[Libya Observer] 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... is ready to welcome the eastern forces led by Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , said the front man of Haftar-led Dignity Operation, Ahmed al-Mismari.
In a presser on Wednesday, al-Mismari said he cannot elaborate on the western region as it has become a military zone, reaffirming that their forces are preparing for a massively important battle, which he said will be conclusive in the war on "terrorism."
"The dialogue committees of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State are part of prolonging Libya's financial, economic, health and services crises. Libya cannot be safe and secure except though the Libyan Arab armed forces, whose ability to create a state is respected by all." He indicated.
Al-Mismari also added that their forces are coordinating with Egypt to secure the joint borders to help undermine smuggling operations of IS bully boyz and weapons, adding that the nature of the Libyan-Egyptian border makes it easy to smuggle drugs, weapons and even IS terrorists.
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[Libya Observer] Libya’s Mufti, al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... , said Wednesday in his weekly program on Tanasuh TV Channel that if the Libyan political stakeholders and official politicians had adopted the five points proposed by the Libyan Fatwa House regarding the controversial Article 08 of the Skhirat-signed agreement, they wouldn’t have needed to go to Tunisia talks.
The mufti explained that Tunis-held dialogue has turned out to be a failure as it did not touch upon the country, the people’s needs and the Libyan crisis. "It was a proxy dialogue in Tunisia for other countries’ sake," the mufti said, adding that Skhirat agreement is contradictory in itself and not well-crafted as promoted by its advocates.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... envoy to 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... met with senior Yemeni and Saudi officials in Riyadh to discuss his initiatives to end fighting in Yemen.
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed stressing that "this is at heart a political conflict so it can only be solved with political negotiations."
"We are currently exploring significant steps that each side can take to restore confidence and move towards a viable negotiated settlement," he said at the end of the visit during which he met with Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and Foreign Minister Abdel Malek al-Mikhlafi.
The UN envoy added that these steps include a renewed ceasefire, confidence-building measures to alleviate the humanitarian suffering and the return to the negotiation table towards a comprehensive peace agreement.
During the visit, the UN envoy also met with Saudi officials, including Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.
"This large-scale suffering must end. I appeal to the parties to make the necessary concessions that can help paving the way for a long-lasting peace, and to the international community to ensure unity of purpose in supporting these much-needed initiatives," he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... 's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described the Gulf rift with 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... as a "very very small problem" in an interview on Thursday with Rooters at the Public Investment Forum in Riyadh.
Crown Prince Mohammed said that the current issue with Qatar did not affect investment and stressed that the leadership is committed to have the Kingdom safe, stable and far away from any disturbances.
"We are very committed to have our country safe, far away from any disturbance. I will say one thing, that the only country in the Middle East where that safety and stability track-record goes for Saudi Arabia," the Crown Prince said.
"Saudi Arabia has the best track-record and has proven itself strongly in each problem in the Middle East and the world and handled it and went on to be more powerful."
The Crown Prince added that the war 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... ongoing with a goal of preventing the transformation of the 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 to a new Hezbollah on Saudi borders.
"We’re pursuing until we can be sure that nothing will happen there like Hezbollah again, because Yemen is more dangerous than Leb. It’s next to Bab al-Mandab so if something happens there, that means 10 percent of world trade stops. This is the crisis," he said.
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""We are very committed to have our country safe, far away from any disturbance. I will say one thing, that the only country in the Middle East where that safety and stability track-record goes for Saudi Arabia,""
Well, but for you, Israel fit's that bill. But you are trying.
Damn, I hate Islam to it's core and false doctrine from hell.
Good luck Prince, I AM rooting for you. Don't let me down because right now......
[IdahoMountainExoress] A military judge heard testimony Wednesday in the sentencing phase of the court-martial trial of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, with one military officer giving an account of injuries sustained while looking for the missing soldier from Hailey.
The judge, Army Col. Jeffery Nance, is still considering dismissing the case against Bergdahl because of comments made by President Donald Trump when he was a candidate. Meanwhile, Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers are testifying about their unsuccessful search for him after he voluntarily walked off a remote outpost in Afghanistan in June 2009.
At the sentencing hearing in Fort Bragg, N.C., on Wednesday, Nance said he had yet to decide how he will rule on a defense motion to dismiss the case because of Trump’s campaign-trail comments about Bergdahl, 31, Reuters and the Associated Press reported, including a statement that he is "a no-good traitor who should have been executed."
Prior to Bergdahl’s mid-October guilty pleas to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy‐the latter of which carries a potential life sentence‐Nance denied a previous motion to dismiss the case due to Trump’s comments. While Nance considers the current motion to dismiss, soldiers who engaged in a lengthy but ultimately fruitless search for Bergdahl testified about the hardships and injuries they sustained in doing so.
After Bergdahl left his post, ostensibly to report what he viewed as failures in his unit’s leadership, he was captured by the Taliban, and his battalion commander, Col. Clinton Baker, testified Wednesday that the unit jumped into action in an attempt to retrieve the soldier before he was taken to Pakistan, according to Reuters. He testified that soldiers took direct fire and encountered improvised explosive devices every day for at least the first six weeks of the search, the network reported, and that new clothes had to be flown in for soldiers whose clothes rotted off of them after 37 days.
"The only time you slept was when you couldn’t stay conscious anymore," Reuters quoted Baker as testifying. "Everybody was out looking. That was it. We were tapped out."
Reuters and the Associated Press reported that Senior Chief Petty Officer James Hatch, a former Navy SEAL, testified that he was wounded by enemy AK-47 fire that killed an Army dog in a July 2009 raid aimed at finding Bergdahl. Reuters reported that Hatch has since had 18 medical procedures to repair those injuries.
Testimony about injuries sustained in the search for Bergdahl continued Thursday, but reports did not indicate that the sentencing would include testimony about deaths possibly related to the search for Bergdahl‐yet another source of controversy in the case of a soldier who was largely portrayed as an imprisoned hero when captive and a traitor once freed in 2014.
According to retired Command Sgt. Maj. Ken Wolfe and other officers interviewed about the case for the podcast "Serial," units searching for Bergdahl were approved for missions that typically wouldn’t have been approved, putting them in greater danger than usual, and resources used in the searches short-changed other units, leading to casualties in those units. But retired Lt. Col. Paul Edgar, who took part in the initial search, said that Bergdahl was being used as a scapegoat for deaths that are an ordinary part of war.
"In society, we treat Bowe as some aberration, but his case is simply a very normal part of war," Edgar said.
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deserted during Bergdahl’s time overseas, but his five years in Taliban captivity and subsequent release in a controversial prisoner swap for Guantanamo Bay detainees made the case unique, "Serial" producers concluded.
Although military investigator Maj. Kenneth Dahl recommended that Bergdahl not face jail time, he was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in March 2015, eventually pleading guilty to the charges on Oct. 16 this year. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and dishonorable discharge for the latter charge, if Nance decides not to dismiss the case.
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Now you understand why he and his lawyer went with a military judge rather than a full courts martial panel. These are the judges/lawyers that brought us military proceedings for illegal combatants (illegal according to the various conventions on war we've signed). The same lawyers that wrote up RoEs that directly contradicted Art. 99 of the UCMJ.
"Claiming that President Trump’s intemperate tone voids an entire legal proceeding is ludicrous, and in doing so Bowe Bergdahl’s legal team is questioning Anglo-American legal fundamendals."
"Although the judge had already ruled earlier this year that Trump’s statements did not constitute unlawful command influence"
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Trumps comments were said while he was a covilian e ercosong his Constitutional freedom of speech rights that that this traitor turned against on the battle field. The judge needs to be prosecuted.
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says authorities have issued warrants for the detention of 121 former Foreign Ministry employees, suspected of links to US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... whom Turkey blames for last year's failed coup attempt.
Anadolu Agency says that police launched simultaneous operations Thursday in about 30 provinces to detain the ministry employees. It says the suspects were previously fired from posts as part of a vast government crackdown on suspected followers of Gulen's movement.
Some of the suspects are believed to have used an encrypted secret messaging app allegedly favored by followers to communicate with each other, according to Anadolu.
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[PRESSTV] A Ottoman Turkish court has extended the detention of Amnesia Amnesty International’s regional head over allegations of involvement in last year’s failed coup.
The court in Izmir ordered on Thursday that Taner Kilic, who was detained in June, remain in detention pending trial.
Kilic is accused of having links to a group led by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who Ankara accuses of having criminal masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt.
The latest hearing in Izmir comes a day after Kilic also went on trial in Istanbul via video link from a prison in Izmir in another case along with 10 rights activists, including Amnesty’s The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... director Idil Eser, who were tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! while attending a digital security training workshop in July.
Kilic was not present at the workshop, because he was in prison after being arrested the previous month. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he is accused of knowing about it.
Kilic is the voluntary chairman of Amnesty's board of directors handling administrative affairs in Turkey and Eser is in charge of day-to-day business including Amnesty Turkey's campaigns for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Eser and seven others were freed for the duration of their trial after the first hearing in Istanbul on Wednesday on charges of "aiding" an armed terror group. Two others had been released earlier.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday night that President Trump has ordered the State Department to shut off funding for "ineffective" United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... programs to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East, saying the administration will take over those efforts directly.
"From this day forward, America will provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID," Mr. Pence said at the In Defense of Christians annual solidarity dinner in Washington. "We will no longer rely on the United Nations alone to assist persecuted Christians and minorities in the wake of genocide and the atrocities of terrorist groups."
Saying Christians have been victims of a genocide at the hands of 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.... across the Middle East, Mr. Pence said the "sad reality" is that the U.N. spends about $1 billion per year on humanitarian aid in the region that doesn’t help Christians enough.
"While faith-based groups with proven track records and deep roots in these communities are more than willing to assist, the United Nations too often denies their funding requests," Mr. Pence said. "My friends, those days are over. This is the moment. Now is the time. And America will support these people in their hour of need."
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That is excellent, but what about KURDISTAN, you idiot?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain’s foreign minister Khawaja Asif has said the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group and other turbans no more need the Pak land to use for their operations.
Speaking to the Pak Senate on Wednesday, Asif presented the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan as a justification for his claim regarding the Lion of Islam group’s unwillingness to use the Pak soil.
He claimed that the ISIS terrorist group and Taliban forces of Evil have influence and control over 45 per cent of the soil of Afghanistan.
He also accused Afghanistan for acting as a controller for India and warned that this would never be acceptable for Pakistain.
According to Asif, the peace and stability in Pakistain has links with the peace and stability in Afghanistan, promising continued support of Pakistain in the fight against terror.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he said Pakistain will never become someone’s proxy, apparently gesturing towards the US pressures to act against the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
The United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday visited Pakistain and met with the top Pak officials, including Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and reiterated President Trump’s message regarding the increased efforts needed by Pakistain to eradicate the murderous Moslems and turbans from its country.
"The Secretary reiterated President Trump’s message that Pakistain must increase its efforts to eradicate murderous Moslems and turbans operating within the country," the Departmetn of State said in a statement.
The statement further added "To address those concerns, the Secretary outlined the United States’ new South Asia Strategy and the vital role that Pakistain can play in working with the United States and others to facilitate a grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan that can bring stability and security to the region."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A court in Pakistain has issued the arrest warrant of the former 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, then by the courts... nearly three months after he was disqualified over corruption charges.
According to the local media reports, the bailable arrest warrant was issued today by the country’s anti-corruption court.
The reports further add that the arrest warrant was issued for two cases of corruption spiralling from Panama Papaers leak.
The warrant was reportedly issued after he failed to appear in the court in two graft cases ‐ the Flagship Investment case and the al-Azizia Steel Mills and Hill Metal Establishment case.
This comes as Supreme Court of Pakistain late in July disqualified the country’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over corruption charges.
The decision regarding the disqualification of Sharif as Pakistain’s Premier was announced on 28th July after he was found guilty of involvement in corruption.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has no information that Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) chief Umar Khalid Khorasani was killed in a recent US dronezap, Defence Secretary Zamirul Hassan Shah told the Senate Standing Committee on Defence on Thursday.
Earlier this month, JuA front man Asad Mansoor had 'confirmed' to foreign news organizations that Khorasani had been killed in a US dronezap along with at least nine of his associates.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Shah, a retired Lt Gen, told the Senate committee that the news of Khorasani's death has not been verified, adding that a photograph of the JUA chief which had been issued along with news of his death "was a fake".
The secretary also said that there had been no US dronezap in Pak territory in the recent past.
A number of dronezaps had been reported in the Pak-Afghan border region between Oct 16 and Oct 20. On Oct 17, after five forces of Evil were killed in a US dronezap near Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif had clarified that the attack had targeted forces of Evil along the Pak-Afghan border area and did not happen inside Pakistain's territory.
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[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iraq have agreed to open a second border gate and its construction will begin once the necessary security measures are taken, Turkey's customs minister said on Thursday.
"I had the impression that the Iraqi government agrees that there should be a second border gate", Bulent Tufenkci told Anadolu news agency.
He said the planned gate would be near the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in a region where 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.... and Kurdish PKK Death Eaters still pose a security threat. "Once steps are taken to secure the path, there is no other obstacle for us," he said.
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[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... has called on neighboring Iraq to remain vigilant in the face of American plots, warning that the US is not trustworthy.
In a Thursday meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Tehran, the Leader expressed Iran’s support for the Iraqi government’s efforts to develop ties with regional states.
Ayatollah Khamenei, however, advised the Iraqi nation to remain "cautious about the Americans’ deceptions, and never put trust in them."
"The Americans created ISIS [Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists] themselves, but now that the Lions of Islam have been defeated by the Iraqi government and people, they pretend to be supportive of this important development," the Leader said.
"However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... they will undoubtedly not hesitate to harm Iraq again if they find the opportunity," the Leader added.
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[PRESSTV] Iran has rejected a recent report by a UN rights rapporteur, saying it has failed to take into account US sanctions on Tehran and thousands of victims of terrorist attacks in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
On Wednesday, Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on the Iran human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... situation, submitted a report to the world body, condemning alleged harassment of journalists and torture.
Jahangir said she had not assessed the impact of sanctions on human rights in Iran as she was not allowed to visit the country.
Hassan Nejad, Iran’s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, said on Thursday that Jahangir’s report had portrayed "a flawed and distorted image" of Iran.
The report, he said, had turned a blind eye to illegal and unilateral US sanctions against the Iranians and 17,000 victims of terrorism in the country.
"The only determining power for support of human rights in Iran is the Iranians themselves and there is no room for outsiders," Nejad said.
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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
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... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[PRESSTV] Iran has rejected a recent report by a UN rights rapporteur, saying it has failed to take into account US sanctions on Tehran and thousands of victims of terrorist attacks in the 
