Canada’s parliament rejects BDS movement: Lawmakers approve motion condemning Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, saying it ‘promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel’
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Lemme know when these morons start throwing down their cell phones because the firmware is contaminated with Juice cooties. That would mean they are something other than self-inflating poseurs.
[Tolo News] A number of high ranking officials accuse cabinet members of hiring relatives instead of experienced directors in sixteen government ministries.
The statement was made after a number of directors who were fired, protested the move on Monday, and said that they have sent a letter in this regard to the National Unity Government (NUG) leaders and National Council.
In the letter they state that a number of cabinet ministers have dismissed qualified and experienced staff and on the basis of Afghanistan Capacity Building for Results Facility (CBR) program hired unskilled people at high salaries.
The sacked directors have also spoken out about corruption in government offices and of Mafia syndicates they allege are supported by some ministers.
"The problem is now political and every department is trying to hire their relatives and fire those with years of experience," said Hasamudin Talqani one of the sacked directors.
He added that: "The issue is not individual; those who protested today are from 16 ministries but a number due to fear of dismissal and punishment by their directors kept silent."
Meanwhile Legislative Affairs Commission of Parliament called the program CBR against the labor law, Civil Service Act and constitution and in a separate letter asked the government institutions to rehire the employees that have been dismissed and to ensure their rights are protected.
"The duty of the minister is to implement the law. Respected ministers do not act against the law; soon MPs holidays will be finished and wrong doers will be impeached," said Qazi Nazir Hanafi head of Parliament's Legislative Affairs Commission.
Afghanistan Capacity Building for Results Facility (CBR) program is a procedure which is implemented by the commission of reform administrative commission and World Bank in order to improve capacity building in government institutions but a number of reform administrative commission commissioners said the program is not effective.
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Welcome to the 'first' world of business practices.
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Nah, Skid; here we hire the relatives, and then hire some H1b people to actually do the work, and after the experts finish training them we fire the experts.
[Tolo News] Former Jihadi figure Abdul Rasool Sayyaf ...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home... said Monday that Afghan Mujahideen support any attempt which can broker sustainable peace and bring an end to ongoing violence, but urged that Afghanistan's political geography should not be undermined at any cost in the process.
"Territorial integrity and illusory sovereignty are the redlines for peace negotiations. The Mujahideen support the negotiations to bring an end to the conflict and protect national illusory sovereignty, territorial integrity and political geography," he said.
Sayyaf said that the ongoing war in Afghanistan was not a war by Taliban or Daesh [Islamic State], reiterating calls to the Taliban not to be fooled by foreigners anymore.
Sayyaf renewed his call on government to allow the Mujahideen and the nation to defend their territorial integrity.
"This battle is not the war of Taliban or Daesh [Islamic State], this is a foreign invasion. The people have the right to defend their illusory sovereignty, people are prepared at all cost to defend their national illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity," he added.
He said that the Taliban must denounce their slavery and avoid working for the foreigners and stop damaging their own country.
Sayyaf called on government to abide by its commitments regarding the electoral reforms and to take steps to implement reforms which can guarantee the election process in future.
"Government must announce a time line for the elections which is practical, necessary reforms must be put in place which can certify the transparency of the elections," he said.
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Talibunnies are now AFPAK's + Amerika's BFF agz the ISIS.
The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday that more attacks on Libya’s oil facilities are likely unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved. Militants have hit one oilfield just last week.
The last attack on Libya’s oil infrastructure took place on late Thursday or Friday when suspected ISIS militants set fire to one production tank and damaged another at the Fida oil field, Reuters said citing Mustafa Sanalla.
Fida is located south-west of the oil terminals of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, where militants staged repeated assaults and wreaked havoc last month.
Total current production stands at 360,000-370,000 barrels per day, he said, less than a quarter of the 1.6 million bpd that Libya was producing before the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
[THISDAYLIVE] Religious leaders under the auspices of Northern Inter Faith and Religious Organisations of Nigeria (NIFROM) have urged the federal government to extend r the presidential amnesty programme granted to former Niger Delta Lions of Islam to members of the 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... sect operating in the North-east.
The group in a statement signed by its coordinator, Bishop Musa Fomson, said following the success recorded by the amnesty programme in the Niger Delta, there was the need to replicate same in the northern part of the country currently ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency.
He noted that even as the military made gains against the bad boys, the use of force alone cannot win the war against terrorism.
The bishop specifically commended the efforts of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the programme, Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), especially in the management of funds, noting that the office had already trained 17,322 of the beneficiaries, leaving a balance of 12,678 and even embarked on the domestication of its programmes.
"Since taking over the amnesty programme, Boroh has restored hope to many of the agitators. We believe that with such confidence in a man who can be trusted, such programme can be replicated in the troubled northern part of the country," he said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Arabia has put on trial 32 people, accused of spying for Iran. The defendants face charges including treason, establishing a spy ring with Iranian intelligence and passing on sensitive data on military zones
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Inquiring minds want to know more.
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SEOUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Chinese banks including a branch of China's biggest bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have frozen accounts belonging to North Koreans, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday.
Citing phone conversations with an unnamed employee of ICBC's office in the northeastern Chinese border city of Dandong, the Dong-A Ilbo reported that since late December it had suspended all deposits and transfers of foreign currencies in and out of accounts with North Korean names
[Daily Excelsior] Key 26/11 plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal's lawyer today informed a court here that he wanted to cross-examine Pak-American terrorist David Coleman Headley for four days.
Also, Judge G A Sanap today directed Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam to contact US authorities, check their availability for Headley's second round of deposition and inform the court by February 25.
Once the availability is checked, the court will fix dates for Headley's deposition.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Jundal's lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan also moved applications objecting to Headley being made an approver in the 2008 terror attacks case besides making pleas seeking copies of certain documents and CDs.
Earlier on February 13, the day on which Headley's week-long deposition ended, the court had adjourned the case for cross-examination by Jundal's lawyer for a future date.
Headley, who is serving a 35-year jail term in the US in connection with the terror attacks case, had made some damning disclosures about LeT and Al-Qaeda's planned to target India, during his testimony which began on February 8.
He spilled beans on how Pakistain's intelligence agency ISI provides "financial, military and moral support" to terror outfits LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and Hizbul Mujahideen and how LeT had planned and executed the 26/11 attacks and the role played by ISI officials, involving him too.
He also revealed that LeT had planned an attack at a conference of Indian defence scientists at Taj Mahal Hotel a year before the 26/11 strikes and had even prepared its dummy.
Deposing via a video-link from the US, the 55-year-old terrorist had the court that --Ishrat Jahan--who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... --was an operative of LeT.
Headley had also revealed that Al-Qaeda was in touch with him to attack Delhi's National Defence College and unravelled the plot by LeT and ISI to target Mumbai airport, BARC and the Naval air station here.
He also visited the Indian Army's Southern Command headquarters at Pune in 2009 on the instructions of ISI's Major Iqbal, who wanted him to recruit some military personnel to get "classified" information, the court was told.
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Cross-ex fails widout witness subpoena to Madonna fans from Guam.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, is trying to transform the Arab nation of Lebanon into a Persian state, by committing massacres and blaming them on Arabs and Sunnis. a.) There are enough Sunnis in Leb to commit their own massacres
b.) ...not to mention autonomous enclaves of Paleostinians who like to wave guns and froth at the mouth
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The Saudis have repor held back assistance to Lebanon in order to pressure Beirut into returning back to its original "Arab/Sunni-ness"???
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... has called for parliamentary elections to be held in April.
A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in December calls for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held during an 18-month transition period that would end the five-year-old conflict in Syria.
But the country was due for parliament elections anyway, as the current parliament's term expires in May. Assad announced in a decree issued Monday that new parliament elections would be April 13. Such elections are held once every four years.
The announcement came hours after the U.S. and Russia agreed on a temporary cessation of hostilities for Syria that will take effect Saturday, even as major questions over enforcing the truce were left unresolved.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb's Prime Minister says he will head a ministerial delegation to visit Gulf states in the near future after 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... halted security assistance deals worth $4 billion.
The Saudi move came after Leb failed to back the Sunni kingdom in its spat with Shiite powerhouse Iran, the leading backer of Hezbollah.
In a statement Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam insisted Beirut stands by Arab countries.
Salam says it is necessary to rectify relations between Leb and its "brothers," and "remove the stains" that surfaced recently.
Salam heads a unity Cabinet that includes members of an Iran-backed coalition headed by Hezbollah and the Saudi-supported March 14 group.
Salam said Leb will maintain its policy of "disassociation" from regional conflicts. Except that Hezbollah's the real ruler of Leb, and they're providing a bit of fraternal Axis of Evil aid to the Syrian govt.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States and Russia have agreed on a new cease-fire for Syria that will take effect Saturday, even as major questions over enforcing and responding to violations of the truce were left unresolved. Syria's warring government and rebels still need to accept the deal. "Hello?"
"President Putin on the line for President Obama. Will you accept the charges?"
"Yeah, sure. Put them on our national tab..."
The timeline for a hoped-for breakthrough comes after the former Cold War foes, backing opposing sides in the conflict, said they finalized the details of a "cessation of hostilities" between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's government and armed opposition groups after five years of violence that has killed more than 250,000 people. "President Obama..."
"Please! Call me Barack! We're on the same team. May I call you Vladimir?"
"No, Barack. We're not on the same team. And I prefer to be addressed as President Putin."
The truce will not cover the ISIS group, the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and any other militias designated as terrorist organizations by the U.N. Security Council. But where in Syria the fighting must stop and where counterterrorism operations can continue must still be addressed. And the five-page plan released by the U.S. State Department leaves open how breaches of the cease-fire will be identified or punished. "Okay, President Putin. We agree to the terms. How about the Syrians?"
"They don't agree, Barack."
The announcement came after Presidents Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... and Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... spoke by telephone Monday, capping weeks of intense diplomacy to stem the violence so that Assad's government and "moderate" rebel forces might return to peace talks in Geneva. A first round of indirect discussions collapsed almost immediately this month amid a massive government offensive backed by Russian Arclight airstrikes in the northern Syria.
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[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group on Monday released the last of some 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped a year ago in Syria after the receiving millions of dollars in ransom, Christian officials said.
Younan Talia, of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that about 40 remaining Christian captives were released early Monday and are on their way to the northeastern town of Tal Tamr.
Younan said the release came after mediation led by a top Assyrian priest in northern Syria.
Kidnapping for ransom is a main source of income for the extremists.
The forces of Evil captured the Assyrians, members of an ancient Christian sect, last February after overrunning several communities on the southern bank of the Khabur River in northeastern Hassakeh province.
Kidnapping for ransom is a main source of income for the holy warriors. In November, IS said it killed a Norwegian and a Chinese captive after demanding ransom for their release two months earlier.
A bank account was opened in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and donations began to flow in from around the world.
Talia said IS demanded a ransom of $18 million for the Assyrian Christians. He said the figure was later lowered following negotiations. He said he did not know the final amount.
Osama Edward, director of the Stockholm-based Assyrian Human Rights Network, said 42 Christians, mostly young women and kiddies, were released. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said 42 were released, including at least 17 women.
A Syrian Christian figure said the worldwide Assyrian community launched a campaign for the captives' release shortly after they were kidnapped. He said a bank account was opened in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and donations began to flow in from around the world.
Thus the world community of Christians pays the dhimmi tax to ISIS.
"We paid large amounts of money, millions of dollars, but not $18 million," said the man, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the sensitive mediation. "We paid less than half the amount."
The official added that the fate of five Assyrians who went missing during the abductions was still unknown.
IS attacked a cluster of villages along the Khabur River, sending thousands of people fleeing to safer areas and capturing the Assyrians over a period of three days. Over the next two days, the forces of Evil picked up dozens more from 11 communities near Tal Tamr.
The Hassakeh province, which borders The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iraq, has become the latest battleground in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria. It is predominantly Kurdish but also has Arabs, Assyrians and Armenians.
On Friday, the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces captured the IS stronghold of Shaddadeh in Hassakeh, where some of the kidnapped were once believed to have been held.
Many Syrian Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's pre-war population of 23 million, left for Europe over the past 20 years, with the flight gathering speed since the country's conflict began in March 2011.
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Thus the world community of Christians pays the dhimmi tax to ISIS
Considering that the West will not help, what other option was there?
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] A number of high ranking officials accuse cabinet members of hiring relatives instead of experienced directors in sixteen government ministries.
Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday that more attacks on Libya’s oil facilities are likely unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved. Militants have hit one oilfield just last week.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Arabia has put on trial 32 people, accused of spying for Iran. The defendants face charges including treason, establishing a spy ring with Iranian intelligence and passing on sensitive data on military zones
[Daily Excelsior] Key 26/11 plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal's lawyer today informed a court here that he wanted to cross-examine Pak-American terrorist David Coleman Headley for four days.
He spilled beans on how Pakistain's intelligence agency ISI provides "financial, military and moral support" to terror outfits LeT, 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States and Russia have agreed on a new cease-fire for Syria that will take effect Saturday, even as major questions over enforcing and responding to violations of the truce were left unresolved. Syria's warring government and rebels still need to accept the deal.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
