[Libya Herald] The port of Benghazi will reopen on 1 October, according to port authority front man Muftah al-Shuaiby.
It has been closed for more than three years. In 2014, it was effectively controlled by the hard boyz opposed to Operation Karama and at the time the Libyan National Army (LNA) even threatened to bomb it to prevent it being use to supply them.
"We will bomb any ship approaching the coast and hold the port director responsible for it," LNA air force head Major-General Saqr Geroushi said at the time.
Since the rebels’ defeat in July, the authorities have been keen to see the reopening of the port which was the main entry in the east of the country for many imports including wheat and other comestibles.
It had suffered major damage during the conflict in Benghazi due to its close proximity to much of the fighting. In mid-July, the chief of staff and military governor from Ben Jawed to Derna, Major-General Abdul Razzaq al-Nazhuri, visited it to assess the damage and what needed to be done before it could be operational again.
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[Libya Herald] Reports in a number of Libyan media outlets that UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé said that the UN intended to send peacekeeping forces to Libya have been firmly denied by the UN special mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
In a statement today, it insisted that all that Salamé had said was that, with UNSMIL progressively returning to Libya, it was increasing its staff there including security staff for the UN compound in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... "UNSMIL is a political mission and its mandate, as set by the UN Security Council, does not allow the presence of a peacekeeping force (or as mentioned Blue Helmets) to operate in Libya," the statement read.
It repeated its commitment to Libya’s illusory sovereignty, unity and integrity.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... militias have drowned the Yemeni capital Sanaa with thousands of sectarian banners and slogans as they prepare to mark Eid al-Ghadeer, a Iranian Shiite tradition. Yemenis are generally not familiar with this festival, which falls on 18 of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Eid al-Ghadeer is the Shiite celebration of what they believe was Ali ibn Ali Talib’s appointment as leader by Prophet Mohammed. The Houthis promoted the event and focused on propagating the concept of the "wilaya" and their alleged right to govern.
The slogans and banners provoked Yemenis residing in Sanaa as many of them believe Houthis have taken things too far by adopting Iranian Shiite rituals and celebrations thus harming co-existence and tolerance.
Imposing customs
Yemeni activists took to social media to slam the Houthis’ approach of exploiting the Shiite sect to impose their presence by force. They said that the Houthis’ practices reflect the Iranians’ influence in using the Houthis as a destructive tool in the region.
Political analyst Dr Mohammed Jumeih said: "the Iranians’ slogans invaded the streets of the Arabs’ capital Sanaa," while Member of Parliament Ahmad Hashed said the slogans were as "stupid as those who raised them."
Political analyst Faisal al-Mujaidi said the Houthis’ recent move confirms that the movement’s approach is entirely linked to the agenda of the party which has funded and planned their seizure of power in Sanaa and other areas.
He added that Iran thinks the Houthis are their most loyal wing in the region as they are offering it free services by raising such slogans and propagating their ideas.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al Arabiya News Channel will be airing a special news documentary unravelling Iran’s involvement in the September 11 attacks.
’Iran September 11’, will air on Friday at 11:00 PM, KSA time (midnight GMT).
The documentary, which was produced in the United States, carries never before seen interviews revealing the Iranian regime's relationship with the al-Qaeda terrorist group and the training it provided to its members to conduct major operations like September 11.
In one interview with Abolghasem Mesbahi, a former senior European-based operative in Iran’s security service, Vevak, Iran’s support to al-Qaeda was revealed and detailed.
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Doesn't surprise me. Iranians have been involved with Sunni extremism for a long time.
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Spokesman Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan said they are now on the lookout for slain Mirpur myrmidon Abdullah’s suspected cohort "Don Bhai".
"While talking to us over the phone Abdullah mentioned about ’Don Bhai.’ We are now looking for him," he said while describing the conversation with the myrmidon regarding their surrender.
The RAB official said: "We are also trying to collect information about five to six other cohorts of Abdullah."
Terming Abdullah a notorious New JMB leader, he said: "He [Abdullah] had built a laboratory in the den to make explosives. We recovered IEDs from the flat. They were made in the den."
Earlier, the elite force recovered a blueprint of a multi-storey building from the hideout. The Death Eaters had marked out spots in the blueprint.
"We are assuming that the Death Eaters might have had a plan to attack a big establishment," Mufti said.
He said: "Abdullah used to work at an electrical store where he made and repaired Instant Power Supply (IPS) units. The presence of the design and explosives led us to believe that they were probably planning to attack a multi-storey building."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] An Ankara prosecutor filed an indictment against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul politician Sezgin Tanrikulu on Sept. 8, after he voiced concerns over allegations that an armed drone in the southeastern province of Hakkari shot four citizens, leaving one dead.
The probe came after President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... lashed out at Tanrikulu earlier in the day, saying that "the drones only shot terrorists."
"Where are those civilians?" Erdogan said on Sept. 8 before embarking on a trip to Kazakhstan, adding that armed drones "shot only terrorists."
"These individuals have come to a point where they are defending dead terrorists," he added, referring to the politician.
"There is strong evidence that he has defamed the legitimacy of the Ottoman Turkish state by posting a message on Twitter alleging that an unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV] of the Ottoman Turkish state has shot civilians and killed them," the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s office stated on Sept. 8.
Tanrikulu had said on his Twitter account on Sept. 7 that four civilians were bombed by an armed drone on Aug. 31 in Hakkari, killing one civilian.
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[DAWN] Thousands of protesters erupted into the streets of major cities on Friday to condemn a crackdown on Rohingya Moslems in Myanmar, with many carrying placards that read, "Shame on Aung San Suu Kyi".
The largely peaceful rallies were spearheaded by the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI), but other political parties and members of the civil society also joined in.
Political leaders, including JI chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... , called for an end to the "genocide" of the Rohingya and for Pakistain to break off relations with the government in Myanmar.
The government has previously expressed "deep anguish" at the violence.
Many protesters also slammed Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, over her silence. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has faced criticism for failing to condemn the violence, leaving her global reputation in tatters.
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[DAWN] Seminary organisers in the town of Landi Kotal in the Federally Administered Tribal Area on Friday allegedly announced a ban on musical gatherings in the area, sources in the political administration told DawnNews.
Syed Mohammad Ilyas Banuri alias Khan Lala and Syed Muhammad Ibrahim alias Bacha Jan, organisers of the Khanqah-e-Binoria seminary, allegedly announced the restriction on musical gatherings in the Shinwari Ashkhel area, the sources said.
The organisers warned that the houses of those either holding musical gatherings or in possession of musical instruments would be burnt, the sources claimed.
According to sources, a few days ago, the organisers of the seminary had allegedly ransacked weddings in the area and seized musical instruments being played there.
Today, after Friday prayers and in the presence of hundreds of people, the men allegedly burnt the instruments, the sources said.
Niaz Mohammad, an assistant political agent, told DawnNews that the administration has summoned Khan Lala after taking notice of the incident.
"We will ask him [Khan Lala] what capacity he made such statements in when there is a political administration available. If something objectionable is happening, then it is up to the administration to take action not an individual."
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Senator Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... here on Thursday set 24 hours deadline to the government to expel the ambassador of Myanmar otherwise his party workers would storm "red zone" in Islamabad.
"If the government does not expel Myanmar’s ambassador till Friday, our workers will cross the red zone," a statement quoted Senator Sirajul Haq as saying while addressing a function of women.
He said that JI had planned to stage protest rally outside Myanmar embassy after Friday prayers to show solidarity with Rohingya Moslems, who were fleeing their country. He said that Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal requested him not to cross the red zone.
The JI chief alleged that Myanmar government started genocide of Moslems and except the Ottoman Turkish president, leaders of other Islamic countries remained silent spectators over atrocities in Myanmar. He said that JI would not cross red zone if government expelled the ambassador on Friday.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed 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.... home secretary to decide by Sept 11 a representation of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... and four other leaders against their detention.
Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi passed the order on a writ petition of JuD leaders challenging their detention orders issued on July 28, 2017, under sub-section 1 of Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order, 1960, for a period of next 60 days.
Advocate AK Dogar argued there was no evidence with the government that the petitioners were planning to spread chaos in the country or that they had planned violent demonstrations.
He said the government in the impugned detention orders had only shown apprehension with regard to petitioners. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... he said, under the law no presumption and assumption could give rise to any apprehension unless it was supported by some piece of evidence.
The counsel argued an order of preventive detention had to satisfy the requirements laid down by the Supreme Court in its many judgments but in the instant case blatant violation of laws had been committed by the government.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are set to announce an operation against ISIS in the north of Deir al-Zor province, a senior SDF official told Rooters on Friday.
The operation, which aims to push ISIS back from northern parts of Deir al-Zor, will be formally announced on Saturday, the official said.
With US-led air cover and special forces, the SDF alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias is battling to oust ISIS from Raqqa city, upstream along the Euphrates river.
Spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG militia, the SDF says it has taken 65 percent of Raqqa city from ISIS.
In the Deir al-Zor assault, the SDF would push towards the Euphrates River from the east of the province, which borders
Iraq.
The operation will likely bring the US-backed militias into closer proximity with the Syrian military and allied forces, who have advanced on Deir al-Zor city.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The few bullet-marked schools 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) did not flatten or booby trap around its former Syrian stronghold of Raqqa are buzzing for the first time in years with the sound of children learning.
In the village of Hazima, north of Raqqa, teachers gave ad-hoc alphabet lessons to crammed classrooms on a recent summer's day before the start of term.
"Right now, the most important thing is to get children into class," said teacher Ahmed al-Ahmed, standing next to a hole in the school stairwell left by a mine blast that maimed a colleague.
ISIS closed this school and many others in northern Syria after it seized control of the region in 2014, three years into the country's civil war. Instead it taught children bully boy thought in mosques.
But now that the group has been ousted from most territory it held in and around Raqqa by a U.S.-backed military alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a growing debate over education points to the ethnic tensions expected to follow.
What is taught in areas under the control of the SDF, which includes Arab militias but is dominated by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), is one of many questions over how predominantly Arab parts of northern Syria will be run as they come into the Kurdish fold.
Schools around Raqqa will this year teach a new curriculum that is based on old textbooks but erases the Baathist ideology of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , a decision agreed on by Arab and Kurdish teachers alike.
But an official in the SDF has floated the immediate introduction of Kurdish lessons in Raqqa schools, an idea that makes local officials bristle.
In contrast with other areas under SDF control that have for years taught Kurdish, there are no plans yet to teach the language in mostly Arab Raqqa.
Officials say it would need broad consensus, hinting at concerns that its introduction too quickly would cause unrest.
"We wouldn't object to Kurdish teaching. But if it's imposed on schools then there will be problems," Ahmed said.
Rooters interviews with SDF officials and local authorities suggest resentment over Kurdish power is brewing over education plans.
A senior SDF adviser and coordinator with the U.S. coalition said he believed Kurdish would be taught to Kurdish pupils around Raqqa this year, following the model for other schools in SDF territory.
"No one has opposed this ... every [ethnic] group has the right to study in its own language," Amed Sido said via the internet.
Officials in the Raqqa Civil Council, the newly-formed local governing body, were taken aback.
"No, that won't happen without consultations with us and agreement in the council," Ammar Hussein, an education committee official, said at its office in the town of Ain Issa. "For now it's in Arabic, with English and French lessons."
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[WAPO] As the Islamic State battles to hold what remains of its capital in Syria, the terror group ‐ as it did during the fight for Mosul ‐ has released propaganda footage highlighting their defense. The 38-minute video, filmed in Raqqa and released Tuesday, cycles through the Islamic State’s standard fare of suicide bombings, sniper attacks and street fighting.
In a segment showcasing the militants’ sniper detachment, one U.S.-made rifle is featured prominently. The type of weapon, a modified 7.62mm M14 called an Enhanced Battle Rifle, has appeared with the Islamic State before, along with a Syrian rebel group that once had backing from the Pentagon and Iraqi Special Operation forces.
Militants on battlefields from Afghanistan to Syria have long-displayed Western-made arms in their propaganda. The weapons are usually given to commanders and elite fighters to distinguish them from regular foot soldiers. The most prevalent American weapon found on foreign battlefields is arguably the gas-operated M-16 rifle, a mainstay in U.S. armories since the Vietnam War and sold and lost by the United States and its proxy forces ever since. The black rifle, with its hallmark triangular front sight, has been a staple with the Islamic State since it overran large swaths of Iraq in 2014, routing Iraqi security forces and taking large stores of U.S.-supplied weapons and ammunition.
What makes the appearance of the M14 somewhat unique is its age and relative rarity in the U.S. military compared to the widely issued M-16. Though the M14 appears in the Islamic State video with a scope and a modern furnishing, allowing the shooter to attach accessories, the core, or action, of the weapon derives from the World War II-era M1 Garand rifle.
The M14 was designed to replace the M1 Garand in the years following the Korean War. Unlike the M-16 and its carbine variants, the M14 was only issued for less than a decade. Weighing more than 10 pounds loaded and roughly three-feet long, the M14 was introduced when rifle designs were rapidly evolving. In the late 1950s the Soviets were busy adopting and fielding the Kalashnikov series of rifles.
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I don't need no teenage queen
I just need my M-14
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al Arabiya News Channel will be airing a special news documentary unravelling Iran’s involvement in the September 11 attacks.
[Hurriyet Daily News] An Ankara prosecutor filed an indictment against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul 
[DAWN] 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
