[Iran Press TV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has opened its largest military base in Africa, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as the African country struggles in a protracted war against Death Eaters.
The training base was inaugurated on Saturday in the presence of the Ottoman Turkish chief of staff General Hulusi Akar and Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre.
The newly-constructed facility includes army dormitories, training grounds and prisons and will serve as a training ground for 10,000 Somali soldiers. Some 200 Ottoman Turkish military officers will be deployed to the base to oversee the training.
During the opening ceremony, Khayre hailed Ottoman Turkish "unwavering" support to Somalia as Mogadishu tries to rebuild the fractured army and stabilize the war-torn country.
The Somali military, backed by a 22,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... army, have managed to purge al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , a Death Eater group that has been wreaking havoc in Somalia for more than two decades, from the capital and major urban centers. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz still pose a serious threat to Somalia and neighboring countries, notably Kenya.
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[Al Jazeera] More than 60 people have been tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during a neo-Nazi rally and counterdemonstration in Sweden's second-largest city, according to police.
The rally by the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg on Saturday featured an estimated 600 people, short of the 1,000 supporters the group said would attend, according to the Swedish anti-racist magazine, Expo.
Those who attended marched in formation in all-black outfits, some wearing helmets and holding shields.
The march, dubbed Revolt Against the Traitors, was met by a large crowd of counterdemonstrators.
Police had posted flyers before the event warning people not to act in a way reminiscent of German Nazis demonstrations in the 1930s and 1940s.
NMR, which promotes an openly anti-Semitic doctrine, originally sought to pass near a downtown synagogue during the march, which coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day of the year.
But Swedish courts intervened and shortened the route to less than one kilometre. The rally's ending time was also shortened to avoid clashing with a nearby football game.
Counterdemonstrators threw fireworks and attempted several times to break police lines, allegedly to confront NMR members, who also tried to get past riot police.
At least 60 people were detained, police said in a statement after the rally. Two people were also reportedly injured.
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Were those detained demonstrators or the counter-demonstrators?
and who was more anti-semitic?
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The local government actually approved the original route that walked past the synagogue, uninterested in Jewish complaints about the threat of violence on the holiest day of the Jewish year. It was only after the courts intervened...
The Jewish community must have been very concerned. Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.
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Part 1 of the NRM's nine political ambitions is to stop mass immigration and send away past immigrants.
Part 2 is to "With all available means, in the long run, regain power from the global Zionist elite who have occupied economically and simply militarily most of the world." (translated from their Swedish website)
So yes, generally they are xenophobes, and specifically anti-semites.
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TW. . Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.
As long as they keep their eyes open and their powder dry.
[DAWN] A legal team ‐ on behalf of the chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... ‐ on Friday sent a Rs100 million defamation notice to Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif for his remarks at the Asia Society forum in New York earlier this week.
Asif, who told the forum that Pakistain was not to blame for myrmidon outfits in the country, had said: "Don't blame us for the Haqqanis [the Haqqani Network] and don't blame us for the Hafiz Saeeds [referring to the head of banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa]. These people were your darlings just 20 to 30 years back. They were being dined and wined in the White House and now you say 'go to hell Paks because you are nurturing these people'."
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The notice, served by Advocate AK Dogar under Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance of 2002, claims that Saeed is "respected as a deeply religious and devout Moslem".
"I will be failing in my duty as a lawyer if I do not remind you of the Fundamental Right enshrined in Article 14 that [the] dignity of man is guaranteed by our Constitution," it continues.
The notice accuses Asif of "an absolute lie and falsehood that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... is one of those persons who had been the darlings of Americans and had been dining and wining in the White House."
"I have been advised by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed to tell you that he has never been near the White House, not to speak of wined and dined. It is shocking to know that the foreign minister of my country is accusing Hafiz Muhammad Saeed of taking wine. This is abusive language and can never be used about my client. He is [a] patriotic Islam loving Moslem following the dictates of [the] Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). This is a defamatory statement punishable under Section 500 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) to five years imprisonment and with [a] fine."
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: Five days after the flag of holy warriorIslamic 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.... (IS) group was seen in Islamabad and a day after chalking of a local banned sectarian outfit cropped up on electric poles in the strictly guarded Pakistain Ordinance Factory area of Wah, graffiti of ’ISIS’ ‐ Arabic acronym for the IS ‐ was noticed on a traffic signboard in the Wah area on Friday, police sources said.
After the IS flag appeared in the capital, panic gripped law enforcement agencies and political circles were equally concerned. On Monday the flag was removed and an FIR was registered by police under the terrorism law.
On Thursday chalking of the proscribed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... (SSP) was seen on electric poles in the Wah Cantt area, to be followed by the appearance of graffiti of ’ISIS’ on a traffic signboard on Budho Road near Muhallah Sadiqueabad in the same area.
A senior police official of Rawalpindi said that an investigation had been launched after the registration of the FIR about the SSP chalking. Police would initiate legal action over Friday’s ISIS graffiti also, he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s parliament has held a session on Saturday rejected the decisions taken by the central government of Iraq and its parliament against the recent referendum on Kurdish independence.
The Kurdistan parliament stressed that these decisions do not apply to the Kurdistan region without their approval.
This came during the meeting held by the Kurdish parliament in the presence of 62 members out of 111, in response to the decisions of the Iraqi government and parliament after the Kurdish referendum on secession.
Majority of parliament voted on a set of resolutions, including supporting the provincial government in rejecting Baghdad’s decisions.
Iraq’s parliament and government took a number of decision against the KRG, including retaking its borders of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah from the provisional government.
The Kurdish parliament said that closure of land and air borders were not within the powers of the federal government.
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You hang tough Kurdistan. These piece of shits have been promising you a state since before WWI. Do not forget without Kurdistan, this place would be a greater funeral pyre to fake gods and phony protectors.
You deserve your state.
The Lord Your GOD Above believes in you and this concept.
Be the last man standing because the others are all chasing their tails..
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There is no future in an Iraqi govt. It is tribal and corrupt. I agree with newc: The Kurds deserve their own country more than anyone else in the region. They have earned it. Mosul Dam is a metaphor of all that is wrong with Iraq---built on a bad foundation.
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[Iran Press TV] Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has reaffirmed the country’s determination to protect its Kurdish population against any threats, amid soaring tensions over the recent Kurdish independence referendum in the northern region of the country.
"To our people in the Kurdistan region: we defend our Kurdish citizens as we defend all Iraqis and will not allow any attack on them," Abadi tweeted in English on Saturday.
An Iraqi prime minister adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Abadi was referring to either an internal or external attack.
"We will not allow any harm to you and we will share our loaf of bread together," Abadi wrote in another tweet.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on secession from Iraq in defiance of Baghdad’s stiff opposition on September 25. Kurdish officials said over 90 percent of voters said ’Yes’ to separation from Iraq.
The voting stations were dotted across the three provinces of Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk that form the Iraqi Kurdistan Region as well as in the disputed bordering zones such as the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
While much of the international community, including the UN, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Iraq’s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing "the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state" of their own.
Political observers have warned that KRG President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... ’s referendum scenario is in line with Israel’s policy of dividing the regional Moslem states.
In another tweet on Saturday, Abadi said Baghdad wants to have control over the country’s oil revenues "in order to pay Kurdistan Region employee salaries in full and so that money will not go to the corrupt."
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We will share, but will not be torn asunder by your strife anymore.
There will be a Kurdistan and business will be usual, and you shall be paid, but your rule over them has ended.
They will still fight for iraq and support you and get in the middle of your sectarian bullshit.
[Iran Press TV] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... says Israel’s Mossad spy agency has played a role in the recent Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.
During a televised speech in the eastern Ottoman Turkish city of Erzurum on Saturday, Erdogan expressed sorrow that Iraqi Kurds had acclaimed the recent independence referendum with Israeli flags.
"This shows one thing, that this administration (in northern Iraq) has a history with Mossad, they are hand-in-hand together," Erdogan said.
"Are you aware of what you are doing? Only Israel supports you," he added.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on secession from Iraq in defiance of Baghdad’s stiff opposition on September 25. Kurdish officials said over 90 percent of voters said ’Yes’ to separation from Iraq.
While much of the international community, including the UN, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Iraq’s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing "the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state" of their own.
Erdogan vowed that Iraq’s Kurdistan "will pay a price" for the "unacceptable" independence referendum.
"An independent state is not being founded in northern Iraq, but on the contrary a continuously bleeding wound is being opened," he said.
"To ignore this reality benefits neither us, nor our Kurdish brothers in Iraq," Erdogan said, urging Iraqi Kurds to "wake up from this dream" of independence.
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"and Gulen!!"
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Whatever Israel's role in the referendum, I hope it takes a serious part in showing the Kurds how to beat back the upcoming Iraqi invasion, if Uncle Sam hangs back.
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Israel can't afford to openly defy uncle - so, lets hope Trump listens to his generals (we must defeat ISIS first), and his State (we must kiss Turkey & Iran's asses) with a grain of salt.
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Or, alternatively, lets hope that the bad guys will help the Kurds (for bad reasons), the same way their (very bad) predecessors helped Israel in 1947.
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Or, alternatively, lets hope that the bad guys will help the Kurds (for bad reasons), the same way their (very bad) predecessors helped Israel in 1947.
I'm just a simple man, say wut? Jewish logicians make my head hurt.
[Iran Press TV] "What we have seen under Mr. Trump is not an 'America first' foreign policy, but an 'Israel first' foreign policy," said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
Dankof told Press TV on Friday that American foreign policy has been driven by Israeli interests and Ambassador Friedman’s remarks were disturbing in terms of the ongoing nomination of people to serve in sensitive posts by Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... who have pro-Israel, pro-Zionist credentials.
'54% of American foreign aid goes to Israel'
"The fact of the matter is that there are 600,000 Israelis living in 230 illegal settlements in the West Bank. There has been a 40% increase in illegal settlements in 2016 at the same time the United States government is handing Israel $10.1 million military aid each single calendar day. Obviously its clear what is going on here, 54% of American foreign aid goes to Israel, 26% of that allows Israelis to buy weapons from Israeli suppliers and the list just goes on and on," Dankof said.
Dankof said a recent article by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA case officer and Army intelligence officer, titled America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars reveals how and why American Jews are dragging Washington into war in the Middle East. American Jews are faking the threat and dragging US politicians and the media towards war, according to Giraldi, who argues in his article that American Jews with an attachment to Israel should not be allowed anywhere near positions where they might deal with Middle East policy because it would be a "conflict of interest" between the US and Israel.
"As long as the US government is controlled by Israeli interests ... [Israel first] is not only going to continue, but it will also have more tragic consequences... the US will get involved in a wider war in the Middle East," he stated.
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Are the author suggesting that he shouldn't? Why?
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