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Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai: US colluded with ISIL in Afghanistan
[Al Jazeera] Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
, the former president of Afghanistan, has accused the the US of working with 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group in his country.

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera's UpFront aired on Friday, Karzai said the US government had allowed ISIS, also known as ISIS, to flourish inside Afghanistan.

"In my view under the full presence, surveillance, military, political, intelligence, ISIS [ISIS] has emerged," he said.

"And for two years the Afghan people came, cried loud about their suffering, of violations. Nothing was done."

Karzai said the US administration of 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...
made ISIS as an excuse to drop a massive bomb in Afghanistan on April 2017.

"And the next day, ISIS takes the next district in Afghanistan," he said referring to the Arabic name of the gang.

"That proves to us that there is a hand in it and that hand can be no one else but them [the US] in Afghanistan."

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  He's high.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  He can afford it. He and his brothers certainly made enough money in the heroin business.
Posted by: Jineper Glomoque3771 || 11/11/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I wish heroin would make this guy shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Raj || 11/11/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The issue isn't so much Karzai. This kind of duplicity/deliberate deceit is par for the course in that part of the world. That's why they're shitholes. It's Bush. The guy was a failure in the private sector. His entire selling point was that he was a good manager - that he knew how to pick people.

His picks in Iraq and Afghanistan have certainly not inspired confidence. Leftist historians and journalists dislike him for different reasons. But if Bush had picked a Franco or a Pinochet who smacked around the opposition while putting his nation on a sound footing, would they have much of a basis for criticizing him? Bush was an abysmal failure, whereas Obama was a great success. Bush was lousy at getting his agenda through, whereas Obama aced his agenda.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/11/2017 21:55 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Facts VS Fake: The reality behind recent developments in Saudi Arabia
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Numerous fake news have surfaced recently across news and social media related to developments in 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...
. Some of these emanate from 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...
i and Lebanese media sources while others are from international outlets quoting unknown sources.

Following are the top 9 fake news in circulation. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
facts as Al Arabiya English gathered, point to a different direction:

1) Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
’s movements are restricted in Saudi Arabia and that even he is under investigation.

The fact is Hariri, has been ’free to move around’ as confirmed by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 radio.

Earlier, Hariri was received by King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
and he also met Western ambassadors. He even travelled to Abu Dhabi and met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

2) Hariri’s plane returned to Beirut from Riyadh without him.

The plane did not visit Riyadh at all, but returned directly from La Belle France.

3) Guards confiscated the phones of Hariri and his aides from inside his private plane when they landed in Riyadh.

Hariri traveled to Riyadh on a regular flight in a commercial plane.

4) That the bank accounts of around 2,000 people has been frozen.

The number of those who are being questioned have been put couple of hundreds, as per the statement of the Attorney General.

5) Around 500 people were jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
The Attorney General, in his statement on Thursday, announced that 208 people were being questioned, while seven of them have been released.

6) The amount of money involved in the corruption investigation is up to $2 trillion.

The amount is about $100 billion, according to the Attorney General.

7) Hundreds of private companies were seized and their employees were terminated.

Business is continuing as usual and only personal accounts were suspended, according to the Attorney General’s statement.

8) Saudi stock market has collapsed.

On the contrary, the market witnessed a rise and reacted positively to the anti-corruption drive and the promotion of the values of transparency.

9) What is going on is a power struggle.

There is a total consensus in the Kingdom and there is absolutely no challenge to the current establishment and power structure.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets Yemen party leader
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with the head of the Yemeni Islah Party, Mohammad al-Yidumi, in Riyadh today, to discuss a number of issues related to the crisis in Yemen, reported the Saudi Press Agency.

The meeting was attended by Head of General Intelligence Khaled al-Humaidan and Secretary of the Supreme Assembly of the Yemeni Islah Party Abdul Wahab al-Ansi.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in Riyadh, Wednesday, with the President of the Republic of 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...
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Mohammed al-Houthi, the Iran-trained Yemeni who become a coup leader
[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...
recently announced a list of 40 names of leaders and members responsible for terrorist activities carried out by Houthis. But who is Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, who was ranked third and whom a bounty worth $20 million was placed on him?

Mohammed was born in 1975 in Saada. He joined the Iranian revolutionary guards before 2004 and later returned 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...
where he was jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for years. He emerged as a coup leader and engineer of the "revolutionary committees" which were tasked with controlling every aspect of the state following the coup in Yemen.

It’s not clear how many years he spent in Iran and what he exactly did there. However what’s certain is that Yemeni authorities imprisoned him after his return, sometime between the years 2004 and 2009, which is the time period when 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 ...
rebels fought battles in Saada with the government at the time. According to sources, Yemeni authorities believed he was the link between Iran and the Houthis.

Houthis say Mohammed, aka Abu Ahmad, was in charge of the group’s military wing and played a prominent role in their coup and invasion of Sanaa before he was tasked with heading the revolutionary committees.

According to journalist Mohammed al-Sufi, who is close to ousted President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, Mohammed al-Houthi’s father, who died in 2016, had the US citizenship.

Sufi noted however that it’s not clear whether Mohammed has the US citizenship or not, and added that Mohammed’s family had "a small company" in the US.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Prosecutors: Palestinian Hamburg terrorist wanted to kill Christians
[IsraelTimes] The unnamed man, a rejected asylum seeker, who killed one and maimed six, tells Sherlocks he was part of a 'worldwide jihad' and motivated by tensions over Temple Mount.

German prosecutors said Friday they have indicted on murder charges a Paleostinian man who fatally stabbed one person and maimed six others at a Hamburg supermarket in July.

The suspect wanted to kill as many Germans of Christian faith as possible to avenge what he considered to be injustices against Moslems worldwide, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Oddly enough, he did not attack until informed that his spurious asylum request had been rejected.
He considered his actions a "contribution to a worldwide jihad," they added.

The 26-year-old suspect, a rejected asylum seeker identified only as Ahmad A. due to German privacy rules, was charged with one count of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of serious bodily harm.

Prosecutors said Sherlocks had found no credible evidence that A., who was born in the United Arab Emirates and arrived in Germany in 2015,
...after a stop in Norway. The German authorities just missed the deadline to send him back, because they were overloaded with so many other "refugees" ...
was involved with or had the support of any Lion of Islam group, such as the so-called 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. They also found no evidence that anyone else was involved in the attack.

The suspect carried out the attack on July 28 with a kitchen knife he grabbed from a supermarket shelf. He was then overwhelmed by passers-by and tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
Ahmad A. had been cooperating with authorities in efforts to secure new Paleostinian identity papers so that he could be deported.

Officials in Hamburg have said that he was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but not as a "jihadist." They also considered him psychologically unstable but didn’t conclude that he posed any immediate danger.
Unstable petty criminal and druggy though he was, the authorities still attempted to recruit him as an informant about the Salafists they knew he associated with.
Federal prosecutors said he decided on the day of the attack to kill Christian Germans indiscriminately, and that he cited tensions at the time over the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem as his immediate motivation.
Golly. The Local.de adds:
He risks life in prison, although Germany often grants parole after 15 years.
This article starring:
Ahmad A.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Officials in Hamburg have said that he was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but not as a "jihadist." They also considered him psychologically unstable but didn’t conclude that he posed any immediate danger.

I'd deport whoever made that decision too
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The thing is, most Germans are post-Christian atheists. What the idiot meant was unbelievers. But really, he didn't even mean that, because he was striking out at the nearest bodies, who may well have been Moslem, and even fellow "asylum seekers". Those who chased him down and beat him with chairs, not to mention those who reported him at various times to the authorities as being a threat, were of his faith and his part of the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2017 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book (Bible), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued (or murdered)."

Sure this dirtbag may have snapped. Regardless he was following Muhammad's command and example of murdering anyone that resists the jihadi Islamic virus. Blaming his behavior to simple anger ignores the commanded course of his religion.

We need to come clean and recognize the call to global violence and murder.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/11/2017 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Nor acknowledge the religion of Truth.

I see the problem there, they don't know the truth even if it hit them in the face.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 11/11/2017 13:27 Comments || Top||


Tensions over Muslim Street Prayers North of Paris
[AnNahar] Around 100 local French politicians attempted to block Moslems praying in a street north of Gay Paree on Friday and called on the government to ban what they see as an unacceptable use of public space.

The politicians, led by the head of the regional government of the Gay Paree area, Valerie Pecresse, disrupted the crowd of around 200 all-male devotees and sang the national anthem in the multiethnic Clichy suburb.

"Public space cannot be taken over in this way," Pecresse said at the demonstration alongside the rightwing mayor of Clichy, Remi Muzeau, who like other politicians wore a sash in the national colors of blue, white and red.

Prayers in the street have taken place every Friday in Clichy since March to protest the closure of a popular local mosque that had operated in a government building.

The interior ministry "must ban street prayers," Muzeau told news hounds at the scene on Friday. "I am responsible for guaranteeing the tranquility and freedom of everyone in my town."

The former mosque run by the Union of Clichy Moslem Associations (UAMC) was used by 3,000 to 5,000 Moslems daily before the mayor's office reclaimed the building and turned it into a library.

Muzeau says that local Moslems have been urged to use a new 1,500-square-meter (16,000 square feet) mosque nearby, but many are refusing to go there.

La Belle France has Europe's largest Moslem community, estimated at around five million, and concern about the religion challenging the country's strict secular laws was a major theme in this year's presidential election.

Moslem religious leaders complain that not enough space is made available for those wanting to attend services, but building new mosques remains controversial, with the influential far-right National Front (FN) particularly hostile.

In 2011, FN leader Marine Le Pen compared the sight of Moslems praying on the streets to the occupation of La Belle France by the Nazis in World War II, leading her to be prosecuted -- and acquitted -- for inciting hatred.

Abdelkader, a Clichy resident who was praying in the street on Friday, told AFP that he wanted a "dignified" place to worship, as Christians and Jews enjoy in La Belle France, and that said nobody liked being in the street surrounded by police every Friday.

He also resented the politicians singing the national anthem during their protest.

"They were singing the Marseillaise, throwing it in our faces, even though we're French people here. We're French. Long live La Belle France!" he said.
Update at 11:15 a.m. ET: The Local - France has vidoe and photos.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I-285 got lottsa lanes, leave a couple lanes for the infidel and open up a let Mecca hear your screeching.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/11/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||


Assassination of an Ahwazi: Iran’s proxy war moves to Europe
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A chill wind blew through the Iranian expatriate community when Ahmad Molla Nissi, leader of a faction of Ahwazi Arab separatists, was rubbed out outside his home in The Hague on Wednesday night.

While many in the Iranian opposition ‐ particularly those with Persian chauvinist attitudes ‐ eschew his politics and violent tactics against the regime, there is fear that this liquidation could be part of a campaign of killings similar to the ’chain murders’ that targeted leading activists during the 1990s. These killings, carried out in Iran and Europe, included the infamous Mykonos restaurant liquidations that wiped out the leadership of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, the largest Kurdish party fighting the regime. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
most killings were members of the intelligentsia who questioned the regime’s theocratic premise.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


India-Pakistan
Nation has high hopes from CII for 'Islamisation' of country's laws, says president
[DAWN] President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday said that the nation had high hopes from the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) with respect to the "Islamisation" of the country's laws.

He made the remark during a meeting with Allah Bakhsh Kalyar, one of the newly appointed members of the institution.

The president congratulated Kalyar on his appointment and expressed hope that he would meet the people's expectations as a member of the institution.

Kalyar, who was appointed earlier this month, thanked the president for entrusting him with the responsibility and vowed that he would work diligently during his three-year tenure.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Siraj raps Nawaz for remarks on SC verdict
[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) emir Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
says that 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...
’s remarks on the Supreme Court verdict are unbecoming of his stature and his attempt to degrade the judiciary can pose a serious threat to the country’s future.

He was talking to the media at the mausoleum of Allama Iqbal after offering prayers on Thursday.

Mr Haq said self-seeking politicians had always harmed the Constitution and democracy and a clash with the judiciary was not in the interest of the present government itself and it would be responsible for the consequences. He said that Nawaz Sharif’s derogatory remarks about the country’s courts were below his status as a party leader, wondering what message Mr Sharif was giving to the masses.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Musharraf announces 'grand alliance' of 23 political parties
[DAWN] Former president Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
has announced a "grand alliance" of 23 political parties that will operate under the umbrella of the Pakistain Awami Itehad (PAI), DawnNews reported on Friday.

The alliance will be headed by Musharraf, while Iqbal Dar has been appointed Secretary General. The central office of the alliance will be in Islamabad.

Addressing a presser in this regard, Musharraf denied persistent rumours that he had wished to lead the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM), claiming that it was ridiculous to think that he would want to be head of a "minor, ethnic party".

"MQM-Pakistain is merely half of what the [original] party used to be," he said. "I am concerned about [the internal problems] of the party; however, I have no interest in replacing Farooq Sattar or Mustafa Kamal even if their parties are united," he insisted.

Criticising MQM, he said that the party and the muhajir community have lost respect. The muhajir community would do better to abandon ethnic politics and join PAI, he said.

He added that the alliance between MQM and the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) could not last due to a lack of leadership. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
he said, that it would still be better for both MQM and the PSP to form an alliance.

He expressed hope that Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi would join his grand alliance as well.

The former president also advised Pakistain Tehhreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
to "join hands with a group that would take Pakistain forward" while accusing him of only thinking about his own party (PTI).

The political parties that have already joined PAI include the All Pakistain Moslem League (APML), the Pakistain Awami Tehrik, Sunni Itehad Council, Majlis-e-Wahdatul Moslemeen, Pakistain Sunni Tehrik
...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
, Moslem Conference (Kashmire), PML-Junejo, PML-Council, PML- National, Awami League, Pak Moslem Alliance, Pakistain Mazdoor Ittehad, Conservative Party, Muhajir Ittehad Tehrik, Pakistain Insani Huqooq Party, Millat Party, Jamaat Ulma Pakistain (Niazi Group), Aam Loug Party, Aam Admi Party, Pakistain Masawat Party, Pakistain Minority Party, Jamaat Mashaikh Pakistain, Social Justice Democratic Party.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran building a permanent military base in Syria — report
[IsraelTimes] Satellite photos commissioned by the BBC show construction of two dozen large low-rise buildings -- likely for housing soldiers and vehicles
Photos and a map can be seen at the link.
Iran is building a permanent military base in Syria just south of Damascus, the BBC reported Friday, citing a Western intelligence official. The British broadcaster commissioned a series of satellite pictures that indicate widespread construction at the site.

Israel has long warned that Iran is trying to establish a permanent presence in Syria as part of its efforts to control a land corridor from Iran through to the Mediterranean Sea as it attempts to expand its influence across the Middle East.

According to the BBC report, the base is situated at a site used by the Syrian army near El-Kiswah, 14 km (8 miles) south of Damascus.

The BBC provided satellite images that show "a series of two dozen large low-rise buildings, likely for housing soldiers and vehicles."

The photos, taken over several months, show additional buildings being constructed. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the report said that "it is impossible to independently verify the purpose of the site and the presence of the Iranian military."

"The images of the base do not reveal any signs of large or unconventional weaponry which means if it was a base it would most likely be to house soldiers and vehicles," the BBC said, quoting a source who said it was possible that senior Iranian military officials may have visited the compound in recent weeks.

Also, the report said independent analysis of the images commissioned by the BBC concluded that the facility is military in nature. The analysis also suggested there are a series of garages that can hold six to eight vehicles each.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Saudi FM Jubeir: We would like sanctions against Iran for supporting terror
[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...
would like to see sanctions on Iran for its support of terrorism and for violating the ballistic missile resolutions of the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
, foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir has said.

In an interview to CNBC, Jubeir said that when you combine those three, fixing the nuclear agreement and holding Iran accountable for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program, then I think we have an effective way of dealing with Iran.

On being asked about the ballistic missile launch from Yemen, he said that the missile was Iranian built and was similar to a missile that was launched against the city of Yanbu on July 22.

"It’s a carrying missile, has a range of over 900 kilometers. It was smuggled into 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...
in parts and then assembled in Yemen we believe by the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah experts and then it was launched at our city," said Jubeir.

On the nuclear deal with Iran, he said that it is about fixing a deal that needed to be fixing.

"The nuclear agreement was weak. It has a sunset provision which expires 12 years after the signing of the agreement which lifts the restrictions on how many centrifuges Iran can have. The Iranians theoretically could have 50,000 to 100,000 centrifuges," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Terror Networks
Why Obama put Bin Laden’s documents linking Iran, Qatar under lock and key
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that days after the release of the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
's documents out of his residence in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
in Pakistain, it became obvious why US President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
didn’t publish those documents which links al-Qaeda with Iran and 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...
In an article published on The Washington Times on Wednesday, May said senior experts at the Defense for Democracies and other centers opposed the government's decision not to publish Bin Laden's documents over the years, and wanted all documents to be available to researchers, journalists, policymakers and public opinion.

According to May, Bin Laden in his memoirs praised Qatari media at the time, in addition to his emphasis on the impact of the Moslem Brüderbund group on his approach to adopt the ideology of global jihad.

The president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said that the most important part of the current political debate is the assessment of 19 pages of Bin Laden's dedicated documents on Iran.

It reveals that Iran has supplied al-Qaeda with "everything" from visas, money, weapons, as well as training in Hezbollah camps in Leb.

Iran has also provided a safe haven for al-Qaeda gunnies "in exchange for striking US interests in 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...
and the Gulf," according to the documents.

In a separate memorandum, bin Laden himself shows that by 2007 Iran had become the main source of funds, personnel and communications for al-Qaeda.

May asserts that al-Qaeda and Iran are not enemies but rivals, competing and fighting at the same time as they have profound doctrinal differences.

Mike Pompeo, the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA), in 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 government, made a major effort to publish 470,000 documents, photographs and computer files obtained from the Abbottabad hideout.

He criticized Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who worked for years through the Iranian lobby in the United States, for preventing the publication of those documents that show Iran's support for the world's largest terrorist organization as he considered Abbottabad documents fabricated.

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#1  File under another reason to charge Obama with treason.
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