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Africa North
Egyptian ‘guilty of treason’ for leaking classified Saudi document to Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian expatriate was sentenced to six years in prison for leaking a classified Saudi document to the Iranian Embassy
...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!...
Riyadh Penal Court reported the Egyptian man obtained classified documents of the Saudi military’s next moves and plan of combat. The man leaked the document to an Iranian embassy official in Beirut, Leb.

The court investigated the case and revealed the man had gone to a sorcerer to cast sorcery on the man’s sponsor. The man also violated the Saudi Labor Law by working for someone other than his sponsor.

The court concluded by sentencing the man to six years in prison and fining him SR5,000. The court also exiled the man from the Kingdom after he completes his imprisonment.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  the man had gone to a sorcerer to cast sorcery on the man’s sponsor

I guess it's OK for there to be sorcerers, just not sorcery buyers. Kind of like the US drug policy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2016 10:01 Comments || Top||


Egypt’s Sisi may run for re-election
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi for the first time on Tuesday publicly expressed his willingness to run for a second presidential term in the 2018 elections "if it is the will of the Egyptian people," Ahram Online reported.
And you can bet your bottom Egyptian pound that it will be.
Sisi announced his possible re-election bid in a statement on his official Facebook page.

Using a quote from an interview he gave to national newspapers, the Egyptian president said that he "can never fail to respond to the will of Egyptians. I am subject to the will of the Egyptian people."

Sisi was first elected to office by a landslide 96.1 per cent in May 2014 after years of political instability and street protests. Under the Egyptian constitution, he qualifies for one more four-year term, if he is re-elected in 2018.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Zintan and Janzour in talks on reconciliation and return of the displaced
[Libya Herald] The mayor and officials from the far west Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
suburb of Janzour have had talks in Zintan with its mayor and officials in a bid to normalise relations between the two communities.

The return to Janzour of those who left because of the political crisis and who are now living in Zintan was one of the issues addressed. The closure of the coast road between Tripoli and Zawia and other issues of contention between the two were also discussed.

Janzour’s relations with the neighbouring Wirshefana are also believed to have been a major point of discussion. Zintan and its Wirshefani allies are the main element in the pro-Libyan National Army (LNA) and pro-House of Representatives (HoR) bloc west of Tripoli. In addition, a significant proportion of Janzour residents are Wirshefanis although they are hardly represented on the municipal council which previously supported the former Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
alliance, opposed to the Wirshefana, Zintan, the LNA and the HoR.

Any bid by those in control of Janzour to reach an accommodation with the Wirshefana will be eased by improved relations with Zintan.

Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
in a follow-up to last Saturday’s mediation efforts in the Wirshefana town of Zahra to secure the reopening of the coastal road between Zawia and Tripoli, mayors from a number of Jebel Nafusa and west coast towns were in Zawia yesterday to continue to try and find a solution to the issue.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


EU to train Libyan seamen to tackle people-smugglers
[Libya Herald] Libyan coastguard and naval personnel are to be trained by the EU to help them tackle people-smugglers, who so far this year have sent 107,000 migrants colonists toward Europe, 2,700 of them to their deaths.
That's because the EU has done such a good job of keeping human traffickers under control.
Coastguard commander Abdalh Toumia signed the training deal in Rome yesterday on behalf of the Government of National Accord. Alongside him was the head of the EU’s anti-smuggling Operation Sophia, Italian admiral Enrico Credendino.

"This training will improve the security of Libyan territorial waters", said Credendino, " and help Libya to perform law enforcement actions in order to tackle the criminal organizations that take advantage of smuggling and trafficking in human beings". It would also, he added prevent further loss of life at sea.

Details have not been given of how many Libyans will be trained. However they will first spend a period on board one of Operation Sophia’s patrolling naval vessels, almost certainly one belonging to the Italian navy. These warships are stationed in international waters, though it seems clear that, in response to distress calls from migrants colonists, they have come inside Libya’s martime frontier.

The trainees will then move to an unnamed shore base in the EU or Libya for classroom instruction. Their three-month course will end with further drills upon Libyan patrol vessels.

Ironically, almost at the same time that the deal was being inked in Rome, in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Libyan navy front man Ayyub Gassem described Operation Sophia as Italian propaganda designed to conceal illegal fishing and fuel smuggling to the EU.

"We do not need training" Gassem said in an interview with the Libya Observer "we need boats and other equipment". He complained that Italia had still not released four Libyan patrol vessels sent there for maintenance in August 2014.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Arabia
Prime Minister Daghr says ‘Yemen needs to maintain its unity’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr stressed the need for the country to maintain its unity amid separatist protests in the south and the failure for reaching a breakthrough between its two warring sides.

Daghr stated that the issue of Yemen's unification as "complex" and one that will take time to tackle, and revealed that it was an issue that was addressed during the national dialogue conference.

"The political forces that attended the national dialogue agreed that Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
needs to maintain its unity, though restructuring it is a necessity," Daghr said in an interview with Egypt’s state-owned news site Ahram Online.

The Yemeni premier’s comments come amid demonstrations in the countries’ south calling for a secession from the Houthi-controlled north.

The Southern Mobility Movement, more commonly known as al-Hirak ‐ ’the movement’ in Arabic ‐ advocates for a return of the independence of south Yemen. From 1967 to 1990, South Yemen existed as an independent state, with the port-city of Aden as its capital. To the northwest was the Yemen Arab Republic, or North Yemen, with its capital in Sanaa.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Um, what unity is that?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/25/2016 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  "Hey, Bob! We're gonna need another 24 cases of Islamic Unity."
"OK. Where's it going this time?"
"Yemen."
"Yemen? Is that even a country?"
"Says so on the paperwork."
"Don't know why they even bother. Ain't used the last batch we sent."
Posted by: SteveS || 08/25/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
RT: Erdogan Wants To Be ‘Sultan Of Islamic State,' Former Model-Turned-Fighter Tells RT

Some interesting perspectives and tidbits here.
Former Canadian model Hanna Bohman gave up a glamorous life of photo shoots to join Kurdish troops in their fight Islamic State in Syria. She told RT that the biggest problem is Turkey supporting the terrorists.

"Turkey supports ISIS [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL]. We know it firsthand. It doesn't seem to get a lot of press coverage in the West -- and it's a shame because it's better to deal with the problem now than wait until it gets big and almost out of control in the future," Bohman, 47, also known as Tiger Sun, told RT.

"Right now the biggest problem isn't so much as ISIS, it's Turkey supporting ISIS", she noted, adding that "Erdogan wants to create an Islamic state - he wants to be the sultan."

Kurdish fighters forced 'to deal with the problem the West has created'

"The worst thing isn't what everyone assumes -- the killing and the dead bodies. The worst thing is seeing the Kurdish soldiers. They're young -- 17, 18, 19. They're kids. They are giving their whole lives for this. It's not like a volunteer going to another country to fight. They are volunteering in their own country. So they really don't have a choice. They either fight or they end up getting killed anyways. At least they die fighting instead of dying hiding," Bohman stressed.

"It's incredibly unfair that they have to deal with the problem that the West created."

Bohman joined the Kurdish troops battling IS in Syria in March last year and stayed with them for four months. She said there were as many as 300 other volunteers -- from South America, Europe, Russia, China and Australia. Joining the Kurdish fighters wasn't difficult, she said.

"I tried to make contact through a Facebook page, they gave me instructions, told me how to get there to avoid Turkey, which city to go to, and things like that."

Governments doing nothing to stop ISIS killing the Yazidis

The former model told RT why she decided to go and fight Islamic State.

"It was just an anger with ISIS and the politics being played with people's lives. I was watching on the news as they were killing the Yazidis in Chingal and things like that, and our governments weren't doing anything to stop it. It was really the primary motivation for me to go there."

Islamic State militants have committed numerous acts of genocide against the Yazidis, a Kurdish minority in Iraq, in a campaign they believe will "purify" the territory from non-Islamic influences.

Jihadists on the rampage in Syria and Iraq have kidnapped thousands of women and young girls, committing numerous atrocities, including sexual abuse and forced conversion to Islam to marry jihadist fighters.

Growing up in a society where it's inconceivable for women to fight alongside men, Kurdish YPJ female forces have been left with no choice other than to engage in a do-or-die battle against Islamic State.

"For IS militants being killed by a woman means going to hell," one 16-year-old fighter, Chichek, who ran away from home in Turkey to join the YPJ after her parents tried to force her into an arranged marriage, told RT. "That's why they avoid women's bullets," she added. "When IS militants hear female voices they get very scared."

Speaking about the progress achieved by the US-led anti-terror coalition, Bohman said that along with fighting Islamic State, Washington should also offer "political" support and protection to the Kurds.

"To be more helpful they [the US] have to be more helpful politically for the Kurds to recognize Rojava and to give them support to help build that country up and to succeed so that is not continually attacked by someone else," she said.

'As long as there's internet, ISIS ideology can spread'

According to Bohman, it shouldn't take more than a year to defeat IS in Syria. The real challenge is to stop the terrorists' ideology from spreading across the world, she said.

"The physical ISIS in Syria won't take that much longer," Bohman told RT. "I'm sure by the end of the year it will be little pockets here and there. Ideologically, that's going to take a lot longer," she said pointing out that to defeat them entirely, a joint effort is needed "from everyone else in the world," not just the Kurds.

"Clearly, as long as there is the internet, as long as the ideology can spread over the internet, there's going to be other ISIS groups opening up in other countries and causing problems there," she said.
Posted by: gorb || 08/25/2016 13:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...he wants to be the sultan."

Big curly moustache, big turban, silk shirt & all that?
Posted by: Raj || 08/25/2016 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  A sultan worthy of that title would not fall off of a horse.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/25/2016 14:28 Comments || Top||


Biden snubbbed during Turkey Trip
From the minute he stepped off the plane on Wednesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Turkey seemed ill-fated.

Intended to smooth relations frayed by last month’s botched coup, Biden’s visit instead showcased acrimony with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey sent low-ranking officials -- including Ankara’s deputy mayor -- to greet Biden at the airport. And even before the vice president’s visit ended, the Daily Sabah, a pro-Erdogan newspaper, declared that "Biden wasted a trip, Turkey wasted time."

Biden -- the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Turkey since the coup -- was apologetic and conciliatory during his joint news conference with Erdogan. As the vice president spoke, the Turkish leader sat back in his chair, stone-faced.

Turkish animosity toward the U.S. ratcheted up after the failed coup on July 15, followed by a purge of thousands of soldiers, government officials and even teachers by Erdogan’s government. The Turkish government blames a self-exiled cleric living in Pennsylvania, Fethullah Gulen, for inciting the coup and has demanded his extradition.

Biden repeatedly offered condolences for the coup, sounding a different note than his boss, President Barack Obama, who chastised Turkish officials in July for spreading rumors that the U.S. was responsible. Biden called the coup’s perpetrators "terrorists," reflecting Erdogan’s language, and said, "I wish I could have been here earlier."

After Biden’s remarks, Erdogan called the relationship with the U.S. "a model partnership" but then accused Gulen of operating a global terrorist network from Pennsylvania and demanded that the U.S. immediately detain the preacher, in part to prevent him from being interviewed by journalists. At that, Biden put his face in his hands. His frustration showed through as he tried to explain the U.S. justice system and the Constitution’s separation of powers to his Turkish audience.

"God willing, there will be enough data and evidence to meet the criteria that you all believe exists," Biden said later. The White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, was asked during a news briefing happening at the same time if that remark meant the U.S. believes Gulen played a role in the coup. Earnest was left to walk back Biden’s remark.

"Look, I think the point that the vice president was making is that this is not going to be a decision that is made by the executive branch," the spokesman said.

For Biden, who places a premium on personal diplomacy, moments of friction are an inevitable byproduct. Senior administration officials acknowledged ahead of the trip that anything short of Gulen’s return would be a disappointment to the Turks, and said that raw feelings were understandable in the aftermath of a coup attempt that shook the people and leadership of the country.

Biden scored a minor diplomatic win when Prime Minister Binali Yildirim appeared to bolster the vice president’s emphatic proclamation the U.S. had no prior knowledge or role in the coup attempt.

"The frank statements by the vice president are very important to us," Yildirim told reporters at a news conference.

Even with the cool reception for Biden, cooperation between the U.S. and Turkey continued unimpeded in the battle against Islamic State. On the same day that the vice president visited, Turkish forces mounted an offensive in Syria against Islamic State extremists, an operation that the U.S. helped plan and supported with airstrikes, reconnaissance and intelligence.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/25/2016 10:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  So - will Obama bend over anyway and hand over Gulen in spite of this?
Posted by: Raj || 08/25/2016 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw part of Biden's speech on TV. He bowed down just about as low as he could. He was absolutely indignant about those bad, bad treasonous elements in the military who attempted the coup and, of course, the US had nothing to do with it. But not enough, huh? How low can you go, Joe?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/25/2016 11:44 Comments || Top||

#3  So - will Obama bend over anyway and hand over Gulen in spite of this?
Posted by Raj


Quite unlikely. Under Turkish enhanced interrogation techniques, Gulen would spill his cadre of Turkiman contacts and the entire network would be kaput. We simply cannot have the Turkish desk upended like that.

Time must be provided Gulen to arrange an orderly transfer of responsibilities. When that is accomplished, he is free to retire to Boise or make his heavenly ascension.

If Gulen were being handed over, why take the risk of sending Joe? If Gulen were being thrown under the bus, a diplomatic cable would do. If other arrangements are contemplated, a private face-to-face is required. I'm holding out for other arrangements, possibly Swiss franks neatly stacked on a 463L pallet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Gulen will be bundled onto a red-eye for Ankara before November, "Turkish desk" up-ended or not.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/25/2016 13:46 Comments || Top||


Kurds could ‘lose US support if they don’t retreat,’ says Biden
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
called on Syrian Kurdish forces to "move back across the Euphrates River," at a joint presser with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Ankara on Wednesday, warning them they will lose US support if they don’t.

"They cannot - will not - under any circumstance get American support if they do not keep that commitment," said Biden.

Biden indirectly expressed support for the Turkish operation launched Wednesday to clear ISIS bandidos bandidos Lion of Islams from the town of Jarablus and deter Kurds from further expanding in northern Syria.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
Yildirim said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
would not accept the creation of a new Kurdish entity inside Syria and its territorial integrity must be maintained. The premier added that a joint solution must be found to end the crisis in war-torn country.

Yildirim, meanwhile, vowed that the Turkish operation in Syria will go on until Kurdish rebels move east of the Euphrates.

He said in an interview broadcast live on news channel HaberTurk that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
’s government could not be ignored if a political solution to Syria’s multi-sided conflict was to be found.
Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Sadly, the Kurds were always going to fecked over.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/25/2016 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  "The [Kurds]cannot - will not - under any circumstance get American support if they do not keep that commitment," said Biden.
--For anyone following developments in Kurdistan Biden's comment is laughable. "American support" began as a trickle, and will continue that way only so long as Kurd leadership allows the presence of a US military/CIA base north of Irbil.
Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 || 08/25/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  The Obama sellout to the Iranians and the Turk version of the MB continues. The Kurds, our only true allies in the region, get stabbed in the back.

The US government disgusts anyone that loves liberty.
Posted by: Hupaiting Glaling3980 || 08/25/2016 15:43 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
ICC prosecutors urge ‘nine to 11 years’ for Timbuktu attacks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] War crimes prosecutors on Wednesday urged a jail sentence of up to 11 years for a Malian bad boy who pleaded guilty to ransacking the fabled desert city of Timbuktu.

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted Monday to having razed some of the west African city’s most historic mausoleums as his unprecedented trial opened before the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
Mahdi, aged about 40, is the first bad boy charged by the Hague-based tribunal and the first charged with crimes arising out of the conflict in Mali.

The wanton destruction by Death Eaters, who considered the mausoleums idolatrous, triggered global outcry and ICC prosecutors said the sentence should serve as an "effective deterrent" that plundering the world’s common heritage would not go unpunished.

"Today, after two days of hearings and almost at the end of the trial, the prosecution asks the Chamber to impose a sentence in the range of between nine to 11 years," prosecutor Gilles Dutertre told a three-judge bench.

"The sentence should fully reflect his (Mahdi’s) guilt, serve as an effective deterrent and give justice to the victims," the prosecutor urged.

"It cannot be tolerated that world heritage can be deliberately destroyed, with disdain for the importance that it has to other people," Dutertre added.

A former teacher and Islamic scholar, Mahdi admitted to the sole war crimes charge of "intentionally directing attacks" against nine of Timbuktu’s famous mausoleums as well as the Sidi Yahia mosque between June 30 and July 11, 2012.

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.N./OPCW inquiry blames Syria government for gas attacks, likely sanctions fight looms
[Foreign Desk News] Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks and 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....
snuffies used sulfur mustard gas, a joint investigation by the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
and the global chemical weapons watchdog found on Wednesday, according to a confidential report seen by Rooters.

The year-long U.N. and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inquiry - unanimously authorized by the U.N. Security Council - focused on nine attacks in seven areas of Syria, where a separate OPCW fact-finding investigation had already determined that chemical weapons had likely been used.

Eight of the attacks investigated involved the use of chlorine. The inquiry was unable to reach a conclusion in six cases, though it said that three of those cases warranted further investigation.

The results set the stage for a Security Council showdown between the five veto-wielding powers, likely pitting Russia and China against the United States, Britannia and La Belle France over whether sanctions should be imposed in the wake of the inquiry.

"It is essential that the members of the Security Council come together to ensure consequences for those who have used chemical weapons in Syria," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said in a statement. "We strongly urge all states to support strong and swift action by the Security Council."

Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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