[PacificPundit] Imran Awan and his family made quite a bit of money off tax payers thanks to Democrats who kept paying him on your dime. Here is the total dollar for dollar breakdown from 2009-2016 for each of the Democrat House members who had #AwanBrothers on payroll.
I doubt there is any connection to the MB, wife of Carlos Danger, ValJar, a man some call Soetoro, or any political foundations. It really is unfortunate that none of these, quite interesting Pakistani connections could not be brought to bear in the search for Bin Laden. Intelligence gaps,
what were we to do ? [sarc off]
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Isn't there any requirement for periodic background checks and security clearances for people who are doing such sensitive work for the highest level of one coequal branch of the USGOV?
If there isn't: Why?
If there is: How could the Awan outfit pass?
Just imagine the following scenario:
A Chinese/Pak/Iranian/Russian/... agent offers them $$$ if they put compromised hard drives/NICs/motherboards/keyboards into congressional IT hardware. They get additional $$$ if they return the stuff after it has been used for a while.
Net result: All or virtually all data that is processed by these congressional offices is available to foreign intelligence.
Hardware that works as a listening device would be difficult to detect as the sound would be recorded and stored rather than transmitted.
Unless I'm missing something major this looks like reckless disregard for any notion of security.
[Libya Herald] No unauthorised weapons will be permitted in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... from Sunday the Presidential Guard commander has decreed after a high-level meeting on security in the capital.
Colonel Najmi Ramadan Khair al-Nakua said that all light, medium and heavy weapons would be banned from entering the capital.
His announcement came after a long meeting yesterday involving the Presidency Council’s (PC) defence and interior ministries as well as the Tripoli Joint Operations Security room. The gathering was seeking to drawn up a security plan for the capital.
It is unclear if any of the commanders of the often heavily-armed militias which support the PC were present at the meeting or had been consulted beforehand.
The six-day timeframe would seem ambitious if not indeed unrealistic if there has been no prior agreement with the militias. Nor is it clear that the police and the Presidential Guard are sufficiently strong in both numbers and weaponry to take over city-wide security.
Nakua also appealed to foreign diplomatic missions to return to Tripoli from which most withdrew in 2014 after the Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... takeover. He said the envoys should come back to take advantage of the current security and stability in the capital. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Italia are the only two major embassies to have so far returned full time to their embassies in the capital.
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[Libya Herald] Libya’s two Islamist TV stations, Tanasuh and al-Nabaa have been added to the list compiled by 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... , the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt of "terrorists" and terror organizations allegedly supported by 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... Two other Libyan media entities have been added as well: Boshra and Soraya news agencies, both of which are linked to the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council (BRSC) and the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB).
The BRSC itself has also been added as has the fomerly Benghazi-based Rafallah Sahati Brigade.
The BRSC is effectively much the same as the BDB which was put on the list when it was first unveiled six weeks ago.
The main difference between the two is time and location. The BDB consists of those individuals who were with the BRSC when it was inside Benghazi but who fled the city and then reconstituted themselves in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... as the BDB.
The Rafallah Sahati Brigade, which was part of the BRSC, was closely linked to Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... and is alleged to have received funding and support from foreign countries, including Qatar.
Also on the list are two individuals: Ahmed al-Hasnawi and al-Saadi Abdullah Ibrahim Bukhazem.
Hasnawi, a hardline Islamist, has been blamed for the Brak al-Shatti airbase massacre in May in which 141 people died. He previously was based at Tanenhint Airbase, providing additional protection for Misrata’s Third Force when it was there.
Tanasuh TV is owned by Sadek al-Ghariani, still accepted by some in the west of the country as Libya’s grand mufti. He was put on the terror list when it first came out.
A Saudi Press Agency statement read: "The two Libyan individuals and the six terrorist entities, affiliated with terrorist groups in Libya, have received substantial financial support from the Qatari authorities and played an active role in spreading chaos and devastation in Libya, despite serious international concern over the destructive impact of such practices."
When the list was announced in June, as well as the BDB and Ghariani it included the Salabi brothers and former head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Abdulhakim Belhadj. All were accused of having close links to Qatar.
Along with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, the Beida-based government also cut ties with Qatar at the time for what it said were "repeated attacks on the dignity of the Libyan people after the February 17 revolution".
Libyan National Army front man Colonel Ahmed Mismari has since accused Qatar providing weapons other support to snuffies in Libya and claims to have evidence to support this although so far none has been provided.
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[Libya Herald] Egypt has praised the Faiez Serraj and Khalifa Hafter talks held in Gay Paree yesterday, saying that the proposed plan of action was the right way of moving Libya forward.
The comments came as Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry held discussions today with Hafter in Gay Paree. Shoukry told him that Egypt backed the statement issued yesterday, which agreed on a ceasefire, elections and the Skhirat accord.
He said it contained all the right ideas to support Libya as it transitions towards addressing economic and social problems, fighting terrorism and restoring stability.
According to Egyptian foreign ministry front man Ahmed Abu Zeid, Shoukry insisted that Libya remained one of his priorities but the country still needed to strengthen its state institutions, particularly the army. He also said that Hafter thanked Egypt for its work in encouraging dialogue and in finding a political solution, not a military one.
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[Libya Herald] Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists in Libya continue to be targeted and prevented from operating, in many cases by militias linked to the Presidency Council and its government of national accord (GNA). It says they have been physically attacked and detained in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and other regions of western Libya. In some cases, activists have disappear altogether. It notes that the authorities have been unable to stem the abuse and that the offenders continue to operate with impunity.
HRW says that in April 2017 it interviewed 18 human rights activists, most asking not to be named for fear of repercussions. Eleven claimed to have been threatened by militias or gangs, some of which were affiliated with the UN-backed GNA.
"Militias and other gangs with a ’with-us-or-against-us’ mindset have gone after activists, bloggers, and media workers," said HRW’s Middle East and North Africa director, Sarah Leah Whitson. It had forced many to flee the country, either to Tunisia or elsewhere. The GNA, she said, had to take action to prevent the abuse of human rights activists.
The activists explained the risks associated with their work in the region, notably accusations of espionage. All the activists interviewed by HRW said they had to censor themselves and often left incidents of harassment unreported out of fear.
The report referred to the Libyan Centre for Freedom of the Press (LCFP) which expressed its concerns over the fact that the majority of activists had to practice self-censorship because of fears for their own safety. It noted that they rarely filed police complaints for fear of reprisals and, in some cases, the police refused to accept a complaint.
"By silencing critics through threats of violence, warlords and thuggish militias have found a convenient way to expand their power base at the expense of political stability," said Whitson, noting that, on the contrary, the Constitution Declaration in 2011 guaranteed "freedom of opinion, individual and collective expression, research, communication, press, media, printing and editing, movement, assembly, demonstration and peaceful sit-in in accordance with the statute".
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Not to be confused with violent censorship on American campuses. HRW can go pound sand in Libya.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s top court kept Paleostinian Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on the EU terrorism blacklist on Wednesday and removed Sri Lankan separatist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
Judges at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overruled the General Court’s view of 2014 that the Council of the European Union, the 28-nation grouping, had insufficient evidence to maintain asset freezes and travel bans on Hamas.
The lower court had found that the listing was based on media and internet reports rather than decisions by a "competent authority". But the ECJ said such decisions were not required for groups to stay on the list, only for their initial listing.
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EU keeps Hamas on terror list, sends more money to PLO.
FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty said the bureau would not comment on Baker and would not confirm or deny any investigation.
This comes as Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would soon be making an announcement regarding the progress of leak investigations. A DOJ official declined to comment on Circa’s inquiry into Baker but did say, the planned announcement by Sessions is part of the overall "stepped up efforts on leak investigations."
Three sources, with knowledge of the investigation, told Circa that Baker is the top suspect in an ongoing leak investigation, but Circa has not been able to confirm the details of what national security information or material was allegedly leaked.
A federal law enforcement official with knowledge of ongoing internal investigations in the bureau told Circa, "the bureau is scouring for leakers and there's been a lot of investigations."
The revelation comes as the Trump administration has ramped up efforts to contain leaks both within the White House and within its own national security apparatus.
Baker is a close confidant of former FBI Director James Comey, and recent media reports suggested he was reportedly advising the then-FBI director on legal matters following private meetings the former director had in February with President Trump in the Oval Office.
Baker was appointed to the FBI's general counsel by Comey in 2014 and has had a long and distinguished history within the intelligence community.
After working as a federal prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice during the 1990s, he joined the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review In 1996, according to his FBI bio. (https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-releases/james-a.-baker-appointed-as-fbis-general-counsel).
In 2006 Baker received the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in counter-terrorism--the CIA’s highest counter-terrorism award, according to his biography. During Baker's long and distinguished career he received the "NSA’s Intelligence Under Law Award; the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal; and DOJ’s highest award-- the Edmund J. Randolph Award."
He is a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
[DAWN] Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... political administration served notices on Malakdinkhel and Akkakhel tribes under Collective Territorial Responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulations to surrender to it the 23 suspected rustics allegedly involved in two kabooms in Bara.
Officials said that elders of both the tribes were warned of strict action in accordance with FCR if they failed to hand over desperados to the administration.
The political administration has already suspended all the official perks and privileges of Sipah tribe after the July 16 kaboom in a water tanker of Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... . Two FC personnel were critically injured in the blast.
The blast took place in Malakdinkhel region but the responsibility was later claimed by proscribed Lion of Islam organization Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... , headed by Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... , who belonged to Sipah tribe.
The Malakdinkhel elders on July 23 offered assistance and support to security forces and political administration in keeping their area cleansed of all undesirable elements. They pledged to raze the house of controller of hard boyz in their area besides imposing a fine of Rs1million on him.
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[DAWN] A Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court bench on Tuesday directed the Council of Islamic Ideology and attorney general for Pakistain to respond to a petition seeking its orders for the government to introduce a less painful mode of execution than hanging.
Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Abdul Shakoor extended a stay order against the execution of a death row prisoner, Jan Bahadur, until the disposal of his petition.
The bench asked the CII to explain its viewpoint on the petitioner’s prayer in light of Islamic injunctions.
It also directed that the attorney general should explain the legal position on the points raised by the petitioner.
Kept at the Haripur Central Prison, the petitioner has requested the high court to declare death by hanging un-Islamic and unconstitutional saying it is painful and against human values.
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" requested the high court to declare death by hanging un-Islamic and unconstitutional saying it is painful and against human values."
It was decided instead he be allowed to soak in the adulation of stoners (not the high kind) from all sides , buried upto his wee wee in sand.
This apparently struck a right note with islamic convention. The public trial will be an exercise in spiritually correct methods of dispatching ethically minded muslim criminals, a bushy bearded imam pointed.
The petitioner has petitioned a withdrawal of his earlier petition , insisting that he ' later realized the whole point' of the gallows thing, and that he awaits the good noose with bated breath.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar finally held his much-awaited presser on Thursday to announce that he would leave his ministry and the National Assembly the day the Panamagate verdict was announced.
Clarifying that he was not taking any extreme measure at the moment, "owing to the pressure of friends", Nisar said he would resign nonetheless from the ministry and the National Assembly on the day the Supreme Court announces the Panamagate verdict -- "be it for the party or against it."
"My heart is no longer in politics," he said.
At the start of the presser, Nisar remarked that it was going to be his "most difficult" presser.
In his nearly 45-minute long speech, the interior minister talked about his 33-year association with the party, conspiracies within the ruling PML-N, and his disillusionment with politics.
He concluded with some sound parting advice to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , whom he praised throughout as a "great and humble leader".
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[Al Jazeera] A US-trained Iraqi army division allegedly executed dozens of men in the final phase of the battle against ISIS fighters in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's Old City, Human Rights Watch has claimed.
The rights group on Thursday urged the US government to suspend all support for the 16th Division of the Iraqi army pending an investigation into what it called war crimes, evidence of which was seen by two international observers whom the group did not name.
The claims could not be independently verified as Iraqi authorities have restricted media access to the Old City since July 10, following Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory declaration over the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS).
Spokesmen for the Iraqi government and military could not be reached for comment.
ISIS made its last stand in the Old City after nine months of urban warfare with Iraqi forces, who are backed by a US-led coalition.
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If this works out, perhaps the US military can stand up some LGBT fighting units and see how things go. If they survive, great.
LGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria have declared the first LGBT military unit created to battle the jihadi group. Its name? The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army, or TQILA. The International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), an anarchist movement, announced the group's creation Monday. TQILA? Wahahaha!
IRPGF is a unit in the International Freedom Battalion, a collection of foreign fighters who traveled to northern Syria to battle ISIS alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG, or People’s Protection Units. It was only set up in April, two months ahead of the final stage of a Kurdish-Arab offensive backed by the U.S.-led coalition to liberate the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.
A statement posted by the group on Twitter said its members "seek to smash the gender binary and advance the women’s revolution as well as the broader gender and sexual revolution."
It remains unknown how many personnel will be involved in the unit, and how many are members of the LGBT community. Heval Rojhilat, spokesperson for TQILA, speaking to Newsweek, would not reveal numbers for security reasons.
"Many of our comrades are within the LGBT*QI+ community," Rojhilat says. "We are already fighting in Raqqa."
The group responded to a comment on Twitter, saying it pronounced the new unit’s name as "Tequila."
The group was formed as its members had "watched in horror as fascist and extremist forces around the world have attacked the Queer community and murdered countless of our community members citing that they are ’ill,’ ’sick,’ and ’unnatural.’"
The statement, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS, continues: "The images of gay men being thrown off roofs and stoned to death by Daesh was something we could not idly watch."
The statement ends with the slogan: "Shoot back! These faggots kill fascists!" The group’s logo is a black AK-47 machine gun on a pink background.
ISIS’s Sharia courts have declared homosexuality to be a capital offense, one deserving of severe and deadly punishment.
After Omar Mateen launched a shooting attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, killing 49 people and pledging allegiance to the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a 911 phone call, ISIS claimed responsibility. It said in a statement circulated by its Amaq news agency that he had "targeted a nightclub for homosexuals." Homosexuality is itself a taboo subject in Syria and Iraq.
Since its rise to prominence in Iraq in mid-2014, ISIS has released a slew of propaganda images and footage that show men accused of being homosexuals blindfolded and thrown from buildings in front of large crowds. If those thrown from buildings survived, they were then stoned to death by the spectators, who live in the group’s self-styled caliphate that straddles the Iraqi-Syrian border..
When suspected members of the community are captured, ISIS fighters went through their contact books to track down other people they believed to be gay, according to accounts of members of the LGBT community who lived under ISIS. Over three years, dozens of LGBT people were killed under ISIS’s rule, and many others fled.
In its statement, TQILA also accuses Christian conservatives of attacking the LGBT community.
But Kurdish forces treat women and men equally in its ranks, something not seen in many militaries across the world. They also have all-Kurdish women units and even recently set up training academies in the hope of creating the first all-Arab women unit in its forces.
The TQILA statement says there is a "revolution in Rojava," in reference to the semi-autonomous region in northern Syria that the Kurds hope to create. It will welcome all peoples and serve as a functioning democracy in a region more accustomed to theocracy and autocracy.
The Kurdish-Arab coalition, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, of which the YPG is a dominant player, is besieging ISIS in its de facto capital of Raqqa in eastern Syria. The SDF forces have captured more than a quarter of the city's neighborhoods, wrestling them back from ISIS despite the threat of suicide car bombs, sniper fire and booby traps.
If the jihadi group loses Raqqa, it would mark the end of its control of the largest population center in its possession after the fall of Mosul in northern Iraq earlier this month. The group still controls the eastern Syrian cities of Deir Ezzor and al-Mayadin.
It is unclear how deeply entrenched the LGBT unit is in the battle for Raqqa. But if the new battalion can help deal one of the final blows to the caliphate, it would be the sweetest of victories for members of the LGBT community who have suffered at the hands of ISIS. In that event, the group plans to mark the community where the symbols of ISIS once stood, Rojhilat says. "We will fly TQILA's flag, the IRPGF's flag and the rainbow flag!"
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It remains unknown how many personnel will be involved in the unit, and how many are members of the LGBT community.
The International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), an anarchist movement, announced the group's creation Monday.
A place for the DoD's to-be-expelled transgender Marines and SEALS and such to deploy their very real skills in a meaningful way, while being properly appreciated. Win-win.
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IRPGF are basically communists, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not convinced of the LGBTQRST angle here, especially as this is pretty much a foreign adventure. No doubt the Kurds are grateful for the help, but they will not be so happy when the commies turn their sites around.
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Bill Murray had a routine long ago about how we should let women join the military. If they win we can mock them for being beaten by a bunch of girls, if we lose we can mock saying what, you bet a bunch of girls tough guy!
A much-hyped Tehran space launch turned out to be a dud, as the Iranian Simorgh rocket suffered a "catastrophic failure" shortly after liftoff on Thursday and likely blew up before it reached space, two U.S. officials told Fox News.
On Thursday, U.S. Strategic Command, which monitors launches around the world, could only confirm a satellite was not deployed from the rocket. But fresh intelligence assessments on Friday confirmed yet another failure by the Islamic Republic in its mission to place an operational satellite into orbit --something Tehran has never done before, despite repeated attempts over the past few years.
Officials have long been concerned the technology used to put a satellite into space could also be repurposed to make a long-range ballistic missile capable of one day potentially hitting the U.S. The Simorgh rocket is based on a North Korean design.
Iran's state media on Thursday claimed the launch was successful, but U.S. spy agencies quickly determined that assessment was more propaganda than fact.
Iran has successfully launched its domestically-manufactured Simorgh carrier, whose mission is to put Iranian satellites into the orbit pic.twitter.com/WVZog8i8o7
‐ Press TV (@PressTV) July 27, 2017
But even though it failed, Iran's attempted rocket launch succeeded in violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
Critics of the UN resolution -- which went into effect days after the landmark Iran nuclear agreement two years ago -- say the language is purposefully weak, however, and does not forbid Iran from carrying out such tests. The resolution states Iran is merely "called upon" not to conduct such rocket and missile tests.
"We would consider that a violation of UNSCR 2231," Nauert said flatly. "We consider that to be continued ballistic missile development."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian-born pro-Islamist religious scholar, Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi, has laid "the buck of the responsibility" for the ongoing inter-rebel infighting in Idlib Governorate on the al-Qaeda-linked Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group.
In a recent interview with Bilal Abdul Kareem’s On the Ground News media outlet, Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi expressed disappointment with HTS in its behavior to other bully boy groups in Idlib. He pointed-out a hypocrisy in what the jihadist group’s publicly stated intentions are and the means they use to achieve them.
According to the religious scholar "they [HTS] justify their stance and say they want a united front ... [however] they took this way called taghalab (to overcome with force)."
Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi went on to add that "they [HTS] say there are instructions not to shed blood, but actually there is [bloodshed], many people get killed."
Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi is a well-respected scholar among the anti-government following inside and outside of Syria. He has formally associated himself with both Islamist and jihadist bully boy groups operating in the country such as Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... , the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria (TIP) and even HTS.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A ceasefire deal brokered by Leb General Security Chief Abbas Ibrahim was reached on Thursday in Arsal outskirts in preparation for the withdrawal of Nusra Front bandidosturbans from the Syria-Leb border.
The ceasefire came into effect as of 6:00 am (Local Time).
The agreement stipulations include releasing 5 Hezbollah fighters who had been captured by Nusra terrorists, according to al-Manar sources.
As per the deal, al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... gunnies and their families shall leave to Idlib province in Syria.
General Ibrahim, who visited House Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... to inform him about the details of the ceasefire agreement, is expected to release a statement detailing the ceasefire terms in the next few hours.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... calm is prevailing over Arsal and its outskirts, as well as over the heights of Wadi Hmayed and al-Malahi.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PacificPundit] Imran Awan and his family made quite a bit of money off tax payers thanks to Democrats who kept paying him on your dime. Here is the total dollar for dollar breakdown from 2009-2016 for each of the Democrat House members who had #AwanBrothers on payroll.
