Wordy disquisition about Hamas being forced to dance to President Sisi's tune.
[AlAhram] A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo earlier this week to resume talks which started in February regarding the the situation in the Gazoo Strip and bilateral relations with Egypt.
The delegation is led by the head of the political bureau of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, 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... , in his first visit to Cairo since his election as the head of the group’s political bureau in May.
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[Ynet] President Faure Gnassingbé, faced with a major protest for his resignation, announces indefinite postponement of Africa-Israel summit scheduled to take place in Lomé at the end of October.
Togo on Monday cancelled an upcoming Africa-Israel summit, citing lack of time to prepare, after days of anti-government protests targeting President Faure Gnassingbé.
The summit was due to have been held in the capital, Lome, late next month and was billed as a chance for closer cooperation in trade, security and diplomacy.
"The summit has indeed been postponed," a source at Togo's foreign ministry told AFP, confirming an earlier statement from his counterparts in Israel.
"No new date has been agreed yet," he added, without elaborating.
Israel's foreign ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon said Gnassingbé himself had requested the event be pushed back after discussions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The president of Togo has emphasized that elaborate preparations are needed in order to guarantee the success of the event," said Nahshon.
A number of African countries were reportedly threatening to boycott the October 23-27 event, in protest at Israel's conduct in the Paleostinian conflict.
Morocco's king Mohammed VI stayed away from a summit of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS in Liberia in June, because Netanyahu was invited.
The summit postponement also comes after Togo's opposition parties turned out in force in Lome and other cities across the country last week, calling for Gnassingbé to resign.
Opposition leaders on Monday called for another huge turn-out on Tuesday to demand constitutional reform outside parliament, were politicians were due to meet.
Further marches were scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday.
Gnassingbe's government last week approved a draft bill for political change after protesters called for limits on presidential mandates and a two-round voting system.
The president has been in power since 2005, when he took over from his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who ruled Togo for nearly 40 years.
Opposition parties have called the bill a "delaying tactic" and the government has since suggested it may not be discussed in full or approved on Tuesday.
Any amendment to the constitution requires the approval of four fifths of the national assembly.
[Iran Press TV] The UN’s human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... chief has called for urgent investigation into 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 Arclight airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein made the remarks during a Monday speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva after the global body attributed over 5,000 civilian deaths to Saudi Arabian Arclight airstrikes.
"The minimal efforts made toward accountability over the past year are insufficient to respond to the gravity of the continuing and daily violations involved in this conflict," he said.
The latest call for an investigation was the third of such made by the UN's rights chief.
Last week, his office stressed that 47 countries on the Human Rights Council were not taking their responsibilities seriously, and called them to probe the "entirely man-made catastrophe."
On Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) lashed out at the Saudi-led coalition for its refusal to provide information on its role in the massive unlawful Arclight airstrikes against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in an attempt to avoid international legal liability.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has again urged Myanmar to take back the Rohingya people currently residing in Bangladesh, stressing that measures taken by the Bangladesh government to provide refuge to the Rohingya are temporary.
Speaking at parliament on Monday, the prime minister said: "Several times, I have requested Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingya as they are their nationals." She further added that she would raise the issue with the UN General Assembly.
"There are about 145 ethnic communities in Myanmar. The Myanmar government had given the Rohingya the same rights as other ethnic communities, but later the Myanmar junta hijacked their rights. I do not understand why the Myanmar government is doing this to the Rohingya," the prime minister said.
"I would like to ask the Myanmar government: What result do they expect after forcing the Rohingya people out of their homeland?"
Hasina also asked why Myanmar was not following the recommendations set by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State led by Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... , saying since Myanmar had created the problem, they also needed to resolve it.
She also urged the authorities concerned to swiftly locate and bring to justice those responsible for the attacks on border outposts on August 25 that led to the renewed violence against the minority Rohingya people in the Buddhist-majority Rakhine state.
The prime minister further assured that the Rohingya would not be obstructed from entering Bangladesh.
"We are providing food to 160 million people, we can manage food for an additional 700,000," she said at parliament.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... she was also quick to clarify that she wished for them to return to their homeland.
"Myanmar has to consider the Rohingya Myanmar nationals. A Myanmar general called them Bangalis. Of course, they are Bangalis. But there are Bangalis in India, too. The measures we have taken to shelter the Rohingya are temporary. Myanmar must take back their nationals."
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[Iran Press TV] Bangladesh has agreed to free land for a new camp to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Moslems who fled an escalation of violence in Myanmar.
Mohammed Shahriar Alam, a junior minister for foreign affairs, said in a Facebook post on Monday that Bangladeshi Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. had offered 2,000 acres (810 hectares) near the existing camp of Kutupalong "to build temporary shelters for the Rohingya newcomers."
The Dhaka government would begin fingerprinting and registering the new arrivals on Monday, the minister added.
The Bangladeshi premier is scheduled to visit Rohingya refugees on Tuesday.
According to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , the new camp will help relieve some pressure on existing settlements in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar.
"The two refugee camps we are in are beyond overcrowded," said UN refugee agency spokeswoman Vivian Tan, adding, "Tomorrow we are expecting an airlift of relief supplies for 20,000 people."
This comes as other new arrivals were being sheltered in schools, or were huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields. Basic resources were scarce, including clean water food and medical aid.
Reporters say they have witnessed hundreds streaming through the border at Shah Puri Dwip on Monday.
Aid agencies have been overwhelmed by the influx of Rohingya Moslem refugees, many of whom are arriving hungry and traumatized after walking days through jungles or packing into rickety wooden boats in search of safety in Bangladesh.
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[AlAhram] Germany's government says two of its citizens have been detained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in another indication of the risk Germans currently face when traveling to the country.
A Foreign Ministry front man says the couple, who are of Ottoman Turkish origin, were detained Sunday in Istanbul.
Martin Schaefer told news hounds Monday one person since been released, the other remains detained. German diplomats weren't officially informed by Ottoman Turkish authorities and Schaefer provided no details about the reasons for the detention. Several Germans currently face terrorism-related charges in Turkey, which Germany has protested as unfounded.
Referring to a travel warning issued Saturday by Turkey for Germany, citing increased right-wing and racist rhetoric before Germany's Sept. 24 election, Schaefer said Berlin wouldn't respond in kind because that would mean "allowing our travel advice to be abused for political purposes."
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It's about time Germany issues some sort of travel advisory / ban on Turkey.
[DAWN] United States 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... on Monday paid tribute to the 2,977 people killed on September 11, 2001, warning that "savage killers" who threaten US will find no haven on earth.
On the 16th anniversary of the attacks, Trump's first as president, he observed a moment of silence at the White House before laying a wreath and delivering remarks at the Pentagon, where 184 people died.
His tone unbending and solemn, Trump championed America's resilience and "common bonds," but issued a stern warning to "enemies" that "America cannot be intimidated."
"Those who try will soon join the long list of vanquished enemies who dared to test our mettle," he said, as a drone of jet engines carried echoes of a day half a generation ago that many Americans have vowed not to forget.
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[Iran Press TV] A series of mini or macro nuclear weapons were used to blow apart the Twin Towers from the top-down on September 11, 2001, says American scholar James Henry Fetzer, who has extensively researched the 9/11 attacks.
Fetzer, a retired professor at the University of Minnesota who currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday while commenting on the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that killed three thousand people in New York.
On Monday, US 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... presided over his first 9/11 commemoration in office. He and his wife, Melania, observed a solemn moment of silence at the White House and later at the Pentagon. Trump called the occasion "extraordinary."
"Our values will endure. Our people will thrive," Trump declared, speaking at the Pentagon.
"Our nation will prevail and the memory of our loved ones will never, ever die," continued Trump, who before becoming the president repeatedly questioned the official version of the 9/11 attacks.
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The cuckoo-bird's tail (censored Chaucer!)
Lays nuclear eggs, so don't cross her.
No, go along (bong!)
And she'll cluck you a song
Of the Pentagon struck by a saucer.
Professor Fetzer (hmmmm) conveniently "forgets" potent building-shaking ability of nuclear-powered sexbots.
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I guess he is correct in that if you make a nuke small enough it will have the same potential energy as the 6,000 gallons of jet fuel and a 70,000 pound aircraft...
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[Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, says it is ready to talk reconciliation with the rival government of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... without preconditions.
Hamas had previously demanded that Abbas halt a series of measures taken against the Islamic Lion of Islam group before sitting down to discuss a reconciliation deal.
Abbas cut electricity in Gazoo and slashed the salaries of tens of thousands of public servants in a bid to compel Hamas to dissolve a contentious committee it formed to run the territory in defiance of Abbas' government.
In a statement Monday following a meeting with Egyptian officials in Cairo, the group said it was prepared to dissolve the committee.
The rival Paleostinian factions split in 2007 when Hamas violently routed forces loyal to Abbas from Gazoo. Repeated attempts at reconciliation have since failed.
[Al Jazeera] The top UN human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... official has urged Myanmar to end "brutal security operation" against Rohingya in Rakhine state, calling it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.
"I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population," Zeid said.
"The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Iranian repressive and sectarian regime against Sunnis in the country warns of an upcoming civil war, according to a recent reformist opposition report.
First published on amadnews site, which is allied with the opposition, the report reflects the Revolutionary Guards’ continued and escalating activity in predominantly Sunni areas.
It also noted that holy man’s activities and the Guard’s institutions are increasing in southern areas of the country, specifically in Sistan, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Khorasan provinces.
According to the report, among these activities are calls of a sectarian nature. The most recent event called for was Eid al-Ghadeer, a Shiite celebration. Sunnis see this form of celebration in their areas as a form of provocation.
The Iranian regime is also accused of working to eliminate Sunnis and disrupting development in their provinces.
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[LATIMES] U.S. intelligence analysts have gained valuable insights into Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s planning and personnel from a vast cache of digital data and other material recovered from bombed-out offices, abandoned laptops and the cellphones of dead fighters in recently liberated areas of Iraq and Syria.
In the most dramatic gain, U.S. officials over the last two months have added thousands of names of known or suspected Islamic State operatives to an international watch list used at airports and other border crossings. The Interpol database now contains about 19,000 names.
The intelligence haul ‐ the largest since U.S. forces entered the war in mid-2014 ‐ threatens to overwhelm already stretched counter-terrorism and law enforcement agencies in Europe, where Islamic State has grabbed credit for attacks in Gay Paree, London and Stockholm this year.
With the bad boy group’s army and self-declared caliphate fast shrinking, U.S. officials are concerned that foreign-born forces of Evil who once flocked to Iraq and Syria will try to escape before the U.S.-led coalition or other military forces can kill them.
U.S. officials over the last two months have added thousands of names of known or suspected Islamic State operatives to an international watch list used at airports and other border crossings. The Interpol database now contains about 19,000 names.
In recent weeks, U.S.-backed ground forces have sent an estimated 30 terabytes of data ‐ equal to nearly two years of nonstop video footage ‐ to the National Media Exploitation Center in Bethesda, Md., a little-known arm of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence.
Analysts there are scrutinizing handwritten ledgers, computer spreadsheets, thumb drives, mobile phone memory cards and other materials for clues to terrorist cells or plots in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... or elsewhere.
"The reason electronic exploitation is so critical is that enemy forces doesn't fake those records," an intelligence official said. "When you interrogate someone they can hide facts, but logs of phone calls and video clips don't lie. That stuff isn't made-up."
The material came from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the myrmidons’ self-declared capital in Iraq, which was recaptured July 9 after an eight-month battle. Other intelligence was found in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, which was retaken on Aug. 31, and from Raqqah, the group’s self-declared capital in Syria, where fighting is still underway.
"We've gotten significant amounts of intelligence as a result of the fall of these places ‐ much is still being analyzed," Defense Secretary James N. Mattis told The Times during a visit to Amman, Jordan, last month. "It has helped us to identify at least some of their aspirations."
U.S. officials said they have gleaned planning ideas and outlines of potential operations rather than ongoing terrorist plots. But they also have gathered details into the group’s leadership and the hierarchy of fighters under command.
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So all thet happens is our 'leaders' have to follow through. And that's where it'll go bad...
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[IsraelTimes] Decision comes in response to Justice Department request to block lower court ruling allowing some 24,000 refugees to enter US
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a temporary order on Monday allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees for the time being.
The order was in response to the administration’s request for the high court to block a lower court ruling that could allow up to 24,000 refugees to enter the United States.
Kennedy ordered challengers to the administration’s refugee ban to submit written arguments in support of the lower court ruling by midday Tuesday.
The appellate ruling would allow refugees to enter the United States if a resettlement agency in the US had agreed to take them in. The ruling would have taken effect Tuesday without the high court’s intervention and could apply to up to 24,000 refugees.
The administration did not challenge the part of the ruling that applies to a temporary ban on visitors from six mostly Moslem countries. The appeals court ruled that grandparents and cousins of people already in the US cannot be excluded from the country under the travel ban.
The Supreme Court already has weighed in twice on lower court rulings striking down or limiting the travel and refugee bans, though it has to rule on their validity.
In June, the high court said the administration could not enforce the bans against people who have a "bona fide" relationship with people or entities in the United States. The justices declined to define the required relationships more precisely.
In July, the justices issued an order that temporarily allowed strict enforcement of the exclusion of refugees. But the Supreme Court refused to go along with the administration’s view that it could keep out grandparents, cousins and some other family members.
The 90-day travel ban affects visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The high court is scheduled to hear arguments about the legality of the travel and refugee bans in October. By that point, the original 90-day travel ban will have lapsed and the 120-day refugee ban will have just a few weeks to run. The administration has yet to say whether it plans to renew the exclusions, expand them or make them permanent.
The administration told the court Monday that changing the way it enforces the policy on refugees would allow "admission of refugees who have no connection to the United States independent of the refugee-admission process itself."
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.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
[Iran Press TV] A series of mini or macro nuclear weapons were used to blow apart the Twin Towers from the top-down on September 11, 2001, says American scholar 
