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War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
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Afghanistan
Foreign-Style Govt Must Not Be Imposed on Afghans: Muttaqi
[TOLONEWS] A foreign style government must not be imposed on Afghanistan, and Afghans are capable of forming their government, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Saturday at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Muttaqi said efforts are underway to increase inclusivity in the government.

Muttaqi and his accompanying delegation were invited to the Antalya Diplomacy Forum by the Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry.

"Foreign versions (of the government) and foreign ideology must not be imposed on Afghans. The former version of the (government) was tried but it did not succeed," Muttaqi said.

Muttaqi said the Islamic Emirate has been attempting to rescue the Afghan economy and there have been several areas of progress, including government actions to prevent economic collapse.

He suggested that a weak Afghan government would not benefit anyone, and, therefore, efforts to undermine the current government must stop.

The acting minister once again stressed that the Islamic Emirate has met all conditions for international recognition.

"I think... the title of the panel is how to cooperate (with) the realities, with the current realities," said Kamil Aydin, a member of the Turkey’s parliament. Speaking at the same conference, the Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov said that the current situation in Afghanistan has a direct impact on the region.

"We are interested in stability and security" in Afghanistan, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Remains of a destroyed Russian T-72 tank being stolen to be sold later as scrap metal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Whatever you call it, salvaging abandoned combat equipment in a war zone isn't stealing.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/14/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a Special Towing Operation.
Posted by: Matt || 03/14/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Nor stealing. Re-purposing.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/14/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Untitled possessor"
sorta like undocumented immigrant
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/14/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Euro MP Claims African Migrants Exploiting Ukraine War to Enter EU
[Breitbart] African migrants colonists, along with a host of other nationalities, are exploiting the war in Ukraine to enter La Belle France, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed.

Nicolas Bay MEP has claimed that African migrants colonists are using refugee channels aimed at helping those fleeing the war in Ukraine to enter La Belle France.

Ultimately, the politician believes around one-third of migrants colonists using the route are not from Ukrainian, a figure suggested in a recent article published in Le Figaro but hotly disputed by official sources.

According to Le Monde, a number of French right-wing populists have denounced the alleged use of refugee routes by non-Ukrainian economic migrants colonists, with Bay, the vice-president of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s party Reconquêt (Reconquest) perhaps being the most prominent.

"[T]oday a third of the refugees who pass through Ukraine who do not come from Ukraine, but... come from sub-Saharan Africa in particular... [they] use this new migratory route to come to Europe," the publication reports the French MEP as saying.

Bay also emphasised that La Belle France has an obligation to help Ukrainian refugees, saying that those coming from the country are "part of our civilisation".

"There are those who come for economic reasons, who weigh down our public accounts and our social accounts, and the Ukrainians towards whom we have a duty of European solidarity, of course," he said.

Le Monde went on to note that others from both La Belle France’s traditional and populist right have repeated the figure, which appears to be sourced from an article published in Le Figaro titled ’War in Ukraine: one in three non-Ukrainians among refugees in La Belle France’.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
the French authorities have disputed the number of migrants colonists abusing the system, claiming that there was a question of dual citizenship at play.

"We have situations of dual nationality which are not easy to deal with," said the director-general of the French office for immigration and integration, Didier Leschi, in explaining the figures.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 00:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Serves the European Union right. Meet Chuwambi Gabdul Chuloso, Ukranian refugee. Although how traffickers can use that route for inserting Africans without the local authorities being purchased is beyond me.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  There also? But isn't that the plan ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  According to his articles, Soros wasmist worried that a war in Ukraine would mean millions of immigrants to the better off EU countries and that is why he wanted Russia to be contained. Of course he wanted, like every European, for Americans to pay for this containment. The Marshall plan for Ukraine it was called. Worded as some anti-corruption and pro-developmemt agenda it was a plan to carry the open society disease deeper and deeper east.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 4:40 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/14/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan sets Tuesday deadline for movement across Torkham on basis of Afghan identity cards
[Dawn] Pakistain gave Afghan nationals until Tuesday to cross the Torkham border — which connects Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with Afghanistan's Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province — on the basis of their Afghan national identity cards, it emerged on Saturday.

The local authorities had initially imposed an immediate ban on cross-border movement on the basis of the Afghan NICs.

"All have been informed that there is a complete ban on returning to Afghanistan on the basis of Afghan ID cards. So don't come to Torkham to travel to Afghanistan," stated a banner put up at the border by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa authorities in Pashto and Urdu languages.

Relevant officials had confirmed the development to Dawn.com.

It is pertinent to mention that until now Afghan national had been freely allowed to cross the Torkham border on the basis of Afghan national identity cards — also called tazkiras.

While there was no official confirmation from Pakistain on the matter, an official told Dawn.com that the decision to suspend the cross-border movement with a passport was taken as some individuals were found using fake identity cards.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
later on Saturday, the authorities relaxed the restriction and announced that the Afghan national identity cards would be usable for cross-border movement until Tuesday.

The relaxation was made after the Afghan embassy raised the issued with Pak authorities, according to a statement posted on the embassy's Twitter in Pashto.

The statement said Pak officials had also given the assurance that steps would be taken to facilitate the cross-border movement.

The embassy informed Afghan citizens stuck at Torkham, as well as the Chaman border in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, that they could return to Afghanistan on the basis of only identity cards for the next three days.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 00:40 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
White House says it will help ‘hold Iran accountable’ after Kurdistan attack
Golly. Speak loudly and carry a small stick, to be sure.
[IsraelTimes] The White House says the US will back efforts to "hold Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
accountable" for a missile attack at Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and other threats, seemingly ratcheting up the US’s response to the bombing.

"We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable, and we will support our partners throughout the Middle East in confronting similar threats from Iran," US National Security adviser Jake Sullivan says in a statement.

An earlier statement from the State Department said only that the US would "help our partners in the region defend themselves."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable

"We will support someone else doing something while not actually doing something ourselves." Lame. That doesn't even rise to the level of "we will respond at a time and place of our own choosing".
Posted by: SteveS || 03/14/2022 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess a strongly worded letter is incoming.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/14/2022 0:18 Comments || Top||

#3  instead of unfreezing $10B in Iran Assets, we might only unfreeze $9.997B
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/14/2022 0:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Will help hold Iran accountable...

When US threats mean less than a dried turd on a San Francisco sidewalk, you can bet some lisbian trans butplug user intern is writing the memos.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 2:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Usage of some words not allowed at Rantburg? Or is it my phone that's policing me? 🤔
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 2:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Sapphic Sister works
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 2:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Usage of some words not allowed at Rantburg?

Yes. Fred set it up to help control the spam.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 3:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Will have to fast forward to Jan 21, 2025.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Usage of some words not allowed at Rantburg?

Think of it as a brain teaser game. Copy your comment text to your clipboard before you submit. If it doesn't post, go back and try to figure out what word or words triggered the filter. The most common categories are t0bacc0 pr0ducts, pr0n and game$ of ch@ance. Substitute characters as necessary to get your point across.

Please respect the spirit of the law and don't use the above tips to offend the Burg community.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Our tag line:

Rantburg: the better brain exercise to keep your brain fit.

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Re #2:
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#12  US diplomacy scores again. Heckuva job, boyz and girlz
Posted by: Sholurt Elmoluque7895 || 03/14/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Hey dummy, it is Russia who is caught in the trap. Heck of a job there, Vlad!
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#14  Promoting democracy!
Posted by: Whereck Jamble3302 || 03/14/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||

#15  We should have struck them in 1979.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/14/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Iran suspends talks with Saudis after mass execution
[IsraelTimes] 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 decided to temporarily suspend its secret Baghdad-brokered talks aimed at defusing yearslong tensions with regional rival 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...
, Iranian state-linked media reports, a day after Saudi Arabia carried out the largest known mass execution in its modern history.

The Iranian news website Nournews, considered close to the country’s Supreme National Security Council, reports the government unilaterally paused the talks with Saudi Arabia that have been ongoing in Baghdad over the past year aimed at restoring diplomatic ties.

The report does not give a reason for Iran’s suspension, but it comes after Saudi Arabia put to death 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to ties to holy warrior groups, a group that activists believe included over three dozen Shiites.

Shiites, who live primarily in the kingdom’s oil-rich east, have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens. Saudi Arabia’s executions of Shiites have stirred regional unrest in the past.

Iran, the largest Shiite Moslem country in the world, and Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties in 2016 after Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite holy man Nimr al-Nimr.

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2022-03-14
  War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
Sun 2022-03-13
  Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Sat 2022-03-12
  Mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent shelled by Russians in Mariupol. Turkish citizens hiding inside.
Fri 2022-03-11
  Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest - CEPA
Thu 2022-03-10
  Russia’s FM said they will no longer participate in the Council of Europe
Wed 2022-03-09
  Ukraine says no longer insisting on NATO membership
Tue 2022-03-08
  Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine?
Mon 2022-03-07
  Ukraine's Government Opens Website To Recruit Foreigners To 'International Legion'
Sun 2022-03-06
  5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh
Sat 2022-03-05
  Bombing at Shiite Mosque in Pakistan Kills at Least 56 Worshippers
Fri 2022-03-04
  Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky Tango Uniform
Thu 2022-03-03
  Russia threatens Finland and Sweden
Wed 2022-03-02
  Libyan Army Kills 26 Chadian Mercenaries
Tue 2022-03-01
  Mexican drug cartel pull mourners from a wake, shoot them
Mon 2022-02-28
  Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
Sun 2022-02-27
  Day 4: Operational information on the Russian invasion


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