[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... may appear in a gathering in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
province of Afghanistan on Friday.
Informed sources within Hezb-e-Islami have told RFE/RL that Mr. Hekmatyar arrived in Laghman on Wednesday and since then he is busy meeting with the party colleagues and leaders in this province.
The sources further added that a major gathering will be organized in Laghman where Hekmatyar is likely to appear before the media and the people.
In the meantime, preparations are also underway in capital Kabul for the return of Hekmatyar, months after he signed a peace agreement with the Afghan government.
The signing of the peace agreement in September last year paved the way for the removal of Hekmatyar’s name from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council Sanctions List which was done based on a request by the Afghan government.
On the other hand, efforts are underway for the implementation of the articles of peace agreement between Hezb-e-Islami and the Afghan government.
One of the main articles of the peace agreement is regarding the release of Hezb-e-Islami prisoners from the jail.
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[Libya Observer] An Egyptian official predicted that his country will likely dismiss the International Criminal Court's appeal of handing over al-Tuhami Mohamned Khaled, former head of Internal Security Service in Qadaffy’s regime.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to London-based The New Arab, clarified that despite Egypt’s signing of the statute of ICC, known as Rome convention, in 2000, the Egyptian government is not obliged to implement the court’s decision because the signing of the statute is yet to be ratified by the Egyptian House of Representatives.
He said that Egypt felt itself to be under no legal compulsion towards ICC, but only a moral obligation, which seems not to be in its interest at present.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant against al-Tuhami on Monday for repressing regime opponents in 2011.
Al-Tuhami, born in the Janzour area of Libya in 1942, is said to have at least ten different passports - under a number of names and identities - and remains on the lam.
After the fall of Qadaffy, he fled to Egypt along with other senior regime figures including Qadaffy’s son Mohammed, his cousin Ahmed Qaddaf-Addam and his ambassador to Cairo Ali Maria.
According to the latest information, he is now a member of a political group named "Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya" along with other leading figures from the old regime.
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So a snatch team, or a 'snuffer'.
Whats the holdup?
[Dhaka Tribune] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Pakistain has accused the country’s premier intelligence service of using a notorious captured Death Eater leader to give the impression the group is being funded by foreign spy agencies to orchestrate attacks, a Death Eaterfront man said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... two Pak intelligence officials said Thursday an overnight US dronezap killed seven gunnies in a tribal region near the Afghan border, the first such strike since 2014.
Mohammad Khurasani, front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, commented late Wednesday after the Mighty Pak Army released a video of Death Eater Ahsanullah Ahsan. In the video, the ex-front man of the group said he surrendered to authorities after seeing his leaders receiving help from Indian and Afghan intelligence services to orchestrate attacks in Pakistain.
Nafees Zakaria, front man for Pakistain’s foreign ministry, said Thursday that Ahsan had laid down arms and revealed the role of foreign spy agencies in attacks in Pakistain.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Khurasani said Pakistain’s Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... was using a "prisoner" for propaganda against the group. He refuted what he called ISI’s "childish" acts and "non-serious" claims of Ahsan.
Scores of attacks claimed by Ahsan in the past include the 2012 attack on teenage Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... , who was shot in in the head in Pakistain’s scenic valley of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... for her advocacy for women’s education.
Ahsan quit Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain in 2014 and joined the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group. He was a senior figure in that group before his surrender to authorities. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is behind dozens of attacks on civilians and Pakistain security agencies.
Mighty Pak Army officials have said that the head of the Pak Taliban, Mullah Fazalullah, has ordered scores of attacks, including the assault on Malala, and that he is hiding in Afghanistan.
Shahhussain Murtazawi, acting front man for Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. , said Afghanistan is in a war against terrorism and Kabul has never supported terrorism against others. Without naming Pakistain, he said Kabul expects other states not to allow their soil to be used to stage attacks against Afghanistan.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday placed a ban on the broadcast of interviews of terrorists, a notification shared on the regulatory authority's Twitter page stated.
Geo News was slated to air an interview with former Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equiovalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... on Thursday night at 11pm.
According to the notification, a terrorist cannot be allowed to use any channel's platform to give an interview as it would undermine the efforts of Pakistain Army soldiers who have fought against krazed killer elements and laid down their lives for the country.
It further said that airing an interview 'of a known krazed killer' would be 'heart-wrenching and deeply disturbing' for the colleagues, family, and friends who have lost their loved ones in acts of terrorism in the country.
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[Iraq News] According to a draft, if passed by the Iraqi parliament, all foreign gangs that are posing a potential threat to the security of the neighboring countries need to be banned.
Shakhawan Abdullah, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi parliament, told BasNews that a draft is expected to be discussed in the Iraqi parliament on Thursday, according to which "no groups or parties are allowed to operate within Iraq and use its soil against another country."
Referring to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah said the presence of the party in Sinjar will constitute major issues for Iraq, Kurdistan Region and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , noting that Turkey may continue its military operations on Sinjar.
He continued to say that PKK has turned Sinjar into another Qandil, referring to the party’s main headquarter located in Mount Qandil in northern Kurdistan Region, stating that PKK is using the area against Turkey.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, calls move ’a dangerous escalation, and a fit of insanity’ as enclave’s energy crisis spirals.
The Paleostinian Authority on Thursday informed Israel it would no longer pay for electricity that the Jewish state supplies to the Gazoo Strip, as a power crisis in the Hamas-run enclave deepened.
News of the PA refusal to sponsor electricity came in a statement by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
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Luckily puppies and fluffy bunnies really don't need a lot of electrical power to operate.
They could always turn off the lights in their tunnels. That would save a few Shekels.
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They are warning Israel against the move? What kind of ass backward warning is that? Sounds like they have a problem with the PA. Maybe they should just fight it out between themselves.
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if you took the tunnel moles out and put em on treadmills instead...just saying
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[DAWN] Female Islamic holy mans in Indonesia declared a series of fatwas Thursday, including one to tackle child marriage, a rare example of women taking a leading religious role in the Moslem-majority country.
The fatwas were issued at the end of a three-day congress of female holy mans in the country with the world's biggest Moslem population.
The meeting in Cirebon on Java island, billed as the world's first major gathering of female Moslemholy mans, attracted hundreds of participants. Most were Indonesian but there were also holy mans from Pakistain, India and 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... They issued a series of fatwas at the end of the gathering, the most eye-catching of which was aimed at tackling child marriage. It urged the government to raise the minimum legal age for women to marry to 18 from the current age of 16.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... childrens' agency UNICEF defines child marriage as a formal marriage or informal union before age 18, and says women are most affected.
The problem is widespread in Indonesia, with one in four women marrying before 18, according to the agency.
Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, who attended the meeting, suggested authorities would examine the proposal: "I will take this recommendation to the government."
He also praised the gathering: "This congress succeeded in fighting for justice in the relationship between men and women."
Among the other fatwas issued was one against women being sexually abused; and one against environmental destruction, in a country that struggles every year with huge fires that are started illegally and devastate vast swathes of rainforest.
While the Ulema Council has issued rulings on environmental protection in the past, it tends to focus on religious topics such as edicts against blasphemy. It has rarely dealt with any issues affecting women.
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[IsraelTimes] In first official contact since Trump took office, officials press Tehran to free Robert Levinson, Siamak Namazi and Baquer Namazi.
The Trump administration said American diplomats used a meeting with Iranian counterparts to press for the release of Americans detained in Iran.
It’s the first public acknowledgment of direct US-Iranian discussions since President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... took office.
State Department front man Mark Toner said the US was pushing for the return of Robert Levinson, a Jewish former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 and whom Iran has said it will help locate.
"Iran committed to cooperating with the United States in bringing Bob home and we call on Iran to fulfill this commitment," he said in a statement. "The United States remains unwavering in its efforts to return Bob to his family."
He also cited the detentions of Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi and his 81-year-old father, Baquer Namazi.
The two were convicted in October 2016 of "cooperating with the hostile American government" and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
"The United States is deeply concerned about reports of their declining health and well-being in detention," Toner said. "The United States urges Iran to immediately release Siamak and Baquer on humanitarian grounds."
Toner said the talks occurred on the sidelines of a meeting in Vienna this week focusing on implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
According to the FBI, Levinson, 69, is the "longest-held hostage in American history."
Last month, his family pushed for a meeting with Trump over efforts to help locate him. At a campaign rally in 2015, Trump vowed to bring back Levinson. He also criticized the B.O. regime for not linking the Iranian nuclear deal to Levinson’s return.
Iran claims to not know the whereabouts of Levinson.
Levinson disappeared during a trip to Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007. A 2013 News Agency that Dare Not be Named investigation found he was working for the CIA on an unauthorized intelligence-gathering mission to find information about Iran’s nuclear program. US officials have said they are no longer certain he remains in the country.
The 2013 AP investigation showed that in a breach of the most basic CIA rules, a team of analysts -- with no authority to run spy operations -- paid Levinson to gather intelligence from hotspots around the world, including the Middle East and Latin America.
The official story when Levinson disappeared was that he was in Iran on private business, either to investigate cigarette smuggling or to work on a book about Russian organized crime. It has a presence on Kish, a tourist island.
In fact, he was meeting a source, an American runaway, Dawud Salahuddin. He is wanted for killing a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland in 1980. In interviews, Salahuddin has admitted killing the diplomat.
The CIA paid Levinson’s family $2.5 million to preempt a revealing lawsuit, and the agency rewrote its rules restricting how analysts can work with outsiders. Three analysts who had been working with Levinson lost their jobs.
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Iran claims to not know the whereabouts of Levinson.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...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. ..
[DAWN] The Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday placed a ban on the broadcast of interviews of terrorists, a notification shared on the regulatory authority's Twitter page stated.
