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CDC Official Warned Staff of Health, Safety Risks During Influx of Illegal Alien Minors: “Plan on Many of the Kids Having TB,” “Be Wary of Personal Safety.”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/04/cdc-official-warned-staff-of-health-safety-risks-during-influx-of-illegal-alien-minors-plan-on-many-of-the-kids-having-tb-be-wary-of-personal-safety/
The left always claims to be concerned about the safety of the children but their actions always end up endangering the children.
And the trendy one-child, one-parent families today are not inoculating their kids for fear of autism or whatnot. They’re nearly as bad as Pakistanis.
When you look at what they were taught both have roughly the same level of education.
OT – ? – or “Oddly Enough”?
A Jew from Pakistan pleads: Let me make aliyah
The handful of Jews left in Pakistan hide their religion in fear for their lives, but their tradition passes on from one generation to the next. Zuriel Ben-Israel, one of the few Jews remaining in land of the Taliban, wants to make aliyah with his family, but faces great obstacles.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4792187,00.html
Teen confesses to gang rape attack in Vienna
The attack – which took place shortly before 1am on Friday morning – was carried out in a public toilets in Vienna’s Praterstern station.
The student had been on the way to a night out with her friend when she stopped off to use the public toilet but was followed in to the unlocked toilet by three teenagers, all Afghan asylum seekers aged between 16 and 17-years-old.
http://www.thelocal.at/20160425/teen-confesses-to-gang-rape-attack-in-vienna
Puppet is charged with defying ‘the values and ethics of Egypt’ after posing with a copy of Fifty Shades Of Grey in satirical TV show
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557387/Puppet-charged-defying-values-ethics-Egypt-posing-copy-Fifty-Shades-Grey-satirical-TV-show.html#ixzz46qGzgGol
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Foreign ‘dirty bomb’ responders will start training in Nevada
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
MERCURY — In today’s world it could be called the University for Dirty Bomb Studies.
Founded in 1998, it was a niche at what was then the Nevada Test Site for emergency responders to learn how to deal with disasters caused by weapons of mass destruction.
Since then, about 180,000 firefighters, police officers, public safety officials and hazardous materials technicians from all corners of the United States have completed courses that teach them how to detect, prevent and react to an unthinkable act involving radioactive or hazardous materials to harm civilian populations.
In a few months this Center for Radiological/Nuclear Training will enter a new, international dimension as police officers from eastern Europe and elsewhere outside the U.S. descend on a one-of-a-kind training facility in Area 1 at the Nevada National Security Site, 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Known as “T-1,” the site is unique because it was ground zero for the Apple-2 nuclear test, a large-scale civil defense experiment in 1955 that used an atomic bomb placed on a tower to blow up buildings and structures in “Survival Town.” The blast delivered an explosive yield equivalent to 29,000 tons of TNT, or 8,000 more than the nuclear blast at Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, the second and last time a nuclear weapon was used in combat.
The Apple-2 detonation left a higher-than-normal level of background radiation in the immediate area that, while safe to access 60 years later, is ideal for students to learn how to use hand-held and personal radiation detectors to interpret their readings from a previously contaminated area.
“The T-1 training area is unique and cannot be replicated,” Nevada National Security Site spokesman Darwin Morgan said in an email Friday.
“It is an important asset for first responders in the United States — and eventually from other countries — because it provides them practical hands-on experience to learn about radiation, contamination and decontamination,” he said.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/foreign-dirty-bomb-responders-will-start-training-nevada
Israelis are deep into that research, have been for years. Latest I heard was the development of radiation-protective clothing. I get sick thinking along those lines.
The US has to keep their research secret of the left will scream until the Democrats stop funding it, they don’t want us to be ready to save people if we are attacked.
The military has to keep the research contained so the leftist de-funders don’t kill it. And us. And themselves.
Austrian government in shock as far-right triumps
Vienna (AFP) – Austria’s government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.
According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on May 22.
The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann’s Social Democrats (SPOe) or their centre-right coalition partners the People’s Party (OeVP).
“This is the beginning of a new political era,” FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache said after what constituted the best-ever result at federal level for the former party of the late Joerg Haider, calling it a “historic result”.
The centre-right OeVP’s candidate Andreas Khol came equal fourth with 11 percent, level with the SPOe’s Rudolf Hundstorfer.
Faymann said the result was a “clear warning to the government that we have to work together more strongly”. He said however that his party would not make any personnel changes — including with regard to his own position.
Facing Hofer on May 22 is likely to be Alexander van der Bellen, backed by the Greens, who garnered 20 percent, ahead of third-place independent candidate Irmgard Griss, who won 18.5 percent.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-government-shock-far-triumps-202442510.html?ref=gs
Austrian government in shock as far-right triumps
Vienna (AFP) – Austria’s government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.
According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on May 22.
The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann’s Social Democrats (SPOe) or their centre-right coalition partners the People’s Party (OeVP).
“This is the beginning of a new political era,” FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache said after what constituted the best-ever result at federal level for the former party of the late Joerg Haider, calling it a “historic result”.
The centre-right OeVP’s candidate Andreas Khol came equal fourth with 11 percent, level with the SPOe’s Rudolf Hundstorfer.
Faymann said the result was a “clear warning to the government that we have to work together more strongly”. He said however that his party would not make any personnel changes — including with regard to his own position.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-government-shock-far-triumps-202442510.html?ref=gs
French soldier sliced by ‘Arabic-speaking man’
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160425/french-soldier-sliced-by-man-with-box-cutter
Merkel basks in Obama refugee policy praise as critics grouse
Hanover (Germany) (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Monday hailed German Chancellor Angela Merkel as being on the “right side of history” with her welcoming refugee policy, although critics denounced his praise as hollow lip service.
Speaking in the northern German city of Hanover, Obama said the embattled Merkel had “demonstrated real political and moral leadership” in letting in more than 1.1 million people fleeing war and misery.
“What’s happening with respect to her position on refugees here, in Europe, she’s on the right side of history on this,” he said.
“She is giving voice to the kinds of principles that bring people together rather than divide them.”
While the reticent Merkel blushed at the glowing praise, German officials and commentators charged that Obama’s administration had done little to help her as Europe struggles with its biggest migrant crisis since World War II.
Influential news weekly Der Spiegel slammed Obama’s comments as “hypocritical given the American role in this drama”.
It noted that while 137,000 people had received refugee status in Germany last year, the United States — whose population is four times greater than Germany’s — had accepted around 70,000.
Obama, who heaped accolades on Merkel again Monday in a landmark speech on transatlantic relations, confirmed in Hanover that the US would take in just 10,000 Syrians this year.
“It is a pity that the chancellor could not turn to (Obama) when she needed help with the refugee crisis,” Spiegel wrote on its website.
“Then maybe she would not have needed (Turkish President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” it said, referring to a highly-controversial deal Merkel brokered with Ankara to stem the flow of Syrian asylum seekers into the EU.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was more diplomatic in expressing a sense of disappointment.
“Of course on the one hand, we are happy to hear Germany being praised for assuming the responsibility we have in tackling the refugee crisis or, shall we say, minimising immediate suffering as hundreds of thousands were on the move last year,” he told public broadcaster ARD.
“But of course we would hope for more support around the globe. That is why we are talking to the Americans. We are also talking to the Canadians and the Brazilians.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-basks-obama-refugee-policy-praise-critics-grouse-112527433.html?ref=gs
https://youtu.be/isRnEx4HIzQ
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/video-peaceful-migrants-germany-chant-adolf-hitler-allahu-akbar/
Angela Merkel welcomed one million third world migrants to Germany in 2015.
Germany is expecting another million this year.
Muslims in Germany held a protest recently.
The video was posted on April 9, 2016.
Scum can’t be more original?
They are talking and breathing at the same time, for them this shows a genius at work.
U.S. begins F-22 fighter deployment to reassure NATO allies facing Russia
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania (Reuters) – The United States began its biggest European deployment of F-22 fighters with a visit to the Black Sea in an exercise aimed at beefing up military support for NATO’s eastern European allies who say they face aggression from Russia.
President Barack Obama promised in 2014 to bolster the defenses of NATO’s eastern members which were spooked by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the Kremlin’s use of pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
A U.S. KC-135 refueling plane flew with two F-22 Raptor fighters from Britain to Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu air base on the Black Sea, a Reuters reporter accompanying the mission said.
The United States has deployed 12 F-22s, which are almost impossible to detect on radar and so advanced that the U.S. Congress has banned Lockheed Martin from selling them abroad, at Lakenheath, a British base in eastern England.
The West is seeking to bolster the defenses of its eastern flank and reassure eastern European NATO members which spent decades under Russian dominance, without provoking the Kremlin by stationing large forces permanently.
But tensions are rising and Russia says the NATO build-up is stoking a dangerous situation.
Two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea in early April, said U.S. officials, who said the vessel was on routine business near Poland.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-begins-f-22-fighter-deployment-to-reassure-nato-allies-facing-russia/
Spread the troops and equipment around in penny packets so when the balloon goes up the men will be slaughtered or captured and the equipment lost.
USA: Anti-Armenian message displayed from plane during LA genocide commemoration
Philippines army confirms severed head found in Abu Sayyaf stronghold of Jolo as deadline for 4 hostages passes – Reuters
DAILY MAIL – Philippines says severed head found as captives’ ransom deadline passes
MANILA, April 25 (Reuters) – The Philippine army said a severed head was found on a remote island on Monday, five hours after the expiry of a ransom deadline set by Islamist militants who had threatened to execute one of four captives.
The army would not immediately confirm whether the head was that of one of four people for whom the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf had demanded a ransom. They are two Canadian men, one Norwegian man and a Filipino woman, who had appealed in a video for their families and governments to secure their release.
“We are being very careful, we can’t say whose head it was,” army spokesman Major Felimon Tan told reporters, adding that tests would be carried out to identify the victim.
Residents found the head in the centre of Jolo town. Tan said two men on a motorcycle were seen dropping a plastic bag containing the severed head.
He said Abu Sayyaf militants had threatened to behead one of four captives on Monday if the 300 million pesos ($6.4 million) ransom for each of them was not paid by 3 p.m. local time.
The initial demand was one billion pesos each for the detainees, who were taken hostage at an upscale resort on Samal Island on Sept. 21.
The army received intelligence that Abu Sayyaf had carried out an execution outside Patikul town on Jolo island, a known rebel stronghold.
“We don’t know who was executed,” Tan said.
Abu Sayyaf is a small but brutal militant group known for beheading, kidnapping, bombing and extortion in the south of the mainly Catholic country.
It decapitated a hostage from Malaysia in November last year on the same day that country’s prime minister arrived in Manila for an international summit. Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered troops to intensify action against the militants.
Security is precarious in the southern Philippines, despite a 2014 peace pact between the government and the largest Muslim rebel group that ended 45 years of conflict.
Abu Sayyaf is also holding other foreigners, including one from the Netherlands, one from Japan, four Malaysians and 14 Indonesian tugboat crew.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3557948/Philippines-says-severed-head-captives-ransom-deadline-passes.html
CBC – John Ridsdel killed
[ B E H E A D E D ]in Philippines after being held hostage, Bob Rae saysAbu Sayyaf militants were holding former Calgarian, 3 others before issuing deadline earlier today
Former Calgarian John Ridsdel has been killed after he was held hostage for months in the Philippines, Bob Rae, a former Liberal MP and longtime friend, told CBC News.
Ridsdel was one of four hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf militants, who had issued a ransom deadline that lapsed earlier Monday morning.
Philippine officials had said earlier that government forces were moving to rescue the two Canadians and a Norwegian after their Muslim militant captors threatened to behead one of them if a huge ransom was not paid.
[…]Ridsdel, 68, is described as semi-retired. He is the former chief operating officer of mining company TVI Resource Development Philippines Inc., a subsidiary of Canada’s TVI Pacific, where he is still a consultant, a company officer said.
Information from a Bloomberg Business website says Ridsdel used to work for Petro-Canada, domestically at first and later in Pakistan, Burma and Algeria.
Prior to joining Petro-Canada, he worked as a producer and reporter at CBC Calgary, and at the Calgary Herald.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/hostage-philippines-ridsdel-militants-1.3551416
Canadian hostage John Ridsdel confirmed dead as police find severed head in Southern Philippines
[…]Abu Sayyaf had vowed to behead one of the four, abducted last fall from a marina at an island resort in the south of the country, if their ransom demand was not met by a Monday deadline.
“We have received information that a headless body was found at 8:30 p.m. of a Caucasian man in Jolo City, Jolo Island,” Dick Gordon, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross, said in an interview. “It appears to have been decapitated.”[…]
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/head-found-on-philippine-island-as-ransom-deadline-passes-for-canadian-hostages
CBC – Trudeau outraged by beheading of Canadian hostage
<strong<SYRIA -Lavrov: Syrian opposition should leave regions with terrorist positions
According to the minister, the United States has been refusing to meet its commitments for two months already on taking away the Syrian opposition cooperating with it from the terrorists’ positions
Syrian opposition should leave positions of terrorists and disassociate itself from them if it wants to participate in the political process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
“We agreed long ago that groups that found themselves on the positions of terrorists but that are not terrorists and want to participate in the political process, should leave the territories of terrorist positions,” Lavrov said. “They should disassociate and physically leave these positions,” he added.
According to the minister, the United States has been refusing to meet its commitments for two months already on taking away the Syrian opposition cooperating with it from the terrorists’ positions.
“We agreed with the Americans that they would use their influence on these ‘good opposition members’ and will take them out of there so that no one prevents to destroy the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra. The firm promise of the US that it gave to us to carry out this demarcation has not been fulfilled for two months already,” he said.
The diplomat pointed out that Turkey has a decisive influence on the Riyadh group of the Syrian opposition
“In order to come to terms over six months it is necessary not to slam the door and dig in heels, as several delegates of the so-called Riyadh group have done. Although, Turkey has a decisive influence on them, it’s no secret,” the foreign minister said commenting on the progress of the intra-Syrian negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.[…]
http://tass.ru/en/politics/872191
SWITZERLAND -GENEVA – Erdogan demands removal of ‘offensive’ Geneva photo
Turkey has demanded that a photograph, blaming the death of a Turkish child on the Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be removed from an exhibition in Geneva. The demand bears similarities to the prosecution of German satirist Jan Böhmermann.
The Genevan authorities have confirmed that they have received a complaint from the Turkish consulate to Switzerland. Just like Germany, Swiss law contains a clause prohibiting insults towards foreign leaders.
The offending photograph is part of an exhibition from photographer Demir Sönmez. The photo in question shows a protest in Istanbul in which a banner proclaims that Erdogan was responsible for the death of a teenager.
A spokesman for Geneva’s city council told the Swiss News Agency that a response would be filed with the Turkish complainant on Tuesday afternoon.
It follows hard on the heels of a political storm in Germany, as legal proceedings were opened against satirist Jan Böhmermann on Anakara’s insistence. Böhmermann will face trial for making sexual innuendos about Erdogan on German television.
The decision to start a German prosecution against Böhmermann, based on 1871 legislation banning the defamation of foreign leaders, has drawn protests that the right of free speech has been undermined in Germany.
In 2010, Switzerland applied its version of the law against a Geneva political group who made posters depicting Libayan leader Moammar Gaddafi with the tagline “He Wants to Destroy Switzerland”. The case was dropped a year later when Gaddafi was overthrown.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/turkish-complaint_erdogan-demands-removal-of–offensive–geneva-photo/42111674
Turkey asks Geneva to remove picture linking Erdogan to slain teen
Geneva: Turkey has asked authorities in Geneva to remove an exhibition picture that blames President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the death of a Turkish teen injured during anti-government demonstrations, a Swiss official said Monday.
Berkin Elvan spent 269 days in a coma after being hit in the head by a police tear gas canister during the anti-government protests that rocked Istanbul in May-June 2013.
He died in hospital in March 2014 aged 15.
His injury and subsequent death helped galvanise opposition to Erdogan’s government and the heavy-handed tactics used by the police.
His picture is featured in a photography exhibition across the street from the United Nations complex in Geneva, which is supported by the city and press freedom group Reporters Without Borders.
A caption underneath the picture reads: “My name is Berkin Elvan. The police killed me, on the order of Turkey’s prime minister.”
Erdogan was prime minister when Elvan was injured on his way to buy bread during the so-called Gezi Park protests.
A spokesman for the canton of Geneva, Philippe d’Espine, told AFP that Turkish representatives had asked for the picture to be taken down.
The spokesman said a decision on the request would be taken during a weekly meeting of the municipal government on Tuesday.
The exhibition showcases the work of photographer Demir Sonmez, a Swiss citizen of Kurdish and Armenian origin, who told AFP his objective was to highlight “the multiple struggles of the people.”
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/international/379719/turkey-asks-geneva-to-remove-picture-linking-erdogan-to-slain-teen
Georgia Democrat To Co-Sponsor Congressional “Anti-Islamophobia” Resolution
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-GA) today welcomed a decision by Rep. David Scott (D-GA) to co-sponsor an anti-Islamophobia congressional resolution (H.Res.569) following a meeting between his staff and representatives of that state’s Muslim community during National Muslim Advocacy Day on April 18th.
The second annual event, which was organized by the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), brought more than 300 American Muslims from around the nation to Capitol Hill to meet with their lawmakers.
“We thank Congressman Scott for joining the effort to condemn anti-Muslim hate speech, which undermines our nation’s commitment to tolerance, diversity and pluralism,” said CAIR-GA Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, who took part in the meeting with Rep. Scott’s staff.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/268358-georgia-democrat-to-co-sponsor-congressional-anti-islamophobia-resolution/
This is Sargon of Akkads best rant about SJWs.
UK Labour Party suspends columnist after saying ‘Israel uses Holocaust as political tool’
Britain’s Labour party expels activist over Holocaust denial
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/UK-Labour-Party-suspends-columnist-after-saying-Israel-uses-Holocaust-as-political-tool-452272
‘What you get for dealing with dictators’ – German PP leader Kramm to RT on his Erdogan poem arrest
The head of the Berlin branch of Germany’s Pirate Party, who was arrested for citing an insulting poem about Turkish President Erdogan, has told RT people should expect to lose their freedom of speech when their government “signs deals with dictators.”
https://www.rt.com/news/340742-bruno-kramm-erdogan-arrest-dictators/
Personally, I would claim that Erdogan cannot receive protection from insult of heads of state because he is not the head of Turkey, he is the ass of Turkey…
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack on Israelis in a West Bank settlement, returned home Sunday after she was freed early following an appeal.
Dima al-Wawi is believed to be the youngest female Palestinian ever imprisoned.
Al-Wawi was greeted by about 80 relatives at her family’s house in Halhoul, a village near Hebron, a West Bank city that has been a focal point of violence. Relatives decorated the house with balloons and posters. Banners by the Islamic militant group Hamas along with the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adorned the walls.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-frees-youngest-palestinian-prisoner-134659111.html
From The Manila Times:
Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is finally getting the recognition that he’s been seeking – that he is what he is, a tough guy, maybe even a killer. He is now squarely in the radar of the US government.
According to US State Department documents released by Wikileaks, the US government has “solid evidence” that Duterte is responsible for the extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances in Davao City.
When fellow presidential candidate Grace Poe announced on April 14 that she would appoint Duterte as crime czar if she won the presidency, Washington took notice. “I want to offer to him the position as crime czar because of what he said that he will finish the problems of criminality in six months,” Poe said. This prompted officials and journalists to check their files and dossiers on Duterte.
http://www.manilatimes.net/us-govt-duterte-behind-the-davao-death-squad/258377/
Scores arrested in Egyptian crackdown on anti-government protests
#EgyptTurmoil
Crowds chant ‘Down with military rule’ before being dispersed with tear gas in Giza’s Dokki district, with many journalists among those detained
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-arrested-crackdown-anti-governments-protests-egypt-574507427
Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death two people, including an editor of a transgender magazine, in the Bangladeshi capital on Monday, police said.
Five or six people went to the apartment of Julhas Mannan, an editor of Bangladesh’s first magazine for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community “Rupban”, and attacked him and a friend with sharp weapons, Dhaka city police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder said, quoting witnesses.
http://www.businessinsider.com/two-hacked-to-death-by-militants-in-bangladesh-2016-4
Recent Attacks Blamed on Radical Islamists in Bangladesh (abcnews, Apr 25, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/recent-attacks-blamed-radical-islamists-bangladesh-38655716
“The killing of three people by suspected Islamist extremists in Bangladesh in two days has heightened concerns about the safety of advocates of secularism and free speech in the mostly Muslim nation.
Here is a list of attacks on secular writers, publishers and members of Bangladesh’s minority Shiite and Christian communities, starting in 2013:
— Feb. 15, 2013: Assailants wielding machetes kill secular blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider after he posts comments online about religious fundamentalism. In December 2015, police arrest eight people they suspect of having links with the banned group Ansarullah Bangla Team
— Feb 27, 2015: At least two assailants attack Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer Avijit Roy with meat cleavers, killing him and injuring his wife on a crowded street in Dhaka, the capital. A previously unknown group, Ansar Bangla 7, which intelligence officials believe is part of Ansarullah Bangla Team, claims responsibility. At least four suspects are arrested.
— March 30, 2015: Three men use meat cleavers to hack 26-year-old blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu to death in Dhaka. Bystanders chase down two of the attackers, but a third escapes. The captured suspects say they are students at Islamic schools and were ordered to commit the crime. Police have been unable to determine who gave the order.
— May 12, 2015: Four men with meat cleavers kill online atheist activist and science magazine editor Ananta Bijoy Das as he leaves his home in the northeastern city of Sylhet. Police arrest a newspaper photographer and two others. Al-Qaida on the Indian subcontinent, which is believed to be affiliated with Ansarullah Bangla Team, claims responsibility.
— Aug. 8, 2015: A fourth blogger, Niloy Chottopadhay, is killed by men who enter his Dhaka apartment, posing as potential tenants, and assault him with cleavers. Ansarullah Bangla Team claims responsibility in an email, though the authenticity of the message has not been confirmed.
— Sept. 28, 2015: Three assailants on a motorcycle gun down Italian citizen Cesare Tavella in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter. The Sunni extremist group Islamic State claims responsibility, according to the terror monitoring group SITE. Officials reject the claim and accuse local Islamist groups of attempting to destabilize the country. A month later, police arrest four suspects who say they were hired by “a big brother” to attack “a white man” to create chaos in the country, according to authorities.
— Oct. 4, 2015: Masked assailants on a motorcycle kill Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi, who was working in agriculture in northern Bangladesh. The Islamic State group claims responsibility, but the government again dismisses the idea that the group has any presence in the country.
— Oct. 24, 2015: Attackers hurl homemade bombs into a crowd of thousands of Shiite Muslims as they gather for a pre-dawn religious procession in Dhaka. A teenage boy is killed and more than 100 other people are injured. Police arrest two suspects and recover two unexploded bombs. They dismiss an IS claim of responsibility and say the culprits were likely from the banned local group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh. On Nov. 26, security forces arrest six suspects after a gunfight that killed the group’s alleged military commander.
— Oct. 31, 2015: A group of men hack to death a publisher of secular books and wound three others in Dhaka. The publisher, Faisal Arefin Deepan, had close ties with killed blogger Roy. The banned group Ansar al-Islam claims responsibility.
— Nov. 26, 2015: At least five gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslim devotees during evening prayers at a mosque in northern Bangladesh. An elderly mosque official who had been leading the prayers is killed and three others are wounded. A group describing itself as an IS affiliate in Bangladesh claims responsibility and vows more attacks. Police detain two suspects for questioning
— Feb. 21, 2016: Two men armed with guns and cleavers hack a Hindu priest and removing his head at a temple in northern Bangladesh, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State. The men escaped the crime scene on a single motorcycle, but within days police arrest three suspects. The government also dismisses the IS claim.
— April 6, 2016: Student activist for secularism Nazimuddin Samad is hacked and shot to death as he was walking home with a friend after attending an evening law class at a Dhaka university. The three masked assailants escape on a motorcycle while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” or “Allah is great.” The banned group Ansar-al-Islam, the Bangladesh division of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, claims responsibility in the name of “vengeance.”
— April 23, 2016: Professor A.F.M. Rezaul Karim Siddique is hacked to death on his way to work at the state-run university in the Bangladeshi city of Rajshahi, where he taught English. The Islamic State group claims responsibility, but the government dismisses the claim and instead blames local religious radicals.
— April 25, 2016: Unknown assailants fatally stab USAID employee Xulhaz Mannan, who previously worked as a U.S. Embassy protocol officer and was an editor of Bangladesh’s first gay rights magazine, as well as his friend, Tanay Majumder. There is no immediate claim of responsibility.”
Two major Al-Shabaab training camps in Southern Somalia have been bombed by Kenyan jet fighters during an impromptu airstrike on Friday night, residents said.
A senior army commander in Kismayo, who asked to remain anonymous said the Kenyan military warplanes struck Al shabaab controlled Behani and Abdalla Birole areas, some 40Km south of Kismayo city.
There was no immediate verification of the casualties on Al shabaab, but the Jubbaland commander says senior militant leaders were targeted in the airstrike.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201604251721.html
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pulled the plug Monday on his failing effort to start peace talks with the Taliban. The talks have been a centerpiece of his foreign policy since he took office more than 18 months ago.
In a pointed speech before parliament, he issued his most direct challenge yet to Pakistan to battle the insurgents who he said originate from its territory. He called on Pakistan to act as a “responsible government” and launch military operations against the Taliban and its allies, who are widely believed to be based in Pakistan’s tribal belt. If Pakistan didn’t do so, he said, Afghanistan was willing to bring the issue to the United Nations Security Council.
http://www.latimes.com/world/afghanistan-pakistan/la-fg-afghanistan-taliban-20160425-story.html
YEREVAN, Armenia — Hollywood A-Lister George Clooney has become the latest U.S. celebrity to speak out over the Armenian genocide as he visited the South Caucasus country to mark the 101st anniversary of mass killings in the Ottoman Empire and present a new humanitarian prize.
Clooney awarded the $1 million Aurora Prize to Burundi orphan worker Marguerite Barankitse at a ceremony in Yerevan and told guests, including Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, that the “whole world” remembered the Armenian genocide.
http://www.ibtimes.com/george-clooney-visits-armenia-meet-president-talk-genocide-2358953
Germany is planning to open an air base in southern Turkey that will assist its military in an intensified campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria. The planned $73 million base will be built as an extension to the Incirlik base, which both the German and U.S. military use for refueling missions to Syria, Spiegel reported.
The new base is expected to include an air control center for German military aircraft, accommodations for soldiers and a combat headquarters. The news comes as Turkey is reportedly discussing a treaty to station German soldiers for extended deployments on Turkish soil, the Local reported.
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-2016-germany-plans-73m-base-turkey-strengthen-fight-against-islamic-state-group-2359019
Rome (AFP) – The United States on Monday offered its backing for a NATO naval operation off Libya in support of a controversial Italian plan to close the Western Mediterranean migrant route to Europe.
“Barack Obama said he was willing to commit NATO assets to block the traffic in human beings and the people smugglers that we refer to as modern slavers,” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told reporters after meeting the US President and the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in Hanover, Germany.
The talks touched on the migrant crisis and instability and Islamist infiltration in Libya, from where 350,000 people have travelled by sea to Italy since the start of 2014.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-close-libya-migrant-route-europe-152138057.html?nhp=1
controversial Italian plan to close the Western Mediterranean
Seems like a no-brainer-
Instead, the 63-year-old has decided to hand it over to the department to enable it to carry out investigation on the strange-looking kid.
Mr Ibrahim, from Felda Sungai Mas in Malaysia’s state of Johor, said he was initially shocked when he found out that one of his goats had given birth to a kid that had the features of a human baby.
He said he was earlier informed by his business partner Jamaludin Abdul Samad, 50, at around 11am last Friday that some parts of the baby goat looked like a human infant.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/carcass-of-baby-goat-that-looks-like-human-baby-handed-over-to-the-malaysian
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a predominantly Shi’ite Muslim district of eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 39 others, security and medical sources said, the third such blast in four days in the capital.
Islamic State said it was responsible for the explosion which went off near a cinema in Baghdad al-Jadida. Amaq news agency, which supports the group, said the bomber wore a suicide vest and targeted Iraqi security forces.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/car-bomb-eastern-baghdad-kills-least-11-sources-133413923.html?nhp=1
11 men sentenced to up to 12 years in homosexuality case in Egypt (ahram, Apr 24, 2016)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/204363/Egypt/Politics-/-men-sentenced-to-up-to–years-in-homosexuality-ca.aspx
“A Giza misdemeanour court sentenced on Sunday 11 men to terms of up to 12 years in prison over charges of “inciting debauchery” after they were arrested for allegedly committing homosexual acts, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Three people were sentenced to 12 years in prison while the rest were given between three to nine years.
The defendants, who were arrested at a rented apartment in Giza, denied the charges.
One of the defendants was convicted several years ago in another homosexuality-related case, according to investigators.
Homosexuality is not explicitly criminalised by Egyptian law, though prosecutors have often tried gay men under laws against “debauchery”, “immorality” or “contempt of religion.””
Wealthy Palestinian teen behind Jerusalem bus bombing
Police identified the attacker as 19-year-old Abdel Hameed Abu Srour, who later died from his injuries. Officials are trying to figure out who gave him the bomb and how it was detonated.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/21/palestinian-teen-behind-jerusalem-bus-bombing-israel-confirms.html
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls in Guinea are increasingly being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) before the age of 10, and support for the practice among women and girls in the West African nation is on the rise, the United Nations rights office said on Monday.
Seven in 10 women in Guinea aged 20 to 24 were cut before their tenth birthday, compared to 60 percent of women aged 45 to 49, despite the fact FGM has been illegal since 1965, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
While women and girls in most countries where FGM is practiced largely want it to be abolished, three-quarters of the female population in Guinea were in favor of FGM as of 2012, up from two-thirds in 1999, according to the report by the OHCHR.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-guinea-fgm-idUSKCN0XM1KA
Equatorial Guinea ranks 43 of 43 countries by IQ-average %:
#1 Singapore IQ-high 108
# 43 Eq.Guinea IQ- 59
Jesus don’t tell Trudeau, a pool of natural Liberal voters like that he will flood the cities with them as fast as the planes can bring them in.
Saudi Arabia agrees plans to move away from oil profits (BBC, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36131391
“The Saudi cabinet has approved sweeping economic reforms aimed at moving the country away from its dependence on oil profits.
Just over 70% of revenues came from oil last year but it has been hit by falling prices.
One part of the plan will see shares sold in state-owned oil giant Aramco to create a sovereign wealth fund.
Announcing the reforms, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described his country as being addicted to oil….”
Full Text of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 (saudigazette, Apr 25, 2016)
http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/full-text-saudi-arabias-vision-2030/
“RIYADH — The Council of Ministers endorsed during its session on Monday under the chairmanship of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.
The Cabinet session was devoted to discuss the vision, which was drafted by the Council of Economic and Development Affairs upon instructions of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
Following is the text of Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030:……….”
After a Dutch journalist was arrested in Turkey this weekend for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the most-read newspaper in the Netherlands on Monday published a front-page editorial cartoon that shows Erdogan as an ape, apparently crushing Europe’s free speech.
The cartoon, published by the populist daily De Telegraaf, has an ape with Erdogan’s face squashing a woman who appears to be Ebru Umar, the Dutch writer with a Turkish background who was arrested in Turkey on Sunday. In the cartoon, the Turkish president is standing on a rock labeled “Apenrots” — a Dutch term meaning “monkey rocks” that is used to refer to the Dutch Foreign Ministry but can also refer to a place where one dominant individual holds power.
The cartoon is titled “the long arm of Erdogan.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/25/dutch-newspaper-publishes-cartoon-depicting-turkeys-erdogan-as-an-ape-crushing-free-speech/?postshare=9401461601794406&tid=ss_tw
ISIS pay scale revealed: Documents show salaries based on number of wives, sex slaves
Fighting for the cash-strapped Islamic State doesn’t pay very well, but terrorists can boost their monthly salaries if they have wives, kids and sex slaves, according to terror documents uncovered Friday.
A wage voucher showed that one worker, identified only as al-Jiburi, received a base salary of just $50 a month, but got $50 bonuses for each of his two wives and another $35 for each of his six children, the Washington Post reports. His monthly haul came to $360, but the document also said any sex slave would entitle him to $50 more per month.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/25/isis-pay-scale-revealed-documents-show-salaries-based-on-number-wives-sex-slaves.html
Cemil Bayik: An interview with Turkey’s most wanted man (BBC, video, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36081182
“The BBC,s Ian Pannell has met Cemil Bayik, leader of Kurdish separatist group the PKK, which is waging simultaneous conflicts against Turkey and so-called Islamic State (IS).
Mr Bayik said the PKK was open to negotiations with Turkey, but without such peace talks the decades-long conflict would continue.
He also confirmed the the PKK had had “direct” communications with the United States in the battle against IS.”
Turkish presidential spokesperson accuses BBC of ‘indirectly supporting’ PKK (hurriyetdailynews, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-presidential-spokesperson-accuses-bbc-of-indirectly-supporting-pkk.aspx?pageID=238&nID=98317&NewsCatID=338
“The Turkish president’s office has criticized the BBC for an interview with a leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), suggesting that the interview was aimed at portraying the group’s “rhetoric as if they are reasonable and legitimate demands.”
“This kind of work aimed at acquitting the terror organization has no relation with journalism. This is nothing but indirect support lent to terrorist propaganda,” ?brahim Kal?n, the spokesperson for President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, said April 25, hours after the BBC published an interview with Cemil Bay?k, who along with Murat Karay?lan, is considered the PKK’s top commander on the ground in the absence of the group’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan….”
This video out of France shows a group of migrant women beating and kicking a 16 year old girl for wearing a dress – an act they claim makes her a “slut.” Europe has been overrun with migrants from the Middle East over the past year or so and nowhere so much as France. According to reports the Arab attackers were unknown to the girl – they saw her standing on the platform waiting for a train wearing a dress and descended upon her.
http://downstreampolitics.com/2016/04/23/video-shows-migrants-beating-16-year-old-girl-wearing-dress/
A Palestinian accused of smuggling thousands of Syrian migrants into Europe has applied for asylum in the UK.
Jamal Owda was arrested in Liverpool in December as part of raids across Europe – including in Greece, Austria and Sweden – in which 23 suspects were held.
Authorities maintain the criminal operation, which may have netted up to £7m, was co-ordinated in Greece, and officials want the 26-year-old to be extradited so he can stand trial in Athens.
http://news.sky.com/story/1684824/migrant-smuggling-suspect-applies-for-uk-asylum
Pakistan contaminated sweets kill 23 (BBC, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36127892
“At least 23 people have died from eating contaminated sweets in central Pakistan, police say.
The deaths began last week after a man in Punjab province bought the treats to celebrate the birth of his son.
He and 11 other relatives are among the dead – in all 77 people were affected. Five remain in a serious condition.
Police have arrested two owners of a local sweetshop and one of their employees while the source of the contamination is investigated…”
Yemen conflict: Troops retake Mukalla from al-Qaeda (BBC, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36128614
“The Yemeni port city of Mukalla, controlled by al-Qaeda militants for a year, has been recaptured by Yemeni and Saudi-led coalition forces.
The coalition says 800 militants were killed in the first hours of a joint operation across the south of Yemen.
But Mukalla residents said there had been little fighting in the city, with the militants apparently withdrawing.
Al-Qaeda’s local offshoot has taken advantage of Yemen’s civil war to seize territory, weapons and money.
Over the past 13 months, pro-government and coalition forces have focused on battling Houthi rebels and military units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
More than 6,400 people, half of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, while almost 2.8 million others have been displaced, according to the UN….”
At Least 28 Killed in Violence in Syria’s Capital and Aleppo (abcnews, Apr 25, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/activists-car-bomb-kills-syrian-capital-38645284
“Violence in Syria continued for the fourth straight day to chip away at what remains from a cease-fire that has effectively collapsed, leaving at least 28 people dead Monday in reciprocal shellings between government forces and opposition in the country’s largest city while a bomb blast disrupted a relative quiet in a Damascus suburb that is home to one of the holiest Shiite shrines here.
At least 20 people were killed in the shelling on Aleppo, pro-government media and activist-run monitoring groups said; while eight died when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vehicle at a military checkpoint in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab.
In the past week, nearly 150 people have been killed in northern Syria and near Damascus, marking a major escalation that has seen a fragile truce take a downward spiral to levels of violence unseen since the Feb.27 cease-fire, engineered by the U.S. and Russia, took hold. The cease-fire doesn’t include the Islamic State group and its rival al-Qaida branch in Syria, the Nusra Front.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing. The Aamaq news agency, linked to the extremist group, said fighters detonated an explosives-packed vehicle at a gathering of government troops in the suburb of Sayyida Zeinab….”
The mayor of Nice secured a green light Monday to sue the French state in a bid to block the opening of a Saudi-funded mosque in the southern city.
SUMMARY? PRINT
The mayor of Nice secured a green light Monday to sue the French state in a bid to block the opening of a Saudi-funded mosque in the southern city. He has accused the building’s owner, Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Saleh bin Abdulaziz, of “advocating sharia” and wanting to “destroy all of the churches on the Arabian peninsula”. “Our intelligence services are worried…
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“Our intelligence services are worried about this place of worship,” said the mayor, who represents France’s centre-right The Republicans party, warning against “unregulated foreign funding”.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/afp/2016/04/france-islam-saudi.html#
Merkel Hints at Further Military Effort in Libya After Talks (abcnews, Apr 25, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/merkel-hints-military-effort-libya-talks-38657586
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she, U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of France, Britain and Italy discussed ways of supporting the fragile unity government in Libya and the possibility of expanding military efforts to stop the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean.
NATO is already patrolling for smugglers farther east, in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, and Obama had assured the European leaders the U.S. was “prepared to also take responsibility with regard to the migration route from Libya to Italy if necessary,” Merkel said.
She emphasized, however, that the five leaders didn’t discuss “concrete proposals” for a NATO…”
In his native Syria, Ibrahim Al-Hussein often swam in the Euphrates River. He would climb to the top of the Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge, jump and dive into the water.
In 2011, the civil war in Syria started. Al-Hussein’s neighborhood was shelled and the bridge was destroyed. Al-Hussein lost part of his right leg.
On Tuesday, the 27-year-old athlete will carry the Olympic Flame in Athens as part of the torch relay for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/syrian-refugee-carry-olympic-flame-athens/story?id=38649064
ISIS executes 21 of its own commanders in just three weeks as its feared security body rounds up ‘failing’ military chiefs in Raqqa (dailymail, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557239/ISIS-executes-21-commanders-just-three-weeks-feared-security-body-rounds-failing-military-chiefs-Raqqa.html
“ISIS is executing its own ‘failing’ commanders as the extremists continue to lose ground in Syria, it has been claimed.
The terror group has reportedly killed 21 military chiefs since the start of April in their Syrian stronghold, Raqqa.
Its feared security body has also arrested a number of other commanders and transported them to Iraq…”
Bangladesh has a new prince – of terror.
Sheikh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanafi was recently introduced as Islamic State’s emir, or chief leader, for Bengal – as the terror group prefers to call the region. In a recent interview with the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine, Dabiq, Al-Hanafi vowed to banish ‘deviant’ and ‘apostate’ sects. His strategy is to use Bangladesh’s central location as a launchpad for operations into India and Myanmar.
The approach marks a new phase in Islamic State’s modus operandi that has far-reaching implications for the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia, as political analyst Phill Hynes tells Frontera Managing Editor Gavin Serkin on this week’s Emerging Opportunities show.
https://fronteranews.com/news/asia/new-emir-isis-coronation-means-bangladesh-south-asia/
ISIS claims responsibility for bombing of African Union vehicle in Mogadishu marking its first ever attack in Somalia (dailymail, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557811/ISIS-claims-responsibility-bombing-African-Union-vehicle-Mogadishu-marking-attack-Somalia.html
“ISIS claims to have bombed an African Union vehicle on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, marking what would be its first attack in the country.
Reports of the bombing – which if proven genuine would be the first attack by ISIS’s newly developed cell in an area previously dominated by Al-Qaeda – emerged online today.
The vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in the Taridish area on the outskirts of the city, according to SITE Intelligence Group…”
Norway to PAY asylum seekers £850 each to return to their home country as it is far cheaper than putting them up in hostels (dailymail, Apr 25, 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557752/Norway-PAY-asylum-seekers-850-return-home-country-far-cheaper-putting-hostels.html
“Norway is offering to pay asylum seekers a £850 ‘expenses bonus’ if they take up their offer to return to their home countries.
The Norwegian government already offers 20,000 NOK (£1,681) to refugees and migrants to apply for a voluntary return, and the new offers is in addition to the original offer.
The reason for the bonus, taking the total payment to returning asylum seekers to 30,000 NOK (£2,523), is the rising costs of housing new arrivals, Norway’s Integration Minister said.
The new £850 bonus will be offered to the first 500 applicants on a first come, first serve basis in order to speed up returns…”
At least one person has been killed and six people injured after a bus exploded in central Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, according to the national emergencies ministry.
The emergency services were informed of the blast at approximately 10:00pm local time, the deputy head of the rescue service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Major-General Nikolay Grigoryan, told journalists, TASS reported.
https://www.rt.com/news/340889-armenia-blast-bus-yerevan/