[Wash Times] The Black Lives Matter movement blindsided its Jewish supporters with the recent unveiling of its social and political policy agenda, a far-left manifesto that strays well beyond police brutality and accuses Israel of "genocide" and "apartheid."
"The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people," said the platform’s "Invest-Divest" policy brief.
Through foreign aid to Israel, which the platform describes as an "apartheid state," Americans are made "complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government," the brief says.
The strong anti-Israel language stunned liberal Jews, many of whom have expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement’s protests against shootings by police of unarmed black men.
"It is a real tragedy that Black Lives Matter -- which has done so much good in raising awareness of police abuses -- has now moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation state of the Jewish people," said Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz in a Friday column in The Boston Globe.
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Admitting they were surprised is advertising they're really, really stupid.
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"It is a real tragedy that Black Lives Matter -- which has done so much good in raising awareness of police abuses..."
what BLM has done has been to make it more difficult to do police work in places that need it -- nothing good about that -- nothing --nothing---nothing.
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Perhaps Alan Dershowitz thinks OJ's fate is a tragedy as well. A modern day Pharisee hiding in a mental utopia. At least he is consistent. Pay him no mind, other than as an illustrative example.
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"It is a real tragedy that Black Lives Matter -- which has done so much good in raising awareness of police abuses -- has now moved away from its central mission and has declared war against the nation state of the Jewish people," said Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz
Whatever questionable "good" BLM has done is far outweighed by the bad, and it's sad that Dershowitz doesn't recognize this.
In the end, BLM will do what its enablers and sponsors in the Democratic Party, along with George Soros, intended it to do: set back race relations in the US by a century, and drastically accelerate the descent of America's black enclaves into "unspeakable hellhole" status.
Dershowitz is occasionally on the mark in his assessment of things, but he's capable of astounding stupidity at times. This is one of those times.
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BLM is cut from the same cloth as the New Black Panthers and the KKK.
They shouldn't have been surprised if they were paying attention.
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So you (Jewish supporters) attended a Kwanzaa festival and you thought they'd [BLM] love you. I did notice a Chicago Palestinian Film Festival you might also be interested in. Kumbaya delusional lefties.
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Nation of Islam (Calypso Louie) or National Action Network (Sharpton *spit*) or "Hymietown" (Jessuh), anyone? As if Black hatred of dupe Joooos is anything new?
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Some in the BLM movement are a part of the "Real Jews are Black" movement. They think the white Jews are imposters. The radicals in the movement can vary their beliefs from the Nation of Islam to the Black Jews to outright anarchists. This Professor emeritus Dershowitz seems remarkably uninformed jackazz or is just an arrogant jackazz...or both.
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They should we all be ashamed, but that would require self awareness and a moral compass. Both consciously rejected by the group and supporters mentioned in the article.
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Somewhat like other voting blocks that vote 97% democrat (.0125 margin of error).
--Besoeker (@10)
Oikophobia. An acquaintance...
(ex-friend when he discovered Prophet Obama, declared himself a Socialist and decided if I didn't vote the Big-0 then I had to be racist)
...who was also Armenian-descended, Atheist and Jewish, told me that the Bush Administration was run by "Theocons and Neocons!" He couldn't explain what a Neocon was, but he knew that they were evil. One unifying thread that ran through his worldview seemed to be that local people were bad and somehow the far away national govermnent (also NGOs and QUANGOs) were good -- unless they were Republicans.
Do y'all really expect Hillary Clinton to do as well as Barack Obama did?
Professor Emeritus Dershowitz lives in an atmosphere even more rarified than when he was actively teaching, into which reality is rarely allowed to intrude.
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BLM has the same enablers and operatives as OWS, and you can read Horowitz's book to see where /those/ guys came from. Hint: it's the US Communist party and its allies. 'Black' is just the core around which to cluster all the other victim groups.
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Not sure if I can have a proper high tea with someone who types y'all
I don't do high tea, Shipman, which is really only a light supper with things like baked beans on toast. I serve afternoon tea with several baked things, and something stronger on the sideboard for those who prefer it. The y'all I picked up from Southern friends. It's useful as a clear plural, forestalling the dreadfully dull argument that the Northern version, you guys, only includes the masculine members of the group. Not that I've encountered that here, but habits will habituate. ;-)
Interim Administration Ahmed Madobe gave an olive branch to Kenyan Defense forces in his region to lead offensive against Al Shabaab.
Jubbaland leader is in Nairobi, to meet with Kenyan government officials on the new military strategy to push Al Shabaab militants out of middle and Lower Jubba regions.
I guess negotiations with ANISOM, the Spaniards, and the Rooshins didn't work out...
Reliable Sources at the meeting in Nairobi, told Radio Shabelle that Madobe and Kenyan government have agreed to end their differences over the military operations in Jubbaland.
Early reports suggest that Jubbaland leader Ahmed Madobe shifted the leading command of the anti-al shabaab war to Ethiopian troops of AMISOM contingent.
Jubbaland state president has been a close ally to Kenya for nearly 10 years in the fight against Al Shabaab in Lower and Middle Jubba regions of Southern Somalia.
A dispute between both sides have emerged after Jubbaland leader has asked Ethiopian government to help his administration in the liberation of his territory from Al Shabaab.
Ends against the middle, eh...
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The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen accused the militants on Tuesday of using peace negotiations to rearm, after an escalation of fighting following the talks' suspension.
"They were deceiving people by this negotiation, to re-organize their force, re-supplying their forces and getting back to fighting. They don't have any political agenda," Brigadier General Ahmed Assiri, the coalition's spokesman, told AFP.
He said the coalition, which launched strikes against the Shiite Houthi rebels in March last year, would do "whatever it takes" to restore security in Yemen.
Coalition warplanes resumed major strikes around the rebel-held capital Sanaa last week following the collapse of the talks in Kuwait after three fruitless months of negotiations.
The coalition says the suspension of the talks followed increased ceasefire violations by the rebels, who are allied to forces loyal to deposed Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Assiri said the rebels had violated the ceasefire -- which was in conjunction with the UN-brokered talks -- "since day one", Assiri said.
As a result, the coalition was forced to provide "reactive" air support to Yemeni troops while the talks continued, he said.
Now that heavier bombardments have resumed, the coalition aims to support Yemen's government to regain control of the country as well as to protect Saudi borders, Assiri said.
Days before the suspension of peace talks on August 6, 12 Saudi soldiers were killed in border clashes during the most serious fighting in months along the frontier. Last week, the coalition said it intercepted two ballistic missiles fired at southern Saudi Arabia.
Intensified rebel shelling also killed two civilians on the Saudi side of the border, after months of relative calm.
Questioned over what has been accomplished by almost 18 months of fighting, Assiri said the rebels are weaker than they were in March last year when coalition operations began.
But the "smuggling (of) weapons to Yemen does not stop," he said, despite a coalition blockade of the territory. Riyadh accuses its regional rival Tehran of supporting the Houthis.
Asked how long the coalition can sustain the operation, Assiri said that the operation was "for national security, for (the) stability of the region". "It takes whatever it takes," he said.
The Independent National Yemeni Commission of Inquiry into alleged human rights violations recorded more than 9,817 alleged violations in various regions of Yemen from March up until now. According to the Commission, the violations included 3,054 cases of civilians being killed, amongst them 129 children and 102 women. In addition to this, 3,906 people were wounded as a result of armed conflict during the period from March 2015 until the 30th of July 2016. The Commission is monitoring and investigating 450 cases of extrajudicial killings and 387 cases relating to the recruitment of child soldiers.
The Commission explained that it is also investigating 358 cases of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances during the period of war (2015 to 2016), in addition to 81 cases of planting mines in the various provinces of Yemen. It is also investigating the bombing of 143 homes in a number of provinces.
The head of the Commission Judge Qahir Mustafa Ali expressed his disappointment in UNHCHR and said that the Commission’s relationship with the UNHCHR is limited to letters of public questions posed and does not involve the technical and advisory competence that it was relying on from the UNHCHR. However, he made amends by saying “The relationship with the UNHCHR is good and we continue to communicate with them”.
During the United Nations Human Rights Council’s thirtieth session that was held in Geneva in September 2015, it decided to establish the above mentioned commission and requested that the UN High commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) provide specialist assistance to the investigative committee. The commission said that “The UNHCHR did not provide any kind of specialist and technical support according to the decisions of the UN Human Rights Council and merely sent letters that sometimes included questions that had nothing to do with specialist and technical support. Despite this, the Commission is keen to cooperate with the UNHCHR and provide written responses to those questions according to what the decision to establish the Commission permits, its regulations and the national laws in effect”.
[Daily Caller] An Egyptian-born Italian member of the European Parliament has declared mosques are terror factories and should be eliminated.
Magdi Allam, a convert from Islam to Christianity, said the idea of moderate Islam is a complete myth, Express reports.
"If the Muslim governments warn that mosques are ’dens of terrorism’, we can not behave more Islamic than the Islamists, granting blindly the mosques to the Islamic militants," Allam said, pointing to the example of Tunisia shutting down 80 mosques following a devastating Islamic State attack in Sousse, which left 45 tourists dead.
For Allam, deporting terrorists isn’t an adequate solution to the problem of Islamic terror, because mosques will just produce replacements. Moreover, sponsoring mosques for the purpose of using moderate Islam to crowd out radical Islam is delusional, because, "there is only one Islam because there is only one Koran and one Muhammad."
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The FBI will be looking into that as soon as they can. Oh wait a minute they don't do that anymore. PC and the Obean administration has prevented them from doing that. The FBI is too busy purging and cleansing training manuals of anything that might sound critical of IslamoFacisim.
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For more than a quarter-century the Mosque/Islamic Center complex in Milan has served as the center of radical operations in southern Europe. it served as the main Al Qaeda recruiting center in Europe both during the war in the Balkans and after. In one case, during the war in Bosnia a jihadist stream (e.g., the Egyptian Gamaat al-Islamiya) used the Milan Islamic Center as its base of operations. Osama bin Laden himself urged the Egyptian exile and GIA member Sheikh Anwar Shaaban, then the Imam of the Islamic Cultural Institute of Milan, to serve as spiritual advisor to arriving jihadists. With support of European Muslim Brotherhood elements the Milan center moved hundreds of jihadists between Western Europe and Bosnia and vice versa. From that time forward it has served as an Islamist nexus in Europe.
[DeutscheWelle] Members of Germany's government have accused Turkey's regime of supporting militant groups in the Middle East, public media report. ARD cited a classified document sent from the Interior Ministry to the Left party.
Citing a classified document from the Interior Ministry to representatives of the Left party on Tuesday the German public broadcaster ARD reported, that members of the government consider Turkey's regime a supporter of militant groups in the Middle East.
German officials appear to have publicly acknowledged, if in a classified document, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's weapons support for militants fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which Turkish journalists have reported in the past. "Especially since the year 2011 as a result of its incrementally Islamized internal and foreign policy, Turkey has become a central platform for action for Islamist groups in the Middle East," the German officials said, according to ARD.
German security officials also said Erdogan had an "ideological affinity" with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, ARD reported. Suppressed under Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, the movement went on to produce Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
Despite the "affinity," Erdogan has been publicly at odds with the Muslim Brotherhood in the past though he has since also criticized current Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who overthrew Morsi in a 2013 coup. Neither the United States nor the EU considers the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization.
The German officials also said Erdogan supported Hamas, the democratically elected governing party in the Gaza Strip. Turkey's president has said as much in the past, having told the US news host Charlie Rose, that "I don't see Hamas as a terror organization." Though the United States and EU do list Hamas as a prohibited group, nations such as Norway, Switzerland and Brazil do not.
"It is a resistance movement trying to protect its country under occupation," Erdogan added in the 2011 interview, referring to the Israeli state, with which Turkey also enjoys diplomatic ties.
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The real game changer is Merkel's loss of any plausible deniability re her dealings with and support of Erdogan.
This leak might be an act of conscientious rebellion of mid level government bureaucrats who don't agree with Merkel's sudden move to the extreme left.
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Turkey is demanding an explanation today, Germany responding with soothing noises about Turkey being key in the fight against ISIS, according to Al Ahram.
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German security officials also said Erdogan had an "ideological affinity" with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, ARD reported. Suppressed under Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, the movement went on to produce Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
Which either explains why the Turkish ambassador met with Mr. Stephens in Benghazi, or why the initial attackers shouted "Morsi (Mursi) sent us."
Writers are such whores.
[FreeBeacon] A Washington Post writer who recently claimed that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was “American diplomacy at its finest” failed to disclose that he has been on the payroll of an organization that emerged as a chief architect of the White House’s self-described campaign to build a pro-Iran “echo chamber,” according to information obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Allen S. Weiner, a Stanford law professor and contributor to the Post’s opinions section,
The professor plays public intellectual?
He was looking to be WaPo's resident Paul Krugman...
co-authored a piece arguing in favor of the Obama administration’s decision to pay Iran $400 million in hard currency in what many described as a “ransom payment” for the release of several U.S. hostages.
Weiner and the Post failed to disclose that the writer has long been on the payroll of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization recently exposed as a key cog in a White House-orchestrated campaign to build what it called a pro-Iran “echo chamber.”
Ah. The good professor is one of those public-private partnerships, all in his dear little self.
Ploughshares provided millions of dollars to writers and experts who publicly pushed for last summer’s nuclear deal with Iran. Senior White House officials subsequently cited the group as its top pro-Iran ally.
The Post’s failure to disclose Weiner’s ties has raised questions about its commitment to journalistic ethics and is reminiscent of a recent scandal concerning National Public Radio, which was forced to run a series of corrections due to its own failure to disclose monetary ties to Ploughshares.
“This is becoming a pattern with the Washington Post,” said one senior foreign policy observer who works with a range of newspapers on Iran coverage. “In the last few weeks their journalists have quoted people who get Ploughshares money and their op-ed page has run opinions by people who get Ploughshares money—and none of it was disclosed.” More at the link
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WaPo writer has a conflict of interest. Not a surprising revelation. What's a Weiner doing supporting Iran? Is he part of the hate America, hate Israel crowd?
[Jerusalem Post] Several arms of the military currently residing at the headquarters in Tel Aviv and in the country’s center have already started to relocate south. Perhaps I could officer a name for the new facility.
The first stages of bidding to build the largest new IDF base for Military Intelligence ‐ as part of the broader program of moving the army’s major operations from the country's Center to the South - have started, the Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Several arms of the military currently residing at the headquarters in Tel Aviv and in the country's center have already started to move, to free up space for building residential units to address the country's housing supply shortage.
But the new 2,500-dunam, 350,000 meters of built-up space for around 15,000 soldiers, constituting 80 percent of the military’s intelligence arm, will be the largest.
Military Intelligence includes the famed Unit 8200 and cyber divisions.
Further stages of the bidding are to kick in starting in early 2017, with a winning bidder selected by the end of the year and construction to commence immediately after. The deal will also include a 25-year deal to continue to operate aspects of the base long after it is expected to be filled in 2022.
The IDF’s training arm has mostly made the move already to its new base in the South, and the communications and technology arm is also due to make the move with over 30,000 soldiers expected to eventually serve there.
A ministry statement said that the new base will operate on a more environmentally friendly basis.
The moves includes plans to build housing for officers, many of whom are expected to relocate to the South.
"This is the largest project in the national effort to move the IDF to the South," said Brig. Gen. (res.) Nati Efrati, head of the Defense Ministry’s division for the move south. "Its success will require the commitment of the government’s ministries to provide the needed national infrastructure in order to ensure that the move will take place as planned."
[IsraelTimes] Newly unsealed court documents show 38-year-old Adnan Fazeli was killed in January 2015 in festivities with Lebanese army
Investigators say an Iranian Moslem man who came to Maine as a refugee in 2009
...clearly we've had trouble properly vetting people from that part of the world for the entirety of Mr. Obama's presidency, though why we accepted a refugee from Iran is a separate puzzlement...
was fighting for 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 when he was killed last year in Leb.
The Portland Press Herald reports that details about 38-year-old Adnan Fazeli were in newly unsealed court documents filed in federal court in Portland.
The newspaper reports Fazeli, who was most recently a Freeport resident, became radicalized while living in Maine.
Fazeli came under FBI investigation for his connection to Islamic State shortly after leaving his job at a Portland auto dealer and flying to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in August 2013. He never came back.
Fazeli died in battle in January 2015 as a member of an Islamic State force of about 150. The group was turned away by the Lebanese army.
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[AnNahar] The U.S.-led coalition fighting 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 is tracking 100-200 jihadists after they used human shields to flee a key city in Syria, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
IS fighters had controlled Manbij in northern Syria since early 2014, and the city had become a vital waypoint for the group as they funneled imported muscle from the Turkish border to other parts of their self-declared caliphate.
But as it became clear that U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) would re-capture the city last week, some 100-200 jihadists fled in cars and trucks, Baghdad-based coalition front man Colonel Chris Garver told news hounds in a video call.
Unlike in Fallujah in Iraq, where local and coalition forces destroyed about 175 IS vehicles as they fled that city, the SDF outside Manbij did not open fire on outgoing cars.
"Civilians were observed in the convoy intermingled with fighters in every vehicle," Garver said.
"We have repeatedly mentioned the care that our partnered forces were taking to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage, so the partnered forces on the ground did not engage the convoy."
He said the coalition was tracking those IS fighters but declined to elaborate, saying only that they went north and split up. Parts of the Syrian border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... are still controlled by IS.
"We're keeping track of them. I don't want to talk too much about that. It's an ongoing operation," Garver said.
Garver said those in the vehicles were likely a mix of IS fighters, civilian hostages and people traveling willingly with the jihadists, such as family members.
"We had to treat them all as noncombatants. We didn't shoot. We kept watching," he told news hounds.
Hundreds of the civilians from the convoy were released on Saturday and others escaped.
He also noted that IS forces had apparently repeatedly tried to put civilians in harm's way during the SDF operation to free Manbij.
"They kept throwing civilians to basically walk into the line of fire, trying to get them shot, to use that potentially as propaganda, we think," he said.
The jihadists, who have suffered a string of losses in Syria and Iraq, have often staged mass abductions when they come under pressure to relinquish territory they hold.
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Makes sense. This way, when they're allowed into the US, the Feds can say they were vetted.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said there are some errors in the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, aka nuclear deal) from the opposite side.
“The legal procedures in the JCPOA are adopted according to the discernment of the JCPOA Implementation Monitoring Council. We are pursuing the entire errors within the Joint Committee,” Araqchi said, ICANA news agency reported Aug. 16.
The JCPOA Implementation Monitoring Council is a body of Iranian officials tasked with inspecting the implementation of the deal, while the Joint Committee is a body of representatives from Iran and the group 5+1 (the US, the UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany).
“Many of the errors have been erased. In the field of insurance, for example, almost all problems are solved as well as some problems in banking and finance,” the deputy foreign minister stated.
Tehran has been criticizing the West for dragging its feet in fulfilling its part of the nuclear deal, saying the country has not received the promised sanctions relief.
The accord, which took effect in January, ended decades of economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program. However, months into the JCPOA’s implementation, Iran complains that the promised economic benefits have yet to materialize and that it still does not have access to global financial markets.
Many international banks still shy away from financing trade deals and processing transactions for fear of the US penalties.
Tehran has warned it can restore all those aspects of its nuclear program that it has agreed to limit under the deal with the six world powers if the agreement is violated by those countries.
Iran, however, is not bound by reciprocity...
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That's fuel-air explosives for those of you in Eurostan
Syrian and Russian warplanes have repeatedly used incendiary weapons in “disgraceful” attacks on civilians in northern Syria, Human Rights Watch charged Tuesday.
The rights group said it had documented the use of incendiary weapons at least 18 times since June that had resulted in more than a dozen injuries.
There was “compelling evidence” that Russia was supporting Syrian government planes in those attacks, the New York-based watchdog said.
“The Syrian government and Russia should immediately stop attacking civilian areas with incendiary weapons,” said HRW arms director Steve Goose.
“The disgraceful incendiary weapon attacks in Syria show an abject failure to adhere to international law restricting incendiary weapons,” he said.
When dropped from aircraft, incendiary weapons leave distinctive trails of explosives in the sky and trigger small, intense fires upon contact.
They were used widely during the Vietnam war and are banned by the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
HRW documented attacks with such weapons since early June, including two cases on August 7 that hit opposition-controlled parts of the cities of Aleppo and Idlib.
“I could clearly see the flames bursting,” said Idlib resident Mohammad Taj Al-Din Othman, who supplied HRW with photos of the attack.
“Within 10 minutes, there were more strikes. The fire was unbelievable, it turned night into day.”
A civil defence volunteer told HRW: “The fire took over everything, houses, cars, oil tanks, and even grass.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said it too had documented the use of thermite — a type of incendiary substance — by Russian planes in Idlib, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor provinces, and Raqa.
And earlier this month, activists in Daraya, a besieged rebel-held town near Damascus, accused the regime of using banned chemical agent napalm against residents there.
All sides of Syria’s complex war have exchanged accusations of attacks against civilians and use of unconventional weapons including chlorine and mustard gas.
HRW said the use of incendiary weapons in Syria had “increased significantly” since Russia began its air war in support of Damascus on September 30, 2015.
In a letter to HRW in November, Russia acknowledged that “improper use” of incendiary weapons had resulted in “significant humanitarian damage” in Syria.
Since 2012, HRW has documented the use of four different incendiary weapons in Syria, all manufactured by the former Soviet Union.
More than 290,000 people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011.
Iran has handed down a three-year prison sentence to prominent reformist journalist Isa Saharkhiz.
A court found Saharkhiz guilty of "insulting Iranian officials" and "propaganda against the regime" on August 9. Speaking to Iranian Students' News Agency, Saharkhiz's lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabatei, said after months of waiting, his client had been issued a verdict — although not for all of the charges against him.
Revolutionary Guards arrested Saharkhiz on November 2, 2015, and arrested fellow journalists Ehsan Mazandarani, Afarin Chitsaz, and Saman Safarzaei and the brother of a journalist, Davoud Asadi, a day later. The guards accused them of being part of an “infiltration network.” In April, all three were given long prison sentences, but Saharkhiz was tried separately. Chitsaz was released in July pending appeal, but Mazandarani and Safarzaei remain incarcerated, and Mazandarani has suffered a heart attack since being jailed.
Saharkhiz has also suffered poor health since being detained, partially due to repeated hunger strikes, one lasting 48 days. He has also been held in solitary confinement for long periods.
Speaking to Journalism is Not a Crime in November 2014, Saharkhiz’s son Mehdi said: “My father wasn’t doing anything. He was posting on Facebook, maybe talking in different groups, and writing articles for different websites. He was just putting his opinion out there, which according to the Iranian constitution is his right to do. This arrest is completely illegal; it doesn’t have any basis. There is absolutely no evidence presented as what these charges are based on."
Saharkhiz previously spent four years in prison in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election.
Judges have not reached a verdict for other charges leveled against Saharkhiz.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] An Egyptian-born Italian member of the European Parliament has declared mosques are terror factories and should be eliminated.
[DeutscheWelle] Members of Germany's government have accused Turkey's regime of supporting militant groups in the Middle East, public media report. ARD cited a classified document sent from the Interior Ministry to the Left party. 
