[North Africa Post] Following the death of the long-serving Polisario ringleader Mohammed Abdelaziz, his family is believed to have left the Tindouf camps (southern Algeria) to live in Spain, according to press reports.
Such a move has raised many questions over the reasons behind such relocation. Is it voluntary or compulsory? It is a sign of a rift within the separatist front? Is it due to a friction or growing tension with new separatist junta?
Khalili Ould Mohammed Abdelaziz, son of the late Polisario chief, who died last May, has reportedly moved to live in the southern Spanish city of Seville where his father has hidden his wealth.
A report by the EU’s anti-fraud office (OLAF) had revealed last year the large-scale embezzlement by Polisario leaders of humanitarian aid destined to the Tindouf camps population. The report documented the diversions committed under the watch of Algeria and how the diverted goods were sold in the black market in neighboring countries and even in Algeria.
Apparently, Khalili Ould Abdelaziz, unlike his father, does not want to leave money growing in dormant accounts but looks forward to investing his inherited assets for high returns.
According to some international anti-corruption agencies, it is time for the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... law enforcement agencies and anti-financial crimes bodies to act and track the aid stolen by Polisario operatives to line up their pockets.
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[Forbes] U.S. Army planners believe they may have to fight a "near-peer" adversary within five years. Near-peer in this case means a rapidly modernizing Russian military seeking to regain lost ground along Russia's border with Europe. There's plenty of evidence that Russia's military is on the move in the Baltic region, near Ukraine, and elsewhere. Some observers have wrongly inferred that America's Army has "only" five years to prepare for such a conflict. In fact, it has five years or less. It is common for aggressors to challenge new U.S. presidents early in their tenure.
If such a war were to occur, it would be mainly an Army show. The fight would be over control of large expanses of land with few geographical impediments to rapid advance. The U.S. Army would likely do most of the ground combat for NATO, because America contributes over two-thirds of the alliance's resources. Losing such a war would drastically reshape the geopolitical balance in Europe, and reduce U.S. influence there to its lowest ebb since before World War Two. And yet losing is what the U.S. Army is currently postured to do.
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I guess Putin had to wait until after Obama was re-elected.
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The U.S. Army would likely do most of the ground combat for NATO, because America contributes over two-thirds of the alliance's resources.
There is your answer.
Somewhere around the early 80s, Western Europe reach GDP and population parity. We've funded 30 years of military welfare. Why are we even there. If they don't have the will to defend themselves, why should Americans once again be called upon to die? Can't lose a war if you are not there.
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I suspect they'll have a civil war with their Muslim populations before Russia gets involved. In fact Russia may be welcomed by that point for all we know.
Either way NATO should have been reevaluated long ago.
Some analysts believe that president Obama's unfocused and seemingly half-hearted efforts have created a counterterror resistant strain of Jihadists in the same way that the desultory use of antibiotics created superbugs. They predict that eventually even the NSA will "go deaf" against the Jihadists as their trade craft improves. Indeed Ahmad Khan Rahami, the Chelsea New York bomber "traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan several times without detection by the U.S. government, officials told The Daily Beast."
In consequence the internal Western Jihadi threat may become chronic. It will never be solved. Not at least for decades. Nonsense. No Muslims access, no terrorism.
...Internationally the situation is no different. None of the wars, not even Afghanistan or Iraq, are ending. In fact conflict is spreading by the day. The ceasefire which John Kerry hoped would start the peace process in the Levant collapsed in tragic farce, with an errant American airstrike annihilating a Syrian Army position while a Russian airstrike decimated a UN relief column bound for Aleppo. It's so embarrassing the White House admitted it was skeptical of its own plan from the first.
...But who cares? As John Kerry begins his quest for a new ceasefire, president Barack Obama is devoting his remaining months in office to admitting more refugees into the West. The Atlantic's Priscilla Alvarez writes, "on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will host a summit on the refugee crisis on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. His administration reportedly plans to increase the number of refugees the United States will let in to 110,000 in fiscal year 2017, and he is expected to call on other world leaders to take in more refugees themselves."
Taking in more refugees won't solve anything either internationally or in the West itself. But it's virtuous and signals it. One reason for the "Forever War" is because winning has become optional. Unlike WW2 when Roosevelt and Truman were under pressure to win the war and bring the boys home, Obama's America can sustainably fight major conflicts without putting masses of voters under arms. Whenever things get dicey, the administration can just send a B-1 over to restore the balance so Kerry can go back to the nth doomed ceasefire.
...Sadly, our feckless attitude towards these monsters has left us at a point where our options are rapidly dwindling down to just two: surrender (effectively where we're at today; with terrorism becoming the 'new normal') or going full SPQR on some miserable little pile of sand.
Mike
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going full SPQR on some miserable little pile of sand
It's not Muslims in ME who carry out terror attacks in USA & EU, Kozlowski.
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Obama has let more HV detainees go free than have been captured on the battlefield. He currently has simultaneous active military hotspots in more countries then his predecessor. With no clear strategy, he continues to send more and more military "advisors" back to a country which he declared he ended combat. And the reactionary peaceniks primary concern is that the goverment pays to have Bradley Manning's pecker surgically removed. Hey...Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before he even moved into the WH. Now you know why they Smart Power.
[Fox] Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized the Obama administration';s "reluctance and denial" to flatly identify terrorism, including radical Islamic terrorism, as the culprit in 'lone-wolf' and other attacks on the American populace. Neither 'inexplicable nor delusional.' Much more damaging that either of those.
"Absolutely clear that admin's reluctance and denial hovers somewhere between inexplicable and delusional," Krauthammer said on Special Report with Bret Baier.
"Time after time shows attempt to say anything but what these things are."
"[Obama called] the Fort Hood [attack] 'workplace violence' --[which showed] a reluctance to use" the term 'terrorism', Krauthammer said.
The administration is "still pondering about the guy that stabbed people in the mall in Minnesota--who went around asking people if they were Muslim [and] invoked Allah," he said.
Krauthammer also criticized the White House for apparently treating ’lone-wolf’ terror attacks as a "lesser category" than organized group attacks.
"In the absence of a letter of instruction written in Raqqa by the leader of ISIS, it counts as less," he said.
He said that such linguistics "give fuel" to Republicans, including Donald Trump.
BLUF: [The Unz Review] Once Americans conclude that our supposedly objective media functions merely as a corrupt propaganda machine, why should the statements of prominent establishment pundits or reporters count for anything more than the sarcastic Tweets of some angry, anonymous blogger? Those who have allowed the currency of journalistic integrity to become totally debased have only themselves to blame when they discover it is no longer accepted by the general public.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
[Wash Times] As the four armed forces chiefs testified in the Senate about the national security dangers of mandated budget caps, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked each officer if he had discussed the readiness crisis with President Obama.
Their unanimous answers before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week underscored a key aspect of the Obama presidency, noted by his own past defense secretaries and, in a recent disclosure, a former NATO commander: The president maintains a wary approach in dealing with the four-star generals and admirals who direct his wars.
That is because the four-star generals DO NOT 'direct his wars.' They simply provide systems and manpower. Wars are now directed and managed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Been that way for quite some time. Please review graphic.
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[Fox] Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized the Obama administration';s "reluctance and denial" to flatly identify terrorism, including radical Islamic terrorism, as the culprit in 'lone-wolf' and other attacks on the American populace.
[Wash Times] As the four armed forces chiefs testified in the Senate about the national security dangers of mandated budget caps, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked each officer if he had discussed the readiness crisis with President Obama.
