[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An official of the Afghan High Peace Council (AHPC) official is under fire for calling the Talibs ’Angels and a Holy Group’. Guess you can tell which side he's on.
The acting provincial governor of northern Balkh province and Chief Executive of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Ata Mohammad Noor reacted towards the remarks by Abdul Hakim Mujahid, an adviser to the High Peace Council of Afghanistan.
Calling the remarks by Mujahid as illogical, Noor emphasized on the need to ascertain the enemies inside the system before going to face them in the battleground.
Noor further added that such individuals should be put behind the bars for insulting the national deaders and killing the innocent Afghan people on daily basis. killing the innocent Afghan people on daily basis.
Noor specifically pointed towards the recent attacks in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , Kandahar, and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and slammed the official for his irresponsible remarks.
In his remarks last week, Mujahid called the Talibs angels of peace and endorsed their position in the ongoing violence of remaining in a holy level.
Mujahid offered the group’s fight against Russia as a justification for his claim and called the former Afghanistan's Caped President Dr. Najibullah a traitor besides calling ex-President Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... as the main factor in the devastating civil war.
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[Libya Herald] Members of the House of Representatives (HoR) who fully support the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) and its Government of National Accord (GNA), signed in the Moroccan city of Skhirat in December 2015, have set up a branch of the HoR in 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... These are mainly the HoR members who support the GNA and have been trying for a year to organize a quorum in Tobruk to approve Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj and his designated GNA.
News of this first broke early this morning when the first of the Ministry of Tourism’s employees turned up for work and noticed the long banner ‐ in Arabic and English ‐ on the side of their Ministry’s building. The Ministry of Tourism in Tripoli is located adjacent to the main entrance of Tripoli port.
The banner was apparently put up without official notification to the Tourism Ministry under the cover of darkness last night. This morning, a number of Tourism Ministry employees organized a small protest outside the building in front of the banner. They objected to the banner being put up, protesting the ’’takeover’’ of their building.
They later released a statement (on plain paper, unsigned or stamped) of condemnation and called for the powers to be to take corrective action. It later transpired that a whole floor of their large building was to be taken over by the HoR. The banner was partly folded over obscuring its message in later photos issued by the Ministry of Tourism.
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[Libya Herald] Moves by members of the House of Representatives (HoR) who support the Libyan Political Agreement to set up their own parliament based in 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... have been condemned by the HoR in Tobruk. In statement, it said that the move was illegal and warned public institutions against having any dealings with it.
Yesterday, pro-LNA members took over the tourism ministry headquarters by the port, putting up a notice that it was now the HoR headquarters, based in Tripoli.
The tourism ministry takeover has angered local employees, who are now threatening to go on strike. Such a move, however, is unlikely to have effect since there is no tourism in Libya.
It is not clear which members are behind the move. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... is seen as yet another example of Libya’s deepening divisions.
It happened just as the former 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... regime led by Khalifa Ghwell took over at least four other ministries in the capital, claiming that they were now under his authority.
The tourism ministry takeover has angered local employees, who are now threatening to go on strike. Such a move, however, is unlikely to have effect since there is no tourism in Libya.
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[Libya Herald] A large group of eastern tribal leaders, elders, NGOs and political activists granted their full support for Presidency Council boycotting member Ali Gatrani as their ’’sole nomination and representative" for any future nominated Libyan government as a result of their trust in him and in view of his positions on supporting the army and security forces that are fighting terrorism’’.
The move, taken at an event in Benghazi yesterday, is seen as a pre-emptive move by Gatrani and his supporters in anticipation of the possible fall of Faiez Serraj as designated Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and head of the Presidency Council (PC) and a return to the earlier PC 1+2 format of one president of the PC and two deputies.
Gatrani is seen as Khalifa Hafter’s man on the PC and has in turn been boycotting the PC in opposition to article eight of the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) which would take away the leadership of the Libyan National Army (LNA) from Khalifa Hafter.
It will be recalled that the PC 1+2 format was the initial formula agreed to in UNSMIL-led dialogue led initially by Bernardino Leon, prior to the arrival of Martin Kobler. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... it is reported that, paradoxically, it was HoR president Ageela Saleh that insisted on changing it to the current format of five.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the present format has failed to work in spectacular fashion with PC member for the south Musa Koni resigning at the beginning of this month putting the whole LPA in danger of collapse.
Now, the HoR is pushing for a return to the 1+2 format. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... this entails a change to the 2015 Skhirat LPA. The LPA can only be changed by the Libyan Political Dialogue committee. The LPA in its full format last met in November 2016 in Malta. It had also met in Tunis in September and in July 2016.
A slimmed down Libyan-only version of the Dialogue committee attempted to meet in Ghadames last Wednesday and is planning to meet in Tunis next Wednesday with the 1+2 format as one of the items on its agenda. It is yet to be seen if the Libyan-only Tunis meeting materializes or indeed succeeds without PC/GNA and international community support.
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[Libya Observer] Foreign ministry of the interim government in east Libya has regarded the reopening of the Italian embassy and return of Italian ambassador Giuseppe Perrone to 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... as a military offensive.
The government, headed by Abdullah al-Thanni, sent a "very urgent" diplomatic note on Wednesday to all Libyan embassies and consulates abroad to inform them about what it called "the military return of the Italian embassy to the capital."
"An Italian military vessel loaded with soldiers and ammunition has entered the Libyan territorial waters. It is a clear violation of UN charter and a form of repeated aggression." The note read.
Ambassador Perrone submitted his credentials in Tripoli on Tuesday to mark the reopening of his country’s embassy in the Libyan capital.
A number of political commentators have deplored the hostile language in the diplomatic note of al-Thanni government, saying its denouncement of the entry of the Italian military vessel is double standards.
"The Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, entered the Libyan territorial waters and was visited by General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... without any comments from the interim government," a political commentator reacted.
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Borno State government has banned the operation of brothels and alcohol parlours in the state, as part of measures to prevent attacks by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... myrmidons.
The state government on Thursday said the sale of alcohol would now only be allowed in military barracks.
It also banned illegal motor parks as well chemical and patent medicine stores. Also prohibited was the operation of tricycles and unregistered vehicles for commuter services.
The ban was announced by the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Kaka Lawan, at a press briefing at the NUJ secretariat in Maiduguri.
According to the commissioner, the ban order was approved at a security council meeting where it was agreed that Boko Haram leveraged on such proscribed areas and illicit activities to carry out attacks.
Mr. Lawan said the state government has also proscribed the sale of firewood and charcoal along the streets of Maiduguri. Those involved in the business were instructed to relocate to registered locations provided for them.
The ban also affected illegal shanties and structures used as commercial centres. Their operators were instructed to relocate to recognised markets in Bolori, Abba Ganaram, Kano motor park and Gamboru areas.
The Attorney-General further said that all unregistered vehicles and tricycles are banned from operation. He said such vehicles were being used by criminal suspects, including Boko Haram myrmidons, to commit crime around the state.
He said despite the appreciable peace that has been achieved as a result of the ongoing counterinsurgency operations of the military, people were still using such outfits to promote crimes in the state.
"As a responsive government, we shall not fold our arms and watch some people destroy our society, especially where these activities are clearly regulated or outrightly banned by our laws.
"These activities include illegal operations of motor parks, chemists and patent medicine; illegal baby factories, brothels, sales of alcohol and illicit drugs, use of wrong number plates or unregistered vehicles", he said.
The Commissioner said the ban on alcohol is to be effected throughout the state starting January 20, while that of motor parks are to be effected in Maiduguri alone; and would commence on Monday January 17.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has once again slammed government-pushed constitutional amendments for a shift to a presidential system.
"I want to once again remind you that the presidency is not a post either for tyranny over the nation or for the unlimited ego of one person," Kilicdaroglu wrote on his official Twitter account on Jan. 13.
"No one should think that being elected gives them absolute and unlimited power. They should not think they have power over everybody and every institution," he added.
"[Presidents] should not try to declare as an enemy any opposition and anyone they see as an opponent. They should not try to crush them for their own survival," the CHP leader also stated.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s parliament has approved three more items from a controversial constitutional amendment draft in late-night voting sessions on Jan. 12 and early Jan. 13, reducing many of the legislature’s own powers in favor of strengthening the president.
The politicians discussed items regarding the duties and authorities of the president, the prerequisites for being a presidential candidate and restrictions on parliament’s ability to exercise oversight, voting in favor of all three during the sessions.
Article 6 on the supervisory authority of parliament was approved by politicians by a score of 343 to 137.
The article will revise parliament’s duty and authority to obtain and control information. If the article ultimately becomes law, parliament will only be able to ask for information, hold general meetings to discuss a subject related to state actions and submit a written question for ministers to answer. According to the article, parliament will no longer be able to issue motions of no confidence.
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"Franklin Graham should be removed from Donald Trump's inauguration line up, the US' largest Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday. The outspoken conservative pastor and son of evangelist Billy Graham is due to pray at the ceremony next week in Washington.
But the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Surprise!
called on the president-elect to drop Franklin, who they described as a "notorious Islamophobe", in order to unite the country.
"If President-elect Trump truly seeks to unite our nation as he promised in his acceptance speech, he will limit the list of those offering prayers at the inauguration to religious leaders who work to bring us together, not to create divisions between faiths," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.
"Rev Graham's ill-informed and extremist views are incompatible with the Constitution and with American values of religious liberty and inclusion."
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Hopefully Trump will place his hand on the Bible during the swearing in ceremony as well. And since Chicago is asking for federal assistance against evil as well, his new head of education places the ten commandments prominently in each school.
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"Rev Graham's ill-informed and extremist views are incompatible with the Constitution and with American values of religious liberty and inclusion."
They're a helluva lot more compatible with our Constitution and our values than Islam is. If you don't like our culture, GET OUT. Do it while you still can.
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"I'm still waiting for the "other" Muslims to denounce CAIR....Whoops times up.
The Büderbund is the political wing of working terror groups, and its platform is dictatorial -- see Egypt, Mohammad Morsi version; Turkey, Erdogan Bey version; Paleostine, Hamas version; and Libya, Ghariani-sponsored version(s). Qaradawi is the organization's mind, and Qatar owns Qaradawi (or maybe they own each other). Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have already designated it a terror group. [YALIBNAN] Three U.S. politicians, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) who was a presidential candidate, have proposed a measure calling for the Moslem Brüderbund to be designated a foreign terrorist organization.
"Proud to introduce Moslem Brüderbund Terrorist Designation Act," Cruz tweeted this week.
Cruz is optimistic that the Moslem Brüderbund Terrorist Designation Act -introduced this week in both chambers of Congress ‐ will get signed into law given that Republican U.S. President-elect 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... will reach the White House at the end of Democrat President Barak Obama’s tenure.
Given that a bill would go through several stages before its adoption, Trump will likely be the one signing it.
Republicans have the majority in the House and Senate and consequently control the leadership of the most important Congressional committees. This would facilitate the adoption of the bill.
American Muslim advocates contend that the real intent of Cruz’s bill has little to do with foreign policy. Naturally. What could a designation of an international Islamist organization dedicated to imposing its brand of authoritarianism on the rest of the world have to do with foreign policy?
Rather, they argue, the legislation would enable the U.S. government to target domestic Muslim groups that Cruz and others earnestly believe are part of a massive, covert conspiracy to destroy the U.S. from within. But if the domestic groups are actually a part of an international movement inimical to American interests, why shouldn't they be targeted? Designation of al-Qaeda as a terrorist group led to domestic Qaeda wannabes being targeted. Why should supporters of Hamas or Jaish al-Islam or Libya Dawn be any different?
A 2001 executive order issued by President George W. Bush gave the State and Treasury departments broad powers to investigate organizations that the government alleges have provided material support to, or are “otherwise associated with,” a designated terror group. Those being investigated can have their funds frozen and be subject to warrantless searches and asset seizures. The investigations can drag on for years, effectively shutting down the organization. And CAIR is somehow afraid that will happen to them.
A 2009 American Civil Liberties Union review of Muslim charities in the crosshairs found that Bush’s executive order “effectively allows the government to shut down an organization without notice or hearing and on the basis of classified evidence, and without any judicial review.”
Now Cruz’s legislation looks like another step along that road.
“The bill is about domestic control of Muslims,” Corey Saylor, director of the department to monitor and combat Islamophobia at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told The Huffington Post. “It has everything to do with a widely debunked conspiracy theory that Muslim organizations are nefarious.” Somehow we knew they'd be unhappy with it.
“Let me be extremely clear,” J.M. Berger, a counterterrorism analyst at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told BuzzFeed last fall, ... and if you can't trust Buzzfeed who can you trust?
speaking of the broader idea of a terrorist designation for the Muslim Brotherhood. “This initiative is concerned with controlling American Muslims, not with any issue pertaining to the Muslim Brotherhood in any practical or realistic sense.”
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Perhaps the Büderbund should've concentrated on buying (more) Republicans?
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The federal government has rejected the Sindh government’s request for taking action against certain "suspected" seminaries, describing the information provided in this regard by the provincial authorities as "insufficient, ambiguous and without any credible evidence".
Through a letter, the interior ministry has instead asked the Sindh government to inform the federal government of the action the provincial authorities have so far taken against the "suspected" seminaries, if it has any concrete evidence against them because taking action against such elements falls in the domain of the provincial governments.
"If there was any concrete evidence available against the people affiliated with these seminaries, then what action the provincial government, police and other law enforcement agencies have taken against them?" asked the letter whose contents in Urdu were released to the media by the ministry here on Thursday.
Talking to news hounds in his Parliament House chambers, 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... had disclosed that the Sindh government, through a letter written to his ministry, had sought proscription of 94 ’suspected’ religious seminaries.
Terming the provincial government’s move "ridiculous", the minister had stated that it was for the provinces to take action against the suspected religious seminaries. He had also regretted that before the letter had reached the interior ministry, the Sindh chief minister had made a statement about it.
In its reply to the provincial government, the interior ministry has alleged that the "incomplete information" and "ambiguous language" of the Sindh government’s communication gives the impression that the letter has been written by the provincial authorities "with some political motives and to hide their own lapses" in the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism.
Through the letter, the interior ministry has regretted that the list provided by the provincial authorities does not have complete addresses of the "suspected seminaries", and even has the names of seminaries in other provinces, including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Fata.
"The Sindh government’s request for action against the seminaries functioning outside its administrative control and outside its geographical boundaries and without any concrete evidence in incomprehensible," says the letter, which adds: "Apparently, it seems that the provincial authorities have not fully studied the legal requirements for proscribing any organization." The ministry has "advised" the Sindh government "to remain confined to its geographical limits" and provide "credible" information, keeping in mind that "every action against seminaries requires legal justification".
The interior minister has been facing criticism from leaders of the main opposition Pakistain People’s Party, which is the ruling party in Sindh, for the past many months over his alleged failure to fully implement the NAP against terrorism.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) on Friday reiterated that Pakistain does not allow its territory to be used for attacks in any other country, Radio Pakistain reported.
The FO Spokesman Nafees Zakaria strongly rejected claims regarding allegations of terrorist safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas while responding to media queries, adding that Pakistain has lost thousands of its citizens and suffered economic losses of over $100 billion due to terrorism.
The United States (US) endorsed Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ’s claim that the existence of safe havens in Fata allowed Lions of Islam to carry out attacks inside Afghanistan whenever they want following twin suicide kabooms near the Afghan parliament earlier this week.
The blasts killed scores of people. A separate blast in Kandahar maimed the UAE Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah Al Kaabi and some other diplomats.
Soon after the blasts, a government front man in Kabul said the Lions of Islam were able to strike targets inside Afghanistan whenever they wanted because Pakistain had allowed them to maintain safe havens in Fata, a charge Islamabad rejects as baseless.
US State Department Spokesman Mark Toner had said that Pakistain had made "some progress" and had taken "some steps to address these safe havens, but clearly the problem persists".
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[Iran Press TV] The mufti of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the occupied Paleostinian territories, Muhammed Hussein, says plans by US President-elect 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... to transfer the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds is an "assault" on Moslems.
The grand mufti made the remarks in a sermon at al-Aqsa Mosque in Old City on Friday.
"The pledge to move the embassy is not just an assault against Paleostinians but against Arabs and Moslems, who will not remain silent," Hussein said.
"The transfer of the embassy violates international charters and norms which recognize Jerusalem [al-Quds] as an occupied city," Hussein said, avoiding mentioning Trump by name.
On January 10, Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior Paleostinian official and Fatah central committee member, called for Moslem and Christian worshipers across the Middle East to protest against Trump's plan. He called for prayers at mosques throughout the Middle East on Friday as well as for churches to ring their bells in protest on Sunday.
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Moslems are an assault to all Jews and especially Israel. And all of Civilization I may add.
The Al Aqsa is an upside down toilet bowl. You have no claim to this Land, Get OUT.
[NEWSWEEK] Thousands of Gazooks erupted into the streets on Thursday to protest crippling electricity shortages in the bitter winter weather.
An estimated 10,000-strong crowd began the march at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gazoo Strip and headed towards the offices of an electricity company, in one of the largest displays of unrest in the territory since Paleostinian holy warrior group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, took control in 2007.
Protesters directed their anger towards Paleostinian politicians: the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , President of the Paleostinian Authority, and Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , Hamas’s leader in Gazoo, shouting: "Oh, Haniyeh and Abbas, we are being trampled!" according to eyewitnesses, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. They burned tires and threw stones outside the electricity company offices.
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You could, maybe, learn how to keep it running yourselves
you lazy, hateful, nihilistic, useless, motherf###ers
Make a state or Vacate.
You do not care about this place at all.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] American Media revealed that President Barack Obama It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... presented a final gift to Iran. He agreed before the end of his mandate to secretly provide Tehran with 130 tons of Uranium, which can be used as fuel for a nuclear reactor or as the heart of an atomic bomb.
According to the Daily Wire, US diplomats stated that Iran is due to receive a huge shipment of natural Uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant. This was approved by the B.O. regime and other governments seeking to keep Tehran committed to the nuclear pact.
The two senior diplomats, who preferred to remain anonymous, declared that the shipment was approved by the US and five other world powers that negotiated the nuclear deal. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... Iran foresees the delivery of 116 metric tons (nearly 130 tons) of natural uranium.
They added that they need the approval of the UN Security Council, nevertheless: "It will only be a formality, considering that five of those powers are permanent Security Council members."
In the current deal, Iran compensated Russia with roughly 40 metric tons (44 tons) of heavy water; Iran also sent 30 tons of other metric, to the United States and Oman, according to the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six-party that took place at the beginning of July of the past year.
The Daily Wire reported that the Diplomats stated that any natural Uranium going to Iran would be under strict surveillance by the UN’s ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency for 25 years after the deal went through.
The newspaper quoted David Albright of the Institute of Science and International Security saying that the Uranium shipment could be enriched to build over 10 simple nuclear bombs, depending on the efficiency of the enrichment process and the design of the nuclear weapon.
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It's not too likely without him, either. I dunno, I'd like to try it and see...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... still believes a united and peaceful Syria is impossible with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... but wants to proceed "step-by-step" and see the outcome of planned peace talks in Astana, President Tayyip Erdogan’s front man said on Friday.
"Our position on Assad is clear. We don’t believe that a united, peaceful Syria will be possible with Assad remaining in power. But we will see how Astana talks go, we want to go step by step at this point," Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin said.
Speaking to news hounds at a roundtable in Ankara, Kalin said fighting in Syria had largely stopped over the past two weeks under a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] International Sherlocks have said for the first time that they suspect Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Rooters.
A joint inquiry for the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and global watchdog the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had previously identified only military units and did not name any commanders or officials.
Now a list has been produced of individuals whom the Sherlocks have linked to a series of chlorine kabooms in 2014-15 - including Assad, his younger brother Maher and other high-ranking figures - indicating the decision to use toxic weapons came from the very top, according to a source familiar with the inquiry.
The Assads could not be reached for comment but a Syrian government official said accusations that government forces had used chemical weapons had "no basis in truth". The government has repeatedly denied using such weapons during the civil war, which is almost six years old, saying all the attacks highlighted by the inquiry were the work of rebels or the ISIS.
The list, which has been seen by Rooters but has not been made public, was based on a combination of evidence compiled by the UN-OPCW team in Syria and information from Western and regional intelligence agencies, according to the source, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Rooters was unable to independently review the evidence or to verify it.
The UN-OPCW inquiry - known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) - is led by a panel of three independent experts, supported by a team of technical and administrative staff. It is mandated by the UN Security Council to identify individuals and organizations responsible for chemical attacks in Syria.
Virginia Gamba, the head of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, denied any list of individual suspects had yet been compiled by the inquiry.
"There are no ... identification of individuals being considered at this time," she told Rooters by email.
The use of chemical weapons is banned under international law and could constitute a war crime.
While the inquiry has no judicial powers, any naming of suspects could lead to their prosecution. Syria is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but alleged war crimes could be referred to the court by the Security Council - although splits among global powers over the war make this a distant prospect at present.
"The ICC is concerned about any country where crimes are reported to be committed," a front man for the court said when asked for comment. "Unless Syria accepts the ICC jurisdiction, the only way that (the) ICC would have jurisdiction over the situation would be through a referral by the Security Council."
The list seen by Rooters could form the basis for the inquiry team’s investigations this year, according to the source. It is unclear whether the United Nations or OPCW will publish the list separately.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Syrian regime should conduct a military offensive in the al-Bab region instead of the Turkish army, according to Iran, a Turkish diplomat has told the Hurriyet Daily News.
"They are in the view that a combat against DEASH [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] should rather be conducted by the Syrian regime," the diplomat said, elaborating on discussions between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iranian officials regarding Syria.
"Iranians think that the Euphrates Shield Operation was not a proper step and that Turkey will not be able to reach its goals through this operation," said the diplomat. If Ankara abstains from military incursions into Syria, the Turkish army "will not be harmed," Iranian officials told their Turkish counterparts, according to the diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous.
Turkey is aware that Tehran is not "happy" with the Euphrates Shield Operation, since Tehran does not want to see a strong Turkish military campaign in both Syria and Iraq, the diplomat said, referring also to Turkish troops’ presence at the Bashiqa military camp in northern Iraq.
Tehran has put pressure on Iraq to force Turkey to withdraw.
Iran expects the Turkey military presence in Iraq and Syria to be terminated as soon as possible, the diplomat noted.
Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria on Aug. 24, 2016, in support of Syrian rebels to try to drive ISIS away from the border area, and has frequently carried out raids on suspected Death Eaters’ safe houses in Istanbul and other cities.
An Iranian-made unmanned drone was used in an attack on a Turkish military camp in northern Syria on Nov. 24, killing four soldiers, the Hurriyet Daily News reported earlier.
When Turkish officials raised the issue to their Iranian counterpart, Tehran said "they were not involved" in the attack, the diplomat said.
In September 2016, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi voiced Tehran’s concern over the Turkish troops’ deployment in northern Syria, and called for the swift pullout of Turkish forces from the region.
"Although the fight against terrorism and efforts to maintain regional stability and security are an unchangeable and important principle in the foreign policy of peace-seeking countries in the region, this issue cannot and should not be used as a justification for violating the territorial integrity of another country by conducting military operations against that country without coordination with its central government, and by overlooking its national illusory sovereignty," Qassemi
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[YALIBNAN] Its is widely believed that Israel has targeted the positions and weapons shipments of Leb’s Hezbollah group in its Friday attack against Syria.
Syria accused Israel of firing missiles early on Friday that struck near a major military airport west of Damascus, sparking a fire, and warned Israel of repercussions without specifying whether it would retaliate for the attack.
Several missiles were reportedly fired shortly after midnight from an area in the vicinity of Israel’s Lake Tiberias, according to Syrian military statement. The rockets fell near the Mezzeh military airport, which has been used to launch attacks on rebel-held areas near Damascus and has been attacked by rebels in the past, according to the military. The incident marked the third such recent Israeli strike in Syria, the statement said. The Syrian military warned of repercussions.
Israel’s main concern in Syria has been to target the supply lines of Hezbollah
The Iran-backed group, which fought a war with Israel in 2006, has sent thousands of fighter to Syria in support of President Assad’s forces.
Last November, the Syrian army said Israeli jets fired two missiles on an area west of the capital, close to the Damascus Beirut-highway, in an attack mounted from Lebanese air space.
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#1
1. What attack?
2. Consider the alternative target?
3. Could Hezbollah not ever be the reason for attack
4. nothing on interfax
5. Right to defend over your right to annihilate
6. Missiles, not BS rockets torn from the water system
7. Operatives, many shia Iran "advisors" and missiles.
8. This will NEVER be permitted.
9. No apology
10. Let them do it again and you will NOT HAVE AN AIRPORT.
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