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Image of the poster with photos of the miscreants at the link, though honestly Garowe has a better version.
[ShabelleMedia] The Kenyan government has released the names and photos of 35 terror suspects believed to be behind recent holy warrior attacks in the coastal Lamu county.
Among them are Tanzanians, Somalis, a German, a Brit, a Bangladeshi citizen, with the majority being Kenyans.
The suspects are linked to the planting of improvised bombs (IEDs) on various roads and the killing of civilians along the Lamu-Witu-Garsen highway.
They are also linked to the attack on the American military base at Manda Bay, in Lamu, in 2020.
The Ministry of Interior said the "armed and dangerous" suspects were part of the "al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... terror network responsible for planning and orchestrating deadly attacks in Lamu county and the larger Boni Enclave".
Authorities say a "substantial reward" will be offered to anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of any of the suspects.
Al-Shabaab has stepped up attacks in Kenya’s north-eastern and coastal regions in recent months.
The al-Qaeda-linked holy warrior group is facing a large-scale military offensive in Somalia that seeks to drive out the jihadists.
[Garowe] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] has yet again handed over another Forward Operating Base [FOB] to the Somali National Army [SNA], despite the recent decision by the African Union to technically pause the withdrawal of ATMIS troops from the country.
At the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , the government of Somalia requested a technical pause on the withdrawal of ATMIS troops, citing logistical challenges. The request has since been granted after the African Union halted the withdrawal of 3,000 soldiers from various contingents in the Horn of Africa nation.
But on Wednesday, ATMIS announced the handing over of Raga Ceel FOB to the Somali National Army, who are supposed to take full security responsibility from ATMIS in December 2024, once foreign troops are withdrawn. Somalia believes that by then, al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... would have been completely neutralized.
According to ATMIS, soldiers attached to Raga Ceel will now join other contingents across the country in the fight against al-Shabaab. The troops are from Burundi, one of the major security partners of Somalia, a country that has struggled with instability for the last three decades.
"ATMIS today handed over the Raga Ceel FOB in Middle Shabelle to the Somali Security Forces. The handover is part of troop redeployment by both ATMIS and the Federal Government of Somalia [FGS] to boost military operations against Al-Shabaab in Hirshabelle State," ATMIS said.
"The ATMIS Burundi troops will now be redeployed to other regions to boost security in view of the three-month drawdown pause requested by the FGS.
The handover ceremony was facilitated by UNSOS and attended by senior military officials from ATMIS and SNA Force."
ATMIS intended to withdraw a total of 6,000 soldiers from Somalia by the end of this year, with the remaining to leave by December 2024. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the ongoing crackdown against al-Shabaab across the country may delay the projections given ATMIS's role in covering up SNA soldiers.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud traveled to Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest state on Wednesday, where is he supposed to assess the ongoing operations against al-Shabaab. A full military operation is yet to be activated in the state and the neighboring Jubaland.
Already, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has delivered military equipment including vehicles to the Somali National Army to enhance their capabilities in the ongoing war against the al-Shabaab al-Shabaab bad boys. This good gesture comes at the time Somalia is fighting for the lifting of the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council.
You're welcome, you easily manipulated dipshit. [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Kuwaiti National Assembly member Shuaib Shaaban urged Arab countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council to cease exporting oil to Western countries supporting Israel and to use it as a weapon.
"It is remarkable that the heinous crimes to which the people of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... are currently being subject coincide with the 50th anniversary of the meeting of Arab oil ministers in Kuwait on October 17, 1973," Shaaban said, according to Kuwaiti media.
He added that the ministers at that time "took one of the bravest Arab decisions ever, which was to stop exporting oil to Western countries that support the Zionist occupation forces."
"With the interruption of Arab oil supplies at that time, fuel prices rose rapidly in Western capitals, stock market shares collapsed, and performance rates in the global economy declined," Shaaban explained.
This step affected the global economy for several years, which proves that it is a proven and effective weapon, according to the Kuwaiti MP.
He called for using the oil weapon again to impose a practical and collective diplomatic and economic reality that relieves the pressure on the Gaza people.
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Iraq's Saddam Hussein tried to destroy Kuwait's oil fields. Let's finish the job. (Kuwait is the only Arab state disposed to admit Palestinian refugees.)
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[KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Russia refused to change the sentence of Kuban activist Daria Polyudova, who is serving a nine-year sentence in the case of creating an extremist community and publicly justifying terrorism.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Kuban activist Daria Polyudova remains in strict conditions of detention in a colony in Kabardino-Balkaria, where she is serving a sentence in the case of creating an extremist community and publicly justifying terrorism, said the mother of the activist, who was able to get a meeting with her daughter.
In May 2021, a court in Moscow sentenced Polyudova to six years in prison. The reason for the criminal prosecution was publications on the social network in which Polyudova, according to the court, justified the activities of the Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov , as well as Yevgeny Manyurov, who in December 2019 opened fire near the FSB building in Moscow.
The defense insisted that Polyudova made no direct calls for terrorism. In December 2021, it became known that a new case had been filed against the activist. According to the FSB, she created a movement with the aim of publicly justifying terrorism and extremism. The court sentenced her to nine years in prison in December 2022.
In 2015-2017, Polyudova was in a penal settlement on a case of public calls for separatism and extremism, initiated after an attempt to hold an action “For the federalization of Kuban,” according to her biography published on the “Caucasian Knot.” In 2018, Daria Polyudova became the laureate of the Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act.” The Memorial Human Rights Center* recognized Daria Polyudova as a political prisoner.
The Supreme Court approved the sentence for Daria Polyudova - nine years in prison, the human rights project OVD-Info** reported today. “I have the right to my opinion. In other countries there are also socialists, but they sit in parliaments, and not like me in prison,” the publication quotes her words in court.
The activist's defense insisted that unacceptable evidence was used in the case, and in her publications she expressed her personal opinion, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" reported today.
Witness Kirill Kotov, sentenced to three years of probation under the article on participation in an extremist community, stated that he testified against Polyudova under pressure from the investigation: he was threatened with a real prison term. According to Kotov, Polyudova is not the organizer of any community, the report says.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in October the ECHR upheld Polyudova's complaint about long-term detention.
WHO IS DARYA POLYUDOVA AND WHAT ARE THE CHARGES AGAINST HER?
The 31-year-old Communist Darya Polyudova first came to public attention in 2014 when she became the first victim of the newly introduced Article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (incitement of separatism) after an attempt to organise a ‘March for the Federalisation of Kuban’ in Krasnodar. In 2015 the activist was found guilty and sentenced to two years in a low security penal colony. Memorial at that time declared Polyudova a political prisoner.
In the autumn of 2017 Darya was released and continued her political activism.
In January 2019 she held a single-person picket in Moscow displaying a poster that read: ‘Hey, Kuril Islanders! Stop feeding Moscow! Long live the Far Eastern Republic!’
The activist suggested that the residents of these islands hold a referendum on withdrawing from the Russian Federation. On her page on the Vkontakte social network site she wrote that it would benefit Russia if it divided into several countries.
In February of the same year on VKontakte Polyudova reposted someone else's publication which consisted of a photo of the militant Shamil Basayev with the inscription ‘when we demanded a referendum, the Russians came and killed everyone who did not have time to hide.’ This was accompanied by a text that stated: ‘the Urals and other republics that will separate from Russia in the future need individuals such as Dzhokhar Dudayev, Shamil Basayev, Aslan Maskhadov’ and that the residents of the Urals must learn to ‘fight against the Muscovites to defend their independence.’
Text taken from an article which appeared in afrinz.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics
[ColonelCassad] The US established an extensive network of outposts in more than a dozen African countries under the pretext of fighting terrorism after the events of September 11, 2001. 29 military bases in 15 countries stretch from one end of Africa to the other. The US Africa Command (US AFRICOM), created in 2008, is responsible for their coordination in accordance with US strategic goals, which remains a key instrument for promoting Washington’s “global leadership” policy on the continent. In the material of military analyst Darko Todarovski for the “Africa Initiative” about how the US military presence in Africa works.
AFRICOM is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense. The operating budget of AFRICOM headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany alone was $375 million in fiscal year 2023. Officially, AFRICOM, in addition to counterterrorism operations, is responsible for “fighting regional conflicts” and supporting military relations with 53 African countries. His area of responsibility covers all of Africa, with the exception of Egypt, which is in the sphere of interests of the US Central Command.
AFRICOM has a force of more than 7,200 troops. The largest concentration of US military facilities is in the Sahel states in the west of the continent and in the Horn of Africa in the east.
The largest US military base in Africa is Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. The strategic importance of this site is due to its proximity to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which a significant part of world trade passes. There are about 300 military personnel permanently stationed at the base itself. Their main attack weapons are drones and patrol aircraft.
US military facilities in West Africa are officially used for anti-terrorist operations. Burkina Faso and Chad provide infrastructure for US drone reconnaissance flights. Bases in Cameroon and Niger also house permanent US Army contingents involved in African military training programs.
In eastern Africa, the United States is actively cooperating with Kenya, Somalia and the Seychelles. The last two states provide the United States with airports for reconnaissance UAVs.
The United States also has agreements with 19 African countries on the right to host American fuel reserves on their territory and provide refueling services for US Air Force aircraft.
In addition to conducting African drone surveillance, cross-border raids, reconnaissance and interrogation programs, AFRICOM has assumed responsibility for security training for African countries.
In addition to AFRICOM, there is also the Special Operations Command Africa, or SOCAFRICA, which oversees elite units and plays a huge role in the US military effort on the continent. Under the leadership of SOCAFRICA, Washington constantly sends Green Berets and Navy SEALs to hot spots on the continent. According to a list provided by SOCAFRICA to Rolling Stone reporters, in 2021, US commandos were deployed to 17 African countries - Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Tunisia. And in 2022, they were added to at least five more African countries - the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal and Somalia.
Roughly 14% of U.S. commandos deployed overseas in 2021 were sent to Africa, ranking the continent second in the number of deployments behind the Greater Middle East.
In 2019, Yahoo News, using documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, public records and leaks from the US Department of Defense, compiled a list of 36 special operations that the US has conducted or is conducting in Africa. Many of these operations are conducted in countries that the US government does not recognize as combat zones, but in which US troops are nonetheless fighting and, in some cases, even suffering casualties.
SOF operations in Africa are so-called “127e programs,” named for budgetary authorities that allow them to use host nation military units as executors in counterterrorism missions.
At least 15 US-trained officers took part in 13 coups d'état in West Africa and the Greater Sahel from 2014 to 2023, Responsible Statecraft found. These include soldiers from Burkina Faso (2014, 2015 and twice in 2022); Chad (2021); Gambia (2014); Guinea (2021); Mali (2012, 2020, 2021); Mauritania (2008); Niger (2023) and Gabon (2023).
AFRICOM's vision is to coordinate not only military command and control, but also diplomatic efforts and other functions of US government agencies in Africa. The US military calls it a "whole of government" approach. AFRICOM engages senior officials from the State Department, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Energy, Commerce, Justice, and other departments.
But for every civilian employee working on U.S. policy in Africa, there are seven in the military, and in many embassies across the continent the number of military attaches outnumbers the number of diplomats.
The current version of the official US strategy in sub-Saharan Africa was published in August 2022, several months after China adopted a concept of relations with the African continent. The frankness of the provisions of this document, which can well be called aggressive, is noteworthy, wrote Nikita Panin, an expert at the HSE Center for African Studies, in his article “African Strategies: Comparing the Approaches of Key Players on the Continent” for the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The document openly outlines the US’s readiness to intervene in the internal processes of African countries where and when it suits Washington’s interests in order to “renew Africa’s faith in US global leadership.” The point about encouraging open societies begins with the thesis that such societies “are usually more willing to work in common with the United States, attract more American goods and investments, improve the living conditions of their citizens and fight the harmful activities of the PRC, the Russian Federation and other external forces.”
In the document, the United States openly declares a list of African countries in which, according to Washington, there is a setback in development and democracy: Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia and the Sahel states.
According to the strategy adopted by Washington, it is the United States that “can give Africans a choice about how they determine their future, limiting the opportunities for negative state and non-state actors through a calibrated combination of positive incentives and punitive measures such as sanctions.”
At the same time, the United States works not only with the official authorities with which its embassies and representative offices are accredited, but also supports “investigative journalism to combat authoritarianism” and interacts with the judicial system “to protect democracy and human rights, fight corruption, and hold fair elections " The United States intends to support “civil society, including activists, workers, reform-minded leaders, marginalized groups, incl. LGBT+." However, democracy promotion can also come from the United States training “professional, capable, accountable government security forces.”
In turn, AFRICOM’s official priority areas for the period from 2020 to 2025 are:
- countering narratives from America’s strategic competitors - China and Russia;
— weakening and reducing the potential of extremist organizations in the countries of the Sahara-Sahel zone and the Maghreb, countering the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as “containing instability in Libya”;
— containing and weakening the terrorist group Boko Haram;
— suppression of illegal activities and reduction of threats in the Gulf of Guinea and Central Africa in cooperation with identified partners;
— neutralizing the terrorist organization Al-Shabab al-Mujahideen in Somalia and facilitating the process of transferring security responsibilities from the African Union Mission in Somalia to the local government.
The current commander of AFRICOM, 60-year-old General Michael Langley, was appointed to his post by executive order of US President Joe Biden in June 2022. Langley is the first black Marine to become a four-star general in the U.S. Army. He served in Afghanistan, Somalia and Okinawa, and served in several senior positions at the Pentagon and Military Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East. In his public statements, Langley is clear about his priorities:
“The most long-term strategic threat to the United States in Africa is not terrorism. The biggest threat to the United States in Africa is China. Not only for security reasons, but also because of economic competition,” Langley stated publicly.
It is also important, he said, to pay attention to the Kremlin, which is using Wagner PMCs to “fuel instability” and “turn chaos into money.”
PS. It is worth noting that over the past month, the Mali army, with the support of the Wagner PMC, has liberated more than 15 cities, towns and military bases from French-backed militants in northern Mali. After the failure of plans to organize an intervention in Niger, France is increasingly relying on supporting various militants in order to destabilize countries that have fallen out of its sphere of influence.
PS2. By the way, the site itself https://afrinz.ru/category/news/ , which took off on hype after the recent African Forum, is really not bad, there is a lot of different information on African affairs. Previously, it was necessary mainly to monitor what was happening through the profile collection on Twitter and selected channels in Telega.
PS3. By the way, Pushkin reached the Congo.
In the capital of the country, with the help of specialists from Voronezh, they have now established the process of education in Russian. The local population is taught the Russian language, history, culture and geography of Russia.
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Empires always crumble because they seize too much territory and the maintenance costs kill them.
But the people paying for it, and the people benefiting from it, are two different groups that don't intersect. Thus it will continue, with us getting the bill.
Looking a lot like time for a cookout.
[Regnum] American 66-year-old activist of the Code Pink anti-war movement Leslie Angelin began a hunger strike demanding an end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
Nobody actually cares.
This is reported on the website of this international organization.
The woman took part in a protest in Washington, where she arrived from California.
“The situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic, and I simply cannot sit and watch as the Palestinian civilian population is bombed, starved to death, deprived of clean water, food and electricity,” the activist said .
It is planned that other Code Pink members may join Angeline. OK
It is noted that in 2007 she went 23 days without food in protest against the idea of declaring war on Iran and in support of the Iran nuclear deal.
As Regnum reported , on October 3, police arrested 89-year-old activist Joan Nicholson , who participated in a rally in the Capitol against aid to Ukraine. Along with her, 10 other picketers were arrested.
The protesters demanded that the US authorities refuse to transfer weapons to Ukraine, which inflames the Ukrainian conflict even more. On October 4, Member of the US House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene met with Code Pink activists who were holding a rally against aid to Kiev .
The parliamentarian wrote on her microblog that she and activists agreed that Congress “must stop inciting” hostilities in Ukraine. On October 18, protesters against the fighting in the Gaza Strip entered the US Congress building. They were later forced out of the complex by Capitol Police. About 300 people were detained.
[GEO.TV] All the legal hurdles were removed on Thursday in the smooth return of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... after he was granted protective bail in two graft cases while his arrest warrant in the Toshakhana case was suspended by an accountability court.
The Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo had approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for bail in al-Azizia and Avenfield references which approved the pleas, granting bail till October 24.
The IHC announced the verdict, restraining the authorities from arresting Nawaz Sharif on his return to the country on Saturday (October 21).
The high court said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not raise any objections to the protective bail sought by the PML-N supremo in corruption cases.
Earlier, an accountability court suspended the arrest warrant issued against him in the Toshakhana case.
A two-member IHC bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb heard the Nawaz's bail petitions.
Reacting to the verdict, PML-N President and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the IHC decision, saying his elder brother was disqualified based on a "fictitious and fabricated story",
"The elected Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, was disqualified based on a fictitious and fabricated story. He was implicated in absurd cases and subjected to mistreatment," he wrote on X.
"Any fair hearing would have established his innocence. Bail is a fundamental right, and we welcome the IHC decision in this regard, hoping that justice will prevail, InshaAllah," the PML-N chief added.
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[Regnum] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a two-week humanitarian truce in the Middle East.
“I call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for approximately two weeks,” the secretary general said at a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo.
Guterres stated the need for urgent delivery of aid and food to the Gaza Strip.
As Regnum reported , at a UN Security Council meeting on October 18, Russia proposed including in the resolution on the situation in Gaza a clause condemning the blockade of the region by Israel. The Security Council rejected this amendment. Prior to this, on October 16, Russia proposed a resolution calling for an immediate truce and provision of humanitarian assistance. This resolution was also not adopted by the UN Security Council.
On October 16, Russian head of state Vladimir Putin , speaking by phone with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , said that the residents of Gaza are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
On October 19, a special flight of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in Egypt with humanitarian aid for the residents of Gaza. The plane delivered 27 tons of food, including sugar and flour.
On the morning of October 7, the Palestinian Hamas movement carried out a large-scale rocket attack on Israeli territory. After this, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched retaliatory strikes on Gaza. As a result of the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Israeli Ministry of Health reported 4,629 injured after Hamas attacks. For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that as a result of the attacks on Gaza, more than 3.7 thousand people were killed, and another 12 thousand were injured. In addition, 19 Russians have died in Israel since the conflict began to escalate.
In a conversation with IA Regnum on October 18, senior lecturer at the HSE School of Oriental Studies Andrei Zeltyn said that the death of hundreds of Palestinians in a hospital in the Gaza Strip resulted in mass protests around the world. However, according to the expert, one should not expect a serious escalation of the conflict, developing into a major Middle East war.
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UN Sec. Gen., seeing that HAMAS is getting its ass handed to it. Is seeking a 2 week truce to allow HAMAS to rearm itself, and bring in new terrorists. It seems Arm/Missile supplies, cannon fodder volunteers are in very short supply and estimates see 2 weeks is needed.
IN OTHER NEWS
There has been a massive drain on Virgins. As the allotted 72 Virgins per terrorist killed has placed a great demand on a very limited resource. So Hamas is now accepting persons that identify as Virgin Females to fill their growing demand.
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Now, now, Grom. They are all God's children even if some of them need to be put down like mad dogs.
Despite the pious bleating from the UN, Israel is not going to stop. They cannot. Thanks to recent power-ups from friends and supporters, Hamas has graduated from a deadly, but manageable nuisance to an existential threat. Random stabbings, the occasional missile, or pizzeria bombing is one thing. Thousands of missiles and mass slaughter is quite another.
Putting an end to Hamas in Gaza is going to be ugly. Very ugly. The Paleos could lend a hand and reduce the collateral damage, but don't expect too much help on that front. Life in Gaza will suck for everyone in the near future. There is no practical way around it. Dildo of Consequences in sight. Constant bearing, decreasing range.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Iraqi al-Fatah Alliance has considered that the targeting of the US bases in Iraq a "natural response," confirming the presence of further escalation against the American occupation.
The Iraqi Maalouma News Agency quoted coalition leader Ali Hussein as saying "The senile American President, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , during his meeting with the president of the usurping entity, officially announced that his country will stand with (Israel), and he supports it in everything, which is what "It aroused the ire of the Iraqi resistance."
He added "The presence of a reaction from the resistance factions towards the American bases in Iraq is a natural response, especially after the bombing of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Hospital and the new American position."
Hussein explained that "the Zionist entity, through continued American support for it, is trying to control the region, but this cannot happen thanks to the presence of the resistance."
He continued "Biden should have been smarter and tried to calm things down, and go with the humanitarian aspect more than the ethnic one. Therefore, targeting American military bases in Iraq is a natural reaction."
Hussein stressed that there will be more if the American occupation and the usurping Zionist entity escalate what is happening in Gaza.
Earlier, representative of al-Sadiqoun bloc and the head of the Parliamentary Martyrs, Victims and Political Prisoners Committee Hassan Salem called for opening the door to volunteering to support the Paleostinian people in their honorable fight, "Al-Aqsa Flood" against the Zionist entity, stressing the necessity of stopping the aggression and bringing aid to the people of Gaza.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi resistance targeted the American "Ain al-Assad" and "al-Harir" bases in response to Biden’s recent position in support of the Zionists, and the attack that targeted Baptist Hospital.
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[Hot Air] As if things weren’t peachy enough in Scotland, with wind farms, skyrocketing electricity prices, mandating heat pumps and forced upgrading of the insulation in your wee crofter’s cottage. The list is long and ignominious of what humiliations, disgraces, and suffering the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has subjected their citizens to.
Then again, they keep voting for them, so I will mitigate my sympathy a tad.
The previous First Minister, a scandal plagued tiny tyrant known as Nicola Sturgeon, has been replaced by a charming young lad of Pakistani descent named Humza Yousaf.
Don’t let the name or Scottish accent fool you. He’s all about hatin’ on the white folks.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Russian leader said he hoped that the hospital tragedy in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip would serve as a signal for the immediate end to the ongoing conflict in the occupied lands.
A lethal attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is a ’tragedy and catastrophe,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said on Wednesday.
"Speaking about the attack on the hospital, the tragedy that took place there, I must say it’s a horrible event; hundreds killed, hundreds maimed. This is certainly a catastrophe," Putin said.
According to Tass News Agency, the Russian president said he hoped that the hospital tragedy in the Gaza Strip would serve as a signal for the immediate end to the ongoing conflict.
"In any way, everything must be directed toward the possibility of starting contacts and negotiations," he added.
Arab media outlets reported on October 17 that zionists Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the central part of Gaza City had hit a hospital. The attack killed over 500 people and left hundreds maimed, according to the Paleostinian Resistance® group Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , which runds the Gaza Strip.
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How about a ceasefire in Ukraine? Didn't think so.
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[REGNUM] Pope Francis, addressing pilgrims in St. Peter's Square, announced that he “ decided to declare Friday, October 27, a day of fasting and prayer, a day of repentance, to which I call upon sisters and brothers of various Christian denominations, representatives of other religions and all those to whom the cause of world peace is dear."
The immediate reason for this was the clashes between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel. “ Our thoughts are with Palestine and Israel,” the pontiff said. “ The number of victims is growing, and the situation in Gaza is desperate. We ask that everything possible be done to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. The possible expansion of the conflict is alarming at a time when so many war fronts are already open in the world.”
It is obvious that the Vatican does not expect a quick end to the conflict or even a temporary truce. He also finds himself in a difficult situation where he is required to clearly condemn Hamas' actions and unconditionally support Israel.
However, unlike some Protestant Churches, Catholics have an ambivalent view of the Jewish state.
Some Protestants, especially those associated with Christian Zionism, rely on biblical prophecies. Such believers believe that the return of Jews to the Holy Land will lead to the second coming of Jesus Christ, which, in essence, identifies the modern State of Israel, created in 1948, with biblical Israel.
True, notes the American portal Business Insider, many Jews consider the Christian Zionist movement to be anti-Semitic, since according to this biblical prophecy, Jews will eventually either convert to Christianity or die en masse in an epic battle between good and evil.
The Catholic Church tries to combine two approaches.
On the one hand, she recognizes that God still has plans for the Jews as a unique people. One day he will return to Christ, and this will be one of the signs of the Second Coming and the resurrection of the dead.
On the other hand, Catholics recognize that the Church is the spiritual Israel or, in Catholic parlance, the “new Israel,” which indicates the existence of two Israels.
“There is a serious contradiction in the different views on the role of Catholicism in Israel,” writes Catholic theologian Massimo Fagioli in his essay. — The Catholic Church as a third party capable of playing a peacekeeping role in a conflict that is seen mainly as a conflict between Jews and Muslims; The Church as the bearer of a certain form of “Catholic Zionism” that goes beyond the framework of purely “religious relations” with Jews; A church based on liberation theology that takes the side of the poor and views the small Arab Christian community as important to the global Church - "the leaven in the flour." The coexistence of these concepts is becoming increasingly difficult.”
In this context, Fagioli considers it important that Pope Francis appoint the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, as the new cardinal. Several years ago, the theologian notes, Pizzaballa noted that “the simple assertion that God gave the land to the Jewish people and that it belongs to them because it is written so in the Pentateuch is contrary to the Catholic approach.”
The Holy See has traditionally advocated the “two-state” principle.
In 2015, the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority signed a " full-scale agreement on the relationship between the two states." It, among other things, talks about the peaceful resolution of the conflict between Israel and Palestine on the basis of the “two-state” principle, ensuring religious freedoms and freedom of conscience, and other aspects of the activities of the Catholic Church in Palestine.
As for Israel, concluding such an agreement with the Vatican remains elusive.
The local Christian community is also not inclined to sympathize with the Israeli authorities. This was manifested in the reaction of the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, which did not mention Hamas in its statements when speaking about the difficult humanitarian situation in the region.
Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See, Raphael Schütz, was critical of these statements, calling them " unfair, biased and one-sided." After which Pope Francis “called for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and recognized Israel’s right to self-defense,” and Schutz “ welcomed ” these words in an interview with the American Catholic portal Crux.
In a conversation with the Italian Catholic newspaper Avennire, the Israeli ambassador said that he was in constant contact with the “ Vatican Foreign Ministry ” and also had the opportunity to communicate with the Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher. Gallagher's visit to Israel was previously scheduled for mid-November. But, Schutz said, "Right now I don't know what's going to happen."
Against the backdrop of a flaring conflict, the outcome of which is very difficult to predict, the Vatican has to show miracles of diplomatic maneuvering.
He is wary of appearing to “not notice” Hamas. At the same time, condemnation of this movement should not give rise to the impression in the Middle East and beyond that the Holy See is in principle distancing itself from the Palestinian cause. After all, for the Catholic Church, Israel can be more than two. Palestine with its Arab Christians is also seen as the third.
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^Now, now, Dron - don't be like this. Catholic Church is useful.
I remember I was hassled By Jehovah's Witnesses once - when I was living in Los Alamos: they caught me using laundromat, so I couldn't just walk away.
I'm telling them "I'm a Jew, leave me alone!" They "Our message is for the Jews too." I was about to explode, when a friend came by "Remember, you promised to drive me to Mass, because my car is broken." They disappeared like fading into the air.
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Well, they're all a rather diminutive lot, all denominations, where I live. They all come under one umbrella of 'Christian minority' and have to stick together mostly. Catholics here are the shits who find themselves always allied with moslems or commies. Only in India though. Strange I know.
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On can say the Indian catholic is totally unlike other catholics. He is a convert of necessity, with more loyalty to mammon than God. Mired in leftist politics and would sell out his country for a chance to go 'serve' in the Vatican, or just be given a pat on the head from some European cardinal.
How about Hamas' unconditional surrender? How about self-immolation?
[An Nahar] Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib announced after meeting the Arab ambassadors in Beirut on Thursday he agreed with them on "the importance of reaching an immediate ceasefire and sending aid to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ."
The conferees "rejected the displacement and naturalization (of Paleostinians) in another country" and called for ending Israeli occupation and establishing a Paleostinian state, Bou Habib said.
He added that he had sensed Arab unity during the ministerial meeting that was held Wednesday in Jeddah, calling for "capitalizing on it to convince the Western countries to press Israel to stop this absurd war and tyrannical siege."
"A just and comprehensive solution for the conflict begins with the Paleostinians first, second and last," Bou Habib said.
The meeting was attended by the ambassadors of Jordan, 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... , Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Kuwait, 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... , Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... and Paleostine, in addition to the Syrian charge d’affaires.
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If Hamas wanted a ceasefire, they would not have attacked Israel in the first place.
Since they did, they wont get a ceasefire until there's no more Hamas left standing!
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