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Suleiman Abu Ghaith se declarou inocente. Ele era porta-voz da rede Al-Qaeda.
Foi indiciado, nesta sexta-feira (8), em um tribunal de Nova York, o genro do terrorista Osama Bin Laden acusado de conspirar para assassinar cidadãos americanos.
Suleiman Abu Ghaith se declarou inocente. Ele era porta-voz da rede Al-Qaeda. Foi preso na Jordânia, levado para os Estados Unidos na semana passada e pode ser condenado à prisão perpétua.
The last one alone is enough to debunk the whole premise that ISIS represents Islam.
I’m going to put this on queue just incase people need reminding
Wow ISIS is breaking every single one of these rules.
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The Muhajireen Army, a group of jihadists closely tied to al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, the Al Nusrah Front, claimed it shot down a Syrian Army helicopter in Aleppo using what appears to be an SAM-7 surface-to-air missile.
The claim, which is backed by a video [above], was made on FISyria, a Russian website that has been releasing propaganda for the Muhajireen Brigade. The video was published on the FISyria website as well as on YouTube. A fighter is seen shouldering the weapon, then firing on a helicopter, which does appear to have been hit.
At the end of the video the shooter says, in accented English, “I shoot it.”
The cameraman responses in nearly perfect English, “Really?”
“Yes, yes.” the shooter says.
“It’s falling down,” the cameraman then says.
According to a translation of the statement accompanying the posting, the group said that while the Free Syrian Army claimed credit for shooting down the helicopter, the FSA does not have the capability to do so.
Propaganda from the Muhajireen Army, which does not have an official media outlet or website, has been published on FISyria. Just two days ago, the group claimed credit for two suicide assaults against the airport in Aleppo. In one of the attacks, the group used a BMP armored personnel carrier to detonate a suicide bomb on the base.
The Muhajireen Army is led by a Chechen known as Abu Omar al Chechen and has a significant number of fighters from Russia’s Caucasus region as well as Europe.
HOWEVER: It appears that this propoganda video is in fact merely propoganda: the audio seems to be overdubbed at the point in which emphatic yelling begins. The audio appears to be recorded indoors, and the video shows no signs that the helicopter was actually hit.
Read more:http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/06/muhajireen_army_fires_on_syria.php#ixzz2XehCl4wP
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, claimed it launched two suicide assaults and other attacks with Syrian rebel groups, including an Islamist unit and two Free Syrian Army brigades.
The Al Nusrah Front made the claims in a series of statements released on June 27 by its official media outlet, the Al-Manara Al-Baydha’ Foundation. The statements were obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The attacks were carried out in conjunction with the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade, an Islamist group from the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, and the Dera’ al Assima, Liwa al Habib al Mustafa, and Liwa’ al-Tawhid, three Free Syrian Army brigades that operate in Damascus.
The Al Nusrah Front said the two suicide assaults took place “in Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus” on April 22. Al Nusrah Front suicide bombers targeted two “barriers,” or outposts, with explosives-packed cars.
“That was in order to open the way for the storming lions of the Al Nusrah Front and the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade to raid the two barriers and comb them,” the statement said, according to SITE. The Al Nusrah Front claimed that “more than 150 soldiers” were killed and two tanks were destroyed in the operation.http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/06/al_nusrah_front_clai_14.php#ixzz2Xep17v3k
Meena Keshwar Kamal, ‘The Bravest of the Brave’
Meena was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, feminist and founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She was only 20 when, in 1977, she launched RAWA, Afghanistan’s first organized movement for women’s rights. Four years later, Meena launched a bilingual feminist magazine called Payam-e-Zan (Women’s Message).
In the beginnings with RAWA, Meena started a campaign against the Russian forces and their puppet regime in 1979 and organized numerous processions and meetings in schools, colleges and Kabul University to mobilize public opinion. Payam-e-Zan has constantly exposed the criminal nature of fundamentalist groups. Meena also established Watan Schools for refugee children, a hospital and handicraft centers for refugee women in Pakistan to support Afghan women financially.
Sadly, when she was only 31, Meena was assassinated by agents of KHAD (Afghanistan branch of KGB) in Pakistan in 1987. She was married to Afghanistan Liberation Organization leader Faiz Ahmad, who himself was assassinated a year earlier, by the agents of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in 1986. They have three children, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Meena represented the struggle Middle East needs the most – the liberation from within. Not some Western forces coming to “liberate” or to “establish a democracy”, but a true change that can never be achieved by imposing it from the outside. She spoke about the history of Afghan women’s struggle for social recognition and equal rights in connection to the history of the country’s physical and cultural devastation (by different invasions and wars). She connected the two, which is what Western mainstream media so often fails to do.
Her organization, RAWA, continued with work after Meena was assassinated, and is still very active today.
Women from RAWA are doing great things and helping many people. In that sense, all those images we see of helpless and abused Afghan women in the Western media, obuscure the great role Afghan women play as agents of change in Afghanistan, and have been playing for the last couple of decades. It’s not just RAWA and Meena.
One of the things that first comes to my mind is the story of the village widowed women built on a hill overlooking Kabul. Or the storyof women’s bakery in a small village in rural Afghanistan. Or the story of Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan’s first female street artist. Or the story of Setara, singer who appeared on the Afghan Star, sang with great emotion, and included dance in her final performance, an action that put her life in danger. Or the story of Sadaf Rahimi, first female boxer in Afghan national team, who was invited to London Olympics in 2012 (at the age of 17).
There’s many stories like this, and there will be many more, because the women of Afghanistan are not just oppressed, abused and broken, but powerful, brave and active. Like Meena was.
“Hope is the thing with feathers,” Emily Dickinson wrote a long time ago, and it still keeps so many warm, and will never stops…
Meena Keshwar Kamal speaking in 1982, photo via RAWA
Text Courtesy: Middle East Revised
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(Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
18 years after 9/11
Precipitous withdrawal — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Vietnam — too often has been the perfect formula for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Whomever Donald Trump picks as his next national security adviser should understand this reality. Our view.Opposing view.
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Al-Qaeda terrorists have massacred Syrian Christians in Hama, among them 5 children and 1 woman. a terrorist attack that hit their church in Suqaylabiyah, syria, a greek orthodox village.
The attack was launched from Idlib, the same city Macron and Trump don’t want Syria to liberate.
Apr 2014
President Bashar al Assad visited historic Christian town Maaloula where Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, has survived for centuries and is still spoken.
US-sponsored jihadists destroyed the ancient Church and the statue of Virgin Mary.
