[ToloNews] Badakhshan governor Zakaria Sawda on Friday claimed that Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have joined imported muscle in recent festivities against the government forces in parts of the northeastern province.
He also claimed that the leadership of the conflicts in Badakhshan is owned by imported muscle and that Uighur, Chechens, Uzbek and Tajik nationals have been identified in recent festivities which often occur in Yumgan, Wardooj and Baharak districts.
"They are motivating the Taliban for their fight," the governor said. "We have witnessed their bodies on the battlefield."
Based on the US-Taliban agreement signed in February, Taliban should cut their ties with other terrorist groups fighting in Afghanistan, particularly with al-Qaeda.
"Chechens are there, Uighurs are there, Uzbeks are there, Tajiks are there. They have had further intensified festivities against the security forces which resulted in the fall of Yumgan (district) to their hand," said Ahmad Jawed Mujaddedi, member of Badakhshan Provincial Council.
The Presidential Palace said the Taliban’s relations with imported muscle in Afghanistan is questioning.
"Various questions are rising in this respect. The Afghan government is expecting the Taliban to quit violence," said Latif Mahmoud, a presidential front man. "Their (Taliban’) relation with Paksitan and other groups is still questionable."
[AA.TR] Afghanistan on Friday rejected Pakistain's demand to hand over the suspected leader of a ISIS-linked group nabbed by Afghan cops earlier this week.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the ISIS leader, Abdullah Orakzai, also known as Aslam Farooqi, a Pak-origin suspected turban, is wanted for a number of gruesome terrorist attacks and would be tried in line with laws in Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan does not discriminate between terrorists, it takes equal legal actions against all and is committed to all anti-terrorism commitments," it said.
It further noted that since there is no agreement between Pakistain and Afghanistan on the extradition of suspects and convicts, Farooqi will be dealt in line with laws in Afghanistan.
"The two countries can make joint efforts for exchange of information under the Afghanistan-Pakistain Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS), which will help in the fight against terrorism," the ministry added.
The Afghan intelligence agency National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) announced the arrest of Farooqi on April 6.
His arrest came days after the group grabbed credit for a deadly terrorist attack on a Sikh worship place in Kabul, which killed 25 people.
On Thursday, Islamabad summoned the Afghan ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and said that since Farooqi was involved in anti-Pakistain activities in Afghanistan, he should be handed over to Pakistain for further investigations.
China is not the only country to see its manufactured goods as a weapon. Cut Turkey off, too.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish president demands Ankara be allowed to transfer aid to Paleostinians before supplies sent to Israel in a move Israeli officials decry as propaganda, report says.
The gear was purchased by Israelis, but not by the government, with Ottoman Turkish authorities’ permission to export it to Israel, the report said.
Before the equipment was loaded onto planes for transport to Israel, Erdogan’s office halted the move, demanding that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... be allowed to transfer a similar amount of gear directly to the Paleostinians.
Israeli officials were angered by the demand, calling it propaganda and saying that anyone who wants to directly transfer equipment to the Paleostinians was already permitted to do so.
The crates are being held in an Istanbul warehouse and contain gear, including personal protective equipment, which was produced in Turkey, one of the world’s leading suppliers of medical equipment.
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Turkey was supplying personal protective equipment to Israel, including surgical masks, overalls and sterile gloves.
The report quoted an unnamed senior Ottoman Turkish official as saying that Ankara had approved the sale of medical equipment to Israel for humanitarian reasons and that Jerusalem would reciprocate by allowing similar Ottoman Turkish aid to the Paleostinians.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Israeli sources told the Hebrew-language Ynet news site that the report was inaccurate ‐ that the deal was commercial, not humanitarian, in nature and that there was no connection to aid to the Paleostinians.
According to Bloomberg, the Ottoman Turkish official said that three planes from Israel were to have landed Thursday at the Incirlik air base, which is also home to a US Air Force contingent, to pick up the cargo. The official said Turkey would donate medical aid to the Paleostinians within the next few days.
Relations between Israel and Turkey soured after Erdogan took power in 2003 and hit a nadir in 2010 after the Mavi Marmara incident, in which Israeli commandos boarded a ship trying to break the maritime blockade of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and killed 10 Turks after coming under attack with clubs and iron bars.
Despite the souring of ties, trade ‐ with the exception of military sales ‐ between the two former strategic allies has remained robust. Turkey was Israel’s No.7 export destination in 2019.
Turkey has provided protective equipment to over a dozen nations hard hit by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... crisis, including to five Balkan countries, Spain, Italia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Turkey’s own COVID-19 corpse count has continued to rise. The country recorded 96 deaths on April 9, taking the total toll to 908, with the number of confirmed cases increasing by 4,056 to 42,282, according to figures released by the health ministry in Ankara.
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Waqar Gillani, Encore, February 16, 2020
Besieged Maulana Abdul Aziz makes yet another move to take over Lal Masjid and propagate his extreme views in the face of administrative resistance. Islamabad’s Lal Masjid is once again in the limelight after its deposed firebrand khateeb, Maulana Abdul Aziz, made another move to ‘take over’ the premises. He entered the mosque with nearly 200 female students, some three weeks ago amidst weak administrative oversight. Aziz was deposed by the Musharraf government during the siege of Lal Masjid which lasted from July 3 to July 11, 2007. He left the state-administered mosque following allegations of propagating hate speech and extremism. Since then Aziz has been running a small mosque in G-7, whilst demanding the construction of Jamia Hafsa at its appointed site in Islamabad. In April of last year, the government sealed the site and replaced Aziz as the khateeb.
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Thank you, b. Responding to your comment, I was inspired to run a name search on the gentleman, with the resulting three most recent hits seen above.
"Oops - your bad"
[Jihad Watch] "Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore
...a unit of counting on the Indian subcontinent equal to 10 million...
people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful."
In what context would this statement be innocuous?
And how long are Muslim clerics and spokesmen going to claim they were quoted "out of context" every time they are caught saying something hateful and inciting to violence? How long will they continue to clain, every time an Infidel quotes one of the Qur’an’s hateful or violent passages, that it is being quoted out of context? As long as the Infidel political and media elites, so eager to be fooled on these issues, continue to let them get away with it without challenge.
[OpIndia] "In an uncanny apology, radical Maulvi Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui has cried foul after he was caught on tape, pleading Allah to send a virus to kill 50 crore Indians. He read his apology from a sheet of paper while remaining visually remorseless and unregretful about his contentious comments. Siddiqui began by claiming that he was quoted out of context. He then alleged that his video was edited by some miscreants in a bid to defame him.
In an attempt to water down the vitriol that he spewed earlier, Siddiqui went on to say that he respected "India’s secularism" and that he had worked for the people, irrespective of religion and caste.
“Because it is good for the unbelievers to be struck down in the midst of life by Allah in their lakhs and crores....
He also added that he was a ’social reformer’ and that he always prayed for the ’well-being of the people.’ Moreover, in an apparent U-turn, he conceded that people cutting across all races, castes, and religions must be united together to fight against the Wuhan Coronavirus. Following that, he went about explaining his alleged ’goodness’ and acts of ’philanthropy.’ Siddiqui said that he had contributed ₹1,00,001 to the Chief Minister’s relief fund and had distributed food grains and other essential materials to the poor, downtrodden, and the marginalised.
Towards the end of the video, he put forth an apology where he did not seem particularly remorseful, "My objective was not to hurt anyone’s feelings. If anyone is grieved by what I said then I would like to apologize. As an Islamic preacher, I am obliged to not hurt anyone."
In an earlier video referring to the Delhi Anti-Hindu riots, the Maulvi remarked, "Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful." After that, the crowd present there applauded the Maulvi’s statement....
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Out of context probably means he hoped for twice that number.
This ties in slightly with #Iran|ian backed Kata’ib #Hezbollah denouncing #Iraq|i PM nominee Mustafa al-Kadhimi earlier today. They still accuse him of being involved in Qassem Solemani and Al-Muhandis assassination and that “nomating Kadhimi is announcing of war on #Iraq|i’s” pic.twitter.com/3lfpRiJGNR
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) April 10, 2020
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[IsraelTimes] In tacit threat, the military warns Damascus that it will bear responsibility for any attacks that emanate from within its borders.
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday accused the Syrian army of helping the Hezbollah terror group establish a permanent military presence on the Golan Heights, releasing video footage showing a senior Syrian officer visiting the region.
"Even during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... period, the new commander of the Syrian army’s 1st Division, Lua’a Ali Ahmad Asa’ad, continues to help and allow the Hezbollah terror group establish a front on the Golan Heights," the IDF said in a statement.
The Israeli military released video footage from the border from one of its surveillance cameras, showing Asa’ad and a number of other army officers walking around an unidentified area along the border.
"In the clip, the new division commander is seen on a patrol of the front, including passing through areas known to be used by Hezbollah, with the head of Hezbollah’s southern command, Hajj Hashem," the IDF said.
In a tacit threat, the military added that the Syrian regime would "be held responsible for all enemy activities emanating from its territory."
"Consider this a warning," the IDF added.
The military refused to comment on when and where exactly the footage was filmed.
Israel has long maintained that it would not accept the establishment of a permanent military presence in Syria by Hezbollah or Iran, which backs the Lebanese terror group.
Earlier last month, the IDF accused the Hezbollah terror group and the Syrian army of being behind an attempted sniper attack against Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights earlier this month, which was thwarted by an Israeli strike on the suspects’ car.
The military said at the time that in the months preceding the incident Israeli troops saw Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers preparing for an attack, filming the border area with smartphones and professional cameras and measuring wind speed from different locations in the supposedly demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries ‐ in what the IDF said appeared to be efforts to identify a target and improve snipers’ accuracy.
The IDF said that on March 2 fighters were seen preparing to carry out the attack from a car.
"When there was an operational opportunity, the car being used by the cell was attacked by an IDF helicopter," the military said.
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri criticizes the government over a draft program for tackling a major financial crisis, saying it appears on course for an “economic suicide plan.”#Lebanon#LebanonProtestshttps://t.co/fCGfD3mZLl
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Saad Hariri should know, he was leader of a failed state.
Thierry MEYSSAN wrote on 17/12/2019: The Central Bank of Lebanon has again authorized private banks to freely deliver Lebanese pounds, but still no dollars. This exchange control is illegal because it has not been validated by Parliament. Several large companies have already filed for interim relief before the courts.
The wheat, oil and medicine import sectors are out of business, all the others are in recession.
Public debt stands at 154% of GDP. The Lebanese pound was depreciated by half its value in three months, taking the Syrian pound, already mistreated during the war by the Saudi and Qatari counterfeit currency, into its fall. Financial crisis led Parliament to adopt a new tax that triggered demonstrations that paralysed the country since October 17, 2019. In all likelihood, it originated in a massive scam set up by the country’s political leaders through the Central Bank.
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Might have to do some back-testing, but I wonder when Lebanon defaulted. Also wonder when the markets crashed. Also wonder if any big banks, particularly European, got caught up in this. And then along came COVID-19....
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
