[DW] After coming to power, the Islamist group imposed a ban on girls' education, prompting some Afghans to set up an "underground school." DW spoke to some of the girls who are determined to continue their studies.
Fourteen Afghan girls gather every day in the basement of a building in Kabul to continue their studies. Their teacher is a senior student who teaches them mathematics.
The school is hidden from the outside world — the door and windows are shut so that nobody can see or hear the students.
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[ToloNews] Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi after his Thursday visit to Kabul said his country supports the Islamic Emirate in bringing positive changes in financial and economic areas.
Qureshi has also announced that his country will provide five billion Pakistani rupees in aid to Afghanistan to support its fragile economy.
“Pakistan will provide nearly $280 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan,” he added.
[ToloNews] The United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) new assessment shows that 97% of Afghan households could be below the poverty line before mid—2022 if Afghanistan’s economic crisis is not addressed.
At the same time, the UNDP has launched a trust fund program to protect Afghanistan’s economy from collapsing and to help Afghans who lost their livelihoods after the recent political turmoil in Afghanistan.
Germany has decided to support a special trust fund for Afghanistan, and it is putting in 50 million euros.
The money will be channeled through three different routes: cash for public works programs; small grants to keep small businesses running and get start-ups off the ground; and temporary basic income for the elderly and vulnerable.
[HotAir] Say, wasn’t that number “around 100” two months ago? Even as late as Monday’s press briefing, State Department spokesperson Ned Price gave a range that was considerably lower than what State communicated yesterday to members of Congress:
Bear in mind that the 363 citizens are separate from those already exfiltrated. That puts the original estimates of “around 100” off by 400%. Even the number of those who “want to leave” but remain stuck don’t add up to State’s initial estimates. Note too that State is still not being clear about how many LPRs are still stuck in Afghanistan, even while they take credit for exfiltrating 131 LPRs … likely accomplished by others anyway.
Even the “wants to leave” claim is an obfuscation. The Americans who aren’t ready to leave are mostly those being held back by their relatives’ non-visa status with the State Department. They won’t leave family members behind, but the State Department is making it sound as though they are staying by choice.
State Dept. informed congressional staff Thursday that it is in touch with 363 American citizens in Afghanistan, 176 of whom want to leave, per @jmhansler
That is significantly higher than the estimates of roughly 100 in Aug. which Admin officials regularly cited.
[BenarNews] A prime suspect arrested overnight in connection with deadly anti-Hindu riots last week has confessed to planting a Koran at a Hindu festival site, an act that helped provoke Bangladesh’s worst religious violence in decades, officials said Friday.
Police arrested Ikbal Hossain, 35, on Thursday night from Cox’s Bazar, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) from Cumilla, the district where the violence began on Oct. 13 after an online video post showed the Koran at the Hindu site.
"[I]n primary interrogation [Ikbal] admitted that he placed the Koran at the Puja site," two senior coppers told BenarNews on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. Puja refers to an annual nine-day Hindu festival, Durga Puja.
But S.M. Tanvir Ahmed, Cumilla Police’s additional superintendent, all but acknowledged that Ikbal said he had placed the Koran at the puja venue.
"We are trying to find out why he placed the Koran at the Puja venue. We need to know who hired him to do this, if anyone did," Tanvir told BenarNews without giving additional details.
He said the suspect was brought to Cumilla from Cox’s Bazar around noon on Friday, after which police began to interrogate him.
Last week’s alleged desecration of the Koran — said to have been placed at the feet of a statue at a puja site — enraged Moslems in Cumilla, who attacked Hindus, their homes, temples and puja venues.
The violence spread to districts near Cumilla on the same day, and around the Moslem-majority country over the next few days.
Police said they identified Iqbal, a resident of Cumilla, from a 17-minute long edited video of CCTV footage from around the puja site where the Koran had been placed.
In the footage, a man was seen picking up a Koran from a mosque near the Darogabari area of Cumilla city, police said. He was then seen entering the puja site with the Koran and leaving without it, police added.
After seeing the video footage Ikbal’s mother, Amina Begum, confirmed that the man seen with the Koran was her son, Cumilla Police’s Tanvir said.
According to his family members, Ikbal was addicted to drugs, Tanvir said.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Nirmal Paul, a puja organizer in Cumilla, was not inclined to believe that.
"Some people are saying that Ikbal is mentally sick. But I think committing such a horrible act and running away is something a mentally ill person cannot possibly do," she told Benar News on Thursday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russian and Tajik troops conducted joint drills Friday near Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, as part of efforts to prepare for possible security threats issuing from Afghanistan.
The exercises at the Momirak firing range about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the Afghan border involved armored vehicles and helicopter gunships. It was part of weeklong war games that brought together about 5,000 troops and over 700 armored vehicles from Russia, Tajikistan and several other ex-Soviet nations, which are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-dominated security pact.
Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Mirzo said the drills were decided amid the "catastrophic changes after the withdrawal of the international coalition" from Afghanistan.
"Terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan ... have obtained many modern weapons, significantly improved their positions and using the current situation create conditions for its transformation into a foothold for further destructive actions in the region," Mirzo added.
Russian officials said they trusted the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s pledge that they wouldn’t threaten neighboring countries, but noted that the ISIS group, al-Qaeda and other Lions of Islam in northern Afghanistan could try to destabilize the neighboring ex-Soviet Central Asian nations. They also said drug trafficking from Afghanistan will continue to present a challenge.
Moscow has vowed to provide military assistance to its ex-Soviet allies in Central Asia to help counter possible threats and held a series of joint drills in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which neighbor Afghanistan.
Russia has a military base in Tajikistan, its largest military outpost in the former Soviet Union. It also maintains an air base in Kyrgyzstan, and jets based there took part in this week’s war games.
Lt. Gen. Yevgeniy Poplavsky, deputy commander of the Russian armed forces’ Central Military District who oversaw the drills, described them as part of training to counter possible security challenges.
The fighting between the Taliban and the ISIS in northern Afghanistan raised fears of ISIS fighters and other Lions of Islam flowing into Central Asian nations.
"(The Taliban) will try to push all pro-ISIS military groups out its territory or to destroy them and to become the only one (in power)," Poplavsky said. "That’s why we don’t exclude the option that they will push them to Tajikistan’s territory."
The Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with its troops withdrawing in 1989. In recent years, Russia has made a strong diplomatic comeback as an influential power broker on Afghanistan, hosting several rounds of talks with various Afghan factions.
Russia had worked for years to establish contacts with the Taliban, even though it designated the group a terror organization in 2003 and never took it off the list, unlike many other countries, it hasn’t evacuated its embassy in Kabul after they took over the Afghan capital in August.
On Wednesday, Russia hosted another round of talks that involved the Taliban along with senior diplomats from China, Pakistain, Iran, India and the former Soviet nations in Central Asia.
Speaking during a panel with international foreign policy experts on Thursday, Russian President Vladmir Putin said that the international community "is getting close" to officially recognizing the Taliban as the new rulers of Afghanistan, saying the decision must be made by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... . He emphasized the need for the Taliban to recognize the interests of all Afghan ethnic groups and respect human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , but noted its efforts to combat the ISIS group and other krazed killers.
[DW] The European Commission has spoken out against EU border walls, despite calls by some EU leaders to enforce migration controls. Leaders also covered spiking energy prices and a deepening rule-of-law row with Poland.
The 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... issue of refugees and migrants colonists was top of the agenda as the 27 European Union
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US appeals court on Friday rejected Halkbank's bid to dismiss an indictment accusing the state-owned Ottoman Turkish lender of helping Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... evade American sanctions.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said even if the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act shielded the bank, the charge against Halkbank falls under the commercial activity exception.
Prosecutors accused Halkbank of converting oil revenue into gold and then cash to benefit Iranian interests and documenting fake food shipments to justify transfers of oil proceeds.
They also said Halkbank helped Iran secretly transfer $20 billion of restricted funds, with at least $1 billion laundered through the US financial system.
Halkbank has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges over its alleged use of money servicers and front companies in Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the United Arab Emirates to evade sanctions.
The bank had argued that it is immune from prosecution under the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act because it was "synonymous" with Turkey, which has immunity under that law.
Halkbank had been appealing an Oct. 1 ruling by US District Judge Richard Berman allowing it to be prosecuted.
Berman has overseen several related cases, including the conviction of former Halkbank executive Mehmet Hakan Atilla and a guilty plea by Ottoman Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab.
Halkbank's case has complicated US-Ottoman Turkish relations, with Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan backing Halkbank's innocence in a 2018 memo to then-US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[OneIndia] Pakistain has failed to demonstrate that it has taken action against the UN-designated turbans as a result of which it will continue to remain in the Grey List of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The FATF noted that Pakistain needs to further demonstrate that action is being taken against the likes of Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief, Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... boss, Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... Addressing a presser, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) president Marcus Pleyer said the decision has been taken at the conclusion of the virtual plenary of the organization.
The Gay Paree based FATF noted that it requires Pakistain to demonstrate terror financing investigation and prosecution of leaders and commanders of the UN-designated terrorist groups and their associates.
The FATF said that Pakistain would continue to remain on the increased monitoring list. Increased monitoring list is another name for the Grey List.
"Pakistain has taken a number of important steps but needs to "further demonstrate that investigations and prosecutions are being pursued against the big shotship of UN-designated terror groups," the president of the global body against money laundering and terror financing said.
"All these changes are about helping authorities prevent terrorism, stop corruption and prevent organised criminals from profiting from their crimes," he also said.
Pakistain has struggled to get out of the Grey List despite all back-channel efforts. Seeking to wriggle out of the list, Pakistain had in 2020 imposed financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including 26/11 Mumbai attack criminal mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
In February 2020 the FATF gave Pakistain, which missed 13 targets, a four-month grace period to complete its 27-point action plan against ML&TF committed with the international community.
With Pakistain's continuation in the 'grey list', it is increasingly becoming difficult for the country to get financial aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , thus further enhancing problems for the nation which is in a precarious financial situation.
[Rudaw] The new Swedish ambassador to Iraq, Jonas Loven, said on Thursday that their country will aid in the fight against the 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.... group (ISIS) for as long as Iraq requests it.
Sweden is a member of the US-led coalition against ISIS that is "here of course on request by Iraq’s government and as long as Iraq sees the need for our presence, we could continue to contribute to these missions," Loven said in an interview with Rudaw’s Bestoon Khalid.
ISIS "is not completely defeated. I think Iraq has regained its stability. Iraq is in a completely different place now from what it was say five years ago, but we still see incidents. We still see some terrorist actions by ISIS," he added. "This is also a struggle that we need to keep on the long term."
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[Rudaw] Zakho police arrested a man with a bag full of forged passports from multiple countries and other identity documents. He is accused of doing the forgeries with his father-in-law who remains on the lam.
According to police, the two accused have been forging passports, visas, and other documents for ten years.
"According to the information we have obtained, the main perpetrator smuggles people out of the [Kurdistan] Region and forges passports as well as issuing forged passports and all other official documents," Nahshat Salman, head of relations and media affairs office for Zakho police, told Rudaw on Thursday.
The son-in-law has been arrested but his co-accused is believed to be living in Istanbul. Zakho officials said they are working with Interpol to arrest him too.
About 200 forged passports of Germany, La Belle France, Russia, Iran, Iran, Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... were seized by police.
The son-in-law denied the charges. Speaking to Rudaw, he said his father-in-law sent him a bag of passports to hold onto until they were collected by their owners. Many people never collected the documents and the son-in-law did not want to hold onto them.
"After I realized that they are not good things, I tried to do something. So, I asked my father-in-law through a phone call to take them. He said he would send someone to take them," but no one showed up, he said.
The men were paid between $11,000 and $15,000 for each passport, according to police.
Zakho authorities said this is the fourth and biggest forgery case they have seen in 2021.
[IsraelTimes] Israel accuses them of being fronts for the PFLP; al-Haq, Addameer and other prominent nonprofits deny charges, say Israel trying to silence criticism
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared six Paleostinian human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups to be "terror organizations" on Friday, saying that they had effectively operated as an arm for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terror group.
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IDF warns: Hezbollah missiles will likely hit toxic substance depots in Haifa region in next war; army predicts 6% of rockets will explode in residential areas, @tallevram reports; Haifa port also likely to be hit as Hezbollah boosts missile accuracy.#Israel
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The US tax payers spend nearly 3 billion dollars a year for these worthless *****. Why are we not aligned with Russia? Hello? White Christians?
No, We need to be indebted forever to assholes like Saudia Arabia and Israel. Arabs and a Rothschild created nation of wandering whos hell-bent on destroying Western society.
Saudis sell oil in fossil dollars and Israel pwns the banks.
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Your Jew-hate is entirely too unimaginative, Mr. dirt. Why bother to own the banks when Israel designs the next-gen computer chips and debugs the F-35?
And would you rather Israel had not been able to destroy the Iraqi Osiraq nuclear bomb program and the Syrian Al Kibar ditto? Or would the world be better if Assad and Saddam Hussein could drop nukes on whoever annoyed them?
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@trailing wife Or would the world be better if Assad and Saddam Hussein could drop nukes on whoever annoyed them?
That’s what the rapacious squatters leadership is doing since 1945.
I’m European Ashkenazi Jew; not a Semitic.
Unfortunately cause morons like yourself, and most of the fanatics useful idiots in this great and OK in some aspects aggregative rag the criminal actions of the zionists in the Israeli government feels is just fine to continue the MIC forever war path.
Because of this craziness the Jewish people again will suffer consequences.
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I’m European Ashkenazi Jew; not a Semitic.
With every post you demonstrate you aren’t nearly intelligent enough to be one of my cousins, my dear, in addition to being badly educated. I refer to the technical definition of moron, since you brought it up.
Since you love President Putin so much, you might want to take note of his attitude toward Jews and Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde criticized alleged corruption in the Paleostinian Authority, following a meeting with the PA’s leaders in Ramallah on Tuesday during her recent visit to Israel and the West Bank.
Linde expressed hesitation about Swedish economic aid to the Paleostinians, saying that widespread corruption was hindering Swedish support. The rare rebuke marked a departure from Sweden’s longstanding backing of the Paleostinians.
"If we are going to be able to completely support economic development, we of course cannot have corruption on such a level as there is in Paleostine," Linde told Sweden’s public broadcaster on Tuesday, before her meetings with officials in Ramallah.
Accusations of nepotism and corruption have long dogged officials in Ramallah and have occasionally sparked scattered protests against the Paleostinian Authority. According to a recent poll by the Paleostinian Center for Polling and Survey Research, around 83 percent of Paleostinians believe there is corruption in PA institutions.
Linde met with PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... , Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, and her counterpart Riyad al-Malki during her quick visit to the area on Tuesday.
"[Linde] stressed that Sweden will continue to provide support to the Paleostinian people to build the institutions of the Paleostinian state," Abbas’s office said in a statement following the meeting.
The Swedish government’s current funding plan allocates around $180 million in development aid to the Paleostinians between 2020 and 2024. Sweden has also funded millions in direct budget support to Ramallah through the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the PA’s largest single donor.
"We are proud of our relationship with Sweden, whether bilateral or as part of the European Union. We hope that it will serve as a model for the rest of Europe," Shtayyeh said in a statement following the meeting.
Linde also met earlier with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, during the first visit to Israel by a Swedish foreign minister in a decade.
Linde’s comments on Paleostinian corruption circulated widely in Paleostinian media, especially on news sites affiliated with the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror group.
Longtime Abbas aide Ahmad Majdalani, who currently serves as social affairs minister, claimed that the statements were fabricated by Hamas-affiliated media, although they appeared on the Swedish government-funded broadcaster.
"Ann Linde is our personal friend, and a long-time member of the Social Democratic Party, who are our comrades and partners in the Socialist Internationale... it is impossible that she would make such a statement," Majdalani told the independent Paleostinian network Wattan.
International donors have grown increasingly frustrated by the deadlocked Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, as well as more openly critical of what some observers see as a corrupt and authoritarian PA.
A spokesperson for the Swedish Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment.
[IsraelTimes] Military chief Aviv Kohavi reportedly orders air force to ’intensely’ drill for possible attack on Iran, after 2-year pause in training
The Israeli Air Force has resumed training for a possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli television reported Thursday.
According to Channel 12 news, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi ordered that budgetary funds be set aside for drilling such a scenario, after a two-year hiatus.
The network said Kohavi had also ordered that the air force train "intensely" in simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear program.
The orders were reportedly given during a meeting Kohavi held at his office in recent days.
The report did not cite a source and there was no comment from military officials.
On Monday, Channel 12 reported that the government planned to allocate NIS 5 billion ($1.5 billion) for an attack on Iran, with NIS 2 billion ($620 million) coming from the 2022 defense budget and the rest coming from the current budget.
A day later, Defense Minister Benny Gantz defended the government’s requested budget increase for the military, warning that the additional funds are necessary in order to prepare for a potential strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
Kohavi publicly declared in January that the IDF was preparing fresh "operational plans" for a potent military strike, and in August that Iran’s nuclear progress has prompted the IDF "to speed up its operational plans," with a fresh budget to do so.
In his speech to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... General Assembly last month, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared that "Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning... We will not allow Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to acquire a nuclear weapon."
United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... ’s administration has said it is still seeking a joint US-Iranian return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, while acknowledging that it will not wait indefinitely for Tehran to return to the negotiation table.
If it fails to do so, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid this month that "every option" will be on the table — an apparent uptick in rhetoric after Biden told Bennett in August that Washington was willing to consider "other options" if the nuclear deal cannot be revived.
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KC-135 replacement is two decades behind schedule because McSccccchame didn't get the payoff he wanted, so he sh*t in the punch bowl.
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boom camera system couldn't refuel A-10s
Plane that's supposed to serve into the 2090s couldn't service an aircraft that's on extended life support right now.
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[Rudaw] Eleven Swedish nationals with suspected links to the 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.... (ISIS) were repatriated from al-Hol camp on Wednesday, a bigwig said days after the United Kingdom took back a number of British children in response to the repeated calls from international watchdogs and Kurdish officials for governments to take responsibility for their citizens being held in northeast Syria (Rojava).
Three women and eight children were handed over to a Swedish delegation on Wednesday, co-chair of Rojava’s foreign relations department Abdulkarim Omar said on Thursday.
Seventy-three people, including two children, were murdered in al-Hol this year, Save the Children said last month.
The United Kingdom repatriated three British children from the camp on Monday. Germany and Denmark also took back a total of 48 of their nationals earlier this month.
#Lebanon's President Michel Aoun sent a law amending legislative election rules back to parliament for reconsideration, the presidency says.https://t.co/WZzt3ENFpY
The leader of #Lebanon's #Hezbollah warns #Israel against drilling for oil and gas in the disputed maritime border area between the two countries until the issue is resolved, and says the #Iran-backed group will take action if it did so.https://t.co/0cXAU2yg4q
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The Mighty Hezbie Navy will intervene?
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You know those pix of Hezbie commandos turning somersaults and jumping thru flaming hoops? Well, the Hebie Navy can do that too, but with *sprinklers*!
(voice from the peanut gallery: "Like we used to do as kids?")
Tremble before their aquatic might.
And don't hurt yourself laughing.
[IsraelTimes] Eighth Brigade, which joined forces with Syria’s army two years ago, could disarm amid reconciliation process in southern Daraa province.
Russia is attempting to disband a militia it formed, funded, and armed in southern Syria near the border with Israel over the past few years, a part of an ongoing reconciliation process in the province of Daraa.
The Russian military police demanded earlier this month that groups affiliated with the Eighth Brigade hand over their weapons to the command of the brigade, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi reported.
The leader of the group, which comprises mainly former opposition fighters, agreed two years ago to join the Syrian army with his 10,000-strong paramilitary.
But soldiers of the 8th brigade of the 5th corps of the Syrian Arab Army are not paid by Damascus, but rather by the Russians.
Reports have indicated they were not particularly loyal to the regime and and to its Iranian partners, and that Damascus and Tehran have long been unhappy with them.
Since last month, when a Russian-brokered ceasefire came into force in the Daraa province, reconciliation efforts have been ongoing to allow rebels who refuse to disarm to be evacuated, according to reports.
The official SANA news agency published photos of crowds at so-called "reconciliation centers" at the time. "Armed fighters in Daraa al-Balad started handing over their weapons and settling their status at reconciliation centers," it said.
But there has been little reported progress since.
The southern province of Daraa, held for years by opposition forces, was returned to government control in 2018 under a previous Moscow-backed ceasefire that had allowed rebels to stay in some areas.
With the 8th brigade expected to be entirely disarmed, Israel is reported to be keeping a close eye on the border area.
"This opens a wide door for the Iranians, for Hezbollah, for Assad’s forces... to complete a takeover of all this region near the [Israeli] Golan," Channel 12 news Arab affairs analyst Ehud Ya’ari said Wednesday.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BenarNews] A prime suspect arrested overnight in connection with deadly anti-Hindu riots last week has confessed to planting a Koran at a Hindu festival site, an act that helped provoke Bangladesh’s worst religious violence in decades, officials said Friday.
...Arabic for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
...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 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
...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 
Hezbollah
