It was a commitment, not a pledge. That’s different, and anyway we had our fingers crossed.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate denied reports alleging that officials pledged to US diplomats they would form a roadmap for an inclusive government by March 2022.
Earlier, the India 18 News quoted sources saying that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate in the latest meeting with the US envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, "conveyed that they need four months to conclude consultations with their top leadership" to form a roadmap for an inclusive government in the country.
The Islamic Emirate denied the reports, calling them speculation.
"What has been published in this regard, we don’t confirm it," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate. "The Islamic Emirate takes independent decisions regarding its government. This is the right of the people to make the decision about the formation of their government."
The political analysts believe that the formation of an inclusive government would pave the way for the recognition of the current Afghan government.
"The international community and the US, in order to answer to their people and partners, will recognize a government which is formed by all sides.. Good governance will pave the way for recognition," said Javid Sangdal, an international relations analyst.
"To overcome the current crisis, the Islamic Emirate needs to implement a policy and show diplomacy that is in accordance with the international community’s standards," said Abdul Haq Humad, a political analyst.
This comes as Afghanistan is currently gripped with various crises due to not being recognized by foreign countries and by the suspension of aid.
[Garowe] Tigray regional President Debretsion Gebremichael
...I had no idea they had one of those. Usually at the sub-national level they’re provincial/state governors, earls and counts being the ruling landholders in aristocratic societies ...
says the Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] have changed strategy and will in the long run prevail in the ongoing war with Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF].
Already, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has left the frontline after two weeks of intensive fighting which saw TDF retreat as it seeks solutions, probably counterattack, which could be catastrophic in long run.
The Tigrayan front man, Getachew Reda, underlined the point in a Tweet when he said: "Speaking of stories of courage, perseverance and heroism, a Tigray Army unit traveled more than 158 KMs on foot in a matter of two days and took on and dealt a mortal blow to a several thousand strong enemy contingent. Now that’s news."
The Tigray President, Debretsion Gebremichael, said in a statement that:
"We evaluated the overall situation, both ours as well as that of the enemy, and arrived at the decision on our own. ’We have to turn back; we shouldn’t continue in the present [course]; we have to carry out additional tasks, additional adjustments’ — it was after we identified this that we arrived at the decision," he noted.
"It was a tough decision but one which had to be made. We have to understand that it was a correct decision...[The decision] wasn’t made because of diplomatic pressure or through discussions. We don’t make discussions which the people of Tigray are not aware of or diplomatic activities which the people of Tigray has not accepted...This is a time of fierce struggle."
Already, the Tigray Defence Forces withdrew — they were neither defeated on the battlefield nor were they routed. Anyone looking at their long supply lines would have seen they were vulnerable to attack. The withdrawal was hardly surprising.
Prime Minister Abiy has put out a statement declaring that this is "The First Chapter Accompanied by Victory". This is by no means the first time he has declared victory.
In November last year, Prime Minister Abiy said that the conflict had been "successfully concluded".
In reality, Tigrayan fighters had withdrawn into the hills and mountains and were mounting a ferocious guerilla campaign against the invading Æthiopian, Amhara, 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... n troops.
It took until April 2021 for the Prime Minister to admit that heavy fighting was taking place on no fewer than eight fronts. Then in June 2021, the Tigrayan troops were able to re-capture Mekelle, to jubilation.
The war could go on for some time after both parties refused to agree to declare a ceasefire, amid international community pressure, which is yet to yield fruits. Several people have died in the current war with millions displaced as TDF and ENDF continue to clash.
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They threaten to intensify the fight with the help of the best Islamic lawyers who will in the courts prove the illegality of the presence of PMC Wagner and Russian military specialists.
[KP] Information appeared on the Internet that the militants of the West African terrorist group JNIM (al-Qaeda branch in the Maghreb and West Africa) issued a remarkable manifesto, where, in addition to various threats and promises of collaboration with other jihadist groups, also affected the growing influence of the Russian Federation in West Africa.
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This reminds me, anyone know what came of Nizar Trabelsi, that guy who was awarded damage pay for being forcibly arrested, for being a... tuh-tuh-terrorist?
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced a resident of Makhachkala Gadzhi Gadzhiev to eight and a half years in a general regime colony, recognizing him as a member of the Islamic State.
A 19-year-old resident of Makhachkala, Gadzhi Gadzhiev, was accused of participating in a terrorist organization, undergoing training in order to carry out terrorist activities, participation in an illegal armed group, four episodes of assistance to terrorism and illegal arms trafficking.
"It was established that the defendant in November 2019 in Makhachkala joined the Islamic State terrorist organization, and was trained to carry out terrorist activities such as teaching mine explosives. He also underwent psychological training for propaganda, justification and support of terrorism, said the military court.
Hajiyev joined an illegal armed formation (IAF), where his duties included the acquisition of components for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices, collecting information about security officials in order to commit encroachments on their lives and attracting new members to illegal armed groups, the press service reported.
"From November 2019 to July 2020, in Makhachkala, the defendant, during personal meetings and correspondence in the messenger, encouraged citizens to join IS and take part in an illegal armed group. In November 2019, Hajiyev purchased components for making an improvised explosive device in Makhachkala, and in April 2020, he accepted ammunition and a pistol for storage," the spokesman added.
Hajiyev was found guilty and sentenced to eight and a half years in a general regime colony. He admitted his guilt in part. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal.
There were no comments by Haji Hajiyev or his official representatives regarding the court's decision.
Five sentenced in Kaspiysk for terrorism
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 14 a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five residents of Kaspiysk: Bagauttin Medzhidov, Ismail Narchavov, Felix Pirveliev, Murad Abdulkerimov and Husein Ramazanov, to long terms of imprisonment, having found them guilty of creating a terrorist community and preparing to attack a police officer.
Abdulkerimov was sentenced to 18.5 years in prison. Narchavov - to 18 years, Pirveliev and Ramazanov - to 17.5 years, and Majidov - to 17 years.
The convicts were tortured after being detained, they planted grenades and ammunition, said lawyers Nadezhda Borodkina and Magomed Magomedov. On December 6, the Military Court of Appeal upheld the verdict on the residents of Kaspiysk.
[AlAhram] A group of 15 EU member states have agreed to take in 40,000 Afghans for resettlement, Commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Thursday after meeting interior ministers.
Germany will accept the bulk of the new arrivals, with 25,000, with the Netherlands accepting 3,159, Spain and La Belle France 2,500, and other countries lower numbers, according to a document seen by AFP.
"And I think this is an impressive act of solidarity," Johansson said, arguing that allowing more Afghans to migrate in a controlled way would help prevent "irregular arrivals".
The 40,000 Afghans are part of a larger 60,000 package of resettlements and humanitarian admissions pledged by member states, according to the document seen by AFP.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees had previously urged the bloc to accept 42,500 Afghans over five years, but some of the 27 member countries had resisted.
There are an estimated 85,000 Afghans who have fled their homeland into countries nearer the EU, and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... 's seizure of Kabul coupled with a fierce drought could trigger new flows.
During the aftermath of the chaotic US military withdrawal and the return of the Taliban regime, in August, 24 EU states have already taken in 28,000 evacuees.
But UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi has warned that 85,000 Afghans that are living in vulnerable situations outside the bloc need resettlement, and has urged Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to take half.
Johannson had previously described this goal as "doable" but she still had to persuade member state governments, only confirming the figure after the meeting on Thursday.
The 40,000 Afghans are part of a larger 60,000 package of resettlements and humanitarian admissions pledged by member states, according to the document seen by AFP.
In the larger global envelope, La Belle France and Sweden make bigger pledges of 5,000 and 4,200 resettlements, but these will not necessarily be Afghans. Belgium promised places for 425 Afghans and 1,250 others.
EU officials were not immediately able to give a time scale for the new arrivals.
[OneIndia] The number of terror attacks have drastically come down in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... since the abrogation of Article 370. Between May 2014 and August 5 2019, the day Article 370 was abrogated there were 843 attacks, while 86 civilians had been killed.
Between August 5 2019 and November 2021 there have been 496 terror attacks, while the number of civilians killed stood at 79, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Parliament in a written reply.
The MHA said that the number of personalities among the Army personnel has come down since special status was done away in Jammu and Kashmir. Before August 2019 the number of casualties is at 1.7 per month and between March 2014 and August 2019, it stood at 2.8 per month.
The data available until November 25 2021 says that the security forces shot full of holes as many as 148 hard boyz this year. Of this, 127 were locals, data by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) shows.
Further the data also shows that of the 199 active hard boyz in the Valley, 110 are locals and 89 are foreigners. 97 of the active hard boyz were recruited into The Resistance® Front this year. The TRF, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba had grabbed credit for the killings of the civilians this year.
In the year 2020 178 hard boyz joined the ranks of which 121 were shot full of holes. In 2019, the recruitments stood at 117.
To combat terror, the CRPF has deployed over 65,000 personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. In addition the compensation for the next of kin of those killed in action has been enhanced from Rs 21.5 lakh to Rs 35 lakh. For those who bit the dust for other reasons, the compensation stands at Rs 25 lakh from the earlier 16.5 lakh.
This year the CRPF lost 11 of its personnel of which 3 were in Jammu and Kashmir and 8 in areas affected by Left Wing terror. In all the CRPF has 3 lakh personnel.
Data made available in the month of January this year showed that the number of terror strikes in J&K came down by nearly 63.93 per cent.
Between January to July 15 2019, there were 188 incidents that had been reported and for the same period this year, the number stood at 120.
Between January to July 2019, the number of hard boyz killed stood at 126, whereas this year for the same period it was 136. In terms of grenade attacks last year the number was at 51 in comparison to 21 this year.
Last year between January and July 75 security personnel were martyred when compared to the 35 this year. In terms of civilian deaths, the number stood at 23 last year when compared to 22 this year between January and July 15.
A Delhi Court Wednesday issued summons against Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... and others in a money laundering case related to allegedly receiving funds of nearly Rs 80 crore from Pakistain for carrying out terror activities across India.
Besides Salahuddin, the court also summoned Muhammad Shafi Shah, Talib Lali, Gulam Nabi Khan, Umer Farooq Shera, Manzoor Ahmed Dar, Zaffar Hussain Bhat, Nazir Ahmad Dar, Abdul Majeed Sofi and Mubarak Shah.
The ED also attached several properties during the investigation.
According to the ED, the accused persons, "in connivance with co-conspirators and associates, carried out several terrorist acts, raised, collected and received funds from Pakistain through different medium for its expenditure and distribution to active cadres of HM and other terrorist outfits, purchase of material used for explosives and terrorist acts and abetment of terrorist acts".
[Rudaw] Days before the fourth anniversary of the defeat of 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.... (ISIS) in Iraq on December 10, 2017, churches still lie in ruins across the Nineveh Plains.
Emad Sabri, who lives in al-Shifa district near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's Old City, is sad to see that calls for the renovation of the Al Tahira Church where his family and ancestors before him used to visit have so-far gone unanswered.
"We used to pray at this church. Our family were destroyed when ISIS [ISIS] came. We were displaced," Sabri told Rudaw, mourning the destruction of the church under ISIS. "I hope this church will be renovated by philanthropists. With the help of God, I hope everyone will return to Mosul including those who have fled abroad."
The hard boy group first swept through Iraq in 2014, capturing cities across northern and central Iraq, including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, where the group declared its so-called caliphate.
ISIS destroyed more than 30 churches in Mosul and 40 across the Nineveh Plains.
Most Christians fled to the Kurdistan Region as the terror group advanced.
Mosul was severely damaged and some neighborhoods were all but demolished during an offensive by Iraqi, Kurdish, and global coalition forces to retake the city. Control was finally taken from the terrorist group in the summer of 2017.
More than 1.5 million Christians lived in Iraq before 2003. Only 350,000 remain, according to figures provided by Chaldean bishop Najib Mikhael and MP Klara Odisho Yaqub.
Israeli warplanes preparing for long-range exercise over Mediterranean in 2022
Drill will test ability to cover distances needed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities
News emerged as Israeli defence minister travels to US today, with sources saying two sides will discuss joint drills to prepare for attacks against Iran
Comes amid stalled talks between US and Tehran over its nuclear programme
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Do they have Ali Khameini cardboard cutouts? Iran had them for the earlier geezer.
[IsraelTimes] Negotiations between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and world powers aimed at salvaging a tattered 2015 nuclear deal resumed in Vienna on Thursday after a few days’ pause — and then ended just an hour later with tensions high after Tehran made demands last week that European countries strongly criticized.
"The meeting of the Joint Commission is over. It was rather short and constructive," tweeted Russia’s representative, Mikhail Ulyanov.
"The participants observed a number of important commonalities in their positions, including with regard to the need to finalize the restoration of JCPOA successfully and swiftly," Ulyanov said referring to the pact, which is known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
But Iran’s top negotiator at the Vienna talks said Tehran hadn’t backed down from its basic position, which has been slammed by Western countries as backtracking on previous compromises and endangering the talks aimed at restoring the deal.
"Iran underlined that it is seriously continuing the talks based on its previous position," Ali Bagheri Kani yold news hounds, according to Rooters. "Iran is serious about reaching an agreement if the ground is paved [towards a deal]... The fact all sides want the talks to continue shows that all parties want to narrow the gaps."
The meeting of all the deal’s remaining signatories — Iran, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Russia and China — was chaired by European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomat Enrique Mora.
Mora said the sides "don’t have all the time in the world," adding: "What I felt this morning was from... all delegations a renewed sense of purpose in the need to work and to reach an agreement on bringing the JCPOA back to life."
He admitted, however, that the negotiations were "a very difficult endeavor," and that, "there are still different positions that we have to marry."
The United States has participated indirectly in the ongoing talks because it withdrew from the accord in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... . US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... has signaled that he wants to rejoin the deal.
Washington plans to send a delegation led by Robert Malley, the special US envoy for Iran, to Vienna over the weekend.
European diplomats urged Tehran to come back with "realistic proposals" after the Iranian delegation made numerous demands last week that other parties to the accord deemed unacceptable. Last week’s talks were the first in over five months, a gap caused by a new hardline government assuming power in Tehran.
[IsraelTimes] Planned enforcement comes as talks aimed at a return to nuclear deal stall; Biden administration may also send delegations to other countries with same warning
[IsraelTimes] Amid faltering economy and international sanctions, Iranian official says 170 aircraft are inactive, mostly due to missing motors
More than half of Iran’s fleet of civilian aircraft is grounded due to a lack of spare parts, the deputy head of the country’s airlines association has said.
"The number of inactive planes in Iran ...The nation is 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... has risen to more than 170... as a result of missing spare parts, particularly motors," Alireza Barkhor said in an interview with state news agency IRNA.
The shortage represented more than half of the civilian aircraft in the sanctions-hit country, he said in an interview this week.
"If this trend continues, we will see even more planes grounded in the near future," Barkhor was quoted as saying.
"We hope that one of the priorities of the government will be helping to finance airlines so that they are able to provide the spare parts to refurbish the grounded planes," he added.
According to the Iranian economic daily Financial Tribune, national carrier IranAir currently operates a fleet of 39 planes, the majority of them Airbus jets.
Iran’s economy has struggled under sanctions that were lifted after a landmark nuclear deal in 2015, but reimposed again after the US withdrew from the pact in 2018.
In 2016, following the lifting of sanctions, Iran concluded deals to purchase 100 Airbus jets, 80 Boeing planes, and 40 ATR aircraft, hoping to upgrade its aging fleet and the constant problem of finding spare parts.
But the Islamic Theocratic Republic received only 11 planes as deliveries were interrupted following the reimposition of sanctions, according to the Financial Tribune.
[An Nahar] Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar has told the families of the detainees in the case that he will issue the indictment within three months, a media report said on Thursday.
The detainees "will be eventually released" and they "did not commit a premeditated offense," Bitar added, according to al-Akhbar newspaper.
There will be a "timeframe" for the imprisonment of each of the detainees, based on the responsibility of each one of them, the judge reportedly went on to say.
"No one can remove me, and if they remove me I will return," Bitar also told the families, according to al-Akhbar.
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[An Nahar] Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh Shami said that "we need the approval of the Cabinet to start with the IMF's plan."
"If Cabinet doesn't convene, there would be difficulties to negotiate with the IMF," Shami said.
He added that there is a preliminary agreement on the numbers, and "we are still studying the way to treat the gap."
An IMF delegation met with Lebanese officials, Shami said, adding that the "meetings were not limited to protocols, but included policies and strategies."
"We hope a broader delegation will visit Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... in mid-January to discuss the details of the monetary and economic recovery program," the deputy PM said.
Shami stated that the capital control draft law is "the result of merging two draft laws submitted by the finance and justice committees, based on the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund."
"The capital control draft law aims to protect the depositor before anything else," he added.
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[An Nahar] KSA and UAE urged Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , in a joint statement, "to make political and economical reforms and to limit the possession of arms to the legitimate state institutions.""Lebanon shouldn't be an incubator for organizations and groups that target the security and stability of the region, such as terrorist Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ," the statement said.
The statement stressed that Lebanon shouldn't be a launchpad for any terrorist acts."
They also said that Lebanon shouldn't be a source of drug smuggling, which "threatens the safety of societies in the region and the world."
The statement comes at the end of the Saudi crown prince's visit to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, during a high-profile tour of Gulf states.
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#Lebanon’s central bank sets a new rate of 8,000 Lebanese pounds to the #US dollar for withdrawals from bank deposits denominated in dollars, but which can now only be accessed in the local currency.https://t.co/s6Uvvlz46t
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After waiting in line for hours to register his car at a vehicle licensing agency in a suburb north of Beirut, Amine Gemayel’s patience is running thin.
He has already visited the branch in Dekwaneh several times for what should be a simple procedure, without success.
The only way to get his paperwork done any faster would entail breaking the law by paying someone off - a dilemma facing all Lebanese trying to access basic services as their public institutions buckle under a catastrophic financial crisis and perennial political paralysis.
"It’s a great burden on citizens," Gemayel said. "I know that to complete my procedure I need to use a middle-man."
The country’s public sector has long been regarded as bloated, lethargic and rife with corruption. It’s now falling into further disarray due to an economic crisis that has left some eight in 10 people poor, according to UN agencies.
Such an environment breeds corruption, said George Attieh, who heads Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... ’s public sector watchdog. He accuses many babus government employees of using the growing disarray of the state to ask for bribes in return for issuing citizens’ crucial paperwork.
"The situation is incomparable to before the crisis," Attieh said. "If I look to how it was in 2018 and how it is now you can’t recognize the public sector. There are much more complaints, hundreds of complaints ... mostly about bribery and intentional delays by employees in order to impose bribes."
Before the crisis, most civil servants earned salaries worth around $1,000 and up; today, most are earning around a tenth of that after a currency crisis led the Lebanese pound to lose more than 90 percent of its value.
Some public sector workers have since the beginning of November been staging an open-ended strike over better pay and living conditions.
Others simply can’t make it into work: A full tank of gas can eat up more than half of their monthly wage and benefits.
Attieh said fuel shortages have also made the watchdog’s work more difficult as on-site visits needed to investigate alleged corruption have become impossible.
"UNDER THE TABLE"
Most Lebanese now struggle to put food on the table and are seeking to permanently leave the country, according to a recent poll by US-based polling company Gallup.
To help its employees cope, Lebanon’s government has promised to triple their daily transportation allowance and provide public employees with an extra half salary per month, but has not yet done so.
It has also been slow to provide other forms of badly needed social assistance despite funding being available. The cabinet has not met for nearly two months amid a row over the probe into the August 2020 Beirut port blast, leaving it unable to implement measures demanded by the international community to unlock aid.
Outside the vehicle registration office in Dekwaneh, Roy Mghames, 20, was also waiting in line.
"You either come and wait like other people and they tell you to come back next week, or you get your things done on the quick," he said.
"You have to give it to them under the table."
The director-general of the Traffic and Vehicles Management Authority, Hoda Salloum, was herself charged with corruption, including illicit enrichment and wasting public funds in February 2020, allegation she denies. She was released on bail and remains in her position.
Salloum told Rooters she had worked to increase transparency at the public institution by digitizing procedures, but hourslong state power cuts and a shortage of funds to buy fuel for backup generators meant these systems were often offline.
Hers is just one of Lebanon’s public institutions which do not know if they will still be operating in a month’s time.
"We can continue our work till the end of the year," she said. "Then, it’s up to God."
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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 land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
...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 theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...The nation is noted for 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
