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Taliban loses deputy intelligence chief, dozens of militants in Farah city clash
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Six Illegal Aliens Accused of Stabbing 21-Year-Old Man to Death in Maryland
[BREITBART] Seven individuals have been charged with murdering a 21-year-old man to death in Maryland, six of whom are illegal aliens who have been living in the United States.
MS-13, Pelosi: "They're not animals", “there is a spark of divinity among every person on earth, and we all have to recognize that as we respect the dignity and worth of every person.”
This week, prosecutors charged seven individuals, six of whom are illegal aliens, with first-degree murder after 21-year-old Daniel Alejandro Alvarado Cuellar was found stabbed to death, his body left near an apartment complex in Baltimore County, Maryland in July.

The seven individuals charged with murder include:

20-year-old Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez
20-year-old Marlon Leonardo Fabian-Flores
18-year-old Edwin Edgardo Garcia-Martir
31-year-old Hugo Portillo-Chavez
19-year-old Jose Fausto Rivera-Coreas
20-year-old Odaliz Rosas-Yanez
16-year-old Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernadez

Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz confirmed with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that Fabian-Flores, Garcia-Martir, Portillo-Chavez, Rivera-Coreas, Rosas-Yanez, and Velasquez-Hernadez are all illegal aliens who have been living in the U.S. Five of the illegal aliens are from El Salvador and one is from Mexico.

ICE officials confirmed that they have issued detainers on each of these six illegal aliens, requesting that should any of them be released from prison, they be turned over to federal immigration officials for arrest and deportation.

Esc0bar-Hernandez, the only individual not with an ICE detainer, "may or may not have gotten some sort of legal status," according to Horowitz.

Prosecutors said the six illegal aliens and Escobar-Hernandez are facing life in prison if convicted for the murder, and other individuals may have been involved.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  charged with murdering a 21-year-old man to death

As opposed to lesser murders?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Diversity is our strength.
Posted by: Unoper Clomomp8921 || 09/07/2019 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Baltimore. And INASH.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2019 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  What is 'life in prison' these days, an indeterminate sentence upto 7-15 years and parole ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/07/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  [Illegal] Immigrants Make Us Dead Strong
Posted by: Lex || 09/07/2019 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Strong Border control, whatever happened to "if it saves one life"?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/07/2019 17:22 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan president postpones US trip to discuss Taliban deal
[DAWN] Afghanistan's president has postponed a planned visit to Washington early next week where he was to discuss the US-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
talks on ending America's longest war, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Friday.

The development emerged after the US envoy negotiating with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, abruptly returned to 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...
for unexpected talks with the Death Eaters on the deal that he had described as complete just days ago. The agreement "in principle" to begin a US troop withdrawal only needed President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's approval, Khalilzad said on Monday.

It was not immediately clear why 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...
's visit was postponed. The person who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named was not authorised to talk to news hounds and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Since Khalilzad's announcement, two horrific Taliban boom-mobileings in the Afghan capital, Kabul, one of which killed a US service member and objections to the deal from the Afghan government and several former US ambassadors to Afghanistan have put pressure on Khalilzad as many wonder whether a deal will truly bring peace.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Salva Kiir proposes to mediate Sudan peace talks
[Sudan Tribune] Because his own worked so well.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


African Union lifts suspension of Sudan’ membership
[Sudan Tribune] The African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
has lifted Sudan’s suspension from the regional body after the formation of the civilian government, the regional body said in a statement on Friday.

On 6 June 2019, The African Union suspended Sudan despite a delay it had given to the military junta after a brutal raid on a pro-democracy sit-in in Khartoum that resulted in the death of over a hundred people.

At the time, the AU Peace and Security Council said the suspension would remain until the effective establishment of a Civilian-led Transitional Authority, and tasked the Æthiopian Prime Minister with a mediation to restore democracy in Sudan.

In a meeting held on Friday on the situation in Sudan, the African Union’s Pece and Security Council welcomed the appointment of the Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and the formation of his cabinet on Thursday 5 September.

The transitional government will lead Sudan for 39 months before to run the first free general elections after the fall of the al-Bashir regime as a result of more than four months of popular protests.

The Sudanese prime minister will work to draw international support to the country which had been ruined by the 30-year rule of the Islamist and pariah regime. Also, his government has to sign a peace agreement with gangs that waged war against the former regime.

The Council decided "to lift the suspension of the participation of Sudan in the AU’s activities," said a statement extended to Sudan Tribune after the meeting

The statement further called for the lift of economic and financial sanctions on Sudan ", including removing Sudan from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism". It stressed that the removal will " enhance the economic activities of the country and encourage foreign investments".

The 15-member regional body called for the broader international community to support the efforts of the AU to this end.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Algerians protest over plan for swift elections
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tens of thousands of protesters piled once again onto the streets of the Algerian capital and other cities Friday with many rejecting the army chief’s call for presidential elections before the end of the year.

This week’s pro-democracy protest, the 29th in a row, is seen as a test of the continued strength of the movement and a way to gauge the temperature of Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah’s call this week to set a date by September 15 for presidential elections. That would mean voting would be held by law 90 days later - in mid-December.

Algeria has been without an elected president since protesters, helped by the army chief, forced Abdelaziz Bouteflika
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
to resign in early April.

Nationwide demonstrations started on February 22 to protest plans by Bouteflika, who was rarely seen in public since a 2013 stroke, to seek a fifth mandate. His administration was mired in corruption and top figures have since been imprisoned, along with leading industrialists.

Protesters now seek a democratic government and want a say in how to achieve that goal. Many opposition politicians are withholding judgment on Gaid Salah’s call for quick elections while others fear that he is seeking a return of a system they reject.

In the absence of an elected president, Gaid Salah has positioned himself as the country’s main authority figure, and sends out messages to Algerians via his numerous speeches to soldiers during visits to barracks.

Many Algerians want a transition period to work out how to proceed, while others want elections but with conditions.

Hundreds of police were posted, like each week, around downtown Algiers on Friday.

Chants included "We refuse to be led by Gaid Salah" and "We’re sick of generals."

Demonstrations were also held in a number of other cities, including the Kabyle capital of blood-soaked Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers. And demonstrators demanded "a civilian and democratic nation" in the port city of Oran.

In Algiers, some carried signs bearing the portraits of people imprisoned for "political opinions," including Lakhdar Bouregaa, 86, a veteran of Algeria’s independence war against La Belle France, who had joined protesters.

"Today, the crowd is bigger than recent Fridays ... It’s a response to the discourse of Gaid Salah," Zine Cherfaoui, a commentator with the daily El Watan, said in an interview.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Consider it a blessing unlike America where we endure nearly two years of the electioneering to include an extra day of it in the actual election year.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||


Europe
A Muslim Party in Belgium wants a Muslim Belgium
[Twitter-RT]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  And people are surprised Brits want out of EU?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/07/2019 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Me, I'm tired of pinata parties. I wanna have a muslim party.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/07/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone really surprised?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/07/2019 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  This is my shocked face...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/07/2019 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  All Muzzies want to live in a totally Muzzie world. It's the pillar of their so-called religion.
Posted by: jpal || 09/07/2019 11:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Bumper sticker: Coexist
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2019 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  But what does this mean for the chocolate industry?
Posted by: Winky Ebbavitle4576 || 09/07/2019 15:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Winky, ask yourself: did the Prophet have chocolate? No? Well, there's your answer.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/07/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Surprised it took so long.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/07/2019 15:55 Comments || Top||

#10  And speaking of cookbooks...

Wash puritan warlord's sepulture
With one-billions' blood. Top with vulture.
A simple receipt,
But believe me, they'll eat
Your monotonously wan monoculture!
Posted by: Gomez Wittlesbach7552 || 09/07/2019 16:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Hyphens... WDTHM? Guess I'm just not hyphenated enough. Not that I ever could be, I mean. Er... please don't report me? And speaking of progress, isn't it time we had a universally enforced punctuation mark for uptalk? I've always liked the upside-down question mark... if that's not too brutally appropriative¿
Posted by: Gomez Wittlesbach7552 || 09/07/2019 17:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Well, so many have already given up the Judaeo-Christian religion, they're just trying to fill a void. (Do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2019 17:42 Comments || Top||

#13  What the heck? How'd I think the above limerick rhymed? Sowwy.
Posted by: Gomez Wittlesbach7552 || 09/07/2019 23:52 Comments || Top||


Denmark says it is in talks with its European partners to participate in an international naval force in the Strait of Hormuz
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Because its your oil not ours to be concerned about?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2019 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Won't cost much more than the price of Greenland.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2019 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  A mighty EU argosy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/07/2019 11:26 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish court sentences opposition figure to nearly 10 years in jail
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish court on Friday sentenced a prominent opposition official to nine years and eight months in prison over several crimes including insulting the president and spreading terrorist propaganda, a politician from the main opposition party said.

The Republican People's Party (CHP) said Canan Kaftancioglu, the head of its leadership in Istanbul, would not immediately go to jail pending the appeals process. The indictment against Kaftancioglu cited several tweets she shared between 2012 and 2017.

Kaftancioglu has derided the trial as political. In March the CHP won Ankara and Istanbul mayors’ offices in local elections in a setback for President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
’s ruling party.

Erdogan has received backlash from human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
groups who criticize the arrests of those who oppose him.

In June The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel over alleged links to the network accused by Ankara of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016.

Rights groups claim Erdogan used the failed coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Judges hearing cases of Rana Sanaullah, Sharifs repatriated to Lahore High Court
[DAWN] Three accountability court judges hearing the cases of Rana Sanaullah as well as multiple members of the Sharif family were repatriated and directed on Friday to report to the Lahore High Court (LHC).

A notice was sent by the LHC registrar to judges Masood Arshad, Mohammad Naeem Arshad, and Mushtaq Elahi.

According to the notice pursuant to a notification dated August 26 issued by the law ministry, "the honourable chief justice has been pleased to repatriate you and direct you to report to this court forthwith for further orders".

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
‘End charade, dismantle Iran nuclear deal completely,’ says Sen.Ted Cruz
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas, said that "it’s time to end the charade and dismantle the Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
nuclear deal completely."

Senator Cruz issued the statement on Friday in response to reports that Iran will expand violation of the Obama-era nuclear deal by building prohibited centrifuges in which he noted: "Unfortunately, the international community seems loathe to respond. The deal was built to enable undetected Iranian cheating while incentivizing Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to ignore whatever violations were found, and that’s exactly what happened."

"The Nuclear Archives seized by Israel show that the Ayatollahs have always been cheating by secretly maintaining a warehouse filled with nuclear equipment and radioactive material. Just this week we learned Iran is refusing to answer the United Nation’s questions about that warehouse," he added.

Senator Cruz said President Trump should order his administration "to stop issuing civil nuclear waivers, which allow Iran to build up its nuclear program, including at their Fordow nuclear bunker, which they dug out of the side of a mountain to build nuclear weapons."

Senator Cruz also urged Washington to go to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
and "invoke our unilateral right to snap back from the deal and re-impose United Nations sanctions."

"Otherwise, we will very soon face a reality in which all international sanctions have been permanently lifted against Iran, which would be a disaster for the security of Americans and our allies."

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Whapt Iran needs is the opposite of nation building
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/07/2019 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Dismantle Iran.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/07/2019 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Unfinished business from the Carter presidency.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2019 8:21 Comments || Top||


Lebanese President warns Israel would bear consequences of any attack
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb's President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
warned on Friday that Israel would bear the results of any attack on his country, days after a flare-up at the border between Israel and Hezbollah.
"Please don't kill us!"
"Any attack on Leb's illusory sovereignty ... will be met with legitimate self-defense which Israel will bear all the consequences of," Aoun's office cited him as saying in a meeting with the UN Special Coordinator for Leb.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week warned Leb and Leb’s Hezbollah to "be careful what you say and more careful what you do."

Leb’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
responded in a CNBC interview saying that Israel wants to make Leb look responsible for the recent tensions.

"Israel wants to have this scenario that Leb is responsible, with what Netanyahu says, and if you want to buy it, buy it. But he knows and the international community knows that this is not true," said Hariri.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  nah, you gonna bear them with an ass whoopin
Posted by: chris || 09/07/2019 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Another UN condemnation?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/07/2019 4:15 Comments || Top||


Turkish and US forces will start joint land patrols to establish a ‘safe zone’ along the Turkey-Syria border
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Hope it works out better than the US/Mex border safe zone.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Advice to US forces: watch your backs.
Posted by: jpal || 09/07/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  What? No way the turk would find a way to get US soldiers killed and get blame put on the Kurds. No no no.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/07/2019 15:15 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2019-09-07
  Taliban loses deputy intelligence chief, dozens of militants in Farah city clash
Fri 2019-09-06
  Comrade Robert ''Bob'' Mugabe Finally Croaks at 95
Thu 2019-09-05
  Arrested Terrorist Admits Being Pak National, Says Many Waiting At Launching Pads
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  Libya's Coast Guard rescues over 100 migrants off the coast of Sabratha
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   Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
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  Haftar's forces strike Murzuq in southern Libya
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  Islamic State claims suicide bomb attack on separatist fighters in Yemen's Aden
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