[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. on Friday telephoned Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to confirm the news regarding the killing of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) leader Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... in a dronezap in Afghanistan Province Kunar, the military’s media wing said.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, Mullah Fazal Ullah was "hiding in Afghanistan since 2009".
The ISPR termed the killing of Mullah Fazlullah "a positive development", adding that the TTP leader's death "gives relief to scores of Pak families who fell victims to TTP terror including the APS massacre".
Earlier there were media reports that a US drone targeted and killed Mullah Fazlullah in the Afghan province of Kunar. The Voice of America radio reported that a US military official confirmed to its correspondents that a US dronezap had "targeted the TTP leader in an Afghan province near the border with Pakistain".
The official US radio also quoted unconfirmed reports from the target area as claiming that Mullah Fazlullah had been killed.
According to *Radio Pakistain*, the banned TTP chief was leaving a Lion of Islam centre, known as Pachai Markaz, just before midnight after attending a dinner party along with several key commanders when he was killed. As soon as Fazlullah boarded the vehicle, missiles fired from an unmanned US aircraft hit them, it added.
Ashraf Ghani also made a telephone call to caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk and confirmed the death of Mullah Fazlullah. PM Mulk thanked the Afghanistan's Caped President for sharing this information and termed it a significant development in the fight against terrorism, Radio Pakistain said.
The premier said, "Finally action has been taken against an enemy of the people and state of Pakistain."
President Ghani also informed PM Mulk about positive developments following the recent ceasefire announcement in Afghanistan which would help pave the way for the Afghan grinding of the peace processor to consolidate.
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[Al Jazeera] The government of Æthiopia has said it will release more than 304 prisoners, including 289 convicted on "terrorism" charges, according to state media.
The move is part of a raft of reforms pledged by authorities after violent unrest broke out three years ago, sparked by an urban development plan for the capital, Addis Ababa, that critics said would trigger land seizures in the surrounding Oromia region.
The demonstrations quickly spread to other parts of the country, with protesters demanding wider political freedom and equality, as well as an end to human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses.
Those pardoned on Friday include three Kenyans, who were released following an agreement between the two countries to strengthen bilateral relations, according to a statement sent to state-affiliated Fana by Æthiopia's attorney general.
More than 1,000 prisoners have been released or slated for release since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in April.
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[Al Jazeera] A 26-year-old Iranian refugee has died in a prison camp on the island of Nauru after an apparent suicide.
According to human rights organisation Refugee Action Coalition, the man's body was found on Saturday morning inside his family tent in the RCP3 detention centre.
He is the twelfth person to die in Australian offshore detention and the fifth asylum seeker to die on Nauru.
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[Jpost] For the first time in Spain, the parliament of one of the states that comprise the kingdom voted to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
The vote last month by the Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre in Spain’s north was passed thanks to the support of representatives of all the parties represented in parliament except the center-right Popular Party, the ACOM pro-Israel advocacy wrote in a statement Friday.
The motion passed on May 21 says the parliament of Navarre calls on the central government to "support any initiative promoted by the international BDS campaign." It also calls on Spain to "suspend its ties with Israel "until that country ceases its policy of criminal repression of the Palestinian population."
Navarre is one of 17 autonomous communities ‐ states with their own parliaments, who together make up the quasi-federal Spanish state. Catalonia’s parliament last year declared independence from Spain, though Madrid declined to recognize the declaration. Navarre has a substantial Basque population and a strong separatist movement.
The motion went on to condemn Israel for "murdering" dozens of Palestinians in May. The condemnation is a reference to Hamas-organized riots along the border with Israel, which featured hundreds of firebombs and attempt to break the fence into Israel. Of 61 people killed in the riots on May 14, 50 were Hamas members, according to one senior member of that organization. Limpieza de sangre then, BDS now?
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As I recall, it is illegal for Spanish government entities to make laws or policies supporting BDS, because it discriminates against an ethnic group. Federal courts have repeatedly reversed this kind of thing at the community level, so it seems reasonable to expect it will do so at the state level as well.
[Al Jazeera] A court in Denmark has ordered the government to compensate 18 civilians who were tortured during the Iraq war in an operation carried out by Iraqi security forces along with a Danish battalion.
In total, 23 plaintiffs had sued Denmark after they were nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and subjected to "torture and inhumane treatment" in 2004 during operation "Green Desert" near Iraq's main port city of Basra.
The appeals court in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, ruled on Friday that although the Danish soldiers did not join in the torture, they failed to prevent the abuse.
"The soldiers of the Danish battalion who were sent to Iraq in 2004 and partook in the operation were not found guilty of violence against the Iraqis," the court said.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they were aware that the prisoners faced a "real risk" of being physically abused by the Iraqi security forces, judges said.
There was no evidence that the Danish battalion could have predicted the "systemic torture and violence" that took place, the court added.
Eighteen plaintiffs were awarded 30,000 Danish kroner (4,000 euro; $4,600).
Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said he was "satisfied" by the ruling exonerating the soldiers from torture, but added he would appeal the verdict because it placed Denmark "in a difficult situation".
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[Al Jazeera] Children as young as 12 and other vulnerable refugees and migrants have been physically and verbally abused by French border guards, international human rights organisation Oxfam said on Friday.
Citing witness statements, Oxfam accused French police of repeatedly withholding food, water and blankets from underage refugees who crossed the border into France from the Italian town of Ventimiglia, where some 16,500 refugees currently live.
"French police officers are not upholding international standards," Oxfam's Chiara Romagno said in a statement. "They taunt children and mistreat them. Some children have had the soles of their shoes cut off before being sent back to Italy," she added. "Jean-Francoise, why you cuttin' the soles of the shoes of those kiddies?"
"Gonna make soup."
The report said children complained about being "physically and verbally abused, and detained overnight in cells without food, water or blankets and with no access to an official guardian," all contrary to French and EU law.
"In one case, a very young Eritrean girl was forced to walk back across the border along a road with no pavement carrying her 40-day-old baby," the report said.
According to European law, unaccompanied children requesting asylum cannot be sent back to where they came from.
Most of the refugees were fleeing persecution and war in countries such as Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan.
"The French authorities do not recognise any of them as asylum seekers and push them back to Italy immediately after crossing, even though they are required by law to assess the situation of each child," the report, which is based on dozens of testimonies, says.
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Could be worse... kids could've been processed by Oxfam.
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"In one case, a very young Eritrean girl was forced to walk back across the border along a road with no pavement carrying her 40-day-old baby," the report said.
Sure. She'll be a REAL asset to her new country
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unaccompanied children requesting asylum cannot be sent back to where they came from
Given the high percentage of those claiming to be asylum-seeking children in the past few years who had actually been fully adult for years....
[DAWN] A total of 31 illegal Pak immigrants colonists deported by Greek authorities arrived at Islamabad International Airport via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday.
Soon after the deportees arrived, 20 were allowed to return home after the verification of their travel documents.
The remaining 11 were taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency’s immigration staff and sent to the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell for legal proceedings.
The immigrants colonists had illegally travelled to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and were jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! by Greek authorities. They arrived on a scheduled flight amid tight security.
The deportees were from various parts of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and will be sent back to their respective districts.
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[DAWN] The Milli Moslem League (MML) ‐ a political face of 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... -led Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... ‐ after repeatedly failing to get itself registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain, has announced to contest the upcoming general election from the platform of Allahu Akbar Tehrik (AAT).
MML spokesperson Tabish Qayyum, while speaking to DawnNewsTV, attested to the fact that after the ECP again dismissed its application on Wednesday, their party's candidates decided to contest the election using the Allahu Akbar Tehrik platform.
Responding to a query regarding the number of candidates from MML standing for election, the spokesperson revealed that around 200 hopefuls will be contesting from across the country.
It is pertinent to mention that the AAT is a political party registered with the ECP, whose leader is Mian Ahsan Bari and which has been allotted the symbol of 'chair' for the 2018 election.
The party was registered a decade ago and contested the 2013 election with the symbol of cow.
Qayyum said that the contestants are facing a lot of difficulties following the ECP's refusal to register their party.
"Our candidates are under a lot of pressure following the commission's decision," he said, adding that the party had hope till the very end that its registration would be approved.
When asked about the possibility of an alliance with other parties, the spokesperson said that the party is in talks with Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid (PML-Q), Pakistain Moslem League-Functional (PML-F), and others as well.
To a question regarding whether the party wishes to form an alliance with the Nawaz league, Qayyum categorically denied the prospect, iterating that an alliance was neither possible nor on the cards for MML, because the PML-N government had been opposing the MML's registration with the ECP.
The MML has been a recipient of the support of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)'s Hafiz Saeed, who has been accused of alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and on whose head a bounty of $10 million has been placed.
In April 2018, the US Department of State amended its designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), identifying Milli Moslem League (MML) and Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAK) as LeT affiliates, which makes it impossible for them to register as political parties.
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[THEHILL] The U.S. is reportedly planning to pull out of 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... Human Rights Council after festivities over key issues such as Israel.
A source told Rooters that the move could be "imminent." The council will begin a three-week session in Geneva on Monday.
Other diplomatic sources told Rooters that the withdrawal was "not a question of if but of when."
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... has clashed with the council over its treatment of Israel and has repeatedly voted against U.N. measures that were critical of that country. Most recently, the U.S. and Australia were the only two members to vote against a proposal to investigate Israel’s alleged use of excessive force in Gazoo.
Haley has criticized the council over what she called a "chronic anti-Israel bias" and threatened last year to leave.
"When the council passes more than 70 resolutions against Israel, a country with a strong human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... record, and just seven resolutions against Iran, a country with an abysmal human rights record, you know something is seriously wrong," she wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post last June.
The U.S. rejoined the council under former President Obama after boycotting for three years under former President George W. Bush.
Haley has also called for other reforms to the body, including making it easier to expel member states with poor human rights records, specifically Venezuela, China and 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... .
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It's about time. This joke of a council needs its credibility withdrawn, pronto.
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It's a start...
Hopefully pulling out means pulling out the $ we waste on it.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Clearing debris and repairing roads are the focus of a "major public service campaign" for Shingal announced by Iraq’s Ministry of Construction and Housing on Thursday.
The plan is to clear rubble, re-open roads, and repair and open Yezidi temples.
"About 30,000 tons of trash have been thrown away," the ministry stated. "In order to return life to Shingal, providing services in the centre and the outskirts of Shingal continues."
The ministry also plans to open government buildings in order to begin providing services like issuing passports and identity cards.
Though Shingal was liberated from ISIS in 2015, there has been little effort to rebuild the town.
About two-thirds of the Yezidi population are still living in camps, largely in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province.
Others have left Iraq and emigrated to Europe, North America, or Australia.
Those who have returned to Shingal are living with little money and no services.
The ability to return to their homes and resume their lives with dignity is a question hanging over the Yezidi community trying to recover from genocide.
Shingal came under the control of Baghdad last October when Iraqi forces took the disputed areas from the Peshmerga.
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[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Iraq has declared the extradition of Ali Bashar, a suspect in raping and killing a 14-year-old German girl, by the Kurdistan Regional Government to be illegal.
"The Foreign Ministry iterates that the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s extradition of suspect Ali Bashar to Germany authorities is a legal violation due to lack of an extradition treaty between both countries," ministry spokesperson Ahmed Mahjoub said in a statement on Wednesday.
Baghdad considers this a violation on the side of those who extradited Ali Bashar, as the exchange and extradition of wanted individuals is "a sovereign authority in the specialty of the federal Ministry of Justice."
Bashar was detained by police in Duhok on Friday after Germany’s interior ministry contacted the KRG’s Ministry of Interior.
The spokesperson says that they do want justice, but within the context of law and the constitution that doesn’t "violate national illusory sovereignty."
The Kurdistan Region is a semi-autonomous region in Iraq. Its government cooperates with Interpol, while Erbil and Berlin have good diplomatic, business, and military relations which have been strengthened in the post-Saddam era.
Bashar is the primary suspect in the killing of Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, of Wiesbaden Germany.
The Iraqi Consulate General in Frankfurt was given evidence and documents, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
The newspaper added that the case will be conducted in adult criminal court after German authorities learned Bashar was already 21 when the alleged crime was committed. They reported Bashar had falsified his age on asylum documents, as well as his name ‐ switching his first and last names.
Charges have not been announced by the prosecutor, but Germany has strict hate laws which could lead to aggravated charges.
Local German prosecutor Achim Thoma has said the cause of death was strangulation.
Bashar convinced his family to return to the Kurdistan Region on June 2. His family denies they were complicit. The family has not been charged.
"We have no evidence that the police did not behave properly," said state prosecutor Christina Graef on Tuesday in Wiesbaden, according to the German newspaper.
Duhok police chief Tariq Ahmed told Rudaw the accused, while in jug, "confessed to the crime of killing a 14 year-old German girl after he raped the girl."
Bashar had been living in a center for refugees with relatives in the same city near Frankfurt.
AFP reported he arrived in Germany in 2015 with his parents and five siblings. The agency added his asylum request was rejected in December 2016, but he obtained temporary residency pending his appeal.
In Germany, asylum seeking peaked at 890,000 in 2015. It dropped to 280,000 in 2016, and 186,644 in 2017 ‐ due in part to a deal between the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for the latter to provide shelter to refugees in exchange for billions of euros.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ The family of Ali Bashar, a 22-year-old Kurdish man accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old German girl, was not complicit in his crime and knew nothing of it when they left the country, according to Bashar’s brother.
"A lot of people currently think that our family was complicit with the boy. The family isn’t complicit with him. The family doesn’t even know whether he has done it or not. If he has, he has kept it a secret," Bashar’s brother told Rudaw.
"We were there for four years. Then my father had a heart attack. We returned due to our father," the brother said, rebuffing claims they had fled justice on fake passports.
"Our family didn’t know a thing. If our family knew, we wouldn’t [have returned to Iraq]," the brother said.
The family would like to return to Germany, he said. NO!
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Everything concerning this sc*m and his sc*m family has been illegal:
Illegal entry, fake identity, fake refugee, violent crime spree including armed robbery and possibly child rape, fraudulently obtaining benefits, illegal exit using multiple identities (one of which might have been valid), and of course confessed murder.
None of this would have been possible without the German political class deciding to be an accomplice.
This had been am ongoing abuse of Germany's coerced hospitality and willingness to help; an abuse of the vilest and most despicable kind!
Seriously, where is the f*n outrage?!? Where?
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[Ynet] More than 90,000 thousand Paleostinians have worshipped at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Eid al-Fitr prayers.
The Mufti of Jerusalem criticized 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... 's peace plan in his sermon there.
Sheikh Muhammad Hussein said Friday, "this is an unfair plan that aims at the liquidation of the Paleostinian cause."
Trump has promised the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Paleostinians and is expected to unveil the plan soon.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Defense Minister’s remarks follow a report printed in the Wall Street Journal last week claiming that Iranian and Hezbollah forces had left the areas of Daraa and Quneitra in southern Syria, only to return disguised as Syrian troops, in a bid to avoid Israeli strikes.
Speaking to the Israeli radio station 103FM, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that although there are several dozen Iranian "so-called advisors" in southern Syria, there are no forces there disguised as Syrian army forces or operating within its ranks.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal citing senior Syrian rebels who claimed that Iranian troops and Hezbollah fighters dressed in Syrian army uniforms were present in southern Syria.
Earlier, Russia, the US, Jordan and Israel discussed the withdrawal of all non-Syrian military formations from the southern de-escalation zone on the country’s southern borders with Israel and Jordan.
Tel Aviv insists on the withdrawal of the alleged Hezbollah and Iranian military presence in the country, and has vowed to pursue a military campaign against these forces on Syrian territory.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] One day after the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... ’s interview with al-Alam, his highest ranking general was sent to southwest Syria to inspect the forces before any offensive is launched.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Defense Minister Major General ’Ali ’Abdullah Ayoub traveled to southern Syria this morning to not only inspect the troops, but also, celebrate ’Eid al-Fitr with the soldiers in Dara’a.
Maj. Gen Ayoub was briefed by field commanders on the combat operations of the army and armed forces in the area, stressing on the importance of combating the remnants of myrmidons.
The top Syrian general often makes trips like these before the Syrian Army launches new offensives.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... despite the massive build-up of troops, the Syrian Army has postponed their offensive in order to continue reconciliation talks with the rebel forces.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
...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. ..
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, Mullah Fazal Ullah was "hiding in Afghanistan since 2009".
[Al Jazeera] A 26-year-old Iranian refugee has died in a prison camp on the island of Nauru after an apparent suicide.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Qayyum said that the contestants are facing a lot of difficulties following the ECP's refusal to register their party.
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...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
