[KhaamaPress] 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. .. chaired the meeting of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on Friday morning and reviewed the security situation of a number of provinces.
The security situation of Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Balkh, Farah, and Jawzjan provinces were reviewed.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace in a statement said the meeting was organized in Gul Khana Palace where the security situation of Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Balkh, Farah, and Jawzjan provinces were reviewed.
The statement further added that the civilian and military officials of the named provinces were instructed to take necessary measures to thwart the conspiracies of the enemies.
No further details have been given in this regard but the Office of the President added that the meeting also hailed the security forces for ensuring the security during the Day of Ashura and thanked the local residents for their cooperation.
President Ghani also spoke with the military and civilian officials of 33 provinces and reviewed their issues and recommendations, ARG Palace said.
The statement by ARG Palace also added that the military and civilian officials were instructed to take necessary measures to resolve the issues and to respond to the recommendations of the provincial officials.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya’s internationally recognized government has called on the UN to take "concrete and effective" action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people since late August.
In a statement late Friday, the Government of National Accord (GNA) called on the UN mission to "present the Security Council with the reality of the bloody events in Libya so that it can... protect the lives and property of civilians".
Fighting slowed Saturday morning a day after festivities left 15 dead and dozens more maimed, according to health ministry spokeswoman Wedad Abu al-Niran.
The latest casualties brought the corpse count to more than 100 since festivities erupted on the capital’s southern outskirts on August 26, according to the GNA body that deals with the maimed.
The Libyan capital has been at the center of a battle for influence between gangs since dictator Moamer Qadaffy was ousted and killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising in 2011.
Despite a ceasefire deal reached on September 4, renewed fighting erupted this week, especially in the Salaheddin neighbourhood and on the road to 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... ’s disused international airport, which was destroyed in 2014.
The feuding militias come mostly from Libya’s third city Misrata and the town of Tarhouna southeast of the capital.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was "alarmed by the increasing number of violations of the ceasefire agreement", his front man said on Friday.
Guterres called on the militias to respect the truce and to "refrain from any actions that would increase the suffering of the civilian population".
Those responsible for "the violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... law must be held responsible", he said.
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[AlMasdar] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed his disapproval on sanctions against Venezuela during a meeting with his counterpart Jorge Arreaza in Caracas on Friday.
"We are not against any currency of any country. But the currencies shouldn’t be used as an instrument to attack other countries," Cavusoglu stated.
Arreaza thanked the Ottoman Turkish government for its support in moments of attacks against his country and emphasized the friendship between the two sides.
On the same day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that the Trump administration will take a serious of actions against the Venezuelan government in the coming days.
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But the currencies shouldn’t be used as an instrument to attack other countries," Cavusoglu stated.
[AlAhram] The number of refugee and migrant children arriving on Greek islands has soared, with more than 7,000 making the perilous voyage so far this year, a U.N. official said on Friday as he warned of dangerous and filthy conditions in overflowing camps.
U.N. children's agency UNICEF said children in the camps - many suffering severe psychological distress and at risk of violence - must be moved immediately to safer accommodation on the mainland.
Earlier this week aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres warned that many teenagers in Moria camp on Lesbos island had attempted suicide or were harming themselves. Other children suffer from elective mutism, panic attacks and anxiety.
More than 850 children arrived on Greek islands each month on average between January and August, up 32 percent on the same period last year, UNICEF said. It gave no specific reason for the rise, but said most came from conflict affected areas.
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UNICEF representative Lucio Melandri, who visited Lesbos and Samos islands last week, predicted arrivals would rise in the coming months and warned services could collapse.
"Conditions ... are becoming more dire and dangerous," he said.
Moria, a collection of tents and shipping containers in a former military base, is holding 9,000 people, nearly three times its capacity, according to government data. Another centre on Samos, built for 650 people, now houses 4,000.
Some children have spent more than a year in the centres even though the maximum stay under Greek law is 25 days, UNICEF said.
Greece has been a gateway into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... since 2015 for refugees fleeing turmoil in the Middle East and beyond.
UNICEF said there were about 20,500 refugees and migrants colonists on the Greek islands, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Violence, domestic abuse, protests and unrest are daily occurrences, it said. Access to sanitation is poor with up to 70 people sharing one toilet, leading to sewage leaks.
"The majority of children and young people I met have dealt with the trauma of war and then been forced to flee their homes. Now they are living in miserable conditions, with no end in sight. Many are in severe emotional distress," said Melandri.
He said the Greek authorities could no longer cope with the numbers.
UNICEF urged other EU countries to increase offers to resettle refugees and speed up family reunifications.
Greece has said it will move 2,000 people from Lesbos to the mainland by the end of the month.
A local governor has threatened to shut Moria down next month unless authorities clean up what health inspectors describe as "uncontrollable amounts of waste".
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Investors had hoped The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... would announce a sweeping plan to help its banks when Finance Minister Berat Albayrak rolled out a new economic program this week. What they got fell far short of that.
Albayrak announced sharply lower growth forecasts for this year and next and promised $12 billion in new savings and revenue for 2019, but failed to mollify investors who wanted to see Ankara move quickly to stem worries about the banking sector.
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[DAWN] Moments after Times of India reported inflammatory statements by Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Saturday, the Pakistain Army spokesperson responded by saying: "We [Pakistain Army] are ready for war but choose to walk the path of peace in the interest of the people of Pakistain, the neighbours and the region".
These remarks were made by Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor while talking to Dunya TV.
According to TOI, the Indian army chief said India "needs to take stern action to avenge the barbarism that the Lions of Islam and Pakistain Army have been carrying out". "Yes, it's time to give it back to them in the same coin, not resorting to similar kind of barbarism. But I think the other side must also feel the same pain," the Indian army chief was quoted as saying.
Gen Rawat's comments came shortly after Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... took to Twitter earlier on Saturday to respond to India's cancellation of the meeting between the Pak and Indian foreign ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... General Assembly (UNGA), calling New Delhi's reaction "arrogant and negative". "All my life I have come across small men occupying big offices who do not have the vision to see the larger picture," added PM Khan.
Responding to Gen Rawat's statements, Asif Ghafoor said Pakistain has a long-standing record of fighting terrorism, adding "we know the price [that is paid] for peace".
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[AlAhram] OPEC and its allies reduced oil output in August as a drop in Iranian supply due to U.S. sanctions derailed their attempts to raise production to agreed levels, delegates said on Saturday as the energy producers prepared to hold talks in Algiers.
The development further raises pressure on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to boost supply amid calls from U.S. President 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... to lower oil prices.
On Friday, a source familiar with the discussions told Rooters OPEC and its allies led by Russia were considering the possibility of raising crude supplies by a further 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) as U.S. sanctions on OPEC's third-largest producer, Iran, bite into Tehran's exports.
"If an increase in production is proposed there will be plenty of market counter-argument that it reduces even further the available spare capacity," Olivier Jakob from consultancy Petromatrix said.
"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... has made the mistake of trying to compensate for the loss of Iranian supplies with just-in-time replacement; but the oil market is looking for greater supply security than that. As a result, the strength of oil prices is now putting oil demand growth at risk," he added.
An OPEC and non-OPEC monitoring committee gathering in the Algerian capital this weekend found that oil producers' compliance with a supply-reduction agreement reached 129 percent in August, two committee delegates said.
This compares with a compliance level of 109 percent for July, indicating that the group went beyond its agreed cut.
Oman's oil minister Mohammed bin Hamad al-Rumhy told news hounds on Saturday that OPEC and non-OPEC producers overachieved on pledged output cuts by 600,000 bpd in August, putting the reduction at around 2.4 million bpd.
Seeking to reverse a downturn in oil prices that began in 2014, OPEC, Russia and other allies decided in late 2016 to reduce supply by some 1.8 million bpd.
In June this year, however, after months of cutting by more than their pact had called for amid involuntary reductions from Venezuela and other producers, they agreed to boost output by returning to 100 percent compliance.
That equates to an increase of about 1 million bpd, but the latest figures show they are some way from achieving that target.
Oil reached $80 a barrel this month, prompting Trump to demand again that OPEC bring down prices.
"We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices! We will remember. The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!" he wrote on Twitter.
Higher gasoline prices for U.S. consumers could create a political headache for Trump before November mid-term congressional elections.
OPEC sources said any official action to raise output would require OPEC to hold what it calls an extraordinary meeting - a proposal that is not on the table yet.
But the joint OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial committee known as the JMMC, which meets on Sunday, can still recommend a further increase in output if needed, the sources said.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi authorities have deprived Ottoman Turkish soldiers, deployed in northern Iraq to combat Kurdish militias, from visas to return to their bases as means to cut down the number of troops which Baghdad had repeatedly demanded to pull out.
Watheq al-Hashemi, director of al-Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies, an Iraqi government-affiliated think tank, told Almaalomah website that the Iraqi government has unilaterally decided not to grant Ottoman Turkish soldiers on leave at their homeland visas to return to the Ottoman Turkish military base in Bashiqa region, north of Iraq.
According to Hashemi, the measure, adopted over the past months, has helped reduce the number of Ottoman Turkish troops significantly. "The government’s stance of not allowing Ottoman Turkish soldiers to return will end the Ottoman Turkish military presence in Bashiqa cunningly and without any diplomatic or military friction {with Ankara}".
According to Hashemi, the Bashiqa camp is "totally cordoned by Iraqi troops", adding that "The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... cannot carry out any plans without the knowledge of the joint Iraqi troops".
It is believed that Ankara maintains nearly 2000 soldiers in Bashiqa, north of Iraq’s Nineveh province, as a surety against the activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the movement that engaged in war with Turkey for decades, and is branded by Ankara as a terrorist group. The troops deployed following 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.... Lions of Islam attacks on Sinjar region in 2014. Baghdad had called for the withdrawal of Ottoman Turkish troops, deeming their presence an infringement over its illusory sovereignty, but Ankara insists that presence protects its security.
Ottoman Turkish officials have reiterated in several occasions that their military offensives against PKK locations in northern Iraq will continue until the group’s threat is eliminated.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi arrived Saturday to Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s capital, Erbil, to discuss efforts to form the new government, Iraqi media reported.
Baghdad Today said Halbousi, along with his second deputy, Bashir al-Haddad, headed a parliamentary delegation to Erbil. It said Halbousi is scheduled to meet with former Kurdish president and Kurdistan Democratic Party leader, Masud Barzani, to discuss a range of critical issues, including the formation of the next Iraqi government and the fulfilling of the country’s presidency post.
Based on a political agreement adopted since the ouster of late leader Saddam Hussein, Kurds assume Iraq’s presidency, Sunnis are entitled to parliament speaker, and Shias hold the prime minister’s office.
Iraq parliament elections, the first since the defeat of 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.... bad boys, were held last May amid judicial challenges that prompted a recount of votes. Each of the winning political alliances had claimed securing the majority required to form the next cabinet.
Political powers continue negotiations on the best formation of the next cabinet.
Recent reports said Kurdish political groups had agreed on Barham Saleh, a former prime minister of Kurdistan, to be Iraq’s next president. The new president is scheduled to be approved by parliament on September 25th.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver "new information" in his speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly, according to a close associate of the Israeli leader. Cue in woman claiming Bibi grabbed her ass 55 years ago
[IsraelTimes] Meeting comes week after Cairo summit between Fatah officials and Egypt intelligence service; sides also discuss lifting Gazoo blockade
A group of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders met with an Egyptian security delegation in the Gazoo Strip to discuss Cairo’s efforts to advance Paleostinian reconciliation Saturday.
The sides discussed Egypt’s bid to end a long-simmering feud between the Hamas terror group, which controls Gazoo, and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’s Fatah party, which has dominance in the West Bank, according to a Hamas statement.
The parties also held a "deep conversation about ways to end the siege on the Gazoo Strip and alleviate the suffering of our people" in the coastal enclave, the Hamas statement added.
Egypt brokered a deal between Hamas and Fatah to bring the West Bank and Gazoo under one government in October 2017, raising Paleostinian hopes for the possibility of reconciliation. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the rivals have failed to implement the agreement.
Hamas has controlled Gazoo since ousting the Fatah-dominated PA in 2007 from the territory.
Last week, the Egyptian General Intelligence Services and a Fatah delegation met in Cairo, where they held talks about reconciliation, according to Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad.
On Thursday, UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov said the failure to implement for Hamas-Fatah unity agreement was a key factor behind the Strip’s worsening humanitarian situation.
Abbas has tried to clamp down on transfers of fuel and other supplies into Gazoo as a way of pressuring Hamas.
"Fatah and Hamas must engage in earnest with Egypt in order to bring back the legitimate government to Gazoo," Mladenov told a Security Council meeting.
H also warned that emergency fuel would soon run out, putting "health, water and sanitation facilities at immediate risk of shutting down."
Aside from mediating Hamas-Fatah reconciliation efforts, Cairo has also been central to brokering periods of calm amid undulating waves of violence with Israel along the Gazoo frontier.
The talks came as tensions again began to heat up along the border, with large protests near the security fence and the re-appearance of incendiary balloon and kite launches after a several week lull.
On Saturday evening, Israel said it fired at a cell in the northern Gazoo Strip launching incendiary balloons toward Israel. There were no further details.
Hamas officials have demanded that any long-term ceasefire include the lifting of restrictions on movement into and out of Gazoo.
Both Israel and Egypt enforce a number of restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of Gazoo. Israel says its blockade is necessary to keep Hamas and other terror groups in the strips from arming or building military infrastructure.
Last month, Egypt hosted a number of Paleostinian factions in Cairo including Hamas to discuss a possible ceasefire and Egyptian General Intelligence Services chief Abbas Kamel reportedly visited Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman in Israel to talk to him about the matter.
Following protests from senior Fatah and PA officials, however, Egypt reportedly paused its efforts to mediate a long-term ceasefire deal between the Israel and the terror group.
Fatah and PA officials have demanded that reconciliation efforts take precedence over a ceasefire and say that only the Paleostine Liberation Organization, and not Hamas, has the legitimacy to negotiate international treaties like a ceasefire
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinian Fatah faction has accused the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leadership of colluding with the Israeli government and abandoning the "right of return" principle.
In a statement released on Friday, Fatah said that the Hamas movement is sending messages to the American administration and to the Israeli government, asserting its acceptance of a deal on the basis of a state in Gazoo under its control with a long term truce, at the expense of an independent Paleostinian state to be established within the June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital and the Right of Return of the Paleostinian People.
The movement pointed out that the Paleostinian president rejected the US-Israeli proposal on what was described as the "deal of the century" in the name of the Paleostinian people, but Hamas leaders are working to send signals of willingness to accept.
Fatah also pointed out that Hamas is carrying out its plan, "exploiting the public’s preoccupation with the battles of steadfastness on the ground in Jerusalem and Khan al-Ahmar, and in all the sites of confronting the settlement and the occupation."
News about 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... i communications and Hamas’ approval
Israeli TV channel 10 previously revealed that Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani tried to contact by telephone, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convince Israel of Doha's plan to conclude a truce agreement with the Paleostinian factions in Gazoo, led by Hamas, through written messages and confidential communications in order to communicate with Netanyahu and convince him.
The TV channel further revealed that Qatar’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, sent a letter last May aimed at delivering a plan.
According to the Israeli channel, the Qatari proposal revealed that Hamas agreed to stop the violence in exchange for a plan to improve the infrastructure, electricity and sanitation in Gazoo, as well as the establishment of commercial infrastructure through a port or airport in Gazoo.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Ahwazi political group has refuted claims that ISIS carried out the deadly attack on a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Saturday, killing at least 29 people, including 12 Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and injuring 60 others.
The front man of the "Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz" Yaquob Hurr al-Tisteri said in an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel that "ISIS claims of the attack are not true".
He then said that the attack was executed by national resistance individuals without specifying whether his group had any specific knowledge on which group carried out the attack.
The front man told Al Arabiya that non-combatants were killed due to random shooting by the Iranian security forces and that sources on the ground said individuals "responded in retaliation".
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the security forces to use their powers to identify the perpetrators of the attack.
For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country would respond "quickly and decisively" to the attack, charging agents of a "foreign regime" with responsibility.
Zarif tweeted: "Terrorists attacked Ahwaz after a foreign regime recruited, armed and paid them."
Yaghub Hur Totsari, front man for one of the two groups that identify themselves as the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, said the Ahvaz National Resistance, an umbrella organization of all armed movements, was behind the attack but did not specify which group.
Totsari identified one of the assailants by the initials A.M., without elaborating.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the security forces to use their powers to identify the perpetrators of the attack.
And keep trying until you find out it was either the Americans or the Israelis.
[PRESSTV] President Hassan Rouhani says Iranians will defeat US President 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... like what they did to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
He made the remarks in a military parade in Tehran on Saturday to mark the beginning of the week that commemorates Iran's eight-year resistance against Iraq’s 1980-88 invasion.
About 600 vessels took part in the Persian Gulf naval drill, a day after Iran held aerial exercises in the waterway, vowing that a "pounding reply" awaited the country's enemies.
Trump withdrew from a landmark multilateral nuclear deal in May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic last month.
"Saddam did not achieve its objective during the imposed war despite being supported by all global and regional powers," Rouhani said.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... he added, Iran secured a military, moral and political victory.
"We won back our territory from the aggressor. The UN and the Security Council designated Saddam as the person who began the war and all the countries that had helped Saddam later expressed regret and confessed to their crimes," the Iranian president said.
"The same story will happen to Trump and America will suffer the same fate as Saddam."
Today, 38 years into Saddam's invasion and violation of the 1975 Algiers agreement, the US government is repeating the same story of Saddam, Rouhani pointed out.
He criticized US President Trump for failing to respect international laws and lambasted his decision to reneged on America’s commitments in a multilateral agreement like the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that has been endorsed the Security Council.
"Today, it not more a proxy war. The US has directly stood against the Iranians nation and began reneging on its pledge," Rouhani said.
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[PRESSTV] The mainstream Western media have been mostly silent about the deadly US-sponsored terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, according to US scholar and political analyst Kevin Barrett.
"Innocent people being killed by snuffies is front page news in the West; but, in the case of terrorism against Iran, suddenly, everything changes and the media tends to ignore and downplay it," Barrett told Press TV in an interview on Saturday.
Barrett sees the attack as another terrorist operation launched by the United States and its regional allies.
"There have been close to 20,000 people killed in these kinds of terrorist attacks by krazed killer groups in Iran over the years to almost the complete silence of the western media and that is because it is the western governments led by the United States and its Israeli master who are in fact organizing, funding, arming, equipping, and unleashing these snuffies against Iran and they have been ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979," Barrett said.
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byw, Kevin Barrett's video on why Tel Aviv planned the 9-11 attacks is still on youtube
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[PRESSTV] Iranian authorities have summoned ambassadors of the Netherlands and Denmark as well as chargé d'affaires of the British embassy in Tehran after forces of Evil with alleged links to the European countries carried out attacks during a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on Saturday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the department for European affairs of the ministry summoned the three diplomats separately at the evening time on Saturday to declare Tehran’s strong protest to the role their countries might have played to support elements who carried out the terror attacks in Ahvaz earlier in the day that led to the killing of some 25 people.
The al-Ahvaziya terror group, whose recruits are believed to be scattered in several European countries, including in the Netherlands and in Denmark, grabbed credit for the attack in Ahvaz.
The terror outfit, which is backed by 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... , has a record of carrying out sabotage acts in Iran’s Khuzestan province, which encompasses Ahvaz and some other Arab-dominated towns.
Qassemi said Iran expected the two European countries to extradite the "criminal perpetrators" of the terrorist act in Ahvaz.
"It was reiterated to the ambassadors of the Netherlands and Denmark that the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran had earlier warned about the residence of these individuals in these countries and has called for their arrest and prosecution," said Qassemi in a statement, adding that the ambassadors of the two countries declared that their governments were ready to share any information with regards to the forces of Evil and their records.
The official said that Iranian authorities had also passed their strong note of protest to the chargé d'affaires of the British embassy in Tehran about an interview aired by a Britannia-based TV channel after the attack in Ahvaz in which the front man of the al-Ahvaziya had condoned the terrorist act.
Qassemi said the British diplomat condemned the attack and said that he would accordingly relay Iran’s message of protest to the authorities in London.
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"Knock it off! Terror attacks on civilians is our schtick!"
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[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says the terrorist attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz was the continuation of plots hatched by US stooges in the region to create insecurity in the country, adding that Iran’s intelligence services must swiftly find the accomplices of the "criminals" behind the attack and put them on trial.
In a message on Saturday, Ayatollah Khamenei expressed his condolences over the terrorist attack on a military parade in Ahvaz earlier in the day which killed at least 25 people and injured more than 60 others.
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[PRESSTV] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Theocratic Republic will give a "crushing" response to the slightest threat against the country.
The Iranian president made the remarks during separate phone calls with Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli and governor of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan on Saturday, following a terrorist attack on a military parade in the quiet provincial capital of Ahvaz.
"Those who are providing these snuffies with propaganda and intelligence support must be held accountable," Rouhani said.
He expressed his sympathy with the bereaved families of the victims of the terrorist attack and ordered Iranian officials to adopt immediate measures to treat the injured.
The Iranian chief executive further gave necessary orders to the Intelligence Ministry and all security and military bodies to immediately identify the snuffies and their ringleaders and also to decisively deal with all those who committed the crime.
Shortly after the terrorist attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also said Iran will respond "swiftly and decisively" in defense of its people.
"Terrorists recruited, trained, armed, and paid by a foreign regime have attacked Ahvaz. Children and journos [are] among casualties," Zarif tweeted on Saturday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Despite the launch of a major offensive on the last pocket of the ISIS krazed killer group in eastern Syria, close to the Iraqi border, the leader of the terrorist group His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... might succeed once again in escaping, observers have warned.
While the Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by the US-led coalition launched on September 10 the final phase of the attack on ISIS, targeting Hajin town and its suburbs, where Baghdadi is believed to exist, many have speculated that he might have already escaped.
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I hear bin Laden's hideout is available.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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. ..
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya’s internationally recognized government has called on the UN to take "concrete and effective" action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people since late August.
[DAWN] Moments after Times of India reported inflammatory statements by Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Saturday, the Pakistain Army spokesperson responded by saying: "We [Pakistain Army] are ready for war but choose to walk the path of peace in the interest of the people of Pakistain, the neighbours and the region".
[AlAhram] OPEC and its allies reduced oil output in August as a drop in Iranian supply due to U.S. sanctions derailed their attempts to raise production to agreed levels, delegates said on Saturday as the energy producers prepared to hold talks in Algiers.
...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...
[PRESSTV] The mainstream Western media have been mostly silent about the deadly US-sponsored terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, according to US scholar and political analyst Kevin Barrett.
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
