[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The front man for the coalition fighting to support the legitimate Yemeni government told news hounds on Sunday that overnight operations targeted 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 ... drone capabilities across several sites in Sanaa.
At his weekly presser in Riyadh, Col. Turki al-Maliki said that the Houthis received drones from Tehran and offered satellite images showing Iranian-made "Ababil-T" Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at specific Houthi-held bases in the capital.
"For more than a year, the Houthis have been attacking Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s vital areas, such as Abha’s airport and tried to attack Aramco," al-Maliki said.
The coalition spokesperson also showed images proving the Houthis had access to the Iranian single-engine medium-altitude long-endurance drone "Shahed 129".
He said that a coalition operation in Sanaa late on Saturday targeted a Houthi site used in the manufacturing and assembly of drones and an air base in eastern Sanaa which was previously used as a launch pad site for Surface-to-Air (SAM) type 6 air defense systems.
"The Houthis are trying to use civilians as human shields, but we have taken all precautions," al-Maliki said.
Sources said the operation late on Saturday targeted several Houthi-held camps including one which was formally called the First Armored Division camp when it was held by the Yemeni army before the Houthis took over.
The al-Siyana, al-Hifa’a and the al-Nahdain military compounds as well as the al-Dailami air base were also targeted.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in a drive, has locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a JMB member in a drive, named in the charge sheet of the 2016 Holey Artisan attack.
A team of RAB 3 arrested Md Mamunur Rashid, alias Ripon, alias Rezaul Karim, alias Reza, with Tk1.5 lakh from the Board Bazar area of Gazipur on January 19.
Most commonly known as Ripon, this Death Eater was not only an accused in the charge sheet of the sensational Holey Artisan case but was also a key supplier of money, arms, and explosives for the Death Eater attack.
Ripon, 30, son of late Nasiruddin of Shekhermaria village in Nandigram upazila of Bogra, was a member of the Majlish-e-Sura unit of banned Death Eater outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB), RAB's Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said in a briefing on Sunday.
Initial interrogation found that Ripon was born in Bogra in 1988 and started his education in a local primary school.
His father later admitted him to a madrasa after he finished his third-grade. He studied in various madrasas in Bogra’s Nandigram, Naogaon, and Dhaka’s Mirpur area.
In 2009, he completed the Dawra-e-Hadith degree from Madrasatul Darul Hadith in Chapai Nawabganj. He then completed an office application course from Cyber Tech computer training centre in Bogra and started working for the centre.
HOW HE GOT INVOLVED IN MILITANCY
According to Ripon’s confession, he got involved in militancy in 2013 while he was working at the Cyber Tech computer centre. He was drawn into militancy by one Dr Nazrul, who he knew from before.
As he got involved in JMB, Dr Nazrul gave him a new organizational name, "Ripon," even though he was known to all as "Rashid." His main job was to collect funds from members in select areas and hand them over to Nazrul, who was the JMB Ameer of the area at the time. Ripon soon gained the trust of his superiors and debuted as Nazrul’s second-in-command.
In a short time, he made a name for himself in the inner circle of JMB for his innovative activities and competence in collecting funds for the organization.
Later, through various interactions with JMB Ameer Sarwar Jahan, he came to know several Death Eatercriminal masterminds, including Abdullah, a major supporter and benefactor of the Death Eaters.
WHAT HAPPENED AT HOLEY ARTISAN?
On July 1, 2016, button men stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area and opened fire. A total of 22 people, including 17 foreign nationals and two coppers, were killed in the attack.
On July 2018, police submitted a charge sheet against eight bandidosturbans allegedly involved with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan, Dhaka.
Some 21 members of the Death Eater outfit New JMB, a faction of banned Death Eater group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), were found to have been involved in the planning and execution of the attack, according to the charge sheet.
In November, 2018, a Dhaka court charged eight bandidosturbans in connection with the 2016 terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery.
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[FreeWestMedia] A loud British feminist and open-border activist Tamara Cincik was attacked by a large "Asian" man on a train in London. She blames white males for not helping her. She was literally asking for it.
Yes, I went there.
No, no apologies.
From last June. The Daily Mail report of the incident can be read here.
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She said she did not blame the migrant but “remained more angry with those white middle class men who left me to it.
After posting that "Immigration is a good thing for British culture" I guess she had no choice but to not blame the responsible party. Got a handle on that cognitive dissonance problem yet? Apparently not.
So who else is she supposed to blame except for the one she figures won't hurt her no matter what? 0bumhole did a lot of that too and it worked out so well.
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Given that self-defense is illegal in Britain, if the men tried to help her, they would have gone to jail and been sued but the criminals. They have nothing but negative incentives to provide aid to anyone, even their own families really.
Face the reality England, you are once again nothing less than the property of your government, you willfully put the collars of serfdom around your neck.
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Given that self-defense is illegal in Britain, if the men tried to help her, they would have gone to jail and been sued but the criminals. They have nothing but negative incentives to provide aid to anyone, even their own families really.
In addition to that, you have no idea what you're getting into by jumping into some street ruckus. Is it a domestic dispute gone public? A buddy in the cop biz says domestic disputes tend ugly because both parties end up fighting with you.
Is the perp armed or on drugs? Either one skews the game and not in your favor. All in all, without some kind of training, a lot of risk to take for someone you don't know. It pains me to say this, but chivalry was killed off some time ago. Hell, guys have gotten yelled at for opening a door for a woman.
Real start, or a "Gulenist" false flag to allow Maduro powers to crush the opposition?
[Ay-Peee] Venezuela's government said Monday it put down a mutiny by a National Guard unit in a poor neighborhood a few miles (kilometers) from Venezuela's presidential palace.
The uprising triggered protests in the same neighborhood, which were dispersed with tear gas as residents set fire to a street barricade of trash and chanted demands that President Nicolas Maduro leave power.
The armed forces in a statement said that it had captured all those involved in what it described as "treasonous" acts motivated by "obscure interests tied to the far right."
It said at around 2:50 a.m. (06:50 GMT), a small group of guardsmen took captive a captain in charge of a police station in western Caracas and then moved across the capital in two military trucks to the poor neighborhood of Petare, where they stole a cache of weapons from another outpost. So, a minor uprising, even if real. They prolly haven't been paid in a while
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[Tennessee Star] The United States is expected to churn out far more oil in 2019 than what international analysts originally forecasted.
The International Energy Agency, a Paris-based organization that helps coordinate energy policies for industrial countries, released its latest oil market report Friday, noting exceptional numbers for the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
The agency reported U.S. oil production is expected to rise by 1.3 million barrels a day in 2019. While this number is lower than the record-smashing 2.1 million increase producers enjoyed in 2018, it’s more than double what the IEA initially expected to see in 2019.
The forecast illustrates the latest in the country’s shale oil boom, which has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years thanks to the emergence of hydraulic fracturing and an administration that has fostered a more conducive environment for fossil fuel development. Already, the U.S. is the largest international crude oil producer, with output expected to top 12 million barrels per day in 2019 and reach 12.9 million by 2020, according to the Energy Information Administration’s latest report.
Analysts predict the U.S. will keep blowing past its global competitors.
"By the middle of the year, US crude output will probably be more than the capacity of either Saudi Arabia or Russia," read a portion of EIA’s report, meaning it expects American companies to churn out more oil than what Saudi Arabia or Russia are even capable of producing.
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I'll not be content until there are people collecting money for starving Saudi children in front of main entrance to Tel Aviv U (the usual place for these pests). I'm keeping several one (1) agora coins for that occasion.
[IsraelTimes] Following arrest of German-Afghan dual citizen for spying on theGerman army, Iranian foreign ministry says enemies are aiming to ’sour relations’ between Tehran and Europe.
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[IsraelTimes] Ankara accuses Metin Topuz, tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! since 2017, of helping coppers organize an attempted coup in 2013.
Ottoman Turkish prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a local employee of the United States consulate in Istanbul accused of attempting to overthrow the government and espionage.
A 78-page indictment against Ottoman Turkish national Metin Topuz, tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! since October 2017, said Topuz was in "very intense contact" with coppers who led a 2013 anti-corruption investigation that implicated top government officials.
The Ottoman Turkish government accused US-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... for attempting a coup with that investigation and labeled his network a terror group. Gulen is also blamed for a 2016 failed coup but he denies the accusations.
A judge will decide whether the case will proceed to trial.
Topuz’s arrest led to tension in US-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... relations and to the suspension of bilateral visa services for more than two months.
The crisis triggered by the arrest saw accusations the US embassy in Ankara, which said at the time that the charges against Topuz were "wholly without merit."
US authorities then sought assurances from top Ottoman Turkish officials that no further staff members would be placed under investigation.
But 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... had said it was Turkey’s right to take steps against "an internal threat."
The US suspended considering visa applications saying it wanted to reassess Turkey’s commitment to the safety of US personnel. Turkey retaliated by halting visas services in the US.
Ties between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies were already strained over Gulen’s presence in the United States and Washington’s support for Syrian Kurdish militia, whom Turkey considers to be Lions of Islam because of their links to Kurdish Lions of Islam fighting Turkey. Separate indictments in the US against Erdogan’s bodyguards who were embroiled in violence and against the banker and a former Ottoman Turkish economy minister accused of conspiring to violate US sanctions had deepened the rift.
State-run Anadolu Agency said in 2017 that Topuz had allegedly communicated with former police chiefs in a 2013 corruption probe ‐ which the government claims was instigated by Gulen’s supporters ‐ and with other officers allegedly involved in the attempted coup. Gulen denies involvement in the coup attempt.
The US ambassador at the time said it was part of Topuz’s duty to be in contact with coppers.
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[Rudaw] More and more journalists, government officials and ordinary citizens in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have been imprisoned for relatively minor offenses such as "insulting" 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... Mehmet is a Kurd living in southeastern Turkey who faces prison time for anti-Erdogan "likes" or comments on Facebook.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... is ready to take over security in Syria’s Manbij, 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... told 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... in a telephone call on Sunday, the Ottoman Turkish presidency said in a statement.
Erdogan said an attack that left four Americans dead last week in Manbij was an act of provocation aimed at affecting Trump’s decision last month to withdraw US troops from Syria.
The attack occurred nearly a month after Trump confounded his own national security team with the surprise decision on Dec. 19 to withdraw all 2,000 US troops from Syria, declaring ISIS bad boy group had been defeated there.
ISIS grabbed credit for Wednesday’s attack.
Manbij is controlled by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a militia allied to the US-backed Kurdish YPG, which last month invited Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... into the area around the town to forestall a potential Ottoman Turkish assault.
Ankara deems the YPG faceless myrmidons linked to the Kurdish PKK movement that has waged a decades-long insurgency on Ottoman Turkish soil.
Erdogan and Trump agreed to accelerate and continue discussions between their chiefs of staff regarding a safe zone in the area, the statement said.
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[IsraelTimes] Flight back from Chad shortened by an hour as Sudan gives permission for PM’s jet to cross over airspace of southern neighbor, amid reports of diplomatic opening.
[IsraelTimes] The latest $15 million installment from 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo will be transferred later this week, a Qatari diplomat tells the Rooters agency.
On January 7, Israel reportedly asked Qatar to delay its monthly delivery to the strip after a rocket was fired from the coastal enclave at southern Israel.
"Due to the violence on the border, the Israeli government postponed it. The agreement is subject to there not being too much violence, so last Friday they (Israel) approved to do the third tranche," Qatar’s Gazoo Strip Reconstruction Committee head Mohammed al-Emadi tells Rooters.
[Al Jazeera] The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... refugee agency for Paleostinians said Israeli authorities did not inform the group of a plan regarding shutting down UNRWA-run schools in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli media reported that the state's National Security Council will revoke permits allowing UNRWA schools to operate starting next school year. The schools will be replaced by schools run by the Jerusalem municipality, supported by Israel's education ministry.
"UNRWA's existence in Jerusalem is not a gift from Israel," Sami Meshasha, the spokesperson for the agency said in a press statement on Sunday.
"There are bilateral agreements binding on Israel to respect the agency's installations, jurisdiction and immunity in Jerusalem," he said.
"In addition, Israel is a party to the 1946 Refugee Convention, and such attempts are in violation of this Convention."
UNRWA runs seven schools in two refugee camps in occupied East Jerusalem, serving a total of 3,000 students.
The Israeli plan is the latest blow to the agency, after the United States's decision last year to halt its funding.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation executive committee, said the Israeli decision is "a direct insult to the international community and disregard for its laws and decisions and institutions".
The Times of Israel has the Israeli perspective here.
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[Al Jazeera] Gazoo's health ministry has made an urgent appeal for help amid an ongoing fuel crisis in the coastal territory, warning of a "catastrophic situation" at its hospitals, including at a children's facility.
Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson of Gazoo's health ministry, said five hospitals in the Paleostinian territory would stop operating within hours, because generators are unable to operate due to the fuel shortage.
Last week, Beit Hanoun hospital in northern Gazoo stopped operating.
"The lives of hundreds of patients in Gazoo hospitals are under a threat of dire consequences," al-Qidra said.
Due to cold weather and increasing hours of electricity cuts, fuel consumption has increased, leaving stocks in the five hospitals down to 17 percent, al-Qidra said.
"The austerity measures taken by the ministry are in their final moments," he said.
At the al-Rantisi hospital, Sufian Salem was waiting with his one-year old child, Mohammed, who has a breathing problem.
"He is my youngest child. He always suffers of shortness of breath with his face turning blue, so we have to rush to the hospital at any time," Salem, 36, said.
The father of five said he is unable to afford a special breathing device for his son to use at home.
"We feel very concerned due to the news of fuel crisis in hospitals. It's a disaster. If the hospital stopped, where we would go? All patient children would die, not only my child," he said.
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I'm going long on candles
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Due to cold weather and increasing hours of electricity cuts, fuel consumption has increased, leaving stocks in the five hospitals down to 17 percent, al-Qidra said.
Talk to Hamass. Maybe they can give you some if it's so important.
[IsraelTimes] Abu Bakar Bashir, tossed in the clink after 2002 Bali bombings for supporting terror, given okay to walk free by president running for re-election, sparking outrage.
An Islamic holy man who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and other Indonesian bandidosbandidos myrmidons is being released early from a 15-year prison sentence after the country’s president relented on a condition that he renounce radical beliefs, lawyers confirmed Saturday.
[IsraelTmes] Amid reports of his failing health, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will give an interview to the al-Mayadeen TV channel affiliated with the terror group at the end of the week.
Nasrallah has not made a public appearance in weeks, sparking reports that he was nearing death. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... officials in Iran and Leb have rebuffed the claims.
The interview will take place on Saturday evening. Nasrallah gives an interview to al-Mayadeen around this time each year.
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.
[FreeWestMedia] A loud British feminist and open-border activist Tamara Cincik was attacked by a large "Asian" man on a train in London. She blames white males for not helping her.
[Tennessee Star] The United States is expected to churn out far more oil in 2019 than what international analysts originally forecasted.
... 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...
... 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...
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Abu Bakar Bashir
