[NYPOST] This caravan migrant from El Salvador is seen digging his way to the US, tunneling under a metal fence at the Mexican border in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, then racing back to Mexico after agents spotted him and a cohort Friday.
Cesar Jobet, 18, and Daniel Jeremias Cruz, 18, scooped away mud and dirt with their hands for about 15 minutes, American soil visible through slats in the fence, as agency photographers shot a series of them in action.
One photo shows Jobet upside down and halfway submerged in the tunnel, his legs and feet sticking straight up.
The two teens managed to make it across to the US side briefly, crossing from Playas de Tijuana into San Diego, according to the Agence La Belle France-Presse.
But they weren’t in the US for long.
Border patrol agents saw them ‐ and the teens bolted.
"No idea why he and Daniel ran, maybe just a rush adrenaline," the photographers, Pedro Pardo and Guillermo Arias, said in a joint statement to The Post.
After they returned to Mexico without being apprehended, Jobet and Cruz rejoined other members of their caravan, the third from El Salvador.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Tunisian lawyer, who is a member of the defense team of assassinated political opponents Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi, announced on Saturday that he will file a legal case to dissolve the Ennahda Movement Party for its alleged links to terror.
Ali Kalthum, the defense team’s member said that he will push his case against Ennahda in front the court which held on Friday a hearing on the liquidation case.
Meanwhile the Court of First Instance postponed its deliberations on the case of the liquidation of Belaid to March 30, 2019.
On Thursday, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi stated that the Ennahda Movement Party threatened him personally and that he would not allow it.
Essebsi comments came during his supervision of the National Security Council’s meeting at Carthage Presidential Palace.
This development came after the Security Council said it will investigate the secret apparatus of the Ennahda Movement Party.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] A UN plane will evacuate 50 maimed Huthi snuffies from Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa on Monday as a "confidence building measure" ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
"A UN chartered plane will arrive at Sanaa international airport Monday to evacuate 50 maimed combatants... three Yemeni doctors and a UN doctor, from Sanaa to Muscat," a coalition front man said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The fate of maimed rebels had been a stumbling block to the start of a previous round of aborted peace talks in September.
The coalition agreed to facilitate the medical evacuations at the request of UN envoy Martin Griffiths for "humanitarian reasons" and as a "confidence building measure", the front man added.
Houthis on Thursday said they will attend UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden this week if guarantees to ensure they can leave home and return back are maintained.
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dumbasses
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Tales from the first gutting of Turkey’s army. Bunches of Turkey’s best generals, colonels, captains, and such have been sitting in jail for years, accused of being involved in this oddly named conspiracy. Only now it is finally being admitted that the bunches were telling the truth about not conspiring.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The prosecution of a court case involving a reported conspiracy to overthrow The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s government dating back a decade has said the existence of the organization in question could not be conclusively proven, according to judicial sources on Friday.
"It has been found that the leadership, membership and criminal activity could not be established of the organization, as well as its existence," the prosecutors said of the "armed terrorist organization Ergenekon", submitting its official opinion on the case.
"There is no concrete evidence of the presence of an Ergenekon terrorist organization, and thus a non-existent terrorist organization can neither have managers, members, or supporters, nor it is possible to commit crimes for it," said the prosecution.
Prosecutors asked for jail terms for 28 suspects in the Istanbul court, while recommending charges be dropped for 199 others.
Among the 28, four had received aggravated life sentences for the killing of a judge and wounding four others in a 2006 armed attack at Turkey's top administrative court.
The original Ergenekon conspiracy probe, dating to 2007, led to trials in 2013 of military officers, politicians, academics, and journalists, but later the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned hundreds of convictions in the case.
Last year, Ottoman Turkish authorities said the 2013 Ergenekon trial was based on fabricated evidence, and blamed the prosecutions on Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) member soldiers trying to purge the military of rival officers.
FETÖ and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETÖ of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Ottoman Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] 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... and United States 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... have discussed an ongoing bilateral agreement that stipulates clearing the Manbij province of Syria of the YPG bully boyz along with other troubled aspects of the ties in a face-to-face meeting on the margins of the G20 summit in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... "Our relations with the U.S. are based on strategic partnership. As two strategic partners, we had opportunity to elaborate the developments in the northern Syria, east of Euphrates, Manbij. We also had the chance to talk on Idlib but our main agenda is Manbij. We have discussed how we can clear Manbij of these organization while we reiterated our view on the PYD/YPG," Erdogan told a presser late Dec 1 in Buenos Aires.
Erdogan held a 50-minute long in-person meeting Trump on the margins of the G20 Summit amid bilateral efforts to put things back on track after the release of a U.S. Pastor whose two-year detention had caused severe impacts on Ankara-Washington bonds.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and the U.S. agreed on a road map in early June for the withdrawal of the YPG bully boyz from Manbij to the east of Euphrates River but its implementation has been delayed. Turkey has long been criticizing the U.S. cooperation with the YPG in the pretext of continued fight against the 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Turkey considers the PYD/YPG as the Syrian branch of the PKK and therefore as terrorist.
Erdogan reiterated Turkey’s frustration over the choice of the U.S. in partnering with a terror organization to eliminate another terrorist group, saying "As Turkey, we witness this double standard on the terrorist actions both in our country and our neighbor Syria."
"Terrorists, who act within Turkey, kill civilians and mess with terrorism, roam freely in Western countries under the name of political refugees and can even collect tribute," the president said, referring to the supporters of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ).
"The supporters of FETÖ, who initiated the coup attempt and killed 251 of our people, are being protected by certain countries, notwithstanding of all the mounting evidence we have presented," he said, expressing his hope that the U.S. will change its attitude and extradite 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... , the criminal mastermind of the July 2016 failed coup attempt.
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[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish 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... demanded on Saturday that 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... extradite suspects in the killing in Istanbul of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the kingdom was not cooperating.
At a summit of the Group of 20 in Buenos Aires, the Ottoman Turkish leader took a firm tone on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... (MBS).
Saudi Arabua has announced the detention of 18 nationals and vowed to probe the killing of Khashoggi, a royal confidant turned critic who was killed and dismembered when he visited the kingdom's Istanbul consulate on October 2, to handle paperwork for his planned wedding.
"It's essential that these people are tried in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... in order to eliminate any question marks that the international community may have," Erdogan told news hounds.
"Whoever has ordered and implemented this violent crime should be found out at once. Unless the perpetrators are found out, the whole world and the Islamic community shall not be satisfied."
Erdogan said the Saudis have refused to help Ottoman Turkish prosecutors who sought information including the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body and the identities of accomplices said to have supported the visiting Saudi hit squad.
The Ottoman Turkish leader, who has been vying for influence in the region with Saudi Arabia, said he did "not wish to cause any damage" to the royal family.
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[DAWN] Abdul Qadir Naimi aka Maulana Mehran who had contested for the PS-54 Dahli seat on a Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) ticket in the July 25 general elections has dissociated himself from the party.
Speaking at a presser at the local press club on Saturday, Maulana Mehran announced that he now had nothing to do with the party. "I am no more a part of the TLP," he declared, and advised his voters, followers and supporters to avoid any act that could lead to a confrontation with state institutions and security agencies.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli court on Sunday released the Paleostinian governor of Jerusalem from detention to house arrest for three days as part of an investigation related to a land sale.
Adnan Gheith, who was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on November 25, will be confined to his home through Tuesday, Jerusalem magistrate court justice Chavi Toker ruled.
Police have been investigating Gheith over suspicions he was involved in the Paleostinian Authority’s (PA) arrest in October of America-Paleostinian Issam Akel, who is accused of involvement in selling an east Jerusalem building to Jewish buyers.
Such sales are considered treasonous among Paleostinians concerned with Israeli settlers buying property in annexed east Jerusalem.
Police also suspect Gheith of recruiting Paleostinian residents of Jerusalem to the PA armed forces, which Israel says violates the 1993 Oslo accords.
Paleostinian officials have condemned his arrest and claim it is intended to pressure the Paleostinian leadership over Akel’s case.
Israelis, as well as US ambassador David Friedman, have called for Akel’s release.
Geith’s lawyer, Rami Othman, said the court’s decision to release his client to house arrest proved the case was not serious.
"The mountain gave birth to a mouse," Othman told AFP.
"They want to harass him," he said following Sunday’s hearing.
He said they did not want him to remain Jerusalem governor. "They don’t like the position."
Gheith had been arrested for several days in October and was also taken for questioning a number of times in recent weeks, with his office raided on November 4.
Israel meanwhile has halted security coordination with the PA in the Jerusalem area, Major General Adnan al-Dumeiri, front man for the Paleostinian security forces, told AFP.
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How adorable — he’s white knighting the entire country of Iran.
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‘Surrealism’ is now the US' modus operandi in its foreign affairs: While itself violates UNSCR 2231—and even threatens to punish those who don't wish to violate it in abiding with illegal US sanctions—it now falsely accuses Iran of violating the very SAME resolution. #Hypocrisy
[PRESSTV] Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the Islamic Theocratic Republic is currently one of the world’s topmost missile powers despite being subject to severe sanctions during the past 40 years.
"Today, Iran is among the world’s topmost powers in building missiles, radars, armored vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)," the Iranian defense minister said in an exclusive interview with IRNA on Sunday, emphasizing that Iran's defense power is meant to send the message of peace and friendship to other nations.
"Iran has managed to attain a very desirable and acceptable performance in the field of defensive products and the Defense Ministry has become self-sufficient in defense industry despite tough sanctions [imposed] by the [global] arrogant system in 40 years," he added.
The Iranian defense chief further said the inauguration of the production line of the Kowsar fighter jet at Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company in Isfahan Province last month proved that sanctions are ineffective.
On November 3, Iran launched the mass production of the fourth-generation all-indigenous interceptor jet, Kowsar, in a major step toward the renovation of its Air Force.
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I'm going to enjoy swatting the crap out of them when the time comes.
[DAWN] Iran’s navy on Saturday launched a domestically made destroyer, which state media said has radar-evading stealth properties, as tensions rise with arch-enemy, the United States.
In a ceremony carried live on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, the Sahand destroyer ‐ which can sustain voyages lasting five months without resupply ‐ joined Iran’s regular navy at a base in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf.
The Sahand has a flight deck for helicopters, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and electronic warfare capabilities, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
"This vessel is the result of daring and creative design relying on the local technical knowledge of the Iranian Navy... and has been built with stealth capabilities," Rear-Admiral Alireza Sheikhi, head of the navy shipyards that built the destroyer, told the state news agency IRNA.
Iran launched its first locally made destroyer in 2010 as part of a programme to revamp its navy equipment which dates from before the 1979 Islamic revolution and is mostly US-made.
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The picture doesn't look at all like the one we laughed at the other day. And it looks more conventional than stealthy.
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"She's peerless at pierside! Beyond?
She'll bug Uncle Sam on our pond,
Incinerate hendis,
And steam to the Indies,
Just like the old sunken Sahand."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Most of Syria’s Idlib activists opposing 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, the al-Qaeda terrorist organization’s arm in the country, which is also part of the so-called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), are deeply concerned about the threats they are facing by the turban organization that controls large parts of Idlib and its northwestern towns.
The lives of these activists are in grave dangers.
They are assassinated or detained in prisons supervised by HTS, especially after some of these activists accused al-Nusra of its involvement in the liquidation of two prominent activists from the town of Kafr Nabl, south of Idlib.
The two activists are Raed Fares and Hamoud Junaid; both of whom were previously detained by HTS.
Ahmed Khalil al-Jalal, one of the most prominent artists in the town of Kafr Nabl opposing Bashir al-Assad’s regime, told Al Arabiya English that: "I personally accuse al-Nusra of the liquidation, and in response, we did not remain silent, we took part in demonstrations by myself and some of their friends (Fares and Junaid)."
The Syrian activist al-Jalal who is a close friend of Fares and Junaid said that the banners they carried during the demonstration "were critical of al-Nusra and carried direct accusations against their involvement in the liquidations."
He added: "We went out in small numbers in this demonstration because of people’s fear."
He pointed out that "I won’t make it easy for al-Nusra to arrest or assassinate me, and what I am going through today reminds me of the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, when the Syrian regime army entered our town."
"The situation is difficult, and I am talking about the fear of those who do not dare to criticize al-Nusra, which is a security branch that terrorizes the people."
Jalal said that "al-Nusra and the various turban factions, politicize the population and control them by force under religious cover," noting that "whoever opposed the regime in the past will not keep silent now, but it is unfortunate that most of the activists are either nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! or have been assassinated."
The Syrian activist and painter said that a group known as "Hisba" which is affiliated to al-Nusra and considered its police, went to his home following his participation in demonstrations against the turban group last Friday, but luckily he wasn’t there.
Since then, the painter sought a safe house and can’t be seen in public for fear of his life, but his anti-al-Nusra speeches continued to be loud on his Facebook page, saying that he would "expose the killers," holding them responsible for anything might happen to him in the future.
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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.
... 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...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
