[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. is ready to hold government-to-government talks with Pakistain, ToloNews reported on Friday.
"We remain committed as a partner to counter terrorist threats in the region and are ready to expand our cooperation with all countries," Ghani said while addressing the seventh Hearth of Asia Conference (HoA) in Azerbaijan.
"We all have shared responsibilities and Afghanistan is ready to cooperate with all stakeholders in this arena," he added.
Afghanistan's Caped President Ghani said: "We ask for full regional cooperation to establish mechanisms of verification and coordination for the elimination of this threat [terrorism]."
The war against terrorism is not just an Afghan or regional problem, he said, adding that the fifth wave of political violence and terrorism is a threat to all humanity.
Sharing the achievements of Afghan forces in counter-terrorism operations and its campaign against drugs, he said: "In a series of operations by our special forces and commandos, we have destroyed assets estimated at $50-70 million. These operations will not only continue but will become an integral part of our four-year comprehensive security plan."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government plans to increase the size of the Afghan Special Forces by two times while the size of the Afghan Air Force will be tripled in coming years.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. informed regarding the government’s plan as he was speaking the Heart of Asia Conference, briefing the summit participants regarding the achievements of the Afghan forces in the fight against terrorism.
"I am doubling the size of my Special Security Forces and tripling the size of the Air Force to defeat the bandidosholy warriors and further secure the population," he said.
President Ghani further added that "Today, Afghan Commandos conduct four out of every operations independently from US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... support."
"We Afghans own the fight and have turned the corner. Our special forces ‐ the Kitah Khas and Commandos ‐ have never lost a battle ‐ they are becoming one of the best special forces in the region," he added.
In regards to the ongoing fight against ISIS loyalists, President Ghani said "ISIS failed in building a base for their so-called caliphate in Afghanistan. ISIS is on the run ‐ in Southern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Achin, Kunar, and Tora Bora ‐ ISIS is being killed and cleared from Afghanistan."
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[AlAhram] The Egyptian state committee charged with administering the financial assets of accused murderous Moslems on Friday seized the assets of 19 people and 14 companies due to links with the banned Moslem Brüderbund, al-Ahram’s Arabic website reported.
The seizure includes the assets of four children of leading Brotherhood figure Essam El-Erian, who is in jail facing trial in a number of terror-related cases.
The committee seized the assets of companies operating mostly in tourism, investment, and real estate, and located in various governorates including Cairo, Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh, and 10 Ramadan city.
In September, a court order regulating the work of the committee, which was first formed in late 2013, gave the committee and its decisions judicial immunity against appeals.
The committee is tasked with assessing and managing the frozen assets of those who have been included on Egypt’s terror lists.
The committee is headed by the head of the Cairo appeals court, Mohammed Yasser Abo El-Fatouh, and includes representatives of the ministries of interior, finance, social solidarity, and local development, as well as representatives of the Central Bank of Egypt, the National Security Apparatus, and several other entities.
Egypt's current terror list contains around 2,000 names, including top Moslem Brüderbund leaders convicted of violent crimes.
These include: ex-president Mohammed Morsi; Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohammed Badie; owner of the Juhayna dairy company, businessman Safwan Thabet; Wasat Party chairman Abul Ela Mady; and football player Mohammed Abou-Treika.
The Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization in 2013.
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[ARABNEWS] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, elected virtually unopposed in 2014, faces a high-profile challenger in next year’s election, but the rival who lives in exile is seen more as an inconvenience.
Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq announced his candidacy this week from the UAE, saying Egypt was facing "many problems in all aspects of life."
El-Sisi, a former army chief whose election came less than a year after he overthrew President Muhammad Mursi in July 2013, has not officially declared his candidacy.
But he looks all but certain to run in ‐ and dominate ‐ the election.
Shafiq, who narrowly lost to Mursi in 2012 presidential polls, is one of the few candidates who could come close to challenging El-Sisi, experts say.
"The government is afraid of any candidate but especially of Shafiq... who has much more political experience than El-Sisi himself had" before coming to power, said Hassan Nafaa, emeritus professor of political science at Cairo University.
A former aviation minister and airforce general, Shafiq was hastily appointed prime minister by Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011 before the longtime leader was ousted by a popular uprising.
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[Ynet] The Pentagon has received permission from the government of Niger to begin flying armed drones from the capital, Niamey, a US official said Friday.
The arrangement, which has not been publicly announced, reflects an expanding US military campaign against faceless myrmidons in Africa and is based on a recently signed US-Nigerien memorandum of understanding. It was first reported by the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... The US official said armed drone flights could begin as early as next week or at least by the end of December. The memorandum of understanding limits the drones to defensive missions, the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and so spoke on condition of anonymity.
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So the SOF guys died because there wasn’t a ‘defensive’ drone agreement?
[ARABNEWS] Pope Francis had an emotional meeting with Moslem refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh on Friday, and used the word "Rohingya" to describe them for the first time on his Asian trip, calling for them to be respected.
He also urged the world not to ignore refugees, persecuted minorities, the poor and vulnerable.
The encounter took place at an inter-religious peace meeting on his first full day in Bangladesh, to where 625,000 Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled from an army crackdown.
Refugees have said scores of Rohingya villages have been burnt to the ground, people killed and women raped. Myanmar’s military has denied accusations of "ethnic cleansing" by the US and UN.
The pope had earlier in the week visited Myanmar, where he met its leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.
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Pope holds emotional meeting with refugees, says ‘Rohingya’ for first time
Mistranslation. He actually said "Rosebud"
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"Outrageous!" The press goes atomic:
Prose purple and uneconomic
Condemns those that injure
The gentle Rohingya,
Lest Moslem meet methods Islamic.
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Oh, that final line! And the rest of it, too. But you clearly had extra fun with internal sounds as well as meaning and rhyme in that final line, Zenobia F.
[LI] German Intelligence Agency (BND) is concerned about the Islamist ideology increasing its influence in the Balkan region, German newspapers report. The main focus of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency is the Muslim-majority country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The agency has been alarmed by massive investments being made by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries in the religious and Islamist infrastructure of the country.
The investments made by Arab patrons are paying off handsomely. Bosnia-Herzegovina has the highest percentage of ISIS recruits compared to any other European country, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirmed. An estimated 200 Bosnians have left the country to fight for the Islamic State, a German broadcaster reported. In recent months, Bosnian Police have made several arrests and recovered large amounts of explosives and military hardware in raids across the country.
Carved out of the Communist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992, the country of Bosnia-Herzegovina became the first Muslim-majority state of the modern Europe. Nearly 16 years later, Kosovo would declare independence from Serbia, emerging as Europe’s second Muslim-majority state. Unsurprisingly, both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo are today hotbeds for Jihadi recruitment. In early 1990s, hundreds of ’mujahedeen’ fighters came from abroad to bolster the ranks of Bosnian Muslims forces battling the Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats. Today, Bosnian Muslims are returning the favor by exporting Jihad abroad.
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[YAHOO] Oppression of the opposition by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is greater than when Hungary was under Soviet domination, Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... said Friday.
Soros said in video messages that he had an "unbridgeable conflict of principles" with Orban and if the Budapest-based, Soros-founded Central European University were to be expelled, it would continue operating "in exile" and return after Orban's departure.
Soros, 87, said Orban has created "an anti-democratic system ... a mafia regime where they use their leading positions to keep themselves in power and personally enrich themselves."
"He exploits and oppresses those who are in opposition. In my judgment, the regime now oppresses people more that during the Soviet occupation."
Orban, who opposes migration, especially by Moslems, claims Soros wants to flood Europe with migrants colonists.
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Soros, 87, said Orban has created "an anti-democratic system ... a mafia regime where they use their leading positions to keep themselves in power and personally enrich themselves."
So, they're Donks and other factions of the UniParty (who strangely enough, have a lot of money backing from Mr.Soros).
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So they are practicing starvation of their populace to better keep them under control through gm food bacteria and weird lies about weather control like Nazi fucking trash very interesting smoke in mouth!
h/t Instapundit
Senate Republicans passed legislation early Saturday allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of a tax reform package, moving closer to fulfilling a long-time GOP goal.
The passage of the bill marked a significant achievement for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who has introduced legislation to open a portion of the Alaskan refuge to drilling every term she has served in the chamber, only to be blocked by Democrats.
"This small package offers a tremendous opportunity for Alaska, for the Gulf Coast, and for all of our nation," Murkowski said before the vote. "We have authorized responsible energy development in the 1002 area." Not to mention another nail in the coffin of Muslim aspirations
[IsraelTimes] In US trial, Reza Zarrab testifies The Sick Man of Europe Turkey's leader instructed banks to take part in gold-for-oil ploy; government calls case a 'plot'
A Ottoman Turkish-Iranian gold trader testifying at trial in New York on Thursday implicated Turkey’s President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey'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... in a multi-billion-dollar gold-for-oil scheme allegedly designed to subvert US sanctions on Iran.
Reza Zarrab, 34, who was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in Miami in 2016 before agreeing to cooperate with US prosecutors, implied that Erdogan knew how he and a Ottoman Turkish banker, now on trial, circumvented US sanctions on Iran and laundered money from Iranian petroleum sales.
The case has angered Erdogan. His government has called the trial a "plot" and he has demanded the release of Zarrab and defendant, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, the deputy chief executive of Ottoman Turkish lender Halkbank.
"We did the right thing. We did not violate the embargo," Erdogan told politicians in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber.
But in New York, Zarrab said he was told that in 2012, Erdogan, prime minister at the time, and then treasury minister Ali Babacan had given "instructions" for two other Ottoman Turkish public banks, Vakif and Ziraat, to take part in the scheme.
Turkey’s then economy minister, Zaref Caglayan, "told me that Mr. Prime Minister had given approval for Ziraat and Vakif to also do this work," he said through a Ottoman Turkish-language interpreter.
Zarrab also used his second day of testimony to declare that he extended the multi-billion-dollar scheme to India and tried to do so in China.
"But then all the banks we were working with, they immediately stopped it when they realized it had something to do with Iran," Zarrab testified.
On Wednesday, he said he paid tens of millions of dollars worth of bribes to Caglayan between 2012 and 2013 to facilitate illegal gold transactions with Iran.
Due to face trial himself, he instead pleaded guilty to seven counts and became prosecutors’ star witness. While others have been indicted, they remain on the lam and Atilla is alone in the dock.
’Under pressure’
While Erdogan is not charged with any crime, analysts had expected that corruption revelations could embarrass him and his inner circle. Ottoman Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Zarrab was making defamatory claims because he was "under pressure."
There are fears in Turkey that a guilty verdict could lead to possible sanctions on one or more Ottoman Turkish banks, spelling bad news for the country’s fragile economy.
Zarrab was a key figure in a 2013 Ottoman Turkish corruption scandal in which he allegedly bribed four ministers to facilitate sanctions-busting trade and other deals. He allegedly carried suitcases stuffed with cash to Dubai, where they were exchanged for foreign currencies used for international payments to circumvent the US sanctions. He was held for 70 days until prosecutors dropped all the charges.
Caglayan, who is also named in the US indictment, and the other three ministers resigned from government at the time.
Turkey has denounced both the New York trial and the 2013 scandal as conspiracies by US-based preacher Fethullah Gülen ... 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... , the alleged criminal mastermind of a 2016 failed coup targeting Erdogan. Gulen denies the allegations.
Atilla is charged with violating sanctions against Iran, as well as of bribery and money laundering.
Halkbank has denied any suggestion that it violated US sanctions, saying it had "not been a party" to any "illegal" transaction.
[DW] Ottoman Turkish prosecutors on Friday ordered the seizure of assets belonging to Reza Zarrab, a Ottoman Turkish-Iranian billionaire who turned into a witness for the US government in a New York trial centered on an alleged oil-for-gold Iran sanctions busting scheme.
The order applies to Zarrab's assets and those of his family, including his Ottoman Turkish pop star wife Ebru Gundes, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
According to the Anadolu report, Zarrab is suspected of espionage against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey.
The Ottoman Turkish government has previously accused the Gulen movement, which it blames for last year's failed coup attempt, of illegal wiretapping or creating fake audio recordings.
It has also accused US prosecutors and judges of being tied to the Gulen movement.
US District Judge Richard M. Berman said audio recordings of the conversations between Erdogan and Babacan would be heard in court as evidence next week.
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Robert Mueller will decide that. Now sit dowd and shuddup !
[DAWN] Policemen fired on protesters from religious groups to stop them from breaking into the residence of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that, since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , critically injuring four people, says an intelligence report sent to the Islamabad chief commissioner.
Compiled on November 25, the report states that the men were subsequently shifted to Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital for treatment, but does not contain details of their identity, or explain what subsequently happened to them.
In their situation report, Special Branch officials maintained that around at least 90-100 police personnel were present inside the former minister’s residence when around 1,500 protesters attacked the police party, which retaliated with teargas.
"Protesters broke down the main gate of Chaudhry Nisar’s residence and set fire to an adjacent CNG filling station. When they attempted to enter Chaudhry Nisar’s house, coppers fired gunshots injuring four people who were later shifted to Benazir Bhutto Hospital," the report said.
The former minister has already denied claims that four of those who died in the violence that broke out on Saturday were shot by coppers outside his house.
Earlier, Chaudhry Nisar had lashed out at his successor, Ahsan Iqbal, for making "baseless claims" regarding the deaths of protesters outside his residence.
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[DAWN] The future political stakes of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah hang in the balance as its internal rifts are widening.
The Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP), being touted as the political face of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah, has begun disowning the faction led by Dr Ashraf Asif Jalali. The fact came to the fore when TLP chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who had led the Islamabad protest, disowned the Lahore sit-in in a TV talk show on Thursday.
Pir Afzal Qadri from Gujranwala, another central character of the Faizabad sit-in, has already formed his own faction of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik.
The sit-in by the Jalali-led Tehrik-e-Labbaik outside the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly building on The Mall entered the sixth day on Thursday as the protesters, numbering not more than a few dozens, pegged their tents at one of the busiest intersections of the city, sending the traffic out of gear to the disadvantage of the Lahorites.
The Lahore sit-in was started by the Jalali-led Tehrik-e-Labbaik following reports of police operation against the participants of the Faizabad sit-in on Saturday (Nov 25) morning.
The protesters had blocked the main entrance to Islamabad for about three weeks, demanding that the federal law minister resign admitting responsibility for deleting a clause from the law relating to Khatm-e-Nubuwat oath taken by Moslem candidates.
The Islamabad episode culminated in an agreement brokered by the army between the federal government and the protesters led by fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... holy man Khadim Rizvi. But ironically, their colleagues in Lahore led by Dr Asif Jalali didn’t accept that in the first hint of grouping within the outfit.
Apparently grieved at being ignored in the agreement with the federal government, Dr Jalali told the media that "qisas for 70 deaders of Khatm-e-Nubuwat was not incorporated in it". He also sought the resignation of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for allegedly speaking for the Ahmadi community’s rights in a TV show.
Dr Jalali had earlier staged an eight-day sit-in close to D-Chowk in Islamabad. The protest missed media limelight and ended on Nov 3 after an assurance from the government that the Raja Zafarul Haq-led committee’s report on the controversial law would be made public within 20 days. He insists on continuing the Lahore protest until Mr Sanaullah steps down.
Insiders say that besides making other offers, the PML-N government in Punjab has also promised to politically accommodate the Tehrik-e-Labbaik by conceding a certain number of seats to it in the coming general elections.
Already heading Tehrik Siraat-e-Mustaqeem, Dr Jalali claims that he had formed Tehrik-e-Labbaik the day Mumtaz Qadri ‐ a police guard who killed former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer ‐ was hanged on Feb 29 last year while Khadim Rizvi headed the TLP formed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in August 2015.
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[ARABNEWS] The Paleostinian president’s office warned Friday of the potential destructive effects of any move denying their claim to East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
The statement comes as US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is due to decide by Monday on whether to move his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.
The Paleostinians see East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state and fiercely oppose any changes that could be regarded as legitimizing Israel’s occupation and annexation of it. Without referring to Trump or the US by name, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’ front man Nabil Abu Rudeina said any just solution in the Middle East required recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Paleostinian state.
"East Jerusalem, with its holy places, is the beginning and the end of any solution and any project that saves the region from destruction," he said in a statement on the official Wafa news agency.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community. No countries currently have their embassies in Jerusalem, instead keeping them in the Israeli commercial capital Tel Aviv.
Trump is due to decide by Monday on whether to renew a six-month waiver on moving the embassy.
He pledged during his campaign to move the embassy to Jerusalem but renewed the waiver in May.
Reports emerged on Friday that Trump could again delay moving the embassy but recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Trump has said he wants to relaunch frozen peace talks between Israel and the Paleostinians in search of the "ultimate deal."
Analysts say any major shift in US policy would make that goal more difficult to achieve.
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[ARABNEWS] Iran state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired a new video about imprisoned British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Friday, accusing her of taking part in covert activities against the country financed by Britannia and the US.
The new video ‐ the second of a two-part report by state broadcaster IRIB ‐ claimed she helped lead a training program at Thomson Rooters directed "against the Islamic republic."
"Its aim was to train people to collect information on Iran under the cover of journalistic activities with direct financing from USAID (the US Agency for International Development), which operates under the US State Department and the CIA," the voice-over in the video said.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in prison in September 2016 for taking part in the mass anti-regime protests in 2009, which she denies.
The first video, shown on Nov. 23, accused her of helping to launch the BBC’s Persian-language service, which Iran sees as hostile to its Islamic regime, and helping to train its journalists.
The BBC has denied the claims, stating that she never worked for BBC Persian.
"She was employed as a projects assistant between February 2009 and October 2010 for the BBC’s international development charity, BBC World Service Trust," it said in a statement.
"Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was never a journalism trainer but undertook administrative duties such as travel bookings, typing and filing," it added.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was working for the Thomson Rooters Foundation ‐ the media organization’s philanthropic arm ‐ at the time of her arrest.
The videos have appeared just before she is due to face fresh charges in court of "spreading propaganda" on Dec. 10.
Thomson Rooters chief executive Monique Villa said recently that the new charges risked a further 16-year prison sentence and were "a mockery of justice."
Zaghari-Ratcliffe was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! at Tehran airport on April 3, 2016 after visiting family. She was traveling with her daughter Gabriella, now three years old.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The solution in Leb, according 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... ’s foreign minister reiterated, is to withdraw weapons from the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Speaking at on Friday at the Mediterranean Dialogue Forum in Rome Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that Hezbollah had used Lebanese banks to smuggle and launder money for their terrorist activities.
He said that Leb is country kidnapped, by the terrorist group, Hezbollah.
In his speech al-Jubeir clarified that the Kingdom has no relations with Israel. "We have no relations with Israel and we are waiting for the grinding of the peace processor," he said. "The need for political will to reach a solution to end the Arab-Israeli conflict is paramount," he stressed.
He added that Iran has facilitated the movement of al-Qaeda members and resources.
He said that the Iranians have been unable to change the balance of power in Yemen. He considered the targeting by Iranian allies, the Houthis, of some Saudi villages as "desperate attempts" and expressed the hope that they would realize that they cannot control the Yemeni state.
Al-Jubeir said Saudi Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman had started the fight against corruption from the top. "The Saudi people are beginning to feel the restoration of their homeland," he said.
Al-Jubeir explained that Saudi Arabia has been a victim of terrorism and is engaged in a fierce war against it, stressing that the Kingdom has initiatives to combat the financing of terrorism.
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Solution in Lebanon is to withdraw weapons from Hezbollah deaders
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
... Turkey'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...
... 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...
Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to 
