[DAWN] A three-member delegation from the Taliban’s 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... office is currently in Pakistain to meet authorities -- the first such contact following the breakdown of Islamabad-brokered talks between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and the Taliban in May.
The visit comes days after Taliban leaders reportedly held informal meetings with Afghan and US officials in Qatar.
"The delegates -- Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, Maulvi Salam Hanafi and Jan Muhammad -- have been in Pakistain for the past two days," a government official confirmed.
Two of the men served as ministers in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, while the third one is a former Taliban ambassador to 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... and Pakistain.
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[Tolo News] CEO of the National Unity Government (NUG) Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said on Sunday at a presser after his trip to 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... that "most of the Taliban's leaders are based in Pakistain."
"Taliban's trip to Pakistain is not news because they are there and carry out all their activities from there," Abdullah said in response to a journalist's question.
Regarding the government's secret peace talks with the Taliban in 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... , Abdullah said: "I don't know details over government's peace talks with Taliban in Qatar."
This comes after senior members of the Taliban's political commission based in Qatar travelled to Pakistain for discussions with security officials about possible peace talks with the Afghan government, the Guardian reported Saturday.
Reports also emerged last week that a Taliban delegation held secret talks with Afghan officials in Doha, Qatar recently and the Guardian reported that three Taliban officials left Doha on Wednesday for talks with Pakistain officials.
The Taliban said the discussions being held in Pakistain follow successful contacts made with both Afghan and US officials in recent months.
Abdullah meanwhile said that during his trip to Saudi Arabia he discussed the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and that Saudi officials "showed interest in helping Afghanistan in the grinding of the peace processor. We also talked about the peace agreement with Hekmatyar."
More than a month ago the Afghan government signed a peace agreement with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... 's Hizb-e-Islami party.
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[Al Jazeera] The Afghan Taliban has uploaded a drone footage showing a jacket wallah driving into a police base and blowing it up in the southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The fighters say the footage proves that they can now deploy drones as an "addition to their sophisticated possessions of advanced technologies".
The 23-minute-long video, which begins with a self-proclaimed suicide bomber speaking in front of an explosives-rigged Humvee, was released on Saturday appears to be authentic, according to the Afghan defence ministry.
"The remote-controlled drones to capture footage of their [Taliban] fighters conducting attacks is nothing but to instill fear among people and to indicate how far they can get in defeating us, but in fact, using a drone is not something they can call an achievement," Dawlat Waziri, front man for the defence ministry, told Al Jazeera by telephone.
"You can get a drone anywhere, in any shop. They found or bought one, and used it."
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... using camera drones near sensitive government sites was banned by the Afghan government in June.
In the video, the purported suicide bomber, dressed in a black turban and white tunic says: "I am telling the Afghan stooge forces to repent and join the Taliban or we will use this equipment the foreigners gave them, against them and they can't do anything about it". Not that they're capable of building one themselves.
A drone-mounted camera then films the Humvee speeding towards a compound and detonating in flames blowing up the entire building.
"This proves that we are well step ahead in sending our messages to people of Afghanistan in many sophisticated ways. Anything that helps us in destroying our enemies [Afghan and US forces] will be used with full force," Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban front man, told Al Jazeera.
"This video has proved to be very influential and we have many people supporting us."
Mujahid said the video was of an attack on October 3, when the fighters overran parts of Helmand province.
Rooters says a government official in Helmand also confirmed the attack in which the district police chief and several other officials were killed.
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[Iran Press TV] At least nine people have died of cholera in Yemen's southern port city of Aden as the infectious disease continues to spread rapidly across the conflict-stricken Arab country.
Sources close to the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen's president who has resigned and fled the capital Sana'a, said ten other people had been diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease, which causes acute diarrhea.
The sources said 190 people with severe diarrhea had been admitted to hospitals in Aden.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... earlier this month announced an outbreak of cholera in Yemen.
On October 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF said cholera cases had been reported in the war-hit country, with some cases recorded by health authorities in Sana’a.
The WHO warned that the scarcity of drinkable water had worsened the hygiene situation in Yemen, fueling a marked increase in cases of severe diarrhea, in particular among people displaced from their homes in the center of the country.
UNICEF said cholera, a disease that is transmitted through contaminated drinking water, could prove fatal in up to 15 percent of untreated cases.
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Must be another of those "Christians In Action" plots like the diphtheria plot in Venezuela.
[JihadWatch] The ignorance and kindness of Westerners is being exploited on a much larger basis than most people realize or than authorities are willing to admit.
"I'll kill you and I know where your children are."
Those are words that British authorities should ponder. But they won't.
"Cuckoo in the nest: Migrant foster mum reveals her horror at discovering '12-year-old refugee' in her care is actually a 21-year-old Jihadi," by Nigel Bunyan and Chris Pollard, The Sun, October 22, 2016:
A FOSTER mum who took in a child refugee has told of her horror after discovering he was a 21-year-old jihadi.
Kind-hearted Rosie welcomed Jamal into her family after social workers said he was a 12-year-old orphan who had fled Afghanistan.
But she became suspicious when she noticed how hairy he was, and how adept he was at firing a rifle.
Jamal was rumbled when a dentist estimated he was a decade older than claimed. Taliban material and child abuse images were later found on his mobile.
The blunder comes after migrants claiming to be children were bussed to the UK from Calais' Jungle camp. It is feared terrorists could use the same ruse.
Rosie, whose full name we are hiding to protect her from reprisals, said: "Adults are playing the system. It's putting families like mine and society as a whole at risk.
"I don't see anything wrong with dental and bone density checks. Some say they are intrusive and degrading. But having a man in your home who's pretending to be a child is far more intrusive."
When Rosie and husband Pete, 57, took in Jamal they all switched to halal meat.
She said: "He looked thin and I thought, &'Bless him'. He was so humble, polite."
He roomed with a boy, aged 13. Two girls, 12 and 14, were also in the house.
Alarm bells rang when the family went swimming and Rosie's 13-year-old commented on how hairy he was.
At a climbing centre he shimmied up ropes with ease, and at a shooting range he stripped a gun before firing it.
On a bus to college he was told to get off by a driver who didn't believe he was 16. Rosie, who lives in the South East, said: "It's ridiculous how everybody else could see it but not the social workers."
Jamal's behaviour worsened. He put the 13-year-old in expert holds, demanded cash and got calls from unknown numbers.
One day he claimed he couldn't pray because there were too many posters on his wall. The interpreter told him, "What do you mean? Allah doesn't mind?"
His last words to Rosie were: "I'll kill you and I know where your children are."
She added: "I can't say he was a terrorist but I do think he came from a training camp. He was a great actor.
"Every day I check the car, and that all the house windows are shut. I panic because I know he knows our routine."
Since being arrested for an alleged assault, Jamal has been turned down for asylum but is appealing....
[Ynet] At a commemoration of a 1956 anti-Communist uprising, Hungary's right-wing leader Viktor Orban said his country must stand up to Europe's "Sovietisation" and defend its borders against mass migration. Orban, a critic of the European Union and an early opponent of the recent migration wave into the continent, said freedom in Europe depended on the nation state and Christian traditions.
"People who love their freedom must save Brussels from Sovietisation, from people who want to tell us who we should live with in our countries," the prime minister said to cheers from a crowd of several thousand. "We want to be a European nation not a nationality within Europe."
[IsraelTimes] A Swiss court has ruled against a company that fired a longtime employee after she began wearing the Muslim headscarf, marking one of the first such rulings in Switzerland, media reported Sunday.
A regional court in Bern ruled last month that a 29-year-old Serbian woman was fired without just cause from a dry cleaning business, and ordered the company to dish out back-pay and damages to her, the Le Matin Dimanche weekly reported.
The woman, identified only as Abida, was fired in January 2015 from a job she had held for six years, after she began wearing the Muslim headscarf, it reported. Her employer in Bern had told her the headscarf violated hygiene rules, and told her to remove it or be let go. She reportedly offered to wash her headscarf daily or wear disposable headscarves, but her employer refused.
The Bern court ruled that the company had violated her constitutional right to freedom of expression, according to the paper. It said wearing a headscarf can only be grounds for termination in cases where it makes it impossible to carry out duties described in the employment contract or if it “substantially affects” the working environment.
[Ynet] France's national police chief has promised to upgrade equipment and improve working conditions for the country's police, who staged a sixth night of protests across several cities. The police have said they are no longer properly equipped to do their jobs and face harsh working conditions. They staged protests in Paris, Strasbourg and Nancy on late on Saturday, according to BFM TV.
"In Paris, it is mainly young police officers who say they have lost confidence in their hierarchy, in the institution and in their unions," Jean-Marc Falcone, France's national police chief said in an interview with weekly newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
[AINA from Foreign Policy Magazine] In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey's role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of Lausanne, which created the borders of modern Turkey, for leaving the country too small. He spoke of the country's interest in the fate of Turkish minorities living beyond these borders, as well as its historic claims to the Iraqi city of Mosul, near which Turkey has a small military base. And, alongside news of Turkish jets bombing Kurdish forces in Syria and engaging in mock dogfights with Greek planes over the Aegean Sea, Turkey's pro-government media have shown a newfound interest in a series of imprecise, even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders.
Turkey won't be annexing part of Iraq anytime soon, but this combination of irredentist cartography and rhetoric nonetheless offers some insight into Turkey's current foreign and domestic policies and Ankara's self-image. The maps, in particular, reveal the continued relevance of Turkish nationalism, a long-standing element of the country's statecraft, now reinvigorated with some revised history and an added dose of religion. But if the past is any indication, the military interventions and confrontational rhetoric this nationalism inspires may worsen Turkey's security and regional standing.
At first glance, the maps of Turkey appearing on Turkish TV recently resemble similar irredentist maps put out by proponents of greater Greece, greater Macedonia, greater Bulgaria, greater Armenia, greater Azerbaijan, and greater Syria. That is to say, they aren't maps of the Ottoman Empire, which was substantially larger, or the entire Muslim world or the Turkic world. They are maps of Turkey, just a little bigger.
Con't.
[NATION.PK] Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... was shifted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after his health severely deteriorated, family sources said.
Malik was earlier shifted to a medical institute in Srinagar after his condition deteriorated on Saturday, hours after protests were held in the area, the Kashmiri Media Service reported Sunday.
Family sources told APP that his left arm had stopped working. Sounds like a stroke.
Mr. Wife has been having that kind of problem from pinched nerves in his C3 and C5 vertebrae....
The JKLF leader's wife, Mashal Malik, fell unconscious upon hearing the news and is being given medical treatment, the sources said.
"He underwent various medical tests. He is suffering a severe infection and has been advised by doctors to undergo a surgery. He was then referred to Soura Medical Institute where he was admitted to Intensive Care Unit," a JKLF front man said.
Malik's family earlier said that he was being denied medical treatment.
"Yasin Malik is unable to walk or sit properly. In absence of medical aid, his health condition has tanked. We are not demanding his release. He is a public leader, but medical aid must be provided to him without any further delay. He has undergone various surgeries in the past. He is in need of several medicines," they said.
His condition is now said to be stable.
Speaking to the press earlier this month, Mashal Malik said, "My husband has grown very weak and lost over 15kg. Last week he was taken to hospital in army’s custody where his medical tests were conducted and results are alarming."
The JKLF leader has been under detention since July 9 when protests against the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani erupted across Indian-held Kashmire. Over 80 people have been killed and hundreds of protesters injured in festivities with Indian security forces.
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[NATION.PK] 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... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... said on Saturday that that the nation had tried socialism, secularism and nationalism, which failed to deliver, as the wellbeing of humans and protection of life, property and respect of the people lie only in Islamic system.
Situation in the country was ripe for a change, Siraj said. He said that nation had voted for the Khans, Nawabs and Waderas during last 70 years but it did not get Roti, Kapra or Makan.
Instead, people were deprived of their fundamental rights, he said this while speaking at JI KP’s sponsored two-day congregation, which kicked off here at Azakhel in Nowshera district.
Commenting on the tears shed by the Prime Minister at his yesterday’s public meeting, he said that PM was shedding tears not on the despondency of the masses but on his fate.
JI chief said that for the last 70 years, country had been ruled by the corrupt elite who plundered trillions of rupees from public money while the common man was unable to get clean drinking water.
Hundreds of JI activists and workers both men and women are participating in the congregation from KP and FATA.
He said the entire system of accountability was ineffective as NAB only catches small fish while the big guns went scot-free.
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[VOA News] Fugitive Afghan Taliban leaders are being increasingly pressured to relocate from Pakistain along with their families and businesses for refusing to join peace talks with Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , officials and Lion of Islam sources told VOA in background interviews.
"The squeeze is continuing on them [the Taliban] and some have already left, or [are] leaving the country," says a senior Pak official directly involved in matters related to the Afghan policy.
He did not want to be named because publicly the government has not yet acknowledged the crackdown, which is part of the policy to seek an early repatriation from Pakistain of nearly three million registered and undocumented Afghan refugees.
International pressure
Pakistain has been under pressure from international partners, particularly the U.S. to deny space to the Taliban and other groups waging the violent insurgency in Afghanistan. The country denies charges its spy agency’s covertly supports the Taliban and its ally, the Haqqani Network, enabling them to prolong the Afghan war and expand influence of the faceless myrmidons after withdrawal of U.S.-led international combat forces.
The spike in violence has undermined efforts to improve bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. has repeatedly accused Islamabad of not taking action against runaway Taliban leaders. In turn, Pakistain alleges Afghan intelligence operatives are sheltering and supporting runaways linked to the anti-state Pak Taliban.
Pak authorities earlier this month tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... several key Taliban leaders from areas in and around Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, which borders Afghanistan. The detainees also include Ahmadullah Muti, commonly known as Mullah Nanai, SLearned Elders of Islamn Agha and Mullah Samad Sani.
All three held key positions in the insurgency and were arrested after they ignored requests to hold peace and reconciliation talks with the Afghan government, according to Pak and Lion of Islam officials. Authorities have also raided and shut down some Islamic seminaries, or madrassas, for refugee children that are suspected of sheltering Taliban Lion of Islams.
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[GEO.TV] A notification of detention was issued on Sunday after police lodged a case against the placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... -London Rabita Committee and moved them to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's central prison, officials said.
According to the notification, the concerned members have been detained for 30 days under maintenance of public order by the Interior Ministry.
The case was lodged with Artillery Maidan police, in which MQM London leaders - Hassan Zafar Arif, Kunwar Khalid Younus and Amjadullah - were booked on charges of instigating masses to violence and over slogans against the country.
They were shifted to Karachi Central Jail under stringent security late this night. Police officials said the three leaders were moved in view of potent threats to law and order in the megapolis.
Arrest of MQM-London interim Rabita Committee members
Earlier on Saturday, Rangers took MQM-London interim Rabita Committee members, Professor Hasan Zafar Arif, Kunwar Khalid Younus and Amjadullah Khan, into custody from outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC).
Amjadullah Khan was the third MQM-London worker to be taken into custody after he hid inside the Karachi Press Club while Rangers took Hasan Zafar Arif and Kunwar Khalid Younus into custody earlier.
In a message posted on Twitter, MQM-London leader Wasay Jalil said "Amjadullah presented himself to Rangers to arrest from Karachi Press Club".
Amjadullah was earlier able to dodge Rangers personnel and enter the Karachi Press Club. He was taken into custody as he came out of the building, more than three hours after Professor Hasan Zafar Arif and Kunwar Khalid Younus were detained.
According to reports, Professor Hasan was sitting on a cycle of violence was trying to enter the Press Club when he was approached by Rangers and taken into custody. Video footage showed Rangers escorting the MQM leader and placing him in a mobile outside the KPC.
Latest video footage showed Amjadullah being escorted away by law enforcers as he came out of the press club.
The MQM-London interim Rabita Committee members were scheduled to hold a news conference at the KPC which was postponed. A large contingent of Rangers was deployed outside the KPC ahead of the MQM-London Rabita Committee news conference.
Speaking to Geo News earlier, Amjadullah Khan said the purpose of the news conference was to announce the inclusion of new members.
The MQM-London leader stressed that the party was being pressurised. "It is our basic right to conduct political activities in the city. By doing this the Mohajir community is being persecuted," Amjudullah Khan said.
While speaking to Geo News earlier, the MQM-London leader said he had left the Karachi Press Club. But it later transpired that he was hiding inside the Press Club.
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[ARA News] Duhok – The international coalition and local allies should start an operation to isolate the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria’s Raqqa in conjunction with the Mosul operation, US Defence Chief Ashton Carter said on Sunday.
Raqqa is considered a de facto capital for ISIS in Syria. As the assault intensified on Mosul, which is the group’s major bastion in Iraq, ISIS started to fortify its headquarters in Raqqa.
Carter, who visited the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Sunday to discuss the Mosul operation, said: “We want to see an isolation operation begin around Raqqa as soon as possible.”
“We are working with our partners there [in Syria] to do that,” he said. “There will be some simultaneity to these two operations [Mosul and Raqqa].”
According to Carter, the US-led coalition has earlier considered launching simultaneous operations against ISIS in Mosul and Raqqa. “This idea has been part of our planning for quite a while.”
ISIS on Wednesday tightened its security measures in the city of Raqqa, in northeastern Syria. According to eyewitnesses and activists, the extremist group has imposed a curfew in the city centre, installed new checkpoints and erected concrete road blocks.
There has been a two-weeks-long state of alert amongst ISIS jihadists in Raqqa, which serves as a de facto capital of the self-declared Caliphate.
“ISIS erected barriers between major districts of Raqqa city,” media activist Abdulkarim al-Yousef told ARA News in Raqqa. “New security checkpoints have been installed across the city, including near the al-Naeem Roundabout, al-Muhafaza Square, Saad Bin Muaz Mosque and al-Zedan Square.”
While ISIS tightened its internal security, ISIS vehicles arrived in Raqqa, coming from Iraq. According to S. Awad, an eyewitness, “More than 20 vehicles crossed the border and entered Raqqa on Tuesday at midnight, carrying ISIS militants and weapons.”
The Islamic State’s new redeployments and repression are likely related to the advances being made by US-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces. On Monday, allied forces began the battle for Mosul and rapidly progressed towards the Caliphate’s Iraqi capital.
Kurdish Peshmerga commander Qassim Shesho confirmed to ARA News that a large number of ISIS jihadists have fled Mosul’s countryside through the Ba’aj road. The Ba’aj road rarely appears on maps. It is an unofficial roadway created by ISIS, connecting Mosul city in northern Iraq to Raqqa city in central Syria.
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[AA.TR] The leader of Lebanese group Hezbollah on Sunday announced support for electing General Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... as president.
Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah members of parliament will vote for Aoun as Leb’s president, according to the official Lebanese news agency.
The announcement came three days after former prime minister and leader of the Future Bloc Saad al-Hariri said he would vote for Aoun as president.
Leb has been without a president for more than two years now.
Leb’s political forces remain sharply divided between supporters of the "March 14 Alliance", which backs the armed opposition in next-door Syria, and the "March 8 Alliance", which includes Hezbollah and supports Syria’s Assad regime.
A third, centrist bloc, meanwhile, is led by Druze politician Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... and former Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
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[BREITBART] Leb’s biggest drug baron has reportedly openly endorsed Hezbollah against the backdrop of the battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo in which the Shi’ite militia plays a role.
The news site Arabi21 reported that Nur Zeeter wrote on Facebook that he had always been, and forever would remain, a fervent Hezbollah supporter.
"This is a message to the emir of the believers, the great leader, his excellency Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah," Zeeter wrote. "Sir, we have paid a price for our loyalty to you and for our inability to protect ourselves from evil and injustice. But we are honorable men, loyal men, who pledge to continue to fight evil and its doers, the enemies of the nation. We will continue to be loyal to you, with the help of Allah."
He later added: "Sir, you expect our support, and we say to you: We shall obey. We are at your service, whatever your request may be."
The site reported that Zeeter, who has been embroiled in criminal activity in Leb and enjoyed Hezbollah’s protection, has in the past visited the organization’s Death Eaters in Syria.
The paper also cited Lebanese sources saying that Zeeter, who controls several Shi’ite villages in southern Leb where he grows marijuana, maintains extensive business ties with Hezbollah, providing them revenues from drug deals that they use to purchase arms.
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Speaking of drugs, a white powder shut down Hillary's campaign headquarters. Careless campaign worker?
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.
[DAWN] A three-member delegation from the Taliban’s 
[Tolo News] CEO of the National Unity Government (NUG) 
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
[Al Jazeera] The Afghan Taliban has uploaded a drone footage showing a 
[AINA from Foreign Policy Magazine] In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey's role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of Lausanne, which created the borders of modern Turkey, for leaving the country too small. He spoke of the country's interest in the fate of Turkish minorities living beyond these borders, as well as its historic claims to the Iraqi city of Mosul, near which Turkey has a small military base. And, alongside news of Turkish jets bombing Kurdish forces in Syria and engaging in mock dogfights with Greek planes over the Aegean Sea, Turkey's pro-government media have shown a newfound interest in a series of imprecise, even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders.
chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
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...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. ..
Michel Aoun
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
