[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... has said efforts are underway by certain circles who are attempting to spark ethnic violence among different groups in the country.
Hekmatyar made the remarks during a meeting with the elders of Nomad people of the country but did not elaborate further in this regard.
According to Hekmatyar, the circles who are attempting to spark violence among different ethnic groups are attempting to achieve their goals based on the instructions of the outsiders.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... he said the Afghan people should remain vigilant and united, insisting that Afghanistan is home to all ethnic groups of the country.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami did not specifically name any individual or group attempting to spread ethnic violence in the country.
Hekmatyar gave a similar speech during a meeting with tribal elders of Kohi Sahi district on Sunday.
He said certain circles who are trying to maintain the war in Afghanistan and are working for the interests of the outsiders.
He did not provide further information in this regard but said such circles have robbed and looted the government and work based on the instructions of the outsiders.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami also warned that war and violence will continue in the country if necessary steps are not taken to bring the situation under the control, specifically pointing towards the issues of migration and grabbing and the formation of a national government.
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[Ynet] Egypt bulldozes at least 140 homes along its border with Gazoo to expand buffer zone, in a combined effort with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", to prevent weapons and ISIS and other gunnies from crossing over.
Egypt’s military has bulldozed at least 140 homes and more than 200 acres along the Gazoo Strip border, expanding a buffer zone in an effort to cut off the flow of weapons and myrmidons.
The governor of Northern Sinai province, Maj. Gen. Abdel-Fatah Harhour, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named late Monday that the military began a new phase in clearing the zone, which is 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) wide and 10 kilometers (6 miles) long.
Egypt has struggled to combat an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -led insurgency in the northern Sinai since 2014, and has built the buffer zone to prevent the gunnies from using a vast tunnel network under the border that was created to evade a decade-old Israeli and Egyptian blockade on the territory.
Paleostinian-based terror group turned political party Hamas has also worked to secure the border in recent months as it tries to improve ties with Cairo. Hamas has cracked down on more extreme rivals, including supporters of the Islamic State group.
Harhour said the government has promised to compensate those who lost their homes and farms. "We have created committees to list those who should receive such compensation," he said.
He said the residents at first received checks worth 3,000 Egyptian pounds (nearly $170) each to pay for "alternative accommodation."
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... a tribal leader, Sheikh Issa Karafin, said some evacuees haven’t received the money yet.
"The checks were uncovered," said Kharafin who left Rafah last year to relocate to the Suez Canal city of Ismailia over threats from Islamic State myrmidons.
He said the military came in August and asked people to collect their belongings to leave the area as soon as possible. Kharafin said he has helped over two dozen of the evicted families find places to live in Ismailia over the past two weeks.
One resident said he and his family live in a desert area, "in huts with no electricity or water." He spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from authorities.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias are rapidly recruiting new staff and officials at Sanaa University and appointing academic leaders loyal to it, while terminating dozens of academics, employees and assistants as part of its plan to take full control over the educational institutions in Yemen.
The union of faculty members and their assistants at Sanaa University revealed that the University Council decided to terminate a large number of faculty members arbitrarily and have strongly denounced these procedures and demanded they be made void.
In its statement on Tuesday, the union called on all members of Sanaa University to confront these actions firmly and to stand against any dismissal or appointment procedures that violate laws, regulations and academic and administrative standards.
RELATED: Houthi event held in Sanaa University sparks uproar
The union affirmed its adherence to its legal right to take all necessary measures to defend the rights of all its members.
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Ah. The headline led me to think we were talking about Putin-style termination.
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Jeddah – A number of areas under the control of the Yemeni insurgents, especially in the capital Sana’a and the province of Tihama, have witnessed a significant increase in cases of violations of the rights of civilians, amounting to approximately 120 cases per month, including killings, torture and armed robbery of properties and closing of Quran memorization institutes in some cities.
Civil rights organizations called for the speedy intervention of international bodies to stop these violations, which have increased with the progress of the National Army on a number of fronts near Sana’a, demanding the need to put pressure on the militias to stop recruiting children and abducting them from their homes.
According to the Yemeni Minister of Human Rights, 20,000 children from different cities were taken by the militias to the front lines.
Human rights activist in the province of Tihama Abdul Hafiz al-Hattami said that Houthi-Saleh militias have escalated the pace of violations against citizens and their private and public rights to intimidate them and prevent a possible revolution against them in a clear absence of many international organizations in this regard.
“The Yemeni citizen has become exposed to killing and torturing in the prisons of the insurgents; many teachers have not been released recently from prison and were subject to torture and murder in many cases. The most recent case was the killing of a family consisting of a mother and son, whose father works in the education sector,” Hattami added.
He pointed out that according to human rights reports, Dhamar city recorded in September 120 cases of violations of public and private properties, including recruiting children and forcing them to fight in the war without taking their parents’ permission and returning their corps.
Ibb city also recorded around 100 violations in September, represented in abducting, killing, stealing, raiding houses, attacking public sector employees and recruiting children by force, according to Hattami.
Hattami added that Hodeidah province, for its part, recorded 50 violations, including the killing of children, torturing, oppressing, stealing revenues of Hodeidah port and the costumes that amounted to nine billion in one month, imposing additional fees on the citizens and looting humanitarian aids.
[AnNahar] The two had been considering different potential targets such as police or prison guards, a source said on condition of anonymity.
Both were behind bars for non-terror offenses and are suspected of being radicalized while serving their sentences. They were charged Friday with being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
The Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian, 28, who was due to be released Tuesday, confirmed to Sherlocks that he was planning on carrying out an attack, a source said.
The Frenchie, 22, was due to be released next week.
Terror Sherlocks moved to arrest them after a 44-year-old man from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, who was in contact with the pair, indicated he was "planning on heading to the mainland to offer them logistical support."
Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said Tuesday that La Belle France urgently needed to stop prisoners from being radicalized behind bars.
"What was revealed yesterday is testament to the urgency of the situation," she told Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 1 radio.
In August, a radicalized prisoner attacked two guards at the Osny prison north of the capital in what was seen as La Belle France's first jihadist assault within a jail.
The prisoner, who was behind bars for attempting to travel to jihadist-held territory in Syria, told Sherlocks he "wanted to kill a prison guard" in the name of IS.
La Belle France has suffered a string of jihadist attacks over the past two years that have left more than 240 people dead.
Some of those responsible were involved in Islamist networks in jail, including Cherif Kouachi, one of the button men who attacked satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... in January 2015, and his friend Amedy Coulibaly who killed four at a Jewish supermarket two days later.
Fresnes is one of three French prisons under special watch for radicalization, where prisoners are assessed for signs of extremism before their arrival.
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Snubbing the outgoing American ambassador and arresting local members of embassy staff because he is mad at President Trump? How... clever.
[AnNahar] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Tuesday vowed that Ottoman Turkish officials would boycott the U.S. ambassador to Ankara, stepping up one of the worst rows in decades between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... allies.
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish police launched an operation on Tuesday to arrest 70 soldiers accused of links to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher alleged to have orchestrated last year's attempted coup, the private Dogan news agency reported.
Operations targeting supporters of holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... are continuing on a daily basis some 15 months after the failed putsch. Gulen has denied involvement. In the last week alone, around 800 people were held over alleged ties to him.
Among those targeted in the police raids, focused in the central Ottoman Turkish city of Konya but launched simultaneously across seven provinces, were two colonels, seven captains and 36 lieutenants, Dogan said.
Sixty-two of the suspects were in the air force, some of them pilots, it added. Police were conducting searches of their homes and places of work.
More than 50,000 people have been tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! pending trial over links to Gulen, while 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the public and private sectors since the July 15 coup attempt, in which 250 people were killed.
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[FreeBeacon] Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen and Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales announced rewards on Tuesday for the capture and conviction of two Hezbollah leaders.
The Lebanon-based Islamist organization has operatives engaging in terror activities around the world and has received aid from Iran.
"This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the United States designating Hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization," Sales said. "With backing from its patron, the Iranian regime, Hezbollah remains one of the world's most dangerous terrorist organizations. It continues to commit terrorist attacks and to continue to engage in other destabilizing activities across the globe."
Sales highlighted the arrests of two individuals in the United States, one in New York and the other in Michigan.
Sales also announced the offering of rewards for the arrests and convictions of two Hezbollah officials, Talal Hamiyah and Fu’ad Shukr. Up to $7 million is being offered for Hamiyah and up to $5 million is being offered for Shukr through the Rewards for Justice Program.
Hamiyah has been a part of attacks around the world, including against Americans and Israelis. Hamiyah is the leader of Hezbollah's international terrorist unit.
Shukr too has a long history of attacks against Americans, including playing a role in the Beirut Barracks Bombing which killed 241 American service members, mostly Marines. Shukr is a senior military commander inside of Lebanon and a member of Hezbollah's Jihad Council.
"While I'm not here today to speak publicly about any specific or credible or imminent threat to the homeland, we in the intelligence community do in fact see continued activity on behalf of Hezbollah here inside the homeland," Rasmussen said. "And as you would expect, as the American people would expect, we are watching very closely for additional signs of that activity here in the homeland."
Rasmussen said Hezbollah is determined to make its abilities to operate in the United States a priority for the organization. Additionally, Rasmussen said Hezbollah is working to procure more weapons to use in terror-supported operations in Syria and Yemen.
This is why the Arab world does not long have nice things.
[AnNahar] Authorities in Jordan on Tuesday estimated at more than $10 billion the cost of hosting thousands of refugees displaced from neighboring Syria since the civil war broke out there in 2011.
The U.N. says that some 650,000 Syrian refugees are currently being housed in Jordan, but the government puts the figure far higher at around 1.3 million people.
In a statement released on social media, the foreign ministry said "more than $10.3 billion" (8.7 billion euros) had been spent on putting up the refugees.
That figure covered additional expenses in sectors including health, education and employment, and also extra money spent on public services and subsidized food, it said.
Jordan, which shares a 370 kilometer (230 mile) border with Syria, estimates that almost $1.7 billion will be needed to cover the refugees this year.
The kingdom -- which has called for the international community to do more on the crisis -- has recently come under fire from Human Rights Watch for allegedly "summarily deporting" Syrian refugees.
The group said that on average some 400 refugees were being removed each month at the start of 2017 in a move that could be aimed at preventing the violence in Syria spilling over onto Jordanian territory after several armed attacks.
Authorities insisted that any return of refugees to Syria was voluntary and that they only headed to areas in the country that are considered safe.
The U.N. refugee agency says 93 percent of the Syrian refugees in Jordan live below the poverty line. Around 180,000 of them are housed in two sprawling camps in the desert.
Fighting in Syria has claimed more than 330,000 lives since a brutal crackdown by the army on protesters in 2011 spiraled into all-out conflict.
The U.N. estimates that more than five million Syrians have been driven from the country by fighting, with the majority settling in neighboring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Leb and Jordan.
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The Saudis and the rest of the Gulf "countries" have been donating money to their penurious brother Sunni states, but they have considerably less to give at the moment for some reason. It'll be better when oil prices go back up to the $100 range, Abu Uluque.
[Al Jazeera] Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
HTS is Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... 's successor and comprises some of the more powerful gangs operating in Idlib province.
After 2015, agreements between regime and opposition forces led to the forced displacement of fighters and many civilians from conflict zones, pushing them into Idlib. The situation has created intense competition and infighting, along with a dizzying number of alliances and counter-alliances among the various gangs.
HTS emerged out of this competition as one of the stronger groups in Idlib. In early October, a Ottoman Turkish-led military campaign began against HTS in Idlib in order to establish a de-escalation zone. The campaign involved Ottoman Turkish aerial bombardment to support Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) advances against HTS.
This has been a common pattern in recent years in Syria: A ground force relies on external intervention to support its territorial advances. American support allowed the SDF to advance on ISIS; Russian support was provided to regime-aligned forces in recapturing Homs, Hama, Aleppo and other areas; and now Ottoman Turkish support is being provided to the FSA.
It is unlikely that HTS will survive in its current form in the aftermath of the campaign, but as in previous years, it will likely splinter and reappear in various forms.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) The Free Syrian Army is the army that never was one.
Since the outset of the conflict, the FSA has been a conglomeration of armed brigades fighting under a loose umbrella in which central coordination and military planning never existed. FSA brigades have shifted alliances to other armed opposition groups, as well as re-defecting to the Syrian army.
There is thus virtually no ideological, political or military coherence, but the FSA persists as a loose organizational mechanism for gangs.
In 2016, the FSA was mobilised against SDF forces to prevent the contiguity of Kurdish territory along The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southern border in Operation Euphrates Shield. Then, as now, the FSA was supported by the Ottoman Turkish military through logistics, aerial support and intelligence.
Without this military support, the FSA is simply incapable of overtaking groups such as HTS or the SDF.
The Unified National Army (UNA) The Unified National Army was created in mid-2017 with the aim of bringing together gangs of various ideological and political backgrounds. Many of these groups are dispersed throughout Syrian territory in areas where there is still active fighting, such as the south, Ghouta and northern areas around Aleppo and Idlib.
The UNA is the latest in a long line of attempts to unify the Syrian armed opposition and it is unlikely that its fate will be any different from the others.
The main group within the UNA is Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... , one of the few Islamist brigades to have persisted under this banner throughout the long course of the conflict. Brigades associated with the UNA have clashed regularly with the SDF, ISIS and HTS over territory, and have mostly been in military retreat since the Russian intervention.
While some of the southern factions retain control over some territory, their increasing abandonment by Jordanian authorities has limited their capacity and access to resources. Thus, despite having the appearance of a national character with brigades from all over the country pledging support for the project, the UNA has not solved the problems of coordination and material resources that have plagued previous attempts at unifying Syria's gangs.
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[IsraelTimes] Fox News cites Germany intelligence assessments that claim Tehran used front companies to bypass international restrictions.
Iran made dozens of attempts to illicitly obtain missile and nuclear technology, even after it was bound by the nuclear deal with world powers, according to recent intelligence assessments by German regional states, Fox News reported Tuesday.
Intelligence reports from September and October from three of the 16 constituent states that make up Germany found that Iran tried 32 times to obtain related technologies.
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia found that Iran made "32 procurement attempts... that definitely or with high likelihood were undertaken for the benefit of proliferation programs."
Iran engages in "spreading atomic, biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction," the report said, and noted that Iran used front companies in the United Arab Emirates, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and China to get around international restrictions on its nuclear and missile research.
The review covered 2016 and said most of the attempts were for missile technologies. It did not say whether the attempts were successful.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is scheduled Thursday to make an announcement on whether the US believes Iran is in compliance with the landmark nuclear deal that aimed to stop Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.
The Iran deal, known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was signed with six global powers in 2015 and came into effect in January 2016. Iran also faces restrictions limiting its ballistic missile program, though it has continued carrying out tests.
In an earlier report on 2015, the German intelligence agency found that Iran made 141 attempts to procure similar technologies.
Another report from the German state of Hessen said that Iran, Pakistain, North Korea and Sudan use "guest academics" for activities connected with nuclear and weapons programs.
"An example for this type of activity occurred in the sector of electronic technology in connection with the implementation of the enrichment of uranium," the report said.
The third report from state of Saxony-Anhalt, said Iran is continuing "unabated" in its missile program and could threaten Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and beyond.
In a response to Fox News about the findings, German officials said they were nonetheless satisfied that Iran is complying with the JCPOA.
"We have no indication of Iran violating its JCPOA commitments," said the officials, who were not identified by Fox News. "Quite on the contrary, the recent 2016 Report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution states that there is no evidence of Iran violating the JCPOA."
"Having said that, we remain worried by Iran’s missile program. The aforementioned report, as well as reports from regional intelligence authorities, shows that Germany is highly vigilant in this regard and will continue to do so. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... this issue is outside the scope of the JCPOA and needs to be dealt with separately."
Over the past few weeks, Trump has indicated that he would not be recertifying the Iran deal ‐ a process required by a provision in a 2015 US law according to which he informs Congress every three months if the Islamic Theocratic Republic is adhering to the terms of the agreement in exchange for broad international relief from oil, trade and financial sanctions.
The deadline for recertification is October 15.
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And Obama knew this and suppressed it I'm certain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
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[FreeBeacon] Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen and Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales announced rewards on Tuesday for the capture and conviction of two Hezbollah leaders.
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