A rare video of ISIS Sunni Turkmen (Iraq ethnic minority) fighters who ambushed Kurdish peshmerga and answer call to one of the dead peshmergas' phone
Warning: The video is somewhat graphic
٦ أكتوبر، ٢٠١٤
Thursday, October 30, 2014
ISIS fighters answer dead Peshmerga phone
A rare video of ISIS Sunni Turkmen (Iraq ethnic minority) fighters who ambushed Kurdish peshmerga and answer call to one of the dead peshmergas' phone
The third intifada has already started
Jewish politicians in Jerusalem agree. The third intifada has already started.
For now it's a local Jerusalem affair. But this may change
# Jerusalem Post
The city’s politicians agree: Third intifada is a foregone conclusion () {
By = DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Date = 10/28/2014
It would appear that the only issue that two of the city’s most outspoken and diametrically opposed politicians can agree on is that the violence is indeed another intifada, and it is anything but silent.
According to councilmen Dr. Meir Margalit (Meretz), who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, and right-wing hardliner Arieh King (United Jerusalem), the “third intifada” is already upon us, and has been for some time.
“For several weeks I have said that we are inside the third intifada,” said Margalit on Monday. “I don’t know why they call it a “silent intifada,” because it’s very loud, so the word silent is incorrect. It’s an intifada, and we have to call it by its proper name.”
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“It’s different than the second intifada, because there are no suicide bombers,” he said. “It’s more similar to the first intifada, which was defined by rock throwing and firebombs.
“I think the main reason is that Hamas is not a part of this process,” he explained. “The suicide bombers came from Hamas, and it seems that they are not part of the issue.”
Another reason, Margalit continued, “is that I think the Palestinians realize that the strategy of suicide bombers was counterproductive; that the international community condemned them, damaging the Palestinian struggle.”
Moreover, he said that Palestinian Authority President Muhammad Abbas has no control over the east Jerusalem violence.
“The fact that it hasn’t started in the West Bank is because Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are not interested in an intifada, but in Jerusalem they have no control over what happens on the ground,” he said.
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Councilman King concurred with Margalit regarding the existence of a third intifada.
“It’s been a reality for at least two years -- people just have a short memory,” he said. “Stones today are something people aren’t counting – only firebombs and firecrackers.
But for at least two years there have been daily attacks against Jews in the Yemenite village [Silwan] and at the Mount of Olives Cemetery, where stones are thrown at Jews visiting and leaving every single day.”
King said the third intifada actually began two years ago when the National Security Council “made sure that everything that happens in east Jerusalem goes through the Prime Minister’s Office, including building permits and city planning.” He added that “the PMO didn’t have any clue what they were dealing with.”
(...) }
Source = http://t.co/Aa1g2FwUNd
For now it's a local Jerusalem affair. But this may change
# Jerusalem Post
The city’s politicians agree: Third intifada is a foregone conclusion () {
By = DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Date = 10/28/2014
It would appear that the only issue that two of the city’s most outspoken and diametrically opposed politicians can agree on is that the violence is indeed another intifada, and it is anything but silent.
According to councilmen Dr. Meir Margalit (Meretz), who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, and right-wing hardliner Arieh King (United Jerusalem), the “third intifada” is already upon us, and has been for some time.
“For several weeks I have said that we are inside the third intifada,” said Margalit on Monday. “I don’t know why they call it a “silent intifada,” because it’s very loud, so the word silent is incorrect. It’s an intifada, and we have to call it by its proper name.”
(...)
“It’s different than the second intifada, because there are no suicide bombers,” he said. “It’s more similar to the first intifada, which was defined by rock throwing and firebombs.
“I think the main reason is that Hamas is not a part of this process,” he explained. “The suicide bombers came from Hamas, and it seems that they are not part of the issue.”
Another reason, Margalit continued, “is that I think the Palestinians realize that the strategy of suicide bombers was counterproductive; that the international community condemned them, damaging the Palestinian struggle.”
Moreover, he said that Palestinian Authority President Muhammad Abbas has no control over the east Jerusalem violence.
“The fact that it hasn’t started in the West Bank is because Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are not interested in an intifada, but in Jerusalem they have no control over what happens on the ground,” he said.
(...)
Councilman King concurred with Margalit regarding the existence of a third intifada.
“It’s been a reality for at least two years -- people just have a short memory,” he said. “Stones today are something people aren’t counting – only firebombs and firecrackers.
But for at least two years there have been daily attacks against Jews in the Yemenite village [Silwan] and at the Mount of Olives Cemetery, where stones are thrown at Jews visiting and leaving every single day.”
King said the third intifada actually began two years ago when the National Security Council “made sure that everything that happens in east Jerusalem goes through the Prime Minister’s Office, including building permits and city planning.” He added that “the PMO didn’t have any clue what they were dealing with.”
(...) }
Source = http://t.co/Aa1g2FwUNd
Syrian rebel targeting regime warplanes in Handarat Aleppo ten days ago
ريف حلب حندرات التصدي للطيران الحربي بالأسلحة الخفيفة على يد الجيش الحر 20 10 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Because there is nothing louder than the sound of bullets
# Newsweek
Because there is nothing louder than the sound of bullets () {
Date = October 29, 2014
By = Laura Kasinof
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“It doesn't seem that Hadi has much control,” says Nadwa al-Dawsari, a Yemeni civil society activist and researcher, who specialises in tribal conflict. “In his last speech, he asked the Houthis to evacuate Sana’a and other cities immediately, but they are still there and expanding. It only means that he no longer has control over Houthis, security or even his own military forces.”
The Houthis’ takeover also threatens to bring a sectarian-based conflict to Yemen not unlike those being fought in Iraq and Syria. The Houthis are traditionally Shia, .. They preach a Shia’a revivalist doctrine and have been engaged in an on-again, off-again war with the Yemeni state since 2005.
“There is a strong atmosphere of apprehension and rumours about the motives of the Houthis, including one that they want to claim a long lost right to rule based on religious grounds,” says al-Dawsari. “While this might not be true, the Houthis’ expansion by force across different areas of Yemen is reinforcing this perception and instigating radical responses based on that perception.”
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Source = http://t.co/puzcmFwRa }
Foreign Fighters Pouring Into Syria Faster Than Ever
The West's top counterterrorism officials struggle to wrap their heads around the mystery of the ISIS appeal as the number of foreign fighters in Syria goes thru the roof
# NBC News
Foreign Fighters Pouring Into Syria Faster Than Ever, Say Officials () {
By = CHRIS FRANCESCANI AND ROBERT WINDREM
Date = October 29th 2014
... “It’s greater than anything we’ve seen into Afghanistan, into Yemen, into Somalia, into Iraq, or anything that we’ve seen in the last 10-year period.”
Blake said the number... has risen so rapidly in recent weeks that a new law enforcement video shown at the four-day event is already out of date.
“The video said there are somewhere around 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria. We would update that number to about 16,000 foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria from over 80 countries,” Blake said, adding that roughly 2,000 of those fighters hail from Western countries...
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What’s more, authorities have found it nearly impossible to create a demographic profile of these Western volunteers.
... said John Adams, the FBI’s deputy director for counterterrorism.
“We’re currently age-ranged from minors of 15 years old, which is our youngest traveler, up to 63 years old, which has been our oldest traveler. It’s very, very difficult to try and identify a particular age group that this particular foreign fighter message resonates with,”...
(...)
No one knows for sure what is motivating so many Westerners to head to Syria, but one U.S. official offered a personal theory.
... Andrew McCabe, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.
“Our culture is one that grew up with instant gratification, instant information,” said McCabe. “Al Qaeda’s message has historically been, ‘This is a long war, we’ll fight the Great Satan [and] we’ll try and establish a caliphate sometime in the future.’ ISIL has come forward and said, 'The time is now, it's happening now. We have our own territory, come join us.'”
“To me, the instant appeal of participating in the caliphate that’s happening now, I think that resonates...“
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Source = http://nbcnews.to/1u7NU9Q }
Foreign Fighters Pouring Into Syria Faster Than Ever, Say Officials () {
By = CHRIS FRANCESCANI AND ROBERT WINDREM
Date = October 29th 2014
... “It’s greater than anything we’ve seen into Afghanistan, into Yemen, into Somalia, into Iraq, or anything that we’ve seen in the last 10-year period.”
Blake said the number... has risen so rapidly in recent weeks that a new law enforcement video shown at the four-day event is already out of date.
“The video said there are somewhere around 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria. We would update that number to about 16,000 foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria from over 80 countries,” Blake said, adding that roughly 2,000 of those fighters hail from Western countries...
(...)
What’s more, authorities have found it nearly impossible to create a demographic profile of these Western volunteers.
... said John Adams, the FBI’s deputy director for counterterrorism.
“We’re currently age-ranged from minors of 15 years old, which is our youngest traveler, up to 63 years old, which has been our oldest traveler. It’s very, very difficult to try and identify a particular age group that this particular foreign fighter message resonates with,”...
(...)
No one knows for sure what is motivating so many Westerners to head to Syria, but one U.S. official offered a personal theory.
... Andrew McCabe, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.
“Our culture is one that grew up with instant gratification, instant information,” said McCabe. “Al Qaeda’s message has historically been, ‘This is a long war, we’ll fight the Great Satan [and] we’ll try and establish a caliphate sometime in the future.’ ISIL has come forward and said, 'The time is now, it's happening now. We have our own territory, come join us.'”
“To me, the instant appeal of participating in the caliphate that’s happening now, I think that resonates...“
(...)
Source = http://nbcnews.to/1u7NU9Q }
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