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Afghanistan
Trump allows US troops to join Afghan raids on Taliban targets
[DAWN] The Trump administration is allowing American troops in Afghanistan to participate in joint operations with official Afghan forces and to call in air strikes when needed, US officials say.

Several current and former Pentagon officials told Foreign Policy magazine that the Trump administration is also sending thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan to participate in these missions.

"Hundreds of American troops will accompany Afghan forces on combat missions, where they will be able to directly request bombing raids and artillery fire for their Afghan partners," the magazine reported.

Last month, the US Air Forces Central Command reported that the number of US air strikes in Afghanistan hit a seven-year high in September as the military acted on President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s new strategy for the country.

US forces dropped 751 bombs against the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and the bully boy 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....
(IS) group targets in Afghanistan in September, an increase of 50 per cent from the 503 dropped in August and the most since the Battle of Sangin in late 2010, when more than 100 US and British troops were killed while fighting the Taliban.

Senior US military officers, who spoke to Foreign Policy, say the approach of embedding American forces with Afghan units in the field is modelled on the US-led air war in Iraq and Syria, where American commandos dialed in heavy firepower while local Iraqi and Kurdish forces fought the IS on the ground.

While US special operations troops will continue to participate in this mission in Afghanistan, newly arrived American soldiers will also spread out with with small Afghan units in the field, the magazine reported.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Thinni orders suspension and arrest of mayors dealing with government of national accord
[Libya Herald] The Beida-based interim prime minister Abdullah al-Thinni has ordered the suspension and arrest of mayors and councillors from areas supposedly under his control who have been in contact with the Presidency Council’s government of national accord (GNA) based in 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...
Thinni gave the instruction to suspend the mayors and councillors this morning to his minister of local government, and that to arrest them to his new acting interior minister, Colonel Younis Mohammed Belgassem Ismail.

The move will affect several of the municipalities in the east which have not, so far, had military governors appointed to run them. The two most prominent are Beida and Tobruk. The mayor of Beida, Ali Hussein Mohammed, has had talks with Serraj in search of funding for his town as have councillors from Tobruk. The mayor of Tobruk, Naji Maziq, studiously avoided meeting Serraj and instead sent other councillors to negotiate instead for funding for the town’s electricity and water projects, but this may not save him.

The suspension and arrest orders are likely to complicate matters in the east. The mayor in Beida, for example, is popular and his arrest could stir up local anger.

The orders are also likely to deepen the antagonisms between the east and west of the country.

"This move will not help reconciliation," said one top local government official in Tripoli, adding that "the timing is obviously connected to the events of the past few days in Benghazi". He was referring to the latest liquidation attempt in Benghazi against the GNA’s deputy interior minister Faraj al-Gaem, his ultimatum to Khalifa Hafter to quit the city and yesterday’s counter attempt by the LNA to seize him.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Saudis told Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or resign — report
[IsraelTimes] During his surprise summons to Riyadh last week, Paleostinian Authority chief was also ordered to avoid Iran, cut ties with Hezbollah, according to Channel 10 TV
Interesting times.
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...
last week ordered Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
to either accept an Israeli-Paleostinian peace deal being put together by the Trump administration, or resign, according to an Israeli report Sunday.

The Trump administration has begun drafting an Israeli-Paleostinian peace proposal based on a two-state solution, officials and analysts quoted by The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

said on Saturday.

A senior White House adviser said the plan would attempt to tackle controversial issues such as the status of Jerusalem and West Bank settlements.

Abbas was called unexpectedly to Riyadh six days ago by the office of the powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

There, in addition to being told to "accept Trump’s peace plan or quit," he was ordered to keep away from any Iranian influence, according to the report on Israel’s Channel 10.

The Saudi authorities made clear that they were dismayed by media images of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,’s deputy political leader, Saleh al-Arouri, visiting Tehran in October. Arouri, a Hamas terror chief, was the Hamas signatory on a reconciliation deal with Abbas’s Fatah group signed in Cairo last month.

The Saudis also made clear that Lebanese activists within Abbas’s Fatah faction could no longer cooperate with the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror organization, Hezbollah.

Since the reported the warnings, which could threaten the new Paleostinian unity agreement signed by Fatah and the Iranian-backed Hamas in the Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian media displayed a rare degree of unity in recent days by coming out against Iran.

The daily newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, for example, wrote that, "The Paleostinian Authority will not allow Iran to interfere on its territory" or to try to create a Paleostinian copy of the Hezbollah.

Sunni Saudi Arabia has been flexing its muscles opposite Shiite Iran.

Last week, Lebanese prime minister 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.
turned up in Riyadh, appearing on Saudi TV to announce his resignation and prompting rumors that he was being held against his will.

On Sunday night, Hariri gave his first TV interview, attacking Iran and its Hezbollah proxy, and claiming that he would return to Leb in the coming days to formally submit his resignation to Lebanese President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1 
Posted by: Jasing the Limber5475 || 11/13/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||


Houthis repeat threat to target international shipping lines, oil tankers
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian-backed 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 reiterated threats to target international shipping lines and oil ships in the Red Sea.

"We will take measures we have not taken before and we can target oil ships. We can do anything," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the chief of the so-called supreme revolutionary committee, said on Facebook.

Mohammed al-Houthi, who is on 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 terror list, said they will carry out these threats if the Saudi-led coalition and legitimate forces liberate the city and port of Hodeidah, west of Yemen.

"In this case we can target oil tankers. We can do anything," he said, adding that it was the Houthis’ "legitimate right" to do so.

He also threatened that giant oil facilities in Saudi Arabia will be among the major targets of their "capable missiles," in reference to ballistic missiles smuggled from Iran.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the Houthi leader, reportedly said that if "the Saudi-led coalition wants oil ships to be safe then it better not invade" Hodeidah.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Take out some Iranian ships. Blame the Houthis. Hilarity ensues
Posted by: Frank G || 11/13/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||


Bahrain dissident who ‘spied’ for Qatar to stand trial
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bahraini Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman will face trial later this month for "spying" for 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...
, the state prosecution said on Sunday.

Salman will be tried alongside two of his colleagues, Hassan Sultan and Ali Mehdi, from November 27 after they were charged earlier this month of espionage.

"The prosecution has referred the case in which Ali Salman, Hassan Sultan and Ali Mahdi are accused of spying for the state of Qatar to the High Criminal Court," the state prosecution said in a tweet.

On November 1 the state prosecution charged him with "spying on behalf of a foreign country ... with the aim of carrying out subversive acts against Bahrain and harming its national interests".

Salman was also charged with "revealing defense secrets to a foreign country and disseminating information that would harm Bahrain’s status and reputation".

The investigation into purported links between Salman and Qatar was first launched in August, after a quartet of Arab countries -- Bahrain included -- accused their gas-rich neighbor of supporting terrorism and close relations with Shiite Iran.

Bahrain Television aired a report which claimed that neighboring Qatar was behind anti-government protests that have shaken the tiny kingdom for the past six years.

Qatar’s former premier Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani contacted Salman -- then head of Bahrain’s largest opposition group, al-Wefaq -- in 2011 and asked him to urge protesters to flood the streets and ramp up pressure on the state, according to the report.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Britain
1986 letter by Prince Charles blames 'foreign Jews' for Mideast troubles
A 31-year-old letter penned by a young Prince Charles has stirred controversy for suggesting that "foreign Jews" were to blame, in part, for the troubles of the Middle East.

The letter, which was released by The Daily Mail on Saturday, also includes suggestions that the US should deal with the "Jewish lobby," a term considered by some to be antisemitic in its conflation with age-old tropes about the wealth and power of Jews. Charles penned it immediately after returning from an official visit to Saudi Arabia with his then-wife Princess Diana.

"I now begin to understand better their [Arabs’] point of view about Israel. Never realized they see it as a US colony. I now appreciate that Arabs and Jews were all a Semitic people originally and it is the influx of foreign, European Jews (especially from Poland, they say) which has helped to cause great problems. I know there are so many complex issues, but how can there ever be an end to terrorism unless the causes are eliminated?" Charles wrote.
The old dream of Judenfrei world?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/13/2017 02:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmmm...I believe someone else had their hands deep in that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/13/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Not a deep thinker, now wonder we rarely hear from him.

I remember old rumors suggesting Prince Charles had converted to Islam. Nonsense like this makes it easier to believe.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/13/2017 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  He needs to abdicate in favor of his son. Then the Queen would finally "retire", instead of hanging on to keep Charles from the throne.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/13/2017 16:49 Comments || Top||

#4  You know, sometimes I think this hatred of Jews is some kind of genetic defect. But then when the Warmers showed up, it became obvious that many people really are just that stupid. When you look at hatred for Israel and Jews, there's no logical reason for a hatred that specific. And yet this disease infests itself in every people it seems. But when you realize that evil is real and does exists, it provides the most rational explanation.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/13/2017 18:00 Comments || Top||

#5  satan sides with the jewish orthodoxy that the savior is not yet here. satan is siding and supporting whichever faction is most avidly against jews, individually. So this will continue until all the antagonists are gone.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 11/13/2017 21:46 Comments || Top||

#6  He needs to abdicate in favor of his son.

That will never happen. He has waited his entire life to take the top spot, but his mum long ago promised to die in harness rather than retire... and she comes from long-lived stock. However, she recently started stepping back from some public appearances, handing them over to Chuckie-boy, so perhaps he'll be satisfied with playing king for a while.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/13/2017 23:04 Comments || Top||


Europe
33,293 migrants died en route to Europe — report
[IsraelTimes] The German paper Der Tagesspiegel publishes a list of 33,293 people who it says died while trying to immigrate to Europe.

The list is 46 pages long and covers the period from 1993 to May 29, 2017. The newspaper cites the victims’ names, ages, countries of origin, circumstances, date of death and the source of information. Often, the names are not given because the dead were not identified.

One listing said Iraqi migrant Talat Abdulhamid, 36, froze to death on January 6 after walking for 48 hours through the mountains on the Ottoman Turkish-Bulgarian border.

Another says a 15-year-old boy drowned and 23 others survived on November 15, 2016, when their rubber dinghy sunk en route from Libya to Europe, according to the UN refugee agency.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Mass suicide.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/13/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Millions more invaders were not stopped by the med and now infect the people's of Europe.
In fact, lots of invaders were helped by the people traffickers from European countries.
It all stopped when the Defend Europe boat was sent out to investigate.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/13/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#3  And how many millions made it? Assuming 3-5 million made it in that is less than a 1% fatality rate.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/13/2017 16:57 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey's S-400 purchase not a message to NATO
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's decision to buy an advanced missile defence system from Russia is not aimed at sending any political messages, a Ottoman Turkish official has said, a day after Ankara announced the finalisation of a deal that might affect its relations with NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
Ahmet Berat Conkar, head of the Ottoman Turkish delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, said the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missiles was solely based on technical and financial reasons.

"Turkey's picked S-400 over other options because the missile system possesses more advanced technical features than its rivals, with a better price and shorter delivery time," Conkar, who is a member of parliament for the ruling AK Party, told Al Jazeera.

His comments came after Nurettin Canikli, Turkey's defence minister, said on Saturday that the S-400 deal with Russia was "done".

"The S-400 missiles are purchased. Only small details are left to handle at this point," Canikli told news hounds in the northern city of Giresun.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  What about interoperability with a broader NATO air defence system? Seems to me that Turkey has no real desire or qualifications to be a part of NATO.
Posted by: Bunyip || 11/13/2017 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Because NATO is too dumb to understand it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/13/2017 4:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The law of inductive reasoning says that Turkey does not belong in NATO.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/13/2017 16:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe he'll get all puffed-up and decide to lay siege to Vienna again.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/13/2017 18:13 Comments || Top||


Turkey denies report of plan to kidnap cleric Gulen from US
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Sunday dismisses as "ludicrous and groundless" a report that Ottoman Turkish officials may have discussed kidnapping a US-based Moslem holy man in exchange for millions of dollars.

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was investigating an alleged plot involving former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and his son to forcibly remove 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...
and hand him over to Ankara for as much as $15 million.

Turkey blames Gulen for last year’s failed coup attempt. Gulen denies the claim.

In a statement on Twitter, Turkey’s embassy in Washington reiterates demands that the US extradite Gulen so he can stand trial. The embassy says Turkey has been working with US agencies to provide evidence of Gulen’s culpability and rejected "allegations that Turkey would resort to means external to the rule of law."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
AJK part of Pakistan, says Farooq Abdullah
[DAWN] Azad Jammu and Kashmire is part of Pakistain and both parts of Kashmire ‐ in India and Pakistain ‐ should be granted autonomy, former chief minister of the Indian-occupied state Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday.

Speaking to news hounds on the sidelines of a function at his National Conference party headquarters in Srinagar, he said: "I want to tell people of India and the entire world that the part of Kashmire that is with Pakistain is part of Pakistain, and the part which is with India belongs to India. It is not going to change even if wars are fought... That part will remain with Pakistain and this part will remain with India, and both Kashmires should be granted autonomy.’’

The former chief minister also said that Kashmire cannot survive as an independent state. "We are landlocked. We have China on one side, Pakistain on the other side and India on the third side. All three have atom bombs," he said.

The Indian Express quoted him as saying that while the state decided to join India "out of love", the country "betrayed" the people of Kashmire and did not treat them well.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


'Cow vigilantes' lynch Muslim man in India
[DAWN] A Moslem man was killed and another left critically injured by 'cow vigilantes' in India's Alwar district of Rajasthan state, local media reported on Sunday.

The two Moslem men were targeted for transporting cows in the same area where Haryana dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was lynched by a mob in April this year.

A charged mob intercepted Umar Khan and his aide Tahir Khan when the two were taking four cows in a pick-up truck from Alwar to Ghatmika village in Bharatpur district. The mob allegedly harassed, assaulted and shot at the two men, resulting in the death of Umar Khan.

To cover up the murder, the attackers allegedly threw Khan's body on a railway track. A train had run over the body when police found it. The remains were shifted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital in Alwar on Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We just need to move these cows. After all, what "Khan" go wrong!
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/13/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||


Local ANP leaders hired Taliban militants to assassinate Parveen Rehman, suspect tells JIT
[DAWN] A suspect, who was placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
last month, reportedly confessed to his involvement in the liquidation of prominent social activist Parveen Rehman and informed the Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) that local leaders of Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
had hired Talibs to assassinate Rehman, it emerged on Sunday.

The police had arrested Amjad Hussain from Manghopir area on October 24 in connection with the murder of Rehman and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him under charges of 7-ATA (Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.)

Renowned social worker Rehman was the director of Orangi Pilot Project, her office was located at Qasba Mor in Sector-5A, Orangi Town. She was bumped off in March 2013.

A JIT was constituted following the arrest of Hussain, which recently completed its findings and has submitted a report to the Sindh home department.

The accused told the JIT members that he and Raheem Swati ‐ the prime suspect in the case ‐ lived in front of the OPP office.

"Awami National Party (ANP) leaders Ayaz Swati and Raheem Swati had tried to obtain a designated area to construct a Karate centre, but despite repeated requests, Rehman refused to provide the land to them inside the OPP compound," sources quoted the accused as saying before the JIT.

The suspect told the JIT that Rehman termed the local leaders as "ANP’s Qabza Mafia", which they considered as an "insult" to them and their party.

Know more: Perween Rahman's murder: the great cover-up

The arrested suspect told the JIT members that in January 2013 a meeting was convened at Raheem Swati’s residence in which he [Amjad Hussain], Ayaz Swati and Ahmed alias Pappu were present.

Hussain said they planned the liquidation of Parveen Rehman "out of rage and as an act of Dire Revenge."

"Raheem Swati, using Ayaz’s phone, called a local commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) Moosa and Mehfoozullah alias Bhaloo, who both agreed to assassinate Rehman for money. They were assured of payment after completion of the task," the confessional statement read.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Dozens of Kirkuk police, gov’t official stripped of ranks
[RUDAW.NET] More than 40 Kurdish coppers in Kirkuk province have been removed from their posts and their military ranks frozen by a decree from the Iraqi government.

"All the equipment, vehicles and guards were taken from us... We have been removed from our positions," Burhan Majeed, a former local official in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
told Rudaw, asking the KRG to give them duties in Erbil "even if it is temporary."

The 47 officials had taken posts in Kirkuk on the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) quota. After Kirkuk fell to Baghdad last month, their positions were filled with Arabs and Turkmens.

Danial Jabar, another military official from Kirkuk said, when they returned to Kirkuk, they were "badly treated."

Shakawan Abdullah, a Kurdish MP from the Iraqi parliament from Kirkuk denounced the removal of the Kurdish military and police officials as a political decision and vowed to speak with the Iraqi Interior Ministry to return them to their posts.

"We make all efforts for the officers to return to Kirkuk and continue in their duties," Abdullah, said.

He said if they failed to convince Baghdad, they will work to transfer their military ranks to the KRG's Interior Ministry.

More than 22 security and administration positions have been taken away from Kurds since Hashd al-Shaabi and the Iraqi army seized control of Kirkuk, namely, positions of governor and the head of the department of agriculture.

"The Arabization process has resumed," Rebwar Talabani, head of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, told Rudaw.
Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Mass graves 'of ISIL victims' found in Iraq's Hawijah
[Al Jazeera] Mass graves containing at least 400 suspected ISIS victims, many wearing prison uniforms, have been found in northern Iraq.

The sites were discovered on Saturday near Rashad airbase close to the group's former stronghold, Hawijah, 45km west of Kirkuk.

Iraqi forces recaptured the town of Hawijah and surrounding areas from 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, also known as ISIS) group in October. It was one of their last strongholds in Iraq.

Rashad airbase, located about 30km south of Hawijah, was used by ISIS as a training camp and logistic base.

Al Jazeera's Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
, reporting from Baghdad, said it was a common ISIS tactic to imprison and execute anybody who was in opposition to their rule.

"The graves are a significant find, most of all for the families of the victims who have been seeking closure for years," Khan reported.

"According to locals, ISIS turned the military base into an execution ground. Iraqi authorities have been cataloguing exactly how many people died under ISIS rule and are now investigating how many victims are in these particular graves," he added.

"Authorities are relying on local people who took detailed notes during ISIS rule, handed them over, and showed authorities where these graves are located."

The discovery of the mass graves was not the first after the routing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

In August, Iraqi military Sherlocks discovered two mass graves near a former ISIS prison outside djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
that contained the bodies of 500 victims.

Posted by: Fred || 11/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Lawfare: Palestinians Fear IDF Has New Legal Tool To Ease West Bank Evictions
[Jpost] Palestinians fear that the IDF has a new legal tool that would make it easier for Israel to demolish illegal structures in Area C of the West Bank, attorney Tawfiq Jabareen told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Jabareen represents two illegally built Palestinian herding villages in the Jordan Valley, Ein Hilweh and Umm Jamal, which are under threat of IDF demolition.

Jabareen has sent a formal appeal to the Military Magistrate- General’s Office on behalf of the villages’ 300 residents.

At issue is not just the potential loss of their modular homes, but the use of what Jabareen has described as a new legal tool that could make it easier for the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria to demolish unauthorized Palestinian structures in the future.

The order, signed by OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Roni Numa and dated November 1, was not hand-delivered to the village, Jabareen said. It was posted on a road near the villages where it was discovered only on Thursday morning.

This specific type of order was created in 2003 to allow the Civil Administration to demolish settler outposts, Jabareen said. At the time it was not intended for use against Palestinians.

The use of this order was amended in 2015 and has now been used for the first time against Palestinians, he continued.

If its use is upheld, it would make it easier for the IDF to evict Palestinians in other cases in the West Bank.
Hopefully, one day all the "Palestinians" will return to whence their ancestors came from during the British mandate
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/13/2017 04:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Essentially, a provision that the Palestinians supported when they were trying to oust Jewish illegal settlements is now being used against Palestinian illegal settlements, to their disapproval.

Their self-belief in their specialness is matched only by the same in American SJWs, Antifa, and BLM supporters.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/13/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||


Israel warns Gaza militants against revenge attack
[DAWN] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Paleostinian hard boyz against carrying out attacks in Dire Revenge for the blowing up of a tunnel reportedly stretched from the Gazoo Strip into the Jewish state last month.

A bully boy group meanwhile threatened to hit back at Israel over the destruction of the tunnel it says it dug. Israel's operation on October 30 resulted in the deaths of 12 Paleostinian hard boyz from Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
"There are still those who toy with trying new attacks on Israel," Netanyahu said at the opening of his weekly cabinet meeting. "We will react forcefully to whoever tries to attack us or attacks us from any arena. I mean anyone ‐ rebel factions, organizations, anyone," he said in an apparent reference to Islamic Jihad.

"In any case, we hold Hamas responsible for any attack against us originating from Gazoo or organised there," he said of the group that runs the Gazoo Strip.

Netanyahu's remarks came on the heels of a Saturday night Arabic-language video issued by Major General Yoav Mordechai, head of a defence ministry unit responsible for activities in the Paleostinian territories. Referring to the Israeli operation on October 30, he said that Israel "destroyed a terror tunnel in Israeli sovereign territory".

"We are aware of the plot that the Islamic Jihad group is planning against Israel," said Mordechai, whose defence ministry unit is known as COGAT. "They are playing with fire at the expense of Gazook residents, the Paleostinian reconciliation efforts and the stability of the entire region," he said.

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Saad Hariri says he will return to Lebanon in days
[Al Jazeera] 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.
, the resigned prime minister of Leb, has rejected rumours he is being held against his will 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 pledged to return to Beirut very soon.

Hariri made the comments from Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, in his first public comments since his shock resignation eight days ago.

Speaking on Sunday on Future TV, a station affiliated with his political party, Hariri said he was free in Saudi Arabia.

"Here in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I am free. I have complete freedom, but I want to look after my family as well," he said, adding that he planned to return to Leb in the near future.

"I'm not talking about months ... I'm only talking about days and I'll go back to Leb."

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