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Afghanistan
Afghan president names council for peace deal with Taliban
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  What the Hell kind of politician is he? Council? Everybody who's anybody knows he needs to form a committee.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/31/2020 14:22 Comments || Top||


Africa North
GNA Military Prosecutor Allows Undersecretary of Health Ministry to Travel to Turkey
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Military Prosecutor’s Office, which is part of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of National Accord (GNA), allowed Muhammad Haitham, the former Chairman of the Military Medicine Authority, and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, despite an ongoing investigation on his alleged misuse of public funds and corruption.
Muhammad Grouda, a member of the prosecution from the Military Prosecutor’s office, sent a letter to the Passports, Nationality, and Foreigners Affairs Authority, allowing Haitham to leave Libya for Turkey via Mitiga Airport.

Libyan sources said on Friday that "a force affiliated with the Special Deterrence Force militia led by Muhammad Wafa, known as al-Harba, attacked Haitham’s residence to capture him, but his guards confronted them.

The sources indicated an armed clash took place between the two sides, which resulted in the injury of the commander of the attacking group and the killing of the militiaman, Abu Bakr Buzheir, in addition to the killing and wounding of several Haitham’s guards.

On 20 August, the Military Prosecutor’s Office, part of the GNA Ministry of Defence, issued a travel ban for seven individuals including the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health. This decision is due to the ongoing investigations related to financial abuse in the military medical system and the wasting of public money meant to fight the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
epidemic.


Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


al-Sarraj Pledges Administrative Reforms and Service Improvements in Libyan Municipalities
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Sunday, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, held a meeting with a delegation of mayors from Libyan municipalities.

The delegation included mayors of the municipalities of Zintan, Msallata, Gharyan, Zahraa, El Azizia, Nalut, Hay Al Andalus, Abu Salim.

During the meeting, the municipalities reiterated their support to the GNA and the importance of joining their hands in addressing the current critical stage experienced by the country.

They also called on al-Sarraj to carry out administrative and economic reforms in order to modernise services, improve citizens’ standard of living, and activate the local administration system.

On his part, the GNA Prime Minister welcomed the mayors of the municipalities and stressed the importance of their role in supporting state stability, noting that the Presidential Council will continue to carry out its duties in meeting all demands of the Libyan people and carrying out reforms in all aspects and in various fields.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


NCHRL: Massive Violations of Human Rights Still Prevalent in Libya Despite 10 Years of Political Change
[LIBYAREVIEW] On the International Day of Enforced Disappearance taking place on August 30, the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) reported that after ten years of political change in Libya, the country is still witnessing numerous grave human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
violations.Kidnapping and enforced disappearances based on social identity and political affiliation are among the most prominent forms of these violations, according to the Commission.

The NCHRL has expressed its concern over the spread of enforced disappearances and urged all parties to the conflict not to use enforced disappearance as a tool of war. The Committee also reminded the warring parties that the kidnapping of civilians constitutes hostage-taking, which remains a war crime.

Per Rome Statute Article 7, hostage-taking is considered to be enforced disappearance and remains a crime against humanity.

The Committee also reminds all parties to the conflict that, according to Article 1, paragraph 1, of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, "no person shall be subjected to enforced disappearance, whether concerning a state of war, threat of war, internal political instability, or any other exceptional situation to justify enforced disappearance. "



Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Obama/Hillary foreign policy still at work.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2020 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  all they needed to do was to check if Islam is still around.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/31/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||


Arabia
US pressuring Saudi Arabia to join Israel-UAE meeting in Abu Dhabi: Report
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] A new report has revealed that the Americans are mounting pressure on 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...
to join a trilateral summit of Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the US, which is due to be held in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on Sunday that Saudi envoys may arrive in Abu Dhabi on Monday to join the trilateral summit, which will focus on the normalization deal that Washington brokered between Israel and the UAE earlier this month.

Earlier, Rooters quoted an informed source as saying that an Israeli airliner will fly to the UAE on Monday with aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
aboard to put final touches on the normalization pact.

The Israeli report said Jared Kushner, an advisor to Trump, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, US Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz, and other US officials will travel to the UAE together with an Israeli delegation led by Meir Ben-Shabbat, the regime’s security advisor.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ...
Kushner is also trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to join the signing ceremony of the normalization agreement in October.

"Ahead of the planned event in Washington, Kushner and his aides have recently been working with [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed] bin Salman to approve the dispatching of high-ranking Saudi envoys to Abu Dhabi as early as tomorrow, in parallel with the arrival of the Israeli delegation," Yedioth Ahronoth said.

The Middle East Eye news portal had previously revealed that bin Salman had pulled out of a planned visit to Washington DC to meet Netanyahu after he received reports that news of his trip had been leaked.

Sources told MEE that Trump and Kushner have been pushing for the meeting to happen to relaunch bin Salman’s image as a young Arab peacemaker and shore up regional support for the deal between Israel and the UAE.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Economy
Fleet of moving trucks mark exodus from Manhattan’s troubled Upper West Side
[New York Post] Moving trucks were out in force on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday — leaving Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa practically tripping over them.

“The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC is in full effect,” Sliwa, who lives on W. 87th Street, lamented, blaming the city’s decision this summer to house hundreds of emotionally disturbed homeless and recovering addicts in neighborhood hotels.

A mayoral candidate, Sliwa has been organizing and often leading Guardian Angels patrols of the area.
Oh? Hopefully he wins by a landslide, followed by sweeping changes.
“They were stacked up,” Sliwa told The Post of the four trucks he saw as he took a morning walk on Saturday.

Stopping at each truck, he was told each was heading out of state.

No sooner had Sliwa stepped out of his apartment building — where nine out of the 12 units are empty — than he saw the first moving truck of the morning.

It was the eighth truck he’s seen on his block in less than two weeks.
Does he live in Fayette County, Georgia ?
“The moment I walked out on my block, near Central Park West, there was a moving truck. I asked where you going, and they said, ‘Virginia,'” he said.

“They told me, ‘Curtis, first the pandemic hit us and now the quality of life is so bad'” Sliwa said.

“The woman was almost crying. They said they survived the ’70s,” as a young couple in the then-high crime neighborhood. “But then in a month, in July, the neighborhood was destroyed.”

On his way to his local deli at West 87th Street and Columbus Avenue, he saw the second truck.

“They were heading to Concord, New Hampshire,” Sliwa said.

The third truck was nearby, on Columbus at West 84th Street.

“They were moving to Tennessee. The driver told me ‘We’re working morning, noon and night’ to move people out of state.”

The fourth truck was at W. 75th and Central Park West.

“It was a young family,” a mom and dad, and a little boy and girl.

“They were moving themselves down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,” Sliwa said.

“They said in the last month, there have been so many disturbed people in the streets, aggressively panhandling, defecating, urinating — they leave the hotels and have no bathrooms to use,” Sliwa said of the new homeless neighbors, who he believes are also victims.

These are the people who elected de Blasio, who live here,” Sliwa said. “It’s a progressive, liberal neighborhood. And now there’s a visceral hate here for him — the feeling that he has virtually singlehandedly destroyed this city.”
Not only are they leaving, but come election day they won’t be around to vote for Mr. Sliwa.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Look for the silver lining. You think as an international diplomat or bureaucrat you would want to live and work in such a rat hole when you could be living in civilized Geneva. Hint, hint.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  procopius

those people live mostly on the east side or Brooklyn or Queens
Posted by: lord garth || 08/31/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Demoncratic method of stealing election from Trump.
Posted by: One Eyed Lover of the Danes1100 || 08/31/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe de Blasio can cook them dinner?
Posted by: gorb || 08/31/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Nah, that was Cuomo who offered to don an apron. Wilhelm can care less, I think.
Posted by: Clem || 08/31/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#6  “These are the people who elected de Blasio, who live here,”

Fanfukntastic.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/31/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#7  “They were heading to Concord, New Hampshire,” Sliwa said.

FYI, it's NH's state capitol (read - good number of hack government jobs) and a newspaper (Concord Monitor) that's the most liberal in the state - they'll fit right in.
Posted by: Raj || 08/31/2020 18:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe de Blasio can cook them dinner?

If I asked him to fix me a cup of coffee, he'd fuck it up somehow.
Posted by: Raj || 08/31/2020 18:15 Comments || Top||

#9  It is hard to believe anyone would legitimately elect Big Bird to represent them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/31/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
Radical Islamist Asylum Seeker Costing German Taxpayers €4,000 Per Day
Part of the Dhimmi tax for refusing to surrender. I hope the new government finally makes decisions long delayed.
[Breitbart] A Syrian asylum seeker who is recognised as a terrorist threat due to his Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
sympathies costs German taxpayers 4,000 euros a day to monitor but has never been placed on trial.

In all, Ayman N. has cost the German taxpayer around five million euros in the three years he has been under strict observation by German security services, and even has four plainclothes coppers escort him when he goes to the shop to buy food.

Police have spent around 95,000 hours of work on observing and escorting the Syrian teen at a rate of 52 euros per hour for each police officer, according to information provided to German tabloid Bild by the Saxony-Anhalt Interior Ministry.

The Syrian is said to have come to Germany in 2015 during the height of the migrant crisis and became radicalised in 2017 when he began contacting members of the Islamic State terror group over the Internet.

"He made it clear that he wanted to carry out an attack against the lives of many people living in Germany," a justice official told the paper.

While Ayman N. was initially supposed to stand trial for preparing a terrorist attack in 2017, a court suspended the proceedings claiming further investigations needed to be carried out.

Since then, the Syrian has been under strict observation, with four officers taking turns on eight-hour shifts 24 hours a day with no end in sight.

Several other Islamic State members or sympathisers have been found roaming free in Germany, including a member of the terror group who was spotted by a Yazidi woman he had previously kept as a slave.

The young woman ended up fleeing Germany to Iraq after running into the man, who had come to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
posing as a refugee, in a local supermarket in the town of Schwäbisch Gmund.

Earlier this year, an Islamic State commander, who also fled to Germany during the migrant crisis, was charged by prosecutors in Frankfurt for violating the country’s terror laws.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Ford Foundation Indirectly Funding Leftist Violence in US
[Federalist] ...Claiming to be America's second-largest private foundation, the Ford Foundation has poured almost $2 billion into groups active in "disrupting systems to advance social justice," according to its grant database.

The Ford Foundation boasts key members of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign as alumni executives. Harris's sister and ex-campaign chairwoman Maya Harris served as the Ford foundation's vice president alongside Biden's now senior advisor, Cristóbal Alex, who served as its program director during the Obama presidency....
Posted by: lord garth || 08/31/2020 10:11 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  follow the money. They're breaking all kinds of laws.

BLM is a terror organization funded by above-board lefty foundations, Soros, terrorist Susan Rosenberg's Tides Foundation... and the Dems' own monster dark money fund-raising arm, Act Blue.
Posted by: Clyde Elmusoting3981 || 08/31/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Only their methodology is indirect. Everything else is absolutely focused.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/31/2020 20:20 Comments || Top||

#3  a good rule of thumb: anytime you see justice described with an adjective, it is lefty bullshit.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/31/2020 20:30 Comments || Top||


Antisemitic mural resurfaces at March on Washington 2020
[Jpost] Two protestors were photographed wearing shirts with the image of an antisemitic mural, championed by former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A mural which gained prominence as the subject of a row over antisemitism within the British Labour Party two years ago has seemingly been taken up by black equality activists in America.

Two protesters at the March on Washington 2020 were photographed on Friday wearing t-shirts depicting the image first painted as a mural in London by the artist Mear One. The image depicts Jewish bankers playing a game similar to monopoly on the backs of people of color, underneath the masonic Eye of Providence.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2020 01:56 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Video: Jacob Blake's father recites Qur'an passage widely seen as condemning Jews and Christians
[JihadWatch] The final two verses of the Fatiha ask Allah:

Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.

The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the "straight path" is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path — while the path "of those who have evoked Allah’s anger" are the Jews, and those who have gone "astray" are the Christians.

The classic Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that "the two paths He described here are both misguided," and that those "two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ’anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ’led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians."
Jacob Blake, Sr. chanted the thing in Arabic. Because “[his] family is very diverse.“ Had he read it in English, that would be one thing. But to have the knowledge and comfort to chant it in a foreign language — that should raise questions. The Indian Express adds to the confusion by clarifying:
According to a report in the Chicago Tribune newspaper, Blake was raised in Evanston, a town outside the city of Chicago. He, later moved to to Kenosha several years ago for a job and for his family. His family have a long history of community activism. The victim’s grandfather, Jacob Blake Sr., was a prominent minister and civil rights leader in the Chicago area who helped organise a march in support of a comprehensive housing law in Evanston, Illinois, days after the 1968 slaying of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Why on earth is a Christian minister chanting an anti-Christian verse in Arabic?
Posted by: Voldemort Platypus2749 || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why on earth is a Christian minister chanting an anti-Christian verse in Arabic?

Any evidence that he's a Christian minister? Any to the contrary?
Posted by: gorb || 08/31/2020 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought this idiot was still ruminating on vegetable choices. As far as being a minister, all black men who survive into their 40's generally begin to refer to themselves as ministers. If they live into their 60's and beyond they are frequently called bishops, church, congregation and any theological conviction or thought whatsoever not required.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/31/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Deacons. A lot like in the old South every wealthy older guy was a Captain, Colonel or Judge.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/31/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Call me Commodore Frank
Posted by: Frank G || 08/31/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  That old SOB will be fine with me. If thwy are under 65, might as well say wat they're a think'n.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/31/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey’s Lake Van turns into graveyard for migrants
In which Rudaw pitches a human interest tale about the Ummah getting rid of surplus population.
[Rudaw] Gravestones scribbled with identity numbers are all that remain of dozens of migrants colonists aboard a boat that sank in a Ottoman Turkish lake as they struggled to make it to Europe.

Lake Van, a vast body of water nearly seven times the size of Lake Geneva, has become a death trap for Afghan, Pak and other migrants colonists seeking security and work.

The sinking of two boats in June and December, claiming 68 lives in all, underscores the perils of a route used to circumnavigate checkpoints set up across the rugged eastern terrain of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2020 00:53 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Erdogan condemns efforts to disregard Turkey's existence
[APA.AZ] The actors who tried to invade The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
one century ago and have been trying to exclude Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean now are the same, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
said Saturday, APA reports citing Daily Sabah.

"Our nation will not hesitate to hinder acts reminiscent of Sevres agreement, just like it won independence war despite difficulties," he said in his message marking the 98th anniversary of a decisive battle that drove out invading foreign forces in post-World War I Turkey.

Winners of WWI tried to impose the humiliating Treaty of Sevres upon the Ottoman government after its defeat, which was scrapped after the victory in the Ottoman Turkish War of Independence.

Erdogan added that with Aug. 30 victory, Ottoman Turkish people showed that they will protect their homeland forever.

From Aug. 26 to Aug. 30, 1922, Ottoman Turkish forces fought the Battle of Dumlupinar — considered part of the Greco-Ottoman Turkish War — in Turkey's western Kutahya province, where Greek forces were decisively defeated. By the end of 1922, all foreign forces had left the territories, which would collectively become the new Republic of Turkey one year later.

Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish TV channels air reportage on how Russia prepares Armenia for a war with Azerbaijan
[APA.AZ] "Russia, dissatisfied with the close rapprochement between Azerbaijan and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, is preparing Armenia for war," such opinions are voiced in the reportage of Ottoman Turkish TV channels Haber Global and TRT WORLD, dedicated to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, APA reports.

The reportage shows that over 500 tons of Russian weapons have been sent to Armenia over the past 25 days, it tells how the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire on the Tovuz section of the Azerbaijani border, the author also did not disregard the recent visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Azerbaijan, who rejected claims to sell weapons to Armenia.

A Ottoman Turkish journalist questions Shoigu's assertion that only construction materials are supplied to Armenia on Russian Il-76 aircraft.

Another report tells how Armenian units regularly fire at Azerbaijani villages, keeping civilians in fear and anxiety, etc.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria’s Assad names new government headed by PM Arnous
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
issues a decree appointing a new cabinet without changing the heads of so-called "sovereign" portfolios, days after confirming Hussein Arnous as the country’s premier.

The decree, published on the presidency’s social media channels, keeps the heads of the foreign affairs, defense, interior, economy and information ministries in their posts but changes those in charge of 12 other cabinet portfolios, including the ministries of finance, energy and public health.

The 29-minister government, which includes three female ministers, is the fifth to be formed since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011.

It comes as Syria grapples with a grinding economic crisis, a spiraling coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
outbreak and continued violence in the country’s north.

The government’s official mandate will expire next July when presidential elections are due, after which it will continue to function in a caretaker capacity until a presidential decree is issued naming a new cabinet, as per the constitution.

Assad had on Tuesday named Arnous as prime minister after he was appointed interim premier in June ahead of last month’s parliamentary polls.

Arnous, an engineer who was previously the water resources minister, replaced Imad Khamis after he was sacked more than two months ago.

Khamis headed the government for four years and the presidency did not give an official reason for his removal, but it followed a wave of criticism against the government for its handling of an economic crisis that had plunged war-weary Syrians deeper into poverty.

A new wave of US sanctions against Syria that came into effect in June has sparked fears of deeper economic turmoil.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2020 01:56 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Lebanese ambassador Adib emerges as front-runner to be PM
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s largest Christian bloc, the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, will nominate the Lebanese ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib as the country’s next prime minister, party leader Gebran Bassil told Rooters on Sunday.

Bassil said an agreement had been reached to nominate Adib, who earlier on Sunday was also named as a candidate by the Future Movement led by main Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri.

Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2020-08-31
  Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence: army, local leader
Sun 2020-08-30
  Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
Sat 2020-08-29
  Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
after refusing Trump assistance
Fri 2020-08-28
  Antifa and BLM attacking people leaving the Whitehouse after RNC end.
Thu 2020-08-27
  Congo army says Islamist militia kills 20 in east
Wed 2020-08-26
  Kenosha Residents Fire Warning Shots as Rioters Threaten Neighborhoods (video)
Tue 2020-08-25
  Chief: Detroit police prevented 'Seattle zone of lawlessness'
Mon 2020-08-24
  Denver: After attacking police headquarters and a courthouse, antifa black bloc militants go around smashing up businesses
Sun 2020-08-23
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