[AlAhram] As U.S. and Afghan forces pound Taliban ...Arabic for students... drug factories this week, farmers in the country's largest opium producing-province and narcotics experts say the strategy just repeats previous failed efforts to stamp out the trade.
U.S. Army General John Nicholson, who heads NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led forces in Afghanistan, announced on Monday a new strategy of attacking opium factories, saying he wanted to hit the Taliban "where it hurts, in their narcotics financing".
Critics say the policy risks further civilian casualties and turning large swathes of the population dependent on poppy cultivation against the Afghan government.
"The Taliban will not be affected by this as much as ordinary people," said Mohammad Nabi, a poppy farmer in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , the heartland of opium production.
"Farmers are not growing poppies for fun. If factories are closed and businesses are gone, then how will they provide food for their families?"
How did they do so before they turned to opium in recent years?
Opium production in Afghanistan reached record highs this year, up 87 percent, according to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said last week that output of opium from poppy seeds in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, stood at around 9,000 metric tons in 2017, worth an estimated $1.4 billion on leaving the farms.
In Helmand, cultivation area increased 79 percent.
See? More farmers taking up the trade, and those previously involved increased their acreage devoted to the crop. So they can go back to whatever they did before.
Publicising the new strategy, which he said was open-ended, Nicholson showed one video of an F-22 fighter jet dropping 250-pound bombs on two buildings, emphasising that a nearby third building was left unscathed.
U.S. troops have long been accused of causing unnecessary collateral damage and civilian deaths. The United States says it takes every precaution to avoid civilian casualties.
The four-star general emphasised that farmers were not the targets.
"They are largely compelled to grow the poppy and this is kind of a tragic part of the story," said Nicholson.
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Experts, however, question whether the new strategy will have an impact on Taliban financing.
Of course they do. Or ar least the experts quoted by the journalists do. Any other experts are like trees falling unheard in the forest.
"All these things have been tried before and not produced effective results. If they had, we wouldn't be where we are now," said Orzala Nemat, director of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, which has been researching the country's drug trade for a decade and a half.
Another analyst said it was simply a futile game of "whack-a-mole."
Those familiar with the drug industry in Afghanistan said it would only take three or four days to replace a lab, which generally has a low sunk-cost.
Get inside their replacement loop, and that will change.
They also say it was not just the Taliban involved in Afghanistan's drug trade.
"Drugs are elemental to the political economy of Afghanistan, to those who rule and to those who oppose that rule," said one analyst, asking not to be named.
Prior to being ousted by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the Taliban virtually eliminated the trade, saying it was forbidden by Islam.
And then, realizing how much money there was to be made, they restarted it under their own control. This explains their current involvement.
The United States and its Western allies, the Afghan government and United Nations have made repeated efforts since to eradicate poppy cultivation, including encouraging farmers to cultivate alternatives such as saffron, spraying poppy fields with herbicide, and destroying labs.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... they have not made any serious headway in stemming the rise in drug production.
They haven’t been consistently serious about it.
The issue underlines problems faced by the Afghan government and its allies, as they seek to cut off a major source of financing for the Taliban and stem the flow of drugs to Europe.
The Taliban said that U.S. forces were mistaken in their targeting and were hitting civilians.
Yes, but they are the Taliban’s civilians, which makes them a good deal less civilian than other civilians.
"There are no drug producing factories in these areas. Invading Americans are carrying out these attacks based on false information and to make propaganda, which most of its victims are civilians," said Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi on Wednesday.
That is one perspective, to be sure.
Although World Bank projections show Afghanistan's economy picking up modestly, the improvement is more than offset by population growth, leaving many in rural areas saying they have no alternative to growing poppies.
Educating the girls will go far to fix that problem. Making birth control available will take care of the rest.
"The government must provide jobs so people can feed their families and survive," said poppy farmer Haji Daoud in Sangin, Helmand. "It should provide security and infrastructure."
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"The government must provide jobs so people can feed their families and survive," said poppy farmer Haji Daoud in Sangin, Helmand. "It should provide security and infrastructure."
Dope dealers don't want 'jobs,' they want porous borders and free access to public markets.
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There will always be a demand for opiates and there will always be evil men eager to supply opiates for profit. That's why I don't give a rat's ass about the hearts and minds of poppy growers or how they're going to feed their families. Screw 'em, bomb 'em, poison 'em and then leave them to the tender mercies of their beloved Taliban. Never let anyone from Afghanistan or any of the countries that border it into this country.
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Never let anyone from Afghanistan or any of the countries that border it into this country.
Tell that to the federal judges who keep obstructing the efforts of POTUS to do just that. Or better yet, impeach the SOB's.
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Last year a new rail line was inaugurated from Afghanistan to China, greatly shortening the time to get goods to Shanghai. The USPS (as best I can tell) will deliver all packages from foreign sources even if they have not passed any customs inspection, and even if the post office has no information about what the package contains or whence it originated. It is far cheaper to ship parcels from China to a US address than it is to ship parcels within the US. It is known that the deadly drug carfentanyl is being shipped into the USA this way.
Doesn't anyone see this as a problem?
[RadioShabelle] Divers Marine Contracting has started construction of a United Arab Emirates naval base in a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia.
The closely held Sharjah-based engineering group began work on the project after being awarded the $90 million contract in April, Managing Director Abdulla Darwish said in an interview in Dubai.
The facility, being built near the regional port of Berbera, is expected to be completed by June, he said.
Berbera is located on the Gulf of Aden, 260 kilometers (162 miles) south of Yemen, where UAE troops in a 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... -led coalition are battling Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels.
Somaliland’s foreign minister said in May that the UAE leased the airport in Berbera for 25 years as part of a pact for a military base. The gulf country is also building a military installation in Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... The Somaliland naval base will include a 300-metre L-shaped inland berthing port with a depth of 7 metres "to support the military airport," accommodating naval vessels to patrol the Gulf of Aden, according to Darwish.
"It’s not a commercial port," he said. "It’s only for naval vessels."
Somaliland Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire didn’t immediately respond to two calls to his mobile and two emails seeking comment. A UAE foreign ministry official didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
[IsraelTimes] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and war crimes, asks Russia’s Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to protect his country from the United States.
Speaking during his first visit to Russia as president, Bashir also says he wanted to ramp up military ties and praised Moscow’s military campaign in Syria.
"We have been dreaming about this visit for a long time," the Sudanese president tells Putin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. "We are thankful to Russia for its position on the international arena, including Russia’s position in the protection of Sudan. We are in need of protection from the aggressive acts of the United States."
The visit came a month after the United States lifted a trade embargo it imposed on the impoverished African state in 1997 over Khartoum’s alleged backing of Islamist myrmidon groups. 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... also removed Sudan from a list of countries facing a US travel ban.
Sudan’s deadly conflict in Darfur broke out in 2003 when ethnic minority groups took up arms against Bashir’s Arab-dominated government, which launched a brutal counter-insurgency. The UN says at least 300,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million displaced as a result of the conflict.
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[PRESSTV] A major aid agency says 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 crippling blockade of 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... is an "illegal collective punishment" of the Yemeni nation, some seven million of whom are on the brink of an appalling famine.
Jan Egeland, a former UN aid chief who now heads the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), made the remarks on Thursday, a day after the Saudi-led military coalition announced that it would partially lift the siege on the impoverished nation and would let humanitarian supplies in.
Egeland, whose charity group has already helped one million Yemenis, welcomed an announcement by the coalition on removing the blockade of Yemen’s western port city of Hudaydah and the international airport of the capital city of Sana’a, but said, "We only have it in writing now and haven’t seen it happen."
This came more than two weeks after Saudi Arabia announced that it was shutting down Yemen’s air, sea, and land borders, after Yemeni Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah fighters targeted an international airport near the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with a cruise missile in retaliation for ceaseless bombardment of Yemen by the Saudi war machine over the past two and a half years.
The Saudi military, however, announced that it had intercepted the missile, which apparently reached the deepest parts within the Saudi territory.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two Bangladeshi forces of Evil recently apprehended in Kolkata had plans to murder bloggers in Bangladesh, the Indian Special Task force (STF) has said.
On Tuesday, Kolkata police incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! three people including two Bangladeshi nationals ‐ Samsad Mian alias Tanvir (26), along with Rizaul Islam alias Riyaz ‐ from near Kolkata railway station.
A 32mm pistol, a flash drive, al-Qaeda documents on how to make explosives, and religious documents in both English and Hindi were recovered from their possession.
According to a report in the Times of India, the forces of Evil had links with Ansar-al-Islam and had made a new "hit list" of Bangladeshi bloggers who they wanted to eliminate, naming Farukh Sadiq as their No.1 target.
A senior officer told the Times of India that none of the arrested are part of the core strike team.
The Times of India reported that at least six arms ‐ of 7.32 mm and 9mm ‐ have been smuggled through the porous India-Bangladesh border in the past six months by Ansarullah modules.
Sources said arms smuggler Monotosh De smuggled weapons through other Ansarullah members but there are two other smugglers based in West Bengal who are directly dealing with Ansar-al-Islam, which used to be known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and has been banned in Bangladesh in March.
Quoting the sources, Times of India said the particular module ‐ especially Tanvir, along with Riyaz ‐ were instructed to procure chemicals like ammonium nitrate from shops in Kolkata.
Stating that the duo entered India in July 2016, Lalbazar sources said an agent took the two Bangladeshis to Manegura area in Hyderabad, where many Bangladeshis are employed in slaughterhouses and mutton factories.
Tanvir and Riyaz worked in Hyderabad for around three months before the company they work for was a closed down.
Later, they moved to Belgaum in north Karnataka and began working in a similar factory along with a few other Bangladeshis.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday expressed Pakistain's reservations over the death sentences handed to six Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) leaders by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 war.
According to The Daily Star, the six men were identified as Abu Saleh Muhammad Abdul Aziz Mia, Ruhul Amin, Abu Moslem Muhammad Ali, Abdul Latif, Najmul Huda and Abdur Rahim Mia. Latif is imprisoned, whereas the other five accused are absconding.
The accused were facing charges of looting and killing a Hindu man, killing a Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader and killing 13 chairmen and members of five unions, The Daily Star report said, adding that they had been indicted by the tribunal on June 28, 2016.
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[RadioShabelle] Canada’s attempts to send up to 1,000 foreigners who are here illegally back to their home countries are being stymied by nations refusing to take them back, officials said Monday.
International and domestic laws in most countries require governments to allow their own citizens entry.
"But some countries are refusing to provide travel documents to their citizens or are just outright refusing to take them back," Scott Bardsley, front man for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, told AFP.
He declined to name the "recalcitrant nations," saying this might upend diplomatic efforts to convince them to change their position on the deportations.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the current backlog of foreign nationals facing deportation from Canada tops 15,000.
This is down from 20,000 just a few years ago, while the total number of deportations each year has also fallen dramatically from 19,000 in 2012 to 7,300 in 2016.
The removal list includes rejected refugee claimants and persons deemed inadmissible because of a criminal background or because they pose a national security threat.
Proponents of the US way of publicly naming uncooperative countries and in some cases imposing sanctions on them say Canada should follow suit, but others worry this would stigmatise all members of that group.
"The CBSA continues to engage countries to try to obtain travel documents to facilitate the removal of foreign nationals to their home countries," Bardsley said.
China, India, the United States, Nigeria, Haiti, Pakistain, Mexico, Somalia, Cuba and Jamaica are the top countries of origin on Canada’s deportation list.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the reports submitted by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) with regards to the Faizabad sit-in in Islamabad, which is now in its third week.
Daily life in the capital has been disrupted by protesters belonging to religious parties ‐ including the Tehrik-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwwat, Tehrik-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) and the Sunni Tehrik
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[Ynet] Deputy Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, chief al-Arouri, tasked with creating, administering organization's civilian, military infrastructure appointed West Bank 'shadow gov't' that oversees area from countries such as Leb, Jordan without fear of arrest by Israeli, PA forces; Hamas uses charitable organizations, youth clubs as front for operations.
Hamas has been struggling for over a decade with creating either civilian or military infrastructures in the West Bank due to the daily pressure it is constantly under, with the IDF and Shin Bet pressuring from one end and the Paleostinian Security Forces from the other.
In fact, Hamas operatives are jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! nightly for trying to lay the groundwork for such infrastructure as well as for creating local cells in Paleostinian villages and towns in the area.
Hamas's newly-appointed deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri has been tasked with constructing and directing his organization's military and civilian infrastructures in the West Bank. In his previous position, al-Arouri founded and headed Hamas's "West Bank Headquarters."
Al-Arouri, who is said to possess a strategic mind, has come to the realization over the past two years that Hamas's conduct in the West Bank has to change to gain any real foothold there. He therefore came up with a plan that had Hamas construct a sort of "mirror image" of the West Bank abroad.
The Hamas deputy chief tasked some of the organization's representatives in Jordan, the Gulf countries and Leb with responsibilities relating to West Bank operations. Those representatives' main advantage is they're immune from arrest due to their geographic locations, and can orchestrate operations safely from afar.
These operations include raising and transferring funds using money changers, money laundering, and smuggling cash through passengers entering the West Bank at the Allenby Border Crossing.
Most of the people Hamas placed in the aforementioned positions‐some of which were prisoners released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap and deported to other countries‐were either born or raised in the West Bank and the specific sectors they oversee.
By implementing this new policy‐much bolstered over the past year‐those same representatives can thusly hold meetings without fear of reprisal, formulate strategies as to Hamas's West Bank operations, coordinate the policy's implantation and discuss how funds dedicated to the West Bank should be allocated.
Al-Arouri presides over all of their actions, and makes sure to be well informed of all goings-on in the West Bank despite his lofty stature and other responsibilities. His clever methodology does not end there, however, as he has commenced a policy according to which Hamas will downplay and mask his true intentions by operating charitable institutions, youth clubs and social activities not immediately synonymous with Hamas.
It is for this reason that Hamas banners or photos of its leaders are never hung in the offices of the abovementioned organizations or displayed during their activities. The people administering them are not clearly affiliated with Hamas, and yet people attending their events know Hamas provides the money and support for them, which helps win over the locals' hearts and minds.
Hamas then does its absolute best to insert as much money as it can into the West Bank and then divvies it according to it needs. Families of holy warriors receive funds without any return expected of them, which effectively buys their support of Hamas.
While Hamas is now investing more funds in developing civilian infrastructures to build a popular support base, it has not forsaken attempts‐mostly directed from Gazoo‐to create small military bands to carry out terrorist attacks, another field under the watchful gaze of al-Arouri.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Ahmad Magdi Muhammad Avid, caught as he crossed border fence from Paleostinian enclave, was active for years with terror group.
A member of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing, captured after he entered Israeli territory from the Gazoo Strip, has provided Israeli Sherlocks with a wealth of information about the terror group’s tunneling operations, the IDF said Thursday.
In a statement, the army said Ahmad Magdi Muhammad Avid, 23, from Shejaiya in the Gazoo Strip, was captured on September 27 after crossing the border fence in northern Gazoo. He was not armed at the time of his capture and the army did not say what his purpose was for crossing the heavily guarded border.
Avid was a member of the Hamas military wing, which he joined in 2013. He trained in the use of anti-tank weapons, military engineering operations, and sniping. He was also involved in tunnel digging in the area of Shejaiya and was a member of the Hamas border patrol forces.
During his interrogation, Avid gave up a considerable amount of information about the Hamas tunneling operation in the Gazoo Strip, including attack tunnels leading into Israel and tunnels inside Gazoo intended for use in battles against the IDF, the statement said.
"The investigation of Ahmad Avid once again revealed Hamas’s terror activities, using tunnels to advance terrorist activity against Israel," the army said.
He was indicted on October 23 at the Beersheba District Court on "serious" security-related charges, the army said, though it did not specify.
On October 30, Israel blew up an attack tunnel leading into Israeli territory that was being dug by 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... together with Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Salah Bardawil calls Wednesday night's declaration out of Cairo meeting 'lackluster'; adds no one dared to discuss terror group's weapons,
Any excuse will do, since they refuse to give up their weapons and their war against Israel in submission to the PA.
[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... has warned that the US and Israel may hatch a new plot against the Moslem world following the end of the reign of 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... Death Eaters in Iraq and Syria.
"Although ISIS reached its end in Iraq and Syria, one should not ignore the deception of enemies as the US, Zionism and the lackeys will not stop the animosity against Islam and they may hatch and implement a plot similar to ISIS and the likes in another region," said the Leader.
Ayatollah Khamenei was speaking at a Thursday meeting with a group of scholars who attended an international conference on countering Takfirism in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
The Leader further underlined the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s determination to stand against any plot by Israel and global arrogance to instigate wars among Moslems, noting that Iran will emerge victorious in such a campaign as it did so in its fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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[AnNahar] Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari, said that disarming Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... party was "non-negotiable," Iranian state TV said Thursday.
Jafari was also quoted as saying that Iran's Revolutionary Guards will play an active role in a lasting "ceasefire" in Syria.
He stressed that disarming Hizbullah is a "non-negotiable" matter.
Jafari rejected any talks on Iran's ballistic missile program as demanded by La Belle France and other Western powers.
"The demands of French President Emmanuel Macron to research the country's missile defense activity are because he is young and inexperienced," he said.
[IsraelTimes] 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’s online propaganda channels went mysteriously quiet for more than a full day between Wednesday and Thursday, in what analysts say was an "unprecedented" silence.
IS, which uses messaging application Telegram to broadcast daily updates on military operations and claims of attacks, published nothing between 0900 GMT on Wednesday and 1001 GMT on Thursday.
Charlie Winter, senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, calls the silence "unprecedented."
IS’s Telegram channels usually post more than a dozen messages each day, ranging from multilingual radio broadcasts on battlefield achievements to pictures of civilian life in the group’s self-styled "caliphate."
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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
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says Ahmad Magdi Muhammad Avid, caught as he crossed border fence from Paleostinian enclave, was active for years with terror group.
...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...
