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U.S. Rejects Turkey's Offer to Release Ransom Pastor, Report Says
At this point the traditional American response is bombardment until the rubble bounces, followed by sending in the Marines. Perhaps this adventure will merit another verse to the Marine hymn...
[AnNahar] President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's administration has rejected The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's offer to condition the release of an American pastor on clearing a top Ottoman Turkish bank of billions of dollars in US fines, media reported Monday.

Washington and Ankara are locked in a bitter feud over the nearly two-year jailing of Andrew Brunson over disputed terror charges, which has triggered a trade row and sent the lira into a tailspin.

In exchange for Brunson's release, and that of other US citizens as well as three Ottoman Turkish nationals working for the US government, Turkey asked Washington to drop a probe into Halkbank, which is facing possible fines for helping Iran evade US sanctions.

But the US said that discussions regarding the fines and other areas of dispute between the two countries were off the table until Brunson was released, a White House official told the Wall Street Journal.

"A real NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
ally wouldn't have tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Brunson in the first place," the unnamed official said.

Trump has said he had doubled the tariffs on aluminum and steel tariffs from Turkey, prompting Ankara to sharply hike tariffs on several US products.

A court has rejected another appeal to free Brunson and Turkey has threatened to respond in kind if Washington imposed further sanctions.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-21
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