[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan rejected reports regarding the contacts between the national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders based in Pakistain and 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... A statement by the Office of the National Security Adviser said the reports are baseless suggesting that contacts have been made with the Taliban leaders.
The statement further added that the Afghanistan High Peace Council is the main institution tasked with the affairs of holding talks with the anti-government armed bad boy groups.
The statement also added that the National Security Council supports peace talks under the leadership of 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. .. and the Afghanistan High Peace Council.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... strongly reacted at the recent civilian deaths in the hands of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS gunnies as well as the alleged US Arclight airstrike.
The Office of the former President in a statement said Tuesday that once again the ordinary civilians including children bit the dust or were maimed in US Arclight airstrike in Bakhtabad area of Shindand district on Monday.
The statement further added that some ordinary non-combatants were killed in a similar Arclight airstrike in Chahardara district of northern Kunduz province.
Two days ago in Kabul’s Imam Zaman mosque inflicted casualties to the civilians including women and kiddies, Karzai said, adding that on Tuesday a suicide kaboom once again inflicted casualties to the civilians in Kabul.
Karzai further added that the civilians are one day killed in the cities from the address of ISIS and Taliban while the other day they are killed in the villages under the pretext of the fight against Taliban and ISIS and the killing of the Afghans continue.
According to Karzai, the latest killings of the civilians prove that the Afghans are being killed by the foreigners and a foreign cause.
He insisted that the Afghans must remain vigilant against such conspiracies and only unity and vigilance among the people can thwart the conspiracies and lead to peace and stability in the country.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Grand Mufti, al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... , has urged Libyans to take to the streets, call for their rights, and demand end of Derna’s siege.
The Mufti said Wednesday in a statement addressing Derna residents that people should not be silent on the siege, warning that any form of oppression will return to them if they remained silent.
"Siege on Derna is wrong and Libyans shall not remain silent." The Mufti stressed in his statament.
The Libyan Fatwa House has called the siege of Haftar's forces on Derna an atrocious attack on the civlians when the siege was tightened at the begenning of this month.
Omar al-Mukhtar military operations room of Dignity Operation has been besieging Derna for months disallowing cash, cooking gas, fuel, medicines and other basic needs from entering the city except for scarce exceptions.
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[Ynet] Britannia's foreign secretary and aid chief have pledged more than $250 million in humanitarian support for northeastern Nigeria to help build stability after destruction by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's Lion of Islam insurgency. The emergency relief package builds on $128 million given in humanitarian support in 2017.
Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people and left millions displaced in Nigeria and neighboring countries.
Britannia says more than 1.5 million people in Nigeria are on the brink of famine. The new aid is meant to restore key infrastructure and services, improve health care and education and help farmers.
Mohiussunnath Choudhury, 26, has been charged with a terror offence by police
He is accused of having attacked police outside Buckingham Palace last Friday
But according to a new report, he had actually intended to go to Windsor Castle
His satnav, however, took him to The Windsor Castle pub, then he went to London
A court was told today he left a note to his sister telling her to 'be strong'
Choudhury, from Luton, Bedfordshire, was remanded in custody by magistrates
Yesterday, Chowdhury appeared before a district judge at Westminster magistrates' court in London. The British-born suspect, who is of Bangladeshi heritage, is accused of one charge of preparing terrorist acts, which carries a maximum life sentence.
Mark Carol, prosecuting, said a note to Chowdhury's sister Sneha, 23, was found by detectives. It read: 'To my dearest sister, By the time you read this Insha'Allah [God willing] I will be with Allah.
'Do not cry and be strong. The Shaheed [witness or martyr] will take 70 members of his family with him to paradise. I will take you there Insha'Allah.
'Tell everyone I love them and that they should struggle against the enemies of Allah ...The Queen and her soldiers will all be in the hellfire, they go to war with Moslems around the world and kill them without any mercy.'
Sudden Jihad Syndrome, then.
Chowdhury, flanked by two plainclothes officers in the reinforced glass dock, nodded as the note was read out. He spoke in soft, well-spoken English to confirm his personal details.
No members of the Royal Family were at Buckingham Palace when Chowdhury was jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on Friday evening last week. The Queen was at Balmoral.
Police seized mobile phones and a laptop from the £230,000 home Chowdhury shares with his parents and sister in a Luton suburb. They arrested a second man, aged 30, in west London, who was released without charge.
According to one online profile, Chowdhury's sister is a graduate and a recruitment consultant.
The family's former neighbours in Uxbridge, west London, said both siblings went to Church of England primary schools.
Chowdhury was remanded in jug and ordered to appear at the Old Bailey on September 21.
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No members of the Royal Family were at Buckingham Palace when Chowdhury was jugged
They were all at Windsor Castle Pub hoisting a few. Except Charles
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Off the pile from yesterday(?), oddly enough...
A health to Her Majesty's Pakis,
So handsome and helpful in khakis!
"We hold them in dread
But no ill shall be said
Of our favourite Labourite lackeys."
Goes without saying, I hope, that I've never used ye perilous slur in anger, and never would, notwithstanding it's not even a slur.
[Al Ahram] Spain received a warning in May that 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 was planning an attack in Barcelona but decided it lacked credibility, Catalan regional authorities said Thursday.
But they denied news reports that US security agencies were behind the warning of an attack targeting the city, where the jihadists claimed a deadly van rampage two weeks ago.
The daily El Periodico de Cataluna reported that the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had alerted Spanish intelligence officers to the threat weeks before a man ploughed his van into crowds of tourists along Barcelona's Las Ramblas boulevard on August 17, killing 14 people.
"Unsubstantiated information of unknown veracity from late May 2017 indicated that the Islamic State of Irak and ash-Sham (ISIS) was planning to conducted unspecified terrorist attacks during the summer against crowded tourist sites in Barcelona, Spain, specifically La Rambla street," according to what the paper claims was an NCTC briefing note dated May 25.
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So, the Catalan authorities operate at the same level as our FBI. Congrats there boys.
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The daily El Periodico de Cataluna reported that the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had alerted Spanish intelligence officers to the threat weeks before a man ploughed his van into crowds of tourists
Ah, the NCTC. Part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. And Clapper is gone. It wasn't a warning from real Klingons, you see.
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Strange, nothing from the embassy. Perhaps there was a meeting or something. One would think SOMEONE would have been down on the Las Ramblas, ....or no ?
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No one from the embassy likes to go to Las Ramblas. It's full of tourists. And because the Spanish, more specifically the Catalans, and especially the Barcelonans, don't like tourists.
One should always be sensitive to one's hosts, you know.
[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday rubbished United States (US) Gen John Nicholson's "unacceptable" claim that Washington is aware of the Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leadership's presence in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta, saying that terrorist safe havens are present in Afghanistan, not Pakistain.
FO Spokesman Nafees Zakaria told a weekly press briefing in Islamabad that there had been no high-level contact between Pakistain and the US following 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... 's Aug 21 diatribe, in which he lambasted Islamabad for providing safe haven to terrorists.
He announced that a conference of ambassadors would be held between Sept 5-7 in order to discuss foreign policy challenges facing the region and the world.
Zakaria reiterated Pakistain's commitment to an Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor and asserted that Afghanistan's war could not be brought into Pakistain.
He said that a decision had been made regarding Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif's three-nation regional tour in light of the US policy based on sessions in the Upper and Lower Houses, and a National Security Committee meeting.
The FO front man also termed former ambassador to India Abdul Basit's letter to former foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhry unfortunate, saying that the need of the hour was a focus on other important issues facing the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Nikki Haley says Yahya Sinwar's statement that Tehran is 'biggest supporter' of terror group is 'stunning admission'
Gotcha!
The United States on Thursday described remarks by a Paleostinian Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leader boasting of strong military ties with Iran as a "stunning admission" that showed Tehran was violating a UN ban on arms exports.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who heads the Paleostinian Islamist terrorist movement in Gazoo, told news hounds on Monday that Iran was the "biggest supporter" of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Iran is barred from exporting weapons under a key UN resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
"The Iranian military support to Hamas and al-Qassam is strategic," said Sinwar, adding that ties with Iran had "become fantastic and returned to its former era."
In a statement, the US mission to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... recalled that Iran is barred from exporting weapons under a key UN resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
"Once again, Iran is showing its true colors," said US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
Iran must abide by UN resolutions or decide "whether it wants to be the leader of a jihadist terrorist movement," she added. "It’s long past time for the international community to hold Iran to the same standard that all countries who actually value peace and security are held to."
A strong supporter of Israel, Haley has repeatedly criticized Iran at the United Nations and cast doubt over its commitment to the nuclear deal.
The United States considers Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel since 2008, a terrorist organization.
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[Free Beacon] Decades of U.S. diplomacy with Iran, including the Obama administration's landmark nuclear accord, may leave Israeli military action as the only option to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
"I don't make any disguise of the idea that ultimately it may take an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear program to stop it," Bolton told the Washington Free Beacon. "I wish we weren't at that point, but this is what 25 years of negotiations with Iran gets you."
Bolton, a critic of the nuclear agreement implemented two years ago, first pushed the idea in 2009 after Iran's hardline mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps quashed a pro-democracy opposition movement that erupted in response to nationwide accusations that the presidential election was rigged.
In a Washington Post op-ed, Bolton wrote at the time that given the narrowed window for regime change, a targeted Israeli strike was the only time-sensitive option to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Bolton has since relaxed calls for a preemptive strike and now says the highest priority must be the abolition of the nuclear accord, which limited Tehran's ability to produce nuclear material in exchange for sanctions relief. Still, Bolton said an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear facilities may be an inevitable deterrent option.
In a draft policy proposal for exiting the accord published in National Review Monday night, Bolton said President Donald Trump's national security team needs to discuss military options with Israel and "selected others" regarding Iran's "menacing behavior."
Bolton, once considered for secretary of state and national security adviser during the presidential transition, said he was asked last month by Trump's now-ousted strategist, Steve Bannon, to draft a policy proposal on how the United States could withdraw from the nuclear accord.
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Only option when considering who has the 'will' driven by the 'threat'.
[IsraelTimes] Agreement with Russians on policing south Syrian truce said to anger Israel, other allies
US officials have agreed to let Iranian-backed militias take up positions in Syria less than ten kilometers from the Israeli Golan Heights, the Arabic daily Asharq Al Awsat reported Thursday.
The report appeared to back up Russian media claims that Moscow has ignored pleas from Israel to prevent Iran from exploiting Syria’s ongoing civil war to expand its military influence into Syrian territory.
Citing unnamed Western diplomatic sources, the report said a US team that was holding talks with their Russian counterparts in Amman, Jordan, to discuss the nationality of observer forces overseeing a July truce, backed down on some of their initial demands.
The report said the US agreed that Iranian-backed militias could be positioned as close as 8-16 kilometers (five to ten miles) from the Jordanian border and the Golan Heights, less than half the originally sought 32 kilometers (20 miles) distance.
In July, the Times of London reported that Israel was pushing Russia and the US for an agreement that would prevent "Hezbollah or other Iranian-backed militias" from operating in the area, which would extend some 30 miles (48 kilometers) beyond the Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that acts as a proxy of Iran, has been fighting on behalf of the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... in his efforts to suppress a six-year long insurgency. Russia, an ally of both Syria and Iran, has also provided military assistance in the war.
The US negotiators also agreed to let Russian observers police the truce zones, angering other US officials and allies of America. In particular, Israeli officials are concerned that the Russian presence could limit its operations against targets in Syria, the report said.
In recent years there have been several Arclight airstrikes inside Syria, attributed to the Israel, that targeted alleged shipments of advanced weapons and rockets for Hezbollah. Israel has vowed to prevent the Shiite organization, which holds positions along Israel’s northern border with Leb, from obtaining game-changing weaponry.
Last week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladmir Putin in Sochi and entreated him to curb Iranian military expansion in Syria.
On Friday Pravda reported that while Putin told Netanyahu at their talks that "Israel is also an important partner for Russia in the region," he stressed that "Iran is Russia’s strategic ally in the Middle East" and declined to abandon Russia’s alliance with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The Pravda report, citing unnamed sources present at the start of the meeting, said Netanyahu was "was too emotional and at times even close to panic" as he warned Putin against the threat Iran poses to Israel and regional stability. Israeli officials, among them Environment Minister Ze’ev Elkin who had accompanied Netanyahu on the trip to Russia, dismissed the report as untrue.
Speaking to Israeli journalists in a conference call after the meeting, Netanyahu said he told Putin that Israel would take action if its "red lines" were crossed.
US, Jordanian, and Russian officials are also planning to meet in the coming days to discuss re-opening a border crossing from Jordan to Syria. While US and Jordanian officials would rather wait until forces have gained a firmer control on the region, Russian officials want to move ahead with opening the crossing, the Ashraq Al Awsat report said.
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.
...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. ..
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
[Free Beacon] Decades of U.S. diplomacy with Iran, including the Obama administration's landmark nuclear accord, may leave Israeli military action as the only option to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
