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Don't you dare get my hopes up.
We can dream.
News is out in Kabul a few days ago that a ANP officer prevented a suicide bombing from causing mass casualties by wrapping his hands around him to prevent him from going near civilians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/world/asia/kabul-explosion-police.html
edited 21st Nov '17 5:48:35 PM by Ominae
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Someone give his family more money than terrorist organizations give to 'martys'. It's nice to be hailed as a hero, but goodness should have tangible rewards.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I think I know which of those two was greeted at the pearly gates with fanfare and aplomb.
The true martyr wasn't the idiot who strapped a bomb to himself.
That isn't exactly any consolation for the family, specially if they don't believe in the afterlife.
Then again, being remembered for heroism is another type of immortality.
A bomb was denoted in a Sinai mosque, and then gunmen began shooting people as they fled the building. No claim of responsibility, but the area is the stomping ground of a ISIS branch. At least 184 dead, 125 wounded, and this is expected to rise.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/24/africa/egypt-sinai-mosque-attack/index.html
More news out from Cairo is suggesting IS groups are the masterminds.
BBC announced that the Politi had arrested a Muslim convert for trying to do a lone wolf attack on her former primary school and a Jewish school. She's unnamed and has IS leanings.
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The police where?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground
Denmark.
An old article, but regards the Irish security forces on whether they can secure the scene of a potential mass shooting. Warning that it has some debates on "attracting terrorist's attention"...
It's strange.
A Filipino man living in Florida (he has a Green card) told an uncover FBI agent that he planned to conduct a mass shooting at a mosque. So far he's only been charged with possessing an illegal silencer, but I suspect more is coming.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42241667
According to local news, the guy wants to go down sooner or later by letting the police shoot him.
Jeez, that guy's worse than the local yahoos I see in the news in Manila.
I'd say he's acclimated rather well: going down in a hail of bullets after your act of terror is just so very American Mass Shooter.
edited 6th Dec '17 4:27:41 AM by Euodiachloris
Cross posting with British politics thread:
"Britain foils Islamist suicide plot to kill PM May in Downing Street: Sky News" -
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-may-plot/britain-foils-islamist-suicide-plot-to-kill-pm-may-in-downing-street-sky-news-idUSKBN1DZ3BC
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171211_22/
Tokyo's adopting a counter-terrorism framework that would make eleven offices do joint work, including the National Police Agency and the Foreign Ministry.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
Wired meets an investigator trying to track the supply chain of Daesh's munitions.
Some things' chains are harder to fill in than others.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
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The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
The TL;DR is that it seems that the Obama administration has sabotaged DEA investigations into Hizballah's international crime/nacroterrorism network in order to safeguard the Iran Nuclear Deal. Honestly, I'm not surprised: the JCPoA was super important to Obama, after all...
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Was it Worth It?
Also, if you'll forgive the whataboutery, isn't the US military itself implicated in aiding and abetting if not outright participating in the traffic of heroin and other narcotics?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Honestly I thought the JCPoA was a big victory for Iran before I saw this article, so IMO it wasn't Worth It even before; this just makes it worse.
As to whether the US armed forces are implicit in drug trade, I have no idea.
A procrastination in of itself
It was a victory for Iran but it was also a victory for everyone else, avoiding a (potentially nuclear) war is a win for all of us.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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The CIA has been, but they had contacts within the military. A key person here, somebody looking the other way over there...doesn't have to be institutional.
EDIT: The article partially confirms my memory of DEA agents being unpopular among every other agency.
edited 18th Dec '17 10:24:58 AM by TerminusEst
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"I Thought It Meant Iran had given up on being an Islamic State and stripped the theocrats of temporal power."
Yeah, right, and in other news, down is up, white is black, and President Trump just resigned.
edited 21st Nov '17 8:59:50 AM by DeMarquis