[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Haji Zahir Qadir, politician representing Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province in the Lower House of the Parliament, has handed over one of his guards to police over murder charges.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said the guard was handed over to Nangarhar police commandment late on Monday evening.
No further details have been given regarding the circumstances surrounding the involvement of Haji Qadir’s guard in the murder case.
Khogyani had earlier said President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has ordered a probe into the incident.
He said an investigation was launched hours before Haji Qadir hand over his guard to the police.
According to Khogyani, the guard was accused of killing a civilian identified as Gulistan but it is yet not clear why the civilian was rubbed out.
This is not the first time reports emerge regarding the killing of civilians by the government security guards but numerous such incidents have taken place in other provinces and cities, including capital Kabul.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the majority of the incidents in the past have taken place due to errors and misunderstandings as the security guards mistake the civilians for murderous Moslems and open fire on them, specifically when the civilians conduct gun sexs or refrain from the warnings issued to them.
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[TheLocal.it] Correspondents for The Local Italia spoke to a people smuggler in southern Libya who said Italia's plans to pay people not to engage in human trafficking are working. But he expects the lull to be temporary.
Ahmed *Essa’s business, like any other, operates under the basic principles of supply and demand. A 28-year-old Libyan from the minority Toubou ethnic group, Essa smuggles desperate migrants colonists fleeing violence and poverty from Niger to the southern Libyan city of Sabha.
This is the first leg on a commonly-used route toward the Libyan coast, which will enable Essa’s "African brothers" to get closer to their dream destinations in Europe.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Earlier this month Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, that there was a "breakthrough" in the Middle East and hailed the Israeli states "best ever" ties with Gulf Arab countries. It now seems that it is not only Netanyahu that believes this to be so, 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... are now warming up to idea of Israel as a "brotherly state". Believe it when you see it.
In May the ’plan for partial normalisation of Israel’ was revealed ‐ and although this was viewed to be nothing more than "just talk" and speculated to be going nowhere ‐ Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have since publicly announced willingness to accept the normalisation of ’the Jewish state of Israel’.
The plan back in May was laid out after Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states requested that they would act to normalise the Israeli state in their publics eyes, if Israel would slow down its settlement expansion.
There was a plan was supposedly drafted in Egypt that stated ‐ according to a Twitter account that is reporting from within the Saudi Royal family ‐ that, the Gulf Arab states and Egypt aim to "distance any political, cultural, educational, financial, religious effect on the people of Egypt and the Gulf States in order to reach a state of full and eternal normalisation with Israel."
Since then the King of Bahrain ’Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah’ has stated that other Arab states have to be "kinder to Israel" and the Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has reportedly backed plans to accept Israel as a "brotherly state".
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[YAHOO] Hungary is set to launch another state "national consultation" about US financier and philanthropist George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... , the government said Tuesday, six months before expected general elections.
The campaign would be to investigate public views on the "Soros plan", and would likely be launched next month, government front man Bence Tuzson told public radio, without giving further details.
Last week a top official in the ruling Fidesz party, Lajos Kosa, said that this "Soros plan" includes Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... accepting a million migrants colonists per year and the demolition of Hungary's anti-migrant border fences.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has regularly attacked the Hungarian-born Soros in the last year, calling him a "public enemy" for his alleged backing of uncontrolled mass immigration.
A national consultation earlier this year also focused on Soros, seen as a liberal bogeyman by Budapest who funds a raft of civil society groups in central and eastern Europe.
An image of the 87-year-old laughing adorned billboard posters alongside a message urging Hungarians "not to let Soros have the last laugh".
The posters, some of which were daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti, were widely condemned including by Soros himself and Hungary's main Jewish organization, which called them "poisonous".
The drive is the latest of a series of taxpayer-funded "national consultations" by Orban's government comprising questionnaires sent to households and accompanying mass media "public information" campaigns.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak government has rejected remarks attributed to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi regarding the deadly attack in Kabul which left more than 150 dead late in May.
The Prime Minister House of Pakistain in a statement said "The remarks are simply baseless and have no reference to discussions with any media person."
The statement further added that the relevant print media should carefully review the contents of discussions before reporting.
Speaking to Financial Times earlier PM Abbasi had said at least three to four people had crossed the border and a vehicle was taken to Kabul for the attack.
The Pak Prime Minister further added that he does not all the details but confirmed that the vehicle was parked in an embassy compound before it exploded on 31st May.
No group including the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bully boyz has so far grabbed credit behind the attack but the Afghan officials are saying that the Haqqani terrorist network based in Pakistain plotted and carried out the attack although the leader of the network in a voice message said today that the group has no role in the incident.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Prime Minister in an unprecedented statement has confessed that the bombers who blew up a tanker near the German embassy in Kabul late in May, had likely travelled from Pakistain.
PM Abbasi made the remarks during an interview with a UK-based newspaper, The Financial Times.
He said at least three to four people had crossed the border and a vehicle was taken to Kabul for the attack.
The Pak Prime Minister further added that he does not all the details but confirmed that the vehicle was parked in an embassy compound before it exploded on 31st May.
No group including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz has so far grabbed credit behind the attack but the Afghan officials are saying that the Haqqani terrorist network based in Pakistain plotted and carried out the attack although the leader of the network in a voice message said today that the group has no role in the incident.
Over one hundred and fifty people bit the dust in the attack and hundreds more were maimed in the kaboom which is considered as one of the deadliest attacks since the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001.
The foreign ministry of Germany earlier announced that a team of the German experts will visit Kabul to launch an investigation into the incident but no reports have emerged regarding the investigations so far.
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[AMGREATNESS] Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed yet again why he is the most robust president since Ronald Reagan. Following up on his brilliant speeches before a joint session of Congress in February, his speech about combating Islamic terrorism before Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, and his splendid defense of Western civilizational values in Warsaw a few months ago, Trump addressed the United Nations and articulated for the 150 delegates at that ostentatiously corrupt institution the signal lesson of successful international relations: that freedom within nations, and comity among them, is best served not by the effacement or attenuation of national sovereignty but its frank and manly embrace.
“Sovereignty,” indeed, was the master word of Trump’s address. The word and its cognates occur 21 times in the 4,300-word talk, centrally in conjunction with the core Trumpian ideal of “principled realism.”
“We are guided,” Trump explained, “by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values.”
The United Nations has in recent decades become a poster child for bureaucratic despond: corrupt, wasteful, and inefficient. It has also evolved into a megaphone for anti-American, left-wing sentiment, often hiding behind utopian world-government rhetoric.
[Townhall] Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton praised President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday as the best of his presidency.
Trump’s "speech was his best yet as President. He was clear & direct in his criticisms of #NorthKorea & #Iran," he tweeted.
"In the entire history of the UN, there has never been a more straight forward criticism of the unacceptable behavior of other member states," he added. "@POTUS’s UN speech showed that he will not live with the half measures and compromises w/ #NorthKorea that have failed for the past 25 yrs."
Speaking of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Trump said he’s on a "suicide mission."
"No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles. The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary," he said.
See also highlights and the entire 41 minute speech at the link.
[SA People News] Trump said North Korea’s Kim Jong ‐ whom he called ’Rocket Man’ ‐ is on a "suicide mission for himself and his regime" and that if forced to defend itself for its allies, America would "totally destroy North Korea". He said Jong "threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of life".
He also took a hard line against Iran (a "rogue nation") and its nuclear deal, and then said the US will probably have to intervene in Venezuela following President Nicolas Maduro’s recent election to create a "constituent assembly" that limits the powers of the elected national assembly.
Maduro has already responded, calling Trump "the new Hitler".
The Zimbabwean representatives were featured on CNN when Trump was complaining that despite there being over 100 countries in the UN, the US pays 22% of the budget. At that point the camera zoomed in on the Zimbabwe corner (we’re not sure if it was intentional!)... who were not looking too impressed!
Trump said "major portions of the world are in conflict and some, in fact, are going to hell".
He also vowed to take down "loser terrorists", and reiterated that its America first... although reminded the other leaders that "you will always, and should always put your countries first".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Kurdistan Region’s parliament has fired back at Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki after remarks he made on Israeli support of the region’s planned referendum on independence from Iraq.
Following a meeting with U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, Douglas A. Silliman, Maliki said in a statement that the referendum, slated for September 25th has to be "cancelled or postponed for being unconstitutional," adding that the controversial vote does not serve Iraqis’ or Kurds’ interests.
"We will not allow the establishment of another Israel in northern Iraq," he said in the statement. He was presumably alluding to Tel Aviv’s open, official support for the anticipated poll. More likely he was alluding to the fact that Kurdistan wouldn't be an Arab state.
Reacting to the statements, Kurdish parliament’s deputy speaker Jaafar Imniki said in a statement that Maliki’s remarks "come from a unique dictator who is the source of all atrocities and tragedies that had befallen Iraqis," as he put it.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu had said his country had a "positive attitude" towards Kurds’ secession plans.
Maliki has been a vocal opponent to the referendum.
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More that this is not under the auspice of strict Sunni governance or more economic?
I tend to think you will never let the Kurds go after they have protected YOU ALL. I think you will use these useful Warriors to stabalize your regions and then discard them.
WELLLL, Not GOD.
No one says things cannot work the way they were except for the Autonomy and Authority of those Whom could and may still protect you.
An Israel full of Moslems, Whom I Love by the way./ Since World War One.
Maybe wrong timing, but again, when ever do My Kurds get a Break?
[IsraelTimes] On its website, Israeli military scrambles to change all mentions of American 'base' to say 'facility,' but insists it's still a first
The American military on Tuesday denied a claim made by the Israel Defense Forces that the United States had established its first base in Israel, saying the new buildings were instead a "living facility."
On Monday, the Israeli Air Force declared that the US military’s European Command (EUCOM) had opened a "base within a base" at the IDF’s air defense school, west of the towns of Dimona and Yeruham in southern Israel.
"We established an American base in the State of Israel, in the Israel Defense Forces, for the first time, with an American flag. A permanent base," Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, head of the IAF’s Aerial Defense Command, told news hounds.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... an official from EUCOM contradicted that account.
"As part of the United States’ continued commitment to Israel, on September 18, big shots from the US military participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony... to commemorate the opening of a new building on an Israeli Air Force base," said Meghan Henderson, deputy director of EUCOM’s Media Operations Division.
"The new buildings located on the Israeli installation are not a US military base," she said. "The buildings are facilities on the existing Israeli Air Force Base to support our US service personnel who are working there."
The message was passed along to the IDF, which quickly changed all mentions on its website of a "US military base" to read "US military facility."
An Israeli army official confirmed that the Americans had contacted the IDF and requested the change in terminology, as a base carries with it a number of legal distinctions and can only be applied to facilities of a certain size.
The Israeli official said the rest of the information about the site and its significance remained the same.
[Ynet] The IDF Spokesperson announced the imposition of a general closure on the West Bank and the closure of the crossings into and out of the Gazoo Strip from today until the end of Rosh Hashana.
The closure will begin at midnight and end on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
During the closure, passage will be allowed only in humanitarian, medical, and exceptional cases, all subject to the approval of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran’s reported creation of the "father of all bombs" should be seen as a message to Israel and the Persian Gulf States, Russian military expert Vladimir Korovin told Sputnik, expressing doubt that Tehran would use its 10-ton conventional aviation bomb against the US.
By announcing about the creation of a 10-ton non-nuclear aviation bomb, Iran has sent a strong signal to Israel and Tehran’s other potential adversaries in the Middle Eastern region, Vladimir Korovin, an expert at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations’ Center for Military and Political Studies, told Sputnik.
"Israel is deeply worried about the fact that Iran is edging closer to its border in Syria," Korovin said, "Perhaps, this statement is addressed to Israel and Iran’s other counterparts [in the region]."
The military analyst expressed confidence that Iran is not going to use the bomb against the United States. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Israel, 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... , the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain are the main addressees of Tehran’s "message," according to Korovin.
On Saturday, Iran’s state news agency FARS reported citing a top Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander, Ali Hajizadeh, that Tehran had developed a massive non-nuclear munition comparable to the US’s GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) also known as the "Mother of All Bombs."
Describing the new bomb Hajizadeh specified that it could be launched from "Ilyushin aircraft" and dubbed it "the father of all bombs" in a reference to America’s most powerful conventional ordnance.
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Now if only they had something to carry it reliably. Maybe they could rent a heavy lifter from the Russians.
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
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed yet again why he is the most robust president since Ronald Reagan. Following up on his brilliant speeches before a joint session of Congress in February, his speech about combating Islamic terrorism before Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, and his splendid defense of Western civilizational values in Warsaw a few months ago, Trump addressed the United Nations and articulated for the 150 delegates at that ostentatiously corrupt institution the signal lesson of successful international relations: that freedom within nations, and comity among them, is best served not by the effacement or attenuation of national sovereignty but its frank and manly embrace.
[Townhall] Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton praised President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday as the best of his presidency.
