[NYPOST] The driver of an SUV that plowed through a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... land mall obsessively researched the center online prior to the mayhem that sparked more than 100 terrified calls to 911, prosecutors said.
Javier Garcia, 22, has been charged with terrorism and held without bond for the Sept. 20 carnage that was caught on a now-viral video viewed more than 10 million times.
In the day before his attack, Garcia conducted 124 internet searches on Woodfield Mall in suburban Schaumburg, including the stores inside and street and aerial views, prosecutors said in Leighton Criminal Court on Sunday.
The bipolar suspect also searched a former teacher at least 21 times, although no further explanation was given in court, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Garcia had smashed his black Chevrolet Trailblazer through double doors into a Sears ‐ prompting more than 100 calls to 911, according to the reports.
"The shattering of the glass sounded like multiple gunshots, causing patrons to initially believe that there was an active shooter in the mall," Assistant State’s Attorney Annalee McGlone told the court. "Hysterical patrons were running and jumping in attempts to evade the vehicle’s path. Stores were locking their gates and sheltering people in the rear of stores for safety purposes."
The SUV narrowly missed a train transporting young children through the mall before finally becoming wedged between support columns, prosecutors said, with two off-duty cops finally yanking Garcia from the car.
Garcia had driven more than halfway through the mall, but luckily no one was hit, the court heard. The damage was estimated to be more than $110,000.
Under Illinois law, the Class X felony of terrorism can apply if the suspect caused more than $100,000 in damage to any building containing five or more businesses, according to Schaumburg police.
Garcia, who also was charged with damaging property in excess of $100,000, faces a possible sentence of 20 years to life, according to the reports.
Cook County Judge Mary Marubio denied bail requests, calling Garcia a "danger to the community," the Chicago Sun-Times said.
Outside court, Garcia’s attorney, Amil Alkass, called the terrorism charge "a little aggressive" and told the court that his client is being treated for bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia.
"He’s definitely not a terrorist," Alkass told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There was nobody targeted."
[ToloNews] Pakistain shut the round-the-clock crossing‐except for people in need of emergency care‐to aid with security during the Afghan elections.
The Torkham crossing, which connects Afghanistan and Pakistain in the eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , has been reopened for trade and traffic after two days of closures due to the Afghanistan's Caped Presidential elections, Pak media reported on Monday.
Pakistain’s government announced on Thursday, September 26, that the closure of the crossing for the next two days was to aid security for the election , held on Saturday, September 28.
According to Pak media, the restriction was applied to everyone except in the case of patients who needed emergency care; even NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... supply vehicles were prevented from crossing.
Earlier in the year, Pakistain’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... directed relevant authorities to make arrangements for keeping Torkham crossing open 24/7, and the opening ceremony of the 24-hour crossing at Torkham was held in mid-September. Prime Minister Imran Khan was in attendance along with a number of Afghan government officials, including Nangarhar governor Shah Mahmoud Miakhail and acting Minister of Public Works Yama Yari.
The presence of Afghan officials at the 24-hour Torkham Crossing ceremony caused controversy as it is on the Durand Line, which Pakistain claims as its border and Afghanistan does not. For some critics, including former Afghan president Hamed Karzai, the attendance of Afghan officials tacitly legitimated Pakistain’s claim to the Durand Line as a border.
The border issued has provided ammunition for campaign skirmishes, as former national security chief and presidential candidate Rahmatullah Nabil alleged that President Ghani has chosen to recognize the Durand Line as a border between Afghanistan and Pakistain for his own personal interests.
Nabil claimed that based on his information, Pakistain has been pulling the fence inside Afghanistan up to 20 km and has distributed Pak ID cards in those areas.
The Afghan government, however, says that only the Afghan people can decide on the Durand Line.
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[PRESSTV] Afghanistan’s chief executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , 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... ’s top rival, has claimed that he has won the weekend’s first round of presidential election.
Abdullah is seeking the presidency for the third time. He lost in 2009 and 2014.
The Afghan chief executive said at a news conference on Monday that his team would "make the new government."
"We have the most votes in this election," Abdullah said, adding, "The results will be announced by the IEC (Independent Election Commission), but we have the most votes. The election is not going to go to a second round."
Abdullah also mentioned reports that "some government officials" had meddled in the election process.
Several videos on social media purport to show election workers stuffing ballots in favor of Ghani.
Zuhra Bayan Shinwari, head of the IEC complaints division, said the panel had so far received 2,569 complaints.
The IEC has yet to finish tallying the election turnout.
Shortly after Abdullah’s remarks, the head of the Election Commission Secretariat, Habib-Ur-Rahman Nang, said candidates have no right to announce their “victory.”
“Only the election commission has the right to announce the election results,” Nang said.
He mentioned that election materials from 294 districts have been transferred to the centers of provinces.
According to Nang, the commission has received almost 7,500 result sheets so far.
[DAWN] 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... 's crown prince said in an interview aired on Sunday that war with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... would devastate the global economy and he prefers a non-military solution to tensions with his regional rival.
"If the world does not take a strong and firm action to deter Iran, we will see further escalations that will threaten world interests," Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... ─ known as MBS for short ─ told the CBS program "60 Minutes".
"Oil supplies will be disrupted and oil prices will jump to unimaginably high numbers that we haven't seen in our lifetimes," the crown prince said.
MBS said a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran would be catastrophic for the world economy.
[DW] A law firm that represented the populist AfD against Germany's domestic spy agency is now hiring that agency's ex-head. Hans-Georg Maassen lost his job amid allegations of improper dealings with the party.
The controversial former head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, is joining a Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... law firm that counts the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) among its clients, German media reported on Monday.
Maassen has, however, said that he will not take on cases involving the party, according to the reports by broadcasters WDR and NDR and the daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.
"I do not want to be accused of being the AfD's lawyer," he was quoted as saying.
It was partly allegations that he had passed sensitive information to the AfD and harbored sympathies with the party's anti-immigration stance that led to his being forced into retirement in late 2018 after six years as BfV head.
FELLOW CONSERVATIVES
The Cologne firm took successful legal action against the BfV in February of this year to prevent it from continuing to make public its classification of the AfD as a "case under surveillance" (Pruffall) for alleged unconstitutional activities. The court ruled, among other things, that the classification could deter potential voters.
The firm is run by Ralf Höcker, an expert on media law who is also the front man for the WerteUnion, an association of conservatives of which Maassen is also an active member. Although the WerteUnion takes as members only those who already belong to Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's CDU/CSU conservative bloc, its youth branch JU or associated groups, it is not recognized by the CDU as a party organization.
According to Höcker, the AfD takes only third place among his firm's political clients after the CDU and the SPD.
The reports quoted Maassen as saying he would not take on cases "connected with the BfV," or represent the Left Party or Green Party.
"That would not be good for them or good for me," he was quoted as saying.
[DW] Eight members of an alleged neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... terror cell from Chemnitz are on trial in an eastern German court. The case involves a suspected plan to carry out "violent attacks" and launch a civil-war-like rebellion in Berlin.
The trial against the far-right Revolution Chemnitz group was set to begin in Dresden's Higher Regional Court on Monday.
The eight suspects ‐ aged between 21 and 32 ‐ are accused of "forming a right-wing terrorist organization" in the eastern city of Chemnitz in September 2018.
COMPLEX TERROR CASE
The trial, expected to run until at least April 2020, is one of the most complex cases to come before the Dresden court, involving more than 60 files and testimony from around 75 witnesses.
The accused are alleged leaders in the skinhead, hooligan and neo-Nazi scenes in and around Chemnitz.
Violent anti-migrant riots erupted in the eastern German city last year following the fatal stabbing of a German man by a Syrian asylum-seeker in August.
Prosecutors say five of the defendants "armed with glass bottles, weighted knuckle gloves, and an electroshock appliance" launched an attack on several foreign residents of Chemnitz in September 2018.
They allege this incident was a "test run" for the planned rampage in Berlin on October 3. Police arrested the suspects in raids on October 1.
RISING DANGER OF VIOLENCE
The eastern state of Saxony, where Chemnitz is located, has seen a fierce backlash against Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's decision to allow almost a million refugees to enter Germany in 2015.
Support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement is particularly strong there. In regional elections earlier this month, the AfD won 27.5% of the vote, only slightly behind Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats on 32%.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has warned that the danger posed by the bully boy right is growing and is "as big a threat as radical Islamism."
Seehofer announced over the weekend that police last year uncovered 1,091 weapons during investigations linked to the far right ‐ a significant increase from the 676 found in 2017.
[AlAhram] Greece said Monday it wanted to start sending back thousands of migrants colonists to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , a day after a deadly fire sparked riots at an overcrowded Moria camp on the island of Lesbos.
The decision, taken at an emergency cabinet meeting, came as officials in Greece and abroad called for action to ease the pressure on the crowded migrant camps spread across the Aegean islands.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Monday allowed that a terrorism financing case against Hafiz Saeed, chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), be shifted from a Gujranwala anti-terrorism court (ATC) to one in Lahore.
LHC Chief Justice Sardar Shamim Ahmed heard a petition filed by Saeed in which he said that he was being kept in a jail in Lahore but was transported to Gujranwala for every appearance before the court.
He said that in light of the security situation, appearing before the Gujranwala court was not fitting and added that if he was being held in a jail in Lahore, the case should also be shifted there.
During the proceedings, a lawyer for the government said that they had no objection to shifting the case.
Issuing the order, the LHC chief justice wrapped up the petition.
In July, Saeed was arrested in connection with the terrorism financing case while on his way from Lahore to Gujranwala. Prior to his arrest, the , were booked in nearly two dozen casestop 13 leaders of JuD, including Saeed and Naib Emir Abdul Rehman Makki for terror financing and money laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
[DAWN] Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that his party’s decision about the “million march” towards Islamabad was irreversible, saying “neither do we want to strike any deal with the government nor do we want to give it any space”.
Speaking at a press conference after JUI-F district executive council’s meeting here on Sunday, he said they don’t accept the “illegitimate” government of Imran Khan which had been imposed on the masses as a result of “rigged” elections. “The establishment is responsible for the illegitimate government,” he said, but added that his party did not want any confrontation with state institutions.
Commenting on the prime minister’s speech on the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly, the JUI-F chief said that emotional speeches alone were not enough for a just settlement of the Kashmir issue and practical steps were necessary to convince the world about the seriousness of Pakistan’s stand.
“What message the prime minister wants to convey to the world when he threatened to start nuclear war with India and admitted during an interview that the ISI and Pakistan Army had trained the activists of Al Qaeda,” he said.
[DAWN] A man was shot at and maimed in a suspected assassination in the Preedy area on Sunday night, police said. Later in the night he died.
They added that Shahidullah, 45, was on his way to his apartment near Radio Pakistain on M.A. Jinnah Road when unknown suspect(s) fired at him from behind.
He sustained three bullet wounds and was taken to the nearby Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital.
He was later moved to the Aga Khan University Hospital, where his condition, deteriorated and he died, said South-SSP Sheeraz Nazeer.
He owned a shop in the Saddar’s electronics market. He originally hailed from Quetta, he added.
[DAWN] The PML-N on Monday formed a committee to hold consultations with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) and other opposition parties before committing to a final date for their anti-government protest.
The committee's formation was announced by senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal, who was speaking to news hounds after a meeting of the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) chaired by its president, Shahbaz Sharif
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[DAWN] The case pertaining to the murder of TV anchorperson Mureed Abbas and another person allegedly by their business partner took another turn on Monday, with an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ruling that the case did not fall within the meaning of ’terrorism’.
The ATC-I judge thus transferred the case to the District South sessions court for conducting the trial of a detained suspect, Atif Zaman, in the double murder.
Police had booked and arrested Zaman for allegedly killing his two business partners ‐ Abbas and Khizar Hayat ‐ in Khayaban-e-Bukhari, DHA, on the night of July 9.
Earlier, Judicial Magistrate (South) Abdul Raqeeb Tunio had referred the case to the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts on August 20 for further trial, observing that the matter fell within the ambit of terrorism.
The magistrate had accepted the charge sheet filed by the investigating officer, who had incorporated Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, in addition to the charge of murder.
On Monday, the ATC judge pronounced his verdict on an application moved by Atif Zaman seeking the transfer of the case to the sessions court.
The judge ruled that the motive behind the murder, according to the FIR, appeared to be a dispute between the parties on account of an investment of the dear departed with the suspect. He further declared that the incident did not cause any sense of terror in the society, and therefore it did not fall within the meaning of terrorism.
The judge allowed the suspect’s application for transfer of the case to the sessions court concerned.
[PRESSTV] Pakistain has summoned India’s deputy high commissioner in the wake of a recent ceasefire violation by Indian forces in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... "The ceasefire violations by India are a threat to regional peace and security and may lead to a strategic miscalculation," Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Gaurav Ahluwalia, the deputy high commissioner, was summoned to hear Islamabad’s protest.
Pakistain says a 60-year-old woman and a teenage boy were killed in a deadly shelling along the volatile Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and Sunday.
A front man for India’s Foreign Ministry said it had no immediate comment on the matter.
Kashmir has long been a flash point between India and Pakistain, which have fought two of their three wars over the disputed territory. Both countries rule parts of Kashmir while claiming it in full.
India regularly accuses Pakistain of arming and training Death Eaters and allowing them across the restive frontier in an attempt to launch attacks. Pakistain strongly denies the allegation. "allowing"? Try "Sending"
On August 5, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a surprise executive decree to strip the Indian-controlled portion of the Moslem-majority region of its special status. Modi claimed the decision was necessary for Kashmir’s economic development and it was meant to stop "terrorism."
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraq opened on Monday a key border crossing with neighboring Syria, a move which is expected to strengthen trade ties between the two countries.
The crossing which lies between the Iraqi town of al-Qaim and Syria’s Albu Kamal was closed seven years ago during Syria’s civil war.
The crossing was reopened for travelers and trade.
The western town of Qaim was recaptured from 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.... in November 2017. It was the group’s last bastion in Iraq to fall.
The Syrian town of Albu Kamal was also an Islamic State stronghold.
[IsraelTimes] The crossing between Qaim and Boukamal is located near the Imam Ali Base, the Iranian-controlled compound seen as key to facilitating Iran’s arms shipments.
The opening was also a boost to Iran’s influence in the region, allowing Iran-backed militias in Iraq easier access to eastern Syria amid soaring tensions in the region between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the US.
[PRESSTV] Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has held Israel responsible for a string of attacks on the positions of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), following investigations into recent assaults on the voluntary forces.
"Investigations into the targeting of some Popular Mobilization Forces positions indicate that Israel carried it out," Abdul-Mahdi said in an interview with the Doha-based Arabic-language al-Jazeera television news network on Monday.
The Iraqi prime minister added that "many indicators show that no one wants war in the region except for Israel."
Earlier this month, the air defenses of the Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, thwarted an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by an "unidentified" drone on a main military base in Iraq's north-central province of Salahuddin.
The Salahuddin Operations Command Center of the volunteer forces announced in a statement on September 11 that missile defense systems fired shots at the aircraft as it was flying over the headquarters of the 35th Brigade of the fighters.
[AlAhram] The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release.
"This practice is unacceptable," US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council at its monthly meeting on the conflict in Syria.
"The Assad regime must release detainees and provide international monitors access to detention centers," she said.
Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... has declared several amnesties of prisoners since the conflict began in 2011 -- notably in 2014, 2018, and in mid-September.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin called for the "elimination of Lions of Islam in Idlib" province, while stressing that utmost care be taken to spare civilians.
The conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated 370,000 people.
"The time has come to encourage and not impede Syria's return to the Arab family," Vershinin said.
Syria was suspended from the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... in 2011, and the issue of its return has divided the organization's members for more than a year.
Security Council members welcomed the creation of a UN-sponsored constitutional committee by the government and the opposition, after two years of arduous negotiations.
The UN envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said the committee's formation marked the first concrete political agreement between the government and the opposition.
"It is also a shared promise to the Syrian people to try to agree under the auspices of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... on new constitutional arrangements for Syria -- a new social contract to help repair a broken country," he said.
The committee's 150 members are supposed to hold their first meeting October 30 in Geneva.
Its revision of the constitution is viewed by the UN as a first step toward holding elections that would include the Syrian diaspora.
Last week, the Syrian regime stressed that no deadline has been set for the committee to conclude its work.
[PRESSTV] Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the Islamic Theocratic Republic has mustered sustainable and strong deterrence power to ward off plots by enemies who think about any form of aggression against the country.
General Baqeri made the remarks while addressing a national gathering of commanders and staff officials of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Monday.
"Praise be to God, at the present time, a sustainable and strong form of deterrence has been created in the face of enemy’s plot to carry out any act of aggression against the Islamic Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and enemies have understood that the Islamic Iran enjoys the readiness, determination and courage and will not hesitate to defend its ideals, land and people," he said.
The top Iranian commander noted, "At the present time, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, as a superior regional power, recognizes its responsibility for maintaining regional security and stability and plays a basic role in this regard... it does not think about ... waging war and sowing insecurity and seeks calm and tranquility through regional cooperation."
Baqeri pointed to great achievements made by the IRGC's Aerospace Division and said the reinforcement of the country's defense, missile and drone capabilities, showing off the vigilant and firm preparedness of the country’s armed forces to counter the enemy's threats and plots, the destruction of the terrorists' bastions in different regional areas and the downing of an intruding US drone demonstrated only parts of the might of the IRGC and the Islamic establishment.
[PRESSTV] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the Damascus government does not accept any foreign interference in the work of a constitutional committee on Syria, which will include members of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's government and foreign-sponsored opposition representatives.
"When an article or two of any standing constitution are amended, it becomes a new constitution. It will be subjected to a referendum. We didn’t only speak about discussing the current constitution, and we don’t exclude discussing a new constitution as these are the rules of procedures ... We are committed to them, thereby, before going to a new constitution, we should discuss the current one, which has witnessed a popular approbation after a referendum" Muallem said in an exclusive interview with Russia's RT Arabic television news network on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... General Assembly in New York on Sunday.
He added, "But if we don’t reach an agreement with the other side, we don’t mind discussing another constitution, but not a ready-made one."
The top Syrian diplomat further noted that the Damascus government abides by the principles of the constitutional body announced a few days ago, and does not accept any violation, as it views the new committee a significant achievement for the Syrian nation.
[AlAhram] Former US Army chief General Mark Milley became the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday, taking on the sensitive role as President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's top military advisor.
"You can rest assured that I will always provide you informed, candid and impartial military advice," he said after being sworn in in Trump's presence.
In concluding remarks, Trump responded: "You're my friend, you're my advisor and you deserve this position. I never had a doubt."
A former ice hockey player, the 61-year-old Milley served in Iraq and Afghanistan and held major commands before becoming chief of staff of the army in 2015.
He is a graduate of Princeton University, earned a masters in international studies from Columbia University and attended MIT's National Security Studies Program.
He succeeds Marine General Joe Dunford, who was named chairman of the Joint Chiefs by former president Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... in 2015 but kept by Trump for a second two-year term.
Milley benefits from a change in the law that extended the chairman's term to four years.
General James McConville replaced him as head of the army in August.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
...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...
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...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
