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If CNN didn't have a lock on people trapped in airports, their numbers would be about 60% lower than they are now.
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We only get CNN here (plus BBC, RT and Al Jazeera).
CNN is unwatchable: Pontificating anchors and screaming self-ads (Richard Quest is the most obnoxious thing since the invention of the circular saw).
BBC is sometimes watchable but only sometimes.
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If CNN didn't have a lock on people trapped in airports
They own the televisions screens at the airports, but people’s laptops and cell phones have their eyeballs.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ‐ Afghanistan may not be ready for peace unless it finds a way to reintegrate Taliban fighters into society, combat corruption and rein in the country’s runaway narcotics problem, a U.S. watchdog said Wednesday.
The warning by Washington’s Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, which monitors billions of dollars in U.S. aid to the country, came in the group’s new quarterly report that also discusses Afghan needs for the "day after" ‐ once there is a peace deal with the Taliban.
Over the past months, the U.S. has stepped up efforts to find a peaceful resolution to Afghanistan’s 17-year war and has been holding talks with a resurgent Taliban. The insurgents, however, refuse to negotiate with the Kabul government, which they consider a U.S. puppet. The Taliban also continue to stage near-daily attacks, inflicting staggering casualties, and now control about half the country.
"No matter how welcome peace would be, it can carry with it the seeds of unintended and unforeseen consequences," John F. Sopko, head of SIGAR, said in the report.
The war has already cost America $737 billion, according to the Pentagon. On reconstruction alone, the U.S. has spent $132 billion since 2002, much of that to train and equip Afghan security forces, as well as strengthen government institutions, provide education and better health care, said Sopko.
But the gains are fragile, Sopko said, and solutions are needed to the country’s increasing insecurity, "endemic corruption, weak Afghan institutions, the insidious impact of the narcotics trade, and inadequate coordination and oversight by donors."
Sopko said that failure to reintegrate the estimated 60,000 Taliban fighters and their families into Afghan society would undermine peace.
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i don't care if they are. we need too pull our men/women out of this shithole of a money pit. i don't carecif the chinese do go in and set up mines an shit.
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Someone tell me what's the prize when we win?
There isn't one. Just permanent occupation. Just like Europe.
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05/01/2019 10:53
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They won't be ready until they've been rendered to the mindset of Berlin, Nagasaki, Dresden, Yokohama etc. The problem is that physical condition is about where they STARTED...
[Express] West Parley residents were shocked to discover one of their ’silent soldiers’, located on one of the village’s main road, was defaced last week. The vandalism “upset numerous residents”, forcing the Dorset village’s parish council to remove the damaged statue. Great care had been taken to choose the location of the statue before it was damaged and children had laid a poppy dedication under each of the ‘silent soldiers’.
PARIS (AP) ‐ French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters who set fires and smashed up vehicles as thousands of people gathered for May Day rallies Wednesday under tight security. About 165 arrests were made.
Police repeatedly used tear gas to try to control the crowd gathering near Paris’ Montparnasse train station for the main protest. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were injured. One bandaged-up man with a head wound was helped away from the scene by paramedics.
Associated Press reporters saw groups of hooded, black-clad people shouting anti-police slogans, mixing with other protesters wearing yellow vests or waving union flags.
Some threw rocks and other objects at police officers, attacked a parked van in a nearby street, kicking the vehicle and breaking its windows.
Paris police said officers carried out more than 9,000 "preventive searches" of bags and arrested 165 people before the march.
Meanwhile, some peaceful protesters were waiting for the march to start. They were planning to head toward Place d’Italie in southern Paris.
French authorities have warned "radical activists" may join the Paris demonstration and renew scenes of violence that marked previous yellow vest protests and May Day demonstrations in the past two years.
More than 7,400 police are deployed in the French capital.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ‐ After three weeks of testimony, a jury needed little more than a day to convict a black Minneapolis police officer of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed white woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime, delivering a guilty verdict that immediately sparked questions about whether race played a role.
Mohamed Noor was also convicted Tuesday of manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a 40-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia whose death bewildered and angered people in both countries.
Noor, 33, testified that he and his partner heard a loud bang on their squad car that startled them, and that he fired "to stop the threat" after he saw a woman appear at his partner’s window raising her arm. Prosecutors questioned whether the bang happened and attacked Noor for not seeing a weapon or Damond’s hands before he fired.
It’s rare for police officers to be convicted after asserting they fired in a life-or-death situation, but some Minnesota community members said they saw it coming for Noor because he is Somali American.
"Officer Noor was going to jail no matter what because he’s a black man who shot a white woman in the state of Minnesota," said John Thompson, an activist and friend of Philando Castile, a black man who was killed in 2016 by a Latino suburban police officer who was acquitted.
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...delivering a guilty verdict that immediately sparked questions about whether race played a role.
I'm thinking it did. Next would be a civil lawsuit charging that the hiring acts and best practices were intentionally lowered or even waived in order to give this guy a job. Also interesting would be discovery of everyone involved in the application and hiring process of Calamity Noor.
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MN is one of only 3 states that defines 3rd degree murder (others PA and FL).
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Media here is refusing to discuss the insane choice to let this turd skate by with one third the training and his failed psyche example. The former mayor and police chief the primary drivers of letting this Muz loose. Also left out is his complaints by two other women.
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This John Thompson character is just stirring the you-know-what. My experience with Somalis is that they *don't* integrate into the larger American black population for a variety of reasons (some quite understandable). In return, the traditional black population mostly considers them "other" in return. So, no: outside of the activist class, most black people aren't going to care about this IMO.
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what. My experience with Somalis is that they *don't* integrate into the larger American black population
Partly because they, like Arabs and Ethiopians, consider themselves suntanned Caucasians, not black. Though in America they'll accept the black label when jostling for perks.
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Partly because they, like Arabs and Ethiopians, consider themselves suntanned Caucasians, not black. Though in America they'll accept the black label when jostling for perks.
Sure. I would too, given the situation. I meant more that they were typically sober and hardworking with largely intact families. I got a straight-outa-Rantburg rant from a Somali cab driver in Columbus that would put a smile on the face of everyone here.
BTW not saying that many black Americans aren't these things as well (sober, hardworking, etc). Just that poor Midwestern urban areas often contain people who aren't, and I think Somalis want to be separate from that if possible.
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2015: Feds' relocation of Somali refugees stresses Minn. welfare, raises terror fears Even though Minnesota has a good job market, that doesn’t seem to have translated into jobs for the Somali refugees. Minnesota’s state demographer’s office reports that only 41 percent of Somali men are working and 54 percent of Somali women are employed, meaning many may rely on the state’s handouts to survive, and are more susceptible to extremists pull.
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At what point to we recruit a bunch of them for a Somali liberation army and train them to take back their country and restore order? Or do we just assume refugees and failed states are forever?
Could be. I mentioned to an old friend of mine - a veteran cabbie of many years - that the Somali cab drivers in Columbus and Indianapolis seemed to be giving way to Ugandans and Kenyans. He thinks that the Somali's have either moved up to working for Lyft and Uber, or have made enough to move up the economic ladder to shopkeepers and the like. Which is pretty much the American was of things IMO.
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IIUC - If they book enough $ they buy their own car and get out of leasing a car from a cab company (which is expensive). Cab medallions mean shit now with Uber and Lyft
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I got a straight-outa-Rantburg rant from a Somali cab driver in Columbus that would put a smile on the face of everyone here.
That’s wonderful to hear, Secret Master. The more who are happy to be good citizens, the shallower andless hospitable the ocean in which the jihadis can swim.
[Reuters] Republican and Democratic U.S. senators blasted President Donald Trump's proposal for a 23 percent cut in the U.S. budget for foreign aid and diplomacy as "insane" and "short-sighted" on Tuesday, and said it would not pass.
"We're not going to approve this budget reduction. It's insane. It makes no sense," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department and foreign aid budget.
"I don't know who writes these things over in the White House, but they clearly don't understand the value of soft power," the Republican senator, a close Trump ally on many issues, told a subcommittee hearing on the foreign aid budget.
Graham also called the plan "short-sighted" and said the Appropriations panel would restore funding to previous levels, rather than enacting the 23 percent cut Trump proposed earlier this year.
Graham also asked Mark Green, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to send Congress a plan for how it would assist Venezuela in case of a change in government in the troubled South American state.
The hearing took place on Tuesday against a backdrop of upheaval in Venezuela, where Washington's desire to ship in millions of dollars in foreign aid has been a central theme of the Trump administration's push for a change in government.
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Big money laundering operation. House and senate "foreign policy experts" and various functionaries and Beltway operations on the receiving end.
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"Graham also asked Mark Green, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to send Congress a plan for how it would assist Venezuela in case of a change in government in the troubled South American state." I can't think of a more stupid outcome. USAID is no damned good at nation building.
These words and more will be used to describe any serious proposed budget cut. Just goes as further evidence that the Republican party isn't serious about a balanced or even a reduced budget.
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Yet again The Donald is faced with what is universally agreed to be an utterly screwed up, financially unsustainable situation wherein the traditional answer is, 'It simply cannot go on, but THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT'.
23%? What if we shut the whole thing down...for a single year? Global reality check? A real tax cut?
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This is nothing but bribery of other countries.
They hate our guts and it's high time this came to a screeching halt. Fuck them.
This goes for Europe, too, who we bribe with unfair trade agreements and free NATO protection. Fuck those ungrateful freeloaders.
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They hate our guts and it's high time this came to a screeching halt. Fuck them.
They like handout dollars just fine. They realize we are idiots for handing it out to them.
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Any time you make an investment you expect some kind of a return on the investment. So the obvious question is: What kind of ROI do we get for all this money that goes to foreign dictators?
Oh, and don't try to tell me that it's charity for strictly altruistic purposes. When the government holds a gun to your head and takes the money against your will, it is not charity, it's armed robbery.
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Cut the budget, we can't survive with such deficits...
Hold on, hold on, what kind of crazy person is cutting the free money-train to other nations?
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At some point people *assume* that your charity has become an obligation or something required by the very nature of things. Human nature to assume that there is no reason to be grateful -- because it is yours by right!
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HIstorically people start to hate those they feel they owe gratitude to. I'm sure this applies to nations as well. Our largess might be spawning enemies who feel hurt pride.
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No different than today when (R) Shelby insisted that NASA and by implication everybody may only go to the moon using SLS and his method with a moon station in orbit.
I guess he will throw Musk in jail if SpaceX lands a StarShip on the moon or attack China or India if they make a base there even though he only bathes in the money allocated to his state.
[BBC] Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.
But Cas said it had "serious concerns as to the future practical application" of the regulations.
Semenya, 28, had said the rules were "unfair" and that she wanted to "run naturally, the way I was born".
Now the Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion at 800m - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.
Cas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was "necessary, reasonable and proportionate" to protect "the integrity of female athletics".
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My thoughts exactly, G. If they're going to allow humans with a Y chromosome to compete in "women's" events, then it becomes pointless to have those events at all.
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Me: So will the Pope excommunicate his accusers?
Friend: He would need some "delict," some crime. I don't think there is one here. However, my experience as a Catholic is that whistle blowers get punished. As the letter shows, that happened to victims. They will almost certainly be punished somehow, but informally, and if my experience is anything to go by, dishonestly and in a cowardly way.
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Protestants: Lets be kinder and sort of ignore our own rules as difficult to follow.
Masses: Lets join Islam where we can be told restrictions and it seems like a real religion.
Catholics: Lets do what the Protestants are doing, that looks good.
Among economic & other incentives, the Saudi offer apparently also includes the founding of a Palestinian embassy in town of Abu Dis, located on Jerusalem’s eastern outskirts. Abbas rejected the offer, saying it would “mean the end of my political life.”http://t.co/HBTRNhHA3w
[The Federalist] Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has distinguished herself with often offensive, outrageous, and unpatriotic rhetoric. One week she invokes classic anti-Jewish tropes. The next she trivializes the September 11 jihadist attacks. Another it is unearthed that she espouses morally relativistic if not overtly anti-American views about U.S. soldiers, the very ones who fought to defend civilians in her native Somalia to boot.
Omar’s penchant for provoking millions of Americans with odious words has masked the related, equally if not more troubling, elements of her associations, ideology, and background.
CONSIDER OMAR’S MEETING WITH TURKEY’S PRESIDENT
Consider, for example, the revelation, largely unnoticed outside of conservative media, that as a Minnesota Assemblywoman Omar had a closed-press meeting in fall 2017 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to a curiously now-deleted article from the local Somalian-language periodical in her district, the Tusmo Times, she and the Islamist authoritarian president met during his U.N. General Assembly visit to New York.
Per one account, they discussed: "issues involving Omar’s native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota. She [Omar] thanked Erdogan for Turkey’s support for the Rohingya people in Myanmar. The two also discussed investment and trade between Turkey and Somalia. The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Turkey. The report concludes by adding that Omar not only met with Erdogan, but also with the Turkish prime minister and other senior Turkish officials."
A political-media establishment frenzied over foreign influence might ask many questions about this meeting, such as: Why did a state lawmaker have it? Was it appropriate for her to be discussing Turkish-Somali relations as an American representative? On whose behalf was she speaking? Did anyone bless this meeting at the federal level, and on what grounds? Did Omar have any reservations about meeting with President Erdogan given the totalitarian, bellicose, and bigoted nature of his regime? What do Omar’s Democratic colleagues at the national level make of this meeting? Lengthy article.
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She's American in name only. It's clear where her sympathies lay. Just like Zero the shit talking jackass only more open. 2008 began the parade of this type of anti-American scumbag we're going to be treated to in the Federal government, I shudder at the thought of what we have coming in years to come considering the democrats have normalized it.
[Politico] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Tuesday made a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince based on evidence that "strongly indicates" the Trump ally lied to Congress.
In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Schiff claimed Prince, the billionaire founder of a military contracting firm, intentionally misled the House Intelligence Committee and impaired their probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Schiff wrote the publication of the Mueller report shed light on discrepancies between Prince's interview with the special counsel and his testimony before the committee in November 2017, when he denied he was attempting to establish a back channel between Russia and Trump during the president’s transition.
"Mr. Prince’s false statements hindered the Committee’s ability to fully understand and examine foreign efforts to undermine our political process and national security, develop appropriate legislative and policy remedies to counter future malign influence operations targeting campaigns and presidential transitions, and inform the American public, as appropriate," Schiff wrote in the letter.
Schiff highlighted six instances in which information revealed about Prince in the Mueller report diverged from his testimony before the committee. He homed in on Prince's meeting with a Russian banker who is reportedly close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles islands in January 2017, an encounter Prince later told congressional officials took place purely by chance.
Think about it Prince found several PMCs. Not just Blackwater's but one for China with thousands of ex-PLA in it and an aviation one for Africa. A man whose people can kill on industrial scale for their boss.... Really Adam think about that....
You Adam were not even important enough for a raised eyebrow from Meyer Lansky when he was Murder Inc's Don. But you would have pissed in your pants in Meyer's presence ... and Murder Inc. never ever killed as many people as BlackWater let alone the ChiCom PMC and you are insulting and dissing this guy?
Do you have an ounce of self preservation anywhere in your stunted brain? What happens when the day comes when Prince feels you are a pain in the ass. Enough of one that he doesn't care about Trump or Republicans and just wants your pimpled ass roasting over some fire in Central Asia or Africa....
[The Hill] A bill in Alabama banning nearly all abortions in the state passed the House of Representatives Tuesday with only three lawmakers voting against the measure.
State Rep. Terri Collins (R), a sponsor of the measure, said the bill is intended to go all the way up to the Supreme Court and challenge Roe V. Wade, currently the law of the land making abortions legal.
If passed, the bill would would criminalize abortions in all cases unless the health of the pregnant person was in danger and make it a Class C felony for a doctor to perform the procedure, according to Al.com.
The bill also does not include any exceptions for cases where rape or incest caused the pregnancy. The measure passed by a vote of 74-3.
While several Democratic lawmakers attempted to add amendments to the bill, such as adding an exception for rape or incest, Collins said none would be accepted due to the fact she wants the bill to be used to overturn Roe V. Wade.
"We decided it was time to address the actual issue, which was ’do we want to allow abortion in our country’ and maybe ask the Supreme Court to revisit their decision so long ago with so little technology we have right now," Collins previously told Al.com
The local news outlet reports the American Civil Liberties Union chapter of Alabama plans to challenge the bill in court if it becomes law.
"The people of Alabama are paying the bill for unconstitutional legislation and we hope that the Senate members will realize its detrimental impact and stop this bill from becoming law, a statement from the ACLU read. "Otherwise it will be challenged in federal court."
[AnNahar] Air raids on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Sunday night killed four people and maimed 37, Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) said Monday, blaming the attacks on strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).
This came a day after a similar attack on the capital killed another four civilians and injured 20, according to the GNA.
Haftar's LNA launched an offensive against Tripoli, the seat of the internationally-recognised GNA, on April 4.
After initial gains, Haftar's forces have encountered stiff resistance on the southern outskirts and his troops have been pushed back in some areas.
At least 278 people have been killed and more than 1,300 maimed in the festivities, according to a toll released Wednesday by the World Health Organization.
The GNA accuses Haftar of using foreign planes to carry out air strikes, without naming a country of origin.
After Sunday's raids, "public hospitals received four dead people -- three civilians and a soldier, and 37 maimed, Amin al-Hachemi, a front man for the GNA health ministry told AFP.
"The toll may rise given that victims have been transported to private hospitals."
The parts of Tripoli struck were Abou Slim, a densely-populated residential area in the south, and Ain Zara, a southern suburb that has seen several violent festivities in recent weeks.
A front man for the LNA confirmed Saturday's strikes on the capital, but said they were aimed at military targets.
"The capital is experiencing an escalation in the military offensive, war crimes, and indiscriminate bombings of residential areas, public facilities and infrastructure," Mohanad Younes, a front man for the GNA, said on the government's Facebook page.
"Unmanned foreign planes participated in these raids, the latest ones having hit homes in Ain Zara and Abou Slim," said Younes.
The responsibility for these acts, he added, rests "with the states which support the belligerent forces of the criminal Haftar".
Haftar's offensive has sharpened fault lines in policy towards Libya among world powers.
On April 18, Russia and the United States opposed a British bid backed by La Belle France and Germany at the UN Security Council to demand a ceasefire in the North African country.
The White House revealed the next day that 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... had reached out personally to Haftar in a phone call, during which the US president "recognised Field Marshal Haftar's significant role in fighting terrorism and securing Libya's oil resources".
The country has been mired in chaos since the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising that deposed and killed dictator Moamer Qadaffy in 2011.
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[AnNahar] The United Arab Emirates' supreme court upheld a life sentence against a Ottoman Turkish citizen for promoting Islamist groups in Syria and transferring funds out of the Gulf state, state media reported.
The ruling, handed down late Monday, comes less than two weeks after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a UAE citizen suspected of playing a role in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October in Istanbul. The man was found hanged in his cell on Sunday.
The supreme court in Abu Dhabi upheld the life sentence of the 49-year-old Ottoman Turkish citizen for "launching an extensive campaign on a Facebook account named 'Ali Ozturk Mehmet' without getting an official permit" to promote "the ideologies of the two terrorist groups and sending them funds through money transfer companies in the UAE", the state news agency WAM said.
According to the indictment, cited by the news agency, the man was found guilty of "colluding" with former al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... , two radical groups in Syria.
An Arab man was also found guilty of setting up and managing accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp "under the pseudonym 'Abu Mohammed Al Adnani' with the intent of promoting the fanatic ideologies of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group", WAM said.
The Ottoman Turkish national was first accused by prosecutors of colluding with terrorist groups in Syria and was found guilty of fundraising activities in the UAE for the two groups.
[DAWN] Libyan forces loyal to a former military commander have intensified their air strikes on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , where heavy fighting and blocked roads have left civilians trapped in their homes, officials said on Monday.
Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter’s self-styled Libyan National Army launched an operation to retake the capital on April 4 and has been locked in heavy fighting in and around the city with militias loosely allied with a UN-supported government. The festivities have killed more than 270 people, including 21 civilians, according to the latest UN figures released last week.
Libyan officials said LNA air strikes have targeted the Nawasi Brigade in the Abu Salim district, about 7 kilometres from Tripoli’s centre. At least four non-combatants were killed, they said.
They said air strikes hit Al Qaqaa military camp in the town of al-Falah, south of Tripoli. The camp is controlled by powerful militias from the western town of Misrata that are also allied with the Tripoli government. Air strikes and shelling also hit the towns of Khallet al-Forjan, Ain Zara and al-Twaisha, south of the capital, and heavy fighting was underway in Salah al-Deen, an area that saw earlier festivities between rival militias in September.Residents said fighting has been ongoing overnight in residential areas a few kilometers south of Tripoli. Both sides have used heavy artillery and Arclight airstrikes, they said.
"We cannot move because of the shelling from both sides. Our homes have been damaged. We are trying to leave the area to a safer place," said Mohammed al-Trapoulsi, a 41-year-old father of three from Abu Salim.
On Sunday, LNA front man Ahmed al-Mosmari told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that their warplanes targeted the Yarmuk military camp in Ain Zara. The two sides have traded control the strategic camp since the offensive began.
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[DAWN] Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday said that a bill that seeks to enforce women's rights to property will be introduced by the government to help ensure women get their due share in inheritance. "As long as an adult male makes the right decisions as trustee"
Awan was addressing a news conference along with Minister of Water Resources Faisal Vawda after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... She said that the government wanted to provide women with their fair share in inheritance and ensure that they are not cheated out of their rights.
Citing other discussions from the cabinet meeting, she said amendments in the code of civil procedure will help decide the civil cases swiftly. Similarly, the succession certificates will now be issued by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and heirs would be able to procure them within two weeks, instead of going through courts for years.
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[DAWN] Iran has tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 32 people who had expressed support online for a man accused of murdering a holy man, semi-official news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.
Behrouz Hajilouyi allegedly shot Mostafa Ghasemi on Saturday outside the seminary where the Shia holy man worked in the western Hamedan province.
He had confessed to the crime in a now-deleted post on his Instagram account, Fars news agency reported.
"Thirty-two people who had left messages of support for Behrouz Hajilouyi on his personal (Instagram) page were identified and arrested," Hamedan police chief Bakhshali Kamrani told ISNA.
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[DAWN] A day after the passage of a bill seeking to set minimum age for marriage at 18 in the Senate, a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks within various parties on the issue.
Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri referred the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to the committee concerned after the house allowed its mover Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani of the ruling Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) to table it with a majority 72-50 vote.
The National Assembly also witnessed introduction of 10 other bills, including two constitutional amendment bills seeking creation of a new Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... province, on the private member’s day.
Former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , who came to the house after the Asr prayer break, was seen conversing with the PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique, who is currently under custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with a housing society scam and attending the session after issuance of his production order by the speaker. The two arch-rivals of the past remained busy discussing some important matter for some time without caring for the proceedings.
Earlier, a heated discussion took place on the child marriage bill which exposed a division even within the federal cabinet. Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan strongly opposed the bill and termed it un-Islamic, whereas Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari argued in support of it and asked the deputy speaker to refer it to the committee.
The opposition Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) was the only party whose members voted in support of the bill in unison as the members of the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) also gave a divided vote.
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In all fairness, child marriage is a complicated subject, not something easy like abortion. Oh, wait . . . .
[DAWN] China on Tuesday hinted at ’progress’ on designation of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) chief Masood Azhar by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ’ 1267 Sanctions Committee, as the United States called for resolving the contentious matter.
Senior Pak officials disclosed to Dawn that China could lift its technical hold leading to Azhar’s designation, while developments in this regard are likely to be shared by the Foreign Office with the media at a special briefing scheduled for Wednesday (today).
Chinese foreign ministry front man Geng Shuang, speaking at a media briefing in Beijing, said: "We support the listing issue being settled within the 1267 committee through dialogue and consultation and I believe this is the consensus of most members. Second, the relevant consultations are going on within the committee and have achieved some progress. Third, I believe, with the joint efforts of all parties, this issue can be properly resolved."
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[Jpost] One Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed and three were slightly maimed in northern Syria on Tuesday during an attack by the Kurdish YPG militia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally.... 's Defence Ministry said.
The attack took place in a region where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed Euphrates Shield in 2016 to drive Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies and the YPG from its border with Syria. Turkey regards the U.S.-backed YPG as a terrorist organization.
The defense ministry statement said the Ottoman Turkish army opened fire in retaliation against YPG targets. It did not give further details on the whereabouts of the attack.
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Just saw @CNN shamefully call what is happening today in #Venezuela a “coup attempt” @jguaido is recognized as legitimate interim President of #Venezuela by constitution,over 50 countries & OAS.
The only coup is the one carried out by #Cuba in support of dictator #Maduro
Driving to Caracas across Venezuela Tue most of the usual military & police roadblocks are gone. At Nat. Guard outposts no car checks. No soldiers on main highway. Soldiers not joining protesters but not repressing either. Same wait & see FANB attitude I’m hearing across country
•Trump: Cuba cud face Full Embargo • Canada calls on Maduro to leave • Bolton: All options on Table • Abrams: Regime & Opposition talks • Erdogan 📞 Putin, Backs Maduro • Media crackdown in Venezuela https://t.co/Numnt7JVEK
[IsraelTimes] Zaki Mubarak’s relatives accuses The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... of covering up his liquidation, call for international investigation and autopsy.
The family of a Paleostinian found dead in a Ottoman Turkish prison after being accused of spying for the United Arab Emirates demanded an investigation Tuesday.
Members of Zaki Mubarak’s
...yesterday’s report named him as Zaki Y.M. Hassan...
family said they had been officially informed of the 55-year-old’s death in a Ottoman Turkish prison, with authorities saying he had did away with himself.
"We want an international investigation and an autopsy to reveal the facts, but the Ottoman Turkish authorities want to hide the truth," his brother Zain al-Dain said.
Relatives would not begin the mourning period until they knew, he said.
"I spoke to him a week ago and he was in high spirits insisting he would be released because he didn’t accept any of the false charges against him," his sister Sanaa Mubarak abu Sbitan said.
"I know my brother Zaki and he would never commit suicide. This is a plot created by Turkey to cover up the liquidation."
Zaki, a former member of the Paleostinian intelligence services, left the Gazoo Strip in 2007 after Islamists Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, seized control of the enclave, Zain al-Dain said.
He had since been based in Bulgaria and Turkey.
Ottoman Turkish state news agency Anadolu said the man, who it did not name, was found dead in Silivri prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul, with prosecutors later saying he was found hanged.
He had been taken into custody with another alleged spy and later formally charged with "military and political" and "international espionage," according to Anadolu.
The circumstances of the incident were unclear but media had speculated he was allied to Mohammed Dahlan, a former ally and now rival to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... based in the UAE.
"Zaki has no relationship with the Dahlan movement," Zain al-Dain said. "He is with Fatah under the leadership of president Abu Mazen [Abbas]."
Turkey has been investigating claims the two men were linked to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi,
...the Washington Post carefully did not notice that their beloved columnist was a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — most recently on Qatar’s payroll, previously for Saudi Arabian intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...
a 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... n journalist killed in the country’s embassy in Istanbul last year.
Turkey has delicate relations with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the Arab states that imposed a blockade on 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... , one of Ankara’s close allies.
On Monday, the Paleostinian embassy in Ankara announced that it is following the case as well as the arrest of another Paleostinian by Ottoman Turkish police, reported Paleostinian news agency WAFA.
The embassy said in a statement that Mubarak and Samer Shaaban
Ah hah! The unnamed second arrestee is now named!
went missing in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ally.... on 3 April, and were found "in Ottoman Turkish custody facing charges and were to be put on trial."
A Paleostinian father of nine, Zaki Hassan fled the Gazoo Strip after Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, took power in 2007. His wife Sameeh Shaaban told CNN that he left when Hamas accused him of being involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , which he denied.
Hassan obtained political asylum in Bulgaria and last March he received authorization to live in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... The Ottoman Turkish prosecutors explained that he was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! as they were investigating possible connections between Hassan and the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.
"My brother was a father, had a Phd in political science, and was a retired intelligence general. Why would he kill himself?" Hassan’s brother Zacharia asked CNN.
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[KhaamaPress] An kaboomdestroyed the vehicle of the border police forces in Mazar-e-Sharif city, the lovely provincial capital of Balkh province. "THE vehicle? As in the only one? I think I see a problem here...
A front man for Balkh Police Headquarters Adilshah Adil confirmed the incident and said the kaboom was triggered by a magnetic bomb planted in police vehicle.
Adil further added that the incident took place later this afternoon close to the municipality compound of Mazar-e-Sharif city.
He said the body of a border policeman who lost his life in the kaboom has been shifted to hospital.
In the meantime, reports emerging from the area suggest that two other people have also sustained injuries in the kaboom.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the kaboom.
[TheSun] The Sharia law-run state has advertised for eight new executioners to handle the projected rise in brutal public beheadings.
No special qualifications are needed for the jobs Saudi interviewer: so what is your current job?
Applicant: Exterminator
Saudi interviewer: and what is your reason for wanting a new job
Applicant: I want to work with people
whose main role is "executing a judgement of death" but also involves performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences.
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its an independent kingdom, the operating word here being "kingdom" and free and independent country, which we, or anyone else , has "zero" business criticizing
The United States is reportedly looking to re-evaluate its practice of sharing information with nations that are using #Huawei equipment in both "core" and "non-core" parts of their telecommunications networks. http://t.co/KK0SLXc8Ek
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Time to utterly scrap the "five eyes" and take notes about who whines the most when we do.
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Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment Europe’s biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy, a system that provides internet service to millions of homes and businesses, according to Vodafone’s security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 seen by Bloomberg, as well as people involved in the situation.
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This is a baby step. The hard part is doing away with all computers and cell phones assembled in China. But it needs to be done.
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Wasn't here a big stink about spyware embedded in the operating systems of Lenova computers a while back?
Seems to me, that anything made in China for data processing has trapdoors and spyware to data mine for information.
Why anyone is complaining about this is beyond me. When Vodophone unearthed this, you would think every western intel organization would have dumped their Huawei stuff immediately.
[IsraelTimes] A balloon-borne incendiary device launched from the Gazoo Strip sparks a fire in southern Israel, the fire department says.
"A team of firefighters worked to put out a brushfire caused by a balloon in the Gazoo area, near one of the kibbutzes," a spokesperson for the department’s southern district says in a statement.
The blaze occurred outside Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Sha’ar Hanegev region. It was extinguished by a team of volunteers, the fire department says.
Throughout the day, Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip have been launching balloons carrying incendiary devices into southern Israel in an apparent violation of an unofficial ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and terror groups in the enclave.
[Telegraph] Dr Jane Barton claimed she was doing her best for her patients
The retired doctor, at the centre of the Gosport War Memorial Hospital scandal, could face murder charges over the deaths of hundreds of patients who were needlessly given powerful opiate painkillers, the police have said.
A total of 456 people had their lives cut short and another 200 were "probably" given drugs without medical justification between 1987 and 2001.
An official inquiry last year concluded that Dr Jane Barton, 71, who worked at the hospital between 1988 and 2000, had presided over an "institutionalised regime" which had a flagrant "disregard for human life".
A damning report revealed how patients who were viewed as a "nuisance" were given opiates via syringe drivers, often resulting in their deaths within days.
Three previous police investigations have failed to bring anyone to justice, but yesterday senior officers vowed to get to the bottom of the scandal and determine whether the prescribing of the opiates led directly to patient deaths.
[Rudaw] If European allies of the international anti-ISIS coalition do not repatriate suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members, 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... warned nearly 2,000 of these "dangerous prisoners" could be let loose.
"We have 1,800 ISIS prisoners taken hostage in our final battles to destroy 100 percent of the Caliphate in Syria. Decisions are now being made as to what to do with these dangerous prisoners..." Trump tweeted on Tuesday
Most of the prisoners are held in Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) facilities in Syria. The SDF repeatedly has said it lacks the resources to hold trials. French newspaper Le Monde has reported 800 Western men, 700 women, and some 1,500 of their children are estimated to be held in SDF camps.
President Trump is transactional, guys. He laid out the maximal position. Now you need to make a counteroffer.
"...European countries are not helping at all, even though this was very much done for their benefit. They are refusing to take back prisoners from their specific countries. Not good!" Trump added.
The SDF, the partnered ground force of the US-led international coalition, continue to detain suspected faceless myrmidons in once-liberated areas.
"Special units" from the SDF tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... members of a "terrorist cell" east of Raqqa, its Press Office head, Mustafa Bali, announced on Monday.
Bali added two of the arrested were suspected of planting improvised bombs (IEDs) in Raqqa city.
There is no established Western policy for dealing with the suspects. The United Kingdom has said it won't risk diplomats' lives by travelling to Syria.
The United States has repatriated the few US nationals who joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Other European countries are torn because they lack capital punishment and believe their nationals have the right to a trial.
Additionally, the Europeans are concerned authorities in Syria lack the tools to conduct fair trials which would also reveal key details about the way the group operates and the fate of groups they like the Yezidis.
Most European nationals joining ISIS in Iraq and Syria came from La Belle France, followed by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation found in a study released in July 2018.
Human rights activist lawyer Amal Clooney argued on April 23 before the UN Security Council that several options are available for the West to get justice for victims of sexual violence committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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probably should have read, "...to pay protection money to them rather than to Assad"
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To be fair, supporting an army abroad is expensive, while thanks to President Obama the Iranian economy is tanking. They have to pay their troops, not to mention all those irregulars from the Shiite diaspora.
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Cause a 100 million dead in the 20th Century was just a start. Now scream at me now about the evils of slavery that ended over a hundred years ago. /sarc off
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Is it too much to hope they'd come protest out at my rig site? The crew are bored. I'm sure they'd love to 'welcome' them our rig with a proper oilfield trash greeting.
[Miami Herald] As his Cabinet members pledged the administration’s support for Juan Guaidó, President Donald Trump used his favorite bully pulpit to target the Cuban government for its role in Venezuela.
Trump warned of “a full and complete embargo, together with highest-level sanctions” against the Havana government if the Cuban military does not immediately cease operations “for the purpose of causing death and destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela.”
“Hopefully, all Cuban soldiers will promptly and peacefully return to their island!” Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
A senior administration official told McClatchy on Tuesday there has long been a need to strengthen implementation of the Cuban embargo, which had become weakened over the years.
“We haven’t spoken that way about Cuba in a very long time,” the official said. “These recent comments from the president are a very strong pivot against the Communist regime in Havana.”
The official warned they also send a message to Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega for his work backing the Venezuelan regime.
National Security Advisor John Bolton has called the three countries a ”Troika of Tyranny” led by “clowns” and that the United States “looks forward to watching” their governments fall.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Maduro had been preparing to fly to Cuba on Tuesday, but was convinced by Russian officials to remain.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi intelligence forces jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Tuesday seven Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters during a security operation in the province of Nineveh, a security expert said.
Speaking to IKH News, Fadel Abu Regheef said that intelligence forces carried out a security operation in al-Baaj district in Nineveh province, arresting seven Islamic State terrorists.
The seven were wanted for trial by Iraqi judiciary, he added.
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The Tiger Forces of the #SyrianArmy is sending more reinforcement to the northern suburbs of #Hama and southern suburbs of #Idlib to crush the fortifications of #AlQaeda in the demilitarized zones, that #Turkey promised yet didn't enforce. pic.twitter.com/yejtJTaI3r
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces have nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! another prominent spy of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group during an operation which was conducted in the fifth district of Kabul city.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the Taliban spy identified as Rahmatullah was arrested by Special Forces of the Afghan National Police in Kote Sangi area of the city.
The statement further added that Rahmatullah was responsible for plotting terrorist attacks and transfer of Taliban group members in various parts of Kabul.
The Ministry of Interior on Monday announced that a prominent spy of Taliban identified as Qudratullah was arrested during a similar operation which was conducted in Company area in the fifth district of Kabul city on Sunday evening.
Qudratullah was collecting and sharing information regarding supply convoys which were travelling on Kabul-Maidan Wardak highway besides planning and coordinating terrorist attacks, the ministry of interior said.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban have not commented regarding the arrest of the group’s spies so far.
[Rudaw] Husham al-Hashmi, an Iraqi expert in terrorist and bad boy groups, believes that Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) leader Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi’s whereabouts are likely narrowed to just four places following his first appearance disseminated in nearly five years.
"Iraq since September 2018 through a special cell formed with US Special Operations Command has been monitoring, looking for al-Baghdadi. They have up to now succeeded in eliminating 13 out of 17 possible locations," Hashmi told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
The possible locations could be the deserts of Iraq’s western Anbar, Iraq’s Wadi Houran ‐ a riverbed in Anbar ‐ or in Syria’s east central Homs desert. Additionally, Baghdadi could be heading elsewhere ‐ toward the so-called "Mohammed Peninsula", a term that can be found in Islamic discourse on the Saudi peninsula.
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Less likely in Iran territory as Iran backed Assad. I'd suspect the old enemy of my enemy position. The enemy of the Turks are the Kurds. The Kurds would kill him in sight. So, I'd place my bets on someplace the Turks have some control.
[KhaamaPress] At least 20 Taliban militants were killed and two others were detained in an operation of the Afghan Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar province.
The informed military sources said Tuesday that the operation was conducted in Khugyani district of the province.
“Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Khugyani district killing 20 Taliban fighters, detaining two and destroying 7 IEDs and 4 hand grenades,” the sources said.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively provinces in East of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has started to deteriorated during the recent years.
Both Taliban and ISIS militants are active in some of the restive districts of the province and often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] At least twenty two militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during a raid of the Afghan Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar province.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), in a statement said the raid was conducted by the Special Forces of the agency in Khugyani district.
The statement further added that two weapons depots of the terror group were also destroyed during the same operation.
The military sources had earlier reported that twenty Taliban militants were killed and two others were detained during the operation.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively provinces in East of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has started to deteriorated during the recent years.
Both Taliban and ISIS militants are active in some of the restive districts of the province and often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs and public uprising forces have suffered casualties during a four-hour clash in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the clash took place in Jabar Shahid Village of Aqcha district leaving at least 6 Talibs dead and 16 others maimed.
The statement further added the public uprising forces have also suffered casualties but report regarding the exact number has not been shared with the military so far.
In the meantime, the Shaheen Corps said the Afghan army soldiers have not suffered casualties during the clash.
The anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the casualties inflicting on their bad boys.
Jawzjan is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan. Talibs are active in some of the restive and remote districts of the province where they often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
[Yahoo] Stacey Abrams, who made history last year as the first Black woman to win a major party's nomination for governor, announced Tuesday morning that she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2020.
The news follows months of speculation around Abrams' next steps after narrowly losing the contentious Georgia gubernatorial race.
"I am so grateful for all of the support and encouragement I have received from fellow Georgians, to leaders of Congress and beyond," Abrams said in a video posted on Twitter. "However, the fights to be waged require a deep commitment to the job, and I do not see the U.S. Senate as the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future." She added she would support whoever ends up challenging Republican Sen. David Perdue, a first-term incumbent. "The best rolls for me are at Cinnabun. I will be there"
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other national Democratic leaders have aggressively courted Abrams, who has long been a political rising star, over the past few months. Besides being considered as a potential Senate candidate, Abrams was also floated as the potential running mate of former Vice President Joe Biden. (No deal was made with Biden, who announced his presidential bid last week.) Dems: "We finally found a 'woman' Biden wouldn't hug or sniff her hair"
[DAWN] HAD Newton lived in these times, he may have added another law of physics to his list, which may have gone something like: ’A lie can circle the globe twice before the truth has even put its pants on.’
While he would undoubtedly have phrased it better, proof of this law was seen recently in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. where, as soon as the latest round of the anti-polio
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Pee pee shrinkage agent. It's as widely believed in as gerbil worming but with less evidence.
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[KhaamaPress] The ISIS faceless myrmidons are heading to Afghanistan from Iraq and Syria after the collapse of the self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East, it has been reported.
A U.S. official has told AFP that ISIS faceless myrmidons are heading to Afghanistan to continue their jihad and plot ’spectacular’ attacks against the United States.
A senior U.S. intelligence official in Kabul has told AFP "We know some have already made their way back here and are trying to transfer the knowledge, skills and experience they learned over there."
The official speaking on the condition of anonymity has further added that "If we don’t continue counterterrorism pressure against (IS in Afghanistan), there will be an attack in our homeland ‐ and a spectacular attack ‐ probably within the year."
This comes as both Afghan and U.S. forces are busy conduct regular operations and Arclight airstrikes against the terror group in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Kunar, and other restive provinces in which the group has a presence.
The latest UN report suggest that the terror group has between 2,500 and 4,000 fighters in Afghanistan, according to AFP.
The group grabbed credit for a coordinated attack on Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Kabul city which left at least ten people dead and several others maimed.
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[AlAhram] Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday made his strongest call yet to the military to help him oust President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... , and violence broke out at anti-government protests as the country hit a new crisis point after years of political and economic chaos.
Several dozen armed troops accompanying Guaido clashed with soldiers supporting Maduro at a rally outside the La Carlota air base in Caracas, but the incident fizzled out and did not appear to be part of an immediate attempt by the opposition to take power through military force.
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"...Maduro has appeared to retain control of state institutions and the loyalty of senior military officers and has foreign allies such as Russia and Cuba."
also AOC, Illan Omar, Bernie, CNN, MSNBC and most of Hollywood
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Head of the secret police has broken from Maduro. Trmp is threatening Cuba total w/sanctions. Ï assume Cuba is where Maduro would flee to and use as a base to be a constant agitator of Guido from.
[IsraelTimes] While death is among the possible punishments in PA penal code for such offenses, Abbas has not signed off on any executions since 2006.
A Paleostinian Authority court that convened in Nablus on Wednesday sentenced a Paleostinian to five years in prison for attempting to sell land to Israeli Jews.
"The Grand Criminal Court that met in Nablus sentenced... M.Y.M, to five years in prison on charges of attempting to cut off part of the Paleostinian lands and [sell] it to a foreign state," a memo on the PA Higher Judicial Council’s website said, only identifying the convict by his initials.
An official in the PA judiciary council said M.Y.M. attempted to sell land in the West Bank to Israeli Jews.
"He attempted to leak land to Israelis, which is in violation of the law," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Times of Israel, using the Arabic term to allude to selling land to Israeli Jews.
Paleostinian law considers attempting to sell or selling land to Israeli Jews a punishable offense.
According to the law, possible punishments for trying to sell or selling land to Israeli Jews include various degrees of hard labor and imprisonment as well as execution.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the law requires that PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... approve any death sentence, and he has not signed off on any executions since 2006.
"The president does not approve execution sentences," Hassan al-Aouri, Abbas’s former legal adviser, said in a phone call in November 2018.
The Paleostinians maintain that selling land in the West Bank to Israeli Jews undermines their efforts to establish a state that they hope will include the territory.
[The Hill] The Food and Drug Administration will allow Philip Morris International to sell a new tobacco device that’s designed as an alternative to traditional cigarettes.
The iQOS is a small pen-like electronic device that heats a stick of tobacco, rather than burning it, making the vapor less harmful than smoke from traditional cigarettes.
The tobacco stick also sets the device apart from electronic cigarettes, which utilize a nicotine-laced liquid that allows users to inhale much stronger levels of nicotine and tobacco than a traditional cigarette.
FDA said allowing the device to be sold is "appropriate for the protection of the public health because ... the products produce fewer or lower levels of some toxins than combustible cigarettes."
The FDA review took nearly two years to complete, highlighting the public health debate over the device.
Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association said the group is "deeply concerned" about the health impacts of the new product, and urged FDA to "carefully monitor how this product is actually being used ‐ and by whom."
The agency noted that even though the device is now legally allowed to be sold, "it does not mean these products are safe. All tobacco products are potentially harmful and addictive and those who do not use tobacco products should continue not to."
[Teslarati] According to an official statement, SpaceX’s satellite mass production is “well underway” and the first batch of operational Starlink satellites are already in Florida for their May 2019 launch debut.
Simultaneously, the FCC has granted SpaceX’s request to modify the deployment of its first 1584 Starlink satellites, permitting the company to lower their orbit from approximately 1150 km to 550 km (715 mi to 340 mi). A lower insertion orbit should improve Falcon 9’s maximum Starlink payload, while the lower operational orbit will help to further minimize any risk posed by orbital debris that could be generated by failed SpaceX satellites.
Above all else, SpaceX’s confirmation that the first batch of Starlink satellites are already in Florida drives home the reality that the company’s internet satellite constellation is about to become very real. Said constellation has long been the subject of endless skepticism and criticism, dominated by a general atmosphere of dismissal. There is no doubt that Starlink, as proposed, is an extraordinarily ambitious program that will cost billions of dollars to even begin to realize. SpaceX will have to find ways to affordably manufacture and launch ~11,900 satellites – together weighing something like 500 metric tons (1.1 million lbs) – in as few as nine years, start to finish.
[KhaamaPress] At least seventeen Taliban militants were killed in separate airstrikes which were conducted in south-eastern Ghazni and southern Uruzgan provinces, informed military sources said Tuesday.
The sources further added that 6 of the militants were killed in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province while 11 others were killed in Tarin Kot city, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province.
“Airstrikes in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province today killed 6 Taliban fighters. Airstrikes in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan killed 11 Taliban fighters,” the sources said.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the casualties inflicting on their militants.
Both Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces are among the relatively volatile provinces in southern and south-eastern parts of Afghanistan.
Taliban militants are active in some of the restive and remote districts of the two province where they often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] A Taliban weapons and explosives smuggler was killed by an airstrike in Andar district, Ghazni province.
Informed military sources said Monday that the weapons and explosives smuggler of Taliban was killed on Saturday, April 27, 2019.
“The coordinator who went by the name, Jalalzal was in charge of smuggling and suppling weapons to Taliban fighters in order to commit horrific suicide and vehicle explosions, which is a prime example that the Taliban’s actions prove they have chosen violence instead of peace,” the sources said.
The military officials also added that Jalalzal encouraged violence and would supply weapons and equipment to Taliban fighters at all cost. “He has consistently ignored the will of the Afghan people and their desire for peace.”
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the killing of Jalalzal so far.
And now he and his comrades can look forward to sitting in prison for years, while mandatory appeals wind their way through the system.
[AlAhram] A Cairo High State Security Emergency Criminal Court sentenced Hassan Malek, a businessman affiliated with the banned Moslem Brüderbund group, to 25 years in prison on Tuesday.
Malek, his son Hamza, and 22 others were accused of joining a terrorist group and plotting to harm the national economy by hoarding hard currency and smuggling it abroad. They were also charged with planning to assault police and army personnel.
Malik, Hamza, and five others were sentenced to 25 years, three defendants were sentenced to 10 years, and 14 were acquitted.
Malek’s assets have been frozen since September 2014, when a Cairo criminal court upheld a decision by the prosecutor-general to freeze the assets of prominent Moslem Brüderbund leaders.
Since the 1990s, Malek has been considered one of the most prominent Moslem Brüderbund businessmen along with his business partner, the now-tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! deputy chairman of the Brotherhood in Egypt, Khairat El-Shater.
Malek’s commercial and industrial ventures included textile manufacturing, electrical supplies, and furniture.
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It seemed like the MB was on the run in the U.S. until BHO came along. If Trump has the MB declared a terrorist organization in the U.S., it wouldn't be off the mark IMHO.
[Rudaw] An estimated 45,000 children in Iraq who were born under the rule of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group are being excluded from society because the government denies them documentation and ID papers, an international charity said Tuesday.
Jan Egeland, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s secretary general, is warning that these children ‐ most of whom are in camps for the displaced today ‐ are a "possible human time-bomb."
"Undocumented children risk remaining left on the margins of society if this issue is not addressed immediately. This seriously undermines future prospects of reconciliation efforts," said Egeland.
"We urge the government to ensure that undocumented children have the right to exist like any other Iraqi citizen," he added, citing the organization’s 38-page report "Barriers from Birth."
The children were born during IS’s 2013-2017 rule, when the bully boy group controlled nearly a third of Iraq. The Iraqi government today considers their birth certificates invalid because they were issued by IS.
After U.S.-backed forces defeated the IS and the murderous Moslems lost their self-styled "caliphate," many IS families and those of civilians who lived under the group’s rule were put in camps for the displaced.
The Norway-based group said its legal teams receive on average 170 requests for help each month in cases of unregistered children, children whose fathers are undocumented, are on one of the government’s security databases or are perceived to be affiliated with IS.
Egeland said the chance of obtaining ID documents for children from families accused of IS affiliation is nearly impossible, resulting in collective punishment of thousands of innocent children.
"Children are not responsible for crimes committed by their relatives, yet many are denied their basic rights as Iraqi citizens," he said.
Without ID papers, these children have no access to education or health care, they are not allowed to enroll in schools and their mothers cannot get badly needed aid ‐ they are denied "simply the right to exist," Egeland said.
Providing these children with such basic rights to education and health care is "key to ensuring a sustainable future for them and for the country," he said. "A society cannot be at peace if it allows a generation of stateless children in its midst."
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Jan Egeland, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s secretary general, is warning that these children ‐ most of whom are in camps for the displaced today ‐ are a "possible human time-bomb."
Look at that: I agree with a Norwegian NGO organization. Man, today is shaping up to be weird!
[ROLLINGSTONE] “We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name,” investors say Damn! I was looking forward to seeing Wavy Gravy again.
Apparently tickets were to be listed at $450.
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...I've seen a couple stories that suggested that this thing was well on the way to becoming another Fyre Festival, and the grownups in the room decided to cut their losses and shut it down before it got completely out of control.
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After all, who wants to see 70 year-old hippies cavorting naked?
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Cancelled because many of the original musicians are dead from overdoses?
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I know one of the founders of Burning Man. Years ago he emphasized to me the steps BM was taking so that it didn't develop "Woodstock Syndrome." Namely: a group of old LLC members waiting for each other to die so the last man standing can sell the IP for a fortune. If wonder if that's some of what we're seeing here?
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Just more of the propaganda about the 60's. Woodstock was a drug infested, squalor and I never understood why it is so mythical. I talked to several friends who took off and went to Woodstock and they said it was a completely nightmare.
The media looks to elevate the 60's when they nearly took down the Republic, turned over a highly strategic portion of southeast Asia to the Communists, and accelerated the consumption of drugs into the epidemic it is today.
I still would like to know if anyone has ever investigated the source of the money that allowed all of those demonstrators to travel and stay in hotels and organize.
[Rudaw] In a deadly week of festivities between Ottoman Turkish state forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), both sides claimed to have inflicted casualties. The PKK said they killed six Ottoman Turkish soldiers on both sides of the Kurdistan Region-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... border in activities during the past week, while the Ottoman Turkish Defence Ministry claimed to have hit 14 PKK guerrillas in a weekend Arclight airstrike in the Kurdistan Region.
The Peoples’ Defence Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, said they killed one soldier and injured another, and dealt a "crippling blow" to Ottoman Turkish army installations on Lelikan hill in the Sidakan area of northern Erbil province where the borders of Kurdistan Region, Turkey, and Iran meet.
The HPG launched an attack on Ottoman Turkish soldiers stationed there on Sunday afternoon, according to their statement, published on Tuesday.
Inside Turkey, HPG claimed to have killed five soldiers during an operation in Diyarbakir on Wednesday. The guerrillas also lost five of their own in the operation, they stated.
Turkey has not confirmed the deaths within their own ranks, but claimed to have "neutralized" 14 PKK fighters in airstrikes on Sunday. The Ottoman Turkish army uses the word neutralized to refer to those killed, maimed, or otherwise removed from the battlefield. Col. Tamer Zincir told news hounds on Monday that they hit PKK guerrillas in a cave in the Zab region of northern Duhok, Anadolu Agency reported.
HPG confirmed the Ottoman Turkish airstrikes, but denied the casualties.
Ottoman Turkish jets launched at least eight airstrikes against an alleged PKK position 32 kilometres northeast of Duhok city on Friday morning, a local confirmed to Rudaw, saying that this is the first time the conflict had reached that area.
Turkey regularly carries out airstrikes and military offensives against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region, where the group has its headquarters. The four-decade long conflict was reignited in 2015 after a grinding of the peace processor broke down.
At least 4,330 people have been killed since July 20, 2015, according to the International Crisis Group, which is tracking the conflict. Those killed include 1,144 state forces, 2,499 PKK fighters, 464 civilians, and 223 unidentified people.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Erbil on Monday, but his talks with Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani focused on business and trade ties.
The government in Baghdad has called on Ottoman Turkish forces to withdraw from Iraqi territory and said no group should use Iraqi land to carry out attacks on its neighbours. The Kurdistan Regional Government has called on the PKK to leave the Region.
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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.
[Express] West Parley residents were shocked to discover one of their ’silent soldiers’, located on one of the village’s main road, was defaced last week. The vandalism “upset numerous residents”, forcing the Dorset village’s parish council to remove the damaged statue. Great care had been taken to choose the location of the statue before it was damaged and children had laid a poppy dedication under each of the ‘silent soldiers’.
PARIS (AP) ‐ French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters who set fires and smashed up vehicles as thousands of people gathered for May Day rallies Wednesday under tight security. About 165 arrests were made.
[BBC] Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.
[The Federalist] Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has distinguished herself with often offensive, outrageous, and unpatriotic rhetoric. One week she invokes classic anti-Jewish tropes. The next she trivializes the September 11 jihadist attacks. Another it is unearthed that she espouses morally relativistic if not overtly anti-American views about U.S. soldiers, the very ones who fought to defend civilians in her native Somalia to boot.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[DAWN] A day after the passage of a bill seeking to set minimum age for marriage at 18 in the Senate, a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks within various parties on the issue.
[DAWN] China on Tuesday hinted at ’progress’ on designation of 
...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...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
According to an official statement, SpaceX’s satellite mass production is “well underway” and the first batch of operational Starlink satellites are already in Florida for their May 2019 launch debut. 
[ROLLINGSTONE] “We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name,” investors say
