Once again President Trump is doing normal presidential stuff. Watch the Left and NeverTrumpers be shocked when he again does not start a world war or worse.
[AlAhram] A series of military victories over myrmidon Islamic groups along Libya's Mediterranean coastline has forced hundreds of myrmidons, including 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.... fighters, to seek refuge in the vast deserts of the North African nation.
The desert is already home to militias from neighboring countries, cross-border criminal gangs and mercenaries.
Libya's lawless, desolate center and south provides a sanctuary for gunnies to reorganize, recruit, train and potentially plot for a comeback. That is especially important at a time when the Islamic State group lost not only its urban holdings in Libya but is crumbling in Iraq and Syria.
In Libya's remote stretches near the borders with Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Algeria, Niger and Tunisia, multiple gangs already operate freely.
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Jeddah- The local administration of the legitimate government in Yemen has monitored the involvement of the Houthi rebels in selling free medicines provided by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for cholera patients in the areas under their control, mainly in Sana’a.
It called on all international organizations concerned with monitoring the humanitarian situation in Yemen to work on monitoring the performance of the Houthi rebels and to ensure that they do not trade with the conditions of people living in areas under their control.
Yemen’s Minister of Local Administration Abdel-Raqib Fath strongly condemned the trading in the medicines of the cholera epidemic, selling them in the black market in Hodeidah, Hajja, Ibb and Dhamar provinces and depriving patients from obtaining them.
The Yemeni Minister called on the Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs (ECHA) in the World Health Organization, the UNICEF and other international agencies to monitor the performance of armed Houthi militias in areas under their control and their acts of selling free-of-charge treatments to cholera patients.
Fath, who is also the head of the Higher Relief Committee, said that the liberated areas have been under strict supervision through a certain mechanism followed by the Ministry of Health and its offices at the levels of the governorates and districts in order to ensure the delivery of the free cholera drugs to infected patients.
Fath called on international organizations to work on following up on the sale of free medicines, issue clear statements condemning the violation of the rights of patients by militias, and denounce the involvement in the sale of medicines provided for free.
He confirmed that these drugs were sent by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud along with some other countries that donated them for the Yemeni people.
These treatments are for free, any practices outside this framework should be condemned and international organizations should confront them and condemn anyone who commits this inhumane act, Fath stressed.
[All Africa] No fewer than 66 former Niger Delta snuffies have been offered scholarships to study sports management fundamentals at the Johan Cruyff Institute in Barcelona.
The Chief Executive Officer, To-be Connected Nigeria, Alhaji Faruk Yabo, dropped the hint in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State during a media chat held by Sia-One Sports Academy.
He said, beneficiaries would combine their studies with training sessions, while in camps as well as have three hours lectures daily adding that, participants would also be awarded certificates after the four months programme.
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WTF? How long before they disappear?
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Foreign funding provides "significant" income for some Islamist extremist groups in Britain, the Government has admitted, but it has refused to name those responsible.
The Opposition accused the Government of suppressing a report into the scale and origin of extremist funding because it is widely suspected to implicate Saudi Arabia. Saudis are, IMO, 1000 more dangerous than Iran
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Funny that the UK gov't seems to have a problem with this particular revenue stream when they give out welfare cash of every stripe to (suspected) terrorists and their families.
[IsraelTimes] Ali Avci’s movie about a military coup that shows the president at gunpoint is released a year after failed overthrow attempt.
Ottoman Turkish police on Thursday detained a prominent film director who has made a controversial movie showing President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... under gunpoint in a bloody coup d’etat, state media reported on Thursday.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said Ali Avci was detained on suspicion of links to the group blamed by Ankara for the -- real life -- failed coup that sought to oust Erdogan last year.
Avci’s new film "Uyanis" (Awakening) is not in theaters yet but its trailer has already stirred up controversy on the first anniversary of the July 15 attempted putsch Ankara says was criminal masterminded by US-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Police also detained another man, identified as Fetullah Karabiber, who was found in Avci’s house and was already wanted by authorities, it said.
Uyanis’s trailer features the killing of Erdogan’s family -- including his wife Emine and his son Bilal -- in their house in the Kisikli district of Istanbul while Erdogan is shown under gunpoint.
Avci was also a producer of the film "Reis" (the Chief), a biopic about Erdogan’s early political life, which hit screens ahead of a key April referendum to boost Erdogan’s powers. It was the first ever feature film about Erdogan and received immense media attention at home and abroad ahead of its release. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... it garnered dreadful reviews and made only paltry box office takings. Ottoman Turkish media reported that Erdogan did not watch that film.
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Arresting filmmakers.... It's not just Obama
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[AA.TR] Court documents filed in Canada on Thursday show that Omar Baby Face Khadr is fighting to have his assets remain under his control.
The Canadian-born Khadr recently collected CAN$10.5 million from the Canadian government for wrongful imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay.
Khadr’s court filing is in response to one filed earlier in the week by the widow of Sgt. Chris Speer and injured soldier Sgt. Layne Morris, who want Khadr’s assets frozen as they try to collect the $10.5 million.
An American court earlier awarded Tabitha Speer and Morris US$134 million in a wrongful death and injury suit against Khadr.
Khadr was 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade in Afghanistan that killed Sgt. Speer and blinded Morris in one eye.
Speer and Morris filed an injunction in a Canadian court last month in a bid to freeze Khadr’s assets so they could not be frittered away or hidden.
Khadr’s lawyer, Nate Whitling, said in the court filing there is "scant evidence" Khadr would hide or spend the money.
"The scant evidence offered in support of this pleading consists of double and triple hearsay statements drawn from the media and Wikipedia," Whitling wrote in the filing, Canadian media reported. "The hearsay now relied upon by the applicants is so vague and unreliable as to be of zero probative (evidential) value."
The Speer-Morris filing also requests that Khadr be made to provide an accounting of his assets. Khadr has not talked about the money because of a confidentiality requirement invoked in a clause in the settlement agreement with the Canadian government.
Speer and Morris also argued in the injunction that Khadr might give money to members of his family "who appear to be unrepentant supporters of violent holy warriors."
Whitling rejected that claim in his filing.
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Get the $10.5M from Khadr, and after designating the Canadian Court and government as a terrorist financier - seize the remaining $123.5M from Canadian assets in the US and complete the award.
[Iran Press TV] Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has for the first time explicitly rejected a report from a corruption investigation that raised questions about the source of his family's wealth.
Sharif in a statement after meeting his cabinet in the Pak capital Islamabad on Thursday described the probe as "slander."
"The JIT report about our family businesses are the sum of hypotheses, accusations and slander," the statement read, adding, "Accusations amounting to billions are being made here but no wrongdoing has been proven."
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), set up by the Supreme Court to investigate corruption claims that surfaced following the Panama Papers leak, spent two months probing the Sharif family’s wealth and gave its finding to the court on Monday.
The JIT team comprised members of civilian and powerful military bodies, including the 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... agency (ISI).
The court will now decide how to proceed with the report and whether to call for a trial. There were also calls for Sharif to be disqualified.
The 254-page report alleges Sharif’s businesses alone are not enough to explain the family’s wealth, which includes flats in an upscale London borough.
Sharif has always denied any wrongdoing over his family allegedly using offshore companies to buy luxury flats in a posh London neighborhood, and said his family wealth was acquired legally.
Sharif, 67, has been defiant in his condemnation of the report that alleges his family's income from business was not large enough to explain its wealth.
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After the war is hell, too, though with considerably less shooting.
[AnNahar] Near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's war-ravaged historic heart, Maher al-Nejmawi watches a worker repainting his long-abandoned stall. Residents of Iraq's second city are trying to put their lives back together after months of fighting.
"Here, a boom-mobilewent kaboom!. Over there, a rocket hit the building," says Nejmawi, a 29-year-old car battery and tyre salesman dressed in a brown robe.
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[Iran Press TV] The front man for pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, commonly by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the volunteer fighters will join army soldiers in counter-terrorism operations to liberate the last remaining areas in Iraq still controlled by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorists.
Ahmed al-Assadi stated on Thursday that his fellow fighters "will be a main partner in liberating Hawijah and all other krazed killer-controlled regions."
The town of Hawijah, located 45 kilometers west of the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... has been under the control of ISISmurderous Moslems since June 2014, when the turbans’ leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... declared his self-styled "caliphate."
Assadi’s remarks came only three days after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory over ISISbandidosholy warriors in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which served as the terrorists’ main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.
In the run-up to Mosul liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units had made sweeping gains against ISIS since launching the Mosul operation on October 17, 2016.
The Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January after 100 days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19.
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[IsraelTimes] Gazoo’s power distribution company says supplies to the territory’s 2 million residents have dropped to unprecedented lows, with blackouts lasting for more than 24 hours.
While the Paleostinian enclave needs at least 400 megawatts of power a day, only 70 are available since Gazoo’s power plant shut down late Wednesday.
Diesel fuel from neighboring Egypt had kept the station running at half capacity since June 21, but deliveries were interrupted after a deadly attack on Egyptian soldiers last week near the border.
Israel, the main provider of power to Gazoo, has cut shipments at the request of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . The Paleostinian leader is trying to put pressure on Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers.
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I think that the article meant 400 megawatt-hours per day. Units in the article were wrong. That translates to an average load of 16.7 megawatts. That seems more reasonable.
But the point still stands. Don't pay for electricity, no electricity for yuuuuu!!!!
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400 MW output per hour would be require a pretty significant mid-sized power station, or 280 fairly large wing turbines taking roughly 23 acres each. As the strip is just over 90,000 acres, they could put up 3,900 wind turbines and solve the middle east's energy crisis.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
The reality of the existing Gaza power station in this article can be found here.
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[Ynet] One of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",'s religious leaders on the Temple Mount was indicted Thursday for holding a position in a terror organization.
According to the indictment, Nehad Zaier, 39, from east Jerusalem, ran a Whatsapp group as part of his job to document visits of Jewish civilians and MKs to the Temple Mount.
Using this group, he distributed videos documenting festivities between Moslem worshipers and Israeli security forces at the holy site, as well as send out updates on the arrest of Hamas members.
[IsraelTimes] New desalination project is part of wider plan to run water through pipeline from Red Sea down to Dead Sea; US envoy Greenblatt hopes it’s a ’harbinger of things to come’
Israel and the Paleostinian Authority on Thursday announced an agreement that will provide millions of cubic meters of drinking water to the Paleostinians from a desalination process.
While the Paleostinians made plain that the deal, brokered by US President Donald Trump
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[IsraelTimes] Sources say Ramallah government quietly suspended payments to families of 277 prisoners and ex-prisoners at the beginning of June
International pressure on the Paleostinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Paleostinians held in Israeli jails, including those convicted of deadly terror attacks, could trigger a political crisis, rights groups say.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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[Ynet] Report in Foreign Policy magazine claims agreement contains clauses to allay Israeli and Jordanian concerns of Iranian-backed forces, including Hezbollah, approaching their joint northern border.
The recent ceasefire agreement for southwestern Syria signed by the US and Russia which came into effect on Sunday also forbids foreign militias supported by Iran from operating in strategic areas in Syria adjacent to the Israeli border with Jordan, according to a report in the Foreign Policy magazine.
The agreement addresses, the report claims, Israeli and Jordanian demands that the Hezbollah terrorist organization and Iranian proxies and pro-Iranian militias be forbidden from approaching the border on the Golan Heights.
Former American diplomats however believe that enforcing such a restriction would carry extreme difficulties.
"The question is, who is going to enforce that? Is Russia going to take on the responsibility for telling Iran what to do?" Gerald Feierstein, a former US diplomat said to the Foreign Policy magazine. "Iranians are much closer to Assad’s position on the way forward in Syria than the Russians are."
Others however, are slightly more optimistic of the plan’s success. Andrew Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, for example, pointed to southwestern Syria’s relative calm--and the White House's influence among US-trained factions fighting Assad’s regime--as proof that it was a natural ground for US and Russian cooperation.
"I think it’s worth a try," Tabler told the magazine. "If we’re going to test something, this is a good place to test it."
Fred Hof, a former State Department special advisor, says stipulations in the agreement were inserted purely to allay Israeli concerns. These included, for example, demands to ensure that southern Syria would be off limits for fighters of ’non-Syrian origin,’ which would include Iranian troops and their proxies, along with forces linked with ISIS and other terror groups.
"This could be designed mainly to reassure the Israelis that these elements would not be operating in proximity to the Golan Heights," said Hof.
[AnNahar] Damascus has not informed Lebanese authorities in advance of any of its recent Arclight airstrikes on Arsal's outskirts and the Lebanese army is not coordinating with the Syrian army in this regard, according to high-ranking security sources.
"The military command in Leb is unenthusiastic and unwilling to launch an operation in the outskirts amid the current circumstances, although it hopes it will be able to put an end to the presence of bully boyz and holy warriors in the border region as soon as possible through its preemptive operations that were intensified recently and through the continuous artillery shelling of their gatherings," the sources told Asharq al-Awsat daily in remarks published Thursday.
As for the ultimatum that Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has issued for the myrmidon groups in the area, the sources noted that "the Army Command will be obliged to follow up on any battle launched by Hizbullah through preventing the escape of bandidossnuffies to the town of Arsal or to other areas inside Leb."
The army will also have to "prevent the exit of any bully boyz from the encampments that are spread across the town," the sources added.
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[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander has dismissed the Pentagon chief's call for regime change in the Islamic Theocratic Republic as a "ridiculous dream", saying Iran would respond to US officials' nonsensical talks.
James Mattis on Monday described Iran "the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East", saying a regime change would be necessary before the US and Iran could have substantially positive relations.
On Thursday, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said the Islamic Theocratic Republic was not perturbed by the remarks.
"The ridiculous dreams of the Americans about the overthrow of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran is nothing more than disturbed delusions and we are not worried that they have preoccupied themselves in such a way," he said.
"We will respond to the nonsensical talks of the American authorities in the theaters of action," Jazayeri added without elaboration.
Addressing a high school journalism student in Mercer Island, a Seattle suburb, Mattis claimed that Iran was not really a democratic country and acted more like a "revolutionary movement" than a functional state.
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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.
Jeddah- The local administration of the legitimate government in Yemen has monitored the involvement of the Houthi rebels in selling free medicines provided by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for cholera patients in the areas under their control, mainly in Sana’a.
[IsraelTimes] Ali Avci’s movie about a military coup that shows the president at gunpoint is released a year after failed overthrow attempt.
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[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander has dismissed the Pentagon chief's call for regime change in the 
