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ON TARGET: Ignorance abounds
about battle with ISIS
24 hours ago
SCOTT TAYLOR ON TARGET
Smoke rises after a strike
in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of
Islamic State group, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the
Turkey-Syria border, on Sunday. (Lefteris Pitarakis / The Associated Press)
Daily headlines are in a
two-way tie between the Ebola virus and the ISIS caliphate as to what frightens
western audiences the most. The perfect storm would erupt if a U.S.
intelligence source even hinted that ISIS had somehow weaponized Ebola.
The level of fear generated
among Canadians by ISIS was illustrated last week in the public sentiment
expressed toward the 600 Royal Canadian Air Force personnel departing for
Kuwait. In response to media reports that the advance team was flying out of
CFB Trenton, readers’ comments were alarmingly vulgar to the point of blatant
bigotry.
In addition to those wishing
our troops Godspeed and a safe return, a number of posters urged our flyboys to
show no mercy in their mission. While encouraging our air force to “bomb them
all to hell” could be meant to mean all weapon-carrying ISIS fighters, the
suggestion that our military personnel should “stuff bacon in the mouths of
dead ISIS fighters” (to prevent their assent to heaven, presumably) was pure
anti-Muslim nonsense. That comment sparked like-minded suggestions that it
“should be only Canadian bacon,” and that our soldiers should “dip their
bullets in pig fat.”
While it is true that ISIS
represents an extreme element of fanatical Sunni Muslim Wahabists, such Muslim-bashing
rhetoric from the Canadian public is clearly misguided as our air force
personnel deploy into a very complex equation in this new battle for Iraq.
First of all, our forward
bases will be in Kuwait, an Islamic state where strict laws are enforced against
alcohol consumption, adultery and pork consumption. When our CF-18s begin
launching their air strikes, it will undoubtedly be in support of either the
Kurdish militia, the remnants of the Iraqi security forces or Shiite militia.
These disparate factions are presently the only “boots on the ground” fighting
against ISIS. All of these groups are Muslim, whether they are Shiite or Sunni,
and the vast majority of them are fundamentalists rather than the moderate
secular followers of Islam.
Like the ISIS fighters,
these Kurds and Shiite Arabs describe themselves as waging a religious jihad in
defence of their faith. The comic book banter about pig fat and Canadian bacon
shows that, while the Canadian public is fearful of those our air force will be
fighting against, they also have no clue who our military is fighting with.
We are not alone in this
ignorance. A recent U.S. newscast profiled an American volunteer from Indiana
who made his way to Syria to fight against ISIS. His motivation was that he was
tired of sitting by idly as ISIS battled the Kurds in the town of Kobani.
“We have got to stop these
Muslims,” the volunteer told the reporter as two Muslim Kurdish fighters
flanked him, awkwardly looking at their shoes.
Not to be outdone, the Dutch
media recently reported that at least three bikers had volunteered to fight
with the Kurds. It was noted that all three were members of a notorious
motorcycle gang, and that they all had prior military service. One can only
imagine the culture clash of three hardcore bikers amidst the devout Muslim
fighters outside besieged Kobani. You just know that will not end well.
As for ISIS and their
never-ending stream of video threats, I think they may have finally lost their
edge. One of the most recent clips shows a group of four foreign volunteers –
one German, one French, one English speaker of unknown origin and one who sits
in mute defiance. While three take turns to denounce western leaders as filth
and vow to defeat the coalition forces, this particular clip is more funny than
frightening for the simple reason that they are not wearing ski masks.
Instead, it is clearly
evident that these “volunteers” are simply a gaggle of misfits in need of some
physical fitness training and rudimentary dental work. Posing with their
Kalashnikov assault rifles, they vow to one day fly the black flag of their
caliphate over the White House. They also proclaim that they welcome death in
pursuit of their quest.
In that regard, I’m sure the
Royal Canadian Air Force will be happy to assist.
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Voices on
Afghanistan: How women can beat the Taliban
Wazhma
Frogh
It is a
completely new era for women in Afghanistan.
The Taliban
banned women from social life during their rule in the 1990s. At the time, they
could not leave their home or even work.
After 2001,
when international forces came to Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban, the
government changed.
What we have
achieved in the past 12 years is incredibly important. The international
community supported this, but the women themselves also helped make this happen.
Women are
now most involved in the education sector, particularly at the primary and
secondary levels.
We also have
a good presence in the health sector, although that’s not true in some areas of
the south-east where the Taliban are still very strong.
We are in
politics as well. Sixty-nine out of the 249 MPs are women. That’s a big number
even in comparison to the United States. Although this is because of the quota
in the constitution that reserves 27 per cent of the seats in the lower house
for women, it is still quite a good number.
But women
still are not in leadership positions and they are not very well represented in
the government. Out of 25 ministries there are only three female ministers,
including the ministry of women’s affairs, a position that cannot be given to a
man.
The number
of women in the judiciary – and in the police force – is also quite low.
We now have
a constitution that gives equal rights to Afghan women. The laws are starting
to change, but we still have challenges.
While large
numbers of girls are going to school, they might drop out early because of
security or cultural issues, or they might get married.
With all
these changes, there has been some public backlash as well. Some segments of
society are not prepared for the changes, and we have seen an increased level
of violence against women. Attacks against women occur several times a day,
every day.
Social
change can take a long time for people to grow accustomed to – such as a father
allowing his daughter to go to school – or to realise it’s OK for daughters and
wives to work.
This
mentality will take longer to change.
Thirteen
years is not a long time to expect that everything will change.
I think the
continuing insurgency and insecurity in the country has created more obstacles
for women than for men.
Men are
killed in insurgent attacks. Most of the causalities of war and violence are
men. Yet women, socially, are presented with more obstacles.
If an attack
happened near or at a school, then the girls’ families do not allow them to go
to school afterwards. The same is true of an attack near a market – women are
often stopped from being allowed to leave home afterwards.
The goals of
the Research Institute for Women Peace and Security involve promoting or
empowering women at the local level.
Women traditionally
play a very important role in addressing local conflicts. The insurgency in
Afghanistan will only stop if it is no longer accepted by communities.
There are
local grievances at a community level that give reasons for young men to take
up arms and become insurgents. If mothers forbid their sons from joining the
Taliban or resorting to violence, they can play more of a role in fighting the
insurgency. This needs to be encouraged.
However,
this is not being encouraged because these women are not part of local
governments.
These
councils do not recruit or consult women on security issues.The government
approach is all very masculine. It’s about police, army and guns. But they need
to ensure there is a human security element.
We believe
that if women have more of a voice at the government level, they can help
resolve conflict. This will help defeat the insurgency.
foreign.desk@thenational.ae
Wazhma Frogh
is the founder of the Research Institute for Women Peace and Security in
Afghanistan. Follow Wazhma Frogh on Twitter: @froghwazhma
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RISING- God bless women and God bless Kurdish Women
WORLD
DailyKos /
By gjohnsit
ISIS's
Nightmare: Fierce Kurdish Women Fighters
In the
battle for Kobani, Syria, Kurdish women warriors are said to terrify ISIS.
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October 10,
2014 |
On Monday the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said
that the isolated Kurdish enclave of Kobani was "about to
fall" to a massive, sustained assault from ISIS.
Also on Monday, Rooz Bahjat, a Kurdish intelligence officer stationed in Kobani said the city would fall within "the next 24 hours." By now ISIS was expecting to be slaughtering civilians by the score.
Also on Monday, Rooz Bahjat, a Kurdish intelligence officer stationed in Kobani said the city would fall within "the next 24 hours." By now ISIS was expecting to be slaughtering civilians by the score.
Instead, something totally unexpected happened
- ISIS has been
forced to pull back.
A local Kobani official, Idris Nahsen, told AFP
that fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had managed to
push ISIS fighters outside several key areas after "helpful"
airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition
"The situation has changed since yesterday.
YPG forces have pushed back ISIS forces," he said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
Britain-based monitoring group, confirmed that ISIS fighters had withdrawn
overnight from several areas and were no longer inside the western part of
Kobani. They remained in eastern parts of the town and its southern edges, said
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, whose group relies on a network of
sources inside Syria. The number of dead in the overnight fighting was not
clear, but Mustafa Ebdi, a Kurdish journalist and activist from Kobani, wrote
on his Facebook page that the streets of one southeastern neighborhood were
"full of the bodies" of ISIS fighters.
Kobani has been under attack by 9,000 ISIS
jihadists, armed with tanks and heavy artillery for nearly a month.
This is the largest manned assualt by ISIS in its short existence.They are
being opposed by just 2,000 Kurdish
fighters with the YPG, the armed wing of the Kurdish Workers'
Party (PKK), without access to any heavy weaponry and short on ammunition.
To put this into perspective, 800 ISIS fighters routed 2 divisions of the Iraqi Army, totaling 30,000 heavily armed soldiers, in June.
In other words, the Syrian Kurds of Kobani weren't supposed to stand a snowball's chance in Hell.
To put this into perspective, 800 ISIS fighters routed 2 divisions of the Iraqi Army, totaling 30,000 heavily armed soldiers, in June.
In other words, the Syrian Kurds of Kobani weren't supposed to stand a snowball's chance in Hell.
My father used to say, "It's not the size of
the dog in the fight that matters. It's the size of the fight in the dog that
does."
And now, here we are. Two days after Kobani was
supposed to have become just the latest victims of ISIS terror. The difference
is obviously the motivation of
who is fighting.
"We either die or win. No fighter is
leaving," Esmat al-Sheikh, leader of the Kobani Defence Authority, told
Reuters. "The world is watching, just watching and leaving these monsters
to kill everyone, even children...but we will fight to the end with what weapons
we have."
Some people have more motivation than others.
Those people include women. A very large percentage of the YPG fighters that
have been so good at killing ISIS jihadists are women.
I asked her about YPG’s women’s wing, the YPJ
(Women's Protection Units), and the women fighters coming from Turkey. She said
Kurdish women were as equally involved in defense affairs as in social
services. “We have set up training camps for women in all three cantons. Women
are active in all fronts,” she said. “Of the first 20 martyrs we had when IS
attacked Kobani, 10 were women. Last year, of our 700 YPG martyrs, 200 were
women...
I reminded Nimet of the legends we hear of IS
militants fearing to encounter women fighters. She replied, “This is not a myth
but reality. I personally met IS fighters face-to-face. Women fighters
infringe on their psyche. They believe they won’t go to paradise if they are killed
by women. That is why they flee when they see women. I saw that personally
at the Celaga front. We monitor their radio calls. When they hear a woman's
voice on the air, they become hysterical.”
Kurdish women have traditionally been part of the resistance forces. At Kobani, one woman in particular, Arin Mirkan, showed just how far they are prepared to go to defeat ISIS.
The woman, who is reportedly a commander in the
Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, known as the YPG, broke into an Isis (also
known as Islamic State) bastion on the eastern outskirts of Kobani and clashed
with militants before detonating herself with a grenade, a monitoring group
said on Sunday.
Mirkan, a mother of two, is rumored (but not proven) to have killed 23 ISIS fighters.
Mirkan, a mother of two, is rumored (but not proven) to have killed 23 ISIS fighters.
Another female YPG fighter, Ceylan Ozalp,
killed herself with her last bullet rather than be captured by ISIS.
It's still far to early to determine how this will
turn out. The Kobani defenders are running short on
ammo, while Turkish tanks sit just a few meters across the border
doing nothing. Instead, the Turkish military is arresting Kurdsfleeing
the fighting in Kobani.
18 ethnic Kurds have been killed in violent protests
in Turkey, demanding that the Turkish army help the brave defenders in Kobani.
The Pentagon still
expects Kobani to fall, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is more concerned
with ISIS marching on Baghdad.
Speaking specifically about cities in western Iraq,
he said, “There are places where [the Islamic State] continues to make gains in
Iraq. We talked about Hit. We talked about Ramadi. We talked about Fallujah,
which is still in contention right now. That’s worrisome, because it’s close to
Baghdad.”
Kurds insist that Turkey should allow Kurdish
fighters, supplies and weapons to enter the encircled town through its
territory. Turkey refuses to do so unless the Kurds meet certain demands,
including distancing themselves from their allies in an outlawed Kurdish
separatist party in Turkey.
As an indication of the complex political currents,
however, she made it clear the Kurds would not welcome military assistance from
Turkey, asking instead for free passage of Kurdish fighters from Turkey to
reinforce those in Kobani.
“We would view Turkey sending its troops without an
international decision as an occupation," she said.
Anwar Muslim, a lawyer and the head of the Kobani
district, echoed those sentiments, saying it was illogical to ask the Kurds to
denounce Mr. Assad and join Syrian insurgent groups fighting against him.
Iraq’s restive western province of Anbar is on the
verge of completely falling into the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) unless urgent action is taken to address military failures, the
Anbar Tribal Council warned on Wednesday...
“It is strange that while ISIS is developing its
presence and capabilities on the ground in Anbar, military and security
leadership are not doing anything new to address this. As a result of this,
most parts of Anbar province are now completely in ISIS’s hands, including
Ramadi city center,” Ibrahim told Asharq Al-Awsat.
It was Anbar’s police force that was protecting
citizens from ISIS, he said, adding that military forces were actively
hindering efforts to combat the extremist group. “Unfortunately, the military
has become a source of assistance for ISIS because for the most part ISIS is
able to attack and defeat the military, taking control of their arms and
equipment,” said Ibrahim.
It appears that the Kurds have finally picked
up an ally.
Kurdish sources inside Kobane say that the YPG
(Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units) have advanced in the east and
that a group of Free Syrian Army fighters moved behind IS lines causing
heavy losses.
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CANADA - 1970
The FLQ and the
Quebec October Crisis
BY David Krajicek
The Army Arrives
Pierre
Trudeau
On Oct. 13, Pierre Trudeau took to the radio airwaves
himself to try to reassure jittery Canadians.
"The main thing that the FLQ is trying to gain from
this is a hell of a lot of publicity for the movement . . . and I am suggesting
that the more recognition you give to them, the greater the victory is, and I'm
not interested in giving them a victory," he said.
University
of Montreal
But two days later, the public perception of a crisis
intensified when an estimated 3,000 French-Canadians -- many of them students
-- turned out for political protests in Montreal. French-language schools
throughout the city were forced to close, and the Canadian Army was called in
to restore social order.
At the request of political leaders in Quebec, Trudeau
decided to invoke the War Measures Act, a vestige of World War I that allowed
the government to suspend civil liberties. Within 12 hours, 250 suspected FLQ
members and sympathizers had been arrested.
Wanted
4 FLQ members
A day later, the tone of the October Crisis changed when
the Chenier cell of the FLQ announced to a radio station that Pierre Laporte
had been murdered for the cause of Quebec independence. The communique directed
reporters to the airport at St.-Hubert, Quebec, where the body of Laporte was
found stuffed in the trunk of Paul Rose's Chevrolet. He had been strangled.
Laporte's
body in trunk
The government immediately stepped up its assault on the Front de libération du Québec.
It conducted more than 5,000 searches and raids and arrested nearly 500 people.
One opposition politician said the War Measures Act and
the raids were overkill -- like "using a sledgehammer to crack a
peanut."
But most Canadians apparently approved of the stern
measures, given Laporte's murder.
Public opinion polls showed that nearly nine in 10
citizens -- both Anglo and French-speaking -- supported Trudeau's hardline
tactics against the FLQ.
2.
The
FLQ
10.
A
Media Chasm
11.
The
Army Arrives
12.
Exiled
for Life?
14.
Free
and Clear
15.
Life
Goes On
17.
Resources
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A lesson from the October Crisis
By Ron Corbett, Ottawa
Sun
For anyone living in Ottawa in 1970, I suspect the month of October will always bring back painful, almost incredulous memories of that year. Did it really happen? Were there really soldiers patrolling the streets of Montreal and Ottawa? People being kidnapped and murdered in Quebec?
There has never been another terrorist threat in this country that comes even remotely close to October 1970.
I found myself thinking this recently, as the Canadian Parliament voted to go to war in Iraq, a decision taken not solely, but certainly partially, to prevent the spread of homegrown terrorism.
A decision made in the month of October.
Maybe life gives you odd coincidences for a reason, and so I started thinking about the October Crisis, wondering if there are lessons from 44 years ago that we might use today.
The October Crisis started on the fifth of the month,; when British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the Liberation cell of the Front de liberation du Quebec.
The kidnapping took place at the trade commissioner's Montreal home, in front of his wife, the kidnappers disguising themselves as delivery-men bringing a late birthday present.
The FLQ delivered a ransom demand the same day -- the release of 23 "political prisoners" held in Canadian jails, and the broadcast of the FLQ manifesto on public radio.
It was brazen, astonishing, and there was more disbelief than panic around Ottawa and Montreal for the first few days.
Then on Oct. 10 Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped while playing touch football on his front lawn.
This kidnapping was by the Chenier cell of the FLQ, a more radical cell, that wasted no time in saying the provincial cabinet minister would be executed if the earlier FLQ demands were not met.
You may have forgotten the extent of the FLQ threat back then. But to remind you -- between 1963 and 1970, the FLQ had set off more than 100 bombs.
The FLQ bombed an RCMP recruiting office and the home of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau. A Quebec Liberal convention and the Montreal Stock Exchange (that attack injured 27 people and could have been far worse.) In June of 1970, the FLQ also attacked Ottawa. That month a bomb was set off at National Defence Headquarters. This attack killed a cleaning lady.
That's what she was called in every on-line news entry and report I first found about this bombing. A cleaning lady.
Like her vocation had robbed her of a name. At the same time as every on-line entry had the proper name and spelling for every member of the Chenier and Liberation cells, right down to the accents.
It took me more than an hour to track it down, but the cleaning lady's name was Jeanne d'Arc St.-Germaine. She was 42, a single mother of two young girls when the FLQ killed her.
Killed a working class person with a name so old and so French her ancestors could have come over on a ship with Champlain.
Anyone from Northern Ireland will tell you the same thing -- the people who die in these fights are always the ones the terrorists say they're championing.
That's a lesson I think we can use today. I don't think much has changed with ISIS.
The sad list of FLQ bombings is another lesson for us. What can happen when you take the problem of terrorism lightly, when you bend your ear and listen to the argument that maybe this is "just boys being boys", or people with legitimate grievances acting out inappropriately.
It is neither. It is thugs being thugs.
A third lesson, and perhaps the most important, can be found in what happened in the final weeks of the October Crisis.
Even those who despise Pierre Trudeau may well tell you his finest moment as Prime Minister came immediately following the kidnapping of Laporte.
From invoking the War Measures Act to upbraiding a CBC reporter with his classic "Just watch me" line, Trudeau behaved like a man in a barroom brawl, determined to beat the terrorists at whatever cost.
That hard line destroyed the FLQ.
The group was a spent force after October 1970. Partly because of public revulsion at the murder of Laporte, but also because of Trudeau's zero-tolerance approach toward terrorism and terrorists.
A lesson, perhaps, for his son.
ron.corbett@sunmedia.ca
CANADA-
the torture and murder by monsters in 70s.... JUST WATCH ME!!
forum.thefreedictionary.com/...s-Pierre-Laporte-Kidnapped...
Cached
Pierre Laporte
was eventually found to have been murdered by his captors while James
Cross was freed after 60 days as a result of negotiations with the kidnappers
who ...
iconicphotos.wordpress.com/.../the-death-of-pierre-laporte
Cached
Jan
10, 2010 · The above picture of the body of Quebec labour minister Pierre
Laporte in the trunk of a car was one which shocked the normally-aplomb
nation to its core.
1970s...
CANADA-
remember Red Brigade and Pierre LaPorte..... butchers and killing machines and
butchering babies with glee.... in the 1970s... well Canada's Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Rene Levesque said f**k u- and sicced the military
on them all... in Canada.... 88% approval rating.... and military were invited
in2 every damm home in our Canada....
Pierre
Elliott Trudeau- JUST WATCH ME
Beloved
Pierre Elliot Trudeau- after the brutal kidnapping and slaughter by the FLQ of
Pierre LaPorte - and the Canada's War Measures Act was called by Trudeau.
Canadians stood by Trudeau. Pierre E.
Trudreau brought Canada her Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For all ... Pierre
Elliot Trudeau was loved globally... much like Obama today. Pls. don't forget
we had terroists back then too.
and..
1970:
FLQ kidnaps Pierre Laporte
In
October 1970, tanks roamed city streets and soldiers in full battle gear raided
homes in their hunt for "terrorists." They were looking for the Front
de libération du Québec; French Canadian nationalists who abducted a British
diplomat and a Quebec minister. Some felt like they were living in a police
state. How far would Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau go? "Just watch
me," he said. Three days later he invoked the War Measures Act and a
nation waited with civil liberties suspended.
In
broad daylight, kidnappers with machine guns pull up to Quebec immigration and
labour minister Pierre Laporte's front lawn in Saint-Lambert. They grab him
while he plays football with his family, and shove him into the back seat of
their car. The incident escalates what becomes known as the October Crisis.
French Canadian nationalists from the FLQ (the Front de libération du Québec)
had abducted British diplomat James Cross five days earlier, and now a Quebec
minister.
Ten
years later, this CBC Radio clip reveals that Laporte was murdered, probably
accidentally strangled, a week later.
• The
FLQ Manifesto called for Quebec's non-democratic separation from Canada,
brought about by acts of terror. From 1963 to 1970, the FLQ claimed
responsibility for more than 85 bombs, killing six people.
• The
Quebec government refused to accede to all FLQ demands. It did agree to
broadcasting the FLQ Manifesto on Radio-Canada, and guaranteeing the kidnappers
safe passage anywhere in the world. But it refused to free FLQ prisoners.
•
Laporte was murdered Oct. 17, the day after the federal government applied the
War Measures Act.
•
Laporte was chosen because he signified the Liberal Party's right-wing ideals.
A famed reporter and parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper Le Devoir
from 1945 to '61, he was one of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis' fiercest
opponents, writing a book, The True Face of Duplessis.
Medium:
Radio
Program: Sunday Morning
Broadcast Date: Oct. 12, 1980
After
the euphoric year of 1967 with all of the centennial celebrations across Canada,
the FLQ activity began to ... After the shocking murder of Pierre
Laporte, ...
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REMEMBER
US SENDING ALL OUR MONEY- only 2 watch gun runners hold everything hostage....
f**k the refugees... their brothers and mothers...
18 Mar 2010 ... Today, for the first
time, the Band Aid man on the ground in Ethiopia speaks out exclusively ... And where did the money raised by Band Aid go?
... of arms or condoned it, but just remember it was a highly complex situation.
... used the cash, meant to pay for food for the starving, to fund attempts to
overthrow ...
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Millions of dollars in Western aid for ... Millions of dollars in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian
famine of ... by pop star Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign and Live Aid concerts. ... He
insists that to the best of his knowledge, the food went to feed the starving.
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The Red Brigades was a
Marxist-Leninist left wing terrorist group active in Italy in the 1970s and
early 1980s.
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Terrorism in Europe in the 1960s, 70s
and 80s. ... Red Brigade. Italy's Communist Red Brigade
has been called the most successful European terrorists group ever.
Political separation of Northern Ireland
from the rest of Ireland did not come until the early 20th century, when Protestants and Catholics
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LITTLE GOOD NEWS.... 1983- Anne Murray
of Nova Scotia- Ireland and Lebanon
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A
desire for a better world, maybe harkening back to a different era, I don't
know. But I would love to wake up one morning and find there was no bad news to
be reported. We may never get there, but that won't stop me from praying for
peace, and thanking God for those who are willing to serve our country
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U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Not only are foodstuffs,
medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are
paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
GAZIANTEP, Turkey—While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the
so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western
aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them
to build their terror-inspiring “caliphate.”
The aid—mainly food and
medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for
hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International
Development, European donors, and the United Nations. Whether it continues is
now the subject of anguished debate among officials in Washington and European.
The fear is that stopping aid would hurt innocent civilians and would be used
for propaganda purposes by the militants, who would likely blame the West for
added hardship.
The Bible says if your enemy
is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him something to drink—doing so
will “heap burning coals” of shame on his head. But there is no evidence that
the militants of the Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, feel any
sense of disgrace or indignity (and certainly not gratitude) receiving charity
from their foes.
Quite the reverse, the aid
convoys have to pay off ISIS emirs (leaders) for the convoys to enter the
eastern Syrian extremist strongholds of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, providing yet
another income stream for ISIS militants, who are funding themselves from oil
smuggling, extortion, and the sale of whatever they can loot, including rare antiquities from museums
and archaeological sites.
“The convoys have to be
approved by ISIS and you have to pay them: The bribes are disguised and
itemized as transportation costs,” says an aid coordinator who spoke to The
Daily Beast on the condition he not be identified in this article. The
kickbacks are either paid by foreign or local nongovernmental organizations
tasked with distributing the aid, or by the Turkish or Syrian transportation
companies contracted to deliver it.
“What
are we doing here helping their fighters, who we are bombing, to be treated so
they can fight again?”
And there are fears the aid
itself isn’t carefully monitored enough, with some sold off on the black market
or used by ISIS to win hearts and minds by feeding its fighters and its
subjects. At a minimum, the aid means ISIS doesn’t have to divert cash from its
war budget to help feed the local population or the displaced persons, allowing
it to focus its resources exclusively on fighters and war-making, say critics
of the aid.
One of the striking
differences between ISIS and terror groups of the past is its desire to portray
the territory it has conquered as a well-organized and smoothly functioning state.
“The soldiers of Allah do not liberate a village, town, or city, only to
abandon its residents and ignore their needs,” declares the latest issue of
Dabiq, the group’s slick online magazine. Elsewhere in the publication are
pictures of slaughtered Kurdish soldiers and a gruesome photograph of American
journalist Steven Sotloff’s severed head resting on top of his body. But this
article shows ISIS restoring electricity in Raqqah, running a home for the
elderly, a cancer-treatment facility in Ninawa, and cleaning streets in other
towns.
Last year, a polio outbreak in Deir
ez-Zor raised concerns throughout the region about the spread of an epidemic.
The World Health Organization worked with the Syrian government and with
opposition groups to try to carry out an immunization campaign. This has
continued. In response to a query by The Daily Beast, a WHO spokesperson said,
“Our information indicates that vaccination campaigns have been successfully carried
out by local health workers in IS-controlled territory.”
“I am alarmed that we are
providing support for ISIS governance,” says Jonathan Schanzer, a Mideast
expert with the Washington D.C.-based think tank Foundation for Defense of
Democracies. “By doing so we are indemnifying the militants by satisfying the
core demands of local people, who could turn on ISIS if they got frustrated.”
U.S. and Western relief
agencies have been caught before in an aid dilemma when it comes to the war on
terror. Last December, the Overseas Development Institute, an independent
British think tank focusing on international development and humanitarian
issues, reported that aid agencies in Somalia had been paying militants from
the al Qaeda offshoot al-Shabab for access to areas under their control during
the 2011 famine.
Al-Shabab demanded from the
agencies what it described as “registration fees” of up to $10,000. And in many
cases al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid, keeping much of it for
itself, according to ODI. The think tank cited al-Shabab’s diversion of food
aid in the town of Baidoa, where it kept between half and two-thirds of the
food for its own fighters. The researchers noted the al Qaeda affiliate
developed a highly sophisticated system of monitoring and co-opting the aid
agencies, even setting up a “Humanitarian Co-ordination Office.”
Something similar appears to
be underway now in the Syrian provinces of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.
Aid coordinators with NGOs
partnering USAID and other Western government agencies, including Britain’s
Department for International Development, say ISIS insist that the NGOs,
foreign and local, employ people ISIS approves on their staffs inside Syria.
“There is always at least one ISIS person on the payroll; they force people on
us,” says an aid coordinator. “And when a convoy is being prepared, the
negotiations go through them about whether the convoy can proceed. They contact
their emirs and a price is worked out. We don’t have to wrangle with individual
ISIS field commanders once approval is given to get the convoy in, as the
militants are highly hierarchical.” He adds: “None of the fighters will dare
touch it, if an emir has given permission.”
That isn’t the case with
other Syrian rebel groups, where arguments over convoys can erupt at
checkpoints at main entry points into Syria, where aid is unloaded from Turkish
tractor-trailers and re-loaded into Syrian ones.
Many aid workers are
uncomfortable with what’s happening. “A few months ago we delivered a mobile
clinic for a USAID-funded NGO,” says one, who declined to be named. “A few of
us debated the rights and wrongs of this. The clinic was earmarked for the
treatment of civilians, but we all know that wounded ISIS fighters could easily
be treated as well. So what are we doing here helping their fighters, who we
are bombing, to be treated so they can fight again?”
What becomes even more
bizarre is that while aid is still going into ISIS-controlled areas, only a
little is going into Kurdish areas in northeast Syria. About every three or
four months there is a convoy into the key city of Qamishli. Syrian Kurds, who
are now defending Kobani with the support of U.S. warplanes, have long
complained about the lack of international aid. Last November, tellingly,
Syrian Kurds complained that Syria’s Kurdistan was not included in a U.N.
polio-vaccination campaign. U.N. agencies took the position that polio vaccines
should go through the Syrian Red Crescent via Damascus when it came to the
Kurds.
The origins of the aid
programs pre-date President Barack Obama’s decision to “degrade and defeat”
ISIS, but they have carried on without major review. The aid push was to reach
anyone in need. A senior State Department official with detailed knowledge of
current aid programs confirmed to The Daily Beast that U.S. government funded
relief is still going into Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor. He declined to estimate the
quantity. But an aid coordinator, when asked, responded: “A lot.”
The State Department official
said he, too, was conflicted about the programs. “Is this helping the militants
by allowing them to divert money they would have to spend on food? If aid
wasn’t going in, would they let people starve? And is it right for us to
withhold assistance and punish civilians? Would the militants turn around, as
al-Shabab did when many agencies withdrew from Somalia, and blame the West for
starvation and hunger? Are we helping indirectly the militants to build their
caliphate? I wrestle with this.”
Western NGO partners of USAID
and other Western agencies declined to respond to Daily Beast inquiries about
international relief going to ISIS areas, citing the complexity of the issue
and noting its delicacy.
Mideast analyst Schanzer
dismisses the notion that ISIS can use an aid shutdown as leverage in its PR
campaign: “I think this is false. In areas they control, everyone understands
they are a brutal organization. This is their basic weakness and by pushing in
aid we are curtailing the chances of an internal revolt, which is the best
chance you have of bringing down ISIS.”
comment:
If we were to learn a lesson from the October crisis I think
it would be this. We knew that Pierre as prime minister had to do something,
the labor party in Quebec was run by a bunch of mafia guys who didn't give a
flying duck about anything else but creating union revenue for themselves by
spreading propaganda that the English were taking over in Quebec. Yes they
caused many English people to leave Quebec but they also lost alot of Capital
when businesses started closing. Quebec has never really recovered from this
foolish act of prejudiced and continues to fall further and further in debt
making it he highest welfare province in Canada. An every day reminder of the
October Crisis bigotry can be seen on the license plate.
ISIS IS SIMPLY RICH ENTITLED MUSLIM KIDS... AND LIKE MINDED
RICH KIDS – who love 2 kill and destroy and rape and pillage because they FEEL
THAT ENTITLED....
21 Sep 2014 ... A small but steady flow of
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22 Aug 2014 ... "The kids
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(IS), formerly known as Isis, are different to Islamist recruiters of ..... The middle east is
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black flag of jihad as used by Isis has been flown
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and which is admired (and hated) all over the world. .... Are we not entitled to
defend against our own demise?
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May 02, 2011 · Long before Osama bin Laden
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