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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man who shot at Somalis gets 39-year prison term
[SHABELLENEWS] Anthony Sawina was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for shooting into a car full of young Somali men and wounding two of them in what many Muslims considered a hate crime.

The sentence, more severe than had been requested by attorneys for either side in Sawina’s trial, was handed down by Hennepin County District Judge Kathryn Quaintance.

Just minutes before the sentence was read, Sawina, 26, of Lauderdale, had apologized to the Somali and Muslim communities and to the men he wounded. After hearing Quaintance issue the lengthy prison term, however, he shouted, “You people are the real criminals. People are killing each other and they get less time. This is injustice at its finest and you know it.”

After his outburst, deputies moved in to take Sawina away.

On May 11, a Hennepin County District Court jury rejected Sawina’s self-defense argument and found him guilty of nine counts of assault and attempted first- and second-degree murder.

“The evidence showed that [Sawina’s] conduct was reprehensible and shocking,” County Attorney Mike Freeman said after the verdict, adding that he would seek a prison sentence “north of 20 years” for Sawina.

Quaintance’s sentence nearly doubled that prison term. On Monday, Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton argued for a 25-year sentence by running some of the sentences consecutively. Sawina’s attorney argued for three years for each of the two bullets that struck the victims, for a total of six years.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Judicial activism at it's finest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2017 2:05 Comments || Top||


Protester hit a police horse with a flagpole that had a nail sticking out
[MIAMIHERALD] A Pennsylvania woman is facing multiple criminal charges for resisting arrest and assaulting a police horse after a protest and counter-protest at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, became heated.

According to Harrisburg police, two people were tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
at Saturday’s demonstration, which was aimed at protesting Sharia, Islamic law, and was part of a nationwide network of protests organized by ACT for America, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports.

One of those arrested was Lisa Joy Simon, 23, PennLive.com reports. Simon, from Philadelphia, was one of several people at the event observed carrying weapons, including sharpened bamboo poles and baseball bats, according to PennLive.

According to police reports, a state police corporal mounted on a police horse, Sampson, was trying to move the crowd from the protest onto the sidewalk when Simon hit Sampson with a flagpole that had a half-inch silver nail sticking out of the top, per the Philly Voice.

Police officers then attempted to arrest Simon, who resisted. Photos from PennLive show that she had to be tackled to the ground.

According to court records, Simon now faces five charges: aggravated assault, causing trauma to police animals, using an offensive weapon, obstructing coppers from performing their duties, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

It is unclear if Simon was part of the original anti-Sharia protest or the counter-protest against it. The police report about the arrest notes that protesters from the anti-Sharia rally were moving away from the capitol steps, where they had been standing, and that coppers were attempting to keep the protesters off the street. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that the two arrests of the day took place in the area of the counter-demonstration.
Photo at link. Since the scowling little missy has her head shaved, I'm guessing she was part of the lefty group.
According to police, both Sampson and the officer riding him suffered minimal injuries and were able to continue working. Simon, meanwhile, is being held on $100,000 bail.
Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next on Jerry Springer: Antifa skinheads.
Posted by: Grosh Fluns8036 || 06/14/2017 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  she needs a horsekick to the skinhead
Posted by: Frank G || 06/14/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Top Afghan army generals and officers jailed over deadly base attack
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army and several army officers and soldiers were jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
after a deadly attack that left more than 100 dead late in April this year.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man General Dawlat Waziri said Monday that the commander o the 209th Shaheen Corps General Momand Katawazi was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for one year by a military court.

Gen. Waziri further added that the chief of staff of the 209th Shaheen Corps General Abdul Rauf Mohtaj was also jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for one year over the deadly attack.

Four other army generals were also jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for three years each while 3 army officers were jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for 2 years each.

The military court also awarded jail sentences to 19 other army officers and soldiers while the court hearing of the 3 others are in process.

At least 135 people were killed and around 64 others were maimed in the attack on the Afghan army base, the 209thShaheen Corps in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan.

According to the findings of the Ministry of Defense released on Wednesday, 10 officers, 26 sergeants, 94 soldiers, and 5 civilians were among those killed.

MoD front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said 2 officers, 15 sergeants, and 47 soldiers were among those maimed.

He said the ministry had initially put the number to 100 as the majority of the victims were civilian clothes and most of them were unrecognizable.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network


Africa North
Abdullah Senussi holds court at Tripoli’s Radisson Blu Mahari Hotel
[Libya Herald] Abdullah Senussi, the Qaddafi regime’s intelligence supremo who was being held at the notorious Hadba prison until it was seized by Haithem Tajouri’s Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade late last month, has been meeting members of his family and leaders of his Magarha tribe at the city’s Mahari Radisson Blu Hotel. He had an Iftar meal with them last night and then met a group of Magarha youth.

He was taken to the hotel two days ago, as were many other Qaddafi regime prisoners previously held at Hadba, including, Saadi Qaddafi and Abuzeid Dourda, the former General Secretary of the General People’s Committee (effectively prime minister) and later Qaddafi’s external intelligence chief.

Yesterday’s iftar meal was organised by Tajouri who now controls hotel and the source described the presence of Abdullah Senussi and the others at the hotel and the various meetings taking place there as “nothing more than a Haithem show”.

It is not known where they were all held after being taken from Hadba jail last month. Nor is it known if they are now to be held under house arrest at the Radisson Blu or whether this is a temporary stay to allow them to meet their families and friends. Senussi’s family are being accommodated at the hotel, a source who was there last night told the Libya Herald. Senussi also had a meal with them two nights ago, he added.

According to the source, Abdullah Senussi, Saadi and the others are certainly expected to stay at the very least for another night at the hotel.

There is a heavy security presence at the entrance and in the streets nearby.

Abdullah Senussi was sentenced to death by a Tripoli court two years ago as was Dorda along with Saif Al-Islam, Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi, Mansur Dhou, Milad Daman, Abdulhamid Ohida, Awidat Ghandoor Noubi and Mundar Mukhtar Ghanaimi.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1 
Posted by: One Eyed Flaper9214 || 06/14/2017 19:06 Comments || Top||


Saif Al-Islam’s former jailer defends himself after LNA orders his brigade to disband
[Libya Herald] The man who freed Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, Ajmi al-Atiri, has complained at the decision by Libyan National Army (LNA) western commander Colonel Idris Madi to disband the Abubakr al-Saddiq brigade and incorporate its members into other units in the western region.

He said he had freed Saif to ensure Libya’s unity and that of the tribes, and that he was proud of what he had done.

He also said that the brigade should have been retained because it was the only effective one in Zintan and that it would have been better to dismiss him as its commander instead. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
he also explained he was a soldier and, as such, had to obey orders.

Madi announced that he was dissolving the brigade yesterday.

The decision was widely seen as an angry response to Atiri’s decision to release Saif al-Islam.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Madi has now said that the disbandment had nothing to do with the freeing of Saif. Expressing his "full confidence" in Atiri, his patriotism and "his commitment as a military officer to carry out the orders", he said that the reorganization of LNA force in the west of the country had been planned over the past few months, and that the Abubakr al-Saddiq brigade was part of that reorganization.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Cholera death toll in Yemen doubles in two weeks
[Al Jazeera] There are more than 124,000 cases in the latest cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen and more than 900 people have died.
War is hell.
Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Down Under
Men storm NSW cinema shouting Allahu Akbar
[AU.NEWS.YAHOO] NSW Police are investigating after a group of men reportedly screaming "Allahu Akbar" entered a western Sydney cinema leaving customers rattled.
Moslems have an obligation to make sure infidels don't enjoy themselves. It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up.
Officers were called to the Hoyts Blacktown at Westpoint shopping centre about 8pm on Sunday night after reports of a disturbance.

Investigators were told four men yelled comments within two cinemas at the complex causing some concerned patrons to leave the building, a police front man told AAP on Tuesday.

Cinemagoers told News Corp Australia the group of men shouted Allahu Akbar before they fled. One of the cinemas was showing Baywatch.
One thing the Koran is really strict about: No titties!
The cry, which means "God is great" in Arabic, is associated with Islamist terrorism.

Police officers searched the Hoyts and found nothing suspicious.

No one has been charged yet but investigations are continuing, the police front man said on Tuesday.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  One of the cinemas was showing Baywatch.

The shouting could have been, "God she's great!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2017 3:39 Comments || Top||


Europe
Hungary tightens rules on foreign-funded NGOs
[Al Jazeera] Hungary's parliament has approved strict new regulations for foreign-backed civil society groups despite calls from the European Parliament and rights groups for the bill to be dropped.

Under legislation drafted by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government and pushed through by the ruling Fidesz on Tuesday, compels groups that get more than US$26,200 a year from abroad to register with the authorities and declare themselves as foreign-funded, or risk closure for non-compliance.

The government said the measures were aimed at improving transparency as well as fighting money laundering and terrorism funding.

But the European Commission and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
have condemned the law, saying it could "discriminate against and delegitimise" non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


8 more areas in Sweden added to list of so-called 'no-go zones'
[RT] A new report from the Swedish police lists eight additional areas as being “especially vulnerable," where it is more difficult for law enforcement and other emergency services to do their job.

In 2015, the Swedish police released a report describing 53 districts throughout the country as “vulnerable," and 15 listed as “especially vulnerable." Vulnerable areas are described as having high rates of crime and poverty where police face unique challenges and have to adapt their approach. These neighborhoods may also host violent religious extremism, and locals don’t report crime to police for fear of retribution.

The new report, which has not yet been made public but was seen by journalists from the newspaper DN, adds eight more areas to the list, raising the number to 23.

These new areas are in the cities of Boras, Gothenburg, Landskrona, Malmö, Uppsala and in the capital, Stockholm.

According to Linda Staaf, head of the national police NOA's intelligence department, these areas should have been classified as “especially vulnerable” earlier, but there was not enough information on them available.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I await the day when the entire country of Sweden will be declared "especially vulnerable".
and/or the declaration of the Swedish Khalifate,
whichever comes first.
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 06/14/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2017 13:14 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey: UAE paid $3bn to finance coup attempt
[217.218.67.231] The United Arab Emirates financed a high-profile coup attempt last year in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and paid about three billion dollars to the putschists, a columnist in a Turkish daily has claimed.

Mehmet Acet, a columnist for Yeni Safak daily, said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meant the United Arab Emirates when he recently hinted at a Moslem country that spent billions to topple the Turkish government in the coup in July 2016.

Cavusoglu said in recent remarks that a foreign country funneled money to the putschists while making efforts to topple President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
"We know that a country provided $3 billion in financial support for the coup attempt in Turkey and exerted efforts to topple the government in illegal ways. On top of that, it is a Moslem country," said the Turkish foreign minister, as quoted by Acet.

Acet elaborated on his claims in an interview to the Turkish media, saying sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry had confirmed that the country behind the coup was indeed the United Arab Emirates.

"The minister did not name the country. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
sources from the foreign ministry have confirmed that it was the UAE," Acet told Daily Sabah newspaper.

Other sources have also claimed that a media magnet close to the government in Abu Dhabi had indeed transferred money to Turkey weeks before the coup was carried out. They said the money had been funneled to elements loyal to 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...
, a holy man based in the United States who is accused by Ankara of criminal masterminding the coup attempt.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Well, they didn't get their money's worth.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/14/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||


Turkey: Isolation of Qatar is not Islamic
[Al Jazeera] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has denounced the isolation of 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...
as "inhumane and against Islamic values", urging Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to take a leading role in resolving the ongoing crisis among Gulf Arab nations.

"Qatar has showed the most decisive stance against terrorist organization ISIS alongside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
. Victimising Qatar through smear campaigns serves no purpose," he said during a parliamentary address, using the Arabic abbreviation for 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS), on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Egypt and a number of other countries severed relations with Qatar last week, accusing it of supporting gangs and Iran. Qatar rejects the accusations.
Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Red Crescent: Hamas tried to stop humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza
[Ynet] The secretary-general of the Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates accused Hamas on Monday of attempting to prevent the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

According to Secretary-General Mohamed Ateeq Al-Falahi, the Red Crescent's staff was stationed at a UAE field hospital in the strip during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge when Hamas fighters began provoking Israeli forces by firing rockets from that hospital.

This led Israel to attack the hospital as the launch point for the rockets, thus sabotaging the distribution of the humanitarian aid.
For a moment there I was confused, but then I realized red crescent not red cross - red cross would just condemn Israel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Home Front: WoT
US: Palestinians will should stop paying families of terrorists
[Ynet] US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reveals at a Senate hearing that he and Trump had asked the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
to stop transferring funds to families of jacket wallahs. 'We have been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us,' Tillerson tells the senators.
Update from Ynet at 8:15 a.m. EDT:
Senior PA official: We have not stopped paying the families of terrorists

Issa Karake, director of the PA's Prisoners' Affairs Authority, made it clear in an interview with Ynet that the PA did not stop paying salaries to the prisoners' families.

In the interview, he warned that "this demand is an invitation to the dismantling of the Paleostinian Authority."

This is in contrast to US Secretary of State Rex Tilerson, who said yesterday during a hearing in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that the Paleostinians intend to stop paying families of terrorists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  When PA has no money, they'll stop - but not a moment sooner.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2017 2:04 Comments || Top||


Iraq
More than 1200 IS militants killed in western Mosul since February
[Iraq News] More than 1200 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....
bad boys, including snipers and leaders, have been killed since launch of offensives in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Federal Police declared.

In a statement on Tuesday, Lt.Gen. Shaker Jawdat said 27 leaders and 214 snipers were killed, while 300 square kilometers were retaken since operations began in western side of Mosul.

Federal Police troops, according to Jawdat, killed more than 1000 bad boys, destroyed 865 booby-trapped vehicles and defused 780 landmines since February.

He indicated progress by the troops in al-Shifa district, north of the Old City, trying to reach to the Tigris River bank.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iraqi troops reported progress and announced recapturing of al-Zanjili district, located north of the Old City, which is home to the Grand Nuri al-Kabeer mosque, from which IS Supreme Leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
declared establishing caliphate in 2014.

IS enclave has shrunk to two districts along the western banks of the Tigris river -the Old City center and the Medical City.

Less than 1000 fighters are believed to be remaining in the Old City, according to commanders from the Iraqi leadership and the allied U.S.-led coalition.

Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel to test fire anti-missile system.... in Alaska
Israel is set to carry out a joint test of its Arrow 3 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) defense system in the United States next year, the first time such a test will occur outside of Israeli territory.

The exercise, which will be carried out in cooperation with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), is set to take place on the Alaskan island of Kodiak where the system will be tested against targets simulating advanced ballistic missiles being developed by Iran.
Good.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2017 01:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd love to see a nice graphic that compares the major anti-missile systems out there WRT detection range, interceptor range, etc. Any Rantburg expert got anything like that?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Here you go, from BBC:

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/14/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  So the US is going to stage Arrow 3's in AK?
Guess they didn't like the last test.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2017 21:02 Comments || Top||


The Siege of Gaza: PA slashes medical funds, Egypt offers trade
With Gaza ailing, PA accused of slashing medical aid by nearly 90%

[IsraelTimes] Officials say Ramallah has reduced the money it gives for healthcare from $4 million to $500,000, leaving patients without medicine and equipment. As power is cut, it will only get worse.

According to information given to Physicians for Human Rights (PHRI) Israel by Gazoo’s Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run health ministry, "one-third of essential medicines and more than 270 medical equipment items for operating rooms and intensive care units can no longer be obtained in the Health Ministry’s storerooms and in Gazoo hospitals."

The organization said the cause of the shortages is the Paleostinian Authority’s slashing of funds sent to Gazoo, including for healthcare operations and medical supplies.

The PA, according to information given to PHRI, used to pay $4 million monthly for the regular operations of 13 government hospitals and 54 primary care centers. In April it was down to $2.3 million, and in May it fell to just $500,000, the organization said.

In April, the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted a senior adviser to PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
who said Ramallah is slashing the health care budget for Gazoo as part of the series of measures meant to coerce Hamas to relinquish some control of the Strip and give it back to the PA.
The PA is in the enviable position of running a siege using Israeli and Egyptian forces.
Egypt said to offer Hamas electricity in exchange for 17 wanted men

[IsraelTimes] With the terrorist leaders of Gazoo in a political vise in the Strip, Cairo reportedly believes it has more leverage.

Egypt offered Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, more freedom at its border and much-needed electricity amid a severe power shortage, in exchange for the terror group agreeing to a list of security demands, Arab media reported Tuesday.

The list of includes a demand that Hamas hand over 17 men wanted by Cairo on terrorism charges, more protection by Hamas at the border, the cessation of weapons smuggling into the Sinai, and information on the movement of forces of Evil into Gazoo via underground tunnels, the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat reported.

The list was given to Hamas’s Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar by Egyptian security officials during his nine-day trip to Cairo that ended on Monday.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
it is not clear how much Egypt can do to stem Gazoo’s power crisis. Egyptian power lines, when they work, provided 25 megawatts -- just 6.25% of the amount necessary to power Gazoo for a full day.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
according to the Israel Defense Forces, the Egyptian power lines have not been providing any power lately due to malfunctions, and Israeli power lines have become Gazoo’s sole power source. Gazoo has one power plant, but it stopped working in April after Hamas ran out of fuel and refused to purchase more from the PA over what it said were unfairly high taxes.

On Monday the Egyptian power company, according to Paleostinian media reports, informed the Gazoo power company it was disconnecting its cables. It’s not clear whether it was for repairs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The list of includes a demand that Hamas hand over 17 men wanted by Cairo on terrorism charges, more protection by Hamas at the border, the cessation of weapons smuggling into the Sinai, and information on the movement of forces of Evil into Gazoo via underground tunnels, the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat reported

They'd rather tunnel and starve in the dark
Posted by: Frank G || 06/14/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  "reduced the money it gives for healthcare from $4 million to $500,000, leaving patients without medicine and equipment."

The other $3.5M monthly allocated as 'Health' now goes to 'Tunnel and Munitions Safety'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/14/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  More like into some pockets.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/14/2017 14:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran accuses Saudis of supporting terrorist groups
[Al Jazeera] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
of supporting terrorist groups inside Iran, days after 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group claimed attacks in Tehran.

"We have intelligence that Saudi Arabia is actively engaged in promoting terrorist groups operating on the eastern side of Iran in Baluchestan," Zarif said on Tuesday at a news conference on the sidelines of an annual peace mediation in Oslo.

He said the gangs were "using the territory of one of our neighbours against its will to launch attacks against Iran which only two months ago led to the murder of nine Iranian border guards," refering to Pakistain.

"On the Western side the same type of activity is being undertaken, again by using the diplomatic hospitality of other neighbours," Zarif said.

Call for a regional forum

Zarif also called for establishment of a regional forum to resolve differences, which has become more necessary after tensions between 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...
and the Saudi-led group of countries that took actian against Doha.

Iran and Saudi Arabia has been accusing each other of subverting regional security and support opposite sides in conflicts including those in Syria, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and Iraq.
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#1  "That kettle is blackcovered in soot!", cried the pot.
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