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US imposes sanctions on five individuals it says are linked to alQaeda
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Afghanistan
'The 𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 were the 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 of the United States policy of 𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 against the Muslim world.'
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Sept 9? The image is Sept 11...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/17/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Payback for conquering Kosovo for Islam?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/17/2021 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Sept. 9 was when they killed the Lion of the Panjshir. It was the signal for the attacks on the US to begin.

And yes, OBL's original grievance with America was that we put our infidel troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. No occupation, no Al-Qaeda.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 09/17/2021 4:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Typical of muslims.
Posted by: Wren || 09/17/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#5 
FLAWED NEWS-SPEAK
The predeployment of terrorists cells in the USA, happened n years prior to just about any date picked. So calls the PR statement into question.

eg.Fla. Fly school enrollment training, Funding, physical combat training, employment by small Islamic owned businesses, Aircraft plans and R&D for Airport and Airplane security proceedures. etc

Note: Back in 1991-2, Osama bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia after repeatedly criticizing the Saudi alliance with the United States. In 1996 in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the USA.

All 5+ years prior to 9-11 or 9-9 whatever.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/17/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya’s NOC Announces Resumption of Exports at Major Ports
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arab Parliament Reiterates Call for Mercenaries to Withdraw from Libya
F-47. Or maybe it’s F-53 — I’ve lost track. But somebody or other repeats this at least once a week, with equal lack of effect.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Iraq has signed a deal with Swedish SEAB and Turkey’s Limak to build a 70,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery near the northern city of Mosul
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iron Dome nearly had a 99% interception rate during one of the Hamas rocket barrages of 130 rockets on Tel Aviv following the Hanadi Tower strikes in Gaza during the May war
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Is there an Iron Dome that will intercept the daily B(r)anch COVIDian ba(r)(r)age here on the 'Burg?
Posted by: Phinetle and Tenille8523 || 09/17/2021 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I think that would be the Iron Bone.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Perriwinkle Iron Bone
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/17/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't I read here on Rant that Biden nixed it for the US Miltary... months back?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/17/2021 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes.
And he pulled the Saudi Patriots.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/17/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  The project to get $100 / gal gas requires that the Houthis can fire their missiles into KSA with impunity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/17/2021 15:38 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon's new cabinet agrees policy program
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
’s cabinet approved on Thursday a policy program that aims to tackle one of the worst financial meltdowns in history.

New Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government met at the presidential palace to agree the proposal, which will now be sent to parliament for approval.

For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.

On Wednesday Rooters saw the draft document, which included a resumption of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and a restructuring of the banking sector.

An official source told Rooters the policy program was agreed to without any major changes to the draft.

The Lebanese pound significantly strengthened against the dollar in the past week since the cabinet was formed, selling at around 13,800 to the U.S. dollar on Thursday at the street rate after having reached 23,000 to the dollar last month.

The draft program had said the Mikati government would renew and develop the previous financial recovery plan, which set out a shortfall in the financial system of some $90 billion - a figure endorsed by the IMF.

Lebanon’s financial crisis was dubbed by the World Bank one of the worst depressions of modern history.

The scale of the losses was a main sticking point that brought down the plan last year when major political players and bankers disputed their scale and the talks were eventually abandoned last summer.

With the rate of deterioration in living conditions accelerating over the past year and shortages of basic goods such as fuel and medicine bringing life to a near standstill, some believe the gravity of the crisis could encourage politicians to pass decisions that were previously resisted.

Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


EU should still consider imposing sanctions on Lebanese politicians who block the progress of the new government
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Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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2Human Trafficking
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1Sublime Porte
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
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1Arab Spring
1Govt of Iraq
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies

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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2021-09-17
  US imposes sanctions on five individuals it says are linked to alQaeda
Thu 2021-09-16
  Seven Pakistani soldiers, five militants killed in gun battle in South Waziristan
Wed 2021-09-15
  US says nearly 500 Afghan citizens evacuated from Uzbekistan
Tue 2021-09-14
  Taliban seize $6 million and golden bricks from Amrullah Saleh’s residence
Mon 2021-09-13
  Zawahiri, believed dead, appears in video on 9/11 anniversary.
Bin Laden, known dead, doesn't.
Sun 2021-09-12
  National Resistance Front of Panjshir province have retaken three areas of the province from the Taliban
Sat 2021-09-11
  Dozens of Afghan evacuees flagged by DHS as potential security threats
Fri 2021-09-10
  Taliban agreed to allow 200 foreigners to leave Afghanistan
Thu 2021-09-09
  Resistance leaders Massoud, Saleh still in Afghanistan's Panjshir, setting up parallel govt
Wed 2021-09-08
  UN Vows Full Support For The Taliban
Tue 2021-09-07
  Four Americans Leave Afghanistan by Land in First Departures Since US Pullout
Mon 2021-09-06
  Pak Taliban claims suicide blast near Afghan border that killed 4
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  Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
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