[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chief Executive of the National Unity Government 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... has said the Afghan government is the only institution which is the authority to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... He made the remarks during the first meeting of the advisory board for peace which was held in ARG Presidential Palace today.
Abdullah further added that any progress in regards to the grinding of the peace processor will be publicized; no information will be held back from the Afghan people.
He asserted that government is the only institution authorized to conduct the negotiations, according to ARG Presidential Palace.
This comes as the Taliban politicians are scheduled to meet the U.S. Special Advisor for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in United Arab Emirates today.
"Another meeting between officials of Political Office of Islamic Emirate and American side is going to be held tomorrow on 17th December 2018, 10thRabbi-ul-Thani 1440, in the United Arab Emirates," Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement.
The statement further added that representatives 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... , Pakistain and United Arab Emirates will also attend the meeting alongside officials of both sides.
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[Al Jazeera] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... held a meeting on Monday with American officials in the latest attempt to bring a negotiated end to Afghanistan's 17-year war.
The meeting was held in the United Arab Emirates and involved Saudi, Pak, and Emirati representatives, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement on Twitter.
A US State Department spokesperson said the meetings in Abu Dhabi are part of efforts to promote an intra-Afghan dialogue towards ending the conflict in Afghanistan.
"We have long said that the war in Afghanistan will only end when Afghans sit together with mutual respect and acceptance to discuss a political roadmap for their future," the spokesperson said.
"Special Representative [Zalmay] Khalilzad has in the past met, and will continue to meet with all interested parties, including the Taliban, to support a negotiated settlement to the conflict."
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[Libya Observer] Workers at the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) held Monday a sit-in in Misrata condemning the kidnap of the head of distribution administration in the central region Abdelhadi Al-Gaziri.
Al-Gaziri was abducted in Misrata on Sunday by unknown persons amid gunfire opened on his car. He was released by the gunmen hours later, according to the GECOL.
In a statement, the GECOL workers condemned the verbal assaults and the beatings as well as the stealing of the GECOL vehicles among other equipment in Misrata without any interference by the authorities.
"We call for arresting the kidnappers or we will stop providing GECOL services in the city until the authorities respond to the incident." The statement reads.
They said they will keep the services away from the city until their demands are answered, adding that this could led to the collapse of the electricity network in Misrata and big parts of central and western regions.
This morning, GECOL called on authorities to act to prevent such criminal activities and to arrest the perpetrators, saying it and its workers are not politically oriented in their work.
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[Libya Observer] al-Bunyan al-Marsous Operation military leaders and fighters, officials from Sirte municipality held a ceremony on Monday at Ouagadougou Hall in the city amid no attendees from government officials - parliament, high council of state and presidential council.
"We have invited officials from the parliament, high council of state and presidential council - especially those who represent Sirte - but nobody turned up." The front man for the municipality of Sirte Mohammed al-Amyal said.
"Only representatives of Harawa municipality showed up out of the invitations to all Libyan municipalities." He added.
The commander of al-Bunyan al-Marsous Operation Bashir al-Gadi was there along with several military officials from the central region and Sirte.
The presidential council issued Monday a statement to commemorate the second anniversary of liberating Sirte from ISIS, saying that liberation didn't terminate the terrorist group once and for all in Libya, calling for caution.
"There are still some terrorist cells waiting to strike and carry out criminal operations in the county," the statement reads.
It also urged for uniting Libya's army under a civilian executive authority.
Sirte was liberated by al-Bunyan al-Marsous Operation in 2016 and on December 17 of that year exactly, the head of the presidential council Fayez al-Sirraj announced that the city was fully freed from the faceless myrmidons after over seven months of fierce festivities.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The front man for the Arab Coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen, Turki al-Maliki, on Monday confirmed that the legitimate Yemeni government will be taking over control of the ports of Hodeidah soon.
On the Hodeidah agreement, Maliki told journalists at a weekly presser that the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and the international community are responsible for implementing the Stockholm agreement.
He said the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias were now being tested by the international community to implement the agreement. Maliki also stressed that the Houthis were able to finally sit at the negotiating table due to the military pressure in all fronts.
The coalition stressed on Monday that they support all efforts in reaching a political solution and are committed to those efforts. Maliki pointed out, however, that there are monitoring committees and any breach of the Hodeidah agreement would be reported.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi consumers in recent days launched a boycott campaign of Ottoman Turkish products to protest against what they called "Ankara’s position on the case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi".
Saudi activists took the campaign on social media against the policies of 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. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... in handling the Khashoggi file.
The campaign which was represented through the hashtag #Saudis_rejecting_the_Ottoman Turkish_Products aimed at boycotting all Ottoman Turkish products and replacing them with local or other products from "friendly countries".
The Saudi activists said that their campaign’s goal was to "punish the Ottoman Turkish president", whom they said follows a negative policy against 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... . While the Ottoman Turkish economy fell off a cliff in 2018, many users online were questioning why they would help Ankara, which is taking a position against their country.
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[Al Jazeera] Official speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity says Trump didn't commit during G20 to extradite Fethullah Gulen.
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Turks lying? Whoda thunk it?
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I imagine the conversation went something like this:
Erdy: We demand the extradition of Gulen.
Trump: *sarcastically* Yeah, we'll get right on that.
Rooters: Big News!
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... may launch a new military operation in northern Syria at any moment, President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said, adding 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... had given a positive response to Turkey's plans.
Erdogan's remarks on Monday came days after he announced Ottoman Turkish forces would launch a new cross-border operation against the US-backed Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) to the east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria.
The YPG is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara. American troops are also located to the east of the Euphrates River.
Erdogan spoke on the phone with Trump on Friday and they agreed to ensure "more effective coordination" between their countries' military operations in Syria.
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Granted the Turk in the street doesn't much care for Kurds, but how long can Erdogan trash his military and still expect them to die for him?
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Turkey will try to use its syrian surrogates for this. The problem is that those surrogates aren't that good. So how many troops is Erdogan willing to use and how much military hardware and for how long?.
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American Pastor Andrew Brunson who had been jailed in Turkey for two years before his recent release with pressure from @realDonaldTrump gov't is in fact a "CIA agent", claims #Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at #DohaForum2018 interview. pic.twitter.com/gUEtPx9RJ4
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish exiled journalist Arzu Yildiz, who escaped her 2016 jail sentence, has not seen her two daughters since then, saying that if she goes back, she will lose her freedom, Ottoman Turkish news site Ahval reported on Monday.
Yildiz, who used to work for a pro-government news publication in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and supported the ruling Justice and Development Party, now criticized President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... who was the reason behind her sentencing and exile.
In her interview with The Global Post, in January 2014, Yildiz broke a major story revealing that three Ottoman Turkish intelligence agency trucks had been stopped and searched in Adana, and had reportedly been delivering weapons to radical groups in Syria.
Erdogan had insisted that the trucks were ferrying aid to Turkmen in Syria, and ordered the arrest of the publication’s editor Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul, who were later tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in May 2016 for five years for "revealing state secrets."
Two months later, Yildiz got a 20-month sentence, and lost guardianship of her children who are now eight and three years old.
"I was forced to leave behind my kids, my family," the news site reported her as saying. "I don’t know when or how or if I will ever see them again."
"If I go there, I lose my freedom," she added.
The Committee to Project Journalists had again named Turkey as the world’s leading jailer of journalists last week, putting 73 behind bars in 2017.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US military commanders have been briefed on 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. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... 's comments and decided not to comment on them, said Pentagon front man Col. Rob Manning on Monday.
The front man also said Erdogan spoke positions on held by 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... of which the Pentagon had no knowledge of at the current time, according to statements carried on US-backed Al Hurra channel.
Manning stressed that the Pentagon sees alarming risks if The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... decides to launch ground military incursions into Syria.
The Pentagon has expressed grave concern, saying unilateral military action by any party in northeast Syria - where US forces operate - would be "unacceptable".
Earlier in the day, Erdogan suggested that Trump was more receptive to Ottoman Turkish plans to move east of the Euphrates River than his own US Defense Department.
"We officially announced that we will start a military operation to the east of the Euphrates, "Erdogan said in a speech in the central province of Konya. "We discussed this with Mr Trump and he gave a positive response."
Turkey and the United States have long been at odds over Syria policy, where Washington has backed the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia against ISIS. Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist organization tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an outlawed group that has waged a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey.
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[PULSE.NG] The Justice Department charged Bijan Rafiekian, aka Bijan Kian, 66, of San Juan Capistrano, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Kamil Ekim Alptekin, 41, of Istanbul, with acting as unregistered agents of the Ottoman Turkish government and lying to the FBI over the 2016 scheme.
According to the indictment, Rafiekian and Alptekin made arrangements for the Flynn Intel Group to be indirectly paid $600,000 by the Ottoman Turkish government to help turn US public and political sentiment against exiled Gulen.
The plan was developed at the height of the 2016 election campaign when Flynn was advising then-candidate Trump on foreign and security policy.
The goal, the Justice Department said, was to obtain Gulen's extradition back to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , where President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... had accused him of orchestrating the July 2016 coup attempt.
The deal with Flynn was approved at top levels of the Ottoman Turkish government, the indictment said, with Alptekin keeping senior ministers apprised of its progress.
The indictment came one day ahead of the planned sentencing of Flynn, who was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! last year over his secret dealings with Russian officials and Turkey.
Flynn admitted one count of lying to the FBI in a plea deal which led to him providing "substantial" information to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia meddling in the 2016 election.
Flynn's work with the Turks has been known since last year, when the Wall Street Journal reported that he, Rafiekian and Alptekin met Erdogan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak The Imperial Son-in-Law (Bow the Knee!)... and Ottoman Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in New York in September 2016.
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[DAWN] After a campaign launched against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccinations on social media, a 25pc increase in refusals was recorded during the recent polio campaign in the federal capital, which started Dec 10.
A two-month old girl was vaccinated on Nov 30 in Tehsil Ghazi. She fell sick and died in Haripur on Dec 2. The incident was reported in the media and it was alleged that she died due to the polio vaccine.
The story was shared widely on social media after which the number of refusals increased in the federal capital.
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[PULSE.NG] The UN General Assembly on Monday adopted by a wide majority a Global Compact on Refugees aimed at improving efforts to manage large refugee movements -- but without the support of the United States and Hungary.
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i'm sure they will expect the US to pay for their bullshit though.
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May should leave it as well.
But Treason M never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi said on Monday after his meeting with King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... that "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 a major role in supporting Iraq in its war against terrorist organizations, especially ISIS".
Halbousi added that "Iraq has passed a difficult stage thanks to the support of Saudi Arabia, which contributed to the expulsion of ISIS from many regions and cities in Iraq".
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz received Halbousi as well as a number of Iraqi members of parliament in the al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Monday.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian sources tell Israeli news outlet that Jasser Barghouti was tasked by superiors in Gazoo to use family ties in West Bank to set up terrorist infrastructure
Sources in the Paleostinian Authority told the Ynet news site on Monday that they believe a Gazook Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, terror leader who previously served time in an Israeli prison was behind a cell thought to be responsible for a recent series of attacks on Israelis in the Ramallah area.
According to the report, Jasser Barghouti, a convicted terrorist released as part of the 2011 swap that freed kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, was directing the so-called "West Bank group" terror cell that Israeli officials suspect is to blame for deadly shooting attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians in the West Bank last week.
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[Al Jazeera] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and the Paleostinian Authority have appealed for $350m in aid for Paleostinians in 2019, saying they needed more but had to be "realistic" following major aid cuts by the United States.
The UN said the appeal, down from $539 million in 2018, was due to a lack of available donor funds to support 1.4 million Paleostinians through more than 200 projects.
Earlier this year, the US cut almost all of its aid to Paleostinians, having previously provided around $500 million a year through different mechanisms including the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former Paleostinian official involved in the Oslo negotiations affirmed that Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat had been assassinated because he was convinced that Solomon’s Temple, also known as The First Temple, was actually located in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and not in Jerusalem.
Hassan Asfour added in his interview with the political program Political Memories, which will be broadcasted later this week on the Al Arabiya News Channel in a sit-down interview with Senior Anchor Taher Barakeh, that Arafat informed Israeli negotiators of his convictions when they demanded him to give the right of illusory sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
Asfour said that Arafat rejected the demand and said to them: "For peace I could give you the right to build a temple in Nablus but not in Jerusalem since the Jews have been present in Yemen and not in Jerusalem".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s health waivers, the central government’s control over the periphery appears increasingly weak, a news report has claimed.
According to the National Interest report, there are ample signs that Iranian security forces are beginning to lose their grip. The report cites the history of political protests in the country and also lists the various uprisings over the years.
"Not only do the economic protests which began nearly a year ago continue sporadically, but in recent months, gunnies and turbans have grown increasingly bold along Iran’s periphery," the report says.
Filling the void
The report claims that the vacuum which follows the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will likely mean a number of simultaneous and indigenous uprisings.
"While the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will remain on paper a formidable force, with the regime’s leadership vacant and its commander-in-chief functions absent, it will likely be faced with simultaneous indigenous uprisings and insurgencies in Khuzistan, Kurdistan and 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... ," says the report.
According to the report, it is unclear how effective the IRGC could be under these circumstances. "The US intelligence community has two major blind spots with regard to the IRGC. The first is its factional divisions. The second concerns individual units," says the report.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] UN peacekeepers in Leb said on Monday two of four tunnels found close to the border with Israel crossed the frontier demarcation between the two countries, violating a UN resolution that ended a 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
The UN Interim Force in Leb (UNIFIL) said it had so far confirmed the existence of four tunnels which the Israeli army discovered in the vicinity of the border demarcation, known as the "Blue Line", adding the finds were of "serious concern".
Israel says Hezbollah, Leb’s most powerful gang, dug the tunnels with the aim of launching attacks into Israel with backing from its regional sponsor Iran. Hezbollah has yet to comment.
"UNIFIL at this stage can confirm that two of the tunnels cross the Blue Line. These constitute violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701," the statement said.
The UN peacekeepers said they would continue their technical investigations, describing the recent discoveries as "a matter of serious concern," requesting "urgent follow-up actions" by the Lebanese authorities.
Israel and Hezbollah have avoided major conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border since 2006, though Israel has mounted attacks in Syria targeting what it said were advanced weapon deliveries to the group.
Israel has said it is up to UNIFIL to deal with the tunnels on the Lebanese side of the border, and its military said it held the Beirut government responsible for breaching Security Council resolution 1701.
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[PULSE.NG] Iran President Hassan Rouhani's son-in-law resigned on Monday just two days after his appointment as head of Iran's geological survey sparked accusations of nepotism, official news agency IRNA reported.
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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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... 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...
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