The Legion of Brothers documentary broadcast encore on CNN has moved to Saturday, Oct 14, 2017 from 10p to 1130pm and again Sunday Oct 15, at 230am - 4am. All times are Eastern.
After September 11, 2001, Green Berets were the ’tip of the spear’ for America’s war against the Afghanistan Taliban. CNN Films documentary
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Time blocks pretty much assure light viewership.
Doesn't everybody record things to watch when it's convenient, nowadays? Most of the shows I like on PBS, for instance, are on the air between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on weeknights. And for other things, it's just easier to record against the possibility that we'll be busy - even if we aren't, if we start watching twenty minutes after it begins, we can fast forward through the commercials.
[Al Jazeera] Kenya's electoral commission, the president and the opposition remain deadlocked on how to proceed with the presidential election rerun after opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew from the race.
The electoral body said it was reviewing Odinga's withdrawal from the race, while President Uhuru Kenyatta said the October 26 vote would proceed even if he remains the sole contender.
Odinga said on Tuesday he would boycott the polls because opposition demands for electoral body reform have not been met.
"All indications are that the election scheduled for October 26 will be worse than the previous one," Odinga told a press conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bahrain’s King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Isa al-Khalifa has announced the release of an official declaration calling for religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence, in an opinion piece on Tuesday.
In the piece, published on the Washington Times, the king recognized Bahrain’s "multicultural, multifaith society" as a "natural and normal way of life for us in Bahrain."
"We believe ’ignorance is the enemy of peace,’ and that true faith illuminates our path to peace. For this reason, we decided to compose the Kingdom of Bahrain Declaration, calling for religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence throughout the entire world."
The king said the declaration was a natural extension of Bahrain’s national heritage.
"As Bahrainis, we drew from our national heritage as a beacon of religious tolerance in the Arab world during a time when religion has been too frequently used throughout the world as a divine sanction to spread hate and dissension."
He said the declaration was drawn up "in consultation with Sunni and Shiite scholars, along with Christian clergy and Jewish rabbis, including our friend, Rabbi Marvin Hier of Los Angeles’ Simon Wiesenthal Center."
Pluralism and religious discrimination
He said the document "calls for pluralism, which ’unequivocally rejects’ compelled religious observance, and condemns acts of violence, abuse and incitement in the name of religion. For national leaders like myself, the declaration makes it clear that ’it is the responsibility of governments to respect and protect equally both religious minorities and majorities,’ and that there is no room for religious discrimination of any kind."
He added that the declaration was a "call for leaders and for the masses."
The king wrote: "In the Arab world, we need not fear religious pluralism, and the non-Arab world need not fear us. In fact, we need one another, and we must meet one another along a path of mutual respect and love. Perhaps, only then will we find the elusive path of peace we seek."
King Hamad described religious diversity in Bahrain as a "blessing to our people" and said the kingdom was stronger because of it.
"We welcome our Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical church communities. We are proud that our Hindu nationals can worship in a 200-year-old temple complete with their images, just around the corner from the Sikh temple and the mosques.
"We celebrate our small ‐ but precious ‐ Jewish community, who feel free to wear their yarmulke and worship in their own synagogue, which, we are informed, is the only one in the Arabian Peninsula. In fact, our Jewish community plays a very active role at the highest levels of society, including an ambassador from Bahrain to Washington in 2008, the first Jewish diplomat to the United States from an Arab country. We wanted to protect our religious pluralism for future generations, so we have enshrined this in law, which guarantees everyone the right to worship unhindered in safety and to build their houses of worship.
"Our noble ancestors began this Bahraini tradition of churches, synagogues and temples being built next to our mosques, so there is no ignorance about others’ religious rites or practices. We all live together in peaceful coexistence in the spirit of mutual respect and love, and we believe it is our duty to share this with the world," the king wrote.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Under the guise of political commentary, a professor at 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... University suggested the use of poisonous gas against certain Qatari tribes who recently voiced their opposition to Doha’s policies in the Gulf crisis.
In an interview on the state’s official news channel, he said: "No matter how many thousands of them are gathered, 10 thousand or 200 thousand, a bomb filled with poisonous gas would eradicate all these tribes."
"Deadly weapons such as long-range missiles and chemical weapons can be used in such a situation," he said.
Several members of Qatari tribes, such as al-Murrah and Sham al-Hawajer, have had their citizenship revoked in recent weeks following their opposition to Doha’s policies.
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[DW] A Pak court is set to decide the fate of an Islamic State-linked terror suspect whose extradition is being sought by the US. The Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Islamabad to act against Islamists.
On Friday, US officials announced charges against Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old US citizen of Pak origin, and two other terror suspects, Canadian Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy and Filipino Russell Salic - aged 19 and 37 respectively - for plotting to attack New York City, including Times Square and the subway system, in 2016.
A Pak court in Islamabad will hear Haroon's bail plea on Friday, October 13, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Defense lawyer Idrees Ashraf says his client's father, Haroon Rashid, previously obtained a stay on his son's extradition from the same court.
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Monkey see, monkey do is a pidgin-style saying that appeared in American culture in the early 1920s.
The saying refers to the learning of a process without an understanding of why it works.
Another definition implies the act of mimicry, usually with limited knowledge and/or concern for the consequences.
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The important part, did they withdraw financial support as well?
Read earlier (no link, sorry) that 1. the US has been holding back on tribute dues recently to the tune of $500M and 2. when we do exit, those moneys are wiped off the books.
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[IsraelTimes] Unable to convince Trump to drop his opposition to accord, European capitals increasingly turning to Congress to salvage it
Having spent months lobbying 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... unsuccessfully over the Iran nuclear deal, European countries are now scrambling behind the scenes to save an agreement negotiated through painstaking diplomacy.
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Painstaking diplomacy???? Selling your soul to the Mad Mullahs and YOU have to pay the money.
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Still haven't given up on solving the Jewish problem.
[DW] Iraq's central government has increased legal and economic pressure on Kurdistan following an independence vote. The Kurds now find themselves pinned in on all sides.
An Iraqi court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for members of the Kurdish election commission that organized an independence referendum last month.
The court decision was made on the request of the National Security Council headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi after the Kurds went ahead with the referendum despite the constitutional court ruling it illegal.
The nonbinding referendum held on September 25 passed with more than 90 percent support among Kurds, who govern an autonomous region in northern Iraq.
It is unclear if the Iraqi central government will be able to act on the arrest warrants since the Kurdish region has its own security forces.
The move is the latest salvo from Baghdad as it tightens its grip on the Kurdistan region.
Iraq has already banned international flights to and from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraq targets oil, trade
Baghdad has also requested The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran, both major trading partners of the Kurdish region who opposed the referendum, to close their borders and allow oil exports only through the central government.
Fearing Kurdish separatism within their own borders, Turkey and Iran have threatened to close their borders and have coordinated with Baghdad.
Such a move would hit the finances of the Kurdish region, which relies on the border trade and oil exports independent of the central government.
On Monday, the central government ordered Iraq's two largest cell-phone operators based in the Kurdish region to move their headquarters to Baghdad.
On Tuesday, Iraq's oil minister announced the country would resume exports of 400,000 barrels of oil through the central government-owned Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which runs from the oil-rich city through Kurdish territory and onto the Ottoman Turkish port of Ceyhan.
The aging pipeline is in disrepair and was shut after 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.... " overran large swaths of Iraq before an offensive pushed the terror outfit back.
In announcing the intent to resume oil exports through Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, the National Security Council also said it would identify "corrupt" Kurdish officials and recover lost funds.
The central government and Kurdish region have a long-running dispute over oil exports, extraction and sharing oil revenues.
The oil-rich, multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk is at the center of territorial disputes between Baghdad and the Kurdish region.
Iraqi officials have warned a unilateral Kurdish power grab in the city could ignite a civil war.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A report by the Gay Paree-based Iranian opposition has revealed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are amassing Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pak mercenaries in Syria to control a pivotal road between Iraq and Syria that reaches the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
The report published on Wednesday by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) comes as the United States is reviewing the inclusion of the IRGC and associated militias on the US terrorism list.
The IRGC has been deploying its militias in Syria at numbers estimated to be more than 100,000 members. The imported muscle are deployed as mercenaries in clear violation of international norms and laws, the report stated.
Afghan militia flights
The report shows that the IRGC conducts weekly flights from Tehran via Mahan Air and Iran Air to Damascus to transport roughly 2,000 Afghan mercenaries every Tuesday.
The men are registered as volunteers and are recruited from among Afghan refugees in exchange for money and grants.
The report also states that the fighters are presented with identification cards upon their arrival in Damascus and then transferred to the Shibani camp west of the capital to receive their assignments.
Furthermore, mercenaries who have not received training in Iran undergo a training course in this camp.
Iraqi brigades in Deir el-Zor
The report shows that an Iraqi group in Syria, called the Imam Ali Brigades, underwent a training course for several months at a secret IRGC center on the outskirts of Tehran. "Part of the forces of this group are in the Deir el-Zor area, and their commander is Muhammad al-Bawi called Abu Abed" the report stated.
According to the NCRI in the past months, the IRGC has focused its forces on occupying the ground route between Iraq and Syria. "To this end, the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards have control over the command of the militias on both sides of the border, they want to gain control over about 400 kilometers of that border strip," the report read.
Ground operations
Ground operations command in Syria is controlled by the IRGC according to the Intel report which added that the country has been divided into several operational fronts.
Each front has a command post, details of which were disclosed by the Iranian Resistance in July 2016. Javad Qorbani, an IRGC commander, in an interview with the state-run Jam-e-Jam newspaper on January 21, 2017, revealed the existence of three garrisons in Syria, including the garrisons of Roqiyah in Aleppo (northern front), the Nabi between Aleppo and Damascus (central front) and Zeinab towards Deraa (southern front).
Javad Qorbani, a commander of Zeinab garrison, said: "At this garrison, we are fighting at 29 points at the same time, meaning we have 29 front lines" the report stated.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are amassing Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pak mercenaries in Syria
[BREITBART] The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case against 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 controversial executive order restricting travel and immigration from several terror-prone states on Tuesday.
The reason: the president issued a new version of the order last month that replaces the older version that had been the subject of litigation in the Fourth Circuit, rendering the case moot.
Though many lower federal courts in liberal circuits ruled against the executive order, the Trump administration was set for victory in June, when the Supreme Court lifted an injunction against the enforcement of the so-called "travel ban," leaving the case to be argued in the fall. As Breitbart News noted at the time (original link):
Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the injunction against most of President Donald Trump’s "travel ban" is a major victory ‐ and not just because he will be able to implement the policy, but because the case is only scheduled to be heard in the fall, i.e. in October at the earliest.
Because most of the controversial provisions of the executive order only last 90 days, Trump it could be fully implemented before the Court hears the case.
The Court is prevented from hearing disputes that are already moot. There must be an active case or controversy in order for challenges to the executive order to be heard.
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Surprising how the right appointment can sway a nation.
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By throwing it out, they avoid the challenge to unlimited judicial review of anything done by the Executive. Not as in checks and balances, but in the never ending assumption of power over the entire government appliance without constitutional constraints on their part.
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.
The Legion of Brothers documentary broadcast encore on CNN has moved to Saturday, Oct 14, 2017 from 10p to 1130pm and again Sunday Oct 15, at 230am - 4am. All times are Eastern. 
[BREITBART] The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case against President 
