[PRESSTV] The young 27-year-old owner of online retailer Afghan Mart is making brisk sales in Kabul after setting up shop just over a year ago with 500,000 Afghanis ($7,000) worth of goods.
Esmatullah said that an average of 50 customers call him daily for deliveries during the current holy month of Ramadan after browsing his goods online. It's reflective of a wider trend for shoppers in the Afghan capital, who are going online to stock up on everything from food to fashion in fast-growing numbers to avoid kabooms and sexual harassment.
Delivery man Ajmal Jan said riding his cycle of violence through the streets of a city like Kabul, where danger lurks in almost every street, was a major challenge of his profession. Security is a concern for many in the city where one kaboom can be followed by a second in the same area.
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[DAWN] Afghanistan announced on Thursday an apparently unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... for Eid, though operations against other groups including the Death EaterIslamic 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.... group will continue.
The week-long ceasefire, which was backed by the US and would bring some welcome relief to war-weary civilians, will last "from the 27th of Ramazan until the fifth day of Eidul Fitr", President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. tweeted from an official account, indicating it could run from June 12-19.
It was not immediately clear if the Taliban would agree to the ceasefire, the first during Eid since the US invasion in 2001.
"We are checking with our officials regarding the ceasefire announcement," Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said.
The surprise declaration comes on the heels of a fatwa issued by Afghanistan’s top holy mans branding suicide kabooms "haram", or forbidden, and after the Pentagon announced that senior Taliban officials had been negotiating with Afghan authorities on a possible ceasefire.
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[NEWTELEGRAPHONLINE] The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has tasked the media in Nigeria and abroad to desist from addressing Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... snuffies as Islamic sect.
The OIC, which said this in a document, insisted that the members of the sect should rather be addressed as criminals because they "are anti- Islam."
Quoting the Secretary General of the group, Eyad Madani, the document read: "What they (Boko Haram) do is criminal act; it has absolutely nothing to do with Islam."
The IOC scribe said: "The OIC has issued statements that ... these people are outlaws. "What they do is criminal act, it has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, Islamic teachings, the religion of Islam, the history, the culture, the civilization of Islam and we should identify them for what they are: as a terrorist group." Mr. Madani had earlier said in Abuja that the OIC is solidly behind Nigeria in its fight against Death Eaters.
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[PRESSTV] More tensions emerge among the already divided Persian Gulf countries as Oman warns the United Arab Emirates against continued "theft" of its intellectual property and national heritage.
"Neighbors should realize that the Omani nation has run out of patience," Deputy Chairman of the Public Authority for Craft Industries of Oman Isam bin Ali al Rawas has said.
In an interview with local al-Wisal radio station, he warned that Oman's ruler Sultan Qaboos was in possession of damning documents against the UAE, which he would reveal if he decided to do so.
Tension has been simmering since 2011 when Oman disbanded an Emirati spy cell targeting Sultan Qaboos. Oman was further incensed after the UAE unveiled its map which included Oman’s Musandam Province at the opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi last November.
The last straw came recently after a UAE series portrayed an Omani historical figure as an Emirati icon.
Muscat, which has tried to avoid being dragged into a Saudi-led rift with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , is opposed to the UAE participation in the war against Yemen.
Just recently, Oman decided to ban the operations of an Emirati bank in the sultanate.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the UAE are accused of plotting to monopolize power in the Persian Gulf region through aggressive policies against their neighbors.
On Wednesday, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi unveiled a raft of economic deals, signing 20 memorandums of understanding for over 60 joint projects, including in the oil and gas, banking, nuclear energy, and defense.
The deals, approved at a meeting of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, did not involve the four other Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members -- Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, and non-member Egypt imposed an all-out blockade against Qatar last year, accusing it of supporting terrorism. Doha has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! the allegation.
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[PRESSTV] A new report says Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates are seeking to overthrow Bahraini Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifah, the world's longest-serving premier, in a bid to gain more influence in the Persian Gulf country.
While older leaders in the region support Khalifah, the younger ones, namely Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, are siding with Bahraini King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Isa Al Khalifah and wish to sideline the prime minister, a diplomatic source told the Middle East Eye news portal.
The source also noted that both former Late King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Now a dead guy... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the incumbent one, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, favored Khalifah.
"As Saudi king, Abdullah objected to the elimination of Khalifa. King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... and the emir of Kuwait also consider him the right man in the right place," the source said. "However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Mohammed bin Salman has no relationship with him and does not care much about him."
"It is likely that bin Salman does not mind overthrowing the prime minister in order to satisfy bin Zayed, who seeks to rearrange the situation in Bahrain, crowning a new prince, and overthrowing the old figures," he added.
The source further emphasized that bin Zayed was pushing for more influence in Bahrain and regarded King Hamad as a close friend and ally.
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[PRESSTV] 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... has reportedly drawn up a peace plan to end the Saudi war on 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... amid the failure of international diplomacy to halt the deadly aggression.
The peace plan calls on Yemen’s 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 ... Ansarullah movement to renounce its ballistic missiles in return for an end to the bombing campaign by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and a transitional governance agreement, Rooters reported Friday.
The draft document, cited by the news agency, has been drafted by the UN’s Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths. It says, "Heavy and medium weapons including ballistic missiles shall be handed over by non-state military actors in an orderly and planned fashion."
The document calls for establishing an inclusive transition government, "in which political components shall be adequately represented," in an apparent not to the Houthis. The plan, however, offers no detail on how much representation the Houthis might receive in the transitional government.
The Houthis and this allies administer Sana'a and are unlikely to cede the capital without participation in a future government.
Previous efforts to end the Saudi war, which had has left 600,000 Yemeni civilians dead and injured since 2015, have failed.
A source familiar with the plan said, "The intention is to link security and political aspects starting with a cessation of fighting ... then to move toward a withdrawal of forces and the formation of a national unity government."
An Ansarullah official welcomed the UN plan, calling the ceasefire the first building block in the political process.
The official said the previous truces had failed, but "our optimism will be determined by how serious the other parties are of the UN role."
The plan, which has not been made public, is the latest effort to end the war, which has led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Anwar Gargash, the UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs, signaled Abu Dhabi's desire to support Griffiths' efforts but a front man for the so-called Saudi coalition declined to comment on the draft document, which he said he had not seen.
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[PRESSTV] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... president, Donald Tusk, has expressed worries that 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 in fact threatening the rules-based international order established in the wake of the Cold War by his attempts to break or renegotiate a number of international agreements.
"It is evident that the American president and the rest of the group continue to disagree on trade, climate change and the Iran nuclear deal," Tusk said at a presser ahead of the 44th G7 summit in the Canadian town of La Malbaie, north of Quebec, on Friday.
In June last year, Trump announced that he would pull his country out of the 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, known as the Gay Paree Agreement, characterizing the move as "a reassertion of American illusory sovereignty", drawing at the time rebuke from Democrats at home and world leaders who had pressed him not to abandon the 197-nation accord.
The American leader, on May 8, also walked away from the landmark nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Russia and China - plus Germany.
He further vowed to reinstate US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose "the highest level" of economic bans on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. His controversial decision faced criticism from the EU and the other signatories of the historic deal.
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Because this "order" was a precursor to one world government. Luckily the Americans saw through it and elected a man to put an end to it.
The entire point of this "order" was to make horrible deals that screwed America over to bribe other countries to join the globalist system. That's right, we not only cripple our own people but we get to pay for the whole thing. Then after all is said and done, America bows before the UN or successor international organization and surrenders its sovereignty, to become an overtaxed province of a distant government.
Thank God for President Trump.
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Trump runs tick comb through America's fur. Ticks protest.
#8
Yeah, basically. Zeihan explains America has a sweet spot on the planet and globalists are keen to confiscate our wealth and use it to fund their world government plan. That was basically the Paris Agreement. Likewise TPP would have been the stake in the heart of our most vulnerable people, by putting them in direct competition with nations like Thailand. Thus with such monumental bribes of our money, other nations would not be in a position to say no when a global government would be formed. It was a frighteningly real plan and look for them to try it again after Trump leaves office.
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Yes, EUnochs, we are threatening the rules-based international order. And we will continue doing so. And go ahead, buy oil from those who will destroy you, if you are stupid enough.
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[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish courts have so far handed jail terms to more than 2,000 suspects over the failed 2016 coup aimed at unseating President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... , a government minister said on Thursday.
"Out of 287 court cases, 171 have been decided: 2,140 defendants have been given jail terms and 1,478 of them have been acquitted," Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul told state news agency Anadolu.
"I guess the remaining cases will be finalised by the end of 2018," he said.
The government accuses US-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen ... 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... of orchestrating the failed putsch but Gulen vehemently denies the claims.
Thousands of people including soldiers, coppers and judges have been placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since then in a crackdown on the Gulen movement which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has dubbed the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" or FETO. The trials are taking place in several cities throughout Turkey.
Tens of thousands of people have been suspended or sacked from the public sector including teachers, coppers and judges under decrees imposed under the state of emergency declared after the failed coup in July two years ago.
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[Free Beacon Via Hot Air] Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives who eventually went on to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City, according to new remarks from a senior Iranian official.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in the Iran's judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks broadcast on Iran's state-controlled television that Iranian intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic, according to an English translation published by Al Arabiya.
"Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence," Larijani was quoted as saying.
The remarks represent the first time senior Iranian officials have publicly admitted to aiding al Qaeda and playing a direct role in facilitating the 9/11 attacks. This HAD TO BE KNOWN to Obama's traitorous Legacy Project members
The U.S. government has long accused Iran of playing a role in the attacks and even fined the Islamic Republic billions as a result. The U.S. 9/11 Commission assembled to investigate the attacks concluded that Iran played a role in facilitating the al Qaeda terrorists.
Larijani admitted that Iranian officials did not stamp the passports of the al Qaeda militants in order to obfuscate their movements and prevent detection by foreign governments. Al Qaeda operative also were given safe refuge in Iran.
"The Americans took this as evidence of Iran's cooperation with al-Qaeda and viewed the passage of an airplane through Iran's airspace, which had one of the pilots who carried out the attacks and a Hezbollah military leader sitting [next to] him on board, as evidence of direct cooperation with al-Qaeda through the Lebanese Hezbollah," Larijani was quoted as saying in the May 30 interview, which is gaining traction on social media.
The U.S. government has not formally commented on the interview, but did highlight it in an official tweet from the State Department’s Arabic-only Twitter page.
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Well, that's a surprise. Not that they were involved, but they would admit it publicly.
I'm guessing this isn't the "I'm sorry and would like to make amends" apology. More like "I did it and I'm glad and what are you gonna do about it?." Which is a good question.
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I really want to give these mofos a bloody nose
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They admitted to not stamping passports and to watching the folks as they transmitted Iran. They probably do that for a lot of people in the Death to US club. Doesn't mean they knew what the group was planning.
Personally I think we should have pushed for a change in government in Iran after Sept 11 instead of Iraq, but that's me.
[PRESSTV] Iran has lashed out at the United States for asking Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to pump more oil to cover a drop in Iranian exports, saying the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would dismiss the appeal.
"It’s crazy and astonishing to see instruction coming from Washington to Saudi to act and replace a shortfall of Iran’s export due to their illegal sanctions on Iran and Venezuela," Iran’s OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, told Rooters on Friday.
Kazempour Ardebili made the comments in response to reports that the US government had quietly asked Saudi Arabia and some other OPEC producers to increase oil production by about one million barrels a day.
The rare request came after 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... publicly complained about OPEC policy and rising oil prices on Twitter. It also follows Washington’s decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran’s crude exports that had previously displaced about one million barrels a day, or just over one percent of global production.
The Iranian OPEC official said the organization would pay no heed to the US request and emphasized that Washington's sanctions on Iran and Venezuela would lead to a jump in oil prices, as they did during a previous round of US sanctions against Iran.
"No one in OPEC will act against two of its founder members. The US tried it last time against Iran, but oil prices got to $140 a barrel," he said.
He added that the OPEC members would unite in opposition to the US call, saying, "OPEC will not accept such a humiliation. How arrogant and ignorant one could be (to) underestimate the history of 60 years' cooperation among competitors."
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...Life is full of little disappointments, Hossein. This is one of them.
Mike
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"No one in OPEC will act against two of its founder members." he said.
You don't get out much, do you?
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I think Trump undid an Obama-era executive order that put a lot of areas in the US off-limits to drilling - just run with that.
[AnNahar] After eight years of military service, Syrian conscript Sonel Ali swapped his drab army uniform for bright civilian clothes last week as he packed his things one last time.
Ali was among thousands of young men who was enlisted in 2010, a year before the brutal repression of anti-government protests in Syria spiralled into one of the worst conflicts of the century.
He thought he was joining the military for a maximum of two years, but instead ended up serving in Syria's war until now.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
... 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...
[Free Beacon Via Hot Air] Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives who eventually went on to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City, according to new remarks from a senior Iranian official.
