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AlSadr orders his followers to withdraw from #TahrirSquare and dismantle the tents
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Africa Horn
Sudan and one rebel group sign a preliminary deal on political and security arrangements
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
#GNA's Sarraj with the support of Sadiq Kabir the Chairman of libyan Central Bank of #Tripoli sold 16 tons of gold at a low price to #Qatar and #Turkey
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Stripping the Treasury before it falls to Haftar
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2020 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  All those Moslem Brotherhooders supporting one another —and Turkey's mercenaries must be paid for. Turkey can’t afford to give it away as if they were oil sheiks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  That's around $25 billion at market price. Quite the nest egg for a luxurious exile in a European vacation hot spot even after the Turks and Qataris take their pound of flesh.
Posted by: Menhadden Fliter8511 || 01/25/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Sorry. $885 million. 16 oz in a pound, not 454.
Posted by: Menhadden Fliter8511 || 01/25/2020 20:16 Comments || Top||

#5  454 cubic inches in a big block Chevy. So you were close.
Posted by: Lampedusa Glereque7622 || 01/25/2020 22:06 Comments || Top||


Libyan central bank chief says oil blockade must be lifted
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Erdogan gets the news about drone shootdown
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  LNA having some fun; if a bit clunky.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/25/2020 19:38 Comments || Top||


Erdogan declares that warlord Khalifa Haftar has to be stopped to prevent bloodshed in #Libya
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Reporter: How do you plan to stop him?
Erdogan: By shedding blood.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/25/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman explains the importance of Saudi Arabia’s support for the Yemeni government
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
#London police to use face #scan tech, stoking #privacy #fears
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will they use it to catch the pedophiles? Or at least identify the cops that does nothing?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/25/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  SCfI, it will be used to ID Brexit supporters and anyone partial to DJT and/or BoJo
Posted by: AlanC || 01/25/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully they'll be used for experimental purposes in how to wreck them, with results published for all to see.
Posted by: Lampedusa Glereque7622 || 01/25/2020 22:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Iranian student whose deportation spurred Dem outcry has family ties to IRGC, Hezbollah: DHS official
[FoxNews] An Iranian student who was denied entry to the United States on arrival and deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats and left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, a Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News.

Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein was denied entry to the U.S. and detained on Sunday when he arrived on a student visa at Boston Logan International Airport.

His detention sparked outrage from activists, who flooded the airport demanding his release. It also drew objections from Northeastern University, where Dehghani was due to be enrolled, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  One Iranian student deported from USA is a cause of outrage. A hundred Iranian students shoot down by Iranian SAMs is a cause for?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2020 4:16 Comments || Top||


Iraq
#Iran uses #violence, politics to try to push #US out of Iraq
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Top Iraqi Shi’ite Cleric Ali #Sistani Calls For Speedy Formation Of Government; Muqtada Al-Sadr Proposes #Iraq-U.S. Truce
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraq after Sistani (not yet, but soon)
[AlAhram] Ayatollah Ali Sistani has been an unlikely saviour of Iraq, and his hospitalisation last week has left many Iraqis concerned about his health and their own future

Sistani underwent surgery on a fractured thigh on 16 January following an accident in his home in Najaf. He reportedly fractured a thigh bone when he slipped while washing before evening prayers. Sistani, who turns 90 later this year, was discharged from hospital a day later and returned to his home in Najaf where he will stay under medical observation.
Like many grand ayatollahs before him, Ali Sistani is among the small group of senior holy mans who lead the Shia theological school in Najaf, the bastion of spiritual Shiism, which stretches its moral power across Iraq and much of the world’s Shia Moslem community.

But since the overthrow of the Sunni-dominated regime of former president Saddam Hussein, Sistani has dominated the leadership of the Shia marjiya, the spiritual reference for Shias, and turned the city into the centre of the faith’s political power in Iraq.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SENTINEL-2 pictures from today (24/1/2020) show what looks like a fifth B-52 in Diego Garcia
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "Alexa, how far is it from Diego Garcia to Tehran?"
"The distance from Diego Garcia to downtown Tehran is 3,271.80 miles as the crow flies."
Posted by: SteveS || 01/25/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Miss Buffy has a wonderful ability to focus one's mind.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/25/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Pregnant with a load of air launch cruise missiles in its belly.
Posted by: Procopius2K || 01/25/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||


#Journalists In Lebanese ‘Al-Nahar’ Daily In Pointed Criticism Of Country’s Leaders: Your Corruption Has Turned #Lebanon Into Hell
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Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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2Arab Spring
2Hezbollah
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
1Commies
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1Hamas
1Houthis
1Islamic State
1Narcos

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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2020-01-25
  AlSadr orders his followers to withdraw from #TahrirSquare and dismantle the tents
Fri 2020-01-24
  PLA mobilized to deal with Wuhan
Thu 2020-01-23
  UN calls for strengthening international support for the Palestinians
Wed 2020-01-22
  IRGC Commander & "Soleimani Ally" Shot Dead By Masked Assassins On Motorcycle
Tue 2020-01-21
  Several civilians killed by female suicide bomber in western Chad
Mon 2020-01-20
  Iraqi counter-terrorism forces arrest high-ranking ISIS official in Fallujah
Sun 2020-01-19
  Protesters burn the Hezbollah headquarters in Iraq
Sat 2020-01-18
  Taliban open to 10-day ceasefire with US troops in Afghanistan
Fri 2020-01-17
  Iraqi police arrest ISIS religious official in eastern Mosul
Thu 2020-01-16
  Five killed as Sudan crushes revolt by security agents
Wed 2020-01-15
  Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers
Tue 2020-01-14
  Project Veritas #Expose2020 Part 1: Bernie Sanders Field Organizer Suggests Gulags to Help ‘Nazified’ Trump Voters
Mon 2020-01-13
  Corey Booker Throws In The Towel
Sun 2020-01-12
  Detention of UK's ambassador to Tehran (released an hour later)
Sat 2020-01-11
  Iran fesses up, admits they shot down airliner


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