[Tolo] What would we do without HRW "experts"? I'm sure it's Trump's fault
The Human Rights Watch cited 2021 as an unfortunate year for women "mostly because of Afghanistan".
The associate director of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, Heather Barr, said that the "Taliban" rolled back Afghan women's access to their rights.
"So, it is the end of the year, and we are looking back on what kind of the year 2021 has been for women’s rights around the world, and unfortunately, it hasn’t been a good year, I mean that is mostly because of Afghanistan," she told TOLOnews on Tuesday. "I think that what we saw after August fifteenth, is that as the Taliban rolled backed the right to education, the right to employment, the right to access health care, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of association and the right to live free from violence for women and girls across Afghanistan."
A prominent Afghan women rights activist, Mahbouba Seraj, voiced concerns over the current status of Afghan women.
"When the right of education is taken from girls and women, and they are incapable of doing their activities, and all kind of access is restricted for women, this is the worst situation for women in the country," she said.
According to her, the main reason for the current crisis in the country is due to women’s isolation from society, including governmental affairs. "I remained here (Afghanistan) to be the voice of women and to warn that no government can survive," Seraj said.
Barr also referred to the international community and said that it "didn’t do much" to protect Afghan women.
"I think that really illustrates for women around the world, how fragile our rights are and how easily they can be rolled back and how little resistance we’ll see from the governments," she said.
"The silence of the international community is one of the reasons that women are faced with the worst situations," said Madina Darwazi, a women rights activist.
But the Islamic Emirate said that it has been committed to women’s rights based on Islamic values.
"Many women are still working in several organizations and girls also going to schools in some provinces. We are committed to ensuring the rights of all citizens," said Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate.
This comes as the Islamic Emirate has been facing criticism inside and outside Afghanistan for imposing restrictions on women.
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Master of the Obvious pic sorely needed here...
[Tolo] The owners of beauty salons in Kabul criticized the decision of the Islamic Emirate, and asked the government to not impose restrictions on their business.
The Kabul municipality in a new effort has taken steps to remove the photos of women on storefronts in Kabul city.
The spokesman of Kabul municipality, Nematullah Barakzai, said the government has ordered the municipality’s officials to remove all photos of women on the signboards of shops and business centers in Kabul.
"Based on the decision of the government, the photos that are against Islamic regulations will be collected or removed from billboards," said Barakzai.
Meanwhile, the owners of beauty salons in Kabul criticized the decision of the Islamic Emirate, and asked the government to not impose restrictions on their business.
Shayesta Saifi, a makeup artist, has worked in a beauty salon for seven years. Shayesta said she is financially assisting her 10-member family. "This is imposing a restriction on women’s work, there is a fear that they will lock our shop in the next days," she told TOLOnews.
"What does it benefit the government to remove photos of women?" said Parwana, a women’s rights activist.
This comes as international organizations have repeatedly called on the Islamic Emirate to not ignore the rights of women and to not marginalize women from society, but the Islamic Emirate government claims that it already respects women based on Islamic principles.
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They gonna use goats instead
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[JustTheNews] Chinese state media says the Taliban is pushing for China to mine in Afghanistan, but claims efforts are stalled because the United States is "aggravating the economic collapse."
The Taliban is pushing China to mine in Afghanistan, according to The Global Times, a Chinese state-controlled media outlet.
Afghanistan is home to an estimated $1 trillion to $3 trillion worth of rare earth metals. China is home to about two-thirds of rare earths, and the communist country already provides more than 85% of rare metals and minerals globally, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The Global Times touted the most recent development in an article Thursday titled "Chinese firm's copper mine project in Afghanistan hasn't started, despite Taliban's push."
Work on the copper mine has been reportedly stalled for years due to issues surrounding Afghanistan's security.
Taliban officials are hoping that work will resume quickly on the mine, which is expected to be the second-largest copper mine in the world.
The Global Times blamed the United States for the "severe challenges" facing the jihadist-controlled nation. Treason, Binden approved
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LOL how they gonna get those millions of tons of material out of the country? The Afghans already burned the Chinese when they tried to build a railway. Afghanistan is just a big tar-baby for anyone foolish enough to try.
[An Nahar] A group of candidates in war-torn Libya's presidential election said Monday that they expect the polls to be delayed, despite the lack of an official announcement to that effect.Scheduled for Friday, the vote is meant to cap a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... -led grinding of the peace processor after a decade of conflict.
But it has been beset by deep divisions over its legal basis, who may stand and court challenges against prominent candidates.
On Monday, 17 hopefuls issued a joint statement in which they implicitly acknowledged that a delay was inevitable.
The group urged the electoral commission to "reveal the reasons why there will be no election on the date set", and called on it to "publish a final list of candidates".
Multiple observers have predicted a delay, but just days ahead of the vote, there has been no official announcement.
Libya, torn apart by a decade of conflict since its 2011 revolution, has seen a year of relative calm since a landmark October 2020 ceasefire, and the UN has been pushing for elections as part of a multi-pronged peace effort.
But presidential bids by several divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... figures, a controversial electoral law and lack of agreement over the powers of the next government have posed a series of obstacles.
The candidacies of eastern military chief 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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. Actually, he is, but slowly... and Seif al-Islam Qadaffy, son of slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... -- both accused of war crimes -- have sparked particular opposition from rival camps.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... in a country controlled by dozens of gangs including thousands of imported muscle, analysts warn that the ceasefire is increasingly fragile.
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[IsraelTimes] Blogger, his lawyer and fellow blogger Mohammed ’Oxygen’ Ibrahim all sent to prison; Washington says freedom of expression should be secure without fear of criminal penalties.
Egypt on Monday sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail, with two others receiving four years, his sister and a judicial source said.
A computer programmer, blogger and high-profile activist who mobilized youths in the uprising that unseated autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , Abdel Fattah had been in pre-trial detention since September 2019.
Abdel Fattah, his lawyer Mohammed al-Baqer and blogger Mohammed "Oxygen" Ibrahim were convicted of "broadcasting false news" in their trial in Cairo.
Washington, which has already frozen 10 percent of its aid to Egypt over repeated rights violations, said it was "disappointed" by the sentence.
"Journalists, human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. defenders, and others seeking to peacefully exercise their freedom of expression should be able to do so without facing criminal penalties, intimidation, harassment, or any other form of reprisal," said US State Department front man Ned Price.
The Committee to Protect Journalists decried Monday’s ruling as "unacceptable."
The verdict "demonstrates the lengths to which authorities are willing to go to punish these journalists for their work," said Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa Coordinator.
CPJ considers bloggers as engaging in journalism.
"Both journalists have already spent several years in prison on bogus charges, and authorities must release them immediately and unconditionally," Mansour added.
BEHIND BARS AGAIN
Pre-trial detention can last two years under Egyptian law, but in practice, detainees are often kept waiting behind bars longer.
Abdel Fattah was arrested in the wake of rare night-time protests prompted by an exiled construction contractor calling for the removal of Sissi on claims of corruption.
Baqer and Ibrahim were also detained in a massive crackdown.
Abdel Fattah has spent most of the past decade in jail at Tora, one of the country’s most notorious prisons, after previous convictions.
His mother, mathematics professor Laila Soueif, wrote in a New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... opinion piece published on Saturday that "the outside world, once so inspired by the Egyptian revolutionaries, is looking away.
"His crime is that, like millions of young people in Egypt and far beyond, he believed another world was possible. And he dared to try to make it happen."
Prolific writer Abdel Fattah’s critically acclaimed essay collection "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated" was published in October.
"At its fundamental core, his writing is attached to justice," Soueif told AFP in October when the book was released.
Rights groups say Egypt is holding some 60,000 political prisoners, many facing brutal conditions and overcrowded cells.
In a 2019 interview with the show 60 Minutes on US broadcaster CBS, Sissi said there were no political prisoners in Egypt.
The former army chief became president in 2014 after leading the military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi a year earlier.
He has since overseen a sweeping crackdown on dissent. Those incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for criticizing the political status quo have included academics, journalists, lawyers, activists, comedians, Islamists, presidential candidates and former MPs.
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We're attacking citizen journalists too, what's wrong with that? They're untrustworthy and fake news. Unlike our legitimate credentialed mainstream media, which would never lie. Especially about serious matters like war. With Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia...they've got the real picture of what's going on, unlike those untrustworthy bloggers.
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September 16, 2014: "Qutb Al-Arabi Congratulates Alaa Abdel-Fattah; Demands Freedom for All Political Detainees. Journalist and Muslim Brotherhood Leader Qutb Al-Arabi hails the release of political activists, including Alaa Abdel-Fattah, from junta jails, while 40,000 more remain behind bars." Now it is 60,000 behind bars, and by January it should be a reported 80,000 by the always dependable IsraelTimes.
[BenarNews] Nearly seven years after MoslemDeath Eaters killed Bangladeshi secular blogger Avijit Roy
...Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer and blogger who created the Mukto-Mona internet community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, including rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists. Engineers are dangerous — they can’t be stopped thinking logically, and explaining their conclusions, short of death, so Ansarullah Bangla Team arranged it. ABT is ISIS in Bangladesh now, but at the time Al Qaeda was where all the kewl jihadis pledged their blood...
and injured his wife outside a Dhaka book fair, the United States announced a reward of up to $5 million Monday for information leading to the arrest or conviction of anyone involved in the attack.
It was not immediately clear why the U.S. government announced the potential reward only now. But in Washington, a State Department official said the investigation into the case remained open and the United States was seeking information that could help law enforcement catch perpetrators of the "heinous terrorist attack" on Roy and his wife, both American citizens.
That makes it sound like the newest intern was poking though old files and showed the results to her training supervisor.
"The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, through its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) office, is offering a reward for information on the terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh that left U.S. citizen Avijit Roy dead and his wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, seriously injured," the State Department said in a statement.
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[IsraelTimes] B’nai Brith report says Brussels should place conditions on aid to Paleostinians after years of ignoring hate speech in textbooks and payouts to assailants and families.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has not done enough to ensure that its funding to the Paleostinian Authority does not support incitement to violence and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations, a study published on Tuesday argued.
"Despite existing anti-terrorism regulations, the EU has not addressed funding by the Paleostinian Authority to families of convicted holy warriors as well as the persistent issue of incitement to hatred and widespread antisemitism in Paleostinian textbooks," wrote researchers Tommaso Virgili and Paul Stott, who previously authored a report on hidden Moslem Brüderbund networks in Europe.
The study was commissioned by B’nai Brith International, a Jewish non-profit that also advocates on behalf of Israel in the United States and abroad.
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The report slammed the EU for failing to ensure accountability in the Paleostinian Authority education system. Paleostinian textbooks have long been assailed by critics as containing hate speech and incitement, including by a 2021 EU study.
Brussels is the PA’s largest single donor and helps pay the salaries of many of its civil servants, including those who design PA curricula. It is also the second-largest donor to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Works and Reliefs Agency — which supports Paleostinian refugees — sending over $157 million in aid in 2021.
"For many years, the EU has been criticized for failing to align its practice with principles with regard to the Paleostinian Authority and Paleostinian nonprofits," B’nai Brith director Alan Schneider said during a webinar inaugurating the report.
The report also charged that the EU does not uphold its own values when it continues to fund the PA, given the PA’s practice of paying stipends to the families of those imprisoned or killed by Israeli forces. Critics call the practice "pay for slay," as the funds can also go to Paleostinians convicted of brutal acts of terror.
The EU for too long "turned a blind eye towards the practice of payments to the families of convicted terrorists, praised as deaders," said European parliamentarian David Lega during the report’s launch.
The researchers argued that Brussels should impose conditions on its aid to the PA and consider adopting legislation that bans aid as long as Ramallah continues paying out stipends to Paleostinian security prisoners and their families.
While Israeli officials have consistently condemned the prisoner stipends and alleged incitement in textbooks, the government has also sought to bolster the PA, seen as more moderate than its Islamist Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, rivals, including by increasing international aid to its rapidly draining coffers.
As recently as November, Israel lobbied international donors in Oslo — including the European Union — to step up support for the Paleostinian Authority.
The report elided any mention of Ramallah’s policy of security coordination with Israel, in which Paleostinian Authority forces work with Israeli intelligence to crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... holy warriors in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Experts say terror group derives as much as $30 million a month from taxes on fuel and tobacco entering via Rafah crossing, while international aid covers Gazoo’s basic needs.
Each month, hundreds of trucks heavy with fuel, cement and other goods cross a plowed no-man’s land between Egypt and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip — and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", becomes stronger.
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Hamas was created in Gaza in 1988 as an arm of the international Muslim Brotherhood. And Qatar is a major funder of the Brotherhood and for years has helped Gaza survive. That being said, no right-minded individual would care to live there, and no Gaza immigrants are welcomed anywhere.
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one reason for Israel's cooperation w Hamas is that Hamas keeps a lid on the other terrorist groups and probably provideds the IDF with intel on these groups
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[An Nahar] Israel's former military intelligence chief says Israel was involved in the American Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. It is the first public acknowledgement of Israel's role in the operationSoleimani headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force and helped orchestrate Iran's involvement with paramilitary groups abroad. He was killed in a U.S. dronezap at the Baghdad airport in January 2020, an incident that threatened to pull the countries into full-blown conflict.
A week after the airstrike, NBC News reported that Israeli intelligence helped confirm the details of Soleimani's flight from Damascus to Baghdad. Earlier this year, Yahoo News reported that Israel "had access to Soleimani's numbers" and gave that intelligence to the United States.
But Maj. Gen. Tamir Heyman, the now-retired general who headed military intelligence until October, appears to be the first official to confirm Israel's involvement.
Heyman's comments were published in the November issue of a Hebrew-language magazine closely affiliated with Israel's intelligence services. The interview was held in late September, a couple weeks before his retirement from the military. The authors wrote that Heyman opened the interview by talking about the American airstrike that killed Soleimani, but in which Israeli intelligence played a part.
"Assassinating Soleimani was an an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, are the Iranians," Heyman told the magazine. He said there were "two significant and important liquidations during my term" as head of army intelligence.
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Israeli intelligence is absolutely critical for us. Without it, we'd be flying blind in the ME
#US Special Envoy for #Iran Rob Malley says that there are only “some weeks left” before there will no longer be a nuclear deal to revive after the seventh round of indirect talks ended last week. https://t.co/p6pnfDu5EL
#Lebanon needs $12-15 billion in loans from its partners to kickstart its economic recovery, Central Bank Governor #RiadSalameh says in an interview.https://t.co/ZpGjhvHLe5
[An Nahar] The Constitutional Council failed Tuesday to issue a ruling on the appeal filed by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... against the electoral law’s amendments, which means that the adjustments will go into effect and that no six new seats will be dedicated to expats.
Admitting that the no-ruling can be considered a "flop" for the Council, Judge Tannous Meshleb, the Council’s chief, said "the appeal would not have resolved 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 crisis."
"The elections would have happened anyway," Meshleb added, noting that the Council "failed to secure the needed majority for all the points."
"We have failed to reach a unified stance," he said.
Responding to a news hound’s question about possible political interference in the Council’s work, Meshleb said: "No one has asked us to take a certain decision."
Meshleb also denied the presence of a "sectarian" rift in the Council, while noting that the no-ruling means that elections in the 16th district, dedicated to expats, will be postponed to 2026.
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[An Nahar] MP George Adwan of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... on Tuesday lauded the Constitutional Council for "staying out of (political) deals," shortly after the Council announced that it failed to issue a ruling on an appeal filed by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... against the electoral law’s amendments."The (Council’s) members maintained their stance," Adwan added, noting that "the constitutional and legal right of non-residents to vote for 128 seats has triumphed."
"The attempted deal will remain in the minds of non-residents, who will hold accountable the domineering system that displaced them from their homeland and kept trying to exclude them until the last moment," the MP went on to say.
MP Imad Wakim, also of the LF bloc, for his part tweeted that "the will of Lebanese expats to take part in parliamentary elections in their (electoral) districts has triumphed."
They "will not be isolated from their homeland and they will hold you accountable," he added.
Former deputy PM Ghassan Hasbani also tweeted that "the Constitutional Council remained safe from political deals."
"The right of expats to vote from their places of residence has been consolidated. This is an additional positive step towards the parliamentary elections," he added.
A major political deal among several parties had been reached on Monday, but it failed to materialize due to the rejection of some parties, most notably Prime Minister Najib Miqati, media reports said.
According to reports, the deal had called for the Constitutional Council to accept the FPM’s appeal in return for preventing Judge Tarek Bitar from questioning ex-ministers, securing the resumption of Cabinet sessions and replacing the head of the Higher Judicial Council, the state prosecutor, the financial prosecutor and the head of judicial inspection.
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[An Nahar] Iran's top diplomat to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... died on Tuesday after reportedly contracting 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... , Iranian state TV said, just days after he was abruptly recalled from his mission in the war-torn nation.
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday lashed out at 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... and the Amal Movement over the Constitutional Council’s failure to issue a ruling on an appeal filed by the FPM against the electoral law’s amendments."The Constitutional Council has did away with himself," Bassil said in a televised address.
"The Council was toppled and paralyzed today," he lamented, describing what happened as "a sign of the disintegration of the state."
"What happened undermines the National Pact and the President's jurisdiction as to Article 57, and it is an additional fall of the constitution which we are trying to preserve," Bassil said.
He added that what happened took place based on a "clear political decision by a system that is allied with each other during President Aoun’s term."
"It was led today by the Shiite duo in the Constitutional Council, which will have political consequences," Bassil went on to say.
Lamenting that the Constitutional Council "decided to remain silent over a host of issues, including the manipulation of deadlines and the addition of articles to a legislative text related to the powers of the justice and foreign ministers without a discussion nor a vote," Bassil decried the no-ruling as the result of a "new four-party alliance" in the face of the FPM.
He was referring to the 2005 parliamentary elections, when the FPM’s lists competed in some districts against candidates backed by Hizbullah, the Amal Movement, the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... and the Progressive Socialist Party.
Bassil also revealed that he received a phone call and a proposal prior to the Constitutional Council’s decision.
"We were asked to accept voting in parliament in favor of the (formation of the) Higher Council (for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers), in return for the Constitutional Council accepting our appeal. I told them that they already know the answer and to stop these ploys. The bargain proposal was not accepted two months ago and it will not be accepted today," the FPM chief added.
"We are seeking a solution, not a bargain, and we tell the Shiite duo that there is no justification for the failure to hold Cabinet sessions. I also tell this to the premier, because it doesn’t seem that he is in a hurry regarding this," Bassil said.
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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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[Tolo] The owners of beauty salons in Kabul criticized the decision of the Islamic Emirate, and asked the government to not impose restrictions on their business.
[JustTheNews] Chinese state media says the Taliban is pushing for China to mine in Afghanistan, but claims efforts are stalled because the United States is "aggravating the economic collapse."
...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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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. Actually, he is, but slowly...
[BenarNews] Nearly seven years after 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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...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...
Najib Miqati
...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...
