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Africa Horn
Trading bullets for ballots, former al Shabaab No. 2 tests Somalia's democratic process
[France24] When al Shabaab’s deputy leader Mukhtar Robow defected from the jihadist group, it was hailed as a major step for peace hopes in Somalia. But now that he’s running for a December 5 regional election, some think it’s a step too far.

At a crowded meeting hall in the southern Somali city of Baidoa last month, Mukhtar Robow faced a gathering of local politicians and reporters squeezed into the room as a crowd of supporters and curious onlookers gathered outside the premises.

Robow, also known as Abu Mansour, is no stranger to the media spotlight. As one of the founding members of al Shabaab -- the al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group -- Robow once served as the jihadist group’s deputy leader and spokesman.

For many years, he was the public face of the organisation, appearing in al Shabaab propaganda videos, granting interviews to local journalists and addressing press conferences in the Somali wilds. As an al Shabaab military commander with battlefield experience and training in Afghanistan, Robow was considered a dangerous man. The US slapped a $5 million bounty on his head and the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on him as a "specially designated global terrorist".

That was before he fell out with al Shabaab’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, in a power struggle. In 2013, he quit the jihadist group, publicly denounced al Shabaab, and retreated to his village in southwestern Somalia, where he was protected by his militiamen and the community.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2018 06:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  For many years, he was the public face of the organisation

Sort of an Obama figure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2018 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  We've seen this movie before: One man, one ballot, one time.

Shoot him and bury him with an absentee ballot.
Posted by: Thumper Hupineque1276 || 11/26/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#3  If they know he is the numero dos for Al Shaabab, why don't they arrest his psychopathic ass and throw him under the jail?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/26/2018 15:21 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt court upholds death sentence for 9 convicted for murder of prosecutor-general Barakat
Filed under P.2: WoT Background because in Egypt the sentence is only an intermediate step, with guaranteed review up to the Supreme Court followed by review by the mufti, Egypt's official interpreter of Islamic law, whose opinion is legally required but not binding. After all that, the final sentence is announced and executed... although sometimes some miscreants are subsequently pardoned during Ramadan or another time when mercy is particularly meritorious. Separately, although the article doesn’t say so, the murder of Mr. Barakat is credited to the so called “Popular Resistance”, one of several militant fronts of the Muslim Brotherhood formed after Mohammed Morsi was driven out, though Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai was the first to claim it.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Sunday death sentences against nine defendants convicted of involvement in the liquidation of prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.

Six other defendants in the case had their sentences commuted from death to life in prison.

The court also reduced the sentences of four other defendants from life in prison to 15 years, and one defendant’s sentence was reduced from life in prison to three years.

The court also reduced one defendant’s sentence from life in prison to one year for the illegal possession of firearms, and he was acquitted of all other charges.

The court also acquitted five defendants that had originally been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In July 2017, a Cairo criminal court sentenced 28 defendants to death for assassinating prosecutor-general Barakat. The court also sentenced 15 defendants to life in prison sentence, eight defendants to 15 years, and 15 defendants to 10 years.

The defendants were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, and the possession of explosives devices.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Caribbean-Latin America
Migrant caravan: Mexico to deport group which stormed US border
[BBC] Mexico will deport up to 500 migrants colonists who attempted to storm the US border, according to its interior ministry.

The group were rounded up after trying to cross the border "violently" and "illegally" on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.

Video footage shows dozens of people - including women and kiddies - running towards the fence that separates the two countries near the city of Tijuana.

They were repelled by tear gas used by US border officers.

Mexico's interior ministry said in a statement that a group of "nearly 500 migrants colonists" had "tried to cross the border in a violent way".

Those identified as having taken part in these "violent events" would be deported immediately, it said.

The ministry added that, "far from helping their objectives", the migrants colonists' actions had violated the legal migration framework and could have led to a "serious incident".
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2018 00:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Well, credit where credit is due, but it took 'em long enough. I'm starting to be hopeful that this isn't turning out the way whoever's paying for this was planning.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/26/2018 4:52 Comments || Top||

#2  *cough* Soros *cough*
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2018 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Got to give Mexico credit where credit is due, as in 'no due process for you' -
Mexican Constitution
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2018 16:20 Comments || Top||


Mother falls from border fence, impaled by rebar during illegal crossing with kids
[San Diego Unio-Tribune] A mother who scaled the U.S.-Mexico border fence near the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday night fell and was impaled by pieces of rebar, Border Patrol said Saturday.

The 26-year-old Guatemalan woman was with her two children, ages 3 and 5, when she crossed illegally, said Border Patrol Agent Tekae Michael. She told agents she was not part of the massive migrant caravan camped out in Tijuana, Michael said.

The mother climbed the fence east of the port of entry, where construction crews have been working to replace decades-old primary fencing with a new barrier. When she fell, pieces of rebar pierced her side and buttocks.

Border Patrol arrived to render medical aid about 8:25 p.m. and requested assistance from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. She was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Her children were also evaluated at the hospital for potential fall trauma and, showing no injuries, were released back to Border Patrol custody.

"Entering our country illegally, particularly over our walls is not only dangerous, but also very foolish," San Diego’s Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott said Saturday. "This woman placed her own life and her children’s lives in peril. She could have easily died if not for the quick response by our agents and EMS."

Authorities said the rebar was part of the ongoing border fence construction and not related to the military’s recent mission to fortify the fence in response to the caravan. The military has primarily been stringing concertina wire across the top of the fence. It was unclear if there was concertina wire where the woman crossed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's one way to get in. The $16.4 billion tax dollars spent every year on illegal alien health care just jumped another $100,000.
Posted by: Thumper Hupineque1276 || 11/26/2018 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  That hospital treatment should come out of the border patrol budget.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/26/2018 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  No, it should be deducted from foreign aid to Guatemala.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/26/2018 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Taxpayer extorted Foreign aid should be zero.

Proper investment and Genuine Charity should be the only funding source.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/26/2018 7:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Saw a guy fall onto rebar from about 20' (before they started requiring the mushroom safety caps on rebar). Not a pretty thing, wriggling like a speared fish. They leave the bars in for the trip to the hospital - so you don't bleed out.

That said, nice Darwin, dumbshit
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2018 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Take the money for anything like this from remittances.
Posted by: gorb || 11/26/2018 11:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Deduct it from the salaries of all progressive loving congress critters.

Let's see Bernie and Occasional Cortex and Liarwatha put their money where there mouth is.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/26/2018 18:55 Comments || Top||


Here's What Happened to the Caravan Riders Who Tried to Storm the United States Border
[Townhall] Late Sunday evening, hundreds of illegal aliens attempted to rush the United States-Mexico border, something they talked about a few days ago. What the caravan riders didn't expect, however, was the Border Patrol utilizing tear gas to keep them from successfully crossing into the United States.

Roughly 500 caravan riders rushed past a barricade created by Mexican officials. They then went to rush the border, at which point the Border Patrol deployed tear gas to protect agents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Live fire exercise?
Posted by: Raj || 11/26/2018 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  JDAM time.

Invasion should automatically invoke lethal force.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/26/2018 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Rock throwing by the invaders was the main reason for the tear gas.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/26/2018 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  A whiff of the Grape should do it....and I don't mean a nice Chianti.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/26/2018 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  What about one of those psychotropic gases we experimented with back in the 70's?

It would be fun to watch as they all turned paranoid or hyper-aggressive.

Just thinking out loud.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/26/2018 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Or maybe this..

Posted by: Warthog || 11/26/2018 15:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, allies distance themselves from TLP protest call
[DAWN] Leaders of Pakistain Sunni Tehrik
...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
(PST) and its allied parties have distanced themselves from Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pak­istan’s (TLP) call for coun­trywide protest on Nov 25 and said they were never part of TLP.

Speaking at a hurriedly-called presser at the local press club on Saturday, Khalid Hassan Attari, Imran Soharwardi, Allama Jawad Raza Barkati, Allama Muharram Din Qadri and others said that they condemned hate speeches by TLP head Khadim Hussain Rizvi.

They demanded immediate release of activists of Tanzeemat-e-Ahle Sunnat, a conglomerate of various religious parties including Pakistain Sunni Tehrik, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Darul Uloom Ahsanul Barkat, Dargah Syedna Sakhi Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani Trust and Paigham-e-Mustafa.

They called for stopping crackdown against their parties and said that around six activists of PST and other parties had been tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
by Rangers and police since Friday night soon after the arrest of TLP chief.

They said that they condemned hate speeches by TLP chief and terrorist attack on Chinese consulate in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
. They had always remained staunch supporters of Mighty Pak Army and never used objectionable language against institutions of the state, they said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2018 00:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan


US offers new $5 million reward for capture of Mumbai attackers
[IsraelTimes] Ten years after deadly assault left 166 dead, including several Israelis at Chabad house, secretary of state urges Pakistain to bring planners to justice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged Pakistain to take action against those responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks as Washington offered a new reward of $5 million for helping secure their capture.

The announcement came on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the assault, which left 166 people dead and hundreds injured after Islamist murderous Moslems from Pakistain unleashed a wave of violence across India’s financial capital lasting three days.

"It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," Pompeo said in a statement.

"We call upon all countries, particularly Pakistain, to uphold their UN Security Council obligations to implement sanctions against the hard boyz responsible for this atrocity, including Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
and its affiliates."

"We stand with the families and friends of the victims, whose loved ones were lost in this act of barbarism, including six American citizens," he added.

Also among those killed were a number of Israelis during an assault and standoff at a Mumbai Chabad house.


The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program meanwhile said it was offering up to $5 million "for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired to commit, or aided or abetted" the execution of the attack.

It is the third such reward offered by the US after the State Department announced bounties of $10 million for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, another big shot of the group.

Saeed, who is also designated a terrorist by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
, has denied involvement in terrorism and the Mumbai attacks.

A party linked to the charitable wing of the LeT contested Pakistain’s national elections in July, failing to win any seats but winning more than 435,000 national and regional votes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  why would you think ppl would help no matter the reward, when you repeatedly leave them out to dry . likd the guy who turned in bin laden. or numerous ppl who turned in cartel members in columbia.
Posted by: chris || 11/26/2018 0:43 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Kurds remain the majority in just two villages in western Kirkuk
[Rudaw] Arab settlers, protected by Iraqi security forces, have continued to encroach on villages and farmland in western Kirkuk province, driving out Kurdish and Turkmen residents.

In the village of Qutan, just two of the 40 Kurdish families remain a month after Arab settlers arrived.

One family home has been torched. The owner of the other is threatened with eviction or even death.

Both have been given permission to stay on the condition they do not plow their farmland until ownership of the land is established.

Instead of relying on the deeds to the land, Arab settlers are instead using the Arabization orders from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to stake their claim.

The land was handed over to Arab settlers in the 1970s and 80s. After the fall of the regime, the Kurdish owners were invited back to their land and the Arab settlers compensated.

Since the Iraqi Army and Shiite paramilitias took over Kirkuk in October 2017, these Arab settlers have returned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraq removes some barriers in Baghdad’s Green Zone
BAGHDAD, Iraq ‐ The Iraqi government removed some blast walls around the Green Zone in the capital on Sunday for the first time since it was established following the US-led invasion in 2003.

"It’s been years, every day they say ’tomorrow ... tomorrow’ (to reopen the Green Zone) and nothing. We hope that they would re-open it, now that they have removed some t-walls, but we still don’t know if it’s true or not," Ryad Ahmed, a Baghdad resident, told AFP.

Baghdad’s Green Zone became home to Iraq's parliament and other government offices. Locals are still skeptical of the decision made by new Iraqi PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

"I don’t believe it and can’t imagine it (the opening of the Green Zone) because both the US and British embassies are in the Green Zone. So I don’t expect it (the re-opening) but if they do, it would resolve so many issues in the streets," said Mohammed who also from Baghdad.

Abdul-Mahdi made the decision in October, saying he wanted to make the entire country "a Green Zone."

"Instead of going to Khadimiya area, making a big loop, it would take 10 minutes to reach Adan square, the airport or Alawi area," explained Mohammed.

The area is 10-square kilometers and located in the Karkh district of central Baghdad on the Tigris River

"This is good, if they remove the cement blocks and t-walls people won’t be delayed, there are students out there, employees and others who have commitments," said one taxi driver, referring to the three-plus meter ’Bremer barriers’ named after the former US diplomat and administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq.

There are daily reports of violence across Iraq. The government has acknowledged ISIS remnants active in provinces just north of the capital.

For now at least, the move remains a symbolic gesture indicating the removal of barriers between Iraq's citizens and the elite.

The separation ‐ particularly between the provinces and the capital ‐ was a prime complaint in the former government of PM Haider al-Abadi who declared ISIS defeated on December 9, 2017.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Meeting Israeli leaders, Chad president says he wants to restore diplomatic ties
[IsraelTimes] In Jerusalem, Idriss Déby hails ’historic’ visit, but says Paleostinian issue can’t be ignored; Netanyahu signals upcoming visits to Arab states following secret Oman trip.

In an unprecedented visit to Israel, Chadian President Idriss Déby on Sunday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin that he wishes to restore diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, 46 years after ties between the two countries were severed.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, hinted that he intends to travel to additional Arab countries in the near future, following his surprise visit to Oman in October for the first trip to the country by an Israeli prime minister in over 20 years.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 01:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Qatar said to reconsider Gaza cash transfers amid backlash
[IsrqelTimes] Internal report questions why money couldn’t be transferred directly to bank accounts of Gazoo employees

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...
is reportedly considering whether to continue with cash payments to Gazoo, and mulling an alternative method for the transfer of the money, due to internal fears that by paying the salaries of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members, it could be seen to be supporting terrorism.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Syrian regime grants citizenship to Iranians, Hezbollah fighters
[Jpost] Concealing the presence of Iranian and Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria could be seen as contravening understandings reached between Israel and Russia.

The Syrian regime naturalized thousands or even tens of thousands of Iranians, including members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran-backed militias like Hezbollah that are deployed in southern Syria along the border with Israel, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

The report explained that "systematic action by the regime to settle [them] throughout Syria" served two purposes: concealing the fighter’s presence and changing the country’s demography.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syria regime and rebels swap prisoners, Turkey says
[Rudaw] The Syrian government and rebels swapped prisoners Saturday in a "first important step" in building trust between the warring sides under a Russia-Iran-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
-brokered grinding of the peace processor, Turkey's foreign ministry said Saturday.

"Certain individuals" were exchanged simultaneously in northwest of Syria, near the town of al-Bab close to Aleppo, the ministry said, calling it a "pilot project".

While it did not give a precise figure of detainees involved, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on sources in Syria, said 10 prisoners from each side were exchanged.

Russia, Iran and Turkey are working to bring about peace in Syria under what is known as the Astana process.

Each country plays a key role in the conflict that started in March 2011. Russia and Iran have intervened on the side of Syria's government, ensuring its survival, while Turkey supports rebel groups in northern Syria to prevent Syrian Kurds establishing and expanding territory along its border.

All of them say they are fighting 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....
fighters and other jihadists in the northern regions.

Turkey of late has become quieter about its initial stated aim of seeing Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
leaving power as it has stepped up cooperation with Russia over Syria.

In September, Turkey and Russia agreed to set up the buffer zone to avert a Syrian regime offensive, but jihadists who hold around 70 percent of the area have refused to withdraw.

The Astana process has gradually come to eclipse a UN-sponsored negotiations framework known as the Geneva process whose participants include the United States and European powers that would be key donors in an international post-conflict reconstruction programme for Syria.

Obstacles to securing Western reconstruction aid include an insistence by the US and EU on a transition that would see Assad go, as well as the presence of Iranian and Iranian-commanded fighters in Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Mon 2018-11-26
  ISIS-K spokesman killed in Afghan Special Forces operation in Nangarhar
Sun 2018-11-25
  Federal officials close border into Mexico amid migrant protests
Sat 2018-11-24
  U.S. Airstrikes Kill 50 Al-Shabaab Jihadis in Somalia
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  Terror attack on Chinese Consulate in Karachi foiled; 2 policemen martyred
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  PA court sentences Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews
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  US military says strikes killed over 30 suspected militants in Somalia
Tue 2018-11-20
  Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
Mon 2018-11-19
  Key Taliban commanders among 7 detained by Afghan Commandos in Takhar
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  43 civilians killed by anti-ISIS coalition strikes in east Syria
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  Taliban kill 30 policemen in Farah province
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  Saudi Arabia will BEHEAD Khashoggi killers
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  Maute brothers' teen cousin surrenders in Mindanao
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  Ceasefire Goes Into Effect In South Following Unprecedented Rocket Barrage
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