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Africa North
Opinion poll show little support in western Libya for new elections or Saif Al-Islam
[Libya Herald] Few Libyans in the west of the country believe that new elections will end the country’s current situation, an opinion poll published today has indicated.

Carried out in 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...
and four west Libyan towns, it suggests that no more than eight percent of respondents believe that new elections will resolve the crisis. Moreover, only 37 percent ‐ a little over a third ‐ say that they will take part in them when they occur while 27 percent say they will not. Another 37 percent say they have not made up their minds as yet.

As to how they might vote, just 17 percent say they will trust political parties. The other 83 percent reject this, saying they can support only independents.

The poll, carried out in the capital, Gharyan, Sabratha, Sorman and Zuwara, also shows that of those asked, there is little faith in a consensus government solving the country’s problems: a mere 7 percent back it.

Support of Saif al-Islam Qadaffy taking over the country fares only marginally better, with just 10 percent supporting the idea.

The way out of the crisis most favoured by those polled is the establishment of a constitution (with 34 percent support), dissolution of the militas at 26 percent and military rule 12.5 percent.

The findings were unveiled today in Tunis, ironically at the same Africa Hotel where yesterday the Qadaffy family lawyer claimed that Libyans were eagerly awaiting Saif al-Islam’s return to political power.

Asked who is responsible for the current crisis, 29 percent blame the militias, 26 percent the country’s successive governments since the revolution, 20 percent outside influence and 12 percent Libyan political parties and movements.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


LNA sets up new force in Bani Walid
[Libya Herald] Armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter has ordered the establishment of a new Libyan National Army (LNA) unit in Bani Walid in a move which will advance the LNA to a strategic position half way between 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...
and Misrata.

The new 27th light infantry brigade’s commander is to be Abdullah al-Warfali from the locally-powerful Warfala tribe. The unit is being formed and equipped by LNA trainers. It is not clear when it will become fully operational.

The brigade will be part of the central or Gulf of Sidra military zone, whose Rada* (Deterrence) units are commanded by Brigadier Mohammed al-Nayel. The western boundary of the Sidra zone had until now been Sirte. Bani Walid is some 220 kilometres further west from Sirte.

The establishment of this new formation comes days after Hafter created a new Rada force headquartered in Ajdabiya.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Russian Medics Operate on Yemen's Saleh despite Embargo
[An Nahar] Former Yemeni president former President-for-Life former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
said he has undergone surgery in Sanaa by Russian doctors after a rare suspension of a Saudi-led coalition air blockade.

A front man for the Arab coalition did not respond to requests Thursday for comment on the lifting of the blockade for the Russian medical team.

Saleh, 75, said the coalition had authorized the entry of the Russian team for cataract surgery, for which he had waited "more than a year", in an interview broadcast on 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...
Today television.

He said the operation was "a success" and that a medical examination had confirmed he was "in very good health."

The coalition enforced the closure of Sanaa airport after its intervention in Yemen's war on the government side against a rebel alliance of Shiite Huthis and forces loyal to Saleh.

Only select U.N. flights are authorized to land by the coalition, which controls Yemen's airspace as well as a string of ports on the country's coastline.

A high-ranking source in the government told AFP that the United States, an ally of 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...
, had facilitated the entry of the Russian medical team because it wanted Saleh to be "in good health.".

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
France blasts latest Israeli construction
[IsraelNationalNews] France on Thursday condemned Israel's approval this week of new homes in Judea and Samaria.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Planning Council of the Civil Administration approved marketing for 300 housing units in Beit El, a promise Netanyahu made to residents five years ago.

The approval of construction in Beit El came a day after the Civil Administration issued 31 building permits for a planned housing project in Hevron, the first permits for new Israeli construction in the ancient city in decades.

"France calls on the Israeli authorities to reverse this decision and to respect their international obligations," read a statement by the French foreign ministry quoted by the Turkish Anadolu news agency.

"The uninterrupted pursuit of the policy of colonization, confirmed by these new projects, only adds to the tensions on the ground and undermines the prospects for a just and lasting peace based on the two-state solution," it added.
IMO, that place was a lot nicer when it was ruled by Italians
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2017 01:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Now when Israel blasts somebody's construction- that's how it's done.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/20/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Who cares what you think, France?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/20/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Campaigning for NA-4 seat, JI chief extols Mumtaz Qadri's 'heroism'
[DAWN] Speaking at a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Conference in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on Wednesday and campaigning for the NA-4 seat at the same time, the emir of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI), Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
, criticised his opponents in the upcoming NA-4 by-poll for not praying at Mumtaz Qadri's funeral as he did.

Qadri, a former commando of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

police’s Elite Force, was sentenced to death by an Anti-Terrorism Court in October 2011 for assassinating former Punjab governor Salman Taseer in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market.

Qadri said he had killed Taseer over the politician's opposition to Pakistain's blasphemy laws.

"As emir of the JI, I have taken it upon myself to ensure that his [Qadri's] four-year-old son gets an education," Haq said on Wednesday.

Also calling for immediate action against whoever attempted to modify or repeal Khatm-e-Nabuwwat (finality of prophethood) laws, Haq said even the scent of paradise was 'haram' ‐ forbidden ‐ on those who were unwilling to lay down their lives for the sanctity of the belief.

Accusing the government of 'attacking' the law in its haste to amend election laws to allow Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
to continue as chief of the PML-N, Haq demanded that the advisers and ministers responsible for violating the 'sanctity' of the belief should be thrown into jail and punished "for hurting the sentiments of Moslems."

"These people have ruled the land again and again without doing anything for the people. What do they want, to rule the heavens as well?" he railed.

"Till the thieves sitting in Islamabad are taken to task, our campaign will continue," he said. "We will wage war against the land, drug and corrupt mafias," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Nawaz, Maryam and Capt Safdar indicted in NAB references; plead 'not guilty'
[DAWN] Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and her husband retired Captain Mohammad Safdar were indicted by an accountability court in Islamabad on Thursday in connection with a reference pertaining to the Avenfield flats filed against them by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), DawnNews reported.

All three accused pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to the charges. After their indictment, Maryam, Safdar and Nawaz Sharif's pleader read out the following statement:

"I do not plead guilty. Charges are not only groundless, baseless and unfounded but also frivolous, and on top of that we are being denied our right to fair trial. The charges are being framed on a report that is incomplete and controversial. It will go down in history as [a] mockery of justice and travesty of justice. Moreover, the charges are being framed without awaiting the detailed order of the Supreme Court in the review petitions."

Sharif, who is currently in the United Kingdom, was also indicted in the al-Azizia Steel Mills and Hill Metal Establishment references as well. His sons, Hassan and Hussain, were named co-accused in the charge sheet in the references.

The court had proceeded to indict Sharif, Maryam and Safdar after rejecting three applications filed by the trio requesting suspension of the indictment.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Balance of Power Shifts in Iraq's Multi-Ethnic Kirkuk
[An Nahar] With the return of Kirkuk to Iraqi control, the balance of power appears to have shifted between the ethnic communities in the Kurdish-majority city, to the delight of its Turkmen residents.

"Before we couldn't proudly declare that we are Turkmen, now our flag is flying over Kirkuk's citadel again," said Omar Najat, 23.

Three weeks before, the disputed city's Kurds were gleefully taking part in a Kurdish independence referendum in open defiance of Baghdad.

Today, the election posters have been torn down, as well as those of the September 25 referendum's chief advocate, Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani.

Huge Iraqi flags have been strung from palm trees and across buildings, although Kurdish flags have been left flying from lampposts.

In the Kurdish neighborhood of Rahimawa, business has been slow for the few shops that have reopened such as tyre salesman Abu Sima, 36, as he awaits a return to normality.

His nephews and nieces had to wait for schools to reopen in the wake of the upheaval on Sunday as Iraqi forces entered the city.

In three days and with barely any resistance from Kurdish peshmerga fighters, Iraqi forces took control of the whole of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
whose ownership has long been disputed between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.

For fear of violence on Sunday, Abu Sima and his wife joined thousands of other families, mostly Kurds, in fleeing the city. But like most others, they have returned.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraqi Kurds Say Open to Talks after Baghdad Military Operation
[An Nahar] The Iraqi Kurdish regional government said Thursday it was open to talks with Baghdad after central government forces seized a swathe of disputed territory from Kurdish fighters.

"The cabinet welcomes the initiative of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on starting negotiations with the regional government to solve pending issues according to the constitution," it said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Leader Says 'No One' Can Force It to Disarm or Recognize Israel
[An Nahar] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",' leader in the Gazoo Strip said Thursday "no one" can force it to disarm or recognize Israel, after Washington demanded it meet those conditions as part of a unity government.

"No one in the universe can disarm us. On the contrary, we will continue to have the power to protect our citizens," the Islamist movement's Gazoo head Yahya Sinwar said.

"No one has the ability to extract from us recognition of the occupation."

Sinwar made the remarks during a speech to young people that was provided to AFP by Hamas.

Earlier in the day, a top aide to 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...
said an emerging Paleostinian unity government must recognize Israel and disarm Hamas, Washington's first detailed response to a landmark reconciliation deal signed last week.

Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt, who has repeatedly visited the region to seek ways of restarting peace talks, laid out a series of conditions.

"Any Paleostinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the state of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties -‐ including to disarm Lions of Islam -- and commit to peaceful negotiations," Greenblatt said in a statement.

The U.S. conditions were roughly in line with principles previously set out by the Quartet for Middle East peace -- the United States, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, Russia and the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
.

"If Hamas is to play any role in a Paleostinian government, it must accept these basic requirements," Greenblatt said.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Another score for the Don.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2017 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  No one can force you to breathe either, Hamas.
Posted by: newc || 10/20/2017 2:07 Comments || Top||

#3  No one can force you to breathe either, Hamas.

But, one can make it impossible to breathe....your choice.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/20/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  We wouldn't ever think of forcing anything. We would just go get bigger bombs.
Posted by: gorb || 10/20/2017 16:26 Comments || Top||

#5  try breathing after explosive over-pressure destroys your lungs, ears, etc.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2017 21:20 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Fighters in Syria's Raqa Prepare for Civilian Handover
[An Nahar] US-backed forces who captured Raqa from 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....
group prepared Thursday to hand the Syrian city over to a civilian authority, with some of their fighters already headed to the next battle.

Inside the city, positions that had long been manned by fighters of the Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces were abandoned, though some remained in the central al-Naim square, dancing and ululating as they celebrated their victory.

The SDF battled for more than four months, with US-led coalition support, to capture the city that was once the de facto Syrian capital of IS's self-styled "caliphate".

They announced the end of combat on Tuesday, though operations to clear explosives and seek out sleeper cells were ongoing.

Raqa's capture leaves the jihadists with little remaining territory in Syria, most of it in neighbouring Deir Ezzor province, where some SDF fighters were already headed to continue the campaign.

"Some of the forces withdrew, others will remain in the city until we finish the minor combing operations, then the city will be handed over to the civil council," said SDF commander Rojda Felat.

"After the end of military operations, a large part of the forces have moved out of Raqa to other areas, including Deir Ezzor," added Mustefa Bali, front man for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the main component of the SDF.

SDF front man Talal Sello said two days of mopping-up operations had so far uncovered no additional IS fighters, but that interrogations of those who were captured or surrendered during the battle were ongoing.

"SDF intelligence is investigating them, including a number of foreigners," he told AFP.

Responsibility for the city, which lies in ruins and empty of civilians, will be assumed by the Raqa Civil Council, a body of local officials formed six months ago.

The official handover is expected to come as early as Friday, but the body has already spent months working on reconstruction plans.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


After IS, Rotting Corpses and Empty Jail Cells in Syria's Raqa
[An Nahar] Days ago in Syria's Raqa, die-hard jihadists made their final stand in the city's national hospital. On Wednesday, it stood eerily silent, its entrance inhabited only by swarming flies and two rotting corpses.

Each body lay next to an overturned cycle of violence on the side of a thoroughfare leading to the abandoned, bullet-riddled complex, which U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced on Tuesday was clear 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....
group fighters.

The national hospital and the city's football stadium were the last two IS holdouts in Raqa, once the notorious capital of the group's self-styled caliphate, and their recapture marked the end of the jihadists' three-year rule over the city.

Outside the hospital, one of the two charred and decomposing corpses wore an boom belt.

Scattered on the rubble-littered ground nearby were Korans, boxes of medication and gauze, and a tiny black notebook full of dates and phone numbers for IS administrative bureaus in the city.

One Syrian number was marked "Whatsapp number for my wife, Umm Islam the Moroccan."

The SDF said 22 foreign jihadists were killed in the final operation to take the medical facility, which is expected to be thoroughly searched and cleared of mines in the coming days.

At least two blasts, likely mines left behind by IS, could be heard across the ravaged city on Wednesday.

- 'They humiliated us' -
At the abandoned national stadium, two bulldozers were working to clear the field, pressing metal fences, dirt, and rubble into compact mounds along its edges.

Underneath rows of seats, an oval hallway was lined with makeshift cells where civilians accused of breaking the group's ultra-conservative rules were kept for days.

SDF member Ahmad al-Hassan was one of them.

The young man was detained in 2015 after he tried to prevent an IS fighter from arresting his wife for showing her face briefly in the street.

On his first visit back to Raqa on Wednesday, he returned to the stadium to see the barren room where he was kept for seven days with 35 other men.

He stood wide-eyed and silent in the darkened corridor, barely able to speak.

"This is where they humiliated us. They humiliated us civilians," he muttered.

In another cell, a handwritten message was scrawled in black marker on the wall: "God save us. God help us."

- 'What rebuilding?' -
The months-long drive by the SDF to capture Raqa was backed by heavy U.S.-led air strikes and artillery fire.

The outer neighborhoods of the city, the first to be taken, were heavily damaged.

But closer to the city center, where fierce, urban festivities raged for weeks over strategic multi-story buildings, the devastation is also striking.

Entire neighborhoods look like they have been put through the shredder, with homes and shops reduced to nearly indistinguishable piles of concrete cinderblocks, pipes and wires.

With no civilians in sight, the only clues that Raqa was once home to tens of thousands of people are now sprinkled in the filthy streets: a student's notebook, teardrop-shaped crystals that once hung from a chandelier, a heart-shaped cushion emblazoned with cartoon characters.

A battered blood-red couch hung out of the gap in a building where a balcony used to be. A wardrobe inside is exposed, its door flung open revealing an untouched row of men's shirts.

SDF fighter Ismail Khalil, also from Raqa, strolled through a ravaged street leading away from the al-Naim roundabout, site of some of the jihadists' most notorious crimes.

He gingerly took a few steps into the massive Harun a-Rashid park, once a favored gathering spot for families and couples but now reduced to a rubble-strewn wasteland.

"They say want to be rebuild Raqa. What rebuilding?" the stocky 35-year-old said, shaking his head.

"It won't be rebuilt in 20 years. This city has been completely destroyed."
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Terror Networks
G7 to Focus on Foreign Fighter Fallout from Rout of IS
[An Nahar] The threat of fresh attacks on the West by imported muscle fleeing the fallen 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....
stronghold of Raqa is set to dominate a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Italia.

The two-day gathering, which kicks off Thursday on the Italian island of Ischia, comes just days after U.S.-backed forces took full control of the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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