[RADIOSHABELLE] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will train Somaliland adminstraion security forces as part of a deal to establish a military base in the semi-autonomous region, Somaliland’s president said on Thursday.
UAE government officials could not immediately be reached for comment ‐ but the UAE has committed to invest hundreds of million dollars in recent years in the territory on a strategically important stretch of coastline on the Gulf of Aden.
The UAE began construction last year of a base on a site at the airport of the Somaliland port city Berbera, and will be allowed to maintain a presence for 30 years.
The biggest threat to Somaliland is poverty.
Berbera is less than 300 km (190 miles) south of war-torn Yemen, where UAEtroops are fighting rebels as part of a Saudi-backed coalition.
President Muse Bihi Abdi said the UAEwould train police and military in Somaliland, which wants independence from war-torn Somalia but is not recognised internationally. He said he expected the agreement to be finalised within two months.
"They have the resources and the knowledge," Abdi told Rooters in an interview in Abu Dhabi.
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[All Africa] The Kenyan part of Moyale town is staring at a possible humanitarian crisis. The town straddles the porous Æthiopian-Kenyan border and the number of refugees fleeing a military operation in Æthiopia is rising by the hour. Education has been crippled in the Kenyan town as schools closed down to host the asylum seekers. Some people are nursing gunshot wounds and humanitarian agencies are calling for urgent assistance.
At Kenya's Moyale Hospital, doctors have been overwhelmed by the number of people seeking treatment for gunshot wounds. Public health officer Sacha Tacho describes the situation: "We have another very sick patient in the ward, with a bullet in the neck, the bullet is still in the neck and we cannot remove it here in Moyale."
Solomon Gubo, the Deputy Governor of Moyale County, says that they are helping the refugees to settle in, but it is proving to be a challenge especially due to the heavy rains and insufficient humanitarian assistance. "There is no housing, there is no food; that is the challenge we are facing as of now," says Gubo.
A military operation that started almost one week ago triggered the sudden influx of people from Æthiopia. The government in Addis Ababa had announced the deployment of soldiers to the Moyale area, saying that they were pursuing fighters of the Oromo Liberation Front, which the government has banned as a terrorist group.
According to the government-run Æthiopian News Agency, some soldiers then launched an attack based on a faulty intelligence report. The forces reportedly killed at least nine people and injured 12. The government has said it has now disarmed five of the officers involved and declared that they would now face an investigation and military court.
Government explanation 'not acceptable'
Speaking to DW earlier this week, Taye Dendea, spokesperson of the state-run Oromia Justice Bureau, condemned the government's actions. "After killing unarmed people in broad daylight, trying to argue that it happened due to wrong information is not acceptable," Dendea told DW.
"This is a premeditated crime and it is also a war crime against the people. Firing a machine gun at people in their house, daily laborers on the street, people trading in their shops and people eating at restaurant is totally unacceptable. This did not happen based on wrong information. Saying this itself is an insult to the people. Even some of them were told to kneel and were shot on the spot."
DW has confirmed that on Thursday Dendea was detained for questioning.
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"We have another very sick patient in the ward, with a bullet in the neck, the bullet is still in the neck and we cannot remove it here in Moyale."
Well, obviously you CAN. Whether you should is a different question
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, sees positive signs in negotiations with 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... on settling the conflict in the country, but is not confident in their success, Ali Quhum, a member of the movement’s political administration, told Sputnik on Friday.
He said that Ansar Allah and Riyadh were holding indirect talks mediated by Oman. The negotiations are aimed at ending the civil war and the Saudi-led coalition’s military operation in Yemen.
"There are initial, in some way positive, signs [in the talks]," Quhum said.
A similar information has been shared by the Rooters news agency earlier in the day, which reported, citing two diplomats and two Yemeni officials, that Saudi officials met with the 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 ... representatives as a part of their effort to counter the influence of Iran in the region and stop the ongoing conflict.
As the media outlet explained, the Saudi-led coalition’s actions based on the aim to curb Iran’s alleged pulling power in the region, connected, as Saudis assume, to the alleged ties between Iran and Houthis, denied by both sides. The Yemeni movement insists that they aim is the fight against the country’s corrupt politicians and Gulf states as a vassal to the West.
Negotiations With Saudi Arabia
According to Quhum, despite positive signs, the movement does not believe in negotiations with Saudi Arabia. He noted that Riyadh was trying to buy some time, but it does not intend to lift the blockade, nor to cease its intervention in Yemen’s civil war.
Quhum highlighted that reopening Yemen’s ports, including Hudaydah located on the Red Sea, had been addressed during the talks, adding that the parties had not yet agreed on any points.
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"Indirect talks" = "Artillery"
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[IsraelTimes] Government retakes control of Grand Mosque of Brussels due to fears it is promoting myrmidon teachings and segregationist attitudes
Belgium’s government has ended 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... ’s lease on the Grand Mosque of Brussels over fears the house of worship was being used to promote radical agendas, Rooters reported Friday.
"The concession will be terminated immediately ... in order to put an end to foreign interference in the way Islam is taught in Belgium," the government said.
The mosque, Belgium’s largest, was leased to the Saudis in 1969 for 99 years without charge as part of a deal for cheaper oil.
But with growing concern over Islamic extremism in the continent, and reports of possible radical teachings and segregationist attitudes at the institution, Belgian leaders have in recent months sought to end its foreign ties.
"In this way we are tackling Salafist, violent myrmidon influences," Interior Minister Jan Jambon tweeted.
The mosque will henceforth be administered locally.
"From now on, the mosque will have to establish a lasting relation with the Belgian authorities, while respecting the laws and the traditions of our country, which convey a tolerant vision of Islam," Justice Minister Koen Geens said.
Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... has seen increased scrutiny of mosques and their teachings following an uptick in attacks by Islamists in recent years. Houses of worship have been shuttered in La Belle France, the UK and Germany, among others.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s Constitutional Court ruled unanimously on March 16 for a second time that the rights of enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... journalist Sahin Alpay have been violated, raising the prospect that he may be released from prison.
"Abstaining from implementing the ruling of the Constitutional Court violates [Alpay’s] personal liberty and security and right to fair trial," said the ruling, referring to the related articles of the constitution.
"The rulings of the Constitutional Court are legally binding" it added, ordering the Ottoman Turkish state to pay Alpay 20,000 Ottoman Turkish Liras in indemnification.
The decision came upon an application by Alpay’s lawyers after a local court refused to release him despite an earlier Constitutional Court ruling on Jan. 11 that his rights had been violated.
The Constitutional Court ruled at the time that Alpay, along with fellow locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! journalist Mehmet Altan, should be released as their rights had been violated.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... local courts refused to release them, arguing that the top court’s ruling was not binding.
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However,local courts refused to release them, arguing that the top court’s ruling was not binding.
9th Circuit extends overseas?
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Given historic precedent, what is the probability the women are actually somehow connected to the mosque?
[IsraelTimes] Videos show the intruders urging their children to hate Moslems by trespassing onto Arizona mosque grounds, stealing Koran and leaflets
Two women were placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Thursday for breaking into an Islamic center in Arizona and filming themselves making anti-Islamic remarks, police said.
Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer were arrested for third-degree burglary "after the investigation revealed they entered onto the property of the Tempe Islamic Center and subsequently removed various items," local police front man Ron Elcock said in a statement.
"Based on the details of the crime an enhancement of hate crime will be considered for sentencing," he said.
The women posted several videos on Facebook showing them entering the center, making insulting remarks about Moslems and encouraging their children to repeat them.
Ahmad al-Akoum, the center’s director of inter-faith relations and one of its imams, told AFP that the incident took place the morning of March 4, when no one else was present.
A local journalist saw the videos and alerted the mosque, whose leaders then checked their surveillance footage and saw the women taking copies of the Islamic holy book the Koran as well as leaflets, and tearing up documents affixed to a bulletin board.
Mosque officials then contacted police.
"They were teaching their children to be hateful, it was very disturbing," al-Akoum said of the women.
He said that his mosque and others around Phoenix have regularly been subjected to harassment "for a long time, almost since 2001," referring to the year of the September 11 attacks.
But things have gotten worst since Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ‐ who made trying to keep travelers from certain Moslem-majority countries out of the US a central part of his agenda ‐ took office last year.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the federal government to explain why Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... 's two organizations, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and its charity wing, the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), had been banned and their accounts frozen.
The order came during hearing of a petition filed by Saeed through senior lawyer A.K. Dogar, in which the JuD chief told the court that the Interior Ministry on Feb 10 had issued a notification to freeze the bank accounts of and take over assets associated with both organizations ‐ the JuD and the FIF ‐ under the Anti-Terrorism (amendment) Ordinance of 2018.
The petitioner alleged that the government of Pakistain had acted under the pressure of foreign powers, including the United States and India. He contended that Pakistain is a sovereign independent state and makes its own laws to govern its citizens.
He added that if there was a conflict between the laws of the land and any provision of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council Act, 1948, the law of the land shall prevail.
Saeed in his petition had asked the court to declare the impugned notification of the Interior Ministry null and void with regard to taking over the assets of the organizations.
In today's hearing, the federal government was ordered to submit its reply in court by March 29.
Saeed, who in November last year was set free from a 300-day-long house arrest, has been repeatedly accused by the US and India of criminal masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital that killed 166 people.
Saeed was declared a global terrorist by the US and UN over his alleged role in the Mumbai attacks. JuD is considered by the US and India to be a front for LeT, the bully boy group blamed for the attacks.
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[AnNahar] Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Thursday called on the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees UNRWA to "unregister every Paleostinian refugee who stays outside Leb or acquires the citizenship of another country."
"This would alleviate its financial burden and would contribute to lowering the numbers of Paleostinian refugees in Leb without harming the right to return (to Paleostinian territories occupied in 1948 and 1967), which is sacred," Bassil told a Rome summit aimed at discussing UNRWA's future.
The UN agency faces an unprecedented crisis after the U.S. froze tens of millions of dollars in funding.
"We call on the international community to organize a campaign for the voluntary return of Paleostinian refugees, seeing as all the prerequisites of a safe and dignified return are available," Bassil added.
Lebanese authorities had in December announced that more than 174,000 Paleostinian refugees live in Leb, in the first-ever census of its kind for a country where demographics have long been a sensitive subject.
The census was carried out by the government's Lebanese-Paleostinian Dialogue Committee in 12 Paleostinian camps as well as 156 informal "gatherings" across the country.
The result of 174,422 Paleostinian refugees is much lower than previous estimates of up to 500,000.
Paleostinians began taking refuge in Leb with the creation of Israel in 1948, setting up camps that have since transformed into bustling, urban districts.
But their presence has long been a controversial in Leb, with many blaming it for the eruption of the bitter war that ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990.
Leb has not carried out a census of its own citizens since 1932, making the 2017 count even more remarkable.
It sheds light on the living conditions of 174,422 Paleostinian refugees, as well as another 18,601 Paleostinians who fled the neighboring conflict in Syria to camps in Leb.
Leb's Paleostinian camps suffer serious problems, with varying degrees of poverty, overcrowding, unemployment, poor housing conditions and lack of infrastructure.
Announcing the results, Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has him bumped off, too. said Leb had a "duty" towards Paleostinians but insisted that Leb would, under no circumstances, accept their naturalization.
Paleostinian officials have also consistently rejected permanent resettlement in Leb because of their longstanding demand that those who fled or were forced out of their homes with the creation of Israel be granted the right of return.
The census result is much lower than the 469,331 people registered in Leb with the U.N.'s Paleostinian refugee agency.
"UNRWA does not have a headcount of Paleostinian refugees who are currently residing in Leb. What we have as an agency are official registration records for the number of registered Paleostine refugees in Leb," spokeswoman Huda Samra told AFP at the time.
"If someone registered with UNRWA in Leb decided to live outside Leb, they don't notify us," she said.
[DAWN] Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a "model" village for ethnic Rakhine migrants colonists shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Moslems.
The new arrivals are moving to parts of Rakhine state mostly "cleared" of its Rohingya residents, whose villages were bulldozed and reduced to muddy stains on a landscape of lush farmland.
The Rakhine migrants colonists, who come from the poor but relatively stable south, are ─ for now ─ few in number. But they carry great expectations as the pioneers of a donor-led "Rakhinisation" plan to upend the demography of the once majority-Moslem area.
"We were really afraid of those Kalars and didn't plan to come here," Chit San Eain, a 28-year-old who has moved with her husband and toddler into a basic hut in Koe Tan Kauk tells AFP, using a pejorative term for Moslems.
"But now that they are no longer here, we have the chance to meet again with our relatives who live up here," she added, the ruins of a Rohingya settlement lying a few kilometres away.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven from northern Rakhine into Bangladesh since August 25 last year by a Myanmar army offensive against Moslem murderous Moslems.
Another 300,000 Rohingya were pushed out from the south and centre of Rakhine by army campaigns stretching back to the late 1970s.
The UN has branded last year's military crackdown ethnic cleansing, with a top official saying it carried all the "hallmarks of genocide." Myanmar vigorously denies the allegations and says refugees are welcome to return.
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"It's gonna take years to clean up and air this place out"
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Wonder where the MSM articles are for when the opposite was occurring.
Because that will work in the face of another Russian veto protecting client states Iran and Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Antonio Guterres says terror group's weapons limit Lebanese government's ability to exercise 'full illusory sovereignty and authority over its territory'.
United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... chief Antonio Guterres urged all Lebanese parties to stop meddling in the Syrian conflict, in a report naming the Leb-based and Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.
"The presence of unauthorized weapons in the hands of Hezbollah remains of serious concern and warrants condemnation," the secretary-general said in a quarterly report distributed to the 15 Security Council members ahead of a debate set for Tuesday.
Noting that "crises in the region continue to pose a risk to Leb’s stability," Guterres said he was still "concerned" about "almost daily" Israeli overflights of Lebanese territory in violation of a UN resolution and Lebanese illusory sovereignty.
In the area of operations of the UN’s UNIFIL mission in southern Leb, involving some 10,500 troops, the situation "remained generally calm."
And the UN chief hailed the mission’s increased visibility and activities aimed at halting hostilities.
[Real Clear Defense] Nearly seven years after the killing of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda is numerically larger and present in more countries than at any other time in its history. Indeed, the movement now boasts of some 40,000 men under arms, with approximately 10,000‐20,000 fighters in Syria; 7000‐9000 in Somalia; 5000 in Libya; 4000 in Yemen; a similar number dispersed throughout other countries across the Maghreb and Sahel; 3000 in Indonesia; and approximately 1000 in South Asia. From north-west Africa to South East Asia, al-Qaeda has been able to knit together a global movement of some two dozen local franchises.
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In addition to those factors described by the article, the fact of the matter is that most of the cannon fodder will pledge allegiance to whichever group seems most successful at the moment. So as ISIS fades, those people will flow to their local Al Qaeda branch. And in places like Europe, jihadis have for several years been connecting for individual projects irrespective of their previous allegience.
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
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...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 
