[Libya Herald] Despite the major difficulties facing in health service throughout Libya, a team of doctors at 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... ’s Ali Omar Askar Neuro Hospital has managed to successfully remove a bullet from the head of a 22-year-old man. The unnamed man was taken to the hospital at Esbaia, near the closed Tripoli international Airport south of the city on 13 June, after being hit by a stray bullet.
Initial medical treatment had been administered before the man was transferred to the neuroscience unit.
According to the hospital, the operation was especially precarious because the bullet was lodged in an area of the brain where a mistake in removing it could have been fatal.
The man’s condition is now described as excellent.
The medical team consisted of Drs Abdelhamid Bin Shaaban, Faraj al-Amami, Adel Abuzinin and their assistants.
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[Libya Herald] Following last week’s announcement that the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) is on a terrorist list complied by 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... , Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain, and then the House of Representatives’ offering of a further 75 Libyan names and nine entities for the list, the BDB has come up with its own list of those it deems to be terrorists.
There are 11 names in the tit-for-tat move, all of them civilians. Surprisingly, no military or security figures make it onto the listing ‐ not Khalifa Hafter, whom the BDB and its allies usually never fail to attack, nor any of his officers. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... almost all who are on the list were supposedly there because of their links to Hafter’s Operation Dignity.
HoR President Ageela Saleh tops the BDB list, with eastern Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni in second place.
They are followed by former Libyan ambassador to the UAE, Aref Nayed, who has been vocal in his opposition to the Moslem Brüderbund.
In fourth place is the former Libyan ambassador to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , Ibrahim al-Dabbashi, who last week attacked the brigades and described them as" the defeated forces" trying to stir up chaos in Sabratha.
Fifth place went to HoR 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... member Ali al-Takbali for his support of Hafter’s Operation Dignity.
In sixth position is HoR member Ibrahim al-Dresi from Benghazi who chairs the parliament’s Awqaf committee. After him comes former Libya’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Hafter ally Abdelbaset al-Badri,
Sharif al-Wafi, a member of the former General National Congress (GNC) is in eighth place, apparently because of his "terrorist" action of participating in the handover of power to the House of Representatives. Then comes the former GNC vice-president of the General National Congress Ezzidden Awami. Again, his act of "terrorism" was to oversee the transfer of power from the old GNC to the HoR.
In position No.10 is Presidency Council-boycotting member Ali al-Qatrani, a member of the Presidential Council.
In last place on the list is Abubakr Buera, a member of the HoR and former member of the UN-brokered Libya Dialogue.
Pouring scorn the list, Aref Nayed said that it was "a badge of honour to be put on the blacklist of al-Qaeeda",
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[Al Jazeera] Bangui, Central African Republic - At least 1,500 people, mostly Moslem civilians, currently stuck in a Catholic church in the country's southeast, are growing increasingly desperate, a priest has told Al Jazeera.
The displaced people took refuge in the cathedral in the town of Bangassou after fleeing deadly violence in mid-May.
"The situation is not safe enough to leave, and so they cannot move from here," said Father Alain Blaise Bissialo, the priest at the church.
"There are men who walk around town with guns."
The crisis in Bangassou began between May 13-17 when Anti-balaka, a vigilante militia made up of mostly Christians, launched a series of attacks on Moslems in Tokoyo, a largely Moslem district of Bangassou.
Thousands flocked to a nearby mosque to seek refuge.
Yet, the mosque was subsequently attacked too, culminating in the killing of the local imam.
In an attempt to save civilians at the mosque, the Catholic bishop sent trucks to Tokoyo to transport as many civilians as possible back to the church for their safety.
"At last count, 150 people were killed during the violence since mid-May, but this number could rise," Antoinne Mbao Bogo, president of the local branch of the Red Thingy, told Al Jazeera on Friday.
Alidou Djibril, a displaced person at the church, said there was a shortage of food and clothes.
"It's hard for us, we have to stay in the same place, we cannot move, and we are fasting," he said.
Djibril said they only received food one week after arriving at the church, adding that the Anti-balaka were not allowing traders to bring food to them.
According to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , most of Bangassou's 35,000 residents fled, some to sites for internally displaced people and others across into neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
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Anybody ever heard of mosque hiding Christians from Muslim mobs?
[Iran Press TV] 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... and the Israeli regime are in clandestine talks to establish official economic relations for the first time since the entity was created on the Paleostinian territories some 69 years ago, a report says.
The Times, citing unnamed Arab and American sources, said in a report on Saturday that forming economic connections between to two, which would be gradual and step by step, could begin by allowing Israeli companies to open shops in the Arab kingdom, or granting El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. permission to fly over Saudi airspace.
"However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... any such progress would bolster the alliance between Iran’s two most implacable enemies and change the dynamics of the many conflicts destabilizing the Middle East," the report speculated.
So far Saudi officials have had some open meetings with bigwigs in Israel, trying to gradually pave the way for establishing ties with the occupying regime.
Back in May last year, Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva reported that Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies, namely Jordan and Egypt, had been sending messages to Israel through various emissaries, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They had asked Tel Aviv to resume Middle East negotiations under new terms, which included changes to the Saudi initiative.
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[Al Jazeera] The cutting of diplomatic ties, closure of air, land and sea and the restrictions placed on Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... are "worse than the Berlin Wall", according to the chairman of Qatar's National Human Rights Committee (NHRC).
Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Ali Bin Smaikh al-Marri called on the UN Human Rights Council to condemn the blockade of Qatar as it infringes upon the rights of more than 13,000 citizens of the Arab countries involved.
"All these decisions are really a violation against the rights of the families," Marri said in a separate interview with Al Jazeera.
According to a report released by NHRC on Thursday, the actions taken by 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 Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along with Egypt, separated mothers from their children in some cases.
Hundreds of complaints were submitted to the NHRC by email, phone and hotlines, or personal visits to its headquarters in Qatar's capital, Doha.
"These procedures [blockade] are worse than the Berlin Wall," Marri said.
"Families have been separated. In one instance, a Saudi man died in Qatar. His sons were prevented by Saudi authorities to bring the body back home so Qatar took the responsibility to bury him.
"This is collective punishment and the blockade will affect thousands of people.
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"This is collective punishment and the blockade will affect thousands of people.
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This is collective punishment and the blockade will affect thousands of people.
And you can fix that all by yourself (the gov't) by stopping your support of radicals and terrorists...over to you.
[Al Jazeera] 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... has rejected an offer from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to build a military base in the kingdom, saying it "cannot allow" Ankara to establish such a facility on its territories, according to state-run media.
The official SPA news agency reported on Saturday that the kingdom would not be welcoming a Turkish military base similar to that built in neighbouring Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... since its "armed forces and military capabilities are at the best level".
Quoting an unnamed official, the statement said: "Saudi Arabia can not allow Turkey to establish military bases on its territories," before adding that Saudi armed forces were participating abroad, including from Turkey's Incirlik base, "in the fight against terrorism and protecting security and stability in the region".
The statement came days after Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... told Portuguese broadcaster RTP that he had offered to build a military base in Saudi Arabia shortly after work began on Turkey's facility in Qatar in 2014.
"I made the same offer to King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... ... and said that if it's appropriate we could also establish a base in Saudi Arabia. They said they would look into it but since that day nothing more came," he said.
Last week, the Turkish parliament fast-tracked a bill allowing the deployment of troops to its military base in Qatar.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... established the International Union of Moslem Scholars in Doha back in 2004 in order to bring to bring together Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi Moslem. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the union was quickly used as a political tool to prop up Islamist parties like the Moslem Brüderbund.
Egyptian-Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i hardline holy man Qaradawi was recently designated as a terrorist by 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... , UAE, Bahrain and Egypt after years of supporting Lion of Islam groups and encouraging suicide kabooms.
The Union, which was established in 2004, set its goals to be civil rather than political, as stated by its president. But it appears in the statements of its officials that the union moved away from the demands of the people, and become a tool used for political reasons by its host Qatar.
The union recently issued a statement condemning the severing of ties between several Gulf and Arab countries with Qatar, describing the boycott as a blockage and siege and demanding it be lifted. The union also condemned the inclusion of Qaradawi, Ali al-Salabi, Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... and others who were included in the Qatar-linked terrorism list, saying their designation on the list was done "without evidence or proof".
This is not the first time that the union has issued statements that violate its institutional work. Such actions were repeated a few months ago by a statement supporting the constitutional amendments that strengthened the powers of Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... The union is financially supported by Qatar’s former Emir Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, and it has been based in Doha and has sought such populist rhetoric over the past 13 years since its founding to dominate the street and played an inflammatory role by issuing statements and positions of a partisan political nature, inciting chaos across the region in doing so.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... 's King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... issued several royal orders on Saturday morning including the amendment of the name of the Investigation and Public Prosecution Commission to the Public Prosecutor's Office and to be headed by the Attorney-General.
King Salman named Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah bin Mubarak Attorney General, with a ministerial rank, reported the official Saudi Press Agency.
The royal decree stated that the Public Prosecutor's Office is to function under the King’s authority directly to guarantee its independence and autonomy and to assign experts to review the system of the General Investigation and Prosecution Authority to propose any required amendments within 90 days.
Observers believe that the royal order "came as a step towards reformation for the justice system in the Kingdom, where the Public Prosecutor office is directly linked to the King and thus will be completely independent of the executive authority."
The royal orders included relieving Sheikh Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulrahman al-Abdullah al-Arini, head of the investigation and prosecution agency of his duties and appointing Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah bin Mubarak as a public prosecutor.
The Saudi monarch also decided to end the service of General Osman bin Nasser al-Muhraj, the director of public security, and promoted Major General Saud bin Abdulaziz Hilal as director of public security.
The royal orders included the appointment of Abdulhakim bin Mohammed bin Sulaiman al-Tamimi as head of the General Authority of Civil Aviation under the rank of minister and Suhail bin Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Abanmi as governor of the General Authority for Zakat and Income, with the rank of excellence.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al Arabiya News Channel has released late Friday four phone call recordings between the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i Emir’s Special Advisor Hammad bin Khalifa Abdullah al-Attiya and Hassan Ali Mohammed Juma’a Sultan, a Bahraini dissident, whose nationality was revoked in 2015. The recordings show how Qatar was conspiring behind the scene against the Gulf states’ unified policy in Bahrain.
While the phone recordings were undated, they allude that the backchannel talks might have took place in 2011, after the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sent their joint military forces known as Peninsula Shield Force at the request by the Bahraini government to protect the latter country’s national security.
The first recording shows how Qatar was trying to balance between Doha keeping up with its pro-GCC policy in Bahrain but instead it was working behind the scene, using al-Jazeera News Channel to broadcast opposing agendas.
"[Rioters] People are now dealing with the forces as forces of occupation," Sultan was heard telling Attiya in the first phone call conversation.
"I am with what you are saying," Attiya said. "I should not be telling you this, as you should know, we in Qatar, we have our reservations [over Peninsula Shield Force presence in Bahrain]."
Attiya said that Qatar cannot be against its GCC "brethrens" and it "rejects to patriciate" in the Peninsula Shield Force.
"As you know the law for the Peninsula Shield Force requires all countries to patriciate," he said. "We pressured ourselves not to participate as forces," adding that there were two Qatari officers, "who are being watched."
Attiya also said if the situation further developed, he will personally see Sultan or "Shiekh Issa."
Sheikh Isa Qassim, an opposition leader, who had his Bahraini citizenship revoked in 2016 and is facing a "money laundering" trial.
In the second recording Attiya was inquiring over what was exactly happening in Bahrain, and in the third phone call, the Qatari advisor asked Sultan if the latter could recommend a person who can appear on al-Jazeera to talk about the situation in Bahrain.
"We want cooperation over correct information," Attiya asked Sultan.
In the fourth recording, Sultan recommends and gives Attiya the name of the Bahrain journalist Tahir al-Musawi to provide al-Jazeera with all the information needed.
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[Iran Press TV] The last suspects tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! over possible connection to the London Bridge terror attack have been released with no charge.
According to Scotland Yard, a 27-year-old man arrested in east London on June 9, a 28-year-old arrested in Barking on June10 and a 19-year-old man also arrested in Barking the following day were released.
All 17 others arrested during a probe into the deadly attack have already been released from custody, The Guardian reported.
Terror on and near the London Bridge left at least eight people dead and maimed almost 50 others on June 3.
Eight minutes after the first emergency call, armed police forces killed ringleader Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22.
The three knife-wielding assailants drove a hired van into pedestrians on the bridge and stabbed others in Borough Market in an attack initially praised and subsequently claimed by the ISISTakfiri ...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.
It took 11 days for the historic market to open again after the attack.
A minute’s silence for the victims was observed by traders, shoppers, police and political figures, who gathered at the site Wednesday for the reopening.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said there were "mixed feelings" at the market.
"Our thoughts are with those who bit the dust and were maimed," he said. "There are traders who lost business. Come to Borough Market, buy their things and support these traders."
Donald Hyslop, the chair of trustees of Borough Market, also stated that, "It is essential for the well being of everyone associated with Borough Market that we return
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[DW] A peace march organized by German Moslem groups to condemn terrorism and violence in the name of Islam has been held in Cologne. Organizers had registered 10,000 participants, but actual turnout was much lower.
Under gray skies, demonstrators waved banners proclaiming "together against terror" and "terrorism has no religion" on Saturday in the western German city of Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... Estimates of the number of people who took part varied from several hundred to about 3,500.
Based on the bit of video and photo at the link, I would guesstimate that there are as many as a few hundred actual Muslims, the rest of the crowd being reporters, camera crew, and supportive non-Muslims.
The march, organized by Islamic scholar Lamya Kaddor and peace activist Tarek Mohamad to condemn violence in the name of Islam across the world, was preceded by a heated debate when Germany's biggest Islamic association, the Turkish-Islamic Union (known by its acronym DITIB), refused to take part.
Follow-up marches are planned for Berlin and several other German cities.
[AnNahar] Turkish authorities on Saturday freed the top adviser to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim detained on suspicion of links to the movement of US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... blamed for last year's failed coup, state media reported.
Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was released under judicial supervision which means he should still face trial, a date for which has yet to be set.
He had been taken into custody in Ankara earlier this month along with his wife Gulumser Erdem. Unlike her husband, she was, however, placed under arrest by an Ankara court ahead of trial, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Erdem, who was questioned for three days, had been accused of seeking to violate the constitution and being a leader of "an armed terror group".
Reports at the time said Erdem was detained after other suspects had named him in their testimonies.
In a separate development, the son-in-law of Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbas, Omer Faruk Kavurmaci, was detained again by police on suspicion of business links to Gulen. Kavurmaci were tossed into the calaboose in October but was released in May on health grounds as he suffers from epilepsy. This had sparked angry claims he had benefited from nepotistic and preferential treatment.
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Rumours? Fake news? Partially true? True? So many weasel words, but a dearth of quoted sources on the record. One begins to suspect someone is trying to cause trouble between allies and within the Philippines.
[MintPressNews] The U.S. is beefing up its military presence in the Philippines, claiming that the Philippines government requested their aid. However, President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Sunday he made no such request, raising concern that the U.S. may have an ulterior motive.
While the Philippine government claims that it did not request U.S. military aid, it remains unconfirmed if the Philippine Army requested the aid independently without consulting the federal government.
Duterte insinuated during Sunday’s press conference that this may be the case, stating that due to years of U.S. training, "our soldiers are pro-American, that I cannot deny." He did not explicitly comment on whether the army had asked for U.S. military aid without his approval.
However, the Philippine military seems to have admitted to asking for the aid. Philippine military spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla told the Associated Press: 'We don’t have adequate surveillance equipment, so we asked the U.S. military for assistance. It’s non-combat assistance.'
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The fact that Mindanao is the very region now threatened by Daesh suggests that documented U.S. intelligence plans to use the terror group as a tool to destabilize and overthrow democratically-elected presidents may now be coming to fruition in the Philippines.
An entirely understandable train of thought, desperately flawed nonetheless. Could a Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones segment be pulled together to further explore ?
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“Duterte ejected U.S. special forces from the southern Philippines last year”. Not exactly true, SOCPAC phased out the Joint Special Operations Task Force- Philippines, (JSOTF-P) and the mission was assumed by Marine Special Operations Command, MARSOC in Zamboanga. Despite the scale down the Marines have been engaged down there, at one point a few months ago they got into a firefight and the whole squad had to leave the country prior to the news reports came out that they were involved in direct action. Duterte has been on kidney dialysis and has been absent due to “illness”, yes there maybe something afoot going on but to the extent that the US is plotting a coup is doubtful. We have lost contact over the last eight years under the prior administration of all our well-groomed assets. Now you do have some players that are vested in that rice bowl down there and they may seize this window of opportunity to take advantage of the current weakness by using the US as a smokescreen take action…….
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What would the US have to gain? Put another way, would is a compelling reason?
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There's nothing in this that remotely points at "A US Led Military Coup". Maybe Duterte's own chiefs are thinking about tossing him, but I'm fairly sure all the US guys understand that getting involved in it would be a no-no.
It's kinda like a dog chasing a car, and the US invading Iraq: OK, now what are you going to do with it?
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Interesting note is that the Seabees have taken up the heavy lifting for Civil Military Operations in the Southern Philippines. This was once a SF deal, and they are the best in this type of operations here, low key and effective. Now that the powers at be have the purse strings, and what I have seen is the full blown industrial in your face we know how do it better type of Op. When do we stop reinventing the wheel??
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Good question, Joe. We had, as you mentioned, some pretty good assets down there (and elsewhere). It's going to take a decade, probably two, to get things back to near where they were prior to 2008.
[DAWN] A diplomatic crisis pitting 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... against Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... has put Syrian rebels in a difficult position, analysts say, after rivalries between Gulf backers had already weakened the opposition.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As long as there are terror entities in the shape of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxy Hezbollah, using the state system to brainwash youngsters into carrying out acts of terror in foreign lands, there will never be an end to terrorism.
As far as Hezbollah is concerned, it will never run out of cannon fodder, as thousands of child conscripts are being trained within its scouting groups, and are always waiting in the pipeline, ready to take up the challenge of becoming a jacket wallah or proxy warrior within the Shiite militia’s ever-diminishing ranks. The conflict in Syria has certainly taken a toll, as Hezbollah warriors die dutifully in droves for their Iranian paymasters.
Children as young as eight, who have joined the ranks of Hezbollah’s Imam al-Mahdi Scouts, are being brain-washed into learning the concepts of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s radical Shiite ideology, ready to be unleashed across the globe as part of Iran’s terror machine. As far as Hezbollah is concerned, they like to catch their conscripts at the earliest of age, and one of their favoured methods is to sign them up as Imam al-Mahdi Scouts, the youth wing of their fighting machine.
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[Iran Press TV] Over 1,600 Izadi (Yezdi) children have been trained by the ISIS terrorist group as jacket wallahs and executioners over the past three years, says a Kurdish official.
The director of the Izadi Affairs Office of the Kurdistan Regional Government was quoted by the DPA as saying on Saturday that these children trained by 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... Lions of Islam are a global threat.
"It cannot be ruled out that ISIS could use them in terrorist actions in European countries as well as the US, Arab countries or elsewhere," he noted.
According to recent figures, a total of 6,417 Izadis have managed to flee from the Lions of Islam and were rescued by various liberating forces. Reports show that at least 9,900 Izadis were killed in the first few days of ISIS's operations in Iraq in 2017.
Back in August 2014, ISISLions of Islam overran Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Izadis. The town was recaptured on November 13, 2015, during a two-day operation by Peshmerga forces and Izadi fighters.
The Office of Kidnapped Affairs in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk says around 3,500 Izadi Kurds are currently being held captive in the ISIS-held areas, and that a large proportion of the abductees are women and kiddies.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwaiti actress Mona Shaddad say that she, and other cast and crew of their Ramadan television series, have received death threats from ISIS this year for playing roles of women who joined the radical bad boy group.
Inspired by true events, Black Crows currently airs on the Middle East Broadcasting Channel (MBC) over Ramadan -- prime time for viewers across the Arab world. It is ever television series of its kind to depict life under ISIS rule in Syria and Iraq.
Shaddad plays a woman who joins ISIS in Iraq after 20 years of failing to find a husband in her home country Kuwait and hopes of being one of the "jihadi brides" for ISIS fighters.
"The role I play is very important because it touches upon the topic of how easily brainwashed some people can be and led to believe that they are joining an bad boy group for good reasons when in reality, they are not," Shaddad told Al Arabiya.
"The main motive and goal for me joining this very important Arabic project was to change the narrative and depict the true brutality of the group," she added.
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The show, in only four episodes so far, has shown how brutal life under ISIS really is. One scene shows ISIS making use of young children in the production and sale of narcotic drugs and another scene depicts how ISIS men sexually assault women and kiddies under their rule.
The drama on MBC - the biggest broadcasting network in the region ‐ has to no surprise angered ISIS supporters, both online and offline.
"I’m not afraid because I know that my first protector is God almighty. Secondly, this production had and has the protection of several governments, and especially from the owner of MBC Group. At the end of the day, my aim was to break ISIS through my talent of acting and show them for who they really are," Shaddad said.
For Saudi actress Aseel Omran, the death threats from ISIS has not phased her given that she lives in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
"If you asked me a few years ago whether threats from ISIS scared me, I’d say yes. But let’s be honest, we live in Dubai, one of the safest cities in the world. For now, I’m not feeling it but let’s wait for the half-way mark of Ramadan and see how the threats look like, God forbid they do though," Omran told Al Arabiya’s Sarah Dundarawy.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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