[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mohammad Ishaq Rahgozar has been appointed as the new governor of the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan after months of controversie between the government and Jamiat-e-Islami over the controversial removal of Ata Mohammad Noor.
Provincial government sources in Balkh confirm the appointment of Mr. Rahgozar as the successor of Ata Mohammad Noor for the provincial political leadership of Balkh province.
The National Unity Government officials have not formally commented in this regard so far but sources privy of the development had earlier said that the government and Jamiat-e-Islami have reached to an agreement and the new governor for Balkh province will be introduced in the near future.
But the top government officials including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and the Minister of Interior Wais Ahmad Barmak had earlier informed that the issue over Balkh political leadership will be resolved in coming days.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, announced over three months ago that President Ghani has approved the resignation of the Balkh governor Ata Mohammad Noor.
Noor admits had submitted his resignation as a guarantee to the government that he will step down if the demands of Jamiat-e-Islami are met by the government.
However, he says the government has approved his resignation as negotiations were underway insisting that none of the conditions and demands of the party have been met.
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[Libya Observer] The "dirty money" of the United Arab Emirates and Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is being paid to recruit African mercenaries to occupy Libya's south and that money could lead to the division of the country if it was not blocked, Libya's Mufti, al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... said Monday.
In a new published article, the Mufti said UAE and Saudi Arabia leaders are stuffing their enemies' bank accounts with money so they can buy some of their weapons and thus achieve development in their factories, pointing out that it is shameful that they don't buy with that money arms to fight the enemy but rather to kill Libyans and Yemenis or to oppress revolutions in Arab countries.
"Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , using the arms bought with UAE money, killed over 15000 persons in Benghazi, left over 20000 crippled persons and displaced over 100.000 of Benghazi residents after he had destroyed it." The Mufti explained.
"Always the UAE and Saudi Arabia money is used in plots and schemes that are made to harm the Moslem nation." He added.
He also said that the UAE and Saudi Arabia should have spent the money given to "the enemies" on the construction, education and scientific research in the Moslem nation in Africa, or for the wellbeing of the Moslems in Burma or the besieged population of Gazoo.
"Instead, the money was spent on oppressive intelligence agencies." The Mufti remarked.
He also pointed out that UAE and Saudi Arabia betrayed the "cause" and are taking the side of the enemy against Moslems, adding that they are helping the Zionists crack down on the resistance movement Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Paleostine, placing the "Mujahideen on terror lists."
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[ARABNEWS] Yemen’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Ahmed al-Misri confirmed the country’s legitimate government would cooperate with the new UN envoy, saying they would provide all possible support for his mission, Saudi state-news agency SPA reported.
During his meeting in Aden with the head of the international team of experts Mohammed Jendoubi, al-Misri stressed that the Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia was determined to continue the war in order to implement the Iranian agenda without any consideration for the interests of the Yemeni people.
He continued saying that the legitimate government was seeking peace through concessions made in negotiations in Geneva and Kuwait.
During the meeting, the Yemeni official reviewed the crimes committed by the Houthis against civilians and their intention to bomb residential neighborhoods in provinces and areas under their control and while using civilians as human shields to avoid air strikes.
Al-Misri said the government’s progress against the Houthis could be faster, but that its commitment to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... meant the process would take longer.
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[DAWN] Bangladesh’s High Court on Monday granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for five years on a corruption conviction and is awaiting an appeal.
Despite the decision, it was not immediately clear if or when Zia would be freed from jail.
Mahbubey Alam, the country’s attorney general, said after Monday’s ruling that a move against the bail order would be made in the High Court on Tuesday.
Lawyers said a two-member panel of judges considered the 72-year-old Zia’s age and health condition in granting the bail. Zia has had various health complications in the past.
A court convicted Zia on Feb 8 on charges of misusing her power and embezzling about $250,000. The conviction means that Zia, the arch rival of Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. , can be barred from running in December elections.
The court also sentenced Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... , and four others to 10 years in prison for involvement in the case. Rahman lives in London and was tried in absentia.
Bangladesh law says anyone imprisoned for more than two years cannot run for office for the next five years, but Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the final decision rests with the higher courts. Zia faces more than 30 other charges, ranging from corruption to sedition.
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The trial continues. Herewith some of his side of the story, however airbrushed it might be. The rest can be read at the link.
[DailyMail] The Parsons Green bomber has told a court he made up a story about being kidnapped by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... because he wanted to study in Britannia to become the new David Attenborough.
Ahmed Hassan
...the problematic foster child who gave his name in full to the court as 'Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali'. Several months before leaving a bomb on the train, the known wolf was referred to a government de-radicalization program...
arrived in Britannia in October 2015 and told immigration officials he had been forced to train 'to kill' by Isis, the Old Bailey has heard.
But the 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker has now told jurors that he was never taken prisoner by Isis and had not had any contact with the terror group.
Asked why he made up the story, the media student told the court: 'Because I came from a wealthy, safe area in northern Iraq in Kurdistan and if I told the truth, my only reason to leave the country was to further my studies ... I felt I had to make up something strong.
'In the Jungle in Calais, people used to talk about these things and make up stories. I never came across a refugee who said he would tell the truth when he arrived in the country.
Hassan said he never intended the bomb to kill, adding: 'The idea of killing another human being never crossed my mind at all, never in my life.
He said the device was intended to burn rather than explode and added: 'My final destination was home. That was the fantasy in my head. I would be chased and I would not be caught and I would be on the news and I would go home.'
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"There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is 'the supreme law of the land.' I would invite any doubters to Gettysburg, and to the graves of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln."
Very sad that this must be revisited, but it clearly illustrates the short memories of democrats.
[Ynet] A Ottoman Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday sought a life sentence for a US pastor over alleged links to a failed coup attempt in 2016, Dogan news agency reported, a move that threatens to undermine efforts to mend bilateral ties.
Washington believes Andrew Brunson, who has been in jail since December 2016, is one of several Americans unjustly detained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . During a visit to Ankara last month, former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for him to be freed.
The Christian pastor from North Carolina has been living in Turkey for 23 years and running a church, according to an online petition seeking his release.
The prosecutor charged him with being an "executive" of the group that Ankara holds responsible for the failed coup, the news agency said. Turkey blames the network of Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , a US-based Moslemholy man who denies all involvement.
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You mean the false flag coup that Erdoğan staged to consolidate power?
Payback will be a b*tch.
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Erdogan to US: “The U.S. wants a pastor from us. You have a pastor of your own; you give him to us, then we return pastor to you,”
An open admission of hostage taking in September of 2017.
[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... was elected the PML-N president unopposed at a convention of the party's General Council on Tuesday.
Addressing the council's meeting in Islamabad after his election, Shahbaz said he was honoured to have been chosen as the party president but that no one, including himself, could even think about taking the place of Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , who was removed as party president by the Supreme Court but was later rechristened as the party's 'leader for life'.
"I believe Nawaz Sharif is the only Pak politician and leader that can be called Jinnah's political heir," he told a roaring crowd chanting party slogans. "We are lucky to have been blessed with a Quaid [leader] like Nawaz Sharif."
Nawaz made Pakistain's defence "invincible" through atomic weapons, rejected $5 billion aid from the US and built motorways, he said. History will also remember Nawaz for eliminating terrorism through the sacrifices of armed forces and nearly eliminating scheduled power outages, he added.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The world chemical weapons watchdog declared on Tuesday that Iraq had met its obligations toward the eradication of its chemical arms, granting Baghdad a certificate of recognition in that regard.
On its website, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said "the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Ahmet Üzumcu, congratulated the Government of Iraq on the completion of the destruction of the country’s chemical weapons remnants". The statement explained that the declaration came during today’s visit of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq, H.E. Dr Abdulrazzaq Al Jaleel Essa.
"I welcome this notable achievement and congratulate the Iraqi Government for their efforts in ensuring the proper destruction of these dangerous chemicals and for fulfilling its obligations deriving from the Chemical Weapons Convention," Üzumcu said.
According to OPCW’s website, Iraq’s initial declaration, submitted in March 2009, referred to remnants of chemical weapons stored in two storage bunkers at the Al Muthana site.
"Owing to the hazardous conditions within the bunkers, Iraq was not able to conduct a detailed on-site inventory immediately after the initial declaration. Destruction activities started in 2017, once the on-going security situation had been addressed," it said.
"In November 2017 and February 2018, OPCW’s Technical Secretariat confirmed that the four former chemical weapons production facilities in Iraq were completely destroyed,’ said the organization.
It added that one former chemical weapons production facility in Iraq remains subject to inspection until 2028, which will be used for activities not prohibited by the OPCW as part of a joint plan with Iraq.
OPCW, enforcing the 1997, 192-signatory Chemical Weapons Convention, oversees the global efforts to permanently eliminate chemical weapons.
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Scott Ritter?
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Ow!
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...but, but, but, I was told by the usual (un)reliable sources (Legacy Infotainment Enterprises) that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s security media service has denied reports saying that 11.000 people who were tossed into the calaboose by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems in Nineveh remain missing.
The Security Media Center said "some media outlets circulated fabricated, inaccurate news about the so-called missing people in Nineveh". The center particularly criticized Saudi-owned al-Arabiya for quoting an officer from Nineveh police whose name, the center said, does not exist among personnel.
Fog of war... or of peace, or of Arab counting. Perhaps The Lancet can figure it out.
News reports have recently quoted the officer saying that Iraqi government forces, though having run into numerous graves of IS victims, have failed to find out the whereabouts of those particular 11.000 people.
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[DAWN] Iraqi authorities said on Tuesday they were lifting a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to its holding of an independence referendum.
Federal authorities imposed the blockade in September after Iraqi Kurdistan voted overwhelmingly for independence in a non-binding referendum rejected as illegal by the central government.
It was extended in December for two months and renewed in February for another possible three months. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement the airports of Kurdish regional capital Arbil and second city Sulaimaniyah would again be "open to international flights".
The decision to lift the flight ban was made "after local Kurdish authorities accepted that central authorities retake control of the two airports," the statement said.
The formal lifting of the blockade will take place in the next few days, Abadi's front man Saad al-Hadithi told AFP.
"This will depend on how long it takes for employees of the central government to start working in the airports," he said.
Iraqi Kurdish prime minister Nechirvan Barzani told a presser shortly after the announcement that he "thanked Baghdad and Prime Minister Abadi because it is he who decided to reopen the airports".
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli border officials block truckload of fatigues, fleeces, hats, bags and belts from reaching Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group
Israeli border officials prevented a shipment of IDF uniforms from being smuggled into the Gazoo Strip via the Kerem Shalom border crossing Tuesday.
The clothes, found in the back of a truck, included dress uniforms and battle fatigues, fleeces, hats, bags and belts. The uniforms bore the insignia of IDF units.
Officials suspect the uniforms were meant to be used as part of an attack against Israel by Gazook terror groups.
Tuesday’s discovery is the latest action by customs inspectors to thwart the Hamas terror group, which controls the Gazoo Strip, in its goal of obtaining weapons and military gear.
Last month a shipment of uniforms from China was confiscated at the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
[IsraelTimes] On sidelines of huge Juniper Cobra air defense exercise, American and Israeli ground troops trade know-how and practice beach landings, urban combat, desert warfare
Israeli paratroopers and US marines completed a series of exercises over the past week and a half aimed at sharing techniques and knowledge on beach-landings and aspects of urban warfare, as part of the joint Juniper Cobra exercise, officers said.
For the Americans ‐ specifically the US Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment ‐ it meant learning how to fight in tunnels, something marines haven’t had to do since the Vietnam War, said battalion commander Lt. Col. Marcuz Mainz.
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"The Marines brought their armored vehicles and artillery. We brought our knowledge of how to fight in underground tunnels," Semel said.
The past years there has been a parade of robots coming out of Israel for urban warfare that could be used for this sort of mission. Why send a *squishy* human when you can send a robot (with its own hand grenade)?
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I like how you think, Siletbrick. Of course, almost any heavier than air gas might work.
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CO2 Sequestration
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#4 Being just a bit disingenuous, magpie - you know perfectly well robots don't win wars?
?What? The French demonstrated in WW1 that the Attaque à outrance doesn't trump the machine gun... If you feel a need to poke around in an underground meatgrinder, instead of flooding it with gas, send in the robots first.
[IsraelTimes] 'If the PA is unwilling to, or unable to, implement the projects, then we would have to proceed without them,' administration official says
While the White House would like to work with the Paleostinian Authority on its initiatives in Gazoo, it will move on without them if they’re unwilling to cooperate with the Trump administration, senior administration officials said Tuesday shortly after completing a conference with Israeli, Arab and European officials on the battered coastal enclave.
Apparently there were national security officials from 20 countries at the conclave. The Jerusalem Post lists the following: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Canada and various European countries.
Claiming that many of the projects discussed earlier in a six-hour summit could be easily carried out without the PA governing the Gazoo Strip, a US official said that would not be "the ideal situation."
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Bahrain, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, the EU, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, the Quartet, Qatar, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the United Nations.
[IsraelTimes] Report on inner-workings of anti-Semitic group reveals that Greta Berlin belatedly acknowledged 'crazy' Ken O'Keefe seized IDF commando's gun, sparking fight in which 10 Turks died
A leading pro-Paleostinian campaigner involved in the flotilla that attempted to enter Gazoo in May 2010 has appeared to corroborate Israel’s version of the events which led to the bloody confrontation on board the Mavi Marmara.
Ten Ottoman Turkish activists died after IDF commandos boarded the ship ‐ the largest in the six-vessel convoy ‐ as it sailed towards the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-ruled coastal enclave in defiance of an Israeli security blockade designed to prevent the terror group importing weapons.
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[DAWN] The United States gave the Philippine air force its first surveillance drone system on Tuesday, as the two nations step up cooperation in the battle against murderous Moslems.
Washington has been boosting its backing for Philippine counter-terror efforts since supporters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group seized parts of the southern city of Marawi last year, sparking a deadly five-month battle.
The unmanned aerial vehicle system, which includes six drones and is worth $13.2 million (10.7 million euros), is the latest US military assistance to Philippine troops.
"Assets like the ScanEagle will significantly improve the (Philippine military's) ability to detect terrorist activities, piracy activities, territory encroachment," US Ambassador to Manila Sung Kim told news hounds, referring to the drones.
Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the system, equipped with cameras and aircraft that can fly for 24 hours, would support operations against turbans in the south.
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[ARABNEWS] Iran on Tuesday placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hard-liner Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption, media reports said.
"Police officers apprehended and transferred the convict to prison," the Tehran prosecutor’s office said, cited by the Fars news agency.
Baghai was sentenced in December to 15 years in jail for embezzlement and illegal business transactions.
He is very close to Ahmadinejad, serving as his deputy before becoming chief of staff during the populist former president’s second term.
The 48-year-old had been investigated for irregularities while in office and was imprisoned for seven months in 2015, although the reasons for this were never made public.
Ahmadinejad and Baghai both hoped to stand in the May 2017 presidential election, but the conservative-dominated Guardians Council rejected their candidacy.
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[ARABNEWS] Actor Ziad Itani has been released by the Lebanese military judiciary without bail after being confined for 110 days on a charge of spying for Israel.
His arrest shocked the Lebanese public, and there was further upset when an Internal Security Forces officer and a hacker were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for fabricating the case against Itani.
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Not really new for Rantburgers, but it’s nice to have it all in one place with some estimates of numbers. I did not expect the claim of 10,000 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan, for instance,
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What's that Siberian stuff? I've never heard of an ISIS invasion of Russia other than the Caucasus.
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.
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
