See also here, to see how these four fit into the rest of the governemt.
[Last Refuge] The official Taliban government of Afghanistan will be celebrated and introduced on September 11, 2021. Four of the Afghanistan ministers appointed to government are former Gitmo detainees released during the Obama-era swap for captured U.S. service member Bowe Berghdahl, pictured below with new titles:
[Tolo via Weasel Zippers] Taliban’s Mullah Baradar met with Martin Griffiths, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, on Sunday at the foreign ministry in Kabul, where Griffiths said the UN will continue its support & cooperation with Afghanistan, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem tweeted.
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In 2001 the UN agreed that the US and UN forces should drive the taliban from AFG.
In 2021 the UN agrees that the taliban should drive the elected government and all foreign troops from AFG.
This demonstrates the UN's, uh, flexibility while dollecting graft from the contributors.
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Why?
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Oh, my bad. The headline says UN and I read US. But I wouldn't put it past Biden to do the same.
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Is the UN going to make the Taliban carbon neutral by 2025?
[KhaamaPress] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that they will not accept humanitarian aid from any country in case they are based on conditions.
Acting minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Zabiullah Mujahid said that they will not allow those aid which is later followed by orders and/or suggestions.
Zabiullah Mujahid in a presser in Kabul on Monday, September 6 said that they need international humanitarian aid and welcome such aids but added that the aid should be free of conditions.
He said that such condition-based aid is deemed as interference in our internal affairs and they are not allowing any country to do so.
"The incoming government in Afghanistan will be free of any kind of interference and the Afghan people will make decision by themselves." Added Mujahid
Prior to that, he had also reacted to the accusations of Pakistain’s interference after the ISI chief visited Kabul and had added that no country including Pakistain is allowed to meddle in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.
Mujahid said that Faiz Hameed had come to Kabul to share his country’s concerns about the people crossing Spin Boldak crossing point into Pakistain. As per Mujahid, Hameed feared anti-Pakistain figures may cross the crossing point but he was made sure that Afghanistan’s soil will not threaten Pakistain’s security.
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Hell is DC & State Dept crazy enough to actually think the historically Islamic Radical Taliban has any sense of honoring obligations and agreements with Infidels?
#3
How about a few cruise missiles delivered by air? No strings attached.
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The Taliban is Islamic. Deception and lying (Taqiyya) is a part of Islam. There's a built-in fundamental distrust from the gitgo.
We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of 911. That should be a start reminder. Continued survival of the Emirate ought to be made clear if they don't stop playing games and come around.
Unfortunately, our current crop of morons in D.C. are not likely to negotiate in this way.
[KhaamaPress] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that people will not be allowed to travel abroad until the new cabinet is complete and Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... International Airport is fully prepared.
Acting minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Zabiullah Mujahid said that travelers have to wait until the ministries of interior and foreign affairs start operations.
As per the new directive, those who have all the legitimate documents will not be allowed either.
Earlier, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan did not allow flights carrying Afghans and foreigners from the northern Mazar-e-sharif city of Balkh province.
The biggest airport of Afghanistan based in Kabul has resumed domestic flights and receiving aid but international flights are yet to be started.
The technical team of 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... along with a 19-member team of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... is busy working in HKIA to make it ready for international flights.
US forces have inflicted up to $20 million in damage to the airport before their full withdrawal.
Taliban block hundreds from leaving Afghanistan
[AlAhram] An Afghan employee of an American organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... are blocking her and hundreds of other people from boarding charter evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.
The woman spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named anonymously Tuesday, saying she feared for her safety if she is singled out by the Taliban.
The U.S. organization, Ascend, has worked for years with Afghan women and girls. The woman is among several hundred people, reportedly including American citizens and green card holders, who say they have been waiting in large residence halls and hotels for more than a week for permission to board waiting charter flights out of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
``We think we are in some kind of jail,'' the woman told the AP.
She says the American citizens she has met in the group are vulnerable people in their 70s, parents of Afghan Americans in the United States.
Taliban officials say they will let people who have the proper passports and other documentation leave. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday denied claims from Republican politicians that the situation in Mazar I Sharif amounted to a hostage-taking, after the U.S. government pulled its last troops and diplomats from the country last week.
The Afghan woman who talked to AP says her group has proper passports and visas, but the Taliban are blocking them from entering the airport. She says she went fleeing to the women's side of her hotel last week when word spread that the Taliban were searching the would-be evacuees, and had taken some away.
``I am scared if they split us' up 'and not let us leave,'' she said. ``If we can't get out of here, something wrong will happen. And I am afraid of that.''
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Blinken Denies Flights Being Blocked by Taliban, Blames Evacuees for Not Having Proper Identification [Townhall] Following reports that Americans were being prevented from leaving Afghanistan by Taliban fighters, Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintained his insistence that the flights aren't being blocked and that his department is not to blame for any delay. Instead, Blinken blamed those seeking to flee Afghanistan for not having proper travel documents.
As Townhall reported, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) shared the story of an attempted evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies being blocked by the Taliban who he said are "holding them hostage for demands." The six-aircraft evacuation operation is still being blocked from taking off from Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan, but Blinken denied that he shoulders any blame. Instead, repeating a common refrain from the Biden administration amid its disastrous withdrawal, Blinken blamed those trying to leave for not having proper documentation.
"It’s my understanding that the Taliban has not denied exit to anyone holding a valid document, but they have said that those without valid documents at this point can’t leave," explained Blinken. "But because all of these people are grouped together, that’s meant that flights have not been allowed to go."
So, despite his claims otherwise, the Taliban is in fact blocking flights with Americans from leaving the country. New satellite images over the weekend also seem to show planes stuck on the ramp in Mazar-i-Sharif as Leah reported.
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Monday opened to news hounds the doors to the former largest operational center of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Kabul and said the US personnel destroyed and burned all the military equipment, vehicles, and documents.
The center, named "Eagle," is located in Kabul’s Deh Sab area and is reportedly where US intelligence officers and Afghan NDS 01 forces were stationed. Now the camp is under the control of the Taliban.
According to the Taliban, US soldiers destroyed important documents and hundreds of Humvees, armored tanks and weapons.
The second explosion originally reported as being part of the ISIS attack on Kabul airport was supposed to have gone off at the CIA headquarters. It must have been a doozy if it accomplished that much.
The Taliban said they do not know the exact value of the destroyed equipment, but they estimate it was in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
"They have destroyed anything that could have been used," said Mawlawi Athnain, the commander of the camp.
Masab, a Taliban fighter who is now guarding the camp, said he was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the camp for eight days in the past.
"I was arrested and I was here for eight nights. It was terrible," he said.
"They were fleeing and they destroyed everything. They should not have done it," said Anas Barakzai, a freelance news hound.
Taliban forces stationed at the camp said they have not entered some rooms as they fear mines.
US soldiers reportedly destroyed military hardware and helicopters also at the Kabul airport before leaving.
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"destroyed important documents"
So I guessing that was the warranty and service documents. And the piece of paper that says which phone extension is in which office. That's critical.
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I love how the Taliban are whining because we destroyed stuff they could have used.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Afghanistan is facing the collapse of basic services and food and other aid is starting to run out, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.
OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told a UN briefing that millions of Afghans were in need of food aid and health assistance, urging donors to give more ahead of an international aid conference for Afghanistan on Sept. 13, Rooters reported.
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I wonder what recent set of events could have caused it? It's a damn mystery - better send Lenny Briscoe to check it out!
#2
Given the UN's World Food Program slow reaction to food emergencies, the famine could strike soon. However, have no fear, the US Agency for International Development's "Food For Peace" Program will come to the rescue.
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Don't worry, I'm sure that if you agree to the terms the Chinese offer, they'll bring some rice when they land at Baghram.
(The actual problem is the real control is currently Pakistan, and they have great difficulty running their own country, much less anything else.)
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Oh, the UN and NGOs must be disappointed that they can't rape children any more.
I am more than shocked by the huge number of elites that are fucking pissed we withdrew and want to go back, immediately. Not for any real reason - just to defy us. Oh, and for their own personal benefit.
[Townhall] Sen. Lindsey Graham stunned BBC reporter Stephen Sackur after making a prediction about the United States’ future involvement in Afghanistan.
"Whether you like Trump or not, whether you believe it’s Trump’s fault or Biden’s fault, here’s where we’re at as a world: The Taliban are not reformed, they’re not new," Graham said about the situation in Afghanistan. "They have a view of the world out of sync with modern times."
“So yes, it will be a cauldron for radical Islamic behavior. You cannot deal with this over the horizon."
The South Carolina Republican said life for the Afghan people is about to get so bad that it will make Americans "sick to our stomach." Beyond that, under Taliban rule, the country will end up providing a "safe haven" for other terror groups, prompting U.S. action, he claimed.
"They’re going to give safe haven to al Qaeda, who has ambitions to drive us out of the Middle East writ large and attack us because of our way of life," Graham told Sackur. "We will be going back into Afghanistan as we went back into Iraq and Syria."
Sackur was shocked by what Graham predicted.
"Hang on, you seriously think the United States will once again in the foreseeable future put troops back into Afghanistan?" Sackur asked.
"We’ll have to because the threat will be so large," Graham claimed. "Why did we go back to Syria and Iraq? Why do we have 5,000 troops in Iraq today? Because of the caliphate rising, projecting force outside of Iraq. Killing Americans. Killing the French, attacking the British. So yes, it will be a cauldron for radical Islamic behavior. You cannot deal with this over the horizon."
But I feel it is time we repair the USA and our borders before spending $$$ Billions overseas fighting meaningless extended wars. eg. According to US-Sec of State Kerry's own public comments al Qaeda was neutralized over 10 years ago.
But as we know.
All DC needs is 1 "claimed/staged" Islamic nutjob to send in a few 100 US Military troops, to rekindle al Qaeda recruitment for those looking for a land of virgins.
If he wants a war so badly, why doesn't he pick up a rifle and go?
"They’re going to give safe haven to al Qaeda, who has ambitions to drive us out of the Middle East writ large and attack us because of our way of life,"
We don't need the Middle East. We have plenty of petroleum right here in America. Moreover solar et al are getting more important all the time. US interference in the Middle East was cause for the foundation of Al Qaeda. AQ's entire idea was to provoke the neocons in the US into endless wars that would bankrupt us and make the world hate us. 20 years later, that goal has largely been achieved.
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Oh I don't know...but I'd happily say we should send in lots of terminator type robots with pork infused weapons. But that place isn't worth any American's life.
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He is stating the obvious - why else would the "adults in charge" have botched things so badly?
To mess things up that badly was more than incompetence and cowardice. Not mishap, but malfeasance. It was deliberate, to give them another excuse to start a generational war. Graham just gave away the payoff.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Thousands of fighters opposed to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... can return "anytime" in the Panjshir Valley, said the uncle of a commander who led fierce battles against the Death Eaters, appealing on Tuesday for international support for their cause.
Ahmad Wali Massoud was speaking in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , one day after the Taliban claimed total control over Afghanistan, declaring that they had won the battle against resistance forces in the mountainous Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul.
"We still have thousands of fighters in the valley, and any time they can come back and you will be witnessing that one," Massoud told a symposium in Geneva.
"Yes, we have been maimed and we have been really maimed, but we have not died, we are still alive," he added.
Massoud is brother of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander assassinated by al-Qaeda days before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Shah Massoud’s son, Ahmad Massoud, led resistance to the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley.
On Monday, the Taliban said they had won that battle in what was the last remaining holdout against their rule. They released a video of their flag being raised over the governor’s house in Panjshir.
"Panjshir is not only resistance, (it) is a cause, an international cause," Massoud told the symposium.
"We are resisting for our own right, for the freedom, for democracy, for the human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... "Probably this is the last opportunity that we can see to really fight terrorism inside Afghanistan," he added.
"That’s why we should not lose the resistance."
The National Resistance® Front (NRF) in Panjshir -- made up of anti-Taliban militia and former Afghan cops -- on Sunday acknowledged suffering major battlefield losses and called for a ceasefire.
But on Monday the group said in a tweet that its fighters were still present in "strategic positions" in the valley.
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See also here, which lays out the four of five GITMO detainees swapped for Bowe Berghdahl who have been tapped for government posts.
by Aleksandr Kots
[KP] Noting the capture of Panjshir , the Taliban finally announced the composition of an interim government. It was assumed that it should be inclusive, that is, it should represent not only the terrorist movement banned in Russia, but also other Afghan forces, national and religious associations. However, judging by the key posts announced, ministerial portfolios went exclusively to Taliban members. All positions are still named with the prefix "acting".
Prime Minister - Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund.
Alternate spelling Hassan Akhund.
He heads the Shura (council) of Taliban leaders. Was the governor of Kandahar. Member of the High Council. The top post was received as a compromise figure who arranged all the factions of the Taliban.
First Deputy Prime Minister - Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Warlord and leader of the Taliban's political wing. He fought with Soviet troops. During the first reign of the Taliban, he served as the head of Herat and commanded the military corps of Western Afghanistan. In 2010, he was captured by Pakistani intelligence and released three years later at the request of the Afghan government.
Second Deputy Prime Minister - Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi.
Alt. spelling Hannafi.
In the Taliban - from the day of its foundation, however, it represents the political wing of the movement. He was a key figure in the political office in Qatar. In the 90s, he served as Deputy Minister of Education in the Taliban government.
Defense Minister - Muhammad Yakub Mujahid.
Alt. Yaqoub.
Son of Taliban founder Mullah Omar. He served as the head of the military commission of the movement, was a member of its highest governing council. He is the second deputy head of the Taliban.
The Deputy Defense Minister is Mohammad Fazl, one of the GITMO detainees swapped for Bowe Berghdahl.
Interior Minister - Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Alt. Serajuddin Haqqani.
He is the son of the founder of the Haqqani Network terrorist organization, the Taliban's most radical wing. It is currently at the head. Organizer of several terrorist attacks, including the attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul. Planned the assassination of Hamid Karzai. The US State Department has declared a particularly dangerous international terrorist. A reward of $5 million has been announced for his head.
Despite his history and that bounty, the New York Times saw fit to publish an opinion piece in February, 2020 over his signature.
The head of intelligence is Abdul Haq Wasik.
Alt. Abdul Haq Wasiq. One of the Berghdahl swap gentlemen.
Former Taliban deputy intelligence minister. In 2001, he was captured by the Americans in Afghanistan, from January 2002 to May 2014 he was held in the famous Guantanamo prison in Cuba. He was released along with four other members of the so-called five Taliban in exchange for the US Army soldier Bow Bergdahl, who was captured by the Haqqani network.
Minister of Culture and Information - Zabihullah Mujahid. He is the official spokesman for the Taliban. Before the capture of Kabul, he did not appear in public, speaking only with written or audio statements.
One of the Berghdahl swap gents, Khair Ulla Said Wali Khairkhwa, is also listed as Info and Culture minister. No doubt this will be clarified at some point.
null Foreign Minister - Mullah Amir Khan Muttaki.
Alt. Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Taliban high councilor. In the past, the movement was headed by the Ministry of Higher Education. Represented the movement in the negotiations held under the auspices of the UN.
Education Minister - Sheikh Mawlavi Nurullah Munir.
Alt. Noorullah Munir.
Taliban member.
The Economy Minister is Mohammad Hanif,
Alt. Qari Din Hanif.
a Taliban member.
The head of the Central Bank is Mullah Mohammad Idris, a Taliban member.
The top five on the government's list are under UN sanctions. Therefore, the prospects for the West to recognize the Cabinet of Ministers, whose members are also on the international wanted list, are very illusory. Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin mentioned in his blog the Russian Federation government is waiting on moves such as these, which will decide if the government recognizes the new Afghanistan government.
This won't help. Aleksandr Kots is a Russian military journalist
Related: Tolo News has a complete list, including the uninteresting appointments. Such as Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs: Mullah Noorullah Noori, one of the Berghdahl swap gents.
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Hah — found it! I didn’t have time for a proper search last night, but I remembered a post that turns out to be from early June that reported:
One claim noted by analysts is that Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy emir of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is also a member of Al Qaeda’s leadership.
This intelligence information was cited in a footnote, which states that in addition to being a Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani "is also assessed to be a member of the wider Al Qaeda leadership, but not of the Al Qaeda core leadership (the Hattin Shura)," the Long War Journal noted.
The UN report does not make it clear what position Sirajuddin is thought to hold within Al Qaeda’s "wider" leadership, said the Long War Journal.
In 2019, the Al Qaeda leader in a message mentioned Sirajuddin Haqqani and Hibatullah Akhundzada as "our leaders from the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan" and expressed gratitude for the selection of Haqqani as the deputy leader of the Taliban
This suggests Sirajuddin is the Al Qaeda regional vice president for Afghanistan in addition to Haaqani Network #1 and Taliban #2. He clearly is responsible for both the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, though it isn’t clear to me if the Al-Qaeda-linked ethnic jihadi groups resident around the country (Uighurs and Chechens and such) report through him, through other regional VP organizations like Al Nusra in Syria, or directly to the Quetta Shura home office in Pakistan.
Nota bene: According to the Long War Journal, the Hattin Shura, named after a key battle in Islamic history, has been led by al Qaeda veterans based in Iran, including the jihadist thought to be the group’s current deputy (naib) emir, an Egyptian known as Saif al Adel. What that means about the relationship between them and the Quetta Shura in Pakistan is beyond me.
So that’s the junior analyst-in-training perspective. Any enlightenment from those who know more and understand more deeply would be gratefully appreciated.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Aleksandr Kots
[KP] Everything was confused in the Taliban house. Women demand the observance of rights, men - freedom, all together - getting rid of Pakistani oppression.
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of people, mostly women, took to the streets of Kabul to protest. On the eve of the leader of the anti-Taliban resistance, Ahmad Massoud Jr. called on Afghans for a national uprising against the Taliban. Actually, he had nothing else to do, after the new authorities announced full control over his native Panjshir, including the mausoleum of his father.
Massoud said that he himself switched to a partisan position, but urged not to be silent. And who would have thought, but there were those who were not afraid to declare themselves. It was impossible to imagine such a thing 20 years ago. But two decades of Western influence were not in vain. An entire generation has grown up, brought up on other values - they speak English well, dressed (before the arrival of the Taliban) in European clothes, studied Western courses, absorbed through them the smells of freedom and democracy.
And then suddenly comes greetings from the Middle Ages and makes them wear a burqa. Passionate youth explodes with just protest. And insofar as the Shariah attacks women in the first place, they constitute the core of this protest. Unafraid, never stoned, fascinated by the idea of gender equality.
Ordinary Taliban, it should be noted, also got younger. During the "first coming" of the movement to power, when the mass executions lasted for several days, they were, at best, young children. Therefore, today they look at the "woman's revolt" with some bewilderment -- this is not what the fathers told them about. At first, they with an important air accompany the protest procession, closing it with pickups with machine guns.
Fingers are on the triggers of machine guns, but the authorities do not order people to shoot at the people -- the picture will turn out to be painfully ugly. And in an age when videos are circulating around the network like the delta strain of the coronavirus, it's easy to spoil your reputation as moderate Islamists.
"Freedom! Freedom!" the women are chanting . In their hands are posters on which they demand the opportunity to participate in the political life of the country.
"Hands off Panjshir!" - they shout, in my opinion, a little belatedly.
"Pakistan, Pakistan, leave Afghanistan!" The complaints of the "angry townspeople" to the neighbors are, perhaps, even more than to the Taliban. Here they are sure that only thanks to the intervention of neighbors (including by military means) it was possible to conquer the last rebellious stronghold.
"No to the pocket government of Islamabad!" the women shout, hinting that the main posts can go to the Taliban pro-Pakistani faction, the "Haqqani network." The people are noisy and unhindered sailing through Kabul. An unprecedented rampant democracy!
When an unarmed crowd with ladies at the forefront breaks through the armed cordon around the Pakistani embassy, democracy ends. For lack of water cannons and bird cherry grenades, the Taliban open heavy automatic fire into the air. They fire over the heads of the protesters, they scatter to the sides.
Suddenly someone stands right in front of an armed militant: "Shoot me!" he yells in the face of an armed bearded man. He looks at the "suicide bomber" in confusion.
"And into me! And into me!" a few more guys join the brave man. Several Taliban jumped up, the protesters were twisted and taken away in an unknown direction. And along with them - and several journalists who captured this action.
I don’t know if the Taliban understands that in the current information age, when there is a camera "in any iron," it is impossible to conceal anything. And if the protests continue, they will have to come up with something more attractive than shooting in the air.
The new authorities, by the way, are trying to play counter-propaganda. In one of the provinces, for example, women in deaf burkas took to the streets, defending their right to live according to Sharia law. And I'm not even sure they were forced to do it. After all, when it comes to protest, it means, first of all, the urban population. In rural areas, the way of life has not changed for centuries - not under the Shuravi, not under the Taliban, and not under the Americans.
As for the prospects for a guerrilla movement sympathetic to Panjsher, its prospects, given the combat potential of the Taliban, are very vague. The West has already said that it will not support the anti-Taliban resistance, and without this, not a single force in Afghanistan can afford to embark on the path of civil war today.
The people gathered after co-leader of the resistance front in Panjshir province Ahmad Masoud in a voice clip called on people of Afghanistan to resurrect against the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... In the meantime, people in Blakh and Daikundi provinces too erupted into the streets yesterday and last night and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Pakistain.
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... has also reacted to the airstrikes in Panjshir province and the spokesperson of the country’s foreign ministry has asked for investigations over what he called the interference of foreign jets.
Journalists beaten, detained while covering protest in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters have beaten four Afghan journalists and cameramen and have temporarily detained others as they tried to cover a protest.
Afghan journalists say that they were not allowed to cover the protest and their equipment was taken.
The anti-Pakistain protest was conducted by hundreds of men and women in Kabul and asked for the closure of the Pak embassy in Kabul.
The Taliban fighters have also fired gunshots so that they disperse the protestors but video clips from the scene show that people were still protesting and were chanting slogans against Pakistain.
Some protestors have also been reported to be detained by the Taliban fighters and now they are kept in a basement but Taliban officials have not commented on the issue yet.
Earlier, officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had said that the media are free to work as normal and there will not be any limitation imposed as far as they do not violate Islamic principles and national values.
The IEA had also given a special permission letter so that the journalists are not faced any predicaments during work but journalists are still hampered and are even beaten and detained while covering stories.
Two killed in anti-Taliban protest in Afghanistan's Herat: Doctor
[AlAhram] Two people were rubbed out and eight maimed in a protest in the western Afghan city of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... on Tuesday, a doctor said.
The bodies were brought to the city's central hospital from the site of the protest, the doctor, who asked not to be named out of fear of reprisals, told AFP.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Saudi government stressed on Tuesday that the Kingdom will take the necessary measures to protect its territories, citizens and residents against the hostile acts committed by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians... bin Abdulaziz chaired the cabinet meeting that was held virtually from Neom amid the ongoing 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... pandemic.
The government hailed the efficiency of the Saudi air defenses and Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen as they have repeatedly thwarted terrorist attacks by the Houthis against civilians and civilian locations.
It also welcomed the Kingdom’s hosting in October of the Saudi Green Initiative forum and Middle East Green Initiative summit, which stems from its pioneering role in combating climate crises and supporting the international community’s efforts in tackling environmental challenges.
Acting Media Minister Dr. Majid al-Qasabi said the cabinet reviewed various meetings and talks between the Kingdom and several countries in recent days. These contacts are aimed at developing relations and bolstering cooperation in various fields and international issues.
The cabinet highlighted the steps taken to strengthen cooperation between Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and Iraq as part of the coordination council between them. The council aims to bolster ties on the strategic level and opening new channels of cooperation in various fields. This will help preserve regional and international security and peace amid the challenges in the world.
The cabinet underscored the Kingdom’s keenness on bolstering its role in regional and international organizations with the aim of supporting the global economy and ensuring sustainable development. This position was stressed as the cabinet tackled the results of the 20th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting.
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... who’d been released early from prison just two weeks before running amok, complete with a diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizophrenia — for which he refused to take medication. He’d arrived in England as a tourist in 2012, then was given asylum because he liked to drink and party; at some point he even converted to Christianity long enough to get a related tattoo, but clearly he never mastered the turn the other cheek bit. MI-5 took an interest in 2019 when it looked like he planned to go a-jihading abroad, but they concluded he was not serious. It was only after the murders that it was revealed that Mr. Saadallah was the proud owner of a GNA [Libya] militia identity card...
who killed three people in 2020’s Reading terror attack received £107,000 in legal aid, according to the Daily Mail.
Saadallah, 26, was released from prison just 15 days before he launched the attack in Forbury Gardens in Reading, on 20 June last year. History teacher James Furlong, 36, scientist David Wails, 49, and their friend Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, were stabbed to death during the attack.
The killer, whose previous convictions include possessing knives, violence, and criminal damage, was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for the murders this year.
The Daily Mail reported that some figures show the killer’s solicitors received £5,340 in legal aid for representing him at cop shoppes between 2015 and 2020, and another £1,000 for a Court of Appeal case, which saw him released from jail two weeks before the attack in Reading. Saadallah’s appearances at the crown court cost £94,219, and his legal costs at the magistrates’ court prior to his release from prison were an additional £6,452, according to the Daily Mail.
In January Saadallah, who avoided deportation from the UK five times, admitted three counts of murder, and three of attempted murder.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] On Tuesday the cases against five 9/11 suspects will resume, with pre-trial hearings being held for the first time since February 2020
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described as the 'mastermind' of the plot, is one of the five whose case will resume
Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi will also have their cases advance
The five all face the death penalty if convicted but much of their defense rests on the fact that they were all tortured while in custody
The 10 days of hearings are expected to be largely dealing with administrative issues and the five are not thought likely to address the court
There have been more than 40 rounds of pretrial hearings since the five detainees were arraigned in May 2012
No date has been set for their trial to begin and Joe Biden has said he wishes to close Guantanamo Bay - but he has not given indication of when
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Saudi Arabia condemned in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry the latest terror attack in Iraq’s city of Kirkuk that left many police forces killed and wounded.
The foreign ministry’s statement on Monday reaffirmed Riyadh's solidarity with Baghdad and with the Iraqi people in the face of violence and terrorism.
Saudi Arabia reiterated its rejection of all forms of criminal acts that violate religious principles and moral and humanitarian values.
The Saudi Ministry offered its condolences to the families of the victims, and to the Iraqi government and people, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Youssef Al-Othaimeen, also condemned the attack and offered his sincere condolences to the families of the soldiers who fell victims to the heinous terrorist attack, and offered his condolences to the government and people of Iraq.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Israeli authorities remained short on answers Tuesday over how six Paleostinian prisoners’ escape from a high-security jail went unnoticed and where they could have gone, with a vast manhunt still underway.
The group’s early-morning flight, through a hole made below a sink in a Gilboa prison cell to a tiny tunnel exit discovered by guards and police early Monday morning, sounds almost like a plotline from Israeli-Paleostinian conflict drama "Fauda".
In fact, it has made the escapees "heroes" to many Paleostinians, with celebrations in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank.
But the full weight of Israel’s security arsenal has been deployed to catch them, including aerial drones, checkpoints on roads and an army mission to Jenin, where many of the men locked up for their roles in attacks on the Jewish state grew up.
The search continued as the country was celebrating Rosh Hashana (the Jewish new year) on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after the "Great Escape" hailed by some Paleostinian newspapers.
"We have made no progress at present," said a front man for police in northern Israel, where the Gilboa prison has stood since its construction during the Second Intifada or uprising against Israel.
"But all branches of the security forces have been mobilized to find the prisoners, whether it’s the army, the Shin Bet (internal security service), the police, border guards, and their special units," the front man added.
An Israeli injunction is in effect against publishing details of the investigation, even as local media report on the scramble to recover from the embarrassing slip-up and prevent any possible attack by the runaways.
ASLEEP AT THE SCREEN?
There are many possible destinations for the band, from their nearby West Bank home to the shelter of the 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... Strip, ruled by the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement and a refuge for the "Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... " group to which five of the six belong.
They could even have tried to cross the border to another country altogether.
It was "very probable" that the men crossed into Jordan, whose frontier lies only around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the prison, a police source told Israeli daily Haaretz Tuesday.
The paper also reported that a car may have picked up some or all of the escapees three kilometers from the prison on Monday.
Another branch of the probe is focusing on how the escape succeeded without the prison guards noticing a thing.
Public broadcaster Kan reported that the men were visible on surveillance cameras as they wriggled out of the tunnel exit -- but no-one was monitoring the screens at the time.
One guard in charge of that sector of the prison may even have been asleep on duty, Kan added.
Meanwhile a journalist for the Maariv newspaper said that constructing the tunnel could have taken the inmates as long as five months, according to elements from the investigation.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran's Army Air Defense forces (#NPAJA) is one the Army's 4 divisions. It's tasked with defending Iran's airspace from the ground.
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The first two are about to meet the definition of 'antique'. I bet getting spare parts is a bear.
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The third is also old: The FM-80 is a Chinese short-range low altitude air defense missile reverse engineered from the French Crotale. Short-Range Air Defense Missile System - http://www.military-today.com Since 1989 the HQ-7 was proposed for export customers as the FM-80. The HQ-7 is used for short-range air defense. Missile weight: 84.5 kg,Missile diameter: 0.55 m.
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Yeah, MR, that was what I found curious. The one missle type that's been swatting down airliners over the last few years appears to be on the "don't talk about them" list.
Oh wait, it's been given an official Iranian name: Booger.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Just as during the 1975-1990 civil war that ravaged their country, hundreds of Lebanese families are turning to neighboring Cyprus to escape the miseries of everyday life back home.
Short-haul flights from Beirut to Larnaca, barely a 25-minute hop away, have been busy for months ferrying in Lebanese for whom their crisis-hit country with its dire shortages has become unlivable.
"I've had to leave my country and my parents to try to secure a future for my children," said Nanor Abachian, 30, emerging from the airport on the island's south coast with her husband, their two children and seven heavy suitcases.
They leave behind a bankrupt country where daily 22-hour power cuts have become the norm and shortages have hit daily necessities, from fuel and gas to medicine and bread.
Since the start of the crisis in 2019, several thousand Lebanese have emigrated, many of them to Cyprus. There is no official data on numbers, especially as many Lebanese hold second passports.
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 ambassador to Cyprus, Claude el-Hajal, said the number of families resettled on the island has seen "a significant increase" especially since the devastating August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut's port that killed over 200 people.
In the 1980s, at the height of the civil war, about 100,000 Lebanese families fled to Cyprus, Hajal said. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... many returned after the conflict.
During the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Cyprus served as a base for the evacuation of almost 60,000 civilians from Lebanon.
Abachian told AFP that a "feeling of insecurity" was the main motivation for their flight abroad. "We are living in the unknown... My children have no future in Lebanon," she said.
Once in Larnaca, she settled with her family at a friend's house, waiting to rent an apartment near the school where the children have been enrolled.
George Obeid, in his forties, also opted for Cyprus for the sake of his children's schooling.
"There is no hope for the school year in Lebanon," he said, citing the power cuts and fuel shortages that are crippling school services and activities.
"We were also worried about our safety," he added, fearing a rise in crime due to widespread poverty and desperation.
According to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , 78% of Lebanese now live below the poverty line -- up from less than 30% before 2019.
In Nicosia, the Franco-Cypriot school, which has a curriculum similar to that of several French-language schools in Lebanon, has been flooded with an estimated 250 applications from newly-arrived Lebanese.
Cyprus is also attracting Lebanese companies and investors.
According to Constantinos Karageorgis, a senior trade and industry ministry official, a fast-track procedure introduced last October for establishing foreign companies on the island has led to seven Lebanese firms relocating with nearly 200 employees, accompanied by their families.
With this new mechanism, "the procedure now takes 10 to 15 days instead of two to three months", said Hajal, the ambassador.
Another attractive sector for Lebanese with the means is real estate.
Lebanese businessman Georges Chahwan, owner of dozens of real estate projects in Cyprus, said he has sold "nearly 400 apartments to Lebanese between 2016 and 2021... including a hundred in the past six months".
The holiday island, which is a member of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , offers permanent residency for a certain level of investment in real estate, he explained.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... Cypriot banks offer loans to Lebanese whose salaries are paid in US dollars.
"Ever since 1975, Cyprus has been a haven for the Lebanese," Chahwan said. "The island is a stone's throw from Lebanon, it's stable and safe... They consider it their second home."
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The UN atomic watchdog chided 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... on Tuesday for failing to answer questions including on uranium traces found at three undeclared sites, which could complicate the resumption of talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal.
Former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... pulled the United States out of the deal, under which Iran agreed to restrictions on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions, and Tehran has responded by violating many of those restrictions.
Indirect talks between the United States and Iran on both countries returning to compliance have stopped while Iran's new, hardline President Ebrahim Raisi has taken office. La Belle France and Germany have called on Iran to return soon and Raisi has said Tehran is prepared to but not under Western "pressure".
Tuesday's comments from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency calling out Iran for failing to explain uranium traces found last year and in 2019 at old but undeclared sites could make that diplomacy more difficult.
The IAEA is charged with monitoring Iran's nuclear program including compliance with the deal. Washington and its European allies must now decide whether to push for a resolution criticizing Iran at next week's meeting of the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors.
A resolution would add to the pressure on Tehran to provide answers that could help the IAEA account for nuclear material that once was at these sites. It could, however, also make resuming the talks on the 2015 nuclear deal harder, since Tehran has previously bristled at such moves.
"The Director General is increasingly concerned that even after some two years the safeguards issues outlined above in relation to the four locations in Iran not declared to the Agency remain unresolved," the IAEA said in one of two quarterly reports on Iran.
The confidential reports by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to member states, issued ahead of next week's meeting of its 35-nation Board of Governors, were reviewed by Rooters. The second report said Iran must resolve outstanding issues relating to the sites, which include questions about a fourth location the IAEA has not inspected, "without further delay".
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We can pretend there's more than one possible outcome here.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... received in Damascus on Sunday head of the Lebanese Democratic Party MP Talal Arslan and a large Druze delegation that included spiritual leader of the sect in 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... Nasseredine al-Gharib.
The delegation also included various Lebanese political and partisan figures, including former minister Wiab Wahhab and Saleh al-Gharib.
Assad said the delegation "represented the true face of Lebanon," reported the state news agency SANA.
They represent the majority of Lebanese "who believe in the need and importance of the relationship with Syria and who have been loyal to it throughout the years of war," he added.
Ties between the neighboring countries should not be affected by changing conditions on the ground, rather they must be strengthened, he continued.
"Syria will always stand by the Lebanese people and support it on various levels," he stressed.
For his part, Arslan said the suffering of the Lebanese and Syrian people is the result of "new colonialism that is trying to violate the rights of people and dignities of nations."
Sides that are hostile to Syria are hostile to Lebanon and Arabism, he declared.
No one in Lebanon agrees to the severing of relations between Lebanon and Syria, he claimed.
Wahhab underscored the importance and standing of Syria in the region, saying the "Arabs won’t find a place among regional powers except with the return of Syria."
The Lebanese delegation later visited the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in the Damascus countryside. They met with various political and Druze officials from the southern Sweida and Golan regions.
Sources told Asharq al-Awsat that Druze spiritual leader in Sweida, Hikmat al-Hajiri, did not attend the meeting. No reason was given for his absence.
Activists from Sweida, however, attributed his absence to tensions and concerns over the eruption of infighting in the region.
The tensions stem from ongoing negotiations taking place between the counter-terrorism force, affiliated with the Syrian al-Liwa Party, and National Defense Forces (NDF) over returning military vehicles that were seized by the force.
In return, a member of the counter-terrorism force, who is being held by the state security forces, would be released.
Clashes had erupted on Saturday between the Syrian al-Liwa Party and NDF in al-Harisa town in eastern Daraa on Saturday.
Six members of the NDF were maimed. The NDF was forced to retreat from the town and they set up checkpoints inside Sweida city on the road leading to the provinces’ eastern countryside.
The NDF also brought in more members and harassed pedestrians in regions held by the counter-terrorism force. People were assaulted and four civilians were kidnapped, forcing their relatives to surround the headquarters of the NDF in Sweida city to demand their release. They threatened to resort to force if their demands are not met.
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Were they invited to sit in front of the 25 meter targets?
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The commander of the ground forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards threatened to bombard the positions of the Kurdish opposition in Iraqi Kurdistan, warning the residents of the northern region not to approach the bases of the anti-Tehran parties.
Iranian commander, General Mohammad Pakpour, was speaking on Monday, shortly after his arrival at the bases of the IRGC forces in the border triangle between Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Fars news agency reported that Pakpour’s tour came amid new movements of "armed terrorist groups" in the region - a reference to Kurdish opposition factions deployed in the border areas.
He noted that previous warnings were sent to officials in the Kurdistan region about the growing activity of Kurdish armed factions in western Iran.
Pakpour described the Kurdish opposition as "terrorist and counter-revolutionary groups," saying: "They threaten stability and calm in the border areas, and cause harm to the people."
"We have issued the required warnings to the Iraqi government and regional officials in the north of this country," he added.
He stressed that the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan region "should not allow forces of Evil to roam and set up headquarters on their lands, and cause a security threat to Iran."
"Any negligence in this regard contradicts the principles of good neighborliness and friendly relations between the two countries," he remarked.
Pakpour spoke of "the possibility of a decisive and shocking response" against the Kurdish parties "given the conditions of the region." He advised the residents of that area to stay away from the headquarters of the Kurdish parties to avoid being harmed.
Secretary-General of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, had called on the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fouad Hussein, to expel the opposition Kurdish parties from the Kurdistan region.
"We will deal strongly with any group or movement that wants to misuse Iraqi lands, in any way, to threaten Iran’s security," Shamkhani said.
The warning came about two weeks after the region’s Ministry of Interior requested the Kurdish opposition parties from neighboring countries to "abstain from using the territory of the Kurdistan region as a base for their operations and to spare the area a regional conflict."
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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
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[Townhall] Following reports that Americans were being prevented from leaving Afghanistan by Taliban fighters, Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintained his insistence that the flights aren't being blocked and that his department is not to blame for any delay. Instead, Blinken blamed those seeking to flee Afghanistan for not having proper travel documents.
...Arabic for 
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...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...
Hezbollah
...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 
...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...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
