Military funeral held for eight policemen killed in Cairo by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.

Military funeral held for eight policemen killed in Cairo by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. (AlAhram).

A military funeral was held in New Cairo’s police academy on Sunday afternoon for eight policemen gunned down by unknown assailants in the capital's southern district of Helwan.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, four individuals, who were waiting in a mini-van, opened fire on a police patrol resulting in the deaths of all eight officers, state news agency MENA reported.

The slain policemen included seven low-ranking policemen and a junior police officer.

The assailants are still at large.

Sunday's deadly assault on the patrol was one of the largest attacks on security forces in the capital in months.

The south Cairo prosecution said in a statement it had examined the scene of the crime, questioned 10 eyewitnesses and impounded 120 bullet shells from the site.

The officers' bodies were transported from the scene to the Zeinhom morgue to undergo an autopsy at the hands of medical examiners.

Shortly thereafter, families of the slain officers arrived outside the morgue to retrieve the victims' bodies to prepare them for burial.

The prosecution has yet to issue a full report on the incident.

💥⬆️The so called MB "popular resistance" terror group claimed responsibility 4 the Helwan attack on FB page earlier pic.twitter.com/jTneOAlzW9

— Hasan Sari (@HasanSari7) May 8, 2016

"Russia’s economic crisis is worse than Moscow admits" says Former Central Banker.

"Russia’s economic crisis is worse than Moscow admits" says Former Central Banker. (Rferl).

former deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank has said Russia’s economic crisis is worse than Moscow admits and that the Kremlin’s optimism about future prospects "has not been based on reality."
Sergei Aleksashenko told RFE/RL on February 10 that "the Russian economy is not going to grow" in the near future "and the most likely scenario is stagnation in the medium term."


He said Russian authorities “have not acknowledged the real nature of the crisis, at least publicly” and the crisis “is not over, as the Kremlin claims.”

“On the contrary,” he said, “the Russian economy is set to continue downward."

The Russian economy has been hit hard by falling global oil prices and international sanctions imposed in response to the Kremlin’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula two years ago and its support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin has wagered that ordinary Russians will withstand the hardships brought about amid deteriorating relations with the West over his foreign policy maneuvers.

But now, Aleksashenko said, Russia is experiencing a series of negative trends that, by his estimate, dragged down Russia’s GDP by 9 percent in 2015.

Russia’s state statistics agency said GDP fell by only 3.7 percent last year.

Aleksashenko called that a “statistical miracle” that “does not reflect the real problems.”

“As the saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” he said. “If we slice and dice [the official statistical data,] it would be evident that the only growing component of Russia’s GDP was net export.”

For all other components, investments in Russia have been decreasing. Hmmmmm.......Nothing's more dangerous than a cornered and wounded animal.Read the full story here.

In sign of “de-escalation,” #Russia has deployed new naval ship, 'Zelyony Dol,' w. Kalibr cruise missiles to #Syria pic.twitter.com/bF0ZxDwr5F

— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) February 13, 2016

Sudden Massive Snap Exercise and Mobilization of Russian Forces in Black Sea and Caspian Region seems Aimed at Turkey.

Sudden Massive Snap Exercise and Mobilization of Russian Forces in Black Sea and Caspian Region seems Aimed at Turkey. (Jamestown).

The present snap exercise strongly resembles a massive combat prewar troop deployment aimed to take on Turkey if it attempts to intervene in Syria to curtail the Russian-led offensive in Aleppo, Idlib and Latakia provinces, which is decimating the Syrian opposition. The Russian military deployment must deter both Turkey and NATO, ideally splitting the Alliance. If deterrence fails, the deployed troops will likely be ready to go into action. Read the full story here.

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#Russia-n forces encircling #Turkey with sudden, massive drills
cc @EjmAlrai https://t.co/oCZVK4KbAz pic.twitter.com/h8S8W7o4nD

— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) February 12, 2016

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A must read by @20committee Mounting Evidence #Putin Will Ignite WWIII. https://t.co/0S3BmKSTYO

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) February 12, 2016

Video - Munich: Lavrov, Kerry and de Mistura speak on Syrian crisis

Russian PM Medvedev warns of 'world war' if nations fail to negotiate over Syria.

Russia raises spectre of 'world war' if nations fail to negotiate over Syria. (DS).

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said all powers must sit at the negotiating table to forge an end to the war in Syria "instead of unleashing a new world war".

"The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war?" Medvedev told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper, due to be published on Friday.

It would be impossible to win such a war quickly, he said according to a German translation of his words, "especially in the Arab world, where everybody is fighting against everybody".

"All sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating table instead of unleashing a new world war," he said.

He said the United States and Russia must exert pressure on all sides in the conflict in order to secure a ceasefire.

Russia is carrying out bombing sorties around the key city of Aleppo, in support of advances by troops loyal to President Bashar Assad. U.S. and other Western air forces are also involved in air strikes in northern Syria. Hmmm......The world would be a much better place without the Muslim Brotherhood war dogs. 

ISIS confirms in it's latest magazine the death of Abu al Muhajir Muharib a.k.a. "Jihadi John"

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Information importante dans Dabiq13: l'#EI confirme la mort de Abu Muharib al Muhajir, alias "Jihadi John" pic.twitter.com/bLFs2Om8iN

— David Thomson (@_DavidThomson) January 19, 2016

Video - Russian jets bomb ISIS oil tankers in Syria

Heavy-duty trucks loaded with oil continue to cross the Turkish-Syrian border as well, Rudskoy said. At the same time, the number of tankers on the northern and western routes used for transporting oil from Syria is declining, the general added.

According to satellite data, the number of oil tankers moving through the ‘northern route’ towards the refinery in the [Turkish] city of Batman has considerably diminished,” Rudskoy said, adding that the number of tankers using the ‘western route,’ between the Turkish cities of Reyhanli [on the Syrian border] and the city of Iskenderun, has decreased to 265 vehicles. Footage Syrian - Turkish border Below.

Democratic Syria Assembly to be comprised of 42 people.

Democratic Syria Assembly to be comprised of 42 people. HT: ANF.

Participants of the Democratic Syria Congress seeking a resolution to the crisis in Syria have determined that Democratic Syrian Assembly will be comprised of 42 people.

Democratic Syria Congress seeking a resolution to the crisis in Syria continues in Dêrîk city in its second day. The congress is being held under the slogan “Towards building of a free and democratic Syria”, and participated by 103 delegates representing Syrian political, military and societal opposition organisations.
Following the decision to establish Democratic Syrian Assembly to serve as the political representative in Syria of Syrian Democratic Forces (QSD), participants have determined that the Assembly will be comprised of 42 people to operate in the coming period.
According to the initial reports received from the congress which continues closed to the press, the Assembly will involve;

- 13 members from Democratic Autonomous Administration,
- 1 member from Arab tribes,
- 1 member from Kurdish tribes,
- 3 members from the Political Consultation Board of Political Parties,
- 2 members from the Wheat Wave Movement (Teyar El-Qemih)
- 1 member from the Honor and Rights Agreement Community,
- 1 member from the Syrian National Democratic Consensus Committee,
- 1 member from the Shehba Regional Assembly,
- 1 member from each one of Turkmen, Assyrian, Arab, Syriac and Êzîdî peoples,
- 1 member from the youth,
- 1 member from the Syrian Democratic Modernity Party,
- 1 member from the Socialist Democratic Baath Party,
- 1 member from Jabal Arab,
- 1 member from Syrian National Mass,
- 5 members from the independent (to be elected by themselves).

A press conference on Democratic Syria Congress is expected to take place in the coming hours.

UN Security Council members chose Egypt to head the Counter-Terrorism Committee, starting January 2016.

UN Security Council members chose Egypt to head the Counter-Terrorism Committee, starting January 2016.  (AlAhram).

Egypt has been chosen to head the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and two other committees starting January 2016, spokesperson to the Egyptian foreign ministry, Ahmed Abu Zeid, said in a statement.

Abu Zeid said that the choice of Egypt [to head the CTC] reflects the confidence of Security Council members in Cairo. The committee, comprising all 15 Security Council members, is tasked with monitoring implementation of Resolution 1373 (2001), which mandates UN member states implement a number of measures to enhance their legal and institutional ability to counter terrorist activities at home.

Abu Zeid also said that Egypt will be heading two other committees at the UN Security Council.

"Egypt will also be heading the commission ... to follow up on the sanctions regime on Iraq, and the commission ... to follow up on penal system [reform] in the Democratic Republic of Congo," the statement read.

Following the announcement, Abu Zeid, said Egypt will work “vigorously” to defend and support African and Arab priorities at the Security Council. Hmmm.......First action should be kick out Turkey and Qatar, second action outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood....and that's just for starters.

#Russia and #Egypt determined to make list of terror groups in #Syria. https://t.co/qZKTmYa3BM pic.twitter.com/owP5dmfmJo

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) December 5, 2015

ISIS in Libya are using simulator devices in Sirte airport, Training to Fly Planes.

ISIS in Libya are using simulator devices in Sirte airport, Training to Fly Planes. (AW).

ISIS terrorists in the city of Sirte, northern Libya, are training to fly planes using at least one flight simulator according to military sources in the North African state. The sources added that there is a prevailing belief amongst investigators that the device was seized from the training departments of Gaddafi’s looted airports.

Other sources stated that “It’s a modern simulator, which may have arrived from abroad”, noting that it was roughly the size of a small car. The simulator is complete with a steering wheel to practice take-off and landing, a radar screen, and a communications device to contact the control tower.

A senior Libyan military officer said in an interview during a recent visit to Cairo that a group of ISIS leaders, amongst them retired officers from Libya and a number of neighbouring countries, obtained the first simulator device that specialises in civilian planes last October. Security services have gathered new information from Sirte during the last two weeks suggesting that another fighter jet simulator had arrived. However, its type remains unknown.

A security official working in a team that follows the activity of ISIS in North Africa said that information about ISIS militants training to fly civilian planes in Libya exists and added that the Libyan Air Force which lacks armaments attempted to hit at least one base where the training is believed to take place several times but that the operations were unsuccessful.

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Reports #ISIS training to fly planes with modern flight simulator in #Sirte #Libya https://t.co/hkeBIyYbUH

— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) December 4, 2015

Video - Syrian TV Response to Paris Attacks: 'The Scorpion Has Stung Its Owner'

Anyone can explain the meaning of draping the Saudi flag over the French president's shoulders? 

Hmmmm..............I think i understood it now: "the flag of Saudi Arabia bears the Shahada"

Video - A look into Aleppo's kuweires airbase retaken from ISIS

Read the full story here.

Isis leader in Libya Abu Nabil 'killed by US air strike'.

Isis leader in Libya Abu Nabil 'killed by US air strike'. (Independent).

Nabil is suspected of appearing in an Isis video which showed the brutal beach murders of kidnapped Coptic Christians.

Isis's senior leader in Libya is believed to have been killed by a US air strike. The Pentagon announced that a strike on a compound in Derna is likely to have killed Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubayadi.

The operation took place early on 13 November, before the terrorist attacks in Paris later in the day. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said that the strike showed that Isis’s leaders would be targetted “wherever they operate”. He added in a statement released on 14 November: “Nabil’s death will degrade Isil’s ability to meet the group’s objectives in Libya, including recruiting new Isil members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States.”

Nabil is believed to be a long-term al-Qaeda militant who was previously operating in Iraq. He is suspected of appearing in an Isis video which showed the brutal beach murders of kidnapped Coptic Christians in February. The film included threats of future attacks on “people of the cross”. Two F-15 fighter jets are understood to have carried out the strikes which killed him. Hmmm......Terrorism expert Max Abrahams has a very interesting theory on the fallout from targeting the terrorist Leadership.Read the full story here.

French Gov. to cut Qatari And Saudi funding of mosques in crackdown on Islamic fundamentalism.

French Gov. to cut Qatari And Saudi funding of mosques in crackdown on Islamic fundamentalism.(RFI).

The French government has announced a series of measures to clamp down on radical Islam being spread in mosques, and wants to cut financial support from countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Critics warn that before it does, it first needs to revise its 1905 law separating Church and State which discriminates against Muslims.

"If foreign countries are stepping in to fund mosques, it's because the French government won't" Karim Bouamrane, a socialist candidate in next month's local elections, told RFI on Saturday.

Bouamrane was reacting to plans by the French government to launch a cultural offensive against Salafist movements, held responsible for brainwashing the country's young Muslims.

These movements are accused of spreading islamic fundamentalism in mosques, with the financial backing and complicity of countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The place of Islam in French society is a hot button topic, and has been revived recently in the wake of the January 7 terror attacks.

Across the political spectrum, all the mainstream parties are mulling over how best to tackle the issue of Islam, without being accused of being divisive or acting out of political gain.

Speaking at a debate on Saturday, Mohammed Henniche, president of the Union of Muslim Associations in Seine Saint-Denis, a region northeast of Paris, said the best way to tackle radical Islam was to tackle islamophobia. Hmmm.....They better add Islamist MB member Turkey to the list. Read the full story here.

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Feb 2015 #France to cut #Qatar funding of mosques in crackdown on islamic fundamentalism https://t.co/v4qdlZ2ps4 pic.twitter.com/CingKI0zMN

— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) November 15, 2015

Saudi Gov: 'Saudis received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict'

Saudi Gov: 'Saudis received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict' HT: IMRA.

The Kingdom Receives around 2.5 m. Syrians, since the outbreak of the Crisis, Official Source Says.

http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/print.php?id=1397416 http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/print.php?id=1397417

Jeddah, Dhu-AlQa'dah 27, 1436, Sep 11, 2015, SPA -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not intend to speak about its efforts to support Syrian brothers and sisters, during their distress, as it has, since the beginning of the problem, dealt with the situation from a religious and humane perspective, and did not wish to boast about its efforts or attempt to gain media coverage, an official source of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, adding that media reports have contained erroneous and misleading information, and the Kingdom now considers it important to discuss its efforts with appropriate facts and figures.

The official source explained that the following actions have been taken by the Kingdom:

1.The Kingdom has received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict. In order to ensure their dignity and safety, the Kingdom adopted a policy that does not treat them as refugees or place them in refugee camps. They have been given the freedom to move about the country and those who wish to remain in Saudi Arabia (some hundreds of thousands) have been given legal residency status like the remaining residents. Their residency comes with the rights to receive free medical care, to join the labor market and to attend schools and universities. This was contained in a royal decree in 2012 that instructed public schools to accept Syrian students. According to government statistics, the public school system has accepted more than 100,000 Syrian students.

2.The Kingdom's efforts were not limited to accepting our Syrian brothers and sisters after their crisis; it also extended its efforts to support and care for millions of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and others. Efforts included providing them with humanitarian assistance, in coordination with the host governments and with international human aid organizations. Aid was provided, in cash and kind.

3.The aid provided by Saudi Arabia to the Syrian people totals around $700 million, according to the statistics of the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, which took place in Kuwait on March 31, 2015. Government aid and aid provided by the National Campaign, are included in that number.

4.Humanitarian aid provided to Syrians by the Kingdom consisted of food, medical, academic, residential supplies and included the establishment of Saudi specialized clinics in refugee camps, especially at Zaatari Camp in Jordan. The Kingdom was able to provide medical care in the form of immunization, preventive treatment and medical procedures. In addition, Saudi Arabia sponsored a large number of Syrian families living in Lebanon and Syria (specifically, through paying for their rent and living costs).

The ministry official concluded by stating that: It is apparent from the previous facts, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will remain a leader among other countries supporting Syrian people and it is impossible to outbid its efforts in this matter, or to question its position in any way or form, the statement concluded. Hmmm.....No Wonder that crane dropped.

Video - Flashback Founder of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Chicago to Instate Caliphate: Islam Will Not Coexist with Democracy.

Dr. Mohammed Malkawi, a.k.a. "Abu Talha," said, during a speech delivered at the International Muslim Khilafah Conference, held at Wembley Arena in London in August 1994, that "slam is a "supreme system" that "will not coexist in the same place as democracy." "Islam is a system that Allah revealed to dominate all other religions," he said.

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