[BBC] Stepping into the brown waters of the Rio Grande, a small group of migrants is all smiles as they look off into the distance - the end of their long and dangerous journey into the US is just hundreds of feet away.
"Crossing the river safely," reads a message splayed across the top of the video, which includes the Spanish-language hashtag #AmericanDream. "Write to me and I'll give you more information."
The video is one of hundreds on social media that promise to help migrants start a new life in the US, securely and cheaply.
And while they seem innocent - even friendly - experts say they are deceptive. "This is advertised people smuggling," said Ed Calderon, a former Mexican police officer who specialises in the border's underworld. "And it's out in the open''.
Experts say these video clips - on platforms including TikTok, YouTube and WhatsApp - are the public face of a highly sophisticated, multi-billion dollar illegal industry that has taken advantage of confusion over changes in US immigration policies to spread disinformation and drive demand for their services.
Business is booming in the wake of the 11 May expiry of Title 42, a Donald Trump-era policy that allowed the US to swiftly deport people without an asylum hearing, using the coronavirus pandemic as justification.
The new approach encourages legal pathways, while at the same time also implementing strict penalties for those who cross illegally.
US officials say since Title 42 expired, migrant detentions have fallen by 70%, as more people come to the country legally.
Falling figures, however, do not mean falling profits for the criminal organisations that help migrants cross the border undetected.
"It's like Christmas for these smugglers right now," Mr Calderon told the BBC, adding that there is a perception among many migrants that successfully crossing the border without being detained is more difficult.
"That's all because of their propaganda, and it allows them to raise prices."
Mr Calderon's assessment was echoed by Adam Isacson, a migration and border expert from the Washington Office on Latin America, who said that demand for the services of smugglers is likely up "among those who want to enter the United States undetected" after Title 42.
"If numbers dip because of a tough new policy change, that absolutely raises the price of smuggling services," he added.
The videos splashed across social media come in various forms, and are in many cases far from subtle.
Some are testimonials from seemingly satisfied customers, supposedly speaking from safe houses or city streets in the US.
"Here we are in New York City," the Venezuelan-accented narrator of one such video says while walking down a Manhattan street. "I'd like to thank my companions for getting me here safe and sound."
The caption of the video, from a "travel agency", asks viewers to send a message requesting help getting to the US without a visa.
Others show camouflaged smugglers leading groups of migrants through harsh terrain, or using ladders to swiftly get over border barriers. Many promise door-to-door services from as far away as South America to final destinations in the US.
Migrants often pay thousands of dollars to smugglers to reach and cross the US-Mexico border.
Almost universally, they include a phone number to WhatsApp or a promise that more details - including price and payment plans - will be revealed in response to private messages.
Experts say that prices for smuggling services vary enormously and often are determined by what the smugglers perceive a migrant - or their family - can pay, either up front or in instalments over time.
US officials have warned that migrants who don't pay are often forced to work for the cartels, sometimes as prostitutes, drivers or drug-runners. Some are simply held hostage in secret stash houses until the fees are fully paid, or threaten their families in the US or back home.
"It's a giant industry, and it's a cartel industry," Mr Calderon said. "Smuggling people across the border is one of their biggest money makers right now".
Mr Calderon estimated that even the most basic packages - which he described as a "let's see if we can get there" trip - would start at between $5,000 and $8,000 for a family of four starting in Mexico.
Current and former law enforcement sources in the US and Mexico estimated that typical prices are now around $15,000, rising to between $50,000 and $60,000 for many migrants coming from outside of Latin America. The BBC was unable to independently verify these prices.
The issue of disinformation on social media has increasingly caught the eye of US officials. Just ahead of Title 42's expiry, for example, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned would-be migrants of falling to lies meant to "lure vulnerable people to the Southern Border".
Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security launched a "geo-targeted" digital advertising campaign on social media platforms across Central and South America. The ads are designed to reach migrants via their mobile devices, and direct them to government-run landing pages that clarify facts about US immigration policies and provide warnings about the dangers.
US officials have told the BBC the ads are still running even after the recent policy changes.
TikTok, for its part, has said it has a "zero tolerance" approach to human smuggling and has dedicated "significant investment" to finding and removing such content, with offending accounts permanently banned. The two videos mentioned in this story have already been removed, only to be swiftly replaced by others with similar content.
Alex Pacheco, a former Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) supervisor with 20 years' experience on the force, said that social media rumours are likely to continue to run rampant, with smugglers keen to exploit migrants' anxieties about the impact of domestic US policies and events on the border.
Mr Pacheco believes this trend will become even more evident as the US heads towards the 2024 presidential election.
"They'll always say that people need to cross now. Some people would have been told that the price will go up if you don't cross before Title 42, for example," Mr Pacheco said.
"Now they'll probably say that there may be a new administration, that the new president won't be Joe Biden, or that the border will go back to how it was in the previous administration…
An interesting assumption.
this all benefits the criminal organisation," he added. "That's capitalism."
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Where are the unaccompanied children going to?
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^ At this point, best ask at any DC pizza parlor.
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About Facebook’s Threads:
Figure 10% of those who sign up will still be active a month from now. And figure at least half of the 90% will try to delete it at that point, then be seriously angry when their Instagram account is automatically deleted in the process.
[AlAhram] A West African monetary union has agreed to lift its suspension of Mali, imposed in January 2022 over the ruling junta's timeline for returning to civilian rule, it said in a statement.
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) came to the decision during an extraordinary session held in Guinea-Bissau on Saturday, it said in the communique received Sunday by AFP.
"With regard to Mali, the Conference decided to lift its suspension from the UEMOA bodies and institutions on 09 January 2022", it said, without elaborating.
UEMOA and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had in January 2022 imposed a range of economic and diplomatic measures against the Sahel country after its military government unveiled a plan to rule for five years.
ECOWAS lifted sanctions in July 2022, accepting a planned March 2024 return to civilian rule.
The leader of Mali's junta, Assimi Goita, seized power in August 2020, then installed an interim government led by civilians.
But in May 2021, he deposed those civilian leaders in a second coup. He was later sworn in as interim president.
Mali last month held a referendum on constitutional changes, marking a key step in the military's plans to restore civilian rule.
Sure, but will the civilians — who are no better at ruling or subduing the local jihadis than is the army — ever be allowed to keep the reins of government even after they take over?
This is why France can no longer have nice things.
[AlAhram] La Belle France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks during the July 14 national holiday weekend, following riots sparked by the police killing a teenager, the government said Sunday.
Fireworks were among the weapons of choice during the unrest that went kaboom! in La Belle France after a police officer rubbed out a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on June 27 near Gay Paree, rekindling long pent-up frustrations and accusations of systemic racism among La Belle France's security forces.
"In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, possession, transport and use of pyrotechnical articles and fireworks is banned until July 15 inclusively," said a government decree published in the official Journal on Sunday.
The ban does not extend to professionals or municipalities that are organising traditional fireworks for the Bastille Day celebrations, it added.
Worried about a possible resurgence of rioting, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told the daily Le Gay Pareeien on Saturday that the government would deploy "massive means to protect the French" during the national holiday.
Fireworks displays are an annual feature of Bastille Day celebrations. They are also often used during protests in the country.
The police killing in the Gay Paree suburb of Nanterre of Nahel M.,
...that’s 17 year old French-Algerian known wolf Nahel Merzouk, who refused to stay pulled over while joy riding in Lorient, Brittany without a license with a couple of no doubt equally disreputable buddies in an entirely questionable Polish Mercedes, getting himself killed in the process...
who had Algerian roots, sparked La Belle France's worst urban violence since 2005.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] France could become an Islamic republic if nothing changes.
That’s been our concern here since the car-b-ques of 2005.
This opinion was expressed on July 9 by former French presidential candidate, leader of the far-right Reconquest party, Eric Zemmour ,
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s. To the shock of many, he is an enthusiastic French nationalist, which is enough for the blinkered to line him up with the fascists, especially when he pronounced France’s various governments criminally negligent for encouraging the Moslem invasion. He was doing very well in the 2022 presidential campaign until Antifa declared war on his rallies — and the French police let them...
in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Debate.
He stated that most Muslims believe that Islamic laws are superior to the laws of France. At the same time, Zemmour noted, the country's leaders are doing nothing to combat this.
“If we continue to move in this direction, then because of demographics and democracy, France may one day become an Islamic republic,” he said.
Mr Zemmour gave his country three children, so he has done his bit for the cause.
As reported by IA Regnum, in France since June 27 there were riots after the incident in the suburbs of Paris. In Nanterre, police stopped a 17-year-old Arab teenager
....the infamous known wolf, Nahel Merzouk...
who was driving without a driver's license. The young man refused to follow the demands of the guards. The intruder tried to escape and ran into one of the policemen. Another police officer opened fire and shot the teenager.
According to the head of the Union of French Entrepreneurs (Medef) Geoffroy Roux de Bezieu , the amount of losses from the unrest that swept France amounted to at least 1 billion euros.
[GEO.TV] European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Ambassador to Pakistain Dr Riina Kionka has said that the organization — comprising 27 European countries — is paying a lot of attention to the "crackdown on the PTI and [its] supporters in the aftermath of May 9" in the country.
The EU ambassador's comment came in a video statement regarding the extension of Pakistain’s GSP (Generalised Scheme of Preferences) Plus status.
Ambassador Dr Kionka detailed Pakistain’s current GSP Plus status, saying that "the proposed extension of the current regulation for GSP Plus in effect means no change for Pakistain at the moment, and the country enjoys the same trade preferences and access to the European market [as before]."
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... she added that Pakistain also "has the same obligations as before in terms of implementing the 27 international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... conventions" and that the EU will "continue to monitor progress and report to the European Parliament".
She emphasised that "there are certain areas where the EU would like to see more improvement [by Pakistain] -- for instance on freedom of expression, freedom of the media, freedom of religion and belief, situation of minorities, rights of women and gender equality and also labour rights," as well as the situation regarding the "crackdown on the PTI".
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Background, the military oligarchy despises PTI: On May 9, 2023 Khan was arrested on corruption charges while appearing at court in Islamabad. Two days later the Supreme Court declared his arrest illegal and another court in Islamabad ordered his release on May 12.
Shortly after Khan was arrested, a mob of his alleged supporters stormed the residence of a top military commander in Lahore and set it on fire.
Several other army installations were attacked as Khan supporters accused the powerful military of orchestrating his arrest. Khan denied his people were behind the arson and alleged a plot to frame him and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. “The burning of that old building is a deliberate ploy to blame it on us,” the 70-year-old opposition leader said. “In 27 years [of his political career], have I ever asked to turn to burning and rioting? I have always talked about peaceful protests...
Upshot: Khan is a bum. The military are bums. Pakistan is a bummer.
[GEO.TV] In a startling revelation, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... on Sunday claimed that former director-general (DG) of the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant-General (retd) Faiz Hameed had offered him to become chairman of the Senate.
Fazl, who is also the president of the ruling Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM), made the revelation during an informal interaction with senior journalists in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... The JUI-F leader said that the former spymaster had called him for a meeting but he refused. Later, he himself met him, Fazl said without giving details about the venue and date.
"I want to see you a member of the Senate and then chairman [of the upper house of parliament]," the PDM head said quoting the former top spy.
In return, the former ISI chief had asked him that he has to bring change in the system which he refused, Fazl claimed.
Following his refusal, the opposition was divided in the country, Fazl accused the establishment.
Responding to a question, the PDM chief said that all the political parties agreed that the 2018 elections were rigged, adding that the then-opposition should not have taken oath when they termed the assembly as "fake".
The JUI-F was of the view that the opposition should have taken to the streets and forced the government to resign instead of joining the assemblies, he added.
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[GEO.TV] Pakistain has acknowledged steps being taken by the Afghan-led interim government to effectively combat cross-border terrorism and termed the relocation of Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) hard boyz from border areas a significant development.
Asif Durrani, Pakistain's special representative on Afghanistan, told Voice of America that Afghanistan’s interim rulers recently initiated certain steps to address Pakistain’s as well as neighbours including China’s cross-border terror concerns.
"But it is premature to speculate on the outcome," he cautioned.
Pakistain has witnessed a surge in terrorist attacks following Afghan Taliban’s return to power in August 2021 and called upon the interim rulers to take decisive actions against snuffies including the TTP responsible for cross-border attacks.
"It's a serious issue. But steps are being taken to neutralise the TTP. We should also understand that it will take a while, but the process has been initiated," Durrani said in response to a recent Taliban announcement that TTP hard boyz were being moved away from Afghan areas bordering Pakistain.
"That is a step the Afghan government is taking, so we have to wait and see the results. It is now in the initial stages, so it would be too early to comment," said the envoy. "But if this relocation of the TTP can actually happen and lead to peace along our borders, it would be a significant development and we would welcome it."
Durrani added that Pak military operations had deprived the TTP of any territorial control and their relocation from border areas suggests they have now also become a "liability" for the Afghan Taliban.
"Comparatively, Afghanistan is now very peaceful but there are pockets of TTP, ETIM, and other groups that are a source of concern. Both Pakistain and China hope that the Afghan government will take practical measures," Durrani said.
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[IsraelTimes] London daily Asharq al-Awsat says Islamic Theocratic Republic looking to swap Elizabeth Tsurkov, possibly for prisoner Israel says is Revolutionary Guard operative
The kidnapping of Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov was carried out to pressure Israel to release an Iranian operative held by Israel, according to Asharq al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic daily.
Citing Iraqi government sources and members of an umbrella organization for Shiite militias, the newspaper reported that the Iranian in question could be Yusef Shahbazi Abbasalilo, whom Israel announced in June it had nabbed on Iranian soil for planning attacks on Israeli targets in Cyprus.
Israel has not revealed when it took Shahbazi Abbasalilo, an alleged Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operative, and whether it was before Tsurkov was kidnapped.
Some sources told the outlet that talks were being mediated by Russia, "which may result in the release of Tsurkov in the coming days."
Asharq al-Awsat also said it had received conflicting reports about her whereabouts, with some sources saying she was being held in Iraq by the pro-Iranian militia Kataeb Hezbollah, and others indicating she had been moved to Iran.
The report could not be independently verified.
Tsurkov, a doctoral student at Princeton University and fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, has been missing in Iraq for more than three months.
[IsraelTimes] Months after first real-world interceptions during flareup with Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , IAF says missile defense system will ’significantly improve air defense layers’
The Defense Ministry and military said Sunday that the Israeli Air Force and Rafael defense firm had successfully completed a recent series of tests with the David’s Sling medium-range air defense system.
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[IsraelTimes] Premier makes comments ahead of cabinet meeting with top police and legal officials on policy regarding police activity at rallies against judicial overhaul.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that law enforcement policy at demonstrations must be uniform for all types of rallies, adding that selective action would be "fatal" to democracy.
In public comments made before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu explained why Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and top police officials, among them police chief Kobi Shabtai, had been specially invited to participate in the gathering.
The purpose, he said, was to clarify the policy of enforcement at demonstrations.
Baharav-Miara and police were summoned to give their input after months of mass protests against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul. Senior coalition figures have increasingly urged police and the legal system to deal more forcefully with the demonstrators.
In an unusual move, bigwigs from the Justice Ministry were in attendance alongside Baharav-Miara, amid concerns the coalition wants to pressure law enforcement to suppress the protests.
"Selective enforcement is a fatal wound to democracy and a fatal injury to the rule of law, and therefore we asked the legal adviser to give a report to the government on this issue," Netanyahu told his cabinet.
The legal and police officials were to provide ministers with an update on policy "against threats and assaults on elected officials, calls for civil revolt and disobeying the law, blocking roads and illegal strikes," Netanyahu said.
He stressed that the right to demonstrate within the framework of the law is "a sacred right for every person and every group of people, and we strongly condemn any violence against demonstrators from one side or the other.
"While the government has not considered restricting this right, it has requested to be given a report on the enforcement policy regarding violations of the law that infringe on the basic rights of millions of citizens and that are carried out almost on a daily basis during the demonstrations," he said.
Netanyahu charged that violations of the law have included the blocking of main transportation arteries, disruptions at Ben Gurion Airport, calling for the non-payment of taxes, harassing public figures and "calling for rebellion, organizing protests with the aim of disabling entire units in the army, and violations of the law in many other areas."
Weekly demonstrations have seen the blocking of roads and the jamming of access routes to Ben Gurion Airport, in addition to rallies outside the homes of coalition politicians.
In addition, a growing number of reservist soldiers have said they will refuse to volunteer if the overhaul is passed, a move that has in the past drawn warnings of danger from the defense establishment. An all-night protest was held Saturday outside Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s home urging him to act against the judicial overhaul.
Given that the range is from center-left to center-right... and of course there is the question whether he remembers as far back as breakfast this morning, rendering historical comparisons moot.
[IsraelTimes] US president says Jerusalem shares blame for recent violence due to cabinet members who push settlement expansion while rejecting Palestinian rights.
Given that the US State Department is at least partly financing and directing the parties causing the recent violence, this is a cute attempt at obfuscation.
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The harsh and inappropriate Puppet Show comments reflect the barely hidden hatred of the collective that is the actual Presidency for Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular!
[NPASyria] Coordinated with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and funded by 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , local organizations completed on Sunday the construction of three new settlements in Afrin region in northwest Syria.
An exclusive source told North Press that the Ottoman Turkish Beyaz Eller (White Hands) Association have recently completed the construction of three new settlements near the village of Sheikh al-Deir (Shadereh), about 18 km in the south of Afrin city.
The source said that each settlement includes 300 apartments. They are prefabricated rooms built for the settlers who came to Afrin from other Syrian areas, mostly the families of the members of armed factions, after the city was occupied by Turkey.
The Kurdish-majority region of Afrin has been under Ottoman Turkish occupation since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" to push away the Kurdish People’s/Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) under the pretext of protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security.
The invasion displaced around 300,000 indigenous Kurds. Turkey and its affiliated opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), replaced the population with Arabs fleeing other parts of Syria. Kurds in Afrin are subject to systemic discrimination and violence. In 2022 alone, 633 people, mostly Kurds, were arbitrarily arrested by SNA factions and Turkey.
In June, The Turkey-based International Association for Relief and Development (ONSUR), with support from Paleostinian organizations, completed the construction of al-Amal 2 settlement in Jabal al-Ahlam area in southeastern Afrin within a complex of five settlements.
Turkey has built more than 19 settlements in Afrin region, northwest Syria, through using organizations like Living with Dignity Association, White Hands (Beyaz Eller), Rahma International Society, and other organizations which are funded by Qatar and Kuwait.
Human rights activists say they are part of a Ottoman Turkish "ethnic engineering" policy in the region. Most are funded by Ottoman Turkish, Qatari, Kuwaiti, or Paleostinian organizations with ties to the Moslem Brüderbund. At least 1.535 Paleostinian families living in Syria have been resettled to Afrin.
[AnNahar] A U.N. envoy of American nationality who is in charge of the Israeli file at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... will visit Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... to carry out discussions related to the developments on Lebanon’s southern border, diplomatic sources said.
"Upon his arrival in Beirut, the envoy will request a meeting with Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... to propose U.N. ideas regarding south Lebanon," the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Saturday.
"The envoy will ask Nasrallah about Hezbollah’s stance if the international organization presses Israel to withdraw from Ghajar,
... a Lebanese border village that frequently appears in the story when Israel is attacked...
the Kfarshouba Hilla
...also in our archives as Kfarchouba, the village is a popular launch point against Israel, so it regularly needs pounding by the IDF...
and the Lebanese part of the Shebaa Farms,"
...that corner of the landscape given to Syria by Sykes-Picot, only Lebanon never accepted either their acquisition or Israel's conquest of it during the Six Day War — Israel calls it Mount Dov. But the UN or the International Court or someone official ruled it rightfully belongs to Israel, being as it’s south of the Blue Line that marks the border, so this is just Lebanese sour grapes and an ignorant American officially throwing her weight around...
the sources said.
"Based on this meeting, if it happens, and in light of Nasrallah’s answer, the course of things on the border between Lebanon and Israel will become clear," the sources added.
"Hezbollah’s erection of two tents in the Blue Line area of the Farms and Israel’s annexation of the Lebanese part of Ghajar came in preparation for the steps that are being mulled to achieve stability in that area that has witnessed tensions that peaked on Thursday," the sources added.
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No doubt Hezbollah, not the Lebanese Gubbamint (stop laughing), would move into launching positions upon Israel capitulation. I don't see Bibi caring what the UN says.
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Who cares what the UN says, ~180 members with 120 filled by tyrants. What use are they???
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...Deobandi holy man, known as 
...Arabic for 
[IsraelTimes] London daily Asharq al-Awsat says 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
