Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg has invested in a Camel Park saying it will help integrate migrants and turn a depressed neighborhood into a tourist mecca despite strong criticism from politicians, businessmen, and locals.
The Camel Center is expected to be built in Gothenburg’s north-eastern migrant-dominated suburb of Angered, and the major goal of the park would be to create jobs for migrants and ease their integration into Swedish society, the Goeteborgs Posten, a local daily, reports.
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Dear God, Sweden: get a grip, grow a spine. Muslims don't hate us and commit atrocities against us because of anything we've done to them, or because of anything we've failed to do for them; they hate us because their evil "religion" commands them to.
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What's next, a jockey training center for the camel center?
#5
CF, The Immigration Attorneys probably prefer that label rather than Ambulance Chasers, Illegal Alien Attorney or Rio Grand Frogmen representatives.
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“Trumpwants to lift up stories of crimes because he wants the American people to think that most undocumented immigrants are criminals,”
I'd just like to know if it zero, as the media keeps telling us, or some other number. But then, to decide if the criminals are 10% or 90%, we'd need to agree on how many illegals are in the Country, wouldn't we?
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[Khaama] 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. .. has called on Taliban group leaders to return to Afghanistan and live in the country with dignity.
In his speech during a gathering to mark the 28th anniversary of the Soviet forces withdrawal, President Ghani said the Taliban group members who are having an independent and an Afghan mindset should return to Afghanistan and start a dignified life.
President Ghani further added that the signing of peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... has paved the way for the return of Mujahideen to the country.
He said the Afghans waged Jihad for the freedom of the country in the past but the current Jihad is for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country.
Questioning the approach of the Lions of Islam in their so-called holy war, Ghani said the Mujahideen were not conducting suicide kabooms and there was no news regarding the destruction of the mosques and killing of the innocent people.
He added that the Mujahideen were waging Jihad for the freedom and development of the country.
The latest call by President Ghani to Talibs comes as the group has repeated rejected to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government.
The group maintains withdrawal of the foreign forces as one its main conditions to participate in reconciliation process.
The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that it has repatriated some 4,753 Somali refugees in Kenya by road between Jan. 16-31 before a court suspended the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp in northeast Kenya.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its bi-weekly Update that in total as of Jan. 31, 44, 365 Somali refugees had returned home since December 8, 2014 when the UN agency started supporting voluntary return of refugees in Kenya.
It's a start.
“During the reporting period, 4,753 refugees were supported to voluntarily return to Somalia by road. Road convoys are organized from Dadaab to Dhobley on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays,” it said.
According to UNHCR, flight transporting returnees to Mogadishu remained temporarily suspended during the month of January owing to the security situation in Mogadishu during the current presidential election process in Somalia.
During the period under review, the UNHCR said it the Voluntary Repatriation Cross Border Meeting was held on Jan. 31 to deliberate on security situation in the 12 areas of return, the impact of drought on repatriation and reintegration process, cross-border peace building projects and enhancing provision of country of origin information as well as monitoring and management of cases of returnees with specific needs.
The UN refugee agency also said ten flights were organized during the period under review, transporting 1,030 non-Somali refugees to Kalobeyei at the Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya.
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I once met a young somali journalist living in kenya who, as a child, was one of the boys running through the streets of mogadishu laughing and carrying on as the dead bodies of us military were being dragged behind a car after black hawk down
He went to the uk for a conference, where he promptly claimed refugee status
He showed no evidence that he had changed his ideas. He loved islam. a lot
Trump tries to face this threat and gets sabotaged by the Deep State who are trying to stop us allying wih russia to smash this ideology
[AlManar] The head of Libya’s unity government and a rival army chief were to meet in Cairo on Tuesday to find a solution to turmoil in the country, a government official said.
The UN-backed Government of National Accord has struggled to assert its authority across the North African country since starting work 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... nearly a year ago.
GNA head Fayez al-Sarraj and Marshal 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... were due to meet on Tuesday afternoon in the Egyptian capital, the official said, without providing further details on the agenda.
Haftar, whose forces control much of Libya’s east, is backed by a parliament based in the far east of the country that has refused to recognize the unity government.
Sarraj met Haftar in January last year in the eastern city of al-Marj shortly after he was named GNA head.
The UN-brokered agreement that created the unity government did not give Haftar a role in the new administration, but the Egypt-backed strongman made clear he was a key player when he seized control of major oil terminals in the country’s east in September.
UN envoy Martin Kobler last week said talks had made progress on "possible amendments" to the political agreement, and notably on Haftar’s future role.
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[AnNahar] Libya on Tuesday repatriated nearly 200 illegal migrants colonists from Niger who had been held in detention centers in the capital, an AFP photographer said.
They were flown home from Mitiga airport east of 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... , in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Hosni Abu Ayana, a front man for Libya's office that deals with illegal migrants colonists, said the repatriated group included 50 women and four children.
He added that more than 900 other detained migrants colonists will be repatriated in the coming weeks.
The IOM website said that in 2016, the organization "supported 1,589 migrants colonists to voluntarily return to their countries of origin" from Libya, giving priority to "the most vulnerable."
People smugglers have taken advantage of the chaos gripping Libya since the 2011 revolution to greatly boost their lucrative trade.
Most departures take place from the west of the North African country, usually heading for Italia 300 kilometers (190 miles) away across the Mediterranean.
Europeans are considering measures aimed at blocking the arrival of thousands of migrants colonists, alarming NGOs which fear those stranded in Libya may suffer mistreatment.
In the absence of an army or a regular police force in Libya, several militias act as coastguards but are often accused themselves of complicity or even involvement in the people-smuggling business.
[FoxBusinessNews] Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) tells us that the intelligence community is resisting Trump with all its might and trying to will its vision of the future on America. That future involves a new Cold War with Russia.
It's scary now that we finally see what is going on with our own eyes. If nothing else, Trump has turned on the light and showed all of the roaches in the kitchen. He has shoved the red pill down America's throat and finally we can see we really were living in The Matrix. So many of our institutions are corrupt and the power they have is astonishing.
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The Kucinich analysis is spot on. The "Gone Rogue" lineage goes a bit deeper however. How about rolling the 'Regime Change' tape all the way back to Apr 17, 1961 – Apr 19, 1961 and the Bay of Pigs.
As Kucinich obliquely alludes, political turmoil and regime change is a business development imperative. DJT's 'America First' and 'Stay Home and Stay Out of Other People's Business' is an anathema to these people. 'Drain the Swamp' is definately not on their menu.
The 'Trump Revolution' is perhaps more of a 'revolution' than many realize.
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Trump needs to get out ahead of the intelligence community and drain the swamp faster. There are people left over from Obama's administration and the Clinton administration who can and will do harm to a DJT administration. The MSM will applaud this shadow government and any problems created for Trump.
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In the Southern States, the selling of mules, horses, teams and wagons to Great Britain was quite lucrative during the period 1900-1902. So much so that prices were driven up here at home and domestic availability had not fully recovered at our entry into WWI.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to where those commodities ended up ?
Ike knew what he was talking about when he warned us of the "military-industrial complex."
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Apparently the CIA has a recording of Flynn and Russian discussing sanctions (though 'discussion' could well be a simple mention), which Flynn later denied having to VP Pence. 1) Flynn, with his history, should have known phone calls to Russians were recorded, so either he is senile (unlikely) or the discussion was so trivial as to escape memory, making his statement to Pence unremarkable and not a 'lie.' It did leave Pence out there dangling in the wind though, which is not a good thing for Flynn to have done. That shouldn't have been 'terminal,' suggesting there is more to the story.
#11
You gotta have open borders to get that heroin to Chicago.
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Flynn, with his history, should have known phone calls to Russians were recorded, so either he is senile (unlikely) or the discussion was so trivial as to escape memory
Yes, w/o the transcripts, I'll go with 'trivial' for now. And yes, there's very likely 'more to this story.' One of the 'more's' is Flynn is fully aware of the Klingon MO and was/is giving DJT the daily dump. Former Congressman Mike Rogers wasn't quietly dumped form the DJT campaign effort due to bad breath. Pompeo was on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He and Gowdy both knew of Rogers' poo pooing of the Benghazi affair and his wife's connections. Flynn was likely awares also. Pompeo is the clean-up hitter. I hope and pray he is successful.
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The MDW/CONUS Institutional IC has atrophied and become irrelevant over the past two decades. I am not sure they can find their way back...this is a horrible culture that wraps itself around the successes of the operational IC...in which they are way too timid to take part in...because you know, careers and things (cowards).
Intel folks at the operational level, however, make a difference on a daily basis. The gulf between the institutional and operational is huge.
Retire the beltway IC folks that haven't deployed and replace them with operators (who know their requirements) and operational IC folks (who know how to get it done). There is a war to win, we don't have time for this political foolishness.
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.....this is a horrible culture that wraps itself around the successes of the operational IC...in which they are way too timid to take part in...because you know, careers and things (cowards).
Why 'take part' when you can simply control the mission, the COP (Common Operational Picture) and selectively exploit whatever tactical intelligence people turn up ?
"No, don't send Muktar to Parwan. Yes, we know he's a pos, but we have other plans for him which we are not at liberty to discuss. Do you need further verification from the country team? Ok then, see you at the weekly update."
The story is Flynn has a history of shaking up the powers that be. He also has a history of being right.
The first thing he did was increase the capabilities of the DIA (which he headed) to the point that 40% of the President's daily briefing was DIA material, even though the DIA was only 20% the size of the CIA.
The next thing he did was try to set up an organization very similar to the CIA's Special Activities Division. These would report to the commanders of the various Area Commands and be area specialists. The CIA went volcanic; especially since one of the duties was to "validate intelligence coming from the CIA." As far as the CIA was concerned, "We don't need no stinking validation!"
This effort was sharply curtailed, but Gen. Flynn now had a target on his back.
The next problem occurred when some WH dweeb noticed the DIA needed fewer permissions to do an operation than either the CIA or FBI. Thus the DIA could get thing done more quickly and discretely than other agencies. The other agencies saw this "invading their turf" and "unfair competition." This put Flynn in the crosshairs of more Federal agencies.
Finally, Flynn warned Obama that Daesh was a dangerous new terrorist organization. Flynn warned they could be a major threat unless stopped. This warning went against the "current truth" that Obama was pushing at the time.
Even worse, Flynn had the nerve to be accurate when all Obama wants are lies. Obama relieved Flynn of command.
When Trump appointed Flynn to be National Security Advisor, he insulted Obama and waved a red flag in front of all Obama holdovers in the federal government.
People attacked Flynn to prove their loyalty to Obama, humble Donald Trump and avenge themselves on General Flynn. He had made bureaucrats look lazy and stupid. And for he has to pay.
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The next problem occurred when some WH dweeb noticed the DIA needed fewer permissions.......
Not to be a total jerk, but we're headed behind the green door with that one. Might not want to expand further.
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Shut the place down, suspend all security clearances and subject everyone to intense investigation. Waterboard them if you have to. The deep state players must be hunted down and removed.
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Why 'take part' when you can simply control the mission, the COP (Common Operational Picture) and selectively exploit whatever tactical intelligence people turn up ?
I know yours is a hypothetical question...but, man it is really hard to get any type of perspective from 10k miles away...and provide real reach back support...and the spin cycle downrange can never be matched by the 9-5 types.
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I know yours is a hypothetical question...but, man it is really hard to get any type of perspective from 10k miles away...and provide real reach back support...and the spin cycle downrange can never be matched by the 9-5 types.
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No argument there, but that "10k mile" gap is bridged fairly rapidly when people are on the ground, calling the shots in select locations. The late Mike Spann is one example.
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I know this sounds off the wall, but assuming Flynn is a smart and savvy man with respect to the possible tapping and recording of phone conversations, would it be possible that Trump set him up to do just that to rat out these deep state bastards? Just a thought. Could be a bit of a sting to bring the cockroaches into the light.
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Very interesting theory AP. Very interesting indeed.
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A complex? It couldn't be clearer:
A face and a heel, and a shearer;
The Greens or the Blues,
And which champ we should choose,
As we curse the reverse in a mirror.
#29
Amazing how Facebook is full of Trump is in a quagmire posts today. They have been waiting and having two guys resign in the same week just has the left filled with glee. It won't last, but it is interesting to watch.
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Now you all know what I was saying here years ago when I told you that the Intel Community, especially the CIA, needed to be disbanded then restructured and reassembled - with personnel cleaned out with a flamethrower in some cases.
[Ynet] Turkish police detained more than 500 people on Monday in operations across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... targeting suspects linked with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) turban group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
It said senior members of the group were among the 544 suspects held in operations across 25 provinces, including the major western cities of Istanbul and Izmir.
Officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were among the 45 detained in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, the provincial governor's said in a statement.
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"...Marquez and Farook first met in 2005 after Marquez moved next door to Farook's family in Riverside, about 55 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, officials said. The then-teens would meet in Farook's garage and Farook, a Muslim, began educating his new friend about his religion. Marquez converted and became a Muslim in 2007.
The FBI said the two began discussing extremist views shortly after Marquez converted...."
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[AnNahar] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the top priority for the transatlantic alliance is to increase defense spending, as demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "Regardless of language, the most important thing is that we increase defense spending and that is exactly what we are doing," Stoltenberg said when asked about NATO's response to Trump's calls for it to do more to share the burden with Washington.
On the campaign trail and in his first days in office, Trump appeared to put in doubt the near 70-year U.S. security guarantee for NATO which he dubbed "obsolete" while accusing some allies of not paying their way. His remarks caused consternation among the allies who, stung by Russia's intervention in Ukraine, had agreed in 2014 to increase defense spending to two percent of national economic output by 2024, reversing years of cuts.
Stoltenberg said all 28 allies had agreed that commitment and they reaffirmed it last year at a Warsaw summit.
"That has been my top priority and I have raised it in all the meetings that I have had," he told a press briefing before a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday.
"In 2015, we stopped the cuts and in 2016 ... we made the first significant step in increasing defense spending by 3.8 percent" or $10 billion, he added.
He said that in two phone calls with Trump, the new president "strongly expressed his strong commitment to NATO ... but in both calls he underlined fair burden sharing."
"Those that spend less than the two percent have to meet the two percent target and I agree with him," he said.
The NATO defense ministers meeting is being closely watched as it is the first for new U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, with his peers anxious to hear first hand what the new administration plans. Mattis, who served several years in NATO, has appeared more conciliatory on the future of the alliance and relations with Russia compared with the president.
Stoltenberg downplayed the issue when asked about possible differences or tensions within the new U.S. administration.
"The important thing for me is that the president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state have all conveyed the same strong message about NATO," he said. "They stated clearly that the United States stays strongly committed to NATO and the transatlantic bond."
h/t Instapundit
President Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop settlement construction for "a little bit" and declared he's fine with a two-state solution or one-state solution during the leaders' first meeting at the White House today. So, it's the same old song again
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This meeting was a bit different. BB was in rare form and very upbeat. I have never seen him this happy. This is a new opportunity for US Israel relations. BB can see it as well.
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So, it's the same old song again
I dunno. That's the cherry-picked headline, but I read that as Trump just squirting a little lube into the 'negotiations'.
From the article: The Palestinians, the president said, "have to get rid of some of that hate that they are taught from a very young age."
"They're taught tremendous hate. I've seen what they're taught. And you can talk about flexibility there too, but it starts at a very young age and it starts in the schoolroom. And they have to acknowledge, as you know, they're going to have to do that," Trump said.
Maybe I'm just giddy, but has an American president *ever* acknowledged this? Also, Netanyahu mentions "Arab partners". The Arab world has some bigger fish to fry at the moment. Sure, it's fun using the Paleos as tools to torment the Juice, but the Iranians are the real concern.
[Ynet] According to reports in the British daily The Telegraph, David Guvrin was brought back to Israel from Cairo three months ago after fears arose over his personal safety; while it is believed that since his departure Guvrin has not returned to Egypt, the Foreign Ministry has yet to comment on the matter.
Israel's ambassador to Egypt, David Guvrin quietly returned to Israel in late 2016 from Cairo over concerns for his personal safety, it was reported in The Telegraph. The Shin Bet confirmed that due to security concerns the ambassador and his staff have yet to return to Cairo.
Foreign Ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon declined to comment on the report which was first reported in the British daily.
According to the report, Guvrin was evacuated from Cairo some three months ago and is currently working from Jerusalem. The Foreign Ministry is hoping to return him to Egypt as soon as circumstances permit.
The Telegraph said the exact circumstances are unclear, but it is most likely due to a series of terrorist attacks in the Egyptian capital which claimed the lives of several people and officials.
Ambassador Guvrin was appointed last summer and in September presented his credentials to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
[ARA News] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the allied Jaish al-Thuwar group denied media reports that they handed over Tal Rifaat town and neighbouring villages in northern Aleppo to the Syrian government.
"YPG hands over Tal Rifaat and neighboring villages to the regime. YPG took the villages from rebels in February 2016," Abdurahman Harkoush, a former spokesperson for the Army of Islam group, said on 10 February.
Also, the pro-Syrian government Al Masdar News reported that six towns in northern Aleppo decided to reconcile with the government after mediation by the Russian army.
The pro-Turkish government news agency Anadolu claimed on Sunday that the Kurds and the Syrian government discussed the possibility to work against the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Euphrates Shield operation in al-Bab city, and that during a Russian sponsored meeting in Latakia, it was decided to host the Syrian government flags over the six towns to stop ’advances of Operation Euphrates Shield Forces’.
"I am present now in Tel Rifaat, and I want to reassure everyone that the towns of Tel Rifaat, Sheikh Eisa, Ein Duqna, Mennag and the Menage airport are completely under SDF control," Abu Araj, an SDF officer, told ARA News.
"There is no flag raised in these areas but that of the SDF," Araj stressed.
The SDF-affiliated Jaish al-Thuwar also denied the reports.
"The claims stating that many towns and villages such as Tel Rifaat in the north of Aleppo were handed over to the regime forces two days ago are untrue. This situation is only the result of an agreement between Russia, Iran and Turkey," the group said in an official statement.
"Turkey, in line with its politics and interests, claims that the Syrian regime forces have come together in the north of Aleppo with representatives of opposition groups in Syria. The gangs are trying to stage new theatre plays on the land we saved with the efforts of our deaders," it said.
"The only thing right in this regard is that the Syrian regime forces have handed over al-Bab to Turkish troops and their gangs," Jaish al-Thuwar said. Moreover, the SDF-affiliated group said they will continue to capture territory in northern Aleppo.
"We know that the Syrian regime forces did not fire a single bullet against Turkish troops and their gangs. We promise our people, we will continue the struggle until the Shahba [Northern Aleppo] region is liberated from the gangs and occupying forces. We will protect the efforts of our deaders," the group concluded.
On Sunday, the Turkey-backed Tel Rifaat Military Council said that it hit the YPG in Tel Rifaat town with mortar shells and artillery.
Last week, Turkey-backed rebels and the Turkish army shelled Kurdish positions in Afrin district [Efrin] northwest of Aleppo. The Turkish troops have started to enter areas near Afrin since February 10 with trucks and cranes to build walls on the borderline with Syria.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg has invested in a Camel Park saying it will help integrate migrants and turn a depressed neighborhood into a tourist mecca despite strong criticism from politicians, businessmen, and locals.
...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. ..
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
