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Arabia
Qatar knew about Iran's attacks in Gulf of Oman, did not warn U.S. - report
Whoops! Trump isn’t your father’s American president, guys. Good luck, now that this is out.
[Jpost] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s regime had advance knowledge of Iran’s attacks on four ships in the Gulf of Oman in May and failed to warn the US, La Belle France and the United Kingdom, according to a Western intelligence report.


FoxNews.com first reported on Saturday about the eye-popping report and the implications for international security, since the vital waterway for trade connects the Strait of Hormuz to the Indian Ocean.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)

#1  IMO, eventually, USA will be cured of considering some Muslims to be its allies. The only question is how many Americans will die before it happens.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  In the news: "The transfer of the so-called US Air Force Combined Air and Space Operations Center from Al-Udeid Air Base in the Qatari desert to the Shaw Air Force Base amounts to a “dress rehearsal,” especially after the Iranians succeeded in penetrating air defenses and bombing the state-owned Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais using low-flying cruise missiles and drones.
Although the Washington Post pointed out that the US wants to gradually transfer command from Qatar to the US, some consider this move to be part of a gradual reduction of the US military presence in Qatar, at a time when the Pentagon has increased its deployments in Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: b || 11/17/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Used to be the CIA engaged in regime change against our enemies, not the US.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/17/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Snark o' the Year.

Actually very true. Raze the CIA. It's now a menace to our democracy. Start over.
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Agree on Super Snark there.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe is failing to implement EU settlement labeling directive, study shows
Perhaps not as many in Europe care about Israel vs. Palestinians as the loudmouths want us all to believe.
[IsraelTimes] Survey by pro-Paleostinian group finds 9 out of 10 wines from Golan and West Bank in Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an stores don’t comply with 2015 policy declared legally binding by EU court Tuesday.


An overwhelming majority of Israeli settlement goods sold in European stores are currently not being labeled as such, according to a study by a Brussels-based think tank.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Our local importer of Golan wines does the labeling (everything with alcohol seems to be enforced more strictly). He says his sales are up.

The reason is quite simple: Israel haters don't buy Israeli products at all. People who like Israel are even more inclined to buy products from settlements, too.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/17/2019 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh thank you, European Conservative! That's very happy news.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  It'll be fun to see this nail added to the handful that go into the Ewww coffin. Arrogant overreach and arbitrary decrees from out of Brussels, to please their islamophile corps. I hope countries are getting tired of this shit.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 2:14 Comments || Top||


"What does a 14-year-old want at night in Ulm?" German Mayor regrets statement after rape of 14-year-old. No information on suspect's nationality available.
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[Welt.de] After the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Ulm, Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch calls on parents to fulfill their duty of supervision. This causes indignation - the CDU politician rows back later.

After the presumed rape of a 14-year-old girl, Ulm's Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch (CDU) has issued a statement that has provoked fierce criticism. On Thursday, the 56-year-old told the "Sudwest Presse" how shocked he was. Ulm is a safe city, "but there is no absolute security". The local politician thanked the security authorities for their quick reaction. The constitutional state must now "show a clear edge. No matter where someone comes from".
Used to be safe. Of course, he never sets foot in the dangerous quarters so he's ignorant.
Remember, there is no such thing as a no-go area. To say such a thing reveals either ignorance or racism and an unholy fondness for Fox News.
But Czisch did not leave it at that in his first statement. Sentences followed, which after their publication caused massive criticism, among others in the social networks.

"However, I wonder what a 14-year-old girl wants at night in Ulm. Parents have a duty to ensure that a minor girl does not run around the city alone. I say this so clearly, because we must all take into the duty, if we want to prevent such cases", Ulms mayor further communicated.
Ulm used to be a safe place for a 14 year old to walk at night. Parents haven't caught up with the new normal.
OB apologizes for "misleading" statements After criticizing these statements, Czisch made a second statement late in the afternoon, apologizing and clearly rowing back, according to "Sudwest Presse".

He deeply regretted that his original statement had been "misleading. "Of course, the girl is not to blame. The blame for this act lies exclusively and unequivocally with the suspects." His compassion was for the victim and his family.

An employee of the Ulm city administration confirmed to WELT in the evening that Czisch was of course not interested in giving the girl or her parents even a partial guilt for the crime. Nevertheless, the basic statement "The world is as it is" remained - nobody could guarantee 100 percent security. "We must take care of each other." And women, children and adolescents are particularly in need of protection.

Investigators want to clarify course of events In Ulm, the investigators are certainly continuing their efforts to clarify the possible course of events. These include questions about the drugs with which the girl could have been subdued, it was said on Thursday. "This is the subject of further investigations", said Chief Public Prosecutor Michael Bischofberger to the question of what substances were involved and whether the narcotics were initially taken voluntarily in a group or were forcibly administered to the victim. He did not give details.

Group rape. And criminal law doesn't come with it. The suspects are between 14 and 26 years old according to the police. Arrest warrants have been issued for three of them, aged 15, 16 and 26, at the request of the public prosecutor's office. Two other suspects, aged 14 and 24, were released after provisional arrest. This was common in less serious cases, according to investigators.

So far, the authorities have not provided any information on the nationalities of the suspects. In order to better understand the requested arrest warrants, however, it had been made known that they were asylum seekers,
Unexpectedly.
the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office explained: investigators were assuming a higher risk of flight. The concrete nationalities had not played a role in this.

According to previous information, the 14-year-old had consumed alcohol on the day before All Saints Day (31.10.) when she met one of the later suspects in Ulm, whom she is said to have already known better. She went with him to an apartment in the Illertal (Alb-Donau district) near Ulm. The rape is said to have taken place there. The speaker of the public prosecutor's office referred to the fact that the authorities are obliged to be extremely cautious in their statements about the possible course of events in view of the victim protection for the young people.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Thank you for this, Herb. Europe needs more attention than it’s been it’s been getting for a while — sadly, I haven’t had the time/energy to devote to it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  the 14-year-old had consumed alcohol on the day ... when she met one of the later suspects... already known. She went with him to an apartment

Her actions are a microcosmic parallel to her Chancellor's policies.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 2:09 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan: "Our God commands us to be violent to the kuffar"
[IsraelNationalNews] On October 25, a leader of a NATO member nation openly incited violence against non-Muslims.

On that day, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the Friday prayers at the Great Camlica Mosque in Istanbul. He was accompanied by Istanbul’s governor Ali Yerlikaya, mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s chief of police Mustafa Caliskan and the head of the Istanbul branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bayram Senocak.

After the prayers, the hafiz of the mosque recited the Koranic Verse Al-Fath, which means "victory, triumph, conquest" in English. Then Erdogan took the microphone, reciting a part of the verse in Arabic and then in Turkish. He told the congregants:
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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 04:50 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But he's only saying that to the hometown crowd. He doesn't really mean it.

/sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2019 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay then, kuffar should return the favor ten fold.

You want violence, we'll give you violence.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/17/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Constantinople!!! Constantinople!!!
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/17/2019 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell me why, again, we are hostile to Russia and allied with Turkey?

Does this make any f---ing sense?
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 9:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Re:#4 Lesee : Murderous gangster/murderous muslim

Sorry, Lex. Not a clear winner here.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/17/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Ok, fair enough, Mercutio. But could we at least restore some sense of balance, proportion, judgment to the mix?

Does anyone know how to play this game?
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||

#7  If only the kuffar understood this.

But the smart set and suburban wine moms are too busy losing their shit over mean tweets.
Posted by: charger || 11/17/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Murderous gangster/murderous muslim

Not a question of sides so much, but of who we have common interests with. Rather like enlisting the help of the Mafia in WWII.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2019 10:23 Comments || Top||

#9  I would rather side with Putin anyday. Can't trust a muslim as far as you can throw them.
Posted by: chris || 11/17/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#10  "Our god commands us to be violent to the kuffar."

Really ? My God has to stop me from doing it to you.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Religion of grab a Piece
Posted by: Lex || 11/17/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||

#12  My religion demands all muslims be castrated, flayed alive and then roasted on spits to be fed to pigs. Sounds fun doesn't it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/17/2019 11:13 Comments || Top||

#13  suburban wine moms are too busy losing their shit over mean tweets.

But the other suburban moms are sending the Trump campaign lots of big checks. I guess they’re as tired of their friends whining as we are. From the Washington Examiner:

Despite a crush of stories that suggest he is losing suburbs largely due to women deserting him, President Trump is seeing a surge in donations from women and is tops in receiving big checks from suburban women.

He has the most big-dollar suburban women donors, 10,534, and has received the most from them, $8,293,135, than any of the Democrats, according to a study from OpenSecrets.org, part of the Center for Responsive Politics.

Overall, he ranks fifth in donations from women at $15.1 million. The leader is Sen. Bernie Sanders at $17.1 million, according to the group.

Statistically, 28% of Trump's "itemized contributions" from women in 2016. For the 2020 election, they are 35%.

But it could be higher, and likely is, said OpenSecrets. That is because it is easier to get information on small donors who give $200 or less from Democrats than the Trump campaign.

Explained the donor analysis, “Campaigns are not required to itemize donations of $200 or less, so we do not have demographic information about Trump's small donors giving to his joint fundraising committees with the Republican National Committee, Trump Victory and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee. An estimated 59% of Trump’s donations are from small-donors, so Trump’s contributions from women are most certainly higher than $15 million. Trump’s totals are underestimated more than the other candidates. Because Democrats are relying on ActBlue and the Republicans are not relying on the Republican equivalent WinRed as significantly, we only have most (not all) donor demographic data for Democratic small-dollar donors.”

While women donors are more pro-Democrat, according to the report, they are not a “monolith” and are clearly open to backing Trump.

In fact, the report ends with a description of the Women for Trump effort in several states that has drawn in donations.

“Trump is heavily relying on white women, especially independents and those who live in the suburbs, to bring him to victory in 2020 as they did in 2016. Although there is declining support for Trump from women shown in some polls, Trump campaign aides and officials argue the polling data does not account for suburban women who favor Trump but do not feel comfortable publicly saying so,” said the report.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#14  kafir as used by Erdogan sometimes seems to mean the followers of assad in Syria and the followers of Khomeini in Iran

other times Erdogan regards these groups as muslims

depending on what he believes that day or maybe what he had for breakfast
Posted by: lord garth || 11/17/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||

#15  fucking imbicile fascist.

The Arc Of Turkey's Descent Into Islamic, Third-World Madness http://minx.cc/?post=384353
Posted by: newc || 11/17/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||

#16  whoops - link
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=384353
Posted by: newc || 11/17/2019 15:56 Comments || Top||

#17  Good link, newc. Thanks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 19:36 Comments || Top||

#18  kafir as used by Erdogan sometimes seems to mean the followers of Assad in Syria and the followers of Khomeini in Iran

I thought that was it. So many non-Sunni religious and ethnic minorities kafir to kill in Syria: Alawite, Twelvers, Ismailis, Druze, Christians, Armenians, Kurds... it'll be like the good old days for NATO allies the Turkish military.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/17/2019 22:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
250 people, including JUI-F leaders, workers booked near Hub
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami

#1  West End, Brookline on High Alert!
Posted by: Bob Whomomble1159 || 11/17/2019 6:25 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
U.N. General Assembly Votes to Oblige Israel to Compensate Lebanon
You and what army, guys?
[AnNahar] The U.N. on Friday voted in favor of obliging Israel to pay Leb compensations over the 2006 oil spill caused by its bombing of the seaside Jiye power plant.

According to a tweet posted by MP Hagop Terzian, the U.N. decision obliges Israel to pay Leb $856.4 million in compensations.

158 member states voted in favor of the resolution as nine rejected it and six abstained.

The oil spill was caused by an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on oil storage tanks during the 2006 war.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lebanon is a beautiful country - currently heavily infested with vermin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2 
"Nope. But we'll buy Mt Hermon for $200m, take it or leave it."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  maybe the repayment, or portionofit, should come from would have been the UN dues....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/17/2019 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Definitely not Bee-grade satire, but I figured it might be The Onion.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Israel liable for injuries from hypergolic fuel from hitting missiles aimed at them?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/17/2019 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  In addition to all that, the UN General Assembly was deliberately designed to be nothing more than a talk shop. All the power is vested in the Security Council.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 15:16 Comments || Top||

#7  154 U.N. nations call Temple Mount solely by Muslim name Haram al-Sharif
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 16:09 Comments || Top||

#8  ...solely by Muslim name...

How dreadfully trendy of them. Next they’ll all show up wearing acid-washed skinny jeans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 20:11 Comments || Top||

#9  And ask to be called by the proposed collective preferred pronoun - the uns.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 23:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Pompeo: Iran behind PIJ strike on Israel
[Jpost] "Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
uses its terrorist proxy Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
to strike our great ally Israel. Iran does not want peace in the region."

Iran is behind the latest round of Israeli-Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
violence, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Saturday, as the fragile ceasefire understanding held for its third day in spite of sporadic rocket fire.

"Iran uses its terrorist proxy Paleostinian Islamic Jihad to strike our great ally Israel. Iran does not want peace in the region. It does not want the Paleostinian people to prosper. It wants more conflict. Until we address Iran’s threats, the cycle of violence will continue," Pompeo tweeted.

It’s actions proves that international pressure is needed to curb Tehran’s aggression, he said.

"The way forward is clear: continued pressure until Iran negotiates a comprehensive agreement that includes halting its support to terror groups like PIJ. Nations around the world can no longer claim to want peace in the region yet allow Iran’s threats to go unchallenged," Pompeo wrote.

He spoke out one day after US sanctions against Iran forced its government to introduce gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent, drawing sporadic protests and widespread worries over rising inflation despite official promises that the revenue would be used to help needy families. One person was killed and several people were maimed in the city of Sirjan in Kerman province on Friday, the ISNA news agency quoted a local official as saying on Saturday.

Riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in Tehran and dozens of cities across Iran on Saturday, Iranian news agencies and social media said. Rooters contributed to this report.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israelis sue Hamas for compensation after family members die
[Ynet] If successful the families say, they will have prevented funds from Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", that could be used to launch terror attacks against more Israelis as well as bolster the organizations strength in controlling the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.


Five Israeli families will file a law suit against Hamas in Jerusalem District Court on Sunday, seeking NIS 500,000,000 in damages from the terrorist organization in compensation for family members killed in terror attacks.

The families who were to be represented by Shurat HaDin, Israel Law Center, argue that financial ramifications may adversely affect the terror organization's ability to instigate terror attacks.

In a groundbreaking move, the families have added to their class action suit three money changers who have worked in the service of Hamas and facilitated the transfer of funds from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to the Gaza rulers.

Make no mistake, Hamas are all terrorists," said Herzl Hajaj, father of Shir, a 22-year old soldier who was murdered in Jerusalem.

"This is a terror organization and we should not try to reach any (diplomatic) agreements with them."

He added: "It is vital to take financial measures against them as there is an entire monetary scheme in play making them a profit from killing Jews."

There is slim chance that the suit will be successful or that the compensation received will be anything other than very low. Yet the case is unique because of the three money changers, who have assets and bank accounts in the United States that have already been confiscated.
There is slim chance that the suit will be successful or that the compensation received will be anything other than very low. Yet the case is unique because of the three money changers, who have assets and bank accounts in the United States that have already been confiscated.

If the court finds in favor of the plaintiffs, legal action could be taken in the U.S. to claim those funds.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the head of Shurat HaDin who is representing the families said: "This is an ongoing battle but the only way to weaken these terror groups is to target their source of funding.

"Money is what allows Hamas to control the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, it allows their production of rockets and mortars and it allows them to maintain an army of killers ready to do their bidding."

She also expressed the hope that by targeting "their funding channels, we may bring them down."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Islamic Jihad in-fighting after Hamas did not join attack on Israel
[Jpost] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,' decision to not participate in the latest fighting round has caused a crisis with the leadership of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, Paleostinian sources reported.

The armed forces of Islamic Jihad thought that the rocket fire should be increased, while the diplomatic side wanted a ceasefire, Ynet reported.

According to the Paleostinian reports, Islamic Jihad's armed wing wishes remove Hamas' control over their arsenal of weapons, so that they could be free of Hamas' rules which it enforces against other organizations in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad (Palestian)


Sri Lanka
Gunmen fire on buses carrying Muslim Sri Lankan voters
[DAWN] Gunmen fired at buses carrying minority Moslem voters on Saturday as Sri Lankans elected a new president, with the powerful Rajapaksa clan eyeing a comeback seven months after the island was hit by bad boy attacks.

Minority Tamils and Moslems are seen as crucial in the close election, and Saturday's attack in the northwest of the island ‐ in which no one was injured ‐ was likely aimed at deterring people from voting.

The assailants set fire to tyres on the road and set up makeshift roadblocks before shooting at and pelting with stones two vehicles in the convoy of more than 100 buses taking people to their home district to vote, police said.

In the Tamil-dominated northern peninsula of Jaffna, meanwhile, police said they arrested 10 men they suspected of "trying to create trouble", while also complaining that the army had illegally set up roadblocks that could stop people getting to polling stations.

Such tactics are nothing new in Sri Lanka, which emerged from a horrific civil war only a decade ago. At the 2015 election, there was a series of explosions in the region that activists said were aimed at reducing turnout.

This time, there were long queues outside polling stations even before voting began.

Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Saturday's attack in the northwest of the island ‐ in which no one was injured ‐ was likely aimed at deterring people from voting.

Such primitives. Don't they realize that the easiest way to annul votes is to have a friendly judge to rule everything done by the one elected with these votes to be unconstitutional?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Not when the chief justice, the President, PM, law minister, interior minister, inspector general are all from one family.

The muslim-loving Rajapaksas were removed by our help once, but the Srilankans have now sidled up to the Chinks. Those cheques cost you dearly in the end.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 3:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I wasn't serious.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2019 3:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I know. Of course. You were alluding to the Circus west of us.☺

Just letting people know that the coming days will see islamist vengeance rising within Srilanka, and china spreading talons in the Indian ocean.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/17/2019 3:57 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Republicans introduce legislation to block sanction waivers for Iran
[JPost] The bill seeks to revoke waivers for civil nuclear projects with Iran that were established under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal

Republicans in both the House of Representatives and Senate introduced on Friday legislation that would formally void some critical parts of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. According to a joint statement of the group ‐ some 22 members of the House, spearheaded by Rep. Liz Cheney, and Senators Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and others, decided to introduce the legislation "in response to the Trump administration's repeated issuance of waivers for civil nuclear projects contemplated by the deal."

The bill seeks to revoke waivers for civil nuclear projects with Iran that were established under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The waivers were recently renewed by the State Department on November 1, which make these projects immune from US sanctions.

This bill specifically revokes a waiver for the Fordow facility, a military bunker that Iran built deep inside a mountain, the group said in a statement. "As seen in the nuclear archive uncovered by Israel, Tehran intended to produce weapons-grade uranium at Fordow for one to two nuclear weapons per year. Iran is already violating the deal by enriching uranium at this facility. The bill also revokes a waiver for the Arak facility and a waiver for the transfer into Iran of enriched uranium for the Tehran Research reactor."
Posted by: Frank G || 11/17/2019 08:47 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  It is getting ever more interesting to be a member of the ruling class in Iran...
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Syria’s electronic warfare systems causing problems for Israeli air defenses
Again? That’s just asking for trouble.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syria’s electronic warfare systems are allegedly causing problems for Israel’s air defenses, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.

"The unsuccessful defense against the Paleostinian rocket attacks from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip by the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense systems received a logical explanation. As it turned out, from the territory of Syria the unknown electronic warfare systems, which, by the way, are available only in the armament of Russia and Iran, affected the areas where Israeli missile defense systems were located, and this fact is perfectly confirmed by satellite data," the publication said.

According to the report, the Syrian electronic warfare systems caused Israel’s air defenses to malfunction, leading to some Paleostinian rockets landing inside of Israel.

"Previously, social media accounts published photos and videos on which it was quite possible to see problems with the operations of the Israeli missile defense systems ‐ the most striking example is the launch of a missile defense in the absence of targets and its subsequent spontaneous explosion," they added.

Recently, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
(PIJ) have traded hostilities in the Gaza region. These hostilities began earlier in the week when the IDF assassinated the leader of Saraya al-Quds (PIJ military wing), Baha’a Abu al-Atta, in the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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