[ToloNews] The people of Afghanistan have taken advantage of the 3-day ceasefire for the three days of Eid and are celebrating the festival by going to different parts of the country to sightsee and have fun with friends and families.
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister urges local police chiefs to protect ’places of worship, schools, cultural centers, and businesses of the Jewish community’.
La Belle France’s interior minister on Thursday asked police to ban a pro-Paleostinian protest in Gay Paree this weekend over the military conflict between Israel 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... -based terrorists, fearing a repeat of festivities during a similar situation in 2014.
Activists had called the protest in the Barbes district of northern Gay Paree to demonstrate against Israeli strikes in Gaza in response to the rocket fire by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist terror group that rules the Gaza Strip.
"I have asked the Gay Paree police chief to ban the protests on Saturday linked to the recent tensions in the Middle East," French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
"Serious disturbances to public order were seen in 2014," he added, urging police chiefs elsewhere in La Belle France to also remain vigilant over demonstrations.
In a circular seen by AFP, Darmanin also urged local police chiefs to assure the "protection of places of worship, schools, cultural centers, and businesses of the Jewish community."
Several demonstrations took place in La Belle France during July 2014 to denounce Israel during the war then raging in Gaza between the Israeli military and Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
On July 19, 2014, several thousand protesters defied a ban on a demonstration at Barbes and the rally rapidly degenerated into violent mostly peacefulfestivities that lasted for hours.
Promises are easy. Resurrecting paid positions — especially when the Americans are leaving, taking all their lovely money with them — is hard.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has promised to return former fighters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic) to service even if requires amendments to the entire budget law, state newspaper al-Sabah reported on Wednesday.
Kadhimi met with MPs representing the al-Fatih coalition, led by PMF leader Hadi al-Ameri.
According to al-Sabah, Kadhimi said that when his government prepared the budget law, it included budget allocations for the return of former PMF members whose contracts had been rescinded, but the parliament removed those allocations to reduce expenditure.
The PM directed the "formation of a working team from the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Finance and the [Popular] Mobilization Authority to reach a fair solution that guarantees a speedy return for them," it added.
"If the matter reaches a dead end legally, the budget law will be amended as soon as possible and sent to the parliament for another vote," Kadhimi said, adding that PMF fighters "have done a favor for this country."
The PMF was established in 2014 following a fatwa — of religious call to action — from Iraq’s highest Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to fight 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).
Although the PMF has been brought under the umbrella of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), and measures have been taken to fully integrate the units into Iraq’s official military apparatus, many continue to act independently, accused of committing human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations, along with corruption.
There are no official figures for the number of PMF fighters, but the PMF itself has said it numbers up to 150,000 people.
"The number of actual Hashd fighters is 48,0000, but their leaders receive the salaries of 130,000; a difference of 82,000!" Former MP Faeq al-Sheikh Ali tweeted in May 2020.
Dozens of PMF fighters who had their contracts rescinded organize limited-scale demonstrations from time to another in Baghdad and other provinces. When PMF head Faleh al-Fayyad announced in April that PMF salaries had been raised to 1.4 million dinars each (980$), protests began escalating.
On May 2, dozens of former PMF members demonstrated near the Finance Ministry building in Baghdad, and tried to break into it after clashing with security forces, which prompted the authorities to evacuate and close the building.
The former Iraqi government, headed by Haider al-Abadi, fired many PMF members due to their failure to serve during the battles against ISIS.
In May 2018, Abadi attacked the PMF, saying that there are "corrupt" leaders in it who tamper with the salaries of the PMF members, and do not allow the government to audit the numbers, records, and salaries of fighters and affiliates.
Qassim al-Zubaidi, a former PMF finance official, was assassinated in Baghdad in April 2018. After his death, Abadi revealed that he received a call from Zubaidi days before his liquidation, trying to reveal corruption in distribution of PMF salaries in the committee.
"Do the corrupt imagine that they are intimidating us? ... You will pay the price," Abadi said, promising to bring the corrupt to justice, but that never happened.
[JPost] - The "coalition of change" of political parties determined to end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year reign as prime minister seemed to be crumbling Thursday night as Yamina leader Naftali Bennett told associates he believed the option of such a government was no longer viable.
According to Bennett, such a government would unable to deal with the ongoing violent clashes between Jews and Arabs and would also be unable to rely on support from Islamist Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas, whose four Knesset seats were key to a majority government.
"Security matters must come first," Bennett was quoted as saying.
The Likud party has offered Bennett to join a government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he would serve as defense minister and Yamina No. 2 Ayelet Shaked would become foreign minister.
The offer is conditional on Bennett first supporting a change to the Basic Law: The Government that would reverse the changes made by Netanyahu to give his now alienated Blue & White coalition partners equal power in the government.
If Bennett agrees, Blue & White leader Benny Gantz would immediately be fired as defense minister and his party colleague Gabi Ashkenazi would be dismissed as foreign minister. You need to be political to become IDF chief of staff, but generals have not been doing so well in Knesset.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...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 
