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France Topless Femen dragged off stage at Muslim conference
Thousands flock to anti-migrant demos in E.Europe
http://www.samaa.tv/international/2015/09/thousands-flock-to-anti-migrant-demos-in-e-europe/
BRATISLAVA: Thousands of people joined anti-migrant protests in three eastern European capitals on Saturday after leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia opposed an EU scheme to fix refugee quotas.
In the Polish capital Warsaw, nearly 5,000 people, many chanting anti-Islamic slogans, marched through the city, an AFP correspondent said. “Islam will be the death of Europe”, one of the banners said.
Organisers claimed the demonstration drew 10,000 people but police refused to confirm the figure.
“We’re here so that the government hears our voice and abandons any plans to welcome Muslims,” shouted one of the organisers after starting the march with prayers which identified the participants as Roman Catholics.
Thousands join ‘refugees welcome’ rallies as Hungary takes hard line
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/12/hungary-suggests-aiding-syrias-neighbors-halt-migrants/72142104/
Hungary’s hard-line prime minister highlighted stark divisions in Europe over a growing migrant crisis, telling a German newspaper in an interview published Saturday that refugees entering the continent should go back “where they came from.”
Meanwhile, tens of thousands rallied Saturday on the streets of London, Madrid, Athens, Budapest, Lisbon, Warsaw, Geneva and Sweden as part of a solidarity movement supporting the refugees. Some 14,000 demonstrators assembled in Hamburg and another 30,000 gathered in Denmark, according to European media.
Germany welcomed 10,000 migrants into the country Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
Doctors warn of disease risk at Hungary refugee camp
http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-warn-disease-risk-hungary-refugee-camp-195611823.html
Röszke (Hungary) (AFP) – Medical workers at the Hungarian border warned Saturday of desperate conditions for pregnant women and the risk of disease spreading at the under-equipped camp where thousands of refugees are streaming in daily.
A huge outpouring of sympathy from across Europe has brought dozens of vehicles loaded with aid supplies from Britain, Austria, Germany and elsewhere to the filthy camp in the border town of Roszke.
But while blankets, clothes and food pile up around the muddy fields, doctors say they are worried about the lack of sanitation and medical supplies.
Clashes, militant bombing, kill nine in southeast Turkey
http://www.oann.com/pkk-bombing-clashes-kill-eight-in-turkey-curfew-declared-in-diyarbakir-city/
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants killed two police officers in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeast Turkey on Sunday, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region’s largest city Diyarbakir where clashes broke out, security sources said.
Turkish forces backed up by helicopters and commandos shelled a mountainous area where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters had fled after the checkpoint attack in Sirnak province, killing six of them, the sources added.
A police officer was reported killed in another confrontation.
Hundreds of militants and more than 100 police and soldiers have died since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012. It is the worst violence Turkey has seen in two decades.
Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site
http://www.oann.com/israeli-police-palestinians-clash-at-jerusalem-holy-site/
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
Police used tear gas and threw stun grenades toward Palestinian youths, who barricaded themselves inside the mosque and hurled rocks and flares, a Reuters witness said. Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, in a statement, said the Palestinian youngsters also had pipe bombs.
There was no sign these had been detonated. No serious injuries were reported and the compound, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount, was opened to visitors after the violence subsided, police said.
A statement from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he “strongly condemned the aggression of the Israeli storming of al-Aqsa this morning with troops and occupation police”.
Thousands more migrants on their way into Austria: police
http://www.oann.com/thousands-more-migrants-on-their-way-into-austria-police/
(Reuters) – Austrian authorities said they were expecting another wave of migrants and refugees coming over the border from Hungary on Sunday, after a brief lull in arrivals gave them a chance to re-stock reception centres.
Austria struggled last week to cope with thousands of people entering its territory, almost all of them on their way to Germany. The train link to Hungary has been closed since Thursday in a bid to stem the flow.
Only 50 people crossed the border early on Sunday morning, but Hungarian authorities had said more were on their way and numbers could climb to 500 an hour, a spokesman for the Austrian police said.
Russia’s Lavrov says Moscow to continue military support of Syria: reports
http://www.oann.com/russias-lavrov-says-moscow-to-continue-military-supplies-to-syria-reports/
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will continue with military supplies to Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday.
Moscow has come under increased international pressure in recent days over what Washington and Gulf states say is a Russian military build-up in Syria, where the Kremlin has been supporting President Bashar al-Assad in a four-and-a-half-year war.
“There were military supplies, they are ongoing and they will continue. They are inevitably accompanied by Russian specialists, who help to adjust the equipment, to train Syrian personnel how to use these weaponry,” Lavrov said.
Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity
http://www.oann.com/al-qaeda-chief-urges-lone-wolf-attacks-in-u-s-and-west-recording/
CAIRO (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants.
“I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate. We must now focus on moving the war to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and specifically America,” he said in an audio recording posted online on Sunday, referring to nations making up the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.
He suggested Muslim youth in the West take the Tsarnaev and Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Boston marathon bombings and Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris respectively, and others as examples to follow.
India police hunt for owner of explosives after blast kills 88
http://www.oann.com/india-police-hunt-for-owner-of-explosives-after-blast-kills-88/
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police said on Sunday they were hunting for the owner of illegally stored explosives which accidentally detonated in the center of a crowded town, killing at least 88 people.
Rajendra Kaswa has been charged with illegally storing gelatin sticks and urea, a common fertilizer, next to a restaurant and busy junction in the town of Petlawad in central India, a senior police official and the divisional commissioner Sanjay Dubey said.
“He is on the run. One of his accomplices has already been arrested. He has been charged under the Explosives Act,” Dubey told Reuters by telephone from the site of Saturday’s blast, one of the deadliest in India in recent years.
Beijing says Hong Kong top leader is above legislature, judiciary
http://www.oann.com/beijing-says-hong-kong-top-leader-is-above-legislature-judiciary/
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader enjoys a special legal position that puts him above the legislature and judiciary, China’s top official in the city said, raising some politicians’ concerns about Beijing’s expanding influence in the city.
Hong Kong’s leader, the Chief Executive, reports to the central Chinese government. Thousands of the city’s residents have held protests demanding full democracy, putting pressure on current leader Leung Chun-ying.
Speaking on Saturday, Beijing’s chief liaison officer Zhang Xiaoming said political systems where branches of government could check the powers of others “is usually established in sovereign states” and that the chief executive’s authority was above all.
“The dual responsibility of chief executive to the central government and Hong Kong has given him a special legal position which is above the executive, legislative and judicial institutions,” Zhang told a forum to mark the anniversary of the Basic Law, the constitution under which China governs the former British colony as a special administrative region.
Germany says ‘significant progress’ made at Ukraine meeting
http://www.oann.com/germany-says-significant-progress-made-at-ukraine-meeting/
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that “significant progress” had been made towards a resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.
Steinmeier said Ukraine and Russia were close to striking an agreement on the withdrawal of weapons from the demarcation line between separatists and Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine and had agreed not to lay any more mines and to clear mines.
“We all reaffirmed that the ceasefire which has been kept for two weeks now needs to be further consolidated and secured,” Steinmeier said in a statement.
In the past, Ukrainian and rebel forces have blamed each other for repeated ceasefire breaches but both sides are now broadly respecting a ceasefire that came into effect on Sept. 1, according to international monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
As the US pulls back the European nations discover that they have to make accommodations with Russia. Given the politics of the people who raised Obama this may be part of h is plans.
Germany’s Merkel sees need to cooperate with Russia on Syria
http://www.oann.com/germanys-merkel-sees-need-to-cooperate-with-russia-on-syria/
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his Russian, French and Ukrainian counterparts in Berlin on Saturday evening and said afterwards he saw growing support for creating an international contact group to solve the Syrian conflict.
Earlier, a delegation source said Steinmeier and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a lengthy exchange about Syria on the sidelines of the meeting, with both agreeing to support the U.N. Syrian envoy, Staffan de Mistura’s plan to create a Syrian contact group.
De Mistura has invited warring parties to take part in U.N.-led working groups to address matters including political and constitutional issues, and military and security issues.
I wonder how she manages to fit this in with her pro “refugee” attitudes?
Greece’s Syriza, New Democracy still hard to separate, polls show
http://www.oann.com/greeces-leftist-syriza-leads-new-democracy-in-three-polls-tied-in-fourth/
ATHENS (Reuters) – The leftist Syriza party of former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras maintained a wafer-thin pre-election lead over conservative New Democracy in three opinion polls on Saturday, with a fourth putting them level-pegging.
The two parties have been hard to separate in the run-up to the Sept. 20 ballot, and Tsipras and his center-right counterpart Vangelis Meimarakis have spent much of their campaigns trying to protect their vote, trading accusations over Greece’s economic crisis, migration and corruption.
In surveys published in the Sunday editions of four newspapers, Syriza led by between 0.3 percent and 0.7 percent in three, hovering around 26 percent of the vote.
China unveils details of state-firm reform as growth sputters
http://www.oann.com/china-august-factory-output-up-6-1-percent-year-on-year-below-forecast/
BEIJING (Reuters) – China unveiled details on Sunday of how it would restructure its mammoth state enterprise sector, including partial privatization, as data pointed to a cooling in the world’s second-largest economy.
The guidelines, jointly issued by the Communist Party’s Central Committee and the State Council, China’s cabinet, included plans to clean up and integrate some state firms, the official Xinhua news agency said. It did not elaborate.
Reform of underperforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is one of China’s most pressing needs. But if not handled well, the restructuring could lead to hundreds of thousands of people being laid off and social instability.
As the worlds economy falls the western nations resort to higher government regulation and interference in the business attempting to stimulate the economy. Communist China is with massive government ownership of factories and other businesses is resorting to reducing government ownership and control of the industries. The western politicians are still stuck in ideological mode and refusing to accept that their big government policies have failed. The Chinese with many decades of government control experience are doing all they can to ensure that a government bankruptcy doesn’t remove the communist from power.
To avoid sexual assault charges, students at Ohio State must be able to agree on ‘why’ they had sex
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/13/to-avoid-sexual-assault-charges-students-at-ohio-state-must-be-able-to-agree-on-why-they-had-sex/
Years ago, there was a show on television called “The Newlywed Game.” The purpose was to find out how well competing recently married couples knew each other. The M.O. was to have one set of spouses leave the stage while their mates answered (often naughty) questions, then return and see if their answer matched.
Ohio State University has instituted a high stakes reality show of its own similar in some respects to “The Newlywed Game.” It doesn’t appear on TV, and it’s no game. Instead of winning money, the prize earned for having the correct answer is freedom from being charged with rape. In order not be found guilty, a student and his partner have to agree on why they were making out or having sex. It’s not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: There has to be agreement “regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.”
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/13/to-avoid-sexual-assault-charges-students-at-ohio-state-must-be-able-to-agree-on-why-they-had-sex/
The inmates are controlling the asylum, and that is a massive understatement.
Germany ‘reinstates border controls’ after record refugee influx
Germany is reinstating controls at its border with Austria as Europe’s top economy struggles to cope with a record influx of refugees, according to media reports Sunday.
Passport checks had been abolished for countries within Europe’s Schengen zone, but the decision to bring back controls is expected to be announced by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere at a press conference on Sunday evening, several German media reports said.
Germany has become the destination of choice for migrants, particularly Syrians, after Chancellor Angela Merkel relaxed asylum rules for citizens of the war-torn country.
But with 450,000 migrants arriving since the beginning of the year, infrastructure in Germany is being stretched to the limit.
By reinstating controls, Berlin is seeking to buy time to cope with the influx, according to news magazine the Spiegel.
Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt had issued a statement earlier Sunday saying that “effective measures are necessary now to stop the influx”.
“That includes help for countries from where refugees are fleeing and also includes an effective control of our own borders which also no longer works given the EU’s complete failure to protect its external borders,” he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/munich-buckles-under-strain-refugee-influx-033651158.html
Germany – “Refugees welcome ” party
Hungary: Hungarian military boosts its presence at border with Serbia
Hungary: Military begin closing border crossing with Serbia
Hungary: Footage shows inhumane conditions in refugee detention centres
“nobody speaks their language”
They are being given shelter and food, tents and enough food to keep them alive. Considering how fast this mess developed they can’t expect more then that.
Sweden: Malmo welcomes refugees with large rally
DAILY MAIL – Migrant whipped his sons with electric flex and threatened to stab them to death – but is spared jail after saying he didn’t realise it was illegal in Britain
Father-of-two whipped his sons and threatened to stab them to death
He said he felt he had ‘no choice’ after school phoned about bad behaviour
Younger child claimed he had been beaten 50 times over 18 months
Father, who cannot be named, admitted assault and cruelty charges
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231022/Migrant-whipped-sons-electric-flex-threatened-stab-death-spared-jail-saying-thought-legal-Britain.html
STERLING HEIGHTS – Michigan Crowd Cheers When City Denies Mosque Building Permit
Michigan Crowd Cheers When City Denies Mosque Building Permit 2
Rep Trey Gowdy on Hillary Clinton IT staffer’s testimony
The Democrat lawyers had a bad summer, Good I hope they have an even worse winter.
REBEL MEDIA – What is a refugee? UN definition doesn’t fit today’s migrants
‘Role Models’: Teacher Seemingly Assigns Students to Write Fan Mail to Al Qaeda’s Syria Fighters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/13/role-models-teacher-reportedly-assigns-students-to-write-fan-mail-to-al-qaedas-syria-fighters/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%209-13-15%20FINAL&utm_term=Firewire
One child wrote to the fighters, “You will always be remembered in our hearts for your bravery when you stood up for Islam while the rest of us do not.”
“I wish I could be there fighting for Islam,” the child added.
Another child referred to the jihadists as “diamonds among stones.”
One letter was signed with a red finger-painted hand print.
‘War Zone’: Violent Clashes After Palestinians Stockpile Weapons for Attack on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Eve of Jewish New Year
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/13/war-zone-violent-clashes-after-palestinians-stockpile-weapons-for-attack-on-jerusalems-temple-mount-on-eve-of-jewish-high-holiday/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%209-13-15%20FINAL&utm_term=Firewire
Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Sunday after a police raid to break up what they described as a plot to attack Jewish visitors on the eve of the Jewish new year Rosh Hashana — one of the two holiest dates on the Jewish calendar.
Israeli police said Palestinians who planned the attack barricaded themselves Saturday night at the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, armed with rocks, firecrackers and pipe bombs.
In order to block the doors so that police could not close them inside, the Palestinians had also collected shoe racks, steel bars, ropes large umbrellas, and nets, Israel’s Ynet News reported.
https://youtu.be/rgz0t3MFdX4
What went on at TOP SECRET Putin Meeting w/Iranian General? – See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/unholy-alliance-russian-build-up-in-syria-part-of-secret-deal-with-iran#sthash.8gyPogeM.dpuf
As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran’s Quds Force commander — their chief exporter of terror — and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August.
“The Russians are no longer advising, but co-leading the war in Syria,” one intelligence official said.
The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Source: Fox News – See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/unholy-alliance-russian-build-up-in-syria-part-of-secret-deal-with-iran#sthash.8gyPogeM.dpuf
Video at website
Germany halts train traffic from Austria, rail firm says
Germany has stopped letting trains enter its territory from Austria, a spokeswoman for the Austrian rail company, OeBB, said on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of people, many of them refugees from Syria, have crossed Austria by train on their way to Germany since the two countries threw open their borders to the migrants last weekend. A record number were expected to enter Austria from Hungary on Sunday.
“No more trains will run from Austria to Germany,” the spokeswoman said. “The Germans will not take over any trains.”
Ruediger Grube, the chief executive of Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL], the German rail operator, had informed his Austrian counterpart of the suspension, the spokeswoman said.
“The OeBB CEO, Christian Kern, was informed by Ruediger Grube that rail traffic will be stopped immediately,” the spokeswoman said, adding that 1,800 people were on trains in Austria headed for Germany.
http://news.yahoo.com/germany-stops-train-traffic-austria-rail-firm-says-152748849.html
Germany: Thousands of refugees arrive at Munich train station
With the BBC report that Germany instituting border controls this article may be dated but we don’t know how anything is going to play out yet.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6490/europe-control-destiny
The move by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels to force European countries to throw open their borders — and to require them to provide migrants with free clothing, food, housing and healthcare for an indefinite period of time — not only represents an audacious usurpation of national sovereignty, it is also certain to encourage millions of additional migrants from the Muslim world to begin making their way to Europe.
“We are not facing a refugee crisis, we are facing a migration crisis… Let us not forget that those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims. This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity. Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.” — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary.
“[T]he continent is experiencing a mass movement of people not seen since the aftermath of the Second World War. Unlike the end of the war, however, none of the masses currently on the move is European… The control over one’s own borders is one of the most important characteristics — and responsibilities — of a modern state. Countries lose control over their destinies and even cease to exist when they lose control over who gets in.” — Arthur Chrenkoff, New York Observer.
Solving the European Migrant Problem
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6491/european-migrant-problem
The problem is that these people do not escape the Middle East. They bring the Middle East with them.
Let Europe accept the Christians. Let Muslim Arab countries accept the Muslim Arabs.
The problem facing Europe is not only the vast number of migrants flooding the continent. It is that, from past experience, these people do not escape the Middle East. They bring the Middle East with them. The result is enormous strain on the social fabric of the host nations. It becomes increasingly difficult to assimilate the immigrants with the people already there, as governments try to accommodate the overwhelming weight of strangers who do not know their customs and do not speak their languages. Multiculturalism was a dream. It failed. In its place seems to be an emerging nightmare of unmanageable proportions.
Add the other non Moslem people from that region to the Christians.
They bring the Middle East with them.
For Syrian refugees in Italy, Israel remains enemy #1
http://www.timesofisrael.com/for-syrian-refugees-in-italy-israel-remains-enemy-1/
That they do, traditionally people immigrate for one of two reasons, the first is to run from oppression and thus they want to assimilate into their new home. The second is being forced out for political reasons, these want to get along with their hosts so they aren’t shipped back home. Migrations like this one are brought about generally by population pressure and their goal is to kick the original inhabitants so they can use the land. The Moslems on the other had migrate so they can conquer the new lands and enslave the original inhabitants to do the work for them. The west has been backed into a corner by the Moslems before and has managed to kick them out. As the song from WWII says, “we did it before and we can do it again”. During the last round of Islamic conquests we had leaders that sold out their nations and we survived. I have no doubt that we won’t win, but it will be a long and bloody war that involves all nations on earth and one where it is highly probable that the vast majority of families will lose at least one family member.
Turkey: Istanbul police blast protesters with water cannon following clashes
Turkey: Diyarbakir police enforce curfew with water cannon
Germany: Berlin police arrest Kurdish and Turkish activists following violence
Munich main train station evacuated after bomb alert
Explosives alarm at Munich central station
At 6pm (utc+2), a dog sniffed explosives at central station in Munich. The complete train station is evacuated at the moment.
No more infos yet.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=435_1442164649
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3. September 2015, 20:40 Uhr
Polizeieinsatz
Hauptbahnhof evakuiert
Bomben-Spürhund schlägt an, doch für Reisende besteht keine Gefahr
Ein Bomben-Spürhund hat am Sonntagabend im Münchner Hauptbahnhof angeschlagen, die Haupthalle musste evakuiert werden. Laut Angaben der Bundespolizei hatten Bahnreisende zwei Personen beobachtet, die versucht haben sollen, eine Bodenplatte in der Nähe des Infopoints anzuheben. Gegen 18.05 Uhr schlug an der Stelle dann auch ein Spürhund an. “Das hat nichts mit den Flüchtlingen zu tun”,
nothing to do with the migrants - they sayhttp://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/polizeieinsatz-hauptbahnhof-evakuiert-1.2646570
Eid Al-Adha to start next Thursday, a day later than expected
The Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha will begin on Thursday 24 September, one day later than expected as the new moon wasn’t visible to Saudi Arabia’s official moon-sighting body
Egypt’s astronomical and geophysics institute previously announced that Eid Al-Adha, the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year, would be on Wednesday 23 September.
Although Egypt has not issued a statement yet, it is likely that the country will switch its calendar, mirroring Saudi Arabia’s, due to the Hajj season.
The Day of Arafah, which marks the second day of the Islamic pilgrimage rituals at the holy site of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, precedes the start of Eid Al-Adha by 24 hours, according to the Islamic calendar.
Muslims have a lunar-calendar, which is based on observing the new moon. However, moon-observation can sometimes be difficult due to clouds that limit visibility.
Eid Al-Adha lasts for four days.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/141432/Egypt/Politics-/Eid-AlAdha-to-start-next-Thursday,-a-day-later-tha.aspx
video – Eid al Adha in Mecca ( in 2012 )
Eid al Adha in Mecca – ( 2011 )
Muslim states urge UN force to help stem Syria tide
The United Nations should consider a peacekeeping force for war-ravaged Syria to help curb the surge of refugees which is destabilising the region and beyond, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said Sunday.
An emergency meeting of the 57-member group called on the UN Security Council to urgently consider creating “a multi-dimensional UN peacekeeping operation in Syria as a prelude to restoring security and stability in the country”.
It also called for more to be done to find a rapid political solution to the Syrian conflict.
The OIC, which calls itself the collective voice of the Muslim world, blamed the humanitarian crisis on “the war crimes committed by the regime in Syria”.
More than four million Syrians have fled their country where President Bashar al-Assad is battling various rebels including the Islamic State group which has carried out widespread atrocities.
The migration from Syria has created a crisis in Europe, where Germany alone is expected to receive 800,000 asylum-seekers from Syria and elsewhere this year.
“The meeting stressed the common responsibility of all nations, particularly OIC member states, to open their doors to the Syrian refugees as a mark of Islamic compassion and solidarity,” a closing statement from the meeting said.
The OIC noted that more than half of its member states are not signatories to the UN Convention on Refugees, and urged them to sign.
No Gulf state has acceded to the convention which sets standards for the treatment and rights of those fleeing to a new country.
Gulf Arab states have been among the most ardent opponents of Assad, providing funds and weapons for rebel groups fighting him.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia and its neighbours last year joined a US-led military coalition bombing IS extremists in Syria.
The OIC further “urged all countries to refrain from extending military support to the Assad regime”.
That call comes as Washington accuses Moscow of a military build-up in Syria, where Russia has backed Assad against the uprising of more than four years.
The OIC said Syria’s neighbours who have taken refugees have borne “a huge portion” of the humanitarian burden and the international community should give them more support.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/141436/World/Region/Muslim-states-urge-UN-force-to-help-stem-Syria-tid.aspx
Iraq calls on Turkey to coordinate its strikes on Kurdish militants
Iraq’s foreign minister has called on Ankara to coordinate with Baghdad in its military campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq following accusations that Turkish forces crossed the border into Iraq last week.
Iraq has been mostly silent about Turkish airstrikes against the Kurdish militants which began in July and have focused mainly on targets in the mountainous area of northern Iraq near the borders with Turkey and Iran.
Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Saturday he had summoned the Turkish ambassador last week to object to what he called a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
A spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment.
Jaafari told Reuters that Ankara has not coordinated with Iraq in the campaign, which Baghdad claims included an incursion into Iraq last week by Turkish special forces in pursuit of PKK militants.
“We are for the security of Turkey. Turkey has the right to defend itself,” he said ahead of an Arab League conference in Cairo. “But there must be coordination on the ground with the Iraqi government and Iraqi armed forces.”
Iraq does not control its northern border with Turkey, which is within the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Jaafari said Iraq would back operations if they were justified by conditions on the ground and if sufficient measures had been taken to avoid residential areas.
He also reprimanded Doha for hosting a conference earlier this month which Iraqis widely criticised for allegedly including attendees from Saddam Hussein’s disbanded Baath party and Islamist hardliners wanted by Iraqi courts on terrorism charges.
He said the conference sent a message encouraging sectarianism and had undermined Iraq’s relations with Qatar. “Sometimes political intervention is no less dangerous than military intervention,” he said.
A spokesperson for Qatar’s ministry of foreign affairs would not comment on the conference.
Iraqi officials have accused Qatar of funding Islamic State insurgents, which Doha denies. Some Gulf states have viewed Iraq as being too close to their main regional rival, Shi’ite power Iran.
Relations have improved since Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office last year. Qatar appointed an ambassador to Iraq for the first time since the embassy was closed 25 years ago, on the eve of the first Gulf war.
A rapprochement between the Sunni Muslim-ruled states of the Gulf and Iraq, which has a Shia majority, could help strengthen a regional alliance against Islamic State militants who have seized vast areas in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/141414/World/Region/Iraq-calls-on-Turkey-to-coordinate-its-strikes-on-.aspx
Germany: Kurdish activists rally in Hamburg in solidarity with PKK
Syria Group: Russia Expanding Major Syrian Airport (abcnews, Sep 13, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syria-group-russia-expanding-major-syrian-airport-33724072
“Russian forces are expanding the tarmac of a major airport in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar Assad and his minority sect, a prominent Syrian monitoring group said Sunday.
The report comes amid rising concern among U.S. officials of increased Russian military activity in Syria. President Barack Obama cast the buildup as an effort to prop up the country’s embattled leader, warning Moscow against doubling down on Assad.
Russia, a longtime backer of Syria’s government, denies it’s trying to bolster Assad and says its increased military activity is part of the international effort to defeat the Islamic State group which has wreaked havoc in Syria and Iraq. On Sunday, the Russian foreign minister called for the international community to include the Syrian government in efforts to fight IS.
A former Lebanese general with knowledge of the Syrian military told The Associated Press last week that there are plans to build a military base in the coastal town of Jableh, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Latakia city, where the airport currently under development is located. Israeli officials also say the aim appears to be a military base…”
9 Dead in Blast Outside Bus Terminal in Central Pakistan (abcnews, Sep 13, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/dead-blast-bus-terminal-central-pakistan-33727030
“A police official says a blast outside of a bus terminal in central Pakistan has killed at least nine people and wounded 48.
Khalid Rauf says several of the wounded from the explosion Sunday night in the city of Multan are in critical condition. He blamed the blast on a remote-controlled bomb. Another government official, Zahid Saleem, said it appeared to be a suicide attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Multan lies in a region dotted with thousands of religious seminaries, with several belonging to local al-Qaida linked militant outfits.
Pakistan has long been fighting militants who want to overthrow the government to install their own harsh brand of Islamic law. Tens of thousands have been killed in more than a decade of fighting.”
Hungary: Tensions high as refugees wait to board buses near Roszke
Egypt Officials Say Sinai Militants Kill 1 Civilian, Wound 4 (abcnews, Sep 13, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-officials-sinai-militants-kill-civilian-wound-33727528
“Egyptian security officials say a mortar shell fired by militants hit a home in the restive northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, killing an elderly man and wounding his son.
In a separate incident in Sheikh Zuweid, the officials said three 7-year-old boys were severely wounded Sunday when a land mine exploded. The officials blamed local militants for planting the mine.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief journalists.
Egypt is battling an insurgency, including an affiliate of the Islamic State group, which has largely targeted troops in the northern Sinai Peninsula since the 2013 military overthrow of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The militants say they are avenging a government crackdown on his supporters. The Sinai Peninsula is mostly off limits to media.”
Yemen’s Exiled President Backs out of Talks With Rebels (abcnews, Sep 13, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemens-exiled-president-backs-talks-rebels-33720268
“Yemen’s internationally recognized president will not participate in U.N.-brokered talks later this week with Shiite rebels who control the capital and much of the country’s north, his office said Sunday.
The statement said there would be no talks with the rebels, known as Houthis, unless they accept a U.N. resolution that obliges them to withdraw from areas they seized and surrender weapons taken from state institutions.
The announcement came as President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government, currently in self-exile in Saudi Arabia, is making preparations to return to the port city of Aden at the end of this month following the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, two senior Yemeni government officials told The Associated Press….”
To my friends here at VladTemps:
~~ May you be inscribed for a good New Year.
~~ May you and those you hold dear be blessed with health and good fortune.
~~ That you may delight in the milk of human kindness and love sweeter than honey.
The same to you.
Happy New Year!
‘We can’t take any more!’ Germany stops ALL trains from Austria as they reintroduce border controls and temporarily suspend Schengen Agreement
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232744/We-t-German-authorities-call-urgent-action-migrant-crisis-locals-say-Munich-brink-humanitarian-disaster.html#ixzz3lf1F6Aju
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Germany’s open-door policy to refugees appeared to be unravelling tonight following the country’s reinstatement of border controls to curb the overwhelming influx of migrants.
Europe’s top economy halted all trains from Austria and, in an historic move, temporarily suspended the open borders Schengen agreement in response to the arrival of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in recent days.
The decision marks a dramatic shift away from the current abolishment of passport checks throughout Europe’s Schengen zone.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232744/We-t-German-authorities-call-urgent-action-migrant-crisis-locals-say-Munich-brink-humanitarian-disaster.html#ixzz3lf1MSMj6
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The left has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for so long the petty dictators feel safe doing anything they want, one of these days the rational people are gong to tell the left where to go and push on to victory.
After Iran deal, Obama struggles to gain Israel’s trust
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_OBAMAS_CHALLENGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-13-13-18-05
Green Berets have growing doubts of duties with skittish political leadership
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/30/green-berets-have-growing-doubts-of-duties-with-sk/print/
They were the first troops to hit the ground in Afghanistan while al Qaeda’s dirty work still smoldered back in the United States.
On foot, helicopter and horseback, Army Special Forces showed that if the U.S. was to win a long counterinsurgency war against Islamic extremists, the special skills of Green Berets would be fundamental.
Nearly 14 years later, these soldiers, some of the military’s smartest and best trained, are still creating lots of headlines, but not necessarily for heroics.
In recent months, the Army has disciplined, admonished and ended the careers of a number of Green Berets for actions that the soldiers themselves believe were part of combating an evil enemy. Pristine standards for fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda are not achievable, some in the community say.
“There is certainly a belief that upper echelons of leadership have morphed into political positions, and leaders are a lot less willing to risk their own career to support their soldiers,” Danny Quinn, a former Green Beret team leader and West Point graduate, told The Washington Times.
This is from Aug 30. I don’t know how I missed it but I did.
Mecca Crane Disaster Kills 100+ Muslims – Who Owned The Crane Is Turning Heads
http://www.westernjournalism.com/mecca-crane-disaster-kills-100-muslims-who-owned-the-crane-is-turning-heads/?utm_campaign=54ebe14371e7fc692400399a&utm_source=BoomTrain&utm_medium=email&utm_content=recommended&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiIwMjYwYmZmZC03Nzc5LTQ4ZTUtODQ1Mi0zODlmZmM4NGU4OWIifQ%3D%3D
As Americans observed the anniversary of two terror attacks committed by Islamic extremists, the holiest Muslim site in the world was rocked by a deadly incident Friday. More than 100 individuals were killed and more than 200 were injured when a giant crane crashed into Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mosque of Mecca.
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Another notable detail involves the crane’s ownership. Though it and others at the site belong to a German company, they are being used by the Bin Laden family for an extensive remodel and expansion of the Islamic holy site.
The only 9/11 memorial that is not in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/hIcTT5kPF10
The base of the memorial is made of steel from the twin towers.
EGYPT – Egyptian security forces accidentally shot at Mexican tourist convoy, killing 12 people and injuring 10, statement says
At least 12 Mexican tourists and their Egyptian guides were killed after security forces opened fire on four SUVs in the Western Desert.
According to an official statement by the Ministry of Interior, the tourists were killed after security forces mistook them for terrorists which they had been pursuing.
The Ministry of Interior also announced that 10 people had been injured and transported to hospital for emergency treatment.
In the statement, the Interior Ministry said that joint military and police forces had been conducting security operations in El-Wahat (Western Oasis) in the Western Desert. After opening fire, security forces discovered that the four vehicles had been civilians and tourists.
The statement added that the vehicles had been in an area banned for access by civilians due to the security situation.
Earlier in the day, IS-affiliated Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis announced on social media that it had attacked a number of Egyptian military locations in the Western Desert. Local media reports stated that the military had managed to cause significant causalities to the militant group, but the reports were not confirmed by the military.
The Ministry of Interior has stated an investigation has commenced into the circumstances behind the accidental killing of 12 tourists and their guides.
This story is developing.
http://egyptianstreets.com/2015/09/14/12-mexican-tourists-and-egyptians-killed-after-security-forces-misidentify-them-as-terrorists/
Hungary: Refugees await Roszke transport in the thousands
Germany: Berliners welcome 500 refugees to the capital
Migrant crisis: Caring for unaccompanied refugee children (BBC, video, Sep 13, 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34233825
Here you can clearly see that even the little ones bring “the disease” with them.
Syrian Refugees in U.S. Say They Had No Choice but to Flee From Violence (nbcnews, video, Sep 13, 2015)
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/syrian-refugees-in-u.s.-say-they-had-no-choice-but-to-flee-from-violence-524706371675?
Here too… They came (to the U.S.) and brought “the disease” with them.