[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... says he remains committed to the promises made to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. for serving the Afghan nation, more than a month after serious accusations led to rift among the two top leaders of the country.
In his speech during a meeting of Junbish Milli Party, Dostum said his recent criticisms were aimed at bring further reforms in the system and putting an end to the current shortages.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, slammed the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum for his recent remarks accusing President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... of nepotism.
The ARG Palace issued a statement late in October to react towards Dostum’s remarks which he made following an operation led by him in northern Jawzjan province.
The statement further added that the remarks are against the First Vice President and his position considering the current situation where Gen. Dostum is involved in key decision making institutions, including the cabinet and national Security Council.
The statement further added that a comprehensive probe by judiciary institutions is required to prove the remarks by the First Vice President or true or false and steps should be taken in accordance with the enforced laws of the country.
It also added that the government is obliged to answer to the complaints of the people who have been subjected to misbehaviour and crimes during the recent war by the Taliban and other parties involved in the conflict.
Dostum had accused President Ghani of nepotism and slammed Chief Executive Abdullah for being an incapable leader.
Speaking to a gathering in northern Jawzjan province following a military operation led by him, Gen. Dostum said President Ghani prefers those speaking Pashto and individuals belonging to his province are even more important to him.
Gen. Dostum further added the Chief Executive Abdullah is an incapable leader and has lost his fame among the Tajiks of the country despite he ethnically a Tajik.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), chief Rahmatullah endorsed President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s stance against Pakistain in the Heart of Asia conference.
"I support Afg gov recent position against Pak. A.Ghani rejection of Paki’s doubl-face policy is a positive step, n not tolerable," Nabil said in a Twitter post.
Nabil has long been criticizing Pakistain for supporting the Afghan insurgency and released several confidential documents by obtained by Afghan intelligence to prove the country’s role in the ongoing violence in the country.
"Despite our intense engagement with Pakistain on bilateral and multilateral basis, the undeclared war ‐ the name that I gave to the phenomenon in the winter 2014 ‐ not only has not abated but also intensified during 2016, with special intensity right after the Brussels Conference," President Ghani said during his speech at the 6th Heart of Asia conference on Sunday.
Citing a Taliban capo’s remarks about Pakistain, President Ghani said "As Mr. Kakazada, one of the key figures in the Taliban movement recently said, if they did not have sanctuary in Pakistain, they would not last a month."
President Ghani insisted on the need for intense dialogue and engagement to resolve the issue, including fight against criminal economics, and an Asian and international regime, whatever acceptable, particularly, to Pakistain to verify cross-frontier activities and terrorist operations.
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[Libya Observer] The National committee for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) has expressed rejection for the statement of some of the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) members, who are trying to lay the basis for the marginalization and taking away of rights of the Libyan social and cultural communities.
In a statement, the NCHRL said it was filled with sorrow to hear such statements by those who were trusted with drafting a constitution that would be inclusive of all Libya’s communities and guarantee that all of Libyan citizens enjoy their rights equally.
“We totally reject such “eliminatory statements” as they use marginalization at the pretext of ‘protecting the national security’, which in fact urges, now more than ever, for protecting the rights of all the Libyan communities on the basis of the natural rights not the legal rights.” The statement reads.
It also indicated that the communities of Tuareg, Tubu and Amazigh people in Libya must see their rights included in the Libyan constitution so that they can preserve their cultural and social ancestries and keep the Libyan society diverse as it naturally is, thus respecting the international conventions regarding the civil, political, cultural and social rights.
“They all must be having their rights protected in the Libyan constitution so that the Libyan identity can be preserved for good.” The statement elaborates.
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[Libya Observer] The Military Intelligence Chief, Brigadier General Ismaeil al-Shukri, has denied what he described as rumors about the escape of IS diehards out of Sirte.
In a televised statement, al-Shukri confirmed that regional countries, together with countries that have political and economic interests in Libya, are involved in sponsoring IS bully boyz in Libya.
"Preliminary investigations startlingly showed the involvement of international parties and "dubious stakeholders" in supporting IS military presence in Sirte." He added.
He remarked that the investigations led to some documents and footages that proved that the making of IS in Libya was orchestrated overseas.
Brig. Gen. al-Shukri unveiled that most of the IS diehards who came to Libya were from Tunisia in the first place followed by Egypt, Sudan and then Nigeria, in addition to some other countries, adding that regarding the cities from inside Libya, Derna came first followed by Benghazi, Sirte and then Bani Walid.
"The real war on terrorism in Libya has always been in three cities, Sirte, Derna and Sabratha." al-Shukri concluded.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said he will only cede power to a president elected during an interim phase and made nine demands, which include exiling the coup leaders, in response to UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed's roadmap.
The Yemeni government had voiced reservations over the UN envoy's roadmap and said it did not guarantee stability in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and that it rewarded the Houthis.
The government presented its comments to the roadmap making nine demands which include having ousted President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi abandon political work, sending Saleh and Houthi to an exile of their choice for ten years, implementing international sanctions against them, cancelling decisions resulting from the coup, disarming the Houthi militia and transforming it into a political party.
Hadi also demanded holding those involved in the coup accountable, implementing the law of transitional justice, guaranteeing compensations to those harmed by the coup and releasing detainees.
The comments also explained why Hadi refuses to transfer his jurisdictions to a vice president as according to specific references, Hadi should supervise the interim political process and then hand over power to an elected president.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kawthar al-Arbash was named ‐ along 29 other Saudi women ‐ as a new member of the kingdom’s reformed Shoura council.
Arbash, who is a Saudi journalist and writer, is known to be an outspoken critic against sectarianism during the past year especially after the loss of her heroic son who stopped an ISIS attack on a mosque.
Her son Mohammed al-Essa and her nephew Abdul-Jalil al-Arbash were killed instantly while stopping an ISIS jacket wallah from entering a mosque in Dammam.
Kawthar is a graduate of business administration from King Faisal University and is a board member of the 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... n Society for Culture and Arts. She has become a prominent writer and critic against sectarianism and argues instead for the importance of national identity and unity.
She heard the news of her appointment to the Shoura council via a royal decree while she was visiting in the United States as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. She was presenting a paper during a workshop examining democracy in the Middle East.
While in the US, she has been explaining Saudi Arabia’s counter-terror efforts and spoke about her own individual efforts which consists of her establishing the Prince Mohammed bin Nayef program for rehabilitating former gunnies back into society.
Saudi Arabia announced the reformation of their consultative Shoura council on Saturday through royal decrees that also named 29 women to the body.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The apex court will deliver verdict Wednesday in the appeals of two death-row convict murderous Moslems of banned outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. B) including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in a case filed for the liquidation attempt on former British envoy Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
The four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha fixed the date Tuesday after a hearing.
Three people, including an assistant sub-inspector of the police were killed while former UK high commissioner Anwar and 70 others injured in a grenade attack at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet on May 21, 2004.
Born in Sunamganj and a naturalised British citizen, Anwar served as the British high commissioner to Bangladesh from 2004 to 2008. He is currently serving as the ambassador to Peru.
Three murderous Moslems of the banned group ‐ Mufti Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Md Delwar Hossain alias Ripon ‐ were sentenced to death while two others ‐ Hannan’s brother Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi and Mufti Mainuddin Khaja alias Abu Jandal ‐ were given life sentence by the Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on December 23, 2008.
The High Court upheld the verdict in February this year. Hannan and Bipul then appealed against the sentences in July.
Mufti Hannan and seven others were sentenced to death in 2014 for killing 10 people during the Pohela Boishakh celebrations at Ramna Batamul in 2001. He is also a prime accused in the August 21 grenade attack case.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The High Court has ordered the government to remove names of people, who had collaborated with the Pak occupation forces in 1971, from roads, educational institutions, establishments and places by two months.
The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the order yesterday during the hearing on a rule issued in 2012.
The secretaries to the education and the LGRD ministries have been asked to submit a report by March 1 after complying with the order, said lawyer AK Rashedul Haque.
The rule issued on a writ petition in May 2012 year had asked the government to explain as to why they would not be directed to rename the structures after the freedom fighters.
The petition was filed by war crimes trial campaigners Prof Muntassir Mamun and Shahriar Kabir.
Petitioners’ lawyer Rashedul told the Dhaka Tribune that the High Court in another order had also directed to rename Khan A Sabur Road in Khulna as Jessore Road and Shah Azizur Rahman Auditorium of Islamic University in Kushtia after the freedom fighters.
Of the two establishments, only the auditorium’s name had so far been changed, he said.
Rashedul said that they had recently submitted to the court a list of roads and establishments named after 20 collaborators of the Pak military during the Liberation War.
"The court was dissatisfied as the names have not been removed yet and came up with the fresh order," he told the Dhaka Tribune.
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Oh. High Court, not Hillary Clinton. Dang.
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Bobby,
If it WAS Hillary the headline would read:
"HC wants collaborators’ names removed in two months"
[Iran Press TV] 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... has called for banning of the burqa "wherever it is legally possible," while stressing that German law "takes precedence" over Sharia.
"The full-face veil must be banned wherever it is legally possible," said Merkel to delegates at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) congress held in Essen on Tuesday.
While launching her bid for another term as CDU leader, Mekel referred to "security and order, justice and law" as the pillars of the CDU’s politics.
She also stressed that "Germans who always lived here as well as those who just arrived" should obey the law.
"Here in Germany ... the laws of our country... are applied equally to everyone without any exception...German law takes precedence over Sharia," she added.
Mekel also vowed to try and avoid another refugee crisis. "We have repeatedly stated that that situation that occurred in late summer, 2015, cannot, should not, and will not be repeated," she said.
While stressing that each refugee case should be dealt with as an isolated instance "and not as a part of some crowd," she noted that not all of the 890,000 people who had entered the country last year would stay.
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#3
Iran gets it right with Mekel
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Peasants raped while swimmin'
Bus stops, grabbing the wimmin'
Poll returns must be in fecal.
#8
Will Krauts on Frau Merkel go sour
Or sweeten and leave her in power?
When treason's in season
But hell begins freezin'...
Well, even a cabbage can flower!
Measures taken in Turkey following the 15 July coup attempt created an "environment conducive to torture", the UN has warned. Ill treatment appears to have been widespread immediately after the failed putsch, a UN expert said on Friday, following an investigation in the country.
Turkey is under a state of emergency, extended for 12 weeks in October, after a rogue military faction tried to remove President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power in the summer coup attempt.
"Some recently passed legislation and statutory decrees created an environment conducive to torture," UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer told reporters in Ankara.
Melzer's visit, the first by a UN torture expert to Turkey since 1998, comes a month after US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch [HRW] accused Turkish police of torturing detainees.
Since July, more than 100,000 people in the judiciary, military, media, civil service and education sector have been detained, dismissed or suspended. In total, 37,000 people have been arrested and some have claimed torture, according to human rights groups.
Just over a week after the coup bid, Amnesty International said it had "credible evidence" of the abuse and torture of people detained in the sweeping arrests.
According to Melzer, torture appears to have been widespread in the immediate after 15 July, based on information given during his week-long visit.
"Testimonies received from inmates and their lawyers suggests that in the days and weeks following the failed coup torture and other forms of ill treatment were widespread."
He added that ill treatment seemed to have ceased for those prisoners arrested for reasons related to the attempted coup.
During his six-day visit, he went to places of detention in Ankara, Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa and Istanbul where conditions were "satisfactory", he said. And the independent expert stressed that Turkey had the safeguards in place to prevent abuse and "thanks to the government's commitment, substantial progress has been made against torture since the 1990s".
The Turkish government has previously denied all forms of torture have taken place while insisting that it is dealing with an extraordinary situation within the rule of law.
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"As handsome as wadis are pebbly,
Are Arabs," thought Lawrence, "and trebly
When they have been naughty,
And crawling, not haughty,
Are awed by my terrible Webley."
[DAWN] The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... on Monday jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two people for allegedly publishing banned literature linked to the Ahmedi community.
The banned publications, Tehrik-e-Jadeed and al-Fazal, were seized and the printing press was sealed.
"Yes, a case has been registered in cop shoppe CTD Faisalabad and two accused have been arrested from Chenab Nagar," confirmed the spokesperson for CTD Punjab.
The spokesperson added that the two publications were confiscated and the printing press was sealed.
In a notification dated December 9 2014, the government of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... had banned the publication and referred to it as "seditious and treasonable".
"In exercise of powers conferred under Section 99-A of CrPC, the Government of Punjab is pleased to ban and declare every copy/version of said book to be forfeited, wherever found in the open market, stocks and shops with immediate effect," added the statement.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... in a blurb by the public affairs division of Anjum-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistain, the community claimed that that after a petition was filed in the Lahore High Court, the presiding judge had ordered no further action against the publication till the next hearing.
The order by the judge was issued on June 2, 2015.
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[IsraelTimes] Graphic released by army demonstrates Israeli intel capabilities, may point to potential targets in future conflict.
May?
The Israeli military on Tuesday posted a map of southern Leb to Twitter, on which it marked Hezbollah positions, infrastructure and armaments along a section of the Israeli border.
...with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one...
The map, according to Channel 2 News, features over 200 towns and villages which the organization has turned into its operations bases, and shows over 10,000 potential targets for Israeli strikes in the event of a new war with the terror group.
A caption on the photo noted that it had been declassified, in an apparent calculated move by Israel to build a case for any future military action. It could also serve as a warning to the terror group itself, demonstrating Israel’s intelligence gathering capabilities as a deterrent.
Channel 2 noted in its report that the same map has been shown to practically every foreign diplomat visiting the Jewish state, to stress the point that while Hezbollah may currently be heavily involved in the Syrian civil war, it continues to arm for conflict with Israel, while embedding itself ever deeper in the civilian population near the border.
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I'd send postcards.
Dear Occupant,
Due to the presence of military equipment on your property that poses an existential threat to Israel, we will forced to bomb everything into rubble approximately 3 milliseconds after the next war starts.
-- Sincerely, the Juice
[AlAhram] Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked secretly to save the lives of 226 members of his flock from 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 -- by amassing millions of dollars from his community around the world to buy their freedom.
The Assyrian Christians were seized from the Khabur River valley in northern Syria, among the last holdouts of a minority that had been chased across the Mideast for generations. On Feb. 23, 2015, IS fighters attacked 35 Christian towns simultaneously, sweeping up scores of people.
It took more than a year, and videotaped killings of three captives, before all the rest were freed.
Paying ransoms is illegal in the United States and most of the West, and the idea of giving money to the Islamic State group is morally fraught, even for those who saw no alternative.
"You look at it from the moral side and I get it. If we give them money we're just feeding into it, and they're going to kill using that money," said Aneki Nissan, who helped raise funds in Canada. But "to us, we're such a small minority that we have to help each other."
The Khabur families trace their heritage to the earliest days of Christianity. To this day, they speak a dialect of Aramaic, believed to be the native language of Jesus.
When the villages were attacked, fleeing residents phoned cousins, sons, daughters, friends -- Assyrians who had left the region in waves for the West. In the chaos, no one was sure how many were taken captive -- but everyone was certain they were going to die.
As days stretched into a week, it became clear IS group had other plans.
The group told the 17 men captured from one village, Tal Goran, they could have their freedom but with a catch. Four female captives would remain, and one of the men had to deliver a message to their bishop in the town of Hassakeh about 40 miles away, and return with an answer.
The Death Eaters demanded $50,000 per person for the whole group. Abdo Marza reluctantly agreed. His 6-year-old daughter was one of the captives.
It took the bishop, Mar Afram Athneil, three days to make a decision, as he consulted with members of the church around the world on what to do. Then he gave Marza a sealed envelope, with no explanation.
When Marza handed it over, the IS myrmidon broke into a smile. "Your bishop is a very smart man." With that, his daughter and three old women were freed.
Athneil began secret negotiations for the remaining captives.
In Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Assyrian filmmaker Sargon Saadi packed his gear, hoping to learn what had happened to the Khabur villages. He found them almost deserted.
"We didn't know why they took them, we didn't know where they took them, what they wanted to do with them," Saadi said.
When word filtered down about the ransom, the price was daunting. IS's starting demand of $50,000 a person would mean more than $11 million for the remaining captives.
"There's no easy way to give them money. It's very dangerous, it's also illegal in many countries," Saadi said.
The calls for donations went out across social media. In Germany, Assyrian entrepreneur Charli Kanoun persuaded the government to accept the Tal Goran hostages, and then he began fundraising for the others. Outside London, Andy Darmoo also fundraised while running his chandelier business.
On May 26, two women were freed. On June 16, one man was released. On Aug. 11, 22 more people were liberated. Many in the diaspora hoped the ordeal was nearly over.
Then in September 2015 came the video showing three Khabur men, dressed in orange, being shot to death.
"When that happened, everybody went crazy and money started flying in from all over," Saadi said. "Assyrians don't have an army to go rescue them. They don't have SWAT teams, they don't have SEAL 6. The only option they have is to pay ransom."
The Islamic State group has made a fortune off the desperation of hostages. A United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... resolution from December 2015 called on governments "to prevent kidnapping and hostage-taking committed by terrorist groups and to secure the safe release of hostages without ransom payments or political concessions."
But while no government appeared to stop the fundraising, the Assyrians say no country stepped in to free the captives either.
Brokered by the bishop, Athneil, negotiations resumed in mid-fall. The money went into an account in Irbil, Iraq.
From November, releases took place every few weeks.
On Feb. 22, 2016, a final list of 43 names was sent to the bishop. The last Khabur captives were on their way out.
But when the bus arrived in Hassakeh, only 42 hostages were on board. Sixteen-year-old Maryam David Talya had been pulled off at the last checkpoint by an IS guard, Kanoun said.
After another agonizing month of negotiations, Maryam stumbled into the arms of her parents.
How much was ultimately paid remains a mystery. The bishop, the only person with a full accounting, declined to speak to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Those involved credit him for saving the lives not just of the hostages but of hundreds of other Assyrians who fled the war zone. The Khabur valley is now all but empty of its Christians.
"Honestly, this man should go down as a saint, the things that he's done, the sacrifices he's made to help these people," Nissan said. "He's refusing to leave Syria until all his flock is secured."
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To demand no one pay ransom and then offer no alternative is the same as saying "Go ahead, kill everyone, we don't care."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bana al-Abed, the seven-year-old girl who has given the world an insight into what is happening in Aleppo via her tweets, has returned to Twitter having suspended her account on Sunday and disappearing from social media.
She tweeted: “Hello my friends, how are you? I am fine. I am getting better without medicine with too much bombing. I miss you. –Bana #Aleppo
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Hello my friends, how are you? I am fine. I am getting better without medicine with too much bombing. I miss you. - Bana #Aleppo
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Earlier, the father of Bana had reportedly sent a message letting users know their family was safe after her account fell silent.
@Mr_Alhamdo, a teacher and activist reporting from inside Eastern Aleppo, tweeted on Tuesday: “Bana’s father sent this message: Our house was destroyed. We moved to another and was targeted also. We are ok now. Thanks for Asking.”
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@Mr.Alhamdo @Mr_Alhamdo
Bana's Father sent this massage.
Our house was destroyed. We moved to another and was targeted also. We are ok now. Thanks for asking.
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Her online disappearance coincided with the push by army forces loyal to Bashar Al-Assad in the Qatarji neighborhood where she lives, raising concerns among her 200,000 followers.
On Sunday her last tweet before falling silent read: “We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world.”
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[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed ...Tut tut, my good man!... 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... ’s recent "politically-motivated and unfounded" espionage allegations against Iran, warning that such moves will not benefit any country in the region.
"At a time when the Moslem world and the [Middle East] region require unity and avoiding issues that would cause tensions, forging and spreading false accusations, which are far from the truth will not be in the interests of any regional country," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Tuesday.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has not had any activity in Saudi Arabia against the international regulations and diplomatic principles, and such baseless accusations are being made with political objectives," he added.
The Iranian official made the comments in reaction to earlier media reports that a Saudi court on Tuesday had sentenced 15 people to death for allegedly spying for Iran in a move likely to heighten regional tensions. The convicted defendants comprised one Iranian, one Afghan and 13 Saudis.
Their trial opened in February, a month after tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia intensified following the kingdom’s execution of prominent Shia holy man, Nimr al-Nimr, in January.
The most serious charge leveled against these people was high treason.
Qassemi emphasized that Saudi Arabia must refrain from leveling unfounded allegations against Iran in line with its political goals and to fuel tensions in the region.
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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.
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[Libya Observer] The National committee for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) has expressed rejection for the statement of some of the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) members, who are trying to lay the basis for the marginalization and taking away of rights of the Libyan social and cultural communities.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kawthar al-Arbash was named ‐ along 29 other Saudi women ‐ as a new member of the kingdom’s reformed Shoura council.
[Dhaka Tribune] The apex court will deliver verdict Wednesday in the appeals of two death-row convict 
