[PULSE.NG] Accused Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is an "excellent father, friend, brother, son and partner," his young wife said as his landmark trial in New York wound up. But she'd say that, wouldn't she? Otherwise she'd have a terrible accident. "He makes a wicked good pork chop"
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El Chapo's stool pigeon fricassee is to die for.
[Washington Examiner] Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered to negotiate ways to minimize the costs of keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan amid concern that U.S. forces will pull out of the region prematurely, a new report says.
Although Ghani did not include specific proposals for how to cut costs of U.S. troops and contractors in Afghanistan, his letter to President Trump dated Monday says the objective is "maximum effectiveness to aid efficiency." He also requested Trump visit Afghanistan soon to "discuss a mutually beneficial path forward toward lasting peace and increased security for both of our countries and peoples," the Wall Street Journal reports.
Ghani also alluded to media reports that Trump instructed the Pentagon to withdraw half of the roughly 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan in December, although the National Security Council denied that such orders were given.
"While the Afghan government remains a steadfast and committed partner to the United States in the pursuit of our shared security and peace objectives, we are aware of the recent changes in the context of our relationships and a seeming shift in U.S. priorities and objectives in our country and the region," Ghani wrote in the letter.
Although it was uncertain as of Thursday if Trump had received the correspondence, the letter comes after U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with the Taliban in Qatar last week.
Khalilzad said over the weekend that discussions with the Taliban in Qatar were " more productive than they have been in the past" and that the U.S. and Taliban agreed on a draft framework that would pull out the U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the future, one of the Taliban’s top priorities.
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Their indigenous culture is more than 99% to blame for where they are right now. The people who were given more than 15 years of American blood and treasure to do something about that culture of theirs stole the treasure and laughed about the blood.
F*ck. Them.
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Their indigenous culture is more than 99% to blame
Surely Pakistani meddling has a little something to do with the troubles over there.
More Turkish fussing about Gulenists, one assumes.
[ToloNews] Eight days after police raid on two Afghan-Turk schools in Balkh province, the six Ottoman Turkish nationals are yet to be released and their fate is still unknown, relatives of the Ottoman Turkish citizens acknowledged.
On January 25, police raided two Afghan-Turk schools in Mazar-e-Sharif city and locked away Please don't kill me! almost 100 teachers, employees and students of the schools including six Ottoman Turkish citizens.
Salih Bayir, Mustafa Alyar, Serat Gunes, Cengiz Karagoz, Cemal Kose and Ismail Kizmaz are the Ottoman Turkish citizens who have been arrested by police.
"Six Ottoman Turkish citizens who were teaching at Afghan-Turk boys’ school in Mazar-e-Sharif city have been in police detention for the past eight days and we know nothing about their fate," said Ahmad Fawad Haidari, deputy head of Afghan-Turk schools.
Relatives of the Ottoman Turkish teachers called on President Ashraf 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. .. to help free the Ottoman Turkish citizens.
Maala Alyar, daughter of Mustafa Alyar, manager of Afghan-Turk school, said she and her four sisters and brothers have been born in Afghanistan and his father was just serving at Afghan-Turk school for the past 14 years.
"I ask the president to free Ottoman Turkish teachers. They should resume their work. The teachers should rejoin their families," said Maala.
Zakaria Akhtari, an Afghan-Turk student, said the arrest of the teachers has affected their lessons.
"Raiding and mistreatment are not the solution if government wants to take the management of the school," said Mohabat Akhatari, an Afghan-Turk student.
Balkh police meanwhile said the Ottoman Turkish citizens are in police detention adding that they made the move based on government’s order.
This comes after two Ottoman Turkish citizens and former teachers at Afghan-Turk schools, Yulmaz Aitin and Sami Yaoz, who were under house arrest in Kabul for at least 13 months, were released and were granted asylum in Sweden.
Back in December 2017, Afghan cops raided an Afghan-Turk female high school in Taimani area in Kabul’s PD4 and surrounded the school for at least three hours. The teachers were arrested at that time.
Afghan-Turk schools’ parents associations said two teachers had filed an asylum application to the UN office in Kabul over fear of prosecution in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... The Ottoman Turkish government had asked the Afghan government to hand over these individuals to Turkey. But there is no extradition agreement between the two countries.
At least 600 boys and girls are enrolled in Afghan-Turk schools in Mazar-e-Sharif city. The management of the schools are supposed to be handed over from Cag Educational Foundation to Ottoman Turkish government, but the students and teachers of the schools are resisting against the decision.
On February 2018, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education and Ottoman Turkish government, the management of the schools was officially handed over to President Erdogan’s administration.
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[ToloNews] The 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... told news hounds in the Oval Office on Friday that "tremendous amount of good things are happening" and that Afghanistan is talking about "settling" for the first time in the past 18 years.
Trump said that Afghanistan is talking about "making an agreement" adding that if that happens, he will withdraw troops from the country.
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Your graft invested environment ignored the purpose was to kill off the Taliban. Why get off welfare when they're sucker enough to keep paying? Appears someone is tired of being played the sucker.
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I find it interesting that Afghan president Ghani wrote to President Trump suggesting possible cost cutting measures that could add up to $2 billion alongside troop reductions from 14,000 to a more efficient 3,000.
[AnNahar] Civilian rescue vessel Sea Watch 3, which was detained in Sicily on Friday, is the latest in a long list of such ships that have been forced or have chosen to stop their work.
Currently only the Libyan coastguard is able to save those migrants colonists floundering in their attempts to reach Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... across the central Mediterranean.
Here is a status review of migrant rescue ship organizations:
- GAVE UP -
The main charities trying to rescue migrants colonists off the coast of Libya stopped their efforts in the summer of 2017, after departure numbers fell and the Libyan coastguard intensified threats against the boats they consider accomplices of people smugglers.
Maltese aid group MOAS, which was the first to carry out migrant rescue operations in 2014 and had deployed two vessels, transferred its activities to helping the Rohingya in Bangladesh in September 2017.
Around the same time, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ended its operations with the Vos Prudence, the largest private vessel deployed off Libya with a record 1,500 people rescued at the same time.
Save the Children ended its search and rescue operations with the Vos Hestia in October 2017.
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In August 2017, Italian authorities impounded the Juventa, operated by small German aid group Jugend Rettet, after it was accused of helping Libyan human traffickers. The aid group denies the charge.
The Lifeline rescue vessel operated by a German aid group of the same name was impounded on arrival in Valletta, Malta, in June 2018, for alleged registration issues.
Aid groups SOS Mediterranee and MSF stopped search and rescue operations with the Aquarius in December after it was stuck in a French port for two months following the revocation of its registration.
Spain's Proactiva Open Arms in January slammed the authorities' decision to keep the Open Arms ship in Barcelona harbour. The boat was impounded for a month by Italia in early 2018. It was then forced to take rescued migrants colonists to Spain several times after Malta and Italia refused to allow them to disembark.
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The Sea Eye charity from Germany had several vessels impounded during 2018 but deployed another ship, the Professor Albrecht Penck, in December, rescuing 12 migrants colonists. The boat is currently in Majorca and plans to set sail again in around two weeks.
SOS Mediteranee has said it is looking for another boat and flag so it can continue search and rescue operations.
In Italia a collective of associations launched the Mediterranea, flying an Italian flag, mainly to witness the situation for migrants colonists off Libya.
There are also two light aircraft, the Colibri operated by French aid group Pilotes Volontaires and the Moonbird operated by Sea Watch, which overfly the Mediterranean seeking to identify and locate migrant-carrying boats in trouble.
[Libya Herald] A report on the Libyan Moslem Brüderbund (LMB) concludes that the LMB had relatively little support from the Libyan people post Qadaffy.
The report "Ghosts of the Past: The Moslem Brüderbund and its Struggle for Legitimacy in post-Qadaffy Libya" authored by Inga Kristina Trauthig and published by Kings College’s International Centre for the Study of Radiclisation (ICSR), was published today.
By tracing and explaining the history of the LMB’s most salient organizational developments, the report examines the ways in which the LMB tried to establish itself as a legitimate political actor with regard to its Islamic credentials in the Libyan political sphere post 2011.
The report does not attempt to foresee the future of the LMB or its offshoot the Justice and Construction Party (JCP), but draws conclusions based on existing opinions of the LMB in the country, the burdens from the past still influencing the LMB, and recent political schemes that have shaped its image.
The report says that after decades operating underground, the LMB tried to establish itself as a legitimate political actor in Libya after 2011 and arrived on the Libyan political stage through the 2012 parliamentary elections.
It points out that due to the intolerance of the Qadaffy regime, the LMB had marginal experience interacting with the local masses compared to its counterparts elsewhere.
The report concludes that movement seems to have failed to achieve its objective of taking power in the country. It says that many observers as well as MB members themselves were disappointed by the election results in 2012 and 2014, which revealed the LMB had relatively little support from the Libyan people.
It points out that the fact that Libya is a majority Sunni country with a conservative society did not translate, somewhat paradoxically, into a conservative Sunni movement, such as the MB, faring as well as many had anticipated, derailing the impression that the whole region was "going Islamist" after 2011.
The report says that the LMB today is still haunted by ghosts of the past, such as the decade-long demonisation of the Qadaffy regime, its exiled organizational structure and, connected to that, its impotence in developing a strong social base in Libya.
The LMB, the report adds, was quick to blame these factors ‐ exacerbated by their opponents’ fearmongering of a purported Islamist takeover ‐ as responsible for the Justice and Construction Party’s (JCP) poor showing in the 2012 election.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... it concludes that these reasons glossed over the LMB’s self-inflicted wounds, such as the Islamists’ inability to unite or to convince major parts of the Libyan population of their political programme.
Nevertheless, the report says that despite the aforementioned points, the LMB in 2018 established itself as a solid political force that has to be reckoned with in the future. This, it concludes, is mainly due to its shrewd manoeuvring and pragmatic choice of alliances.
It stresses that despite the LMB’s lacklustre electoral performance, which supposedly vindicates the proponents of post-Islamism, it is premature to equate the Brotherhood’s electoral setbacks with the end of political Islam in Libya.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... political Islam needs to redefine itself conceptually to stay relevant and that the LMB must adapt to a political environment that has been sliding, gradually but steadily, into a battleground for militias in which political institutions constitute simply another means for certain stakeholders to enrich themselves.
The report is critical of the LMB zero-sum approach to politics rather than bridging divides and pursuing compromises. But it concedes that like other political forces in Libya the LMB is hostage to military developments in the country, having to operate in a colossally demanding environment: a country painfully fragmented with political forces incapable of controlling the battleground.
As a result, the LMB is one of many political forces that was reduced to negligible importance and to struggling with the other political forces for relevance and recognition.
Overall, the LMB exhibited a more hawkish and less compromise oriented policy approach than its Tunisian counterpart and, while aiming to grow in importance in the Libyan political sphere, cooperated with some of the more radical Islamist groups.
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[Libya Observer] An old woman from the southern city of Sabha has spoken out against the atrocities of warlord Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army. If they win battles and have a command structure they're an army. Actually, they're an army just with the command structure and uniforms, according to the Laws of Land Warfare.
The helpless woman spoke about how Haftar’s militia groups stormed her sons’ houses and looted the valuables.
The grief-stricken mom said “Israeli army would not do this if they invaded Libya.” Probably not. Most of them aren't Arabs.
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[DAWN] Yemen's government and its allies 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 the United Arab Emirates (UAE) asked the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council on Thursday to turn up the pressure on 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 ... rebels to uphold a ceasefire deal.
In a letter sent to the council, the three governments accused the Houthis of violating the ceasefire in the port city of Hodeida 970 times since it came into force on December 18.
They asked the council to "impress upon the Houthis, and their Iranian backers, that they will be held responsible if their continued failure to comply... leads to the collapse of the Stockholm agreement," said the letter seen by AFP.
Yemen's government and the Houthis agreed to the ceasefire and a redeployment of forces from Hodeida during UN-brokered talks in Sweden last month.
But deadlines for the pullback of forces and a prisoner swap have slipped, fuelling worries that the Stockholm agreement may be in jeopardy.
UAE minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday to discuss problems in implementing the Stockholm deal.
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[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish court on Friday accepted an indictment charging a local employee of the U.S. consulate in Istanbul with espionage and attempting to overthrow the government, state media reported.
Metin Topuz, who liaised with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for the American mission, is accused of having links to U.S.-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Ankara alleges that Gulen ordered a failed coup in 2016, but he denies the claims.
The Istanbul court, which accepted the prosecutor's indictment issued last month, ordered Topuz to remain in jail, state news agency Anadolu said.
He has been in jug since September 2017.
...and appeared in our archives almost as long.
Topuz's trial will begin on March 26 and the first hearing will last three days. He faces life in jail if found guilty.
The consulate employee is suspected of having contacts with former coppers
...the American ambassador at the time explained that was part of Mr. Topuz’s duties...
and a prosecutor on the run accused of links with the Gulen movement, Anadolu reported.
The agency added that the indictment claimed Topuz had "very intense contacts" with former police chiefs involved in a 2013 probe into corruption allegations that affected government officials at the time.
Ankara has dismissed that investigation as an attempted "judicial coup" against the government by the Gulen movement.
Topuz had been at the center of a visa row between Ankara and Washington in late 2017 after his arrest.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -U.S. relations have been strained in recent years over multiple issues including the U.S. refusing to extradite Gulen.
There was also a bitter row last summer over the detention of an American pastor, but tensions eased after his release in October.
The court's decision comes a day after a judge in the southeastern city of Mardin convicted a former local employee of the U.S. consulate in Adana, southern Turkey. Hamza Ulucay was found guilty of helping outlawed Kurdish bad boys, and sentenced to four years and six months in jail.
But the Mardin court ruled he be released because of the time he had already served in jail since March 2017.
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[DAWN] The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov's recent remarks about the alleged movement of ISISholy warriors from Pakistain to Tajikistan via helicopter as a "slip of tongue", Radio Pakistain reported.
Zubov had reportedly said on Jan 28 that fighters with ties to the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group were being transferred via unidentified helicopters from the Pak border to the Tajikistani border "in the direction of the southern borders of Russia".
The minister had also claimed that Moscow may be preparing for provocations that affect Russia, Sputnik reported.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zhakharova dismissed Zubov's remarks during a weekly press briefing today, saying that they were a "slip of the tongue".
She added that Russia and Pakistain share common concerns regarding the growing momentum of ISISholy warriors and their expansion in the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border area.
Zhakharova said that Moscow is closely cooperating with Islamabad in the fight against terrorism and advancing the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.
The Russian official highlighted the "great contribution" made by all countries bordering Afghanistan, and said that Moscow will serve as a reliable partner in every effort to ensure security of borders, according to Radio Pakistain.
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Slip of tongue = all true but we're not supposed to talk about it?
[PULSE.NG] The Pak lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death sentence for blasphemy is himself seeking protection from European governments, his French lawyer told AFP on Friday.
Saif-ul-Mulook has been targeted by death threats since his the spectacular acquittal of his client Asia Bibi, a labourer from central Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province on death row since 2010.
"He is hoping that people will take into account his heroic actions in defending Ms Bibi, given the current circumstances in Pakistain, which led him to exchange his freedom for hers," Mulook's lawyer Francois Zimeray told AFP.
"He does not want to seek asylum, but rather to ask for European nationality," Zimeray said.
Mulook fled to the Netherlands last November after violent protests erupted over the Pak Supreme Court's decision to overturn Bibi's death sentence from 2010.
He returned to Islamabad on January 26 to defend Bibi as she faced another appeal of the supreme court's decision, which was rejected on Tuesday.
Bibi, who has been detained in protective custody, is expected to leave Pakistain as well to seek asylum in a North American or European country, and unconfirmed reports have said her children are already in Canada.
The country's foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that Bibi was free to leave the country after her years-long legal ordeal, which drew worldwide attention to religious extremism in Pakistain.
Even unproven accusations of blasphemy in Pakistain have caused lynchings and murders.
Religious groups have said "they would kill her despite the judgment of the Supreme Court," Mulook said after the court's decision Tuesday. "Therefore, I think she should leave the country."
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[Jpost] Two PLO groups announced on Tuesday that they will not participate in a new Paleostinian Authority government because it will deepen divisions among the Paleostinians and consolidate the split between the West Bank and Gazoo Strip.
The announcement came shortly after Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah submitted the resignation of his government to PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... Abbas later accepted the resignation and said he will begin consultations to form a new government consisting of PLO factions whose goal would be to prepare for new parliamentary elections.
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And the reason we care about this?
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When I was younger, I would occasionally argue with Israeli "Peaceniks", my favorite argument - for getting them to zip it - was "How can we make Peace with them if they can't make Peace with each other?".
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Because it's funny!
But beyond the entertainment factor, it's a nice example of how the Paleos hate each other as much or more than they hate the Juice.
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Two Democratic PLO groups announced on Tuesday that they will not participate in a new Paleostinian Authority Anti-Trumper government because it will deepen divisions among the United States Paleostinians and consolidate the split between the West Bank and East Coast Gazoo Strip.
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[IsraelTimes] Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Islamic Theocratic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization, says country is set to produce 300 tons of yellowcake per year.
Iran announced that it is producing large amounts of yellowcake, a precursor to enriched uranium, and has shipped two batches of the material to a uranium conversion facility.
That kind of thing is pretty easy to bomb into rubble, right?
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the Islamic Theocratic Republic was ready to increase its production of yellowcake to 300 tons per year over the next five to six years, and had shipped 30 tons on yellowcake from the Shahid Rezaeinzhad Industrial Complex in the central province of Yazd to a conversion facility in Isfahan province, according to Iranian media reports on Wednesday.
How about that — better to bomb it or send computer viruses to make the centrifuges destroy themselves?
Salehi delivered the message to Iran’s Channel 2 news from the production complex.
"Today, we are witnessing the completion of an important link: uranium production," Salehi said, according to a translation by the Washington-based non-profit Middle East Media Research Institute. "This is our first plant of a large scale, and we are using the latest technologies."
Salehi said that the new facility was at full capacity, that Iran was extracting uranium from a mine in Yazd province and other still-unidentified mines, and had discovered large amounts of the material in the country through aerial surveys.
Mines are just great big holes in the ground, sort of like tunnels, right? Israel has been having fun with tunnels recently...
He said they were planning on building additional plants similar to the Shahid Rezaeinzhad Industrial Complex in the same province.
Yellowcake is a uranium concentrate in powder form and an early step in uranium processing. It is produced by mining uranium ore from rocks and separating the uranium from the rocks by bathing them in acid. The yellowcake can then be converted, enriched to raise its purity, and then used for weapons or energy production.
Last month, Salehi said that Iran had deceived nuclear inspectors by quietly purchasing replacement parts for its Arak nuclear reactor while it was conducting negotiations for an international agreement under which it knew it would be required to destroy the original components.
Barack Hussein Obama: world champion chump or the name the world will curse into eternity?
Salehi recalled that during talks for the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for it dismantling the weapons-capable parts of its nuclear program, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned his country’s negotiators that he expected Western parties to renege on the agreement.
Liars naturally expect lies.
"When our team was in the midst of the negotiations, we knew that [the Westerners] would ultimately renege on their promises," Salehi said. "The leader [Khamenei] warned us that they were violators of agreements. We had to act wisely. Not only did we avoid destroying the bridges that we had built, but we also built new bridges that would enable us to go back faster if needed."
Salehi insisted that such subterfuge did not indicate that Iran was or is seeking nuclear weapons, as the Trump administration and Israel insist.
No, no! There is some other perfectly logical reason why a country would refine 1500+ tons of uranium-containing yellowcake.
Iran’s plan was to modernize the Arak reactor, which was based on an old Russian design, and use the new facility to produce reduced quantities of plutonium that would be used for nuclear fuel, but not weapons, he said.
Riiiiight.
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... pulled out of the nuclear deal in May last year but the other signatories, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran have all agreed to try to keep the pact alive on their own. Trump insists the original agreement did not go far enough in curbing Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions and wants to renegotiate the JCPOA with stricter terms. In the meantime Washington has imposed heavy sanctions on Iran that could weaken the ability of the remaining parties to maintain the deal.
Last week Salehi said Iran has begun "preliminary activities for designing" a modern process for 20-percent uranium enrichment. Restarting enrichment at that level would mean Iran had withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal.
Tehran has in the past warned that if the remaining parties are not able to keep up the trade and financial benefits the deal provided, it will also pull out and restart controversial parts of its nuclear program.
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Better to bomb them before they get a weapon than waiting until afterwards like we have with North Korea.
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
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[Washington Examiner] Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered to negotiate ways to minimize the costs of keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan amid concern that U.S. forces will pull out of the region prematurely, a new report says.
Nice toss Herb ! 
...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. ..
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
[PULSE.NG] The Pak lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death sentence for blasphemy is himself seeking protection from European governments, his French lawyer told AFP on Friday.
