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ISIS detaining more than 3,500 slaves in Iraq, mostly women & children - UN report

RT
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:58 UTC

Islamic State is holding around 3,500 people as slaves in Iraq, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. Most of those being detained are women and children from Iraq's Yazidi community.

The report, issued jointly by the UN human rights office and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, states that an estimated 3,500 people are "currently being held in slavery" by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"Those being held are predominantly women and children and come primarily from the Yazidi community, but a number are also from other ethnic and religious minority communities," the report says.

Fighting back: Russian airstrikes eliminate 60 ISIS militants after mass executions of civilians were reported

RT
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:22 UTC

The Russian Air Force in Syria has eliminated 60 Islamic State militants in eastern Deir ez-Zor province, the Defense Ministry reported. Several days ago mass execution of civilians were reported there.

"The Russian Su-34 bombers have struck terrorist strongholds near the village of Bagilya in the Deir ez-Zor province where Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) have recently executed 300 civilian from the local population for the sake of intimidation," Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said.

Over the weekend, Islamic State jihadists have reportedly slaughtered up to 300 people in the Deir ez-Zor province, killing "whole families" for alleged cooperation with the Syrian Army.

The airstrikes also destroyed three trucks with ammunition, two SUVs with mounted Zu-23 anti-aircraft cannons, he said. Konashenkov said the Russian Air Force is continuing its operation "to deliver food and essential items to areas blocked by terrorists" in Syria.

Ambassador Shapiro slams Israel for attacks on Palestinians and settlement policy, remarks rejected

Press TV
Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:50 UTC

US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro has severely slammed Tel Aviv's authorities for unjustly treating Palestinians, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applies separate "standards" of justice for Israelis and Palestinians. "Too many attacks on Palestinians lack a vigorous investigation or response by Israeli authorities; too much vigilantism goes unchecked; and at times there seem to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians," Shapiro said at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Shapiro also raised "questions about Israel's long-term intentions" in the occupied West Bank, saying the US administration is "concerned and perplexed" by Tel Aviv's settlement policy in the area. "This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly expressed support for a negotiated settlement that would involve mutual recognition and separation," he said. "Yet separation will become more and more difficult" if Israel continues its settlement activities.

The prime minister's office rejected Shapiro's unprecedented criticism, calling his remarks "unacceptable and wrong." "Israel enforces the law on Israelis and Palestinians. The onus for the stalemate in the diplomatic process is [on] the Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite and refuses negotiations," it said.

Comment: Yes, Israel enforces the law on Israelis and Palestinians. But take the occupied West Bank for example. There, Israeli settlers largely fall under civilian rule, while Palestinians are subject to Israeli military law. It's a total double standard, and when one looks at the situation through the lens of Palestinians living under armed military occupation, who can blame them for fighting back against their oppressors?

Comment: Israel picks the US president, and likely the US ambassador to Israel as well. Shapiro is playing a role and his recent public candor may be nothing more than the US/Israel 'dog and pony.' Regardless, nothing is going to change any time soon unless the US gains a truth perspective on how thoroughly it has been, and continues to be, manipulated by Israel.

British collusion with brutal Saudi regime war crimes in Yemen continues unabated

Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.)
Britain's aiding and abetting of the brutal, head chopping, summarily executing, flogging regime of Saudi Arabia continues unabated.

In spite of a "Letter before action sent as threat of legal action over arms export licences to Saudi Arabia increases ..." (1) by London law firm Leigh Day, acting on behalf of Campaign Against the Arms Trade: " ... challenging the government's decision to export arms despite increasing evidence that Saudi forces are violating international humanitarian law (IHL) in Yemen ... ", it transpires that UK military advisors are also "working alongside Saudi bomb targeters."

According to the Daily Telegraph:

"British military advisers are in control rooms assisting the Saudi-led coalition staging bombing raids across Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians, the Saudi Foreign Minister and the Ministry of Defence have confirmed." (2)

Briefing the Telegraph and other journalists the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the UK and other countries in the control centre: " ... are aware of the target lists."

Comment:

British and US officers killed in Yemen

FARS News Agency
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:28 UTC

"A British officer of Blackwater security firm was killed in al-Wazaya region in Taiz province," a Yemeni army source said on Tuesday.

The source declined to reveal any further details.

Elsewhere in Yemen, over 120 mercenaries, including the Saudi, UAE and US officers, were killed in the Yemeni troops' missile attack on the command center of the Saudi-led coalition in Ma'rib.

"The Yemeni army missile unit fired a Tochka missile at the operations room of the Saudi-led forces in Ma'rib (on Sunday) and killed over 120 mercenaries with different nationalities," Ali al-Houthi, an Ansarullah Movement Leader, told FNA on Tuesday.

"46 Saudi mercenaries, 11 UAE and 9 Saudi officers and 11 foreign commanders of the US Blackwater company were among those killed in the attack," he added.

Houthi said that 6 Apache and 4 Black Hawk helicopters and 4 drones armed with missiles were also destroyed in the attack.

The command room of communications with the spying satellites and airplanes was also destroyed completely.

Made in America: Extremely powerful 'Captagon' drug turned 'Islamic' terrorists in Syria into 'superhuman soldiers'

Peter Holley
Washington Post
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:33 UTC

As The Post's Liz Sly recently noted, the war in Syria has become a tangled web of conflict dominated by "al-Qaeda veterans, hardened Iraqi insurgents, Arab jihadist ideologues and Western volunteers."

On the surface, those competing actors are fueled by an overlapping mixture of ideologies and political agendas.

Just below it, experts suspect, they're powered by something else: Captagon.

A tiny, highly addictive pill produced in Syria and widely available across the Middle East, its illegal sale funnels hundreds of millions of dollars back into the war-torn country's black-market economy each year, likely giving militias access to new arms, fighters and the ability to keep the conflict boiling, according to the Guardian.

Comment: The Washington Post, which is and always has been effectively a CIA press office, is telling us that the 'Islamic' mercenaries in Syria are behaving like 'superhuman soldiers' thanks to a 'miracle' drug.

Clearly this is something that is very powerful.

We're going to make a leap here and suggest that Western intelligence came up with this variant of 'Captagon' specifically for this purpose, and sent a load of it to Saudi Arabia in 2010 so that it would be ready to dole out to the 'Wahabbists' beginning the following year.

Libyan rival factions form UN-backed unity government

Press TV
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:50 UTC

Libya's rival factions have announced the formation of a unity government as part of an UN-brokered peace deal aimed at stemming the ongoing chaos in the North African country. The make-up of the new Libyan government was announced by the unity presidential council on Tuesday.

The Tunis-based presidential council said in a statement that it has agreed on a 32-member cabinet with members drawn from across the country. It is not clear where the new government would be based in or can govern the oil-rich North African country.

In October last year, UN special envoy for Libya Bernardino Leon proposed the formation of a power-sharing government with a list of candidates for the new cabinet. He nominated Fayez Sarraj a member of the Tripoli-based parliament, as the Libyan prime minister. Also among the new government's posts, were three deputies for the prime minister, representing the country's east, west and south, and two ministers to complete a presidential council.

Libya has been grappling with violence and political uncertainty since the oil-rich country's former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, was deposed in an uprising in 2011. Armed groups and regional factions have been fighting for power over the past years.

Since August 2014, when militias seized the capital, Tripoli, Libya has had two parliaments and two governments with one, the General National Congress (GNC), run by the rebels in the capital and the other, which is internationally-recognized, based in the northeastern city of Tobruk.

The proposal for national unity government was dismissed by the rival factions on October 12. Mahmud Abdel Aziz, a lawmaker from the GNC, said that the proposed government "is rejected" as "it will deepen difference between the Libyan people."

Comment: The US destabilized Libya and saw to the removal of Gaddafi, leaving Libya ripped apart and primed for invasion, greed and corruption. Whether this new government profile works or not, hopefully it is a step in the direction of Libyan stability and recovery from purposefully engineered destruction, chaos and the suffering of its people. See also:

Turkey to build its 2nd foreign military base in Somalia under the guise of 'fighting terrorism'

Sputnik
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:47 UTC

Turkey will build the military center in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu that will be capable of training more than 1,500 local troops to boost security in Horn of Africa.

Turkey is poised to build a second foreign military base to assist security forces in Somalia in their fight against the Al-Shabaab militant group, Turkish media reported Tuesday.

Comment: Is Turkey looking for a new market for their terrorist businesses?

Russia's aerial onslaught in Syria is effectively restricting US & Turkey's ambitions

The move comes less than a month after Turkey said it had reached a deal with Qatar to set up its first military base abroad.

Comment: If it weren't for NATO Al-Shabaab wouldn't be the menace that it is. Certainly then, Turkey's role won't be in defeating them but merely exploiting the situation for NATO's benefit.

Also see:

Russia to deploy latest weapons to Black Sea in response to NATO expansion

RT
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:01 UTC

The Russian Army and Navy will deploy additional forces and modern weapons to its southwest in reply to NATO's plans to boost its presence in the Black Sea region, a Russian newspaper reported quoting Defense Ministry sources.

The military is planning to test the fresh forces, infrastructure and weapons deployed to the regions bordering the Black Sea in the headquarters exercise Caucasus-2016, scheduled for September, the sources told Novaya Gazeta daily. The exercise will include joint use of various forces in the Caucasus Mountains and on the Black Sea, they added.

The plans to reinforce Russia's southwestern borders must be tied with NATO's plans to boost its military presence in the region, as well as with its constant effort aimed at increasing the combat abilities of the Ukrainian Army, the newspaper suggested after receiving the sources' information.

Comment: Washington's aggression ensures no peaceful reconciliation between NATO members and Russia. But that's precisely what the warmongers want.

Also see: Who is hunting Angela Merkel with 'rapefugee' hysteria? US network war against the German government

Greville Janner sex abuse 'trial of the facts' dropped leaving victims 'devastated'

Paddy McGuffin
Morning Star Online
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:23 UTC

Victims of alleged abuse at the hands of the late Lord Janner were left "devastated" yesterday after his criminal case was dropped decades after they first accused him of child sex abuse.

Greville Janner had been charged with 22 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s against nine alleged victims, most of whom were under 16 at the time.

Comment: The alleged 22 child sex offences, involving nine children and young adults then cared for in children's homes, range from indecent assaults to buggery.

Yet despite what police described as significant amounts of evidence, prosecutors declined to bring charges against Janner on two occasions, before finally being forced into an embarrassing U-turn last year.

But legal proceedings were left in limbo following Janner's death last month, just days after he was found unfit to stand trial at the Old Bailey.

Announcing the decision not to press ahead with the planned trial of facts, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC revealed in court that more charges were scheduled to be brought against the peer.

Mr Whittam said that a copy of the peer's death certificate had been produced for the court file, bringing an end to the matter.

Trial judge Mr Justice Openshaw agreed: "There is nothing more to be said. That's the end of the proceedings."

Comment: For more on Establishment figure, the late Greville Janner's alleged crimes:

For more information on the modus operandi of these depraved monsters who stalk the Establishment corridors of power, read:

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Puppet Masters

ISIS detaining more than 3,500 slaves in Iraq, mostly women & children - UN report

Fighting back: Russian airstrikes eliminate 60 ISIS militants after mass executions of civilians were reported

Ambassador Shapiro slams Israel for attacks on Palestinians and settlement policy, remarks rejected

British collusion with brutal Saudi regime war crimes in Yemen continues unabated

British and US officers killed in Yemen

Made in America: Extremely powerful 'Captagon' drug turned 'Islamic' terrorists in Syria into 'superhuman soldiers'

Libyan rival factions form UN-backed unity government

Turkey to build its 2nd foreign military base in Somalia under the guise of 'fighting terrorism'

Russia to deploy latest weapons to Black Sea in response to NATO expansion

Greville Janner sex abuse 'trial of the facts' dropped leaving victims 'devastated'

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