[All Africa] The recently established Sudanese Professionals Association, the Sudan Call (an alliance of armed movements, civil society organizations, the National Consensus Forces coalition of opposition parties) and the opposition Unionist Parties are stepping-up their calls for protests against the Sudanese government headed by President Omar al Bashir.
They urged the people to continue the demonstrations until the overthrow of the regime.
In a statement on Friday, they called on all Sudanese to participate in "the march for the deaders" - those who have been killed by security forces during the demonstrations that started four weeks ago - to be held today. The march will commence at the central bus station in Khartoum and move to Khartoum North.
MARCH OF FREEDOM AND CHANGE
The statement also called on the Sudanese people to embark on the next "March of Freedom and Change" on Thursday, which will simultaneously take place in Khartoum and a number of other cities in order "to shake the tyrant's throne".
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[PRESSTV] 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... i Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani says the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... (GCC) has no executive power left, calling for change to the structure of the six-member regional intergovernmental political and economic union.
During a meeting with visiting GCC Secretary General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah in the Qatari capital Doha on Saturday evening, Al Thani said the Riyadh-based council, which comprises of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is in need of new principles of management, Russia's RT Arabic television news network reported.
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[PRESSTV] Yemen’s 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 ... Ansarullah movement has boycotted a United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... (UN)-led ceasefire monitoring team in the war-ravaged country’s flashpoint city of Hudaydah, accusing the head of the team of pursuing "other agendas."
Houthis’ chief negotiator, Mohammed Abdulsalam, made the remarks on Twitter on Sunday, saying that retired Dutch Major General Patrick Cammaert, who was to chair the meeting, had "exited from the course of the agreement by implementing other agendas."
"It seems that the task is greater than his capabilities," he further said, referring to the Dutch general.
Cammaert is leading a UN joint committee tasked with overseeing a truce in the western city, a lifeline for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid.
In December, Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government signed an agreement for a ceasefire in Hudaydah during UN-brokered peace talks held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, mediated the negotiations.
According to the agreement, the Houthi fighters, who are in control of Hudaydah, and Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s armed militia together Saudi-led forces ‐ who have placed the city under a tight siege since June ‐ must withdraw from the port and hand it over to UN observers.
"If Griffiths does not address the issue, it is going to be difficult to discuss any other matter," Abdulsalam added, without elaborating.
According to the UN, the fragile ceasefire has largely held since it came into force on December 2018, but there have been delays in the agreed withdrawal of the Houthis and Hadi’s forces.
The limited ceasefire and withdrawal, if implemented, could offer a potential breakthrough in a nearly four-year Saudi-led war that has brought Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to the brink of starvation and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... chief Shah Ahmed Shafi has claimed that his statement regarding women’s education has been "distorted," claiming that he is against the co-education system and not against women’s education.
His call made on Friday about not allowing girls to study had sparked widespread controversy, drawing criticisms from different quarters including government ministers.
In a media statement issued on Sunday, known Islamic hardliner Shafi urged the mass media not to "distort" his comments when publishing them. "Because that leads to confusion and misunderstanding among the general people... Do not spread lies against anyone."
"Reaching a conclusion without understanding someone’s remarks is a crime. And using a part of a remark for one’s own interest is a bigger crime," he said in the statement.
Shafi also claimed that a vested quarter was out to desperately make him sound controversial. "They are trying to present me as a person who is against women and women’s education.
"I have responded to that. Read that and try to understand. Do not spread lies," he said.
"I am saying again ‐ create a safe environment for women’s education and ensure security of their lives and honour. No one should send their daughters to an unsafe environment."
He said that his remarks were made in the backdrop of rapes and murders of women around the country that are taking place every day. These crimes and discrimination against women would not stop if people do not have any morale, he added.
The chief of fundamentalist Islamist group Hefazat also added: "The summary of what I said is that they [girls or women] should wear burkas if they go to colleges and universities for higher education and their teachers should be women too."
REMARKS AND REBUTTAL
On Friday, the 99-year-old had asked his followers to take oath to restrain girls from studying at schools and colleges, while addressing an annual religious gathering at al-Jamaatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa, also known as Hathazari Madrasa, in Chittagong.
"Do not let girls study at schools and colleges. At best, you can allow them to study up to fourth or fifth grade. If you let them study any more... You have seen in the newspapers that... If you educate your girl up to ninth, tenth, MA, BA levels then that girl will not remain yours.
"If you educate your girls, other men will snatch them away," he said.
After media reports on his remarks led to controversy and harsh criticism, Shafi on Saturday had issued another statement, where had claimed that his comments were published partially in different media outlets.
He said: "In my speech, I tried to say that girls should not be sent to any educational institution which goes any against basic tenets of Islam. You should bear in mind that Islam is a complete code, which encompasses every aspect of life. Islam encouraged girls' education and every one of you knows that Bibi Ayesha (R) was a renowned interpreter of Hadith. If she did not receive education, then we would remain deprived from many valuable sayings of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him)."
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[IsraelTimes] Mehdi Nemmouche accused of being the first Syrian jihad veteran to carry out an attack in Europe, faces life sentence if convicted of 2014 shooting that killed 4.
A Frenchie on trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels left his fingerprints and DNA on the weapons used in the terror attack, prosecutors said Friday.
Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, listened to the case unfolding against him on the second day of his trial for the cold-blooded murders in the Belgian capital on May 24, 2014.
"Little by little they are putting the puzzle together," said lawyer Guillaume Lys of a French terror victims association which is a civil party to the trial.
Both Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, a fellow Frenchie aged 30 who allegedly supplied the weapons, face life in prison if convicted of charges of terrorist murder.
Reading the charge sheet, a prosecutor told the Brussels criminal court that Sherlocks lifted Nemmouche’s fingerprints from the barrel of the pistol he used in the museum attack.
The prosecutor added they also found his DNA on a Kalashnikov rifle, the second weapon used.
Both were found in Nemmouche’s possession when he was tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... upon arriving on a bus from Brussels in the southern French port of Marseille six days after the attack, Sherlocks say.
The prosecutor added Sherlocks found gunpowder residue on a blue jacket among his belongings. The museum shooter was seen wearing a similar jacket.
Investigators also studied videos from a laptop found in his possession where they heard an "imperious and guttural" voice claiming responsibility for the killings, the prosecution said.
Experts identified the voice as Nemmouche’s, it added.
Four French journalists who were taken hostage in Syria in 2013 also attributed the voice to Nemmouche, who they allege was one of their jailers, the prosecution said.
The trial is due to resume on Tuesday when Nemmouche’s lawyers present their defense strategy and their client takes the stand for questioning.
The case is the first allegedly carried out on European soil by a jihadist returning from Syria.
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[Breitbart] Tunisian radical imam Mahmoud Jebali, who is set for deportation after coming to Italy as an illegal immigrant, threatened to kill prison officers.
The 31-year-old imam came to Italy illegally through the port in Lampedusa and was well-known to police having committed several violent crimes in the past. Italian authorities initially jailed him on a conviction for robbery but were finally able to expel him to Tunisia this week, Il Giornale reports.
While in a prison in Padua, the Tunisian is said to have become a leader among the radical Muslims with an officer from the Central Investigation Unit of the Penitentiary Police (NIC) saying, "He had never had a quiet attitude, he was controversial and arrogant with the agents, he had begun to intensify his religious practice so much that he became a charismatic leader for other Muslim prisoners."
[DW] In a Tweet on Sunday, 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... threatened a harsh response against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... if it attacked US-allied Kurds in Syria. Ankara has pledged to eliminate Kurdish forces, which they consider terrorists.
US President Donald Trump has warned Turkey that it risks economic retaliation by the United States if it attacks Syrian Kurdish forces after the withdrawal of US troops from Syria.
"Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds," Trump wrote in a Tweet late on Sunday, without elaborating.
Trump's comments follow 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... 's pledge to take action against the YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization linked to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) within Turkey.
The president also called for the creation of a 20-mile (30-kilometer) safe zone in Syria and said he did not want US-allied Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, to seek any confrontation with Ankara.
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#1
You have hostages in Incirlik because of the lingering Cold War generals.
Same Navy and Air Force generals who declared we'd lose the Pacific if we left Subic Bay and Clark Airbase in the Philippines.
#4
How? Easiest is to forbid bank exchanges with Turkish banks as we do to Iranian banks. How many banks will choose to give up the American market altogether for Turkey when they did not for Iran?
The report on direct US-Tukey trade can be read here.
[IsraelTimes] ’Shocked’ Pentagon acceded to request after Baghdad mortar attack in September that US blamed on Tehran-backed militias, Wall Street Journal says.
Following a September mortar attack near the US embassy in Baghdad that Washington blamed on Iran, US National Security Adviser John Bolton and the National Security Council he leads requested that the Pentagon provide options for striking Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
The Pentagon did so, though the report said it was not clear what became of those plans and how close such a potential strike actually was, or if 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... was even aware of the exchange.
Still, officials in the Pentagon and State Department were said to have been shocked by the offhand nature of the request ‐ to provide plans for military action against a major regional power in response to a minor attack that caused no casualties.
This is the same Pentagon that has plans on file to invade Canada, should that ever be needed? I’m shocked that they would be shocked.
"It definitely rattled people," a former bigwig in the administration told the paper. "People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran."
Cavalier. Take note, Mad Mullahs.
A front man for the NSC told the paper that the council "coordinates policy and provides the president with options to anticipate and respond to a variety of threats."
Bolton is known for his particularly hawkish stances, and prior to his appointment as national security adviser had advocated preemptive strikes against North Korea and war with Iran.
Did he indeed? Please do take note, Mad Mullahs. You too, Pudge.
In September he warned Iran of "hell to pay" and "serious consequences" if it acts against the US, using some of the most aggressive language employed by administration officials in recent decades.
Aggressive language with a Pentagon plan to back them...
He was also a major voice inside the George W. Bush administration in favor of the 2003 Iraq invasion. In the past he has also advocated for Israel bombing Iran to curtail its nuclear ambitions.
We’re gonna try to hold him back, guys, but he’s awfully excited. Y’all please, please don’t do anything to set him off, ‘k?
His combative approach to global conflict was previously seen as somewhat mitigated by the moderating voice of James Mattis, but the US defense secretary’s resignation last month has opened the door to more hardline policies by the administration.
Someone is messaging for all he, or she, is worth. Let us hope the Mad Mullahs — and Pudge — are clever enough to notice.
The mortar attack in Baghdad, on September 7, saw three shells hit the ultra-secure green zone, which houses Iraqi authorities and the US embassy.
Washington blamed militias supported by Iran, and said it would "respond swiftly and decisively in defense of American lives," though no action by US forces since has been directly linked to that attack.
But now General Mattis is not there to hold him back. Seriously, guys — worry.
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[Al Jazeera] A year ago today, a young man named Naqeebullah Mehsud was killed in an alleged shoot-out in Pakistain's southern port city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . The police initially claimed that Mehsud was a "hardened member of the Pak Taliban ...Arabic for students... " and was killed during a raid on "a terrorist hideout".
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[IsraelTimes] Gadi Eisenkot also says 40-60 Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, people were maimed, as the IDF had to use considerable force to extricate troops in undercover operation that went awry.
Israel’s army chief said 16-20 members of the Hamas terror group were killed in a firefight in November when an IDF special forces operation in Gazoo went awry, and not seven, as had previously been believed. An Israeli officer was also killed in the November incident, and a second Israeli soldier was badly injured.
Outgoing IDF chief-of-staff Gadi Eisenkot said in a television interview broadcast by Hadashot news on Saturday night that the IDF had to use considerable force to extricate its troops from Gazoo when the November 11 undercover operation ran into problems.
"Sixteen to 20 Hamas people were killed. Forty to 60 were maimed," he said, noting that there was "wide use of force" in order to save the troops.
Previously, Paleostinian officials said seven Hamas button men, including a local commander, were killed in the firefight after the Israeli troops were exposed.
While the raid was not botched, he clarified, mistakes were made, and the IDF was learning the relevant lessons. He also said there were "heroic" actions by soldiers involved.
A Channel 10 report said the failure of the operation caused harm not only to the IDF "but also to other Israeli organizations."
The interview with Eisenkot was recorded several days ago, but was broadcast soon after Hamas held a presser in Gazoo at which it unveiled what it said was video surveillance footage surrounding the Israeli special forces raid.
The terror group also offered a $1 million reward for information that would lead to the identities of the special forces team.
The November 11 operation, details of which the Israeli military has kept largely under gag order, turned deadly when the undercover soldiers were spotted near Khan Younis, in the southern Gazoo Strip. The incident prompted Hamas to vow Dire Revenge and led to the deadliest escalation between the two sides since the 2014 war. The Israeli military censor again placed a gag order on some of the claims made by Hamas on Saturday.
[Ynet] Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said Sunday during their meeting in Amman that the renewal of negotiations talks between Israel and the Paleostinians is of the utmost importance.
It would be, if the Palestinians were willing to negotiating a peace treaty in good faith, instead of a hudna in bad faith.
"Negotiations should be based on the two-state solution and the Arab peace initiative, aiming to reach a fair solution, which honors the Paleostinians' legal right to establish a state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital," the two leaders said in a statement.
Given that none of those things are going to happen, what is there to negotiate other than Palestinian surrender?
In addition, Abdullah and Sisi discussed efforts to end regional crises in Syria, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and Libya.
No doubt the coffee was delicious and the chairs comfortable, so the time wasn’t wholly wasted.
#6
How about you guys volunteer some territory in Jordan and Egypt to clinch the deal? Charity is painless when you pay for it with Other Peoples Money™.
#7
Well, they DID have a legal right to establish a state within the 1967 borders. Back in 1967. Israel kicked its neighbor's asses and won the legal right to do whatever the fuck it pleases with the new land. So fuck you Paleos.
[PRESSTV] The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, has held the Tel Aviv regime responsible for the ongoing escalation in the blockaded Gazoo Strip, warning that the movement "will intensify the confrontation with Israel" in the coastal sliver if the Israeli military launches new attacks against the enclave.
"The Israeli occupation [regime] bears the consequences of continuing to commit its follies against peaceful protesters and deliberately killing them in cold blood as well as bombing sites of resistance," Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on Sunday.
He further noted that the escalation of situation in Gazoo and "playing with fire" will never led to security for Israel and its people.
The statement came after Israeli military aircraft carried out several Arclight airstrikes against multiple locations across the besieged Gazoo Strip late on Saturday.
Paleostinian Ma'an news agency reported that Israeli warplanes fired at least one missile towards a military site belonging to Hamas east of Gazoo City.
Two other sites were targeted, one in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gazoo Strip, and another in the city of Khan Yunis south of the enclave.
[Ynet] While there is no official freeze of the 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... i money transfer to Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,, Israel will likely not allow the funds into Gazoo in the coming week as well in the wake of Paleostinian rioting on the strip's border over the weekend, a senior Israeli official said Saturday night.
The money, which was supposed to be transferred into Gazoo last week, was halted after a booby-trapped model airplane was flown into southern Israel from the strip with the help of balloons.
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Guess it's about time for them to get their ass kicked again
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[IsraelTimes] World Food Programme drops 27,000 recipients from grocery voucher program in West Bank, assistance for 110,000 Gazooks to be reduced by 20%.
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Question: how many "imaginary Palestinians" are being fed with "imaginary food" while the money disappears into Swiss bank accounts? More than the 20% I would bet.
Next to turn the tunnel-finding equipment on Israel’s border with Gazoo, after which it can be loaned to Egypt for their section of the border.
[IsraelTimes] Military announces discovery of final underground passage from Leb, the largest one found, believed to have been part of plan to send fighters to conquer northern Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday declared that its effort to find and destroy Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels was coming to an end, following the discovery of another such underground passage over the weekend.
"With the discover of this terror tunnel, the effort to locate the passages dug by Hezbollah that crossed the border into Israeli territory has been completed. The neutralization of this passage will be completed in the coming days," the army said in a statement.
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[IsraelTimes] Gazoo terror group’s al-Aqsa radio station reportedly transmitting from tower on Lebanese border, can be heard as far south as Tel Aviv.
Al-Aqsa radio, the Gazoo-based station run by the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, has reportedly begun broadcasting into Israel through a powerful broadcasting tower set up along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The tower was put up in cooperation with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Israeli satellite imagery company said.
It is located across the border from the Israeli village of Zar’it, near the Lebanese villages of Marwahin and Ramyeh.
Nissan Cohen, CEO of Sat View, told Army Radio on Sunday that "three media outlets turned to us and said there was something disrupting [their broadcasts] on frequency 101.6 [FM]. So we went to check. We followed [the broadcasts] north, got to the Lebanese border and realized it’s coming from there."
The tower near Marwahin was sending a "very, very powerful" signal, Cohen said.
...a problem very easily fixed. They should have applied for a broadcasting license.
According to the report, the signal was being received by radio listeners as far south as Tel Aviv.
The report came as the IDF announced Sunday that its effort to find and destroy Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels was coming to an end, following the discovery of another such underground passage over the weekend very close to the believed location of the broadcasting tower, near the village of Ramyeh.
[IsraelTimes] The head of Iran’s nuclear program said the Islamic Theocratic Republic has begun "preliminary activities for designing" a modern process for 20-percent uranium enrichment for its 50-year-old research reactor in Tehran, signaling new danger for the nuclear deal.
The comment on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
from Ali Akbar Salehi increases the pressure on the international community as 20-percent enrichment would mean Iran has abandoned the terms of the 2015 atomic accord.
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... already pulled America out of the accord in May and resumed sanctions on Tehran. So far, United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... inspectors say Iran continues to comply with the deal’s terms, which limits enrichment to 3.5 percent.
Salehi said "we are at the verge" of being ready, without elaborating in his remarks.
The US donated the reactor to Iran in 1967.
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[CNBC] The White House requested options for a military strike against Iran last September, a report by the Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday, citing current and former U.S. officials.
The request, reportedly made the National Security Council led by national security advisor John Bolton, alarmed Pentagon and State Department officials, The Journal wrote on Sunday. The Council made the move after an Iranian-aligned group fired missiles into Baghdad’s diplomatic quarter, which hosts the U.S. embassy in Iraq. No one was harmed.
According to the publication, it remains unclear whether President Donald Trump himself knew about the request, whether the Pentagon ultimately delivered military options to the White House, and if concrete attack plans against the Islamic Republic were actually formulated. But officials who spoke to the publication confirmed that the Defense Department did indeed comply with the National Security Council’s request to develop those options.
Bolton, an avid proponent of the Iraq invasion during the George W. Bush administration, has long taken one of the hardest lines against Iran in Washington and has openly supported the idea of regime change in Tehran.
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately reply to a CNBC request for comment. Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council told The Journal: "We continue to review the status of our personnel following attempted attacks on our embassy in Baghdad and our Basra consulate, and we will consider a full range of options to preserve their safety and our interests."
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#1
Was this request a 'triggering event' for Gen. Mattis ?
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We probably have contingency plans for the invasion of Canada too, so I'm not concerned at the moment.
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Not unusual. Strike plans are always asked for when there is threats to the US or allies. Usually it isn't the president, but an aid to the joint chiefs or some other bigwig so they can look over it and have answers if the president asks for options.
This may also be someone's game of playing the same cards the Mullah's have been engaged in. Threats and denouncements. Two can play that game. Leaks like this have more impact in Tehran than theirs in the Swamp.
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Agreed, Besoeker, the US can't afford to have hostiles on it's border...no, wait....
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Mullah Richard, I agree. We should have plans to invade antarctica and update them occasionally. Doesn't help to let that slip once in awhile to remind Iran how unsafe they really area if the US decides to end them.
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Usually the Junior officers are given the allies to plan the invasion, since it is a good starting point as we know their strengths and the risk of actual conflict is low. Provides good training for real plans in the future. Also if we have to pull something out right quick to invade Norway we at least aren't starting from zero.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
... 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...
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