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A story being pushed by Soros-backed and Islamist organizations. The Amazon connection is it's run AWS services -- computer capacity rented from Amazon, just as thousands of other organizations do.
Cheap BS intended to prevent us from finding out a jihadi lied on their citizenship paperwork.
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[Breitbart] Notoriously corrupt former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... and political partner Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
popularly known as the “Butcher of Kabul,” will reportedly govern Afghanistan as part of a Taliban ruling council, Afghan media reported on Wednesday.
Karzai and Hekmatyar, alongside former Afghan government peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah, ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... had announced the formation of their own “coordination council” last week to help Taliban jihadists organize a functional government following their ouster of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul on August 15. Karzai went on a media tour including both legitimate outlets like the Associated Press and Chinese state propaganda outlets like the New York Times this summer, disparaging America – despite its pivotal role in his ascent to power – and calling for China to play a bigger financial role in the future of Afghanistan.
Karzai became president in the aftermath of the American invasion of Afghanistan in autumn 2001, which resulted in the ouster of the then-incumbent Taliban regime. He served as president until 2014, running a government defined by rampant corruption, nepotism, and record-breaking narcotics cultivation. Estimates of how much money Karzai and his family stole from U.S. taxpayers range into the billions.
Taliban jihadists took over Afghanistan again on August 15, surrounding Kabul and prompting ex-President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country. Taliban spokesmen have repeatedly promised in press statements that the jihadists would commit to building a functional state apparatus, suggesting that the regime would likely consist of a supreme council, directed by radical Islamist clerics, that would ensure “inclusive” government.
The Russian news agency Tass reported on Wednesday, citing Afghanistan’s Ariana News TV, that the Taliban had agreed to give seats on its governing council to Karzai, Abdullah, and Hekmatyar. Taliban spokesmen have yet to confirm the report at press time. Tass also reported, citing Foreign Policy, that the three men are likely to be part of a “a 12-man council to rule Afghanistan.” Foreign Policy also predicted that members of the former government may also surface as ministers in charge of various government agencies, in addition to having seats on the council, as a concession to international observers.
Joining Karzai and his coordination council will likely be members of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan’s deadliest terrorist organizations. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban co-founder and most powerful man in the organization, will likely serve as supreme leader.
The Washington Post reported this week that Baradar, in an attempt to transform his terrorist organization into a government, met with CIA leader William Burns this week. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the report during a press conference Tuesday.
The appointments the Taliban has made public since taking over the country indicate that the group does not have a significant number of people with political management experiment among its ranks to promote. Khaama Press reported on Tuesday that Taliban leaders had announed the appointment of several jihadis to key positions such as minister of education and head of the central bank. Karzai and his team would appear to fill a void of experience.
Karzai was Afghanistan’s head of state for 13 years. In an in-depth report published in 2010, the New York Times, revealed that Karzai largely used that power to appoint unqualified members of his family to high-ranking government positions, resulting in the disappearance of billions, much of it American money offered as aid to keep the Afghan government afloat.
“American officials say the Karzais and a handful of other well-connected families have benefited from the billions of dollars that the United States has poured into the country since 2001,” the Times reported.
Confronted by the Associated Press over the widespread corruption he presided over in 2019, Karzai blamed the U.S. government for tempting him with aid for years.
“What could we do?” Karzai shrugged.
Last month, Karzai described the U.S. government’s role in Afghanistan – not his own as president – as “total disgrace and disaster.” He urged the Chinese Communist Party to fill the void of U.S. aid in the country, calling it “a very constructive player.”
Unlike Karzai, Hekmatyar offers less in the way of formal government experience. A mujihadeen by trade, the “butcher of Kabul” developed a reputation as “a sociopath and a warlord” in the 1990s.
Hekmatyar, journalist Terry Galvin described, “almost single-handedly turned Kabul to rubble during the early 1990s,” according to Australia’s News.com.au. Hekmatyar is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 50,000 people.
[WAPO] 4 May 2013, KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Saturday that he has frequently received money from the CIA and that he had been promised the agency would continue making such payments.
At a news conference, Karzai said the payments amounted to “a government institution helping another government institution, and we appreciate all this assistance and help.”
He said the money has been used to fund Afghanistan’s intelligence agency over the past decade, but he did not disclose how much he had received.
Karzai said he received the money in the form of cash, meaning the contribution would not be considered part of any formal contribution of aid and would not likely be subject to congressional oversight.
Technically, they will indeed be able. And some of them will no doubt actually get out of this particular Hotel California.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have told Germany that Afghans with legal documents will be able to travel on commercial flights beyond the Aug. 31 cut-off date after which evacuations from Kabul airport will no longer be allowed, a senior German diplomat said on Wednesday.
"Director Stanekzai assured me that Afghans with legal documents will continue to have the opportunity to travel on commercial flights after August 31," Ambassador Markus Potzel, who is negotiating with the Taliban in Doha, said on Twitter.
The former German envoy to Kabul was referring to the head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, whom he met for talks on Tuesday as Western governments scramble to evacuate citizens and Afghan staff from Kabul.
"We talked about the urgent need for a functioning airport in Kabul as a prerequisite for (a) diplomatic & NGO presence" in Afghanistan, Potzel, who has been negotiating with the Taliban extensively in the past, added.
The Taliban have asked The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... for technical help to run Kabul airport after the departure of foreign forces but insist that Ankara’s military also withdraw fully by the end-August deadline, two Ottoman Turkish officials told Rooters.
Potzel noted that Germany has pledged to increase humanitarian aid for the Afghan people by 100 million euros but added that the "resumption of development cooperation will be dependent on conditions", as had been the case with the Afghan government in the past.
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But first documents will be seized and terrorists sent in their place.
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Well, thank you, Mr. Blinken, for that massive weight off me mind. Now, don't you have some brief against Poland you have been working on for some time, to tie up?
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Back during the Bath House misministration, they put more effort into how they pronounced Khorosan than they did into figuring out what to do about it.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Algeria announced on Tuesday that it was officially severing ties with neighbouring Morocco "starting today", after months of tensions between the two countries.
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra made the announcement during a presser on Tuesday evening.
"It has been proven that the (Moroccan) kingdom has not ceased its unfriendly, low and hostile manoeuvres against Algeria for a day since independence," Lamamra said, accusing Moroccan leaders of bearing "responsibility for the successive crises that have drawn us into a tunnel without an exit".
The two countries have long been at odds over a host of issues, notably the fate of the Western Sahara. The border between Algeria and Morocco has been closed since 1994.
"One feels that as long as the Western Sahara issue isn’t resolved, it will remain a factor of instability for the region," an Algerian analyst told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
Morocco claims full illusory sovereignty over the territory, while Algeria backs the Polisario Front’s demands for a referendum on self-determination under the auspices of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Rabat’s re-establishment of ties with Israel late last year — as part of then-US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s push for normalisation in the region — was accompanied by US recognition of Moroccan illusory sovereignty over the Western Sahara, reigniting tensions with Algiers.
Algeria has long been one of the most outspoken countries in North Africa in support of Paleostinians, and news that Morocco had officialised diplomatic relations with Israel sparked anger from Algerian officials and citizens alike.
Lamamra referred to accusations lobbied earlier this month after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a visit to Morocco that he and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita shared "worries about the role played by Algeria in the region". The Israeli foreign minister also said at the time the concerns were based on Algeria "getting close to Iran".
"Morocco has become a secondary base for the planification of a series of dangerous aggressions against Algeria," Lamamra said on Tuesday, accusing Bourita of being the "instigator" behind Lapid’s comments.
"Algeria’s response today highlights the urgent necessity of adhering to reason, instead of the terrible bet that seems to drive the kingdom of Morocco’s posture towards Algeria," Lamamra added. "Algeria refuses to endure reprehensible behaviour and acts... Algeria refuses a unilateral fait accompli with disastrous consequences for the peoples of the Maghreb."
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A diplomatic source tells @TimesofIsrael that Egypt has conveyed stern warnings to both Israel and Hamas to maintain calm at the Gaza border. The source believes the sides internalized the message and that there will not be a significant escalation during Bennett's DC trip.
NIGEL FARAGE: The medium-term problem is the resurgence of international terror, already evidence that krazed killer jihadi groups all over the world have taken great cheer from what the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have done in Afghanistan. And so if we do find ourselves back engaged and, you know, let's be honest, the last few years, we've not seen major terrorist atrocities in the West. But if they start to happen again and we start to think, well, how do we go out again and try and stop these cells that are spreading international terror? How can we do it with the Americans? How can we do it with an ally that is treating us with contempt and betrayed us and into the bargain, many of our own citizens?
Certainly, if it's a Biden or Harris administration, honestly, there is no way, there is no way a British parliament right now would vote for military cooperation with America led by this administration. And that's a very sad thing to say, because since 1917, the U.K. and America have been side by side in virtually every major conflict. We've been the closest allies in terms of military action, in terms of intelligence sharing, in terms of culture, in terms of business. You couldn't have a better ally in the world. And right at the moment, I'm sorry, but there's no way we could enter into another operation with you.
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, Iraqi parliamentarians demanded the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region deter Ottoman Turkish interference in the country, describing the Ottoman Turkish military operation in Iraqi territory as a "flagrant" violation.
The parliamentarians’ speech came after a series of attacks carried out by Ottoman Turkish planes Tuesday in the Penjwin area of Sulaymaniyah, and a week earlier in Shingal, in addition to repeated attacks in the mountainous areas north of Erbil and Duhok.
Parliamentarian Hussein al-Aqabi, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee in the Iraqi parliament, considered the Iraqi stance towards the Ottoman Turkish attacks, especially in Shingal (Sinjar), "shy or non-existent," adding that Mustafa al-Kadhemi’s government "condones Ottoman Turkish operations."
"It is possible for Iraq to allow limited operations in some border areas, but it is not possible to allow the presence of Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Bashiqa or the implementation of operations in Sinjar," he told North Press.
"This issue must be solved politically," he added.
A few days ago, two Iraqi tourists were killed in a Ottoman Turkish artillery attack in a tourist area north of Duhok.
On August 16, Saeed Hassan, a commander in the Shingal Resistance® Units, was killed in a Ottoman Turkish bombardment targeting the center of Shingal, followed the next day by another aerial bombardment targeting a hospital in a village in the vicinity of Sinjar Mountain, killing eight people, half of them civilians.
Al-Uqabi described Ottoman Turkish interference as a "blatant and unjustified violation, especially in Sinjar and what is related to the presence of the Ottoman Turkish military base in Bashiqa."
He called for diplomatic pressure to stop Ottoman Turkish interference in Iraqi affairs.
In this context, the two Kurdish parliamentarians in the Iraqi Parliament, Sarkot Shams al-Din and Ghalib Muhammad Ali, stressed in a joint statement seen by North Press that "the security forces, government officials’ and diplomats in Iraq must be held accountable for their silence about the violations of Ottoman Turkish forces in Iraqi territory."
The statement said that "the border guards of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the Kurdish Peshmerga located in Penjwin and Duhok stood idly by in front of the bombing of Ottoman Turkish forces and their incursion into the Iraqi territory."
On Tuesday, Ankara announced the implementation of air operations at a depth of 200 km into Iraqi territory targeting agricultural areas in the Penjwen District of Sulaymaniyah.
Pictures and video clips, published by local media, showed the destruction caused by the Ottoman Turkish attack and damage to the villagers’ property.
The two Kurdish parliamentarians called for Iraqi officials to be held accountable for their silence about "those attacks."
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... ’s lawyers have sued a British chemical firm linked to the devastating explosion of 2020 at Beirut’s port at the High Court in London.
The Beirut Bar Association and four others, including a survivor of the earth-shattering kaboom and the families of two victims of the blast, filed the lawsuit against the UK-registered company, Savaro Ltd, this month.
They accused the firm of failing to properly store or dispose of a vitally considerable amount of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that ignited on August 4, killing more than 200 people, and flattened several neighborhoods in the Lebanese capital.
The lawyers are seeking compensations from the firm, although the matter will be quantified later.
According to the lawsuit, Savaro owned the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which was on board a ship heading to Mozambique in 2013. The cargo was meant to be delivered to an explosives company in the African country, but the ageing vessel foundered in Beirut’s port and the chemical material was unloaded in 2014 and put in a port warehouse on the instructions of a Lebanese court.
Richard Slade, an attorney at the eponymous legal firm that is representing Savaro, said the firm "has never traded" and did not enter into the transactions referred to in the claim.
The legal challenge is being led by Camille Abousleiman, a former Lebanese labor minister, and the law firm Dechert, where he now works.
The Financial Times cited Abousleiman on Tuesday as saying that he believed Savaro was the owner of the explosive consignment, and subsequently the firm was responsible under the Lebanese law for its proper storage, disposal, and any damage caused by it.
"The victims and the surviving family members of the victims believe that anybody who has direct or indirect responsibility for this blast should be brought to justice, both criminal and civil, wherever there is jurisdiction," Abousleiman said, adding, "I don’t think anybody should escape justice in this particular horrendous situation."
Ukrainian lawyer Volodymyr Hliadchenko was appointed as a new Savaro director on Friday. Hliadchenko said he had "acquired the company’s corporate ownership."
Since its incorporation in 2006, Savaro has often filed accounts as a "dormant" firm.
"We are highly confident that we’re going to have evidence of who the beneficial owner is," Abousleiman said last week, adding that he was seeking to include them in the claim.
"We want to bring this person to justice either in England as part of the current action or in some other way."
According to Abousleiman, other potential defendants could be pursued.
Savaro had sought to start liquidation proceedings in January but that process has been stopped by the lawsuit.
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[NPASYRIA] Cases of arbitrary arrest of civilians and activists in areas controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly 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) in Idlib, north Syria, have recently increased as those who oppose or criticize HTS’ policies find themselves ending up in prison.
"A small charge, such as a post on Facebook expressing your opinion or criticizing a foundation affiliated with HTS or its civil wing represented by the Salvation Government, may land you in prison for months, and no one will be able to find out your fate or location," Idlib-based media activist Ahmed al-Khalidi (a pseudonym) said.
"The one who enters HTS prisons is missing, and the one who leaves them is reborn," he added.
Al-Khalidi spent more than three months in prison because of a Facebook post in which he criticized the failure of HTS and its affiliated factions to respond to the bombardment of Idlib.
HTS controls most of Idlib and parts of the countryside of Hama and Latakia after it expelled the rest of the Syrian opposition factions three years ago.
About 2,287 people have been subjected to enforced disappearances and detention in HTS prisons from February 2012 until March 2021, according to a report of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).
During July 2021, HTS arbitrarily detained nine civilians, according to the report.
Nour al-Khatib, the head of the Detention and Enforced Disappearance Department at SNHR, told North Press that they documented 57 detentions by HTS during the first half of 2021.
"The security apparatus of HTS is responsible for the detention cases, the investigations, and torture inside the secret detention centers it supervises," al-Khatib added.
"The judiciary cannot intervene in such operations or determine the fate of those detained by the security apparatus unless the latter transfers the detainee to the judiciary for trial."
The SNHR documented about 36 HTS detention centers, some of which it lost during the military operations carried out by the government forces on regions in the countryside of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo.
In early August, HTS detained media activist Adham Dasharni and his wife, from Taftanaz town east of Idlib, for several days due to his writing a post on social media.
In his post, Dasharni criticized the failure of the military factions operating in north Syria to "support Daraa," and mocked the decision to prevent the entry of mulukhiyah from Aleppo countryside to Idlib.
Days before, HTS threatened Muammar Haj Hamdan, a teacher from Binnish city east of Idlib, with arrest due to his publishing posts on his personal page on Facebook in which he criticized the holy warrior factions.
Many reports issued by local and international organizations and commissions mention that HTS has arrested activists, media personnel, and civilians who oppose it or criticize its policies and those of the Salvation Government.
In March, HTS arrested politicians and journalists, including a member of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC). Moreover, it arrested a number of media personnel and restricted their work in the areas it controls.
During his meeting with American journalist Martin Smith in February, HTS’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani denied accusations that HTS arrests its critics and tortures them in prisons, and said that his faction "arrests only regime agents, Russians, and ISIS cells."
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... al-Khalidi said that HTS prisons are full of civilians and activists who HTS has falsified charges against, especially those who repeatedly criticize it and whose views are not in line with its own.
"By arresting them, HTS seeks to be the most powerful authority in the region, as it has become the judge, the ruler, the executioner, and the prosecutor," according to al-Khalidi.
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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.
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Algeria announced on Tuesday that it was officially severing ties with neighbouring Morocco "starting today", after months of tensions between the two countries.
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...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
