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I hope he schedules a White House business summit with industry leaders soon after the new year. Lots of media, business leader feedback to the tax bill, presidential recognition of leaders, future plans, pats on the back, two hour lunch, that sort of thing.
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I hope he schedules a White House business summit with industry leaders
I seem to recall that the last time he tried to do such a thing, most of them loudly refused to participate with that lecher, Drumpf, even the ones who had supported his candidacy.
I would leave them to stew in their juices, because it turns out he did not need the advice they refused to give.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Jamaat-e-Islami party has set conditions to accept the recent decision by 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. .. regarding the removal of Ata Mohammad Noor as the provincial governor of northern Balkh province, it has been reported.
The deputy front man of Jamaat-e-Islami Zabi Fitrat has told RFE/RL’s Afghanistan service that the party will only accept the removal of Mr. Noor if the government reconsiders its recent decision and accepts the conditions of the party.
Fitrat further added that the main conditions of Jamaat-e-Islami party shared with the government includes the future option for Ata Mohammad Noor and the government should hand over the responsibility of some ministries to Jamaat as well as appointing some Ambassadors on behalf of the party.
Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday issued a statement and said the conditions regarding Ata Mohammad Noor were shared with the government from the beginning but not only the conditions of the party have been met but the government has adopted a policy of hatred and hostility.
The party warned that such unilateral steps are not acceptable and the government will be responsible for the repercussions, emphasizing that the party will use all options to defend the rights of the people if the government did not reconsider its decision regarding the Balkh governor.
This comes as the Office of the President announced Monday that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has approved the resignation of Balkh governor Ata Mohammad Noor.
The Office of the President in a statement said Mr. Noor had resigned from his position as the governor of Balkh province a while ago.
The statement further added that President Ghani has approved his resignation and Engineer Mohammad Daud has been appointed as the new governor of Balkh province.
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[Al Jazeera] The number of cholera cases 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... has hit one million people according to the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC), a new milestone for what was already one of the fastest growing outbreaks of the deadly disease in modern history.
After almost three years of war between a Saudi-led coalition and 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, more than 80 percent of Yemenis lack access to food, fuel, clean water, and healthcare.
As of late September, cholera had killed more than 2,200 people in Yemen, according to UN figures.
Although cholera has a death rate of 0.3 percent, the size of the outbreak combined with the lack of equipment and medical staff to deal with the crisis puts thousands more at risk of death.
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They don’t have enough water, and waste what they have; they haven’t enough fuel to boil what they do have; and most of the country is under the influence of qat from noon onward each day, so even filtering the water before use is likely not done consistently. Then there are the wars — Houthis against Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda against whoever wanders by their tribal hideouts...
The wonder is that they all aren’t dead of everything.
[Al Jazeera] Bahrain's foreign minister has said it is unhelpful to "pick a fight" with the United States over "side issues", while there is a threat from Iran.
Khalid al-Khalifa tweeted to his 460,000 followers on Wednesday: "It's not helpful to pick a fight with the USA over side issues while we together fight the clear and present danger of The Theo-Fascist Islamic republic."
Relations between Bahrain and the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Iran, are strained over various issues.
Bahrain and Israel, meanwhile, are united in their views on Iran, which they see as a threat to security.
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Theo Fascist
That's a good name for my new pig.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The body of Shiite Sheikh Mohammed al-Jirani, who was kidnapped a year ago by Shiite faceless myrmidons in the eastern province, was found on Tuesday in Qatif during a security raid.
Jirani was kidnapped in December last year in front of his home in the Tarout Island. At the time, security forces tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! three men who were monitoring Jirani. They also identified three of the Shiite kidnappers: Mohammed Hussein Ali al-Ammar, Maytham Ali Mohammed al-Qodeihi and Ali Bilal Saud al-Hamad. All three are still wanted by the authorities.
Security officer Khaled al-Sammatti was martyred during the security raid on Tuesday in the town of Awamiyah in Qatif. and a wanted terrorist identified as Salman Ali Salman al-Farj was killed in the exchange of gunfire.
Jirani’s body was found buried near the site of the raid.
Before his abduction, Jirani was targeted several times. His house and car were set on fire in 2011 while his family was home and they miraculously survived. In 2012, assailants attacked his home again but failed to storm it, and they expeditiously departed at a goodly pace before police arrived.
Jirani had made several important remarks such as his statements to MBC channel in October 2016 when he criticized some Qatif residents for sending Zakat to Iran, Iraq and Leb instead of distributing it to the people in their city.
He had also condemned attacks against security forces, voiced his rejection of using influential platforms to criticize the state and attack it and slammed those who exploit the youth and involve them in strife and protests.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US military sighted an Iranian watercraft, known as Shark 33, in the Ras Isa marine dock near the port of Houthi-controlled Hodeidah, a US military source revealed in statements to CNN.
The source said that the sighted watercraft has an autopilot guidance system which has been modified so the boat can on autopilot identify the biggest object, lock onto it and attack targets without the need for a crew on board to launch the attack.
The watercraft was discovered days prior to 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 ... ballistic missile attack on Riyadh this past Tuesday.
US Ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Nikky Haley has referred to an Iranian boat of the same style during her presentation last week of remnants of Iranian weapons and missiles used by the Houthis 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... An expert was quoted by CNN as saying that the US Defense Intelligence Agency is already determined that the circuit boards were manufactured by an Iranian state sponsored electronics company.
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So it’s a speedboat bomb drone.
Now we know why the Chinese built a model Enterprise AC.
Bet they’re scrambling to find one in a DPRK harbor.
A summary of what was known at the end of yesterday, and a place to put what is revealed today.
[DailyMail]
Afghan refugee reportedly named Saeed Noori, 32, arrested over alleged Melbourne rampage on Thursday
Driver was known to police and had been a drug user with mental health problems and a criminal record, missed a medical appointment on the day of the attack
Migrant acted alone, deliberately ploughing SUV into pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station - but cops rule out terror
Off-duty Victorian police officer injured his shoulder arresting the rampaging driver during peak hour chaos
Noori, who is at St Vincent's Hospital under police guard, spoke about dreams and voices, blamed attack on 'poor treatment of Muslims'
A second man, 24, carrying a bag of knives was arrested but police believe he had no link with the incident. He was released Friday morning, expected to be charged with possession of cannabis and a prohibited weapon
Noori arrived legally in Australia as a refugee in 2004 through a resettlement program.
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•Driver was known to police and had been a drug user with mental health problems and a criminal record, missed a medical appointment on the day of the attack in other words a Devout Muslim.
The extremist Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) suffered a stinging defeat in a Hamburg court on Friday which ruled that a former German deputy and a weekly Jewish paper can state the far-leftist party cooperates with the Palestinian terrorist group PFLP.
"The international list and MLPD have lied through their teeth to the public and the court. I can now criticize without worry the complicity between the MLPD and the Palestinian terrorist organization PFLP," Volker Beck, a former Green Party deputy and religion professor, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
The international list, which included the PFLP, was a group of organizations that were part of the 2017 Marxist-Leninist Party election alliance.
The Marxist-Leninist Party sought a court injunction barring Beck and the weekly newspaper Judische Allgemeine, owned by the Central Council of Jews in Germany, from repeating the assertion that the Marxists campaigned with the terrorist entity PFLP during the 2017 German federal election. The Marxists claimed that Beck and the weekly paper could face a 250,000 Euro penalty for repeating the terrorism allegation.
[IsraelTimes] Pair were among nine charged in Islamic State-directed plan to target World Cup qualifier in Albania
Two men in Kosovo pleaded guilty Wednesday to planning attacks against Israelis during a soccer match in Albania last year.
Kenan Plakaj and Besart Peci were part of a group of 19 men detained in a series of arrests in Kosovo and neighboring Albania and Macedonia ahead of a World Cup qualifier in November 2016, which was originally due to take place in the northern town of Shkodra. Nine people were eventually charged.
The prosecutor claimed some of those nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! had made contact with Lavdrim Muhaxheri,
..the self-declared commander of Albanians in Syria and Iraq, who had his fingers in a great many jihadi pies until he met his missile this past June...
a former 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.... commander in Syria who has since reportedly been killed, Rooters reported.
Plakaj pleaded guilty to making explosives, after half a kilo of materiel for bomb-making was found at his home, according to the report.
He was the one who made the fertilizer/fuel oil bomb. Another of the group made about a quarter kilo of TATP.
Sentences for the two were not announced.
In June, four people were charged with planning to "carry out a terrorist attack against soccer players and fans from Israel who were coming to Albania for the match in November," Kosovo’s prosecution office said in a blurb at the time.
The match eventually took place in Elbasan, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Albanian capital Tirana, under a massive security presence.
Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic Albanian and Moslem country, has been confronted with more than 300 of its citizens waging jihad in Syria and Iraq.
It has subsequently strengthened legislation and attempted to root out radical Islamist networks.
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[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has summoned a United Arab Emirates diplomat over a recent social media post insulting an Ottoman-era governor that was shared by the UAE's foreign minister.
Acting UAE ambassador Hawla Ali al-Shamsi was summoned to the Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry, sources from the ministry told Anadolu news agency on condition of anonymity because of restrictions on speaking to the media.
The diplomat was informed of Turkey's concern over the post retweeted by Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The tweet was aimed at Fahreddin Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Medina, now in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , from 1916-1919.
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Those Turks sure are twitchy when it comes to being reminded about thier genocidal Empire.
The world is a better place when they realize the Turks are simply assholes, and treat them as such.
[LasVegasReviewJournal] Clark County on Wednesday finished installing close to 800 steel posts between the street and sidewalks along the Las Vegas Strip to increase pedestrian safety.
The posts, known as bollards, are interconnected by underground steel frames. They can withstand a head-on collision from a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 mph.
The posts were installed at seven locations between Tropicana Avenue and Spring Mountain Road. Next year the county plans to install 7,500 bollards along the Strip between Sahara Avenue and the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign.
Wednesday marks the two-year anniversary of a woman driving an Oldsmobile sedan onto the sidewalk in front of Gay Paree Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood Resort, killing one person and injuring more than 30 others.
Hardening soft targets is sadly necessary nowadays, as the wise recognize.
[DAWN] The United States could add Milli Moslem League and some other Pakistain-based groups to a list of organizations that use terrorism to promote their agenda, diplomatic sources told Dawn.
The Indian media reported earlier on Thursday that the 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... administration had accepted India’s request to label more Pak hard boy groups as globally designated terrorists. The request was made at the first India-US conference on designation of terror criminal masterminds and organizations held in New Delhi on Dec 18-19.
When Dawn contacted the State Department for comment on the reports that the United States could add more Pakistain-based groups to its list of terrorist outfits, an official said: "While Pakistain is an important partner for achieving US priorities in the region, this administration has also set clear expectations for Pakistain to take decisive action against terrorist and hard boy groups that operate from Pak soil."
The official did not identify the groups that Washington wanted Pakistain to go after, but diplomatic observers in the US capital see it against the backdrop of a recent statement criticising Islamabad for allowing Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... to continue his political activities.
On Tuesday, State Department’s spokesperson Heather Nauert reminded Pakistain that Hafiz Saeed was a US-designated terrorist with a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest and if he ran for election in 2018, it would certainly be a cause of concern for Washington.
Official sources in Washington had also expressed similar concerns after the Lahore by-election earlier this year, in which Hafiz Saeed’s group backed a new party called Milli Moslem League. The group received more votes than both the Pakistain Peoples Party and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... combined.
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Refreshing to have a Commander in Chief naming Islamic terrorist instead of funding their nuke programs.
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Nice idea. Whenever the UN does some stupid crap like this, any of the countries involved in bringing the vote are subject to a given percentage reduction of US-based funding. Make votes counter to ours have a real and tangible cost.
Same goes for the UN General Assembly - any time they bring and pass a resolution like this, an automatic reduction in UN funding of the General Assembly should take place.
Basically on regular issues, its not a change, but issues directly involving us? There must be a price to pay.
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The US should order any and all embassies of those 128 countries to relocate to Alaska. They have 3 months to move. After that their current embassies will be razed to the ground, including any people inside. Oh and PNG every one of their current embassy staff.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has approved the allocation of 4 billion Iraqi dinars for the rehabilitation of Anbar, Governor Mohammed al-Halbusi said.
Speaking at a presser on Thursday at the governorate’s headquarters, Halbusi said, "We will embark on rehabilitating all districts and areas of Anbar, particularly western ones, next week."
"Of all 120 projects, six will be launched next week at the western areas," he said, adding that coordination is underway with all international organizations to restore Anbar’s stability.
"The prime minister also allowed a second batch of fired coppers to assume security duties again in the governorate," Halbusi pointed out.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three-hundred and fifty prisoners have disappeared from prisons of the northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday, fearing that their disappearance was perpetrated by security authorities.
Those missing are mostly Sunni Arabs who were displaced by war at their home regions and moved to Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... as well as residents of the city, according to the organization .
Those were "detained by the regional government’s security forces, the Asayish, on suspicion of 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.... (also known as ISIS) affiliation after the regional forces took control of Kirkuk in June 2014", it reported.
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... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans
Check the passivity and exit weights of the other prisoners.
[IsraelTimes] Country's six Hornet jets to leave Middle East after three-year mission, though several hundred troops to remain to train Iraqi forces.
Defense Minister Marise Payne said Canberra had decided to scale back its mission after consultations with coalition allies following more than 2,700 sorties.
"The battlefield success against ISIS means our own Operation OKRA has now reached a natural transition point and our strike aircraft will begin returning home early in the New Year," she said, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.
"Since October 2014, our Hornet pilots and support personnel have made a significant contribution in support of the Iraqi Security Forces and I commend all the personnel who have contributed over this period for their dedication, skill and professionalism."
Based in the Middle East, Australia’s Air Task Group consists of six F/A-18 Hornets, an E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft, and a KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker and Transport plane.
While the Hornets are returning, the Wedgetail and the refueling plane will continue to support coalition operations and around 380 personnel will stay to train Iraqi forces.
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Back in the day, Rumsfeld suggested that a good many countries support us in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some were useful, like the Brits always are, and the Aussies.
But there were others, "the Stone platoon", from Estonia, a unit from El Salvador and yet others. A good many countries have gotten some version of combat time for their lifers, noncoms and commissioned. They've worked with us. As a future benefit, this may be of more use than their actual help on the ground.
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Thanks R for mentioning "Stone Platoon." Did not know about before.
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My old Czech au pair girl and her family joined with her husband’s colleagues to put together a car full of Christmas boxes for the Czech troops in Afghanistan. They’re awfully proud of their guys in uniform.
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A reason for this, says Nora Sub Laban, a resident of the Old City - which hosts Jerusalem's major religious sites - is that Trump's decision reflected an already existing but painful truth.
"When our leadership said it would accept a two-state solution, what was left for us to say? Oslo ruined us. We are surrounded by settlements from all sides and nothing is left for us of Jerusalem," Sub Laban
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Paleostinian Islamist group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s leader in Gazoo said on Thursday a reconciliation deal with President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’s Fatah faction was collapsing, just 10 weeks after the agreement was reached.
The rivals signed a deal brokered by Cairo on Oct. 12 after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of the Gazoo Strip, including its border crossings with Egypt and Israel, a decade after seizing control of the enclave in a civil war.
The deal bridged a deep gulf between Abbas’s Western-backed mainstream Fatah and Hamas, an Islamist movement designated a terrorist group by Western countries and Israel. But continued disputes have delayed its implementation.
Yehya al-Sinwar, Hamas’s chief in Gazoo and a key architect of the unity agreement, offered a bleak outlook on Thursday, suggesting the deal could suffer a similar fate to numerous reconciliation attempts over the past decade.
"The reconciliation project is falling apart. Only a blind man can’t see that," Sinwar said in comments published by pro-Hamas media.
One of the latest disputes came earlier this month when Hamas, according to Fatah officials, missed a milestone to complete the handover of Gazoo to Abbas’s West Bank-based government.
Hamas says it has given up all administrative control in Gazoo.
Rami al-Hamdallah, the prime minister, said Hamas had not transferred moneys as agreed, while Hamas said Hamdallah’s government had not paid salaries in Gazoo as agreed.
Sinwar in the past has said his group would not go back to governing Gazoo and that he was committed to making the deal succeed.
Fatah officials declined immediate comment.
"Reconciliation is collapsing because some people want to get from it the relinquishing of arms and the closing of tunnels," said Sinwar without elaborating, but in apparent reference to Fatah.
During the last Gazoo war, in 2014, Hamas fighters used dozens of tunnels to blindside Israel’s superior forces and threaten civilian communities near the frontier.
Israel and the United States have called for Hamas to be disarmed as part of the pact between it and the Paleostinian Authority, so that Israeli peace efforts with Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which collapsed in 2014, can proceed. Hamas has rejected the demand.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kurdish-led Syrian groups plan to attend Russia’s proposed Syria peace talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Kurdish officials have said.
The Syria peace congress was originally scheduled for November 18th but was postponed and the Kremlin said on Thursday that no new date had been set.
If the invitation is renewed, "we will attend Sochi and every other meeting that concerns the Syrian crisis as representatives of the people’s will" Sihanouk Depo, an official of Syria’s main Kurdish party, PYD, told an affiliated website on Wednesday.
Still Invited
"We are still invited," Badran Jia Kurd, a senior Kurdish official told Rooters on Thursday. If the framework for the congress still stands, "we will attend", said Jia Kurd, an adviser to the administration that governs Kurdish-led autonomous regions of Syria.
It would mark the first time Syria’s main Kurdish groups are brought into peace talks. Although they now run at least a quarter of Syria, they have so far been left out of international talks in line with Ottoman Turkish wishes.
Before the Sochi talks were postponed, the PYD said in November it had been invited and favored attending.
Since the conflict erupted in 2011, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its allies have carved out autonomous cantons in the north. The YPG spearheads the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting 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.... murderous Moslems with Washington’s backing.
Their territorial grip has expanded since joining forces with the United States, though Washington opposes their autonomy plans.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... views the PYD and the YPG as offshoots of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought a decades-long insurgency inside Turkey.
Last month, Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s front man said Russia had told Ankara that the PYD would not be invited to the peace talks.
The Kurdish groups share enmities with both Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... ’s government and with neighboring Turkey. This week, Assad described the US-backed militias as "traitors".
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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. ..
...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...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three-hundred and fifty prisoners have disappeared from prisons of the northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday, fearing that their disappearance was perpetrated by security authorities.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
