[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent Afghan political figure and ex-member of the parliament Mohammad Younus Qanooni reacted at the suggestions to establish safe zones for the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group.
In his speech during a gathering organized for grinding of the peace processor, Qanooni said the establishment of safe zones for the Taliban group would mean partition of Afghanistan.
Qanooni further added that those who are making suggestions should rethink about the issue and carefully review their recommendations.
This comes as the leader of Hezb-e-Islami 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... emphasizes that the safe zones might encourage Taliban to accept the offer for peace talks.
Speaking during a presser in Kabul last month, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami pointed towards his recommendations for the safe zones for Taliban and said such zones should be created in a bid to help protect the Taliban group members and their families who are willing to join grinding of the peace processor.
He rejected the notion that Hezb-e-Islami supports the handover of the control of certain provinces to Taliban.
Hekmatyar has apparently made the recommendation to persuade the Taliban group leaders to participate in grinding of the peace processor.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities will open Sinai’s Rafah border crossing with Gazoo for three days starting Thursday, according to the embassy of Paleostine in Cairo, official Paleostinian news agency WAFA announced on Wednesday.
The crossing will be open in both directions from 12 to 14 April.
WAFA quoted Paleostine's ambassador to Cairo and its permanent representative to the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... Diab al-Louhah as thanking Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and the Egyptian authorities for their support of the Paleostinian people and their cause.
[Libya Herald] The official spokesperson for the Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmed Mesmari, has continued to deny reports about the illness of Khalifa Hafter.
Reports on Tuesday evening, initially by Libyan media outlets, have snowballed over the last day and a half consolidated by some French media backing. The exact details are still unclear, but unconfirmed reports state that Hafter was initially taken ill to the Jordanian capital Amman and thereafter transferred to a Gay Paree clinic as his condition deteriorated.
Yesterday, the official spokesperson for the LNA, Ahmed Mesmari, tweeted on the LNA’s twitter account ’’All the news about General commander’s health are false, Marshal Hiftar is in excellent health and he is following his daily general command duties and all op rooms specially Omar Moktar ops room’’. Later on, Mesmari avoided any direct comment on the topic at a presser on Derna.
French media has failed to produce a photo of Hafter in Gay Paree. On the other hand, despite all the rumours and conflicting reports, Hafter has failed to make a personal appearance.
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[PRESSTV] Russian Ambassador to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Vassily Nebenzia has called on the United States and its allies to drop plans for potential military intervention in Syria, warning he "cannot exclude" the possibility of direct military confrontation between Moscow and Washington in case the Arab country is attacked.
Speaking after a closed-door UN Security Council meeting over 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... 's threats of an imminent military action against Syria over an alleged chemical attack, Nebenzia told news hounds Thursday that the presence of Russian troops in the Middle Eastern country had made the situation even more dangerous.
"The immediate priority is to avert the danger of war," Nebenzia said. "We hope there will be no point of no return."
Asked whether by that he meant a war between Russia and the US, the Russian envoy said, "We cannot exclude any possibilities, unfortunately, because we saw messages that are coming from Washington. They were very bellicose."
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#2
You already lost. Several hundred mercenaries were wasted when you attacked US forces in Syria a couple of months ago. So you took it out on civilians in the worst way possible. Loser.
#6
He is speaking to the liberal masses in the US that already hate Trump. Unfortunately the left's attempts to pressure Trump through public opinion have increased his numbers so this move is pointless.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Shia holy man and militia leader Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... has vowed to form a special team to arrest or assassinate former Saddam Hussein aide Ezzat al-Douri.
Answering questions by his followers on his online portal, Sadr, commenting on a recent video that purports to show a speech by Douri, Saddam’s vice president, said :" after the elections, we intend to activate a special squad to search for him again, arrest him or kill him".
Sadr referred to occasional reports about Douri’s death. "Beware so that corrupt officials do not repeat the cliche of his death, which appears later to be a lie".
On Wednesday, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security committee, denied Douri’s existence in Iraq, deeming his lately circulated video "a declaration of bankruptcy".
Douri, speaking in the video, commemorating the establishment of the now-defunct Baath Party, which he claimed to had been from Baghdad, warned of "a popular armed revolt to eliminate the traitors". He blamed the current authorities for the death of millions of Iraqis and destruction of Iraqi cities.
Douri’s exact whereabouts have been unknown since a U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 toppled former leader Saddam Hussein. Occasional reports have been made of his death but none were confirmed.
#1
So, muzz cleric openly announces he will form a hit squad. Any western politician who says "Islam is peace" should be kicked in the crotch and then kicked out of office.
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Any western politician who says "Islam is peace" should be kicked in the crotch and then kicked out of office.
[IsraelTimes] Ahead of Arab summit, fatwa is seen as warning to Arab leaders against supporting Trump's decisions and peace plan
Jerusalem's Mufti Mohammed Hussein posing in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
The Paleostinian mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, on Thursday published a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, banning anyone "from giving up, or selling Jerusalem and the land of Paleostine to the enemy" ‐ a reference to Israelis.
The fatwa was issued on the eve of the Arab summit that is scheduled to convene in 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... next week to discuss a number of issues, including 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... ’s yet-to-be-announced peace plan and his decision, announced in December, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy there from Tel Aviv.
The fatwa is seen as a warning to the heads of Arab states against supporting Trump’s decisions and peace plan, which the Paleostinians have denounced as a "conspiracy aimed at liquidating the Paleostinian cause and national rights."
On Wednesday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... reiterated his rejection of the Trump plan, calling it a "big conspiracy."
"Paleostine, which includes Jerusalem, is Waqf (Islamic trust) land, and it is religiously forbidden to give it up or facilitate the transfer of its ownership to the enemy," Hussein said in his fatwa. "Paleostine is part of the Islamic public properties."
It was the second fatwa of its kind since 2014, when Hussein reminded Moslems that it was forbidden to sell their property to Israelis after it transpired that Jewish families had purchased homes from Arabs in Silwan, outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Several Paleostinians suspected of selling property to Israelis have been killed, while others have been sentenced to prison by Paleostinian Authority courts.
Hussein said the transfer of ownership of Moslem-owned property to the "enemy" was illegal and "considered treason."
Any Paleostinian who sells his land to his enemy is a sinner," the mufti ruled.
He also ruled that it was forbidden for a Paleostinian to accept compensation for his or her property from the "enemy" because this would mean assisting in the "eviction" of Moslems from their homes.
The fatwa said that Jerusalem was the "eternal capital of Paleostine." Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was illegitimate and null, it added.
Hussein said in his fatwa: "Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque are Islamic waqf until doomsday. They can’t be sold or given as gifts or passed on by inheritance. No one is entitled to give them up, or to give up Jerusalem or any part of it, or any part of Al Aqsa Mosque, to the enemy."
Israel, he charged in his decree, "usurped Paleostine, expelled its people, stole their money and committed the most horrific crimes against houses of worship, all this with the help of the colonialist countries that continue to help it with its wicked aggression."
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister calls IDF 'the most moral army in the world,' says soldiers sometimes need to 'let out some tension'; IDF says suspect was maimed in the leg
The Israeli army on Tuesday said a soldier who shot a Paleostinian suspect near the Gazoo border in a recently circulated video behaved appropriately, but criticized the soldier who filmed and cheered the incident for violating military values.
The army said the cameraman, who was not part of the unit serving on the border, would face a disciplinary hearing. The initial result of the investigation into the video has been handed over to the Military Advocate General Corps, which will consider criminal charges.
According to the army’s initial investigation, the video was filmed on December 22 during a violent demonstration along the Gazoo border, near the Israeli community of Kibbutz Kissufim.
The army said the Paleostinian who was shot was one of the people "suspected of organizing and leading" the violence along the border, which included the throwing of rocks and Molotov cocktails.
The military maintained that the sharpshooter behaved appropriately, firing one bullet as the suspect approached the fence after ignoring warnings and calls to halt. The army also refuted a claim heard in the video that the suspect was shot in the head, saying he was maimed in the leg.
Caught here
[Haaretz] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, and the Russian leader urged Israel not to take action in Syria and to threaten its security. Israeli officials confirmed the call took place and said that Netanyahu told Putin that Israel will not permit Iran to set up a military presence in Syria.
The news of the telephone call between Netanyahu and Putin appeared as Netanyahu took the stage in Israel's main Holocaust memorial event and issued a threat to Iran not to "test Israel's resolve." The Russians announced the call in statement on the website of the Kremlin, which specified that Putin insisted it is "important" to maintain Syria's sovereignty.
Israel is on high alert for any Iranian retaliation after Tehran's direct threat Tuesday, as well as any possible U.S. strike against Syria's Assad regime in retaliation to the chemical attack at Douma.
Netanyahu lashed out at Iran during his Holocaust memorial speech, saying it was still intent on destroying Israel. Netanyahu also ripped into the landmark nuclear accord reached between Teheran and world powers and said: "I have a message for the leaders of Iran: Don't test Israel's resolve."
Netanyahu also took the opportunity to condemn the Syrian regime and the recent chemical attack in Syria, saying that "murderous evil that is not stood up against spreads rapidly." And must be removed early enough.
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[Guardian] James Mattis, the US defense secretary, has said Washington is still looking for evidence on who carried out Saturday’s chemical weapons attack in Damascus and that his main concern about a military response was how to stop it "escalating out of control".
[PRESSTV] Tehran has warned Gay Paree against being influenced by the "warmongering" Saudi crown prince’s "baseless claims and lies," which are aimed at destroying the landmark nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers, including La Belle France.
Iranian Foreign Ministry front man, Bahram Qassemi, on Thursday rejected the fresh accusations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic in a joint statement issued by Gay Paree and Riyadh at the end of a visit to La Belle France by Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince 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... as of 2016.... , the heir to the Saudi throne.
In the statement, Saudi Arabia and La Belle France "agreed on the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons." They also discussed steps against Iran’s national defense program as well as the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s regional role.
In response, Qassemi said La Belle France, as one of the seven signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, should "avoid being influenced" by bin Salman’s "adventurism" and "lies."
Saudi Arabia’s "repetitive claims" against Iran are "meant to counter" the Iran deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), said Qassemi, adding that the Saudi kingdom had spend hefty amounts of money to that effect.
Under the JCPOA, which was signed in July 2015, Iran undertook to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.
The peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s commitment to its side of the JCPOA have repeatedly been confirmed in reports by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is tasked with monitoring the technical aspect of the JCPOA implementation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that La Belle France had "the proof" that the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... used chemical weapons "last week." Macron made the comments during an interview with TF1 in Berd’huis, Thursday.
"We have the proof that last week, almost 10 days ago now, chemical weapons were used, at least chlorine, and they were used by the regime of Bashir al-Assad," said the French leader.
"We cannot today let regimes believe they can act with impunity, especially the worst one, that contravenes international law," he added. He did not specify any possible course of action by La Belle France.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... "under no circumstances, under any circumstances, will La Belle France allows an escalation to happen or anything that could damage the stability of the region," he stressed.
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Seems to me, they treat Russia the way they used to treating Israel - fills me with happiness (Because Russia is not Israel).
[ALMASDARNEWS] US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress on Thursday that the US military does not have evidence that either chlorine or sarin were used in an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, adding that the Pentagon’s only proof that such an incident occurred has come from social media and media reports.
"There have been a number of these attacks. In many cases, you know we don’t have troops, we’re not engaged on the ground there, so I cannot tell you that we had evidence, even though we had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sarin were used," Mattis said, speaking to members of the House Armed Services Committee.
The defense secretary said that he believed that a chemical attack took place, "and we are looking for the actual evidence."
Warning that he was concerned that a US military strike might lead to an "out of control" escalation in the Syrian war, Mattis said that Washington was "committed to ending that war through the Geneva process through the UN orchestrated effort."
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only proof that such an incident occurred has come from social media and media reports
#4
Mattis is wrong on this one. France has hard evidence. So do US persons not currently affiliated with the DoD. Perhaps CIA is holding out on Matis, or else he is being less than truthful for his own purposes.
Sure, but at what cost? President Trump is no Barack Obama. Prime Minister Neranyahu is also no Barack Obama.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The representative of Iran’s supreme leader to the Quds Force ‐ a special forces unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) ‐ warned on Thursday that "Iran can destroy Israel."
The representative, holy man Ali Shirazi, also called on Israel to avoid making "stupid mistakes if it wants to continue its treacherous existence."
"If Israel wants to continue its treacherous existence... it should avoid stupid measures. If they give excuses to Iran, Tel Aviv and Haifa [two major cities in Israel] will be destroyed. Iran can destroy Israel," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative to the Quds force, holy man Ali Shirazi, told the Fars news agency on April 11.
The regional foes have repeatedly accused one another of sponsoring murderous Moslems and destabilizing the region. Two Israeli F-16 warplanes targeted the T-4 airbase in Syria’s Homs province earlier this month according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Around half of the missiles fired by the combat aircraft were intercepted by Syrian air defenses before they reached their targets, but the remaining missiles killed seven Iranian military personnel, prompting condemnation from Tehran and Damascus.
Iran is one of a few remaining countries which refuse to recognize the state of Israel, and has been accused of attempting to develop nuclear weapons to threaten and potentially destroy Israel with.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic has also been criticized for providing advanced armaments to the Hezbollah resistance group in Leb, which Israel and a number of Western nations consider to be a terrorist organization.
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If they could they would've. A few years down the road, that's another story.
[Israel.Times] Airfields, weapons factory among reported targets; Trump says decision on response to gas attack to come 'fairly soon'
The White House is considering eight potential Syrian targets in retaliation for a chemical weapons assault, a US official told CNBC Thursday. The targets included two airfields and a chemical weapons facility, according to the source, who requested anonymity.
The report came hours after 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... , who this week threatened to attack Syria, told news hounds that a decision on the matter would be made "fairly soon." That assertion from Trump, who huddled with top national security advisers Thursday, came a day after he tweeted that a US retaliatory attack could be "very soon or not so soon at all!"
Moscow, for its part, stonewalled diplomatic efforts at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... "It’s too bad that the world puts us in a position like that," said Trump, as Defense Secretary James Mattis headed to the West Wing to present options for a retaliatory strike.
"We’re having a number of meetings today, we’ll see what happens, we’re obviously looking at that very closely," he told politicians and governors in the Cabinet Room. "Now we have to make some further decisions, so they will be made fairly soon."
NBC News cited two US officials as asserting that Washington has blood and urine samples from last Saturday’s attack that tested positive for both chlorine and an unspecified nerve agent.
Bashir al-Assad’s regime has been known to employ a mix of chlorine and gases against its own citizens, according to US officials.
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that the use of chemical weapons in Syria is "simply inexcusable."
"Some things are simply inexcusable, beyond the pale, and in the worst interest of not just the chemical weapons convention but of civilization itself," Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee.
He said a chemical attack had likely occurred and hoped inspectors would be in place within a week to prove it.
"I believe there was a chemical attack and we are looking for the actual evidence," Mattis said.
Military buildup
Since Saturday, when images of ashen toddlers struggling for breath emerged from Douma ‐ the main city in the Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus that has been a crucible of revolt against Assad’s regime ‐ there has been a sustained military buildup in the eastern Mediterranean.
A French frigate, UK Royal Navy submarines laden with cruise missiles, and the USS Donald Cook, an American destroyer equipped with Tomahawk land attack missiles have all moved into range of Syria’s sun-bleached coast.
The Cook ‐ named after a Marine Colonel who suffered deprivation and starvation as a Vietnam prisoner of war ‐ has past experience tangling with the Russian military, having been deployed to the Black Sea during the recent crisis in Crimea.
Half a world away in New York, Russia’s UN ambassador warned that the priority in Syria was to avert US-led strikes that could lead to a dangerous confrontation between the world’s two preeminent nuclear powers.
US officials have refused to rule out direct military engagement with Russia, with the White House saying "all options are on the table."
But a special hotline for the US and Russian militaries to communicate about operations in Syria is active and being used by both sides, Moscow said Thursday.
Rebels give up Ghouta
On the ground in Syria, rebels in Eastern Ghouta surrendered their heavy weapons and their leader left the enclave, signalling the end of one of the bloodiest assaults of the seven-year war and a major win for the Assad regime.
A top leader of Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... , a group that controlled Douma for years, told AFP it was Saturday’s attack that forced them to accept a Russian-brokered deal and evacuate.
The UN Security Council, tasked with maintaining international peace and security, has been riven, with Moscow virulently denying the Douma attack took place, or postulating that it was carried out by rebels.
The council has already failed to agree on a response to the attack in three votes and has been deadlocked throughout the Syrian civil war.
But across Western capitals opposition to military action also grew. US politicians questioned whether Trump has the legal authority to order strikes without Congressional approval and opposition parties voiced concern.
National security experts worried about whether strikes would actually serve to deter Assad. In April last year Trump ordered Tomahawk strikes on the Shayrat Airbase in response to a similar chemical weapons attack on rebel-held Khan Sheikhun. But the pinpoint strike did not deter Assad, and US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , have since investigated as many as 10 suspected chemical attacks.
The same officials say Syria has continued to produce or procure chlorine, which also has industrial and agricultural uses.
Syria, which denies carrying out the latest attack, said it had invited the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has blamed the regime for previous such incidents, to visit Douma. The OPCW, which works to rid the world of chemical arms stockpiles, said its experts were on their way to Syria and will start their work on Saturday.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] According to a new statement from Downing Street, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister and top-level advisers "agreed on the need to take action to alleviate humanitarian distress and to deter the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime."
"Following a discussion in which every member present made a contribution, Cabinet agreed it was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged," the UK Cabinet said Thursday.
Previously, Theresa May said that if it’s proven the Syrian government was behind the Douma chemical weapons, she will order the British military’s use of force in Syria.
The U.K. cabinet’s approval comes just hours after French President Emmanuel Macron stayed that his regime had proof the Syrian government was behind the chemical weapons attack in Douma.
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#1
Assad has moved his moved his military aircraft to Russian air bases in Syria.
#2
Say nothing more to the media, but forget Syria and the Russians for now. Dust off the target folders for Bomab, Ramsar, Parchin, Fordo, Arak, Isfahan, Natanz, and Bushehr.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Lebanese President Michel ’Aoun stated during a cabinet meeting this week that Leb will not accept Israel’s unlawful use of his nation’s airspace to bomb another country.
That’s nice, dear.
"Leb considers Israel’s use of Lebanese airspace an attack on our illusory sovereignty, and we will not accept any Israeli exploitation of our airspace," Aoun said in remarks during a session for the Cabinet at Baabda palace.
"We condemn any Israeli attack on any Arab state," he continued.
Yes, yes. Your mustache is especially fierce today, too.
"Leb will file a complaint against the Israeli violation of the Lebanese illusory sovereignty before the UN Security Council," he indicated.
For his part, Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has him bumped off, too. commented on the regional juncture, saying: "We are working on dissociating Leb from any potential problem that might erupt due to the developments."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Netanyahu lashed out at Iran during his Holocaust memorial speech, saying it was still intent on destroying Israel. Netanyahu also ripped into the landmark nuclear accord reached between Teheran and world powers and said: "I have a message for the leaders of Iran: Don't test Israel's resolve."
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 
