[DAWN] Maria Golovnina, the Pakistain and Afghanistan bureau chief of Rooters who was based in Islamabad, was found dead at her office in the capital's F-8 sector, sources in the police told Dawn. Too much polonium in her last chapati.
Golovnina had reportedly gone to the toilet, and had not stepped out for a long time when people who were present barged in.
She was reportedly lying on the floor covered in vomit.
The bureau chief was rushed to Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where she was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim!
Doctors at Pims told Dawn Maria had passed away before she could be brought to the hospital.
The hospital will carry out a post-mortem before handing over the body to Russian authorities.
The cause of Golovnina's death could not be determined immediately and authorities have launched an investigation to ascertain the facts of the case.
Golovnina had been working with as the Rooters bureau chief for Pakistain and Afghanistan for the past year and a half.
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Wonder what she did to piss off Vlad?
Sounds like something pretty nasty was slipped into her tofu salad.
[DAWN] Afghanistan's chief executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said Monday that peace talks with the Taliban could begin in the coming days, though the faceless myrmidons swiftly dismissed the idea.
There have been growing hopes in recent weeks of talks between Kabul and the Taliban aimed at moving towards reconciliation after more than a decade of war.
Since President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. took office in September, relations have markedly improved with Pakistain, which has long held influence with the Taliban, paving the way for possible dialogue.
"Peace talks will inshallah (God willing) start in the next few days, this is in the interest of Afghanistan," Abdullah said during a meeting of the country's Council of Ministers.
Abdullah took the newly-created role of chief executive, similar to prime minister, as part of a deal to end a protracted election crisis with presidential rival Ghani.
"The people of Afghanistan will be informed of the start of these talks, of developments and of when they end. "Abdullah hailed the visit of the army chief General Raheel Sharif to Kabul last week.
"We welcome his statement saying Afghanistan's enemy is Pakistain's enemy," Abdullah said.
"They said to those involved in the fighting, the Taliban, that they have no other option but to talk with the Afghan government. "But the faceless myrmidons denied that talks were about to begin.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has ruled out speculations that he will return as the president of Afghanistan.
In an interview with the DPA news agency and ARD in Kabu, the former Afghanistan's Caped President said he has completed his time and insisted that "We should not get stuck in history. I'm history."
Karzai stepped down as the Afghanistan's Caped President after transferring power to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. on 29th September.
In parts of his remarks Karzai criticized the 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... -led combat mission in Afghanistan and said the mission was a failure which left thousands of epople dead.
He said the insurgency has increased and the world is suffering from growing radicalism particularly from al Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
According to Karzai the NATO and US forces failed to target the roots of terrorism.
Karzai is still believed to an influence in the new government of Afghanistan with reports suggesting that he is meeting President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on regular basis to advise him on key policy issues.
He was one of the main critics of West's war against terrorism and refused to sign the bilateral security agreement between Kabul and Washington and the NATO status of forces agreement despite the draft security pact was approved by majority during a consultative Loya Jirga over a year ago.
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GAROWE, Somalia -- Following a joint press statement that declared Somalia polio free for six months, the north eastern state of Puntland has said it will continue polio vaccination campaigns on Sunday, Garowe Online reports.
Abdirizak Abshir Hirsi, a departmental Director with the Ministry of Health told a news conference in the state capital of Garowe that Puntland welcomes the recent report by United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization.
“Despite huge progress in the fight against the deadly polio virus, we will continue to vaccinate children under the age of five against polio, “said Hirsi.
No mention of whether the Shaboobs are resisting the campaign and common sense. Perhaps they're not as nutty as the Taleban. Perhaps...
Spotlighting, with more than a half million children unvaccinated for over five years, UN agencies revealed that the last case was reported in August 2013 from Mudug region town of Hobyo.
Humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Philippe Lazzarini called the achievement being made in polio front a breakthrough. For the first time in six years, Somalia exhibited the first polio case in May 2013, with the irreversible paralysis subsequently affecting 194 people in 2013 alone.
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[AnNahar] At least 1,000 Egyptians have been evacuated from Libya through Tunisia since Friday, the Tunisian transport ministry said, following the murder of Coptic Christians by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya after the jihadists released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Christians, most of them Egyptian.
Since then Egypt has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who work in Libya to leave and chartered planes to ferry them home from Tunisia.
At least 1,000 Egyptians who fled to Tunisia have been airlifted home since the first flight was set up on Friday, a spokeswoman for the Tunisian transport ministry said.
She told Agence La Belle France-Presse that 250 more Egyptians were expected to leave from the southeastern Djerba-Zarzis airport by 1600 GMT.
A Tunisian customs official said that an unspecified number of Egyptians were also waiting on the Libyan side of the border, hoping to cross the frontier.
In July last year, thousands of Egyptians fleeing violence in Libya were stranded for days at the border with Tunisia, as authorities refused to let them in until Cairo had arranged for their transport home.
Tunisia was flooded by expatriates fleeing Libya during the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... , and struggled to cope with the massive exodus.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Libya's internationally-recognized government plans to exclude Turkish companies from contracts, a cabinet statement has said, effectively banning them from the oil producer, as Rooters reported today.
The government of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni gave no reason for the move but has in the past accused Turkey of receiving officials from a rival government controlling western Libya.
Al-Thinni and the allied-elected parliament have been confined to a rump state in the east since an gang called Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... seized the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , reinstated a previous assembly and set up a rival administration.
"The council of ministers ... decided to review all contracts with foreign companies in all areas and exclude Turkish firms from operating in Libya," the statement posted late on Feb. 22 on the cabinet website said.
A Turkish official told Rooters the government was evaluating the situation in the North African state, where Turkish businesses have traditionally had a strong presence.
Last week, al-Thinni warned Turkey of possible measures which could be taken against Turkish companies due to what he described as Turkish "interference" in Libya's affairs.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... has extended the national emergency for Libya for a period of one year, Rooters news agency reported on Monday.
The agency said Obama sent a formal letter to Congress on Monday extending a national emergency for Libya for a year because of the conflict over power and access to the country's resources.
"The situation in Libya continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," Obama said in his letter to Congress.
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So Obastard thinks that he's king of the world and can declare emergencies anywhere. OMG the hubris is strong with this one.
"The situation in Libya continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy pristine legacy of the United StatesME, ME, ME,"
[AnNahar] Egypt shut its embassy in Sanaa and recalled all its staff Monday due to deteriorating security, state media said, joining a diplomatic exodus since Shiite militia seized the Yemeni capital.
Long on the front line of the US war against Al-Qaeda, Yemen has descended into chaos since the Shiite Huthi militia swept into Sanaa from their mountainous northern stronghold last year.
"The Egyptian diplomatic mission in Sanaa headed by Ambassador Youssef al-Sharqawi returned to Cairo on Monday due to the bad security situation in Yemen," the official MENA news agency reported. "The Egyptian embassy in Sanaa was closed after the departure of the mission."
The Huthis overran Sanaa in September and installed a "presidential council" last month in a move widely condemned as a "coup".
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United States, La Belle France, Germany, Italia, Britannia, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Japan and Turkey have all shuttered their embassies in Sanaa.
[Iran Press TV] Yemen's Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement has threatened to arrest and press charges against the impoverished Arab country's prime minister and all cabinet members if they refuse to return to work.
On Monday, the Houthis stated that they would detain Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and all cabinet members, and try them for treason in case they do not resume their duties.
President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Bahah's cabinet resigned on January 22, after Ansarullah revolutionaries seized the presidential palace in the capital, Sana'a. The parliament, however, rejected Hadi's resignation.
According to a report broadcast by al-Masirah satellite television station affiliated with Ansarullah, 17 Yemeni cabinet members have agreed to restart their posts.
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[The Peninsula] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Monday of plunging the Middle East into chaos and fueling the rise of bully boyz because of its drive to dominate the world.
Lavrov leveled the fierce criticism of Washington's policies at a special UN Security Council debate on maintaining international peace and security.
The foreign minister cited the US-led air strikes in Syria, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 military intervention in Libya as examples of "violations of the fundamental principles of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ."
"All of this is the result of attempts to dominate global affairs, to rule over all, everywhere, to use military force unilaterally to push one's interests," Lavrov told the 15-member council.
"These have plunged the Middle East and North Africa into instability and chaos, and to a large extent have created a breeding ground in which bully boyz thrive," he said.
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Well, I suppose that's true, but not for the reason you think. Champ doesn't want the U.S. to dominate anything, and that's the cause of all the chaos.
Wotta stoopid spelling of a word - chaos!
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US-N-Only-the-US "Retreat is [World/Global] Peace".
Because iff US gives up or gets out of 75% or more of the World, "HISTOIRE" + "GREAT GAME" SAYS the 75-Percenters-or-Greater won't want Amerika's remaining 25-Percent-or-Less of same for themselves, thus Anti-US US Globalists + aligned have no need to explain to US Voters = aka the People just "how far" or "how much", etc. is enough for the US-n-Only-the-US to surrender.
AS SURE AS RADICAL ISLAM HAS NOT THREATENED THE US WID JIHAD + TERROR; + CHINESE MILBLOGGERS DON'T WANT CONTROL OF HAWAII ANDOR 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC ANDOR 1/2 OF CONUS-NORAM FOR "LIVING SPACE" ... ... Oh, wait.
The U.S. is trying to figure out a compromise so it can indirectly extend its controversial missile shield to South Korea. Seoul is reluctant to permit the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system to be deployed here because it is chiefly aimed at containing China, an increasingly vital regional partner.
The THAAD system in question was to come with a radar with a 1,800-2,000 km range, which is capable of monitoring and intercepting Chinese ballistic missiles.
The system is to be used against Nork missiles but I can see where the Chinese would be concerned.
But there is a shorter-range option. "The high-performance X-Band radar system consists of two models -- an early warning radar with a long range and a phased-array radar with a short range of less than 1,000 km," a government source said Monday.
"Apparently the U.S. Forces Korea now wants to deploy only the phased-array radar."
The effective range for a phased-array radar is about 600 km, shorter than the 900 km of the Israeli-made Green Pine early warning radar which the South Korean military uses to detect North Korean missile launches.
The two THAAD radar models use such different software that it would take considerable time and money to switch from one to the other.
"It'll be hard for Beijing to continue opposing the plan with a shorter-range radar that's permanently turned toward North Korea," the source added.
It intercepts incoming ballistic missiles in the upper tier of the terminal phase, when the missile turns toward the target.
A THAAD battery consists of six launch pads, each with eight missiles, a radar, and control and communication equipment. It costs about W1 trillion (US$1=W1,110).
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CHINA is formally opposing this THAAD venture wid SOKOR, + has submitted protests to both SOKOR + US via diplomatic channels. Beijing is likely NOT going to be thrilled at Reports of JAPANESE CONTRUCTION of a new base for the JGSDF on Yonaguni close to Taiwan.
* TOPIX, PAKISTAN DEFENCE/PK/FORUMS > JAPAN ISLAND/BASE CONTRUCTION NEAR TAIWAN CLEARS LAST HURDLE.
Unlike their OKINAWA brethren, Japanese residents on Yonaguni are seemingly in favor of an expanded JGSDF, etc. mil presence on their island.
* JAPAN TIMES > NORTH KOREA COULD HAVE 100 NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY 2020 [worse-case scenario]: US RESEARCHERS.
* RELATED TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > STUDY: NORTH KOREA SET TO [massively?] EXPAND NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
The above aside, IIRC as per MSM-Net Pudgy was repor quoted as supporting the need or importance of dev or procuring BATTLEFIELD/TACTICAL NUKES for NOKOR.
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FYI the Island Nation of CHUUK [fka Truk] may vote for formal independence from the Federated States of Micronesia [FSM]. Good or bad, this presents a clear opportunity for China to get PLA strategic access to the former Japanese bastion in Chuuk/Truk Lagoon, + get closer to its desired "Third Island Chain" in Mid-Pacific.
[AnNahar] Six French citizens have had their passports confiscated and 40 more will be banned from leaving the country after allegedly planning to travel to Syria and Iraq, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday.
It is the first time the measure has been used in La Belle France following its introduction as part of a raft of new counter-terrorism laws in November.
"If French people go commit attacks in Iraq or in Syria, on their return they will present an even greater danger of carrying out large-scale terrorist attacks on the national territory," Cazeneuve told news hounds.
"There are currently six administrative bans on leaving the country that have already been signed, and around 40 that are being prepared," he added.
A security source earlier said the six French were "imminently" about to travel to Syria.
Their passports and identity cards have been confiscated for six months, after which the order can be renewed.
Cazeneuve highlighted his ministry's efforts to set up a warning system through which friends and family can alert authorities about potential jihadist cases.
He said the ministry had been alerted to over 1,000 cases and that "several dozen" planned trips to Syria and Iraq had been prevented as a result.
Cazeneuve has also been in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in recent days, meeting with major internet firms in a bid to improve information-sharing about online jihadist networks.
They are due to meet again in Gay Paree in early April, he said.
Some 1,400 people living in La Belle France have either joined the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq or are planning to do so, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said last month.
[YNETNEWS] The flow of European fighters from Europe to territory held by the ultra-hardline Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... is drying up due to tighter restrictions imposed by European states that have prevented would-be jihadis from travelling, fighters from the group said.
Fighters in Syria and Iraq contacted by Rooters said the impact was limited on the battlefield since European fighters make up only a fraction of the forces of Islamic State.
"Now most of the (foreign) fighters are coming from Asian countries, like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. They are tough fighters," an Islamic State myrmidon who fought with the group in both Syria and Iraq, told Rooters via the internet.
Some also said that restrictions might backfire on European countries when jihadis who are prevented from travelling to the Middle East are encouraged to wage individual attacks at home.
European countries are working hard to reduce recruitment by the group, sometimes referred to by the acronyms ISIS or ISIL, which has seized wide swathes of Iraq and Syria and is now the target of a US-led campaign of air strikes.
The group takes pride in having attracted fighters from across the globe, including thousands from Europe. Western countries fear that some European fighters could return home and carry out attacks in their native countries.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A soldier who died in an accident during the Turkish army's operation to evacuate a historic tomb in northern Syria has been laid to rest in his hometown, the Black Sea province of Trabzon.
Sgt. Maj. Halit Avci, who was on duty as an army photographer, died just before the operation started when a tank hatch fell on his head in the late hours of Feb. 21, his father, Mustafa Avci, told daily Hurriyet.
The soldier was laid to rest in Trabzon after a military ceremony in Trabzon's Macka district with the attendance of dozens of authorities, including Customs and Trade Minister Nurettin Canikli.
According to the man's father, the solider died when the roughly 50-kilogram hatch fell on his head due to a bump in the road as he was taking photographs.
"There is nothing to say," Avci said. "My son was heathy as a lion."
The late soldier's wife, Söhret Avci, is reportedly due to give birth to a boy, adding to the grief of the family, who have been accepting condolences at their home.
"His child will be born in 15 days. He won't be able to see the happiness of his child. What should I say?" he said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkey did not contact the armed wing of the Syrian Kurds' Democratic Union Party (PYD) or the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prior to the evacuation operation of its troops from an historic Ottoman tomb inside Syria, a spokesperson for the presidency has said, reiterating the country still regards the PYD as a terrorist organization.
"First of all, the PYD is a terrorist organization to us," Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesperson for the presidency, told news hounds at a presser Feb. 23, following statements from PYD officials that the party's armed People's Protection Units (YPG) provided assistance in the entry and the exit of Turkish troops into Syrian territory over the weekend.
Turkey sees the PYD as the Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and has designated it a terror organization. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the PYD's leader, Salih Moslem, is often hosted in Ankara to discuss regional matters and his most recent visit to Turkey was last week just before the evacuation of the troops.
Kalin denied Turkey sought contact, coordination and assistance from the YPG and ISIL, and stated the operation was fully carried out through the country's own capabilities. Turkey had informed anti-ISIL coalition members and the Syrian National Council and issued a diplomatic note to the Syrian regime, he said.
"Our chief of general staff, our intelligence agency and our foreign ministry have good knowledge of this geography. Preparing, implementing and accomplishing this operation without any problem is directly linked with this knowledge. Therefore, this is an operation initiated by Turkey and implemented with its own capabilities," he said.
This evacuation operation avoided a potential attack or casualties on Turkish troops, Kalin said. "Think the opposite: We would face a very bad picture if our troops would be killed or maimed in an attack. With this operation, this possibility is nixed," he said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkey's defense minister has invited Turks to visit a historical Ottoman tomb that will be moved to a new site in northern Syria, as the government defends an operation to rescue soldiers that were guarding the tomb at an enclave until they were evacuated Feb. 22.
"The new tomb that will be Syrian village of Ashme is within walking distance to our country," National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz said yesterday, giving a briefing to parliament about the details of the evacuation of the Tomb of Suleyman Sah in northern Syria in an overnight operation.
"We invite those who want to say the Fatiha [a Moslem prayer for the dead] for their ancestors to visit there. They will see that the Turkish flag is waving there," the minister said.
Turkey evacuated its military personnel protecting the tomb, as well as the artifacts in the mausoleum, in an operation jointly conducted by the country's intelligence service and the Turkish army, a few days after reports suggested that the tomb had been besieged by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
In a parallel operation, Turkish troops seized control of a new area to the north of the Syrian village of Ashme, 180 meters from the Turkish border, where the tomb will be relocated within days.
The symbolic coffins of Suleyman Sah and his two guards was placed in a temporary tomb in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa in a ceremony on Feb. 23 as construction work continues in Ashme.
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[The Peninsula] Turkey's decision to evacuate an historic tomb and the soldiers guarding it from Syrian territory was not a retreat, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said Monday, rejecting opposition claims Ankara had surrendered the area to jihadists.
Erdogan indicated the operation overnight Saturday was motivated by concerns the tomb and its Turkish guards could have come under attack by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) forces of Evil who control the area.
"This is certainly not a retreat," he said in televised comments in Ankara.
"This is a temporary relocation in order to not endanger the security of the lives of our soldiers on duty," he added.
The opposition has lambasted the operation to remove the remains of Suleyman Shah -- a 13th century figure revered by Turks -- as a retreat that meekly handed over the area to IS.
"You surrendered, but you're celebrating it as a victory. You have left a black mark on this nation," Arif Hamzacebi of the opposition CHP told parliament.
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I thought revering tombs was un-Islamic?
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[AnNahar] Thirty-five-year-old Abdalmalik Wahab had been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 14 years without charge when he got some good news: The U.S. government was no longer interested in holding him.
A panel made up of representatives of six government agencies, including the Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, determined on Dec. 5 that Abdalmalik was "almost certainly" a member of al-Qaeda at one point but it was no longer worth keeping him at the U.S. base in Cuba.
"This is a happy day," he said in a statement released by one of his lawyers, David Remes, after the decision, "but the happiest day will be when I see my wife and daughter."
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Geez, you would think we were running Devil's Freaking Island or something.
Guantanamo is a country club compared to the pest holes that Iran, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Oman call prisons...albeit easier to escape from.
Let us not forget the Fucking French are giving serious thought to reopening the aforementioned devil's island for business to deal with their home grown Islamic fanatics...tell me Ahmed, how do you like your poisonous centipedes and Boomslangs?
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The 68 not cleared for release include prisoners facing trial by military commission, such as the five men charged in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, those who could potentially face charges in the future or men deemed just too dangerous to release.
"but more than likely they will be placed in Mosques around the US as designated by Holder's DOJ to discuss the evils of Amerikka's Crusades"
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[NYTIMES] The Paleostinian Authority and the Paleostine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and injured.
The damages are to be $655.5 million, under a special terrorism law that provides for tripling the $218.5 million award made by the jury in Federal District Court.
The verdict ended a decade-long legal battle to hold the Paleostinian organizations responsible for the terrorist acts. While the decision was a huge victory for the dozens of plaintiffs, it could also serve to strengthen the Israeli claim that the supposedly more moderate Paleostinian forces are directly linked to terrorism.
The financial implications of the verdict for the defendants were not immediately clear. The Paleostinian Authority, led by the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , had serious financial troubles even before Israel, as punishment for the Paleostinians' move in December to join the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , began withholding more than $100 million a month in tax revenue it collects on the Paleostinians' behalf.
Et voila! A source for funding the required payouts presents itself.
The verdict came in the seventh week of a civil trial in which the jury heard emotional testimony from survivors of suicide kabooms and other attacks in Jerusalem, in which a total of 33 people were killed and more than 450 were maimed.
"Money is oxygen for terrorism," Kent A. Yalowitz, a lawyer for the families, said in a closing argument on Thursday, noting that the antiterrorism law "hits those who send turbans where it hurts them most: in the wallet."
The case was brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act, which allows American citizens who are victims of international terrorism to sue in the United States courts. The law was used last September by a Brooklyn jury to find Arab Bank liable for supporting terrorism by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Damages in that case, filed by about 300 victims of 24 terrorist attacks, are to be decided in a second trial, which has not yet been held.
In the Paleostinian case, the plaintiffs included 10 families, comprising about three dozen members, eight of whom were physically injured in the attacks while the others were left with deep psychological scars, testimony showed.
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Never see one cent of it.
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Just reduce what we give them by that amount. In fact, don't give them anything--they just build rockets and buy arms with the money.
[DAWN] The foreign office broke its silence on Monday regarding the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's (IS) activities inside Pakistain, admitting that the radical Islamist group posed a "serious threat" to the country.
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee at Parliament House today, Foreign Secretary Azaz Ahmed Chaudhry acknowledged IS was indeed a real concern, while simultaneously assuring those present that the government would talk all steps necessary to counter the threat.
"Under UN resolutions, Pakistain is firmly against krazed killer organizations like ISIL [IS] and is taking all actions to counter them", Chaudhry told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
Chaudhry disclosed that after Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... was launched in North Wazoo, some krazed killer elements tried to emerge together on the IS platform, but their efforts were countered.
"There is concern in the Gulf and other Moslem countries about ISIL", the foreign secretary noted.
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[DAWN] A Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... spokesperson denied on Monday a government claim that chief holy manMaulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... issued a written apology to the capital city police over his implied defence of the Dec 16 attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. .
Spokesperson Hafiz Ehtisham Ahmed told DawnNews that Maulana Abdul Aziz has not submitted any written apology to the police and rejected the claim made by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... that Aziz has tendered a written apology as "baseless".
"It is a baseless story that there is a written apology...Was there a case against him regarding his [APS] remarks in the police? Then why should he submit an apology to the police?" the spokesperson said.
Ehtisham said that Maulana Aziz had apologised on a private news channel a day or two after making the statement about the APS attack, and added, "There is no need for another apology after that."
"Maulana Aziz clearly said that the attack on APS Peshawar was a grave tragedy and such incidents should not happen in the future. Does this statement by him not count as condemnation?" said the spokesperson.
He claimed that Maulana Aziz has repeatedly condemned the incident. "Maulana Aziz appeared on a private TV and apologised for what he had said in his initial interview."
Ehtisham said that after giving these statements there is no need left for any further apology to police or any other state security institution.
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[IraqiNews.com] The Electricity Minister, Qasim al-Fahdawi, announced resuming the electric power in Amiriyat al-Fallujah district in Anbar.
Fahdawi stated in a press statement "The electric power in Amiriyat al-Fallujah was resumed after three months of shutting it down due to the security situation."
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[IraqiNews.com] Iraqi Health Minister Adila Hammoud said on Sunday that the Iraqi government is keen on cooperation with Iran in the field of health and medical treatment and carrying out the MoU already signed by the two countries.
Adila Hammoud told IRNA that Iraq welcomes cooperation with Iran in the field of health, medical treatment and sanitation and believes that the cooperation will strengthen the friendly and brotherly ties between the two countries.
She termed visit paid to Iraq by Iranian first Vice-President last week as 'Successful' and said that outcome of the visit would help consolidation of bilateral ties in all fields.
Hammoud said that in the meeting with her Iranian counterpart Seyed Hassan Hashemi in Tehran, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding last January.
She said that the MoU included cooperation in pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, food security, hospital services and construction of hospital in Iraq.
She added that in last week visit of the Iran's Health Minister to Iraq accompanying the Iranian Vice-President, they discussed and exchanged views on ways to carry out the Tehran MoU.
Adila Hammoud said that delivery of medical treatment services to Iraqi patients in Iran and admission of Iraqi doctors in Iran's universities to go ahead with specialized courses are 'very important'.
She called for dispatching Iranian specialists to Iraq for medical treatment of Iraqi patients.
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[The Peninsula] -Israel on Monday cut off power to two Paleostinian cities in the northern West Bank for an hour over unpaid electricity bills, officials on both sides said.
The power cut took place in the northern city of Nablus as well as in Jenin, local Paleostinian officials told AFP saying thousands of homes were affected by the cut which Israel had warned of in advance.
Speaking to public radio, Yiftach Ron-Tal, chief executive of the Israel Electric Corporation confirmed the move saying it was "due to an accumulated Paleostinian Authority debt of around 2.0 billion shekels" ($510 million/450 million euros).
But a local official in Nablus denied the claim, saying the only unpaid bill was one which "only arrived two days ago, which was for 49 million shekels," ($12.5 million/11 million euros).
"We will pay this in the coming days," the official said, accusing Israel of looking "to put pressure on the Paleostinian Authority." "Yeah. The check's in the mail."
In early January, the Paleostinians moved to become party to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... where they could potentially file suit against Israel for alleged war crimes in a move which has infuriated the Jewish state, prompting it to freeze millions of dollars in tax monies it transfers every month to the Authority.
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One figure is current (heh) charge (hee hee) the other is the accumulated debt, thus the numbers.
Putin's latest move to stick it to O&Co.
Russia has offered Iran advanced surface-to-air missiles after scrapping a similar deal in 2010 because of UN sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme, the state defence company said Monday.
Any such a deal is likely to go down badly in Washington as Western countries seek to keep up the pressure on Iran to agree a comprehensive deal on its nuclear activities.
Sergei Chemezov, head of the Rostec corporation which manages Russia's defence industry, said Moscow has offered to supply Antey-2500 missiles, an upgraded version of the S-300 air defence system that figured in the previous contract.
"We have offered them the Antey-2500," Chemezov was quoted as saying by RIA-Novosti news agency.
But he added: "The decision has not been made yet."
Moscow signed a contract in 2007 to deliver S-300 missiles to Iran worth $800 million.
The deal was intensely criticised by the United States and Israel, and Moscow later dropped it as being in breach of UN sanctions.
A UN resolution adopted in 2010 bans the supply, sale or transfer to Iran of missiles or missiles systems.
Chemezov said the Antey-2500 is a more modern version of the S-300, which Russia no longer makes. The same surface-to-air missiles were reportedly delivered to Venezuela in 2013.
Now under Western sanctions itself over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia -- a permanent member of the UN Security Council -- has strengthened its alliance with Iran.
During a visit to Tehran by Russia's defence minister last month, the two countries signed a military cooperation agreement touted as a joint response to US "interference".
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[AnNahar] Jordan on Monday delivered armored personnel carriers and gun motor carriages to the Lebanese army as part of "continuous cooperation" with Leb in the face of "the threat of terrorism."
The vehicles were handed over at a ceremony held at the Beirut Naval Base, in the presence of Major General Nayel al-Raqqad, head of the strategic planning department of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
The military donation included "thirty M113 armored personnel carriers and twelve 155mm howitzer motor carriages," according to a Lebanese army statement.
During a visit by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq to Amman on February 12, King Abdullah II of Jordan had expressed readiness to aid and train the Lebanese army.
"We are one... Jordan is ready to offer the Lebanese army all its needs of arms and military equipment, including free training at all our bases," sources quoted the king as saying in comments published in al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper.
Representing Army chief General Jean Qahwaji at Monday's ceremony, Brig. Gen. Manuel Kerjian hailed "the military cooperation between the two brotherly armies and the continuous cooperation to confront the common threats and challenges, especially the threat of terrorism."
In December 2013, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... donated three billion dollars for the purchase of arms from La Belle France for the benefit of the Lebanese army. It offered another $1 billion donation in August 2014 in the wake of deadly border battles between the army and Syria-based jihadist groups.
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Interesting picture, had to look. That's a 155 Creusot "Long Tom". From Wiki:
During the Second Boer War the guns were deployed as field guns and siege guns at Vaal Krantz,[3] Ladysmith, Mafeking, Kimberley and Bergendal. During the early stages of the war these guns gave the Boers an advantage as they had longer range than any British guns that were deployed in South Africa at the time.[4] After all their ammunition had been expended, the guns were destroyed one by one, to prevent them from falling into British hands.
[AnNahar] Russia has offered Iran advanced surface-to-air missiles after scrapping a similar deal in 2010 because of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program, the state defense company said Monday.
Any such a deal is likely to go down badly in Washington as Western countries seek to keep up the pressure on Iran to agree a comprehensive deal on its nuclear activities.
Sergei Chemezov, head of the Rostec corporation which manages Russia's defence industry, said Moscow has offered to supply Antey-2500 missiles, an upgraded version of the S-300 air defence system that figured in the previous contract.
"We have offered them the Antey-2500," Chemezov was quoted as saying by RIA-Novosti news agency.
But he added: "The decision has not been made yet."
Moscow signed a contract in 2007 to deliver S-300 missiles to Iran worth $800 million.
The deal was intensely criticised by the United States and Israel, and Moscow later dropped it as being in breach of U.N. sanctions.
A U.N. resolution adopted in 2010 bans the supply, sale or transfer to Iran of missiles or missiles systems.
Chemezov said the Antey-2500 is a more modern version of the S-300, which Russia no longer makes. The same surface-to-air missiles were reportedly delivered to Venezuela in 2013.
Now under Western sanctions itself over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia -- a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- has strengthened its alliance with Iran.
During a visit to Tehran by Russia's defense minister last month, the two countries signed a military cooperation agreement touted as a joint response to U.S. "interference".
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[Iran Press TV] The ISIL terrorist group is a "vessel" of the failed US foreign policy in the Middle East, an American activist and radio host in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, says
The US military campaign against ISIL is going to be a "long and protracted war," said Rodney Martin, a former US congressional staffer.
The US is using ISIL as a "boogeyman" to justify deploying ground troops to the region which neoconservatives have been pushing, Martin said Monday during a phone interview with Press TV.
He said the US-led air campaign against the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group "has been an abject failure" and has in fact benefited the Death Eaters because they have gained more territory.
"The only real defeat that ISIL has experienced has been at the hands of the Syrian army which the US opposes," Martin added.
The new Pentagon chief Ashton Carter vowed on Monday a "lasting defeat" against ISIL as he convened an extraordinary war council in Kuwait to discuss the B.O. regime's strategy against the terrorist group.
Only days after taking office, Carter summoned a meeting of more than two dozen military commanders, diplomats and intelligence officials at the sprawling US Army base of Camp Arifjan.
The defense secretary told American troops before the talks that the US and its allies were pressing ISIL "very ably from Kuwait and elsewhere and "we will deliver lasting defeat, make no doubt."
Martin, however, downplayed America's war strategy against ISIL and said the mealy-mouthed Carter is an "empty vessel" that is promoting the "nefarious policies" of the US which it has pursued for years.
"He (Carter) probably won't last very long," Martin stated. "He will probably resign even before the end of [President Barack] Obama's term which is only about two years."
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The Bammer + OWG Globies aren't done yet - they've got all of 2015 + most of pre-Elex 2016 to create or foster more Anti-US, US-led FP + Econ shenanigans.
E.G. TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > TWO OUT OF THREE AMERICANS SEE ISLAMIC STATE AS [major] THREAT TO US [National] SECURITY.
Thusly, of course ...
* SAME > US BUDGET STALL/PROBLEMS PUTS ISLAMIC STATE RESPONSE IN QUAGMIRE, US OFFICIAL SAYS.
* RELATED SAME > POLITICAL, BUDGET IMPASSE LIMITS US OPTIONS IN ISIS FIGHT.
* WORLD NEWS > US RHETORIC COLLIDES WID IRAQI REALITY IN ISLAMIC STATE FIGHT.
VERSUS
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > RUSSIA EXPANIONISM MAY POSE EXISTENTIAL THREAT, SAYS NATO GENERAL.
NATO Deputy Commander Sir Adrian Bradshaw.
* GROONG > [Sputnik News] "WEST ADMITS ITS INABILITY TO WITHSTAND RUSSIA MILITARY POWER" - GERMAN MAGAZINE ["Focus" Bunde Magz].
VERSUS
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WILL IT TAKE THE END OF THE WORLD FOR OBAMA TO SEE ISIS AS "ISLAMIC"???
As per God, Nostradamus, + 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamonas, lets ask the US-born, US-raised, Muslim-convert wid US-Western backed NucBomb Goodness ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESSIAH/HIDDEN IMAM 2030 -2050, shall we???
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Russian-Insider] ESTIMATED 1700 RUSSIAN CITIZENS IN ISIS RANKS, FSB DIRECTOR [Alexander Bortnikov] SAYS NUMBER HAS DOUBLED SINCE LAST YEAR.
And so it begins ... ...
* RUSSIA TODAY > COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA WILL PROVE A TEST FOR US - STRATFOR.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses a threat to Turkey, not the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia of the Syrian Kurds, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas said on Feb. 23.
"We see that ISIL has gradually started to threaten Turkey, and I think it will henceforth pose an even greater threat to Turkey," Demirtas told news hounds in Diyarbakir.
"Turkey should realize how important it is to cooperate with democratic powers in the region, particularly the PYD, in the fight against ISIL and against its mentality," he added.
Demirtas also expressed his hope that this would enable Ankara to enhance its "formal relations with the PYD."
The operation for the evacuation of the Suleyman Sah Tomb showed that the PYD is not an enemy to Turkey, he added.
Turkey and Kobane canton in talks for relocation of Suleyman Sah Tomb
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... another senior HDP executive has indicated that Ankara's direct contact with the administration of the Kobane canton in Rojava would be inevitable for the relocation of the Suleyman Sah Tomb, arguing that otherwise there would be an impossible "de facto" situation.
The People's Protection Units (YPG) both provided security and opened a corridor for Turkish military troops the for evacuation of tomb, but the de facto relocation of the tomb to Ashme village west of Kobane would not have been possible without the canton's permission, Nazmi Gur, the deputy co-leader of the HDP in charge of external affairs, told the Hurriyet Daily News.
Ashme is a Kurdish village that was liberated from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) Death Eaters 10 days ago, and the transfer of Tomb of Suleyman Sah to the village was only possible because it was "based on an agreement with the Kobane administration," Gur said, stressing the necessity for "formal dialogue between Turkey and the Kobane canton."
The process for the relocation of the tomb to Ashme is ongoing, according to Gur. "Preparations are continuing. There are talks with the Kobane canton," Gur said Feb. 23. "The Kobane canton wants to enhance dialogue with Turkey."
The HDP deputy recalled the expectation of both his party and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the political wing of the YPG, that Ankara would "formally open the Mursitpinar border crossing and enable a corridor" into Kobane, which would pave the way to provide assistance for the reconstruction of the canton.
Gun said the step was important for the security of Turkey, requiring Ankara to change its wrongful policies in the Middle East and Syria and strengthen its position in the region.
Enver Moslem, the head of the Kobane canton and a senior PYD official, is in Turkey, but he is yet to have any talks with Turkish officials since his presence in the country is related to a visa application to a European country, Gur said. "He does not have any other plans in regard to his presence in Ankara," he added.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Turkish officials "are having discussions" with the canton on the ground, the HDP deputy said.
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And by extension to Mama Russia, which is why Putin took back the Crimea.
'Tis not the only reason for Putin = Russia, but its certainly a Biggie.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[The Peninsula] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Monday of plunging the Middle East into chaos and fueling the rise of 
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Iran Press TV] The ISIL terrorist group is a "vessel" of the failed US foreign policy in the Middle East, an American activist and radio host in 
