[AlAhram] Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali said on Tuesday that Egypt currently hosts refugees from 59 countries without restrictions or limitations on their freedoms.
Wali made the comments on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh.
"Refugees in Egypt are not profiled and are afforded full services available to Egyptian citizens in healthcare and education," Wali added.
The Egyptian minister said that her country does not isolate immigrants colonists in camps "as other countries have done."
"Egypt has the highest rate of enrollment of Syrian children in schools at 40,000 children, who receive proper education and services just like Egyptian citizens."
Egyptian representative of 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... High Commissioner for Refugees Karim Atassi said that the commission is working to assist Egyptian humanitarian efforts to host refugees, describing Egypt as a pivotal state in the region.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in 2016 that Egypt hosts five million refugees and immigrants colonists despite facing its own economic challenges.
Egypt is actively participating in international forums to develop frameworks on dealing with and protecting immigrants colonists and refugees.
[AlAhram] Malian soldiers killed by a French military strike in northern Mali last month were deserters who had joined an Islamist turban group, a French source close to the matter said on Tuesday.
That contradicted comments from the Malian Defence Ministry, which said on Monday that the soldiers killed in the Oct. 23 strike, a raid on a camp of the Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... turban group, had been its hostages.
The French source said the raid was carried "on the basis of detailed intelligence against a camp that included Malians who had joined the Islamist ranks. They were hit, amongst others."
"They were not prisoners," the source told Rooters, declining to say how many were killed or captured in the raid.
The source accused Malian authorities of spreading propaganda in the run-up to presidential elections, which are scheduled for November 2018.
A French defence ministry source added: "We have a real trust problem with the Malians."
Malian officials were not immediately available for comment.
The French army previously said that 15 members of Ansar Dine, which is loosely affiliated to other turban groups operating in northern Mali, were taken "out of action" in the raid.
The Malian government is struggling to contain Tuareg and Islamist violence in the country's north, some of which is spreading south. Attempts to place officials in northern towns have sometimes failed, raising questions about the government's ability to maintain stability ahead of the elections.
Islamist Lions of Islam seized northern Mali in 2012 and French forces intervened a year later.
Around 4,000 of its troops remain in West Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... as part of Operation Barkhane, a cross-border anti-terrorism operation.
La Belle France has also been at the forefront of organising a regional force as part of efforts to find a long-term strategy to exit the region.
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[DAWN] Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday threatened retaliation against the ports and airports of the United Arab Emirates and 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... , which this week closed the Yemeni land, sea and air borders.
"All airports, ports, border crossings and areas of any importance to Saudi Arabia and the UAE will be a direct target of our weapons, which is a legitimate right," read a statement released by the rebels' political office.
Allied with Yemen's government, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been battling the Huthis on Yemeni land since 2015.
The statement comes a day after the coalition announced it had closed all of Yemen's borders, after Saudi forces intercepted a ballistic missile headed for the kingdom's international airport in Riyadh. The Huthis had claimed the missile attack.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... on Monday reported the Saudi-led coalition had prevented two humanitarian aid flights from flying to the war-torn country.
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[TheAntiMedia] Following the death of Prince Mansour bin-Muqrin in a helicopter crash near the Yemen border yesterday, the Saudi Royal Court has confirmed the death of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd ‐ killed during a firefight as authorities attempted to arrest him.
The Duran and Al-Masdar News both report that the prince died when his security contingent got into a firefight with regime gunmen attempting to make an arrest.
The Saudi Royal family has now lost two princes in 24 hours.
As Al Jazeera notes, in this Saudi version of ‘Game of Thrones’, the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown
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Wow just wow! Look at his assets in Wikipedia: Link
Fortune
Abdul Aziz received exactly half of all profits of the successful Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).[12] He had a number of palaces in Saudi Arabia and around various other parts of the world which have cost over $2 billion[24] which include:
London Mansion on the Billionaire's row in Kensington, now for sale at £100 million.[25]
A very large private stately residential complex with the replica of Alhambra and several other famous forts set within well maintained splendid gardens covering an area of 134 acres in the exclusive area overlooking Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh. 24.645808°N 46.643202°E
Massive farm near Janadriya covering an area of 715 acres or about 2.89 square kilometers at the northern outskirts of Riyadh. Satellite photos reveal large swimming pools, luxury tents and its own water and sewage treatment facility set within a large date farm.25.138224°N 46.79251°E
In Jeddah he has several palaces with private yacht berths and each palace has more than twenty guest houses .[citation needed]
Al Khobar Palace with berth for his super yacht Prince Abdulaziz [26]
In addition, he reportedly owned "the Pyramid House" on Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California.[27][28] He also had several super yachts including Prince AbdulAziz, which is one of the largest built in the 20th century.[29]
Business activities
His ties with Saudi Oger are well known in Saudi Arabia. The company was founded by Rafik Hariri, who built Saudi Oger into a large company with the assistance of King Fahd. Hariri said ‘The meat on my shoulder is from King Fahd,’ according to As'ad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at California State University Stanislaus, who has written several books and runs the blog The Angry Arab News Service. Hariri, also a former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated in 2005. His son, Saad Hariri, took over Saudi Oger and became Lebanon’s prime minister for 14 months before he was ousted in 2011. Saad Hariri and Prince Abdul Aziz are known to be close.[11]
Abdul Aziz bin Fahd owned fifty percent of the MBC, of which the remainder is owned by his maternal uncle Waleed bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim. It is reported that Prince Abdul Aziz dealed with both the profits and the ideology of MBC Channels, including al Arabiya.[12]
It emerged in a New York Supreme Court affidavit that he was the secret owner of a $1 billion property portfolio in the US [13] which owns the American headquarters of the oil giant BP and the defence contractor BAe Systems. In January 2002 The Daily Telegraph newspaper valued the portfolio at £4 billion.[14] The affidavit, which was subsequently partially sealed by the judge but had already become available on internet blogs [15][16] stated that the properties were being managed by a group which included Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim, Prince’s maternal uncle, and that total control of the portfolio was ultimately seized by Interventure Capital Group and Interventure Advisers, both of Manhattan, New York. According to a press release issued by Hyatt Hotels Corporation,[17] Interventure Capital Group is run by Jaber Al Ibrahim and is an adviser to Naseel Holding Company, the Al Ibrahim family investment vehicle chaired by Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim.[18]
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph in October 2010, Interventure Capital Group is also behind another major portfolio of properties which had been controlled by a UK-based company, StratREAL.[19] Assets purchased by StratREAL on behalf of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd included Fifth Street Towers, a Minneapolis office complex, for $294 million in 2007.[20] In May 2012, following a foreclosure on the complex for mortgage default, Fifth Street Towers was sold at a sheriff's auction for $1 over the outstanding debt of $110 million.[21]
A mansion at 5 Palace Green, on London's Kensington Palace Gardens (nicknamed "Billionaires' Row"), was reported to be being offered for sale by Abdul Aziz in July 2013 for £100 million.[22]
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in this Saudi version of ‘Game of Thrones’, the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown
Oh, finally somebody who doesn't buy all this modernization dreck.
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According to the 3dc Bannon link: Bannon said a driving force behind the transformation of Saudi Arabia and other major events in the Middle East is the recognition by many regional powers that “President Trump and the United States of America have had enough of it and are just not going to tolerate anymore this financing, the exporting of radical Islamic terror into Western Europe and the United States.”
[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 53 active sergeants over alleged links to the US-based holy man accused of orchestrating last year's attempted coup, state media said on Tuesday.
Twenty of the suspects have so far been detained in the operation across 12 provinces, state run Anadolu Agency said. Thirty-three other soldiers were currently being sought, it said.
The interior ministry said on Monday that nearly 700 people were tossed into the calaboose over the previous week on allegations of ties to what Ankara calls the "Gulenist Terror Group".
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"The NCO's are unreliable politically. Arrest them!. The Commissioned are as well, arrest them!"
Pretty soon you have a military force of extremely religious and incompetent commissars
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[Inquirer] The Philippine military on Monday discredited a police claim that a Malaysian militant had succeeded slain Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... leader Isnilon Hapilon as the Islamic State's “emir” in southeast Asia.
In a news conference on Monday morning, PNP Director General Ronald dela Rosa identified the Malaysian as “drone operator” Amin Baco. Dela Rosa presented to reporters arrested Indonesian militant Muhammad Ilham Syahputra, according to whom, he said, Baco was not only leading the remaining Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Marawi but also had taken over as “emir."
Experts say Baco was trained under Malaysian militant Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, who was killed in 2015. Baco was reported to have been killed in Marawi but Reuters, citing intelligence sources, reported that he had fled. Dela Rosa said it was “possible” but “unconfirmed” that Baco had slipped out of Marawi.
But in a statement issued on Monday afternoon, Maj. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr., spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said Baco was believed to be among the terrorists killed in Marawi. The statement said, "Baco’s remains [are] now the subject of an ongoing aggressive search. The AFP strongly believes that the [Maute group] is now leaderless and without direction."
Padilla maintained that only “clearing operations” were going on in Marawi to get the last IS-inspired terrorists who were “fighting for survival” and hiding “in the hope of escaping.”
Padilla was quoting Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, who in a separate interview with reporters on Monday said Baco was most likely dead.
In an interview with reporters at AFP headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not confirm or deny Dela Rosa’s claim but appeared to play it down. Lorenzana said that even if Baco was now the leader of the stragglers in Marawi, “I think he can no longer amass that number of troops that [Hapilon] can bring to Marawi.”
Troops killed nine of the stragglers in a firefight on Sunday, according to Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of the military forces in Marawi. Brawner said among those killed was Ibrahim Maute, alias Abu Jamil, a cousin of the Maute brothers who led the siege of Marawi in alliance with Hapilon’s faction of the Abu Sayyaf and a number of foreign fighters.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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