[Tolo News] Residents, members of the provincial council and a number of Afghan politicians on Thursday lashed out at government for failing to shut down a radio station reportedly run by Daesh [Islamic State] in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
They claim the radio station now broadcasts anti-government propaganda in Pashto, Dari and English in a bid to recruit young Afghans.
The Voice of Caliphate broadcasts in Pashto, Dari and English languages in Nangarhar province and was launched a few weeks ago reportedly by supporters who pledged allegiance to the holy warrior group in eastern Afghanistan.
Residents in Nangarhar have criticized the government for not taking action against the radio station which has now extended its program schedules.
"In terms of propaganda, Daesh [Islamic State] is stronger compared to Taliban, an issue which can expand disunity among the Muslim nation of Afghanistan, therefore we need to terminate this radio station," religious scholar in Nangarhar Zahir Haqqani said.
"We have demanded the termination of the radio station on several occasions, but no one has heard us," MP Amir Khan Yar said.
It is said that Daesh [Islamic State] uses a mobile broadcasting unit in Batikot and Achin districts of Nangarhar.
"We tried to track and terminate the radio, but it operates around the Durand Line," Nangarhar governor Attaullah Khogyani said.
"National Unity Government needs to terminate the broadcasting of this radio, because the radio poses serious threats to the nation," Senator Mohammad Asif Sediqqi said.
This comes after the ministry of communication and information technology acknowledged that the radio station had been stopped.
Daesh [Islamic State] as a holy warrior group has used social media platforms effectively to recruit fighters who have joined their ranks from all over the world.
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AM 770
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See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
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A moose once bit my sister...
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of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an
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"Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised an agreement by Somalia’s government on Thursday on a model for the electoral process to establish a new, bicameral federal parliament in 2016, a U.N. spokesman said.
Over/under for the new deal is two months...
“He particularly applauds the commitment to representation of women and minority groups, including that women will comprise 30 percent of the next parliament,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
U.N. special envoy to Somalia, Michael Keating, said the model envisages a lower house of 275 members, based on a current power-sharing formula between clans, and an upper house of 54 members, based on equal representation of existing, emerging and prospective federal states and an allocation of additional seats to breakaway regions of Somaliland and Puntland.
From what I read Somaliland isn't interested...
“This is the culmination of almost six months of intense consultations,” Keating told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. “It may be a watershed moment, marking the growing political maturity of a federal Somalia.”
After the optimism that followed the 2012 election many diplomats had hoped for a “one person, one vote” system in 2016, but progress has been dented by frequent attacks by al Shabaab militants, as well as political infighting and corruption.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday announced Kenya will not pull out of Somalia, despite the massacre of its soldiers. He said KDF will pursue al Shabaab terrorists “to their last hideouts”.
“We will continue in Somalia to fulfil our mission. Some, whose courage has failed, want to give up the mission now,” Uhuru said. “They want to retreat, to leave the field to the enemy in the hope that he will leave them alone.”
He spoke in Eldoret during a memorial service for soldiers killed on January 15 in El Adde, Somalia. Uhuru said those calling for KDF’s withdrawal have “forgotten the enemy has made it clear he will follow us home”.
He said as good neighbours, Kenya cannot leave Somalia to terrorists. Uhuru said completing the mission is the right thing to do for security.
He said: “This is not the time to waver or listen to the voices of defeat. This is the time for the people and the government of Somalia to choose peace.” Uhuru unveiled a statute erected in memory of the fallen soldiers.
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[VANGUARDNGR] Mr. Smart Ajaja, a Nigerian rights activist, based in the United States of America, yesterday, said the refusal of former President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau.Other than that he's pretty useless as the Boko Haram debacle shows.. to probe alleged multi-million dollars allegedly found in one the nation's service chiefs, during his tenure was the reason America refused to sell arms to his administration.
Ajaja, who gave insight into how some persons he described as very vulnerable Nigerians abroad serve as fronts to looters of the country's treasury,said the US govt, which uncovered the money, gave Jonathan term upon which he could get its support.
He said Jonathan refusal to probe a service chief, who he did not name, resulted to the refusal of American government to sell arms to his government.
Ajaja said although some volunteers among the diasporans were willing to assist President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to further identify some of the looted funds, the government should do a lot more to block movement of physical cash out of the country.
The activist noted that the corrupt persons could not have transferred most of the looted monies abroad without help of some diasporans but observed that the Bank Verification Number (BVN) policy introduced by the Cenral Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to a great extent, assited in identifying the looted funds.
He urged the federal government to create access to opportunities for the citizens to whip up patriotism and reduce the current incident of terrorism in the country.
He said, "If the government can't monitor the movement of physical cash out of Nigeria, there is nothing we can do from there because what they do is they have agents they use to transfer these monies out, to put them in banks.
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[BREITBART] The 3,000 Nigerian soldiers pardoned in September after being placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for various acts of contempt, including refusing to fight Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorists, are refusing their reinstatement in the nation's northeast, where 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.... affiliate is headquartered.
The military has now begun to court martial eight other soldiers suspected of leaking the tension between the reinstated soldiers and their big shotship to the press.
The national news outlet Naij reports that eight service members were arrested after military officials dispatched a Major General to Kaduna state to investigate and find those who leaked the story to the press. Vanguard lists those in jug, noting that the highest-ranking soldier to leak the story to the press is a Brigadier stationed in Lagos, on the opposite end of the country.
In an explosive report, Vanguard exposed this month the struggle of more than 3,000 soldiers to escape being redeployed in the nation's northeast, where Boko Haram remains an active threat. The soldiers have refused to return to the front lines because, the newspaper reports, they claim "they were never really pardoned and re-integrated into the Army, but rather, re-sentenced to the war front." As proof of this, they cite the fact that they were never given redeployment letters.
Some who attempted to return to their units in the northeast were stranded in the region, rejected by the units, because of their lack of proper documentation. "Since they have been kicked out of the barracks they have not been paid for seven months making their families who live off-barracks begging [sic] for food," Vanguard reported.
"But, our experience in fighting to save our motherland is too sad a story for the outside world to know. We are not cowards. We held on for over four months facing Boko Haram," one soldier told Vanguard, asserting that he is not returning to the war front because army leadership "treated us like prisoners of war."
"The Nigerian Army thrives on discipline, loyalty and good conduct and if anyone of them cannot measure up to expectation or live by those tenets, such a person is free to leave the army," Sani Usman, a front man for the Nigerian army, said in response to the Vanguard report.
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Feh. The Romans gave us the word Decimation. The Nigerians need to look into it.
Also, the Nigerians might want to look into the concept of Zampolit.
While far from ideal, things are bad enough that either, or both solutions will probably improve military performance.
[ALMANAR.LB] OPEC member Kuwait projected a record budget deficit for the fiscal year starting April 1 on the sliding price of oil, the finance ministry said on Thursday.
The shortfall for the 2016-2017 fiscal year is estimated at 11.5 billion dinars ($38 billion) due to a sharp decline in oil revenues, the ministry said on its Twitter account.
Spending was estimated at 18.9 billion dinars, just 1.6 percent lower than in the current year, the ministry said.
Revenues were projected at 7.4 billion dinars, of which oil income is estimated at $19.1 billion or just 78 percent of the public revenues.
In the past, income from oil contributed more than 94 percent of revenues in the Gulf emirate, before the decline in crude prices.
Kuwait has projected a shortfall of $23 billion in the current fiscal year which ends March 31, the first deficit after 16 years of surplus.
The Gulf state, which has a native population of just 1.3 million, has built around $600 billion in fiscal reserves in those years.
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...With $600B USD in reserves, I'm not too sad for the Kuwaitis.
Mike
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I foresee the need for potential cutbacks in Filipino domestic staffing, falcon hunts, and desert camping. Who knows where this could end.
[DAWN] Finland joined Sweden on Thursday in announcing plans to deport tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers in a bid to contain the migrant crisis, as at least 31 more people died trying to reach the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... The two Nordic countries are both struggling to cope with an influx of refugees and migrants fleeing misery in the Middle East and elsewhere ─ receiving amongst the highest numbers of arrivals per capita in the EU.
The Finnish government expects to deport around two thirds of the 32,000 asylum seekers that arrived in 2015, Paivi Nerg, administrative director of the interior ministry, told AFP.
Believe it when I see it...
"In principle we speak of about two thirds, meaning approximately 65 percent of the 32,000 will get a negative decision (on their asylum applications)," he told AFP.
In neighbouring Sweden, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Wednesday that the government is planning over several years to deport up to 80,000 people whose asylum applications are set to be rejected.
"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," he told Swedish media, adding that, as in Finland, the operation would require the use of specially chartered aircraft.
[Ynet] Morocco's king has agreed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... on repatriating illegal migrants to Morocco, the palace said, a move that follows sexual attacks on women in the German city of Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... blamed mainly on North African men.
Germany wants to limit migration from North Africa by declaring Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia "safe countries", which would end their citizens' chance of being granted asylum.
"Officials in both countries will immediately step up talks in order to prepare and study the cases of those (Moroccans) irregularly staying in the country (Germany) and repatriate them without delay to Morocco," the palace statement, carried by the state news agency MAP, said late on Wednesday.
"The recent flows of illegal migrants, some of them falsely claiming to be refugees, were the result of a humanitarian call ... which was widely exploited by human trafficking organizations operating on both sides of the Mediterranean."
[AnNahar] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ' refugee agency UNHCR expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... Wednesday over Norway's policy on returning migrants to Russia and plans to tighten rules for family reunifications.
"We consider that the Norwegian procedure ... is cause for concern," the UNHCR's representative in the Nordic region, Pia Prytz Phiri, told news hounds at the close of a three-day visit. "It's a problem for us that Norway considers Russia a safe asylum country."
Norway decided in November that migrants who arrived in the Scandinavian country after having stayed legally in Russia had to be swiftly sent back to Russia -- without having their asylum applications considered -- since Oslo considered Russia a safe country. Some 5,500 migrants arrived in Norway via the "Arctic route" through Russia last year.
After sending some 200 people back, Norway stopped returning migrants to Russia at Moscow's request, as Russian authorities cited "security reasons." But Norway has said it is negotiating a resumption with Moscow.
The Norwegian return policy risks depriving some legitimate asylum seekers of their right to protection, the UNHCR warned.
An independent body within the Norwegian immigration authority, Landinfo, said it had been informed by the UN agency that Russia had in January 2015 expelled two Syrians back to their war-torn country. Norwegian Immigration and Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug, speaking at the same presser as Phiri Wednesday, assured that "we are of course going to listen to what the U.N. has to say."
She added however that "there are situations where the U.N. recommendations go beyond what our commitments are in respect to international conventions."
The UNHCR also said it was "deeply concerned" by Norway's plans to tighten rules for family reunifications. The right-wing coalition government, which includes an anti-immigration party, has proposed that a person must have studied or worked for at least four years before being allowed to bring over their family. The proposal, which is still in the early stages, would require parliament's green light and the government does not hold a majority.
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too little, way way too late. You are doomed to the Spanish Reconquest cycle. It took the Spanish 700 years to throw off the Mohamedan yoke.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A demonstration was organized by a topless activist in Gay Paree today to protest against the execution of hundreds of people in Iran every year.
The activist from international women's rights group -- Femen staged the demonstration as the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in Gay Paree to sign off new business deals between the two countries.
With an Iranian flag painted on her chest, the activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Gay Paree in an execution style.
"We organised this public display as a little reminder of the fact that every year, more than 800 people are sentenced to death in his country," Sarah Constantin, a spokesperson for Femen La Belle France said.
"Among them are women, feminists, homosexuals, and free-thinkers who are rotting on death row, just because they are free-thinkers. And Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... doesn't take any of this into account," Constantin quoted by a local newspaper added.
Criticizing the French President for receiving Rouhani as an official guest, Constantin further added "It shows that Francois Hollande doesn't care about human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... . The only thing he cares about is business. Shame on Francois Hollande. Shame on Rouhani."
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Making son pere proud.
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[Rudaw] The Turkish man who became the target of Moscow's manhunt, after boasting he had bumped off a Russian fighter pilot parachuting from his crashing plane on the Turkish-Syrian border, was spotted at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul on Wednesday.
Alparslan Celik told news hounds he did not have a fixed abode and would return to Syria after the funeral, where he would continue to fight to defend Turkmen villages being bombed by the regime, according to the Hurriyet Daily News.
"I am here and there. I am going and returning. And now, I came for the funeral ceremony and I will go again," said Celik, the son of a former district mayor from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), at the funeral of Ibrahim Kucuk, a district head of the MHP who was killed in an air bombardment on a Turkmen village in Syria.
Celik has been the target of a Russian manhunt since after November 24, when a Turkish jet shot down a Russian warplane on Turkey's border with Syria, where the Russians have thrown in their air force behind the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... . Celik proudly boasted on video after the incident that he had bumped off Oleg Peshkov, the surviving pilot who had parachuted from his jet after being hit by Turkish jets. Peshkov's plane was apparently on a bombing run against Celik and his Turkmen comrades who are fighting the Syrian regime, which Russia intervened to support. Peshkov said he had seen the pilot bombing the village.
"There is no place for a person who has bombed civilian Turkmens every day in my conscious," said Celik. "Reprisal is the most natural right. There is life in reprisal," he added. -
[Rudaw] Canada has rejected US concerns that its rapid resettlement of thousands of Syrian refugees may pose a threat to it.
"We have put in place layers of security activity to ensure that our refugee initiative with respect to Syria can be successful," the country's public safety minister Ralph Goodale told parliament on Wednesday.
"The program is working well and indeed it will resolve in something that Canadians can be very, very proud of," he added according to AFP.
He also said that Canada has been briefing the United States about their program "and they understand exactly the layers of security screening that are in place."
A spokeswoman for Canada's foreign affairs minister also said that Canada has "emphasized and will continue to emphasize the integrity and robustness of our approach to the selection and screening of the Syrian refugees under consideration."
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"What are you worried about? Fluffy is such a sweetie little pooch, wouldn't hurt nothin! See!"
*Fluffy foams at mouth, attacks raccoon, tears raccoon to bloody tatters*
#2
He also said that Canada has been briefing the United States about their program "and they understand exactly the layers of security screening that are in place."
A U.S. Federal government "understanding" is it? Why do I remain totally unconvinced.
ANY rabid dog of any breed is a deadly threat, and needs to be put down, not sympathized with. It is the rabies, not the dog breed that is the problem.
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^that!
I've had a run in with a rabid gray-squirrel. It is very disconcerting. At first I thought it was an escapee from a park, but no, it didn't seem right. I did what any citizen should do and exercised my shovel. Took it to the county health dept, positive for rabies. Brought in all animals to the vet for testing, all good. A rabid animal should tick off a few alerts,.
Let's talk Trump.
[DAWN] Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah on Thursday urged India to do away with the practice of hurling "unsubstantiated terror allegations against Pakistain."
"Such a practice undermines efforts to eliminate terrorism from the region in a collaborative manner," the front man remarked.
Speaking at the weekly FO briefing, he said terrorism was not an issue for only India or Pakistain but a global problem that needs to be tackled with joint cooperation.
He expressed hope that India would share findings of the Samjhota Express attack investigations with Pakistain.
The front man said India and Pakistain are in touch to finalise the dates for foreign secretary level talks.
Commenting on the joint Indian-French statement on terrorism, issued at the end of the visit by French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... to India, the spokesperson said Pakistain's sacrifices in the war against terrorism have been acknowledged by the world community.
Khalilullah said next round of the Quadrilateral Coordination Committee would be held in Islamabad on Feb 6 to discuss the road map for reconciliation in Afghanistan.
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"Don't voice what everyone knows"
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You want India to quit accusing you of terrorism?
QUIT BEING TERRORISTS.
Idiots.
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The United States and British intelligence services hacked into Israeli drones in order to monitor their activity under a classified program code-named "Anarchist," Internet publication The Intercept reported Friday.
The UK's intelligence services known as the Governments Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), working in conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA), systematically surveyed Israeli drones from Cyprus in order to collect information on military operations in Gaza, watch out for potential strikes on Iran, and monitor drone technology the Jewish State was exporting around the world.
According to The Intercept, leaked documents provided by Edward Snowden show that under the auspices of the "Anarchist" program, UK and US intelligence services collected snapshot images from the Israeli drones and data mapping pinpointing the paths taken by the unmanned aircraft devices. I'd ask "Whose side are they on?", but that would be naive.
Advance warning and intelligence sharing to the Iranians, how thoughtful. Has anyone thought about crash landing a drone or mistakenly FedExing a Hellfire, in order to provide the Iranians a more level playing field ?
We may have to resort to more traditional tech transfer techniques, what with the DoS and Clinton Foundation cooperation on hold for the moment.
Then there's Iran's satellite communications and maritime navigation shortfalls. What can possibly be done to assist with upgrades.....?
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And if they did crack the encryption, the last thing they would do is hack into the drones as that would tell the Israelis their encryption had been broken.
[IsraelTimes] At least four families from the village of Pri Gan, located about 4.5 kilometers from the southern Gazoo Strip, say they heard sounds of digging near their homes, adding that the floors in their apartments have shaken.
Israel Radio reports that Eshkol Regional Council head Gadi Yarkoni, a resident of Kibbutz Nirim about two kilometers from the Gazoo border, has a recording of the sounds of the excavation.
On Tuesday evening, at least six Paleostinians were reported killed in a collapse of a tunnel dug under the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Strip. According to Israel's Channel 10 television, the six fatalities were all members of the Hamas terror group, as were the five others injured in the incident.
The nature of the tunnel in question was not immediately clear. Hamas has in the past dug cross-border tunnels into Israel in order to stage attacks on civilians and soldiers. Other tunnels are used by the terror group as part of its defensive infrastructure.
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Don't even need tunnels. Just a big ditching machine & a oil field slurry pump.
I wonder how effective ground penetrating radar is in the soils around Gaza?
I know it can go surprisingly deep.
For that matter, with the oil slump and all surely there are some under-employed oilfield geologists who can provide excellent seismic analysis of the Gaza area with weekly surveys of points of interest.
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There you go! The Israelis can put really big caverns around Gazoo and fill them with all the oil that can't be sold right now. When Mahmoud sticks a pick-axe through at the end of the tunnel into one of these...
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Wehell, as per FREEREPUBLIC this AM HAMAS is repor rebuilding or refurbishing its entire terror infrastructure in Gaza, including underground tunnel systems, in anticipation of NT future war agz Israel.
IMO, now that the ISIS/ISIL is trying to set itself up in Gaza + West Bank + Lebanon + Sinai, Commie Hamas has seemingly rediscovered its Anti-Israel mojo???
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#5's post on Teslas's Earthquake machine reminds of the many EQS the US State of Oklahoma is suffering allegedly due to fracking, which in turn again reminds me the capsized-sunken Pearl Harbor 1941 USN BB USS "Oklahoma", which in turn again again reminds me of 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamoans + the "weak/declining" US unilaterally sinking Guam + other strategic Pacific islands as it [Self?]retreats across the Pacific towards Hawaii-EASTPAC-West Coast in order to deny the Islands' utility [Airfields + Naval Ports] to China + PLA.
And also Radical Islam + Islamic Global Nuclear Caliphate, but espec agz China + PLA.
[Iran Press TV] The United States has added two Lebanese men to its sanctions blacklist accusing them of laundering money for the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
The US Treasury on Thursday claimed that the men -- Mohamad Noureddine and Hamdi Zaher El Dine -- have used a network across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to help Hezbollah.
"Noureddine has utilized an extensive network across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to provide money laundering, bulk cash shipment, black market currency exchange, and other financial services to a variety of clients, including Hezbollah members," the Treasury said in a statement.
Last year, the White House approved a bill which imposed sanctions against banks that do business with Hezbollah.
Washington accuses the resistance movement of condoning terrorism. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Hezbollah has been involved in fierce fighting against Daesh [Islamic State]forces of Evil in Syria.
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[DAWN] Iran's navy warned a US warship to leave an area where Iran has been conducting a naval drill near the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
The US Navy denied that its operations in the region were affected.
The Iranian navy chief, Adm Habibollah Sayyari, was quoted as saying that the US warship received two warnings before leaving the region. "They were warned once by maritime patrol aircraft and once again by the Alborz destroyer," he said.
"The US warship left the region immediately after receiving the warning," he added, saying he believed that the Americans had approached the area to "learn our tactics".
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We don't need to approach the area - we can study your tactics from Israeli drones.
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There is a significant difference between "Running away" and "Opening the range to the minimum standoff distance."
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OOOPPPPSIES, FREEREPUBLIC Artic says Iran identified the USN ship as the USS Monterey, but which US authorities say could not had been as the Monty was over 7000 miles away at its HP in Norfolk NB, Virgina???
Iran signed a deal with Airbus for the purchase of 118 aircraft from the European manufacturer.
To borrow an old Chicago political phrase: everyone smelled the meat a'cooking...
Under the terms of the contract, Airbus will be committed to deliver the aircraft, acquired by Iran under the lease, within four years. According to the contract, the planes will be brand new in different types, including the wide-body Airbus A380. Iran is committed to pay for the planes within 10 years.
Rouhani said at the start of his visit to France that the Islamic Republic is ready to welcome foreign investors adding there are no more obstacles to investment in Iran.
The pragmatic president’s visit came just a week after the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA/ nuclear deal) that put an end to economic sanctions against Tehran.
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that is one helluva deadline and except for the A380 the rest of Airbus' line is selling extremely well. the only way i think that deadline can be met is if existing customers get bumped or trade mznufacturing line spots. there hasnt been a new 380 order in over a year. AB final assy hangars are nkt even half full.
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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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
