[Al Jazeera] Abdulrahman Siwar al-Dahab, who led a coup in 1985 to overthrow Gaafar Nimeiry, died at a military hospital in Riyadh.
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For years General Swar al-Dihab was director of the very Islamist international Islamic Dawaa (outreach) Organization. (His deputy for years was Obama's half-brother.)
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chief Executive of Jamiat Islami Ata Mohammad Noor reacted to the assassination of Kandahar Police Chief and prominent Afghan security official Gen. Abdul Raziq.
In a statement posted online, Noor claimed that Gen. Raziq’s assassination in a safe place and under strict security measures prove that he has been due to the conspiracies of his rivals and inner circles having links with the top government officials.
The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan claimed responsibility behind the attack in southern Kandahar province that left the prominent Afghan security official and Police Chief of Kandahar Gen. Abdul Raziq dead.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement claimed responsibility behind the attack and said the attack was carried out an infiltrator of the group Abu Dujana.
Mujahid went on to claim that the attack was carried out during a meeting in the provincial government compound and as a result a number of other senior officials have sustained injuries.
The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in a statement confirmed the incident and said two Americans have sustained injuries but the RS and U.S. forces Commander Gen. Scott Miller has escaped the attack unhurt.
“At Kandahar palace today: Afghan-on-Afghan incident, as initial reports indicate. 2 Americans wounded. Gen. Miller uninjured, attacker reportedly dead,” the Resolute Support Mission said in a statement.
In the meantime, reports indicate that provincial intelligence chief Abdul Momin Hussain Khel has also been killed and provincial governor Zalmai Weesa and the commander of 404 Maiwand Zone Abdul Nabi Elham have sustained injuries.
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[Al Ahram] Æthiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that soldiers who marched on his palace last week had "nefarious aims" and wanted to abort the government's reforms.
In an address to parliament, Abiy gave details for the first time of the incident that took place on Oct. 10 in which he met with several hundred soldiers. The government had initially said they marched on his office to demand pay rises.
"The approach taken (by the soldiers) was not only unconstitutional and dangerous, the intent was to abort reforms," Abiy said. "Five to 10 people with nefarious aims" had instructed the soldiers." He gave no further details.
"Had we not taken a cautious approach, it could have led to a dangerous situation."
The incident took place amid a spate of violence that has displaced over 2.2 million people posing a challenge for Abiy who took power in April and has instituted a series of reforms.
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Well, it looked like you handled it okay, but you need to understand that a special Love must be made for your Military.
You really need to learn how nations develop and maintain stability.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Dar al-Ifta, the body responsible for issuing religious edicts, announced on Thursday the launch of the World Fatwa Index to regulate the issuance of Islamic religious edicts (fatwas).
The announcement was made by Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam during the fourth international conference by Egypt's General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, which was held in Egypt to discuss the modernisation of Islamic fatwas.
The index, which will be prepared by Egypt's Dar al-Ifta (the House of Fatwas) and then proposed to conference members, aims to regulate the issuance of fatwas and combat radical discourse.
It also offers regulations to guide those working in issuing Islamic legal advice.
The three-day conference, which was held under the title: The renewal in Fatwas - Theory and Practice, brought together Moslem scholars and senior holy mans from 73 countries.
Allam also announced the launch of a global charter of fatwas, which offers a comprehensive code of ethics and defines criteria for the issuance of fatwas. The charter, which will also offer content for reference by scholars in this regard, will be available in several languages.
The move is designed to "face chaos in the field of fatwas and Islamic discourse in general," Allam said.
Allam called on Wednesday for the modernising of Islamic fatwas and the correction of false religious concepts as key to eliminating Lion of Islam ideas.
At the closing ceremony, Allam introduced a list of recommendations produced by participating countries including: modernising fatwas to fight radical calls by Lion of Islams, using social networking tools to disseminate accurate fatwas, consulting with economic, political social and medical experts in producing well-founded fatwas, as well as urging scholars and students to study the modernisation of fatwas.
The conference also called for launching the first observatory to map the future course of ifta.
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[IsraelTimes] Washington says it will pay $5 million for capture of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
...al-Qaeda has become an ally of the government of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis. Over the past decade, the terror group has built up ties with Yemen’s many tribes, and uses anger against American airstrikes to gain recruits...
leader Khalid Batarfi, who called for attacks on Jews and Americans everywhere
The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward to find al-Qaeda leader Khalid Batarfi, who urged worldwide attacks on Jews and Americans after Washington recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The Saudi-born Batarfi is a veteran of the jihadist fighters who backed the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Afghanistan and has become a big shot of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which the United States considers the global network’s deadliest branch.
In a video released in January, Batarfi called 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 precedent-breaking declaration on Jerusalem "a declaration of a new Jewish-Crusader war" and called on Moslems to "rise and attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere."
"The Moslems inside the occupied land must kill every Jew, by running him over, or stabbing him, or by using against him any weapon, or by burning their homes," he said.
The US State Department said it was offering $5 million to anyone who could lead authorities to Batarfi or contribute to his arrest or prosecution.
The United States also raised from $5 million to $10 million the reward offered for Qasim al-Rimi, considered the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He is already under US and UN sanctions after being linked to a deadly 2008 attack outside the US embassy in 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... and for his alleged support to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber who unsuccessfully tried to blow up a US-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009.
Formed by the 2009 merger of al-Qaeda’s Saudi and Yemen operations, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has carved out its own territory in war-battered Yemen despite being frequently targeted by US drones.
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[PJ] One of the 15 Saudis shown on video walking into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul shortly before journalist Jamal Khashoggi was apparently murdered, Mashal Saad al-Bostani, was involved in a fatal car crash in Riyadh, according to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak.
Few details of the accident have emerged, but the newspaper, a semi-official organ of the Turkish government, claims the accident was "suspicious."
Meanwhile, another Turkish media outlet, the Hurriyet Daily News, reports that the Saudi consul in Istanbul, Mohammad al-Otaibi, may be the target of the "next execution." News accounts quoting from a Turkish intelligence recording that purportedly caught Khashoggi's murder and dismemberment said that al-Otaibi may be targeted because of his reluctance to have the execution take place at the consulate.
Al-Otaibi was caught on audio tape during Khashoggi’s interrogations ‐ during which the journalist’s fingers were cut off and he was beheaded ‐ telling them to "do it somewhere else outside or I will be in trouble."
He returned to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday before Turkish police searched his residence.
Surveillance footage showed consulate vehicles with diplomatic plates arrived at the consul’s home about two hours after Khashoggi, 60, walked into the consulate.
Saudi Arabia has called the allegations "baseless" and claimed the writer left unharmed later in the day.
Crime scene investigators concluded a second search of the consulate and the consul’s residence overnight Thursday.
If the Saudis are, indeed, "tying up loose ends," this won't be the only "accident" to befall the alleged killers.
Two big caveats to this story. The news outlets reporting the "suspicious accident' are tools of the Turkish government. The story would not have appeared at all without the blessing of the highest authorities.
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Fortunately for Saudi Arabia all 15 Saudi executioners died on 9/11/2001, unfortunately along with several thousand U.S. citizens in New York City, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, and aboard numerous airliners along the East coast of the United States.
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The propaganda war against Saudi Arabia via Turkey on the behest of Iran is a sharp object in this war. And they all know the democrats will always protect the scum of the earth of the most destructive like Iran.
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There are too many unknowns and unsubstantiated things about the Khashoggi story. This story has remained far longer than usual in the news cycle. Too bad there wasn't this kind of attention given to Bhenghazi at the time instead of that bullshit narrative spooned up by Obama, HRC and and an all-to-willing complicit Deepstate Press.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the latest web of fabricated news coverage based on uncorroborated sources - surrounding the disappearance of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , on October 2 - is the Saudi citizen named Waleed al-Shehri.
Ottoman Turkish newspapers published al-Shehri’s picture as among the 15 Saudis who has been dubbed by the frenzied media as an alleged Saudi intelligence team who arrived in Istanbul to carry out the liquidation of the missing journalist.
Waleed al-Shehri in a tweeted video said that it was three years ago that he had visited Turkey, that too on a transit flight from Gay Paree.
Previously, a baseless scenario that emerged around the disappearance of Khashoggi, falsely accused Saudi tourists who were in Istanbul’s Ataturk airport with being the crew of a private Saudi jet that was linked to Khashoggi’s disappearance in Istanbul.
Several pictures surfaced of the tourists at the Ataturk airport, in the regular commercial airlines' terminal, and not the one for private jets. They were also shown to be regular tourists, who do not work as crewmembers. One of the misused pictures is of a man and his wife at the airport, with regular travelers behind them.
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If this were a professional hit, the hit team would arrive by ones and two and no one would ever know the size of the team. They certainly would not arrive by private air. The film of Khashoggi entering the Consulate is so fuzzy it could be my grandmother passing as a male. Finally, if there was a team of 15 needed to do the job there should be photographs of them entering the Consulate --just as there is a (questionable) film of Khashoggi entering the Consulate. Finally, no one has discussed the possibility that Erdowan (who now claims to be the putative head of the Ikhwan al-Musliman)has had a falling out with Khashoggi, a known Muslim Brother.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ever since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing in Istanbul, the name Hatice Cengiz has dominated the scene and remained at the forefront of news headlines amid the mysterious aura of the past 13 days.
So who is this Ottoman Turkish woman that emerged from behind her Twitter account to claim that she is Khashoggi’s fiancée?
Hatice graduated from the Sharia college in the University of Istanbul in 2013 and got her MA in 2017 from the Faculty of Social Sciences ‐ History Department at Salahaddin University after finishing a field study about sects in Oman.
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I bet humma is jealous...
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iHH has been on US radar for years. It was founded in Istanbul in 1995 and shortly after was active with Islamist elements in Bosnia. It was closed in 1998 after Turkish authorities found bombs on its premises. It was later reopened but has been under suspicion for years. Early information was supplied in the case USA vs. Abdurrahman Mu. Alamoudi, Court, E. District of Va., Criminal case No 03-A, 22 October 2003.
[Al Jazeera] 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 Kuwait will struggle to resume oil production from jointly operated fields any time soon due to operational differences and souring political ties between the previously close Gulf OPEC allies, sources familiar with the matter said.
The two countries halted output from the jointly run oilfields - Khafji and Wafra - in the so-called Neutral Zone more than three years ago, cutting some 500,000 barrels per day or 0.5 percent of global oil supply.
As oil prices rose to a four-year high above $85 per barrel this year, Washington has been pressing its top Gulf ally Riyadh to reduce crude prices by increasing production.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... visited Kuwait last month to discuss a resumption of oil output from the zone.
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[DAWN] A member of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... 's entourage during several trips abroad walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just before writer Jamal Khashoggi vanished there, a surveillance photo leaked on Thursday shows, drawing the kingdom's heir-apparent closer to the columnist's alleged slaying.
The man, identified by Ottoman Turkish officials as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, has been photographed in the background of Prince Mohammed's trips to the US, La Belle France and Spain this year.
Ottoman Turkish officials say he flew into Istanbul on a private jet along with an "autopsy expert" October 2 and left that night. That was the same day Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post who wrote critically of Prince Mohammed's rise to power, entered the consulate and was not seen again.
Saudi Arabia, which initially called the allegations "baseless," has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named over recent days, including on Thursday over Mutreb's identification. The AP could not immediately reach Mutreb for comment.
But Mutreb's appearance at the consulate, as well as later at the consul general's residence, adds to the growing pressure on Saudi Arabia amid international outrage over the disappearance of the writer, whom Ottoman Turkish officials say was killed and dismembered.
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[DAWN] Desperate Rohingya families living in camps in Bangladesh are selling girls into forced labour to raise money, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... ’ migration agency said on Wednesday.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it had identified 99 cases of human trafficking since September last year. It cautioned that the actual number was likely to be far greater.
"The stories we commonly hear are of vulnerable people being approached by traffickers with false promises of work and a better life," IOM spokeswoman Dina Parmer said.
"Others may be aware it is dangerous, but feel their situation is so desperate that they are willing to take extreme measures, perhaps sacrificing one family member for the sake of the others," she said in a statement.
A Bangladeshi charity, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), has started a campaign to is raise awareness among refugees about the dangers of trafficking.
"More than 1,000 have been identified as victims of human trafficking," said Jishu Barua of the YPSA.
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[FOX] U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on a plan to handle the approaching migrant caravan making their way up from Central America, a senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday.
Under the deal, which was developed over the course of several months, Mexico requested that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) establish shelters along its southern border with Central America, the official said.
Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Geronimo Gutierrez elaborated on the request, during an interview on Fox News’ “Special Report.”
That’s exactly the kind of thing critics do, and sometimes they’re right.
[DAWN] South Korean progressives on Thursday accused the government of caving into xenophobic sentiment by rejecting a plea for refugee status by hundreds of asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen, whose arrival on a resort island earlier this year fired up the rubes.
Justice Party front man Choi Seok said South Korea was neglecting its responsibility as a member 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... and letting public sentiment influence critical decisions on human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... "The Yemeni refugees have risked every danger to come to our country, just so that they could survive," Choi said.
"It's no different from the people of our own country half a century ago when they wandered around foreign countries as refugees through war and division. We should no longer ignore the voices of people who seek to live."
South Korea's Justice Ministry on Wednesday said it would not grant refugee status to nearly 400 Yemenis, saying instead it would issue one-year humanitarian stays to 339 of them.
The ministry rejected stay permits for 34 asylum seekers but said they could appeal, and postponed decisions for another 85 applicants, citing the need for further interviews.
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Fine. Progressives can host the families. When they get tired of goats running around the back yard, maybe they'll learn.
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As I recall, the 400 or so Yemenis were quite 'well-to-do' and were really looking for a US satellite to serve as a visa gateway rather than as a refuge.
[DAWN] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) on Thursday set aside the punishments awarded to 74 convicts by military courts in various cases of terrorism.
Accepting their appeals against the military courts' verdicts, a two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Lal Jan Khattak overturned the death and life sentences that were handed to the convicts.
The court overturned their sentences after concluding that the charges against the accused had not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Though a short order, the bench ordered that the convicts be released. Nearly 50 of them had been sentenced to death, while the rest were serving jail terms.
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[DAWN] US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert is said to be one of the candidates 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 considering to replace his outgoing ambassador to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , 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... , Politico a daily news magazine reported on Wednesday.
Ambassador Haley made her mark on television by her strong support to the Trump administration and Israel.
The White House is looking for someone telegenic to replace her, according to the Politico news report.
Nauert, former Fox News host, is currently serving at the State Department’s spokesperson and acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She is said to have grown closer to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo which makes her a front runner for the post.
"White House aides view her as a capable advocate for the Trump administration’s foreign policy. She is also a leading candidate to replace White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders when she leaves the White House," the report said.
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The White House is looking for someone telegenic to replace her, according to the Politico news report.
I understand the Boob:Brain ratio.
Why aren't they looking for someone intelligent like Ambassador Haley?
Mr. Trump has long preferred to be surrounded by employees who are physically attractive as well as capable. I doubt, however, that telegenic takes primacy for him over capable.
[IsraelTimes] The pair allegedly flew to Istanbul in March 2016 seeking training from 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.... and Nusra Front, intending to return to Israel and commit terror attacks
Two Jaffa residents were indicted Thursday for allegedly attempting to join jihadist groups in Syria in order to receive training that would enable them to carry out terror attacks upon their return to Israel.
The two, Abed al-Malek Asfur and Adam Abu-Shahada, face terrorism charges over their 2016 trip to Istanbul in a bid to join the al-Qaeda-affiliated 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 .. ... Front, one of the jihadist rebel groups still fighting the forces of the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war.
According to the indictment, filed Thursday in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, Asfur became interested in Islamic State and al-Nusra in 2013. He made the decision to join al-Nusra in late 2015. In early 2016, he contacted a jihadist operative on Twitter who directed him to another man on the Telegram network.
Asfur made contact with the Nusra pointman, then appealed to his friend Abu-Shahada to join him. Abu-Shahada agreed.
The two flew to Istanbul in March 2016 carrying NIS 25,000 ($6,850) in cash. Abu-Shahada declared at the airport he was heading to Istanbul to research academic study opportunities in the city.
Once in Istanbul, the indictment says, the two purchased warm clothing and sneakers in preparation for the military training they believed they would undergo in Syria. They contacted the Nusra pointman, who promised to contact them within a short time. After many days passed, and their contact failed to respond to several attempts to contact him, Asfur and Abu-Shahada concluded their contact had become unavailable.
The two returned to Israel.
The indictment carries multiple charges, including attempting to travel from Israel to Syria, which is illegal under Israel’s "enemy states" law. It also charges Abu-Shahada with lying to the authorities in his declaration at Ben Gurion Airport about seeking to study in Istanbul.
Comparatively few Arab Israelis have joined jihadist groups in Syria in recent years, with the Islamic State group the most popular among them. But the Shin Bet security service has said it views the possibility of Israeli citizens joining IS to be a "serious security threat." A few dozen Israeli Arabs from northern Israel have been nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for alleged links with IS in recent years. Roughly 20 are now believed to be among its ranks in Syria and Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] Pompeo insists move doesn’t signal a change in administration’s position on city’s status; Ramallah accuses White House of adopting ’Israeli narrative’
The State Department announced Thursday that it would bring its main diplomatic mission to the Paleostinians under the auspices of the US Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, marking an implicit downgrading of the facility’s status and a fresh blow to its already strained ties with the Paleostinians.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the move was meant to "achieve significant efficiencies and increase our effectiveness" following the opening of the embassy in May. He insisted the merger of the two missions did not signal a change in US policy on the status of Jerusalem, the West Bank, or Gazoo Strip.
"The United States continues to take no position on final status issues, including boundaries or borders," Pompeo said in a statement. "The specific boundaries of Israeli illusory sovereignty in Jerusalem are subject to final status negotiations between the parties."
Pompeo said US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman would be in charge of the tie-up and that the new Paleostinian Affairs Unit inside the embassy would remain, as before, at the consulate general building on Agron Street in the western part of Jerusalem.
"We will continue to conduct a full range of reporting, outreach, and programming in the West Bank and Gazoo as well as with Paleostinians in Jerusalem," he said.
The announcement was met with immediate anger from the Paleostinians, who accused the White House of working to bring the entire West Bank under Israeli illusory sovereignty.
With Trump’s announcement, the US became the first country to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The decision to move its embassy was followed by Guatemala and Paraguay, though the latter later announced it would return its diplomatic mission to Tel Aviv, sparking a diplomatic row with Israel.
Leaders from a number of other countries have also expressed potential interest in moving their countries’ embassies in Israel to Jerusalem, including close US ally Australia earlier this week.
Since the fallout over Trump’s Jerusalem recognition, the US made a number of other moves that have been denounced by the Paleostinians, including ending its contributions to the UN’s agency for Paleostinian refugees. It also announced the closure of the Paleostinian Liberation Organization’s diplomatic mission in Washington over what it said was the Paleostinians’ refusal to engage in peace talks with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group vows ’harsh measures’ against perpetrator of attack that hit Beersheba, releases video warning Israeli leaders not to make ’mistake’
The Gazoo Strip’s Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, rulers said Thursday that they would launch an investigation into rocket fire at Israel the previous day, in an apparent bid to quell fears of a new war.
At the same time, the terror group’s military wing released a video warning Israeli leaders against making a "mistake."
Israeli children in communities near the border returned to schools that had been closed on Wednesday, after the predawn rocket fire from Gazoo badly damaged a family home but caused no injuries in the southern city of Beersheba. A second rocket fell into the sea in the Tel Aviv area.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , received a delegation of senior Egyptian intelligence officials in the Gazoo Strip on Thursday, a day after Egyptian General Intelligence Services head Abbas Kamel postponed a planned visit to the coastal enclave, the West Bank, and Israel.
The Egyptian delegation that met Haniyeh included Ayman Badia, the deputy chief of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services; Ahmad Abdelkhaliq, the official in charge of the Paleostinian file in the Egyptian General Intelligence Services; and Hamam Abu Zeid, another senior Egyptian intelligence official, al-Risala, a Hamas-linked newspaper, reported.
The report said the Egyptian delegation met with Haniyeh to discuss intra-Paleostinian reconciliation.
The al-Risala report said the Egyptian delegation also met with Haniyeh to talk about a possible ceasefire between the terror group and Israel.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] One of the pro-Iranian actors involved in the Syrian civil war is Hezbollah. The organization has been involved in the Syrian war since the very beginning.
Whereas previously Hezbollah could gain favor with a particular part of the non-Shiite population of Leb through confrontation with Israel, now the participation of Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict was ambiguously interpreted in Leb and affected the sympathies of the Lebanese.
Many Lebanese politicians and public persons condemned Hezbollah and encouraged not to fight against the Syrian people. It is noteworthy that Hezbollah has long ceased to be a marginal pro-Iranian group and right now it has serious control over Leb’s domestic and foreign policy.
On the one hand, the war in Syria is a tribute to Iran’s loyalty; on the other hand, it is a guarantee of their survival. If Assad’s regime falls in Syria, Hezbollah will be cut off the weapon supplies from Iran.
MILITARIZED GROUPS Together with the Iranian forces, Hezbollah is also involved in the development and training of militarized groups, consisting mostly of Shiites and Alawites. One of such groups is Jaishal-Sha’bi. Although the military capacity of these groups remains in doubt, Assad’s regime uses them mainly for security and patrolling.
In the Syrian battles, Hezbollah suffers significant losses. Hezbollah’s commanders, such as Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Shri, Ali al-Hadi al-Ashiq, Mustafa Badreddine were killed during the war.
It is noteworthy that Hezbollah’s losses in Syria far exceed its losses during the war with Israel. So if during the 2006 war Hezbollah lost 250-500 fighters, in Syria their losses are already about 2,000 fighters.
In general, Hezbollah fighters’ discipline and level of preparation are higher and better than the Shiite forces of Evil from Iraq, or certain military units of the Syrian army have. In certain cases, Hezbollah’s commanders also obtained tactical control over small units of Syrian military forces during offensive operations.
For example, as it happened in Homs. The American side is of the view that Hezbollah has deployed up to 7,000 fighters in Syria.
Taking into account Hezbollah’s relatively modest mobilization resources, it is a massive figure for this organization. Besides participation in the military actions on the regime’s side and organization of ethnic cleanings in favor of the regime, Hezbollah took part in a series of systematic abuse of Sunnis, in particular, when they were passing through checkpoints.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Agreements on the demilitarized zone in Idlib have not been implemented by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... as of yet, but Russia is grateful to its Ottoman Turkish partners for the work they are doing, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... told a plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club on Thursday.
"No, they haven’t implemented [them] as of yet, but they are working on this," Putin said when asked whether Turkey had met its part of engagements. "We see that they are working. Things are not that easy, on the contrary, everything is difficult," the president said.
"But they are carrying out their obligations, and this demilitarized zone, which we agreed to set up, the 15 to 20-kilometer deep Idlib de-escalation zone, is being created," the president added.
Not all bully boyz have been withdrawn, the Russian leader said.
"The Ottoman Turkish partners are doing everything to comply with their commitments," Putin said, adding that the Ottoman Turkish partners had even deployed a military hospital to that region. He characterized Turkey as a "rather tough and rather efficient" party in fight against terrorism.
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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.
...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...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
[FOX] U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on a plan to handle the approaching migrant caravan making their way up from Central America, a senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
...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...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
