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Post by Deexan on Aug 24, 2015 16:18:49 GMT -5
North and South Korea have struck a deal after negotiations to end tensions, according to the Yonhap news agency.
The agreement includes the North expressing "regret" over land mine attacks that wounded two soldiers from the South.
Yonhap, based in the South, said that in exchange the South would stop broadcasting propaganda over the border.
The propaganda is being played out at 11 sites where loudspeakers boom out anti-Pyongyang messages, news broadcasts and K-pop hits such as Gangnam Style across the border.
The South had refused to stop unless the North apologised for the land mine attacks - but North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un continually denied involvement.
Further details are expected to be announced by South Korean delegates at 6pm UK time following two days of talks.
Any agreement would illustrate a softened stance from both sides - and end the prospect of war on the Korean peninsula.
South Korea had made a series of claims that its neighbour was preparing for war by doubling the strength of its frontline artillery forces and dispatching 50 of its 70 submarines from their bases.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un admitted he was prepared to risk "all-out war" unless Seoul halted its propaganda broadcasts.
The decision to hold talks came just hours before a Saturday deadline set by Mr Kim for the South to dismantle its loudspeakers.
North Korean state media reported that more than one million young people have volunteered to join or rejoin the military to defend their country should war break out.
The United Nations, the United States and the North's lone major ally, China, have all called for calm.
The US, which has 28,500 soldiers based in South Korea, is conducting annual joint military exercises with the South. North Korea regularly condemns the manoeuvres as a preparation for war.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/north-and-south-korea-reach-deal-to-end-tensions/ar-BBm3mo7?ocid=mailsignoutmd
This is surely worse than any methods of torture the Northerners can concoct...
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Post by Ramplate on Sept 10, 2015 22:11:09 GMT -5
Al Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Declares War on ISIS 'Caliph' Al-Baghdadi
Just ahead of the fourteenth anniversary of al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the U.S., the leader of the terrorist group took aim in an angry speech at a mortal enemy -- but not American “crusaders” this time. Rather, the object of his tirade was the leader of ISIS in a declaration of war that will “irreconcilably” divide the two terror groups in a way the U.S. may be able to exploit, experts say.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who replaced Osama bin Laden as the head of al Qaeda four years ago, in a new audio message accused ISIS top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of “sedition” and insisted the Iraqi terrorist recluse was not the leader of all Muslims and militant jihad as “caliph” of the Islamic State, as al-Baghdadi had claimed 14 months ago in a Mosul mosque.
“It’s pretty interesting,” said former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen. “Zawahiri until now has not been willing to openly condemn Baghdadi and ISIS. It highlights how deep the division is between al Qaeda leadership and ISIS. It suggests that the differences are irreconcilable.”
Had ISIS and al Qaeda realigned by joining forces, it “would be terrible,” said Olsen, an ABC News contributor.
That division -- now formally declared by the highest ranking official of the group that slaughtered almost 3,000 Americans 14 years ago in multi-pronged aviation attacks -- could provide an opening that American counter-terrorism operatives could find a way to exploit, he added.
Olsen said the U.S. could use misinformation to further pit the two jihadi menaces against each other and encourage the series of gunfights and assassinations each has waged against the other -- like when ISIS reportedly killed a top Zawahiri emissary trying to broker a ceasefire between the fighters in Syria in February 2014.
The fledgling franchise in Afghanistan and Pakistan, known as IS Khorasan Province, “has been fighting non-stop” with the Taliban and al Qaeda there, a counter-terrorism official told ABC News. “Fighting each other makes our job easier,” said the official in Afghanistan.
In the new audio tape, which was released online Wednesday and accompanied by a still image or al-Zawahiri and text of his speech, the al Qaeda leader appeared to confirm that he had not directly addressed infighting among the jihadis of ISIS and al Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Jabhat al-Nusra or the al Nusra Front, for fear of legitimizing ISIS.
ISIS, formerly the al Qaeda branch in Iraq, split from the larger group two years ago. In the tape, al-Zawahiri complained that Baghdadi had ignored Muslims suffering in Gaza and in Pakistan.
“We preferred to respond with as little as possible, out of our concern to extinguish the fire of sedition,” Zawahiri explained, “but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his brothers did not leave us a choice, for they have demanded that all the mujahideen reject their confirmed pledges of allegiance, and to pledge allegiance to them for what they claim of a caliphate.”
“Everyone was surprised” by Baghdadi’s declaration anointing himself the fourth caliph in Islamic history, Zawahiri remarked, saying al-Baghdadi had done this “without consulting the Muslims.”
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Al-Zawahiri's sour grapes speech, however, appeared to have been recorded last spring, analysts said, and reiterated past pledges of loyalty to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who recently was confirmed dead by the Taliban. That appeared to mark a rare misstep for al Qaeda and al-Zawahiri, who once was able to leak his videotaped response to news events as quickly as one week later, but who now is in hiding with a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head.
Nicholas Palarino, a recently retired senior congressional counter-terrorism adviser who teaches about terrorism at Georgetown University, said al-Zawahiri being forced to call out al-Baghdadi weakens the power of both al Qaeda and ISIS and may offer Arab governments a window of opportunity to drive a wedge between the jihadi groups and those who are flocking to fight in Syria and Iraq.
“Moderate Muslims need to exploit this rift. The leaders of Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Egypt can explain the differences between these two groups to the world’s Muslims,” Palarino said.
Though it didn't foresee the rise of ISIS, former CIA Director Michael Hayden said the intelligence community had predicted a rift in al Qaeda emerging after bin Laden's death -- something like what's happening now between ISIS and al Qaeda, which the U.S. could use to its advantage.
"It would be a good idea to do so. We always thought that the death of bin Laden could create a rift between the Egyptians and the other Arabs inside al Qaeda since Zawahiri was an Egyptian. Seems to have played out," former CIA Director Michael Hayden told ABC News.
When it comes to exploiting the rift between two deadly extremist groups, however, Hayden cautioned, "You need to be careful."
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Post by Deexan on Sept 11, 2015 21:04:23 GMT -5
That will end well.
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Post by Neverending on Dec 15, 2015 11:44:53 GMT -5
Los Angeles schools closed because of threat. Keep us posted, Doomsday and stay safe. |
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Post by Doomsday on Dec 15, 2015 11:49:05 GMT -5
Right now homeschool kids in LA are pissed. They'll feel better though once they finish their morning 2-hour Bible readings.
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Post by sabin26 on Dec 18, 2015 12:58:13 GMT -5
This is a great depiction as well as a great article about PTSD. It's seriously not easy for many who served and for many who haven't they only know what the media portrays. |
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Post by Wyldstaar on Jan 1, 2016 12:47:03 GMT -5
Ethan Couch, the "Affluenza" idiot has been found in Mexico because he ordered a pizza on his own cell phone. He is now trying to stay out of jail in the US by fighting his extradition from Mexico. This fight could take weeks or even months. Couch will spend those months at the immigration detention center in Mexico City, which is far worse than most jails in the US. You can't fix stupid.
His mother Tonya Couch is now in custody in Texas and is charged with felony hindering apprehension and faces two to ten years in prison.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 1, 2016 14:05:33 GMT -5
Ethan Couch, the "Affluenza" idiot has been found in Mexico because he ordered a pizza on his own cell phone. He is now trying to stay out of jail in the US by fighting his extradition from Mexico. This fight could take weeks or even months. Couch will spend those months at the immigration detention center in Mexico City, which is far worse than most jails in the US. You can't fix stupid. His mother Tonya Couch is now in custody in Texas and is charged with felony hindering apprehension and faces two to ten years in prison. That kid to have the book thrown at him but the mother is the one who really needs to be locked up (the father too if they find the evidence he had anything to do with this). If these people really believed that stupid affluenza defense they clearly learned nothing from it and are still trying to keep their kid living in a consequence free bubble... One they should know by now is dangerous. |
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Post by thebtskink on Jan 5, 2016 18:55:52 GMT -5
Bernie Sanders is a moron if he thinks he can break up the big banks.
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Post by Virus on Aug 26, 2018 19:33:18 GMT -5
I’ve heard it’s now two dead. Have you heard any news on the guy who was streaming? There was a laser on his chest right before the gunshots, but I haven’t heard if that was real or not either.
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 30, 2018 14:39:38 GMT -5
Sayonara.
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Post by Neverending on Oct 30, 2018 14:51:32 GMT -5
Was it Mark Wahlberg?
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Post by thebtskink on Oct 30, 2018 15:17:13 GMT -5
True story, guy I play against in dart league had his sister killed by Whiteys gang. He attention whored up the trial and everything. |
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 30, 2018 15:19:40 GMT -5
Wait, so your friend had his sister killed? HOLY SHIT!
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Post by thebtskink on Oct 30, 2018 15:28:06 GMT -5
Wait, so your friend had his sister killed? HOLY SHIT! Not a friend. Player on opposing team. The tan Chevy Colt outside the bar in Black Mass? She was collateral damage in that car from the hit. |
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Post by 1godzillafan on Oct 30, 2018 17:30:27 GMT -5
Ohhhhhhh...collateral damage. The initial wording made it sound like he paid someone to off her.
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Post by Ramplate on Oct 30, 2018 17:39:11 GMT -5
Waaaay overdue
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Post by Ramplate on Jan 26, 2019 9:27:56 GMT -5
a lot of money
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Post by thebtskink on Apr 15, 2019 13:16:34 GMT -5
Notre Dame Cathedral in flames. By the looks of it, I'd be surprised if it's not a total loss.
Ugh. 900 years of history, what a loss.
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