[ToloNews] The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, or SIGAR, reported an all-time high number of civilian casualties for a 3-month period since such fatalities were first recorded in 2009, citing UNAMA numbers.
The report, which was released on Oct. 30, cites the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, and says there were 4,313 casualties in the three-month period, consisting of 1,174 deaths and 3,139 injuries.
Also citing UNAMA, the report stated that this is a 42 percent increase in civilian casualties compared to numbers from the same period last year.
The SIGAR report also drew on numbers by the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
SIGAR quotes RS as saying that Afghanistan experienced 4,554 civilian casualties, a 39% increase in the number of civilian casualties from June 1 through September 30, 2019, compared to the same period last year, reversing the decline reported earlier this year.
There was agreement in some areas between the military and civilian reports.
According to SIGAR report, RS said the increase in civilian casualties was due to a high number of terrorist and murderous Moslem attacks prior to the presidential elections that included the use of improvised bombs (IEDs).
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... SIGAR reports, RS attributed less casualties to pro-government forces.
The report says that the elite Afghan Special Security Forces conducted more operations against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and other snuffies in January‐September 2019 than in all of 2018. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... US and Coalition air missions released more munitions in Afghanistan in September 2019 than in any month since October 2010.
According to the report, RS information shows the Taliban increased both its overall and "effective" (casualty-producing) attacks against the ANDSF and Coalition this quarter.
Overall, from January to September, the Taliban were responsible for 3,823 civilian casualties, 46 percent of the total casualties in that time period, according to the report, citing UNAMA.
Improvised bomb (IED) attacks, in particular, spiked in 2019, the report said, citing RS.
During the months of July, August, and September, UNAMA documented an alarming 72% increase in civilian casualties caused by IEDs compared to the same period in 2018, the report stated.
The report comes a month after US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... called off the peace negotiations with the Taliban.
The U.S. has since begun to wind down its force presence in the country despite the lack of a working peace deal with Taliban forces.
#Malta has seized two 2,000-cubic-foot containers packed full of an unofficial #Libya currency printed in #Russia for warlord Khalifa Haftar, Times of Malta reported Friday. pic.twitter.com/nwlr5Vg3lW
Two senior aides of warlord Khalifa Haftar have met with top officials of eastern parallel institutions (government, parliament and central bank) to look for ways of funding the war on #Tripolipic.twitter.com/4a3Lr044ye
Long well-written article, a taste:
[San Diego UT] CULIACAN, Mexico ‐ Culiacan has long been a city of open secrets.
Elaborate shrines to fallen drug traffickers dot the streets, and bouncy ballads chronicling the lives of gangsters boom from restaurants, bars and luxury cars.
Behind City Hall, black-market money changers make a living turning dollars into pesos, while at a nearby cemetery, sprawling narco tombs boast marble floors, air conditioning and satellite television.
For decades, drug trafficking has dominated the economy, culture and sometimes the politics of this city of nearly a million people tucked between the Sierra Madre and the Pacific.
And it used to be mostly at peace, thanks to an unspoken pact between residents and the Sinaloa cartel, the group that controls trafficking in the region:
Civilians looked the other way -- as long as the narcos kept their fights off the streets.
That social contract shattered one afternoon two weeks ago when in the span of minutes hundreds of cartel fighters appeared in the middle of the city wielding high-powered weapons.
The assailants were responding to an army operation to capture Ovidio Guzman Lopez, a leader of the Sinaloa cartel and the son of famed drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
To pressure the army to release its leader, the cartel took hostage the city it had always claimed to protect.
"It was a rupture," said Isaac Guevara Martinez, a social psychologist who studies violence at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. "This had never happened before. And now nobody knows what to think."
In other parts of Mexico, criminal groups often prey on residents. In Tamaulipas, Guerrero and Michoacan, cartels routinely kidnap civilians and levy hefty "protection" payments on businesses.
But the Sinaloa cartel had always behaved in a different manner. Though cartel members appear to have no qualms about breaking laws ‐ or killing anybody who gets in their way ‐ the group’s founders fostered an almost paternal relationship with locals.
Dron66046 is on the Indian aspect of the story for us. See here.
[IsraelTimes] Days after messaging app sues firm for alleged cyber-espionage, report says victims of hacking campaign include government and military officials.
Senior officials from some 20 countries that are allied with the United States were reportedly the targets of a hacking campaign by the Israeli firm NSO Group that used the popular WhatsApp messaging service.
Citing people familiar with an internal investigation by the Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Rooters reported Thursday that a "significant" number of the victims were prominent government and military officials.
The report came days after WhatsApp filed a lawsuit in the US against NSO Group, accusing it of using the hugely popular instant messaging platform to conduct cyberespionage on nearly 1,400 journalists, diplomats, dissidents and human right activists worldwide.
The Israeli firm has denied journalists and activists were targeted and said that it only licenses its software to governments for "fighting crime and terror."
According to Rooters, victims of the hacking campaign included people in the United States, Mexico, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Pakistain and India, but it was unclear whether government officials in those countries were affected.
Also Thursday, India demanded answers from WhatsApp over the snooping scandal after coming under fire from critics who accused authorities of using malware installed the messaging service to spy on citizens.
Nearly two dozen activists, lawyers and journalists were targeted in India ‐ WhatsApp’s biggest market with some 400 million active users ‐ according to Indian media reports.
The Indian Express reported WhatsApp confirmed a number of Indian users had been targeted by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, which installed itself on their devices and relayed back data to the hackers.
New Delhi has asked WhatsApp to "explain the kind of breach and what it is doing to safeguard the privacy of millions of Indian citizens," Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote on Twitter, denying the government had used the malware to spy on its citizens.
But opposition leaders accused the government of invading citizens’ privacy.
Indian media reports said 20 activists, lawyers and journalists were informed by WhatsApp recently that their phones were compromised for two weeks in May.
On Tuesday, the head of WhatsApp said the lawsuit was filed after an investigation showed NSO Group’s role in the cyberattack, despite its denials.
"NSO Group claims they responsibly serve governments, but we found more than 100 human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... defenders and journalists targeted in an attack last May. This abuse must be stopped," Will Cathcart said on Twitter.
The lawsuit said Pegasus was designed to be remotely installed to hijack devices using the Android, iOS, and BlackBerry operating systems.
The complaint said the attackers "reverse-engineered the WhatsApp app and developed a program to enable them to emulate legitimate WhatsApp network traffic in order to transmit malicious code" to take over the devices.
The suit calls on the court to order NSO Group to stop any such attacks and asks for unspecified damages.
NSO Group came to prominence in 2016 when researchers accused it of helping spy on an activist in the United Arab Emirates.
Its best-known product is Pegasus, a highly invasive tool that can reportedly switch on a target’s phone camera and microphone, and access data on it.
Danna Ingleton of Amnesia Amnesty International said the results of the WhatsApp investigation "underscore that NSO Group continues to profit from its spyware products being used to intimidate, track, and punish scores of human rights defenders across the globe, including the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Mexico."
Ingleton said Amnesty and other groups are seeking in the Israeli courts to block NSO from exporting the technology.
Magnificent finaglers of fool flibbertigibbets, those guys. I wish I could describe how such contrivances help us. Suffice to say they lay bare the entire intercourse of an insurgent group who comes to depend on electronic conversations for daily coordination etc.
Indian laws are so flexible thank Gawd that we don't really need to 'establish guilt' like western courts do. If you even shared a friggin' joke with a known extremist, insulted even the idea of India or a head of state - you're fucked. Which seems excessive I know.
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People only call it malware because it's invasive. It doesn't really steal data for nefarious purposes. It think there should be another name... sniffware or something ? It just lets us know if something dastardly is up.
And mind you, the authorities are rather liberal and tolerant. They won't arrest people or beat them up for just talking. That is only logged, for later use in a trial or request for warrants. No, we 'fascists' will only act when 'the bombs are in the car', 'the comrades are on the way', or 'the package has been delivered.'
[Jpost] A Brussels court has ordered Belgium to repatriate from Syria within 75 days a woman whose husband fought for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and her children.
The 23-year old woman and her two children are awaiting the chance to return to Belgium from the al-Roj refugee camp in an area of northeastern Syria that is under Kurdish control.
The Brussels Court of First Instance said Belgium would start facing a daily fine if the woman was not repatriated in the time it set. Arrest and beat these black-robed tyrants
The Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union created a common counter-terrorism register in September, hoping to facilitate prosecutions and convictions of suspected hard boyz and people returning home from fighting with Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The move was partly aimed at addressing concerns about the fate of hundreds of EU citizens who fought for Islamic State and are now detained in Iraq and Syria.
Many of them could return to Europe and not face trial because of a lack of evidence against them, a factor that has contributed to unease in several EU countries over returning fighters.
The EU security commissioner, Julian King, told Rooters last month that at least 1,300 EU citizens, more than half children, were held in Syria and Iraq.
President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... , who announced on Oct. 6 that U.S. forces would withdraw from northeastern Syria, has called for European countries to repatriate nationals who went to fight in Syria for Islamic State and put them on trial.
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Collaborator slime.
Treat them the same way collaborators were treated in '45.
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Require the Judges on that Court to personally adopt those people as wards and pay all of their future expenses. See how much charity they have when their own money is involved, rather than demanding the state pays with Other Peoples Money™.
[DAILYSABAH] The Greek parliament passed a new, tougher asylum law on Friday in a bid to accelerate the distribution of refugees and the expulsion of migrants colonists even as it faces criticism from international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... watchdogs.
Parliament voted in favor of the new law after a marathon debate stretching from Thursday morning until the early hours of Friday.
Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had promised the overhaul of the asylum procedure after he took over in July, saying that Greece simply cannot cope with tens of thousands of people stuck in the inefficient system.
Addressing Parliament before the vote, Mitsotakis said he wanted a "transparent and functional system" which will protect refugees, but without "opening the gates" to everyone.
"Those who know they do not merit asylum but try to enter and stay in our country will no longer be tolerated," he added.
The start of Mitsotakis' term coincided with a surge in migrant arrivals and the overwhelming of camps set up on Aegean islands to process asylum applications.
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[DAILYSABAH] German federal police have established a new department to tackle what they claim as "terrorism motivated by Islam," a statement on the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA)'s official website confirmed Friday.
The statement added that the Islam-motivated terrorism (TE) department was formed of two groups, one which is already working on existing cases while the other group will be accepting new personnel soon.
"The fight against Islamist terrorism has a high priority for the Federal Criminal Police Office," the statement stressed, adding the new department is another important step to expand its operational, analytical and supporting capabilities to further strengthen the fight against "Islamist terrorism" together with other federal and state security agencies.
The move follows the growing anti-Moslem tendencies across Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as many Moslem associations and leaders warn Western governments against wrongfully associating religion with terrorism, and presenting possible criminal activities as related to Islam.
The BKA claimed that the new department was being established to tackle the danger of "Islamist" attacks in Germany remains high despite the defeat of the ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... terrorist group.
The statement added that the new department will be effective in dealing with returnees from the war zones in Syria and Iraq.
Dozens of German ISIS fighters are reportedly in the severely overcrowded al-Hol camp, which is under the control of the PKK terrorist organization's Syrian affiliate People's Protection Units (YPG). Their wives and children are estimated to number in the hundreds. Humanitarian groups have previously called on Germany to take back over 100 children of German ISIS fighters, who they say risk being radicalized.
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish court ordered the release of a bigwig of the country’s main opposition party late on Thursday, following the passing of judicial "reforms" by Ankara earlier this month.
Eren Erdem, a member of the People’s Republican Party (CHP) executive council, was released after spending 490 days behind bars at the Silivri Prison in Istanbul. He was detained on June 29, 2018 for alleged support of 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. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , a former ally of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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A dastardly story of how George Soros funded 'transparency activists' claim to have exposed the use of secret Israeli software by the Indian govt. Supposedly we spy on known Maoist affiliates and supporters of an armed 'class struggle' in the hinterland. Tell you all about it soon. Until then, here's the MSM circus tattle.
Unsurprisingly, India is not the only country to make use of this software. See here for more.
Indian Govt A Likely Culprit in WhatsApp Snooping Scandal, Pegasus Documents Show.
[HuffingtonPost] NEW DELHI ‐ On October 30 2019, Facebook confirmed that Pegasus, a sophisticated snooping software developed by Israel's NSO group, was used to target Indian lawyers, and Dalit and Adivasi (tribal)
rights activists. Facebook is suing NSO for hacking into WhatsApp to infect phones with Pegasus. If I had my way I'd chip some people.
To be sure, NSO has refused to name its clients. Yet, among the documents filed by Facebook in a California court is a signed contract with Ghana's National Communications Authority that states the software could be deployed only with written sanction from Israel's Ministry of Defence. The NSO group has long maintained it sells its software exclusively to governments. Blah Blah Blah... Bring you the real story soon.
PS: There should be a 'Hand of Soros' option in the organizations drop down.
"Gone are the days when one used to use Islam to gain power. This is a new Pakistan. Sit however long you want. When your food runs out, we will send more. But we will not give you an NRO," declared the prime minister.https://t.co/kLMwFF5LSk
[IsraelTimes] Majority of units to be constructed deep in West Bank; projects approved for Jordan Valley outpost legalized by cabinet and town hit by terror attack.
Consequences. None of this would be happening if the Palestinians had signed a peace treaty with Israel back when Bill Clinton was president. Or George W. Bush or Barack H. Obama. But President Trump doesn’t care, and the odds are good he will be in office for another four years.
The Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee ‐ the Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing settlement construction ‐ published on Thursday the protocol from a meeting it held earlier this month when it made the approvals.
The quarterly session was the last held during the 2019 calendar year, during which plans for 8,337 homes were advanced ‐ the most since 2013. Each of Trump’s nearly three years in office saw an increase in settlement approvals, with 6,742 green-lit in 2017 and 5,618 advanced in 2018.
Under unofficial settlement guidelines coordinated with the White House when Trump took office, Israel agreed that the Civil Administration committee would meet once every three months instead of once every month.
Breaking from its predecessors, the Trump administration has avoided criticizing settlement construction. Outgoing peace envoy Jason Greenblatt said he refers to Israeli localities over the Green Line as "neighborhoods and cities," while US Ambassador David Friedman has said he does not see anything wrong with Israel maintaining control over parts of the West Bank.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... both have stated that Israel should hold off on annexation plans for the time being while Washington is gearing up to introduce the political portion of its peace plan, which is expected to face further delays with an end to the political deadlock in Israel nowhere in sight.
[DAILYSABAH] Police in Vietnam arrested two people and summoned others for questioning Friday on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of 39 people whose bodies were found in the back of a truck in Britannia last week, authorities said.
After 10 Vietnamese families reported their relatives missing, fearing they were among the 39 victims, Ha Tinh regional police launched a criminal investigation into suspected human trafficking, the statement posted on their website said. All Nguyens...
Two people have been arrested and others brought in for questioning, it said. The investigation would also look at similar incidents that occurred over the last five years.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... a Northern Irish man has been charged with multiple counts of manslaughter in relation to the discovery of 39 bodies in a truck near London last week, an Irish broadcaster said Friday.
Eamon Harrison, 23, appeared in court in Dublin to face 41 charges after the endorsement of a Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Arrest Warrant, RTE said.
British police have urged two suspects in the deaths of 39 people found in a truck container last week to turn themselves in.
Essex Police detective Daniel Stoten used a presser in Northern Ireland Friday to urge the two brothers to surrender to police.
Ronan and Christopher Hughes are being sought by police for questioning about possible links to the grim discovery of 39 bodies in a container truck in southeastern England on Oct. 23.
Police say they have already spoke to Ronan Hughes by telephone but want to talk to the two in person.
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[CNN] An Indonesian man has been publicly flogged for adultery, under a draconian law he helped create.
Mukhlis, a member of the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) in the deeply conservative Aceh province of Indonesia, received 28 lashes in front of a crowd on Thursday after being caught having an affair with a married woman. Like many Indonesians, Mukhlis goes by a single name.
His agency advises the local government on drafting and implementing religious laws.
A video by the AFP news agency shows him grimacing as each strike is delivered onto his back by a masked officer on a stage, in front of a handful of onlookers -- some of whom filmed on their cell phones. The woman with whom he was caught also received a series of lashes.
Aceh, the country's only region to impose Sharia law, uses caning to punish a series of offenses, such as homosexuality, drinking alcohol and having sex outside of marriage.
"We have clarified his identity and we proceeded with the investigation and handed over the dossier to prosecutors, and today we carried out the implementation of the flogging punishment," AFP reported Muhammad Hidayat, the Banda Aceh sharia police chief, as telling news hounds at the caning.
"A lot of things we can learn, but ultimately we have to enforce God's laws, especially on Islamic land like here," Muhammad Ramdan, a Banda Aceh resident, added.
The state's Sharia criminal code went into effect in September 2015, and a number of people have been caned under the laws.
Last year 15 people, including five women, received the punishment for a variety of crimes. Before that, two men were lashed 83 times for homosexuality.
"No matter who you are... if you violate (Islamic) law you will be whipped," Husaini Wahab, the deputy regent of the Aceh Besar municipality, told AFP after the latest caning.
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"O Verse, to your end ever nearer!
O Poetry, woe!" pealed the peerer.
"O nurse, call a hearse
For this patient is worse...
Though I fear he's still fogging the mirror."
[IsraelTimes] Remarks by Brian Hook come amid growing concern in Israel over potential attack by Tehran in retaliation for efforts to thwart arming of Iranian proxies.
US State Department Special Representative for Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Brian Hook, who made the comments in an interview with Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya, did not specify over what time period the money was sent. Thanks ValJar and Baracky! Treasonous assholes!
Iran has longstanding ties to a number of armed Shiite groups in Iraq and was a key backer of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a paramilitary group that fought against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist organization.
In Syria, Iran supports militias fighting on behalf of its ally Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... in that country’s civil war.
Tehran also backs other armed factions such as Leb’s Hezbollah terror group and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s 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... .
On Wednesday, Israeli Air Force chief Amikam Norkin said the military’s multi-tiered network of air defense systems was "on alert" amid a general threat of attack by Iran.
In recent weeks, the military has begun to believe that Tehran intends to eventually retaliate against Israel’s regular Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against its forces and proxies in the region.
Iran appears to have been building up its drone activities and attacks in recent months. In August, Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes in Syria to thwart a planned attack on Israel by Iran-backed fighters using armed drones, the Israel Defense Forces said. The Israeli military said its strike targeted operatives from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as well as Shiite militias who had been planning on sending "kamikaze" attack drones into Israel armed with explosives.
Israel has vowed to prevent Iran’s regional proxy militias from obtaining advanced weapons to use against the Jewish state and has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria that it says were to prevent delivery of weapons and to stop Iranian military entrenchment in that country.
[DAILYSABAH] Leb's private banks have reopened after a two-week closure because of anti-government protests.
The reopening on Friday follows 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 has him bumped off, too.... 's resignation this week, a key demand of the protesters.
There are concerns the reopening of the banks would lead many to withdraw their money, fearing economic collapse.
A banker told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named "there are no restrictions" on those who want to withdraw money. The banker spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to news hounds.
Large queues starting forming outside banks from early morning and people rushed in as soon as doors opened to cash in their salaries and make transfers.
Tellers struggled to handle the flood of customers trying to cram inside bank branches, as queues spilt onto the streets.
The central bank had promised not to impose capital controls when banks reopened, measures that could hamper the currency inflows and investment Leb badly needs to weather its worst economic crisis since its 1975-90 civil war.
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[BREITBART] Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad echoed Russian doubts about the death of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an extensive interview published Friday, attributing most American political developments to "Hollywood."
The regime-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) published Assad’s interview in full, which touches on, among other topics, the al-Baghdadi raid, his opinion of President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... , a potential hot war with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , and his hope to integrate Kurdish groups into his regime.
President Trump announced that American forces surrounded al-Baghdadi at a secret compound outside Idlib, Syria, last weekend. When al-Baghdadi found himself captured, he ran into a dead-end cave with two of his children and detonated a suicide bomb vest, killing all three. Only one American troop, a canine officer, was injured touching a livewire, according to the Pentagon, but has since returned to duty.
"He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way," Trump said. "These savage monsters will not escape their fate, and they will not escape the final judgment of God."
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the majority-Kurdish militia responsible for taking ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... down in its "capital," Raqqa, was reportedly responsible for extracting from Islamic State jihadists the intelligence necessary to find al-Baghdadi. Trump thanked them, as well as Turkey, Russia, and Syria for their participation in the operation.
Assad told friendly Syrian media that he did not understand why Trump thanked his dictatorship.
"Maybe, the reason behind including a number of countries as participants in this operation is to give it credibility so these countries will feel not embarrassed, but have the desire to be that they are part of a ’great’ operation, as the Americans have tried to portray it. And in this way, they are credited with fighting terrorism," Assad speculated. "We do not need such credit. We are the ones fighting terrorism. We have no relations and have had no contact with any American institutions."
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration is keeping alive one of the last remaining components of the 2015 Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal by extending sanctions waivers that allow foreign companies to work with Iran’s civilian nuclear program without US penalties.
The waivers had been due to expire Tuesday but were extended by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for another 90 days. The extensions were not announced until Thursday.
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[IsraelTimes] Reported decision by State Department comes day after Israeli officials said diplomats had asked allies to condition funds on action against Hezbollah missile program.
The State Department informed Congress Thursday of its decision to withhold the aid, Rooters reported.
No reason was given for the move, which came as the country has been rocked by weeks of anti-government protests that have pushed 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 has him bumped off, too.... from office and raised questions about the political future of Leb.
On Wednesday, Israeli officials said they had asked allies to condition any aid to Leb on efforts to get rid of advanced arms stationed there.
"In discreet talks with various capitals, we made it clear that any aid meant to guarantee the stability of Leb needs to be conditioned on Leb dealing with Hezbollah’s precision-guided missiles," a bigwig said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . "Anything short of that will be problematic, in our eyes."
The Trump administration has levied a series of sanctions on Hezbollah, which maintains its own militia. At the same time, it had sought approval for military aid to Beirut as a means of strengthening the army there as a bulwark against the Iran-backed group and regional instability.
One US official cited by Rooters said the US decision could lead to Russia stepping in and expanding its regional influence.
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.
...Arabic for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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 has him bumped off, too....
[BREITBART] Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad echoed Russian doubts about the death of 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
