Islamophobia, Radical Islam & Bikini Evolution in Europe

The series of Photos depicting Bikini Evolution in Europe and especially in France throws bright light on extra radicalization in Europe due to increasing Muslim population. Also rising incidences of Islamofascism and countering Islamophobia Europe is becoming fractured society day by day. Even indigenous Europeans which were strong advocates of multiculturalism are now tilting their minds towards anti-Muslim or anti-Islamism. 
After Paris attack in 2015 and 2016 the Europe is preparing to take Islam head on and European intellectuals are boldly coming forward to weed out foolish sentiments of multiculturalism.
Now British PM David Cameron has triggered controversy by saying that British Muslim women must learn English otherwise they should leave the country and US politician Donald Trump demanding entry ban on Muslims in USA.
  

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Ink thrown at Kejriwal by Girl at Chhatrasal Stadium during Thanksgiving Rally

Girl named Bhavna thrown ink on Delhi CM  Arwind Kejriwal at Delhi's Chhatrasal stadium during odd even formula's success thanksgiving rally arranged by AAP.

Army Coup Story in Express cooked at Oberoi Hotel-Subramanian Swamy's latest Revealation

Subramaniam Swamy's latest revealation on Army Coup story in Indian Express Seniar BJP leader and firebrand legal crasader Subramaniam Swamy revealed on social media yesterday that Indian Express story 2 years ago, regarding alleged Army armoured columns movement towards Delhi to stage military coup by toppling Manmohan Singh's Congress government was cooked in Oberoi Hotel during lunch hangout between P Chidambaram and Indian Express group editor Shekhar Gupta. In the same story it has been claimed that, then COAS General V K Singh has ordered Indian Army's armoured columns comprising 48 armoured combat vehicles, without notifying Central government, which were based at Mathura.
Intelligence agencies sounded alarm to government and by the time, the said units reached at Hisar in Haryana under command of Lt Gen. A K Singh. It was the same day when then Army Chief General V K Singh apporached supreme Court on his date of birth fight with government. Swamy mentioned on social media, that CCTV footage of Oberoi hotel will prove if there was such meeting occured in the same hotel. If his allegations literally proves to be true, then it would be all time low in the history of Indian media and Indian politics.
Earlier Indian media had witnessed Barkha Dutt managing ministerial portfolios in tandem with corporate lobbyst Nira Radia and Veer Sanghi, Prabhu Chawla doing same bargaining. As Dr Subramaniam Swamy is known for his tough legal acts and unending follow up of the matters to conclusive end, it may prove costly for Shekahr Gupta and P chidambaram. P chidambaram is facing tough times as CBI has named his wife in chargesheet of Spectrum allocation case. If the same fabricated news matter takes the shape, it may finish professional careers of Chidambaram and Shekhar Gupta

Masood Azhar detained after Obama referred Pakistan as Terror Haven in SOTU

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US president Barack Obama speaks in his last 


State of Union address said that Pakistan is 


becoming Biggest 'havens for new terror': 

After latest Pathankot air base attack in India 


by Pakistani terror groups, Pakistn is attracting 


attention of world for being number one on state 


sponsored terrorism.

Observing that "instability will continue for 


decades" in many parts of the world including 


Afghanistan and Pakistan, US President Barack 


Obama on Wednesday said both Al Qaeda and ISIS 


pose a direct threat to the US during his final 


State of the Union Address to the Congress.

Both Al Qaeda and now ISIL pose a direct threat 


to our people, because in today's world, even a 


handful of terrorists who place no value on human 


life, including their own, can do a lot of 


damage," Obama said.

Our foreign policy must be focused on the threat 


from ISIL and al Qaeda, but it can't stop there. 


For even without ISIL, instability will continue 


for decades in many parts of the world - in the 


Middle East, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in 


parts of Central America, Africa and Asia.  Some 


of these places may become safe havens for new 


terrorist networks...' he added.

In his eight State of the Union Address, Obama 


said terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL 


(also known as ISIS Islamic State militant group) 


use the Internet to poison the minds of 


individuals inside the country; they undermine 


American allies."But as we focus on destroying 


ISIL, over-the-top claims that this is World War 


III just play into their hands. Masses of 


fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted 


souls plotting in apartments or garages pose an 


enormous danger to civilians and must be stopped. 


But they do not threaten our national existence," 


Obama said.


"That's the story ISIL wants to tell; that's the 


kind of propaganda they use to recruit," he 


asserted.


"We don't need to build them up to show that 


we're serious, nor do we need to push away vital 


allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL 


is representative of one of the world's largest 


religions. We just need to call them what they 


are - killers and fanatics who have to be rooted 


out, hunted down, and destroyed," Obama said.


That's exactly what the US is doing, he said 


adding that for more than a year, America has led 


a coalition of more than 60 countries to cut off 


ISIL's financing, disrupt their plots, stop the 


flow of terrorist fighters, and stamp out their 


vicious ideology."With nearly 10,000 air strikes, 


we are taking out their leadership, their oil, 


their training camps, and their weapons. We are 


training, arming, and supporting forces who are 


steadily reclaiming territory in Iraq and Syria," 


he said."If this Congress is serious about 


winning this war, and wants to send a message to 


our troops and the world, you should finally 


authorise the use of military force against ISIL. 


Take a vote. But the American people should know 


that with or without Congressional action, ISIL 


will learn the same lessons as terrorists before 


them," the President said.


During the address Obama further said: "If you 


doubt America's commitment - or mine - to see 


that justice is done, ask Osama bin Laden. Ask 


the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen, who was taken 


out last year, or the perpetrator of the Benghazi 


attacks, who sits in a prison cell.  When you 


come after Americans, we go after you. It may 


take time, but we have long memories, and our 


reach has no limit."He said that America's 


foreign policy must be focused on the threat from 


ISIL and Al Qaeda, but it can't stop there."For 


even without ISIL, instability will continue for 


decades in many parts of the world - in the 


Middle East, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in 


parts of Central America, Africa and Asia," he 


said.


"Some of these places may become safe havens for 


new terrorist networks; others will fall victim 


to ethnic conflict, or famine, feeding the next 


wave of refugees," Obama said."The world will 


look to us to help solve these problems, and our 


answer needs to be more than tough talk or calls 


to carpet bomb civilians. That may work as a TV 


sound bite, but it doesn't pass muster on the 


world stage," he added.

Masood Azhar Detained Pathankot Attack Pakistan

Pakistan on arrested top militant and Jaish-e- Mohammad founder chief Maulana Masood Azhar, brother and many more terrorists from his dreaded terror outfit, suspected to orchestred and engineered the Pathankot air base terror attack, and ceased its offices as India demanded stern action on the terror group linking it to the future of Foreign Secretary talks.
Masood Azhar's younger brother Abdul Rehman Rauf also arrested quoted Geo TV. Arrest of many other individuals were announced by the Prime Minister's Office in press release, no official word uttered on Masood Azhar's arrest. Masood Azhar is dreaded terrorist who was released from Indian jail in 1999 in exchange for safe release of 155 air passengers of the hijacked plane of Indian Airlines. He has been into safe custody as agencies raided several other JeM offices.

Pakistan has also clarified that it is thinking of sending a special empowered investigation team to India's Pathankot as more com=ncrete information required to carry on the cooperation with India. The Pakistani actions reviewed at a high level meet chaired by PM Nawaz Sharif, came as the future of the Foreign Secretory level talks due for Friday remained uncertain with just few days.
Terrorists of JeM are believed to be behind attack on Pathankot air base on January 2, 2016 which claimed lives of seven security personnel.  
Yesterday Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar hinted at punitive retaliation in future to punish those perpetrating terror attacks on Indian targets,  He also expressed the need to make feel the pain to terrorists for hitting on India. Today India's Chief of Army Staff tok forward issue by saying that Indian Army is ready to take any mission assigned by government to punish those nurturing animosity for India. 

Iran Released Detained U.S. Navy sailors from Persian Gulf

Iran has released the sailors detained from two American navy vessels which had transgressed into Iranian waters, which prompted their seizure and arrest by Iranian coast guards. “10 U.S. Navy Sailors returned to US Naval custody today, after leaving Iran,” read a statement on Wednesday from Central Command- U.S. Naval Forces . “There are no signs that US Sailors were physically harmed during brief detention.”
As per the statement, Navy will investigate the situation and circumstances which led the Sailor’s in Iran.” Iranian Fars News Agency reported their release. Fars in a statement by the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps said Iran set released US marines with detained vessels within international waters as investigations confirmed that they strayed during their sailing in Persian Gulf. In a statement, IRGC pointed that investigations proved that the U.S. combat marine vessels illegally entered in Iranian water which was not a purposeful act,” Fars said. 
An Iranian spokesman, General Ramezan Sharif, said that Iran’s next action and timing will be decided by an investigation. Later, Iranian officials told they determined that faulty navigation devices was cause for the “intrusion.” “Due to technical, operational investigations in interaction with the relevant political, national security authorities of country and as it has became clear that US combat ship's illegal entry in Islamic Republic of Iran waters was result of un-purposefulness action was mistake and as they extended unconditional apology, decision was made to free them,” Fars said.

“The Americans agreed not to repeat similar mistakes,” it read and continued, “US captured marines released in international waters as the supervision of the IRGC Navy was on.” Iran earlier released several marine sailors photos, sitting around and faces looking bored. The exact incidence and circumstances triggering the incident, which draw volatile situation in U.S.-Iranian relations, remained still unclear.  

The two marginally small boats, which are used normally on coastal waters and rivers, were sailing from Kuwait to Bahrain through Persian Gulf when disappeared from the Navy radars. Senior officials claimed the vessels might appeared experienced mechanical problem or exhausted fuel, but agency Fars- Iranian news agency, claimed the sailors had been “spying.” The Iranian Navy seized the boats with their crews to Iranian Farsi Island, where Iran said a naval base on northern Persian Gulf.

Madaya Starvation- Aid Trucks Reaches in Syrian Town

The situation worsened after Russia launched its most aggressive air campaign to crush Syrian rebels and to safeguard Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin is standing firm behind Bashar Al Assad to save his chair. The Madaya people were urging government forces to end the siege so that essential commodities, food and medicine could reach the hungry town, but brutal government forces and FSA rebels didn't paid attention to humanity and such catastrophic situation aroused pushing thousands of the civilian on the banks of death.

 Madaya town near Syrian capital Damascus is facing severe humanitarian crisis as majority of its 42,000 population is reeling under intense malnutrition. The Syrian government forces and FSA rebels are in locked horn position which have laid the siege of town to achieve military victory over city.
VIDEO- Madaya Starvation in Syria
Earlier the same Madaya town was popular vacation spot for effluent Syrians. The gravity of the situation is so serious that UN interfered in the matter to end the siege and to facilitate the supply of essential relief and food material to the affected, ailing Madaya citizens. Hundreds of children are on verge of death with severe anemia. Also old age people are disabled due to lack of food for days together.

The U.N. Security Council discussed the situation of besieged Syrian towns on Monday after reports surfaced about tens of thousands of Syrian civilians being trapped within for months together without essential supplies and starving to unavoidable death."Spain and New Zealand called for Security Council meeting on situation in Madaya,Syrian town following reports propping up about dying people from starvation," Gerard van Bohemen-New Zealand UN ambassador, told. "The tactic and tool of siege and starvation of civilians is one of the most ugly and appalling in Syrian conflict,"

Trucks with food, medical reached Madaya from Lebanese border and began distribution of aid as an agreement between warring sides brokered, the United Nations-UN and Red Cross Society said. A U.N. spokesperson told, aid trucks are also en route to Shi'ite hamlets of Kefraya and al Foua in the north-western Idlib province, two more areas where people desperately need humanitarian assistance.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power expressed in strong words about situation in Madaya, heavily slamming the "grotesque and ruthless starve or surrender tactics the Bashar Al Assad's Syrian regime applying against its own Syrian people."

North Korea Hydrogen Bomb Test triggered 5.2 magnitude Earthquake

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North Korea says it conducts successful test of hydrogen bomb

SEOUL (South Korea): North Korea said on Wednesday it has conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would put Pyongyang a big step closer toward improving its still-limited nuclear arsenal.

A television anchor read a typically propaganda-heavy statement on state TV that said North Korea has tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, elevating the country's "nuclear might to the next level" and providing it with a weapon to defend against the United States and its other enemies.

The statement said the test was a "perfect success".

"The latest test, completely based on our technology and our manpower, confirmed that our newly-developed technological resources are accurate and scientifically demonstrated the impact of our miniaturised H-bomb," the TV announcer said.

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North Korea says it will continue to strengthen nuclear programme

The surprise test was personally ordered by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and came just two days before his birthday.

The test, if confirmed by outside experts, will lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations and further worsen already abysmal relations between Pyongyang and its neighbors.

North Korean nuclear tests worry Washington and others because each new blast is seen as pushing North Korea's scientists and engineers closer to their goal of an arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States.

While a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful than an atomic bomb, it is also much harder to make. In a hydrogen bomb, radiation from a nuclear fission explosion sets off a fusion reaction responsible for a powerful blast and radioactivity.

North Korea is thought to have a handful of rudimentary nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to perfect a multistage, long-range missile to eventually carry smaller versions of those bombs. After several failures, it put its first satellite into space with a long-range rocket launched in December 2012.

Experts say that ballistic missiles and rockets in satellite launches share similar bodies, engines and other technology. The UN called the 2012 launch a banned test of ballistic missile technology.

Some analysts say the North hasn't likely achieved the technology needed to manufacture a miniaturized warhead that could fit on a long-range missile capable of hitting the US. But there is a growing debate on just how far the North has advanced in its secretive nuclear and missile programs.

In the first indication of a possible test, the US Geological Survey measured an earthquake Wednesday morning with a magnitude of 5.1. An official from the Korea Metrological Administration, South Korea's weather agency, said the agency believed the earthquake was caused artificially based on an analysis of the seismic waves and because it originated 49 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kilju, the northeastern area where North Korea's main nuclear test site is located. The country conducted all three previous atomic detonations there.

The test is a surprise, both in its purported type and its timing.

North Korea hadn't conducted an atomic explosion since early 2013, and leader Kim Jong Un did not mention the country's nuclear weapons in his New Year's speech. Outside analysts speculated that Kim was worried about deteriorating ties with China, the North's last major ally, which has shown signs of greater frustration at provocations and a possible willingness to allow strong UN sanctions.

The size of Wednesday's quake is bigger than seismic activity reported in previous atomic bomb tests. Yonhap news agency reported that quake monitoring agencies detected magnitudes of seismic activity of 3.7 in 2006; 4.5 in 2009 and 4.9 in 2013.

After the North's third atomic test, in February 2013, Pyongyang launched a campaign of bellicose rhetoric that included threats to launch a nuclear attack on the United States and Seoul. North Korea claimed in 2013 that it had scrapped the 1953 armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War. Pyongyang has also restarted a plutonium nuclear reactor shuttered after a 2007 nuclear deal that later fell apart.

Since the elevation of young leader Kim Jong Un in 2011, North Korea has ramped up angry rhetoric against the leaders of allies Washington and Seoul and the US-South Korean annual military drills it considers invasion preparation

Sweden, Denmark add Border Checks to Stop Migrants, Schengen Agreement e...

http://www.newsbharati.com/ Sweden, Denmark add Border Checks to Stop Migrants, Schengen Agreement ended?

Sweden and Denmark Add Border Checks to Stem Flow of Migrants The continued flow of people along Europe’s migration trail, from Turkey and Greece to the Balkans to Scandinavia, faced new impediments on Monday as two of the northernmost destinations further tightened border controls in response to political, economic and logistical pressures. Sweden, once one of the most welcoming of nations for refugees, introduced new identity checks on Monday for travelers arriving from Denmark. Fearful that migrants who otherwise would pass through on their way to Sweden would now be unable to leave, Denmark swiftly moved to impose new controls on people traveling via its border with Germany. The moves by the two Scandinavian countries represented another step in the erosion of the ideal of borderless travel across most of the European Union, amid rising concerns about the costs imposed by the tide of migration and fears that terrorists are seeking to enter Europe masquerading as refugees. In recent months, Scandinavian countries, like other countries in Europe, have expressed increasing concern about the scale of the influx of migrants seeking to reach prosperous Northern European countries known for their generous welfare systems and for relatively welcoming attitudes. The arrival of migrants — roughly one million reached Germany last year alone, though a significant minority were from other parts of Europe rather than from Syria, Iraq and other conflict-ridden nations — has gradually led European countries from south to north to seek to stem the tide. Hungary built a razor-wire fence along its border to keep migrants out. Denmark has cut benefits to new arrivals by about 50 percent and has introduced tough language requirements for those seeking permanent residency. Finland has issued news releases in Arabic detailing additional restrictions, apparently with the aim of warning would-be asylum seekers that the country is not a paradise. Under the temporary border controls introduced Monday in Sweden, travelers to Sweden from Denmark will have to show valid identification with a photograph, like a passport, for the first time in more than half a century. The move raised the prospect of continuing delays in travel between the two nations, especially on the Danish side of the Oresund Bridge, a major link between Copenhagen, the Danish capital, and Malmo in southern Sweden, a popular gateway for migrants seeking to enter Sweden. The new border controls in Sweden are likely to present a hurdle to thousands of would-be asylum seekers, many of whom lack official documents. (The Oresund Bridge has also gained a foothold in popular culture, being at the center of the hit Scandinavian crime television series “The Bridge,” which starts with detectives from the two countries teaming up to investigate the murder of a woman whose body is found on the structure.) Continue reading the main story RELATED IN OPINION Op-Ed Contributor: Sweden's Self-Inflicted NightmareNOV. 13, 2015 Travel between Denmark and Germany has not required a passport since 2001 under the Schengen Agreement, which permits borderless movement across much of the European Union. The system has already been teetering in recent months as even its staunchest supporters such as Germany have erected temporary controls. German officials, while generally refraining from specific remarks about the Danish decision, expressed concern about the future of passport-free travel across Europe. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Johannes Dimroth, said the effect on migration north from Germany would “have to be watched very carefully.” Martin Schaefer, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said freedom of movement within the European Union was “perhaps one of the greatest achievements in the last 60 years.” He acknowledged, however, that the influx of migrants was putting enormous strains on the system.

Donald Trump first TV Ad Greatest Hits of His Campaign

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Donald Trump's first TV ad is a greatest hits of his campaign's most controversial ideas

Donald Trump has managed to lead the Republican presidential race for months without running a single television ad. Now, with a few weeks left before the Iowa caucuses (where Trump is polling slightly behind Sen. Ted Cruz), he's finally taking to the airwaves — spending $2 million a week on TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire. And this is his first ad:





The ad's script, as transcribed by CBS News:



TRUMP: I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message.



ANNOUNCER: The politicians can pretend it's something else, but Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism. That's why he's calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until we can figure out what's going on. He'll quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil. And he'll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our Southern border that Mexico will pay for.



TRUMP at rally: We will make America great again.



This is basically a "greatest hits" of the Trump proposals that have drawn the biggest outcries — not just from liberals and the media but from the Republican establishment. Trump's promise to "make Mexico pay for the wall" has been mocked by Jeb Bush; his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States was condemned not just by Bush but by Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio, at last month's Republican debate.



Trump's campaign appears to believe that this is what Republican voters really love about their candidate: that he's willing to do things in the name of protecting America that even other Republicans think go too far. This has been part of the Trump campaign from the beginning. But there were certainly other themes the campaign could have drawn on in its first ad to depict Trump as the truly independent candidate: talking about his success as a businessman, or hyping up his independence from wealthy donors or special interests. It's certainly worth noting that the campaign gravitated to the things that people who aren't Donald Trump fans are most likely to find offensive.



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Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr- Reasons Behind His Execution

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Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Saudi Arabia executes top Shia cleric

Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said.

He was among 47 people put to death after being convicted of terrorism offences, it said in a statement.

Sheikh Nimr was a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that erupted in Eastern Province in 2011, where a Shia majority have long complained of marginalisation.

Shia-led Iran said Saudi Arabia would pay a "high price" for the execution.

A foreign ministry spokesman said Riyadh "supports terrorists... while executing and suppressing critics inside the country".

Iranian state TV reported that the Saudi charge d'affaires in Iran had been summoned to the foreign ministry.

Iran is the main regional rival of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia.

At least one protest march was held in Qatif, in Eastern Province, where security has been raised.

Protesters shouted the slogans "The people want the fall of the regime", and "Down with the al-Saud family", reminiscent of the 2011 protests.

The BBC understands that among those executed was a man convicted of shooting dead a freelance cameraman on an assignment for the BBC, Simon Cumbers, in 2004.

Adel al-Dubayti was sentenced in November 2014 for his role in multiple al-Qaeda attacks including the one in the capital Riyadh in which Cumbers was killed and which also left reporter Frank Gardner critically injured.

Adel Saad Al-DubaityImage copyrightAl Arabiya

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Adel Al-Dubayti, who was convicted over the death of a BBC cameraman, was among those put to death

The executions were carried out simultaneously in 12 locations across Saudi Arabia.

Those also put to death include Sunnis convicted of involvement in al-Qaeda-linked terror attacks in 2003. Of the 47 executed, one was a Chadian national while another was Egyptian. The rest are Saudis.

Saudi Arabia's top cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, defended the executions, calling them a "mercy to the prisoners" as it would prevent them committing more crimes, Associated Press reported.

Analysis: BBC World Service Middle East regional editor Alan Johnston

As they moved in to arrest Sheikh Nimr, the Saudis were well aware that this was a case that would cause ructions.

Here was a prominent, outspoken cleric who articulated the feelings of those in the country's Shia minority who feel marginalised and discriminated against. This was a figure active on the sensitive Sunni-Shia sectarian fault line that creates tension in the Kingdom and far beyond.

As the Shia power in the region, Iran takes huge interest in the affairs of Shia minorities in the Middle East. And it was inevitable that Tehran and Riyadh would clash over the treatment of Sheikh Nimr.

The Iranians had warned that the death sentence handed to him should not be carried out. But one of the principal concerns of the Saudis is what they see as the growing influence of Iran in places like Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. So perhaps it is not so surprising that they were not going to be swayed by Iranian pressure in this most sensitive case in their own backyard.

The international rights group Reprieve called the executions "appalling", saying at least four of those killed, including Sheikh Nimr, were put to death for offences related to political protest.

Protests broke out in early 2011 in the oil-rich Eastern Province in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Sheikh Nimr's arrest in the following year, during which he was shot, triggered days of protests in which three people were killed.

Who was Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr?

A Yemeni protester holds a picture of Sheikh Nimr in 2014Image copyrightAFP

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News of Sheikh Nimr's execution prompted an angry response from Shia authorities

In his 50s when he was executed, he has been a persistent critic of Saudi Arabia's Sunni royal family

Arrested several times over the past decade, alleging he was beaten by Saudi secret police during one detention

Met US officials in 2008, Wikileaks revealed, seeking to distance himself from anti-American and pro-Iranian statements

Emerged as a figurehead in the protests that began in 2011 inspired by the Arab Spring

Said to have a particularly strong following among Saudi Shia youth

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Figurehead Shia cleric

His death sentence was confirmed in October 2014, with his family saying he had been found guilty among other charges of seeking "foreign meddling" in the kingdom.

Sheikh Nimr's supporters say he advocated only peaceful demonstrations and eschewed all violent opposition to the government.

The cleric's nephew, Ali al-Nimr, who was 17 when he was arrested following the demonstrations and also faces execution, was not listed as one of those killed.

His brother, Mohammed al-Nimr, said he hoped any reaction to the execution would be peaceful.

Pathankot Attack Planned by Pakistani Army Headquarters?

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Pathankot operation was planned by Pakistan army headquarters?

he Pathankot attack may have been masterminded by the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, as per an assessment by a section of the top Indian security establishment.

According to a senior intelligence official, the Pak GHQ is reportedly peeved at the positive reaction of the international community and media to PM Narendra Modi's Lahore diplomacy and Nawaz Sharif's hospitality and feels bypassed after the "fait accompli".

Though there were suggestions that the Pakistan army had backed the recent peace outreach, this narrative disagrees and feels ISI too is of the view that Modi's surprise visit to Lahore created a favourable civil society sentiment in Pakistan towards the civilian 'pro-peace' regime.

The Pakistan Army and ISI, this time around, kept aside their preferred agent Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the 2008 26/11 strikes on Mumbai, and chose Jaish-e-Mohammed, an ISI asset less in the news, to hit Pathankot. This, they felt, would ensure more deniability. Headed by Maulana Masood Azhar, one of three terrorists swapped to end the IC-814 hostage crisis of 1999, Jaish is being resurrected over the past few years.

The Pathankot attackers were part of the Bahawalpur group of Jaish and spoke in Multani dialect, common to south Punjab, during phone calls with their Pakistan-based masterminds. Four calls were made in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, three to terrorists' Pakistan-based Jaish handlers and one to a family member of a fidayeen. The calls were intercepted by the agencies.

While one of the fidayeen has been identified as Nasir, the two handlers who were heard instructing the attackers to blow up aircraft at Pathankot airbase were called Maulana Ashfaq and Haji Abdul Shaqur. In 2008, the 10-member LeT attack module, including Kasab, was instructed in a similar way by their handlers from a control room in Karachi.

Sources said the objective of the Pathankot attack was to cause damage to air force base assets and technical assets and kill as many personnel as possible. This, some senior officers of the intelligence establishment feel, was meant to provoke the Indian defence establishment and political opposition to retaliate -- undo India-Pakistan peace dialogue and so scuttle the foreign secretary-level talks less than a fortnight away. This would also help bring back focus on Pakistan military propaganda painting their country a victim of terrorism, facing an aggressive eastern (India) neighbour and an India-influenced Afghanistan.

Indian intelligence agencies managed to get advance information, enabling security forces to coordinate a night-long, timely operation on the ground. The multi-agency operation was coordinated and supervised, with NSA overseeing it through the night. The Jaish terrorists were repulsed and neutralized with no damage to any airforce base assets & minimal casualties.

The thwarted attack will serve as a snub to the Pakistani side, besides exposing to the world what India is up against, in form of the "deep state within the Pakistan state", said a senior intelligence functionary.

No rogue strike, all hands point to Pakistani military he full extent of terrorist operations in Pathankot and the likelihood of Delhi facing a similar threat is leading to mounting suspicion that the suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed strikes could not have been executed without Pakistan's armyintelligence complex being in the loop. The multiple terror groups that work out of Pakistan has made it difficult even for the proverbial "deep state" to keep a tab on all, but India operations remain under the close control and scrutiny of the ISI and the general headquarters. There is the possibility of hold outs and elements in the military who may not be as much "on board" the peace process as the army brass was said to be after the recent meeting between PMs Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif in Lahore. Given the infamous mendaciousness of the Pakistan military, suspected to have harboured Osama Bin Laden — the truth about the attack on Pathankot may never be revealed. Evidence that will come to light in coming days could trace the plot with greater certainty but the possibil ity of rogue elements carrying out the jihadi strikes seems to be shrinking as the number of the terror squad rises and it becomes apparent that this was not a small autonomous group. While the Pakistan army could have ostensibly been in the loop over the peace initiative, a belief system that sees India as the enemy in political and religious terms is hard to jettison. At best, there can be a tactical decision to allow the civilian government more leeway at a particular point in

New Russian Cruise Missiles & Military Buildup Worries US Military Leaders

American Naval Intelligence Report Warns Of New Russian Cruise Missiles as Russian military uild up goes up





Russia is overhauling its navy by expanding deployment of non-nuclear cruise missiles that can hit targets at land and sea by employing supersonic speed and evasive maneuvers, a U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence analysis concluded. The military buildup could "present continuing challenges to U.S. and allied naval forces," the intelligence report noted.



The KALIBR-class missiles that will be installed on vessels such as corvettes, or small warships, are “profoundly changing its ability to deter, threaten or destroy adversary targets,” the U.S. agency, known as ONI, said in a report posted on its website. “With the use of the land attack missile, all platforms have a significant ability to hold distant fixed ground targets at risk using conventional warheads.”



Russia's navy is already known for having the world's quietest submarines. The missiles have ranges of as much as 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles), Bloomberg reported Thursday. “Placing a priority on strategic deterrence and defense, Russia’s recapitalization of its submarine forces began with its strategic ballistic missile submarines,” ONI said. “Construction of general-purpose nuclear and non-nuclear submarines was second in importance.”



The U.S. has taken steps to keep up with Russia's military makeover. Congress' 2015 spending plan includes funding for the Navy to upgrade its ability to detect Russian submarines. The Navy is also exploring the use of an “undersea sensor system” that “addresses emergent real-world threats,” a Defense Department budget document showed.



Relations between the U.S. and Russia have grown increasingly tense in recent years as both sides have worked to bolster global influence in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In September, Russia began conducting airstrikes in Syria, prompting outrage from the U.S. over "indiscriminate attacks" that reportedly have injured or killed hundreds of civilians and displaced more than 100,000 residents. "We've seen a marked and troubling increase in reports of these civilian casualties since Russia commenced its air campaign," a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said this week.

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Fabricated Stories of Iran Arming Houthi rebels in Yemen Were Used to Justify War in Yemen

Peace talks between the Saudi-supported government of Yemen and the Houthi rebels ended in late December without any agreement to end the bombing campaign started by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies with US support last March. The rationale for the Saudi-led war on Houthis in Yemen has been that the Houthis are merely proxies of Iran, and the main alleged evidence for that conclusion is that Iran has been arming the Houthis for years.



The allegation of Iranian arms shipments to the Houthis - an allegation that has often been mentioned in press coverage of the conflict but never proven - was reinforced by a report released last June by a panel of experts created by the UN Security Council: The report concluded that Iran had been shipping arms to the Houthi rebels in Yemen by sea since at least 2009. But an investigation of the two main allegations of such arms shipments made by the Yemeni government and cited by the expert panel shows that they were both crudely constructed ruses.

The government of the Republic of Yemen, then dominated by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, claimed that it had seized a vessel named Mahan 1 in Yemeni territorial waters on October 25, 2009, with a crew of five Iranians, and that it had found weapons onboard the ship. The UN expert panel report repeated the official story that authorities had confiscated the weapons and that the First Instance Court of Sana'a had convicted the crew of the Mahan 1 of smuggling arms from Iran to Yemen.



But diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Yemen released by WikiLeaks in 2010 reveal that, although the ship and crew were indeed Iranian, the story of the arms onboard the ship had been concocted by the government. On October 27, 2009, the US Embassy sent a cable to the State Department noting that the Embassy of Yemen in Washington had issued a press statement announcing the seizure of a "foreign vessel carrying a quantity of arms and other goods...." But another cable dated November 11, 2009, reported that the government had "failed to substantiate its extravagant public claims that an Iranian ship seized off its coast on October 25 was carrying military trainers, weapons and explosives destined for the Houthis."



Furthermore, the cable continued, "sensitive reporting" - an obvious reference to US intelligence reports on the issue - "suggests that the ship was carrying no weapons at all."



A follow-up Embassy cable five days later reported that the government had already begun to revise its story in light of the US knowledge that no arms had been found on board. "The ship was apparently empty when it was seized," according to the cable. "However, echoing a claim by Yemen Ambassador al-Hajj, FM [Foreign Minister Qaairbi told Pol Chief [chief of the US Embassy's political section] on 11/15 the fact that the ship was empty indicated the arms had already been delivered."

President Saleh had hoped to use the Mahan 1 ruse to get the political support of the US for a war to defeat the Houthis, which he was calling "Operation Scorched Earth." But as a December 2009 cable noted, it was well known among Yemeni political observers that the Houthis were awash in modern arms and could obtain all they needed from the huge local arms market or directly from the Yemeni military itself.



Unlike the government's story of the Mahan 1 and its phantom weapons, the official claim that a ship called the Jihan 1, seized on January 23, 2013, had arms onboard was true. But the totality of the evidence shows that the story of an Iranian arms shipment to the Houthis was false.



The ship was stopped in Yemeni waters by a joint patrol of the Yemeni Coast Guard and the US Navy, and an inspection found a cache of weapons and ammunition. The cargo including man-portable surface-to-air missiles, 122-millimeter rockets, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, C-4 plastic explosive blocks and equipment for improvised explosive devices.

Some weeks later, the UN expert panel inspected the weaponry said to have been found on board the Jihan 1 and found labels stuck on ammunition boxes with the legend "Ministry of Sepah" - the former name of the Iranian military logistics ministry. The panel report said the panel had determined that "all available information placed the Islamic Republic of Iran at the centre of the Jihan operation."



But except for those labels, which could have been affixed to the boxes after the government had taken possession of the arms, nothing about the ship or the weapons actually pointed to Iran. All of the crew and the businessmen said to have arranged the shipment were Yemenis, according to the report. And the expert panel cited no evidence that the ship was Iranian or that the weapons were manufactured in Iran.

The case rested on the testimony of the Yemeni crew members of the Jihan 1 - then still in government custody - who said they had sailed from Yemen to the Iranian port of Chabahar, had been taken to another Iranian port and then ferried by small boat to the Jihan 1 sitting off the Iranian coast. But although the panel said it had access to "waypoint data retrieved from Global Positioning System (GPS) devices," it did not cite any such data that supported the crew members' story. In fact, the panel acknowledged that it had "no information regarding the location at which the Jihan was loaded with arms...."



A crucial fact about the cargo, moreover, points not to Iran but to Yemen itself as the origin of the ship: The weapons on the ship were hidden under diesel fuel tanks and could be accessed only after those tanks had been emptied. The expert panel referred to that fact but failed to discuss its significance. But the June 2013 report of a UN Security Council Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said that Jihan 1's crew members had "divulged to a diplomatic source who interviewed them in Aden that the diesel was bound for Somalia." An unnamed Yemeni official confirmed that fact, which the crew members had kept from the Security Council expert panel, according to the UN Monitoring Group report.



The fact that the Jihan 1 was headed for Somalia indicates that the ship was engaged in a commercial smuggling operation - not a politically motivated delivery. The lucrative business of smuggling diesel fuel from Yemen to Somalia had long been combined with arms smuggling to the same country across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, as the Monitoring Group report made clear. The Monitoring Group report explained that the reason authorities in the Puntland region of Somalia had made it illegal to import petroleum products was that arms had so often been smuggled into ports on its coast hidden under diesel fuel.



The same UN Monitoring Group report also revealed that a series of arms shipments had been smuggled to Somalia in late 2012 - just before the Jihan 1 was seized - in which rocket-propelled grenade launchers were the primary component and IED components and electrical detonators were also prominent. Those were also major components of the Jihan 1 weapons shipment. The report said information received from the Puntland authorities and its own investigation had "established Yemen as a principal source of the these shipments."



A key piece of evidence confirming that those arms had originated in Yemen was a communication from the Bulgarian government to the UN Monitoring Group indicating that all the rocket-propelled grenade rounds and propellant charges in one lot manufactured in Bulgaria and seized in Somalia had been delivered to the Yemeni armed forces in 2010.



The information in the Monitoring Group report thus points to Yemeni arms smugglers as the source of the cargo of weapons and diesel fuel aboard the Jihan 1. When the arms were seized by the joint US-Yemen patrol, the Yemeni government evidently decided to exploit it by creating a new story of an Iranian arms shipment to the Houthis, and later used the Yemeni crew to provide the details to the UN expert panel.



The Somalia,Eritrea Monitoring Group's report created an obvious problem for the official story of the Jihan 1, and the Yemeni government's anti-Iran, Western backers sought to give the story a new twist. Reuters quoted a "Western diplomat" as citing the Jihan 1 arms shipment as evidence that Iran had actually been involved in supplying arms to al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia. The anonymous source noted that the cargo had included C-4 explosives such as were used by al-Shabaab for terrorist bombings, whereas the Houthis were not known to carry out such operations. But that claim was hardly credible, because al-Shabaab had close ties to al-Qaeda and was therefore an enemy of Iran. It has not been repeated except in pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli media outlets.



The Jihan 1 story and the broader narrative of intercepted Iranian arms shipments to the Houthis, as recycled by the UN Security Council expert panel, have nevertheless become key pieces of the widely accepted history of the regional conflicts involving Iran.