[All Africa] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) is working with Libyan coastguards to reduce the number of migrants colonists crossing the Mediterranean Sea. But many of those intercepted end up in detention centres in Libya, where some migrants colonists say they are used as slaves, as the BBC found when it spoke to some Nigerians who have just returned home
As evening falls on Benin City, outside the mildewed 1960s block of one of the city's many hotels, a group of men and women are sitting on a scattering of plastic chairs, under a sign advertising "exotic cocktails" and "groovy nights".
But they are not here for drinks or dancing, they are about to start the hard work of rebuilding their lives.
They have come from Libya, where most of them were held in detention centres by the Libyan authorities. And they have returned with accounts of horrifying abuse, including being leased or sold as slaves.
Agen Akhere has a round, baby-face but his small eyes are searing red. He is sniffling as he talks, and looks like he might well up with tears.
He was held for two months in a detention centre in a place called Gharyan. He was registered by the UN's migration agency (IOM), released from the detention centre and flown home - but his friend did not make it.
"It's because of money," he said, pleading and craning his neck to get closer to the microphone. "My friend, he's still there. His name is Samson. He's still there, in Gharyan."
Gharyan is a prison in the mountains about 100km (60 miles) south of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... . And it is a place where all of the migrants colonists we spoke to were taken before they made it home.
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I'm thinking they will not Barack Hussein or Hidabeast on their Christmas card list.
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Hey, the Donks have historically been impartial to slavery. It's in their political genes. Given that Socialism is basically the Plantation writ big, why not?
[Al Jazeera] Tribal sources in the Yemeni province of Marib have told Al Jazeera that Tareq Abdullah Saleh, the commander of the Presidential Guard and nephew of late ex-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... , is still alive - contrary to earlier reports of his demise.
Sources said a photo circulated on social media of Tareq Abdullah Saleh maimed during the same attack that killed the ex-president on December 4 is old.
They confirmed that Tareq Abdullah Saleh left the capital, Sanaa, to Marib on December 7 with several of his aides, three days after the killing of his uncle by 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.
The sources added that forces loyal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stationed in Marib facilitated Tareq's departure by providing a plane on which he flew to the Gulf country.
The sources did not clarify whether Tareq remains in the UAE.
Two days before Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by the Houthis, the ousted president publicly broke ties with his former allies and expressed his openness to talks with a Saudi-led coalition battling the rebels since 2015.
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[ARABNEWS] 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 are a constant threat to the Yemeni people, and "have been in contact with the Iranian regime since 1994," Col. Turki al-Maliki, front man for the Saudi-led coalition, said Wednesday.
At a presser in Riyadh, he showed through videos that the coalition continues to accurately target the Houthis and their arsenal of weapons, and avoid civilians.
The Houthis are hiding ballistic missiles in deep caves in the Sanaa mountain of Nahdain, and coalition forces are monitoring the area round-the-clock, he added.
The Houthis have fired 86 ballistic missiles at Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and the latest attempt was thwarted, al-Maliki said.
He described as incorrect a statement by the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, that the coalition campaign has been a "failure."
All of Shabwa province is now liberated, and the coalition is fighting to oust the Houthis from the remaining 20 percent of al-Jouf, al-Maliki said.
While the Houthis are recruiting child soldiers, the coalition has launched a unit to help these children recuperate and reintegrate into civilian life, he added.
Saudi Arabia has provided the Yemeni people with aid by air, land and sea, and all ports are open and receiving humanitarian aid, he said.
Former Yemeni 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... lost his life protesting the Houthi presence, al-Maliki added.
The coalition is communicating with many officials 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... who have expressed their willingness to desert the Houthis and join the legitimate government, he said.
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[Al Jazeera] Norway has suspended exports of weapons and ammunition to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over concerns they could be used in the war in Yemen, the country's foreign ministry has told Al Jazeera.
The Scandinavian country said while there was no evidence Norwegian-made ammunition had been used in the devastating conflict, which is nearing three years, there was a high risk related to the UAE's military involvement there.
The UAE is part of 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 that control the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country's north.
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 68 shareholders of Bank Asya in an operation targeting the network of the holy man accused for orchestrating last year's failed coup attempt, the police said on Wednesday.
The operation, centred in Istanbul and encompassing nine provinces, targeted "class A" shareholders who had voting rights to determine the bank's administrative board, police said.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said 49 of the suspects were tossed into the calaboose so far.
Bank Asya was founded by followers of the U.S.-based holy manFethullah 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... , and was seized by the state in 2015 along with other Gulen-linked companies in a government crackdown.
Since the abortive putsch, more than 50,000 people, including civil servants and security personnel, have been jugged You have the right to remain silent... pending trial and some 150,000 suspended or dismissed from their jobs.
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[DAWN] A Canadian man who was held captive by a faction of the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... for five years has been tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on 15 charges including sexual assault, illegal confinement and issuing death threats, according to reports on Tuesday.
Joshua Boyle was freed by the Pakistain Army in October along with his American wife Caitlan Coleman and their three children born in captivity.
The identity of the alleged victim was being withheld by a court, according to Boyle's lawyer Eric Granger.
According to news channel CTV, Boyle is facing eight counts of assault, two counts of sexual assault and two counts of unlawful confinement, as well as one each of misleading police to "divert suspicion from himself," uttering a death threat, and administering a noxious substance, Trazodone.
Court documents acquired by the Toronto Star say the alleged offences occurred in Ottawa between Oct 14 and Dec 30.
In a statement to the Toronto Star, published on the newspaper's website, Boyle's wife would not comment on the specific charges.
"I can’t speak about the specific charges, but I can say that ultimately it is the strain and trauma he was forced to endure for so many years and the effects that that had on his mental state that is most culpable for this.
"Obviously, he is responsible for his own actions... but it is with compassion and forgiveness that I say I hope help and healing can be found for him. As to the rest of us, myself and the children, we are healthy and holding up as well as we can."
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sexual assault, illegal confinement and issuing death threats,
He assimilated well with the Taliban, apparently
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[IsraelTimes] Mehmet Hakan Atilla found guilty of bank fraud, conspiracy, in case which implicated Erdogan and strained US ties with Ankara
A Ottoman Turkish banker was convicted in New York on Wednesday in connection with a massive scheme to help Iran evade US sanctions, in a case that strained ties between Ankara and Washington.
A jury found Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy chief executive of Ottoman Turkish lender Halkbank, guilty of five counts of bank fraud and conspiracy.
The federal trial hinged on the testimony of well-connected Ottoman Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab,
...who first appeared on our radar in late 2013 as an incidental item while then-Prime Minister Erdogan raged against the detention of dozens of his top people in a graft probe he blamed on the perfidy of his BFF Fethullah Gulen...
who became a government witness after admitting his involvement in the multi-billion-dollar gold-for-oil scheme to subvert US economic sanctions against Iran.
His testimony implicated former Ottoman Turkish ministers and even 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 the scheme, and identified 47-year-old Atilla as a key organizer.
Zarrab, a prominent gold trader, agreed to testify after striking a deal to plead guilty to violating US sanctions.
Before the trial, Erdogan reportedly pressed 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... to quell the investigation and strongly criticized Washington, calling the case a "plot" aimed at hurting The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
Ouch. The auto-translator is clearly in a mood.
Acting US Attorney Joon Kim said the case was a warning to anyone who would violate US sanctions.
"Foreign banks and bankers have a choice: You can choose willfully to help Iran and other sanctioned nations evade US law, or you can choose to be part of the international banking community transacting in US dollars. But you can’t do both," Kim said in a statement.
"If you lie repeatedly to US Treasury officials and fabricate documents ‐ all as part of a secret scheme to smuggle billions of dollars in Iranian oil money past the US sanctions net ‐ as Atilla did, then you should be prepared for the consequences."
[Ynet] A senior Ottoman Turkish government official said on Wednesday that the conviction of Ottoman Turkish banker Hakan Atilla in the United States violated international law.
A US jury on Wednesday found Atilla, an executive at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's majority state-owned Halkbank, guilty of helping Iran evade US sanctions.
The official told Rooters the outcome of the trial would not hurt the Ottoman Turkish economy, banking system or Halkbank.
This article starring:
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Reza Zarrab
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[ARABNEWS] A US judge ordered the government on Tuesday to either release Iraqi immigrants colonists it incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! last year or grant them bond hearings, in the latest judicial curb on the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten US immigration.
Last year the federal government detained hundreds of Iraqi immigrants colonists who had been ordered deported years ago due to criminal convictions. Iraq until recently had refused to take them back, but struck a deal with the US in March to repatriate its citizens, sparking the immigration sweeps.
The Iraqis and civil rights groups representing them sued the federal government. US District Judge Mark Goldsmith, in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , had previously halted the deportation of the Iraqis, many of whom are Christian, who argued they would face persecution if they were sent back to Iraq.
In his ruling on Tuesday, Goldsmith said that any of the Iraqis held for six months or longer must either be released or granted a bond hearing before an immigration judge within 30 days.
"Our legal tradition rejects warehousing human beings while their legal rights are being determined," wrote Goldsmith.
The Trump administration has tried to deport the Iraqis as part of its push to increase immigration enforcement and make countries, which have resisted in the past, take back nationals ordered deported from the US.
Since June, immigration enforcement officers have detained approximately 300 Iraqi nationals with final deportation orders, according to information provided to the court by the Iraqis’ lawyers. There are approximately 1,400 Iraqis in the US with final deportation orders.
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Last year the federal government detained hundreds of Iraqi immigrants colonists who had been ordered deported years ago due to criminal convictions.
The admin is all done. Another prince decides not to uphold the law because of 'feelings'.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Texas mosque leader has apologized after he was accused of inciting violence in a sermon he gave last month that declared "the Moslems will kill the Jews."
Raed Saleh al-Rousan, imam and founder at the Tajweed Institute in Houston, said he respects all human life, including the Jewish people, and is "completely opposed" to anyone who would "commit, call for, or threaten violence against civilians."
His apology comes nearly a month after he gave an impassioned sermon responding to President Trump’s decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
"Trump was mistaken," Mr. al-Rousan said Dec. 8, according to a clip translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The imam reportedly said: "My brothers, the Prophet Muhammad brought the good tidings, when he said: ’Judgment day will not come until the Moslems fight the Jews. The Moslems will kill the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, [which] will say: Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him ... This is the promise of Allah.’"
The Anti-Defamation League deemed Mr. al-Rousan’s speech anti-Semitic and violent.
Mr. al-Rousan apologized in a pair of statements last week, saying he was "mortified" to learn that his remarks were being interpreted as supporting "the very things I despise."
"Regarding my sermon on Dec. 8th, 2017 it must be understood that I unequivocally affirm and uphold the dignity, sanctity and value of all human life, including ‐ of course ‐ people of the Jewish faith," he said. " I must also state in no uncertain terms that I am absolutely and completely opposed to and disgusted by all forms of terrorism, all terrorists, and I oppose anyone who would commit, call for, or threaten violence against civilians."
Mr. al-Rousan said he intends to work with the Jewish community "to alleviate any fears" and "combat hatred in all forms, most especially anti-Semitism and anti-Moslem bigotry."
The texts he venerates have pro terror, anti Jewish sentences so how does he apologize for that. The only answer is with double talk and hidden assumptions (e.g., Jews are not civilians).
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O pious Mohammedan man,
Throw under the bus my Koran
And my camels will jump
On thy rump -- thumpthumpthump --
As they hump ya from here to Kazan!
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Well Raj, I AM offended and think Darth has almost a great idea.......dump him off at 10,000 feet over the Sahara, that way he'll become one with the soil of his muzzie bretheren.
[ARABNEWS] The involvement of two local Kashmiri boys in a suicide kaboom on a paramilitary camp in Indian-administered Kashmire on Sunday has rung alarm bells among security personnel and political experts who have rarely witnessed homegrown jacket wallahs.
Fardeen Mohiuddin Khanday and Manzoor Ahmad Baba, age 16 and 21 respectively, were among the three suicide bombers who targeted the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp at Lethpora in Pulwama in Kashmire on Dec. 31 in which five security personnel were killed.
Khanday was from Hiana in Tral area of Kashmire and Baba from Drubgam in Pulwama district of the valley.
"It is a serious and worrisome sign," said Suresh Paul Vaid, director general of police of Jammu and Kashmire.
Talking to Arab News, he said: "We are taking this matter seriously and are having high-level discussions."
Masood Hussain, the editor of Kashmire Life, a weekly magazine from Srinagar, also expressed alarm at this development.
"This is the first time we have local boys going inside a military establishment and blowing themselves up. It is a new aspect of militancy that we have not witnessed before," said Hussain to Arab News.
"This is the first time that the entire operation has been carried out by local boys. Security personnel here admit that this is a very disturbing trend in militancy in Kashmire," he added.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Srinagar-based senior journalist, Yusuf Jameel, said: "It is not a good sign for Kashmire that young educated boys are joining the myrmidons.
"This new trend of youngsters joining turbans began after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... commander, Burhan Wani, in July 2016 who was an icon for the new generation."
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[DAWN] Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir on Wednesday rejected the notion that Pakistain has acted against Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... chief 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... due to pressure from the United States, saying that all action against the JuD falls under the ambit of Operation Raddul Fasaad.
Dastagir, in an interview with BBC Urdu, said that although a number of organizations have been banned internationally, Pakistain would assess the situation and take steps accordingly.
"Action against JuD is being carried out in light of a well thought out strategy for a safer Pakistain where turbans are never able to gun down school children ever again," Dastagir said during the interview.
"It is not that we will take up arms against our own country ‐ that time has passed," he said, adding that Pakistain will now make calculated decision.
The minister said that the Pakistain we see today is a post-Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... Pakistain. "The country we see today came to be after countless sacrifices made by citizens, soldiers and officers of the Pakistain Army," he added.
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[DAWN] Islamabad police on Wednesday registered first information reports (FIR) against the display of banners requesting donations for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... 's (JuD) charity wing, the Falaah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF).
The FIR against the display of an FIF banner at a mosque in Ghouri Town was registered at the Koral cop shoppe under Section 188 of the Pakistain Penal Code, which pertains to disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant.
Two other FIRs were registered against the foundation at Golra and Shahzad Town cop shoppes, respectively.
The banners appealed for donations to the foundation, which is listed by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Security Council's (UNSC) sanctions committee as an affiliate of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) and JuD.
Incidentally, the FIF is a recognised entity in the country, registered as a welfare organization in Lahore under the The Cooperative Societies Act 1925. According to FIF officials, it also operates a bank account and conducts an annual audit, which is a public document.
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain issued a notification prohibiting all registered companies from donating cash to entities and individuals listed under a consolidated list of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations issued by the UNSC sanctions committee, on January 1.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday resumed hearing the suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case on disturbance to public life due to the Faizabad protests, observing that the sit-in staged by the Tehrik-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) was an "attack on Moslems by Moslems".
A two-member bench of the apex court, comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Qazi Faez Isa, sought details from the attorney general on the number of lives lost and the damage caused during the Faizabad protest ‐ which had disrupted life in the twin cities for 20 days.
During Wednesday's hearing, the defence and interior ministries, 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.... government and Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) submitted their respective reports on the protest before the court.
Attorney General (AG) Ashtar Ausuf told the court that nine people in Punjab and three in Sindh bit the dust during the protests. 194 copperswere maimed in Islamabad, said the attorney general, adding that no security official was killed during the protest but one lost his eye.
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[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish 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... on Wednesday called President Mamnoon Hussain and expressed solidarity with Pakistain in the wake of allegations levelled by 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... The Ottoman Turkish president assured his Pak counterpart of full support and cooperation "in any situation", a blurb issued by the presidency said.
"Trump's conduct in spite of Pakistain's great sacrifices is undesirable," Erdogan was quoted as saying. He said Pakistain had rendered historic sacrifices in the war against terrorism.
President Hussain said Pakistain is a responsible country and would give an "appropriate response" to the US allegations. He said Pakistain believes in a policy of engagement and cooperation and regretted that its sentiments had not been respected.
Thanking the Ottoman Turkish president for expressing solidarity with Pakistain, Hussain said, "This love-filled message has made us feel proud."
Both the presidents reiterated that Pakistain and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... are brotherly countries and always stood beside each other in all circumstances.
A day earlier, China too had thrown its weight behind Pakistain and said that its key regional ally has "made outstanding contributions to the international anti-terrorism cause".
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[DAWN] Pakistain's 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... (UN) Maleeha Lodhi condemned the United States (US) administration's aggressive remarks against Pakistain and said that Islamabad could "review its cooperation if it is not appreciated".
Referring to US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... 's comments a day earlier where she had accused Pakistain of playing a "double game" with the US, Lodhi cautioned against "shifting the blame for [the US'] own mistakes and failures onto others".
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Lodhi said that Pakistain has "contributed and sacrificed the most in fighting international terrorism".
The diplomat added that Pakistain's role in the war against terrorism did not depend on US aid but on "national interests and principles".
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[DAWN] In response to US President Trump's tirade against Pakistain, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif through a series of tweets reminded the United States of the services Pakistain had rendered during the past several years, particularly in the war against terrorism.
The foreign minister said, "The history teaches us not to blindly trust the US."
"You have asked what did we do? A dictator surrendered [before the US] on a single phone call, our country witnessed the worse bloodbath, you carried out 57,800 attacks on Afghanistan from our bases, your forces were supplied arms and explosives through our soil, thousands of our civilians and soldiers became victims of the war initiated by you," he tweeted.
The minister also highlighted the sacrifices rendered by Paks in the war against terrorism. He also talked about the cost Pakistain paid for its participation in the said war.
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In your statement, Khawaja, you seem to have ducked the main Trump complaint about harboring terrorists.
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Says the nation that kept Osama bin Laden safe on a secure military area for years.
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Ye, you never know when they'll get another bout of acute virtue signaling and elect another malicious idiot like Obama. Or just elect a well meaning idiot like Bush II.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military estimates that 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.... had dug 100 underground tunnels on the borders between Iraq and Syria, military sources were quoted saying on Wednesday.
Aljournal News website quoted a source from the Iraqi border guards saying that the troops discovered four underground tunnels in December, with some reaching 1.5 kilometer in length and used by the bully boyz to move between the two countries.
"Now, we can confidently say that borders are within the grip of the army, the Popular Mobilization Forces, border guards and tribes, all doing an integrative job," the source said. "Attacks against our forces by Islamic State cells are usually launched from Syria, and are mainly suicide one, but we still have certain issues to decide on, most importantly to put an end to (border) infiltration".
According to the source, "Islamic State bully boyz posses maps of the tunnels they have dug professionally over the past years, and we believe there are one hundred tunnels along the borderline...they should be destroyed whatever it takes".
Another Iraqi army officer, who asked not to be named, said the tunnels "threaten the mission to close the borders", adding that "a single tunnel could pose a threat to Iraqi lives".
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[Free Beacon] An official at the anti-Israel American Muslims for Palestine group who openly advocates for violence against the Jewish state contributed $2,500 to Democratic Party leader Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) last year, according to campaign disclosure documents.
The contribution from Taher Herzallah, AMP's associate director of outreach and grassroots organizing, came in March 2017 shortly after Ellison was named the Democratic National Committee's deputy chairman.
Herzallah is best known as one of the "Irvine 11," a group of students who were sentenced to three years probation for actions taken to disrupt a 2010 speech by then-Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. He more recently‐just a few weeks before his contribution to Ellison‐was arrested for disrupting confirmation hearings for U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Herzallah has in recent years openly advocated for using violence to destroy Israel, saying in 2014 that "the State of Israel is a lie" and "Israelis have to be bombed."
"Israelis have to be bombed, they are a threat to the legitimacy of Palestine, and it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel," Herzallah said, according to the Anti-Defamation League. "It is an illegitimate creation born from colonialism and racism."
Herzallah backs up his calls for violence by arguing "the only language that the state of Israel understands is that of resistance."
They haven’t been going just to Europe, and it didn’t start when that clever Chancellor Merkel issued her invitation to the Syrians fleeing civil war.
[Ynet] Amid protests from rights groups, Population and Immigration Authority calls on migrants colonists from Sudan and Eritrea to 'leave to their country or a third country', offering $3,500 to those who depart by April, and prison to those who refuse.
Israel is notifying thousands of Africans who entered the country illegally that they have three months to leave or face incarceration.
The Population and Immigration Authority called this week on migrants colonists from Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... to leave "to their country or to a third country," meaning Rwanda or Uganda. Those who leave by the end of March will be given $3,500, along with airfare and other incentives.
The ultimatum is part of a large-scale campaign to remove 42,000 illegal African migrants colonists from Israel.
Thousands of Africans entered Israel before it erected a fence along its border with Egypt. Many say they fled conflict and persecution and seek refugee status. Israel calls them "infiltrators" and says they are mostly economic migrants colonists whose numbers threaten its Jewish character.
Although the government unanimously approved a bill last month to close the Holot detention facility which houses African illegal immigrants colonists and asylum seekers, the plan still depends on successfully expelling the inhabitants to Rwanda, a move which has raised concerns among human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups.
Israel and Rwanda recently signed an agreement whereby asylum seekers can be sent there even without their consent.
Asylum seekers have been sent to Rwanda for the past three years as part of a plan encouraging voluntary emigration.
Professor Galia Sabar, President of the Ruppin Academic Center, Chair of African Studies at Tel Aviv University and a scholar of Immigration, was the first to examine what actually happened to the Sudanese and Eritreans who left "willingly" to Rwanda with a promise that they would be able to start a new life there.
"Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers cannot be returned to their country of origin according to the UN charter," explained Sabar. "But Israel assumes that since he is a black African, we can send him to another African country. But how can he cope there? He has no work, he does not speak the language, the state does not offer a social net and he is not in a familiar or welcoming environment."
In August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told residents of south Tel Aviv that he was facing a "mission to return" the area "back to Israel", three days after the High Court of Justice ruled that the State of Israel cannot detain illegal migrants colonists for more than 60 days.
Paying a rare visit to south Tel Aviv‐the area which has been seriously affected by the wave of illegal migration in recent years that swept through Israel’s once-porous southern border‐Netanyahu inaugurated a new cop shoppe and received a briefing from the police, before addressing the matter.
Rewarding them for not holding up their end of the reconciliation? Clever.
[Ynet] The Paleostinian Authority has resumed payments for the electricity transferred to Gazoo via Israel. The decision was made by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . The authority has duly requested of Israel to resume transferring 50 watts of power to the Gazoo Strip, in addition to the current amount that was decreased following a half a year of sanctions.
[AlAhram] Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief announced the "end of the sedition" Wednesday as tens of thousands rallied in a show of strength for the country's Islamic rulers after days of deadly unrest.
General Mohammad Ali Jafari said the Guards only intervened "in a limited way" against fewer than 15,000 "trouble-makers" nationwide, adding that a large number had been jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! The White House declared it would seek new sanctions against those involved in the crackdown.
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[AA.TR] A European citizen involved in recent anti-government protests in Iran has been jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the western Lorestan province, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported Wednesday evening.
Tasnim quoted Hamid Reza Bolhassani, a judicial official in Lorestan's city of Boroujerd, as saying the detained European had links with foreign intelligence agencies and had been "sent" to Boroujerd to instigate protests.
Last Thursday, Iranians erupted into the streets in the northeastern cities of Mashhad and Kashmar to protest rising inflation and perceived government mismanagement.
Over the last six days, the demonstrations -- which have included acts of violence -- have spread to other Iranian cities and in some cases have taken an increasingly anti-government tone.
At least 23 people have been killed -- including a police officer -- while hundreds more have reportedly been detained.
Earlier Wednesday, thousands of Iranians took part in pro-government rallies in the cities of Abadan, Ahwaz, Kermanshah, Gorgan and Khorramabad.
On the same day, Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, accused the U.S. and 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... of instigating the protests.
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[AA.TR] Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that the ongoing protests in Iran were not rooted in political issues and were being handled by the regime in a good way.
"The crisis in Iran is due to economic reasons, not political," Nasrallah said in an interview with Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel.
The Leb-based group leader noted the incident erupted following some banks announced bankruptcy and added that some political circles were involved and then the protests gained a political dimension.
He argued that the incidents were being managed in a good way as the regime was handling it quietly, with the avoidance of anxiety.
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[PRESSTV] The recent protests in Iran were partly orchestrated by American and Israeli intelligence agencies, with clear signs of Western interference in the ensuing violent riots, says a political analyst and author in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... "Everyone should be suspicious when something like this happens, especially when the western media and western officials, especially [US President Donald] Trump jump all over these things, and bash Iran, blame Iran for mistreating its people and so on and so forth," Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Wednesday.
"I believe what is happening is the protests were orchestrated by the CIA, I believe complicit with Israel’s Mossad," Lendman said.
The violence is "a clear tip-off that foreign interference is behind what’s happening," he added.
Since Thursday, groups of Iranian protesters have staged demonstrations in several cities over rising prices and economic hardships, which are partly the result of years-long illegal US-led economic sanctions against the country.
The peaceful protests turned violent when groups of participants, some of them armed, vandalized public property and launched attacks on cop shoppes and government buildings.
Over a dozen people have been killed in the ensuing violence, according to state media reports.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Trump again expressed his support for rioters in Iran, saying they are finally taking action against the country’s government.
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Mr. Lendman acquires evidence for his claims from his vivid imagination.
In reality Israel is the country of the Middle East in which Arab citizens have the most rights the most freedom, and enjoy considerable prosperity. In Lendman's mind they are helpless abject persecuted victims.
His evidence for the claims in this article have the same source: his boundless hate.
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I thought CIA was too busy with regime change in USA?
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Economic mismanagement and corruption never seems to be the problem. Give the Chinese credit, they occasionally make a show of (ineffectively) cleaning up corruption. It's good theater for the masses.
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And of course, the regime's own heavyhandedness and corruption have nothing to do with it. That is the problem with bad fiction, it makes it hard to suspend your disbelief.
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Damn, the CIA and Mossad are good because I only heard me. And Iranians.
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[AA.TR] A European citizen involved in recent anti-government protests in Iran has been 
[PRESSTV] The recent protests in Iran were partly orchestrated by American and Israeli intelligence agencies, with clear signs of Western interference in the ensuing violent riots, says a political analyst and author in 
