[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 Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday the kingdom did not know where the body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was, despite admitting to the killing and calling it a "tremendous mistake."
Speaking in an interview on Fox News, Jubeir said the Saudi leadership initially believed Khashoggi had left its consulate in Istanbul, where he was last seen on October 2.
But following "reports we were getting from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," Saudi authorities began an investigation, which discovered he was killed in the diplomatic mission.
"We don't know, in terms of details, how. We don't know where the body is," Jubeir said, adding that the Saudi public prosecutor had put out orders to detain 18 individuals, "the first step in a long journey."
He termed the killing a "tremendous mistake" but one which the US-Saudi relationship would eventually overcome.
"The individuals who did this did this outside the scope of their authority. There obviously was a tremendous mistake made, and what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover up," Jubeir told Fox News.
"That is unacceptable in any government. These things unfortunately happen. We want to make sure that those who are responsible are punished and we want to make sure we have procedures in place to prevent it from happening again. "
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[An Nahar] 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... faced a growing chorus of incredulity Sunday over its belated explanation of how critic Jamal Khashoggi died inside its Istanbul consulate, as world powers demanded answers and the whereabouts of his body.
After a fortnight of denials, Saudi authorities admitted on Saturday that the Washington Post columnist was killed after entering the consulate on October 2, a disappearance that sparked outrage and plunged the Gulf kingdom into a spiralling international crisis.
Ottoman Turkish officials have accused Riyadh of carrying out a state-sponsored killing and dismembering the body, with pro-government media in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... reporting the existence of video and audio evidence to back those claims.
Police have searched a forest in Istanbul where they believe his body may have been disposed of.
After initially saying Khashoggi left the consulate unharmed, and then that they were investigating his disappearance, Saudi authorities backtracked and admitted the 60-year-old was killed in a "brawl" with officials inside the consulate.
But that narrative -- combined with the absence of Khashoggi's body -- quickly drew skepticism and scorn from many, including staunch allies.
Ankara vowed to reveal all the details of a two-week inquiry as 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... said he was unsatisfied with Saudi Arabia's response to the columnist's death while the EU, Germany, La Belle France, Britannia, Australia, Canada and the U.N. also demanded greater clarity.
The controversy has put the kingdom -- for decades a key ally in Western efforts to contain Iran -- under unprecedented pressure.
It has also evolved into a major crisis for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , a Trump administration favourite widely known as MBS, whose image as a modernizing Arab reformer has been gravely undermined.
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Call me cynical or cruel, but I don't give a shit about this MB tool
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Yet another mooslim shi* disturber whacked. Assistance please, I cannot see the downside from here.
[AAWSAT] Iran has been increasing its shipments of advanced weaponry to the Lebanese "Hezbollah" party, deliveries that now include Global Positioning System (GPS) components to make previously unguided rockets into precision guided-missiles, said American and western intelligence sources according to a Fox News report.
One of the Iranian flights arrived in Leb three days ago, officials tell Fox News.
Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm flight number QFZ-9950 departed Tehran International Airport on Tuesday at 9:33 am local time, and flew to an unknown destination, according to flight data obtained by Fox News.
Later in the day, the Boeing 747 jet touched down in Syria’s capital Damascus before continuing on to Beirut, arriving just past 2 pm.
On Wednesday evening, the Iranian cargo plane departed Beirut for Doha, 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... arriving just after midnight local time, and returned to Iran’s capital Thursday at 6:31 pm.
Western intelligence sources said the Iranian cargo plane carried weapons components, including GPS devices to make precision-guided weapons in Iranian factories inside Leb.
The United States and Israel, as well as other western intelligence agencies, have offered evidence that Iran has operated similar weapons factories in Syria and Yemen, in addition to Leb, said Fox News.
Last month, at his address at the UN General Assembly in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos of what he said were three Hezbollah "secret sites" near Beirut’s international airport, locations where the GPS components from Tehran were being assembled to turn the rockets into precision-guided missiles capable of striking deep inside Israel "within an accuracy of 10 meters (11 yards)."
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish authorities have put the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi under 24-hour police protection, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Sunday.
Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, disappeared on Oct. 2 after he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage to Hatice Cengiz.
For weeks 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... denied knowledge of what happened to him, initially claiming Khashoggi had left the building. On Saturday Riyadh said he was killed in a fistfight in the consulate. The Saudi foreign minister has since called his death a "huge and grave mistake".
The Istanbul governor's office has put Cengiz, a Ottoman Turkish national, under 24-hour police protection, Anadolu said. Authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what prompted the decision to give her a security detail.
On the day Khashoggi disappeared, Cengiz waited for hours outside the consulate for him and, when he did not return, got in touch with authorities as he had instructed her to do, she later said.
After Saudi Arabia confirmed his death, she wrote on Twitter in Arabic: "They have taken your body from this world, but your beautiful smile will stay in my world forever."
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[Indian Express] On Sunday, September 16, Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... announced that he would start "work immediately" on providing passports to the children of refugees born in Pakistain. He might soon have to eat his words because the opposition parties plus the army would have none of it. As many as 1.5 million children born to refugees in Pakistain are currently denied citizenship in violation of the constitution.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says Pakistain is home to the largest refugee population in the world: More than 1.45 million are in the country, most of them from Afghanistan. The provinces of Sindh and Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... have spoken out in opposition to the prime minister’s plan. Both are victims of "internal" and "external" Pashtun migration into their territories, threatening to outnumber the local Baloch and Sindhi inhabitants. Taken together, both migrations ratchet up the number of the displaced to 7 million in the city of 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... , now known as the biggest Pashtun city in the world.
Sindh was the first province to be deluged with refugees. It was created with the help of migrants colonists from Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , India, who created the port of Karachi and populated the four big cities while the native Sindhis remained in the countryside. In 1947, when the Hindus were forced to leave, four big cities of Sindh lost their majority populations. It was presumed that the Sindhis would move into them and thus climb the sociological ladder they had missed in the past. But the Moslem refugees moved in from India and took the place of the Hindus who had left. The rural Sindhis got left out of the first capital of Pakistain, Karachi.
When it became the capital of Pakistain, Karachi’s population was about 4,50,000. It grew to one million in 1951. From then onwards, the rate of growth was a blinding 80 per cent, making it 60 times the 1947 size; and the recent census in 2017 has notched it up to 22 million, according to estimates that reject the official count. In this growth, the Sindhi has not advanced but the immigrants colonists have. Pakistain’s tribal areas were deliberately left out of normal development "to safeguard their tribal code and way of life" till the mountains where they lived couldn’t hold them. Internal migration of the tribal Pashtun faced a race for survival that hit not only Balochistan and Sindh, but also the Gulf countries.
Karachi has, according to the community leaders and social scientists, over 1.6 million Bengalis and up to 4,00,000 Rohingyas, too. These groups came after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, but the Rohingyas were brought in to fight the covert jihad in Afghanistan with American-Saudi money. The sappers who destroyed the great Buddha statues of Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... , they say, included Bangladeshis and Rohingyas. Some Indonesian mujahideen went back from Karachi to create disorder at home. The covert jihad caused millions of Afghans to flee into Pakistain and Pakistain had to look after them with UN funds.
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[Ynet] Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, says Iran changed its strategy: instead of basing precision missile factories in Syria, they are transferring missile precision equipment to Hezbollah; Yadlin: 'If Israel doesn't do anything, the price will be paid in war.'
The former head of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin set down for an interview with Ynet Sunday and addressed Iran's transfer of GPS missile system to Hezbollah.
According to Fox News, Iran has reportedly stepped up its shipments of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Leb. One of the shipments arrived in Leb last week, transporting GPS components to make unguided rockets into precision-guided missiles, thereby increasing the threat to Israel.
In addition, according to the report, which cited American and Western intelligence sources, an Iranian cargo plane reportedly took off from the Tehran International Airport last Tuesday at 9:33am, flying to an unknown destination. It later arrived in Damascus and then continued to Beirut, where it landed just after 2pm, Fox News said, citing flight tracker software.
Yadlin, head of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said in response to the report that "the Iranians were severely beaten on May 10. The IDF attacked about 50 targets in Syria where the Iranians were based, it took them some time, but according to my estimates, they changed strategy: instead of basing the precision missile factories in Syria, they decided to do it in Leb.
"It is more problematic for Israel since Israel, to this day, has not attacked the Iranian consolidation in Leb or Hezbollah's weaponry, and now there are missile conversion factories. According to the report, these are statistical missiles that strike at a distance of several kilometers. This poses a very difficult dilemma for Israel," Yadlin explained.
The cabinet's assessment is that if Israel deliberately attacks Hezbollah targets, we face an almost certain war?
"This should be the working assumption, of course it will be necessary for the Israeli Intelligence Community to give an estimate of the chances of war, and whether there are courses of action that on the one hand achieve the goal and on the other hand do not escalate the situation and start a war. In Syria, the IDF learned how to formulate such a course of action that did not lead to war."
Are we to expect Israeli attacks in Leb from now on?
"Israel is facing two choices: first, to strike, not necessarily by air, there are other methods to harm Iran's establishment in Leb. Second, Israel can do what it has been doing for the past 12 years. Between 2006 and 2018, Israel did not act against Hezbollah's buildup, and therefore the organization is much stronger today than it was in 2006. This is a serious dilemma, which will be raised in the Security Cabinet meeting."
Can Israel strategically allow Hezbollah to continue its military buildup?
"If Israel does not do anything, Hassan Nasrallah's organization will turn its Order of battle of its statistical Missiles and rockets into precision missiles. The price will be paid in war."
Do you think this is a mistake? Because we know their arsenal is very big.
"True, their arsenal is large, but as long as they don't have precision missiles, it is a terrorist weapon factory‐ it cannot attack important our power centers Israel, intelligence bases, air force bases, the Kirya base, or power stations. Today Hezbollah can mostly strike innocent civilians, but damage to Israel's military can only be caused by precision missiles."
Is this a change Israel will not accept?
Yes, the prime minister and defense minister announced, both in Israel and abroad, that Israel will not accept this change. The transition from announcements, speeches and declarations to action is the most difficult part. We need to see where the government is heading. "
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[IsraelTimes] After King Abdullah announces he won’t renew annexes to 1994 deal that expire next year, Netanyahu says he will negotiate with kingdom to keep territory under Israeli control
Jordan’s King Abdullah II announced on Sunday he would not renew part of the 1994 peace treaty that granted Israel use of two small agricultural areas along the border.
In a statement, Abdullah said he would be pulling out of two sectioned annexed to the peace agreement that allowed Israel to lease the areas from the Jordanians for 25 years. The leases expire next year.
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[IsraelTimes] Since May, some 200 Gazooks a day have left the beleaguered, Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run enclave; many of them have no plans to return
Separated from the impatient crowd by a flimsy barrier, Paleostinian coppers read out names, their voices barely audible above the din.
Those called file forward, relieved to finally be leaving the crowded and ramshackle Gazoo Strip for neighboring Egypt, some for the first time.
Many have a single large suitcase or holdall as they sit on benches in the gymnasium that serves as a waiting room in the southern Gazook town of Khan Younis.
From there, they board a bus for the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, about 20 minutes away.
Since mid-May, after five long years in which the frontier was largely closed, Egyptian authorities have opened the crossing several days a week.
About 200 people make the trip in a day, a small number compared to the nearly two million people crammed into Gazoo.
Inside the gymnasium, many travelers reluctantly admit having paid between $1,500 and $2,000 for what they call "coordination" to travel.
Hamas interior ministry front man Iyad al-Bozum denied that Paleostinian border officials took payments.
"But some citizens can get in touch with officials on the Egyptian side of the crossing and make it easier for them to leave," he said.
Bozum said there is currently a list of thousands of Gazooks waiting to exit the Strip, who are notified online when their turn comes.
Since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was tossed in 2013 and his Hamas-backed Moslem Brüderbund movement quashed, Egypt has kept its Gazoo border largely closed.
Cairo accuses Hamas, which began as an offshoot of the Brotherhood, of supporting jihadists fighting its security forces in the largely uninhabited Sinai region bordering Gazoo.
Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed in that fighting.
Egypt destroyed many tunnels for smuggling under the border, exacerbating Gazoo’s isolation.
But relations between Hamas and Egypt have thawed somewhat, allowing Rafah to be opened regularly since May.
Only students, those in need of medical treatment, Moslem pilgrims or people with foreign citizenship or residence papers are allowed through.
The flow of travelers remains a trickle compared to the past, said Abdallah Shahin, 32, who has been a porter at the crossing for 15 years.
Under Morsi, he said, "every day, 30 buses crossed the border, it was about 1,800 people."
Nowadays, he said, "those who leave do not come back, they emigrate."
- NO RETURN -
Such is the dream of an architecture student who gave his name only as Khalil.
He wants to go back to Germany, where he was born but never obtained citizenship.
"One way, no return," he said. "Abroad it’s different... someone creative can succeed."
Two of his friends have already left, he said, calculating the cost for himself at more than $3,000, including at least $2,000 to get across the Rafah border.
At the departure point the bus starts its engine to a cacophony of farewells.
"On the Egyptian side, if all goes well, you wait for around six hours. Otherwise you spend the night there and sleep at the border post," said Derby, the medical student.
The forced overnight stay is because of Sinai curfew regulations preventing travel at night, an Egyptian border official told AFP.
The remaining trip to Cairo is a long one, because of repeated stops at security checkpoints.
"Before 2007 I used to arrive in Cairo in six hours; now it takes at least 48 hours," said Hosam al-Ajuri, 35, heading to complete his history studies in Egypt.
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says he will consider allowing 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-bought fuel into Strip in the coming days, following decrease in border festivities
Israel reopened the crossings into the Gazoo Strip on Sunday morning, allowing people and goods in and out of the coastal enclave, following a decrease in the amount of violence along the border
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s office said the decision was made in consultation with officials from the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and the liaison unit to the Paleostinians, known as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
The defense minister’s office said a decision had yet to be made about allowing a supply of fuel that was purchased by Qatar into the coastal enclave.
"The decision... was postponed at this time and will be considered in a few days, depending on incidents [along the border]," Liberman’s office said.
The defense minister ordered the Erez pedestrian crossing and Kerem Shalom goods crossing closed last Wednesday, after a rocket launched from the Gazoo Strip went kaboom! outside a home in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba and another landed in the sea off the coast of the greater Tel Aviv area.
In response to the rocket strike, the Israeli military launched a wave of air raids, bombing some 20 targets in the coastal enclave, including a border-crossing attack tunnel, the army said.
In the following days, Egypt and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... were said to have brokered a ceasefire between Israel and the terror group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,, which rules the Gazoo Strip ‐ one that neither side officially acknowledged.
Still, the past weekend saw a significant decrease in the amount of violence along the Gazoo security fence compared to previous weeks, both in terms of the number of people participating in border riots and the intensity of the festivities.
The IDF said a number of explosives and grenades had been set off during festivities on Friday and that Paleostinians broke through the fence in three locations before immediately returning to the coastal enclave, with soldiers opening fire at the suspects in one case.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... Israeli defense officials described the demonstrations as some of the quietest since the wave of protests dubbed the "March of Return" began on March 30.
[IsraelTimes] Surveillance footage shows assailant, Farrukh Afzal, punching 62-year-old Lipa Schwartz to the ground in middle of intersection, chasing passerby who tried to intervene
A Pak Moslem cab driver was indicted for beating an identifiably Orthodox Jewish man at an intersection, and charged with a hate crime.
A grand jury indicted Farrukh Afzal on Friday and included the hate crime charge, after it was presented by the District Attorney’s Office, the local ABC affiliate WABC reported. The NYPD recommended Farrukh be charged with a hate crime, and the District Attorney’s office initially declined those charges, according to the report.
Afzal originally was charged with attempted assault in the second degree, assault in the third degree, menacing and harassment, but not with a hate crime since prosecutors believed it to be a case of road rage after being told that Afzal thought the victim was an Orthodox Jewish man who had stepped in front of his car earlier in the day. A second Orthodox man attempted to assist the victim and bravely ran away while being chased by Afzal.
The victim, Rabbi Lipa Schwartz, 62, claims that Afzal shouted "Allah, Allah," said he wanted to "kill all Jews," and made references to Israel throughout the October 14 attack, which happened as Schwartz walked to synagogue for morning services. Afzal’s wife told the New York Daily News that her husband is schizophrenic and was acting out because he did not take his medication.
Afzal reportedly has an extensive police record of violent assaults, including eight previous arrests.
Crazy known wolf of the non-citizen variety suffering from Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Is he in the country legally? Do we really want to allow him to stay?
The attack took place at about 7:30 a.m. in the Borough Park neighborhood. Schwartz, a Hasidic Jew, was on his way to morning services and was standing at an intersection, when Afzal stopped his car suddenly, rushed at him and began to beat him, according to surveillance footage from the scene.
Schwartz managed to get away when another man approached the pair and Afzal turned to attack the newcomer. Afzal was then restrained at the scene by passersby, while police were called.
Afzal, who locals said drives for a car service, is not licensed by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission and has been summonsed in the past for being an unlicensed operator, a TLC spokeswoman said.
The first known private military contracting and consulting firm catering just to jihadists issued a new online fundraising appeal for help in arming fighters while also noting this week that donors came through to build a training camp for jihadists in Syria. Funny thing about camps... is they are super easy to target with drones and cruise missiles
"We have finished our project about the building new training camp for brothers and I am so glad. And we are going to start the new lessons after a few days, inshallah, special courses for shooters of PKM and RPG," Malhama Tactical leader Abu Salman Belarus said in an English-language video posted to his Twitter account Wednesday, thanking those who "supported our project."
"We have completed the construction of a training camp, thank you for all and may Allah accept from you my dear brothers and sisters, we have done it together, with your help and donations my brothers," he tweeted.
The new fundraising drive for equipment includes a desire to purchase airsoft guns to use in training exercises. The group has encouraged the use of Bitcoin for donations.
Malhama Tactical, referred to as Blackwater for jihadists, offers trainers who hail from Russia's Caucasus region and the former Soviet states. Excerpts of training videos are frequently posted online.
Their contracting clients have included Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, the umbrella group known as al-Qaeda in Syria that includes the former al-Nusra Front. Then-leader Abu Rofiq, an Uzbek who said he was a veteran of the Russian military, told Foreign Policy magazine last year that territorial setbacks for jihadist groups didn't dampen their business demand, yet they were also considering new regions to branch out their business.
Malhama Tactical launched in May 2016 and by the end of that year was advertising on Facebook for trainers to come join their "fun and friendly team" with vacation allowance and a day off per week. The group also manufactures and supplies certain equipment to jihadist groups.
After the death of Abu Rofiq last year the business dropped off the radar for a bit, but resurfaced online late this past spring. Firearms analysts noted that new footage from the group featured more Glock 19s, red dot sights, and American weapons that have fallen into unintended hands.
Abu Salman Belarus, who joined Malhama Tactical in 2016, said in an interview published a month ago that his group is "primarily instructing insurgents in battle tactics, giving medical aid, working with armored vehicles, mortars, sniper activity, and weapons modifications."
"We do not engage ourselves in teaching how to conduct terrorist attacks or killing peaceful civilians, however," he claimed. "We have never worked and will not work against civilians, regardless of their nationalities or religions." Riiiiiiiiiiight..
He boasted that while Malhama Tactical trainers bring lots of former military experience to the outfit, "quite a few of our students have become instructors, already working independently in different places."
"We don't accept all units, we take former soldiers or talented and purpose-driven people, so that they would be motivated and follow our visions and goals," said Abu Salman, who added that "we don't only accept Russian speakers."
In August, he tweeted "we stand with" Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham; two weeks later he tweeted "we are independent instructor team and not part of #HTS."
At the beginning of this month, Abu Salman tweeted a poll asking the main language of his followers. Forty-one percent said Turkish, 38 percent said English and 19 percent said Russian. Interesting on the number of Turkish speakers. Middle Eastern version of the School of the Americas?
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian rebel fighter brutally executed his sister after learning that she had had sex with a Ottoman Turkish Army officer in northern Syria.
According to Muraselon website, Bashar Bseis, a Lion of Islam fighting for a Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel group in northern Syria found out that his sister, Rasha, was involved in a sexual relationship with an officer from the Ottoman Turkish military.
Bashar’s discovery was made after Rasha’s nude photos went viral on social media.
The incident is classified in Islamic and Middle Eastern countries as ’Shame Killing’ where the perpetrator believes that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion.
The crime was filmed in a sickening video by the one of Bashar’s friends who encouraged him to ’restore his honor’.
Asking the victim to show her face to the camera, Bashar fired around 90 Ak-47 bullets into his sister’s body.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-led coalition’s actions in Syria’s Raqqa are seen in Damascus as genocide, SANA news agency said on Sunday citing an official source at the Syrian foreign ministry.
"The entire world has witnessed the systematic destruction of Raqqa city by the so-called international coalition and the rotten bodies of innocent civilians in the streets of the city and the displacement of the rest of its inhabitants which amounts to crimes of genocide that require accountability," the foreign ministry official was quoted as saying.
According to the source, at this very time the coalition opened "safe corridors" to evacuate 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.... (a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) Lions of Islam "to use them elsewhere in order to complicate the crisis in Syria and prolong it to serve the agendas of the colonial West."
The statement followed the French foreign ministry’s congratulatory message of October 17 on the anniversary of Raqqa’s liberation.
The Syrian foreign ministry source stressed that La Belle France’s actions within the international coalition are "a shame for La Belle France" and are a reminder of "its colonialist history which is full of crimes against the peoples."
The situation in Raqqa, which is controlled by the US-led coalition, remains tense.
According to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... assessment mission, 80% of buildings in Raqqa are either ruined or damaged, with dead bodies staying under the debris. People are dying because the city has not been cleared of mines. The city is cut of electricity and water supplies. Schools and hospitals are closed.
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[Ynet] Western intelligence sources believe that a Fars Air Qeshm Boeing 747, very active on the Tehran-Damascus route, made an unusual flight to Beirut to deliver advanced weapons systems to Hezbollah, including GPS for precision missiles.
Flight QFZ9975 set off alarm bells for Western intelligence agencies. The Boeing 747 aircraft of the Iranian cargo airline Fars Air Qeshm has been operating for months in the service of arms shipments from Tehran to Syria, but this time it made an unusual stop in Beirut. Fox news reported on Friday that the aircraft delivered GPS components to Hezbollah that would make their unguided rockets into precision-guided missiles.
The 27-year-old plane, under the registration EP-FAB, took off Tuesday morning from Tehran to Damascus as flight QFZ9950 and landed in Syria just before 11am. About two hours later, in a rather unusual change, the plane took off as flight QFZ9975 directly to Beirut airport, where it landed shortly after 2pm.
The following day, the plane took off at night from Leb to Doha, the capital 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , as flight QFZ9976, where it landed after midnight. On Thursday it made its final journey last week when it flew back as flight QFZ9977 to Tehran.
The plane has worked extensively in the past to transport equipment and weapons from the Revolutionary Guards under civilian guise, mainly to Assad's army. It entered the Iranian fleet in September 2017 after an extensive service life with companies from Japan, Georgia, Afghanistan, Armenia and Russia.
Last month, suspicions surfaced that Iran used the Boeing 747 to deliver advanced weapons to Syria. The reports came in the aftermath of the assault on the Damascus airport, attributed to Israel. This plane was documented at the time when it landed at Damascus International Airport.
Last month, it was also reported that two aircraft belonging to the Iranian airline "carried out unconventional flight routes." The first flight was by a Boeing 747, which took off on July 9 from a military base in Tehran, made a brief interlude at the Damascus International Airport, and then continued to Beirut International Airport.
The second flight took off on August 2 from Tehran and landed in Beirut about two hours before the scheduled landing, in what appeared to be "an unusual route through northern Syria."
"The Iranians are trying to find new ways to smuggle weapons to their allies in the Middle East," said an unnamed Middle Eastern intelligence source, adding that "they are exploring the West's ability to locate and define smuggling."
According to Fox News, the Iranian airline stopped operations in 2013 due to administrative failures, but became active once more last March. The company's board of directors includes three representatives from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Last month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in his speech at the UN General Assembly that "in Leb, Iran is directing Hezbollah to build secret sites to convert inaccurate projectiles into precision-guided missiles. Missiles that can target deep inside Israel within an accuracy of ten meters."
Netanyahu addressed the Shiite terror organization and said: "Hezbollah is deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields. They’ve placed three of these missile conversion sites along Beirut’s international airport."
Netanyahu presented world leaders with a picture of the airport and said: "Here’s Beirut’s international airport. Here’s the first missile site. It’s in the Uzai neighborhood, on the water's edge, a few blocks away from the runway. Here’s the second site. It’s underneath a soccer stadium, two blocks away. And here’s the third site. It’s adjacent to the airport itself, right next to it. So I have a message for Hezbollah today: Israel knows, Israel also knows what you’re doing. Israel knows where you’re doing it. And Israel will not let you get away with it."
The IDF published a record of the Hezbollah sites in the Lebanese capital.
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took off Tuesday morning from Tehran to Damascus as flight QFZ9950 and landed in Syria just before 11am. About two hours later, in a rather unusual change, the plane took off as flight QFZ9975 directly to Beirut airport
Picking up weaponized payloads for the new GPS missile systems?
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.
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian rebel fighter brutally executed his sister after learning that she had had sex with a 
