[SABANEWS.NET] The Yemeni Red Islamic Thingy Society organized on Monday an awareness training course on Cholera epidemic in Hodeidah province.
The two-day course included 30 volunteers to provide a knowledge on protection instruction from the epidemic.
The course was funded by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in coordination with the state Health Office in the province. Rantburg's free cholera training course:
Step 1: Poop in the water.
Step 2: Drink it.
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[RT] A British man will be charged with terrorism offences for fighting against 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.... (IS, formerly ISIS) holy warriors in Syria.
Merseyside man Aidan James was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at Liverpool Airport after returning to the country on February 14. The 27-year-old from Formby is being charged with one count of the preparation of acts of terrorism and two counts of attendance at a place used for terrorist training.
James will be charged for fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria, which the Home Office deems it a possible breach of UK terrorism laws. The Merseyside man is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later.
Pictures of James show the father-of-one wearing military fatigues adorned with the insignia of the majority Syrian Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The YPG have been one of the most effective ground forces against IS, contributing to the retaking of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last summer.
Mr. James appears to be the second Brit this week to be charged with terrorism for fighting with the Kurds in Syria. Former soldier James Matthews was reportedly hauled into the dock a few days ago.
Interesting, the magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot is the same one that keeps trying to get Julian Assange.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. is considering the possibility of sanctioning The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... over their ongoing disputes in Syria, Heather Nauert, the U.S. State Department Spokesperson, stated on Friday.
"Yeah, we certainly do have issues in dispute. As you know, the Secretary is on the ground there, so I’m not going to detail too much about what we may or may not do," the Spokesperson began.
"But sanctions are always on the table with regard to different nations and areas that we may have difficulties with, but you also know we don’t preview sanctions," Naeurt added.
Turkey and the U.S. have been at odds for months over the latter’s decision to aid the Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.
This dispute has resulted in Turkey threatening to invade the the city of Menbeij, which is located in northeast Aleppo.
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President Trump appoints Fetullah Gullen UN Special Ambassador for Kurdish relief ?
[Al Jazeera] The US secretary of state has acknowledged that his country's relationship with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is "at a bit of a crisis point", as his Ottoman Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, demanded that the United States "turn words into actions" to resolve their differences in dealing with the Syrian crisis.
At a joint presser in Ankara on Friday, Rex Tillerson said the US-Turkey alliance "is too valuable" for the two countries not to take action together, particularly on their dispute over the US' support of the armed Syrian Kurdish YPG, considered a "terrorist group" by the Ottoman Turkish government.
"Ours is not an alliance of convenience or of temporary interest. It is a time-tested alliance built on common interest and mutual respect," Tillerson said.
"Our two countries share the same objectives in Syria."
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"Mevlut Cavusoglu, demanded that the United States "turn words into actions""
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"Ours is not an alliance of convenience or of temporary interest. It is a time-tested alliance built on common interest and mutual respect," Tillerson said.
It is amazing what sort of things a professional diplomat is paid to say in public, isn't it?
[Ynet] A federal grand jury in Minnesota indicted three people on charges that they conspired to export drone parts and technology from the US to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Leb, authorities announced Friday.
The US Attorney's office for Minnesota said two of the suspects‐brothers Osama Hamade and Issam Hamade ‐ are now in jug in South Africa, while the third, Samir "Tony" Berro, remains on the lam. All three are Lebanese citizens. Osama "Prince Sam" Hamade also has South African citizenship, while Berro and Issam Hamade are also UK citizens.
The US considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The Shiite bad boy group has used drones at least since 2004. The indictment alleges the conspiracy operated from 2009 through December 2013. It says the equipment included electronics that can be used in drone guidance systems, one jet engine and 20 piston engines that can be used in drones, and a pair of digital video recording binoculars.
The DoJ press release, naming the men as Usama Darwich Hamade, 53, Samir Ahmed Berro, 64, and Issam Darwich Hamade, 55, can be read here.
[NEWAGEBD.NET] IT SEEMS as if the political temperature in the Indian Ocean region is not going to ’settle down’, as we predicted a week ago, but has already started to rise. That is demonstrated by the worsening situation in the Maldives, which is taking on the character of an internal political crisis, although in this case there has been an external element in this crisis right from the beginning.
The external element in question is the increasing competition between India and China (the two main regional powers) in the Indian Ocean region as a whole. Incidentally, ’on the horizon’ of the events in the Maldives we can also see the leading world power ‐ the USA ‐ and there is little doubt whose side it is on.
The reason the Maldives have attracted so much attention is clear. This country, which has been independent since 1965 and has a population of approximately 400, 000 and which is made up of several hundred coral islands spread out from North to South over a thousand kilometres, is located right in the path of one of the main global transport arteries.
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[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry on Friday told the National Assembly (NA) that war on terror was not against any specific nation, a segment of society or province.
Responding to a call attention notice, he said that mock exercises are conducted in different areas to prepare and train the security personnel for operations against the terrorists.
He said thousands of combing operations have been carried out in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province.
He explained that the security forces are taking action without any discrimination. He said portraying in Pakhtun dress during mock exercise in Multan was not meant declaring them as terrorists. Probably they shoulda dressed them as Ahmadis.
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[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] The Interior Ministry on Friday submitted in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) a draft of proposed amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 which seek to equate punishments for a false accusation of blasphemy to the punishment for actually committing blasphemy.
The punishment for blasphemy in Pakistain ranges from several years in prison to a death sentence. Under existing laws, a person making a false accusation can only face proceedings under Section 182 of the PPC, which entails a maximum punishment of six months, or a mere Rs1,000 fine.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the IHC had asked for the draft in connection with an order he had passed in a case pertaining to the circulation of sacrilegious content on social media.
The new draft was presented after the court had rejected an earlier draft while pointing out multiple shortcomings in it, including the omission of a punishment for those who falsely accuse others of blasphemy.
On being shown the new draft, Justice Siddiqui remarked that the law finally seemed to hold false accusers of blasphemy accountable, adding that it was "once again the courts which had to get it done."
The Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) separately presented to him a report on blasphemous and pornographic content on the internet. The report said that the authority had so far blocked 550 blasphemous websites.
It added that 763,000 links to pornographic content have been blocked, of which 279,000 were blocked following court orders.
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[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Ameer Senator Siraj-ul-Haq has said that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s demand in an open letter to the US Congress and the US people for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and resolving issue through dialogue was right step and Washington should accept the offer.
He was addressing the participants of the JI central workshop at Mansoora on Friday. Siraj said that in human history, the decisions of the wars were made at the dialogue table. He said that the US had been fighting against the mountains of Afghanistan for the last seventeen years but to no avail. In fact, he said the US decision to attack Afghanistan with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... force was a blunder. This was an attack on the illusory sovereignty and independence of a Moslem country and the Afghans fought for their freedom with great valour and courage.
He said that hundreds of thousands of Afghans had been martyred in the war but the Afghans had not accepted defeat. He said that even if the US continued this war for hundred years, it would not be able to defeat the Afghans.
The JI chief strongly condemned the inclusion of Pakistain in the US watch list for supporting terrorism under Indian pressure. He said that India had been carrying on worst form of terrorism in Held Kashmire for the last seventy years but Pakistain had failed to highlight this fact at the world level. On the other hand, he said the Pak Army had done commendable job in fighting terrorism which had been acknowledged by the world.
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He said that even if the US continued this war for hundred years, it would not be able to defeat the Afghans.
...No, but we can make 'em wish we had.
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[Ynet] Fuel shortage is latest of Gazoo's many woes; Paleostinian PM Hamdallah meets with COGAT Mordechai, UN Envoy Mladenov to discuss easing plight of Gazook citizens; Israel insists on any solution addressing issue of missing POWs, MIAs.
Egypt stopped allowing diesel shipments to enter the Gazoo Strip Wednesday, causing the strip's power station to cease operations. As a result, residents have been limited to three hours of electricity a day.
A meeting was thus called by Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in light of the dire situation, attended by the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... (UN) Envoy to the Mideast Nickolay Mladenov and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Yoav Mordechai.
At said meeting everyone expressed concern, repeated previous positions, and agreed that Hamas needed to be closely supervised — which will apparently will take place in the dark.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Hezbollah could "disable [Israel’s offshore oil installations] within hours," speaking during a televised address in Beirut on Friday.
"In the battle for oil and gas, the only power you have, you the Lebanese people, is the resistance, because the Lebanese army is not allowed to own missiles," Nasrallah began.
"If you prevent us, we prevent you; if you open fire at us, we will open fire," he said in a ceremony commemorating Imad Mughniyeh, the party’s former military commander who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008.
Nasrallah’s comments came amid rising tensions between Israel and Leb over maritime border and Leb’s alleged excavation attempts in Block 9 which Israel regards as part of its own territory.
The Hezbollah leader would then criticize the US, calling them dishonest mediators on behalf of Israel.
"The Americans are not honest mediators, especially when the other party is the Israeli entity," he concluded.
Let me think. The oil/gas field deposit is in the economic seas of Israel and Cyprus. Now Turkey tries to block Cyprus and Hezbollah wants to block Israel. Are Turkey and Hezbollah working together on this?
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has commented on the situation in the war-plagued Syria, including the issue of US military presence in the country and its support of Kurdish factions.
"It is clear that the United States has some strategy which I believe entails staying in Syria forever with its armed forces... They are gearing up for separating a huge part of Syria from the rest of the country, violating Syria’s illusory sovereignty of territorial integrity. There they will create quasi-local authorities, will try to create autonomy based on the Kurds," Lavrov told Euronews in an interview.
The Russian Foreign Minister has stressed that Washington has deployed its forces in the war-torn country without a sanction from the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... of a request from the legitimate Syrian government in Damascus.
She also stressed that the US military "entered into a virtually open confrontation with the Syrian army" by openly supporting allied Kurdish turban groups.
Brett McGurk, US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, said in the end of 2017 that Washington would maintain a military presence at the al-Tanf garrison and other areas of Syria to prevent ISISLions of Islam from returning o liberated parts of the country. The Russian military, in turn, noted that the al-Rubkan refugee camp was located 11 miles south of al-Tanf, stressing that the US presence could hamper the delivery of the humanitarian aid to the refugees.
The US has been conducting Arclight airstrikes in Syria as part of the international coalition’s campaign to eradicate ISIS in the country. The US military coalition that consists of over 70 members has neither been authorized by the Syrian government nor the UN Security Council.
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Some reasonable accommodation can surely be made? Perhaps a 99 year lease for the Russian naval base at Tartus. Families of support personnel can continue to live on base. PX/BX and airstrip remain open, that sort of thing.
[Al Jazeera] Iran has introduced new monetary measures to halt the devaluation of the country's currency, a move seen as a setback to President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to bring investment and create more jobs following a 2015 nuclear deal.
The rial has been on a downward spiral, falling to an all-time low against the US dollar on Wednesday, when it traded for 50,000 rials, 30 percent higher than its value in August 2017.
But the rial posted a slight rebound later in the day, when police jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! black-market currency dealers, shut down a number of exchange offices and blocked hundreds of bank accounts owned by major currency traders, local media reported.
According to the Arman-e Emrooz newspaper, 755 bank accounts were also blocked as part of the police operation.
For many Iranians, the dollar-to-rial exchange rate is an indicator of the country's overall economic climate.
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[RT] Remaining terror groups included are Islamic State and al-Nusra, nothing about allied Moslem Brotherhood groups..
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Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf partners, has been a major financier and arms supplier for various rebel groups in Syria, some of which have been accused of having ties to Al-Nusra Front, an internationally-recognized terrorist organization.
Riyadh, a major rival to Iran, views Assad’s relationship with Tehran as unacceptable. Like their American partners, the Saudis have repeatedly called for Assad’s removal. The Sunni kingdom has clashed with Shia Iran for decades...According to Assad, Saudi Arabia even offered to fight alongside – and not against – Damascus if it severed its ties with Tehran.
And the Nobel Peace Prize winner chose to fund Al-Nusra....
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Given that it’s a Russia Today article, missing the Russian mercenaries was probably deliberate.
As I recall, someone on the Nobel committee stated that the choice of barely-president Barack Obama was intended as a poke in George W. Bush’s eye, confirming everyone’s previous beliefs about the non-monetary value of the thing, and of the committee.
[CNSNEWS] Marking the tenth anniversary of the liquidation of Hezbollah’s top terrorist, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force said Thursday the price for his blood will be the eradication of Israel.
Yeah, yeah. You and what army?
"This regime is not going to survive," Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani said at a ceremony in Tehran. "The eradication of the child-murdering Zionist regime," he said, would be the price paid for the "martyrdom" of Imad Mughniyeh and others killed by Israel.
Soleimani in lauding Mughniyeh characterized him as an almost mythical figure, saying that "he came down on the enemy like a sword, then disappeared like a ghost."
Going further in the hagiolatry, Soleimani said although it wasn’t for him to determine the religious status of individuals, the dead Lebanese terrorist "had many features of an ayatollah, in standing up to the enemies of Allah."
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"he came down on the enemy like a sword, then disappeared like a ghost pink mist."
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I really wish, sometimes, that assassination would come back in fashion.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] The Interior Ministry on Friday submitted in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) a draft of proposed amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 which seek to equate punishments for a false accusation of blasphemy to the punishment for actually committing blasphemy.
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