Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Malala, On the Anniversary of 134 Pakistani Children Killed By the Taliban, Condemns.....Donald Trump

And you thought all of the moon bat, insane nut jobs in this world were in America...well nope.  Malala is the young Pakistani girl who took a round through her head from a Taliban sniper and lived to tell about it and so yesterday, as she commemorates the worst Islamic terror attack in the history of Pakistan where the Taliban took the lives of 134 innocent children, Malala uses the stage to condemn the "comments of hatred" by Donald Trump. 

Let me restate that - on a day when the Pakistani people still try to wrap their heads around how a group of men could mow down and blow up 134 little kids, this bitch, this survivor of a Taliban attack herself, blames Donald Trump.

I guess there's another "moderate" Muslim standing up for the jihadis and attacking infidels.  Anyone noticing a pattern?

The story comes from Times of India.

Malala Yousafzai condemns Trump's 'ideology of hatred'

BIRMINGHAM: Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned Donald Trump's views on Muslims on Tuesday, at a sombre ceremony to remember the 134 children killed in a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school a year ago.

"Well, that's really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others," Malala told AFP, in response to recent comments by the US Republican presidential candidate.

Trump has been heavily criticised for calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States after a Muslim husband and wife killed 14 people in a shooting rampage in California, an incident classified as a terrorist act.

Speaking at the ceremony in the city of Birmingham, central England, Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai also criticised Trump's comments.

"It will be very unfair, very unjust that we associate 1.6 billion with a few terrorist organisations," he said, referring to the number of Muslims worldwide.

The event was organised by peace prize winner Malala and her family, and two survivors of the attack, Ahmad Nawaz, 14, and Mohammed Ibrahim, 13, took part.

The massacre saw nine extremists scale the walls of an army-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, lobbing grenades and opening fire on terrified children and teachers.

"There are these terrorist attacks happening, for example what happened in Paris or what happened in Peshawar a year ago," Malala said, referring to last month's Islamic State attack in Paris that killed 130 people.

"It's not just needed in Pakistan but across the world. If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred."

Nawaz, dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez, recounted the horror of the December 16, 2014 Peshawar attack, in which 17 adults were also killed.

"I saw my teacher burned alive in that incident and the friends with whom I was playing," he told AFP.

"I was surrounded by the dead bodies of those friends. So it was the horrifying experience of my life and I still have nightmares."

Nawaz was shot in the arm. His brother was killed.

Ibrahim was in a wheelchair, having been paralysed from the waist down.


The Taliban assault dredged up painful memories for Malala's family: she was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 after she had publicly advocated education for girls.

"When I was watching all these graphics and all these news on television, my wife was crying, I was crying," Malala's father told AFP.


"It was unbearable. It was very hard to watch. Our own trauma revived," he said.


"We don't curse people, its a sin to curse and we never cursed Talibans for attacking our daughter, but I must say we cursed them that day."

US military fails to ‘decimate’ Islamic State leadership despite thousands of airstrikes

How exactly is the Obama Administration supposed to "sell" that their assault on ISIS is effective when their leader has termed their actions as only "containment" ?  That's the million dollar question.

The story comes from The Long War Journal.

US military fails to ‘decimate’ Islamic State leadership despite thousands of airstrikes

The US killed three senior Islamic State commanders in separate airstrikes in the Iraqi-Syrian theater in late November, with a US military spokesman touting the strikes as “an example of how we’re able to decimate networks.”

Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US mission in Iraq and Syria, announced the deaths of the three Islamic State leaders during a Pentagon briefing yesterday. Among those killed was the Islamic State’s finance minister. The exact dates of death of the three Islamic State leaders was not disclosed; Warren only said all three were killed “in late November.”

The most prominent Islamic State leader who was killed was Abu Saleh, the Islamic State’s “financial minister” who was “one of the most senior and experienced members of ISIL’s [acronym for Islamic State] financial network,” Warren said. In addition, Abu Saleh was “a legacy Al Qaeda member.” The Islamic State was part of al Qaeda’s network until early 2014, when Ayman al Zawahiri ejected the jihadist group due to a leadership and territorial dispute with the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria.

Warren said that Abu Saleh was the third senior financial official killed by the US. “Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organization,” Warren claimed. But independent press reports indicate that the Islamic State has not experienced a drop-off in revenue despite the targeting of its leaders and the oil fields they control.

Also killed were Abu Maryam, an Islamic State “enforcer and senior leader of their extortion network,” and Abu Rahman al Tunisi, who Warren said “functioned as a sort of ISIL executive officer, coordinating the transfer of information, people and weapons.” Warren claimed that Maryam’s death and the death of two other “senior” extortionists “is impairing ISIL’s ability to extort money from a civilian population.”

Warren concluded that the strikes that killed the three Islamic State leaders “are an example of how we’re able to decimate networks.”

There is little evidence that the Islamic State’s leadership has been decimated by the US air campaign and limited special operations raids, which began in Iraq in August 2014 and in Syria one month later. The coalition has launched a total of 8,783 strikes (5,765 in Iraq and 3,018 in Syria) as of Dec. 9, 2015, according to the US Department of Defense. Yet, according to the Pentagon’s own reporting only 13 senior and mid-level Islamic State leaders have been confirmed killed over the last 15 months (see list below).

The US has also targeted Islamic State leaders in Afghanistan and Libya in a limited number of strikes over the past year, killing four senior leaders.

The US government and its allies have abandoned a counterterrorism strategy to combat the spread of islamic State and al Qaeda insurgencies and the growth of their armies. Rather than fighting the jihadist groups on the ground as a viable insurgent force or state, the US has primarily relied on airstrikes, and in many cases, unmanned drones, to target senior and mid-level leaders of the jihadist groups. This tactic has been used against al Qaeda, the Taliban and allied groups in Pakistan since 2007, al Qaeda in Yemen since 2009, and Shabaab (al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia) and predecessors since 2006.

While US airstrikes have killed some top leaders in the Islamic State, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other organizations, this tactic has not stopped the spread of jihadist groups across Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Nor have airstrikes denied these groups territory, which is crucial for the group to train fighters, maintain local insurgencies, and plot attacks against the West. Despite years of airstrikes against al Qaeda and its allies, and more recently the Islamic State, the groups still control territory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, and they are waging active insurgencies in Nigeria, Mali, Egypt, the Caucasus, and elsewhere. Al Qaeda and the Islamic State control territory and have a deep bench of leaders and operatives who are willing to step in for those killed in the air campaigns.

List of senior Islamic State leaders killed in US and allied airstrikes and special operations raids in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya. This list only includes those confirmed killed by the US Department of Defense:

Iraq/Syria

Late November 2014
Radwin Talib, a regional Islamic State commander.

Early December 2015
Abd al Basit, the head of the Islamic State’s military operations in Iraq.

May 15, 2015
Abu Sayyaf, a senior leader in the Islamic State who was “involved in ISIL’s military operations and helped direct the terrorist organization’s illicit oil, gas, and financial operations.” His wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured.

June 15, 2015
Ali Awni al Harzi, a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and a legacy al Qaeda leader.

Aug. 18, 2015
Fadhil Ahmad al Hayali (a.k.a. Hajji Mutazz and Abu Musallam al Turkumani), the “senior deputy to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi,” and “an ISIL media operative known as Abu Abdullah.” The US military erroneously reported that Hayali was killed in December 2014.

Aug. 21 & Aug. 21, 2015
Reyaad Khan (Aug. 21)and Junaid Hussain (Aug. 24), two British nationals involved in plotting attacks in the West.

Sept. 10, 2015
Abu Bakr al Turkmani, a senior Islamic State leader who served as an “administrative emir.”

Nov. 12, 2015
Mohamed Emwazi, the infamous British executioner who is better known as “Jihadi John.” Emwazi was the masked man behind the videotaped murders of US, British, and Japanese reporters and aide workers.

Late November 2015
Abu Saleh, the Islamic State’s financial minister.

Late November 2015
Abu Maryam, an Islamic State “enforcer and senior leader of their extortion network.”

Late November 2015
Abu Rahman al Tunisi, an Islamic State “executive officer, coordinating the transfer of information, people and weapons.”

Libya

Nov. 13, 2015
Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi who US military claimed was the Islamic State’s emir of Libya.

Khorasan Province – Afghanistan and Pakistan

Feb. 9, 2015
Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, the deputy governor of Khorasan Province. He was held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay up until he was transferred to Afghan custody in December 2007 and subsequently released.

July 10, 2015
Shahidullah Shahid, the spokesman for Khorasan Province.

Oct. 13, 2015
Jalaluddin, the mufti for the Khorasan Province. He was a disciple of a senior Taliban leader and al Qaeda facilitator who is a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and attended a madrassa in Pakistan that is listed by the US as a terrorist facility.

Houthi Rocket Takes Out Dozens of Gulf Troops In Yemen Including Saudi Commander

The Houthis in Yemen scored their first major win in Yemen for a very long time as a rocket of their fired into a Gulf Coalition camp proved very deadly.

The story comes from DAWN.

Saudi commander, UAE officer among dozens killed in Yemen fighting

DUBAI: A senior commander from Saudi Arabia and an officer from the United Arab Emirates were among dozens of Gulf, Yemeni and Sudanese soldiers killed on Monday in a rocket strike in Yemen as fighting flared before Tuesday's peace talks, local media and Yemeni sources said.

The Tochka rocket strike on a Red Sea army camp south-west of the besieged city of Taiz appears to be one of the bloodiest setbacks for Gulf forces in months of fighting against Houthi forces and Yemeni army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Sultan Mohammed Ali al-Kitbi, an Emirati officer, was killed near Taiz, Emirati state news agency WAM reported.

Saudi Press Agency SPA said Colonel Abdullah al-Sahian and Kitbi “were martyred at dawn on Monday while shouldering their duties in overseeing operations to liberate Taiz”.

The photographs of Sahian, who had been decorated by Saudi-backed Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi for bravery two days earlier, were displayed by Saudi-owned al-Hadath television channel alongside verses of mourning.

The Houthis said via their own media outlets that the two commanders were among scores killed in a rocket attack near Bab al-Mandab on the Red Sea coast.

A source in Hadi's forces confirmed that a rocket had been fired at coalition forces in the Dhubab area, north of Bab al-Mandab and south-west of the city of Taiz, adding that “tens were killed” in a camp that houses Yemenis, Sudanese, Emiratis and Saudis.

Saudi Arabia has led an Arab coalition in a military campaign since late March to stop the Houthis from taking complete control of Yemen after they seized the capital Sanaa last year and advanced south towards the port city of Aden.

The Saudi-led campaign has retaken Aden and the city of Marib, east of Sanaa, but has failed to oust the Houthis from Taiz or end attacks on the Saudi border that have killed scores of the kingdom's soldiers.

Monday's strike was the worst reported since more than 60 Saudi and Emirati troops were killed in September when another Tochka rocket hit the al-Safer air base near Marib in northeastern Yemen.

The Houthis and Saleh's former political party, the General People's Congress, are sending representatives to Switzerland on Tuesday for talks with Yemen's internationally recognised government under President Hadi.

A seven-day renewable ceasefire is scheduled to come into effect on Monday to coincide with the talks.

Two previous ceasefire attempts, in May and July, were followed by accusations of breaches by both sides.

Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in the conflict, almost half of them civilians. It has also pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.

And Yet Another African Country Falls To Islam

Africa, one country at a time, is just years away from being an Islamic continent.

The story comes from News Fulton County.

Gambia now 'an Islamic state': President Jammeh

ANKARA – Gambia is now an Islamic state, the west African country’s president has declared.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh made the declaration in the country’s coastal town of Brufut on Thursday.

“Gambia’s destiny is in the hands of the Almighty Allah. As from today, Gambia is an Islamic state. We will be an Islamic state that will respect the rights of the citizens,” Jammeh was quoted as saying in an official statement released on his office’s website Saturday.

Gambia became an independent republic in 1970. Since then it has had only two presidents, with Jammeh staying at the helm since 1994.

According to Gambia’s official figures, Muslims comprise 90 percent of its 1.5 million population.

Local Gambian media quoted Jammeh as saying that the declaration of an Islamic republic did not mean that there would be any compromise on the freedoms and liberties enjoyed by the country’s minorities and other religious groups.

He said that Christians would continue to be allowed to celebrate Christmas. Also, he was quoted as saying that no one would be allowed to use the declaration of Islamic republic as a means to impose dress code restrictions on women in the country.

Apart from Gambia, Mauritania is another country in Africa known officially as an Islamic republic.

Video: ISIS Is Missing a Humvee Today In Anbar Province

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Video: Yeah, Let's Bring Those Syrian "Refugees" To America. Why Not?

The present that Muslim refugees left on Germany's Autobahn.

ISIS car bomb hits security post in Iraq’s Anbar

ISIS continues to own Anbar. 

The story comes from Al Arabiya.

ISIS car bomb hits security post in Iraq’s Anbar

A suicide car bomb - claimed by ISIS - targeting a border security post in the western province of Anbar has killed six and wounded 14 guards on Saturday officials said, adding that the commander of the base is among the dead.

The bomber, driving an explosives-laden car, rammed the vehicle into a checkpoint outside the headquarters of border security in the town of al-Nukhayb, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the border with Saudi Arabia.

An army lieutenant colonel said the bomber was dressed in a military uniform with captain’s insignia and was driving an explosives-rigged military vehicle.

Hussein al-Goli, a lieutenant colonel in the border guards, was among the dead, the army officer said.

Imad Ahmed, a local official responsible for the Rutba area in Anbar, confirmed the toll.

Meanwhile, ISIS issued a statement claiming the attack, which it said was carried out by a bomber identified as Abu Ali al-Ansari.

The statement was accompanied by photos, some of which were apparently shot from a drone.

The attack also follows significant gains by Iraqi government forces in Anbar.

Earlier this week the Iraqi military regained key territory around the militant-held city of Ramadi, the provincial capital.

ISIS has overrun significant territory in Anbar province, which stretches from the borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approach to Baghdad, including provincial capital Ramadi.

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Afghan forces end siege near Spanish embassy in Kabul

Oh yeah, Afghanistan is just as peaceful as can be.  It's a damn good thing Barack Obama had that nasty Taliban "contained" before he pulled 95% of U.S. troops out.

The story comes from Times of India.

Afghan forces end siege near Spanish embassy in Kabul

KABUL: Afghan security forces suppressed a suicide attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul, killing three Taliban fighters after hours of intermittent gunfire and explosions that lasted into the early hours of Saturday.

A Spanish security officer was killed in the attack, in a heavily protected part of Kabul close to several embassies and government buildings, while five Afghan police were killed or wounded, Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said.

In addition, one Spanish citizen and nine Afghan civilians were wounded and another 47 Afghans and foreigners were rescued from nearby buildings where they were trapped as security forces sealed off the area around the guest house.

The latest in a series of attacks on foreign targets in Kabul began at about 6 p.m. (1330 GMT) on Friday when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near the guest house, allowing three gunmen to take up positions and open fire on security forces.

"The operation took time because we wanted to rescue the people trapped in surrounding buildings and we had to move cautiously and in a proper tactical manner," Rahimi told Reuters.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, just days after President Ashraf Ghani returned from a regional peace conference in Pakistan, where he sought support to revive peace talks that stalled this year.

It followed a separate Taliban attack on the airport complex in the southern city of Kandahar, in which at least 50 civilians and security forces personnel were killed.

She's a Real Tough Guy, You Say? Really?

Hillary never backs down from a tough fight—even if it's with some of the worst human rights offenders in the world. https://t.co/2Fek4yT5Re

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 11, 2015

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