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-Land of the Free
Iowa Community College Makes ‘Decision to Remove’ Antifa Professor
[BREITBART] A professor who admitted to local press that he is a member of the far-left krazed killer group Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
has been removed from his position at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

According to a blurb obtained by Campus Reform, Kirkwood Community College President Lori Sundberg made the "decision to remove ... from the classroom" Professor Jeff Klinzman after he admitted to being a part of the violent left-wing political group Antifa.

On Thursday, Klinzman admitted to a local media outlet that he is active with Antifa. According to the local media report, Klinzman expressed his desire to engage in political violence in a comment posted to an Antifa Facebook page.

On the Facebook page for "Iowa Antifa", one can find a litany of far-left statements and conversations. One of them features a tweet from President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
where he calls the group, "Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting... people over the heads with baseball bats". Professor Klinzman wrote in response, "Yeah, I know who I’d clock with a bat..."

Although he refused to be interviewed, Klinzman confirmed to the local news outlet that he considers himself a member of Antifa, leading to a backlash in the Kirkwood community. On Friday, Sundberg announced that she had made the "decision to remove" Professor Klinzman from his teaching duties, citing safety concerns.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Adjunct Professor - easier to flush
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2019 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  A community college professor is to academia what a boy band is to music.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Many community college faculty members don't have far left ideologies. Many are working stiffs trying to make a living.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/27/2019 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Clearly this person had terrible judgement, its better off for the school to get rid of them before they make national news with some Antifa violence that can't be hushed up by a compliant media.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/27/2019 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Progress.
More like this, pls.
Posted by: Lex || 08/27/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Out of curiosity, I checked the SPLC to see what they said about Antifa as a hate group. Nada.

The left-wing SPLC is a left-wing enabling organization and thus a part of the problem. A worthless organization as is Antifa.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/27/2019 21:12 Comments || Top||

#7  The left-wing SPLC is a left-wing enabling organization

Originally part of the Civil Rights movement, it has.... progressed.

'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.' -- Eric Hoffer
Posted by: SteveS || 08/27/2019 21:37 Comments || Top||

#8  That grifter Morris Dees has always been a racketeer.

The guy got his start in multi-level marketing, not "bending the long arc of justice."

IIRC the SPLC actually got so disgusted with him they kicked him out recently - though not for his grifting. Which tells you all you need to know about the rot within that outfit.
Posted by: Lex || 08/27/2019 21:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Cal Berkeley has a position open for him I'm sure.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 08/27/2019 23:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban says it will target the sites, employees and SIM Card holders of Salaam Telecom
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group has warned that the group will target the sites, employees and subscribers of Salaam Telecommunication Company.

The group issued a statement accusing the telecom company of serving as an intelligence hub for the government and American forces.

The statement further added that the company collects information and share with the intelligence circles.

Furthermore, the group said it will target all sites, employees, vehicles, telecommunication towers of the company and will cut the fibre optics.

The group has also warned that it will take actions against anyone who possess the Salaam Telecom SIM Card.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Salaam Telecom is owned by the Afghan Govt.

back in the early days of cell phones when the Taliban ruled, they had a partnership with Afghan Wireless. They are still a provider of cell service in Afghanistan. They are among the largest employers in the country and work with the current govt on many joint projects.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/27/2019 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Emirati prompted move ? For spectrum allocation. The 'information' passed on by the Pak ISI, and enforcement undertaken by turbans. Clean business.

Or so they think.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||


Peace deal will not stop attacks on Afghan forces: Taliban
[DAWN] As United States and Taliban
...Arabic for students...
negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, disagreement remains about whether a pact will mean an end to the holy warriors' fight with the US-backed Afghan government.

US and Taliban officials have been negotiating in 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...
since last year on an agreement centred on the withdrawal of US forces, and an end to their longest-ever war, in exchange for a Taliban guarantee that international Death Eater groups will not plot from Afghan soil.

US negotiators have been pressing the Taliban to agree to peace talks with the Kabul government and to a ceasefire, but a senior Taliban official said that would not happen. "We will continue our fight against the Afghan government and seize power by force," said the Taliban commander on condition of anonymity.

US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
is impatient to get US forces out of Afghanistan and end the 18-year war that was launched after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the US.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Britain
UK: Sex Assault Doctor Who Blamed Attack on Pakistani ‘Cultural Norms’ Allowed to Return to Work
[BREITBART] A Pak doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different "cultural norms" of his home country has been allowed to return to work.

Dr Imran Qureshi, a married Pak migrant in his forties, ambushed a 21-year-old student nurse in a ward kitchen at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, England, backing her into a corner and demanding a hug after touching her neck and chest.

"[The victim] held her hand up to signal for him to move away and told him he was a disgrace. He asked for a hug and she refused but he did it anyway," the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) was told in 2017.

"Then he grabbed her right breast for a few seconds. Miss A. said he was laughing and trying to make light of the situation and then became aggressive and said that friends do what he was trying to do," the tribunal heard.

Ultimately, the Pak doctor ‐ who had already been convicted of sexual assault in a criminal trial, but was only given a 12-month community order and asked to pay £60 victim surcharge £750 in court ‐ was suspended from practicing, but it has now emerged that he has been allowed to return to work despite the fact his time of the sex offender register has not expired.

Qureshi, who blamed his attack on the fact that "culture norms are different in the UK from Pakistain where he’s from", had been "complaining he was finding it hard on benefits", according to a report by the Daily Mirror, and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled that it would not be "appropriate or proportionate to impose a further period of suspension on Dr Qureshi’s registration."

The MPTS claimeed that "the imposition of conditions will allow Dr Qureshi time to further develop his insight into his criminal offence and conviction" and allow him "to further remediate while, at the same time, protect patients, and maintain public confidence in the profession."

How it arrived at its judgement that allowing a registered sex offender to return to work would "maintain public confidence in the profession" was not explained, and the Mirror reports that requests for comment on the ruling went unanswered.

Related:Pak migrant: 2018-02-28 Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
migrant colonist briefs
Pak migrant: 2018-02-22 Britannia migrant colonist briefs
Pak migrant: 2015-11-19 FIA launches countrywide crackdown against human traffickers
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Convicted of sexual assault: 2018-06-06 Judge who gave Brock Turner lenient sentence for sexual assault conviction recalled in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,
Convicted of sexual assault: 2009-12-13 Arrest of 286 illegals targets criminals
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  But God forbid she should have a pocket knife.

I used to hear that "there'll always be an England"

I guess not so much anymore.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2019 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  asked to pay £60 victim surcharge

Proper Shariah, eh ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Cultural norms used to be to hang that sort of person. So you can have your cultural norms and the British can return to theirs...
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/27/2019 15:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess cultural norms in England no longer count.
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2019 17:29 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Saudi Tourist Found after Abduction by Syrian Gang in Istanbul
[AAWSAT] The Saudi embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul succeeded, in cooperation with Ottoman Turkish security forces, in locating a Saudi tourist who was kidnapped by a Syrian gang last week.

Abir al-Enenzi was kidnapped on Wednesday soon after leaving a department store in Istanbul where she was on vacation with her family.

The Saudi embassy announced Monday that Abir was found and the necessary measures are underway to return her to the Kingdom.

Since receiving the notice of her abduction, the embassy and consulate worked tirelessly with Ottoman Turkish authorities to locate her, it said in a statement. She was found in good health on Monday in an area three hours outside of Istanbul.

The embassy and consulate are following up on the investigations into the case with Ottoman Turkish security agencies.

Sources at the embassy told Asharq al-Awsat that the tourist was kidnapped by a Syrian gang.

Over the weekend, her brother, Faisal posted a message he had received from the gang via the WhatsApp messaging app warning him against reporting the case to the police and asking for ransom.

While cooperating with the security forces, the brother went along with their instructions and agreed to meet up with the kidnappers for the trade. At the specified location, the police arrested one of the kidnappers who had shown up to receive the ransom. He soon confessed to the crime and escorted them to a house where a Syrian family was residing and where the victim was being held.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And she departed with her 'family', casting a long, sad glance at the plane before boarding it.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Where was her guardian? She shouldn't have been out in public without a male relative.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/27/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  They allowed them that freedom just last month. The Bin-Salman guy was close to his mom, it seems.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 11:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Calls to Label Mexican Cartels as Terror Groups as They Grow Stronger, More Violent
[Epoch Times] WASHINGTON‐The homicide rate in Mexico is rising at record-setting pace this year, with more than 30,000 murders in the first seven months.

It’s on target to hit almost 51,500 deaths by year’s end‐about 1,000 more than in 2018 and 6,000 more than in 2017. That’s not accounting for the huge number of disappearances.

Cartel wars are causing bloodshed at the border, as well as in large port areas and major drug production areas.

Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, has a U.S. State Department Level 4 travel advisory, which is a "do not travel" warning‐the same as that given to Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan.

"Violent crime, such as murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault, is common," the State Department website warns about Tamaulipas. "Gang activity, including gun battles and blockades, is widespread. Armed criminal groups target public and private passenger buses as well as private automobiles traveling through Tamaulipas, often taking passengers hostage and demanding ransom payments. Federal and state security forces have limited capability to respond to violence in many parts of the state."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2019 08:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Who gives an eff about Mexico. Antifa first !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Terror groups or the de facto government of Mexico.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/27/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Nonsense. The US is the MOST violent country in the world!!! And police go out and randomly shoot innocent black men. Everybody knows this! /Sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/27/2019 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  State sponsored narco-terrorists.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2019 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  BINASH
Posted by: Lex || 08/27/2019 14:23 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Anti-polio campaign to kick off in various parts of the country today
[DAWN] As part of the government’s renewed efforts to eradicate polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
, anti-polio campaigns are set to start in various parts on the country ‐ including Lahore, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
‐ on Monday. The campaigns of various lengths will span over the next 7 days.

Previous attempts at such campaigns and use of the anti-polio vaccine have been met with resistance amongst some parts of the country which has led to many children not being vaccinated against the disease.

This lack of control has caused Pakistain to be one of three remaining nations ‐ the other two being Afghanistan and Nigeria ‐ that are still fighting polio.

Most recently, five new cases of polio have brought the total number up to 58 this year. This indicating a sharp increase of 383.33 per cent from last year’s figure of 12.

Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
showed "serious concern" over the recent spike in polio cases in the country and directed federal and provincial government officials to undertake effective awareness and immunisation campaigns so that the disease can be kept in check.

The premier also announced that he will start leading the polio programme from November.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Who are these fucking idiots trying to rid communities in Pakistain and Nigeria of widespread diseases ? Isn't it their right to refuse to be treated and just die out ? Save the world some carbon too, if you believe all that.

"I have prepared this vaccine now. I must give it to someone !!" - Dr. Teastormcup.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  A Zionist plot - the so called vaccine makes Muslim penises fall off.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2019 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  If you've ever seen a person living in an iron lung, believe me it's the worst.
Seeing a picture isn't the same as people probably can't believe it, but taking care of a person locked in this machine living and breathing was worse than any torture chamber.
Believe me I'd rather be 'sterile or have a small pee pee' than this torturous life.
Terrorists probably would die before getting to the point of needing the iron lung.
Posted by: Jan || 08/27/2019 21:55 Comments || Top||


Trump says India, Pakistan can handle Kashmir dispute on their own
[DAWN] US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
said on Monday that India and Pakistain could handle their dispute over Indian Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
e on their own, but he was there should they need him.

Trump has previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistain on the contested Himalayan region. New Delhi rejected the offer while Islamabad welcomed it.

He discussed the issue on the sidelines of a G7 summit in La Belle France with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who withdrew special autonomy for occupied Jammu and Kashmir on August 5.

Trump said Modi told him that he had Kashmir under control.

"We spoke last night about Kashmir, prime minister really feels he has it under control. They speak with Pakistain and I'm sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good," the US president told news hounds.

Modi, speaking alongside Trump, said that all issues between New Delhi and Islamabad were "bilateral in nature".

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE

About time we stopped meddling in affairs that don't concern us. If anyone wants our input they will ask for it. Such a refreshing change after decades of sticking our nose into everyone's business.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 08/27/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Modi's classic reply to newshounds was, "We don't bother other nations with our internal problems."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Since the UN the Israeli/Palestine issue and the India/Pakistan issue have festered with no winner because small nations and groups have learned they will be saved from total destruction so why not risk another attack?

The world should stop intervening and we'll learn small nations stop screwing with large nations pretty damn quick. That would stop the bulk of little wars.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/27/2019 11:52 Comments || Top||


Pakistan 'will go to any lengths' to support occupied Kashmir's cause, PM Imran tells nation
[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
on Monday took the nation into confidence on the government's strategy regarding Indian-Indian Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
e through a national address, vowing that Pakistain "will go to any lengths" to support the cause of the oppressed Kashmiri people.
"Squirrel!"
The premier started his address by saying that he wanted to share with the public the government's policy and stance in view of the existing situation in occupied Kashmir, whose special autonomy was revoked by the Indian government earlier this month. He said the time had come for Pakistain's Kashmir policy to take a "decisive" turn.

"When my government came into power, my first priority was to generate peace in the country. India and we share many problems; unemployment, inflation and climate change, etc.

"So we wanted to be friends with everyone [...] From the start of our term, we made many overtures for dialogue [to India] but there were always some problems. They (India) would look for opportunities to accuse Pakistain of terrorism," the prime minister said.

"First they had elections coming up, so we waited for that to be over, we thought when elections would be over, the situation will be different. Then Pulwama happened; a Kashmiri man went kaboom!.

"India, instead of introspecting, pointed fingers at us. After the elections, we saw that they tried their best to bankrupt Pakistain and tried to have Pakistain 'blacklisted' at FATF (Financial Action Task Force).
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  India and we share many problems

Chiefest being our lamentable selves.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Like that old Pogo cartoon, we have met the enemy and he is us.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/27/2019 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta keep that land passage to China open!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2019 15:02 Comments || Top||

#4  More like 'gotta keep those bearded loons offa me !'



Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 15:17 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Disagreement on who rocketed Turkmen football stadium south of Kirkuk
More on this story from yesterday.
[Rudaw] Military and politicians south of disputed Kirkuk disagree on who was behind a deadly attack in the area early Saturday morning, with some blaming the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
) and a prominent Turkmen politician calling it "political."

Arshad Salihi, head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front political party, said the attack near the Daquq town which left six Turkmen dead in a football stadium was a deliberate attack on the minority group.
"Dafuq?"
"The Daquq attack was specifically against the Turkmen community," Salihi told Rudaw English. "Federal police need to send reinforcements to protect the Turkmen areas in Kirkuk."

Rockets fell on a football stadium in the Zain al-Abdeen village two kilometers east of Daquq late in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Six people were killed and four others were maimed in the incident.

Zain al-Abdeen residents are part of the Turkmen minority community and follow the Shiite variant of Islam. All the victims in Saturday’s attack were Shiite Turkmen. Daquq is 40 kilometers south of Kirkuk and in the province of the same name. The Kirkuk province is part of the territories claimed by both Erbil and Baghdad.

Salihi thinks that the attack was not ISIS, saying the group is not in Zain al-Abdeen. Instead, the attack was carried out to foment chaos in the disputed territories, according to him.

"Some agenda wants to spread instability in Kirkuk and other disputed areas through these kinds of attacks," Salihi said.

Salihi also said that the Iraqi Turkmen Front has demanded the Iraqi government send a team from the Ministry of the Interior to investigate the attack.

Others are blaming ISIS. Daquq Mayor Sheikh Lewis Findi said the attack was carried out by armed ISIS turbans.

"ISIS attacked Zain al-Abdeen village with light weapons, then shelled the village with three mortars," Lewis told Rudaw English on Monday. "The majority of the victims who bit the dust due to the attack were killed by the machine guns."

Lewis stated that five ISIS snuffies attacked the village wearing uniforms of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi. The PMF is a group of militias fighting ISIS, many of which are backed by Iran.

Zaki Kamal, head of the PMF’s Commando Battalion’s 16th in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
told Rudaw English on Monday that there are ISIS sleeper cells in many areas in the disputed territories, especially around Kirkuk and Daquq.

"The clearance operations in the disputed areas were very brief and that resulted in the creation of a security vacuum in the disputed territories," Kamal said on recent anti-ISIS operations in the area. "The security vacuum is helping the ISIS sleeper cells to attack the villages around Kirkuk and other disputed cities easily."

The PMF leader accuses ISIS of carrying out the attack in Daquq.

"Hashd al-Shaabi has one enemy: ISIS," said Kamal.

ISIS has not grabbed credit for Saturday’s attack on Zain al-Abdeen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Finding homes in ruin, destitute Iraqis return to camps
[Rudaw] djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
was freed from the grip of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
) more than two years ago.

But of the 1.6 million people currently internally displaced in Iraq, 300,000 are from Mosul alone, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Much of the Old City, which bore the brunt of the damage, remains in rubble. A large proportion of it is riddled with deadly landmines, and basic services for residents are severely lacking.

Rent costs in the less damaged east of the city are proving too expensive for IDPs seeking a return to Mosul.

This has left IDPs no choice but to remain in the rubble of the old city, or to return to camps.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraq Vows to ‘Deter Aggressors’ after Attacks against PMF
[AAWSAT] The Iraqi president, prime minister and speaker of parliament condemned on Monday the attacks against the Popular Mobilization Forces, saying they were "hostile acts" that target the country.

President Barham Salih hosted Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi and PMF top brass to discuss the developments.

"These attacks are a blatant, hostile act that target Iraq," the presidency said in a statement, adding: "Iraqi illusory sovereignty and the wellbeing of its people are a red line."

It stressed the government would take all necessary steps to "deter aggressors and defend Iraq", but did not threaten a military response.

Among the attendees were PMF chief and national security advisor Faleh Fayyad, the head of the Badr Corps Hadi al-Ameri and the premier's chief of staff Mohammed al-Hashimi.

A string of incidents at PMF bases began in mid-July, when an Iraqi fighter was killed and two Iranians were maimed in shelling on a base in Iraq's Amerli region by "an unidentified drone," according to a statement by the Iraqi joint operations command.

On Sunday, an attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a PMF unit based near Iraq's desertic western border with Syria, killing one fighter and severely wounding a second.

The Iraqi government has investigated some of the incidents, blaming an unidentified drone for one and saying another was a "premeditated" act without accusing any side or publishing the probes' full results.

Iraq's military front man Yehya Rasool told AFP on Monday the government had launched a new investigation into Sunday's attack.

Asked what diplomatic action Iraq could take, the foreign ministry told AFP it would wait for official conclusions before resorting to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Trump Heights - in the Golan!
[CNN]

Israel announces new Golan Heights settlement named 'Trump Heights'
Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2019 12:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You picked Bee, didn't you?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/27/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  CNN is America’s news maggot.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/27/2019 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2019 13:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I would have sworn that was the Bee.

Trump is the worst anti-Semite evah!
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2019 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  MGGA
Posted by: Lex || 08/27/2019 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  yo, MiGGA!
Posted by: Lex || 08/27/2019 14:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I see what you did there.
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2019 19:32 Comments || Top||

#8  And is that Bernie in the lower right corner?
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2019 19:33 Comments || Top||


US State Department drops Palestinian territories listing from website
[IsraelTimes] PA blasts move as part of effort to ’erase’ Paleostinians; Washington says no policy change has been made and site was being updated, but no other Mideast listings have been removed.

The current version of the website only mentions Paleostinians on its page for Israel, in the context of the Trump administration’s peace efforts.

Archived versions of the State Department’s website during the tenure of former US president Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
as well as from earlier administrations included the "Paleostinian Territories" in its "Near Eastern Affairs: Countries and Other Areas" page and offered extensive information on the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
It was not immediately clear when the listing was removed. The State Department denied any change in policy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Take a page from Zuckerberg's diary.

"The algorithm does it, not us. Your territories are boring."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||


PM says he’s ordered new construction at settlement in response to fatal bombing
[IsraelTimes] But official says plan for 300-home neighborhood in Dolev is not new; directive from Netanyahu latest example of building beyond Green Line in response to Paleostinian terrorism.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he has directed the Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing West Bank construction to advance a plan for a new neighborhood in the Dolev settlement, near where a terror attack last week killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.

"We will deepen our roots and strike at our enemies. We will continue to strengthen and develop [Israeli] settlement," Netanyahu said in a statement announcing the directive for some 300 new homes.

Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz told The Times of Israel that the project that Netanyahu ordered be advanced at the next meeting of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee had already been set and could have been on the agenda regardless. The Defense Ministry body’s next session is not slated for another three months.

Last Friday, a terrorist bombing at a natural spring near Dolev killed Shnerb and maimed her father and brother.

Netanyahu has frequently heeded calls from right-wing MKs and settler leaders demanding further development of the Israeli presence beyond the Green Line in response to terror attacks.

Earlier this month, he vowed to push for Israeli illusory sovereignty in "all parts" of the West Bank in response to the killing of 18-year-old Dvir Sorek outside the Migdal Oz settlement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh heh... Fred's little algorithm glitched into a 'Runaway Omar Open-Loop Error' back there. Super-clever AI pun !

Candy for the one who finds it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 6:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Informed sources: #Iran rejects @EmmanuelMacron's suggestion on talks about its missile program
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  So even the Iranians are getting tired of these little stunts?
Posted by: Tom || 08/27/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||


If Hezbollah attacks Israeli targets, the Lebanese government will be held responsible
[TWITTER]

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Trump says ready to meet with Iranian leader after G7 diplomacy
[DAWN] US President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
said he was prepared to meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
in the next few weeks after talks over Tehran's nuclear programme at a G7 summit in La Belle France.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance on the sidelines of the summit in Biarritz on Sunday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Macron said that the "conditions for a meeting" between Trump and Rouhani to take place "in the next few weeks" had been created through intensive diplomacy and consultations.

"If the circumstances were correct, I would certainly agree to that," Trump said at a joint presser with Macron.

Asked by news hounds if he thought the timeline proposed by his French counterpart sounded realistic, Trump replied: "It does", adding that he thought Rouhani would also be in favour.

"I think he's going to want to meet. I think Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
wants to get this situation straightened out," Trump added.

Trump has put in place a policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme via crippling sanctions that are seen as raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I don't have a good feeling about this. Iran seems too eager for a compromise.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/27/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Agreed, Dron. There always seems to be an 'secondary issue' when things are too easy to acquire.

"Bought this 2017 F150 for $200!"
"Where's the motor?"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/27/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||


Trump says #G7 has come to a conclusion more or less on #Iran
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iran: Owner of Adrian Darya 1 Will Decide where it Goes
[AAWSAT] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has sold the oil on the tanker Adrian Darya 1, which was detained by British Royal Marines in Gibraltar, and the owner of the oil will decide where the ship goes, announced an Iranian government front man.

Adrian Darya 1, formerly Grace 1, was released from detention mid-August after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union sanctions.

The Iranian tanker changed its destination for the third time after leaving Gibraltar last week and headed Sunday towards the Suez Canal.

The tanker, which was at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, is now heading towards the Canal and no longer recorded as heading to the port of Kalamata in southern Greece or the southern Ottoman Turkish port of Mersin, Refinitiv Eikon and Tankers Trackers shipping data showed on Monday.

The change of route comes after Iranian sources said it was possible the tanker will transfer 1 million barrels of its cargo to a second Iranian tanker to help it cross the Suez Canal.

Refinitiv also said that the tanker must get rid of about 700,000 barrels to 1 million barrels of its current shipment of 2.1 million barrels in order to be able to cross the Canal.

Tanker Trackers tweeted that an Iranian Suezmax, capable of carrying 1 million barrels, was tracked rushing north up the Red Sea.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Turkish Forces to Enter Syria Safe Zone ‘Very Soon’
[AAWSAT] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
announced on Monday that his country’s ground forces will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria "very soon."

The move was preceded by the opening over the weekend of a joint operation center with the United States.

Ankara and Washington agreed earlier this month to set up the joint center for the planned safe zone along Syria's northeastern border, but gave few details on the size of the zone or the command structure of the forces to operate there.

"We are slowly making progress in our efforts to establish a safe zone," Erdogan said. "Just like many other issues some saw as untouchable, we are putting the east of the Euphrates issue on track."

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
has repeatedly said that it would not tolerate any delays to the agreement by US officials, warning that it will mount a cross-border offensive on its own to clear its borders from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) if necessary.

On Monday, Erdogan said progress was being made on plans to establish the safe zone, but added that Turkey had made all preparations to carry out its own plans if its expectations are not met.

"Our priority is dialogue and cooperation. If we are pushed to a road that we don't want or face stalling, our preparations are ready and we will implement our own plans," he said. "Our UAVs and helicopters have entered the region. Very soon, our ground troops will also enter the region."

The comments come two days after Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the joint US-Turkey center became fully operational. Akar also said some YPG positions in the region had been destroyed by US troops as part of the deal.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


IDF: Israel Followed Iran ‘Killer Drones’ Plot for Weeks
See also: IDF says 2 Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria strike trained in Iran for attack
[BREITBART] Israel had been following the "killer drones" that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.

The plan to attack was orchestrated by the IRGC’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani
, the IDF chief of staff said.

The Iranian fighters intended to target northern Israel with the attack drones, each of which was packed with "several kilograms of explosives," IDF front man Jonathan Conricus said earlier in the day.

The IDF monitored the Iranian plot for "a number of weeks," Conricus said.

On Saturday around 11pm, Israel Air Force jets struck Iranian targets in the Syrian town of Aqraba, south of Damascus, thwarting an "imminent" UAV attack, the army said. According to war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five personnel were killed in the strikes, two of whom were operatives for the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah and one a member of an Iranian militia. The other two have not been identified.

"The Israeli raids targeting Iranian and Hezbollah posts ... in the southeast of Damascus killed at least three people ‐ two from Hezbollah and a third who was Iranian," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

"The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the IDF said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



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