[AlAhram] A 10-page report issued by the Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee on Sunday launched a scathing attack on EU and UK politicians and MPs who defend "political Islam."
The report, issued in response to a UK House of Commons' foreign affairs committee's report on the Moslem Brüderbund and political Islam on 7 November, said it does not aim to defend the Egyptian government's security and legal measures against the Brotherhood group and its affiliated hard boy and terrorist organizations.
"Our report reflects our responsibility as elected MPs to stand against a group which seized its one year in power to turn Egypt into a religious state and show the world the true meaning of "political Islam," said the report.
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Hey, you old shitbag - got any condescending lectures for me today? Fuck you, and get off my fucking blog; I've been here since inception, so fuck right the fuck off, asshole.
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"So we are surprised by the new generation of European radical liberals and progressives who defend political Islam and thereby give cover for Islamist movements which claim victimhood to spread across Europe and create a fertile ground for Islamist radicals there," said Said.
Similar to what's going on in the U.S. and other places. The puppeteer's of the left seem to think they are immune to ISIS beheadings and the chaos they unleash. They have not caught on yet that there is no separation between religious, legal, financial and political Islam.
Look at the Dems/Progressives, for example; they are moving to appoint Keith Ellison, MB emeritus for life, as head of the DNC.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Cairo’s prosecutor general said in a statement on Sunday that the country’s President Abdulfatah al-Sissi had faced two previous liquidation attempts: one in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the second in Egypt.
The prosecutor said two cells, one based in Saudi Arabia, were coordinating to target Sisi during his trip to perform the minor pilgrimage known as umrah in the holy city of Makkah.
The prosecutor said the plot in Saudi Arabia was planned by two workers in the 76-story famous Clock Tower in Makkah.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the prosecutor did not disclose when the two cells were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... , but Sisi had already performed umrah in August 2014.
The second liquidation attempt was through a seven-member cell made up of six coppers, who were sacked over their Islamist allegiances, along with a dentist.
The leader of the terrorist cell, former police officer Mohammed al-Bakoutchi, reportedly confessed that he had provided information to Sinai Province, ISIS's Egyptian affiliate, over the dispersal of the Moslem Brüderbund’s Rabaa sit-in.
He also leaked information regarding Sisi’s itinerary as part of a plot to kill the president by targeting his motorcades.
The statement also did not detail when the second attempt to kill Sisi was foiled. But the officers, known as the "bearded officers," were arrested last year.
On July 3, 2013, Sisi, who was an army general, replaced the elected Islamist President Mohammed Mursi through a popularly-backed coup. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Islamists began protests which were put down by the security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... this is the first time that Egypt officially acknowledged liquidation attempts against Sisi. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... in June Sisi reportedly canceled his participation at the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... summit in Maurtiania due to "credible information" of a plot to kill him.
Egypt will try 292 krazed killer suspects over plots to assassinate Sisi and attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a prosecution official said Sunday.
The suspects, including 151 currently in jug, were referred to a military court for alleged membership of the "Sinai State", the local affiliate of the ISIS group, which is leading an insurrection in the Sinai.
The suspects were questioned about the accusations against them and 66 confessed during an investigation that lasted more than a year, the official said.
All of the suspects were involved in 17 operations, including two plots to kill Sisi, one while he was on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and one in Cairo, the official said.
The official gave no further details, but said those who planned the liquidation attempts were dismissed coppers who adhere to krazed killer ideology.
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History repeats itself: Following a failed Muslim Brotherhood attempt on his life, Nasser attacked the Ikhwan with incredible ferocity; Following attempts on Sisi's life the President seems bent on replicating the past.
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Assassinations are a common past-time in this part of the world. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 in Cairo. A fatwa approving the assassination (hit job) was put out by Blind Sheikh and Cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing during the Clinton administration. The Blind Sheikh is currently soaking up taxpayer money serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.
[Libya Herald] The head of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, has said that the UN arms embargo is stopping the defeat 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.... "We have only light arms. We need heavy arms. If we have those arms there will be no more ISIS [in Libya]", he said in an interview broadcast yesterday by French TV channel M6.
He could just do as any other regional warlord does and buy them on the open market, or do an underhanded deal with the Rooshuns...
The arms embargo was unjust, he added, and could not be respected or accepted. By holding to it, the international community was in effect simply taking a neutral position in battle against the Lions of Islam in the country. "If the embargo remains, if the world remains in the position of a spectator, we too will [be forced to] remain just spectators of ISIS".
The call is unlikely to be heeded. While Moscow is thought to be sympathetic to ending the embargo in order to crush IS in Libya, others on the Security Council are not. They have taken the line that the embargo will only end when the Government of National Accord is approved and in full control of the Libyan military.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Hafter’s demand comes just after his forces have finally managed to take Benghazi’s Gwarsha district. It is noticeable that, with it, there has been a softening of their previous opposition to him by some of Libya’s western allies.
Three days ago, at the time of the Gwarsha capture, US special envoy Jonathan Winer tweeted: "Tough sacrifices by #Libya National Army soldiers this week reported ‐ 20 killed & 40 injured in counter terror fighting in Benghazi. In similar vein, UK ambassador Peter Millett tweeted: "The #Libya-n National Army liberates #Benghazi’s Quwarsha from #ISIS & #AnsaralSharia. Condolences to the families of LNA deaders."
But, even if and when the Lions of Islam are finally crushed in both Benghazi and in Sirte, it is thought that this will not be the end of the matter.
Officials in Misrata say that many IS supporters managed to escape Sirte and are now regrouping elsewhere.
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Methinks the Klingons are a little gun-shy at this point, General Field Marshal.
[Libya Herald] The head of the Thinni administration’s media and culture authority ‐ in effect Beida’s "minister of information" ‐ has resigned in protest over today’s boom-mobileing in Benghazi. In a statement on his Facebook page, Khaled Najem said that he would continue in post only until a new appointment was made.
Security is not his remit but in his statement he alluded to rifts within the interim government over it, saying that there had been failings in providing it.
Security is the joint responsibility of both the military and the interior ministry but there has been disarray in regard to it for months. Over the past year the Thinni administration has had four acting interior ministers ‐ three in the past six weeks ‐ and there were damaging squabbles during the summer over who heads Benghazi’s security directorate. This has undermined security as a whole.
Today’s bombing and Najem’s resignation may well push the military leadership around Khalifa Hafter and Abdul Razzaq al-Nazhouri to formally take over control of the police and security directorates throughout the east of the country.
Najem was appointed head of the media and culture authority eleven months ago when Thinni sacked Omar Gawairi.
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[Iran Press TV] A brother of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN),
...Shiite troublemakers egged on by Iran, of course...
has accused officials in the African country of medical negligence.
Madamasi Yaqub, Zakzaki’s half-brother, told Press TV in an interview aired on Monday, that the holy man’s health was currently better than the time he was brutally attacked by Nigerian army last year, but added that Nigerian officials still denied the Shiekh proper medical treatment.
He said there were still problems with Sheikh Zakzaki’s eyes, adding that his left eye was not working but his right eye could be treated if the Nigerian army allowed the transfer of the holy man to a proper medical facility.
"They have many reasons to deny him medical care. Their mission was to kill him and it was God’s miracle that he survived," Yaqub said, adding that the Nigerian army knew that killing the holy man could have huge repercussions.
He said Sheikh Zakzaky was actively performing his leadership roles for the Islamic Movement in Nigeria despite his poor health conditions behind the bars.
Yaqub also blamed the US, Israel and 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... for the increasing persecution and harassment of Shias in Nigeria.
"They will continue to do everything possible to exert their hegemony over Nigeria’s economy and political affairs," he said through a translator.
Yaqub said a recent attack on followers of the IMN in Kano, which came during the Arba’een mourning rituals in the city, was a plot to annihilate the Islamic movement.
Yaqub said some elements in the army have been irked by the growing popularity of Shia movement in the country and in Africa in general.
Nearly 100 IMN supporters were killed last Monday, after Nigerian forces fired live rounds and tear gas at mourners during a peaceful march held ahead of the Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PTUI!), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that since the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, that over 3,200 Russian have joined the terrorist group.
"According to our estimates, the threat [for Russia] is posed by the turbans of Russian origin, who have been trained in Iraq and Syria," Ilya Rogachev, the Russian foreign ministry’s official for new threats and challenges, told RIA Novosti.
"According to the data of law enforcement agencies and security services, more than 3,200 Russian citizens have left for the conflict zone," he continued.
"The global terrorist threat has taken a new dimension because of the emergence and activities of ISIS in Syria and Iraq," he said.
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Nothing like a drone putting high explosive on a server farm that the little butt head was using.
Considering how much money he costs the US taxpayer it's only fair we cost the equivalent in damage in the UK.
Thousands of green cards are missing because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials apparently sent them to the wrong addresses, jeopardizing national security, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report made public Monday.
“It appears that thousands of green cards have simply gone missing,” DHS Inspector General John Roth said in a news release. “In the wrong hands, green cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.”
The USCIS in the last three years received more than 200,000 reports from approved applicants claiming their cards were never delivered, the IG found. Monday’s audit — a follow-up to a March IG report saying USCIS officials sent hundreds of green cards to the wrong addresses — revealed “the problem was far worse than originally thought,” the IG said.
But the actual number of missing cards is unknown, as USCIS relies on reports from applicants, the IG said. (RELATED: Immigration Printed, Mailed Hundreds Of Inaccurate Green Cards)
The number of reports about missing cards increased from 44,519 in fiscal year 2013, to 67,247 in fiscal year 2014, to 92,645 in fiscal year 2015, partly because of technical problems with the agency’s immigration database and partly due to U.S. Postal Service issues, according to the IG.
The IG also found USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards with incorrect information or were duplicates. USCIS, in addition, gave cards with 10-year expiration dates to 2,400 immigrants approved only for two-year conditional residence status. USCIS hasn’t recovered the majority of those incorrect cards.
The IG blamed most of USCIS’s errors on the “flawed design and functionality” of the agency’s Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). The IG has issued previous reports on the cost overruns and delays in updating the agency’s immigration database, but USCIS hasn’t fixed all of those issues.
Okay, Mr. President-Elect, here's a place where cracking a few heads together might make a difference.
The USCIS agreed with the IG’s recommendations to correct design and functionality problems with ELIS, create internal controls to make sure USCIS officials detect green cards early in the production process, develop a standardized process for recovering incorrectly issued cards and find a way to make sure unrecoverable cards aren’t used.
The USCIS desperately questioned the fairness of the IG’s finding on cards sent to the wrong addresses, hand waving claiming USCIS uses the last known address of the applicant and the 200,000 figure includes people who call multiple times for service.
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"We meant Los Angeles California and instead sent them to Lahore, Pakistan. Our bad. Could've happened to anybody"
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Have they tried to match the addresses to those listed as donors to a certain political party?
[Daily Excelsior] Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said the armed forces in Kashmire have complete power to shoot at those wielding guns, instead of waiting for the Death Eaters to open fire and "getting martyred".
"When I took over as the Defence Minister, the first thing I told them (soldiers) that if you see machine gun or pistol in anyone’s hand, don’t expect that he has come to say hello to you. Before you get martyred, you should eliminate him," Parrikar said addressing BJP’s election rally at Vasco last evening.
"In Kashmire our Army was fighting with the terrorists. Congress Government had given them direction that till they (terrorist) fires bullet on you, you don’t retaliate," he said, claiming that the morale of the Army has gone up since Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government has come to power in the Centre.
In the backdrop of intense ceasefire violations by Pakistain, Parrikar said the Indian troops have complete power and they are giving apt reply to the enemy.
"Our soldiers now don’t need to seek permission from the Defence Ministry to fire at the person who fires at them. They have complete power and they are giving apt reply to our enemy. I feel bad that some of our soldiers are martyred," the former Chief Minister said.
Parrikar said it took almost six to eight months for him to understand the functioning of the Ministry.
"I was initially not understanding how Defence Ministry works. It took 6-8 months for me after that I understood," the former Goa Chief Minister said.
Parrikar said the recent surgical strike across the LoC has put forth the message that the Government will not be aggressive, but at the same time "will also not take things lying down".
He also said the cross-border tension would ease if Pakistain stops violating ceasefire agreement.
"Surgical strike has given a message that Indian Government will not be aggressive but will also not take things lying down," Parrikar said.
Responding to questions on the Army’s action against terror camps and the recent rise in ceasefire violations across the border, Parrikar said if the ’timetable’ of such violations is observed, there is always some political angle to them.
"The tension between India and Pakistain would cool down only when Pakistain will stop violating ceasefire agreement," he said.
Parrikar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to improve the relations between the two countries "but he was severely criticised".
We welcome good relations always, but not at the cost of national interest," he added.
When asked about growing indigenisation of technology in ship building and missiles, the Defence Minister said, "We want to achieve 75 per cent indigenisation of technology at least. One must not forget that 100 per cent indigenisation of such technology is not possible anywhere in the world."
Parrikar also said that the need is to increase the speed to clear the backlog of projects.
"Most of the defence projects are streamlined and the waiting period for their commencement and completion has come down drastically. We need to increase the speed and focus on projects more so that we will complete the backlog. Synergy of various departments has helped to achieve it," he said.
Earlier, the Minister commissioned ’INS Chennai’, the third indigenously designed guided missile destroyer in the Kolkata class.
Built at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in Mumbai, the ship’s construction also marks the end of the Project 15A to build Kolkata-class guided missile destroyers.
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forces in Kashmir have complete power to shoot at those wielding guns, instead of waiting for the terrorists to open fire and “getting martyred”. They are dead either way.
[BBC] Weapons meant for Western-backed rebels in Syria are ending up in the hands of so-called Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq - but how are they getting there?
James Bevan and his small team step carefully into a residential house in Qaraqosh, not far from Mosul in Iraq.
A long trail of blood by the entrance and near-ready suicide vests just inside the door confirm what they have been told by a local militia group - this was a position used by fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS).
The team are from the group Conflict Armament Research (CAR). The investigators carry only notebooks and cameras as they hunt for evidence.
Bedding, clothes and remnants of life from the family that once lived there litter the house. But in a backroom, they find what they are after - empty boxes of ammunition.
They shout out details as they take notes and photos. Their aim is to understand how weapons get into the wrong hands.
"To date, the international community has been blind to the fact that weapons are being diverted into conflict affected areas," Mr Bevan explains.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said Sunday it was going to kick out reporters working for Asharq al-Awsat newspaper following a report in which it claimed that unwanted pregnancies were rampant among Shia pilgrims in Karbala.
In a statement, the command said that “based on the lies and insults” made by the newspaper about the Iraqi people, it was decided that “every reporter affiliated with that sick newspaper be kicked out and prevented from presence with the troops.” The command accused the newspaper of seeking to divert attention from success in securing the religious season and victories against the Islamic State militants in Nineveh.
The Saudi-owned, London-based newspaper, attributing its report to a World Health Organization mediaagent, said several cases of illegal pregnancies were detected in Karbala, the holy Shia city where millions of Iraqis and foreign visitors are flowing to commemorate the death of Imam al-Hussein, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson.
The WHO categorically detached itself from the report in a statement on Sunday, vowing to take legal action against the newspaper. The newspaper, on its behalf, offered an apology and said it was going to discharge its reporter in Baghdad who made the report, stressing it was still committed to “professionalism and objectivity.”
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi also stressed on his country’s right to sue the paper.
Influential Shia leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, had also labelled the report a “filthy infringement”. He, too demanded an apology or, otherwise, the newspaper’s office “shall be closed through the well-known methods,” as he put it, in a possible reference to a violent option.
[RUDAW.NET] An ISIS krazed killer taken captive by Kurdish Peshmerga forces on the Nawaran front north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last month has confessed that he was one of the turban group’s executioners and that he had beheaded six Shiite hostages on his first day of training. "I mean, I didn't think there was anything wrong widdit. They wouldn'ta told me to if there was, would they?"
"I joined ISIS through someone from our area named Abu Mahmood," Hassan Hamza, 21, from a village near Nawaran told Rudaw of the time he first joined the radical group. "Abu Mahmoud?" If that's not an alias it should be.
"He asked me to become a krazed killer 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.... and said ’I will get you a salary. If you are martyred you will go to paradise’ and I said ’alright’." "Hey, it sounded like a good deal."
"What'd he tell you would happen to you if you wuz captured?"
"We didn't talk about that."
"Too bad."
From his village Hamza was taken to a military base where he was put through weeks of basic training until appointed a guard at an ISIS shelter near Tal Afar, west of Mosul.
"One day when I was in Tal Afar, a special ISIS force came and their emir [leader] chose me alongside a few more saying ’we are taking you to Raqqa’. As soon as we arrived, they put us in a base outside the city which was surrounded by lots of gardens." Hamza recalled.
During his first six months with ISIS, he said, he "received strong and regular trainings. Then, they chose six of us to train on how to carry out beheadings." "That's it? All we gotta do is chop heads off?"
The training began by watching beheadings of hostages and prisoners carried out by more experienced ISIS gunnies "then I was called to repeat the same thing." "There's gotta be a catch to this somewhere!"
"After we watched the beheading scenes, they would tell us about the importance of such punishments." Hamza now said. "After that, the trainers would behead some people in front of us." "Now stand back, trainees! You don't wanna get no blood on you! It ain't halal!"
When the day came for him to put his learning into practice Hamza was brought a number of Shiite hostages and told to "behead some of them as training, so I beheaded six of them."
The former ISIS executioner revealed that he and his fellow gunnies had been indoctrinated by the group that the Kurdish Peshmerga were "infidels and we have to do jihad against them."
Now in captivity, Hamza feels that his ISIS superiors had deceived him and he regrets his actions. "You gonna cut my head off?"
"Prob'ly just hang you."
"What ISIS said about the Peshmerga was not true as they treated me in a good way," he said of his time since his capture. "They are Moslems and they do pray." "And they're gonna hang me."
Not sure whether or not it will reach them or not, Hamza sent out a message to his fellow gunnies urging them to put down their weapons and stop fighting or their only fate is death.
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"behead some of them as training, so I beheaded six of them. Almost did seven, but that's a prime number and I'm kinda OCD about that"
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[RUDAW.NET] Local authorities in Kirkuk are working on forming a new special police force -- up to 700 strong ‐ to augment security following the deadly ISIS attacks that killed more than 100 people last month, many of them from the security forces.
The new force, to number between 500 to 700, is to be formed from existing coppers.
"We have brought together a good number of coppers from the cop shoppes and checkpoints. We will form the new regiment from these coppers," Afrasyab Kamil Ways, spokesperson for Kirkuk police, told Rudaw.
"The decision is that this force will be well-trained, well-armed and in full possession of all equipment needed in every aspect," he added.
He said that, with the formation of the new forces, there will be 75 coppers left at every cop shoppe, a number much smaller than at present. He explained that, with the formation of the new regiment, if there are additional coppers, they will be redistributed among the cop shoppes.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Region’s presidency said on Monday that remarks by a Shiite leader who reportedly threatened to deploy the Iraqi forces in Kurdish areas liberated by the Peshmerga, follow the path of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ISIS, both enemies who lost due to the bravery of the Kurds.
Baqir Jabir Solaq, a Shiite leader from the Islamic Supreme Council, in remarks published on social media and some media outlets titled "Bashiqa, we are coming," reportedly said the Iraqi forces and their allied Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries have become strong enough to head to liberated Kurdish areas
"We now have a strong army and Hashd al-Shaabi that cannot be stopped by any border or embankments as a response to the remarks by some that say they will stay in areas that were liberated recently by the Peshmerga," Solaq said.
The Islamic Supreme Council is headed by the powerful Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakeem, who also heads the Shiite National Alliance with whom the Kurdish parties had very strong relations, in particular during their struggle against the former Iraqi regime, ties which have continued since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Last month, the Kurdish President Masoud Barzani in a joint presser with Hakeem in the newly-liberated Bashiqa town hailed the unprecedented cooperation between the Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga in their war against the ISIS.
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Unmentioned is the hope that Allah will step in to defeat him, because otherwise Hamas will be defeated at his "Jewish" hands -- an unthinkable thought.
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Hell, the truth is worse, evidently he's a Presbyterian. Or that was the last church he was in, musta been the burning bush logo that interested him.
[IsraelTimes] Move follows criticism by UN’s atomic watchdog that Tehran’s supply exceeded 2015 nuke deal limits
Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that the country has transferred some of its surplus heavy water to Oman for sale.
The late Sunday report quotes Behrouz Kamalvandi, front man for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying, "In view of the progress of talks with several foreign firms and countries to purchase heavy water, some quantities of Iran’s surplus production has been transferred to Oman."
Iran was criticized last week by the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, for Tehran’s second minor breach this year of the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.
A report showed that Iran’s stock of so-called heavy water had inched above the level agreed under the landmark accord.
Heavy water, a modified form of normal water, is used in certain types of nuclear reactors.
The 2015 nuclear deal states that Iran’s "needs" are estimated to be around 130 metric tons of heavy water.
"It is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation" of the deal, Yukiya Amano, director general of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week in Vienna.
The 2015 nuclear deal went into effect in January to cap Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
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Heavy water, a modified form of normal water, is used in certain types of nuclear reactors...you mean like those designed to produce isotopes for nuclear weapons? Iran would never cheat would it?
[AlAhram] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's victory and the war on 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.... have given Iran's hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps what it sees as a unique opportunity to claw back economic and political power it had lost.
Sidelined after a nuclear deal was reached with Iranian leaders and the administration of President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... and major nations, the IRGC is determined to regain its position in Shi'ite Iran's complex governing structure.
Republican Trump said in the campaign that he would abandon the 2015 deal that curbed Iran's nuclear ambitions in return for the lifting of economic sanctions. His tough stance, in contrast to Obama's olive branch, is expected to empower hard-liners who would benefit from an economy that excludes foreign competition.
In addition, the Quds force, that conducts IRGC policies overseas, has played a successful and key role on the battlefields of Iraq increasing the Guards' kudos at home.
"Trump and the Islamic State forces of Evil were gifts from God to the IRGC," said a bigwig within the Iranian government, speaking to Rooters on condition of anonymity like other figures contacted within Iran.
"If Trump adopts a hostile policy towards Iran or scraps the deal, hard-liners and particularly the IRGC will benefit from it," a former reformist official said.
Elected in a landslide in 2013 on a promise to end Iran's diplomatic and economic isolation, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has struggled to reconnect Iran's economy to world markets and to attract foreign investment.
Uncertainty over the nuclear deal, unilateral U.S. sanctions, political infighting in Iran alongside complex regulations, labour issues and corruption have hampered a post-sanctions economic revival causing concern to Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who blames the government.
Sanctions Benefitted IRGC
Deeply loyal to Khamenei, the IRGC was created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The IRGC first secured a foothold in the economy after the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War when the holy manal establishment allowed them to invest in leading Iranian industries.
Involved in a wide range of businesses, from energy and tourism to car production, telecoms and construction, the IRGC's empire grew by taking billions of dollars in projects vacated by Western oil companies because of sanctions imposed to curb the nation's nuclear ambitions.
Trying to limit IRGC influence, Rouhani's government stalled or cancelled some major projects with the IRGC, including a $1.3 billion deal with National Iranian Gas Co. in March 2014.
Under the nuclear deal, international sanctions were lifted in January opening up the Iranian economy, thereby threatening the IRGC power base. Now the Guards see an opportunity to lever back their position in the Iranian hierarchy.
"The IRGC will use Trump's win to convince the holy manal rulers to give them more political and economic backing. This is what they have been hoping for since the deal was reached," said the senior government official, who declined to be identified.
"If Trump's presidency scares away foreign investors from Iran, then it is the IRGC that will regain its economic power," said a former reformist official close to Rouhani.
"More economic involvement of the IRGC means a riskier market for foreign investors. It will hinder Rouhani's planned economic growth and will give more political power to the IRGC and their hard-line backers," the reformist official added.
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Obama's olive branch, also known as the Obama-Kerry-Clinton Folly (similar to when Neville Chamberlain got rolled by the Nazi). Maybe Trump can figure out a way to get all our boodle (Jizya) back to the U.S.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States on Monday named a dozen Syrian generals and officers accused of leading attacks on civilian targets in the five-year war and warned they would one day face justice.
US Ambassador Samantha Power said the military commanders were involved in "killing and injuring civilians" with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes since the outbreak of the war in 2011.
"The United States will not let those who have commanded units involved in these actions hide anonymously behind the facade of the Assad regime," Power told the Security Council.
Among those named were five major generals -- Adib Salameh, Jawdat Salbi Mawas, Tahir Hamid Khalil, Jamil Hassan and Rafiq Shihadeh -- along with five brigadier generals and two colonels.
The council met as Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria including Aleppo, where food rations were running out in the besieged eastern part of the city.
"Those behind such attacks must know that we in the international community are watching their actions, documenting their abuses and one day they will be held accountable," said Power.
"These individuals feel impunity," she said, warning that so did former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and Liberian warlord Charles Chuck Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. who faced trial for war crimes.
"Today’s atrocities are well-documented and the civilized world’s memories are long," she said.
UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien told the council that nearly one million people were living under siege in Syria, revising figures from six months ago that showed nearly half a million Syrians were cut off.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former consultant to Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he filed a false tax return substantially understating how much he was paid and conspired to violating a US sanctions law.
Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, 60, entered his plea in federal court in Brooklyn to charges that he conspired to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and aided in the preparation of false individual income tax returns.
As part of a plea deal, Sheikhzadeh agreed to not appeal any sentence of 5-1/4 years in prison or less, said Steve Zissou, his attorney. Sheikhzadeh, who has also agreed to pay over $147,000, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 30.
Sheikhzadeh was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in March, two months after when world powers led by the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... lifted crippling sanctions against Iran in return for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Prosecutors said Sheikhzadeh had been a long-term consultant to Iran’s UN mission since 2008 and had been paid a regular cash salary, often through a someone employed there, which he deposited into a Citibank checking account.
Prosecutors said from 2008 to 2012, Sheikhzadeh under-reported his UN income on his person tax returns.
The indictment said he also used his Citibank account for side transactions with two US-based co-conspirators who wished to invest in Iran, and at their request directed an Iran-based co-conspirator to funnel money to people in that country.
Prosecutors said Sheikhzadeh did not obtain any license from the US Treasury Department authorizing these and other activities.
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Saudi Arabia can't dispense largess like it used to, President Aoun, and it's only going to get worse. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Newly-elected Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... has said he looks forward to reviving and consolidating ties with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The news comes shortly after Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled al-Faisal invited Aoun to visit Saudi.
Al Faisal, governor of Makkah and an adviser to the king, said during an official visit to Leb that Aoun had promised to visit as soon as a new Lebanese government was formed.
The Saudi delegation also announced that it will hold meetings with Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
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But surely they have one, or several, anyway. We have plans to invade Canada, should the need arise.
[CNSNEWS] In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said that the U.S. military could defeat 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.... if the commander-in-chief asks for and implements its plan.
Host Rachel Martin was interviewing Keane about his decision not to accept President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s offer to serve as Defense secretary, but the report included questions about Trump’s remarks on the campaign trail that he knows more than the generals when it comes to defeating ISIS.
"The military knows how to fight a war," Keane said. "And I told [Trump] - if you're going to do what you suggest - said you were going to do and ask for a campaign plan from the Pentagon for how to defeat ISIS, believe me, you'll get a comprehensive campaign plan with many options in it that this president has never asked for."
Keane said that, in fact, Obama routinely did not take the advice given to him by the military or, if taken, "reduced" those recommendations.
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Champ doesn't need a Pentagon plan. He employs the Klingon targeted assassination of senior leaders plan.
[RefugeeSettlementWatch] They are worried. And, as my good friend Richard (Blue Ridge Forum) would say, it has a lot to do with rice bowls. What? you ask! Have you ever heard the phrase ’breaking rice bowls?’ It happens a lot when a new administration comes in to power and a lot of people have their livelihoods placed on the line perhaps for the first time ever!
In a story ostensibly about what is going to happen to the new resettlement site of Northampton, Massachusetts, the head of the local Catholic Charities tells us a good bit about what went on when 452 worried refugee resettlement workers got on a conference call with presumably leaders of the two main federal agencies that administer the program and dole out the federal bucks in Washington.
BTW, as we have mentioned previously, both the Asst. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration and the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (as political appointees) will soon be on their way 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.
Thousands of green cards are missing because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials apparently sent them to the wrong addresses, jeopardizing national security, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report made public Monday.
[RUDAW.NET] An ISIS
[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Region’s presidency said on Monday that remarks by a Shiite leader who reportedly threatened to deploy the Iraqi forces in Kurdish areas liberated by the Peshmerga, follow the path of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ISIS, both enemies who lost due to the bravery of the Kurds.
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[RefugeeSettlementWatch] They are worried. And, as my good friend Richard (Blue Ridge Forum) would say, it has a lot to do with rice bowls. What? you ask! Have you ever heard the phrase ’breaking rice bowls?’ It happens a lot when a new administration comes in to power and a lot of people have their livelihoods placed on the line perhaps for the first time ever!
