Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Police say a violent brawl between Buddhist and Muslim asylum seekers from Myanmar at an immigration detention center in Indonesia has left eight people dead and 15 injured. Local police chief Endro Kiswanto says the fight broke out Friday at the center in North Sumatra province, where more than 100 Rohingya migrants ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from SKY NEWS The North Korean military says it has ratified a "merciless" attack against the United States, potentially involving a "cutting-edge" nuclear strike. "The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the army said in a statement on state news agency KCNA. War could break out "today or tomorrow", the statement said, quoting a spokesman for the ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YNET NEWS Members of irregular militias loyal to Assad regime say 15-day urban warfare course teaches 'best methods to prepare against surprise attacks'; fighter says Alawites taking course 'kept saying they want to kill the Sunnis and rape their women in revenge' The Syrian government is sending members of its irregular militias for guerrilla combat ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A fleet of Iranian warships returned home Thursday following a month long deployment in the Pacific Ocean. The naval operation shows a surprising amount of range for a navy that in recent months has crept further into international waters. An Iranian destroyer and helicopter carrier spent most of February in the Pacific Ocean, just ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hackers apparently broke into at least two of North Korea’s government-run online sites Thursday, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula. The North’s Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts stopped sending out content typical of that posted by the regime in Pyongyang, such as photos of North’s leader Kim Jong Un meeting ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korea's defense minister said Thursday, but he added that there are no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a full-scale conflict. The report came hours after North Korea's military warned that it has been authorized to ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations, the White House is dialing back the aggressive posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. is putting a pause to what several officials described as a ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: China continued moving tanks and armored vehicles and flying flights near North Korea this week as part of a military buildup in the northeastern part of the country that U.S. officials say is related to the crisis with North Korea. The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to play down the Chinese military ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP DUBAI - Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab states are often wary of subversion from their powerful Shi'ite neighbor Iran, but Dubai's veteran police chief reserves most of his wrath for the "dictators" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Dhahi Khalfan's suspicions focus mostly on the Egyptian branch of the Sunni Islamist organization, propelled to power in the ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Which is to say, business as usual... Excerpted from CBS HOUSTON – In response to perceived threats against the city from the North Korean government, officials in Austin have said they are willing to do whatever federal officials feel may be necessary to protect civilians. Several images recently appeared in the Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean newspaper run ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that the freeing of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons was a "priority" for his leadership. "The Palestinian leadership gives priority to the prisoners issue and ending their suffering," Abbas said in a speech to a meeting of his Fatah party in Ramallah, according ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood lashed out Tuesday against State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after Nuland criticized the Egyptian government for stifling freedom of expression. Nuland dressed down the Egyptian government for a series of actions against its domestic critics, including the detention and interrogation of Bassem Youssef, Egypt's answer to The Daily Show's Jon ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: China continued moving tanks and armored vehicles and flying flights near North Korea this week as part of a military buildup in the northeastern part of the country that U.S. officials say is related to the crisis with North Korea. The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to play down the Chinese military buildup along ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Bare Naked Islam: FSA jihadist rebels are now using the most advanced sniper rifle available today. The AS-50 is used by the Navy SEALS and will penetrate steel and concrete from an extremely long range. Keep reading... Here's how the AS-50 works: H/T @tlamb. Follow him on Twitter
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Israel National News: Arabs rioted throughout Judea and Samaria Tuesday, accusing Israel of causing the death of an Arab terrorist who had been imprisoned in Israel and who died of cancer in an Israeli hospital. On Tuesday night, Arabs in Jerusalem attacked police and security forces who were trying to restore order near ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
This undated image posted on a militant website purports to show militants in the al-Jazeera region on the Iraqi side of the Syria-Iraq border. Last month, militants inside Iraq killed 48 Syrian government troops who had sought refuge from the war in their country _ an ambush that regional officials now say is evidence of ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from HUMAN EVENTS: Yet another Islamic cleric recently made it permissible for the Islamic fighters waging a jihad in Syria—politely known as “the opposition”—to rape the nation’s women. Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: BERLIN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a German newspaper that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could run for president in elections next year. Karzai’s government has agreed the Taliban can open an office in Qatar if the group breaks all ties with al Qaeda and renounces terrorism. Karzai was in Qatar Sunday to ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP: IAF strikes follow rocket and mortar fired from Gaza toward southern Israel in which no injuries or damages caused; Hamas says none hurt in attack on northern Gaza; police find rocket remains at Sderot nursery. The IAF launched airstrikes on the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since a truce ended ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BLOOMBERG: Kuwait’s parliament approved a law imposing the death penalty on any Muslim who insults God, his prophets, messengers, Prophet Mohammad’s wives or the Koran, in any form of expression, if they don’t repent. The bill, which adds articles to Kuwait’s penal code, was passed today by 40 lawmakers, including all Cabinet ministers present, and ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the U.S. State Department for expressing concern over the jailing of an Egyptian satirist who was accused of insulting Islam and President Mohamed Morsi, stating that denigration of the Muslim religion is a “serious breach of law.” “The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has strongly criticized remarks made ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
LiveLeak: Of himself getting shot, while observing SAA positions. Sounds like a controlled pkm burst hits him right in the chest - brutal!
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from IBTIMES: A Saudi court has ruled that a man who paralysed his best friend should now himself be crippled in an 'eye-for-an-eye' punishment. Ali Al-Khawahir has been in prison since stabbing his friend in the backbone 10 years ago, when he was only 14 years old. According to the Saudi Gazette, a court has ruled that ...
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