[Garowe] As part of responding to the ongoing drought in the federal republic of Somalia, the United States has pumped over $476 million to the Horn of Africa country, following concerns by stakeholders who have been asking the world to chip in and assist the country.
Through the US Agency for International Development [USAID], Washington said the money will be directed to critical humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Somalia as a historically unprecedented drought pushes more than 7 million people to the edge of starvation.
This now means the US has pumped a total of $707 million for humanitarian assistance for the people of Somalia in 2022. Dozens of people have bit the dust following the hunger which has continued to ravage the country for the last 15 months.
"USAID’s critical assistance comes as Somalia is experiencing four back-to-back drought seasons, and more than 200,000 people currently face an imminent risk of famine," read the statement from the agency.
"A confluence of crises, including COVID-19, desert locust infestations, and continued recovery from previous droughts have ground away at people’s livelihoods across the country. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of droughts globally."
Sunday's announcement, the US said, includes $461 million in humanitarian assistance that will allow USAID partners to urgently scale-up assistance to millions of people across Somalia.
"A portion of today’s funding for Somalia is included in the additional Ukraine supplemental and is part of the $2.76 billion in USAID assistance announced by President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan... on June 27, 2022," the agency added.
"It is immediately being programmed to address the direct impacts of the global food security crisis and historic drought in countries with high levels of acute food insecurity, reliance on Russian and Ukrainian imports, and vulnerability to price shocks."
Stakeholders have been asking well-wishers to chip in and assist the country as over 7 million people risk exposure to famine. Somalia is also battling internal challenges such as the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... menace and the unending political squabbles within the Horn of Africa nation.
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A confluence of crises, including COVID-19, desert locust infestations, and continued recovery from previous droughts have ground away at people’s livelihoods across the country.
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Speaking of woke Orientalism on taxpayer dime...
A hip fair-haired pip -- call her "Tiffany,"
Most brilliant in all of Parsippany! --
Slipped: broadcast rhapsodic
From craphole exotic
Tripped one of me deepest "de-piphanies."
[Fess essays Lena]
#11
Why is Somalia in the national interests of the U.S.? "How much have we spent on Somalia since Black Hawk Down?"
Washington is killing the U.S. economy and specifically, the middle class here. How about taking the boot off the neck of business in America and having that sector grow?
[DW] Political and religious extremism has long been seen as a threat to democracy in Germany. The Counter Terrorism Center is where agencies and police network to prevent Islamist hard boy attacks. Is it effective?
December 19, 2016, was a particularly dark day for Germany's Joint Counter Terrorism Center. That was the day when the terrorist Anis Amri steered a stolen truck into a crowd of people at the Christmas market on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz. Twelve people died, and over 60 were maimed, some of them critically. Many victims are still suffering today from the consequences of the worst Islamist attack in Germany.
The tragic twist to the story was that police had had the attacker on their radar for a long time. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) had long had him on their list of "Gefährder" (potential attackers or dangerous persons), a term used for suspects who might carry out an attack at any time. The special investigator appointed by the Berlin Senate gave the security authorities a devastating report, saying "everything that could be done wrong, was done wrong."
ANTI-TERROR NETWORK
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who has been in office since 2021, was far away from Berlin at the time. She was a member of the Hesse state parliament. In her new role, she has paid a visit to the Joint Counter Terrorism Center, or GTAZ, in Berlin, which deals exclusively with the issue of Islamist extremism.
Here, 40 federal and state security agencies work together. The large number is mainly due to the fact that all 16 German states have their own Criminal Investigation Office (LKA) and their own domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz). Every day, the representatives meet in a long conference room to discuss the current threat levels.
The Interior Minister described this form of networking as the "most important building block" in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Since the GTAZ was founded in 2004, 21 attacks have been prevented, she said, calling this a "great achievement." But in eleven more cases, security authorities were too late, she admits. "This shows that the threat level remains high," Faeser concluded.
While the Interior Minister was upbeat in her assessment of the German "security architecture" — a label for this formalized interaction of the authorities — other politicians were more critical.
In view of the many mishaps before and after the Breitscheidplatz attack, conservative MP Stephan Harbarth came to the conclusion that, "federalism can become an obstacle to the fight against Islamist terrorism." He made his remarks following the special investigator's final report in 2017.
FIGHTING ISLAMIST EXTREMISM
Harbarth is now the President of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and wants to see more centralized control: "We need federal authorities to be more involved in dealing with dangerous persons," the former member of the Bundestag demanded. In his new job, he also has to deal with the issue of combating terrorism. Time and again, the Court has to deal with the security apparatus and the legislation which is the basis for the work of police agencies and intelligence services such as the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) or the domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz, BfV).
The GTAZ is a place for networking rather than an office that has a legal remit for the comprehensive exchange of information. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says she could imagine changing that, but the most important thing, she says, is that the cooperation can continue.
But the lack of a clear legal basis is precisely what constitutional law expert Matthias Bäcker has been criticizing for years: "So far, there is no one who is responsible for controlling the GTAZ as such," he complained even before the Breitscheidplatz attack.
On the homepage of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the GTAZ is described as a "cooperation platform." The "expertise of all relevant actors" will be bundled and "effective cooperation" will be made possible. In practice, however, this can sometimes go wrong, as the failure in the Anis Amri case showed particularly painfully.
CRITICISM OF GERMAN SECURITY FORCES
Ulf Buermeyer, a lawyer and chairman of the Society for Civil Liberties (Gesellschaft fur Freiheitsrechte, GFF) sees the GTAZ as "a symptom of a misguided development in the German security architecture."
Buermeyer filed a complaint against the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Act with the Federal Constitutional Court. In that context, he also brought up the GTAZ and its operations. His observations read like an after-the-fact explanation for why it was unable to prevent the attack on the Berlin Christmas market. This is because the "overlapping of competencies and responsibilities has considerable disadvantages for the prevention of danger. Multiple responsibilities of police and intelligence services lead to a "systematic diffusion of information." He concluded with the saying "too many cooks spoil the broth."
In his statement to the Federal Constitutional Court, for which he himself once used to work as a research assistant, Buermeyer criticized what he sees as an unclear division of labor between the security authorities. If many agencies are "somehow a little bit" responsible, they each see only a partial picture of the threat. "But then no agency puts together the pieces of the mosaic into a comprehensive picture of a situation."
The Federal Interior Minister at the time, Thomas de Mazière, suggested that the many mistakes in dealing with the hard boy Anis Amri should lead to more centralizarion in the German security architecture. But he was unable to prevail against the federal states. In essence, everything remained the same.
[OneIndia] The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.
The Bihar police recently busted a major module following which it was learnt that the accused persons had plotted the liquidation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also planned on setting up an Islamic nation by 2047.
The National Investigation Agency is also investigating a case relating to a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) module and has made seven arrests so far. The latest person to be arrested is Ali Asgar a resident of Siswaniya village of Bihar.
Incidents of radical Islamic modules being busted in Bihar is nothing new. It dates back to the late 2000s when the Indian Mujahideen and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had a free run in the state.
The agencies had complained back then that it was the politics of appeasement which had made it very hard for modules to be busted in the state. Yasin Bhatkal who headed the Indian Mujahideen (IM) had said in his interrogation that the Darbhanga module had been set up in 2009 and they chose the area as the atmosphere in the state was conducive for them to set up such a module.
This module was never used for any terror strikes within the state as they feared that the trail would lead to them.
An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that like in the case of Kerala, certain places in Bihar are extremely difficult to deal with. In certain places in northern Kerala and areas such as Darbhanga a lot depends on human intelligence and this is very hard to come by because a large number of the local politicians and locals back such modules.
Another official says that these areas have been a free-for-all. While on one hand illegal immigrants colonists keep infiltrating into such areas in Bihar, in Kerala it has been the problem of Wahhabism and its radical preachers from the Gulf.
The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.
In August 2013, an operative of the Students Islamic Movement of India, Abdul Sattar was deported from the United Arab Emirates. He was charged in a case relating to the Wagamon Camp. This camp was held in 2007 during his interrogation, Sattar told the agencies that the IM was formed in 2007. He also said that 40 persons had attended that camp and later they decided to break up into different groups and arrange terror strikes.
It was also decided that Kerala would remain the base camp and all plans would be executed from Bihar and both these states would not be targeted as the agencies would lead up to their main modules.
Senior officials say that for long they have had a hostile feedback from the local agencies of both the states. In Kerala the officials say that the political backing for such local modules was so strong that if they did try busting it there was a better chance of them being tripped over rather than the problem being solved.
For long the problem was faced in Bihar too. In this context one much recall that when Yasin Bhatkal was arrested in 2013, the agencies wanted the Bihar police to probe him first for setting up the module in Darbhanga. The result: They refused.
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Bihar is a today a transit for illicit weapons, explosive and ammo from nearby Nepal, that's all. The various modules set up by jihaders, maoists, organized crime if all sorts in Bihar are only for convenience sake. The state is like a ten day old pizza left out in the rain. Since the 50s, this place has been a bastion of criminals, like a malnourished Mexico. Illegal mining and contracting is the number one earner for corrupt administrations there. And the corporations that make money from it are great revenue sources for New Delhi anyway. So the governments at the center never cared how the damn state is run.
Now, it's come to bite them in the ass when the home agencies like the NIA come whining about 'ooh they were throwing darts at a portrait of Modi in a shed!' And the police is not able to set foot inside fortified locations with going General Dyer on thousands of Indians. Nobody's got the balls to kill kill kill anymore, and that's the root of all problems everywhere. Anyway that's another discussion.
Kerala is a completely different thingy. It is a communist bastion. And before that it's a Dravidian state, a society violently opposed to all of North India, a primeval enmity arising from the Aryan invasion theory, long twisted story, debatable too. The Catholics had a good good hold on Kerala, they built the convents and they facilitated the 100% literacy rate the society likes to tout. But some time in the late 90s, the locals who had been kept low level clergy, ushers, candle lighters what have you expressed a desire to be bishops and to live in the Victorian styled bungalows and lord it over the wimmin and kiddies! They whined and nipped at the heels of local gummint until all white missionaries were slowly shunted out of India and we were left with coconut chomping bongo beaters in ecclesiastical robes to 'manage' the moolah that still came from Europe for spreading 'the kingdom'.
Anyway, by the 2000s these mediocre, insincere, corrupt motherfcukers had lost the flocks, all credibility of the church had diluted and Islam and commie atheism were gaining popularity in a society that thought itself oversmart. Know what the sons of bitches did? They accomodated all doctrines popular with people within the ... well, whatever the catholic church teaches. It was these assholes that began spouting the stupid words 'Abrahamic Religions' to retain memberships or appear smart, but it gave the undereducated bumpkin Hindus enough ammo to go after christianity and judaism as similar to Islam later. The Kerala bishops even initiated joint prayers and mix-ups and... basically the doctrine of Balaam, with a lot of coconut curry yecchh. The fuckin' idiots. Enter Sôrōs and his myriad tentacles, which fed this religious openness madness and intermingling, open sociëty remember? The Central government, in one of the most strategically correct moves, curbed all foreign NGOs and especially open söciety type shit, freezing assets, dissallowing funding. Now the churches were still allowed their 'tranches' from Europe but would be watched closely.
It was only when the Moslems started kidnapping their women, raping and seducing minors and tearing apart their flock that they began to cry to New Delhi, the pope, the EU, madre dios, whoever would listen.
Bottomline is, once safely on it's way to progress, overseen by Jesuits and catholic missionary types, with a little hit and miss of course, this place went to dogs. It's like west bengal now, only a mass culling will purge it of the filth that has accumulated.
These statements in the press, given out by home and int agencies are just being politically correct. They cannot dare to mention that the underlying problem between Indian states, which keeps them from achieving any consensus on national security policy, is regionalism and communalism. But if this is what they really think, they are a bunch of schlemiels.
If any of this raving made sense to you, I commend you on your intelligence. 🤖
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I mean the main problem is not jihaders and crims making friends with each other over distances, for convenience sake. They all do. Because they're, unlike the rest of society, are united. Even if for their assholery. The main problem is one of Indian society being too suicidal imbecilic to address the real issues together before squabbling over which caste, race, or color or language is superior and mustn't defer to the others come hell or highwater.
The main problem is one of Indian society being too suicidal imbecilic to address the real issues together before squabbling over which caste, race, or color or language is superior and mustn't defer to the others come hell or highwater.
[Rudaw] Denmark on Sunday confirmed its commitment to security reform in Iraq through allocating $7.5 million to the country by 2025.
"Denmark has reconfirmed its commitment to strengthening Security Sector Reform in Iraq by in 2022 providing approximately $US 1.6 million to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq," read a statement from UNDP on Sunday, adding that Copenhagen plans to contribute a total of $7.5 million to Baghdad by 2025.
The fund provided by Denmark will be allocated on several different projects such as providing technical assistance for the country to implement a National Security Strategy, the training of mid-ranking coppers, and offering vocational training to volunteer fighters who fought 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)
"Denmark maintains its commitment to supporting Iraq's transition to stability, security and recovery. The strengthening of local police is important in the transition from green to blue security," Danish ambassador to Iraq Stig Paolo Piras said in the UNDP statement.
The Danish ministry of foreign affairs also expressed the country’s will to support Iraq’s security.
Denmark has played a significant role in Iraq’s security.
The country took charge of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ) training mission in Iraq on December 2020, until passing on command to Italia in May.
In an interview with Rudaw in June, Piras said that Denmark has always seen Iraq as an "interesting market" and that it has always been a good country to collaborate with.
This is the second large scale fund allocated to Iraq through the UNDP in less than a month.
Canada and the UK in late June launched a $6.8 million project in cooperation with the UNDP and the Iraqi government to combat climate change in Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF court finds Ala Qabha guilty of intentionally killing Netanel Kahalani, 20, and Ziv Daos, 21, near the Mevo Dotan settlement more than four years ago.
The Israeli military on Sunday convicted a Paleostinian man of murder for ramming his car into a group of IDF soldiers in 2018, killing two.
Ala Qabha, was convicted of two counts of "intentionally causing death" — the equivalent of murder under military law — and two counts of attempting to intentionally cause death.
Qabha rammed his car into the group of soldiers on March 16, 2018, outside a military post in the northern West Bank, near the Mevo Dotan settlement, killing Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, and Capt. Ziv Daos and seriously injuring two others. The army later designated the car-ramming as a terror attack.
The following day, the Shin Bet security agency said Qabha had confessed to carrying out the attack. It said Qabha had initially claimed the incident was an accident, but later changed his story and said it was deliberate and that he intended to murder soldiers.
The security agency said at the time it appeared he had acted alone, and possibly spontaneously.
Footage from the scene showed Qabha driving past the soldiers, then making a U-turn and accelerating into them, at a speed of around 70 kilometers per hour, according to the IDF.
An initial sentencing hearing is set to take place on September 11, the IDF said.
Kahalani’s and Daos’s families were updated on the developments in the case.
Daos, 21, from the central town of Azor, was a platoon commander in a Home Front Command search and rescue unit. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of captain.
Kahalani, 20, from Elyakim in northern Israel, served as a driver in the Menashe Regional Brigade. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Qabha’s apartment in the northern West Bank town of Barta’a was demolished by the military several months after the attack.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of Paleostinian lawyers hold a rare street protest against what they describe as the Paleostinian Authority’s "rule by decree," condemning PA 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.... for governing without a parliament.
The Paleostinian Legislative Council — created under the Oslo Peace Accords with Israel — has been inactive since 2007, meaning Abbas has led without a functioning parliament for nearly all of his tenure as president.
But a new leadership at the Paleostinian Bar Association has sought to pressure the PA.
The association’s president, Suheil Ashour, tells AFP at the protest that his body would stand firm against legislation delivered by presidential decree that curbs Paleostinian "rights and freedoms."
Hassan Nasrallah interview: "There isn’t any Israeli target in the sea or on land that the Resistance’s precision-guided missiles can’t reach." pic.twitter.com/Ga8Gk0Rdz0
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When it comes to targets, there is reaching and there is hitting.
Today's Word is CEP - Circular Error Probable, a measure of how much you are going to miss what you were aiming at.
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I went to New Hampshire last weekend and picked up a shitload of fireworks - whistler bottle rockets and bigger ones that go about 400 feet. I'm pretty sure that's what Hassan NasalHair's talking about.
In all seriousness - I hope the Israelis shove Pershing II's up his ass.
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Re #3: Your comment reminded me of sing-along that was quite popular at a rowdy beer hall in Lincoln, Neb:
F***, F***, the Ayatollah,
Shove a missile up his a**,
Light the fuse and make him fart,
Blow the whole damned thing apart,
and shower holy bits from Mecca to Tehran.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
...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 
...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....
