[Ynet] Around 700 bodies lie in improvised morgues after terror group was expelled at the end of 2016 from the city of Sirte; 'We don't have enough fridges or we would have exhumed all the bodies.'
Due to the lack of resources, several hundred other IS corpses have been abandoned under the rubble in Sirte or in makeshift cemeteries dug by the jihadists.
In the wake of the battle during which US-led coalition air strikes backed Libyan security forces, decaying bodies on the streets of Sirte gave rise to fears of epidemic.
In a comment after an August visit that drew strong criticism, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the country could one day become a magnet for tourists and investors once it can "clear the dead bodies away".
According to Tuwaileb's estimate, between 1,500 and 2,000 jihadists were buried in the Mediterranean city.
"We don't have enough fridges, or we would have exhumed all the bodies," said the Libyan official, who pointed out that the containers were loaned by private companies.
Out of the seven refrigerated containers in Misrata, three have broken down. "We've had to redistribute the bodies among the fridges that still work," said Tuwaileb.
But he said it has been a struggle, especially during the North African summer and constant power cuts. "So a backup has to be ready and we have to refuel it regularly," he said.
Opening one of the containers released a thick cloud of vapour that reeked of dead bodies and expanded on contact with the warm air outside.
Inside, white body bags smudged with blood and mud lay on metal shelves.
"The bags are numbered and classified. Each body has its own file, DNA sample... documents or other signs collected with each body," said Tuwaileb.
In January, 60 more bodies were added to the collection, of jihadists killed in air strikes south of Sirte in which Washington said its stealth B-2 bombers fired some 100 laser-guided missiles.
Tuwaileb said all the files have been transferred to the prosecutor general's office 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... to decide if and where the bodies are to be buried.
Based on documents found on the bodies, most the dead jihadists came from Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan, with some from Libya, but no families have come to Misrata to claim them.
"We don't know if countries have contacted the prosecutor general to recover the bodies of their nationals, but as far as we're concerned nobody's come here to try to identify the bodies," said Tuwaileb.
The prosecutor's office, contacted several times by AFP, declined to comment on the case.
"In the meantime, the bodies will stay here. The problem is that some of the companies who lent out the refrigerated containers want them back," he said. "Every time I tell them they can take the fridges if they want, but with the contents."
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Why do they care? I'm thinking Burning Man - North-African style ....
[AnNahar] Saudi oil giant Aramco on Monday said it had resumed operations at its Bahrain pipeline, days after it was shut down over a fire which Manama called a "terrorist" act.
"Operations in the pipeline between the Dhahran pumping station and the Bapco refinery, in the Kingdom of Bahrain, have resumed," the official Saudi SPA news agency quoted the oil giant as saying.
Bahrain relies on its Abu Safa field, which it shares with neighboring 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... , for much of its oil, pumped in via a 230,000-barrel-per-day pipeline.
The kingdom is a key ally of the United States and home to Washington's Fifth Fleet.
[PJMedia] European Islamist scion Tariq Ramadan was banned from the U.S. by the Bush administration in February 2004 for his financial support of a charity that funded terrorist groups. In January 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton overturned that ban. Clinton personally approved a visa for the controversial grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now, Tariq Ramadan is facing multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault of minors.
[LegalInsurrection] Israel's elite Air Force instructors are training Indian Special forces, Israeli media reports confirm. Israel Defense Forces' Airborne Rescue and Evacuation Unit 669 is carrying out joint drills with Garud Commando Force, the Special Forces unit of the Indian Air Force.
According to Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post, 16 Indian commandos are currently stationed at Nevatim and Palmahim air bases. These personnel are part of a 45-man delegation and a C-130J Super Hercules transport plane that are in Israel to take part in Blue Flag 2017, Israel's largest aerial drill ever, the newspaper added.
India's Garud Commando Force was created in 2003 after Islamic terrorists repeatedly tried to target air bases in India's Kashmir region. Apart from securing airfields from terrorist attacks, the airborne unit is involved in rescue, reconnaissance and counter-terrorism operations. Despite its short history, the Indian unit has "managed to accumulate considerable operational experience," Israeli news website Ynet News noted.
IDF's Unit 669 on the other hands has been around for more than four decades and has distinguished itself in four major cross-border operations, and is counted among the best IDF Special Forces units.
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[DailyMail] After driving ISIS out of most of their country, Iraqi officials are holding around 3,000 jihadi wives and children. At least 1,750 of these are foreign - but European countries are refusing to take them back in case they attack or radicalise others. The chief adviser to the ministry, Dr Wahab Altaey, said governments consider the young sons of ISIS fighters as 'ticking time bombs'. He said European governments: 'Did not accept the idea of receiving the dependents.' The foreigners are locked up in a secure prison in Tal Keif, near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
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[AnNahar] An estimated 14 million Shiite pilgrims thronged Iraq's holy city of Karbala on Friday to mark the annual Arbaeen commemoration, as Baghdad looks to wipe out the 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.... group that has targeted their branch of Islam.
Arbaeen is one of the biggest religious festivals on earth and marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the 7th-century killing of Imam Hussein by the forces of the Caliph Yazid -- a formative event in Shiite Islam.
Under tight security, around 14 million worshippers crowded into the golden-domed mausoleum where the Prophet Mohammed's grandson is buried, Karbala's religious authorities said, beating their chests in unison against a background of religious music.
Imam Hussein's killing in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD was part of a fierce dispute over who should succeed the Prophet, which eventually developed into a bitter schism between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam.
Tens of thousands of security personnel and Shiite turbans were deployed, as in past years, around the perimeters of the sanctuary as well as on all roads leading to Karbala, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad.
The expulsion of IS from Iraqi cities has added an extra dimension to this year's pilgrimage, as the Sunni krazed killer group has repeatedly targeted Shiites. Last year, a suicide kaboom killed at least 70 mainly Iranian worshippers returning from the commemoration.
The jihadists have seen their self-styled "caliphate" disintegrate on the battlefield, and are currently fighting to hold a last pocket of territory in Iraq on the Syrian border.
- 'Finished with IS' -
Believers from across the Middle East and beyond have made the pilgrimage to Karbala.
Shiites make up some 60 percent of Iraq's population and ahead of the peak of the commemorations local governor Aqil Tourihi told AFP that over 10 million Iraqis had arrived.
More than two million Iranian pilgrims also crossed the border into Iraq for Arbaeen, an Iranian official said.
"The conditions are perfect, above all in terms of catering for pilgrims and security," Kuwaiti pilgrim Fadel Yaqoub told AFP.
The overall attendance appeared down on the roughly 17 to 20 million people estimated to have attended Arbaeen in 2016.
Helicopters flew overhead to ensure security in the city, located some 300 kilometres (185 miles) southeast from where Iraqi forces are battling to snuff out IS.
Bandar al-Hamami said he had walked some 350 kilometres with his family from their home in the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"Thanks be to God, we are finished with IS," he said.
[Ynet] Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Tuesday it would respect a decision by the country's federal court banning the region's secession.
"We believe that this decision must become a basis for starting an inclusive national dialogue between Erbil and Baghdad to resolve all disputes," the KRG said in a statement.
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[Ynet] Gazoo sources say Egypt exerting tremendous pressure on Paleostinian Islamic Jihad to rein in response to tunnel went kaboom! by IDF 2 weeks ago; despite Iranian patronage, PIJ currently acquiescing to Egyptian demands, wishing to preserve relationship with country that holds most sway in Gazoo affairs; Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Gazoo public also said to be disinterested in escalation.
Egypt has been exerting tremendous pressures on the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) organization to not allow rising tensions between the terrorist group and Israel reach full-scale hostilities, Paleostinian sources within the Gazoo Strip told Ynet.
Egyptian pressures have been placed on PIJ following the heightened state of alertness in Israel, as part of which Iron Dome batteries were deployed in central and southern Israel.
For the time being, Islamic Jihad has chosen to listen to Egypt despite the fact its patron is Iran. PIJ and Egypt has been in constant communication over the past few months, and the organization is said to be immensely proud of the relationship and wishes to preserve it. It is for this reason that Egypt can exert pressure on PIJ in the first place to prevent military escalation.
Egypt's current level of influence on the strip is greater than Iran's, the source claimed. It was further stated pressure was also being exerted by Hamas, whose leadership is currently uninterested in another round of hostilities, mostly out of fear such an escalation will scuttle the nascent Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement.
Hamas is said to be well aware any large-scale retaliatory military operation by Islamic Jihad will also drag Hamas itself unwillingly into the conflict. Most of the smaller factions in Gazoo are also uninterested in escalation, as is most of the Gazook general public.
Tensions have been running high in Israel's southern region since the IDF went kaboom! a tunnel excavated by Islamic Jihad into its territory two weeks ago. The kaboom killed 12 PIJ and Hamas terrorists, including senior figures.
Following the tunnel's demolition, Islamic Jihad declared it considered it a "declaration of war." Israel's security establishment further estimated the hard-line organization would find it hard to hold back from exacting its Dire Revenge.
In light of the situation, Israel sternly cautioned the Gazoo terrorist organizations, saying it would retaliate with extreme force against both Islamic Jihad and Hamas if attacked.
"The Jihad has hatched a scheme and is playing with fire, we'll retaliate strongly against Hamas as well," said Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai in a video published over the weekend in which he made veiled threats at the organization's leaders.
PIJ's response was forthcoming, with the organization saying Mordechai's threats "expose the Zionists' true intentions. We have a right to respond to any aggression and, therefore, have a right to respond to criminal aggressions against the resistance tunnels that caused the death of 12 fighters from the military wing of Hamas and the (Islamic) Jihad."
Israel, meanwhile, has been quietly preparing for rising tensions to escalate further by deploying Iron Dome batteries in the central and northern regions of the country. works on the underground barrier near the Gazoo border have also started up again, albeit in a somewhat diminished capacity. Work has thus far been carried out in accordance with changing status evaluations, which means work crews can only enter the construction area accompanied by the army. Crews are also obligated to take extreme precautions for fear of sniper or anti-tank fire.
[IsraelTimes] Border Authority officials intercept hundreds of contraband items en route to the Paleostinian enclave
If there’s one thing Israelis and Paleostinian murderous Moslems have in common, it’s a love for affordable Chinese-made products. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday that terror groups in the Gazoo Strip have been ordering equipment online in an attempt to smuggle contraband into the coastal enclave.
Among the sites favored by murderous Moslems is the popular Chinese online retailer AliExpress, the ministry said in a statement.
Among the items Israel intercepted in October were laser sights, small drones, telescopes, binoculars, metal detectors, hand-held radio equipment and knives.
Border Crossing Authority officials and members of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) at the Erez border crossing have seized hundreds of packages containing forbidden items that they suspected were headed to terror groups such as Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , the statement said.
All mail packages heading into Gazoo are first checked by Israeli security officials. In recent weeks security teams have noticed a rise in the number of banned items disguised as legitimate packages.
Many of those items are defined by defense officials as having dual uses ‐ both civilian and military.
In recent weeks security staff have also recovered small motors, transformers, fiber-optical cable cutters, tiny electric drills, head-flashlights, and power supplies, the statement said.
In October, security personnel thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of military tactical shooting gloves into Gazoo Strip. The gloves were hidden in a shipment marked as clothing and brought to the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Earlier the same month, Defense Ministry Crossing Authority officials intercepted a shipment of military-style boots bound for the Strip that had been hidden inside colorful, cartoon-adorned slippers.
[IsraelTimes] Offices in Amman were shuttered in July after an Israeli security guard rubbed out two Jordanians, one of whom was stabbing him. Jordan may advance Red-Dead project alone, or with Saudis.
Israel has reportedly told Jordan that a joint agreement for the construction of a pipeline transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea will not go ahead until Israel is allowed to reopen its embassy in Amman.
In an escalating war of words and threats, bigwigs in Jerusalem told Channel 10 that Israel notified Jordan that the water project will not move forward until Ambassador Einat Schlein and her staff are permitted to return to their posts.
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As desalination provides much-needed water to both southern Israel and Jordan for agriculture and consumption, the brine needs to go somewhere other than the Red Sea,
Create a Paleo State Statue: a giant pillar of salt
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[RefugeeSettlementWatch] Here is what Mark Hetfield CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (aka HIAS) said in an e-mail yesterday. (Emphasis is mine)
The Trump Administration shows no signs of backing off their policies against refugees, so we’re taking the Administration to court. Again.
From the moment the first executive order banning refugees and travelers from Muslim countries was issued on January 27th, HIAS and our partners in the American Jewish community have opposed every attempt by President Trump to close America’s doors to those in need of protection.
Our outrage has only grown stronger with every new executive order that prevents thousands of refugees from finding safety in the U.S.
Enough is enough. Together with our longstanding local resettlement partners Jewish Family Service of Seattle and Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, HIAS yesterday filed a suit to again challenge restrictive policies that seek to prevent vulnerable refugees from finding freedom and safety. As we have for the last 136 years, we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that America remains a country that welcomes refugees instead of turning them away.
"People are dying who were given permission to come into this country. It’s tragic," said Rabbi Will Berkovitz, CEO of Jewish Family Service of Seattle, one of the refugee agencies that’s filed the lawsuit.
"The agenda that’s really thinly veiled here is the dismantlement of the refugee resettlement program as a whole," Berkovitz said. "Not for now, but forever."
The lawsuit claims the order is unconstitutional, discriminates against Muslims and gives preference to Christian refugees. [The US might actually give preference to Christians, what is the world coming to!‐ed]
You have to give them credit for chutzpah!
HIAS has been a long-time supporter of the Lautenberg Amendment which gave preference for resettlement to Soviet Jews among others, see here.
So are they now saying that the Lautenberg Amendment must go? Look for HIAS to reverse itself and ask Congress to abolish Lautenberg (Ha! Ha!).
Here is what we learned from the Jewish agency in California:
Plaintiffs are being represented by the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center; the National Immigration Law Center; attorneys Lauren Aguiar, Mollie M. Kornreich and Abigail Sheehan Davis; Perkins Coie; and HIAS.
Learn more about the director of the National Immigration Law Center when she was bragging and disparaging then candidate Donald Trump by clicking here. Jim Simpson and I attended the spectacle.
This is a screenshot from a recent financial accounting post on the nine federal refugee contractors: You're probably not going to like the provided stat.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] An appeals court has allowed 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... ’s latest travel restrictions to partly take effect, ruling that the government can bar entry of people from six majority-Moslem countries with no ties to the US.
In a brief order on Monday, a three-judge panel of the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... -based US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit temporarily put on hold part of a lower court’s decision, from a judge in Hawaii, that had nearly completely blocked the government from enforcing the ban, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
The judges said the government could implement the ban, except on "foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the US".
They said such people include grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people in the US. The restrictions will apply to travellers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
It also blocks travel by certain Venezuelan government officials and most North Koreans; courts have not stopped the administration from enacting the restrictions on those countries.
Justice Department spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said: "We are reviewing the court’s order, and the government will begin enforcing the travel proclamation consistent with the partial stay." She added that the administration, which continues to appeal the lower court’s ruling, believes that the ban "should be allowed to take effect in its entirety", regardless of whether someone has a tie to the US.
In unveiling the third version of the travel ban in late September, the administration said that the eight countries did not share with the US information to enable proper screening of their nationals.
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.
[DailyMail] After driving ISIS out of most of their country, Iraqi officials are holding around 3,000 jihadi wives and children. At least 1,750 of these are foreign - but European countries are refusing to take them back in case they attack or radicalise others. The chief adviser to the ministry, Dr Wahab Altaey, said governments consider the young sons of ISIS fighters as 'ticking time bombs'. He said European governments: 'Did not accept the idea of receiving the dependents.' The foreigners are locked up in a secure prison in Tal Keif, near 
[IsraelTimes] Offices in Amman were shuttered in July after an Israeli security guard 
North Korea
