[Al Jazeera] Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq is reported to have arrived in Cairo, after being tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to his lawyer.
Shafiq, who recently announced plans to run for president next year, has resided in the UAE since 2012 after losing the Egyptian elections to Mohammed Morsi.
He arrived in the Egyptian capital late on Saturday, news agencies reported citing sources at Cairo's international airport.
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[Al Jazeera] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave his security forces a three-month deadline to restore "security and stability" to the country's northern Sinai province, but experts say his strategy has already caused more damage to the region and its residents.
After the latest string of attacks, Sisi on Wednesday reiterated his pledge to restore security in a televised appearance, saying his government would use "brute force" against gangs in the area.
On November 24, more than 305 people were killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Bir al-Abed, a small town in Sinai, shortly after Friday prayers. According to local media reports, 120 others were maimed in the attack, which took place about 40km west of El Arish, the province's capital.
In response, the Egyptian military launched air attacks on targets in mountainous areas surrounding Bir al-Abed hours after the attack.
Sinai researcher and writer Mohannad Sabry said that signs of Sisi's "brute force" strategy already began to appear last week, when police and military forces began raiding the villages and residential clusters near the site of the attack.
"Locals have estimated that such raids detained dozens of people, mainly displaced over the past years from the areas of Sheikh Zuwayyed and Rafah," he told Al Jazeera.
According to Sabry, the detainees included several people who were leading a community effort to collect donations for the victims of the latest attack.
The Sinai Peninsula, a volatile desert region, is split into two governorates - north and south - and has been a hotbed for various gangs.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Saturday that 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... had tried to mediate to save the Houthis.
He tweeted saying that the Qatari mediation to save the 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 ... sectarian militia is well documented, and will not succeed, because it is against the will of the Yemeni people who belongs to its natural Arab environment.
He continued: "The Sanaa and 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... uprising is an awakening from the nightmare of drifting behind the shady sectarian callings that are against the interests of the Yemeni people."
A dangerous document recently re-circulated revealing the truth of the Qatari connection and support to the Houthis, through a letter by Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the father of Hussein and Abdul Malik, addressed to Qatar's former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, praising his generous support alongside that of Iran, which enabled them, according to him, to claim victory.
The Houthi leader promised the Emir of Qatar to continue the battle.
Qatar is the only country to have rescued the Houthi militias after the government forces were about to crush them. The former Emir of Qatar, under the guidance of Iran, was the first mediator to settle the conflict after the death of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi in the third war in June 2006.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A statement issued by the Yemeni presidency on Saturday evening said they supported all parties facing the coup allies, which they described as "an arm of the Persian Iranian project in Yemen" in the first comment on former president former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s call for a popular uprising against the Houthis.
Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi said all those who have identified a clear position in support of the popular uprising aimed at ending the coup and the restoration of the state "will all be partners in the present and future of Yemen".
Yemen's General People's Congress (GPC) forces, allied to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, gained control of key areas in the capital Sanaa on Saturday. The forces expelled Houthis from Mahwit city and were also able to control the defense ministry complex in Sanaa.
The statement was issued after a meeting between Hadi and his advisers to form a broad national alliance in the face of the militias Houthi. He said that the 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 had been seeking "in various ways to reproduce the model of the mandate of the Iranian jurist, and bet on the decision of Yemen and its illusory sovereignty to the malignant evil and mischief in Qom and Tehran".
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[Al Jazeera] Yemen's former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has said he is open to talks with a Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, in what the fighters called "a coup" against their fragile alliance with the ousted president.
Saleh made the comments on Saturday, as deadly infighting between forces loyal to him and Houthi rebels continued for a fourth day.
The former allies have been fighting the Saudi-led coalition for control of the country since March 2015, when Riyadh and several other Arab Sunni states intervened to reinstate the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
In October, the Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen imposed a total blockade on the impoverished country after a rebel missile was shot down near Riyadh.
Last week, amid international pressure over the suffering of millions of Yemenis, some humanitarian aid was allowed to enter Yemen.
"I call on our brothers in neighbouring countries ... to stop their aggression and lift the blockade ... and we will turn the page," Saleh said in a televised speech on Saturday.
"We vow to our brothers and neighbours that, after a ceasefire is in place and the blockade is lifted ... we will hold dialogue directly through the legitimate authority represented by our parliament," added Saleh.
A Houthi front man was quick to denounce Saleh's comments, accusing the former president of staging a "coup".
"Saleh's speech is a coup against our alliance and partnership ... and exposed the deception of those who claim to stand against aggression," the front man said in a statement, carried by the rebels' Al Masirah TV.
Also responding to Saleh's speech, Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi stressed the need for dialogue and called on the former president to "be more mature".
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... in a statement, Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) ordered their supporters to "defend their homeland, their revolution, and their unity".
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[BREITBART] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has glorified Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... and its more violent "black bloc" rioters with a style guide, complete with riot gear advice.
In their article, titled "What to Wear to Smash the State," the New York Times detailed the fashion of violent far-left rioters who enjoy "punching Nazis," before advising what to wear during violent protests and riots.
"This mass of solid black descending upon the park in Berkeley, hunting for fascist ...anybody not a leftist... s, was an intimidating aesthetic. That’s by design," they declared, before quoting an anarchist who claimed that covering your face and dressing in uniform "makes it easier for saboteurs to take the offensive against storefronts, banks and any other material symbols and power centers of capitalism and the state."
“Black does not reveal glass shards as well as other colours, or even patterns,” xe said, “and also therefore does not need to be washed as often. It’s a great saving on time, energy, water and chemicals, and so is better for the environment.”
Despite quoting the anarchist, who openly admitted that the black clothing and covered faces were used to evade coppers while committing crimes, the New York Times attempted to claim that the style is a safety measure to prevent being identified by "white supremacist groups."
“White people in general have difficulty recognizing people wearing black, assuming we are all involved in the theater.”
"The creation of mass anonymity protects practitioners from the threat of post-action doxxing by white supremacist groups, a process by which their identities and contact information, including addresses and places of employment, are publicized," they claimed. "People at home can use this information to harass and threaten. Similarly, police and other agencies have staff devoted to documenting demonstrations, and they work to identify people on film and video. These are among the reasons that some anarchists and anti-fascists advocate smashing cameras at demonstrations." Apparently, the New York Times favors the "two x" spelling of "doxing" typically reserved for people new to the Internet.
In their article, the New York Times continued by giving "practical advice on how to dress for a riot."
"There is more practical advice on how to dress for a riot. One should decide on organic or synthetic gloves before participating in an action: Wool and cotton may allow chemical contaminants, like pepper spray, to absorb, while nylon can melt if you grab something hot, which historically has included some kinds of tear-gas canisters but can include various things on fire," they advised, before adding, "These defensive methods work only if there are enough black-clad others nearby. A single person in all black and multiple face masks is an eye grabber."
Finally, the Times claimed that dressing in black murderous Moslem gear and concealing your face forms an "emotional connection" with other rioters.
"Tactical considerations aside, it’s this emotional connection with other members of the bloc that many practitioners highlight the most in interviews," they proclaimed. "It’s why soldiers and police have uniforms."
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Dilettantes to the end, they'll be arguing over what color scarf goes with firing squad black and red as they are escorted to their deaths.
#5
Do these people understand that we don't care about Antifa burning down cities?
Now if they come to my home town, that's entirely different.
But I don't I don't think 3006 cares about the color of clothing it goes through.
[RUDAW.NET] This week Iranian-Ottoman Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab went on trial in the United States for a scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions between 2010 and 2015. Along with Ottoman Turkish Halk Bank president Mehmet Hakan Atilla, Mr. Zarrab allegedly used Iranian funds and oil to buy gold in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , then sold the gold in Dubai and forwarded the returns back to Tehran. As part of the operation, Mr. Zarrab bribed top Ottoman Turkish officials, including Turkey’s finance minister and other members of the government’s cabinet.
In a plea bargain to reduce his sentence, Mr. Zarrab agreed to cooperate with American prosecutors, and his resulting testimony is producing interesting revelations. On Thursday, November 30, Mr. Zarrab testified that Ottoman Turkish President Erdogan (who was Prime Minister at the time) personally ordered the scheme to help Iran evade American sanctions and enrich the coffers of Turkey and its officials in the process.
According to the BBC, Mr. Zarrab "said that he was told in 2012 by the then economy minister that Mr Erdogan...had instructed Ottoman Turkish banks to participate in the multi-million dollar scheme" and that "...he paid Zafer Caglayan, then Turkey's economy minister, bribes amounting to more than 50m euros ($59m; £44m) to facilitate deals with Iran."
President Erdogan and other Ottoman Turkish government officials, including former finance minister Caglayan and former Halk Bank president Atilla (who is pleading "not guilty" in the trial) denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! The Ottoman Turkish government and its controlled media even went further than denying the allegations, accusing the American judge in the case of having links with 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 reclusive Pennsylvania-based Ottoman Turkishholy man that the Erdogan government insists was behind the July 2016 coup attempt).
Government controlled newspapers in Turkey either sidestepped the substance of the trial in New York, choosing instead to focus on things such as Mr. Zarrab’s fashion preferences for the court room ("casual chic" on Thursday, apparently), or they carried reports such as this one from Daily Sabah:
Officials in Turkey have argued that the case has been turned into a political move against Ankara. Turkey's claims were proved after the judge overseeing the Zarrab case was linked to the Gulenist Terror Group (FETÖ), led by runaway preacher Fetullah Gulen, who has lived in a self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999. The Ottoman Turkish government has accused the group of exploiting the case by illegally obtaining and fabricating evidence, including wiretap records done by now-sacked FETÖ-linked coppers. Ankara says the so-called "evidence" was illegal for a court to use under U.S. law, which requires that any piece of evidence must be obtained through legal means.
Perhaps in another attempt to distract the Ottoman Turkish public from serious allegations of bribery amongst Turkey’s top government officials, prosecutors in Ankara this week also put out an arrest warrant for Graham Fuller, a former vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, for "attempting to overthrow the government of the Republic of Turkey" and "obtaining state information that must be kept secret for political and military espionage purposes," among other charges. Mr. Fuller now joins fellow American academic Henry Barkey, who had an arrest warrant put out for him on similar charges a few months ago.
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[Al Jazeera] A Canadian court has suspended part of a controversial law that bans face coverings in the province of Quebec.
The Superior Court of Quebec issued a stay on Friday against Bill 62, a law passed in the Quebec legislature in October that bars individuals from covering their faces when they receive or give public services.
The court suspended Section 10 of the law, which forces individuals to uncover their faces to receive a range of services, including riding a public bus or seeing a doctor.
The ruling comes after a lawsuit was filed last month by the National Council of Canadian Moslems, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and Warda Naili, a Moslem woman who wears a full-face veil, also known as a niqab.
The legal challenge argued that Bill 62 violates the constitutional rights of Moslem women, who will now have to remove their religious coverings to receive basic services.
The groups also said the law will encourage xenophobia, harassment and discrimination.
"We're delighted that the Quebec Superior Court has suspended the Niqab ban - a law that tries to dictate to women what they can and cannot wear," the CCLA said in a statement on its website.
"This is a huge victory but there's still work to be done," the group added.
"The case will move forward on the merits and we need your support."
Quebec government 'not unsatisfied'
The Quebec government has justified Bill 62, formally known as "an act to foster adherence to state religious neutrality", as part of an effort to ensure equal rights between citizens.
Speaking to news hounds, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said he was "not unsatisfied" with the court's ruling.
"I'm not unsatisfied with the judgment because there's no mention of a violation of the charters [of rights] or any major constitutional problem," he said, according to CBC News.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday claimed that Pakistain successfully foiled an "international conspiracy" to ignite sectarian violence in the country.
While addressing a conference in Narowal Iqbal said that "disbelievers" want to sabotage peace of the Moslem Ummah by hatching anti-Islam conspiracies.
He was of the view that international lobbies, including India, never want to see Pakistain as a politically and economically stable country, for which they keep hatching conspiracies to ignite religious and sectarian violence in Pakistain.
"Pakistain has successfully launched China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, prompting India to hatch conspiracies to spoil the project and the ongoing development," the minister said.
Ahsan Iqbal stressed the need for unity in the Moslem Ummah to foil the international anti-Islam conspiracies, saying it was high time for the "Moslem world to forge unity among its ranks and shun their differences for the glory of Islam".
He expressed complete solidarity with the oppressed people of occupied Jammu and Kashmire, Myanmar, and Paleostine.
Iqbal said Islam presents a global system of foolproof security and peace, adding that forces of Evil had no religion, as every religion of the world gives the lessons of love, peace and respect for humanity. "The present wave of terrorism was a conspiracy against the Moslem Ummah."
The interior minister also urged the religious scholars to play their role in promoting religious and sectarian harmony, brotherhood, unity, faith, and peace in society.
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sabotage peace of the Moslem Ummah by hatching anti-Islam conspiracies.
Peace - You keep using that word, but, I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Peace - You keep using that word, but, I don't think it means what you think it means.
They know exactly what it means, AC - to us. Or most of us - I go with "On the [historical] evidence, peace is a purely theoretical state of affairs whose existence we deduce because there have been intervals between wars" -Jerry Pournelle.
To them "peace" means we're disarmed & dispirited - so they can rob, rape, and murder us in peace.
[RUDAW.NET] Iraq’s Vice President Nouri al-Maliki strongly criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s call on Baghdad for disbanding Shiite militia groups, chief among them Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, saying Macron should not "meddle" in internal affairs of Iraq.
Maliki, who still wields immense power in Iraq, slammed Macron saying "La Belle France’s constitution enshrines that they should not meddle in the world countries’ affairs. But Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly meddled in Iraq’s internal affairs calling for the dismantling of a formal legal institution, the Hashd al-Shabai."
In a joint presser with Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, French President Macron said that he had told the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on October 5 that Hashd al-Shaabi and other militias in Iraq must be disbanded.
"When Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Gay Paree, we declared that all the militias of the Iraqi government must be disbanded and that no militia must stay including the Hashd al-Shaabi," Macron said, making reference to PM Abadi’s visit to La Belle France, according to the official Kurdish translation.
Maliki, who is also head of the State of Law bloc in the Iraqi parliament, said "we do not want any country to impose its will on the Iraqi government and the brave Iraqi nation."
The former Iraqi premier also urged all the political parties of Iraq to be united and share a common stance in the face of any external "meddling".
In October, remarks by the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that called on Iranian militia within the Hashd al-Shaabi to "go home" sparked outrage among Iraqi officials.
Iraqi forces supported by the Hashd al-Shaabi entered deadly festivities against the Kurdish Peshmerga for over a week in October when they advanced on Kurdish-held territories in the disputed or Kurdistani areas claimed by both Erbil and Baghdad including the oil-rich Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu.
The Iraqi parliament in November 2016 recognized the Hashd al-Shaabi as an official force with similar rights as the regular army.
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[RUDAW.NET] Nearly half of Yezidis kidnapped by ISIS in August 2014 from Shingal and its surrounding areas are still being held captive or their fates remain unknown, according to the latest data released by the Kurdish ministry of religious affairs.
From August 3, 2014 until December 1, 2017, of 6,417 Yezidis kidnapped by ISIS, only 3,207 of them have been rescued or have escaped, Khairi Bozani, General Manager of Yezidis Affairs in the KRG’s Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs told Rudaw, explaining that 3,210 are still under the group’s captivity, of which 1,377 are women, 335 men, 904 female children and 831 male children.
According to the latest figures, an estimated 1,293 Yezidis have been killed since August 3, 2014, the first day of ISIS’s brutal attacks on the Shingal region.
The number of children who lost a parent is 2,745, of which 1,759 have lost their fathers, 407 lost mothers and 389 lost both parents.
Some 47 mass graves containing the bodies of Yezidis were discovered and 68 religious shrines were blown up.
An investigation into mass graves conducted by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and announced in August 2016 concluded that between 5,200 and 15,000 people are buried in 72 mass graves in territory the murderous Moslems formerly controlled.
Last month, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced it would open a "special judicial body to investigate the terrorist crimes committed against Yezidis."
The totality of the atrocities committed against Yezidis by ISIS is not yet completely quantifiable. Many mass graves in and near Shingal have yet to be exhumed, however, Kurdish authorities in Duhok use satellite imagery to identify many believed sites.
As many as 100,000 Yezidis have migrated abroad since August 2014, according to the figure.
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[PRESSTV] Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s prime minister says the issue of a unilateral independence referendum is over, adding that the region respects a recent top court ruling that bans any secession from the mainland.
"With regards to the referendum, we are in a new era, and this issue is over and we have made our position in the Kurdistan Regional Government clear," Nechirvan Barzani said in a joint presser with French President Emmanuel Macron in Gay Paree on Saturday.
He further reaffirmed the region’s "respect for Iraqi federal court ruling" that declared a secession referendum unconstitutional.
On November 20, Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court, which is responsible for settling disputes between the central government in Baghdad and the country’s regions, announced it had made a "decision to consider the Kurdish region’s referendum unconstitutional and this ruling is final."
It also decided to annul "all the consequences and results" of the plebiscite that was held on September 25 in defiance of strong objection from both Baghdad and Iraq’s neighbors, particularly Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The plebiscite sparked tensions between the KRG and Baghdad, with the Iraqi army conducting a military campaign to retake the areas overrun by Kurdish snuffies in the course of the fight against the ISIS terrorist group.
Following the vote, Baghdad imposed a ban on direct international flights to the Kurdish region and called for a halt to its independent crude oil sales.
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[DAWN] The Paleostinian movement Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, which controls Gazoo called on Saturday for a new "intifada" if Washington recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or moves its embassy to the disputed city.
They’ve got two choices in terms of an intifada:
1) light off the rockets that now can reach Jerusalem, resulting in Israel smashing Gaza while they are still recovering from the last round, or
2) attack Jews using their personnel in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which means the arrests will come from both the Israelis and the PA police.
But as I recall, they tried both prongs and failed horribly last time. If they do it again, just when they are annoying Egypt greatly by failing to seal the reconciliation with the PA, it won't be just Israel and the PA going after them this time.
Reports in Washington have suggested 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... may on Monday fulfil a campaign pledge on the American embassy, which like all other foreign missions is currently located in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
"We warn against such a move and call on the Paleostinian people to revive the intifada if these unjust decisions on Jerusalem are adopted," Hamas said in a statement.
Any decision to move its embassy there would be "a flagrant attack on the city by the American administration" and give Israel "a cover for continuing its crime of Judaising the city and emptying it of Paleostinians," it said.
The status of Jerusalem is a key issue in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. Both Israelis and Paleostinians claim the city as their capital and previous peace plans have stumbled over debates on whether, and how, to divide illusory sovereignty or oversee holy sites.
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US Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he sent a letter to Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and Iranian leaders expressing concern regarding Iran's increasingly threatening behavior in Iraq. Speaking during a panel at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in Southern California, Pompeo said he sent the letter after the senior Iranian military commander had indicated that forces under his control might attack US forces in Iraq. He did not specify the date.
"What we were communicating to him in that letter was that we will hold he and Iran accountable for any attacks on American interests in Iraq by forces that are under their control," Pompeo told the panel.
"We wanted to make sure he and the leadership in Iran understood that in a way that was crystal clear."
Soleimani, who is the commander of foreign operations for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, refused to open the letter, according to Pompeo, who took over the CIA in January.
#1
Very interesting. Are not such 'warnings' usually issued by someone other than intelligence community directors ?
Unfortunately, with the departure of Mike Flynn, it would appear we really have no one capable of examining intelligence community roles and missions. But perhaps that is the reason Flynn is no longer available.
[PRESSTV] A senior Iranian official says enemies' divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... plots can only be thwarted through unity and coherence in the Moslem world.
Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , Shiaphobia and Iranophobia are top on the agenda of a Western media campaign seeking to depict a violent image of Islam and Moslems to the world, Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... on international affairs, said on Saturday.
He added that the West has waged proxy wars, supported terrorist, myrmidon and Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... groups such as ISIS and hatched plots to sow discord among, weaken and break up Moslem countries and spread instability.
ISISmurderous Moslems have committed every type of crime against Moslems in the region and carried out measures in the name of Islam to serve the interests of arrogant powers and enemies of Moslems, the senior Iranian official emphasized.
Velayati said enemies' efforts to "turn the Zionist-Islamic battle into Islamic-Islamic confrontation" in order to guarantee the Israeli regime's security have so far failed through unity in the Moslem world and efforts by the anti-Israeli resistance front.
He added that the enemies' vicious plots would be foiled in the future and Moslem countries would stand up to any move aimed at creating discord and division.
Velayati noted the Islamic Theocratic Republic's core policy has always been to attach importance to safeguarding unity and reconciliation among religions and countering any divisive plans.
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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.
[Al Jazeera] Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq is reported to have arrived in Cairo, after being 
...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...
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
... 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...
[Al Jazeera] A Canadian court has suspended part of a controversial law that bans face coverings in the province of Quebec.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday claimed that Pakistain successfully foiled an "international conspiracy" to ignite sectarian violence in the country.
Nouri al-Maliki strongly criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s call on Baghdad for disbanding Shiite militia groups, chief among them Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, saying Macron should not "meddle" in internal affairs of Iraq. 
They’ve got two choices in terms of an intifada: 
Qassem Soleimani and Iranian leaders expressing concern regarding Iran's increasingly threatening behavior in Iraq. Speaking during a panel at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in Southern California, Pompeo said he sent the letter after the senior Iranian military commander had indicated that forces under his control might attack US forces in Iraq. He did not specify the date.
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
