Reader’s links for December 30 – 2016

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  1. Deport Niloofar Rahmani to Afghanistan, Open Letter to Obama requests (khaama, Dec 30, 2016)
    http://www.khaama.com/deport-niloofar-rahmani-to-afghanistan-open-letter-to-obama-requests-02582

    “A group of Afghan activists have requested the US President Barack Obama to reject asylum application of Captain Niloofar Rahmani and deport her to Afghanistan, insisting that the first fixed-wing female Afghan pilot does not face any kind of threats.

    “The findings of the White Assembly’s Research Team show that Ms. Nelofar Rahmani, the Fixed-wing Air Force aviator of Afghanistan, who filled an asylum application for the United States of America, is not facing any forms of threats, while she enjoys a safe atmosphere with some extraordinary security masseurs. Furthermore, there is no threat and obstacle for her to carry out her duties safely and securely in Afghanistanboth in her career environment and her personal life,” the activists said in an Open Letter to US President Barack Obama.

    The letter further states that “Thus, the White Assembly, which is consisted of educated youths, policy makers, human rights activists, university professors, civil society activists, and analysts across Afghanistan, is requesting the government of the United States of America and all other respective organizations to reject her asylum application and deport her back to Afghanistan in the soonest possible, because the Afghan government has invested and spent millions of dollars on her education and capacity building. On the other hand, she is one of the main and vitalcadres for Afghanistan, and we severely need her for our country.”

    “We believe that accepting and granting asylum to such individuals, who hold vital position and have important responsibilities, not only has bad impact to our country, but also encourages other citizens to seek asylum through illegal ways and/or seek asylum while their send to official visits by Afghan government to the United States of America and other developed countries,” the letter adds.

    The Afghan nation was shocked when news regarding Captain Rahmani emerged last week of requesting asylum in US with some condemning the act while some speaking in her favor.

    She is one of the celebrated pilots in the history of Afghanistan for being the first female pilot to fly fixed-wing plane and was presented the International Women of Courage award for the year 2015 in Washington DC.

    Capt. Rahmani broke a sobering piece of news to her American trainers, saying she still wants to be a military pilot, but not under her country’s flag. This summer, she filed a petition seeking asylum in the United States, where she hopes to eventually join the Air Force.

    “Things are not changing” for the better in Afghanistan, Captain Rahmani told The New York Times in an interview on Friday. “Things are getting worse and worse.””

  2. Iraqi forces face fierce Islamic State combat in south Mosul (reuters, Dec 30, 2016)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-idUSKBN14J14I

    “Iraqi forces faced fierce resistance from Islamic State militants in southern Mosul on Friday, the second day of a renewed push to take back the city after fighting stalled for several weeks.

    An officer in the federal police forces, which joined the battle on Thursday, said there were heavy clashes in the southeastern Palestine district, but they had made progress in two other neighborhoods, disabling a number of car bombs.

    Another officer, from an elite Interior Ministry unit fighting alongside federal police, said his forces were gaining ground in the Intisar district despite heavy clashes there…”

  3. Singapore blogger seeking U.S. asylum regrets posts in home country (reuters, Dec 30, 2016)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-singapore-blogger-idUSKBN14J1ZC

    “A Singaporean blogger who is seeking political asylum in the United States said on Friday he regretted inflammatory posts that landed him in jail twice in his home country.

    Amos Yee, 18, who is currently detained in Illinois, told Reuters that videos he filmed insulting Singapore’s late prime minister and various religions were in bad taste.

    “I told you, it is hate speech, it is overly rude, it isn’t good activism,” Yee said by telephone from the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility in Illinois. “I completely regret making those videos.”

    Yee’s posts, and subsequent trials and convictions in Singapore, have stirred debate in the conservative city-state over censorship and free speech. His trials were watched closely by rights groups as well as the United Nations.

    Last year, Yee was convicted on charges of harassment and insulting a religious group over comments he made about former Singaporean Premier Lee Kuan Yew and Christians soon after Lee’s death. His sentence amounted to four weeks in jail…”

    • Amos Yee, 18, who is currently detained in Illinois, told Reuters that videos he filmed insulting Singapore’s late prime minister and various religions were in bad taste.

      “I told you, it is hate speech, it is overly rude, it isn’t good activism,” Yee said by telephone from the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility in Illinois. “I completely regret making those videos.”

      I didn’t do it … and I’ll never do it again!

    • “I told you, it is hate speech, it is overly rude, it isn’t good activism,”

      The Manchaurian Candidate.

    • I repeat Putin is playing Obama like a violin and, he is trying to get on PETs good side by doing this so that he can avoid harsh consequences for the the Russia actions during the Obama administration. The question is what will PET demand from Putin in return for not turning loose the US Cyber warriors? The Propaganda media is going to scream to know everything that is said and done but in a war of shadows you don’t, can’t make all or even most of your moves public. PET is in a position to demand and get several actions in the Middle East against Iran and their nuclear program. (It is in Russia’s best interest to prevent Iran from getting nukes and ICBMs) but this can’t be done publicly because this would prevent Russia from doing anything.

      Example NorseR keeps telling us what a great intel advantage having the UN headquarters in New York City is, it is a big intel advantage. The problem here is that we have been infiltrated by both the alt left and the Moslems to the extent that having the UN in New York City has become a double edged sword that is cutting us as badly as it is our enemies. Can this be solved so the damage to us ends or is greatly lessened while keeping the intel advantage? Maybe but with WWIII looking to go kinetic in the near future I don’t think we can wait to see if we can clean up our government before the war blows big. Cleaning out the infiltrators will take a decade or better and in a major war a decade is a very long time.