FRANCE - 40 grenades, 180 detonators and plastic explosives stolen from Military Base last July.
11.19.15
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11723764/Forty-gren ades-180-detonators-and-plastic-explosives-stolen-from-French-military-base .html
"French defence ministry is to review security at all arms depots after explosives, grenades and detonators stolen from a military base in Miramas, southern France In July. We recently witnessed a similar event in at a Boston Armory. These are events worth noting.
France is to review security at all of its munitions depots after 40 grenades, 180 detonators and plastic explosives were stolen from a major base in southern France. “Very well informed” thieves broke into the Miramas arms depot northwest of Marseille, southern France, in the early hours of Monday after cutting through two wire fences, according to judicial sources.
The Marseille prosecutor has launched an inquiry into “theft via a break-in by an organised gang and fraudulent entry of a military base”. The defence ministry has also launched an administrative inquiry into the worrying robbery of enough explosives to “blow up any bank or, worse, commit a large-scale attack at a time when the terrorist threat is high in France,” according to TF1, the French TV news channel.
Situated by the Berre lake, Miramas is a 250-hectare “logistics base” with rail access housing munitions used in external military."
Remarks: "Very well informed thieves", knew just where to cut holes in the fence to get in and out with what they wanted, and Boston was also hit this past summer. Hmmmm.
Israfil Yilmaz of Isis answered some questions. He is also one of the fighters for whom a British bride left home. He was formerly with the Netherlands Royal Army, so he is militarily trained.
He did marry a British girl, she divorced him, married another fighter, and then left him to return to her Mother. Some of the fighters there were second generation Al Qaida (as in bin Laden al Qaida fighters).
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/inside-the-online-world-of-the-women-of-isis#.apxzjVGO3
Twenty-year-old Aqsa Mahmood recently made headlines around the world when her parents revealed that she had run away from her home in Scotland and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and marry a militant. Her blog's archive shows her corresponding with other women affiliated with Al Qaida.
"My sisters @UmmLayth_ Umm Haritha & Umm Ubaydiah (@Al_Khanssaa) May Allah unite us soon"
"My sisters. We made hijrah together, May Allah grant us shahada together & unite us in Jannah @UmmLayth_ @bintladen1"
REMARKS:
In Islam women and men do not change their last name when they marry, they always remain their Father's daughter or son. bin means son of, bint means daughter of, umm means wife of.
In this case the lady named Umm Layth was the wife of a fighter with the last name of Layth. The fighters themselves take on other names to protect their identity once they go to battle. The women also take on Islamic names. In this instance the Scottish lady is married to a fighter and living in Syria.
Many people worry about women being radicalized, and perhaps some are to a certain extent, but it is really preferences. I am not starting the was Osama really in Abbottabad debate, I have my own opinions on that matter, but he has been like the Clint Eastwood of the Caliphate, seeking to create a just state in accordance with God's laws, as he knows them to be. He revered Mullah Omar for being able to do that in Afghanistan, he would have loved to do it in Pakistan, but their politics there would not allow for that during the time he was there. He was proud of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's struggle in Iraq and there were al Qaida fighters there. Isis is a natural progression of what started in Iraq in 1997.
Some women who just hold a romanticized vision of Islam and jihad when faced with the reality of living in austere conditions and adjusting to the reality that their new husbands can die any day when going out for jihad, cannot accept that life. Others can. I don't think of it as radicalization, they learn about Islam, they learn about jihad from their husbands, and other wives and either they accept that version of jihad or they do not.
The things that Osama brought up about other nations slaughtering Muslims, unfair treatment of them were never refuted, the western media just sought to shut him up. One of his most poignant speeches was in his Letter to America which explained WHY they still fight the west and secular law. They do not choose to live in a secular state. Why don't they have a right to choose how they want to live, and where? Pakistan accepts the tribal areas and lets them live their way in peace in that location. Syria could do that, but the US is intervening because of it's desire to depose Assad.
That's why there is a war.
People should revisit and review Osama's Letter to America because it was why they fought and why they still do, and always will until foreign policy changes.
OSAMA's
Letter to America Nov. 24, 2002
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]
"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes
they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.
(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.
(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:
Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.
(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.
(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.
It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.
(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.
(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.
(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.
(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
The Nation of honour and respect:
"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]
"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]
The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:
"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]
The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:
"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]
"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]
The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?"
FURTHER REMARKS: So what has changed in our foreign policy? That is why you have multigenerational jihad, until our policies change, they will continue to fight. While it is true that pure Al Qaidians as well as Isis desire one global nation of Islam, each nation/state could provide refuge areas for them. Pakistan has in the tribal areas. Pakistan was at peace until we went there with drones, and even then they said please, we can handle it ourselves.
This is a war of Sharia vs. Secular law and secular states. It cannot be won with drones, bunker buster bombs. It calls for intelligence, understanding, Islamic scholarly involvement, and safe, no war zones. Even the Bible says there must be places of refuge for people who are being persecuted. If we continue to try to run the world, we will ruin our own nation. It will not remain as it is now, that is the price to pay. Few if any American want that, if the government tries to enforce a global war, then naturally the citizens will have to demand that the government stop warring with the world. Right now they may buy this bomb them out of existence strategy, but at some point, they will wake up to the futility of that as a strategy.
My advice remains the same, take our drones, troops get out of other lands. Seal off our borders, let other nations have their "manifest destiny" as we demanded back in the early days of our country's beginnings. Let other countries fight and solve their own problems.
[Edited on 11/23/2015 by gina]
FRANCE/SYRIA 11.23.15
The world's response is till to bomb and kill fighters in Syria. Yes they came to Paris, in retaliation for France's airstrikes on them. It gets into a who did anything first scenario. each side pointing at the other. Someone has to stop the slaughter. Apparently it will not be France, the US and now Britain is offering use of the British military airbase at Akrotiri in Cyprus, plus mid-air refuelling for French combat planes. Meanwhile, Obama refuses to send ground troops though his critics like John McCain think that he should. One General said 50,000 ground troops would be needed to take Raqqa. Raqqa has a population of 350,000 people, and Isis has cut off internet communications and refortified itself anticipating a global response to the attacks in France.
http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=1554
Again, the way to peace is get out of foreign lands, seal our borders, allow other nations to determine their own sovereignty, laws, ways of life, and refuge areas for Muslim groups. Pakistan's tribal area is an example of how that can work. Let that be an example for the rest of the world. Their military only shoots at them if they launch operations in cities or populated areas. THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT handles things in THEIR country.
[Edited on 11/23/2015 by gina]
Updates 11.24.15
BELGIUM/SYRIA 11.24.15
Brussells, Belgium is on lockdown for at least another week, some news reports said they felt an attack was imminent.
"The Federal Judicial Authorities report that five further suspects have been detained during searches of seven properties on Monday morning. Five of the searches took place in Brussels and two in the Walloon city of Liège. The searches follow on from Sunday evening’s police operation in which 19 searches were carried out and 16 people detained in the Brussels municipalities of Anderlecht; Jette, Vorst, Schaarbeek, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe and the city of Charleroi in Hainaut Province.
This means that a total of 21 people have been detained so far in the large-scale police operation to try and track down Salah Abdeslam. 26,000 euro in cash was found during Sunday evening’s operation. However, no weapons or explosives were found."
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2504661
London has 10,000 troops standing by just in case anything happens there. They normally have 5,000 but decided to add additional troops on standby.
The US is sending the Harry Truman aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, replacing the Teddy Roosevelt. Twenty four stories high, can carry more than sixty planes. France sent it's largest carrier, the Charles de Gaulle last week.
Russia said its airforce flew 141 sorties and hit 472 terrorist targets in Syria over the weekend.
http://www.businessinsider.com/massive-us-supercarrier-fight-isis-2015-11
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/10000-troops-put-on-standby-to-protec t-london-from-terror-attack-a3121166.html
And there are reports that US made weapons were used by Isis to down the Russian plane,
and US made weapons were used by the Free Syrian Army that downed the Russian chopper that came to search and rescue on the Russian plane crash.
Video footage [in link] claims to show members of the Free Syrian Army, who are part-funded and trained by the US and Turkey, hitting the helicopter with a US-made TOW anti-tank missile. The world's nerves will be jangling at the claimed use of a US weapon directly against Russia.
The video shows a zoomed-in shot of the gun's instructions, which are written in English.
REMARKS: If the Free Syrian Army cannot tell the difference between Russia and Isis, it ain't likely they will be winning any wars anytime soon. Are they running their own war shooting at Russian planes or choppers? Has Isis infiltrated the Free Syrian Army?
[Edited on 11/25/2015 by gina]
Oh Boy, The Mafia warns Isis to stay out of it's neighborhoods in NY.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/mafia-tells-isis-stay-away-from-new-york-a3121901.html
In a TV interview, Giovanni Gambino, son of a key figure in the Gambino crime syndicate, suggested that Isis would be best off avoiding neighbourhoods in the Big Apple with Sicillian connections.
Mr Gambino said: "The world is dangerous today, but people living in New York neighbourhoods with Sicilian connections should feel safe.
"We make sure our friends and families are protected from extremists and terrorists, especially the brutal, psychopathic organization that calls itself the Islamic State.
"[The authorities] often act too late or fail to see a complete picture of what’s happening due to a lack of ‘human intelligence.
"The Mafia has a bad reputation, but much of that’s undeserved. As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the Mafia a chance to show its good side."
REMARKS: Well at least someone is looking out for New Yorkers! 
FRANCE - this is chilling
The leader of the Paris attacks actually was there observing the attacks along with police, firefighters, journalists and rescue workers while the massacres were unfolding. He was killed many days later when police stormed the apartment he was staying in.
Meanwhile the man who helped Salah AbdelSalam (the Isis member who refused to use his suicide vest and instead left it in a dumpster) escape (Mohamad Abrini) is now considered to be armed and dangerous and possibly still with him. They were videotaped at a gas station.
A statement from the federal prosecutor’s office said: ‘Salah Abdeslam was filmed in a gas station in Ressons… together with a person who has been identified as Mohamed Abrini, born 27 December 1984.
‘The latter was driving the Renault Clio used two days later for committing the attacks.
REMARKS: In a previous post journalists noted that 26,000 euros were found in relation to the attacks. Osama had said it only cost $50,000 for World Trade Center Attacks, so the finding of the 26,000 euros is significant and points towards a large scale attack., which could be what we have already seen or maybe there is more to come.
[Edited on 11/25/2015 by gina]
TUNISIA - ISIS attack 11.24.15
At least 12 people were killed on Tuesday after an explosion tore through a bus full of Tunisian presidential guards in an attack one source said was probably carried out by a bomber detonating his explosives inside the vehicle.
It is the third major attack to strike Tunisia this year after a militant killed 38 foreigners at a beach hotel in June and gunmen killed 21 tourists at the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both attacks.
Security sources said the guards were boarding the bus to be taken to the presidential palace on the outskirts of the city when the explosion hit. One presidential source said it was likely that a bomber had detonated his explosive belt inside the vehicle.
REMARKS: They kill the guards as a warning to the Tunisian President, then when they get ready, if his guards are gone, who will protect him? This is war in a new way. Previously militants would go directly for their target, but not Isis. I cannot understand why we have world leaders going to a Climate Change summit in Paris, if they want protection they should have the Bildeberger group do security, nobody gets into any of their conferences.
RE: Russian Jet Downed By Turkey
The plane was shot down, but the two pilots parachuted out and were then shot from the ground. they did not die from the plane going down, they were deliberately shot. One was killed from ground fire according to Russia.
Moscow said one of two pilots who ejected from the Su-24 plane was killed by gunfire from the ground as he descended, although Turkish officials insisted both were still alive.
A Turkish government official had earlier insisted both pilots were still alive, but Russian military spokesman General Sergei Rudskoi said one had been killed by fire from the ground.
The fate of the second pilot was unknown. Rudskoi said a soldier had been killed in a failed bid to rescue the pair after one of his squadron s helicopters was damaged by gunfire and had to land. The other members of the squad were successfully evacuated.
http://dunyanews.tv/en/World/309942-Tensions-soar-as-Turkey-shoots-down-Russian-plane
This is not the first time Russia violated their airspace. AND they were contacted TEN times duiring this time before they were shot down. But shooting at pilots sho parachute out of a plane that has been taken down. That seems wrong. This is from Turkey.
By the way there are 300,000 Turkmens displaced since the start of the war in Syria, and the area where the plane was shot down is this area.
"the Turkish government called for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in Syria days after Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the heavy airstrikes on Turkmen regions where DAESH has no presence.
"Turkey summoned Moscow's ambassador on Friday and called for an immediate end to the Russian military operations near its border, which it said included "heavy bombing" of Turkmen civilian villages".
AND YES, Nato had their emergency meeting to discuss the developments and how they will respond.
There is something else that happened in Turkey.
[Edited on 11/25/2015 by gina]
TURKEY/SYRIA/RUSSIA 11.25.15
Russia has announced they have rescued the second pilot who had to parachute out of their plane that was downed over Turkish airspace. The first one is believed to have died after being shot at from the ground.
""The operation ended successfully. The second pilot has been brought to our base. He is alive and well," Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. President Vladimir Putin later confirmed the second pilot was "saved" and "he and the other participants.. including in the rescue operation will be awarded state honours. The plane's other pilot who died as he was fired at from the ground will posthumously be given Russia's highest award for valour, the Hero of Russia medal, Putin said"
"The S-400 anti-aircraft missile system will be deployed to the Hmeimim airbase," Shoigu was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies."
HOWEVER, Alpasian Celik, Turkmen Commander says that they shot the pilots dead, they have the bodies and they will bring them so that the press can verify it.
The Russian pilot says THEY WERE NOT GIVEN ANY WARNING, AND THEY WERE NOT IN TURKISH AIRSPACE. And there is a map of the crashshite, which clearly is NOT in Turkish airspace, so what is going on here?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34925229
WHAT IS THE TRUTH HERE? Were they in Turkish airspace? If the crashsite was not in their airspace this is proof something is wrong. Was a warning given? The Turkmen fighters claim to have bodies, whose do they have?
REMARKS: Russian's deploying an anti-aircraft missile defense system should be of concern to US and others, because Russia backs Assad. If the US decides to send ground troops or even just continues with the air offensive, Russia can shoot down our planes. Isis is pitting the US against Russia in the long term and the stability of the Middle East will not be decided by US military superiority without a nuclear conflict. Ezekiel Chapter 38, the last war will be Russia and China against the US. Isis wants their caliphate, Osama being the Clint Eastwood of the Caliphate, spiritually or otherwise through his children and extended mujahideen family has continued his legacy.
[Edited on 11/25/2015 by gina]
PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN
Not much attention has been given lately to the war still going on in Pakistan/Afghanistan. A US drone killed a top Tehrik-i-Taliban Commander, Khan Said Sajna, Naeem Kochi and Kifayat Kochi were also among the insurgents killed in the drone strike, according to Pakistan's Geo TV. In addition, at least 20 insurgents were also injured in the attack The operation took place in Behsood district of the province after they were travelling through the area, a spokesman for the provincial governor Attaullah Khogyani said. He was killed close to Durand Line with North Waziristan on Wednesday.
He was one of the Commanders who broke away from the main TTP group and gave an allegiance to Isis.
Meanwhile there is a film called DRONE, premieres in NYC on Friday, where a former drone operator tells what it is like to kill someone using the drone technology. Brandon Bryant, recalls making his first ‘kill’, was "horrible" the third kill was "numbing". For those who do not know, the US President is the one who approves each and every targeted assassination drone strike. It only happens with his authorization and approval; there are no rogue military people getting drone happy and killing people.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/nov/18/extract-film-drone-video
REMARKS: Isis has made threats against New York City, the US has killed a high level Pakistani Commander who joined their ranks with a drone strike, now a film about drone strike killings premiere's in NYC, I think that could be interpreted as gloating over the US taking it upon themselves to decide who lives or dies in other countries. If and when there is an attack in NYC, people will just be told oh those terrorists, they never hear that we went their first to the lands these 'terrorists' live in and killed their people. We went to Afghanistan and killed Jalaluddin Haqqani, in a drone stroke. He was retired and not bothering anyone, he helped the US defend the Afghan land against the Russian incursion during the Soviet Afghan war. If we continue going to these countries killing local citizens of these countries, the reaction has to be they come here to kill some of our citizens, to have a foreign policy of 'we can go anywhere, anytime, and kill anyone, but no one is allowed to do that to us' is not even logical. And it certainly will not foster peace.
[Edited on 11/26/2015 by gina]
AFGHANISTAN - combined new sources
"US officials are warning of what they believe will be an "imminent" attach in Kabul as officials renewed efforts to revive stalled peace talks with Taliban militants, The U.S. Embassy in Kabul urged extreme caution during a period of “heightened threat.”
The warning, posted to the U.S. embassy’s website, said “the security situation in Afghanistan is extremely unstable, and the threat to all U.S. citizens in Afghanistan remains critical.”
The embassy frequently issues emergency warnings. But the latest warning comes as the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan were expected to meet on the sidelines of a United Nations climate summit in Paris.
If the meeting between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani takes place, it could be a crucial first step toward resuming Islamabad-brokered peace talks with the Taliban. "
Sultan Faizi, a spokesman for Afghan First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum said that the newly appointed Amir the the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour was injured during a meeting of Taliban members in particular with Mullah Abdullah Sardari, a Taliban commander. Sardari is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was freed in 2012.
THE Taliban have denied that this meeting took place or that Mullah Akhtar Mansour was injured.
If there is any attack on Kabul most likely it would be an INSIDE JOB where Taliban would be blamed for it. They are NOT at war with each other per their own statements. If General Dostum was so concerned with truth coming out, why doesn't he let the world know about his torture prison in Shibergan and what he allowed to happen there?
It is possible that certain people want ISIS to take over Afghanistan, so they have to lay the foundation of having people believe there are these wild west scenarios of Taliban fighting against each other. It is NOT true.
FRANCE
France has shut several masjids (a masjid is an Islamic house of prayer, the word mosque actually means whiskey house, so I will call them masjids), just as I would call Jewish houses of prayer, Temples, and Christian houses of prayer churches.
http://www.theindychannel.com/newsy/france-likely-to-close-over-100-mosques-it-says-preach-hatred
Hassan al Alaoui who is the Muslim chaplain over the masjids in France says that 100-160 masjids will be closed because either they are run illegally without a license, or because they preach hate speech. There are 2,600 masjids in France so 4-6% will be closed.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/france-100-mosques-close-151202142023319.html
REMARKS: When France takes these actions, it will be viewed as justification by Isis and/or others to retaliate, because religion is preached at the masjids, so it becomes an attack on Islam. Why has no one thought to bring in scholars to speak with the Imams (Imams are the equivalent of Rabbis, Priests who teach religion, lead prayers and giver sermons).?
NOT RELATED TO FRANCE BUT INTERESTING NEVERTHELESS.
A Canadian Model goes to fight against Isis and enjoys her deployment so much, after returning home to Canada to deal with nutritional deficiencies, she goes back there to do it some more. She's lucky she did not find them and end up in an Isis video.
http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-model-fighting-isis-syria-202503999.html
[Edited on 12/3/2015 by gina]
YEMEN
"The chief of Blackwater mercenaries in Yemen has been killed in clashes with Houthi Ansarullah fighters and allied forces in the country’s southwest, reports say.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported that the commander-in-chief of the private security firm in the country, a Mexican national, was slain in the al-Omari district of Ta'izz Province early on Wednesday.
According to the report, the recent fatality has brought to 15 the number of foreign forces with the Blackwater killed in clashes in Yemen since Tuesday. Some Australian, British, and French advisors and commanders -- plus half a dozen Colombian soldiers -- were among the dead. The mercenaries are part of the UAE forces that help Saudi Arabia in its war against the impoverished country.
A US security services training company, Blackwater Worldwide, which is now known as Academi, is one the most notorious private security firms in the world and is responsible for killing of scores of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
Yemen has been under military attacks by Saudi Arabia since March 26. The Saudi military strikes were launched with the aim of undermining Ansarullah and bringing fugitive former president of Yemen, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the Saudi aerial aggression began."
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/10/441071/Yemen-Blacwater-UAE-Saudi-Arabia-Taizz-Hadi-Sudan
Remarks: Blackwater mercenaries are the people fighting the Shiite Houthis in Yemen. Nice to know they are still running the wars. Does the Islamic State work for Blackwater?
[Edited on 12/10/2015 by gina]
US/FRANCE/SYRIA
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has flown to the Persian Gulf to visit American and French warships ahead of their scheduled strikes against purported Daesh (ISIL) positions in Iraq and Syria. Carter met Saturday with naval commanders on USS Kearsarge and France’s Charles de Gaulle in the Persian Gulf, saying that there will be more to come in the battle against ISIL.
Cmdr. Lionel Delort, French Navy spokesman on the carrier, said the ship will begin launching airstrikes into Iraq and Syria "in the coming hours or days."
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/19/442417/Carter-Persian-Gulf-warships-
REMARKS: For every action, there's a reaction. What will Isis's reaction be to US and France warships in the Persian Gulf launching aircraft carriers on them that bomb them? They cannot fight back in Syria against that kind of an assault, so they fight another way, launching small scale attacks on the nations that are bombing them. What does that mean? Example: the attacks in Paris. We should expect attacks here because of what we are doing over there. It was only the Afghans who would ONLY fight within their own borders, Isis and Al Qaida will go to other countries to retaliate.
Those who do not want retaliatory attacks within their countries (like here) should tell their govts. to get out of Middle East affairs and countries. It IS THAT SIMPLE.
[Edited on 12/19/2015 by gina]
PAKISTAN/ISIS
From Reuters - Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan Saturday, 19 December 2015
Pakistan’s Taliban have rejected Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s claim to be the global leader of all Muslims, the movement said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday.
“Baghdadi is not Khalifa (caliph) because in Islam, Khalifa means that he has command over all the Muslim world, while Baghdadi has no such command; he has command over a specific people and territory,” the Pakistan Taliban said in a statement.
“Baghdadi is not an Islamic Khalifa because his selection is not according to Islamic rules,” the statement said, adding that the ISIS leader had little control in Muslim countries like Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Taliban have been beset by bitter internal rivalries in the recent past, with the influential Mehsud tribal faction of the group refusing to accept the authority of Mullah Fazlullah, who came to power in late 2013
In its latest statement, the Pakistani Taliban, like the Afghan Taliban, also condemn the ‘barbarity’ of ISIS’s rule.
“Baghdadi’s caliphate is not Islamic because in a real caliphate you provide real justice while Baghdadi’s men kill many innocent mujahideen (fighters) of other groups,” the statement said.
Earlier this year, the Afghan Taliban sent a letter to al-Baghdadi to stop recruiting in Afghanistan, saying there is room for only “one flag, one leadership” in their fight to re-establish strict Islamist rule.
AFGHANISTAN
There was a suicide bombing in Afghanistan Six American troops were killed in Afghanistan Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike struck their patrol near Bagram air base. NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Kabul said that the attack killed six Resolute Support troops and wounded three others but declined to provide the nationalities of casualties.
What the regular news has not told you is WHY. It was in retaliation for the death by torture that occurred INSIDE the Bagram Detention facility of Mullah Abdul Raqib.
This is what the Afghan Taliban had to say about his death.
"A distinguished religious scholar of the country Mawlawi Abdul Raqib, the son of Mawlawi Muhammad Idris from Gandomak area in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province was captured by US forces 2 years earlier in Nangarhar and detained in the notorious prisons of Nangarhar and Bagram the following two years. He was martyred 2 days earlier from extreme beating, torture and cruelty and his funeral prayers carried out today in the Eid Gah mosque of Jalalabad city with thousands of our countrymen participating.
This is not the first time that our imprisoned countrymen have been brutally martyred in the notorious prisons, detention centers and dark cells of intelligence agencies of America and her stooge Kabul regime and their bodies displaying signs of torture handed over to their family members.
The Islamic Emirate strongly condemns this barbaric act of the Americans, sends its deepest condolences to the family of Mawlawi Abdul Raqib and considers itself a partner in their grief. At the same time it vows that it shall avenge the innocent martyrs by targeting the foreign invaders and their corrupt lackeys.
Concerning the ongoing barbarities being carried out against our innocent countrymen, detainees and especially religious scholars in the prisons of America and Kabul administration, we call upon the claimants of defenders of human rights and other neutral parties to fulfill their duties in regards to protecting the lives and health of prisoners."
REMARKS: The suicide bombing attack was in retaliation for one of their fellow, native born Afghan countrymen being tortured to death. But it was not just that event. Recently civilians were targeted and killed according to them
"On 4 December 2015, 18 innocent civilians including children were stained in their blood at the hands of brutal fighters of the two-headed surrogate Kabul administration in Shanaiz area and Taryo village of Saedabad district, Wardak province. According to the report, the incident took place while people gathered in the cold breeze of the morning at a local mosque as usual and there was no sign of fighting and violence in the area.
The invading instructors have only inculcated brutalities into the minds of the fighters of the Kabul administration. A proverb says: one takes on the habit he is living with. Except brutalities, they do not know anything else. Another proverb says: you have in a ladle what you have in the cauldron. The history of America is full of brutalities. Dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan and the sufferings of the people of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are few examples to be cited.
The fighters of the Kabul administration who receive their salaries and subsistence from invading enemy; their weapons, ammunitions and logistical equipments all are from them while invaders identify targets and gives orders to fight. They are neither a national army nor have been formed to safeguard their own people. Rather these are militias formed for the protection of invaders. They are fighting for those who are assisting them. As the Afghan nation is firmly committed to expel invaders and not submitting to them therefore, all civilians are targets of their attacks. In view of the invaders, killers of civilians are national heroes and deserve privileges in return for every kill.
Our pious nation better knows that these criminals under the name of national army are trained and taught by invaders. They are trained by those invaders who are the enemies of our religion, country and freedom. They are neither committed to humanity nor to the law. These invaders have committed numerous brutalities under the name of re-construction and cooperation. They have killed tens of thousands people, displaced hundreds of thousands; many of our countrymen have been buried alive under the soil due to their blind bombardments; time and again they desecrated the martyrs and the Quran, the Holy book of all Muslims. Moreover, they have bombed mosques, religious seminaries, schools, wedding parties and hospitals. The recent example of such brutalities is the bombardment of hospital belonging to the Doctors without Borders in Kunduz where patients including several doctors were miserably killed.
This is an obvious fact that national army of every country is trained with a distinguished spirit. Protection of ideological and geographical boundaries of the countries and defense of religion, national traditions, soil and people is the responsibility of national army. The army is considered as the servant of their people. This is while they are trained by their own people and educated according to the beliefs, ethics and culture of the nation. Friends and enemies of the nation should be clearly made known to them. National army should be national in its true sense and should be kept away from any kind of external influence and pressure so that they take the responsibility to defend religious and national honor and protect life and property of the nation."
REMARK: The killing of the young children weighed heavy on their minds at the time, they asked these questions.
"For What Sin Were They Killed?
On Friday 6th of December 2015 a rocket struck a mosque in Sayed Abad district of Wardak province, Afghanistan which killed and injured 18 people included children. Many of the injured are also in critical condition.
The painful question is this that by whom this mosque was targeted? By American aerial bombing? By Nato’s indiscriminate attack? By other foreign occupiers? Those who are always preaching us about human rights?
Or those who claim to be one of us and commit crimes against their people even more than the foreigners?
All these slogans emphasizing nationalities such as the national army, national police, local police – we don’t understand what they mean with these ‘national’ institutions, if they are implying that they serve their nationals then they are clearly out to dupe us since they kill their nationals more than they serve them.
Our poor people don’t have any safety even in the house of God from foreigners or those who wear military uniforms in the name of this nation? This mosque was not some stronghold of national terror opponents that these mercenary forces so cruelly attacked it.
What was the crime of these worshippers that they faced such a miserable fate?
If civilians are perceived as opponents of the Kabul regime and they don’t have any safety of life and property anywhere then whom are the people that support the Kabul regime?
What was these poor victims crime? Were they killed for going to the mosque? Was their crime sitting in a mosque and remembering their Lord? Was it that they were praying and reciting the Quran? Or something else?
Has anyone asked why the blood of these innocent people was shed? Where is the media which always accuses the insurgents of committing war crimes? Why do they turn a blind eye to this atrocity? After all, was not their countrymen that were killed in this crime? If such a crime had been committed by anyone other than the government they would surely have created a storm with their reports.
When something of similar nature happens in France or America, the entire world rushes in to pay their respects to the fallen. Where are our respects and condolences?
Alas we must accept that our poor nation is the hated child of this international community, none care for our fallen, for our grief, and none care to stop those committing such atrocities on our people.
Such atrocities occur in our land daily yet unfortunately no one cares enough to investigate them, to compensate the victims, to console them, or to carry out an investigation to prevent its recurrence.
It is as a result of such atrocities that our people have turned their backs to their supposed protectors. Surely that day will arrive when all our countrymen will join the forces of resistance creating a storm that will cleanse our country."
CLOSING REMARKS: You never hear WHY they retaliate with attacks on US servicemen, they are living in a place where even places of prayer are targeted and attacked by our foreign forces. Children are not exempt, nor are civilians. It is these things that drive them to offer up their own lives to try to stop some of the people involved or representing the brutality of what goes on there. If one person slays 6 others, it is a small victory for them, but still a victory. Just like in Palestine where they cannot launch any formidable attack on the aggression they endure from Israel, all they have are their bodies, so they use those as weapons in the only way they are able to protest to fight the injustices that they find unbearable. The world may not notice or care, but God is well aware of all that goes on.
This comes from this article where it was not the theme of the article, but a stark truth that came out in it anyway. It sums up conflict we have with other nations and the people labelled as terrorists. Not all resistance fighters are terrorists. I will agree that Isis are terrorists in the manner they have behaved with other Muslims (particularly the Afghan talibs) and with the reports on how women captives have been treated.
In regards to what is going on in Afghanistan,
"In other words, any violence by Muslims against the West is inherently “terrorism,” even if targeted only at soldiers at war and/or designed to resist invasion and occupation.
By stark contrast, no violence by the West against Muslims can possibly be “terrorism,” no matter how brutal, inhumane or indiscriminately civilian-killing."
[Edited on 12/23/2015 by gina]
LEBANON/ISRAEL/SYRIA
Samir Qantar was killed in an airstrike in Damascus by an airstrike. Samir Kuntar was a Lebanese Druze militant chief and member of the Palestine Liberation Front who was convicted of murder and spent 30 years in prison. He was also a Hezbollah Commander. Hezbollah has vowed revenge against Israel whom they blame for his death.
A statement posted Sunday on the Facebook page of a Druse militia in Jaramana said that the building had been hit with “four long-range missiles.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/world/middleeast/samir-kuntar-hezbollah-syria-israel.html?_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kuntar
On April 22, 1979, at the age of 16, he participated in the killing of an Israeli policeman and the attempted kidnapping of an Israeli family in Nahariya that resulted in the deaths of four Israelis and two of his fellow kidnappers. Kuntar and his team broke into an apartment building and kidnapped a father, 31-year-old Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, taking them to a nearby beach, where they were accused of killing them - something Kuntar always denied, saying the father and child were killed by crossfire.
In Israel, Kuntar is considered the perpetrator of one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in the country's history. Newsweek states that the details of Kuntar's attack are "so sickening they give pause even to some of Israel's enemies."
On November 24, 2008, Syrian president Bashar Assad presented Kuntar with the Syrian Order of Merit medal[ and in early 2009 he was honored by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On 8 September 2015, the United States Department of State designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
REMARKS: Hezbollah blames Israel and promises retaliation. The assassination took place in Damascus, Syria. I have not heard any news outlets say that Israel was participating in missile/drone strikes inside of Syria, if Israel is involved in activities inside of Syria this would be quite a new development in the war going on there.
[Edited on 12/22/2015 by gina]
SYRIA
The Syrian government says they will accept a UN resolution designed to bring peace to the region.
"A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach.
The resolutions gave U.N. blessing to a plan negotiated earlier in Vienna that calls for a ceasefire, talks between the Syrian government and opposition, and a roughly two-year timeline to create a unity government and hold elections."
The Arab League backs it also. The plan would implement a cease fire.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/12/20/Arab-League-backs-U-N-plan-to-end-Syria-war-.html
Chris Doyle is the director of CAABU (the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding thinks that the closer Syria is to peace, the more violent it will be.
The points of the Resolution passed by the UN
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2015/12/19/What-are-the-key-points-of-the-U-N-Syria-resolution-.html
One of the points "Welcomes Jordan's effort to draw up a list of groups deemed to be terrorists." Don't think that will lead to peace.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52880#.VnsSJf9IgdU
ONE MILLION Refugees so far this year.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52859#.VnsSbP9IgdU
Global forced displacement tops 60 Million people for 2015. 2.5 million of those are from Yemen and the war there.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52883#.VnsSsv9IgdU
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52893#.VnsTuP9IgdU
COMMENTARY:
What does war do? Create dead bodies, homeless refugees. If all nations kept their weapons within their own borders and only responded to breaches in their own lands, then each nation could decide it's own sovereignty. Yes there would still be wars in individual countries, but they would be decided by their own people. Arm every citizen of every nation, so that they may defend themselves from tyranny, then they would not need international assistance to come and help them out. Yes wars would still happen, the body counts and effects on the rest of the world would be minimized as people realize that they are only destroying themselves and their own lands.
If groups such as Isis go to another land other than native homelands, example they go to Israel to retake al Quds (Jerusalem) then that battle is between Isis and Israel, nobody else. Nobody else should get involved. The conflicts will be regional. There will be no need for nuclear war. Is that not a better solution? Isis has fighters largely in Iraq and Syria, the war is then between Isis and Iraq and Isis and Syria. The peoples of those lands cannot fight back because they have been disarmed. Arm them, let them fight for their own lands. Get other nations out of other countries business.
Pass a United Nations resolution affirming the right of all citizens of all nations to be armed to protect their lives, homes. An insurgency cannot develop or be successful against an armed population. The people in Afghanistan were disarmed when the Taliban took control, and probably even before that. You have the Taliban, Isis, the Afghan National Army, other factions and groups, regular civilians, too many cooks in that kitchen which is why the people side with one militia or another, they cannot defend themselves, war is perpetual.
As it is now, we helped to eff them up, so did Russia, France, the UK and everyone else who participated in blowing up people, bldgs. so we have a moral responsibility towards the refugees for the situation we helped to create.
ARM ALL THE PEOPLES OF ALL THE COUNTRIES, THEN GET OUT AND LET THEM FIGHT THEIR OWN WARS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. IT IS THAT SIMPLE. DO NOT INTERFERE OR INTERVENE IN THE WARS GOING ON IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
[Edited on 12/23/2015 by gina]
