[PRESSTV] A high-ranking Yemeni military official says 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 massive bombing campaign with poison gas is to blame for the humanitarian crisis and cholera epidemic in the conflict-plagued Arabian Peninsula country.
Yemen's army front man Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said on Sunday that Saudi Arabia is the main culprit for the current cholera epidemic among Yemen's vulnerable population as Saudi fighter jets continue to spread biological agents in the air, which subsequently contaminate water supply systems.
Luqman further described Yemen’s cholera outbreak as a "bio-terrorism plot" hatched by the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime of Israel.
He stressed that the outbreak of highly contagious diseases, especially cholera, is directly related to the Saudi regime’s aerial bombardment campaign.
The senior Yemeni military official went on to say that Saudi warplanes have on occasions released poisonous gases, which mix with the surrounding air, come down in the form of rain and cause groundwater pollution at last.
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Yeah, that and shitting in your water supply.
But mostly shitting in your water supply
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So transparent. Everything bad is done to them by their enemies. Cholera is the disease you get by drinking water that humans have shit in. The cholera bacteria is highly susceptible to all methods of sanitation: chlorine tablets, boiling, etc. The ONLY way to get cholera is to drink raw shitwater. There is no other way.
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[PRESSTV] Jared Kushner, the Jewish senior adviser and son-in-law of 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... , has reportedly taken a secret trip to 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... , marking his third visit to the monarchy this year.
US Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell and the administration's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt traveled with Kushner on a commercial flight to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and returned on Saturday, Politico reported Sunday, citing a White House official.
"The senior advisor to the president, the deputy national security advisor for strategy, and the special representative for international negotiations recently returned from Saudi Arabia," the White House official said.
The official further asserted that Kushner has been in touch with Israelis as well as certain countries in the Middle East.
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"Food fight!"
[PRESSTV] The World Food Programme (WFP) says food is being used as a "weapon of 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... at a time when millions of people face an impending famine in the conflict-ravaged impoverished Arab country.
"Yemen is on the brink of famine. Cholera is compounding a dramatic food crisis. Food is being used as a weapon of war," Elisabeth Rasmussen, the WFP assistant executive director, said at a conference on aid to Yemen on Sunday.
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... has already described the ongoing conflict in Yemen as the "largest humanitarian crisis in the world." The war has left seven million people at risk of famine and an estimated 17 million, which amounts to about 60 percent of the overall population of the country, food insecure. Another 2,100 people have died of cholera since April as hospitals struggle to secure basic supplies across the country.
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Food is being used as a weapon of war," Elisabeth Rasmussen, the WFP assistant executive director, said at a conference on aid to Yemen on Sunday.
I used to think that people like her are pretending --- cause nobody is that dumb.
[PRESSTV] Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah has warned that his country will not attend an upcoming Persian Gulf Cooperation Council if 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... doesn't alter its stance on regional issues.
"If Qatar thinks that its current playing with time and evading will buy it time till the upcoming GCC summit, then it's mistaken. If the situation remained as it is, we won't attend this summit," said Al Khalifah on his official Twitter account on Sunday.
He added that the right step to preserve the council is to halt Qatar's membership... "otherwise we are fine with its outing from the council."
Earlier in the day, Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani warned that any military action against his country will plunge the region into chaos.
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Persian Gulf Country Club?
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has sentenced 11 people to 20 years’ imprisonment for attempting to assassinate Awami League President and incumbent Bangladesh Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. at her family residence in Dhanmondi, Dhaka 28 years ago.
The convicts, all members of Bangladesh Freedom Party, were also sentenced to life-time imprisonment for hurling bombs at the Dhandmondi Road 32 residence of Hasina’s father and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 11, 1989.
Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of Dhaka Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court issued the verdict on Sunday.
The convicts were fined Tk20,000 each in both the cases and an additional six months in prison in case of default.
The accused include Najmul Maksud Murad, Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Gulam Sarwar Faruk alias Mamun, Joj Miah, Freedom Sohel, Gazi Imam Hossain, Khandaker Amirul Islam Kajol, Mizanur Rahman, Md Shahjahan Balu, Jafar Ahmed and Md Humayun Kabir.
One of the accused in the cases, Humayun Kabir, was acquitted as the charges against him were not proven at court.
Expressing satisfaction over the verdict, Public prosecutor Abdullah Abu said the attack was carried out in continuation of the brutal liquidation of Sheikh Hasina’s family that took place on August 15, 1975.
"They wanted to make the Awami League leaderless by killing Sheikh Hasina. The court has ensured their punishment and we are happy for that," he added.
A total of 12 witnesses testified before the court since the deposition recording began on August 27, 2009 in two cases on the attack.
According to the cases, seven or eight armed activists of Bangladesh Freedom Party, riding two three-wheelers, came to the residence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Road 32 in Dhanmondi on August 11, 1989.
Forcing into the residence, the miscreants hurled grenades and shot up the building, where Hasina was staying at the time.
In retaliation, police members Habilder Jahirul Haque and Constable Zakir Hossain, who were stationed at the premises for security, shot up the attackers, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace chanting slogans such as "Col Farooq Zindabad".
Later, Jahirul filed two cases with Dhanmondi cop shoppe under the Explosives Substances Act and the Penal Code.
On February 20, 1997, the then assistant superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department (CID),
Khalekuzzaman, who also investigated the cases, submitted charge sheets accusing 16 people.
The trial in the case began on July 5, 2009.
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who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace chanting slogans such as "Col Farooq Zindabad".
kinda rolls right off the tongue, dunnit?
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[DAWN] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at Indian National Congress and said that the party batting for greater autonomy in India-held Kashmir was an insult to the bravery and sacrifice of Indian soldiers, reported Times of India (TOI).
"Yesterday's statement of a Congress leader on Kashmir clearly shows how the party feels on surgical strikes and bravery of our army," PM Modi said at a rally in Congress-ruled Karnataka's Bengaluru.
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[AlAhram] Massud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, told a closed-door session of parliament Sunday he was stepping down amid the fallout from a controversial independence referendum.
Also Sunday, the Kurds agreed to surrender to Iraqi forces the strategic border post of Fishkhabur, through which pass oil export pipelines to Ceyhan in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "After November 1, I will no longer exercise my functions, and I reject any extension of my mandate," the 71-year-old Barzani said in a letter read out to parliament in the Kurdish capital Arbil, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
"Changing the law on the presidency of Kurdistan or prolonging the presidential term is not acceptable," said the architect of the September 25 independence vote, which led to the Kurds losing to Baghdad's forces disputed territory and oilfields to which they had laid claim.
"I ask parliament to meet to fill the vacancy in power, to fulfil the mission and to assume the powers of the presidency of Kurdistan", said the letter.
Barzani said he would "remain a peshmerga" (Kurdish fighter) and "continue to defend the achievements of the people of Kurdistan".
Barzani's letter was sent to parliament to decide on the provisional redistribution of the presidency's powers until a presidential election, for which a date has yet to be fixed.
November 1 had originally been slated for both presidential and legislative elections in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, but these were postponed in the chaos that followed the referendum -- which returned a massive "yes" to independence.
Sunday's parliamentary session was postponed several times amid political tensions.
Dozens of men rushed at the parliament building late Sunday, hitting out at journalists, media reports and MPs reported. Police had gun sex to disperse them.
The opposition Goran party which had sought Barzani's resignation and a "government of national salvation" opposes the redistribution of the presidency's powers.
That plan was proposed by the major Kurdish parties, Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and its rival Kurdish Patriotic Union (PUK).
Barzani "symbolises the failure of Kurdish politics, and the only thing left for him to do is to issue a public apology," Goran MP Rabun Maarouf said before the session began.
KDP deputy Ari Harin spoke of an "international plot".
Barzani had come under growing opposition from his detractors after he organised the referendum on Kurdish independence that triggered a deep crisis with Baghdad.
The federal government deemed the vote unconstitutional, and its forces have since seized a swathe of disputed territory in the north from Kurdish fighters. Territory reclaimed from the Kurds in the sweeping operation included key oilfields in and around the disputed province of Kirkuk.
On Sunday, a government source in Baghdad told AFP that a deal had been reached under which Baghdad's forces would deploy at the disputed Fishkhabur border post with Turkey after festivities in the area on Thursday. The loss of the oilfields, which provided income that would have been critical to an independent Kurdish state, sparked recriminations among the Kurds.
Political life in Kurdistan is dominated by the KDP and PUK of Iraq's late president Jalal Talabani. Iraq's current president, Fuad Masum, is also a PUK member and had backed a push for dialogue between the Kurds and Baghdad before the referendum. After the vote, Masum said the referendum had triggered the assault on Kirkuk.
Iraq's neighbours Turkey and Iran, which have their own Kurdish minorities, also strongly opposed the non-binding vote, and Ankara on Thursday said the Iraqi Kurdish offer for the referendum to be frozen was "not enough", instead urging the Arbil government to cancel it.
French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in a phone call Saturday that "everything possible should be done to avoid fighting between Iraqis", the presidency in Gay Paree said.
Barzani's move comes with Abadi's forces engaged in battles in the west with holdout jihadists 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.... group, assaulting what the premier called "the last den of terrorism in Iraq", al-Qaim on the border with Syria.
The mandate of Barzani, the first and only elected president of the autonomous Kurdish region, expired in 2013. It was extended for two years and then continued in the chaos that followed the sweeping IS offensive across Iraq in 2014.
[PRESSTV] Angry demonstrators, some carrying clubs, have reportedly stormed the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the region’s capital city of Erbil as the Kurdish politicians approved a request by president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , to step down early next month.
According to witnesses, protesters were angry at Barzani’s decision to resign from the presidency of the region.
Some reports indicated that gunshots were heard as protesters, who claimed they were Peshmerga Kurdish fighters forced their way into the parliament building.
[IsraelTimes] Global agency says it sealed off underground passage after 'unacceptable' find under its facilities
United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... officials discovered a tunnel built under a school in the Gazoo Strip run by UNRWA, the international body’s agency for Paleostinian refugees, the global body said in a statement.
Since the discovery some two weeks ago, UNRWA closed the school and sealed off the opening to the tunnel. The school resumed operations last Wednesday, the UN organization said.
The statement Saturday did not say where the tunnel led, where it was found, or who was believed to have constructed it.
"The presence of a tunnel underneath an UNRWA installation, which enjoys inviolability under international law, is unacceptable. It places children and agency staff at risk," the agency said.
UNRWA informed Israel’s Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories, IDF Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, of the incident and also lodged a complaint with the relevant authorities in Gazoo over the violation of the neutrality of a UN facility, according to a Sunday report from the Hebrew-language Ynet website.
Over the years, Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist rulers have built a labyrinth of tunnels, some passing under the border into Israel which they used to launch attacks during their last conflict with the Jewish state in 2014.
On June 1, UNRWA said it found "part of a tunnel that passes under two adjacent agency schools in the Maghazi camp" during construction work.
At the time, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon submitted a letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council.
Hamas later "strongly condemned" the UNRWA revelation, saying it would be exploited by Israel to "justify its crimes."
The terror group denied it built the tunnel and said it had clarified the issue "with all factions and resistance forces, who clearly stated they had no actions related to the resistance in the said location."
UNRWA has long been criticized by Israel for aspects of its handling of relations with Hamas, and Israel has claimed that some of UNRWA’s Paleostinian employees support terrorist activities and spread anti-Semitism online.
An independent UN inquiry found in 2015 that Paleostinian gangs hid weapons in three empty UN-run schools in Gazoo and that in at least two cases Death Eaters "probably" fired rockets at Israel from the facilities during the summer war in 2014 between Israel and the Gazoo Strip.
[PRESSTV] Syria says it still considers the northern city of Raqqah "an occupied city," less than two weeks after US-backed Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) flushed out ISISTakfiri ...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... hard boyz from the city but they also kept government troops out of the liberating offensive.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry made the comments in a statement released on Sunday, adding that Raqqah, used to be ISIS’s de facto capital for a couple of years, still "cannot be considered liberated until the entry of the Syrian army, which is fighting" against hard boyz "along with its allies."
"The allegations of the United States and its so-called alliance concerning the liberation of the city of Raqqah from the ISIS terrorist group are pure lies," further said the statement, carried by Syria's official news agency, SANA.
The ministry also asserted that Washington's goal was to "divert the eyes of the international community from the crimes committed by this alliance in the province of Raqqah."
On October 17, the SDF coalition announced that it had defeated ISIS in Raqqah and three days later said that it had fully recaptured the city from the terror group, following a military operation, which was launched in July without Damascus’ approval.
At the time, the US-backed SDF also said in a provocative statement that the city would be part of a system of "federal government" in the country’s north.
The Syrian military has not so far engaged the SDF, which has reportedly shelled the positions of government troops on several occasions in recent weeks.
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[PRESSTV] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected a meeting requested by 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... while in New York for the 72nd UN General Assembly.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi made the announcement on Sunday during a presser after he was asked if Trump had wanted to meet the Iranian president while in New York.
"Such a meeting was suggested by the American side, but was not accepted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani," Qassemi said.
The highest level of contact between the two countries in decades was in 2013 when Rouhani had a phone conversation with former US President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... .
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Bestselling author Edward Klein is set to release his latest book All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump
Klein makes the shocking revelation that an FBI investigation discovered collusion between American anarchists and ISIS and Al-Qaeda
'This is the greatest challenge to law enforcement since the Weather Underground and the Black Panther Party,' the FBI report declared
It reveals the FBI sent a task force to Germany to report on radical groups that planned to protest President Trump's attendance at this year's G20 Summit
The investigation determined that U.S.-backed anarchist/radical groups had traveled to Germany and took part in the violence
There was also evidence that three key leaders of an Oakland group met in Hamburg with a leader of the Al-Qaeda
The foreign terrorists were helping them acquire the weapons they are seeking, primarily bomb-making equipment and toxic chemicals and gasses
Edward Klein is the former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine and the author of numerous bestsellers including his fourth book on the Clintons, Guilty as Sin, in 2016. His latest book is All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump will be released October 30, 2017
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See ANTIFA Leader: “November 4th […] millions of antifa supersoldiers will behead all white parents”.
Tom Bloke, considered to be one of the leaders of the domestic terrorist group ANTIFA, took to Twitter today to threaten violence against “white parents” and “small business owners”.
Tom Bloke @21logician
can't wait for November 4th when millions of antifa supersoldiers will behead all white parents and small business owners in the town square
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.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
Massoud Barzani
...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...
