[AlAhram] The UN migration agency said on Monday it was trying to provide assistance to large numbers of migrants colonists who had been held in the smuggling hub of Sabratha as rival factions battled for control of the city.
At least 4,000 migrants colonists, including pregnant women, newborn babies and unaccompanied children, have been transferred from informal camps and dormitories to a hangar in the city since the festivities ended on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
Sabratha has been the most common point of departure for mostly sub-Saharan African migrants colonists trying to cross the Mediterranean by boat from Libya.
But the number of crossings dropped sharply in July after an gang struck a deal with officials from the U.N.-backed government 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... to block departures, under pressure from Italia and other European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states.
That set off three weeks of fighting among rival factions which ended with the withdrawal of the gang. The migrants colonists who have since been rounded up were being held at sites that the group had controlled, local officials said.
"We are seriously concerned by the large number of migrants colonists caught up in recent developments in Sabratha," Othman Belbeisi, IOM Libya Chief of Mission, said in a statement.
Some migrants colonists are being sent on to detention centres elsewhere in western Libya that are nominally under the control of the Tripoli government.
IOM officials say those centres, which were housing some 5,000 migrants colonists, risk being overwhelmed by the new arrivals. Conditions in the centres are often dire and abuse widespread.
"Alternatives to detention must be found for migrants colonists in Libya. In the meantime, IOM continues to provide direct humanitarian, health and psychosocial assistance to meet the urgent needs of the thousands of migrants colonists being affected," Belbeisi said.
Local sources have previously said that an estimated 10,000 migrants colonists were being held in the Sabratha area.
The head of Sabratha's department for countering illegal migration told Rooters on Saturday that help was urgently needed as some migrants colonists had received no food or water for six days.
[AnNahar] At least eight migrants colonists have drowned after their boat sank following a crash with a Tunisian navy vessel in the Mediterranean, the defense ministry said Monday.
Spokesman Belhassen Oueslati told the AFP news agency that eight bodies were found and 38 people rescued after the unidentified boat "collided with a military vessel" Sunday evening when it was approached some 54 kilometers (33 miles) off the islands of Kerkennah.
Search operations to find any more missing people were "still ongoing," he said.
Several Italian media outlets reported that there were some 70 migrants colonists on board the boat which sank and that it had set off from the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax.
The collision happened in a stretch of sea that is meant to be patrolled by search and rescue crews from Malta.
The Maltese coastguard told AFP that it had been informed of a crash between two vessels and had sent help, but did not give any more details.
There has been an uptick since the summer in the number of migrants colonists trying to make the perilous sea crossing to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from Tunisia, with small vessels heading to the Italian islands of Sicily and Lampedusa.
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I'd say one or more of the European powers should recolonize Libya with all of the force necessary to get the job done. But with the EU the way it is I think we all know that will never happen. The way they act I suspect instability in Libya and subsequent migration was part of the EU plan all along.
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[AnNahar] La Belle France will open offices in Niger and Chad in the coming weeks to identify people who could be granted asylum, President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday.
The offices would also "warn people in Niger and Chad better about the situation in order to avoid an influx of economic migrants colonists" who would only be sent back from La Belle France, Macron said.
The French president had made a similar proposal for migrant registration centers in Libya in July.
But the idea was axed due to chronic insecurity in the North African country, a launchpad for hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists setting sail for Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... across the Mediterranean.
In Chad and Niger, candidates for asylum would come from lists provided by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... refugee agency, Macron said after talks in Gay Paree with the UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi.
The presidency said the first mission in Niger, operated by La Belle France's refugee protection office Ofpra, would start work at the end of October.
La Belle France "will open 10,000 places over the next two years" for refugees resettled from Niger, Chad, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Jordan and Leb, Macron said, confirming a proposal first raised after a mini-summit with European and African leaders in August.
Vincent Cochetel, the UNHCR's special envoy for the Mediterranean, last month demanded that La Belle France clarify how many refugees it was committed to resettling.
He estimated that 83,500 people in Chad and 10,500 in Niger -- many caught up in the brutal 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... insurgency -- needed to be transferred out of their countries.
Macron reiterated that La Belle France is seeking to expel economic migrants colonists in a "much more rigorous" manner while offering refuge to those with a right to asylum.
He announced that La Belle France would send an extra 10 million euros ($12 million) to the UNHCR and International Organization for Migration, particularly to boost their operations in Libya.
[AnNahar] Nigeria on Monday prepared for its first major prosecutions of suspects linked to the 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... conflict in closed-door trials at a military base.
The defendants have all been tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and detained since the start of the Islamist insurgency in the country's northeast in 2009.
The justice ministry announced last month that some 1,670 detainees would go on trial at a civilian court at a military base in Kainji, in the central state of Niger.
A further 651 others held at the Giwa barracks in the capital of the northeastern state of Borno, Maiduguri, would then be tried.
A government source involved in the process told AFP from Kainji that defense and prosecution lawyers arrived early to prepare for the cases.
"But from all indications, the whole of today (Monday) will be used for administrative purposes," he said on condition of anonymity.
"It's just about sorting out the record of the suspects to determine who is going to stand trial today and those who will be tried later.
"The trials will be conducted on an individual basis. Of course, where some suspects are accused of committing a particular crime, they will be tried in a group."
The trials have been welcomed as a positive step.
In eight years, only 13 people have been put on trial and just nine convicted, according to the government in Abuja.
But many of the detainees have been held in jug for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.
The extent of the defendants' links to the jihadist group, which has killed at least 20,000 people since 2009, is also in question, with the military accused of arbitrary arrests.
There are also concerns about the transparency of the process given the ban on media attendance while government claims the trials will have international observers has been denied.
Boko Haram began life as an Islamic sect and morphed into an IS-affiliated armed movement waging a deadly insurgency that has threatened stability in the impoverished Lake Chad region.
The group, whose name roughly translates from the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria as "Western education is forbidden", aims to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
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Followed quickly by mass executions, I hope
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[DailyMail] A jihadi incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for helping the London July 21 bombers got a high-profile council job after lying about her past.
Mulumebet Girma, 33, joined Southwark Council after colleagues failed to realise she was linked to one of the country’s most notorious attacks.
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These people are nuts. Here's hoping the AfD delegates can organize themselves to move the Overton Window on this.
[DW] Germany's conservative CDU/CSU parties have agreed on a guideline to limit migration to the country. While some call the move unconstitutional, experts say the proposal appears to be legal, though ethically questionable.
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"And all asylum applicants – even if it turns out they do not qualify – have the right to have their individual case examined thoroughly according to the German constitution, or Basic Law."
This statement is factually wrong. Since DW is a German government institution that does know better it is a blatant lie.
People entering Germany coming from EU countries or Switzerland who claim asylum can be summarily denied entry to Germany. They don't have the right to legal review.
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"A generous asylum system is enshrined in German law as a reaction to Nazi era"
Actually the German Parliament's scientific and legal advisory service has not been able to find a legal basis for Merkel's decision to flood the country with military age Muslim men.(link in German)
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The fact she hasn't been driven from office yet shows to me most Germans still don't give enough of a fuck about their country, countrymen and culture.
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So Merkel is getting better and moving away from her psychotic break with reality; the one that embraces national suicide?
No. Whoever shows up at the German border and demands asylum will be let in. That's now what the law says, but since 2015 the will of the chancelorette is the law.
Applying Occam's Razor, my working hypothesis is that Merkel is an orthodox. theocratic communist tying to inflict maximal damage on the West.
Her politics are compatible with this ideology. She comes from a family that had shown true commitment to theocratic communism.
The only additional assumption necessary for this hypothesis is that Merkel recommitted herself to her father's world view after a stint as a Western Democratic politician or that she'd always been a mole faking loyalty to Western values.
If there's something to this hypothesis and if Merkel stays in office one should expect Germany to become a center of major instability withing a year or two.
[AlAhram] Almost 150 former Ottoman Turkish military personnel went on trial Monday over festivities on an Istanbul bridge during last year's failed coup that claimed dozens of lives, including a key aide of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... The bridge across the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul was the scene of bloody fighting between Erdogan's supporters and renegade soldiers seeking to oust the elected government on the night of July 15, 2016.
It was later renamed by the government as July 15 Martyrs' Bridge.
The dead included Erdogan's campaign manager Erol Olcok and his 16-year-old son Abdullah Tayyip, who were killed when soldiers opened fire on protesters on the bridge which connects Asia and Europe.
Erol Olcok had named his son after Erdogan and his predecessor as president, Abdullah Gul.
A total of 143 suspects, including 30 officers, appeared in court. All the suspects barring eight are being held under arrest.
They are accused of crimes ranging from murder to attempting to overthrow the parliament and the government, according to the 1,052-page indictment.
If convicted, the suspects each face 37 life sentences, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Monday's trial is one of several legal processes seeking to bring to justice those believed to have played a role in the coup bid which left 249 people dead, not including the putschists.
Veysel Kilic, the father of one of the military academy students being held, said he did not have any hope in the "unsound" justice system.
Kilic took part in the main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdarogu'smonth-long foot march in July to protest against alleged injustices under Erdogan.
Like many relatives, Kilic said his air force academy student son was "deceived" and "told to join an unplanned exercise to measure their obedience to their commander".
"The students were totally unaware. They did not fire. Those children remained neutral," adding that more would have been killed if the students had taken sides.
Last week, a court in southwestern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... handed life sentences to 40 people convicted of plotting to assassinate Erdogan at an Aegean hotel.
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[RT] Ankara has issued a detention warrant for a second US consulate worker, according to media reports. It comes after Turkey’s justice minister urged the US to reverse its decision to suspend visas for Turkish citizens. Turkish authorities announced, without giving a reason, that a second employee of the US consulate in Istanbul had been “invited” to the city’s chief prosecutor’s office to testify, AP reported.
Reports say the employee is a Turkish citizen, and the prosecutor’s office said his wife and child have also been detained for questioning.
It follows the arrest of Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen who worked at the US general consulate in Istanbul. He is alleged to have ties to exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for a failed coup attempt last summer.
...especially given the above. Perhaps Sultan Erdogan I, "the much beloved", thinks he is about to do to President Trump what the Mad Mullahs did to his predecessor.
[Ynet] The US ambassador to Turkey said on Monday the duration of a suspension in visa services in Turkey would depend on talks between the two governments regarding the detention of Turkish staff at the US embassy.
In a written statement, Ambassador John Bass said the length of the suspension would also depend on "the Turkish government's commitment to protecting our facilities and personnel here in Turkey", noting it was not a visa ban on Turkish citizens.
He said the embassy had been unable to learn the reasons for the arrest of a Turkish staff member last week and or what evidence exists against the employee.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Tuesday his country doesn't need Washington's permission to prosecute its citizens, the latest swipe in an escalating feud with the United States over the arrest of a US consulate employee.
In a speech to his ruling party's legislators in Parliament, Yildirim also slammed Washington for the arrest of a Turkish banker for his alleged role in helping Iran escape US sanctions, and for its failure to extradite US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey says was behind last year's failed coup.
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Lets skip to the end game - minimize relations, cut off all economic and military support, place severe trade restrictions on them, kick them out of NATO, evac and demolish Incirlic and other bases we built during the cold war, and declare Turkey to be a hostile nation.
Thats where we are headed, may as well jump to the finish with Erdogan.
[AnNahar] Iraq's central government on Monday unleashed a legal barrage against Kurdish officials and sought to seize key businesses in a fresh bid to tighten the screws over a disputed independence referendum.
The latest moves come exactly two weeks after an overwhelming majority of voters in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region backed independence in a non-binding ballot slammed as illegal by Baghdad.
The central authorities have already severed ties between Kurdistan and the outside world by cutting international air links to the region, while neighboring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran have threatened to close their borders to oil exports.
Now, in a new round of attempts to ratchet up pressure, Baghdad's National Security Council announced that a probe has been launched into Kurdistan's lucrative oil revenues and officials in the region who might have illegally monopolized the market.
"The corrupt will be exposed and the funds recovered," said a statement from the council, headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
The council also said that "a list of names" of Kurdish officials who helped organize the referendum had been compiled and "judicial measures have been taken against them," without giving more details.
The central government -- which has already demanded to take over Kurdistan's airports and borders -- is also looking to reclaim control over mobile phone companies in the region, including two of the largest providers in Iraq, the statement said.
Baghdad also once again called on Ankara and Tehran -- which both opposed the referendum over fears of fueling demands from their own Kurdish communities -- to close their border posts with Kurdistan and "stop all trade" with the region.
The angry dispute over the referendum -- also rejected by the U.S. -- is the latest twist in the decades-long movement by Iraq's Kurds to break away from Baghdad.
The referendum spat comes as Kurdish fighters and central government forces have continued to work together in offensives to push back 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, with Washington warning the poll could "increase instability" in the region.
The defense committee in Iraq's parliament demanded Kurdish security forces hand over IS fighters captured in a recent battle to retake the jihadist bastion of Hawija.
The U.S.-led coalition backing up the operations against IS has estimated that some 1,000 jihadists surrendered, mostly to the Kurdish peshmerga forces, during the seizure of the town.
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[IsraelTimes] Brussels says it was ’unaware’ Hebron-area school was renamed for Dalal Mughrabi, notorious for her role in 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 38 were killed.
Brussels has budgeted 16.5 million euros (NIS 68 million) for funding PA schools between July 2013 and July 2020, the website says.
The Belgian government decided to freeze funding to the Paleostinian Authority education system after an elementary school built with support from Brussels took the name of a notorious Paleostinian terrorist, a spokesperson for the European country told The Times of Israel on Monday.
The Beit Awaa Elementary Girls School, located in southern West Bank’s Hebron region, was built with funds from Belgium in 2012-2013. It is one of several schools built with money from Brussels, which donates millions of euros a year to the education system.
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[JEWISHPRESS] A small group of Shiite Lebanese political activists gathered this month at a conference in Beirut to express their opposition to the political power wielded by Hezbollah and Amal in the government.
In response, the conference participants ‐ dozens of professors, writers, journalists and well-known business leaders ‐ have been called "traitors" and have faced accusations on social media of being influenced by foreign agents.
Among the participants were leftists and secularists as well as holy mans and former Hezbollah fighters as well, according to organizers who spoke with al-Arab.
Dr. Harith Sulaiman, one of the leaders of the group, was quoted by the London-based Arabic-language al-Arab newspaper as saying that he and his fellow activists are aware they’ll "pay" for taking "an independent stand against the Shiite duo of Hezbollah and Amal."
The conference attended by Sulaiman and his colleagues this month will shortly be followed by parliamentary elections, which haven’t been held in Leb since 2009.
The group is hoping to be able to "correct the division of Lebanese politics" by providing an alternate Shiite choice on the ballot.
"I have been a political activist and patriot for the last 40 years; I studied in La Belle France, and I might have had certain ambitions, but I did not try to achieve my goals through either of the two Shiite powers," he said. "I’ve now decided to retire because I do not want to follow either of them."
Media worker and activist Ali al-Amin said, according to al-Arab, "There exists a Shiite dilemma in Leb: We can’t dream of being able to break Hezbollah’s dominance. Hezbollah is a regional armed force that uses its power to practice sectarian mobilization, and it is troubled by the existence of Shiites who declare that they oppose its policies and ideologies."
Al-Amin said the group has been accused of "treachery" and on several occasions has been oppressed as well.
"Any Shiite who opposes Hezbollah," he said, "is accused of treason."
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Once took almost all the Cedars out of Lebanon to build a Temple.
It was later a Christian Nation for refuge, like most the Middle East before EL Shatan arrived.
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... 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...
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