Another Sidney Blumenthal missive, so maybe true, maybe invented out of thin air.
[AnNahar] The U.S. State Department's latest release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne ... 's e-mails revealed that she had received a message claiming Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... is seeking to set up a base in Cuba to carry out attacks in Latin America, several Cuban and Western news outlets reported.
According to the reports, the author of the e-mail, Sidney Blumenthal, stated that he received the information from "extremely sensitive sources."
The Israeli Mossad believes that Hizbullah's targets were "Israel's diplomatic and business interests" in the region, Blumenthal argued.
But he said the group had been "instructed to also begin casing facilities associated with the United States and the United Kingdom, including diplomatic missions, major banks, and businesses."
According to the e-mail, Hizbullah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... led negotiations with Cuba's intelligence agency, promising that his party would keep a "very low profile inside of Cuba."
"Nasrallah also promised to take measures to avoid any trail of evidence that could lead back to Cuba in the event of a Hizbullah attack in Latin America," said Blumenthal.
Clinton, a top White House candidate in the 2016 race, has been dogged by allegations that her use of a private email server while in office, rather than a secure government system, had put U.S. secrets at risk.
The State Department has so far released nearly 46,000 pages of emails out of a total 55,000 pages.
Clinton has repeatedly denied doing anything wrong but the issue has been a major source of controversy in her presidential campaign.
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STATEMENT OF ROGER F. NORIEGA, VISITING FELLOW, THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
Mr. NORIEGA. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the subcommittee. I appreciate the opportunity to testify on this subject today. I thank the committee, subcommittee for addressing this issue, which I think requires much more attention than it is getting today.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Venezuela, is a determined and deadly enemy of the United States that has made substantial progress in the last 6 years to increase its activities in Latin America.
This push is the result of a conscious offensive strategy to spread its influence, legitimize its cause, and advance its violent jihad and operational capabilities on our doorstep.
Unless our Government and responsible partners in Latin America act soon, I believe there will be an attack on U.S. personnel, installations, or interests in the Americas, as soon as Hezbollah leaders make a calculation that they are capable of carrying out such an operation without implicating their Iranian masters in that operation.
Of particular interest to this subcommittee, I am sure, are a series of published reports that Hezbollah operatives have provided weapons and explosives training to drug-trafficking organizations that operate across the U.S. border with Mexico. My conclusion is that U.S. authorities know more than they are willing to say publicly about this subject, and this Congress is right to insist on a thorough explanation of the threat and of our effective countermeasures.
Our research has identified at least two networks associated with Hezbollah growing at an alarming rate in Latin America. One is operated by Hezbollah itself, aided by its collaborators, particularly from Venezuela. Another is managed by a cadre of notorious operatives on behalf of the Iranian Qods Force. These networks conduct fund-raising, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, proselytization, recruitment, and training in the Americas. We can identify more than 80 operatives in at least 12 countries throughout the region, with the greatest areas of concern being Brazil, Venezuela, and the Southern Cone.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Amid efforts to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) specifically the Afghan Air Force, a US General in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... has said the Afghan military is expected to fly the first surveillance drone next month.
Major General Gordon Davis, commander of the unit that procures new equipment for the Afghans, told Rooters "We are just getting the first drones that will be deployed by the corps."
"We've been preparing sites. The pieces and parts are coming in now," Gen. David added.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced in November last year that a contract worth $70 million ha sbeen awarded to a US-based company for the procurement of the ScanEagle drones.
A statement by DoD said the systems include 65 ScanEagle drones in total, along with spare parts, support equipment, field service support, as well as an in-theatre training facility.
The addition of the surveillance drones could play a vital role in helping the Afghan forces fighting the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups amid deteriorating security situation across the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... the commander of the Afghan Air Force Major General Abdul Wahab Wardak said last week that the A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft will start combat operations with the Afghan Air Force from the month of March.
Gen. Wardak further added that the Afghan Air Force has so far received four of the eight aircraft from the United States and the remaining four will be handed over in the near future.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi told the interior minister on Friday to make accountable any policeman who attacks citizens and to submit proposals to parliament to achieve this goal, the presidency said.
The meeting came a day after a police officer rubbed out a man in the street, angering hundreds of people who protested in front of the Cairo security directorate on Thursday in the latest outburst over alleged police brutality.
A statement from the Cairo security directorate said the policeman had rubbed out a driver after an argument and was forced to flee a mob of local people who attempted to catch and kill him. Police later found the policeman.
Footage posted on social media showed hundreds of people massing outside the security directorate to protest the death.
The incident comes amid mounting public anger over alleged police brutality. Last week, thousands of doctors held a rare protest against police they say beat two doctors at a Cairo hospital for refusing to falsify medical records.
Anger over perceived police excesses helped fuel the 2011 revolt that ended Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's 30-year rule and began on a Police Day holiday.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Major General Lamidi Adeosun, promised more offensive operations against Boko Haram while on a visit to Maiduguri on Thursday.
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Yemen’s central bank has told traders and local banks it will stop proving lines of credit for the import of sugar and rice at the official exchange rate, merchants and local bankers said on Friday.
With this move taking immediate effect, it is likely that the country’s humanitarian crisis further worsens. Yemen is in the midst of a war between the Iran-allied Houthis, taking hold of the capital Sanaa, and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government, which is supported by an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
Until the beginning of February, the central bank had covered all the country’s import needs of medicine, wheat, rice, sugar and milk at the official exchange rate of 215 riyals to the dollar, Reuters reported citing a Yemeni merchant.
“With this decision, the lines of credit would be limited to wheat and medicines only,” said the merchant, who asked not to be named.
Also, a banker confirmed this, stating that the central bank had clarified it was no longer able to provide cover for imports at the official rate and had called on merchants to buy foreign currency on the black market, where the rate is 256 riyals to the dollar.
The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has previously warned of a “staggering” crisis, saying famine looms as over half the population, or some 14.4 million people, are short of food.
Information Ministers of members of the Cooperation Council for Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), on Thursday denounced human rights violations committed by the rebel Houthi militias and forces loyal to now-ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen.
The GCC ministers also condemned as war crimes the Houthi-Saleh militia's deliberate blocking of humanitarian aid from reaching besieged Yemeni areas, targeting civilians, bombing residential areas and medical centres, using internationally banned mines in Yemen and continuing the unjust siege of Taiz city. They said these acts are violation of International Law and contradict human, Islamic and Arab values.
The GCC condemnation came in the final communique of an extraordinary meeting chaired by Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, Dr. Adel l Toraifi, at the Riyadh Airbase in Saudi Arabia in the presence of Secretary-General of the GCC, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
Dr. Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the Board of Director of National Media Council (NMC) represented the UAE at the meeting.
They also denounced attempts by the Houthi-Slaeh militias to block UN-brokered peace talks overseen by the UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, to restore security, peace and stability to Yemen based on UN Security Council Resolution 2216, the outcome of Yemen's National Dialogue Conference and the GCC Initiative for Yemen.
In the communique, the GCC ministers agreed to boost coordination and a shared media discourse and said the meeting was held amid the current fast-paced regional developments making it inevitable for the Gulf states to implement media plans to support the GCC's political action.
They stressed that media agencies in the GCC members should shoulder their responsibility in exposing all the crimes being committed by the Houthi-Saleh militias and showing them to the Arab and international public opinion.
The ministers also discussed topics like strengthening joint action in the GCC media sector to promote the bloc's common identity and relations and bolster the region's security and stability.
They said the Houthi-Saleh militants continue to block humanitarian food aid and medical supplies sent by the GCC members' humanitarian agencies from reaching the long-civilian Yemenis.
These agencies include Saudi Arabia's King Salman Centre for Relief and Humanitarian Works, The UAE's Emirates Red Crescent and Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, Bahrain's Royal Charity Organisation, Oman Charitable Organisation, Qatar Red Crescent Society, Qatar Charity, Eid bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association, the Sheikh Thani Ibn Abdullah for Humanitarian Services (RAF) and Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society.
The GCC ministers' communique expressed support of the Saudi-led coalition's efforts to restore legitimacy in Yemen and back the internationally-recognised government of President
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On the footsteps of Gaddafi, ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared in his speech imitating the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, sending messages of intransigence and threats, and confirming that he still poses a hard number in the equation of the war in Yemen.
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[IsraelTimes] Kurdistan Freedom Falcons say attack was retaliation for Turkish army killing 'vulnerable people,' warn tourists to stay away
A myrmidon Kurdish group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Friday claimed the suicide kaboom in Ankara this week targeting the Turkish military, in which 28 people were killed and dozens more maimed.
"On February 17 in the evening a suicide kaboom was carried out by a sacrifice warrior on a military convoy of the fascist Turkish Republic in Ankara... The attack was realized by the Immortal Battalion of the TAK," the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) said in a statement on their website.
The group named the jacket wallah as Zinar Raperin, born in 1989 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Kurdish-dominated eastern region of Van, who had been involved with the Kurdish "freedom struggle" and since 2011 with the TAK.
It said that the attack was carried out in Dire Revenge for the killing of "vulnerable people" who were hiding in basements during a two-month Turkish military operation against the PKK in the southeastern town of Cizre.
Turkish officials have blamed the Ankara attack on the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia which Turkey says is a branch of the PKK, a charge vehemently denied by the group.
The TAK's claim of the bomber's identity is in contradiction to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , who said Friday that Turkey had "no doubt" that Syrian Kurdish fighters were behind the attack.
"We have no doubt that the perpetrators are the YPG and PYD," Erdogan said in Istanbul, referring to the main Syrian Kurdish militia and their political wing.
TAK's Friday statement also warned foreign tourists not visit Turkey, threatening to "destroy" the key tourism sector in the country.
"Tourism... is a major target we aim to destroy. We warn the foreign and native tourists not go to the touristic areas in Turkey. We are not responsible for who will die in the attacks targeting those areas," it said.
The TAK is a little-known group which has nonetheless risen to prominence in recent months after it claimed firing mortar shells on Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport on December 23. The firing left one airport cleaner dead and also damaged several planes.
Turkish officials say the TAK is a front for PKK attacks on civilian targets, but the PKK claims TAK is a splinter group over which it has no control.
In a statement on December 30, the TAK warned that the Sabiha Gokcen attack was just the start of a new wave of assaults.
[REUTERS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies over the role of Kurdish myrmidons.
In a phone conversation that lasted one hour and twenty minutes, Ankara said Obama had told his counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey had a right to self defense, and expressed worries over advances by Syrian Kurdish militias near Turkey's border.
Washington did not immediately comment on the call, beyond saying Obama has given his condolences over Wednesday's bombing in the Turkish capital..
Earlier on Friday, Erdogan had said U.S.-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for the deadly suicide kaboom this week.
The State Department, which sees the Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters as useful allies against 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.... , said the United States had "not provided any weapons of any kind" to the group.
The issue risks driving a wedge between the NATO allies at a critical point in Syria's civil war, as the United States pursues intensive talks with Syria's ally Russia to bring about a 'cessation of hostilities'.
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Well, the Kurds do want to be on good terms with America. Thus, O needs to screw them over as he has other traditional American 'allies'. BTW, when is he scheduled to be in Cuba?
The Apple ID passcode for the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was changed less than 24 hours after authorities took possession of the device, a senior Apple executive said today.
And Apple could have recovered information from the phone had the Apple ID passcode not been changed, Apple said. If the phone was taken to a location where it recognized the Wi-Fi network, such as the San Bernardino shooters' home, it could have been backed up to the cloud, Apple suggested.
If the "Sync this iPhone over Wi-Fi" had been checked in the backup options in iTunes, that is...
The Justice Department acknowledged in its court filing that the passcode of Syed Farook's iCloud account had been reset. The filing states, "the owner [San Bernardino County Department of Public Health], in an attempt to gain access to some information in the hours after the attack, was able to reset the password remotely, but that had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup."
It's just a comfort to see our government agents being their usual, competent, reliable selves, isn't it...
The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said.
So who told him to do it?
Apple executives say the phone was in the possession of the government when that passcode was reset. A federal official familiar with the investigation confirmed that federal investigators were indeed in possession of the phone when the reset occurred.
Missing the opportunity for a backup was crucial because some of the information stored on the phone would have been backed up to the iCloud and could have potentially been retrieved.
Correct, according to the Apple help file in iTunes.
According to court records, the iPhone had not been backed up since Oct. 19, 2015, one-and-a-half months before the attack and that this “indicates to the FBI that Farook may have disabled the automatic iCloud backup function to hide evidence.”
Or he's like the 50% plus iPhone owners who have no clue what back-up is...
The government got a warrant to search the car and get the phone in the early morning hours of Dec. 3, 2015, at 2:27 a.m. -- the day after the attack.
The development comes as the Justice Department is pushing forward with its legal fight against Apple, urging a federal judge to compel the tech giant to help the FBI crack open a cellphone left behind by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters.
Apple at this point is justified to point out government stupidity, roll their eyes, look to the heavens and tell the judge that there isn't much they can do.
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Yokay, I'll bite - is this an "OOOOOPPPPPSSSSS", OR "NOT-AN-OOOOOPPPPPSSSSS" MOMENT???
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Swiss inspections group SGS and U.S. group Weatherford International Plc traded recriminations on Thursday, both denying responsibility for the disappearance last year of radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq.
Rooters reported on Wednesday that Iraq was searching for a "highly dangerous" radioactive source whose theft in November had raised fears among Iraqi officials that it could be used as a weapon if acquired by 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.... SGS said in a statement that the equipment and material, when not in use, had been stored in a "secured bunker" provided by Weatherford, which it said was the "main contractor" and had hired its Turkish unit to perform the tests.
"The disappearance of the equipment occurred while the equipment was stored in the Weatherford bunker," it said, adding the loss was discovered on Nov. 3.
Weatherford said on Thursday it holds no responsibility or liability in relation to the issue and had answered all inquiries raised by Iraqi and U.S. authorities to their satisfaction.
"SGS Supervise Gozetme Etud Control had sole control and access to the material and bunker," it said in a statement, referring to the Turkish unit of SGS.
Yet SGS said its staff required Weatherford's prior written approval to access the site.
"The site where these operations are conducted is fully secured and guarded by security guards under the responsibility of the owner of the site. SGS does not assume any responsibility for the site security and does not control accesses," SGS said, adding that many contractors used the site.
Its Turkish business immediately notified Iraqi authorities and cooperated fully with the investigation, it said.
SGS added that it has no contractual relation with Iraq-based security company Ta'az, which it said controlled the site and employed expatriate staff.
An operations manager for Ta'az previously declined to comment, citing instructions from Iraqi security authorities.
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"...the loss was discovered on Nov. 3."
Material half-life of 73.83 days. Plenty of time to point fingers (or obscure the trail of possession.).
[Ynet] Lebanese hackers supported by Hezbollah claim to have penetrated more than 5,000 Israeli targets last year, including sensitive data and security cameras.
A pro-Hezbollah hacker group calling itself We Are Coming claims it penetrated 5,000 Israeli websites, including some containing sensitive security data, in 2015, as well as security camera feeds, Lebanese network Al-Manar declared this week.
Pro-Hezbollah news outlets in Leb have reported in the past that the group successfully breached Israeli websites and Facebook pages.
The Al-Manar report, however, was novel in its claim that We Are Coming accessed security camera feeds located in Israel. Al-Manar aired images allegedly taken via such breaches. The hacker group also released photos from what they claimed were same camera feeds from previous days as part of a campaign it named Shattering Illusions, meant to mark the eighth anniversary of Imad Mughniyeh's assassination'>assassination.
Al-Manar aired photos purported to be taken from security feeds in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and a restaurant in an unidentified location. We Are Coming also relesaed a photo allegedly showing government offices in Nahariya, in which one can see Israeli flags. One picture featured the caption: "We are coming for you, even in your offices. What is coming next will be much greater."
A member of We Are Coming, who was interviewed on the condition of anonymity, told Al-Manar that his group succeeded in breaching 5,000 websites in 2015, including those belonging to Israel's official defense establishment.
We Are Coming has been attempting since 2013 to penetrate Israeli networks to mark important historical dates such as the anniversary of the liquidation of Imad Mughniyeh, the anniversary of the Second Leb War, and the assassination'>assassinations of Samir Kuntar and Jihad Mughniyeh.
The boastful claims by We Are Coming came soon after Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallahthreatened to fire missiles at the ammonia plant in Haifa, which he claimed would cause an kaboom similar to that of a nuclear bomb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... as hackers become increasingly threatening, the IDF has stepped up its training to defend against potential cyberattacks.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinians on Thursday welcomed an initiative put forward by La Belle France to hold an international Middle East peace conference, a proposal which Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed.
"We definitely welcome the French initiative, we see it as a major possibility for challenging the status quo," Hossam Zomlot, an advisor to Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , told news hounds.
Zomlot, however, said the Paleostinians insisted on their call for a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... resolution against Israeli settlement building ahead of any renewed grinding of the peace processor.
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Yes, a conference. By all means. With shrimp cocktail and a nice Chardonnay. If only we could find The Red Binder.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Saudi official has confirmed that Riyadh has sent warplanes to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southern Incirlik airbase, a move considered as preparation for the campaign against 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "From the very beginning, Turkey and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... have been in favor of a ground operation in the fight against [ISIS].
"We have been saying in all meetings of the [anti-ISIS] coalition that there should be a comprehensive and outcome-oriented strategy. We have said if such a strategy is implemented, we, as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, can join a ground offensive."
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz on Monday said his country was not considering sending troops.
Cavusoglu says if ISIS is eradicated, the world will not have to accept Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... as the lesser of two evils.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb's Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Friday urged Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to "reconsider" the suspension of a $3 billion aid package to its army to buy French arms.
"We express our deep appreciation for King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz and his brothers in the Saudi leadership ... and we hope for a reconsideration of the decision to halt the aid for our army and security forces," the premier said in a statement.
"The Lebanese people hold Saudi Arabia in high regard, and they know well its longstanding historic positions in support of their country and its permanent keenness to bolster everything that would reinforce Leb's security, stability and unity," Salam added.
Premier Salam deemed the decision as "a sovereign affair to decided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as it deems adequate," reiterating Leb's utter keenness on preserving historical, fraternal and friendship relations between Leb and Saudi Arabia.
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ISIS has been forced to cut all wages by half, slash benefits and ration electricity, after a number of air strikes hit their oil and cash reserves.
The terrorist organisation has asked residents in its 'capital' Raqqa to pay utility bills and taxes in black market American dollars instead of the local currency, and are are now releasing prisoners for a $500 fee.
ISIS has famously used benefits to build up loyalty among their fighters, offering good salaries and bonuses if jihadists get married and have children.
However, the terrorist group has now stopped providing even the smaller perks of fighting for ISIS: free energy drinks and Snickers bars.
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Going out of business sale? (note well some American businesses seem to have been going out of business for years if you check the old deadtree media)
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The Apple ID passcode for the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was changed less than 24 hours after authorities took possession of the device, a senior Apple executive said today. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
