[Libya Herald] In light of the recent killing sprees in Benghazi, with ten liquidations last Friday and another eight yesterday, the Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) has warned that such politically motivated killings may be deemed war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
According to HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson, "the militias and individual killers are killing people on all sides with complete impunity. Those responsible for the latest killings in eastern Libya should be aware that the ICC prosecutor has a mandate to investigate grave abuses like these in Libya."
So long as the ICC prosecutor doesn't have to go to Benghazi him/her self. It's dangerous there you know...
In a statement issued 25 July, the ICC prosecutor warned that her office "would not hesitate to investigate and prosecute those who commit crimes under the Court's jurisdiction in Libya irrespective of their official status or affiliation". Under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, the ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in Libya since 15 February 2011.
The victims of the deluge of liquidations that have remained unpunished since 2012 include journalists, activists, judges, prosecutors and members of the security forces, the HRW said. The killings that took place this past Friday in Benghazi -- "Black Friday", as the activists are calling it -- targeted victims with a wide range of political views, ranging from former members of Qadaffy's security forces to two teen activists, the group added.
According to the HRW, killings of civilians are war crimes if committed by parties to the armed conflict in Benghazi. Murder on a systematic or widespread scale as a state policy or by an organised group is a crime against humanity.
Investigations were opened by the ICC prosecutor in 2011 against senior figures of the former regime, but no investigations have been conducted since, despite the rise in serious violations in Libya, including forced displacement, arbitrary detentions, torture, and attacks against civilians, the group said.
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[Libya Herald] The saga of two rival Libyan administrations continued yesterday as new members of Omar Al-Hassi's "National Salvation Government" have been sworn into office 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...
One day after the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk voted to approve Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni's cabinet, General National Congress (GNC) head Nuri Abu Sahmain presided yesterday over the swearing in of a number of Omar Al-Hassi's "cabinet" members.
Those sworn in yesterday, according to Buwabat Alwasat and the Libyan news agency LANA, include Third Deputy PM Ali Mohammed Omar and Fourth Deputy PM Tayeb Mustafa Abdulsalam.
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[CHANNELSTV] The Nigerian military has confirmed that one Mohammed Bashir, who has been acting or posing on videos as the dear departed Abubakar Shekau, the eccentric character known as the leader of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation in the north-east.
In a statement, the front man for the military, Major General Chris Olukolade, said that Mr Bashir was killed after members of the terrorist group made not less than four attempts between September 12 and 17 to violate the security strategy and enter Konduga to attack citizens in the area.
"Air and land forces were subsequently deployed to handle the situation.
"The convoy of combat vehicles typical of terrorists' mission that involves their top commanders, were fiercely engaged by the land and air forces. Several of the Lions of Islam including some of their commanders bit the dust in the encounters which lasted an average of about four hours each, leading to the death of the man claiming to be Mr Shekau," the statement read.
According to Mr Olukolade, the troops captured some of the Lions of Islam and their equipment. He explained in the statement that "after normality was restored, inhabitants of the community, who were victims of Lions of Islam activities corroborated information on the identity of Mr Bashir, alias Abubakar Shekau, alias Abacha Abdullahi Geidam and alias Damasack".
He emphasised that the recent devastation on the leadership of the turbans was as a result of the renewed commitment to the mission of eradicating terrorism in Nigeria.
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First female UAE combat air force pilot. Flies the F16. Participated in this week's festivities. Nice bio.
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Wow! When at Strike ( NATC Pax River) we had a Saudi F-18 on loan; when the time came to retrun to the Sauds, we not only had to change out the seat cushions, but also the entire seat because a female test pilot had occupied the cockpit and this direction came straight from the State Department as the Saudis had lodged a formal complaint. Could this really mean moderate Moslems exist?
[ARABNEWS] The son of Crown Prince Salman, minister of defense, was among the eight Saudi airmen who took part in a US-led Arclight airstrike against 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) targets on Tuesday.
Prince Khaled bin Salman, a pilot, took part in the operations, sabq.org newspaper reported on Wednesday, much to the pride of his father, who expressed admiration at the team's professionalism and bravery in standing up to the enemies of Islam.
A large number of Saudis, meanwhile, sent tweets praising the valor of Saudi pilots.
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... pledged stronger cooperation with the international community in combating terrorism.
"Saudi efforts will continue to eliminate terror outfits, including the IS," said Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting.
"The participation of the Kingdom in the US-led strikes against IS comes in response to...terror organizations that distort the image of Islam." He said that the US-led efforts may require more time and resources to completely destroy krazed killer organizations.
"We have participated in US-led strikes because our interests necessitate such a move and to support Syrian brothers in their struggle, as well as to protect them from the evil of this deviant group," said Prince Saud following his participation in the global forum on fighting terrorism. "We hope that this work is the beginning of a serious counter-terrorism move at the international level," said the prince.
The Saudi air force personnel who took part in the operation have since received online death threats after their photos were published by the SPA, an official told Arab News.
A report said that the killing of IS and Al-Qaeda cadres in the Arclight airstrikes is what prompted IS members to issue threats to the Kingdom and its airmen. One Twitter user said the airmen were "wanted by IS," while another said their throats "would sooner or later be slit."
Sami Al-Faraj, an adviser to the GCC, said: "We view IS as an existential threat. If we don't put a stop to it, it will expand into our area."
The British, Dutch and Belgian parliaments are shortly going to consider proposals to join the US-led coalition's Arclight airstrikes on Iraq, according to a report published in Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, on Wednesday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, meanwhile, is expected to issue a formal request for British assistance.
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ISIS elements are apparently now operating in Riyadh and thus seen as a threat by the princes of KSA.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Saudi pilots who conducted air strikes on jihadists in Syria received online death threats on Wednesday after photos were published of those involved, among them a son of the crown prince.
The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) released photographs of eight airmen it said were involved in Tuesday's US-led operation, carried out with Gulf allies.
In one picture they stood, some smiling, in green flight suits with arms around each other in front of one of their fighter jets.
One of the pilots involved in the raids is a son of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz himself, according to Saudi newspapers.
Dozens of 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) and al-Qaeda murderous Moslems were reported killed in the coalition air raids, sparking jihadist threats online where the Saudi pilots' photos reappeared.
One Twitter user said the air force men were "wanted by IS" while another said their throats "will sooner or later be slit".
A broader threat came from a Twitter post which called for the killing of police as well as military men.
Some internet users, however, defended the Saudi airmen. "The Saudi pilots returned safe and sound on Tuesday morning after having accomplished their duty in carrying out successful and effective strikes against the Islamic State holy warrior organization in Syria," SPA said overnight.
The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Jordan also confirmed their participation. Washington said Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... was also involved.
"My sons, the pilots, fulfilled their obligation toward their religion, their homeland and their king," SPA quoted crown prince Salman as saying.
He was "proud of the professionalism and bravery" of the Saudi air force men, SPA said.
Their combat mission happened to coincide with the kingdom's 84th national day.
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... is dominated by the ultra-conservative Sunni doctrine of Wahabism.
The kingdom's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh last month said al-Qaeda and the IS group "have nothing to do with Islam and (their proponents) are the enemy number one of Islam"
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What will KSA's reaction be to 1) the threats 2) any actual attack on pilots?
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CrazyFool. I am a software, TCP/IP guy. I knew about RFC1149. That is why I thought about web surfing over Carrier Pigeons: you write an URL on a paper, attach it on a pigeon and then you send the pigeon to the Secret Police Post Office where a friendly Policeman Postman enters the URL on computer and either prints the answer and sends it to you or orders your arrest.
A strongly worded resolution calling for North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un to take responsibility for his regime's crimes against humanity is anticipated to be considered by the United Nations General Assembly next month.
"The European Union and Japan have completed a draft resolution that endorses the February report of the Commission of Inquiry [into North Korean human rights] and will soon circulate it among UN member states," a diplomatic source told the JoongAng Ilbo yesterday.
That will do it alright. Now it's time for lunch.
The draft of the resolution is expected to state that Kim was involved in the suppression of human rights in North Korea, and it indicates that the international community wants Pyongyang to set straight its dismal human rights record regardless of its internal affairs.
On Feb. 17, the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights in North Korea released a landmark report concluding that senior members of North Korea's military regime, including leader Kim, had committed or overseen a broad range of crimes against humanity and advised the UN Security Council to bring the issue to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The report was the conclusion of the COI's yearlong investigation into systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in North Korea. Pyongyang did not participate in the investigation. It described victims of the regime being summarily executed, subject to rape, forced into abortions and persecuted for reasons including political or religious beliefs.
On March 28, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution endorsing the COI report and urging the UN General Assembly to formally submit the report to the Security Council. It said the Security Council should refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court to enable prosecution of its leaders - including Kim - and consider imposing sanctions against those most responsible for the rights abuses.
Just as soon as they get done with the abuses committed by the former Yugoslavia, Libya and Boko Haram...
However, the draft resolution led by the EU and Japan is not likely to directly recommend that Kim be referred to the ICC. Instead, it is likely that the General Assembly will submit the entirety of the COI report to the Security Council.
The UN General Assembly has approved resolutions on North Korea's human rights situation since 2005, but this would be the strongest to date if it passes, according to foreign affairs officials.
And equally as effective...
UN General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding. But a resolution directly linking the Pudgy Kim Jong-un regime with crimes against humanity at the UN level is expected to make a strong impact on Pyongyang. Crimes against humanity do not have a statute of limitations under international law, and will leave a permanent brand on Kim and the North Korean leadership as suspects open for prosecution.
The wording of the resolution is expected to be finalized next month after working groups review the draft. Then, the draft resolution is expected to be voted on by the General Assembly in November, and if approved, it will be referred to the Security Council afterward.
"Australia, the home country of Judge Michael Kirby, chair of the COI, was also very active, and there is a high likelihood that the resolution will be adopted through the momentum on the issue in the UN General Assembly," said one foreign affairs official.
Another diplomatic source said, "Because human rights problems are a universal issue to mankind, it will be a burden on China or Russia to stick up for Pyongyang against other member states."
They'll somehow manage...
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NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for greater international attention to North Korea's human rights violations, saying that remaining silent about the problem would be the "greatest abuse of all."
Champ and Kerry both made statements in the last day with which I agree? I feel faint, I'd best go lie down...
Kerry made the appeal during a ministerial meeting he hosted in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly while urging Pyongyang to shut down all political prison camps across the communist nation, which he described as an "evil system."
"We simply cannot be blind to these egregious affronts to human nature and we cannot accept it, and silence would be the greatest abuse of all," Kerry said.
Good words, Jahwn, though if good words would get things done you, Champ and the UN would be effective...
Kerry stressed that the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's report on the problem has lifted the veil on the issue, referring to a report released in February that North Korean leaders are responsible for "widespread, systematic and gross" violations of human rights.
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SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea has decided to purchase 40 F-35A fighter jets from the U.S. defense firm Lockheed Martin in a deal worth 7.3 trillion won (US$7.04 billion), the state arms procurer said Wednesday.
Under the purchase deal, Lockheed Martin will transfer fighter production technologies in 17 sectors to be used for South Korea's project to develop an indigenous next-generation fighter jet, the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said.
"We held negotiations from March to September on technology, price and trade-off conditions and decided to adopt 40 units even under the limited conditions of the (state-to-state) foreign military sales (FMS) process," a DAPA spokesman said. "The purchase price per unit is around 120 billion won."
After signing a formal deal with the U.S. later this month, the military will push to deploy the new combat planes from 2018 to 2021, he noted. The purchase program is designed to replace South Korea's aging fleet of F-4 and F-5 fighter jets.
Also on Wednesday, DAPA finalized a plan to produce an indigenous next-generation fighter. Under the 8.5 trillion won project, the military will manufacture 120 units of an upgraded middle-size fighter jet to be deployed from 2025, the spokesman added.
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...And no screaming/wailing/gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes from up Pyongyang way yet? They're slippin'.
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That's a lot of Samsung smart phones and Hyundai cars...
The World Food Program says North Korea’s food ration for August was only 250 grams per person per day, the lowest figure since 2011 and significantly below Pyongyang’s target of 573 grams.
The WFP report released Tuesday describes the food availability situation in the North as "severe." The U.N. food assistance agency indicates September's rations appear to be about the same level as the prior month.
The agency says the deteriorating food situation is mainly due to a dry spell this spring, when key producing regions experienced prolonged periods of below-average rainfall.
The WFP visited 133 households in 28 counties throughout North Korea this year for a regular review. The U.N. agency found that of the households interviewed, most did not consume an acceptable diet - both in terms of food quantity and quality. The report warns “The evident cereal shortage in DPRK can significantly increase the risk of acute malnutrition, especially among vulnerable women and children.”
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SEE, True Communism works !!
As a Laxative and a boon for Undertakers. So Karl Marx and Mao were right after all. It has lasted a hundred years and now we know.
Socialism is next. You didn't build that, and all that. The Bright New World of Next Tuesday.
Just right for a Mayonnaise sandwich if we had some Bread..you didn't bring any mayonnaise did you?
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No, but I know someone named Virginia Mayo. Does that count?
North Korean leader Pudgy Kim Jong-un has been out of the public eye for 20 days since attending a concert on Sept. 3 with his wife Ri Sol-ju.
Pic is the last known public viewing of Fat Boy and his evil wife. Dang but he's a porker...
This has led to speculation that he is ill.
Or dead, with the various factions keeping it very quiet until they divide the boodle. If we had a CIA worth anything we'd be spreading this rumor throughout the North so as to incite a rebellion...
In July he was seen on state TV in July with a slight limp in his right leg and again earlier this month limping on his left leg.
The official Rodong Sinmun daily on Tuesday claimed Suet Face Kim "labored on" by paying visits to various facilities braving the hot summer weather. A source says that could be a hint that he is ill with fatigue, but it could equally mean he is on summer holiday.
Or dead, as in dead, 'd 'e' 'a' 'd' dead...
The North Korean leader appeared in public 17 times in June, 24 times in July and 16 times in August. But his only public appearance in September was the concert.
A Unification Ministry official warned against jumping to conclusions. "In 2012, His Corpulence Kim Jong-un disappeared from view for 23 days and last year for 17 days," the official recalled. "Of course it's possible that there is something wrong with his legs."
Hwang Pyong-so, the head of the Army politburo who constantly shadows Kim during his on-the-spot guidance tours, has also disappeared from view.
He might be dead as well. Did he stop the second-to-last bullet?
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only now can it truly be said that the Islamist fascists have won. They have degraded the freedoms and civil protection that made our Western democracy great. They goaded us into throwing away the Enlightenment principles reducing the gap between our civilisation and their backwards theocratic tyranny
Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers will face up to 10 years' jail for disclosing classified information. they also get the power to break state, territory and Commonwealth laws with immunity from prosecution and to force courts to accept illegally obtained evidence So they're just like the American Congress. Politicians are the same the world over...
The government's first tranche of tougher anti-terrorism laws, which have nothing to do with terrorism but give pornographic absolute powers to the security agencies. They will decide what they do to whom and when, and in secret and sometimes because they enjoy it
beef up the domestic spy agency ASIO's powers, passed the Senate 44 votes for and 12 against on Thursday at 9.35pm AEST with bipartisan support from Labor. thus proving Labor to be a phony opposition. Also revealing how hollowed out australia's media has become. The news cycle chasers depend on press releases and leaks for all their news. So when there is bipartisan agreement then all the party stooges stay silent. They don't ring journos to complain. The party-funded think tanks don't put out research, studies or press releases. so barely a peep in the media
Very few journalists can use their own loaf. This one, Ben Grubb can be proud.
The bill, the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014, will now be sent to the House of Representatives, where passage is all but guaranteed on Tuesday at the earliest. the unelected security agencies want these laws so badly they conducted the biggest ever terror raids, 900 cops to charge 1 person. They filmed and used professional photographers and gave all the juicy footage to the press who they usually starve for stories. Then they told the politicians there was a terror threat and put heavily armed police in the halls of Parliament to scare the Pollies into thinking the Moslems were going to kill them. They wanted to pressure Parliament to vote the laws in a hurry. They coukd have gone for redrafting and back for a third reading but they want them through fast so people don't get time to read it all
Anyone -- including journalists, whistleblowers and bloggers -- who "recklessly" discloses "information ... [that] relates to a special intelligence operation" faces up to 10 years' jail.
Any operation can be declared "special" and doing so gives ASIO criminal and civil immunity. Many, including lawyers and academics, have said they fear the agency will abuse this power. Those who identify ASIO agents could also face a decade in prison under the new laws, a tenfold increase in the existing maximum penalty. destroying Freedom in order to save it. What have you got left? And they still haven't outlawed Islamist fascism. Nothing has been done about banning Sharia law
The new laws also allow ASIO to seek just one warrant to access a limitless number of computers on a computer network when attempting to monitor a target, which lawyers, rights groups, academics and Australian media organisations condemned.
They said this would effectively allow the entire internet to be monitored, as it is a "network of networks" and the bill doesn't specifically define what a computer network is.
Professor George Williams of UNSW previously warned that the laws were too broad.
"The problem is [this specific new law regardless of amendments] applies to computer networks and the internet is a computer network -- it's a network of networks," he said.
Most groups that had complained of the new laws also said they feared the new disclosure offences went too far, with the Australian Lawyers Alliance saying they would have "not just a chilling effect but a freezing effect" on national security reporting.
Attorney-General George Brandis did not seek to allay their concerns on Thursday but said in a "newly dangerous age" it was vital that those protecting Australia were equipped with the powers and capabilities they needed. When the laws passed on Thursday night he said they were the most important reforms for Australia's intelligence agencies since the late 1970s.
On Wednesday afternoon, Senator Brandis confirmed that under the legislation, ASIO would be able to use just one warrant to access numerous devices on a network. The warrant would be issued by the director-general of ASIO or his deputy.
"There is no arbitrary or artificial limit on the number of devices," Senator Brandis told the senate.
Senator Brandis did, however, say on Thursday that he didn't believe the new laws targeted journalists specifically, despite concerns from journalists and media organisations that they would be targets.
The new laws instead targeted those who leaked classified information, like the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, Senator Brandis said.
"These provisions have nothing to do with the press."
Despite this, Senator Brandis refused to say whether reporting on cases similar to Australia's foreign spy agency ASIS allegedly bugging East Timor's cabinet and ASD tapping the Indonesian president and his wife's mobile would result in journalists or whistleblowers being jailed.
The Australian Greens, through Senator Scott Ludlam, put forward an amendment that would limit the number of computers ASIO can access with one warrant to 20 but it failed to gain support from Labor or the government.
Speaking after the bill passed, Senator Ludlam told Fairfax Media he was disappointed.
"What we've seen [tonight] is I think a scary, disproportionate and unnecessary expansion of coercive surveillance powers that will not make anybody any safer but that affect freedoms that have been quite hard fought for and hard won over a period of decades," Senator Ludlam said.
"So I have very grave concerns about the direction that the Australian government seems to be suddenly taking the country."
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon and Liberal Democratic Senator David Leyonhjelm also put forward amendments that would protect whistleblowers but these did not gain enough support either. more at the site. Biggest political story in at least a decade. Many are the high profile media names that ignored it. The powers resemble that of the Stasi. All this to preserve high levels of immigration and multiculturalism
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Martin Lidegaard, the foreign minster, called it highly uncomfortable that Denmark is mentioned as one of the countries targeted in the latest video released by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). Why do bad things happen to good people?
[WashingtonTimes] Mr. Alexander would not disclose the number of passports that have been revoked but said there were "multiple cases." The government says about 30 Canadians are with Death Eater groups in Syria and 130 are active elsewhere, the National Post reported.
"Yes, I think it's safe to say that there are cases of revocation of passports involving people who've gone to Syria and Iraq already," he said. "I just don't want to get into the numbers, but multiple cases."
The action means the Canadian fighters' passports are no longer valid and cannot be used to return to Canada or travel elsewhere.
"We are not by any means the leading contributor of imported muscle to Syria, even though the dozens that are there and the 130 that are abroad [with other Death Eater groups] is a disturbing number for all Canadians," Mr. Alexander told the paper. "But we want to ensure that Canada's good name is not besmirched by these people any more than it already has been and that Canadians are protected."
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One o' me heroes, Kathy Shaidle (late of Relapsed Catholic and now Five Feet of Fury), often gripes about the PC foibles of her country. But, meswears, sometimes methinks a moving there.
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Come on up! We need all the non-progressive help we can get.
[NATION.PK] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday rejected the right of audience of a prosecution witness who forgot the basic details of Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... (BB) murder case during cross-examination.
The court also refused to allow Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) special public prosecutor to grill the prosecution witness. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the court accepted the plea of public prosecutor for conducting the trial of BB liquidation case through video link and set September 27 for arguments on the said plea. Moreover, statement of another prosecution witness Inspector Ijaz Hussain Shah, now serving as SHO Police Station New Town, Rawalpindi, was not recorded by the court.
According to details, ATC Special Judge Pevaiz Ismail Joya took up BB liquidation case at Adyala Jail in which a prosecution witness, Inspector Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas, now posted as SHO cop shoppe Kahuta, appeared before the court for recording his statement.
Defence lawyer Malik Jawad Khalid, who is representing an accused Hasnain Gull, questioned Inspector Ilyas, who had earlier submitted his statement that he had recovered diaries, mobile phone and SIM from the possession of Hasnain Gull during body search, for which case he (inspector) turned up before court to record his statement. The inspector replied he arrived here to record his statement in the case number 76 registered with PS Westridge in 2008. On this, the defence lawyer raised objection that the witness had no knowledge about the basic information of the BB murder case; therefore, he could not record his statement.
The judge accepted the objection and rejected the right of audience of the witness. FIA Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar pleaded court for cross-examining the aforementioned witness but the judge turned down his request. The prosecution did not present Inspector Ijaz Hussain Shah for recording his statement and sought more time for the purpose, which was awarded by the court.
Later, the public prosecutor filed a petition with the court, seeking video link trial of the case which was accepted by the court setting September 27, 2014 for arguments of the application.
During the hearing of BB murder case in Adyala Jail, former City Police Officer (CPO) Syed Saud Aziz, former SP Rawal Division Khurram Shehzad, and other five accused Hasnain Gull, Rafaqat Shah, Sher Zaman, Aitzaz Shah and Abdul Rasheed were also present.
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[ABNA.IR] Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, secretary general, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Moslemeen has condemned the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... snuffies who attacked sacred Tyron Wali Imam Bargah in Rawalpindi and burnt the Holy Koran and Flag attributed to Hazrat Abbas Alamdar (AS). Imam Bargah was also set on fire.
"Punjab government is directly involved in attack on and arson in Tyraan Wali Imam Bargah in Rawalpindi because she patronizes takfiri snuffies and lack of police action against the snuffies also proved it," he said in a statement issued from Wahdat House.
He asked Punjab government to abandon takfiri snuffies otherwise Shia Moslems would depose them by legitimate masses power should they continue to act like Ibn-e-Zyad, governor of Kufa during the Umayyad despotic rule of Yazid.
"Sunni and Shia Moslems are united and they know well that takfiri nasbi fanatics and snuffies have nothing to do with Islam. Sunni and Shia Moslems have vowed that they will rid Pakistain of takfiris at all cost," he asserted.
Allama Jafari demanded that army be called in all parts of Pakistain under article 245 for countrywide military operation to eliminate the takfiri terrorists.
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[NewRepublic] Agents have crossed the border with propaganda to recruit new fighters
In early September, about a dozen murderous Moslems crossed the border from Afghanistan to Pakistain with pamphlets and flags, urging locals to join 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.... . They distributed hundreds of pamphlets in Afghan refugee camps and madrassas in Pakistain's Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KPK) regions, according to local hard boys. These pamphlets, published in Pushto, Dari, and Farsi, were titled "Fateh," meaning "victory." "Every Moslem must follow the orders of Caliph and should contribute in whichever capacity he or she can to assist the Islamic State against Taghoot (the enemies)," they said. The pamphlets also said the revival of Islam is only possible through jihad, and the final crusade between Moslems and infidels is imminent.
"The United States invaded the Moslem land, and we will use our force to invade them," said former Al-Qaeda fighter Javed Iqbal, 32, who helped distribute the pamphlets and just returned from fighting in Syria. In many ways, Pakistain is an ideal spot for a group like IS to recruit and grow. For decades, the country has been a breeding ground for terrorism and militancy: It is home to at least 48 jihadist groups, many of which Pakistain's military secretly backs as proxies. According to local sources in Kashmire, IS flags and slogans have been visible sporadically since June, although the Indian Army has helped prevent any terrorist attacks. 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... , which borders Afghanistan and Iran and is the largest province in the country, locals have found walls chalked with messages that glorify the Islamic State and calling for fighters to join.
Local sources in Peshawar and KPK say IS started recruitment in Pakistain two years ago--"even before they emerged as ISIS themselves," a member of the jihadist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... said, on condition of anonymity. "More than 200 fighters have left from Pakistain to join what is now called the Islamic State." Most of these fighters were from the Pak Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and other hard boy groups. Although state authorities deny any such activity, another hard boy commander from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, also on condition of anonymity, said dozens of fighters left as early as November 2012 "to fight Bashar al Assad, and eventually joined [IS]."
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HHHMMMMM, HHHMMMMM, so instead of the Pak Taliban being in poten legal? control of Pakistan's Nukes-WMDS, it may end up being the ISIS/ISIL???
[ARABNEWS] UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... warned Wednesday that human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. were "under attack" throughout the world as he opened the General Assembly debate.
"From barrel bombs to beheadings, from the deliberate starvation of civilians to the assault on hospitals, UN shelters and aid convoys, human rights and the rule of law are under attack," the UN chief told the 193-nation Assembly.
Ban cited the "new depths of barbarity" carried out by faceless myrmidons in Syria and Iraq and drew up a long list of world crises: The war in Gazoo, fighting in Ukraine, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
"It has been a terrible year for the principles enshrined in the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... charter" that puts peace and security at the center of its mission, said Ban.
The number of refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers has reached its highest level since World War II and the UN is struggling to respond to a record number of appeals for food aid.
"This year, the horizon of hope is darkened."
Ban alluded to East-West tensions over the fighting in Ukraine and the turmoil in Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world as setbacks in building world peace.
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The United Nations Security Council, at a meeting chaired by President Barack Obama, has unanimously passed a resolution cracking down on the flow of foreign fighters to militant organizations such as the Islamic State group.
Strongly worded, it was...
The council voted 15-0 Wednesday to compel countries to make it a crime for their citizens to travel abroad to fight with militants or recruit other people to do it.
The president opened the session by voicing solidarity with France after one of its citizens was kidnapped and beheaded by jihadists in Algeria linked to the Islamic State group.
Obama said that more than 15,000 foreign fighters from more than 80 nations had traveled to Syria in recent years, and that those terrorists "exacerbate conflicts" and pose an immediate threat to other nations. But he warned that that "resolutions alone will not be enough" to defeat Islamic State and other jihadist groups.
First thing he's said in months that I actually agree with...
"Lofty rhetoric and good intentions will not stop a single terrorist attack. The words spoken here today must be matched and translated into action," said Obama. "Into deeds -- concrete action, within nations and between them, not just in the days ahead, but for years to come.”
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LONDON -- With the U.S. beginning a military campaign against the Islamic State group, another band of Islamist militants has emerged as a direct threat to the security of the United States and Europe.
The Khorasan group is one of al-Qaida’s affiliates in Syria and possibly one of the most secretive organizations operating under the cover of Syria's civil war. Unlike many of the other groups in Syria that seek to overthrow President Bashar Assad, or the Islamic State, Khorasan has expressed little interest in the Syrian national conflict.
The group’s main goal: hitting the United States or its installations overseas with a terror attack.
The chief U.S. military spokesman at the Pentagon, Rear Admiral John Kirby, said Khorasan became a prime target of the airstrikes Tuesday inside Syria after intelligence operatives uncovered plans for an “imminent” terror attack against Western interests.
“We believe the individuals plotting and planning it were eliminated” in eight U.S. airstrikes overnight, Kirby said in an American television interview. During a later news briefing, Pentagon officials said the airstrikes were "very successful," but that it was too early to confirm the full extent of the damage and casualties inflicted on the militants.
In contrast to the much larger Islamic State group, Khorasan members keep a low profile in social media. Their videos and Internet postings generally do not depict identifiable Westerners in their ranks, even though Khorasan is said to have attracted the second-largest contingent of foreign fighters in the Syrian civil war, after the Islamic State.
Khorasan's leader is Muhsin al-Fadhli, once believed to have had a very close relationship with Osama bin Laden. He is 33-years-old and was born in Kuwait. He spent much of his life in Iran, though, where he reportedly directed al-Qaida’s Iranian branch after the terror network's former leader in Iran, Yasin al-Suri, was detained.
Al-Suri eventually was released and returned to his position in charge of al-Qaida in Iran. Fadhli then was reassigned, reputedly to Syria, where he is believed to still reside.
Terrorism experts claim Khorasan is made up of al-Qaida members from across the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, with a majority coming from Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria. But the group also has been able to recruit Europeans and Americans who came to Syria to fight with other jihadist groups.
“Their focus seems to be on recruiting Western jihadis who are coming to Syria to fight, and equipping them with bomb-making techniques to be able to carry out terrorist attacks on the West,” said Craig Larkin of Kings College in London.
A chief concern is the group’s leading bomb designer in Yemen, Ibrahim al-Asiri, whom the U.S. has targeted with drones, so far without success. Saudi-born al-Asiri has for years been high on America's most-wanted list, and is believed to have been involved in attempts to bring down trans-Atlantic flights.
Analysts said he used his skills as a chemist to devise ways to conceal explosives - the best known being the unsuccessful 2009 attempt to bring down a commercial flight from Europe to Detroit, carried out by an al-Qaida member who became known as "the underwear bomber."
In another failed attack attributed to al-Asiri, British bomb disposal experts intercepted a shipment of printer ink cartridges that had been packed with plastic explosives. Some of the designs attributed to the bomb designer sound like the stuff of science fiction, such as having explosives implanted in the human body.
One of al-Asiri's most imaginative and ruthless attacks was a suicide plot in Saudi Arabia in 2009. The master explosives-maker used his willing younger brother, Abdullah, for this attack, an assassination attempt against a Saudi prince. Abdullah was carrying a bomb on his body - reputedly hidden in his rectum - that was detonated when the target drew near. The explosives detonated as planned, but Abdullah was the only fatality.
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The Pentagon is deploying 300 airmen and 12 A-10 combat jets to the Middle East in early October, according to the Indiana Air National Guard. Bless them and their families.
"I don't know of a time in Blacksnake history we have taken this kind of aviation footprint forward," said Col. Patrick R. Renwick, 122nd Fighter Wing commander, in a statement. "The A-10 'Warthog' is uniquely suited for the Combatant Commander's needs, and the Blacksnakes are the right team to bring that capability to combat."
"We have the best training, equipment and aircraft in the world; we've been preparing and training for this deployment for the past few months; and I am fully confident in our ability to deploy one of the country's most lethal fighting forces to support and defend US efforts abroad," Col. Craig E. Ash, 122nd Fighter Wing Maintenance Group commander, said in the statement.
The 122nd Fighter Wing will send 303 airmen, and the Terre Haute Air Guard base will send five as part of the mission, The Journal Gazette reported.
"The Airmen of the 122nd Fighter Wing are trained and ready to answer our nation's call to duty," said Renwick. "The Air National Guard and the Blacksnakes are a proven choice in combat, I have no doubt we can accomplish any mission assigned!"
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Airpower MIGHT work, if one is willing to accept the immense collateral damage that would occur if enough airpower was applied to actually accomplish the mission (see, e.g. Dresdan, Tokyo.) And the cost of buying all those bombs and rockets - but at least that would put people to work.
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Not sure where we believe airpower worked in Bosnia. We had troops on the ground. They came very late to the show, long after the Serbs were near complete with their genocide.
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Saw an A-10 at an air show at Nellis AFB. I am a drooling fan-dork for life.
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Airman 1st Class Vanessa Dobos
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Saw one at an air show as a youngster. Didn't know anything other than F-16! I thought I had seen a dragon...*then it did an ordinance demonstration. It was stupid-wow.
*don't know if pyrotechnics were already placed - can't remember seeing bombs drop but was so young I wouldn't not have been looking. Logic tells me yes, pre placed pyrotechnics. However, I am not sure how one would pretend the cannon other than blanks. I don't remember seeing any puffs on the ground, but again I was watching a dragon so my vision was elsewhere.
The A-10 is really and truly a large gun with wings attached.
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Was playing golf at Westover AFB in MA many years ago and a flight of A-10s came over the ridge behind 6th(?) tee at little more than twice tree-top level.
Scared the crap out of all of us but DAMN they were cool.
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Mikey, wrong. Bosnia was all about ground troops - crossed the Sava river. Look up Operation Joint Guard. Lots of patrols. lots of mines cleared, lots of weapons cache seazures, force protection, etc. Plenty of ground troops. Even a little town nicknamed "Buy A Vowel" -- Brcko. Some folks here may have even been there back in 97-8 ;-)
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I'm still waiting for the Navy to demand a squadron or six to support the Marines. Can you imagine a carrier-based A-10? There wouldn't be enough toilet paper in the world...
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[Ynet] Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, has evacuated its bases in populated areas of the Idlib region in northwest Syria after US-led forces carried out air strikes on the group, its fighters said on Wednesday.
Another Syrian Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafist ...also known as Wahhabis, salafists are against innovation in religion or in anything else. They eat the same things every meal of every day and all their children are named Abdullah or Mohammed. Not all salafists are takfiris, but all takfiris are salafists. They are fond of praying five times a day and killing infidels... s, 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... , has also ordered its followers to evacuate bases, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group.
"Heavy weapons have been moved out of the bases. We do not want civilians to be harmed because of us," one Nusra fighter said in an online message posted on the Internet.
The Observatory also reported the Nusra withdrawal.
[Ynet] Statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz says Israel holds 'highly reliable information' that Iran tested technology that can only be used in WMDs.
Israel said on Wednesday that Iran has used its Parchin military base as the site for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon.
The Jewish state has been a severe critic of six big powers' negotiations with Iran on restraining its nuclear program, suspecting Tehran is only trying to buy time to master sensitive nuclear know-how and would evade the terms of any final deal.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic says allegations that it is seeking a nuclear weapons capability are false and baseless. Tehran says it is Israel's assumed atomic arsenal that is a destabilizing threat to the Middle East.
A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani - the architect of Tehran's diplomacy with the big powers - was to address the UN General Assembly, said internal neutron sources such as uranium were used in nuclear implosion tests at Parchin.
Israel, his statement said, based its information on "highly reliable information", without elaborating.
It gave no specific dates for such testing, saying only that it occurred during what it called the 2000-2001 construction of a nuclear weaponization test site in Parchin.
An annex to an ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report in 2011, which included information received from member states, indicated that Iran may have conducted such alleged experiments but did not specify where they had taken place.
"It is important to emphasize that these kinds of tests can have no 'dual use' explanation, since the only possible purpose of such internal neutron sources is to ignite the nuclear chain reaction in nuclear weapons," the Israeli statement said.
"Dual use" technology, materials or know-how can be applied to producing either civilian nuclear energy or nuclear bombs.
Iran has long denied UN nuclear inspectors access to the Parchin base outside Tehran where the IAEA has said it has observed, via satellite imagery, ongoing construction and revamping activity.
Western officials believe Iran once conducted explosive tests at Parchin of relevance in developing a nuclear weapon and has sought to "cleanse" the compound of evidence since then.
Iran says Parchin is a conventional military facility, and that the country's nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes only.
The landslide election of the relatively moderate Rouhani last year raised hopes of a solution to Iran's nuclear stand-off with the world powers after years of rising tension and fears of a new Middle East war.
Israel critical of dialogue with Iran
An interim accord was reached between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany in Geneva last November. But the two sides did not meet a self-imposed July target date for a long-term agreement and now face a new deadline of Nov. 24.
Steinitz's intervention on the alleged Parchin tests issue came against a backdrop of sharp Israeli criticism of the powers' strategy of seeking to remove the risks posed by Iran's nuclear program through negotiations.
In an interview published on Wednesday in the Israel Hayom newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "worried ... (by) signs that the powers will agree to accept Iran as a nuclear threshold state".
Israel has said it would better to tighten isolating international sanctions against Iran, rather than loosen some of them as has been done as part of the interim deal. The Jewish state has also threatened to bomb the nuclear installations of its arch-enemy if it deems the negotiations ultimately futile.
The IAEA report in 2011 cited intelligence indicating Iran had a nuclear weapons research program that was halted in 2003 when it came under increased international pressure. The intelligence suggested some activities may have resumed later.
The report identified about 12 specific areas that it said needed clarification, including alleged work on a neutron initiator that could be used to trigger an atomic kaboom, and explosive tests at Parchin.
The information was in part based on information received from IAEA member states. The Vienna-based UN agency did not name them but experts and diplomats say much of it is believed to come from Israel and Western powers.
Iran has dismissed the allegations as fabricated.
While the six powers seek to limit the size of Iran's future nuclear program - and thereby extend the time it would need for any bid to amass fissile material for a weapon - the IAEA is investigating alleged research and experiments in the past that could have been applied to constructing the bomb itself.
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The Dutch government on Wednesday will discuss contributing four F-16 fighter jets to the U.S.-led military operation against Islamic State, national news agency ANP reported. A special cabinet meeting was called by the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte for later Wednesday to consider what role the Netherlands should play in the air strikes against insurgents in Iraq and Syria.
The Netherlands was not among the nations approached by U.S. President Obama at a NATO meeting in Wales earlier this month, when he was building a coalition of allies against the hardline Islamic offshoot of al-Qaida. The Dutch contribution had been on the agenda for a weekly cabinet meeting on Friday, but was brought forward in view of developments on the ground in Syria.
Dutch military participation would also have to be approved by the 150-seat parliament.
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?Pending union approval and subject to operations only on weekdays, 9-5, when the weather is good? And carrying bombs will require a large pay premium?
[ABNA.IR] "Mere military solutions and bombing certain terrorist positions presents no solution for fighting terrorism and the coalition to fight the ISIL is a pretext for the US and its allies to seek their goals in the region," Larijani said in a meeting with Portuguese Ambassador to Tehran Mario Fernando Nunes on Tuesday afternoon.
He underlined that the US and its regional allies which have now formed a coalition against the ISIL are the same supporters of the terrorist group which killed innocent Iraqi and Syrian people earlier.
Nunes, for his part, underlined his country's enthusiasm for bolstering ties with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, and said, "Given the recent developments in the international community and Iran's progress and advancements, Portugal is interested in expanding its relations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran in different aspects."
Earlier today, Larijani described the US-led coalition against the ISIL terrorist group as a "political joke", and said Tehran would not cooperate in such a fake coalition.
"The US president has said that they along with their regional allies will uproot terrorism in the world which is a ridiculous political jokes," Larijani said, addressing an open session of the parliament in Tehran.
He underscored that terrorism couldn't be uprooted with Arclight airstrikes, adding that the air attacks would have two consequences; firstly, killing and displacing the people who live in the bombed regions; secondly, displaying the ineffectiveness of the US resort to power.
"These US attacks will spread terrorism, as the bombings in Afghanistan didn't uproot terrorism and, rather, helped the terrorists' coming in control and spread in other countries," Larijani said.
He condemned the US and other western states' moves in the region, and said, "We have opposed terrorism in the region since the beginning and will really fight against it but we don't cooperate with the fake coalitions as we don't see them legitimate."
After the so-called US-led coalition against the ISIL declared its creation, Iran lashed out at the western states for pursuing a double-standard policy towards campaign against terrorism in various countries.
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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
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[Libya Herald] In light of the recent killing sprees in Benghazi, with ten 
NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for greater international attention to North Korea's human rights violations, saying that remaining silent about the problem would be the "greatest abuse of all."
SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea has decided to purchase 40 F-35A fighter jets from the U.S. defense firm Lockheed Martin in a deal worth 7.3 trillion won (US$7.04 billion), the state arms procurer said Wednesday.
North Korean leader 
[WashingtonTimes] Mr. Alexander would not disclose the number of passports that have been revoked but said there were "multiple cases." The government says about 30 Canadians are with
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
The Pentagon is deploying 300 airmen and 12 A-10 combat jets to the Middle East in early October, according to the Indiana Air National Guard.
