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'How We Trained Al-Qaeda' - The Bosnian War Taught Islamic Terrorists to Operate Abroad         Grey Carter Mon, Apr 29, 2019   Russia Insider Brendan O’Neill says the Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to operate abroad – The Spectator, 13. September 2003 Fulor all the millions of words written about al-Qa’eda since the 9/11. attacks two years ago, one phenomenon is consistently overlooked — the role of the Bosnian war in transforming the mujahedin of the 1980s into the roving Islamic terrorists of today. Many writers and reporters have traced al-Qaeda and other terror groups’ origins back to the Afghan war of 1979-1992, that last gasp of the Cold War when US-backed mujahedin forces fought against the invading Soviet army. It is well documented that America played a major role in creating and sustaining the mujahedin, which included Osama bin Laden’s Office of Services set up to recruit volunteers from overseas. Betwe...

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza holding up the Venezuelan Constitution BAY OF PIGLETS UPDATE: From CTV "....Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said the "right-wing extremists" would not succeed in fracturing the armed forces, which have largely stood with the socialist leader throughout the months of turmoil. "Since 2002, we've seen the same pattern," he told The Associated Press, adding that most of Caracas was calm. "They call for violence, a coup, and send people into the streets so that there are confrontations and deaths. And then from the blood they try to construct a narrative," from Greencrow As The Crow Flies http://bit.ly/2IRoGcU Breaking News: Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Sums up the Bay of Piglets Attempted Coup - News Paper

News of a scheduled White House visit by Foxconn is being dangled in front of media as a signal of something  after weeks of confusion, mixed messages and strategic jitterbugging . In the meanwhile, tut-tut, those of you in the no-need-to-know demographic: someone will get back to you about something, sometime later. Unless the crystal ball says 'ask again later.' So while the power brokers meet behind closed doors without a publicly-released agenda, Wisconsin taxpayers' at the state and local levels whose money is being spent in torrents - - through commitments made by a failed job-creator and defeated former Governor - - are back in wait-and-see-mode. Perhaps the people's newly-elected representatives like Governor Evers who isn't known to at the table because h e's from a party  with the irritating word  Democratic  in its name  that is regularly denounced by the current White House occupant   Who openly dreams of serving more terms than allow...

A memo outlines the next steps in the administration’s crackdown — but they aren’t happening just yet. President Trump has unveiled the next phase of his asylum crackdown: a new wave of regulations that would force asylum seekers’ cases through much faster and make it harder for asylum seekers to afford to apply and live in the US in the meantime. On Monday night, Trump issued a “presidential memorandum” directing the departments of Homeland Security and Justice to take “all appropriate actions” to propose a series of regulations within 90 days. He asked for proposals to charge a fee for asylum applications, stop issuing work permits to asylum seekers until their applications have been approved, shunt asylum seekers into limited court proceedings to judge their applications, and require all asylum cases to be wrapped up in 180 days. The “all appropriate actions” language gives some wiggle room to the agencies, so it’s possible not all of these will be introduced within 90 days. Onc...

It’s a blow to Democrats, who tapped her as their best bet to unseat incumbent Republican David Perdue. Stacey Abrams , a historic 2018 gubernatorial candidate, has decided she won’t be running for US Senate, dealing a blow to Democrats who had seen her as one of their best chances to take on Georgia Republican David Perdue in 2020. Abrams, who’s also been floated as both a potential presidential candidate and possible pick for vice president, announced her decision in a Twitter post on Tuesday. “The Senate provides a singular platform from which to address the issues of access to justice, economic security, health care and restoring the integrity of our nation’s democracy,” she said, adding, “I do not see the U.S. Senate as the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future.” Abrams didn’t indicate, however, if she was planning to run for another elected position. Abrams has previously told Politico she could wait until the fall to declare a run for the presidency and d...

Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:13 US Army Terrorists, Allied Militants Killed in Several Blasts in Raqqa TEHRAN (FNA) – A least two US Army terrorists and 20 Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed in recent blasts and attacks on their military positions in the city of Raqqa. The US Army terrorists were killed in a series of blasts in Raqqa City, including a bomb blast hitting a US Army military vehicle, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV network reported. The report also noted that 16 SDF fighters were killed in attacks and explosions against their military positions and patrols in Fonoun school, Shahid Bassel Street, areas near al-Baladi stadium, al-Qattar Street and near Electricity Company in Raqqa City. The recent blasts and attacks have sparked tensions in the region. In a relevant development earlier this monht, sources said the US Army deployed ISIL commanders and terrorists in the security bodies of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa paving the way for fleeing ...

Future Perfect reporter Sigal Samuel has spent the past year investigating the humanitarian crisis in western China. Over the past year, Vox Future Perfect reporter Sigal Samuel has been investigating China’s campaign of repression against Uighur Muslims , 1 million of whom are being held in internment camps in the northwestern Xinjiang region. On April 26, Sigal did a Reddit Ask Me Anything session , discussing everything from the actions civilians in the US can take to help the Uighurs to the international community’s response to the crisis. Here’s a roundup of some of the most interesting questions and answers, lightly edited for clarity. 1) Why are Uighurs targeted in the first place? Stanislav1: Can you give us a quick history lesson on how this started in China? Sigal: China has been worried for a long time that the Uighurs will want to split off from China and make Xinjiang an independent homeland (a lot of Uighurs refer to Xinjiang as East Turkestan). The Chinese paint ...

Scientists from around the world have joined together to identify the most important actions needed by Madagascar's new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for ever. Many of Madagascar's iconic lemur species such as this black and white ruffed lemur are critically endangered [Credit: Daniel Burgas] In January, Madagascar's recently-elected president, Andry Rajoelina, began his five-year term of office. A group of scientists from Madagascar, the UK, Australia, the USA and Finland have published a paper recommending actions needed by the new government to turn around the precipitous decline of biodiversity and help put Madagascar on a trajectory towards sustainable growth. Professor Jonah Ratsimbazafy, from the University of Antananarivo and one of the paper's co-authors said: "The United States have the Statue of Liberty, France has the Eifel tower.... For us in Madagascar it is our biodiversity (the product of millions of years of ...

University of Southampton scientists are using innovative technology to monitor the behaviour of glaciers in real time, in a new bid to understand the link between their retreat, global warming and rising sea levels. Increased volume of glacier melt water is increasing the speed in which glaciers are retreating [Credit: University of Southampton] The Southampton researchers, who are part of the international Glacsweb project, have developed technology to monitor glacier behaviour. They have used unique sensor probes placed in, on and underneath the glacial ice. These sensor probes measure temperature, pressure, stress, weather and subglacial movement. The information gathered is important in understanding a glacier’s dynamics and this data helps the team to study climate change. As part of the team’s latest investigation, data retrieved from probes in Skálafellsjökull, Iceland, showed that the increased volume of glacier melt water is increasing the speed in which gla...

An international team of scientists has found part of the world's largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than the overall ice shelf average, due to solar heating of the surrounding ocean surface. The Ross Polynya where solar heat is absorbed by the ocean. The vertical wall of the ice front stretches a distance of 600 km [Credit: Poul Christoffersen] In a study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area roughly the size of France, the scientists spent several years building up a record of how the north-west sector of this vast ice shelf interacts with the ocean beneath it. Their results, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience , show that the ice is melting much more rapidly than previously thought due to inflowing warm water. "The stability of ice shelves is generally thought to be related to their exposure to warm deep ocean water, but we've found that solar heated surface water also plays a crucial role in melting ice shelves," ...

The University of Texas at Austin team that led a twin satellite system launched in 2002 to take detailed measurements of the Earth, called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), reports in the most recent issue of the journal Nature Climate Change on the contributions that their nearly two decades of data have made to our understanding of global climate patterns. Global representation of trends and variability in ice and watermass recovered by GRACE over 15 years. The top figure, which shows trend maps over Antarctica, Greenland and part of the Arctic, represent changes  inice mass. The middle trend map mainly represents changes in the terrestrialwater storage, as well as large  trends related to continental rebound after glacier ice-melts over continental areas, such as Alaska, Patagonia and the Canadian Arctic.The trends of the terrestrial water storage are partially related floods and droughts, but also reflect, for example, long term changes i...

Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. Schematic artist's impression of the changing jet orientation in V404 Cygni. Each segment  (as separated by the clock hands) shows the jets at a different time, oriented in different directions as seen in our high angular resolution radio imaging [Credit: ICRAR] Published in the journal Nature , the research shows jets from V404 Cygni's black hole behaving in a way never seen before on such short timescales. The jets appear to be rapidly rotating with high-speed clouds of plasma--potentially just minutes apart--shooting out of the black hole in different directions. Lead author Associate Professor James Miller-Jones, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the Universe. "This is one of the most extraordinary black hole systems I...