[Libya Observer] Libya's social media pages are awash with anger and insults to the member of Tobruk-based House of Representatives Ali al-Tikbali after a sexy video of him went viral on Saturday.
A Libyan hacker called "the simple citizen" published a Skype video chat between Chief of Defense Committee of HoR Ali al-Tikbali and a whore.
The 3-minute video showed al-Tikbali performing sex acts on camera using sexually explicit language.
The sexy video sparked social media fury with calls on al-Tikbali to step down from his current position and quit Libyan politics forever.
The hacker has also threatened to leak scandals related to Abdul-Majeed Maligta, the co-chairman of National Forces Alliance and a foreign affairs adviser for the eastern government of Abdullah al-Thanni.
The simple citizen hacker had before published several sex scandals of pro-Dignity Operation politicians and krazed killers.
Earlier last year, the hacker published a video of Tobruk MP Moftah Kodier stripping off for his girlfriend while exchanging sexy acts on camera.
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[Libya Herald] A high-profile Misratan militia leader is understood to have declared Misrata Municipal Council out business and said that the city should now be run by its military council.
The statement by Saleh Badi of al-Marsa Brigade comes as the council seeks to close down hard boy Islamist militia camps. This has prompted the Benghazi Shoura Council, which is currently located in Misrata, to protest that it has no relations with 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.... nor al-Qaeda terrorism, the Moslem Brüderbund nor the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
The BSC insisted that it had nothing to do with political and regional conflicts and said that the council’s move was aimed at killing off "all honest revolutionary fighters".
Nevertheless, analysts believe that the BSC is virtually identical to the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council whose fighters are now surrounded with their IS and Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... allies in three small areas of Benghazi.
Resistance to the Libyan National Army in Benghazi for the last two years has been sustained by the regular maritime delivery of supplies from Misrata.
However on two occasions, a pair of vessels being used on these runs has been blown up and sunk alongside the same dock at the Libyan Iron and Steel Works. Islamist leaders have recently taken to meeting near the steel works which lied to the east of the city. It remains unclear how the boats were sabotaged but the first attack appears to have been carried out with limpet mines.
Unlike IS and Ansar al-Sharia, the BRSC has not been declared a terrorist group. There are also thought to be strong links with a third hard boy Islamist group, the Benghazi Defence Brigade.
Commanded by Mustafa Sharksi, who led revolutionary forces in Misrata in 2011, the BDB launched a quixotic action pushing a relief column from Ajdabiya toward the besieged Ganfouda enclave to the south west of Benghazi. It was broken up by Arclight airstrikes and driven back.
Meanwhile the Misratan Third Force claims to have tightened its siege on the Brak al-Shatti airbase taken by pro-LNA forces at the start of December. A Third Force front man said that an attack this morning on the southern airbase had included Grad rocket strikes. He maintained that imported muscle were among the base’s defenders.
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[Libya Herald] Terrorists were stopping "hostages" escaping from the besieged Benghazi enclave of Ganfouda, the Libyan National Army insisted today.
LNA front man Ahmed Mismari said today that for the last two weeks troops had maintained two no-fire zones to the east and west of Ganfouda to allow civilians, whom he described as "hostages" to flee. However none had done so.
He repeated reports that women and kiddies could be heard in buildings now on the frontline. He added that the LNA had an hostage evacuation plan and were about to put it into effect.
"Unfortunately these routes have been blocked by the terrorist groups" said Mismari, "They refuse to let them go and want to use them to help them to escape from the area. That is why they have asked several times to evacuate the families by sea without our supervision so they can escape with them. And this is something we will not accept".
The front man said that as they lost control of Benghazi, the bully boyz had moved civilians along with captured LNA troops and already locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! members of the Qadaffy regime, into Ganfouda. He did not specify the numbers involved.
Mismari also said that it was no longer certain what foodstuffs both the civilians and bully boyz had left to eat, after troops took over large stocks of "food, commodities and medicines" in their rapid advance early in December.
Mismari gave no details of fighting around Ganfouda. However social media footage posted by a soldier suggested some troops are becoming bored. The clip showed a pair of tracked armoured personnel carriers belonging to the 210 Infantry Battalion being "drifted" at speed in the main Customs Service compound in Ganfouda. Shooting up dust and belching black exhaust smoke, one of the APC did a 180 degree "half-donut" skidding to a halt neatly alongside one of the TEU containers.
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Taiz – Yemen bids farewell to 2016 with its territories controlled by different parties, while the legitimate forces succeeded in liberating some regions, other parts have remained under the control of Houthis and supporters of Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The map of control of Yemeni territories:
Azal Province
(Governorates of Saada, Amran, Sanaa –the capital and the governorate – and Dhamar)
All the governorates of Azal’s province have remained under the control of the Houthi militias and the rebellion supporters of Saleh – except for a number of sites in Saada’s governorate, the stronghold of Houthis – the Yemeni National Army has carried out military operations in Amran and Sanaa to target the rebellion militants.
In Saada, the Yemeni army has succeeded in liberating the border port of Alab and most of the Mandaba region of the directorate of Baqim in Saada province, northern Yemen; considered a strategic point as it tops villages of Sahar and road of Baqim, Abwab al-Hadid, Jabal al-Shaer and the other regions controlled by the Houthis.
As per the Capital Sanaa controlled by militias, the Yemeni National Forces reached to its eastern gates after capturing and imposing control in the Naham. This front has witnessed clashes between the two parties close to Bani Hashish’s region dominated by the Houthi Militias and Saleh’s supporters. On 6 August, the National Army launched a military campaign for liberation, which kicked off from Naham aiming at recapturing the Capital.
Sabaa Province
(Governorates of Ma’rib, Al Jawf, Al Bayda)
The National Yemeni Army backed by the Arab Coalition Forces has completely recaptured the city of Ma’rib, capital of Saba’, the southern entrance of Sanaa including oil and gas fields, except for parts of Al-Sarwah, which remained under the control of rebellion militias.
The Yemeni forces have also controlled 85% of Al-Jawf region including many areas in the north of the governorate, with the biggest geographical surface. However, militias still control al-Matma, al-Zaher, Al-Shaab, al.-Masloub and many other regions.
As per Al Bayda governorate, it still witnesses violent clashes between the National Army and the rebellion militias, which control the majority of the governorate’s regions except for a number of sites.
Tihamah Province
(Governorates of Hodaida, Heja, Mahwit, Rima)
All these provinces have remained under the control of the rebellion militias, this district has seen continuous military operations targeting the strongholds, sites, and inspection points of Houthis. Operations violently concentrated in Hodeida, the second biggest port following Aden and Heja’s governorate which witnessed heavy battles recently along other regions on the Yemeni-Saudi borders. Forces of the National Army and the Arab Coalition have advanced in the Midi governorate and expanded their control over the city in addition to the Hard port on the borders with Saudi Arabia and some surrounding military sites.
Al-Janad Province
(Governorates of Taiz and Ibb)
This district is located on the south of Sanaa with its two governorates Taiz and Ibb which have witnessed heavy and constant clashes between the Yemeni National Army – backed by the Arab Coalition’s air forces and the Houthi militias and Saleh’s supporters. The most violent battles have occurred in Taiz, the third biggest third city in the country, which is close to be liberated from Houthis and their constant bombing over its residential neighborhoods with all kinds of weapons.
It is worth noting that the city has lived under a restricted blockade that obstructs the delivery of food and medicines.
Concerning Ibb, this governorate has totally resigned under the control of the rebellion militias including the main city of Ibb -the legitimate forces dominate regions of Hamak and Biar on the borders of the southern governorate of al-Dale’a.
Aden District
All its governorates have been completely liberated from the rebellion militias, except for some cities in al-Dale’a.
District of Hadhramaut.
All the district’s cities have been also recaptured by the National Yemeni Army except some small cities.
[Bangla Daily Star] Investigators suspect a bad boy group was behind the killing of ruling Awami League politician Manzurul Islam Liton but they are yet to get concrete information on this.
After the Gaibandha politician was rubbed out by armed assailants at his house in Sundarganj Saturday evening, police launched a probe focusing on two aspects -- intra-party feud and Islamist bad boy attack.
"We are looking into all possible sides but involvement of holy warriors or Jamaat is on top of them," Deputy Inspector General of Police (Rangpur Range) Khandker Golam Faruq told The Daily Star last night.
He said police so far detained 18 people for interrogation but no mentionable progress could be made.
A senior police official, requesting anonymity, said, "There were some feuds involving the politician but we don't believe his killing is a result of those. The style of the killing indicates that it was the act of bad boys."
Liton had drawn widespread flak after he allegedly shot a 10-year-old boy in Gaibandha on October 2 last year.
Sourav Mia, son of Sazu Miah of Gopalcharan village in Sundarganj, was shot twice in the legs. Liton was nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on October 14 in the capital's Uttara after Sazu filed an attempted murder case against him.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... the Awami League pointed the finger at religious murderous Moslems for the killing of Liton and also the attack on Khulna district AL leader ZA Mahamud Don.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Brahmanbaria court yesterday placed Awami League leader Sheikh Abdul Ahad, who was incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in connection with the October 30 attack on the Hindus in Nasirnagar, on a one-day police remand.
Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate Sharaf Uddin Ahmed granted the remand for Ahad, former joint secretary of Nasirnagar upazila unit AL and also former chairman of Sadar union of the upazila.
Mahabubur Rahman, court inspector, said investigation officer of the case Shawkat Hossain, sub-inspector (investigation) of Nasirnagar Police Station, prayed to the court for a five-day remand. The court granted a one-day remand.
Police arrested Ahad at his Ghoshpara house in the upazila town Tuesday afternoon. The following day, police sought a seven-day remand for Ahad. The court rejected the prayer and ordered police to interrogate him at the jail gate.
On October 30 last year, unruly mobs and zealots vandalised many Hindu houses and temples in five villages of the upazila over a Facebook post.
Eight cases were filed in connection with the attack.
Law enforcers have so far arrested 108 people, including Ahad, in the cases.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... over 100 people of the Hindu community held a protest rally in Ghoshpara yesterday, demanding the release of Ahad.
At the rally, Bijoy Ghosh, a resident of Ghoshpara and clothes trader, said Ahad saved them during the October 30 attack risking his life.
Bijoy said Ahad was injured while he was trying to resist the attackers.
When Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal visited Nasirnagar on November 8, he informed the minister about what kind of role Ahad had played during the attack, Bijoy added.
Anil Das and Mohan Lal Das of Mahakalpara said the Hindu community people did not bring any allegations against Ahad.
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The United States said Sunday that North Korea's ballistic missile launches are unacceptable and vowed to show Pyongyang consequences in the event of such firings after North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un strongly hinted the country is close to test-firing a long-range missile.
If it's unacceptable, why are we doing nothing about it?
The corpulent Kim said in his New Year's Day address that the communist nation has reached the final stage of preparations to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a veiled threat that it's about to develop a nuclear missile capable of reaching the U.S.
In response, the State Department said that any launches by the North using ballistic missile technology are explicitly banned under multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.
And there you go. We respond by saying they aren't allowed to do it.
"We call on all states to use every available channel and means of influence to make clear to the DPRK and its enablers that launches using ballistic missile technology are unacceptable, and take steps to show there are consequences to the DPRK's unlawful conduct," spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen told Yonhap News Agency.
"Every available channel and means of influence": like what?
"We call on the DPRK to refrain from provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric that threaten international peace and stability, and to make the strategic choice to fulfill its international obligations and commitments and return to serious talks," she said.
U.S. experts have warned that the communist nation could undertake provocations around the time when incoming U.S. President Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, noting Pyongyang has a record of staging provocations around U.S. elections and transition periods.
Pyongyang is known to be developing a road-mobile ICBM, known as the KN-08, which is believed to have a range of more than 13,000 kilometers and could be capable of flying as far as the U.S. mainland. But the North has never conducted an actual test of that missile.
Experts said that North Korea will focus on advancing its nuclear and missile capability in the new year, raising the possibility that it engages in more powerful provocations around its key anniversaries in the first half, including Kim's Jan. 8 birthday.
The KN-08 missile has been considered a key concern for the U.S., as the missile can be fired from mobile launchers and is harder to monitor. The U.S. has steadily strengthened its missile defense system to guard against such threats.
In October, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, referring to the KN-08, that the North is believed to be capable of launching "a missile that has a weapon on it that potentially could reach parts of the United States, certainly including Alaska and Hawaii."
The North has advanced ballistic missile technologies, and succeeded in putting satellites into orbit aboard long-range rockets twice, first in 2012 and again in February last year. Experts say long-range rockets and ICBMs are basically the same with differences only in payloads. Pyongyang has also conducted five nuclear tests, including two last year.
Experts have warned that it is only a matter of time until the North develops nuclear-tipped missiles.
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Pudgy Kim Jong Un said North Korea is in the “last stage” of preparations to test-fire an inter-continental ballistic missile, refusing to slow his nuclear arms development as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in Washington.
The corpulent Kim made his remarks in a New Year televised address as he outlined his country’s military achievements for the past year, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday. North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests under Fat Boy Kim and launched a series of long-range rockets.
North Korea “will continue to strengthen its ability based on nuclear might to mount a preemptive attack,” the enormous Kim said during a half-hour speech that touched on a range of issues, including economic policy and relations with South Korea.
Since taking power in late 2011, the ginormous North Korean leader has concentrated on developing nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S. The country has refused to accept U.S. demands to freeze its arms development before the two sides can resume international disarmament talks.
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, correctly likened Kim to a “maniac” during his campaign while suggesting he could meet with the North Korea leader for nuclear talks. While Kim made no mention of Trump in his speech, his comments released Sunday signal North Korea may seek to test-fire a long-range missile around the inauguration to raise stakes ahead of potential talks with the Trump administration.
“North Korea is showing its leverage ahead of future negotiations with the Trump administration,” said Kim Tae-woo, who teaches military issues at South Korea’s Konyang University. “North Korea’s hope to be recognized as a nuclear power through some sort of big deal with the U.S. hasn’t lessened, and we may even be seeing Kim deploying ICBMs this year.”
The regime said previously it had the ability to mount nuclear warheads on to missiles with the range to reach the U.S., an assertion that was bolstered by its launch of a long-range rocket in February and another in August. It conducted its fifth nuclear test in September.
Kim said he would “gladly join hands” with anyone who seeks better relations between North Korea and South Korea.
Korea is banned under UN Security Council resolutions from developing ballistic missiles and testing nuclear devices. The council in late November unanimously passed sanctions that include cutting North Korea’s coal exports, one of the few sources of hard currency for the Kim regime after the country conducted its fifth test in September.
Worked well, hasn't it...
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...On the one hand, I feel we should park a couple of BMD-capable missile cruisers in the Sea of Japan and blow the damn thing out of the sky. On the other hand, if it fails...I kinda feel sorry for the poor so-and-sos in charge of the test.
On the third hand, though, let him fire it. A successful test of a real, honest-to-God ICBM will guarantee a massive BMD program in Japan, Korea, Australia, and Guam. The PRC will be so pi$$ed at Un they won't be able to see straight and might finally lower the boom on him.
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[Ynet] The terrorist who killed at least 39 and maimed 69 in Istanbul during New Year's Eve on Saturday has yet to be caught, with Turkish authorities in pursuit of the assailant. In the meantime, another video and photos of the supposed terrorist have surfaced. The video shows him breaking into the Reina nightclub where he opened fire, while the pictures appear to be of him at Istanbul Ataturk Airport.
Video and very clear screenshots of the alleged terrorist from Istanbul Atatürk Airport can be seen at the link.
Four Israeli women who were at the club on the night of the attack were caught in the midst of the shooting attack. One of them was 18-year-old Leann Nasser, who succumbed to her wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after noon on Sunday. Nasser's body was initially not identified, as it was separated from her purse and phone. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... she was eventually found to be at an Istanbul hospital. As she was uninsured, Israel's Interior Ministry funded the return of her body, which is expected to arrive in the country on Monday.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim issued a statement following the attack. In it, he denied initial reports that the terrorist had dressed up as Santa Claus to dissuade any suspicion as to his presence on New Year's, though reoprts from those injured stated that he did. Among them was Israeli Ruaa Mansour, who was flown back to Israel on Sunday.
Presently, no organization has grabbed credit for the attack.
Turkish Minister of the Interior Suleyman Soylu stated that out of the 20 victims who have already been identified, 15 are foreigners. He added that the assailant arrived at the club concealing his weapon, but left wearing a different outfit.
This is the first picture of the prime suspect police are hunting after a gunman 'screamed Allahu Akbar' before opening fire in a Turkish nightclub - slaughtering 39 people.
Grainy photo can be seen at the link. The Mirror's live updates page, with the latest plus all the details about each of the dead and all the national leaders expressing anger and condolences can be seen here.
The suspect is a member of the East Turkestan branch of ISIS, according to Turkish media reports.
Turkish intelligence forces are said to be closing in on the unnamed suspect who allegedly 'screamed Allahu Akbar' as he shot at revellers celebrating the New Year inside Reina nightclub.
The man is described as being from East Turkestan, Afghanistan or Chechnya, but authorities still do not know his name or precise nationality.
The Reina nightclub is a symbol of everything Islamists hate about modern Turkey – fun, wealthy and unashamedly decadent.
The lone gunman who slaughtered 39 revellers at Reina’s New Year’s Eve party was attacking not just Istanbul’s secular, sinful elite – but also the very idea that Turkey can be a modern, Westernised country.
What’s more, the attack struck at the heart of Turkey’s already beleaguered tourist industry, making a mockery of government claims that it can guarantee the security of its own citizens, let alone visitors.
In the run-up to New Year’s Eve, Istanbul authorities boasted that they would be deploying 17,000 security personnel to protect the city – yet a lone jihadi gunman was able to shoot his way into the city’s most exclusive and most secure nightclub.
The timing of this attack was symbolic. Last month posters appeared in conservative areas of Istanbul denouncing the celebration of Western festivities.
‘We are Muslims,’ read the banners, which featured a musclebound Muslim punching Father Christmas. ‘No to New Year’s Eve and Christmas celebrations.’
Though Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs was quick to condemn the attack, it exposes deep divisions in Turkey between a religious and conservative majority and the secular, Westernised elite.
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18:14 Shooter 'spotted hitchhiking' from the scene
Police are investigating reports the ISIS gunman was seen hitchhiking away from Istanbul after the attack.
This afternoon the towns of Yalova and Bursa were targeted by police after members of the public claimed to have spotted the nightclub killer. The gunman was reportedly first spotted in the port town of Yalova after crossing about 40 miles across the Sea of Marmara on a passenger ferry. He then was reportedly seen hitchhiking to Bursa.
17:49 Gunman "aimed for most crowded areas"
Mehmet Yilan, 36, a barman at Reina for 12 years, said the attacker deliberately targeted the most crowded areas of the club.
“He stormed in and immediately headed for the people to the left, which is always more crowded ... I wonder if he came here before because he seemed to know where to go,” Yilan said, describing how his manager yelled at people to run. “He was shooting randomly but aiming for their upper bodies. He didn’t want to just injure them.”
16:32 Turkey's deputy prime minister says they have the killer's fingerprints
15:54 Police release new images from CCTV
Shooter, aged about 25, likely from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan or Is a Uighur from Xinjiang, China. Analysis of CCTV tapes suggests military training and war-fighting experience.
13:48 Anti-terror police detain eight suspected of links to attack, including taxi driver
11:10 Gunman 'likely to be linked to June airport attack'
A reporter has cited sources that claim the gunman is likely to be linked to the attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport in June.
ITV News Correspondent Sally Lockwood also tweeted ‘UPDATE. I’ve been told by credible source gunman is not Turkish, has been identified by police &likely he’s linked to airport attack in June’
During the airport attack, gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosive belts staged a simultaneous attack at the international terminal of Terminal 2. Forty-five people were killed, in addition to the three attackers, and more than 230 people were injured.
11.02 Gunman fired 180 bullets during 7-minute ordeal
5:52 Attacker was 'well-trained professional with experience of war"
Chilling new details about the nature of the gunman have emerged in the Haberturk newspaper.
Police believe he was “well-trained professional with experience of war”, it is claimed.
This assessment comes from a number of reasons:
- The killer used a Kalashnikov, a heavy-duty weapon, and fired it from the waist, aiming it towards the upper body of his victims for maximum casualties
- He fire at least 180 rounds, leaving six empty cartons of ammunition at the scene
- The attacker spoke in “broken” Turkish and was wearing a green shirt, dark pants and black boots.
- He was said to be aged around 25-years-old and may be from East Turkestan
[BBC] Israel will not return the bodies of Paleostinian Lions of Islam to their families, but will bury them instead, officials said.
Israel said it was taking measures to ensure the return of Israeli remains from Paleostinian territory.
But the country's security cabinet announced the move after the release of mocking videos from the armed wing of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",.
The decision will now become a permanent change in policy, it said.
The two video clips published by the Hamas military wing show a mock birthday for Oron Shaul, who Israel said was killed during the Gazoo War in 2014.
In one, his face has been digitally inserted over someone else's body, bound and in army fatigues.
He is visited by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a clown's costume, who blows out the candles on a birthday cake.
Sgt Shaul, 21, was one of seven soldiers reported killed in an incident in Shejaiya, near Gazoo City.
But Hamas has never confirmed that Sgt Shaul is dead.
After the meeting of the security cabinet, the prime minister's office released a brief statement on the decision.
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group has long demanded Israel first release hundreds of Paleostinians who were renabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! after they were freed in the 2011 Shalit deal before they would even enter into negotiations with Israel over a prisoner exchange.
In September, a senior Israeli official said that Israel had been holding since the 2014 Gazoo war 18 Paleostinians from the enclave as well as the bodies of 19 others and "offered to swap them for the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers."
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Netanyahu's coordinator on the issue of POWs and MIAs Lior Lotan said at the time that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rejected the offer.
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[TIMESOFISRAEL] Its slogan was "the voice of the voiceless," but after four decades the prestigious Lebanese daily As-Safir published its final issue Saturday amid a crisis in the country’s print media.
A front-page editorial entitled "The nation without As-Safir" said the paper had "become exhausted... but we continue to see some light on the horizon of the profession."
Founded one year before the start of Leb’s 1975-1990 civil war, As-Safir was known for its pan-Arab outlook and opposition to American policy in the Middle East.
It gave a platform to some of the Arab world’s leading intellectual and artistic voices, including Paleostinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish.
In March, founder and editor-in-chief Talal Salman announced that the paper, also known for its support for the Shiite holy warrior group Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, would be closing.
"We’ve run out of funds and we’re desperately looking for a partner to finance the paper," he told AFP at the time.
Salman blamed Leb’s political stalemate and internal divisions exacerbated by the war in neighboring Syria.
As print media around the world struggle to adapt to the digital age, Lebanese papers have also faced a slump in funding from rival regional powers.
During the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, Libya’s Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... , Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s Yasser Arafat were key financiers.
As-Safir acted as the voice of Arab nationalists and defenders of the Paleostinian cause while its rival An-Nahar stood for Lebanese pluralism.
After the war, Saudi, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i and Iranian money took over, but today even Riyadh’s vast coffers are running dry.
Financial hardships have also hit An-Nahar. On Friday it told 40 employees not to turn up to work from January until its money situation was resolved, an employee told AFP.
The paper has not paid salaries for almost 15 months.
The Lebanese journalists’ union said print media, the "national memory of Leb," was facing a "major national crisis."
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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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[Ynet] The terrorist who killed at least 39 and 
