[RADIOSHABELLE] Maritime security is important for all countries bordering the Indian Ocean, and these countries need to work together to combat piracy, the Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said Monday.
Yusuf-Garaad Omar made the statement after visiting President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria.
"We discussed the issue of maritime security and the cooperation between the two countries to make sure that the ocean is safe for both countries as well as for the international traders who are using the ocean," said Omar.
He told the press that "piracy is decreasing for many reasons one of which is due to the effort of the regional international forces and institutions working on it."
Somalia is looking to work closely with Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian ocean, to help with capacity building and the exchange of information and intelligence on maritime security."Somalia is also working on prosecuting pirates. The Somali government is also committing itself to making sure that we can control our people and coasts," said the minister.
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[Al Ahram] Sudan's counter-insurgency forces have tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a powerful militia chief from Darfur accused by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses in the war-torn region, the official news agency said Monday.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested Musa Hilal, a former aide to President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , near his hometown of Mustariaha in the state of North Darfur, SUNA reported State Minister of Defence Lieutenant General Ali Mohammed Salem as saying.
The state minister said Hilal's son Habeeb was also detained, but did not specify when exactly the arrests took place.
"They were arrested after festivities in the area but the security situation there is now stable," Mohammed Salem said in a statement to parliament.
"They will soon be brought to Khartoum."
On Sunday, fierce fighting erupted between fighters loyal to Hilal and an RSF unit near Mustariaha, in which the RSF said they lost 10 members including a commander.
Mustariaha is the hometown and bastion of Hilal, whose fighters from the Arab Mahamid tribe have regularly clashed with RSF troops in Darfur in recent months.
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According to an Egyptian friend of mine, the residents of the Egyptian Sinai are Bedouins, not proper Egyptians at all, and the area except for the tourist area on the Red Sea is dreadfully neglected. It looks like they’ve been reprioritized by the government.
[AlAhram] The North Sinai town of Bir al-Abd, which was the scene of a terrorist massacre on Friday, is to receive EGP 185 million in funding for local services and development projects from the Long Live Egypt Fund, Mohammed El-Ashmawy, the executive director of the fund announced on Sunday.
Speaking on Amr Adib's Every Day television show on ONTV, El-Ashmawy said the fund, which was established by President Abde-Fattah El-Sisi in 2014 to carry out national projects, aims to provide the town with EGP 400 million in total and will raise the remaining EGP 215 million.
The move is part of the official response to the killing of at least 305 people and the wounding of 128 others during Friday prayers at al-Rawdah Mosque.
The terrorist attack, conducted by up to 30 men in pick-up trucks, was the deadliest such incident in recent Egyptian history.
El-Ashmawy's comments follow the announcement on Sunday that the cabinet has authorized emergency compensation for those directly effected by the attack.
Cabinet front man Ashraf Sultan told the DMC Evening TV show that the governor of North Sinai will provide EGP 200,000 for each person killed and EGP 50,000 for each person injured, pending a decision from El-Sisi on final compensation levels.
Both Sultan and El-Ashmawy revealed plans for developing public services in the local area.
El-Ashmawy outlined a plan involving several elements: raising the efficiency of hospitals; upgrading nine schools; assisting the residents in producing handmade crafts; growing olives and dates; and establishing a market to sell local products.
He said that, in addition to raising the needed EGP 215 million, it will be necessary to source medical equipment and ambulances needed by local health services.
Sultan said the health, education, water and sanitation services would all be improved in the Bir al-Abd area.
Sultan revealed a plan to supply food to those affected for the next three months, along with psychological rehabilitation services for children and women who lost their providers, whether it be a father, son or husband. No women died in the attack, but at least 27 childeren were killed.
[Libya Herald] 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... again faces major water shortages a month after the same armed gang cut supplies to the capital demanding the release of its leader Mabrouk Ahnish.
The pro-Qadaffy Ahnish, a member of the Magarha tribe from Brak al-Shatti, was captured last month in the Wirshefana area along with several Sudanese fighters. He was handed over to the Rada (Deterrence) forces of Abdul Rauf Kara which continue to hold him.
The Man-Made River (MMR) authority has protested Saturday’s attack by Ahnish’s followers on control rooms in the al-Hasawna-Al-Jafara sections of pipes. No details were given of what the gang had done.
Last month, water was cut to some parts of Tripoli for almost a fortnight after Ahnish’s supporters attacked an electricity control room in the Shwerif area halfway between Tripoli and Sebha. The MMR repaired that damage but an engineer admitted that the work had been done quickly for fear of poor security.
Today the MMR put out a statement insisting that the authorities and indeed, ordinary citizens had to do far more to protect the MMR network from interference, which it said was threatening national security.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarullah Movement’s leader, Sayyed ’Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, stated during a televised speech on Saturday that 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... is attempting to avenge their losses in Syria and Iraq by attacking Yemen.
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 ... called on Yemenis to prepare themselves for much larger attacks from the Saudi military as they take out their frustrations on historical cities like Sana’a and Sa’ada.
In addition to his comments on Yemen, Houthi denounced Saudi Arabia’s attempts to normalize relations with Israel, adding that it was disgraceful that the kingdom allowed an Israeli to enter the Prophet Muhammad’s mosque.
The Saudi regime blames Iran for their military presence in Yemen, as their Coalition forces have now been inside the country for more than two years.
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[ARABNEWS] More ships packed with aid have arrived 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... as 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 coalition forces draw up a humanitarian plan, the Kingdom’s ambassador to the war-torn country told Arab News.
The coalition closed air, land and sea access to Yemen earlier this month to stop the alleged flow of Iranian arms to 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, after a missile fired toward Riyadh was intercepted by Saudi forces. Iran has denied supplying arms to the Houthis.
The measures were eased over the weekend, with a ship carrying 5,500 tons of flour having docked in Yemen’s Hodeidah port in the Red Sea, and UNICEF having sent a plane with vaccines to Sanaa airport after the coalition granted clearance for UN flights.
Regional UNICEF director Geert Cappelaere earlier said that the delivery of vaccines "cannot be a one-off" and that more supplies are needed.
But Mohammed al-Jabir, the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, confirmed that more aid was arriving as the allies work on a plan to boost the response to the humanitarian situation.
"More than three ships arrived to Hodeidah with different kinds of foods (on Saturday and Sunday), and also five flights to Sanaa airport from different UN organizations," he told Arab News.
"Saudi Arabia and the coalition are preparing for the humanitarian operations plan, which will be announced maybe over the next few days."
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[Al Ahram] Activists say a prominent Shia holy man who has been under house arrest in Bahrain after having his citizenship stripped is seriously ill.
They say doctors visited Sheikh Isa Qassim on Sunday at his home in Diraz, a Bahraini town that's been surrounded by police for over a year.
Sheikh Maytham al-Salman, another Shia holy man, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Monday the 80-year-old Sheikh Isa "is in constant pain" and requires emergency surgery for a hernia.
Bahrain's government didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sheikh Isa could be deported at any time after authorities stripped his citizenship last June over accusations that he fueled extremism and laundered money. His supporters deny the allegations.
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[DAWN] A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers on Monday over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.
In delivering his verdict Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique described the 2009 slaughter of 74 people ‐ including 57 top brass ‐ as an unprecedented atrocity in Bangladesh's relatively short history.
"It was the most heinous, brutal and barbaric carnage of our history," he told the Dhaka courtroom of the two-day massacre in which victims were shot, hacked to death and burned alive by marauding troops.
The sentences will be appealed against in the Supreme Court, which by law has the final say in all capital punishment cases.
In 2013 a court sentenced 152 soldiers to death for the grisly killings in a mass trial criticised by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... rights chief as failing to meet basic standards of due process.
It was a very quick mutiny, starting on February 25, 2009 and finishing the next day. We had three articles on Page 1 about events in Bangladesh that day — click here and scroll down.
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[Al Ahram] Warsaw police were searching on Monday for attackers who smashed windows in the city's Moslem cultural center.
The police were notified early Monday that some dozen windows were smashed during the night in the center that was opened in 2015 and includes a mosque, a meeting center, a shop and a restaurant. No one was hurt.
Warsaw police front man Mariusz Mrozek said CCTV was being reviewed to help identify the attackers and has appealed for people who might have any information about the attack to come forward. Moslem community leaders were to hold a news conference later in the day.
Warsaw's Moslem community has a few thousand members.
Security guards at the building became aware of a disturbance around 1 am Monday morning and called police to the scene five hours later, reports wPolityce. By that time those responsible for the damage ‐ reported to be two individuals throwing stones ‐ had already left the scene.
The management of the center might want to review their guard-hiring protocols...
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...One very big difference between the Poles and the rest of Europe - they never lost their religious and national identities. Mass muslim immigration (and the demands that the host country change to suit them) hasn't happened there yet, and may never.
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[Ynet] The arrests of six Middle Eastern men caught entering the US illegally from Mexico two years ago set off alarm in border states and in some right-wing blogs and other media outlets.
Now, documents obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named through a public records request reveal the men were fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands and were cleared of any terrorism ties. The records also show they were physically and verbally abused by two Mexican smugglers with a history of crossing the border illegally and went days without food and water.
The case highlights the highly politicized nature of the U.S.-Mexico border as hysteria sometimes overtakes facts. Some blogs incorrectly reported the men were released. Others tied them to 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.... In fact, the men cooperated with the government, and four have been deported. The remaining two men are in removal proceedings.
[DAWN] Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday admonished Minister of State for Interior Affairs Talal Chaudhry and asked that "the house wants to know what forced the government to sign an agreement with the protesters" who had staged a sit-in at Faizabad.
After the weeks-long protest that virtually paralysed the capital, the government and protesters reached an agreement late Sunday night, in which the former conceded to the latter's demands.
Rabbani asked why Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was not present in the Senate to explain the government's position on the agreement with the Faizabad sit-in protesters.
To this Chaudhry replied that Ahsan Iqbal was travelling and, therefore, could not be contacted.
Rabbani also expressed disappointment on Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's visit 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... . "The prime minister leaves for abroad on the very same day [the agreement is finalised]. Is the Riyadh summit more important than what has happened in the country?"
"The [real] issue is that your law minister was forced to resign," Rabbani maintained.
The Senate chairman said the parliament was not taken into confidence [before the agreement] because "it appears that the government did not find it important enough" to consult the parliament.
"You are taking the parliament, which can become your strength, for granted," Rabbani said, adding that "this House wants to know why there was a need to call the army?"
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[DAWN] As daily life in Islamabad limps back to normality after being disrupted for 20 days by protesters, Dawn.com looks back on the chain of events that ended with the government surrendering unequivocally to the protesters' demands.
In broad strokes
The protesters, who belonged to religious parties like the Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY), the Tehrik-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwwat, and the 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... Pakistain (ST), had occupied the Faizabad Interchange, which connects Rawalpindi and Islamabad through the Islamabad Expressway and Murree Road, both of which are the busiest roads in the twin cities.
The agitators believed that during the passage of Elections Act 2017, the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath was deliberately modified as part of a larger conspiracy.
The amendment to the oath was deemed a 'holy manal error' by the government and was subsequently rectified through an Act of Parliament.
Nonetheless, the protesters had been insistent on the resignation of Zahid Hamid, the erstwhile law minister, for his alleged role in the controversy. There is no proof yet that indicates Hamid was responsible for the amendment. A committee headed by Raja Zafarul Haq had probed the issue and released a report on the matter which has not yet been made public.
The Islamabad High Court, the Supreme Court and the heads of various religious parties had repeatedly called on the protesters to disband, calling the protest unlawful as a ban had been imposed on public gatherings in the city and urging the agitators to use the Democracy and Speech Corner at Islamabad's Parade Ground, which has been reserved for such gatherings.
The IHC finally ordered the district administration to evict the protesters from the Faizabad Interchange using "any means necessary".
The government initiated several rounds of negotiations with the protesters after the order was issued, but failed each time, and the IHC subsequently warned Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal of being charged with contempt of court for not complying with the court's orders.
The IHC on Friday observed that the protest's leaders had, prima facie, committed an 'act of terror' by continuing their protest despite the court's orders and criticised the government for failing to take meaningful action against them.
A final deadline given to protesters by the government ‐ 7am on Saturday, Nov 25 ‐ also lapsed without any let-up in the sit-in.
As the government launched an operation to disperse the protesters, at least six people were killed and scores others injured. After a botched operation, the government decided to call in the army for help.
When the army refused, the government turned towards negotiations with the protesters once more and then accepted a number of their demands in return for ending the protest.
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[ARABNEWS] Attendees of the first Conference of ASEAN (Association of South Eastern Nations) Moslems hailed King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... ’s directives to cooperate with these countries and organize an annual conference under the slogan "A Moderate Nation."
They also hailed the efforts of 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 Malaysia in preserving moderate Islam, promoting moderation, fighting extremism, spreading religious teachings based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah, and activating the role of fiqh and fatwa councils in achieving a conscious, moderate understanding of Islam.
They stressed that extremism, terrorism and violence are a global phenomenon that should not be associated with a certain religion or country.
This came in the final statement and the participants’ recommendations during the conference, which concluded on Monday in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, under the patronage of Malaysian Prime Minister Mohammad Najib, and Sheikh Salih al-Shaykh, the Saudi minister of Islamic affairs, endowments, call, and guidance.
The closing ceremony was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
The attendees pledged their support for Rohingya Moslems, who are enduring hostility, murder, forced displacement and racial discrimination, and called upon the international community to take immediate measures to protect them, and upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and ASEAN to resolve this crisis.
Participants highlighted the importance of holding such conferences in Malaysia and other ASEAN countries because of their significant role in encouraging communication and exchange of experiences, as well as finding solutions for new challenges facing Moslems, instilling moderation, and facing security and stability threats.
In their recommendations, the participants also called for the promotion of a culture of peace and dialogue, stressing the need to respect human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and international conventions and treaties, and the importance of treating non-Moslems well to achieve social stability.
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[ARABNEWS] Baghdad will not pay the salaries of employees of the Iraqi Kurdish region government (KRG) and will not initiate dialogue with the regional government until Kurds give up the September-referendum, Iraqi politicians told Arab News on Monday.
There would also be no pay or dialogue until the Kurds handed over control of the border crossings and airports to the federal authorities and the central government regained control over the exports of oil through the Ceyhan-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... pipeline, they said.
Kurdistan held a controversial referendum on independence on Sept. 25. Baghdad imposed a series of punitive measures, including a ban on international flights to airports in the region and launched a military operation to regain control over Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... its lucrative oil fields and the disputed areas, which have been controlled by the KRG in the past years.
The Supreme Federal Court last week ruled that the referendum is "unconstitutional" and its results and implications "should be canceled." KRG said that the court’s decision was "unilateral and political motivated" and has not expressed a commitment to the court’s decisions.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel’s Iron Dome system is declared ready for use on a Sa’ar 5-model corvette in what the military describes as a "significant milestone" in its ongoing efforts to counter the threat of ballistic missiles.
The maritime interception system, designed to protect Israel’s gas fields and shipping lanes from short-range missiles, "added another operational layer" to Israel’s multi-tiered air defenses, joining the long-range Arrow 3 system and mid-range David’s Sling, which were each made operational earlier this year, says Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, the head of the IAF’s Aerial Defense Command.
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian movement Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", again refused to disarm on Monday ahead of a key reconciliation deadline, instead threatening to carry out attacks against Israel in the West Bank.
By Friday, the Islamists are due to hand over control of the Gazoo Strip to the internationally recognised Paleostinian government, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
But the future of their armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, remains unclear.
"These weapons will be moved to the West Bank to fight the (Israeli) occupation. It is our right to resist the occupation until it ends."
"The weapons of the resistance are a red line that is non-debatable," Khalil al-Hayya, deputy head of Hamas in Gazoo, told a presser, referring to the Qassam Brigades.
"These weapons will be moved to the West Bank to fight the (Israeli) occupation. It is our right to resist the occupation until it ends."
The United States and Israel have said they will reject any reconciliation agreement leading to a unity government including Hamas unless it disarms.
Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has also said there will only be one security force in the Paleostinian territories.
The reconciliation agreement signed on October 12 in Cairo does not specify a future for the Qassam Brigades.
Also on Monday a delegation from Egyptian intelligence arrived in Gazoo, as they seek to push forward with the agreement they brokered.
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[IsraelTimes] With its 10,000 men reportedly controlled by Quds force head Qassem Soleimani, recently formed 'Golan Liberation Brigade' says it would fight Jewish state if Damascus asks.
Talk is cheap.
The head of a large Iranian-backed Iraqi militia that has been fighting in Syria said recently his group was "fully prepared" to fight Israel if Damascus asked it to. Sheikh Akram al-Ka’abi, the leader of Iraq’s Hezbollah al-Nujaba,
...Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba in full, Hezbollah meaning “the Party of God” and al-Nujaba meaning “the Virtuous“. In Iraq they fight with the paramilitary Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces ...
told the Lebanese news network Al Mayadeen Friday night his group would participate in a Damascus-led attack on Israel’s Golan Heights.
"We are fully prepared to participate in any war with the Syrian Arab Army to liberate the Golan if the Syrian state agrees or requests so," Ka’abi said.
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I would suggest that the Israeli first response be on Iran military and nuclear facilities in Iran. With no support from a burning Iran and hesitation from all others thinking of jumping in; the 10000 would be a secondary battle with epic results.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The prominent commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds Force, Major General Qassem Suleimani , was filmed giving a speech to the forces participating in the offensive to liberate Albukamal from 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.... (ISIS).
General Suleimani began the speech by ordering the forces in Albukamal to not loot any of the homes or businesses.
The Iranian general then ordered the forces to refrain from entering any home without permission from the homeowner.
General Suleimani would then conclude his speech by asking his fighters to continue their fight against 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 U.S.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, stated during his presser with his British counterpart, Monday, that lasting peace in Syria is unrealistic as long as Assad remains in power.
"Peace in Syria is not a realistic prospect with Assad in place," the Ottoman Turkish PM claimed.
Yildirim’s comments come a few days after Ottoman Turkish President, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... , told Russia that he is open to speaking to Syrian President, Bashir al-Assad.
The Syrian government has not yet commented on this statement by the Ottoman Turkish premier.
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[ARABNEWS] Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ... held consultations on Monday with representatives of political parties in 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. ’s coalition government as he declared that Hezbollah must stop interfering in regional conflicts and accept a neutral policy to bring an end to the political crisis.
According to Rooters, Hariri told French broadcaster CNews that he was ready to stay on as prime minister if Hezbollah accepted to stick by the state policy of staying out of regional conflicts.
The premier, however, said he would resign if Hezbollah did not keep to that, although consultations so far had been positive.
"I think in the interest of Leb, Hezbollah is carrying out a positive dialogue. They know we have to remain neutral in the region," he added in the interview recorded on Monday.
Aoun’s talks on Monday took place after Hariri last Wednesday put off his resignation upon the president’s request to find a way out of the current crisis. Hariri had unexpectedly announced his resignation from Riyadh on Nov. 4, protesting that Iran and Hezbollah had taken hold of Leb, and he feared for his life.
The talks concerned the concept of "self-distancing" and how to apply it. Most of those whom Aoun consulted supported activating the Lebanese administration and reaffirming the ministerial statement and the political settlement, which resulted in naming Aoun president and Hariri prime minister until the next parliamentary elections in May. Aoun did not address the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons.
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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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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarullah Movement’s leader, Sayyed ’Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, stated during a televised speech on Saturday that 
...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...
[Ynet] The arrests of six Middle Eastern men caught entering the US illegally from Mexico two years ago set off alarm in border states and in some right-wing blogs and other media outlets.
[DAWN] Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday admonished Minister of State for Interior Affairs Talal Chaudhry and asked that "the house wants to know what forced the government to sign an agreement with the protesters" who had staged a sit-in at Faizabad.
[DAWN] As daily life in Islamabad limps back to normality after being disrupted for 20 days by protesters, Dawn.com looks back on the chain of events that ended with the government surrendering unequivocally to the protesters' demands.
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, 
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian movement 
[IsraelTimes] With its 10,000 men reportedly controlled by Quds force head Qassem Soleimani, recently formed 'Golan Liberation Brigade' says it would fight Jewish state if Damascus asks.
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Michel Aoun
Hizbullah
