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Fitch cuts Turkey’s debt ratings to ‘B’
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Afghanistan
Tourism Increasing in Bamiyan
[Tolo] "If you stood right here...you would have seen those stone Buddhas which our Islamic Overlords liberated from our sight. Moving on...and we're walking, we're walking.."
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Afghan Coal Sold to Companies Linked to Pakistan Army: Analyst
[Tolo] Shocked? Me too!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa North
Attack on Libyan Parliament Headquarters to be Investigated
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Media Advisor to the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, Fathi Al-Marimi, said that the House of Representatives (HoR) supports the peaceful protests. He added that the Parliament supported the peaceful demonstration, but it denounces and rejects sabotage.

Al-Marimi explained that the headquarters belongs to the Libyan people, not to the members of the HoR, nor to its President. He said that the burning of the Parliament and other headquarters cost millions to the Libyan state Treasury. The Parliament refuses to approach any other headquarters and sabotage them.

Al-Marimi noted that anyone has the right to demonstrate according to what is guaranteed to him by the constitutional declaration but in a peaceful manner. He pointed out that the social components in Cyrenaica or Libya, in general are one social fabric and they respect each other. The issue has nothing to do with social and tribal matters.

He added, “we are tribes that respect each other. We have relations, intermarriage and neighborhood and we are with each other. The investigations into the burning of the headquarters will come. Anyone named will be investigated.”

He noted that investigations are still ongoing, because the intelligence and security services arrest a person every day who has equipment, devices and tools stolen from the headquarters.
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Disclose Whereabouts Of 400 Terrorism Sponsors, 800 Terror Suspects Scheduled For Arraignment, Falana-led Group Asks Buhari Governmen
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Iraq
Iraq's President confirmed its stand by the Palestinians
[Shafaq News] On Saturday, the Iraqi President, Barham Salih, received a phone call from Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
on Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
In a statement, the Iraqi presidency said they discussed the "ways to strengthen the solid relations that unite the two peoples."

President Abbas thanked Saleh for Iraq's "firm stances regarding the rights of the Paleostinians and their just cause."

In turn, Saleh affirmed Iraq's firm position, including its people and government, towards the Paleostinian cause, stressing that Iraq stands by the Paleostinian people to obtain their full legitimate rights.

Last April, the Iraqi parliament voted by a majority in favor of a law, "Criminalizing Normalization and Establishment of Relations with the Zionist Entity."

The law criminalizes activities including "traveling to or from Israel, visiting any of its embassies, participating in conferences linked to Israel, and promoting Zionist ideas."

Violations of the law are punishable by life in prison or even death. The anti-normalization law expands on a 1969 law criminalizing communication with Israel.

The legislation stirred a wave of controversy on the local and international levels. The US State Department said the new Iraqi law undermines freedom of expression and promotes "an environment of antisemitism."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 01:18 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Just don’t stand by them when they are throwing rocks at the IDF- my advice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||


How ISIS obtains weapons and equipment
[Shafaq News] Security sources in Diyala revealed today, Sunday, the sources from which ISIS forces of Evil obtain advanced sniper weapons, rockets, and Katyusha launchpads.

The commander of the 144th Peshmerga Brigade of the second axis, Brigadier-General Jamal Warani, told Shafaq News agency that ISIS forces of Evil tend nowadays to kidnap civilians and ask for a ransom from the victims' families, to buy weapons and equipment in the areas between Tuz Khurmatu, east of Saladin to the outskirts of Kifri and the Kurdistan Region.

He added that the Peshmerga forces' military operations are ongoing to clear those areas and prevent the forces of Evil from smuggling rockets and weapons, or carrying out terrorist attacks.

For his part, a source in al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) who works on the outskirts Hamrin, Diyala, told Shafaq News agency that undercover smugglers are providing rockets and weapons for the forces of Evil hiding in caves and tunnels located between Diyala and Saladin, the outskirts of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
through a way that is almost security-points-free.

The source indicated that ISIS has recruited farmers and shepherds, whether by paying or threatening them, to facilitate the smuggling process.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 01:18 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I thought they got much of it through the DoD's Lend-Lease Abandon-Plunder program...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||


Iraqi counter-terrorism conducted over 150 operations against ISIS in 2022
[Rudaw] Iraq’s counter-terrorism service (CTS) has conducted over 150 operations against 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) since the start of the year, said the spokesperson for the CTS on Sunday, stressing that "preemptive operations" continues in areas suspected of sheltering remnants of the krazed killer group.

"The service has conducted over 154 operations outside the cities," Sabah al-Numan spokesperson for the Iraqi CTS told state media on Sunday, adding that "all city centers and suburbs are safe from ISIS terrorism."

On the fifth anniversary of the liberation of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Numan lauded the "prominent" role of the CTS in the operations that led to regaining the city from ISIS rule, stating that all the areas that have been liberated now enjoy security and stability, and that operations will continue to target areas where the bully boyz are believed to be hiding.

ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014, including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, where the group declared its so-called caliphate. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 13 attacks in Iraq from June 30 to July 6, killing and injuring 28 people.

The Iraqi CTS and the Kurdistan Region's counter-terrorism units have cooperated on more than 10 operations since the start of 2022, resulting in the arrest of at least 21 "high-profile" terrorists, Numan told Rudaw’s Rozhan Abubakir in June.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Slain Israeli-American girl’s parents seek meeting with Biden during Jerusalem visit
[IsraelTimes] Malki Roth’s parents say they want president to ’look us in the eyes,’ explain how Jordan can be considered a trustworthy ally when it refuses to extradite terrorist Ahlam Tamimi
She and her husband are second cousins, as so often is the case in that part of the world, both members of the infamous al-Tamimi clan from the village of Nabi Salih — near Ramallah in the West Bank — that has for several generations waged war, both kinetic and propaganda as opportunity and individual temperament require, against Israel’s Jews. Dear Ahlam al-Tamimi regularly worked as a scout and escape driver for Hamas, then moved in front of a TV camera to report on the exciting events she had just been involved in. She was serving sixteen life sentences for mistress-minding the Sbarro caper when she along with 999 others was traded for Gilad Shalit, the IDF sergeant kidnapped by Hamas. Possibly husband/cousin Nizar Tamimi is also a Hamasnik, but other relatives belong to Fatah or the PLO in general, so there are lots of possibilities.
The family of an Israeli-American girl killed in a 2001 Paleostinian suicide kaboom in Jerusalem is seeking a meeting with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
in hopes of forcing Jordan to extradite a woman convicted in the deadly attack.
I’m so sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Roth, but President Biden does not care, and he can’t be shamed into proper behaviour.
The parents of Malki Roth turned to Biden on Sunday asking to meet with the president when he comes to Jerusalem this week. They want the president to put pressure on Jordan, a close American ally, to send Ahlam Tamimi to the US for trial.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 00:21 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  ’look us in the eyes,’

And all you will see is a dark empty void
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean like Joe's shark eyes? "Lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2022 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  the bullet was too damaged to reach a definitive conclusion and

"What's the bullet tell you, Mr. Poirot?"

"It is a bullet, monsieur. A spent one. Bullets zu not speak."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/11/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, well they'll get nothing and like it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/11/2022 15:39 Comments || Top||


Rashida Tlaib urges Biden to get names of IDF troops from Abu Akleh shooting
[JPost] This pug-faced Paleo Terror Tool needs a reality slap.
During his trip to Israel, US President Joe Biden should obtain the names of soldiers involved in the operation in which Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed, US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said in a statement on Friday.

"During his upcoming meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, President Biden must obtain the names of the soldiers responsible for killing Shireen, along with that of their commanding officer, so that these individuals can be fully prosecuted for their crimes by the Department of Justice," Tlaib wrote.

Abu Akleh's death was likely a "targeted assassination," said Tlaib, citing a probe by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and open-source intelligence investigations by news outlets such as CNN and The Washington Post.

Tlaib said that the US State Department and FBI must open a criminal investigation of Abu Akleh since she was an American citizen.

The IDF has said that it will not open have military police open a criminal investigation into the incident with the information currently available

"When an American citizen is murdered abroad, it is typically standard procedure for the US to open a criminal investigation," she wrote. "But in this case, the State Department and the Biden Administration have yet to launch an independent US investigation."
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Nobody cares what Ratshita wants...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2022 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  You deserve her, Michigan, along with the Witless Wonder.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/11/2022 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  First time I ever recall seeing The Ugly Stick coming in second…
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/11/2022 16:49 Comments || Top||

#4  NOT coming into the boat! If I got that on a line, I'd have to cut it lose. That's my final word.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2022 17:26 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ And meanwhile every other creature in the ocean says "Oh, great. You had to throw it back, didn't you?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2022 17:33 Comments || Top||

#6  She is right! Israel revive money from America and rashida represents the USA government if she ask the names, the names should be provided.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/11/2022 17:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Congresswoman Tlaib represents part of Detroit, Michigan, but no more. She has no power beyond that and the floor of the House of Representatives, and there only the power to make deals with her fellow politicians and promises to her constituents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 18:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Nice exposure Joe. POS
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2022 19:04 Comments || Top||



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2Commies
2Devout Moslems
2Taliban/IEA
2Sublime Porte
2Mob Rule
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1Palestinian Authority
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
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1Antifa/BLM
1Arab Spring
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Iraq
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2022-07-11
  Fitch cuts Turkey’s debt ratings to ‘B’
Sun 2022-07-10
  Russians advancing west of Lysychansk, shelling Donetsk region, Kharkiv region, Kherson region and Mykolaiv
Sat 2022-07-09
  Photolog: We will not forget, we will not forgive: Moscow and St. Petersburg mourn for the murdered children of Donbass
Fri 2022-07-08
  Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot
Thu 2022-07-07
  Mass Shooting By Two Illegal Immigrants In Richmond Foiled by Tipster
Wed 2022-07-06
  Antifa 4th of July attacks in Portland, FBI finally called in
Tue 2022-07-05
  Day 2: At least 6 dead, dozens hurt in Highland Park July Fourth parade shooting
Mon 2022-07-04
  Happy 4th of July everyone!
Sun 2022-07-03
  Grenade Explosion at an Islamic Seminary in East Afghanistan Wounds Eight People
Sat 2022-07-02
  21 Terrorists Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Fighters Clash Again In Borno
Fri 2022-07-01
  Czech Republic to extend coal mining amid high demand
Thu 2022-06-30
  It’s over: Court finds 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges in 2015 Paris attacks trial
Wed 2022-06-29
  Sudan's armed forces fired heavy artillery during clashes in a disputed eastern region bordering Ethiopia
Tue 2022-06-28
  At least 13 dead after Russian missiles strike Ukrainian mall crowded with 1,000 shoppers
Mon 2022-06-27
  Myanmar authorities torch more than half a billion dollars’ worth of narcotics


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