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I think Mexico will see the fun's over and stop these invasions
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Protecting the sovereignty of the US and and specifically CONUS is the first responsibility of the military. You may not like the job, but fretting away resources elsewhere while ignoring this one undermines your rationale to exist.
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Could make for an interesting court case. Does Posse Comitatus apply to US military interacting with non-US citizens on US soil?
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In the National Guard, it depends on whether you are Title 10 activated or not. Posse Comitatus applies when its a Title 10 (Federal) activation. But dual or State activation PC does not apply, and Guard can do law enforcement - which is what happened during Katrina, with out of state Guard units carrying live rounds and patrolling for looters.
But Posse Comitatus only applies to enforcement of "Domestic" laws, so, arguably, border security is "international", not domestic. There is precedent: Exceptions exist for the Enforcement of federal law at the discretion of the President of the United States, such as with the 101st Airborne Division by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and for ISR activity for the DEA, DHS and counterterr activity.
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Then there's the whole "all enemies, foreign and domestic" part of the oath...
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A workaround would be to have an ICE agent, or a local LEO, or a state-activated Guardsman, embedded in the regular military units, who would then serve as the non-federal-military authority whom the active duty military is "assisting".
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How about we go with #7 starting tomorrow morning after chow ?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Deputy Afghan Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai has resigned from his position citing the existence of ’serious opinion differences’ with the government of national unity.
In his resignation letter to 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. .. , Mr. Karzai has said he would prefer to remain alongside the people and resign from his position due to the existing differences in opinions with the government’s leadership.
Karzai further added that the existing differences have limited the working space for him to continue to his work for the national benfits of the country.
He also added that such differences would have negative impacts on his services to continue to his work to defend the basic rights of the Afghan people, emphasizing that he would rather remain on the side of his people considering the current situation.
Mr. Karzai has not elaborated further in this regard with the Office of the President, ARG Palace, yet to comment in this regard.
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Translated from the original: "My slice of the take wasn't big enough.. after all I have 4 wives to support."
[RADIOSHABELLE] A Kenyan Military soldier was arraigned in court over kidnapping charges on Wednesday.
Mohammed Sharmake Abdi of Kahawa Barracks and his accomplices were tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for Kidnapping three Somali nationals.
Mr. ABdi was detained alongside Abdi Hamid ‐ a Kemu student.
The others arrested at Eastleigh Section 3 are Abdikalif Mohammed Noor, Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi ‐ driver, and Salah Abdi.
According to a statement by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the suspects were demanding a ransom of Sh5,000 ($50) from the abductees.
"The soldier, No. 95592, Private Mohammed Sharmake Abdi of Kahawa Barracks, Abdi Hamid Mohammed Abdi a Student at the Kenya Methodist University, Mr. Abdikalif Mohammed Noor, Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi, and Salah Abdi were accused of kidnapping three persons in Eastleigh," the DCI said in the statement.
Three victims were freed after the recorded statement at DCI Centre.
"The three victims of the kidnap ordeal were released," DCI said.
According to the court, hearing their case has been moved to next month after the prosecution urged the court for time to conclude the investigations.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has extended a nationwide state of emergency for three months, effective from October 15, the official state gazette said on Monday.
The state of emergency was first imposed in April 2017 after two church bombings which killed 47 people. It has been continually extended since.
El-Sisi issued a decree on Monday ordering the new extension.
[Daily Caller] Former CIA Director John Brennan, during an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night, claimed the White House and the Saudis are working together to "concoct a story" about what happened to Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and urged Congress to "hold the administration’s feet to the fire."
In an interview discussing the disappearance of Khashoggi on "All In" with Chris Hayes, the host told Brennan, "It also seems now we’re in this surreal and morally horrific situation in which the White House and the Saudis seem to be trying to sort of figure out what story they can come up with that they can both have plausibility for Mohammad bin Salman."
Brennan agreed, stating, "Yes, and their challenge is that they don’t know the full extent of what the U.S. Intelligence agencies and the Turks know. So I’m sure that they have been working to try to concoct a story that’s going to stand up to the scrutiny that will be immediately put on it. And so how can they claim then that Mohammad bin Salman had no responsibility whatsoever? And is he looking for the scapegoats inside of Saudi Arabia? Has he already taken action against them to silence them? Even if he does that though, if U.S. Intelligence has damning authorization about his role, or his authorization his story is going to fall apart."
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I'm sure Johnny misses his prayer rug jihadi apologist buddy quite a bit.
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Only in the mind of John Brennan does fact finding require 'story concoction.'
[BBC] The US has asked Turkey for a recording said to provide strong evidence that missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
"We have asked for it, if it exists," President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House.
Mr Khashoggi has not been seen since entering the building on 2 October. Saudi Arabia denies killing him.
Mr Trump denied he was trying "to cover" for Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post has published the last column Mr Khashoggi wrote before his disappearance on the importance of a free press in the Middle East.
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"Give us a day or two so that we can make them up for you."
[IsraelTimes] Buzzfeed reports Mohammed Dahlan hired Israeli-Hungarian Abraham Golan’s firm to carry out liquidations in the war-torn country on behalf of the Gulf nation.
The things people think up — and sometimes they’re even true!
Mohammed Dahlan, the former head of the PA security forces in Gazoo, struck a deal with a mercenary firm run by an Israeli to carry out targeted liquidations in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on behalf of the United Arab Emerites, a Buzzfeed report disclosed Tuesday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi news website Sabq.org has denied on Wednesday a report published by Rooters news agency that claimed that the Saudi Counsel General Mohammad al-Otaibi in Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... had been relieved of his position.
The report, quoting an official, claimed that al-Otaibi will be investigated. Sabq.org claimed that its journalists corroborated with their sources, asserting that it has nothing to do with the false report by Rooters.
In a tweet, it further clarified that the false reporting is a professional and ethical fall for Rooters adding that the prominent agency fell in the trap of disinformation and falsely related a report to Sabq.org.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Jabal Ras incident that occurred in Yemen, which was aimed at a legitimate 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 ... military target, will be referred to the Joint Incidents Assessment Team to consider the possibility of an accident happening and citizen casualties occurring because of it, Arab Coalition front man Colonel Turki al-Maliki said on Tuesday.
Maliki stressed the coalition’s commitment to abide by rules of engagement and the manner in which use of force is implemented.
At the weekly presser held in Riyadh, Maliki reviewed the coalition’s efforts and the efforts of the King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center in Yemen’s al-Mahrah governorate which was ravaged by floods due to a tropical storm that caused heavy rainfall on coastal cities since Sunday.
Maliki added that a crisis management unit was formed to manage the crisis, and aid is being brought to the areas inflicted by air.
Maliki also said that the Yemeni army was able to seize a large amount of weapons from the Iran-backed Houthi militias, adding that the coalition forces target a missile launch pad in Saada as well as hard boyz in Hajjah who were launching an unmanned aircraft. A warehouse used to store weapons by the Houthis was also targeted in the Bajil district, as well as hard boyz in Kitaf and Baqe’a.
"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... provided 90 security vehicles to local authorities in al-Mahrah, in addition to operations restoring hope which includes restoring stability in liberated governorates, and providing financial support, training and necessary weapons to security forces for the purpose of maintaining security and stability," Maliki said.
Maliki added that a medical center was established in the province of Hajjah stressing that this comes within the process of restoring stability, and that assistance will continue to be provided in all areas in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... whether it’s under the control of the Houthis or the legitimate government.
Maliki stressed that the Houthi militias are preventing vessels carrying relief materials, petroleum derivatives from entering the country, even though these shipments were given permits by the coalition. He added that the Houthis thrive off of black markets and use the humanitarian situation as "a cover in front of the international community." He said that the total number of permits between 2015 to 2018 amount to 32,445.
Maliki also showed videos of Houthi militias violating international humanitarian laws by using mosques and schools to protect themselves from being targeted. He also showed how they plant mines on public roads and residential areas.
Maliki said that they were able to remove 2,020 mines and bombs in the second week of October. He added that the total Houthi casualties between October 8 and October 10 reached 811.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An alleged ringleader of a 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-backed hacking operation that targeted prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit on the grounds that he has diplomatic immunity.
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Abbe Lowell of Winston and Strawn LLP is a heavy hitter that Democrats use when there is real trouble afoot. Note that entities from the Clinton Foundation to the Brookings Institution operate in Muslim Brothrhood-dominated Qatar. Of course, so does the US military.
[MAIL] Mexico has dispatched two Boeing 727s full of federal police officers to its southern border, as the country prepares for the arrival of a migrant caravan of thousands from Central America.
Five hundred federal police officers in riot gear arrived on Wednesday in Tapachula, Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, where some 4,000 migrants are now marching northward.
The presence of federal forces on the southern border of the country is not to stop migrants from crossing the border, but to help immigration officials maintain order, Mexican Federal Police Commissioner Manelich Castilla Craviotto told Noticeros Televisia.
'The INM reiterates its unrestricted commitment to respect the human rights of migrants,' said Mexico's National Institute of Migration, a government agency that controls and supervises immigration.
[AnNahar] Nearly 400 Yemenis were denied refugee status by South Korea on Wednesday, months after their arrival on the resort island of Jeju triggered a populist outcry.
Ethnically-homogenous South Korea grants refugee status to only a tiny fraction of those who apply, despite having been ravaged by war itself within living memory.
About 500 people from the conflict-plagued Middle Eastern state arrived on Jeju earlier this year, taking advantage of the visa-free access the southern island offers to encourage tourism.
Their arrivals triggered a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the South, where only around four percent of the population are foreigners, mostly from China and Southeast Asia, and discrimination against migrant workers is widespread.
Many opponents cited the Yemenis' Moslem religion and nearly 700,000 people -- a record -- signed a petition on the presidential website urging tightening of what are already some of the world's toughest refugee laws.
The Jeju visa exemption rules were rapidly changed to exclude Yemenis.
A total of 481 Yemenis formally applied for asylum. Of those, 34 were rejected outright on Wednesday, the justice ministry said, and 339 were given humanitarian stay permits, allowing them to remain in the country for a year. Those whose claims were rejected outright may appeal.
Decisions were deferred on 85 others. Last month an initial 23, mostly families with children or pregnant women, were given the stay permits, which need to be renewed every 12 months and can be refused if the security situation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... is deemed to have improved.
None of the applications for refugee status have so far been successful.
Since 1994 South Korea has approved just 4.1 percent of applications, official figures show. The rules do not apply to North Koreans, who are automatically considered citizens of the South.
A recent opinion poll showed about half of South Koreans opposed accepting the Yemeni asylum-seekers, with 39 percent in favour and 12 percent undecided.
[AlAhram] Twitter on Wednesday released data on foreign influence campaigns on its platform showing some 10 million tweets, mostly from Russia, dating back as far as 2009.
Golly — that was mostly on President Barack Hussein Obama’s watch. Why did he do nothing about it?
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based Twitter said it was releasing detailed data on previously disclosed misinformation efforts to allow researchers to gain more insight into the campaigns.
"In line with our strong principles of transparency and with the goal of improving understanding of foreign influence and information campaigns, we are releasing the full, comprehensive archives of the tweets and media that are connected with these two previously disclosed and potentially state-backed operations on our service," said a statement from Twitter trust and safety chief Vijaya Gadde and site integrity head Yoel Roth.
"We are making this data available with the goal of encouraging open research and investigation of these behaviors from researchers and academics around the world."
Twitter last year banned some Russia-based accounts accused of spreading misinformation during the 2016 US election, and earlier this year acknowledged that hundreds of accounts from Russia and Iran were engaged in manipulation efforts.
Facebook has uncovered similar efforts and has stepped up its efforts to curb foreign influence.
In Wednesday's statement, Twitter said influence campaign efforts came from 3,841 accounts originating in Russia, and 770 potentially originating in Iran.
They included more than 10 million tweets and more than two million images and videos from as early as 2009.
"It is clear that information operations and coordinated inauthentic behavior will not cease," Twitter said.
"These types of tactics have been around for far longer than Twitter has existed -- they will adapt and change as the geopolitical terrain evolves worldwide and as new technologies emerge. For our part, we are committed to understanding how bad-faith actors use our services."
Researchers at the Atlantic Council, who had early access to analyze the Twitter data, the influence campaigns sought to exploit vulnerabilities in a polarized electorate.
"The Russian and Iranian troll farm operations show that American society was deeply vulnerable, not to all troll farm operations, but to troll accounts of a particular type," said a blog post from the group's Digital Forensic Research Lab.
"That type hid behind carefully crafted personalities, produced original and engaging content, infiltrated activist and engaged communities, and posted in hyper-partisan, polarizing terms."
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"The Russian and Iranian troll farm operations show that American society was deeply vulnerable, not to all troll farm operations, but to troll accounts of a particular type,"
It should read" "The Russian and Iranian troll farm operations show that democrats are deeply vulnerable, not to all troll farm operations, but to troll accounts of a particular type,"
[AsiaTimes] A government proposal to stop permanent migrants from settling in Australia’s largest urban centers represents the latest salvo in an increasingly politicized debate on immigration and the country’s future as a multicultural melting pot.
Alan Tudge, the federal minister overseeing cities, urban infrastructure and population issues, floated the idea of relocating migrants as a way of easing growth pressures on Sydney, Melbourne and south-eastern Queensland, which attracted almost 90% of new settlers in 2017.
“We are working on measures to have more new arrivals go to the smaller states and regions and require them to be there for at least a few years,” Tudge said, adding that the objective was to “match the skills of new migrants with the skill shortages in rural and regional Australia.”
Tudge suggested that visa conditions could apply for as many as 45% of permanent migrants, equivalent to about 70,000 arrivals on 2017 levels. Demographers, however, have already dismissed the proposal as unworkable and a misguided policy option.
Asians, who accounted for 56% of Australia’s migrant intake in 2016-17, would be among those worst affected by such a policy if implemented. Most tend to live close to family and cultural networks in either Sydney or Melbourne.
There were 58,232 permanent settlers from southern and central Asia over that period — mostly Indians, Iraqis and Syrians — 37,235 from northeast Asia (mainly from China) and 31,488 Southeast Asians (the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Myanmar).
The fact that Tudge unveiled the plan in a speech to members of the ruling Liberal Party at the conservative Menzies Research Center suggests it was more of a political statement than a serious policy shift.
The party’s right wing wants to curb migration and Liberal leaders are trying to mend rifts caused by the August dumping of Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.
Other cabinet ministers have not publicly backed the plan, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison was scathing of such relocation strategies when they were suggested by the then-Labor Party government in 2010.
“So to hold out some false hope that this problem’s going to be solved because a population minister is going to fantastically move people around … is I think unfair to the Australian people to suggest that that is a realistic option, certainly in the short or medium term,” he said.
[National Review] President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has requested audio and video recordings that reportedly show the horrific death of Saudi Arabian Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
"We’ve asked for it, if it exists," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We will probably know that by the end of the week," he said.
Pro-government Turkish media released what are claimed to be descriptions of the audio recordings on Wednesday, just as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Turkey to discuss the incident with Turkish officials.
Khashoggi is caught on tape being interrogated as his fingers are cut off before he is dismembered and beheaded, according to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, which reports Saudi Consul General Mohammed al-Otaibi telling the killers, "Do this outside; you’re going to get me in trouble."
Khashoggi, a former adviser to Saudi intelligence who became an outspoken critic of the country’s regime and was living in the U.S. before his disappearance, entered the consulate in Turkey on October 2 to finalize divorce paperwork so he could marry his fiancée, but was never seen exiting as has been missing since.
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Thank goodness our newshounds are fearless
At being selectively earless
Or such an example
Might go hippocampal
And leave sleeping liars' lives cheerless.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Ottoman Turkish journalists have been charged with insulting the Ottoman Turkish nation and institutions for suggesting that a Ottoman Turkish court may not have acted independently when ruling in the case against an American pastor.
Duygu Guvenc and Alican Uludag, from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, face maximum two years in prison for articles published in July after U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, who was at the center of a Ottoman Turkish-U.S. diplomatic dispute, was released to house arrest after almost two years in jail.
The two journalists reject the charge. Guvenc says Monday "we used our constitutional right to criticize decisions as journalists."
The pastor, who was accused of terror-related charges, was convicted Friday yet released from custody for time served. He has returned to the United States.
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[ATIMES] Lieutenant General Asim Munir is considered a deeply religious man close to the Army chief whose experience in Gilgit-Baltistan, overlooking the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, led to the appointment.
Former Military Intelligence chief Lieutenant General Asim Munir has been appointed as director-general of Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Munir will formally take over the position on October 25, following the retirement of Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar.
The announcement comes a couple of weeks after Munir’s promotion to be a three-star general. With Lieutenant General Mukhtar set to retire at the end of this month, Munir was considered a front-runner to become Pakistan’s next spymaster.
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ASAD DURRANI
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Asim Munir
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EHSANUL HAQ
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Gilgit-Baltistan
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HAMID GUL
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
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Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Nawaz Sharif
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Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
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Shaukat Aziz
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Overlooked the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor? If he's so religious, I wonder how he feels about the way Chinese treat Uighurs?
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[PJMedia] The Palestinian Authority won a Tuesday vote to lead the G77 group of developing countries at the United Nations, while the United States said no such move could be supported because no Palestinian state has been admitted as a member state. But Israel is. So sad.... not
As the PA leads the G77 next year, though, it will essentially be acting like a full UN member.
The United States, Israel and Australia voted against the PA's chairmanship, while 146 countries voted in favor, 15 abstained, and 29 countries didn't vote. Remind me... why are we still in the UN and fund this abomination?
"Australia's decision to vote no on this resolution reflects our long-standing position that Palestinian attempts to seek recognition as a state in international fora are deeply unhelpful to efforts towards a two-state solution," Australian UN Ambassador Gillian Bird told the General Assembly.
Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN Jonathan Cohen said that the U.S. "cannot support efforts by the Palestinians to enhance their status outside of direct negotiations."
"The United States does not recognize that there is a Palestinian state and notes that no such state has been admitted as a UN Member State. Therefore, we strongly oppose the Palestinian election as Chair of the G77, as well as this so-called enabling resolution," he said. BUUUUUURRRRN!
"If this misguided resolution is adopted, the United States will leave no doubt about where we stand," he added in remarks to the General Assembly. "When the Palestinians speak as chair of the G77 in the General Assembly, we will remind our fellow member states that the United States does not recognize that there is a Palestinian state and that no such state has been admitted as a UN member state."
Ambassador Nikki Haley affirmed in a statement that "the Palestinians are not a UN member state or any state at all" and vowed "the United States will continually point that out in our remarks at UN events led by the Palestinians." I have such a political crush on this woman.
"Today's UN mistake undermines the prospects for peace by encouraging the illusion held by some Palestinian leaders that they can advance their goals without direct peace negotiations," she said. "In fact, today's vote does nothing to help the Palestinian people."
Cohen noted that "only UN member states should be entitled to speak and act on behalf of major groups of states at the United Nations" and "it is entirely inappropriate for an observer to play the role of representing a group of states in the General Assembly or elsewhere in the United Nations system."
"Achieving a real peace requires the courage to sit down at the table, and make compromises. This initiative is the opposite," he added. "...We also urge Palestinian leaders to do the right thing for their people, and re-engage in peace talks. When they are ready, rest assured, the United States will be too." Fuck them, fuck the UN and fuck this bullshit theater.
[Ynet] The US Treasury imposed sanctions on Wednesday on an Iraq-based money services business, Afaq Dubai, believed to be moving funds for the 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.... Death Eater group.
The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Afaq Dubai to its list of specially designated global murderous Moslems for "assisting in, sponsoring or providing financial, material or technical support" for the Islamic State group, the department said in a statement.
The Treasury action followed a Pentagon decision on Oct. 11 targeting a financial group supporting Islamic State. The Treasury said the moves are part of a broader US effort to target a network of money services businesses that enable Islamic State to carry out operations across the Middle East.
In September, US Treasury took action against Islamic State financial controllers with ties in the Caribbean and the Middle East. It took action against a money exchange group in Syria in December 2016.
In May 2018, Afaq Dubai was one of three money exchanges that received $3 million from a Jordan-based ISIS financier, according to the US Treasury.
The Iraq-based business is part of a complex financial network ISIS operates across the Middle East, said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
"Even as ISIS’s hold on territory is eliminated, we will continue to search for and shut down illicit financial networks ISIS utilizes to fund terror attacks and sustain operations," said Mandelker.
The designation follows on the heels of arrests of ten suspected ISIS financiers in Erbil and Baghdad. They were allegedly members of the al-Rawi financial network.
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[IsraelTimes] ICC’s Fatou Bensouda says planned razing by Israel of illegally built Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank could violate Rome Statute; warns she is ’keeping an eye’ on both sides in Gazoofestivities.
The ICC prosecutor ignores the fact that Israel has chosen not to be a member of the ICC and that the Palestinian territories cannot be subject to the thing as they are not a sovereign state. So really, all this posturing is pointless.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian mediators are consulting with the Israelis and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leaders in Gazoo in the hope of concluding a deal that informed officials say has been tantalisingly close for the last 12 weeks.
The delay, say Egyptian sources, is mainly a result of Hamas’ reluctance to solidly commit to some of Israel’s security demands.
The consultations are expected to intensify, and be conducted at a higher level than previously, in an attempt to head off strikes threatened by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Official sources in Cairo say Egypt, Israel and the US agreed to the importance of securing "a relatively solid and sustainable" ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during talks that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi held on the sidelines of last month’s United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly in New York.
The aim, they add, is not just to avert a new Israel war on an already devastated Gazoo but to halt any further deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the overpopulated and impoverished Strip.
Avoiding an kaboom in Gazoo over stifling living conditions is essential to the interests of both Egypt and Israel, say the sources, and a ceasefire, tried and tested for a few months, is a prerequisite for the launch of any Gazoo economic development plan.
"We have managed to secure a level of restraint from both sides during the past few weeks but this ceasefire will remain vulnerable in the absence of a full deal between Hamas and Israel," said a well-informed Egyptian source.
"We made it clear to the Paleostinian Authority and Hamas that we are not willing to see an kaboom in Gazoo and we are worried that in the absence of a reliable ceasefire to allow for the start of economic reconstruction anything could happen."
[IsraelTimes] Senior Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", official Moussa Abu Marzouk posts on Twitter that the ruling group "regrets" Egypt’s decision to cancel intelligence chief Abbas Kamel’s visit to the region tomorrow.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... the Egyptian delegation that arrived in Gazoo ahead of Kamel’s visit left the Strip via the Erez crossing with Israel.
The Ynet news site reported that the visiting Cairo officials spent the day speaking with the various faction in the Strip, urging them not to launch more rockets at Israel tonight.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leadership in Gazoo has gone into hiding in anticipation of fresh Israeli strikes on the group’s positions later tonight, according to reports in the Paleostinian media.
According to the reports, Hamas leaders have also evacuated cop shoppes and instructed their fighters to abandon their outposts in the Strip.
[Ynet] The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Wednesday that the terrorist cell, which was attacked this morning in the northern Gazoo Strip by the IDF during a rocket launch attempt, is a radical and "errant" faction that used to belong to Fatah and who have close ties with Iran.
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[Ynet] Around 300 Syrian "White Helmet" rescue workers who fled Syria for Jordan three months ago have now left for resettlement in Western countries, a Jordanian foreign ministry statement said on Wednesday.
In July the rescue workers, fleeing advancing Russian-backed Syrian government troops, slipped over the Israeli Golan Heights frontier and into Jordan, with the help of Israeli soldiers and Western powers.
You no doubt recall, dear Reader, that a similar number of White Helmets refused to sully themselves by accepting Israel’s aid and hospitality, however briefly, and remain to this day beleaguered somewhere in the depths of Syria.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the time he had helped the evacuation at the request of 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... and other leaders and that there had been fears that the rescue workers' lives were at risk.
Jordan had accepted them after getting guarantees their stay would be temporary and they would be given asylum in Canada, Germany and Britannia, Jordanian officials said.
The "White Helmets", known officially as Syria Civil Defence, have been credited with saving thousands of people in rebel-held areas during years of bombing by Syrian government and Russian forces in the country's civil war.
Its members say they are neutral. Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... and his backers describe them as tools of Western propaganda and Islamist-led hard boys.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Treasury announced new sanctions on Iran on Tuesday, including sanctions on an Iranian tractor manufacturing company and a steel company among other firms.
The Treasury imposed sanctions on a multibillion-dollar financial network that supports an Iranian paramilitary force that recruits and trains child soldiers for the country's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The Bonyad Taavon Basij network supports a volunteer paramilitary group, the Basij Resistance Force, which works with the IRGC, Treasury said in a statement.
The sanctioned entities are: Andisheh Mehvaran Investment Company, Bahman Group, Bandar Abbas Zinc Production Company, Bank Mellat, Bonyad Taavon Basij, Calcimin Company, Esfehan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company, Iran’s Zinc Mines Development Company, Mehr Eqtesad Bank, Mehr Eqtesad Financial Group, Negin Sahel Royal Company, Parsian Bank, Parsian Catalyst Chemical Company, Qeshm Zinc Smelting And Reduction Company, Sina Bank, Tadbirgaran Atiyeh Investment Company, Taktar Investment Company, Technotar Engineering Company and Zanjan Acid Production Company.
Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in May, and his administration re-imposed a round of sanctions on the Islamic republic in August.
Another round of sanctions is expected at the beginning of November.
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[OUTLINE] Staffan de Mistura announced Wednesday he will resign as UN envoy to Syria, becoming the third person to quit the post after years of fruitless efforts to end the country's war.
De Mistura, who said he was leaving for "purely personal reasons", organised nine rounds of indirect negotiations in Geneva and Vienna between the warring parties, without results.
The war, which broke out in March 2011, has left 360,000 dead and displaced more than half of the population, millions of whom have fled the country.
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Staffan "The Count" de Mistura leaves behind more than three decades of UN failure, from the Sudan to Syria.
[AlMasdar] Approximately 275 Belgians are currently fighting inside both Syria and Iraq, the Belgian Interior Ministry claimed in a new report.
According to the Belgian Interior Ministry, there are no citizens that are currently traveling to either Syria or Iraq in order to join the so-called "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.... Furthermore, at least 85 people, including 22 women, were prevented by the Belgian authorities from traveling to either country over the last year, the FTF report said.
"There are also serious indications that 117 other persons residing in Belgium had the intention of leaving for a jihadist conflict zone," the Office stated.
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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. ..
[Daily Caller] Former CIA Director John Brennan, during an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night, claimed the White House and the Saudis are working together to "concoct a story" about what happened to Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and urged Congress to "hold the administration’s feet to the fire."
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
...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...
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A government proposal to stop permanent migrants from settling in Australia’s largest urban centers represents the latest salvo in an increasingly politicized debate on immigration and the country’s future as a multicultural melting pot.
[PJMedia] The Palestinian Authority won a Tuesday vote to lead the G77 group of developing countries at the United Nations, while the United States said no such move could be supported because no Palestinian state has been admitted as a member state.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
