[PRESSTV] People in northern Afghanistan have demonstrated to keep alive a demand for the return of exiled Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... On the seventh day of demonstrations on Tuesday, protesters tore down pictures of President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. while threatening that they could cut highways and power lines, bringing electricity from neighboring Uzbekistan to the capital Kabul.
Their major demand is for Ghani to coordinate the return of Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek leader and a member of Ghani’s current national unity government, who has not returned to Afghanistan since he went to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for medical treatment last year.
The protests erupted last week after Nizamuddin Qaisari, a local police commander loyal to Dostum, was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! Dostum went into exile after he was accused of torturing and sexually assaulting his political opponent Ahmad Ischi. There has been speculation that he may return to Afghanistan despite objections by the United States and other Western backers of Ghani’s government.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States designated a Shiite Death Eater group in Bahrain as a foreign terrorist organization Tuesday to ramp up pressure on Iran.
The al-Ashtar Brigades are "yet another in a long line of Iranian-sponsored murderous Moslems who kill on behalf of a corrupt regime," Nathan Sales, the coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department, said in a statement detailing the designation.
The Death Eater group has grabbed credit for a number of bombings and attacks in Bahrain, including two that killed police.
The designation, which prohibits Americans or US companies from doing business with the group, is the latest Trump administration effort to increase pressure on Tehran after pulling out of the 2015 nuclear accord.
During a short trip to the United Arab Emirates Tuesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US is on a mission to convince Iran its behavior "is unacceptable and has a real high cost for them."
Iran supports a number of gangs across the Middle East including Hezbollah in Leb, armed forces propping up Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , and powerful gangs in Iraq.
The United States is preparing to re-introduce sanctions on Iran later this year including secondary sanctions aimed at severely restricting the country’s ability to export oil. In turn, Iran has threatened to disrupt Mideast oil supplies.
The Trump administration has targeted the al-Ashtar Brigades with sanctions before. In March 2017, the State Department blacklisted two individuals affiliated with the group, Ahmad Hasan Yusuf and Alsayed Murtadha Majeed Ramadhan Alawi.
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[IsraelTimes] Germany bans a Ottoman Turkish-nationalist biker gang on allegations it is involved in organized crime and represents a threat to the general public.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says that searches were carried out in four states in conjunction with the ban on the Osmanen Germania BC club.
In addition to allegations the gang is involved in organized crime, German authorities say the group is believed to have ties to the party of Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and has been involved in intimidation in Germany of his critics.
The Interior Ministry says the group, founded in 2015, has 16 chapters around the country.
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If only they were Muslims I'm sure Merkel would have been ok with them.
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They're unofficial extraterritorial enforcers of a Muslim Brotherhood regime so they are probably Muslims.
The ban is by law a decision made by the Interior Minister, not the Chancellor. It is possible that Merkel didn't receive a prior warning as she might have issued a veto.
OTOH this could also be a display of power to boost Seehofer's party's electoral prospects after Seehofer's humiliating submission to Merkel. Success theater following failure theater.
Definitely Muslims. The Turkey of Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan I, “the much beloved”, is unfriendly to unbelievers and not-quite-right believers as currently defined. Osmanian Germania is exactly as Elmerert Hupens2660 describes— click on the name in the article to see what we’ve got in the archives.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US ambassador to Germany urged Berlin on Tuesday to stop Iran withdrawing large sums of cash from bank accounts in Germany to offset the effect of new US sanctions imposed after Washington withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal.
Richard Grenell, a longtime critic of the accord, told the mass-circulation daily Bild that the US government was extremely concerned about Tehran’s plans to transfer hundreds of millions of euros in cash to Iran.
"We encourage the highest levels of the German government to intervene and stop the plan," Grenell said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday night that work on the "framework and rules" would start in the coming months to ensure that Islam "will be practiced everywhere in accordance with the laws of the republic."
He added: "We will do this with French Moslems and their representatives."
The "immense majority" of French Moslems supported the country's principles of individual freedom and secularism based on mutual respect, he said.
Macron acknowledged that "terrorism, the chaos of the world, migration and our failures in integration" played a role in public fears.
"This is why we must restore the republic's order and respect," Macron said, referring to the fight against terrorism and a policing plan for troubled suburbs announced earlier this year.
"General order, ordinary sense of civility and independence of minds and individuals regarding religion are not empty words in La Belle France, and this requires a new framework and harmony," he said.
"There is no reason at all for the relation between the Republic and Islam to be difficult," Macron said, noting that there is "an Lion of Islam and hostile interpretation of Islam that aims to doubt our laws as a free state and a free society whose principles do not submit to religious orders."
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What a surrender monkey complete joke. I'd say good luck but the would be a waste of withering sarcasm.
Turkish MFA Cavisoglu on S-400 purchase: I need to protect my airspace, and I was trying to buy these systems from my allies for a decade to no awail. Russia made best proposal, so we are buying from them. #NATOengages
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Get an S-400 missile from wherever (I bet we already have one or could build one better than the Russkie original) and gaudily announce that it was obtained from Turkey...
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By the time they are finally delivered the ChiComs will have marketed a cloned knock-off to all the dictators in the area?
[AnNahar] President 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... Tuesday promoted The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's army commander to overall armed forces chief in a radical military shake-up after the outgoing top general was given the post of defence minister.
Turkey's new government announced late on Monday the appointment of former chief of staff General Hulusi Akar as defence minister, a rare transition from military ranks to the political realm.
Erdogan then appointed ground forces commander General Yasar Guler as chief of staff by presidential decree published in the official gazette.
With more than 900,000 active personnel, Turkey has the second largest force in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... after the United States which has almost 1.5 million.
The announcement comes as NATO meets in Brussels amid tensions over spending.
Erdogan was sworn in Monday for a second presidential term under a controversial new system that will centralise all institutions, including the army, under the presidency.
Erdogan was granted sweeping powers in the new executive presidential system, meaning he can directly appointing top military figures.
Under the new decree, Erdogan will decide on the promotion of top army officers including colonels, brigadier generals, admirals and generals in the Ottoman Turkish armed forces.
The official appointment of the army officers usually takes place on August 30 every year. The term of duty for the top army general is four years.
Guler, 64, along with Akar and top commanders, had been kidnapped to a military base by the putschists on the night of the 2016 coup aimed at unseating Erdogan's government.
Ankara accuses US-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen ... 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... of criminal masterminding the coup bid -- a charge he strongly denies.
Turkey has launched a massive purge aimed at ending Gulen's influence, dismissing thousands of soldiers including half the pre-coup contingent of generals.
According to the new decree, deputy chief of staff General Umit Dundar was appointed land forces commander.
Dundar played a key role in thwarting the coup attempt. In a live statement to television channels on the night, he said: "That is a movement not supported by the Ottoman Turkish armed forces."
Erdogan has since defeating the coup bid increased his influence over the armed forces, who had previously been seen as a parallel power structure that had repeatedly ousted governments.
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has underlined the country’s determination to make progress in its EU membership process.
Speaking to members of his ministry on Tuesday, Cavusoglu also said the foreign ministry will be merged with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's EU Affairs Ministry to follow up the work "under one roof."
The Ottoman Turkish foreign minister made the statements a day after President Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as president with new executive powers, keeping Cavusoglu in his position in the cabinet.
In late June, the EU said talks with Turkey to potentially accept Ankara’s accession to the bloc have reached a deadlock over alleged Ottoman Turkish rights violations and judicial failures, including mass arrests and dismissals and targeting journalists, academics, politicians, rights defenders and social media users.
The EU, however, noted that Ankara remained a "key partner" for the Western bloc on matters such as aiding to block the persisting stream of refugees and asylum seekers into Europe
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s incoming finance minister, the son-in-law of President 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... , on Tuesday vowed to bring inflation down to single digits as he seeks to win over investors spooked by his appointment.
Berat Albayrak, the husband of Erdogan’s elder daughter Esra, was on Monday named by the president as treasury and finance minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle for his new term.
Albayrak’s surprise switch from the energy ministry spooked financial markets, who were also unhappy to see there was no room for outgoing deputy prime minister Mehmet Simsek, the government’s pointman on the economy.
"In the coming period we will work intensively to bring inflation down to single digits," Albayrak said at a handover ceremony with Simsek, whose post no longer exists in the new government.
Inflation in Turkey surged to over 15 percent in June for the first time in almost one-and-a-half decades, raising new fears that the economy is overheating.
Albayrak promised a "more successful performance" in the coming period based on "independent institutions".
Erdogan has repeatedly called on the central bank, nominally independent, to cut interest rates, raising concerns over its credibility.
Albayrak, 40, vowed that Turkey would set "an example for the world" in financial and budgetary discipline and also vowed "a vigorous and energetic monetary policy", without giving further details.
"Turkey will write a new story," he promised.
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we will work intensively to bring inflation down to single digits
Somebody please bookmark this for Halloween, so we can see if son-in-law worked intensively enough.
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I'm sure there are some old WIN buttons around that he's welcome to.
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Alejandro Andrade Berat Albayrak, the husband of Hugo's Erdogan’s elder daughter Maria Gabriela Chavez Esra, was on Monday named by the president as treasury and finance minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle for his new term.
I seen dis movie before- with more Chavismo. Everyone in the family gets rich
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[PRESSTV] A federal judge has said the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... must meet a deadline set for reuniting dozens of migrant children under the age of five with their parents or face penalties.
US District Judge Dana Sabraw said on Tuesday that he was sticking to deadlines he set last month, despite government officials indicating they would be unable to meet the target.
Sabraw had ordered 63 of a group of 100 children under five to be reunited by July 10 and another 2,000 to be back with their parents by July 26.
"These are firm deadlines; they are not aspirational goals," Sabraw said. "I would like the process to continue as expeditiously as it has been with paramount focus on the children’s welfare."
The federal judge also called on the American Civil Liberties Union to file papers on Thursday, suggesting remedies if the government had not reunified the 63 children by Tuesday "or within immediate proximity of today."
Washington has reportedly asked Sabraw to extend the deadlines because it needed time to test DNA to confirm family relationships, run background checks, locate parents who were released from custody and review parental fitness.
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...Hold it:
...The federal judge also called on the American Civil Liberties Union to file papers on Thursday, suggesting remedies if the government had not reunified the 63 children by Tuesday "or within immediate proximity of today."
Let me see if I have this straight: the JUDGE is telling the ACLU, "Oh, go ahead and file more motions," with the implication being that he'll happily approve them?
Aw, hell no. You don't work for the ACLU, Your Honor. Get off the bench now - you've compromised yourself and your job to the point where you are no longer impartial.
Mike
PS - This is the sort of thing Justice Clarence Thomas spoke of in a recent opinion, where he asked HOW individual judges in the District and Circuit courts have gotten the idea that they can tie up and dictate policy. It sure as hell ain't in the Constitution, and up until the early 60s was unusual at best. You want yet another reason the Left is terrified of Justice-Designate Kavanaugh? If SCOTUS comes down and says that this sort of thing stops, the Dems are finished.
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If SCOTUS comes down and says that this sort of thing stops, the Dems are finished.
#4
If we had a proper function in the checks and balances of government, said judge would receive notice of a closed door meeting with the Speaker of the House to discuss 'Bad Behavior' as in the assumption of dictatorial powers. Not to mention the practice of law in which examples of people are made to discourage undesirable behavior by others.
#5
The Congress also gets some say in what sort of cases federal courts can mess with - and what sort of cases they cannot touch. This has rarely if ever been done, but AFAICT is allowed for in the constitution.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on Tuesday accepted former Malir SSP Rao Anwar's bail application in the Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case.
Anwar, whose involvement in the staged encounter that led to the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud — a Waziristan native residing in Karachi — was confirmed by two separate investigative reports, was asked by the court today to submit Rs1 million worth surety bonds in order to make bail.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, accepts an Egyptian invitation to visit Cairo for talks, the Islamist group’s top political body says in a statement.
The group’s politburo says the talks will cover "ongoing developments related to Paleostinian and Arab affairs and bilateral ties," without elaborating.
Egypt has previously hosted Hamas officials in Cairo to discuss efforts to achieve reconciliation with Fatah, a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel, and other issues, including ways to ease the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gazoo.
The Hamas statement doesn’t say when the talks will take place.
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The group’s politburo says the talks will cover "ongoing developments related to Paleostinian and Arab affairs and bilateral ties," without elaborating and the tunnels
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli President Reuven Rivlin criticized a proposed law Tuesday that would open the door to the establishment of Jewish-only communities in the country.
Rivlin's comments marked a rare intervention in politics by the country's president, whose role is mainly symbolic.
He voiced his concerns in an open letter, pointing to a clause in the proposed legislation that defined Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people."
The so-called nation-state law, which the government hopes to have approved by the end of the month, could become part of the country's basic laws which serve as a de facto constitution.
The clause Rivlin criticized would allow the state to "authorize a community composed of people having the same faith and nationality to maintain the exclusive character of that community."
That was seen as allowing towns to exclude Arab citizens, who account for some 17.5 percent of Israel's population, or even other Jewish communities.
Rivlin said that the legislation "could harm the Jewish people worldwide and in Israel, and could even be used as a weapon by our enemies."
"Do we want to support the discrimination and exclusion of men and women based on their ethnic origin?" he wrote.
He said that the bill could allow the establishment of towns that would, for example, exclude Jews of Middle Eastern origin, ultra-Orthodox Jews or homosexuals.
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[PRESSTV] Leb's Military Tribunal has sentenced seven Lebanese nationals in absentia to hard labor on charges of espionage for Israel's Mossad spy agency and collaboration with Israeli authorities.
The tribunal, chaired by Brigadier General Hussein Abdallah, issued the verdicts against Fadi Hashem, Charbel Hashem, Maroun Hashem and Lina Aanid on Tuesday after they were found guilty of crossing into occupied Paleostinian territories, working with Israeli officials and receiving permits to live there.
The court also stripped them of their rights as Lebanese citizens.
Three other defendants, identified as Salam Fakhoury, Assad Saqr and Antoinette al-Nadaf, were each sentenced in absentia to 15 years of hard labor for collaborating with Israel.
The military tribunal also revoked the nationality of the trio.
Back in January last year, Lebanese security forces nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five people over working for Mossad.
The media office of Leb’s General Security Directorate announced in a statement that the quintet had confessed to passing information to Mossad via Israeli embassies in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Jordan, Britannia and Nepal.
The statement stressed that the individuals were arrested following intensive monitoring of Israeli intelligence operations in the country as part of Leb’s activities aimed at dismantling similar networks.
It added that the two spies from Nepal were also engaged in recruiting other Nepalese workers in Leb.
"After their interrogation, the arrestees were referred to the competent court on the offense of collaboration with the Israeli enemy, and work is underway to arrest the rest of the people involved," the statement pointed out.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
... 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...
... 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...
