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Afghanistan
Afghan president reaches out in peace to Pakistan
[DAWN] Afghanistan’s President 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. ..
in his Eidul Azha message has reached out to Pakistain offering "comprehensive negotiations" to bring peace to their troubled relationship.

Like most Moslem countries, Afghanistan is celebrating Eid on Friday while in Pakistain it will be celebrated on Saturday.

"Peace with Pakistain is our national agenda," said Ghani while also urging forces of Evil to lay down their weapons.

Afghanistan routinely accuses Pakistain of harbouring Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
myrmidons, while Islamabad says its enemies have found sanctuaries in Afghanistan.

The two countries also squabble relentlessly over the border that separates the two. Known as the Durand Line, Afghanistan refuses to accept it as the international border.

Firefights between the armies have broken out as Pakistain seeks to fence it.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Europe
Hungarian President Orban Sends The EU A Bill For Their Border Fence
[Hot Air] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been something of a thorn in the side of the EU for quite a while now when it comes to the refugee crisis and questions over terrorism and illegal immigration. While most of the rest of the union has been bending over backwards to keep pace with Angela Merkel’s plans for unlimited immigration and open borders, Hungary has taken a hard line in keeping the illegal migrants out. This has led the EU to recently consider imposing penalties on Hungary for their failure to get with the program.

Orban came up with an even better response of his own. He just sent the European Union a bill for $476 million to cover half the cost of the razor wire fence he put up to keep the flow of immigrants out. (Daily Caller)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/02/2017 02:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Finnish police release one more held over Aug 18 knife attack
[Ynet] Finnish police on Friday released another of the men suspected of involvement in fatal stabbings in the city of Turku on Aug. 18, leaving just one suspect in jug.

Officers jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
seven people after the attack and have now released six of them without charge.

Two women died and eight people were maimed in the mid-August knife attack, which police are investigating as Finland's first terrorism-related assault.

The main suspect, who is in pre-trial detention pending an investigation, has been named as Abderrahman Bouanane, a 22-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker.
This would be the gentleman who previously identified himself to the Finnish authorities as Abderrahman Mechkah, age 18. He arrived in Germany in 2015, where he was picked up in a number of cities for illegal entry and criminal assault, and gave a number of aliases before moving on to apply for asylum in Finland in 2016. He went on a knifing rampage when it became clear Finland would not grant him asylum, though he seems to think this is not terrorism. The police stopped him by shooting him in the fleshy part of his upper thigh, or thereabouts.
He told a court last week he was responsible for the attack but denied his motive was terrorism.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  In a lot of places, this sort of thing is, like, a crime or something.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/02/2017 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "Denied, ex post facto, admittance,
Frustrated from forceful forbiddance
By cool kafir kittens
With magical mittens,
Who wouldn't get stabby?" Good riddance.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/02/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Two More Germans Arrested in Turkey 'for Political Reasons'
[AnNahar] Two more German citizens have been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
"for political reasons", Berlin said Friday, bringing the total number of German political prisoners in Ottoman Turkish custody to 12 amid badly frayed ties between the countries.

"On August 31, two German nationals were detained in Turkey for political reasons," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr said, adding that the ministry was trying to provide consular assistance.

The consulate in the western city of Izmir was first informed of the arrests. Confirmation then came not from the Ottoman Turkish government but from Antalya airport police, Adebahr said.

She declined to give further details about the case, saying only that German authorities had so far not been allowed access to the pair.

"Our demands to Turkey are very clear," said Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
's front man Steffen Seibert. "We expect Turkey to release the German nationals who were arrested on unjustifiable grounds."

Of the 55 Germans currently detained in Turkey, 12 of them -- including four with dual German-Ottoman Turkish citizenship -- are being held for political reasons, the foreign ministry said.

Relations between the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
allies have plunged after Berlin sharply criticized Ankara over the crackdown that followed last year's failed coup.

Among those arrested is Ottoman Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, the Istanbul correspondent of the Die Welt daily, who has now spent 200 days in Ottoman Turkish custody ahead of trial on terror charges.

German journalist Mesale Tolu has been held on similar charges since May, while human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activist Peter Steudtner was arrested in a July raid.

Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
for his part has charged Germany is sheltering plotters, Kurdish bully boyz and bandidos murderous Moslems and demanded their extradition.

Erdogan added to the tensions this month when he urged ethnic Turks in Germany to vote in September 24 elections against Merkel's conservatives and their coalition partners the Social Democrats.

The escalating tensions have split the Ottoman Turkish community in Europe's top economy, the largest diaspora abroad, which is a legacy of Germany's "guest worker" program of the 1960s and 70s.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey's Erdogan slams US indictments as 'scandalous'
[Al Ahram] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Friday denounced the indictments in the United States of 19 people, among them 15 Ottoman Turkish security officials, calling them "scandalous."

The 19 suspects have been accused of attacking peaceful demonstrators gathered outside the Ottoman Turkish ambassador's Washington home during a visit by Erdogan in May.

Videos show Erdogan supporters and security guards in suits and green uniforms hitting the protestors as police try to quash the violence. Some protestors are heard shouting "Baby killer Erdogan" and "Long live YPG," a Syrian Kurdish bad boy group that has become a sore spot in U.S.-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
relations.

Erdogan said his security detail was protecting him from members of the bad boy group after U.S. police failed to do so.

Turkey considers the YPG a terror organization and an extension of Kurdish forces of Evil waging a three-decade-long insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state, but the group is a key U.S. ally in Syria against 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.

The bodyguards "performed their duties against this attack," Erdogan said and accused the U.S. of protecting a terror group. Nine people were hurt in the attack.

Sixteen of the defendants were charged in June while a grand jury decision on Tuesday added three more suspects, among them the head of security, Muhsin Kose.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  If we have any nukes in that country, we need a serious purge of some senior military. The same types who said the loss of Subic and/or Clark would kill our security in the Pacific and dragged us for years in the mess called the Philippines.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/02/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto’s party remained ‘disinterested’ in murder trial
[DAWN] I think I may have commented on that a time or two.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Benazir's murder could have been prevented with appropriate security measures: ATC
...such as keeping the lady far from Pakistan. But they didn't, and so the inevitable occurred.
[DAWN] A Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court (ATC) which announced the verdict in the Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
murder case on Thursday stated that the liquidation of the former premier "could have been prevented if the Rawalpindi District Police had taken adequate security measures."

The ATC in its 46-page long order suggested Bhutto's murder was the result of an inadequate response to security threats.

It concluded that "Bhutto was killed in an attack as a result of firing, followed by a kaboom caused by an unknown jacket wallah on her way back from addressing a political gathering at Liaquat Bagh."

According to the court order, explosives were detonated near Bhutto's car, as she left the rally, by a 15-year-old boy. "No one believes that this boy acted alone," the order added.

"A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts first to protect Ms Bhutto and second to investigate with vigour all those responsible for her murder, not only in the execution of the attack, but also in its conception, planning and financing," it said.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Qadri returns from London: ‘Metro leaks’ to end politics of Shahbaz
[DAWN] The chief of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT), Tahirul Qadri
...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him...
, arrived here on Thursday morning from London, promising to continue his struggle for justice for those killed in Model Town during a police operation in June 2014.

Mr Qadri, who keeps popping in and out of the country, this time returned after a 10-day foreign tour and, according to party sources, will have a longer stay here "till Justice Baqar Najfi’s report is made public and cases regarding the Model Town tragedy are finalised."

Talking to the media at Lahore airport, he said he had returned to the country to celebrate Eidul Azha here, whereas deposed 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...
left Pakistain on the occasion.

The court has put provincial government on notice for Sept 12 to present its position on the Justice Najfi Report. "This gives us a hope for justice," he said.

The PAT chief said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had got a chance to restore its credibility in references against the Sharifs and it must.

He said under the NAB ordinance, the accountability courts were bound to give verdict within a month.

The Supreme Court had allowed them six months, which was sufficient time to proceed, he added.

"Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is the main cause of corruption in Pakistain. If he is not taken to task quickly, he can create instability in the country by colluding with foreign forces," Qadri alleged. Nawaz was not thrown out only because of UAE work permit (Iqama), but all references were those of corruption and it would soon be evident, Qadri maintained.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Senior police officers convicted in Benazir murder case given B-class cells in Adiala
[DAWN] The two senior coppers who were sentenced to 17 years in prison for negligence and security lapses that lead to the liquidation of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
in 2007 have been housed in B-class in Central Jail Adiala.

On the other hand, the five suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
(TTP) members who were accused of conspiring to kill the former prime minister were kept in ’high security’ prison cells. The suspected TTP members were acquitted by the anti-terrorism court (ATC) for lack of evidence and could not be released from Central Jail Adiala on Thursday.

They were detained for 30 more days in the jail on the request of the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).

The CTD district officer wrote to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi Talat Mehmood Gondal saying that the release of Sher Zaman, a resident of Wazoo, will be prejudicial to public safety and the maintenance of public order. The letter said Zaman may act in connivance with other members of the network to conduct terrorist activities in Rawalpindi and may therefore be a danger to public lives and property.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


JUI-F stages anti-Trump rallies
[DAWN] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution...
-Fazl on Friday organised protest rallies and meetings across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and tribal areas against US 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 diatribe against Pakistain over fight against terrorism.

In a statement issued here, the JUI-F provincial secretariat said rallies were taken out in all big cities, towns of the province and adjoining tribal areas.

The rallies passed resolutions declaring the US a ’big terrorist’.

The speakers condemned the remarks of President Trump against Pakistain and demanded the government review its foreign policy.

They said the US and its allies were responsible for chaos and anarchy in Afghanistan, Libya, Myanmar, Syria, Paleostine and other parts of the world.

The speakers said President Trump instead of admitting his defeat in Afghanistan had blamed Pakistain for the current crisis in its neighbouring state.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami


Iraq
UK to Send More Troops to Iraq to Bolster Anti-IS Fight
[AnNahar] Britannia will send a small contingent of expert troops to Iraq to help coalition forces drive out 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....
jihadists, Defense Minister Michael Fallon has said.

"We are stepping up our contribution to the fight against ISIS (IS) and fulfilling Britannia's role as a key player in the global coalition," Fallon said in a statement.

"These extra troops will help support operations to bring the defeat of ISIS a step closer."

The 44 Royal Engineers are to be deployed for six months at the al-Asad airbase in Anbar Province, in western Iraq, to build infrastructure including accommodation and offices.

This brings the number of British troops at the airbase to more than 300 and the total in Iraq to around 600.

The airbase also houses hundreds of U.S. advisers as well as Iraqi and Danish troops.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Nikki Haley: Hamas Boast of Iranian Support a ‘Stunning Admission'
[Breitbart Jerusalem] UNITED NATIONS -- The United States on Thursday described remarks by a Palestinian Hamas 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 Palestinian Islamist terrorist movement in Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Iran was the "biggest supporter" of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

"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 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.

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.

Hamas has run Gaza since 2007 and received Iranian financial and military support for years, but the movement had distanced itself from Iran over Tehran’s strong backing of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Sinwar, however, has sought to rebuild relations, sending a high-level delegation to meet Iranian officials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/02/2017 03:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  'Stunning admission' to some possibly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/02/2017 3:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Nikki Haley, Promote above Peers.
Posted by: newc || 09/02/2017 4:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Promote above Peers.

.... and select for positions of increased responsibility and leadership.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/02/2017 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Secretary of state and President.
Posted by: newc || 09/02/2017 14:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course, the UN will immediately issue a VERY STRONGLY WORDED memo of condemnation.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/02/2017 14:57 Comments || Top||

#6  'immediately' would mean sometime after lunch, or maybe in the next week or so (if they still feel compelled), Rambler.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/02/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN sees ISIS defeats in Syria by October, elections possible in a year
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS’s remaining Syrian strongholds are likely to fall by the end of October, which must be the trigger for the international community to push for free and fair elections, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday.

"What we are seeing is in my opinion the beginning of the end of this war... what we need to make sure is that this becomes also the beginning of peace. And that is where the challenge starts at this very moment," he said in a BBC radio interview.

Three places were still far from stabilized, de Mistura said: Raqqa, Deir al-Zor and Idlib.

"After Raqqa and Deir al-Zor, and that is a matter of a few months, there will be a moment of truth. If the international community will be helping both the opposition and the government by pushing the government to accept a real negotiation, then within a year it would be a possibility of having a truly credible election."

The city of Deir al-Zor has been under siege by ISIS Lions of Islam for years, forcing the UN to conduct an unprecedented and expensive high-altitude airdrop campaign to supply the population.

"The Syrian government and the Russians are very likely between now and the end of this month or perhaps early October, latest, to actually liberate it," de Mistura said.

The United States and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces "will probably liberate Raqqa by the end of October".

The third area, Idlib, is "full of al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
, which is al Qaeda," de Mistura said, referring to the Nusra Front, a one-time al Qaeda affiliate. It has been renamed and merged with other groups, but remains the only force in Syria’s war, apart from ISIS, that is designated by the UN as "terrorists".

The lesson from the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, taken over by ISIS a decade after the United States declared "mission accomplished" in the war in Iraq, was that Syria’s war needed to be followed by a fair UN-managed election, without neglecting minorities.

Syria’s war has largely pitted opposition forces against forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
who is backed by Shi’a allies, including Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah militias.

An unrepresentative peace deal would leave the door open to a resurgence of ISIS.

"Even those who believe they won the war - that is the government - they will need to make a gesture, otherwise ISIS will come back in a month or two months’ time."

Nobody had an interest in a resurgence of ISIS in Syria, de Mistura said. Assad’s allies in Moscow, recalling the Soviet experience of war in Afghanistan, "certainly want an exit strategy."

"We are getting close to some kind of understanding even among those who have been involved in the conflict that the priority is to close it. What we need to do is wrap it up in a way that is stabilized, not just close the conflict."

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  What makes them think there going to be elections? Russia is backing Assad for a reason.
Posted by: chris || 09/02/2017 16:49 Comments || Top||

#2  What makes them think there going to be elections? Russia is backing Assad for a reason.
Posted by: chris || 09/02/2017 16:49 Comments || Top||


Israel tells UNIFIL Lebanese officer working as Hezbollah mole
[Ynet] Two days after Israel-US push succeeds in expanding UN peacekeeping mission’s responsibilities in restraining Hezbollah’s military ambitions, IDF presents UNIFIL with intelligence demonstrating senior officer in the Lebanese army operating in south Leb is acting as an agent for the terror group; ’We expect UNIFIL to act against Hezbollah in light of this unambiguous information,’ says ambassador Danon.

Israel has informed the UN peacekeeping mission in south Leb that a senior officer in the Lebanese army, who presides over a command position near the country’s border with Israel, is using his position to advance interests of the Hezbollah terror group in the area.

According to the Israeli claims made to UNIFIL (United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Interim Force in Leb), Hezbollah deliberately planted Major Yahya Husseini in the Lebanese army as part of a broader effort to boost its influence within the military.

Husseini, the Israelis said, acts as Hezbollah’s "liaison officer" and is in continuous contact with the organization’s murderous Moslems. Moreover, UNIFIL was told that he receives instructions from the organization and consistently provides it with information.

It is the first time that a well-known source with the military’s ranks has been exposed as a Hezbollah agent.

The IDF transferred the information to UNIFIL while demanding Husseini’s immediate removal. In addition, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon raised the subject on Thursday during a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with US ambassador to the UN 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...
and with other international ambassadors whose country’s support the Lebanese army, including La Belle France, and urged their immediate intervention.

"Hezbollah is planning for the next military campaign against Israel and is using officers in the Lebanese army as terror operatives who help it against against the IDF along the border," Danon said.

"UNIFIL must immediately act in accordance with its new mandate and stop the infiltration of Hezbollah into the Lebanese army. We expect UNIFIL to act against Hezbollah in light of this unambiguous information."

Two days ago, the UN Security Council approved widening UNIFIL’s mandate in south Leb to include a range of additional responsibilities.

From now on, UNIFIL will be required to provide a greater volume of reports to the Security Council and intensify efforts to prevent violations of Resolution 1701.

According to the decision, which was pushed by the US and Israel, the peacekeeping mission’s presence will be augmented and will also conduct patrols of territory controlled by Hezbollah.

The Lebanese army enjoys large financial injections from numerous countries, including the US, La Belle France and other countries which also supply it with weaponry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Terror Networks
NY Times details Hezbollah's spread throughout Middle East
[Ynet] The New York Times publishes report describing how the Iranian-backed terror group, which it says has become an invaluable instrument in Tehran’s ambitions of regional domination, has stretched its influence far beyond the borders of Leb and Syria, into Iraq and Yemen; report documents modus operandi of recruiting new fighters.

Hezbollah has spread its military influence far and wide throughout the Middle East, with the terror organization providing thousands of fighters to Syria, training hundreds in Iraq, giving support to rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and even offering assistance to militias in Afghanistan, according to a Friday report in The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
The report details how Hezbollah has, over the years, become one of the most invaluable instruments in Iran’s arsenal as it pursues regional domination.

In Syria, Hezbollah and Tehran have dedicated their military resources to maintaining Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
grasp on power, while in Iraq they have sent fighters to battle ISIS in yet another bid to advance Iranian interests.

Skipping the vast stretches of 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...
to Iraq’s south, Hezbollah has also penetrated Yemen, where they facilitated an occupation of the capital by local rebels, thereby dragging Riyadh--Iran’s arch nemesis--into the hostilities.

The report also acknowledges Hezbollah’s stationing of military forces along the Israel-Leb border as it prepares for another showdown with the IDF.

Members of militias interviewed in Iraq explained the modus operandi of the recruitment process with Iranian support to fight against ISIS.

Some of the new recruits trained in Iraq, while some were sent for 15-day training periods in Iran itself before being flown to Syria. More experienced fighters participated in advanced courses led by commanders from Iran and from Hezbollah either in Iran or Leb.

The New York Times report goes on to say Iranian officers were responsible for the cooperative operations that materialized between Syrian ground forces and the Russian air force, while Hezbollah provided field commanders.

In Yemen, the report continues, Iran and its terror proxy established contact with Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
rebels who in 2014 seized control of the country’s capital Sana'a, paving the way for the dismantling of the government and providing the pretext for the Saudis to launch, along with its allies, an aerial campaign.

According to one man interviewed in the report, the Houthi rebels had already begun training in Leb for the eventual occupation of Sana’a and in 2012, two Hezbollah holy warriors were tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in Yemen.
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