[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... has called on the newly-elected 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 withdraw US forces from Afghanistan and let the Afghan people resolve the issue internally.
In a letter issued by Hekmatyar following the victory of Trump in presidential election, Hekmatyar said a free and fair election should be organized so that the Afghan people can elect their leader.
Hekmatyar further added that the presence of the US forces and operations conducted by them lead to civilian casualties in the country.
He specifically pointed towards the recent operation in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan where over 30 non-combatants were killed.
The Afghan government signed a peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami late in the month of September following months of continuous negotiations.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami had originally demanded the withdrawal of the US forces from the country before he sign the peace agreement with the Afghan government.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he later waivered his condition for the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the US Ambassador to Afghanistan Michael McKinley said last week that presidential election in United States will not affect the policies of Washington in Afghanistan and the bilateral pacts available between the two countries.
"Today I was asked many times what the impacts of these elections would be on US-Afghanistan relations and my answer is always the same, America’s long term commitment to our partnership with Afghanistan was renewed this year in Warsaw and Brussels. The US Afghan relationship will remain strong and close because it is based not anyone election, leader or party on our common interests, our people to people ties, our shared values that so deeply rooted," Ambassador McKinely said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan parliament dismissed three ministers after they failed to provide satisfactory briefing regarding the expenditure of their development budget.
The three ministers included Minister of Public Works Mahmood Baligh and Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs & Disabled Nasreen Oryakhel, and Salahuddin Rabbani, the minister of foreign affairs.
The three ministers included Minister of Public Works Mahmood Baligh and Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs & Disabled Nasreen Oryakhel, and Salahuddin Rabbni, the minister of foreign affairs.
Minister Rabbani received 140 votes by the parliament members to be dismissed against 58 votes of confidence.
Minister Oryakhel received 143 votes to be dismissed against 56 votes of confidence while Minister Baligh was unanimous was dismissed by receiving 33 votes of confidence and 164 votes of dismissal.
Each of the ministers was supposed to be receive 118 votes of confidence during today’s session of the parliament to be approved for their post.
The parliament house speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi said the three ministers have been dismissed by the parliament and asked President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. to introduce new minister-designates for the confidence voting.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan is being supported by Iran as the country aims to counter the growth of ISIS terrorist group reach in the country, the former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil has said.
In an exclusive interview with VOA’s Afghanistan service, Nabil said the group is receiving financial and equipment support from Iran, particularly in the western parts of the country.
Nabil further added that Russia’s interest towards Afghanistan has also grown as the violence has spread in northern parts of the country since 2014.
According to Nabil, the intelligence cooperation between China and Afghanistan has increased during the recent years.
The former Afghan intelligence chief said the Taliban group continues to receive support from Pakistain and the Red Brigade of the Taliban group continues to its insurgency with modern equipment in their custody.
Nabil said the group’s Red Brigade is mainly fighting in western and southern parts of the country, including Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Farah, and Uruzgan provinces.
The remarks by Nabil came as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for supporting the Afghan Lion of Islam groups, specifically the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network by providing them safe havens in its soil.
Iran has also been occasionally accused of providing equipment to the Afghan Lion of Islam groups in the country.
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A special court in Mumbai has partly allowed the guilty plea filed by 117 Somalia nationals accused of piracy. The court will now decide on the acceptance of the voluntary guilty pleas at the time of recording the statements of the accused at a later stage of the ongoing trial.
“The applications are partly allowed. The plea of guilt of the accused is taken on record and acceptance of the same is deferred till the statement under Section 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code is recorded when the probative value of such supplementary pleas of guilt would be ascertained,” the order passed by special Judge V V Kathare states.
A source said while such a provision under a bilateral agreement has not been made between Somalia and India so far, it is under process.
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The leaders of the semi-autonomous states of Puntland and Galmudug have held direct peace talks in Galkayo airport on Saturday afternoon. Somali prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarake, UN envoy, along with EU and AU representatives were in presence in the closed door meeting in Galkayo to mediate the talks.
Galmudug and Puntland leaders signed a three-point peace agreement, aimed at ending to the lingering deadly clashes in Galkayo city, which left scores dead.
Somali caretaker prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke said the two leaders agreed to swiftly cease the fire independent committee responsible to oversee the ceasefire deal. Mr Sharmarke added Guled and Gaas approved to partake a further summit in Kismayo scheduled in November 20, to complete the prior peace agreements in Galkayo and UAE.
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced a set of regulations enforcing its blacklisting of North Korea earlier this year as a "primary money laundering concern" aimed at cutting off the communist regime from the international financial system.
The regulations, known as the "final rule," prohibit U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining correspondent accounts for North Korean banks and also require U.S. financial institutions to apply additional due diligence measures in order to prevent North Korean financial institutions from gaining improper indirect access to U.S. correspondent accounts.
The rule was proposed in June when the Treasury designated the North as a "primary money laundering concern" engaged in illicit conduct, including using state-controlled financial institutions and front companies to engage in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles and to evade international sanctions.
Adam J. Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Adam J. Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence
"North Korea continues to use front companies and agents to conduct illicit financial transactions — some of which support the proliferation of WMD and the development of ballistic missiles — and evade international sanctions," said Adam J. Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
"Such funds have no place in any reputable financial system," he said.
Though the North's financial institutions do not maintain correspondent accounts with U.S. financial institutions, the department said the North's government continues to use state-controlled financial institutions and front companies to "surreptitiously conduct illicit international financial transactions."
The measure is similar to the 2005 blacklisting of Banco Delta Asia (BDA), a bank in Macau.
The Treasury's designation of the bank as a primary money laundering concern not only froze North Korean money in the bank but also scared away other financial institutions from dealing with Pyongyang for fear they would also be blacklisted.
The measure has been considered the most effective U.S. sanction on the North yet.
But the restriction was later lifted as nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang made progress.
Experts say that the latest designation could have a greater impact than the BDA sanctions because it designated the North as a whole as a money laundering concern, not just one bank as in the BDA case.
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Just fell out of the sky. Had nothing to do with the election...
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[Jpost] Germany is proposing a plan to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean in order to stop large number of migrants from dying.
The German government is pushing for maritime patrols to pick up migrants and refugees, and send them back to apply for asylum in African countries. It's the 'send them back' part which worries me - as your Al Smith was fond of saying...
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Alan, Australia seems interested in a two-pronged approach. From today's Daily Mail Europe colonist round-up (where it doesn't really belong):
Australia and the US agree to 'one off' deal to send 1800 asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus Island to America... but will it last when Donald Trump comes to power?
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Australia and the United States have agreed to a 'one off' immigration deal that could see about 1800 refugees in offshore detention centres sent to America.
In Syria? The odds of him soon meeting his maker in an astoundingly uncomfortable way has greatly increased.
[DailyMail] Mastermind is the Belgian-Moroccan cousin of brothers who blew themselves up in Brussels airport attack
French Sherlocks have identified Oussama Atar - a cousin of the brothers who blew themselves up in the March 22 attacks in Brussels - as the criminal mastermind of last November's Gay Paree attacks.
Atar, 32, has dual Belgian and Moroccan nationality and is now thought to be in ISIS territory in Syria.
He was already a suspect in the Brussels attacks by his cousins, the El Bakraoui brothers, but has now been linked to the atrocities in Gay Paree on November 13 last year.
It is not clear if Atar, who uses the pseudonym Abou Ahmad, was in Gay Paree last year or plotted the attacks from Syria.
But a source told AFP: 'He's the only coordinator from Syria to have been identified during the investigations.'
French Sherlocks have long suspected that the Gay Paree attacks, in which teams of jihadists killed 130 people, were coordinated by one or several people from Syria, but have never named anyone before.
Another two cousins, Moustapha and Jawad Benhattal, were jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on June 18 on suspicion of planning an attack in Belgium during a public screening of a Euro 2016 football match.
La Belle France is gearing up to mark this weekend the anniversary of the Gay Paree attacks.
The Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people died during a show attacked by three gunnies, is set to reopen on Saturday with a special concert by Sting.
French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... will lead low-key commemorations on Sunday in the presence of survivors and family members of the dead.
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Not Moslem colonists, mostly, but they are floating down the current of that river nowadays. There is plenty of evidence that similar trafficking has been happening using the river of mostly non-Moslem colonists coming to America. But I haven't heard anything about an organization on our border trying to fish these girls out of the flow.
[AnNahar] They arrive in their hundreds every month, their heads full of dreams of new lives in Europe. In reality, many of them are destined for years of sexual slavery.
And in Italia's migrant-saturated southern ports, prising these young Nigerian girls away from their traffickers is a formidable challenge.
With each new landing of migrants colonists colonists rescued at sea, the well-worn processing procedures have an almost ritualistic aspect to them: a first identification interview, cuddly toys for the children and a specialist from the International Organization for Migration paying particular attention to any young women.
Nigerian females have been landing in Italia in significant numbers since the 1980s, lured by the promise of jobs only to find themselves with colossal debts to the traffickers who got them here.
The trade has went kaboom! in recent years. According to IOM figures, 433 Nigerian women arrived in 2013, 1,454 in 2014, 5,653 last year and 7,768 in the first nine months of 2016.
"We estimate that between 70 and 80 percent of them are in danger of being forced into prostitution," said the IOM's Luca Pianese, adding that the numbers do not include hundreds of minors.
Some of the women will end up working on the streets of Italia, others in La Belle La Belle France, Spain, Austria or other European countries where demand seems to grow incessantly.
Pianese, who works as part of a 13-strong team that includes two women of Nigerian origin, has learned how to spot the signs that newly arrived women have been trafficked.
Most of the victims come from Edo state in southern Nigeria, they invariably have had only the most basic education and say they can remember little about how they got from Nigeria to the Mediterranean.
Usually the women have a phone number they have been told to call when they arrive.
Sometimes they will be accompanied by a minder. "You have to separate them from false sisters and pretend husbands," said Pianese.
Then comes the painful bit. "They arrive here full of hope, confident they are headed for a better future," the aid worker says.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The main Gay Paree attacks suspect, Salah Abdeslam, has become even more radicalized since being imprisoned for his presumed role in the slaughter of 130 people a year ago, his former lawyer has said.
"He’s got a beard, he’s become a true fundamentalist whereas before he was a kid wearing Nike trainers," Belgian lawyer Sven Mary told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant’s Saturday edition.
Belgian-born French national Abdeslam is believed to be the only bad boy survivor of the November 13 attacks in the French capital that Belgian authorities claim were orchestrated by the ISIS high command.
After four months on the run, the 27-year-old of Moroccan origin was jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Brussels in March and subsequently transferred to La Belle France in April.
Prison conditions
Lawyer Mary said Abdeslam’s detention conditions at a prison in the Gay Pareeian suburb of Fleury-Merogis amounted to "psychological torture" and had contributed to his apparent radicalisation.
He is kept in solitary confinement and subjected to round-the-clock video surveillance.
Abdeslam is accused of having provided logistical support to the seven jihadists who died at the various scenes of the terror attacks: the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de La Belle France national stadium and several bars and restaurants in central Gay Paree.
In July, his lawyers had attempted unsuccessfully to end the constant surveillance, but authorities had deemed the "exceptional character of terrorist acts" as justifying that "all precautions are taken".
Last month both Mary and another lawyer, Frank Berton, gave up defending Abdeslam over his refusal to answer Sherlocks’ questions since being transferred to La Belle France.
Mary said then that the lawyers felt they were doing nothing more than paying "social visits to the prison" and had decided to quit the defence.
Abdeslam’s brother Mohammed last month urged him to speak to French authorities but also said he felt Salah "is more radicalized now, rather than de-radicalized".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has congratulated 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... on his election as the 45th President of the United States of America.
In a press statement, the OIC recalled its fruitful relations developed over the years with the USA and hopes that this constructive relationship would further continue with the incoming administration on the basis of mutual respect.
The pan-Islamic body expressed its readiness to engage closely with the new US authorities to further strengthen the existing OIC-US bilateral ties and to jointly contribute to addressing global challenges with the aim of enhancing peaceful coexistence, understanding, and harmony in the world.
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Got your engage right here... Brb off to look at a uuuuge housing deal the yids are proposing for their West Bank (note to me, check and see if we have an account, if not open one), do they play golf? If not why not, ask secretary of leisure Obama about that.
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fruitful relations developed over the years with the USA and hopes that this constructive relationship would further continue with the incoming administration
On the other hand, he can remove political constraints to hydrocarbon production in USA, and you can learn to eat sand.
Baghdad has suggested that Turkey hand over control of the Bashiqa military camp in Mosul to Iraq’s central government, rejecting Turkey’s proposal to run the camp under the auspices of the coalition forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Iraqi government revised a draft proposal agreement on the status of Bashiqa, to which Turkish troops were deployed in order to train local fighters against ISIL, submitting the new version to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Nov. 7, Iraqi Ambassador in Ankara Dr. Hisham al-Alawi said, adding that Baghdad was now waiting for Turkey’s response.
Al-Alawi said in the new draft, “the two sides confirm each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as stability with a commitment to enhance security cooperation and counter terrorism.”
Iraq’s new draft agreement also states that two sides confirmed that the Bashiqa camp is an Iraqi camp, that Iraq must exercise its sovereignty over the camp and that it must be responsible for the administration of the camp,” al-Alawi said Nov. 11 at a panel about Ninovah operation. “This is slightly different from the initial proposal made by the Turkish delegation.”
A Turkish delegation visited Baghdad in October and proposed a five-point draft agreement including running the military camp under the auspices of the coalition forces.
“When it comes to joint forces, details will be discussed agreed with relative authorities and countries,” he said, elaborating on the training of fighters in the camp in joint efforts with coalition forces against ISIL.
“The Iraqi government is willing to benefit from an offer made by the Turkish government to provide trainers, advisers and support in terms of medical aid and humanitarian aid, provided that [the issue of the] Bashiqa camp is resolved in a way that is acceptable to Iraq,” the ambassador stated.
Turkey assured Baghdad that Ankara would withdraw Turkish troops from the region when security returns to northern Iraq, he noted.
Al-Alawi said he was optimistic of a mutually acceptable solution on Turkish deployment in northern Iraq and stressed that an agreement sooner would be better.
The ambassador also stressed that Baghdad was against the presence of outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members in the Sinjar region, as it rejects any foreign groups on Iraqi territory as per the country’s constitution.
“The PKK presence in northern Iraq, in Sinjar, happened without permission of the Iraqi government. When it comes to a possible contribution to operations in Sinjar, the Iraqi government see no role for the PKK in the Ninovah or Mosul operation,” he said.
But the ambassador also complained about a deal between the Turkish government and the PKK as part of a peace process that suggested the group would decamp to Iraqi territory.
“In 2013, when the Turkish government had a deal with the PKK leaders, facilitated by the Kurdish Regional Government, we were not happy with the encouragement that PKK members would go to Iraqi territory. The Iraqi central government was not involved in that particular agreement,” he stated.
The ambassador said he asked the Turkish Foreign Ministry to clarify claims by Turkish politicians that the Iraqi government had lent support to the PKK.
Turkish officials told him that those reports did not suggest that Baghdad was “actively supporting PKK members, but there is a fact that they were referring to local citizens, Yazidis who are living in Sinjar,” al-Alawi said.
“They joined popular mobilization units. Because there are Peshmerga and some PKK members present in Sinjar, there was some cooperation between them. Local Iraqi citizens became part of the local fighters and groups,” he added.
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A flotilla of Russian warships is now in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast after being sent to reinforce Russia's military in the area, a naval commander said on state television.
The commander of Russia's flagship Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, Sergei Artamonov, said via videolink that the ships are now in the "designated zone... in the eastern Mediterranean" and "are now jointly carrying out tasks, manoeuvering to the west of the Syrian coast".
The battle group has travelled to Syria from the North Sea through the English Channel in the biggest such naval deployment in recent years as part of Russia's military intervention in Syria.
Russia has been flying a bombing campaign in Syria for the past year in support of President Bashar al-Assad and has deployed a naval contingent to back up its operation.
The naval task force has been monitored closely by NATO, whose chief Jens Stoltenberg voiced concern the ships would be used to support the Russian military operation in Syria and "increase human and civilian suffering."
The ship's commander was speaking to a presenter on Russia-1 television from inside the defence ministry for a news show that will air this evening in Moscow. He confirmed that aircraft are already taking off from the ship's deck to view the conflict zone.
"Flights are being carried out from the deck... they are working on coordination with the shore port," he said.
"The flights have been going on practically every day for the last four days," he added.
Russia's Interfax news agency on Friday had cited a Russian military and diplomatic source as saying that Russian MiG and Sukhoi jets have been regularly flying into Syrian airspace from the Kuznetsov to "determine combat missions."
The Russian television channel also spoke to the commander of the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered battle cruiser, which is part of the same flotilla.
Asked whether foreign aircraft were flying over the ships, the commander, Vladislav Malakhovsky, said "they are afraid to come closer than 50 kilometres away, realising very well how powerful the nuclear cruiser is."
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Ship, there's not a whole lot of websites where you could make that reference and know that most readers would get it. BTW, steal a copy of Hornfischer's latest, The Fleet at Flood Tide.
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The naval task force has been monitored closely by NATO, whose whiney chief Jens Stoltenberg voiced concern the ships would be used to support the Russian military operation in Syria and "increase human and civilian suffering."
What, no NATO navy that could have gotten there first?
Iran might be able to buy some cheap second-line Chinese aircraft and some frigates. Both sides would be happy.
Iran already buys a fair number of its surface combatants from China.
The Minister of National Defense of China Chang Wanquan is expected to arrive in Iranian capital of Tehran on Nov. 13. The three-day visit will take place at the official invitation of Iranian defense minister, Brigadier-General Hossein Dehqan, IRNA news agency reported.
The Chinese minister is slated to meet several high-ranking Iranian officials to discuss bilateral issues as well as regional and international developments.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
A special court in Mumbai has partly allowed the guilty plea filed by 117 Somalia nationals accused of piracy. The court will now decide on the acceptance of the voluntary guilty pleas at the time of recording the statements of the accused at a later stage of the ongoing trial.
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