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Buhari urges Shiites, Niger Delta militants to embrace peace

December 31, 2016 Agency Report

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Shi’a Community and Niger Delta militants to embrace peace and always abide by the laws of the country.

The president said this in his New Year message to Nigerians issued in Abuja on Saturday.

He reassured that his administration would continue to pursue peace initiatives with aggrieved groups across the country.

Mr. Buhari particularly called on the Niger Delta militants to desist from their destructive activities and come to the negotiating table.

“We will continue to pursue peace initiatives in the Niger Delta, as I again call on our brothers in that region who have taken to violent disruptions of economic infrastructure to come to the negotiating table.

“As for our brothers and sisters of the Shia Community, we urge them too to embrace peace.

“They must accept the laws of the country they live in. They cannot be islands by themselves.

“At the same time, the law enforcement agencies must treat them humanely and according to the rule of law.’’

President Buhari said Nigerians must continue to support and tolerate one another and live together as one.

“These are the attributes that define us and have for years confounded the pessimists who do not believe in our continued existence as a united and indivisible nation.

“We are a remarkable nation that has succeeded in harnessing our multiple diversities for national development.

“We must continue to support and tolerate one another and live together as one.’’ (NAN)

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/219331-buhari-urges-shiites-niger-delta-militants-embrace-peace.html

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Seun:
He called the Shia muslims brothers, wow! He also urged law enforcement agencies to treat them humanely. But he didn't promise to punish the people who killed their brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers and children and friends. Better than expected, but still not good enough.

I thought I was the only one who noticed.

Shia Muslims are "brothers and sisters" of Mr. President. This is a commendable development but too small a gesture and coming late.

prince9851:
As for our brothers and sisters of the Shia Community, we urge them, too, to embrace peace. They must accept the laws of the country they live in. They cannot be islands by themselves. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies must treat them humanely and according to the rule of law.

the above seems to be a drastic shift. Is the statement really made by him?

Shia are now "brothers and sisters".

this is too little and coming too late but however commendable. this should have been said last year during his media chat and it was a mistake for him to have tacitly supported/justified the crackdown that became known as the Zaria Massacre and kept mum all the while while el-rufai was trying hard to provoke chaos in Kaduna and in the north.

this shift will definitely raise several questions. is it caused by the statements issued by the US State Dept., the US and British embassies? is it because the ICC is now actively involved in investigating the Zaria massacre? public and media pressure? pressure by NGOs?

what exactly has changed overnight that Nigerian Shia are now recognized, asked to be treated humanely and called "brothers and sisters" by Mr. President? in a new year message? what is the importance?

or can we say the president was unaware from the beginning of happenings in Zaria? or was kept uninformed? or misinformed? is there a policy reassessment?

time will tell.

prince9851:
As for our brothers and sisters of the Shia Community, we urge them, too, to embrace peace. They must accept the laws of the country they live in. They cannot be islands by themselves. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies must treat them humanely and according to the rule of law.

the above seems to be a drastic shift. Is the statement really made by him?

Shia are now "brothers and sisters".

this is too little and coming too late but however commendable. this should have been said last year during his media chat and it was a mistake for him to have tacitly supported/justified the crackdown that became known as the Zaria Massacre and kept mum all the while while el-rufai was trying hard to provoke chaos in Kaduna and in the north.

this shift will definitely raise several questions. is it caused by the statements issued by the US State Dept., the US and British embassies? is it because the ICC is now actively involved in investigating the Zaria massacre? public and media pressure? pressure by NGOs?

what exactly has changed overnight that Nigerian Shia are now recognized, asked to be treated humanely and called "brothers and sisters" by Mr. President? in a new year message? what is the importance?

or can we say the president was unaware from the beginning of happenings in Zaria? or was kept uninformed? or misinformed? is there a policy reassessment?

time will tell.

Seun Lalasticlala please FP.

Stalwert:
It is necessary because a liar who goes around pretending to be several things to deceive people, his words should have no value to any honest individual but it seems like gold to you. And sir prove to me you are did not sound dull by telling me how any grownup adult will believe anything thrown to him by a bias person that defends asad murder of civilians in Alepo and comes and cry when a group recieve same treatment here. In otherwords what compelling evidence did he provide to prove I am one and the same with friendchioce?

amazing how you appeared on this thread once your name got mentioned!!!

since you are not so smart, you should know there is a big difference between Aleppo and Zaria. not the same at all. in Syria there is a war. in Nigeria, no war. in such war situations, civilians get killed by both sides. but one thing is sure, Assad does not go about killing Syrians because of what they believe in or because of the religion they belong to. the people who kill civilians because of their beliefs are those you defend and they are the Wahhabi takfiri terrorists in Syria. takfir is the same reason you do not sympathize with the victims of the Zaria massacre. that is the miscarriage of humanity in your spirit that Wahhabism has inflicted the human race with. your Wahhabi heroes in Syria they kill Shia, Christians, Yazidis, Sunni Kurds only because of their beliefs and ethnicity. Assad ruled his people for 11 years before the war which is foreign sponsored and not once did he massacre Sunnis. to this day, his army is made up of Sunnis and also his government. his wife is Sunni for goodness sake!!! are you more Sunni than her? well, may be you are more Wahhabi than her but definitely not more Sunni than her.

and please stop guessing my religion. my religion is HUMANITY. i do not care about Shia beliefs, Sunni beliefs, Christian beliefs or whatever beliefs when it comes to the sanctity of life. i care about human lives. i also do not judge good and evil based on which religion the perpetrators come from or which religion the victims are from. so you can call me whatever name. it is obvious you and your likes hold discussions based on stereotypes and judge people based on your preconceived notions and based on the religion they identify with. i do not identify with any religion. again for emphasis, my religion is HUMANITY and my belief is NIGERIA. if that is not enough, you can hang yourself.

nature2abdul:
Oh, sorry please. I was mistaking you for those guys supporting ISIS against Asad in one of the threads. I just checked and didn't find you there.
On the general demolition exercise; my people used to say 'it is what entered the hole that warrant asking for hoe to dig it out '. The demolition even if it was right was ill-timed.

Please do not be sorry. you are very right. he is the same person with the other usernames- Stalwert, and Vedaxcool.

his trademark is cancelling other people's posts while quoting them. check his post on the first page where he quoted you.

FriendChoice:
That's the advantage Iran has taken in pushing it agenda. Hezbollah is form by Iran. Hezbollah will listen to Iran. Indirectly Iran is ruling Lebanon. IMN are created by Iran. Why should we be fooled.

You can't say hezbollah was formed by Iran when its founders are Lebanese nationals. Likewise IMN. Likewise you can't say Izala is formed by Saudis or the Catholic archdiocese is formed by Italy or the Vatican or the Anglican Church was formed in Nigeria by the queen. Religious patronage of the spiritual home or power is true for every group. None of these religions are indigenous. That doesn't discredit the fact they are citizens. Else we should only identify with traditional religions. Let's go back to our roots.

FriendChoice:
It's not the same. Yusuf leader of Boko Haram was appointed into Borno government, when strip from his position what happen?

Borno JTF are under Nigerian control. Some are even recruited into the army as Nigerian Army not JTF army. Who found JTF in Nigeria? Federal Government unlike in Lebanon it's iran

No.

for iran not to move in to help their coreligionists, the lebanese army should be strengthened and allowed to have the needed weapons to defend its territory. they are not allowed to. they cannot even accept military aid from a willing donor like iran or buy weapons from russia, the same iran helping hezbollah. do you think the lebanese army can come out to form a group to fight an opponent that is stronger internationally? what i am telling you is the geopolitical landscapes in Nigeria and Lebanon are worlds apart.

FriendChoice:
But it prove your point ko? Group created by Iran in another country and the group is now powerful than Lebanon army.

that is why countries banning the sale of weapons to the lebanese army or state armies should allow them to have sophisticated weapons. this same lebanese military you are crying for is in bed with hezbollah. go to their wiki page again, and read how they do not even have an air force and find out why they lack an air force unit. hezbollah in lebanon in fighting israeli occupation is similar to the JTF in bornu fighting boko haram terrorists. they work with the national army.

I have no problem with Christians because most of them don't behave like shites.. They are only on social media to defend them. Again majority of shites don't vote in country like Nigeria. So whether they vote or not, it will not stop El-rufai to win if Kaduna Muslim vote for him

your problem is sectarianism. it is bad.

FriendChoice:
Peacefully is for Burutai to go back from that road? Because someone who is bigger than the constitution is holding a street walk. Am not interested in the Op answers. So that you mentioned, to me and to Nigeria have not been answered. When arrangements for the group to appear before the court is concluded, they will answer the allegations there

you really are not getting it. any civil disturbance they are causing is not justified. no one is saying they should block road. and that even goes for everyone including Christians and Sunnis and traditional worshipers. there are times traditional Yoruba worshipers restrict movement when they are carrying out their rites. they impose curfew on neighborhoods when their masquerades come out at night. do you know that? no one is justifying such disturbances which are civil. all many are saying is that bloodshed is not justified for such offenses.

FriendChoice:
Thank God you prove my point. The government of Lebanon can do nothing without hesboallah. And we will not allow it here in Nigeria by IMN.

it does not prove your point at all. it debunks your scaremongering. if they are part of the government, then how are they doing anything wrong aside from exercising their democratic rights? they contest and win elections. get into parliament and government. you have a chance not to allow it in Nigeria by voting. Nigeria is a democratic and secular state. IMN is neither in government nor parliament, assuming they even have the numbers to reach there, they are still not there. as Nigerian citizens, if they choose to democratically and peacefully use their vote, you cannot do anything about it. Nigeria is not Saudi. let us watch and see how el rufai will return as governor in 2019 without Shia and Christian votes.

there are many differences between lebanon and Nigeria. lebanon is parliamentary, and Nigeria is presidential. lebanon has a sectarian quota system where the different religious groups share power. Nigeria is a secular country where there is no formal power sharing agreement along religious lines.

Iran Contract will not work here

ok...but Saudi (Izala) contract will work, fa?

FriendChoice:
We are not talking of Sharia court here but Nigerian General Law. Concerning parallel government ask people of gyellesu in Zaria of Kaduna State. The law does not apply in gyallesu, even police can do nothing in gyellesu.

Any event you want to hold, whether blocking road or otherwise the authority should know. That Eid you see, Nigerian Police give protection in the street. But you cannot block a major high way for days not minutes without permission.


Shut down primary schools for days because of your event. Do you know primary school students are forced to stay at home during those days because shites are sleeping in their classes. ?

IMN is not even a registered organization. Their shrine in Gyellesu was built illegally with out any evidence of land ownership.

arguments about processions and road blocking have been thoroughly answered by the interviewee in the op.

as for the rest, all those can be well coordinated and planned. those civil disturbances, if they can be termed such, can be sorted out peacefully and without any bloodshed.

FriendChoice:
All those allegations are there. All you listed. Should Burutai agree to them and change his way then what happen in Lebanon will happen in Nigeria.

Shites terrorist group of Lebanon by the name Hezbollah start like this and they are now stronger than the government of Lebanon. Hezbollah has to be contacted before the Lebanese government can take some decisions.

so good, those allegations should be taken to court and proved and let the law take its course.

there is no parallel between hezbollah and the IMN aside being that they both share the same Shia belief. i have posted an analysis before in one of the threads. besides, your scaremongering is awful. hezbollah is not a parallel government in lebanon. it is part of the lebanese government. it has ministers in the lebanese government and members in the lebanese parliament. they are part of the decision making because they are voted for in lebanon elections. hezbollah is a political party. the Shiites in lebanon are majority or the biggest in terms of numbers. voting is a right.

as for its military wing, hezbollah is fighting your isis sunni heroes in syria. hezbollah operations are in sync with the syrian and lebanese armies. they formed a military resistance wing because the lebanese army is under-equipped. the west would not sell them weapons to fight israeli occupation. read the history of hezbollah on wiki. they were formed after israeli tanks rolled into beirut in 1982. we do not have israel as a neighbor in Nigeria. no foreign occupation. we do not have a weak army. there is no need for a resistance unit of IMN or any other movement or political party.

your next argument against Shiites would be the houthis. lets see your arguments.

FriendChoice:
And so. That doesn't mean he should be allowed to run parallel government of contract from Iran.

Gen. Jafaru Isah APC presidential aspirant is Buhari right hand man. Buhari look for his support. But now Buhari dump him because he collected arms cash from Dasuki. With or without zazzaki vote El-rufai will win.

ok. so el rufai only knew about "parallel government" after election?

abeg, we are confused. which allegation is it that justifies killing over 300 people? is it "assassination" or road block, or parallel government, or state within a state, or they are not muslims, or what exactly?

FriendChoice:
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Yeah Assassination of chief of army staff should be allowed. No insult in my post either.

you still believe that allegation? people who were blocking road for a religious procession with their women and children would have been better prepared for an assassination than carrying sticks, stones, catapults, and machetes facing heavily armed soldiers.

so it is no longer road block and disregard for constituted authorities? seem those allegations have well been answered in the interview and the charges dispelled. so you are now going back in time to bring the "weightier" allegation which even the army is no longer talking about after the dust settled and everything became clear for all to see.

Red paint not blood: Photographer nabbed shooting fake images of ‘Aleppo suffering’ in Egypt

Published time: 20 Dec, 2016 18:18

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It was destined to be an iconic image: a small girl holding a teddy bear in a white dress marked by blood splotches with the ruins of Aleppo behind her. However, it was also a set-up, shot hundreds of miles away in a different country, with help of a posing child and some paint.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry has revealed on its Facebook page that it arrested a group of five people caught in the act of producing images purportedly depicting scenes of suffering in Aleppo that they had planned to pass off as real pictures from Syria.

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The ministry said that the residents of Port Said, a city on the Suez Canal, were caught in the middle of their shoot as the 12-year-old star, Ragd, was posing for 21-year-old Mustafa, who told the authorities that he “normally photographed weddings and ceremonies, but had an idea for something else.”

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“In a conversation with them, the suspects revealed that they had shot a series of scenes to be spread on social media, as actual pictures from Aleppo,” said the ministry, which posted a video of the arrest, and interviews with the suspects online.

The stand-in for Aleppo was “the ruins of a house that had been slated for demolition by the authorities some time earlier.” The blood was obtained from a “tin of red paint” that was liberally smeared on the girl, her fake bandages, and her stuffed animal.

The girl herself was known to the photographer beforehand, and came to the session with her mother, the photographer, and three other local men.

Mustafa is being detained in jail for an initial four days, while the others have been set free, and Ragd has been returned to her guardian.

While it is unknown whether Mustafa’s staged photo would have gained social media traction, vivid photographs – some of them fake – have been powerful tools in shaping public opinion since Aleppo was re-captured by Syrian government forces earlier this month.

The most notorious hoax picture, which has been shared thousands of times on Twitter and Facebook, features a girl running through a debris-filled street. The caption reads “Girl running to survive, all her family have been killed. It’s not in Hollywood. This real in Syria.” In fact, the image was cut from a 2014 Lebanese pop video.

Another video, called “Executions have begun in the middle of the street in Aleppo,” which has also been widely shared, depicts supposed government forces allegedly taking out retribution on civilians. In reality, the video dates back from 2012, and contains unverified images.

https://www.rt.com/news/371035-egyptian-photographer-aleppo-fake/

News | Nigeria

Shiites deny plotting terror attacks

By Saxone Akhaine, Northern Bureau Chief | 19 December 2016 | 4:26 am

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The leader of Islamic Movement of nigeria otherwise known as Shi”te, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have faulted a statement credited to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai that the movement was planning to unleash terror on the country.

The movement contended that its tagging as a terrorist group by the state government in a white paper was a ploy to “give the dog a bad name in order to hang it.”

The Islamic group’s spokesman, Mallam Ibrahim Musa, alleged that “in the aftermath of the brutal attack on Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and IMN by the Nigerian government in December last year, frantic steps have been undertaken by state officials and security agencies to portray the movement as violent.

“This is to give retroactive justification to its hostile actions against the IMN. The hallmark of this misnomer was the recent declaration by the Kaduna State governor that the movement is even an insurgent group.”

Musa noted that “this has appeared to garner currency among security agencies in Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Plateau and lately Jigawa states, with officials parroting the ridiculous pronouncement, and some going steps further to insist that IMN should be monitored because it is a violent group.”

He went on: “The maintenance of this false position without basis is an indication that there is a sinister scheme by these government officials to create an insurgency in our name, out of desperation to stamp out the Islamic movement.

“We wish to strongly reject such unjustified tagging of the IMN. For the avoidance of doubts, we would like the world to know that we have never and do not even contemplate taking up arms against anyone. Our leader, El-Zakzaky, has in the over four decades of the existence of the movement taken a non-violent posture, repeatedly saying that guns and other weapons are the tools of the insane.”

Musa added: “In all this time, our weapons have been truth, perseverance, sacrifice and a firm belief that no force or weapon can crush the truth no matter how powerful it appears. That has been the secret of the IMN remaining non-violent throughout the harrowing experience of the Zaria massacre.”

Source: http://guardian.ng/news/shiites-not-plotting-terror-attacks-group-insists/

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Saudi Arabia to 'inoculate' children against westernization, atheism and liberalism

Government programme targets threats to 'ideological security' in schools

Lizzie Dearden Friday 16 December 2016

Saudi Arabia is launching a programme to “inoculate” children against Westernisation, atheism, liberalism and secularism.

They were listed as threats to “ideological security”, ahead of the danger from extremist groups including Isis and al-Qaeda and sectarianism.

The education ministry’s plans were announced in the Makkah newspaper, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) said, sparking a storm of debate and an Arabic hashtag translated as “Liberalism is a dangerous group” on Twitter.

It follows another government project announced in March 2015 to “protect schoolboys and schoolgirls from deviant behaviour” by enforcing religious and moral values.

Saudi critics labelled the latest initiative “danger to security” and a “disaster” for religious freedom and intellectual debate in Saudi Arabia.

“Have you ever heard of a liberal who committed murder? Or of a secularist who blew himself up?” Nadine al-Budair asked on Twitter, while columnists at other Saudi newspapers accused the government of seeking to prevent free thought and prioritising a witch-hunt against “liberals” over the real terror threat from Isis and al-Qaeda.

Saudi Arabia’s constitution enshrines Sunni Islam as the foundation for its governance and law, opening with the clause: “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab Islamic state with Islam as its religion; God's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet, God's prayers and peace be upon him, are its constitution.”

It states that Saudis must be brought up on the basis of Islamic faith and that the state will accordingly strive to maintain the country’s Arab and Islamic values and “protect Islam”.

The constitution stipulates that education will “aim at instilling the Islamic faith in the younger generation” and mould children to be “useful” in society.

Human rights organisations have long raised alarm over Saudi Arabia’s repression of liberal thought with prosecutions and arrests, including the imprisonment and lashing of secular blogger Raif Badawi.

Human Rights Watch’s 2016 world report said the state’s adherence to the fundamentalist Wahhabist branch of Sunni Islam generates wide-ranging constraints on freedom of religion.

It does not tolerate public worship by non-Muslims and systematically discriminates against Islamic religious minorities, including Shias and Ismailis

“Immorality” laws are additionally used to crack down on pro-LGBT, feminist and reformist writing and social media posts, while "blasphemy" is a capital offence.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-islam-inoculate-children-education-against-westernisation-atheism-liberalism-secularism-a7478761.html%3Famp?client=safari

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Aleppo battle: Rebels burn Syria evacuation buses

BBC
55 minutes ago
From the section Middle East

Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria's Idlib province have been burned by rebels.

It has thrown the latest efforts to evacuate besieged areas into doubt.

Pro-government forces say people must be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages of Foah and Kefraya for the evacuation of east Aleppo to restart.

State media said convoys had begun to leave Aleppo on Sunday but other reports said they had turned back.

The initial plan to evacuate the last rebel-held enclaves in the city collapsed on Friday, leaving civilians stranded at various points along the route out without access to food or shelter.

Russia, which backs the government of President Bashar al-Assad, says it will veto a French-drafted resolution to send UN officials to monitor the evacuations in Aleppo. A vote is due at the UN Security Council on Sunday.

Despite delays over the new operation, buses were preparing to evacuate people from both eastern Aleppo and the government-held villages in Idlib province on Sunday.

A number of buses have succeeded in entering Foah and Kefraya, according to the UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). It earlier reported that Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, had been holding them up.

However, six buses were attacked and torched on the way, the SOHR said.

Syrian state media said "armed terrorists" attacked five buses, burned and destroyed them.

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Image caption The burning of buses on the way to Foah and Kefraya has through the evacuation plan into doubt

A reporter for AFP news agency said armed men forced the drivers of the buses to get out before opening fire and setting the vehicles light.

Several reports from opposition sources said Jabhat Fatah al-Sham was responsible. But Hezbollah's al-Manar TV and Beirut-based pro-Syrian government al-Mayadin TV said clashes between jihadist Jabhat Fath al-Sham and the rebel Islamist Ahrar al-Sham had resulted in the blaze.

The jihadist groups have not commented on the attack.

However, the Free Syrian Army, a more moderate rebel faction, condemned it as a "reckless act endangering the lives of nearly 50,000 people" in east Aleppo.

Who are Jabhat Fateh al-Sham?

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Syrian state media said buses entered eastern Aleppo around noon local time, under the supervision of the International Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

Some 1,200 people were due to be taken out of the former rebel enclave in return for a similar number moved out of the two government-held villages, Foah and Kefraya.

Pro-government forces had reportedly demanded that a group of people needing medical treatment also be allowed to leave the two areas.

Reports said a new agreement was reached in the early hours of Sunday but delays meant thousands of civilians remained stranded.

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Some injured children are being treated in a field hospital near Idlib

Among the people waiting to leave eastern Aleppo are sick and wounded children, said the children's charity Unicef.

Some young children have been forced to leave without their parents, the charity said, and hundreds of vulnerable children remain trapped.

"We are extremely concerned about their fate. If these children are not evacuated urgently, they could die."

France has proposed that UN officials should monitor evacuation efforts and report on the protection of civilians. However Russia said it planned to use its veto to block the plan ahead of the vote on Sunday.

Russia's UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said the resolution had "disaster written all over it", adding that Russia had an alternative idea it would put to the Security Council, although he gave no details.

Moscow has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the conflict began in 2011.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38358177?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

Vedaxcool's Wahhabi heroes just (today) burnt green buses intended to evacuate Syrian civilians from two Shia towns besieged by Wahhabi terrorists in Idlib province (Kafraya and Foua) based on the truce in exchange to allow families of terrorists in Aleppo to leave in green buses.

Mr. Vedaxcool, your terrorist heroes do not follow Islamic rules of engagement when they perform takfiri killings. stop pretending as if you are supporting the godfearing side. you are not.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-aleppo-what-is-happening-villages-buses-attacked-and-burned-a7482736.html

"Fourteen US Coalition military officers captured by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo!"

"Thanks to information received, Syrian authorities discovered the headquarters of high ranking western/NATO officers in the basement of an area in East Aleppo and have captured them alive. Some names have already been given to Syrian journalists, myself included. The nationalities are US, French, British, German, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi, Moroccan, Qatari etc. In light of their nationalities and their rank, I assure you that the Syrian government have a very important catch, which should enable them to direct negotiations with the countries that have tried to destroy them."

https://www.sott.net/article/336987-Report-Fourteen-US-Coalition-military-officers-captured-by-Syrian-Special-Forces-in-Aleppo

http://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-at-least-14-us-coalition-military-officers-captured-by-syrian-forces-in-east-aleppo-bunker/5563177

Stalwert:
The common sense many supporters of assad are lacking but this gut pat have:

While I have watched the destruction of Syria, I have to wonder what would have happened if the government had just sat down to hear what the protesters wanted instead of shooting them. Would Syria had been a better country for it? I cannot understand ones government killing their own people just to prove a point. I, like many others will never understand it and just shake our heads in disbelief.

lies!!! the protests were peaceful in some areas and not peaceful in other areas from the start. the terrorists infiltrated the protests and started shooting at syrian soldiers in deraa from the start. and how much protests would justify the resignation of a president? didnt million protest in support of assad in syria? are those pro assad protests not made up of syrians? in fact, when the confusion started, the utter disregard to the fact that millions of syrians support assad, and in a bid to make it look like all syrians hated him is what led to all this bloodshed. if the west and the world would have listen to those millions taking part in pro assad demos in the beginning, they wont have mistaken to support terrorists and ignore the consequences.

Stalwert:
Reminds us what again was your reaction when Iranian backed houthis overthrew the govt in Yemen? Suddenly you forgot obeying authority and supported the same rebellion you hate in Syria. Hypocrisy isn't far from this behavior It is not left for you to pretend or reduce the Syrian struggle against an unjust, corrupt, oppressive leader.

not the same scenario in Yemen. Houthis are a tribal/nationalist movement before they can be recognized with a sectarian identity. they ruled yemen for many decades. they were in power. houthis were part of Hadi's government. Yemen has always been highly militarized. Hadi resigned. he gave up. it was saudi pressure that forced him to rescind his resignation, however illogical and unconstitutional that can be.

in Syria, you have foreign countries pumping weapons to terror groups who kill civilians on sectarian basis (takfiri killings).

stop peddling the lie that the so called revolution was "peaceful" from the start. what start? two days, three days, one week and they took up arms? that was fast, wasnt it? the outside lethal aid came in fast because everything was staged managed from neighboring countries with western intelligence controlling the strings!!!!

it was not peaceful from the start. yes, security made mistakes in one or two places to use force. but it was a matter of few days before terrorists infiltrated the protests and started shooting at soldiers. and dont forget that millions also took to the streets in pro-Assad demos to counter the protests. the fact remains the majority of Syrians back Assad, otherwise he wont have survived. the main opposition to Assad comes from Sunni Arabs who made up roughly 50% of the Syrian population. they are roughly evenly divided between pro and anti- Assad. most of his government ministers, vice president, soldiers and advisers are Sunni Arabs.

heck! even Assad's wife is Sunni Arab!!!

this sectarian disease was never present in secular Syria ruled by the Assad family until the saudi wahhabi disease infiltrated.

Sorry what are the Rules of engagement the prophet pbuh laid down for the ummah, keep hailing your christian heros murdering muslims in Syria but remeber what the prophet pbuh said about killing innocent people during war. It is apparent those who remember to quote hadith to support obeying unconditionally an oppressor but fail to even recall hadith that places preservation of life during war as being important.

see your lying mouth. someone who is opposed to killing of civilians and talks about rules of engagement will never support Wahhabi takfiri terrorists. their job is cowardice. on the battlefield they get beaten. i have seen online many pictures of them dressing like women to save their a$$es. they literally run. but they only know how to blow up civilian populations on pilgrimage in Iraq and Syria, in marketplaces, in mosques/churches because those people are Shia, Alawite, Christians or Yazidi. there is no way those you are cheering and crying for because you hate Assad for sectarian reasons are not killing civilians. they kill civilians deliberately because of their faith and thus they are called takfiri terrorists. that (takfiri killings) is what Assad and his allies do not do. they dont discriminate religion or sectarian wise. you should cover your face in shame.

Stalwert:
When you finally figure out what religion you really practice, is it Christianity or Islam or just a Shia hypocrite who pretends to be everybody else then I might consider you close to sanity.

oh yeah! great reply. you got lost and out of words because the truth slapped your sectarian mouth hard. is the thread about me or Aleppo?

Stalwert:
My brother at some point it seemdd I was the only one concerned. .. Muslims generally feel helpless with some shameless one amongst them egging on the aggressors or those who exceed the bound Allah has set for fighting war. When I saw certain Muslims happily jubilating Russia was killing muslims calling them fighting terrorism I knew some evil has besieged the brains of many. Unfortunately Muslims were not vocal as we should have been because the enemies of Islam have used the deviants to drive. wedge on matters that on any religious level clearly is rejected.
We should offer prayers for brothers in Syria, May Allah avenge their blood and visit upon the transgressors who levelled entire buildings with people in them. amin I remember opening a thread on starving Syrians the same lukewarm attitude was observe. Some people think Russia killing Syrians is for the benefit of Islam that a secularist shia deviant like Assad is serving the interest of Islam that Iran and hezbollah .killing Syrians serves Islam I ask what good is your head when your brain cannot even distinguish that murdering innocent serves no ones interest. May Allah guide the foolish amongst us and destroy the servants of taguts amongst us. amin.

when terrorists took over Aleppo some four years ago with the help of "kuffar" western powers and Wahhabi takfiri terrorists from all corners of the world to fight a legitimate government and "share democracy for free" to Syrian children, you guys did not cry. you praised it as a "revolution". you did not see the government regaining control of its land. you did not cry for the Christians, Shia and Alawites who got butchered and beheaded by extremist Wahhabi Sunni terrorists. you now cry when the government of the land is imposing its right as the "constituted authority" of the land to regain control. what Assad and his allies is doing in Aleppo against terrorists is no different from what Nigeria did in Bornu against Boko Haram Wahhabi terrorists. and your cry for Aleppo is no different than your cry for Boko Haram when a Christian was president of Nigeria fighting Wahhabi terror. you saw him as a Christian fighting "Muslims". whenever the person fighting against terror is not Sunni, you view the terrorists as "innocent Sunni civilians" leading a divine battle. shame on you.

it is called "sovereignty" and the Syrian government has the will to regain every inch of Syrian territory. most of you hypocrites are not crying for civilians. it is a big lie. do you cry for Yemen, where Wahhabi Saudi Arabia is on an indiscriminate bombing campaign to kill Yemeni Shiite civilians out of sectarian hate? do you cry for the yemen population that is starving because of saudi siege? what does saudi has to do with yemen? you only cry about Russia. it is only russian bombs that kill civilians. saudi and american bombs do not, in the mind of a hypocrite Wahhabi!!! those are precision bombs directed by the angels of Allah!!! you also dont cry over Bahrain, in spite of the fact that the population is majority Shia and repressed and oppressed and their revolution has been nothing close to violence in Syria if at all.

lt it is not Assad that is killing civilians for being Sunni or of whatever religion or fairy-tales they believe in. it is your takfiri Wahhabi terrorists who go about killing Shia and Alawites and Christians because of what those people believe in. Takfiri killings is the whole-mark of Wahhabism. you guys are crying because the terrorists got beaten very disgracefully and the entire Sunni world cannot do anything; and even though the entire world (apart from Russian, China, Iran, and hezbollah and their allies) backed them to violently overthrow Assad because Europe needs a gas pipeline from Qatar across Syria into Europe; that would enable Europe be independent of Russian gas supply. and Saudi wants a Sunni puppet ruling Syria, and for the same reason of having a puppet who is pro-Zionist, Israel and the west want Assad out. too bad those dreams have been buried in Aleppo.

as for the civilians, any genuine civilian who got killed by government fire is undeliberate and "collateral damage" and the consequence of a sectarian terror/proxy war imposed on Syria because its leader is not Sunni and because of its polity resisting Israel and allying with Russia and Iran. it is a proxy war in Syria. it is a sectarian and regional war too. dont cry about civilians. the so called rebels hypocrite Vedaxcool CALLING YOURSELF STALWERT cheered for are now beaten. even tbaba joined the sectarian bandwagon to cheer for terrorists. now they are beaten. Allah did not answer your sectarian prayers. He has disappointed you big time. you lost against Jewish Israel every time and now you are losing big time against Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq. Allah does not hear the prayers of takfiris. very sad the takfiris who put Shia civilians in cages and used them as human shields is well documented and reported in the media, if only you dont listen all the time to aljazeera and western media.

Assad ruled Syria for 11 years before the world war on Syria. not once did he touch any Syrian because of his belief or religion. he ruled everyone as a true secularist. that is soemthing not found in the Sunni led arab countries. Syria remains the only secular Arab country in the Middle East. and kudos to Russia for protecting that and fighting terrorism. as sad as the loss of civilian lives is, hypocrites who cheered each time the takfiri terrorists took over cities in Syria have no right to complain.

Silence over Zaria Shiite killings criminal – Sani

By Ismail Mudashir | Publish Date: Dec 16 2015 12:55AM

President Muhammadu Buhari should urgently order full scale investigation into the killings of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria sect in Zaria by the Nigerian Army.
Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) said in a statement yesterday that the attacks on the homes and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, “is nothing but an indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force by the military.

“Silence and neutrality to this amount to nothing but aiding and abetting a clear and undisguised abuse of fundamental human rights,” the senate committee deputy chairman on foreign affairs said.
“It’s absolutely wrong for the members of the group to deny the convoy of the Chief of Army staff the right of passage. However, killings and arson is not the legal, civilized and proportionate response to “road blockage,” he said.

“The Islamic movement and their leader have repeatedly denounced terrorism and insurgency. The Zaria killings was an avoidable tragedy. The use of force must always be the last resort and not the first resort and must be done within the principles of international best practices of rules of engagement,” he said.
“Nigeria is a democratic state, the professional conduct of the apparatus of the state must be done within the ambit of the law and respect for fundamental rights of the citizenry,” he said.

“Any excuse to circumvent human rights, is a step towards tyranny. Northern Nigeria have in the last seven years been neck deep in violence and soaked in blood opening a new front will not augur well for the peace and stability of Nigeria,” the lawmaker said.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/silence-over-zaria-shiite-killings-criminal-sani/124571.html#1OCWrDb3ZffrFkRF.99

CC Seun Lalasticlala

APCHaram:
At least the British and Americans don't send their soldiers on a religious cleansing mission on their own citizens on the behest of Saudi Arabia

Very correct. They treat their citizens like kings and queens even if they worship the devil. But here, you hear statements like "Shiites are not Muslims" to justify killings. So what if they are not Muslims?! In London and America, you find American and British Shia doing their religious processions in London and New York without hindrance.

APCHaram:
When it takes an outsider to remind you of your humanity then you know you are living in a failed state

Well, humanity from the surface, fine. But going by the wars that the British and Americans have fought of recent, they themselves don't have a good record on human rights. The Americans and British think strategically. They think of their interests. They have long been complaining and not selling weapons to Nigeria because of what they say is because of human rights abuses by the Nigerian security. They may have just found use or purpose for the Zaria massacre to employ it and make a statement once and for all that enough is enough. And it all starts with one statement from here and one from there. Time will tell what is the motives of these statements. The USA embassy had previously also made a statement. Then the state department spokesman also released a statement. Now the U.K. high commission. It's undoubtedly getting interesting. Let's keep watching the next statement and by who.

APCHaram:
When the news of this massacre first broke out, Femi Adesina - media spokesman to the buhari govt, described the incidence as a "military affair" that he wasn't authorised to comment on.

That should tell you the orders came directly straight from Aso Rock!

This statement from the British high commission is either loaded with meanings and implications for the presidency or it is an uncalculated statement meant to only blow air for public consumption and for eye service and to be ignored and not taken seriously; in other words hypocrisy.

If the statement at face value is anything to be taken seriously then there are serious implications. Soldiers who took part will explain who ordered them and where the order originated from. Both the governor of kaduna and the president have justified the clampdown and also condemned the IMN to the extent of labeling them "insurgents".

Even if the governnent is to take action against soldiers that took part, I don't see that happening. The clampdown did not stop with the killings between December 12 to 14 of 2015. Several incidents have taken place where more lives have been lost. Recently in Kano during another religious procession. Punishing soldiers who took part in the Zaria massacre would mean an end to the clampdown on Shiites, and particularly the IMN members. For a government still actively taking measures against the group even after the killings and court order calling for Zakzaky's release, I don't think following the advice of the British is in order.

For these reasons, I think the Western governments, in particular the USA and the U.K. have hidden motives and actions they would take over time regarding the Zaria massacre. Time will tell if these statements are serious by the British and Americans on the Zaria massacre. The case is still loading at the ICC. I really don't see how this Zaria massacre will be buried and forgotten. I imagine some heavyweights will be flown to The Hague.

Saudi Arabia to 'inoculate' children against westernization, atheism and liberalism

Government programme targets threats to 'ideological security' in schools

Lizzie Dearden Friday 16 December 2016

Saudi Arabia is launching a programme to “inoculate” children against Westernisation, atheism, liberalism and secularism.

They were listed as threats to “ideological security”, ahead of the danger from extremist groups including Isis and al-Qaeda and sectarianism.

The education ministry’s plans were announced in the Makkah newspaper, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) said, sparking a storm of debate and an Arabic hashtag translated as “Liberalism is a dangerous group” on Twitter.

It follows another government project announced in March 2015 to “protect schoolboys and schoolgirls from deviant behaviour” by enforcing religious and moral values.

Saudi critics labelled the latest initiative “danger to security” and a “disaster” for religious freedom and intellectual debate in Saudi Arabia.

“Have you ever heard of a liberal who committed murder? Or of a secularist who blew himself up?” Nadine al-Budair asked on Twitter, while columnists at other Saudi newspapers accused the government of seeking to prevent free thought and prioritising a witch-hunt against “liberals” over the real terror threat from Isis and al-Qaeda.

Saudi Arabia’s constitution enshrines Sunni Islam as the foundation for its governance and law, opening with the clause: “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab Islamic state with Islam as its religion; God's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet, God's prayers and peace be upon him, are its constitution.”

It states that Saudis must be brought up on the basis of Islamic faith and that the state will accordingly strive to maintain the country’s Arab and Islamic values and “protect Islam”.

The constitution stipulates that education will “aim at instilling the Islamic faith in the younger generation” and mould children to be “useful” in society.

Human rights organisations have long raised alarm over Saudi Arabia’s repression of liberal thought with prosecutions and arrests, including the imprisonment and lashing of secular blogger Raif Badawi.

Human Rights Watch’s 2016 world report said the state’s adherence to the fundamentalist Wahhabist branch of Sunni Islam generates wide-ranging constraints on freedom of religion.

It does not tolerate public worship by non-Muslims and systematically discriminates against Islamic religious minorities, including Shias and Ismailis

“Immorality” laws are additionally used to crack down on pro-LGBT, feminist and reformist writing and social media posts, while "blasphemy" is a capital offence.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-islam-inoculate-children-education-against-westernisation-atheism-liberalism-secularism-a7478761.html%3Famp?client=safari

CC: Seun. If Seun would've taken this wonder Saudi Wahhabi vaccine he won't have been atheist. The Wahhabis in Nigeria should hurry to import this vaccine before we have more atheists like Seun.