had taken part without consulting their leaders.
All those involved would face trial in an Islamic court, it added. "Everyone involved in this incident will be presented to a sharia court and held to account for blood proven to have been spilt."
The statement was circulated on a Nusra Front-affiliated Twitter feed. It did not give a casualty toll or describe what had happened in "the incident".
The Nusra Front is part of an alliance of myrmidon groups that has been gaining ground from Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... in northwestern Syria.
The shootings have triggered statements of concern for the Druze in Syria, including in the south where Death Eaters including the Nusra Front and Islamic State have been trying to advance towards Sweida province, a Druze stronghold.
Lebanese Druze leaders allied to the Syrian government warned the community faced an existential threat. Some have called for them to be sent arms.
Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , an anti-Assad Lebanese Druze politician, said, however, the incident was more "personal" - indicating he did not see it as sectarian - and must be resolved through political contacts with local and regional players.
The Nusra Front said it had sent delegations to the village to investigate the incident and to reassure the people that it happened without the leadership's knowledge and that they remained safe in areas held by Nusra Front.
The Death Eaters in southern Syria include groups that profess a secular outlook who say they want a diverse Syria that protects minority rights.
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