Current news VS Current opinions (part ll)

Manchester is the most multi culture city in Britain what is this going to do with race relations it will have set racism back years people living together in relative peace? now the lid is ready to come of this country and when it starts there is a lot of built up hate going to come out the ****** council of Britain could and should do a lot more they are standing in the wings well they cant now they should be warned to do more or ban the religion from our shores as said before go after the backers wars cost money? Mr Henning's died helping the needy now we the peaceful people of the earth are the needy the need to wipe the planet of this cancer that is isis and all countries should join in to help not just a few

lets make no mistake if these people{that's if you can call them people} ever got their hands on nuclear weapons they would use them it is a faction that the world cannot let it grow if we want to see peace throughout the world at any cost the rules of war must be Brocken this is not scare mongering these are just a gang of murdering thugs hiding behind some book the time now is more dangerous then Hitler invading Poland starting the world war? it is a world war not between countries but plain good against evil? this is just my view send everything that can fly sail or drive by every country that wants a peaceful world and soldiers from every country not just a few and don't stop until isis is wiped of the face of the earth no mercy or quarter given by any means at all and even with weapons thought to have been banned.. jp

I found this article on my computer,
cheers
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.Allah or the Lord Jesus Christ.

The ****** religion is the fastest growing religion in the UK.

Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for maintaining my prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and ****** faiths, who explained each of their beliefs.
I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Imam gave a great presentation of the basics of *****, complete with a video.
After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers.
When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Imam and asked: Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of ***** have declared a holy jihad (holy war) against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all ******s) they are assured of a place in Heaven. If that’s the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?
There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, Non-believers!
I responded, So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in Heaven. Is that correct?
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to one of confusion. He sheepishly replied, Yes.
I then stated, Well, sir I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope Benedict commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith Dr Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in Heaven!
The Imam was speechless!
I continued, I also have a problem with being your friend, when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question. Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to Heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to Heaven and he wants you to be there with me?
You could have heard a pin drop as Imam hung his head in shame.
Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the Diversification training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam and exposing the truth about the ******s beliefs.
In twenty years there will be enough ****** voters in the UK. To elect a government of their choice, complete with Sharia law.
I think everyone in the UK. should be required to read this, but with the Liberal justice system, Liberal media and political correctness madness, there is no way this will be widely publicized.

A guy called Ricky.

Oct 4, 10:32 AM (ET) London. My way news.

By JON GAMBRELL and SHAWN POGATCHNIK [Photographs and maps edited by Rodney]


CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as ******s worldwide were urged to pray for the victim on one of *****'s holiest days.

Cameron, speaking after a security briefing at his rural retreat Chequers, said Friday's slaying of 47-year-old English aid worker Alan Henning demonstrated that Islamic State militants were committed to inflicting horror for horror's sake.

Asked whether he believed Islamic State fighters would kill more hostages, Cameron said they would have to be hunted down to be stopped. He declined to say whether Britain would extend its involvement in U.S.-led airstrikes on the Islamic State group to Syria, where the hostage killings are believed to have happened.

"The fact that this was a kind, gentle, compassionate and caring man who had simply gone to help others, the fact they could murder him in the way they did, shows what we are dealing with," Cameron said. "This is going to be our struggle now. ... We must do everything we can to defeat this organization.

Henning, a taxi driver from the town of Eccles in northwest England, was abducted minutes after his aid convoy entered Syria on Dec. 26. He was the fourth Western hostage to be killed by Islamic State since mid-August, following two American journalists and another British aid worker. In their latest video, Henning's killers linked their action to a vote Sept. 26 in British Parliament to deploy the Royal Air Force against Islamic State positions in Iraq, but not Syria.

Henning's widow, Barbara, said the family was devastated at the loss of a "decent, caring human being" and that they were proud of the work he did in helping others.

"There are few words to describe how we feel at this moment ... all of Alan's family and friends are numb with grief," she said in a statement through Britain's Foreign Office.

****** leaders across Britain urged worshippers worldwide to pray for Henning and peace in the Middle East as they gathered at mosques to celebrate Eid al-Adha, *****'s annual "festival of sacrifice."

"Millions should be praying today for Alan Henning, a good and honorable man," said ****** peace activist Shaukat Warraich, speaking outside a mosque in the central English city of Birmingham.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry denounced what it called a "barbaric and savage act that fully contradicts Islamic religion tenets and the simplest human and ethical rules."

Britain's former army chief of staff, Gen. Richard Dannatt, called for British air power to be deployed in Syria as well as Iraq, but not for Western ground forces. "This is a fight for the soul of *****. This is their fight," Dannatt said, pointing to Jordan and Turkey as countries which need "to get stuck into this fight."

Farooq Siddique, former leader of a British government initiative to combat extremism, said Western involvement plays into the extremists' hands. "Saudi Arabia has 700 jets. They are using only 10 of them. Why do they need the West to go and help them?" Siddique said.

The video mirrored other beheading videos shot by the Islamic State group, and ended with a militant threatening a 26-year-old American hostage, Peter Kassig.

"Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment of Sham (Syria), which keeps on striking our people, so it is only right that we continue to strike the necks of your people," the masked militant in the video said.

National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden confirmed that Islamic State militants had Kassig.

"We will continue to use every tool at our disposal — military, diplomatic, law enforcement and intelligence — to try to bring Peter home to his family," Hayden said.

This is the fourth such video released by the Islamic State group. Previous victims were American reporter James Foley, American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines.

FBI Director James Comey says American officials believe they know the identity of the masked militant, who speaks in a London accent. Comey has declined to name the man or reveal his nationality.

According to his military record, Kassig enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2004, served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, a special operations unit, was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and medically discharged later that year at the rank of private first class.

His parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, called for the world to pray for their son.

They said Kassig had been working for the relief organization he founded, Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, when he was captured a year ago on his way to Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria. He converted to ***** while in captivity and the family has heard from former hostages that his faith has provided him comfort.

The Islamic State group has its roots in al-Qaida's Iraqi affiliate but was expelled from the global terror network over its brutal tactics and refusal to obey orders to confine its activities to Iraq. It grew more extreme and powerful amid the 3-year civil war in Syria, launching a lightning offensive this summer that captured territory in both countries.

Islamic State militants may hold many more hostages. On Friday, the father of John Cantlie, a British photojournalist held by the group, appealed for his release in a video, describing his son as a friend of Syria.



Washington. A.P. Oct. 4, 2014 My way news. [Photographs and maps edited by Rodney]

By LARA JAKES

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Islamic State militants rampaged across Syria and Iraq, seizing cities, taking hostages and terrorizing all who dared to confront them.

The tide began to turn in mid-August, when U.S. airstrikes pushed them from key Iraqi battlegrounds. Then, on Aug. 19, the group released a video that showed the beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley.

The pattern continued.

Within days of a military defeat, the group would release images of more beheadings — at least nine over six weeks — of Western journalists, aid workers and ****** soldiers.

(AP) This undated family handout photo shows British man Alan Henning, who was held...


The tactic signals that even as the Islamic State group suffers battlefield losses, it is holding on to its edge in the propaganda war. U.S. officials say that's the only way the militants can continue to maintain support and attract new recruits.

On Friday, the Islamic State group released a new video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning after nearly two straight weeks of daily airstrikes against their fighters.

"Certainly since the bombing campaign, the reverses, they're no longer boasting of taking places — because they're not taking places. They're losing places," Alberto Fernandez, who heads the State Department's office for counterterrorism propaganda, said in a recent interview. "So what do they do? They boast about cutting people's heads off. They're trying to substitute that for military victory."

That may be some propaganda by the U.S itself. But the trend still is frightening, considering the Islamic State group is holding what U.S. intelligence officials believe are as many as 20 hostages, including at least two Americans.

This past week, the militants suffered a series of setbacks, with U.S. and allied airstrikes Friday hitting Syrian oil refineries and a training camp. Earlier strikes pushed militants back from some of their positions in Iraq.

But the Islamic State group this past week also besieged the Iraqi town of Hit and ambushed an Iraqi army unit north of Ramadi, kept its tight grip on Fallujah, and closed in on the Syrian town of Kobani.

In the video of Henning's beheading, a masked militant warns the U.S. that the gruesome attacks on individuals will continue as long as the airstrikes do. He also threatened that an American hostage, identified as Peter Kassig, would be next. "It is only right that we continue to strike the neck of your people," masked militant said.

Violence has been a focal point of Islamic State group propaganda, to show the militants' might and recruit the thousands of foreign fighters who have rushed to join them. When they captured Mosul, Iraq, in June, they beheaded security forces, raped women and terrorized residents into following an extreme form of Islamic law known as Sharia.

But the group had held Western hostages for months and, in some cases, even years. Not until the airstrikes began, weakening the group's momentum, did the extremists start beheading the white Westerners.

In the Foley video, an unidentified fighter warned that American journalist Steven Sotloff would be next if the U.S. campaign did not stop. The airstrikes continued, and Sotloff was beheaded in a video released Sept. 2, two days after the U.S. helped force the Islamic State group from Amirli, Iraq.

From Sept. 7-9, U.S. airstrikes pounded militant positions around Haditha, Iraq. On Sept. 11, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government was considering using air power against the Islamic State group in Syria.

On Sept. 13, the Islamic State group released a video of the beheading of British humanitarian aid worker David Haines. The unidentified killer said Haines was paying the price for Britain's decision to supply weapons to Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and he mentioned the Haditha strikes.

The group has released videos or pictures of beheadings of Kurdish fighters, including several recently captured in clashes near the Syria-Turkey border. All the images came out after the Islamic State group was attacked or suffered setbacks in Kurdish areas in northern Iraq and Syria.

The group "wants to create the impression of victory and demoralize its Kurdish enemies," the Clarion Project, a Washington-based organization that tries to counter Islamic extremism, said in an Aug. 28 alert about the beheading of a Kurdish soldier.

The militants also claim to have beheaded two Lebanese soldiers kidnapped during a raid of the Lebanese border town of Arsal in August. One of victim was a Sunni ******; that's important because it belies Islamic State propaganda that it is creating a religious empire, or caliphate, for faithful Sunnis.

The group is trying to turn some of its tactical defeats into strategic victories.

By highlighting the airstrikes' reported civilian casualties, the militants are trying to rally Syrian Sunnis who have suffered during the civil war. Much of the Islamic State propaganda notes that the United States and the West have not helped Sunnis in Syria or in Iraq, where they were sidelined from power and in some cases targeted by the Shiite government of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

In a Sept. 22 statement, the day after the first U.S. airstrikes on Syria, the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission called on the Islamic State group to release Henning but also urged ****** leaders "not to forget the many innocents who continue to be slaughtered on a daily basis."

Juan Zarate, a deputy national security adviser on counterterrorism to President George W. Bush, said it was "a very difficult balance" for the U.S. and its allies as they weigh the safety of their kidnapped citizens against continued attacks on the militants.

"What you try to do is find ways to accelerate potential releases, or acquisition of where (the hostages) are, and have that as part of your battle plan considerations," Zarate said. "But once you've made the decision to engage the enemy, and they have your citizens, you're taking a risk. And lives are going to be lost."




Oct 4, 11:22 AM (ET)

By KRISTEN GELINEAU My way news [Edited by Rodney]


SYDNEY (AP) — After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world's most perplexing aviation mysteries.

The GO Phoenix, the first of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage far off Australia's west coast, is expected to arrive in the search zone Sunday, though weather could delay its progress. Crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to scour the water for any trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The search has been on hold for months so crews could map the seabed in the search zone, about 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) west of Australia. The 60,000-square kilometer (23,000-square mile) search area lies along what is known as the "seventh arc" — a stretch of ocean where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, based largely on an analysis of transmissions between the plane and a satellite.

Given that the hunt has already been peppered with false alarms — from underwater signals wrongly thought to be from the plane's black boxes to possible debris fields that turned out to be trash — officials are keen to temper expectations.

(AP) In this March 18, 2014 photo, a young Malaysian boy prays, at an event for...
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"We're cautiously optimistic; cautious because of all the technical and other challenges we've got, but optimistic because we're confident in the analysis," said Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the agency leading the search. "But it's just a very big area that we're looking at."

That area was largely unknown to scientists before the mapping process began in May. Two ships have been surveying the seabed using on-board multibeam sonar devices, similar to a fish-finder. The equipment sends out a series of signals that determine the shape and hardness of the terrain below, allowing officials to create three-dimensional maps of the seabed.

Those maps are considered crucial to the search effort because the seafloor is riddled with deep crevasses, mountains and volcanoes, which could prove disastrous to the pricey, delicate search equipment that will be towed just 100 meters (330 feet) above the seabed. Two of the search ships will be using underwater search vessels worth around $1.5 million each.

"You can imagine if you're towing a device close to the seafloor, you want to know if you're about to run into a mountain," said Stuart Minchin, chief of the environmental geoscience division at Geoscience Australia, which has been analyzing the mapping data.

The terrain isn't the only challenge. The area is prone to brutal weather, and is so remote that it takes vessels up to six days to get there from Australia. Water depths are also tricky: They range from 600 meters (2,000 feet) to 6.5 kilometers (4 miles). That's about the deepest the sonar equipment can go, Dolan said.

"In all sorts of ways we're operating towards the limits of the technology that is available," Dolan said.

With the mapping nearly complete, the GO Phoenix, provided by Malaysia's government, will begin hunting in an area considered the likeliest crash site, based on an analysis of satellite data gleaned from the plane's jet engine transmitter and a series of unanswered phone calls officials on the ground made to the plane.

The other two vessels, the Equator and Discovery, provided by Dutch contractor Fugro, are expected to join the hunt later this month.

Malaysia and Australia are each contributing around $60 million to fund the search.





No cheers today in memory of Alan Hennings and the eight Western journalists, aid workers and Mus-lim soldiers that preceded him, Rodney

#1.... Detailed study and all the waffle that goes with it. The problems originated with the governments of the time, and the way British citizens were censored for not wanting to sell their propertys to foreigners. This, past and previous governments have failed dismally in running the country on badly thought out doctrines and putting their own citizens last, this we can see in various walks of life such as most UK industrys of the past. To a normal person and I consider myself normal (mostly) have mosquito doors on house, any flying insects who manage to get over the threshold I spray them, the same should apply to the borders of any country, keep unwanted intruders out, unfortuanetly this should have been adhered to 50 years ago, and not let every Tom Dick and Harry in to make some big headed politian appear a regular guy. Should have had the title of the village idiot. JS

john we are the idiots for letting it happen in the first place but then you are branded as racist ? can't win...jp

Ref. to post 13 and all the fancy words about Sense of Smell and the relationship of the olfatory system and mortality. To put it in laymans terms and words that we all understand, they are referring to wearing brown trousers when in a life threatening position. Or to put in more basic terms one is likely to crap in their pants. All this happens in any case after death as anyone who has witnessed will tell you. However is likely to be more embarassing if do so before expiring. Some call it the sweet smell of death. Others whats that #hitty smell. JS

There was an interesting conversation on radio yesterday about the subject of multiculturalism. The general concensus of opinion was that it does not always work. You can bring people of different countruies into one but unless they are prepared to accept the local laws and integrate then it is nothing but trouble.

As someone much wiser than any slow learning politician once said, you can take a horse to water but you cant make it drink... JS

As said and realized by any person with half a brain, when the conflict started with the breakaway ISIS group in Iraq, air power would be insufficient by itself to break ISIS. Think the powers to be are just realizing this now. I said this war would go on for yonks unless ISIS was taken out by troops on the ground. At the present moment in time Turkey seems loth to enter the affray with ground forces, and I believe you will find this among most Arab nations, they are good at posturing, but killing people they consider their own will always be late in coming forward. Turkey is I beleive is or soon to be a member of the European Union, we can see what sort of ally she will prove to be by her actions in the forthcoming months. At the end of the day if the west wants to win this war it is going to be accomplished by western troops, which is also going to be a costly exercise both in money and more importingly the loss of lives of our own, fighting to save someone elses neck. JS