[LibyaHerald] The victory celebrations in Benghazi have been marred by the death of a woman and child hit by spent bullets fired off by triumphant soldiers and police.
Besides the two dead, Jalaa hospital reported that eight people had been injured not all of them by spent rounds. At least two people were injured by the many fireworks let off in the street.
Convoys of hooting cars including police patrol vehicles with sirens blaring continued to parade around the city until the early hours of this morning and the celebrations resumed after Friday prayers. A large number of people gathered in Kish square, chanting, cheering, waving flags and giving out sweets. Two years ago demonstrators in the same square were hit by mortars fired from militant-held Sabri and nine people were killed.
Because school is now out for the holidays, those children who were not taking year-end exams seemed to be everywhere, many giving military salutes with either hand.
The municipality and civil society organisations have been meeting to plan the clean-up and restoration of their city. However, apart from the sewerage that has flooded out from broken drainage pipes and formed noxious ponds in both Suq Al-Hout and Sabri, where the militants made their final stand, there is a considerable danger from unexploded ordinance, mines and boobytraps that hard-pressed Libyan National Army (LNA) engineers have not yet had time to clear.
The liberation of the city, bar the last militant remnants holed up in a few buildings in Sidi Akribesh, has probably meant most for the few inhabitants who refused to leave when militants seized control of their district. LNA members posted footage of one family emerging tearfully and an old lady be hugged by a soldier as she wept with relief.
Nevertheless, some home owners have risked triggering explosions and already gone back to their Sabri properties, either to see what is left of them or because they can no longer afford to stay as internally displaced people elsewhere in the city.
It appears also that not everyone has entered Sabri with honest intentions. The LNA said today they had arrested a suspected looter in possession of a flat screen television set.
JEDDAH: A new era is dawning on the people of Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, after the military leader in the country’s east, Khalifa Haftar, said his National Libyan Army had fully liberated Benghazi from terrorism.
Libyan political analyst Mohammed Akila Al-Imami told Arab News: “One of the factors that helped Haftar liberate the city is the international isolation of Qatar, which forced its followers in Libya to stop their militant activity.”
He added: “The tough situation that has surrounded Benghazi for the past three years culminated on Thursday in liberating the pockets that were fortified in the areas extending from the port of Benghazi to the Zirea area that’s adjacent to the Sabri area.”
The area “extends over 20 km from northwest Benghazi toward the east, and over 5 km from the north toward the southwest,” Al-Imami said.
“This residential area was the last resort for extremists who chose to bear arms against their citizens and were linked to Al-Qaeda… They dug tunnels under the houses they occupied and placed snipers on the roofs.”
The eastern Parliament in Tobruk appointed Haftar as leader of the Libyan army after he refused to recognize the Government of National Accord in Tripoli, headed by Fayez Al-Sarraj.
Al-Imami said Haftar’s army enjoys increasing public support, and has been able to attract many volunteers and officers who graduated from the military academy.
The liberation of Benghazi has come at a high cost, with an estimated death toll of 5,200, he said, adding that the city’s people hope for a unified Libya.
h/t Gates of Vienna
The RMV released figures this week after medically testing 1,481 migrants to determine whether or not they had lied about being under the age of 18. Of the total number, it was revealed that 1,215, or 86 per cent, of the individuals tested were adults.
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Simply not a new modus for the left. When Billy Jeff was prexy, 25 year old gang bangers killed during drug deals in Chi-pig and Detoilet were slotted as "child gun deaths" in DOJ stats...
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That's noteworthy is Swedes checking & reporting the results.
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That's noteworthy is Swedes checking & reporting the results.
Yes. They do so strongly dislike creating social disharmony. They must still be in shock over that music festival shutting down permanently over the repeatedly demonstrated appetite of migrant lads for sexually molesting local girls. And as I recall, when Britain checked it was around 75%.
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Probably a model of what Obama's illegals immigrant 'children' would be classified as well. Remember they wouldn't let Congresscritters in or photos taken of the temp holding facilities.
Until Britain categorically refuses to admit any migrants who arrive illegally from France, and France and Europe expeditiously sort through their migrants, immediately sending home those they are not going to accept, this kind of thing will only get worse. There are reportedly five million preparing to enter Europe illegally -- and if only 1% of them plan to commit or support jihad...
[AlAhram] Gay Paree authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants colonists from makeshift street camps as Europe contends with an upsurge in new arrivals particularly from Libya.
Police say the migrants colonists camped in the La Chapelle neighborhood on Gay Paree' northern edge are being taken Friday to temporary shelters in the region where they will be given medical checkups and guidance. City Hall says it is the 34th such operation in the past two years.
Under a heavy summer heat, groups of primarily African men and a few families lined up to board buses with a mixture of relief and apprehension. "We Need Dignity" read a handwritten sign next to a mattress stretched across cobblestones and surrounded by litter.
Tents, sleeping bags and rudimentary cardboard structures housing migrants colonists have sprung up on sidewalks and boulevards in the area. City authorities estimate that dozens of people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East pour in daily to the French capital.
Many continue on to the port of Calais to try to cross to Britannia, but many stay in Gay Paree in hopes of finding unofficial work or to seek asylum.
In a statement, Gay Paree police said such unauthorized camps "present serious risks for the security and health of their occupants as well as neighborhood residents."
About 350 police and 100 other officials are involved in Friday's operation. The migrants colonists will be given "proposals for orientation" to other sites scattered around La Belle France where they can try to seek legal paths to residency, police said. Some may eventually be deported.
Arrivals have grown this summer around Europe, notably as more people are taking the risky sea journey from Libya. Top EU officials are meeting Friday in Estonia to try to find solutions.
Gay Paree Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pressing the national government for a law enshrining more robust measures to accommodate the migrant flow and provide better humanitarian conditions.
President Emmanuel Macron's government is expected to announce a set of measures to respond to the migrant crisis next week.
A center opened last year in northern Gay Paree to help asylum-seekers has provided temporary shelter for 12,000 people but is not large enough to care for everyone.
[Ynet] Officials say suspected Kurdish Death Eaters have detonated an improvised bomb in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as the armored vehicle of a district official was passing by. No one was hurt in the attack.
The blast occurred Friday in the town of Baykan in the mostly Kurdish province of Siirt. It came days after two ruling party officials serving in district organizations were killed in attacks also blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said an operation was launched in the area to catch the assailants, adding that such attacks would not "end (Turkey's) patience and determination" in the fight against the PKK.
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[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish authorities have seized or appointed an administrator to 965 companies with total annual sales of some 21.9 billion lira ($6 billion) in the year since an attempted coup in July 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Friday.
Under the emergency rule imposed after the coup, Ottoman Turkish authorities took control of companies suspected of having links to followers of Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , the US-based Moslemholy man blamed by Ankara for the failed military takeover.
The 965 companies under state management control, based in 43 provinces across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , have assets totalling some 41 billion lira ($11.3 billion) and employ 46,357 people, Canikli said in a written statement.
Turkey took control of a bank, industrial companies and media firms as part of the crackdown on companies accused of links to Gulen. He has denied involvement in the putsch.
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Startling new evidence from German intelligence reports shows the Tehran regime is working to illegally obtain technology and know-how to advance its nuclear weapons and missile programs, despite the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program. Now why, pritheetell, would they do such a thing if they aren't supposed to be working on nuclear weapons?
A report from the state of Hamburg holds that "there is no evidence of an complete about-face in Iran’s atomic polices in 2016" [after the Islamic Republic signed the JCPOA deal with Western powers in 2015, aimed at restricting Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief]. Iran sought missile carrier technology necessary for its rocket program."
The report noted that the federal prosecutor filed criminal charges against three German citizens for violations of the export economic law due to the deliveries of 51 special valves to Iranian company that can be used for the Islamic Republic’s sanctioned Arak heavy water reactor. The installation, the intelligence officials wrote, "can be used to develop plutonium for nuclear weapons." Iran pledged, under the JCPOA deal, to "dismantle the [Arak] facility," the intelligence report states.
On the proliferation of atomic, biological and chemical weapons, a second report from Baden-Wurttemberg’s state intelligence agency report states: "Regardless of the number of national and international sanctions and embargoes, countries like Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are making efforts to optimize corresponding technology."
The 181-page document outlines the technology Iran is seeking: "Products and scientific know-how for the field of developing weapons of mass destruction as well [as] missile technology."
Iran’s illegal procurement and terrorist activities are cited 49 times in the report and range from cyberwarfare to espionage to support of the EU- and U.S.-classified terrorist organization Hezbollah.
The Baden-Wurttemberg report provides detail on Iran’s development of ballistic missiles with the aid of a Chinese front company. A Chinese import-export business approached a company in the southern German state that manufactures "complex metal producing machines" to buy equipment.
Berlin’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control requested an end-use receipt for the Iranian purchase. The intelligence agency informed the engineering company that the merchandise was set to be unlawfully diverted to Iran. "This case shows that so-called indirect-deliveries across third countries is still Iran’s procurement strategy," wrote the intelligence officials.
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Anz, ze chermans are only too villingk to zell it to zem...
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...also known as human shields, making ISIS responsible for putting them in danger according to the Geneva Conventions...
[Ynet] The Pentagon says US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes have killed a total of 603 civilians since the air campaign against 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 was launched in 2014.
The report released on Friday says coalition strikes between April 19 and May 23 that were assessed during the month of May killed 119 civilians.
The report says nearly half of all those civilian deaths occurred in or near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , but did not further specify locations. The coalition defines a credible casualty assessment as one that "more likely than not" resulted in civilian deaths.
The report added that in each case "all feasible precautions were taken and the decision to strike complied with the law of armed conflict."
Allegations of civilian casualties have spiked in Iraq and Syria in recent months as military operations against IS in Iraq's Mosul and also Syria have accelerated.
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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.
[LibyaHerald] The victory celebrations in Benghazi have been marred by the death of a woman and child hit by spent bullets fired off by triumphant soldiers and police.
Startling new evidence from German intelligence reports shows the Tehran regime is working to illegally obtain technology and know-how to advance its nuclear weapons and missile programs, despite the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program.
