HARGEISA, Somaliland -- omaliland police forces have detained a poet known for his vocal support for Islamic movements in the capital, Hargeisa on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. Abdirashid Gamadid was captured after security forces raided his home according to intelligence officials.
The detained pro-Al Shabaab poet previously lauded terror attack on upscale Westgate mall in Kenyan capital of Nairobi in late 2013. Gamadid moved to Puntland where he was apprehended by security forces for possible links with Somali militant group in February 2014 after his release from a prison in breakaway Somaliland.
Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali freed Gamadid on pardon following meet with Somaliland traditional leaders in July this year.
Ali is being chided for mass release of convicted Al Shabaab members without writs or official clearances.
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Two people were killed Sunday as heavy-weapons fire and clashes broke out in the Muslim district of the Central African Republic capital marring a referendum on a new constitution aimed at ending years of sectarian strife.
An AFP journalist saw the bodies of two people lying in a mosque in Bangui's PK5 Muslim district, while a dozen others were wounded there, in clashes between supporters and opponents of the closely-watched referendum. Fire from heavy machine-guns and rocket launchers raged around a PK5 school where voters were waiting to cast their ballots, prompting UN peacekeepers to move in to protect residents.
The vote was seen as a test run for presidential and parliamentary elections due to take place December 27 to end more than two years of conflict between Muslim and Christian militias.
The proposed constitution would limit presidential tenure to two terms, fight institutional corruption and crimp the power of armed militias, blamed for years of chaos and terror. If adopted, it would usher in the sixth republic since independence from France in 1960 and mark the 13th political regime -- underlining the chronic instability undermining the country.
Some factions of the mainly Muslim Seleka force had threatened to block the vote, as had some "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) Christian and animist militia supporters. Among the latter were backers of ousted president Francois Bozize, whose candidacy for the upcoming presidential election has been rejected by the constitutional court.
General Balla Keita, chief of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA, vowed to protect voters. The UN representative in Bangui, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, in a statement hailed the "courage" of Central Africans, who "braved every fear and threat" and went to the polls.
Voting in other parts of Bangui got under way, albeit a couple of hours late, because staff and voting material were late to arrive. In other parts of the country, several incidents were also reported, said an unnamed source in MINUSCA, sent in to quell fighting that has forced 10 percent of the population to flee the country.
Almost two million Central Africans had registered to vote in a population of 4.8 million, a clear sign of the widespread desire to return to a life of peace and normalcy. The international community, which has been pouring aid into the country for over two years, was keen for the referendum as well as the follow-up elections to take place.
Yemeni tribes, buoyed by military victories of the national army and the resistance in many areas, on Saturday declared the creation of a higher resistance council in the Western Dhama governorate, nearly 130 km south of the capital Sanaa.
Dhamar has been under the control of the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies since late 2014 following a coup they launched against the legitimate government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The coup prompted Saudi Arabia, the UAE and seven other Arab countries to launch a coalition at the request of the Yemeni regime to restore legitimacy.
The coalition and their national allies in Yemen have liberated Aden, Marib and other areas and their eyes are now set on Taiz and Sanaa.
The new council in Dhamar is headed by Sheikh Ali Mohammed Al Qawsi and it comprises 40 members. Sheikh Ali Al Qawsi is its deputy chairman while Bakr Al Dhibyani is the council’s spokesman, according to Yemen’s news website Marib Press.
A proposal to give the European Union executive the power to send forces unbidden into member states to defend the common European frontier will face resistance from some countries when it is published this week.
The European Commission wants to be able to deploy personnel from a new European Border and Coastguard Agency without, as currently required, the consent of the state concerned, EU officials told Reuters in early December, reflecting frustration with Greek reluctance to seek help with migrants. EU officials call the plan a largely theoretical "nuclear option" and stress that any infringement of national sovereignty would be balanced by the power of a majority of member states to block Commission intervention - similar to checks agreed during the euro debt crisis.
Sure. EU military and paramilitary forces could just go into a member state without its consent. But fortunately there are checks and balances. What could go wrong?
The Commission will set out the plan on Tuesday to reinforce its Frontex agency with up to six times more staff, EU officials said, following a commitment to an EU border guard in September by President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Thus providing more employment opportunities for junior apparatchiks and their over-educated children...
"We think the current situation justifies a certain ambition," the Commission's chief spokesman said on Friday, expressing confidence about backing from member states.
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Seventy workers at Paris airports suspected of being radical Islamists have had their security passes revoked since the deadly attacks in the city a month ago. Security agents have also examined the contents of around 4,000 workers' lockers at Charles de Gaulle and Orly as the airports authority attempts to weed out any potential terrorists working at the busy transport hubs.
French security sources have said that Islamist militants killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb five days after the November 13 attacks were planning to attack Charles de Gaulle, France’s biggest international airport.
The radicalisation of airport personnel
'Radicalization'? They were radicalized before they arrived in France...
sparked concern after the crash in October of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt which Western intelligence officials believe was brought down by a bomb smuggled on board by an airport worker.
Augustin de Romanet, chief executive officer of ADP, the company that runs the two Paris airports, said the state authority which issues security passes had carried out a screening after the attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were killed and 350 injured.
"Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation," he said in an interview with French media.
He said around 85,000 people had secure-zone clearance in the two airports, most of them working for airlines or for several hundred subcontractors.
So-called red badges are issued to people employed in the secure zone of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, working for instance as baggage handlers, aircraft cleaners and suppliers.
"To be issued with a red badge, you have to be cleared by police, and if you work for a company that carries out security checks of in-flight luggage, you need three police checks," De Romanet said.
Some airport workers suspected of links to radical Islam were placed under house arrest under state of emergency powers implemented after the attacks a month ago.
It emerged after the November 13 massacre that dozens of airport staff had their security passes revoked after the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in January, but others continued to work despite being on an intelligence watchlist as potential Islamist extremists.
There has also been concern about radicalism among bus, metro and rail employees in the Paris region. Samy Amimour, one of the attackers who blew himself up in the Bataclan rock venue in Paris, had worked as a bus driver despite being on an intelligence watchlist.
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Revoked? Perhaps they were not State Dept sponsored and economic-zone, tax subsidized employees.
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Unless the badges were actually take (In hand) they'll be used and duplicated without end.
Far better to change the badges.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday brushed off what a Germany magazine said was a request from the United States to provide more military help in the fight against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
"I believe Germany is fulfilling its part and we don't need to talk about new issues related to this question at the moment," Merkel told the ZDF broadcaster when asked about the Der Spiegel magazine report of the US request.
Besides, she'll shortly need her military at home...
Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had sent a letter asking for a bigger military contribution from Germany, a week after parliament approved a plan to join the campaign in Syria. A German Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed a letter had been received from the United States and its content was under consideration, giving no further details. Der Spiegel said the letter did not make specific demands and was similar to requests sent to other US partners.
Germany's mission includes six Tornado reconnaissance jets, a frigate to protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, refueling aircraft and up to 1,200 troops. The deployment is a direct response to a French appeal for solidarity after militant attacks in Paris killed 130 people. Germany does not plan to carry out air strikes in Syria.
Germany has over the past two years shown a growing readiness to commit troops to foreign missions.
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said last week Germany might need bigger armed forces to cope with the more assertive role. More than 3,000 personnel are currently deployed overseas and the Syria mission will raise that by up to 1,200. Von der Leyen also wants to send 650 troops to Mali to help the French campaign against Islamist militants there.
Germany last year started arming Iraqi Kurds fighting Islamic State.
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US should pull our troops out of NATO. The alliance is in tatters with Turkey and Germany acting the way they are. At the very least we should start abandoning a few bases in Germany. Might make good housing for refugees once the personnel (and their paychecks) are gone.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Turkish army has banned personnel from taking holidays in Russia, with which Ankara is embroiled in a bitter dispute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane, state-run media said Sunday.
The prohibition, which applies to both personnel and military academy students, was described as a "precautionary measure after the Russian warplane, which violated (The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's) borders, was downed in accordance with the rules of engagement," Anatolia news agency said.
Army personnel are expected to behave in a way that is "worthy" of the Turkish military while on vacation, Anatolia added.
Russia and Turkey have been plunged in their worst crisis since the Cold War over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane on the border with Syria on November 24.
Moscow has since then unleashed a raft of sanctions against Ankara, including banning imports of some Turkish foods, stopping the sale of package holidays to the country and reintroducing visas for Turkish visitors.
The Turkish foreign ministry in November warned its citizens against non-urgent travel to Russia, but Ankara has so far has not hit back with sanctions measures of its own.
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Ultimately, Turkey will have to leave Iraqi territory, Michael Rubin, the former Pentagon advisor on Middle East, and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) told Trend.
“Iraq was willing to turn a blind eye to the presence of Turkish forces so long as the Turks were discreet but, by increasing their presence, Turkey is giving Iraq little choice but to increase the confrontation,” Rubin said.
Nevertheless, he doesn’t believe that there will be an outright war between the two sides.
“Many Iraqis believe that Erdogan is all bluster, but will ultimately back down,” said the former Pentagon advisor.
Turkey earlier deployed a group of its armed forces, including around 130 servicemen, tanks and artillery in the camp of Kurdish Peshmerga military forces where Ankara trains Kurdish fighters for attacking Mosul city captured by the IS terrorist group (ISIL, ISIS, or Daesh). The Turkish side states that there was reached an agreement with Iraqi authorities on this issue.
This is while previously, the Iraqi authorities accused Turkey of military invasion and demanded the Turkish troops to leave the country. In addition, a number of Iraqi MPs demanded from the authorities to launch a military operation against the Turkish troops.
Rubin believes that ultimately, Iraq will be able to stand up to Turkish military forces.
“Firstly, there is a widespread belief that Turkey is sympathetic to Daesh, and so if Iraqi forces use their artillery or air force in the fight against Daesh, they might target whom Turkey trains,” he said.
“If Turkish advisors get killed [in this operation], I don’t believe the Iraqis will mourn,” Rubin added.
Further, he said that Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi may be forced to take some action just to prove that he is not as weak as his detractors claim.
Rubin said that one of the main allies of Turkey is Masoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq and the basis for that relationship is the financial aspect.
In the best of the old Ottoman traditions -- the Iraqi Kurds have been bought...
Moreover, Turkey’s allies in Iraq are Sunni Arabs, according to the former Pentagon advisor.
“Turkey might say it’s the Turkmen, but many of the Turkmen are Shiite and embrace their sectarian identity above their ethnic identity,” he added.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ankara intends neither to deploy its new military units to Iraq nor withdraw the existing ones.
It was previously reported that Iraq will impose economic sanctions on Ankara in response to Turkey’s refusal to withdraw its tank battalion from Iraq’s Nineveh province. As part of the economic sanctions, Iraqi companies can be prohibited from signing any agreement with Turkish firms.
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Sorry, Mr. Rubin, don't think so - IMO, de facto or wannbe "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey won't leave Iraq or other in the ME widout a fight.
Ditto as per Co-Superpowers IRAN + PUTINIST RUSSIA.
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"By increasing their presence, Turkey is giving Iraq little choice but to increase the confrontation" - Yeeeeuuup.
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Yet another non-NATO approved or coordinated action was it? Well then, perhaps it's time to say goodbye. I was ready 12 years ago.
Iraq: Turkey, the Deployment of U.S. Forces, and Related Issues
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On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a resolution authorizing the
deployment of U.S. forces to Turkey to open a northern front in a war against Iraq.
The rejection resulted from strains within the ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP), an inexperienced leadership, competing influences, and the overwhelming
opposition of Turkish public opinion. Moreover, the powerful Turkish military had
not actively supported the government’s position before the vote, and the President
had suggested that the resolution would be unconstitutional.
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According to Rudaw, it was the Iraqi government itself that had asked Turkey to come in and train army troops, volunteers, snd Peshmerga, with which the Ninevah provincial government agrees most heartily.
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De latest this nice Guam AM ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Twitter] TURKEY SAYS HAS WITHDRAWN ["re-arranged" = re-aligned"] "SOME TROOPS" FROM NORTHERN IRAQ [Mosul], + WILL BE DEPLOY TO DOHUK AS PART OF NEW AGREEMENT WID IRAQ.
* RELATED WORLD NEWS, TOPIX > TURKEY PARTIALLY WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM IRAQ.
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* OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM ARTIC = Pert-Blogger alleges that TURKEY DEPLOYED ITS TROOPS TO IRAQ AS PART OF A US-TURKEY SCHEME TO BLOCK FURTHER IRANIAN EXPANSION + TROOP MOVEMENTS INTO SYRIA???
And so It = Turkey-vs-Iran, OWG-Co-Superpower-Wannbe-vs-OWG-Co-Superpower confrontation for control of the ME + ME Global Federal Union(s)begins???
[SEXY SLINKY BARBARA EDEN = "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" here].
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I hope his lawyer recommends that his client asks for a panel that includes enlisted court members. More likely than not, he'll ask for a Military judge alone.
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Bad move. I've found the enlisted members to be among the least sympathetic among boards. Most sympathetic were actually senior officers who the defense usually used their one free challenge to remove from the boards.
[NYPOST] A Texas plumber who was flooded with threats after his old truck — still emblazoned with his company’s name — was seen driven by ISIS thugs in Syria has armed himself and is suing a Ford dealer.
Mark Oberholtzer of Mark-1 Plumbing said a jihadi tweeted a photo of a fighter shooting an anti-aircraft gun on the Ford 2005 F-250 in December 2014 with the company logo and phone number still visible.
The nasty calls started pouring in, up to 200 a day.
“They were calling us ‘terrorists’ or ‘traitors,’ [threatening], ‘We’re going to come down there and do this.’ We had numerous death threats,” the 52-year-old from Galveston County told The Post.
In December 2013, Oberholtzer’s son went to AutoNation Ford Golf Freeway in Houston to trade in the 2005 truck for the 2012 model.
As he began peeling the company decals off the door, the salesman told him that it ruins the paint and to “let them handle it,” claims the lawsuit, filed Wednesday against AutoNation.
He was hunting in South Texas when his secretary called to say reporters wanted to know why his truck was being driven by ISIS terrorists.
Homeland Security officials questioned Oberholtzer and the FBI warned him to “protect himself.” He now always carries a gun.
“I lost work out of it,” he said, noting that while his regular clients knew he was a good guy, he has struggled to get new business.
Now the plumber wants $1 million in damages from the dealer, who sold the truck to a company in Turkey in 2013, records show.
“Yesterday I ran into a guy I used to work with, for the first time in five years. ‘Sell any trucks to Syria lately?’ he asked. Everybody thinks it’s funny, but it’s not,” he said.
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Meanwhile, Panetta counter-manded General Ham’s order, and returned C-110 to the authority of EUCOM.
It went a bit further than a counter-manded order. General Hamm assumed command of AFRICOM in March of 2011. Benghazi happened on September 11, 2012. Obama appointed General David M. Rodriguez to replace Hamm on October 18th, 2012. Hamm was reportedly notified of his relief by his second in command.
A rather abbreviated command tenure and somewhat peculiar notification I'd say.
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So, it is as we thought, the big lie was never true. Panetta and others in the administration said there were no forces that could respond in time to prevent this clusterfVck that cost 4 good people their lives.
In another time, this would be enough to impeach Obama and dump Hillary out of the presidential candidate.
LAHORE: Information Minister Pevaiz Rashid said here on Saturday that no-one would create hurdles in the ongoing efforts for peace in Karachi through the Rangers operation, which would continue.
Replying to a reporter’s question after addressing a seminar, he said a fresh conference of political parties was not needed because all of them had not only endorsed the Karachi operation but were still favouring it.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the PPP, despite expressing some reservations, did not oppose the operation and were supporting its continuation, he said.
When asked whether the National Accountability Bureau would hold impartial investigations against some federal and provincial ministers, he said NAB was already fulfilling its obligations and injustice with anyone would be avoided.
“NAB should take steps which lead to irrefutable evidence so that nobody can raise a finger against it.” He said if NAB had got strong evidence then it should pursue the cases.
About Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s meeting with the Indian prime minister in New Delhi, the minister said the PTI chief had adopted the philosophy of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with respect to the foreign policy.
“Let’s pray that he also begins following the doctrine of the prime minister about internal policies of the country.”
He said Mr Khan had mainly presented himself in India as a sportsman. “I wished the PTI chairman would show courage and raise burning issues like Kashmir, Sir Creek and Siachen in front of Indian leaders.”
ISLAMABAD: As per latest statistics collected by the Ministry of Interior, Sindh has over the past five years led in sending terrorists to gallows, followed by the three other provinces and independent administrative regions.
The PPP-ruled province, according to the ministry’s figures, also has more terrorists awaiting execution than the rest of the country.
Until the last week of November Sindh carried out capital punishment in 106 cases, followed by Punjab with 64 terrorists.
The Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan each have sent one terrorist to the gallows. Not a single death punishment has been carried out in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata), Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) during this period.
Same is the case regarding the number of terrorists awaiting execution. Here, Sindh stands out with 98, Punjab 81 and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 25. Balochistan and Islamabad each have one condemned prisoner. There is no terrorist on death row in Fata, AJK and GB.
During the PPP government at the centre (from 2008 to 2013) there was an unannounced moratorium on the death penalty. Though the figures are of the past five years, most of these executions have been carried out after the terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December last year.
With 11 military courts set up under the 21st Amendment in January this year, the number of terrorists facing death penalty is likely to go up in coming days.
The latest figures released by ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations) over the weekend said that of the 142 cases of terrorism heard by military courts 55 had been finalised and 87 were in process.
Military courts convicted 31 terrorists, 27 of them have been executed and four sentenced to life imprisonment.
On Dec 8, Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif signed the death warrants of another four terrorists.
In the category of terrorists killed in actions carried out by law-enforcement agencies, Fata leads with 2,530, followed by Balochistan with 435, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 351, Sindh 342, Punjab 90, Islamabad 7, AJK 3 and GB 1.
The marked difference in the number of terrorists killed in Fata is largely because of the ongoing military operations in tribal areas.
KP and Fata are on top of the list of law-enforcement personnel and civilians killed and injured in terrorist attacks.
In KP, 872 security personnel lost their lives and 1,696 suffered injuries. It suffered death of its 2,422 civilians while 2,725 people were injured.
In Fata, 1,487 personnel were killed and 2,224 injured. The number of civilian deaths is 1,470 and of those injured 2,761.
In Punjab, 107 security personnel lost their lives and 582 suffered injuries. Terrorist attacks in the province have claimed 152 civilian lives and left 1,827 people injured.
In Sindh, 64 security personnel were killed in terrorist attacks and 84 injured while 313 civilians lost their lives and 1,045 suffered injuries.
Though only one security man lost his live in a terrorist attack in Islamabad, the number of civilian deaths in such attacks is 61 with 211 others suffered injuries.
In GB, 17 security personnel lost their lives and 32 suffered injuries in terrorist attacks. The number of civilian deaths in such attacks in GB is 63.
Hostages serve multiple purposes for jihadis, all of them evil...
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It is not clear if Hamas was genuinely trying to have Shaul’s family believe he was still alive, or if the letter was simply a sadistic ploy; in either case, it is likely that it was meant to spur greater willingness on Israel’s part to negotiate.
The Paleostinian terrorist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, organization told The Times of Israel on Sunday evening that it is willing to reveal information about two IDF soldiers, whose bodies it is believed to be holding, if Israel releases some of its operatives currently being held in prison.
Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul fell during last summer's 50-day military campaign, Operation Protective Edge, against Hamas in Gazoo. Neither body was recovered and Israel has classed both soldiers as "killed in action."
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Yup, I only trade like-for-like. If they provide info on KIAs, I provide info on dead terrorists. They want info on live terrorists? They have to provide info on live prisoners.
Same rule for exchanges: if they trade the bodies of Israeli soldiers I give them the bodies of dead terrorists. If I don't have any dead terrorists to trade, I make some.
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Set their 'souls' free.
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A high-ranking Chinese military delegation met with Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari in Tehran Dec. 13. During the meeting the parties discussed broadening naval cooperation and boosting bilateral military relations, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran needs equipment and China needs money. Simple as that...
Back in October Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of China's army visited Tehran and held separate meetings with senior Iranian military officials including Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and Habibollah Sayyari during which both sides underlined the necessity for the development of the two countries' military cooperation.
Earlier in October 2014, Sayyari paid an official visit to china at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart. Providing Iran’s navy with some technical requirements by Chinese side were discussed during the visit.
Previously, Iran’s defense minister visited China and discussed military cooperation issues with Chinese officials. The two sides stressed expansion of mutual military and security cooperation between the two countries.
Tehran and Beijing have close diplomatic, economic, trade and energy ties, and in recent years have developed their military relations as well. China is believed to have helped Iran in various military fields including training of high-level officials on advanced systems, providing technical support, supplying steel for missile construction, providing control technology for missile development, building a missile factory and a test range.
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Iran needs equipment and China needs money. Simple as that...
The heathen Chinee need money? And here I thought they had more than they knew WTF to do with. Guess it goes fast when yer thousand year plans go awry.
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Maintaining an arms industry is expensive; you have to keep production going. Any half-assed country with a machine shop can build small arms. It gets a bit more difficult when you graduate to armor, ships, and aircraft.
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JHH: I'm sure China has lots of starving peasants stowed away somewhere to grab by the ankles and swing against us during whatever Climate Payoff Negotiations are taking place.
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.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday brushed off what a Germany magazine said was a request from the United States to provide more military help in the fight against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
