[JustTheNews] "DHS’s failure to provide the requested information is alarming because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serves as the prosecutor in removal proceedings," said the Wisconsin Republican senator.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration of deliberately refusing to release the names of Nigerians that are allegedly sponsoring terrorism in the country.
President Buhari had on October 1, 2021, in his speech during the 61st Independence Day anniversary of Nigeria, said the government had been able to identify sponsors of the secessionist groups and their leaders.
Also, on Thursday Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit uncovered 123 companies and 33 bureau de change operators linked with terrorism in the country, in addition to 26 suspected kidnappers and seven co-conspirators.
The minister added that 45 people suspected of funding terrorism had been arrested and would soon be prosecuted.
Reacting in an interview with Daily Post, National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubuko, accused the Buhari administration of deliberately withholding the names of the alleged sponsors.
HURIWA alleged that the Federal Government was not serious about ending the insecurity across the country, insisting that the government had the data of Nigerians and should be able to fish out the alleged financers.
He said, “The secrecy surrounding the unveiling of the identities of the terrorism sponsors is a pointer to the fact that some persons in government are into something that they don’t want Nigerians to know. Nigerians have the right to know those who have made life very unfortunate for them for more than a decade.
“The government has skeletons in its cupboard and that is why they keep violating the rights of Nigerians to know the sponsors of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. This is why they are after radio stations and other media platforms, trying to silence the voice of Nigerians.
“The Attorney-General of the Federation once told Nigerians that they have compiled over 400 names of some terrorists and have charged them to court, where is that case and what is the status of that matter?”
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[DW] Dozens of influential Moslem figures were handpicked by the government to take part in the new Forum of Islam. Critics say it is an attempt by French President Emmanuel Macron to gain right-wing support.
The last one they put together didn’t work. Maybe this one will.
La Belle France will host the first summit of the Forum of Islam on Saturday, a new body that aims to reshape life for Moslems in the country and rid the religion of extremism. The body, meeting in Gay Paree, is made up of clergy and laymen and -women who will help to lead the largest Moslem community in western Europe. They include imams, influential figures from civil society, prominent intellectuals and business leaders.
La Belle France is still reeling from attacks by Islamist forces of Evil that killed hundreds of people over the past decade. The country is still coming to terms with how hundreds of French Moslems went to fight with the Islamic State
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...a common enough name in Arabia, in this case more fully Mohammed Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani, but in the Rantburg archives he appears as Mohammed al-Kahtani and Mohamed al-Kahtani ...
who also suffers mental health issues, was dropped in 2008 after he was tortured
American authorities have recommended releasing a mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to 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... , according to a government document published Friday.
Suspected of being al-Qaeda’s intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba, where he has been detained for nearly two decades.
The government dropped its case against him in 2008 due to the abuse he experienced at the prison.
The detention of al-Qahtani is "no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States," the Periodic Review Board, a panel composed of several US national security agencies, said in a summary of its decision. "He's crazy. I mean loony tunes-crazy"
In its final determination dated February 4, the board said al-Qahtani was "eligible for transfer" and recommended that he be repatriated to Saudi Arabia, where he could receive comprehensive mental health care and be enrolled in a rehabilitation center for holy warriors.
Because the Saudi rehab program has worked so well thus far?
The body noted his "significantly compromised mental health condition and available family support."
The same family from which he launched into Al Qaeda? Another winning choice. We’ll see if the Saudi Arabia of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is up to the challenge.
Security measures, including surveillance and travel restrictions, were also recommended.
Al-Qahtani was one of the first prisoners sent to Guantanamo in January 2002.
He had flown to Orlando, Florida on August 4, 2001, but was denied entry to the country and sent back to Dubai.
He was eventually captured in Afghanistan in December 2001.
His torture at the prison was widely documented and spurred on international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups’ calls for the site to be shut down. He was subjected to prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and other abuses.
"We tortured Qahtani," Susan Crawford, a top judicial official in the Bush administration said in 2009, according to a Washington Post article.
In January, the United States approved the release of five of the remaining 39 men still at Guantanamo.
Ten others, including the alleged criminal mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as "KSM," are awaiting trial by a military commission.
The detention center, run by the US Navy, was created after the 2001 attacks to house detainees in the US "war on terror" and has been called a site of "unparalleled notoriety" by UN rights experts.
Yesterday denied bail, today the backstory, including the two children who escaped and made their way back to America.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, has been accused of trying to ransom her own children back to their father in Kansas after she fled with them to the Middle East, DailyMail.com can reveal. Her former sister-in-law, Amy Fluke, 49, has revealed the mom began sending her ex-husband emails and notes demanding more than $6,000 for the return of their two kids, shortly after moving abroad.
'The first month they were away in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... we could still call and talk to Gabe and Alaina, but after that we lost all contact. And that broke my brother,' Amy told DailyMail.com.
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[OneIndia] The Gauhati High Court on Friday upheld The Assam Repealing Act, 2020, under which all provincialised (government-funded) madrassas are to be converted into general schools in Assam. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia said the changes brought about by the legislative and executive action of the state are for the provincialised madrassas alone, which are government schools, and not for private or community ones.
It also dismissed a writ petition challenging the validity of the Act. The writ petition was filed by 13 individuals in the HC in 2021 against the state government's decision to transform the state-funded madrassas to general schools.
The Court had concluded the hearing on January 27 and had reserved its judgement, which was passed on Friday. The madrassas which are wholly maintained by the state cannot impart religious instructions in terms of the mandate of Article 28(1) of the Constitution of India, the Court said in its judgement.
It also pointed that the services of the teachers of the provincialised madrassas have not been dispensed away with and they will be trained for teaching other subjects, if required. "The division bench of the honourable High Court has upheld The Assam Repealing Act of 2020, which had repealed the Madrassa provincialisation acts of 1995, 2011 and 2018," Assam Advocate General Devojit Saikia told PTI.
In the same judgement, the HC also upheld all subsequent notifications issued by the government of Assam to convert madrassa institutions into general educational institutions.
Assam plans to shut govt.-run madrassas, Sanskrit tols in NovemberAssam plans to shut govt.-run madrassas, Sanskrit tols in November
The court upheld the Act on the basis of Article 28(1) of the Constitution, which mandates that any educational institution cannot impart any religious instruction if such institution is wholly funded from state budget or public funds, Saikia said.
The Assam Repealing Act does not affect the privately or community run madrassas and will only impact 397 madrassas and four Arabic colleges run by the government, he added.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who had pushed the Assam Repeal Bill as the state education minister in 2020, tweeted "Division Bench of Honble Gauhati High Court in a landmark judgment delivered today upheld the Act of 2020 to repeal Madrassa Education Procincialisation Acts and also upheld all other notifications to convert 397 provincialised madrrassas to general educational institutions."
The Bill was passed by the state Assembly on December 30, 2020, under which all the provincialised, government-funded madrassas were to be transformed into general schools. It sought to abolish The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995, and The Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of Services of Employees and Re-Organisation of Madrassa Educational Institutions) Act, 2018.
Following the passage of the Bill another act relating to provincialisation of madrassas, which was passed by the state government in 2011 stood repealed. The state government has assured that there will be no change of status, pay, allowances and service conditions of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the madrassas under the Assam Repealing Act, which was passed during the tenure of the first BJP-led government in the state.
[AlAhram] Paleostinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Saturday urged the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to withdraw Israel's accreditation, bringing simmering tensions to a head as the 55-member bloc opened a two-day summit in Addis Ababa.
Even as the continent reels from a spate of military coups and the Covid-19 pandemic, the relationship with Israel is expected to figure prominently during the summit this weekend.
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*Snicker* Watch out for Mossad’s spy squirrels and insectoid spy drones...
[BBC] In November 2020, a convoy carrying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's most prominent nuclear scientist, came under fire. He was killed with an artificial intelligence-assisted remote control machine gun.
Carrying out an assassination in such a surgical fashion against a moving target without any civilian casualties requires real-time intelligence on the ground.
After the killing, Iran's intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, claimed that two months earlier, he had warned security forces that there was an assassination plot targeting Mr Fakhrizadeh at the exact location where he was shot.
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to answer Skid's Q re Israel spy in Syria
it was Elie Cohen who went by the name Kamel Amin Thabit - he was executed in 1965 by the Syrians
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.....It would be so nice if the Mossad said to this notional asset, "We will give you something better than money - we will give you your life. If we ever tell you to be at certain place at a certain time, be there. We'll get you out before it hits the fan."
Mike
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to answer Skid's Q re Israel spy in Syria
Fred gave periwinkle to me, Lord Garth, Skidmark glories in khaki.
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I'm reminded of James Jesus Angleton and the massive turmoil within the CIA searching for the mole, and the Hanson story that moles can be anyone. Some cultures are especially vulnerable to believe in betrayal by the most trusted, because they have it as an embedded cultural norm. Iran comes to mind and tremendous damage can be wrought by mere inference, even when it is so unlikely, or is it?
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it was Elie Cohen who went by the name Kamel Amin Thabit - he was executed in 1965 by the Syrians
Yah, played in the movie by Sasha Baron Cohen; he essentially took a turn playing a jewish master operative named Kamil and then turned around and called us all nazis. Ain't political theatre grand?
[IsraelTimes] ’It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks,’ US sources quoted as saying; 2015 pact envisioned Tehran would need a year to amass enough material for bomb.
This is why we did not vote for those idiots.
Israel fears that reviving the nuclear deal between Iran ...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... and world powers may leave Tehran only a few months away from having enough fissile material for an atomic bomb, Israeli television reported Saturday.
The Kan public broadcaster did not specify who in Israel was concerned by the possibility that Iran’s so-called breakout time would be significantly shorter under a restored nuclear agreement.
But American sources quoted in the report appeared to acknowledge such a prospect.
"It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks, as would happen if no agreement is signed," the sources said.
Something needs to be bombed until the rubble bounces. Then the distance will be nearly infinite, as it became in Iraq and Syria.
The original deal aimed to keep Iran at least a year away from amassing enough material for a nuclear weapon.
That was profoundly stupid, too.
The Kan report came days after US officials told The Wall Street Journal that a revived agreement would leave Iran with a breakout time well below a year, citing the advances in its nuclear program since then-president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... withdrew the United States from the accord in 2018.
The exact length of the breakout time will depend on the manner in which Iran agrees to return to compliance with the deal, be it by dismantling its stockpiles of enriched uranium and relevant pieces of equipment, destroying them or shipping them abroad.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... enough nuclear material for a bomb is not the same as having the capabilities to build the core of the weapon and to attach it to the warhead of a missile, which Iran is not believed to possess and would likely take many more months to achieve.
Unless they were working the projects in parallel, using dual-use parts from the same suppliers they’ve been buying from, in which case the time suck will be demonstrating that the design works as intended. After all, they’ve been working this project for over two decades, as the CIA admitted some years after it came out they’d shaded the truth in their annual report on the subject to President George W. Bush.
Despite the JCPOA’s more limited impact, US negotiators are still committed to returning to the deal, guided by the belief that some restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program are better than none at all.
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Oh good! Another war! This will surely work, unlike the last 88 times we tried it.
Say, what was the last war the Pentagon won? There hasn't been one this century. In fact, they just lost to 8th century goat herders. How are they planning on winning a real war against a tough adversary if they can't even win against primitive screwheads?
The question answers itself, doesn't it? They don't want to win. They just want another war. More Americans to decorate the cemeteries in Arlington and more returning home with blown-off limbs or shattered psyches.
We're sick of war. The idea of kids, just young American kids going to war in Iran when it doesn't benefit the American people in the least is even more sickening to me now than ever.
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Unfortunately we're at the point where we can choose to fight Iran before they get the nuclear bomb or choose to fight them after they get the nuclear bomb. Either way while a commie puppet sits in the white house.
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Israel needs to bite the bullet and handle it despite America running interference for Iran, just like they did Iraq and Syria. We have articles in the Rantburg archives dating back to 2003 detailing their concerns, and other articles from time to time revealing some of their actions delaying what some shrug off as inevitable — bugs in the program controlling the centrifuges, flaws built into purchased parts and equipment, assassination of some of Iran’s nuclear scientists and the clear subornation of others, and the glorious raid on the Tehran project files warehouse.
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"It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks," US sources quoted as saying; 2015 pact envisioned Tehran would need a year to amass enough material for bomb.
'Did I say never? I meant, ten years!'
'Did I say ten years? I meant, a year!'
'Did I say one year? I meant, a month!'
'Did I say a month? I meant, weeks!'
'Did I say....
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Several trucks loading military reinforcements and logistical supplies coming from the Syria-Iraq border through al-Bukamal city in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, sent to Iran-backed factions on Saturday.
Israeli missile attack resulting in glorious secondaries in 3...2...1...
The trucks loaded medium-sized surface-to-surface missiles, ammunition and logistical equipment that were distributed to warehouses of the Iran-backed forces in several cities and towns in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, a military source told North Press.
The first shipment headed to a warehouse in al-Naser center in Bour Sa’id street in Deir ez-Zor while the second was distributed to Fortress of Rabah in al-Mayadin city and to Imam Ali Air Base in al-Bukamal city, the source added.
Syrian government forces’ checkpoints blocked al-Bukamal-Deir ez-Zor route “In order to keep residents from knowing what was on the trucks,” the source noted.
That doesn’t seem to have worked well...
These reinforcements are the largest since the Iranian-backed factions took control over the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Since late 2017, factions affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been deployed west of the Euphrates River and parts east of it which previously were under the control of the Islamic State Organization(ISIS) that recruited thousands of local young people in its ranks, according to reports.
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
— Julius Caesar
[IsraelTimes] Political organizations, now mainly based abroad, have seen their influence wane in recent years as Iran
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The big boys have their man in power, you might as well give it up.
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Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said in November that countries should avoid getting closer to the Syrian government.
“O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hoping.”
[IsraelTimes] Iranian foreign minister wants to see something ’tangible’ from the Americans after Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case... restored some sanctions relief is aimed at salvaging nuclear deal
Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday welcomed US sanctions relief intended to entice Tehran back to the 2015 nuclear deal, but said the move was "insufficient."
On Friday, the Biden administration restored some sanctions relief to Iran’s civilian atomic program as world powers and the Islamic Theocratic Republic continue talks aimed at salvaging the languishing agreement.
"Lifting some sanctions in a real and objective manner could be interpreted as the good will that Americans talk about," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told news hounds on Saturday.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... he said the move "is not enough."
"Good will, in our viewpoint, means that something tangible happens on the ground," Amir-Abdollahian said.
Amir-Abdollahian reiterated that one of the "main issues" in the talks is obtaining guarantees that the US will not withdraw from the 2015 deal again.
"We seek and demand guarantees in the political, legal and economic sectors," he said, adding that "agreements have been reached in some areas."
Foreign Ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh also called the US sanctions relief insufficient, saying Tehran expects the lifting of sanctions outlined under the nuclear deal.
"Everyone knows that is not sufficient," Khatibzadeh was quoted as saying by the Iranian Jamaran news website.
"Indeed, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...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... is waiting for the US to implement its duties and commitments according to the nuclear deal dimensions," he said.
The Biden administration on Friday restored some sanctions relief to Iran’s atomic program as talks aimed at salvaging the languishing 2015 nuclear deal enter a critical phase.
As US negotiators head back to Vienna for what could be a make-or-break session, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed several sanctions waivers related to Iran’s civilian nuclear activities. The move reverses the Trump administration’s decision to rescind them.
The waivers are intended to entice Iran to return to compliance with the 2015 deal that it has been publicly violating since former US president Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions. Iran says it is not respecting the terms of the deal because the US pulled out of it first. Iran has demanded the restoration of all sanctions relief it was promised under the deal to return to compliance.
Friday’s move lifts the sanctions threat against foreign countries and companies from Russia, China and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... that had been cooperating with non-military parts of Iran’s nuclear program under the terms of the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
The Trump administration had ended the so-called "civ-nuke" waivers in May 2020 as part of its "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran that began when Trump withdrew the US from the deal in 2018, complaining that it was the worst diplomatic agreement ever negotiated and gave Iran a pathway to developing the bomb.
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ValJar and the Kalorama Kompound delivering while they still have the current set of puppets in place. There is a looming end to how much and for how long you can juice Jojo for any semblance of public performance. Once his husk is pushed aside, probably before the end of summer, the Cackle-Jackal will bring a new and more aware set of players to the stage, and the modus vivendi terms will be vastly different. He greatest traits have been patience, obdurate shamelessness and massive, ego-driven ambition. She is an inept, lazy, and vain clown as an administrator, but is a nasty ruler with a very long memory of slights.
[Jpost] BEHIND THE LINES: What is a charity based in Israel, apparently devoted to the Palestinian cause, doing building mosques in northern Syria? Turkish ethnic cleansing.
The Living with Dignity Association, based in Tira, sounds like a project of the so-called Islamic Movement, as the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel calls itself. The Southern Branch is the political wing, based near Tel Aviv, which nowadays manifests as the Ra’am Party in Naftali Bennett’s governing coalition. The Northern Branch is the militant wing, based in Umm al Fahm in the Galilee, which coordinates with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Erdogan’s Turkey. About 10% of Israel’s Arabs are connected to the Islamic Movement, if only through its charities.
On June 21, 2021, a newly built mosque was inaugurated in the village of Sheikh Khurez, in northwest Syria, close to the Turkish border.
Sheikh Khurez is located in the part of Syria under the nominal administration of the opposition-linked Syrian Interim Government. In practice, since the Turkish Armed Forces’ Operation Olive Branch of 2018 destroyed the Kurdish Afrin canton, the area has been under the de facto rule of Ankara and its associated militias. The latter are organized in the framework of the Turkish-trained and financed Syrian National Army.
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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.
...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...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[OneIndia] The Gauhati High Court on Friday upheld The Assam Repealing Act, 2020, under which all provincialised (government-funded) madrassas are to be converted into general schools in Assam. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia said the changes brought about by the legislative and executive action of the state are for the provincialised madrassas alone, which are government schools, and not for private or community ones.
...The word 
...The word 
