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[Garowe] A family deal on importation of Khat from Æthiopia and mistrust may have significantly contributed to outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo's plot to block Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble's trip to Nairobi.
Roble, who took over in October 2020, is scheduled to visit Nairobi on Tuesday just weeks after Somalia restored its relationship with Kenya after months of showdown. Already, the advance team of Roble in Nairobi to prepare for the visit, but sources have confirmed that Farmaajo is against the trip.
On Sunday, Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Raychelle Omamo arrived in Mogadishu and she's expected to hold talks with Farmaajo and Roble. But her trip comes just hours after the Somali leader issued a decree the temporarily suspends the signing of international cooperations until elections are concluded.
In Somalia, Omamo is set to focus on pushing for the lifting of the ban imposed on Khat from Kenya, something which Roble was set to discuss once he arrives in Nairobi. Kenya was the main exporter of Khat to Somalia but her fortunes were overturned, forcing Nairobi to also suspend direct flights to Mogadishu.
Details obtained by Garowe Online had established that the ban on Kenya's Khat was imposed to pave way for Farmaajo's family business after they signed a deal with Æthiopia. Æthiopia was given exclusive rights to export Khat to Somalia.
Farmaajo and associates currently control the multi-million dollar khat business now run by the Æthiopians after Villa Somalia mandarins locked out Kenya in March 2020 in the guise of COVID-19 restrictions. Kenya was locked out of the deal.
Over time, Farmaajo has built a strong relationship with embattled Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... President Isaias Afwerki. The two Horn of Africa leaders have wanting human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... records.
For months now, Æthiopia has been exporting Khat to Somalia, with Farmaajo's family said to be the main beneficiary. Kenya has been struggling to unlock the ban, at times forced to suspend direct flights to Somalia as a retaliation.
Before Obama's arrival, Kenya had initially sent powerful Interior CS Fred Matiang'i and Chief Administrative Secretary Ababu Namwamba to negotiate over the Khat trade ban. It's not clear if Omamo will succeed in her trip since Somalia is in active agreement with Æthiopia and Farmaajo has since suspended the signing of trade desks.
"Trade agreements with other countries have been suspended during the country’s elections," the decree released Saturday night read in part, in what could affect efforts by Kenya and to some extent, Roble, in the restoration of the trade ties.
Ambassador Omamo is expected to deliver an invite to Roble today in her visit to Mogadishu. This follows a brief encounter between Roble and President Uhuru Kenyatta June during which time the Kenyan leader extended an invite to the Somali PM.
Despite opposition by Farmaajo in Roble's planned visit to Nairobi, multiple sources have confirmed that the PM will proceed with the trip. Roble, who was recently elevated to take charge of elections, has appeared as a moderate leader who trusts in dialogue, something which may have irked his boss.
The decision by the federal government of Somalia to impose a ban on Kenyan Khat was not only business motivated but also politically engineered due to diverse interests from Farmaajo's family.
While banning Khat which has adverse socio-economic and health consequences effects on many other aspects of life, the government continued to import the Æthiopian Khat, further showing the personal interests.
[LIBYAREVIEW] In a report, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) warned that the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) located near Lake Chad affiliated with the terrorist organization the Islamic State (ISIS), has begun to arrange its ranks. It noted that it recently received hundreds of elements affiliated with the organization coming from Libya with the aim of carrying out attacks inside the continent.
In a report, ISS confirmed that the organization is now planning to carry out attacks in the the African Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... . ISS explained that the organization will receive support (equipment and combatants) from Libya, in order to expand in the region. This expansion could endanger the lives of millions of Africans.
That’s the new bit.
The institute pointed out that some of these combatants left the group between 2016 and 2018, fleeing to Libya and Sudan. A driving factor was ISWAP’s leadership, particularly the brutality of former military head Mustapha Krimima.
It added that some deserters were unhappy with the 2016 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... split that created ISWAP and Jema’ah Ansharusy Syariah (JAS), while others wanted to join ISIS in Libya. Their return could boost ISWAP’s ranks and combat experience, as shown by their role in the May Sambisa attack.
According to ISS research, 130 or more former fighters rejoined ISWAP after returning from Libya in three groups between April and June. At least 70 more are expected to return in the near future.
Sources say the combatants use the Libya-Algeria-Mali-Niger-Nigeria route favoured by ISIS and ISWAP rather than the direct Libya-Niger-Nigeria passage. With its long stretch of desert, the latter is more difficult to navigate, with frequent reports of travellers dying of hunger and thirst. The route is also used by human traffickers and therefore has stricter security checks.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... continues to recruit mercenaries and foreign forces of Evil in order to send them to Libya, to preserve Ankara’s interests and expand its military presence inside the country, sources revealed to Libya Review.
The sources explained that Ankara recruited Sudanese gangs in order to send them to the South of Libya to target the army forces stationed on the Chadian border. The Libyan-Chadian boarder is a highly volatile area, following the killing of Chad’s President Idriss Déby in armed attacks last April.
The sources added that the company responsible for recruiting a group of Sudanese mercenaries is owned by Ottoman Turkish businessman Oktay Shaban Hosni. Oktay is close to Ottoman Turkish 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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... The sources confirmed that Oktay assigned the task of recruiting Sudanese miners to send them to Libya, to a Ottoman Turkish person named Youssef. Youssef works under the cover of operating in the maintenance of heavy machines and loaders.
Oktay left Sudan after the fall of the previous regime, who assigned him there. Sources said that "the Ottoman Turkish company responsible for recruitment operations continues to work in various forms due to its officials’ extensive relations with workers and miners in Sudan."
Observers believe that Turkey views the Libyan South with great interest, as 70% of Libya’s wealth is concentrated in this region.
In February, a report by a team of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council experts revealed that Sudanese gangs participated in the fighting in Libya.
In recent months, gangs, most of them foreigners, launched numerous attacks on southern Libya. They targeted the forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which prompted the latter to launch proactive campaigns to "purify"this area.
The continuing efforts to bring mercenaries into Libya and the presence of foreign forces in many parts of Libya remain a major obstacle to the holding of the Libyan upcoming elections, scheduled for next December.
On the sidelines of Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba’s visit to Turkey on Saturday, Ottoman Turkish Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, said Ottoman Turkish forces will not leave Libya. This move raises doubts about Ankara’s intention to open the way for a political solution and withdraw mercenaries and its affiliated forces from Libya.
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Seems to me he is trying to expand the Ottoman empire he thinks he has.
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Maybe Erdy just wants a giant sandbox to play Calvinball in. That's what I would want if I were twelve.
[DW] The schoolgirl surrendered to the military last month along with someone she married in captivity. The governor said she will receive psychological and medical care. Over 100 schoolgirls are still missing.
The office of the governor of Borno state in northern Nigeria, where almost 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in the town of Chibok seven years ago, announced Saturday that one of the girls is free and has been reunited with her family.
Ruth Ngladar Pogu surrendered to the military on July 28 along with a person she had married in captivity. Officials withheld the announcement of her release from captivity to give them time to contact her parents and other families of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, they said.
In a statement, Borno state Governor Babagana Umara Zulum said, "I am extremely excited both as Borno's governor and father of all sons and daughters of the state, and also as a father to daughters."
He added, "I know the feeling of families of those still under captivity, but we have to remain hopeful especially with today's development."
#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS THEN AND NOW
In April 2014, almost 300 schoolgirls between the ages of 12 and 17 were kidnapped by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in the town of Chibok in Borno state.
This sparked an international outcry and spawned the social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls, championed by Michelle Obama when she was the first lady in the White House and other prominent voices.
In the years since, about two dozen of the girls were either released or found by the military, though approximately 113 remain missing and are believed to still be captives of the Islamic holy warrior group Boko Haram.
In 2014, mediation led to the release of 82 of the girls.
MASS ABDUCTIONS AND THE ARMY'S STRUGGLE
Nigeria's military has been locked in a 12 year-long battle against Boko Haram and its more recent offshoot, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province.
The conflict has left 40,000 dead and displaced more than two million in northern Nigeria.
While Boko Haram may have pioneered mass kidnappings as a tactic, criminal gangs have launched copycat attacks with the purpose of securing ransom.
In the most recent attack last month, schoolchildren were kidnapped from a boarding school in the state of Kaduna.
It was the tenth such mass kidnapping from a school since December. An estimated 1,000 students are being held in total.
[PUNCHNG] A newly-launched joint report by the International Committee on Nigeria and the International Organisation for Peace Building and Social Justice has asserted that Nigeria is currently experiencing genocide, describing the nation as "a failed state."The report, titled, "Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter," stated that no fewer than 43,242 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies while 18,834 others bit the dust in the hands of killer Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... herdsmen over a 20-year period.
It added that 34,233 other Nigerians met their deaths through extrajudicial killings by other actors, including the police, military and others.
The report lamented what it described as the "breakdown of the rule of law, spiraling violence, atrocities against targeted religious groups and innocent civilians and the apparent impunity of the perpetrators" in Nigeria.
According to the report, the combination of these factors contributed to transform Nigeria into "largely a failed state and regional epicentre for terrorism."
The authors of the report added that their assertion found support in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1948 United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Convention on Genocide.
"There is strong evidence and a compelling legal argument that over the past decade or so, and increasingly under the current Fulani Moslem-dominated Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria is experiencing what could be seen as targeted religious genocide, or what, at the very least, is widespread and often coordinated religious persecution campaigns being conducted against Christians," the report stated in its introduction overview signed by the Executive President of ICON, Stephen Enada, and Executive Director, PSI, Dr Richard Ikiebe.
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[AllAfrica] Following sustained government offensives that have seen several turbans defect, terror group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has resorted to video propaganda, falsely portraying lavish lifestyles, to recruit new fighters.
The Nigerian military has in the last two weeks embarked on sustained, well-coordinated land and air bombardments, exerting pressure on the Lions of Islam and their sympathisers.
With the resultant surrender of almost 100 Lions of Islam and their families in Nigeria's North East region, in the fringes of Lake Chad in particular, Boko Haram and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (Iswap) have resorted to propaganda to attract replacements.
Brig-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, the army's public relations director, reported that a good number of Lions of Islam has been surrendering to troops.
"Apparently, there are indications that their fighting capability has been severely encumbered by devastating depletion, with their remnants deserting various enclaves," he said.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY
He noted that in a bid to replace fighters, they have resorted to clandestine pursuits of unsuspecting individuals whom they want to join their fold.
"They have embarked on a subtle recruitment drive using propaganda videos to portray a lavish lifestyle in their so-called fortress; a psychological strategy desperately deployed to attract impressionable youths and unsuspecting individuals," he said.
"A cursory look at the videos, however, revealed an amateur work of doctored old clips and images from different backgrounds, skewed with blurred imageries that are incoherent and illogical."
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...despite the Lithuanians closing down their end of the ratlines through Belarus.
[AlAhram] As their beleaguered nation continues to struggle with rising political discontent and an uncertain future, growing numbers of Iraqi refugees have started to arrive in Europe, al-Ahram Weekly reports.
The EU said last week that about 2,700 migrants colonists, most of them from Iraq, have crossed illegally into the Baltic EU member state in recent months and been taken to detention centres.
Four times a week, an Iraqi Airways Boeing 747 leaves Baghdad Airport for Minsk, the capital of Belarus, with hundreds of Iraqis on board. The passengers are not going to one of Europe’s newfound tourist destinations but are refugees seeking shelter in the Old Continent.
[DW] Despite tougher measures on both sides of the English Channel, asylum-seekers are still trying to make the dangerous crossing from La Belle France to the United Kingdom, in an attempt to find a better future.
A young man and his wife sit on a blanket near a traffic circle, not far from the main road on the outskirts of Calais in northern La Belle France. Nearby, their two children look on questioningly. Speaking in German, the man tells DW that they are originally from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , and that their application for asylum had been rejected by the German authorities.
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[NATION.PK] Pakistain on Sunday refuted India's 'baseless' allegations that claimed that it wanted to infiltrate hard boyz along the Line of Control (LoC).The world is aware of India running a smear campaign against Pakistain, as it had been exposed by the EU DisinfoLab’s report, stated Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"We categorically reject the baseless allegations that Pakistain wanted to infiltrate so-called 'terrorists' via the Line of Control (LoC)," he added.
Questioning the truthfulness of the Indian claims, he wondered how Pakistain could infiltrate hard boyz across the LoC when it was one of the most militarised zones in the world, with over 900,000 Indian security personnel posted there.
Chaudhri added that India has installed layered barbed wire fences, security systems, and electronic surveillance devices, making it impossible for anything to cross the LoC to enter IIOJK.
He turned his guns on India, accusing New Delhi of stoking the flames of terrorism in Pakistain.
"On its part, India has been involved in state-terrorism in IIOJK and against Pakistain. From the Samjhota Express killings of February 2007 to the terrorist blast in Lahore in June 2021, terror incidents targeting Paks have had an Indian hand," Foreign Office stated.
In 2020, Pakistain provided irrefutable evidence of India's involvement in terrorism and patronage, the front man said. In February this year, Pakistain urged India to abide by the 2003 ceasefire agreement.
The spokesperson added that India must not use baseless "infiltration attempts as a handy ploy to find excuses to scuttle the ceasefire understanding."
The consequences of India's irresponsible behaviour will not be good for peace and security in the region, the Foreign Office spokesperson concluded.
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Pardon my cynicism, but I interpret "rejects baseless claims" to mean "they caught us red-handed", no matter who is doing the 'rejecting'.
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Little Zahid would screw his sheep
and he would screw others' as well.
But he faced rejection
and people's objection,
so he claimed a Wolf raised hell.
One night a fanged raider,
got ahold of this invader,
and screwed him till it hurt.
But no one would believe
what Zahid had to tell.
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Well you have the good terrorists and then you have those bad terrorists....
The Pakistan army made an arbitrary distinction between the jihadists. The ones who attacked the US, Afghan or Indian targets were dubbed the so-called good Taliban and the ones that attacked the army were the ostensibly bad Taliban.
[IsraelTimes] UN agency for Paleostinian refugees says group making accusations has history of slandering UNRWA, but admits some staffers’ comments may have violated its code of conduct.
The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees has announced an investigation into allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias made against ten of its staffers throughout the Middle East.
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[Regnum] The United States returned to Iraq 17,000 archaeological artifacts stolen from museums after the invasion of the American army in 2003. The treasures were flown to Baghdad on the plane of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazimi, who met in Washington with US President Joe Biden.
Iraqi Culture Minister Hassan Nazim called such restitution "unprecedented." According to him, this largest return of antiquities "was the result of many months of efforts by the Iraqi authorities." This is the second action undertaken by the United States to return the illegally exported artifacts to Iraq. The first took place in 2006, when a statue of the Sumerian king Entemena from the National Museum of Iraq was returned to Baghdad.
The statistics are as follows: out of 15,000 exhibits of the National Museum in Baghdad, only about 4,000 were returned. Some of the artifacts returned to Iraq were seized by customs authorities, others were acquired by various universities and museums.
According to the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in 2003-2004, after the American invasion of the country, more than 130,000 cultural and historical values were removed from it.
Experts consider the plundering of Iraqi museums (Baghdad, Mosul, etc.) to be the biggest cultural catastrophe of the century. They featured collections from the prehistoric, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Islamic periods.
After the American invasion in 2003, about 200,000 objects of art and culture were stolen from museums and libraries of Iraq, most of which are of global value, including masterpieces of the most ancient civilizations of Ur, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and other states. Moreover, many of them have already been destroyed and cannot be restored. At the same time, the evidence collected by the volunteers of the Middle East office of the Stringers Bureau of International Investigation shows that the massive looting of Iraqi historical museums was systematic and planned.
Most of the artifacts removed from Iraq migrated to the black market, where there is a great demand for historical values from the Middle East. Even the largest auction houses are not shy about putting up valuables stolen in Iraq for sale. So, in 2008, unique gold earrings from treasures found during excavations of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in northern Iraq were removed from the Christie's auction in New York only at the last moment.
Now the fact is that in Iraq, almost all the monuments of the ancient civilizations of Sumer and Babylon have been damaged or destroyed, and the country's largest historical museums have been thoroughly cleaned out. Recall how a scandal erupted in the fall of 2012 when the testimony of a translator who personally watched the loading of boxes with the archives of Iraqi Jews onto American transport planes became known. Most of the most valuable documents from the collection of the Jewish community of Iraq, according to the representative of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Ali Abdul Hasan, date from the period of the Babylonian captivity (VI century BC). And to save Babylon, even a special commission of UNESCO had to be created.
Iraq has demanded and is demanding that the United States return the stolen artifacts. A fierce war is going on in this field. In March 2011, the media got around the message: Dr. Doni George, an Assyrian scientist, died of a sudden heart attack at the airport of the Canadian city of Toronto. He was in a hurry to speak to the Canadian audience with a lecture on the search for treasures stolen from Iraqi museums.
Since 2003, George's main concern has been the struggle to return to his homeland valuables stolen by Americans from museums and stolen from archaeological sites in Iraq. George never concealed that the US government was complicit in the planned theft of Iraqi art treasures.
But be that as it may, Iraqi archaeologists are happy to touch again the treasures, which they already considered lost. According to the director of the Iraqi Institute for the Preservation of Antiquities and Heritage Abdullah Khorshid Qader, the country has begun to restore museums and archaeological sites that were damaged during the war. He expressed the hope that other countries, not only the United States, will help return the stolen historical treasures to their homeland.
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[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dore Gold signs a memorandum of understanding with Bahrain’s undersecretary for international relations, Dr. Abdullah bin Ahmad al Khalifa.
During a ceremony at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Gold stresses that the research cooperation will help Israel and Bahrain counter 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in a "war of ideas."
"Our cooperation can become a central factor in winning that war," he says.
[IsraelTimes] Bahrain’s Undersecretary for International Relations Abdullah bin Ahmad al Khalifa says during a visit to Israel that Bahrain hoped that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would change Tehran’s behavior in the region, but instead it has brought about “more crises and violence.”
"Was there any good result that we have come out with? For us, we haven’t seen it. On the contrary. The JCPOA has fueled crises across the Middle East," Khalifa says during the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the countries in Jerusalem, referring to the nuclear deal by the acronym of its official name.
He adds that the deal "has caused more instigation and extremism in many different regions across the Middle East."
He also indicates that Bahrain blames 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for recent attacks on civilian shipping in the Gulf of Oman, saying: "There’s a certain trend in Iranian behavior."
Khalifa also says there will be direct flights between Manama and Tel Aviv within a year.
He says that Israel can expect a "surprise" on September 15, the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords.
[AlAhram] Iran's new ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday named the chairman of a powerful state-owned foundation sanctioned by the United States as his first vice-president, the president's official website said.
Mohammad Mokhber, long rumoured by local media to be top pick for the position, has for years headed the foundation known as Setad, or the Execution of Imam Khomeini's order, in reference to the Islamic republic's founder Ruhollah Khomeini.
Mokhber was appointed to the position by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... in 2007, following a string of official positions at the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
The Setad was originally founded in the late 1980s to manage confiscated properties following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
It has since turned into a sprawling conglomerate with stakes in various industries, including health, and its Barekat Foundation produced out Iran's first local Covid-19 vaccine project.
The vaccine received emergency approval in June from health authorities in the Middle East's worst-hit country.
The Setad and Mokhber were blacklisted by the US Treasury in January. Washington had said that Setad "has a stake in nearly every sector of the Iranian economy, including energy, telecommunications, and financial services."
Raisi, who won a June 18 election marked by record abstention, takes over from moderate Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... On Thursday, Raisi took the oath of office before parliament, to which he must present a list of ministers within two weeks.
A former judiciary chief, Raisi has been criticised by the West for his human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... record and sanctioned by the US since 2019.
Raisi also picked Gholamhossein Esmaili, the judiciary's front man during his tenure, as his chief of staff.
A former prosecutor, Esmaili is under sanctions by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... He was first blacklisted in 2011 as Iran's prisons' organization chief over "serious human rights violations".
Raisi's presidency is due to consolidate power in the hands of conservatives following their 2020 parliamentary election victory, which was marked by the disqualification of thousands of reformist or moderate candidates.
Also on Sunday, ultraconservative MP and 2021 presidential candidate Alireza Zakani was elected as mayor of Tehran, state news agency IRNA reported.
He won the majority of conservative-dominated city council votes, but he cannot take over before resigning from the parliament, it said.
He succeeds Pirouz Hanachi, a veteran public servant with a background in urban development seen as close to the reformist camp.
Zakani has served in parliament between 2004 and 2016, and won a seat again last year.
A doctor in nuclear medicine, aged 55, he dropped out of the June presidential race in favour of Raisi.
[SOUTHERNTIMESAFRICA] Africa is the new centre of global terrorism and extremism as of June 2021, a report by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council says.
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I can't even believe they spend money puttibg this shit out. I could have told you this years ago, and from reading the comments of fellow, and smarter, Rantburgers, I'm sure it was known long before I figured it out.
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[Garowe] The State Department has designated five Jihadists from Africa, in the latest move meant to counter global terrorism, which is fast taking roots in Africa, a continent that had previously been peaceful from such activities.
In a statement, the US said it has designated Ali Mohammed Rage "Ali Dhere", and Abdikadir Mohammed Abdikadir "Ikrima" as global terrorists. The US says Ali Dhere has been involved in attack planning in Kenya and Somalia, while Ikrima served as Head of Operations and Logistics.
"Ali Mohammed Rage, also known as Ali Dheere, is al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... ’s front man and a big shot of the group. He replaced Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, al-Shabaab’s top front man in May 2009. Rage has been involved in attack planning that has targeted areas in Kenya and Somalia," the US said.
Robow is now on NISA house arrest after he was barred from running for Southwest state presidency in December 2018 by the Somali government.
"Abdikadir Mohammed Abdikadir, also known as Ikrima, is a controller and operational planner. As of November 2019, Abdikadir was an al-Shabaab big shot and served as the Head of Operations and Logistics. Abdikadir had also directed previous attack planning for al-Shabaab," it added.
As a result of Friday's actions, among other consequences, all property and interests in property of these individuals must be blocked and reported to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the statement read.
In addition, persons that engage in certain transactions with the persons designated may themselves be exposed to the designation. The two were some of the senior-most al-Shabaab leaders in Somalia.
"Furthermore, any foreign financial institution that knowingly facilitates a significant financial transaction or provides significant financial services for the persons designated today could be subject to U.S. correspondent account or payable-through account sanctions," State Department noted..
Others who were designated include Bonomade Machude Omar, the senior military commander of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's affiliate in Mozambique, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Omar led a group of forces of Evil who killed dozens of people in an attack on the Amarula Hotel in the town of Palma in March, Blinken said.
He also is responsible for attacks elsewhere in Mozambique and in Tanzania, Blinken said. Sidang Hitta and Salem Ould al-Hasan, big shots of Mali-based al Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin, were designated.
Al-Shabaab has been terrorizing innocent civilians, security forces, and senior government officials in Somalia and across the border. Another group that identifies itself as al-Shabaab has been punishing residents of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique.
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.
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
[NATION.PK] Pakistain on Sunday refuted India's 'baseless' allegations that claimed that it wanted to infiltrate 
...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 
...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 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
