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Bureaucrat propaganda made the most of by the leftwing pro-cultural enricher BBC. In the UK schoolkids of Indian and Chinese families tend to outperform kids of the ‘host’ society because they’re bright and their families revere education – but this dishonest propaganda tries to fool readers into thinking the kids of Muslim families excel so to soften Brits into thinking the current invasion is good for society. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35492437
Teenager arrested after asylum housing stabbing
It is understood that both the teenager and the older man were living at the asylum accommodation where the attack took place.
The attack comes just two weeks after 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher died following an attack at the home for teenage refugees in western Sweden where she worked.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160210/teen-arrested-after-asylum-housing-stabbing
Just a thought, something ominous and anecdotal after years of following counter jihad blogs:
When the mohammedians go quiet, something big is about to happen, and when it does you get a loathsome feeling that vast numbers of them had foreknowledge of it. As if commands and countermeasures were propagated beforehand from some fiendish place so that their followers could take full advantage of the chaos that ensued.
DNI: China Continues Cyber Espionage
Clapper calls Beijing cyber theft ‘hemorrhage’
China is continuing to conduct cyber espionage operations against the United States, and Beijing’s commitment to a U.S.-China cyber agreement is questionable, the director of national intelligence told Congress on Tuesday.
“China continues cyber espionage against the United States,” James Clapper, the director, testified during an annual threat briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Whether China’s commitment of last September moderates its economic espionage remains to be seen,” he added.
Clapper identified potential cyber attacks against critical infrastructure and advancing cyber warfare capabilities in nations such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran as the among the most serious U.S. national security threats.
“China continues to have success in cyber espionage against the U.S. government, our allies, and U.S. companies,” Clapper said in a prepared statement.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dni-china-continues-cyber-espionage/
Islam is the immediate and medium time threat, if Marxism survives the coming war (this is more questionable then if the west is going to survive) then Russia and China will be the long term threat.
Syrian rebels demand U.S. action ahead of peace talks
PARIS/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syrian rebels called on U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to stop Russian bombing raids in support of a military offensive by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad that threatens to scupper new peace talks this week.
World powers are meeting in Germany on Thursday in an attempt to revive peace efforts, but with Moscow backing a government push for all-out military victory, opposition delegates and Western officials see little hope of a breakthrough.
United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura halted the first attempt to negotiate an end to Syria’s war in two years after an unprecedented offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against Western-backed rebels supported by Russian air strikes.
In an attempt to prevent a collapse of diplomatic efforts to end Syria’s five-year-old civil war, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid access ahead of a meeting of the so-called International Syria Support Group (ISSG) in Munich.
http://www.oann.com/scant-hope-of-syria-peace-breakthrough-as-russia-pounds-rebels/
North Korea satellite in stable orbit but not seen transmitting: U.S. sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea’s recently launched satellite has achieved stable orbit but is not believed to have transmitted data back to Earth, U.S. sources said of a launch that has so far failed to convince experts that Pyongyang has significantly advanced its rocket technology.
Sunday’s launch of what North Korea said was an earth observation satellite angered the country’s neighbors and the United States, which called it a missile test. It followed Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test in January.
“It’s in a stable orbit now. They got the tumbling under control,” a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
That is unlike the North’s previous satellite, launched in 2012, which never stabilized, the official said. However, the new satellite was not thought to be transmitting, another source added.
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with the leaders of South Korea and Japan by phone on Monday night and reassured them of Washington’s support, while also calling for a strong international response to the launch, the White House said.
http://www.oann.com/north-korea-satellite-in-stable-orbit-but-not-seen-transmitting-u-s-sources/
U.S. & India consider joint patrols in South China Sea – U.S. official
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a U.S. defense official said could include the disputed South China Sea, a move that would likely anger Beijing, which claims most of the waterway.
Washington wants its regional allies and other Asian nations to take a more united stance against China over the South China Sea, where tensions have spiked in the wake of Beijing’s construction of seven man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago.
India and the United States have ramped up military ties in recent years, holding naval exercises in the Indian Ocean that last year involved the Japanese navy.
But the Indian navy has never carried out joint patrols with another country and a naval spokesman told Reuters there was no change in the government’s policy of only joining an international military effort under the United Nations flag.
He pointed to India’s refusal to be part of anti-piracy missions involving dozens of countries in the Gulf of Aden and instead carrying out its own operations there since 2008.
http://www.oann.com/exclusive-u-s-india-consider-joint-patrols-in-south-china-sea-u-s-official/
Mr Modi doesn’t trust and actively dislikes our President. 0’s behaved almost as discourteously with Modi as with Bibi. That’s served to strengthen the relationship between the latter.
I think that same dynamic reinforces the bond between Bibi and Abe of Japan. But most important there is the MIT connection that supercedes just about everything else everywhere.
India is probably leaving its option open in case the Republicans win the next election. If things go down the tubes the way I expect them to the US will go on a crash rebuild of the military no matter what the cost. India may be reading the same signs.
She’s in a really bad neighborhood.
That it is, we have fought there before and when the left in the states wasn’t working against us we won easily. We won easily when they did work against us but the politicians snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Iran to upgrade missiles, get Russian defense system
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will unveil an upgrade of its Emad ballistic missiles this year, the defense minister was quoted as saying, advancing a program that has drawn criticism from the United Nations and sanctions from the United States.
The Islamic Republic would also start taking delivery of an advanced Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system in the next two months, Hossein Dehghan added – a system that was blocked before a landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Tehran agreed the deal on curbing its nuclear work in July last year and international sanctions were lifted in January. But tensions with Washington have remained high as Tehran continues to develop its military capabilities.
Iran first tested the Emad missile in October. With improved accuracy over its existing arsenal, Iran says the new missile will be an important part of its conventional deterrent.
But the United States says the Emad is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and the test therefore violated a U.N. resolution. Washington imposed fresh sanctions last month against Iranian individuals and businesses linked to the missile program.
http://www.oann.com/iran-to-upgrade-missiles-get-russian-defense-system-minister/
North Korea executes army chief of staff: South Korean media
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, which, if true, would be the latest in a series of executions, purges and disappearances under its young leader.
The news comes amid heightened tension surrounding isolated North Korea after its Sunday launch of a long-range rocket, which came about a month after it drew international condemnation for conducting its fourth nuclear test.
A source familiar with North Korean affairs also told Reuters that Ri had been executed. The source declined to be identified, given the sensitivity of the matter.
Ri, who was chief of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) General Staff, was executed this month for corruption and factional conspiracy, Yonhap and other South Korean media reported.
http://www.oann.com/north-korea-executes-army-chief-of-staff-south-korean-media/
Young Leader just keeps getting more bloated and even more crazy.
He might just auto-combust.
He is probably very worried about a military coup, they are far more common in dictatorships then in democracies. Given his past actions he has good reason to worry, one of these days someone is going to take the Kim family off their throne.
EU warns Italy unready for new migrant wave
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union urged Italy on Wednesday to speed up preparations for what it expects will be a new wave of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya this summer.
In reports endorsed at its weekly meeting, the European Commission, the EU executive, found both Italy and Greece, the member states in the front line of the migration crisis, wanting in their application of measures agreed by EU leaders and also called on Turkey to fulfill its recent commitments to cooperate.
A Commission statement said the report on Italy, where more than 160,000 irregular migrants arrived last year, found that only two of six planned “hot spots” for processing those to be considered for asylum or be deported were fully operational.
For another two of the six, plans had not even been finalised, it said, adding: “A decision concerning them is essential in view of the likely increase of migratory flows during the summer period.”
Of five hot spots planned for Greece, where more than 800,000 migrants arrived via Turkey last year, only one was fully operational, the report found, despite the measures having been agreed by EU leaders five months ago.
http://www.oann.com/eu-warns-italy-unready-for-new-migrant-wave/
EU executive to recommend suspending third of migrant relocations to Austria
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will recommend on Wednesday suspension of a third of the relocations of migrants to Austria as requested last year by Vienna, which has already taken steps to cut the number of people it receives, officials said.
More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean last year and the U.N. Refugee Agency says some 74,000 landed in Greece and Italy in 2016 in what has become a politically highly sensitive crisis.
The 28-nation bloc agreed to relocate people from Greece and Italy, which are struggling under the influx, to share the burden more evenly between other EU countries.
But the system has all but failed to kick off with only around 500 people actually relocated – and none from within the EU to Austria, which had been due to take in nearly 2,000 people under the bloc’s plan to relocate 160,000 people.
Last year around 700,000 migrants entered Austria and some 90,000 of them applied for asylum there.
The European Commission’s move on Wednesday would therefore have a largely political – rather than practical – significance. It would be an attempt avoid alienating Vienna and to prevent more measures being introduced unilaterally by EU countries, further undermining the bloc’s unity.
http://www.oann.com/eu-executive-to-recommend-suspending-third-of-migrant-relocation-to-austria/
Syrian migrant rapist who attacked a schoolgirl escapes Swiss jail and goes on the run with female prison guard who fell for him
Hassan Kiko has escaped from jail after seducing a female prison guard
The 27-year-old was serving a sentence for raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl
He received asylum in Switzerland in 2010 after fleeing his native Syria
Police are now hunting for Kiko as well as prison officer Angela Magdici
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3440290/Syrian-migrant-rapist-attacked-schoolgirl-escapes-Swiss-jail-goes-run-female-prison-guard-fell-him.html
Cologne police reveal there was an INCREASE in crime at this year’s festival, including one incident which sparked a huge brawl when a migrant groped a teenager
Cologne police had to break up a mass brawl between asylum seekers and carnival goers when one of the refugees allegedly began to grope a teenage girl.
The violent incident, which included three people being hospitalised, ended this year’s Cologne Carnival, which police have now confirmed resulted in more crimes despite the fact there were less people and a greater police presence.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3440444/Cologne-police-reveal-INCREASE-sex-attacks-year-s-festival-including-one-incident-sparked-huge-brawl-migrant-groped-teenager.html
JORDAN – ‘Authorities working to address sexual exploitation of underage girls’
AMMAN — The Ministry of Social Development is increasing its efforts to address the sexual exploitation of underage girls, as some “strange” cases have been reported recently, the ministry’s spokesperson, Fawwaz Ratrout, said Tuesday.
Due to the influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into the Kingdom over the past five years, reported cases of sexual exploitation of young girls and juveniles went up, according to the official, who cited a “strange” case the ministry had to deal with recently.
Ratrout told The Jordan Times over the phone that a young Syrian girl under 18 was forced to get married almost 20 times.
“This is one of the strangest cases the ministry has ever dealt with,” he added, indicating that most of the marriages the victim was forced into were in Syria.
The official described this kind of exploitation as human trafficking, because the parents were seeking financial gain from the marriages.
In a bid to offer protection to underage girls and juveniles, Ratrout said the ministry has opened a number of care centres in Amman and other places, and is working with international agencies in the fields of human trafficking and family protection.
A delegation from the UN visited Jordan last week and discussed ways to provide more protection to juveniles who are victims of sexual exploitation.
The spokesperson said in 2015, a shelter called Karamah that includes wards for males, females, and children was opened in Amman, receiving 90 cases, most of which involved domestic workers who had problems with their employers.
Ratrout said the ministry also supervises Dar Al Wifaq Al Osari Home, which has been operating in Amman since 2007.
An average of 900 cases are referred to it annually, with nearly one fifth of the beneficiaries being Syrians, he noted.
In response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the ministry has also established a similar shelter in the northern governorate of Irbid, Ratrout said, noting that most of the cases involve Syrian girls.
http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/authorities-working-address-sexual-exploitation-underage-girls
SYRIA – Idlib rebels: Death penalty for aiding besieged Shiites
“Anyone proven to have smuggled any item to the villages of Fuaa and Kafriyeh will be punished by death,” a new ruling decreed.
BEIRUT – Judicial authorities in Idlib have ordered the public execution of anyone caught smuggling food and other aid into a Shiite enclave besieged by rebels in the province.
The February 8 decree railed against “weak willed people who have sold their religion for a small offer of worldly existence and supplied the ‘Rafida’ [pejorative term for Shiite] villages of Fuaa and Kafriyeh with foodstuffs, fuel and other items.”
Islamist factions—which swept into control of the Idlib province in the early summer of 2015—have besieged the approximately 20,000 residents of Fuaa and Kafriyeh in a bid to pressure the Syrain regime to lift its own sieges around the Damascus towns of Zabadani and Madaya.
An agreement was reached in September 2015 for a six-month reciprocal ceasefire that would allow the delivery of UN humanitarian aid to the besieged towns as well as for residents to be evacuated.
Nevertheless, the truce has remained precarious as Syrian army troops backed by Hezbollah have allowed only intermittent aid access into the Damascus town of Madaya—where residents have suffered from widespread starvation—while the Shiite enclave in Idlib has also remained encircled.
The new judicial decree issued in Idlib stressed the “necessity of imposing the siege on those two villages to put pressure on the criminal Nusairi [pejorative term for Alawite] regime and force it to lift the siege on our people in Madaya and other besieged areas.”
“It is no secret to any rational person [that] our people in Madaya and other besieged areas… have been subjected to starvation. Many children, women and elderly have died as a result of the choking siege that the criminal Nusairi regime and its agents, the rejectionists of Hezb al-Shaytan [Hezbollah], have imposed,” the statement added.
“Anyone proven to have smuggled any item to the villages of Fuaa and Kafriyeh will be punished by death,” the decree ruled.
It further specified that “the death penalty will be carried out against those convicted of smuggling in the public square of their village.”
The ruling was endorsed by the rebel-controlled Houses of the Judiciary as well as the Islamic Authority for the Administration of the Liberated Regions of Idlib, the Army of Conquest coalition’s Judiciary Council and the Judicial Authority of Ahrar al-Sham.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566593-idlib-rebels-death-penalty-for-aiding-besieged-shiites
New emails show Hillary, aides had classified info on private accounts
The watchdog group Judicial Watch today released nearly 70 pages of State Department records that show that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, received and sent classified information on their non-state.gov email accounts.
The documents, also available on the State Department website, were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015 lawsuit filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
The new documents show that Hillary Clinton used the clintonemail.com system to ask Abedin (also on a non-state.gov email account) to print two March 2011 emails, which were sent from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (using the moniker “aclb”) to Jake Sullivan on Sullivan’s non-state.gov email account. The Obama State Department redacted the Blair emails under Exemption (b)(1) which allows the withholding of classified material. The material is marked as being classified as “Foreign government information” and “foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources.”
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/02/09/new-emails-show-hillary-aides-had-classified-info-on-private-accounts/
‘Algerian sex attacker shouted “Inshallah” – if Allah wills it – as he raped a 25-year-old German student – then asked her if she had enjoyed it’
The shocking details were revealed at the trial of the 37-year-old asylum seeker from Algeria who has denied rape. Prosecutors say DNA evidence links him to the crime.
‘He told me “I need sex”. I opened my mouth to scream but he put his hand over my mouth. I had a pepper spray, and I tried to spray it at him but he grabbed it off me, and used it on me instead.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3440601/Algerian-sex-attacker-shouted-Inshallah-Allah-wills-raped-25-year-old-German-student-asked-enjoyed-it.html
Eight teens suspected of child rape in Sweden
Eight teenage boys have been arrested in connection with an alleged gang rape of a child in Gothenburg in western Sweden.
Little further information was available about the case on Wednesday, due to the age of the victim and alleged perpetrators.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160210/eight-teens-suspected-of-gang-rape-in-sweden
Netherlands: Mounted police charge at pro-Kurdish protesters at The Hague
Quite an assortment of flags.
Greece: Thousands march against refugee ‘hot spots’ in Kos
Thousands of protesters rallied outside Kos’ town hall, Wednesday, against the creation of refugee ‘hot spots’ on the island.
The protesters were addressed by Kos’ mayor George Kyritsis, who told the crowd that he wanted facilities for refugees to temporarily stay on the island, but requested that ‘Kos come out of the hot spot framework.’
SOT, George Kyritsis, Mayor of Kos (Greek): “Kos should come out of the ‘hot spot’ framework, create an installation for temporary stay so that these people have a space, we never said no to such a space, we were saying yes to a space like that under certain conditions.”
SOT, George Kyritsis, Mayor of Kos (Greek): “Not because we can’t or because we don’t want these people, but because there are specific problems which we are facing, and in this difficult period, the economy of Kos cannot continue to be hurt anymore.”
Triumph The Insult Dog goes to New Hampshire University, to learn about proper speech, “microagressions”, “safe spaces”, “gender neutrality”, “trigger warnings”, etc.
Latest Islamic state video ( with Eng subs ) :
https://archive.org/details/hom4_
DAILY MAIL Shocking new ISIS video shows four-year-old British boy dubbed ‘Jihadi Junior’ blowing up four alleged spies in a car bomb
British boy Isa Dare, four, pushes button that blows up four unarmed men
He declared ‘we will kill kuffar [non believers]’ in last video he appeared in
Seven minute long video shows unarmed men confessing to being spies
Young Dare yells ‘Allahu Akbar’ next to charred remains of car in footage
Senior jihadi in video threatens David Cameron for arming ISIS’ enemies
The four year old British boy dubbed ‘Jihadi Junior’ has been filmed detonating the bomb which kills four ISIS prisoners in the group’s latest execution video.
Isa Dare, the son of Muslim convert Grace ‘Khadija’ Dare from south east London, pushes the button that blows up four alleged spies sitting in a white car behind him.
Standing triumphantly next to the charred remains of the car, his hand raised to the sky, the boy then yells: ‘Allahu Akbar.’
It is the second time the young boy, who was brainwashed after his mother took him to Syria three years ago, has appeared in one of the extremists’ propaganda videos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441125/Shocking-new-ISIS-video-shows-four-year-old-British-boy-dubbed-Jihadi-Junior-blowing-four-alleged-spies.html
Milo Yiannopoulos protests at Rutgers University
Black lives matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDchfnLJcU
Thank fuck I went for vocational training if this is what Uni has become. That and I didn’t want to go into hock with a student loan.
Good move.
Milo Yiannopoulus Rutgers University, February 9 2016
Master forger arrested in Thailand over fake passports for migrants to Europe
Skilled counterfeiter known as ‘The Doctor’ ran a sophisticated international operation to supply bogus documents to Middle East, police allege
Thai police say they have busted an international fake passport syndicate and arrested an Iranian master forger known as “The Doctor” who was wanted in several countries including Britain.
His expertly counterfeited travel documents were custom-ordered from the Middle East to be used by thousands of people fleeing conflict zones to try to reach Europe and Australia, officials said.
Thailand has a flourishing market in bogus passports that supplies human trafficking gangs and crime and terror networks. The danger that terrorists could use fake documents to reach Europe and stage atrocities was highlighted by the Paris attacks in November.
The raid on a house east of Bangkok was the result of a five-year investigation, police said. Hamid Reza Jafary, 48, the syndicate’s suspected ringleader who allegedly operated under the alias of “The Doctor”, was arrested there.
Mr Jafary is wanted by investigators in Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and Japan as well as Thailand, according to immigration police commander Lt Gen Nathathorn Prousoontorn.
“It is the largest passport forgery ring to have been arrested in the country in the past few years,” said Gen Nathathorn. “He produced passports for people from countries including Iran, Syria and Afghanistan who were escaping wars and wanted to enter Europe.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/12149720/Master-forger-arrested-in-Thailand-over-fake-passports-for-migrants-to-Europe.html
Opinion: Donald Trump can win — and he must be stopped (CNN, Feb 10, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/opinions/donald-trump-republican-party-stanley/index.html
“Editor’s Note: Timothy Stanley is a historian and columnist for Britain’s Daily Telegraph. He is the author of “Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between L.A. and D.C. Revolutionized American Politics.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN)Donald Trump defies his critics, which is one of the things his fans love about him. Loud, crude, philosophically ill-defined — he ought to have crashed and burned as a Republican presidential candidate weeks ago.
Yet his big win in the New Hampshire primary finally proves that his national poll ratings can be turned into votes. Trump can win. Trump must be stopped.
Trump is a real estate magnate who helped transform the New York skyline in the 1980s, before moving into casinos and a retail empire that includes a tacky clothes-line. He previously identified as both an independent and a Democrat, before apparently shifting to the Right a decade ago.
When he entered the Republican presidential primaries, many of us wrote it off as a publicity stunt. The fact that it was such bad publicity should have told us we were wrong. Trump went after illegal immigrants — branding many of them as “rapists”, while asserting that “some, I assume, are good people” — and promised to surround the country with a wall.
From that the pundits deduced that he was far-right, if not a nationalist, like Marine Le Pen of France. But his appeal proved more complex.
On some domestic issues he is more left-wing: health care, infrastructure spending and tax. On social issues, like immigration, his tough guy appearance strikes a chord with people who feel they’ve been betrayed by weak national leadership and silenced by political correctness.
They revel in the shamelessness of a man whose fortune means he’s beholden to no one — and who doesn’t look like he cares whether he wins or lose.
Americans choose their presidential candidates in a series of state-wide elections or primaries — and Trump lost the first Republican contest in Iowa. That was probably because the state is heavily religious and winners there tend to have a good ground game. But he won in the more secular New Hampshire with an interesting constituency that includes self-described moderates and new voters.
In other words, the Trump campaign poses a challenge to the Republican Party leadership and its conservative establishment. The leadership has failed to fight back because it is hopelessly divided.
Can moderate Republicans unite to defeat Trump?
In New Hampshire there were four establishment-type moderates running: Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and John Kasich. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Kasich, governor of Ohio, came second and has a good claim to lead the fightback against Trump. But he lacks the money and organization necessary to mount a long campaign through these complex, expensive primaries. Jeb Bush has the most dollars and activists, but has underwhelmed the voters.
There is a chance to stop Trump in South Carolina on February 20. That state is more ideologically conservative, with a stronger local party leadership and a tradition of preferring mainstream candidates. But if the moderate field remains divided, it’s quite possible that Trump will win again.
And that would be bad for all of us. Trump has served some useful purpose: he has punctured the arrogance of the establishment and proven that character can beat big money in U.S. politics. But he represents the politics of protest, and that rarely translates into good government.
His characterization of Mexican migrants — legal or otherwise — is wrong and damaging at a time when America is evolving towards a less-white society. His stance on Muslim immigration, which he would cease until the terror threat is brought under control, is racist.
Trump does not care about the things that regular conservatives have dedicated their lives to fighting for: controls on abortion, protection of marriage, reform of the healthcare market. His inclination towards expanding the government and putting it on the side of his people isn’t terribly constitutional. And his claim in a debate that the purpose of conservatism is to conserve wealth is spiritually impoverished.
The Republican Party needs to stop him — and sooner rather than later.”
Their is one real big problem with stopping him, the people are supporting him.
The Washington Post Tells Us ISIS Is Losing, Again
he Washington Post published some terrific news last Saturday:
The Islamic State’s recent defeats on the battlefield signal that its once-vaunted militia army has been hobbled by worsening money problems, desertions and a dwindling pool of fighters, analysts and monitoring groups say.
Before you break out the champagne, however, consider the fact that we have heard this before. And not only have we heard it before, but the Washington Post article then engages in revisionist media history:
Only a year ago, the Islamic State was seen as a juggernaut — rich, organized and fielding thousands of motivated fighters — that overran rival forces in Iraq and Syria with astonishing speed and brutality.
Actually, that’s not what the mainstream was telling us at all “only a year ago.”
In January 2015, The Atlantic announced:
ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum: Evidence suggests that the Islamic State’s power has been declining for months.
A CNN headline asked in November 2014:
Has ISIS peaked? Terror Group Suffers Setbacks in Iraq.
CNN followed that a few weeks later with:
For ISIS, Tough Times as it Seeks to Regroup.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/02/10/the-washington-post-tells-us-isis-is-losing-again/
https://youtu.be/ZNG-KxSm7js
Something’s wrong with the skin on his forehead.
I think that is hair falling down over his forehead.
Looks inflamed, like a burn or rash.
Syria: Checkered Past, Uncertain Future
Next March will mark the fifth anniversary of what started as another chapter in the so-called “Arab Spring” morphed into a civil war, degenerated into a humanitarian catastrophe and, finally, led to the systemic collapse of Syria as a nation-state.
That sequence of events has had a profound impact on virtually the whole of the region known as the Greater Middle East, affecting many aspects of its component nations ranging from demography, ethno-sectarian composition and security. Since the purpose of this presentation is not to offer an historic account of the events, a brief reminder of some key aspects would suffice.
Five years ago, when the first demonstration took place in Deraa, in southern Syria, much of the so-called “Arab World” was in a state of high expectations in the wake of uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya that seemed to have ended decades of despotic rule by military-security organs of the state. Despite important differences, the Syrian state at the time fitted the description of the typical model of the Arab state as developed after the Second World War.
It was, therefore, not fanciful to think that it might respond to the first signs of popular discontent in the same ways as similar states had done elsewhere in the Arab World. One important difference was that at the time the uprising started, the Syrian state, arguably the most repressive in the modern Arab World, apart from Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, had embarked on a program of timid reform and liberalization. The new dictator, Bashar al-Assad, had tried to portray himself as a Western-educated reformer attracted to aspects of pluralism and a market economy. He had allowed the emergence of the first privately owned banks and privatized a number of state-owned companies. He had also allowed the private sector to take the lead in a number of new sectors, notably mobile phones and the Internet. To be sure, the new banks, the privatized companies and the new technology companies were almost all owned by members of the Assad clan and associates with the military-security apparatus keeping a close watch on all activities. Nevertheless, there was some consensus among Syria-watchers in the West that the young Assad was taking the first steps necessary towards reform. This impression was reinforced by the fact that the regime allowed the emergence of a number of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) active on a range of issues, including human rights, albeit with security services keeping a close watch.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7408/syria-past-future
Obama’s DOJ Threatens Elected Ferguson Officials
February 10, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
What do you call a country where unelected officials selected for their dogmatic political views, above any other qualification, mock democracy. Issue unconditional ultimatums for which they have no legal grounds. And the media cheers.
The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it is exploring “legal actions” against the city of Ferguson, just hours after the city council in the St. Louis suburb called for the revision of several aspects of a tentative agreement to revamp its police department and municipal court operations.
Ferguson’s city council voted late Tuesday to conditionally approve most of the tentative settlement reached with the Justice Department last month in the wake of the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer.
Except that the “unarmed black teenager” was a violent robber who had just robbed a store and then attacked the police officer who shot him. Not even the DOJ managed to dig up anything to change that.
Though Holder and his corrupt DOJ community organizers do get credit for trying to intimidate the local Ferguson police department into not releasing the video of Michael Brown’s violent robbery. And then going after the Ferguson police and local officials with a report which found that there were emails being forwarded with politically incorrect jokes about Obama and Muslims.
In technical terms this is what we call a “fishing expedition” or a “witch hunt”. But the DOJ used Obama’s abuse of authority, with media backing, as leverage to enforce its settlement. And now it’s throwing its weight around like the administration of thugs, bullies and commissars that it is.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261778/obamas-doj-threatens-elected-ferguson-officials-daniel-greenfield
Bill Gates, State Dept Funding PolitiFact Attacks on Critics of Aid Programs
Every now and then I get emails from Politifact, a partisan site ultimately owned by a liberal non-profit known as the Poynter Institute. It’s a pointless ritual in which their activists play at contacting the target for their latest hit piece. The last one was even shoddier than usual, but the hit piece itself contained an interesting piece of information.
Debunking statements like Greenfield’s are part of a new initiative at PolitiFact. With about $380,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have partnered with Africa Check, a fact-checking operation based in South Africa and Senegal. The goal is to assess statements about health and development globally.
The Gates’ money machine obviously owns a major chunk of Africa aid. It’s certainly an interesting conflict of interest for them to directly subsidize attacks on critics of Africa aid programs.
But the Gates duo aren’t the only ones behind Africa Check. Pierre Omidyar is lurking in the background with the Omidyar Network. Like Rumpelstiltskin, there’s only one name in using NGOs to infiltrate and manipulate global and national politics that you need to know, Soros. Africa Check is also backed by Soros’ Open Society Foundations and by Obama’s State Department.
Syria and the Real Demographic Threat
How would a Palestinian state on the western side of the Jordan River block refugee flows from the east?
February 10, 2016
Caroline Glick
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Last week marked the 17th anniversary of Jordan’s King Abdullah’s coronation after the death of his father, King Hussein.
Abdullah’s ascension to the monarchy was unanticipated. His uncle Hassan was his father’s long-serving crown prince and was expected to inherit the throne. Hussein made the change in succession from his deathbed.
Today it is hard to believe that Abdullah will have the power to decide who succeeds him.
For generations, the largest looming threat to Jordan was its Palestinian majority. Although estimates of the size of Jordan’s Palestinian population vary widely, some placing it at just over 50 percent, and other estimates claiming that Palestinians made up 70% of the overall population, all credible demographic studies have agreed that most Jordanians are Palestinians.
It was due to fear of his Palestinian citizenry that for the past decade or so, Abdullah has sought to disenfranchise them. Beginning around 2004, Abdullah began throwing Palestinians out of the Jordanian armed forces. He also began canceling their citizenship.
According to a 2010 report by Human Rights Watch, between 2004 and 2008, the kingdom revoked the citizenship of several thousand Palestinian Jordanians and hundreds of thousands were considered at risk of losing their citizenship in an arbitrary process.
Today, concerns that Palestinians may assert their rights as the majority and so threaten the kingdom have given way to even greater fears. Demographic changes in Jordan in recent years have been so enormous that Palestinians may be the least of Abdullah’s worries. Indeed, it is far from clear that they are still the majority of the people in Jordan.
Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, between 750,000 and a million Iraqis entered Jordan. Current data are not clear regarding how many of those Iraqis remain in Jordan today.
But whatever their number, they have been eclipsed by the Syrians.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261781/syria-and-real-demographic-threat-caroline-glick
Pursuant to Caroline’s article about King Abdullah holding on to Jordan by the skin of his teeth:
Jordan won’t extradite Paris kosher restaurant attack suspects
French terror victims’ group ‘astounded’ as Jordanian gov’t uses technicality to allow terrorists behind 1982 attack to walk free.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207833#.VrvWAMdlmgw
He is walking a very fine line, he has to keep the jihadists from taking over his country but do it is such a way that they don’t get mad enough to send in the heavy armor and massive numbers of ground troops.
He married a Palestinian to pacify that demographic. Now his own Beduins are going Moh-berserker-radical.
Sticky wicket, but that’s his legacy.
Why a selloff in European banks is ominous
European banks have been caught in a perfect storm of market turmoil, lately.
Lackluster profits and negative interest rates, have prompted investors to dump shares in the sector that was touted as one of the best investment ideas just a few months ago.
“The current environment for European banks is very, very bad. Over a full business cycle, I think it’s very questionable whether banks on average are able to cover their cost of equity. And as a result that makes it an unattractive investment for long-term investors.”
Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank.
The region’s banking gauge, the Stoxx Europe 600 Banks Index FX7, +4.89% has logged six straight weeks of declines, its longest weekly losing stretch since 2008, when banks booked 10 weeks of losses, beginning in May, according to FactSet data. And this week, so far, looks set to stretch that run to seven weeks of losses.
“The current environment for European banks is very, very bad. Over a full business cycle, I think it’s very questionable whether banks on average are able to cover their cost of equity. And as a result that makes it an unattractive investment for long-term investors,” warned Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-a-selloff-in-european-banks-is-ominous-2016-02-07
Alan Dershowitz Brilliantly Strikes down Anti-Israel Question at Conference
https://youtu.be/LcgCnJGcQYo
Dry Bones:
http://www.drybonesproject.com/blog/D16208_1.gif
THe problem with that is if the migrants actually were Syrian refugees there would likely be little to no problems with them. The fact is they are not. They are jihadis from everywhere between Gaza and North Africa doing hijra, jihad or just wanting to take advantage of Western gullibility. The few actual Syrians I have heard from are disgusted.
This didn’t have to happen. It took orchestration.
Just plain evil.
Intel Chief Breaks From Obama Narrative On Iran Deal
The head of U.S. intelligence believes that Iran’s recent actions speak loudly to its intentions, particularly given the country’s recent provocations since the Iran nuclear deal came into effect.
Testifying to the Senate Committee on Armed Services Tuesday, director of national intelligence James Clapper gave a very somber description of what he sees as Iran’s intentions toward the U.S. now that last summer’s nuclear deal has commenced. In particular, his statements offered little assurance that Iran is acting as an honest actor with the U.S. and the other states involved in last year’s negotiations, or that the nuclear deal will stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“Iran probably views JCPOA [Iran deal] as a means to remove sanctions while preserving nuclear capabilities, as well as the option to eventually expand its nuclear infrastructure,” said Clapper, who also noted that, so far, he sees no evidence that Iran is violating the nuclear deal.
Clapper’s statements stand in stark contrast with those made by President Barack Obama, who lauded the nuclear accord last summer, claiming it would not only stop all of Iran’s possible pathways to a nuclear weapon, but that “under its terms, Iran is never allowed to build a nuclear weapon.”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/09/intel-chief-breaks-from-obama-narrative-on-iran-deal/
He is saying what a lot of us are thinking, Iran had no intention of keeping the deal. What he isn’t saying is that in my opinion Obama and Kerry knew this all along.
Demands for Nike to remove ‘Allah’ from its shoes in Morocco
Pro-Islamist MP files complaint with ministry
ANSAmed) – RABAT, FEBRUARY 10 – Over 50,000 people have supported a Facebook campaign on the Maroc Bel Visa page, which focuses on news and videos of Moroccan culture and traditions, to remove the name of ‘Allah’ from Nike shoes.
The soles and upper sections of Nike shoes have designs in which one can discern the name of Allah, some Muslims say, accusing the company of sacrilege.
Piles of the shoes have been burnt in protest in videos posted online on social media, sparking many ironic comments about the obsessive seeking out of the four letters composing the word ‘Allah’. A female MP from the Moroccan Islamist party, the ruling PJD, has filed a written complaint with the Trade and Industry Ministry for clarification ”on the distribution and sale of shoes that offend the name of Allah”. The issue has not yet received a response but has created a stir in local markets, where the sellers of brand name and counterfeit sports shoes have come under attack. The shoes at the center of the storm are everyday Nike sports shoes with side bands and graphic designs on their soles. The company selling the shoes with the ‘swoosh’ logo were in 1997 forced to recall 800,000 shoes since the word ‘air’ in Arabicized letters bore some resemblance to the word ‘Allah’.
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2016/02/10/demands-for-nike-to-remove-allah-from-its-shoes-in-moocco_00df6ffe-0be6-4c37-9bde-20418d2a70c0.html
I don’t want to look, but here it is for those who do:
Iran Publishes Pictures of Captured U.S. Sailors Crying
Iran has released new photographs in which at least one of the recently captured U.S. sailors is crying, according to a series of the pictures posted on social media.
The pictures, as well as an accompanying video, were released by Iranian state-controlled news outlets and disseminated on Twitter by Iranian reporters early Wednesday.
The new photographs come on the heels of another set of pictures that showed Iranian military forces detaining the U.S. sailors at gun point and forcing them to place their hands upon their heads while kneeling on a ship.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-publishes-pictures-of-captured-u-s-sailors-crying/
http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/534028/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85-%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C
RT – ‘Choose your side’: Erdogan accuses US of creating ‘sea of blood’ in the Middle East
Erdogan accuses US of creating ‘sea of blood’ in the Middle East, by supporting Syrian Kurds, as Washington insists it’s still a close ally with Ankara.
Turkish PM slams ‘hypocritical’ calls to open borders
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu slams as “hypocritical” calls by some countries urging Ankara to open its borders to Syrian refugees while failing to demand Russia halts punishing air strikes.
Migrant crisis: Surprise Turkey-Germany proposal for NATO help hijacks meeting
Pot & Kettle:
Why Are Russian Engineers Working at an Islamic State-Controlled Gas Plant in Syria?
Officially, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government and his Russian allies are at war against the Islamic State. But a gas facility in northern Syria under the control of the jihadi group is evidence that business links between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State persist. According to Turkish officials and Syrian rebels, it is also the site of cooperation between the Islamic State and a Russian energy company with ties to President Vladimir Putin.
The Tuweinan gas facility, which is located roughly 60 miles southwest of the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, is the largest such facility in Syria…”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/09/why-are-russian-engineers-working-at-an-islamic-state-controlled-gas-plant-in-syria/
Swedish feminists: “Please don’t protect us if we get raped by immigrants”
Feminists in Sweden have launched a new campaign against men that wants to protect women from being raped.
https://www.barritrad.com/swedish-feminists-please-dont-protect-us-get-raped-immigrants/
Yucki do women have a fantasy about being gang raped by muslims? I mean I have to ask because, you know, there are so many stories about it and even ones about American volunteers in Gaza getting raped by muslims and being told to not report it as it goes against the anti Israel narrative so all I am left with is that women have a ‘being gang raped’ fantasy. Yes?
I don’t and haven’t heard others talk about it. Gang rape is just about the most grotesque thing I could imagine.
I don’t know how men remain sufficiently aroused to be able to participate in such an attack. Maybe that’s why some of them use bottles and sticks and their fists.
We’ve talked about reporting rape. The concensus seems to be: “What would Robert Mitchum do?” Sounds about right to me.
Is an Unconventional War Winnable?
War is — and always will be — hell. The Law of Armed Conflict is not meant to change that — only to make it a little less hellish. There are weapons you agree not to use. In exchange, your enemy doesn’t use those weapons against you. You treat captured combatants humanely. You expect the same when your soldiers are taken prisoner.
It’s a rational and enlightened concept and, in the global war of the 21st century, it has failed spectacularly. Those who call themselves jihadis feel bound only by their reading of Islamic law, not by the Geneva Conventions and other international obligations and restrictions.
[…]
The global conflict now underway is often called “unconventional.” Among the ways that is true: The West has decided to fight with half measures while attempting to “address the grievances” of their enemies and those who might be inclined to join them.
The jihadis, by contrast, mean to win. They are prepared to do whatever it takes. An unprecedented experiment is underway. Upon its outcome rests the future of the West.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=15221
Yes they are winnable but to win we will have to fight it as a war and not as a police matter. Many people will get upset over the extrajudicial execution of the enemy fighters. Many of these are otherwise intelligent people who prefer suicide to fighting a war as a war.
I’d just as soon ask the suicidal to remove themselves from areas I’m responsible for. Whether or not they understand, their mere presence serves the enemy.
DAILY MAIL – USA – OKLAHOMA – Man arrested in decapitation of his grandmother, her husband
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man was arrested in the shooting and decapitation of his grandmother and her husband at an Oklahoma City home where they operated a day care, police said Wednesday.
Quinton Dashawn Laster, 20, was arrested Tuesday after police found the bodies of Sharon Reed, 59, and James Earl Reed, 78, in the Oklahoma City home where the three lived, according to Sgt. Ashley Peters.
Peters said the couple operated an in-home day care at the property. The children were found unharmed in an attached garage and apparently didn’t see the crime, Peters said. She did not know the ages of the children.
Peters said investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the slayings. It’s the third time in the last year and a half that someone has been charged in Oklahoma with a crime related to a beheading.[…]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3440990/Man-arrested-decapitation-grandmother-husband.html
Over 40 Daesh Affiliates Eliminated in Egypt’s North Sinai – Reports (sputniknews, Feb 11, 2016)
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160211/1034555349/sinai-daesh-affiliates-eliminated.html
“Egyptian forces have destroyed over 40 Daesh affiliates in the north of Sinai Peninsula, Sky News Arabia reports.
CAIRO (Sputnik) – Egyptian attack helicopters started an operation against militants from the “Sinai Province” (“Wilayat Sinai”) group after Daesh affiliates blew up an armored vehicle south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt’s North Sinai Governorate, the TV channel said.
Egypt has been conducting anti-terrorist operations in North Sinai for the last two years..”
Erdogan Using al-Qaeda, Nusra Front to Encircle Kurds – Turkish Lawmaker (sputniknews, Feb 11, 2016)
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160211/1034554893/erdogan-using-qaeda-nusra-against-kurds.html
“Turkish parliament member and Kurdish activist Osman Baydemir said that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is encouraging Islamist terrorists to encircle and isolate the 20 million Kurds who live in the eastern half of the country.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is encouraging Islamist terrorists to encircle and isolate the 20 million Kurds who live in the eastern half of the country, Turkish parliament member and Kurdish activist Osman Baydemir told reporters.
“Turkey wants to bring to power [in Syria] a regime [with ties to] al-Qaeda and al-Nusra to isolate the Kurds,” Baydemir stated on Wednesday during his visit to Washington, DC to meet with State Department officials and members of the US Congress.
The Kurdish parliamentarian, who was previously the mayor of the city of Diyarbakir, accused Erdogan of welcoming ties with the extreme Islamist groups.
“[Erdogan] doesn’t want Kurds as neighbors, but he would like to see al-Nusra or al-Qaeda as neighbors,” Baydemir said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Erdogan cast doubt on the United States’ loyalty as a Turkish partner, condemning US support for the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Ankara insists is a terrorist organization, but which Washington supports in the fight against the Islamic State terror group.”
ISIS leaders remain in close contact with Ankara – Lavrov (RT, Feb 10, 2016)
https://www.rt.com/news/332026-turkey-talks-isis-lavrov/
“The leaders of Islamic State maintain a constant liaison with the Turkish government, working out a new approach to the war in Syria as the Russian Air Force cuts off traditional smuggling routes, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Moscow has intelligence that Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) command continues to hold backdoor negotiations with the Turkish leadership, Lavrov told Russian newspaper MK in a vast interview in honor of Diplomats’ Day.
The airstrikes of the Russian Air Force in Syria have severely disrupted “traditional smuggling routes,” so the Turks are discussing in all seriousness creation of “IS-free zones” in Syria.
“Of course [such zones] would be a violation of all principles of the international law and also escalate tensions, substantially and fundamentally,” Lavrov said, adding the Turks are constructing tent camps and some kind of “engineering structures” on the Syrian side of the border, some 200 meters inside the country’s territory.
At the same time the Russian FM does not believe that a full-scale Turkish invasion into Syria is possible; Ankara is expected to limit its actions to “small provocations.”
“I do not believe that the US-led [anti-IS] coalition, which includes Turkey, would allow such desperate schemes to take shape,” Lavrov said…”
Norway police chief demands officers granted power to expel migrants at the border (express, Feb 10, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/642953/Norway-police-chief-expel-migrants-border-Russia
“A POLICE chief in Norway has demanded the Government grants officers the authority to close the borders to curb the increasing migrant flow.
Ellen Katrine Hætta has called for the power to shut the border before the migrant stream from Russia rockets again like it did last autumn.
The call for increased police power comes after Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug announced she plans to implement “Europe’s strictest immigration policy” in Norway.
Ms Hætta’s demand are in line with the Immigration Ministers planned migrant policy in Norway.
She said: “It should be made clear whether or not [police] are supposed to physically stop the border crossing.
“With the autumn’s experiences fresh in mind, it will in our opinion be necessary to investigate the possibility of physically closing the border for a period based on a safety assessment, and that this authority is considered assigned the chief.”
The planned changes to the immigration law would see asylum seekers who are not entitled to assessment are rejected at the border….”
PROOF: Sick ISIS jihadis have made and used MUSTARD GAS – now it’s a threat to the West (express, Feb 10, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/642978/ISIS-jihadis-made-used-MUSTARD-GAS-now-threat-West
“A MILITARY official has confirmed that Islamic State has made and used chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria and could unleash them on the West.
Director of the US national intelligence, James Clapper, has revealed ISIS fighters have been using mustard gas in the Middle East.
The gas causes a person’s lungs to fill up with fluid, which means that victims eventually stop breathing and die.
This revelation has been seen as evidence of the continued advancement of the terrorist’s organisation’s sophistication on the battlefield…”
Town hall ban lifted for controversial German politician (DW, Feb 10, 2016)
http://www.dw.com/en/town-hall-ban-lifted-for-controversial-german-politician/a-19038630
“A German politician previously banned from appearing at Augsburg’s town hall has won a legal victory. A court has lifted the ban, clearing the way for the politician to deliver a planned speech.
On Wednesday, a court overturned a decision on by the mayor of Augsburg to bar Frauke Petry, head of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, from speaking at a planned engagement put on by her party at the Augsburg town hall.
In an interview with the “Mannheimer Morgen” newspaper at the end of January, Petry argued for comprehensive controls to prevent unregistered asylum seekers from crossing Germany’s borders…”
In rare admission, Pakistan recognises growing presence of Islamic State (tribune, Feb 10, 2016)
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1043735/in-rare-admission-pakistan-recognises-growing-presence-of-islamic-state/
“In a rare admission from a government official, Director General Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan on Wednesday said militant group Islamic State’s presence is growing in Pakistan.
Addressing the senate standing committee on interior and narcotics control, chaired by former interior minister Rehman Malik, Sultan said banned outfits, namely Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba are reorganising themselves, with presence of Dai’sh (Islamic State) more prominent than before.
IB chief said that all local militant groups including Lashker-e-Jhangvi and Sipaha-e-Sihaba have a soft corner for Daesh.
“TTP coordinates with Daesh despite being rivals in Afghanistan,” he said, adding that the group is using social media and cyberspace extensively to recruit and communicate messages of suspected militants.
“The intelligence bureau is identifying signs of the militants’ presence in the country and carrying out arrests where necessary,” Sultan said.
“There are reports of fighters being recruited by sectarian and other outfits, and being sent to Syria. The number of people leaving from Pakistan to Syria to join IS are in hundreds,” he said.
“These militants are now targeting media houses and educational institutes in Pakistan,” he said….”