African forces in Somalia, of which the Kenya Defence Forces are a part, should start withdrawing from October 2018, the African Union has said. The African Peace and Security Council said the two-year period would allow proper establishment of necessary facilities for the handover of African Union Mission (Amisom) to the Somali forces.
The details of the two-year schedule were contained in a revised Concept of Operations (Conops) which the council approved last week during its 608th meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It means Amisom should start pulling out of Somalia only after a new stable government has been in place, Al-Shabaab has been chased out of most of the territory they still occupy and the Somali National Security Forces (SNSF) have been strengthened.
“The council endorses the revised Conops, which reflect efforts toward enhancing Amisom and SNSF operations and crucially identifies indicative timelines for an exit strategy of Amisom from Somalia,” the council said in a dispatch.
The Conops refers to a document that describes the mandate of the AU mission which was initially formed in 2007 to stabilise the then Somali Transitional Federal government as well as combat violent extremists.
It was revised following complaints from some troop contributing countries like Kenya that it lacked a clear coordination provision and that it did not indicate an exit strategy.
“The council takes note of the indicative timelines of Amisom exit strategy presented by the AU commission, which prioritises territorial recovery and consolidation by Amisom and SNSF until October 2018, and a subsequent draw down and transfer of security responsibilities to the SNSF from 2018 to December 2020,” said the council.
AU is banking on an upcoming election in Somalia in early September for this schedule to work and is calling on donors to help strengthen the Somali National Army to take over from Amisom.
The revelation came as both Kenya and Uganda, which contribute troops to Amisom, threatened to withdraw them, citing frustrations with the international community that is supposed to finance mission.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After a series of terror attacks in several cities in Moslem countries during the last week of the holy month of Ramadan, the triple bombings that recently occurred in 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... are considered purposeless and "immature", according to several Saudi experts.
"From what we’ve seen in the three varied attacks in Saudi Arabia, there are no clear political or religious goals to their suicide kabooms," says Dr. Khalid Abualkhair, political media lecturer at Taibah University and documentary director.
The US consulate in Jeddah, where the first attack that took place nearby at around 2 a.m., was unoccupied at the time except by security officers guarding the site.
Abualkhair says further steps need to be taken when treating prison inmates affiliated with ISIS. In addition to counseling them, he says, there needs to be scientific investigation by psychologists to study their profiles. "These young teenagers are obviously programmed to execute these operations and are not fully aware when they choose to risk their lives in this way and launch such violence and terrorism."
"Much evidence from previous cases have even shown that many of them are not even religious," he added.
Knowing the suspects’ backgrounds, education levels, their history, and social life is crucial in order to find the roots of such extremism, according to political science professor at King Abdulaziz University Dr. Sadiq Almalki. "Only when expert psychologists are fully engaged to analyze these cases individually will there be a basis for knowing which policies to implement afterwards," he told Saudi Gazette.
While these suicide attempts did not succeed in killing civilians or the large crowd of pilgrims and visitors at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, ISIS is making a statement that it stands undefeated despite its weakening position, says Saudi-US relations’ expert Ahmed Alibrahim. "It’s symbolic, they wanted to get airtime in the news and make themselves visible to the world to emphasize that ISIS is still there. They want to hold on to their legitimacy but we all know the coalition is closing in on ISIS."
The manpower of the Saudi security forces and police have been successful in capturing ISIS-affiliated terrorists, he adds. "They diverted their plans to attack. Saudi Arabia is beefing up security and there will be a lot of monitoring especially during Haj. But regional powers like Iran who want to destabilize security is why Saudi Arabia is going to make sure they’re prepared and going to maximize security."
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the triple bombings that recently occurred in Soddy Arabia are considered purposeless and "immature", according to several Saudi experts.
Alternatively, the message to observers and other victims of 'sudden jihadi' emotional triggers is that statement bombings without consequence to the perps are possible.
[DAWN] DHAKA: A Bangladeshi politician has spoken of his shock on discovering his son was one of the suspected gunnies who murdered foreign hostages, and said many young men from wealthy, educated families had gone missing.
Imtiaz Khan Babul said he was "stunned" to learn of his son Rohan's involvement in the attack, and that he believed young Bangladeshi men were becoming radicalised online.
His comments came after Bangladesh's home minister said the attackers who stormed the upmarket cafe on Friday night, taking dozens of diners hostage and killing 20, were highly educated and from wealthy families.
"We never imagined this," said Babul, an official with the ruling Awami League party, in an interview with the BBC.
"There was nothing at home, no books or anything to indicate that he was leaning that way. So we had no inkling."
Babul, whose son was among those killed when Bangladeshi security forces stormed the cafe, said he had shared his concerns with friends in Dhaka.
"When I was searching for my son I found that many other boys are missing. Well-educated boys from good, educated families, children of professionals, government officers," he said.
"I used to share my sorrows with them. We do not know how this is happening."
Six young men were rubbed out Saturday at the end of the all-night siege in a Dhaka cafe claimed by the bully boyIslamic 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.... (IS) group. One was taken alive and is being questioned.
One of those killed may have been an innocent bystander, but among the remaining five are a graduate of Bangladesh's leading private university, an 18-year-old student at an elite school, and Rohan, Babul's son.
Another was a former madressah student from the northern district of Bogra which is seen as a hotbed for recruiting bully boys.
The government has said all the attackers were members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh (JMB), a banned local bully boy group.
Fifth attacker identified
Rohan reportedly studied at Monash University in Malaysia after leaving Scholastica, where his mother teaches.
Babul said he could only guess at how wealthy young Bangladeshis were becoming radicalised, but that believed it could be through the Internet.
On Tuesday, police said they had identified a fifth attacker as Shafiqul Islam Uzzal, a 26-year-old from Bogra who had been working as a kindergarten teacher in Dhaka.
"His father and brother identified him by seeing the photos of his dead body. They said they had no idea how he joined the JMB," Bogra police front man Gaziur Rahman told AFP.
"They said Uzzal left home on January 2, saying that he was going to a pilgrimage. And he never returned," said Rahman.
Witnesses say the perpetrators of the attack spared the lives of Moslems while herding foreigners to their deaths, killing many with machete-style weapons.
They included nine Italians, seven Japanese, a US citizen and a 19-year-old Indian student.
On Tuesday the assistant commissioner of Dhaka police Rafiqul Islam told AFP police had filed an anti-terrorism case against five known gunnies and an unspecified number of "unidentified attackers", without giving further details.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Until late 2014, Nibras Islam appeared to acquaintances to be a typical student: fun-loving, in and out of love, and keen on sport, especially soccer. Women found him handsome.
On a "confessions" Facebook page for Monash University students, one anonymous admirer gushed in a post on Oct. 11, that year: "Nibras Islam!! You are cute. But very hard to spot. Tell me when can I see you. Your smile just makes my day."
On Friday night, police suspect Nibras was among at least six gunnies who attacked an upscale restaurant in his hometown Dhaka and brutally murdered 20 people, most of them foreigners.
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North Korea said Thursday that the most recent U.S. sanctions imposed on its leader, Fat Boy Kim Jong Un, amounted to a "declaration of war" and vowed to take strong retaliatory measures against "the worst-ever hostile act."
On Wednesday, the U.S. blacklisted Kim, along with 10 other people and five government ministries and departments, for the first time over human rights abuses.
"Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people, including extrajudicial killings, forced labor and torture," Adam Szubin, the U.S. Department of Treasury's acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches parade participants from a balcony at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on May 10, 2016. /AP North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches parade participants from a balcony at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on May 10, 2016. /AP
In its first response to the U.S. action, Pyongyang urged Washington to withdraw the sanctions immediately, warning that the North would otherwise sever all diplomatic channels.
Ten other top officials were accused by the U.S. of being behind widespread abuses that have made North Korea "among the world's most repressive countries."
South Korea welcomed the U.S sanctions, saying it hoped the move would shine a light on human rights "violations" in the North.
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the U.S. blacklisted Kim...for the first time over human rights abuses.
Yahhh! Next the 'no fly' list. That'll show him!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue operations.
Italian authorities raised the ship from the seabed last week and have been working to remove and identify the bodies ever since. In a statement Thursday, the navy said 52 autopsies had been performed on the 217 bodies pulled out so far.
Some of the 28 survivors of the April 18, 2015 wreck had said as many as 700-800 people were aboard, leading officials to label it one of the worst known tragedies of the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Around 200 bodies were initially recovered; after officials saw the ship’s dimensions, they suggested about 300 remained.
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Pardon me if I am insensitive, but why recover the bodies? Why do autopsies to find they drowned? Maybe some were poisoned? Shot?
We left 1,102 sailors interred in the USS Arizona. Do we need to 'recover' those guys and do autopsies?
Or is it all about open borders and free migration?
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[DAWN] In a video statement later in the day, Naik rubbished media reports about inspiring one of the attackers to carry out the Dhaka cafe carnage.
He said he never condoned terrorism or killing of innocent people in his speeches.
"Just because a person knows a personality who is famous and a celebrity, you cannot attribute every act of the person to the celebrity," Naik said in a WhatsApp video available with India's NDTV.
"If you listen to my talks, you will never ever find in any of them that I have condoned terrorism or killing of an innocent human being," he added.
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[DAWN] India's Maharashtra state government on Thursday ordered a probe against Islamic preacher and scholar Dr Zakir Naik, after sections of Bangladeshi media reported one of the Dhaka cafe attackers had been inspired by Naik's speeches to carry out the attack, CNN News-18 reported.
A Bangladeshi newspaper, The Daily Star, carried a report on July 6 claiming that Rohan Imtiaz, one of the five bandidosbully boyz involved in the recent Dhaka cafe attack, ran a propaganda campaign on Facebook last year urging all Moslems to be terrorists, quoting Naik's speech on Peace TV.
Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he has ordered Mumbai Commissioner of Police DD Padsalgikar to launch an inquiry against Naik and submit a report at the earliest.
Police will also investigate Naik's source of funding, properties and operators telecasting his speeches across the Indian state.
Earlier in the day, security personnel were also deployed outside Naik's Islamic Research Foundation office but a Mumbai police official told Times Of India that the deployment of force was just a 'precautionary measure'.
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Economic woes triggered by a big drop in global oil prices and political divisions that have sharpened over the last years have crushed Iraqi Kurds’ long-term dream of founding an independent state.
Around three years ago, when a barrel of oil was $110, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was not as big a threat to the region and the world, when Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani’s legitimacy was not under strain and when international actors supported the process, Iraqi Kurds were voicing their dreams of forming an independent state.
Barzani even met U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington and told him about this desire, but this dream has hit rock bottom due to five main developments in the region and the world.
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Because most of the people do not fit the international term of a refugee, the United Nations and international charities cannot fund these people, referring them instead to Baghdad
But just a few weeks ago, the UN changed its definition to include displaced persons, even those within their mother country.
Ah, but that when they were looking for funds, not disbursement!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A British inquiry into the Iraq War found that an aggressive purge of members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party led by the late, American-backed politician Ahmed Chalabi "had a significant and lasting negative impact on Iraq" that laid the groundwork for the deadly sectarian conflict ravaging the country today.
The British investigation, led by Sir John Chilcot, found that UK and American officials sought, but largely failed, to limit post-war purges led by Chalabi and other Iraqi Shiite politicians that destabilized the country’s ethnic and religious balance.
Chilcot, who reviewed UK government records and interviewed top British officials involved in Iraq policy, reported that while US and British officials assumed before the war that some kind of purge of pro-Saddam Baathists would have to take place, "no clear plan" for doing so was agreed before Iraq was invaded in 2003.
Disagreements among US, British and Iraqi officials about how extensive the purge should be started almost immediately after Saddam was deposed, Chilcot found.
US and British officials agreed it should extend to the top three levels of Baath party members - up to 5,000 individuals. But some Iraqi politicians argued the purge should cover a fourth level, exposing an additional 30,000 babus government employees, including schoolteachers, to unemployment.
At one point, Chilcot reports, a British government internal paper commented that a purge of Baathists down to the fourth tier would be "excessive and detrimental to public service provision."
Nonetheless, the post-war coalition authority in Iraq purged the top four ranks. The decree fired Baath party members from government jobs and banned them from holding them in the future, Chilcot reported.
Chalabi, a US-educated financier with a history of financial troubles who died last November, then headed a De-Baathification Commission the Iraqis created to carry out the purge.
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Stupid decision.
I thought that was Bremer's idea.
The purge of the Baathists really gutted the leadership of the military and it still suffers from the lack of experienced senior officers.
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[IsraelTimes] State Department says plans for new homes in East Jerusalem, West Bank raise questions about Israel’s commitment to peace; Netanyahu: Paleostinian incitement is the problem, not Israel building
Tuesday accused Israel of systematically seizing Paleostinian land after the Jewish state okayed the construction of 800 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In the unusually strongly worded statement, front man John Kirby said the reports of new construction permits, which came Sunday as a response to two deadly terror attacks, called into question Israel’s commitment to the two-state solution.
"If its true, this report would be the latest step in what seems to be the systematic process of land seizures settlement expansions and legalization of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution. We oppose steps like these which we believe are counterproductive," Kirby said.
He added that Washington was "deeply concerned" about the move.
"This action risks entrenching a one state reality and raises serious questions about Israel’s intentions," he said, citing a report released by the Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... for Mideast Peace which criticized Israeli settlement building.
In Rwanda on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the US criticism was not unusual, but was not accepted by Israel. The new building was not preventing peace, he said. What was preventing progress was Paleostinian incitement against Israel.
Kirby said the US was having "tough discussions" with Israeli leaders over moribund peace efforts with the Paleostinians.
"We’re going to continue to look for leaders in the region to do what they need to do ... to demonstrate leadership to take down the violence, reduce tensions," he said.
On Sunday night, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman approved hundreds of new housing units in Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem. Israel regards East Jerusalem, which it annexed after the 1967 war, as part of its unified, sovereign capital.
According to the plan, 560 new units will be built in Ma’ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement to the east of the capital, 140 homes were approved for the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot and 100 for the Har Homa neighborhood, in southeastern Jerusalem.
The move came in response to the killing of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, who was stabbed to death by a Paleostinian while sleeping in her bed on Thursday, and to the shooting of Rabbi Miki Mark and the injuring of his family as they were driving near Hebron a day later.
Both Ariel and Miki Mark’s wife Chava Mark, who was maimed in the attack, are American citizens, but Kirby indicated their citizenship did not play a role in any US response to the attacks.
"Any death and any injury is significant when it results from this sort of violence," he said, reiterating Washington’s condemnation of the attacks.
The State Department’s statement followed a similar denunciation from UN chief Ban Ki-Moon a day earlier.
The UN leader is "deeply disappointed" that Israel’s announcement came days after last week’s release of a key report by the Middle East diplomatic quartet -- the United States, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Russia and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... -- that urged Israel to stop building settlements, front man Stephane Dujarric said in a statement Monday.
"This raises legitimate questions about Israel’s long-term intentions, which are compounded by continuing statements of some Israeli ministers calling for the annexation of the West Bank," he added.
Ban said that "settlements are illegal under international law" and called on the Israeli government to "halt and reverse such decisions in the interest of peace and a just final status agreement."
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Kirby has been a smarmy lying asshole from the DOD spokeshole spot to the DOS.
Liberal American Jews, by all means keep voting Democrat. When you see the party platform equating Israeli and Paleo morality, just shut your eyes and close your ears and go along, amirite?
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So, sort of what the Feds do here to its own citizens under the guise of endangered species or environmental/water regulations. A taking, but without compensation.
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"You Jews should keep grasping at thistles!"
Coo shadchans in pious epistles.
"Let's nourish those flowers
That blossom in showers,
As 'Palestine' plies you with missiles."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Israeli prime minister’s office says pieces of wreckage believed to be from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in May have been found on the coast of Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the fragments were found north of Tel Aviv on Thursday morning, on the shores of Netanya.
A statement from Netanyahu’s office says "parts were collected and it appears there is a high likelihood they are pieces of the Egyptian plane." It says the debris will be sent to Egypt.
EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320 en route from Gay Paree to Cairo, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19.
Egyptian Sherlocks say pilots tried to extinguish a fire in the plane, according to data recovered from a cockpit voice recorder. The crash killed all 66 people on board.
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Wasn't there a 'pilgrim' going or coming from the Hajj, 20-30 years ago, who fired up his propane cooker on a jet? Just gonna cook up a couple of kebabs...
Or was that some old joke?
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Inappropriate fire building is an ongoing problem wherever hungry Third Worlders find themselves, Bobby -- airplanes, German apartments, etc. The combination of specific knowledge with general ignorance can become interesting.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran's ballistic missile launches "are not consistent with the constructive spirit" of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, but it is up to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council to decide if they violated a resolution, UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon said in a confidential report seen by Rooters on Thursday.
Ban's reluctance to state whether the March missile launches flouted the council resolution, which was adopted a year ago as part of the deal to curb Iran's nuclear work, further weakens the case for new sanctions that hinged on the interpretation of ambiguous language in the resolution.
Most UN sanctions on Iran were lifted in January when the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed that Tehran fulfilled commitments under its nuclear deal with Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China, Russia and the United States. But Iran is still subject to a UN arms embargo and other restrictions.
Under the UN resolution, Iran is "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years. Critics of the deal have said the language does not make it obligatory.
"I call upon Iran to refrain from conducting such ballistic missile launches since they have the potential to increase tensions in the region," Ban wrote in his first bi-annual report to the 15-member Security Council on the implementation of remaining sanctions and restrictions.
"While it is for the Security Council to interpret its own resolutions, I am concerned that those ballistic missile launches are not consistent with the constructive spirit demonstrated by the signing of the (Iran nuclear deal)," he said. The council is due to discuss Ban's report on July 18.
The United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany wrote to Ban in March about the missile tests, which they said were "inconsistent with" and "in defiance of" the council resolution.
The letter said the missiles used in the launches were "inherently capable of delivering nuclear weapons" and also asked that the Security Council discuss "appropriate responses" to Tehran's failure to comply with its obligations.
Ban's report simply references the letter and does not state if the missiles were capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Ban said Iran had stressed that it had not undertaken "any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons."
Ban also said he was concerned by the seizure of weapons by the United States in the Gulf of Oman in March.
"The United States concluded that the arms had originated in Iran and were likely bound for Yemen. Iran has informed the (UN) Secretariat that it never engaged in such delivery," he said.
Ban said in the report the United Nations was still reviewing information provided by the United States and Iran and would provide an update on the arms seizure to the Security Council in due course.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran believed to have made at least nine ’clandestine’ attempts to acquire materiel that could be used
Iran has been continually violating the terms of the nuclear agreement signed last summer with the world powers, including Germany, and has been making attempts to acquire materiel to further its nuclear ambitions, a new German intelligence report has revealed.
The annual report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the German equivalent to the FBI, charges that Iran has been making "clandestine" efforts to seek equipment and technology, "especially goods that can be used in the field of nuclear technology," from German companies "at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level."
The report stated that Iran made at least nine attempts to acquire technology that could be used for nuclear arms development, according to an i24 News report in Israel that cited Germany’s Tagesspiegel daily. The majority of the attempts were thwarted by the intelligence agency in cooperation with the German companies.
"It is safe to expect that Iran will continue its intensive procurement activities in Germany using clandestine methods to achieve its objectives," the report read.
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... briefed parliament on the findings, saying that "Iran continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council."
Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman told Tagesspiegel: "Once again we are seeing the confirmation of our concerns, that are shared also by the German side: It’s not enough to simply trust Tehran."
In March, Iran said it conducted a series of new ballistic missile tests to demonstrate "deterrent power" and the country’s "all-out readiness to confront threats" against its territorial integrity.
Israel has pointed to continued ballistic missile tests as proof Tehran plans to continue pursuing a nuclear weapon, despite a deal signed with world powers last year that curbs Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Until late 2014, Nibras Islam appeared to acquaintances to be a typical student: fun-loving, in and out of love, and keen on sport, especially soccer. Women found him handsome.
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
