[ARABNEWS] The remains of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded by ISISbandidosturbans on a beach in Libya three years ago will be repatriated, local media has reported.
Egypt’s state-run al-Ahram newspaper quoted a senior Libyan official as saying that DNA taken from the bodies of the victims had been handed over to Egypt’s top prosecutor so they could be matched with samples from the victims’ families.
Al-Seddik al-Sur, director of the attorney general’s office, reportedly told a presser: "Libyan authorities will repatriate the remains of the martyred Copts to Egypt." He did not specify a date for their repatriation.
Twenty-one Coptic Christians working in Libya had their heads chopped off by ISISbandidosturbans on a beach near the city of Sirte, then a murderous Moslem stronghold, in February 2015. Their bodies were found more than a year later.
The case shocked Egypt and underlined the turbans’ growing reach across the Middle East and North Africa.
Twenty of the victims were found to be Egyptian, while one of them was of unknown African nationality. Reports said he was Ghanaian.
Soon after carrying out the killings ISIS posted a graphic video of the incident, vowing to fight those they described as "crusaders."
Dressed in orange overalls, the Copts were forced to the ground and then decapitated by the masked, knife-wielding murderous Moslems.
The horrific footage prompted Egypt to launch retaliatory Arclight airstrikes against ISIS affiliates in Libya, a country that has been mired in turmoil since a popular uprising backed by a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led military intervention in 2011 toppled leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... .
"Our deaders can finally lay to rest now, in their home country," Samir Girgis, a Cairo-based Coptic accountant, told Arab News. Most of the victims came from the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt.
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[Libya Observer] A Libyan high ranking official disclosed that the UAE used Libya’s frozen assets in its banks to back up the military operations of Libyan eastern warlord, Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , as well as other allies in Libya, pointing out that it also used the money to fund the building of its military base in Libya, besides the funding of Libyan media outlets in Jordan.
The New Arab reported the Libyan official as saying that Libyan parties are part of the "theft" of the Libyan frozen assets in coordination with UAE.
"The funding of the Kharouba ‐ Khadim ‐ military base in eastern Libya is mysterious and there are other countries taking part in it. US, Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Russia all gave the green light for the funding as they have interests in the UAE, not to mention the political complexities related to the building of such a military base." The official told The New Arab.
He added, that the UAE is using the 50 billion dollars frozen in its banks to fund operations in support of Haftar, including two Libyan TV channels in Amman, Jordan.
"There is also training of armed fighters of Haftar’s forces in countries like Jordan and buying weapons and military equipment from Russia, Ukraine and Canada to support Haftar’s operations and send them via Tobruk port. Then Kharouba military base was expanded to facilitate the incoming weapons to Haftar." The source added.
Last Saturday, the second deputy head of the High Council of State (HCS) Mohammed Emazib said the United Arab Emirates sent Libyan eastern warlord Haftar money from the Libyan frozen assets in Abu Dhabi, calling on the UAE to reveal the details for such actions.
The UN froze Libyan assets in 2011 so that it prevented Moamar Qadaffy from seizing Libya’s assets ‐ tens of billions around the world.
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[ARABNEWS] German prosecutors have indicted a 20-year-old Syrian migrant for plotting a bombing in which they say he hoped to kill at least 200 people.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday the suspect, identified only as Yamen A. in line with German privacy rules, was charged with preparing a serious act of violence.
They said he wanted to emulate attacks by the ISIS group, and decided by last summer to set off a bomb in a crowd. It was unclear where and when the attack was to take place. He was jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in October.
Authorities say he had procured chemicals used to make the explosive TATP and other bomb-making materials usually used to build a remote-controlled bomb. They have said they see no evidence he was part of a terror group.
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[DAWN] Two stewards of the Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) detained in the French capital last week in connection with their involvement in drug smuggling have been sentenced to two years in prison each by a French court, it emerged on Thursday.
Flight Steward Tanveer Gulzar was incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by French customs after four packets of drugs were recovered from hidden pockets of his coat during a body search at Gay Paree's Charles de Gaulle Airport. Steward Amir Moeen was detained after police interrogated Gulzar.
Investigators had hauled the two stewards before a court in La Belle France, which handed down a two-year prison sentence to each of them after finding them guilty of smuggling drugs on Islamabad-Gay Paree flight PK-749, sources in the airlines told DawnNewsTV.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court acquitted on Wednesday five accused, alleged to be agents of the Indian spy agency, in cases pertaining to anti-state activities, explosives and illicit weapons for want of evidence.
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Muhammad Shafiq Khan alias Pappu, an employee of the 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... Water and Sewerage Board, Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar Tension, Mohsin Khan alias Kashif, Khalid Aman alias Dad and Adil Ansari in August 2015 in Gulistan-e-Jauhar for allegedly working for the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ), getting training in India, being involved in terrorism and anti-state activities as well as carrying explosives and weapons.
After recording evidence of witnesses and concluding arguments from both sides, the judge of ATC-I, who conducted the trial after amalgamating all the cases, exonerated the accused persons of all charges for lack of evidence.
A judicial magistrate had recorded the confessional statement of accused Khalid Aman under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code in 2015.
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[Wash Times via Free Beacon] Gen. Joseph L. Votel, commander of the Central Command, disclosed in congressional testimony this week that despite a new U.S. policy of pressuring Pakistan, the Islamabad government is still supporting the Taliban terrorist group in the border region with Afghanistan.
Asked during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday if Pakistan is continuing to back terrorist activity in Afghanistan, Gen. Votel said the U.S. pressure campaign has produced some "positive indicators" of a shift.
However, on the question of continued Pakistani support, Gen. Votel noted: "I cannot tell you that we have seen decisive changes in the areas in which we’re working, but I remain very well-engaged with my partner to ensure that we are moving forward on this."
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....and perhaps the Afghans still support the Taliban attacking the Paks...and the beat goes on.
[IsraelTimes] Memo obtained by Foreign Policy details proposal to withdraw aid, including funds to build schools, from some 40 countries that don't vote with Washington at world body
Who leaked it to FP, one wonders...
US Ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... Continued on Page 49
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Who was it that said, "We're going to reward our friends and punish our enemies"? And that was OK eight years ago, wudn't it?
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One of the cardinal rules of politics is that you should never be seen giving a bigger gift to make a new 'friend' than to an old and trusted ally. There will always, always be more needy folk than funds so prioritize.
[FreeBeacon] White Flag could be ISIS 2.0 or false flag operation.
A new group in Iraq called White Flag is coming under close scrutiny by U.S. intelligence agencies amid concerns the terrorist organization could become a regional successor to 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.... White Flag is an gang operating in areas of northwestern and central Iraq since late last year and appears to be a union of Kurdish bandidosbully boyz and former ISIS fighters, according to U.S. defense and military officials.
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With the US announcing cuts in aid money to the Palestinians, one might think the Palestinian Authority would try to cut expenses, but an invoice from a hotel stay by top Palestinian officials this month indicates the exact opposite.
The document, obtained by The Jerusalem Post, shows that PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and General Intelligence Service chief Majed Faraj, as well as two lower-level officials, stayed at the five-star Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, racking up a $14,250.20 bill, including room service and minibar purchases such as $42 on champagne, and a $4 Snickers bar.
The entire bill was covered by the PLO Delegation to the US.
The luxury hotel stay came not long after President Donald Trump said the US will no longer send aid money to Ramallah until the Palestinian leadership negotiates with Israel, and after the State Department cut $110 million of aid money to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The US is UNRWA’s largest donor. On Thursday, a dozen countries pledged a total of $100m. to UNRWA.
Among Farag’s expenses was a $900 "miscellaneous charges" fee, plus several room service meals, including a $140.09 breakfast, and a late-night room service snack costing $91.31. He also raided the minibar, spending $32 on snacks in one day, including $8 each for some cashews and cookies, and racked up $120 in laundry charges.
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$140 breakfast??? Pretty expensive bacon and eggs, if you ask me.
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Hummus and Zam Zam, I'm sure
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I realize that hotel mini-bar prices, $42 for champagne is probably about half a pint, but I thought Muslims were forbidden to ever touch alcohol, even to sanitize their hands in hospitals.
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It was to make the young boys more "pliable" in the Arafat way. It's not haram
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On February 10th Israel shot down an Iranian Shahed 171 jet powered UAV after it crossed the Israeli-Jordanian border flying at a very low altitude. The Israelis say they tracked the Shahed 171 as it left an Iranian base in central Syria and were able to intercept and shoot it down using an AH-64 helicopter gunship. Israel provided video of the missile hitting the Shahed 171 and later displayed pieces of the wreckage on TV. Before this Iran had never put UAVs like this into a combat zone, much used them to try and fly over Israel. Previously it was unclear if UAVs like this actually existed outside of mockups or altered digital photos.
The last time the Shahed 171 was seen was in late 2016 when Iranian TV showed video of a factory producing clones of the American RQ-170 UAV that crash-landed in Iran during 2011. The video showed 13 of the Iranian clones in a factory-type building. But the 13 UAVs represented three different variations on the original. Two of these appeared to be prototypes of a jet powered RQ-170 (Shahed 171). The other eleven UAVs had the distinctive shape of the RQ-170 but appeared to be designed to use a pusher type propeller in the rear. All this appeared to be another propaganda event, for domestic consumption and to confuse or simply annoy foreigners. Now Israel has one of these Shahed 171s, although not intact. But the way these situations are handled Israeli and American technical personnel are reassembling the Shahed 171 and comparing notes on what the RQ-170 can actually do and what the Shahed 171 appears capable of. The Israeli’s probably already knows a lot about the Shahed 171 and admitted they were able to track this "stealthy" UAV over Syria but won’t say how or how well. Iran has no comment.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview with Russian Cossack ataman (head man) and sometime mercenary Yevgeny Shabayev.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Russia is abuzz with media reports that dozens -- perhaps hundreds, by some accounts -- of Russian mercenaries were killed or wounded in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on February 7-8 in fighting with the U.S. military and its Syrian-rebel allies.
The Russian government has been reluctant to talk about the incident, saying on February 15 that "about five" Russians "may have been killed" and, on February 20, that "several dozen" Russian and other former Soviet citizens were injured. The United States has estimated that about 100 fighters were killed in the incident, without specifying their nationalities.
Many of the wounded mercenaries from the Vagner commercial security firm have been evacuated to Russia and are being treated in military hospitals. RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Yelizaveta Mayetnaya visited one such hospital outside St. Petersburg, where she spoke with Yevgeny Shabayev, the ataman of the Khovrino Cossack organization and a sometime mercenary.
Shabayev had just finished visiting eight of the wounded mercenaries. He agreed to talk with RFE/RL about the fighting in Syria and about how and why Russians end up going there. His assertions -- including about burials and casualties, remuneration and compensation, deployments, or purported meetings in the Kremlin -- have not been corroborated by RFE/RL.
RFE/RL: You've just finished visiting the wounded soldiers. What did they tell you about the night they were injured?
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Shabayev: The main reason why they go there is that they have no life here. No work and no social or economic status, neither as former military with specific experience nor as simple citizens. They went as hired soldiers to protect [oligarch] Yevgeny Prigozhin's pipeline, since they were guarding the oil fields around Palmyra.
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What's interesting about the article is that Ukrainians and Russians on opposite sides of the barricades in Ukraine are said to be fighting shoulder to shoulder as mercenaries in Syria. The pay (~$1800 a month) is pretty good when you consider that the typical blue collar Russian salary is said to be around $300.
[Ynet] Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri announced his country will increase its military presence on the Israel-Leb border to counter Israel's presence there, saying he still sees the Jewish State as the main threat to Leb's security.
Leb plans to increase its military presence along its southern border with Israel, Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Born a Catholic, Maxime Hauchard, who was radicalized online before joining terrorist group, is believed to have died last summer
Maxime Hauchard, a French jihadist sought by French and US authorities since appearing in an 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.... execution video in Syria, has been killed, sources close to the inquiry told AFP on Thursday.
"The date and circumstances of his death aren’t yet known, but it appears he died in the summer of 2017," one of the sources said.
Hauchard, who grew up in a village in Normandy before converting from Catholicism to Islam, was just 22 when he was seen holding a knife to the neck of US aid worker Peter Kassig in a gruesome video from November 2014.
The video also showed the execution of 18 Syrians identified as military personnel.
La Belle France soon issued an international arrest warrant, and the US State Department added Hauchard to its black list of "specially designated global terrorists."
Investigators later found that Hauchard became radicalized online, joining jihadist forums under the moniker Abu Abdullah al-Faransi ("the Frenchie").
He twice travelled to Mauritania between October 2012 and May 2013 for studies in Salafism, the radical branch of Islam.
In August 2013 he left for Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , telling his family he wanted to "help the maimed" in the country’s civil war, but in fact he was taken under the wing of IS recruiters.
"To show allegiance, you must first go to a training camp. The first stage lasts around a month. We do some training, we go on operations and after that we return to training. It’s not just theory," he told a French TV station in July 2014.
A few months later IS released the video showing the execution of Kassig and the Syrian soldiers, in which Hauchard was shown with his face uncovered.
He emerged again in November 2015, a few days after the Gay Paree terror attacks that killed 130 people, warning on Twitter: "Brazil, you’re our next target," a reference to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The French government says about 1,700 Frenchies have left to fight alongside IS in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
More than 300 French jihadists, including 12 women, have been killed during the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria since then, while about 730 adults and 500 children are still there.
The interior ministry says 256 French jihadists have returned to La Belle France, along with 78 minors.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
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[Wash Times via Free Beacon] Gen. Joseph L. Votel, commander of the Central Command, disclosed in congressional testimony this week that despite a new U.S. policy of pressuring Pakistan, the Islamabad government is still supporting the Taliban terrorist group in the border region with Afghanistan.
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Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 
