See also this article where Congresswoman Omar denies the court testimony
[Twitter-Iman of Peace]
A third party gave this background info on the Iman.
She says this about him:
I’ve met him. He’s a good man and the real deal.
He grew up in Australia. His father was a Shi’a imam. He went to Iran to become an imam, earned the title from one of the major schools of jurisprudence, and was appalled at the corruption, hypocrisy, and violence being preached.
He went back to Australia to find a better way.
He’s big into freedom of conscience and taking on the Qataris is the good fight.
Met him at the American Priorities Festival in October. He was gracious.
Inline text copy of the twitter stream without most links or images:
Note: Transcription of this series of tweets. All the tweets have more tweets inside them. I didn’t include those links
This thread will be one of the most important threads I make on Twitter. The illegal case behind this will be exposed with full transparency, in full details. For now, I direct the following information to:
@realDonaldTrump, @VP, @jaredkushner, @DonaldJTrumpJr, @seanhannity.
#1 I have sources for what I will say, and they are solid rock authentic. Many officials will criticize me for making this public, but I have a duty to do so. The public needs to know. I understand the potential consequences of this thread, and I accept them.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1154426961646649345?s=20
#2 I am willing to go to the fullest extent with this matter, even if I am required to testify in Congress. This is the beginning of the uncovering of what could be a giant scandal. The sensitive details of this matter will be shared in private, upon request.
#3 A Congresswoman is communicating indirectly, through an individual, with Qatar. The people she is talking to are a group close to Emir @TamimBinHamad, and they involve: @A_AlAthbah, @saifaalthani, @ahjh_althani and co.
#4 This Congresswoman, has confirmed to the above group of Qataris, that the recent investigations into her cases will not end well for her. They also fear that she’s in trouble. Now, they are coming after several people. I am one of those people, and their plan is as follows:
#5 This Congresswoman told the group of Qatari officials, who have invested in her, that
@SpeakerPelosi is happy that she is being investigated, because recently, they had rebelled against her (Pelosi). Also, she hates the pressure coming onto the party because of her.
#6 The plan of this Congresswoman is to make all of this “go away” and strike a deal with
@SpeakerPelosi, to put her cases aside, if she puts the case of this Congresswoman aside and ignores it. This is Qatar’s goal in DC with regards to this Congresswoman.
#7 This Congresswoman, along with a Palestinian female activist from Brooklyn, NYC, agreed on diverting the attention by planning to seek the assistance of @theintercept, Al-Jazeera, and The Middle Easy Eye, to fabricate the following scandal:
#8 They want to claim, that all of those criticizing this particular Congresswoman, are paid by Saudis and The UAE. And that it is a collusion against the Congresswoman. They are planning on separating me and @AdelleNaz in one case, and @DonaldJTrumpJr
and the UAE in another.
#9 The reason they chose @AdelleNaz out of all people who criticize this Congresswoman, it is because of her work/pics with @VP Mike Pence, and to show them in the fabricated articles. Their basis for this would be: “Qatari officials said so” - when it is all false information.
#10 The Congresswoman in question, tried to get me to say that I am being funded by the UAE and Saudi Arabia to “smear her” - to then turn it into an international issue. I have the full text her Middle Person sent. Through a leak, and she knows this is NOT the first leak! 👇🏼👇🏼https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1154428031596843009?s=20
#11 They want to accuse Saudi Arabia and UAE of operating in DC to smear her, and accuse me, @DonaldJTrumpJr, and others who have come after her (such as @TomFitton
) of being part of an international operation/collusion in America.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1154428339135795201?s=20
#12 As for the Palestinian Female Activist from Brooklyn, I recently reached out to her for a reason. I can confirm that she immediately showed my message to Qatar. And she is in on this too, and she will be running for Congress and they want to protect her too.
#13 As for the Palestinian Female Activist from Brooklyn, I recently reached out to her for a reason. I can confirm that she immediately showed my message to Qatar. And she is in on this too, and she will be running for Congress and they want to protect her too.
#14 As for the wider plot by @A_AlAthbah, @saifaalthani, @ahjh_althani and Co. it is to try and turn @jaredkushner against @DonaldJTrumpJr. And I can also confirm, with my sources, that Qatar did in fact give information to Meuller and helped him. Unlike what they said here:
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1154428713624170496?s=20
#15 When the first leak came to me, I forwarded it to a Qatari Diplomat in DC, to show him that I am onto him and the Congresswoman, and the Manhattan Businessman, and the mentioned group of Qataris: @A_AlAthbah @saifaalthani @ahjh_althani and Co. < The ‘Co.’ is very important.
#15 More has been happening behind he scene, and other people are also involved (Shia man) - and I know them one by one. I have made initial contact to pass on all details and materials to the Concerned governments and their intelligence agencies through a lawyer.
#16 This is the first part of this thread. If the Qataris and this Congresswoman go ahead with this plan, either by the aforementioned News agencies or others funded by them in America, I will release more information the Qataris don’t want investigated: Jamal...........
@CIA
#17 As for the full case, I am documenting it and want to expose it all at the very end.
#18 You cannot frame me, you fool You’d be framing yourself. No need to trap Mrs. Mole She will fall into it by herself. **** You can’t help it can you, keep digging! Can’t wait for you to see me testify in Congress. End of Part 1 of this thread.
#19 For transparency, I say: That I have made personal decisions at the moment that concern me alone, and nobody else. I will make these matters public in the near future. When I do, I will quote retweet this tweet for context. Never fear tyrant Govs. Fool and expose them instead.
Update with translation: Dean of Qatar’s Intelligence, Shaheen Al-Sulaiti, proves my entire thread above to be true by weighing in and accusing me of working for Dahlan, (UAE). Can @IlhanMN explain why a man of such a position would find interest in defending her!? Publicly????! https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1155085877682434051?s=20
He blew your cover. Totally. He’s not the only Qatari official either! Complication is being prepared.
Cc: @TamimBinHamad @ahjh_althani @A_AlAthbah @saifaalthani @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @glennbeck @lsarsour
HUGE UPDATE on Ilhan’s case (that requires some explaining). Not blurring names because this is not the real name of the sender.
I received the following Email 22 hours ago. It was sent to me and several public figures, journalists and Government officials. Translation below. https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1160896130676224000?s=20
I was CC’d on the Email. Also, the contents of the Email do not mention me in a friendly way, and serves as a warning to the Qataris. Perhaps it’s an investigator or the same person that leaked the first information in the previous Email above—or someone similar.
Translation👇🏽
I wanted to inform you that I have received confirmed information from politicians in Washington DC that what “Imam Tawhidi” has made public on his Twitter account regarding Mohammad al-Masnad, Abdulla al-Athbah, Saif aal-Thani, and other Qatari..
Officials has resulted in demands for an FBI investigation into the mentioned names. Based on their pressure, the FBI is now investigating this in a very secret manner to gather information for a formal investigation.”
End of Email.
After this Email, this report was released
The following report was released a few hours later, it speaks about Qatar’s method of hacking, buying politicians and funding of universities and institutes to sanitize its reputation. Then it states: “Gov. Departments provoked by this are taking action.”
Quote Tweet https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1160896143745642497?s=20
My comments are as follows:
The FBI will need to confirm whether or not they are truly investigating. If not, which other legal government departments are investigating? Will there be a longer report soon? I don’t know.
Why is MSM not investigating this? Maybe they will now.
I have not spoken to the FBI (yet). My sources and I are happy to meet with them, (they know that already). I can confirm however that I did recently speak in detail with Ambassadors in Washington DC and intelligence departments in M.E regarding the full details of this matter.
These were the people mentioned in the Email, and who I and my high profile source are pointing the finger at: @A_AlAthbah @saifaalthani @ahjh_althani
and Al-Masnad pictured below.
Again, I am following a strategy.
I will not speak to any media just yet. 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1160896166021611522?s=20
That's Mohamad Tawhidi. I've met him. Had a great chat the last time he was here. One of the 'echoes oscar mike echo'. Naturally, he's hated by liberal media even though he's most liberal, attractive and has a large youth following.
He hates mercenary islamists and professional holy-men, and wants a reformed religious constitutionality to the appointment of imams; and no Ayatollahs. The ISIS killed his uncle and close relatives. He also speaks against white islamophiles condescending to unknown elements for votes and getting their citizens raped and killed.
Here's hoping those industrious alphabeteers can be sicced on somebody who deserves the attention for a change.
try and turn @jaredkushner against @DonaldJTrumpJr.
Somebody in Doha watches a lot of 'Dynasty', me reckons.
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We should also highlight and reinforce her 'sex maniac' facet as and where possible. Let it get to be a constant stench in the noses of the devout Minnesotan muslims. Make her a disgrace to her own people and a suspect to the law.
[ToloNewsj This shipment brings the total number of MD 530F training and combat choppers up to 60.
The Afghan Air Force received five MD-530 Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters on November 22.
The helicopters were delivered to Kandahar via a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft on October 27 and were reassembled for active service within ten days, according to a statement by the US-based defense contractor MD Helicopters Inc., as quoted by The Diplomat.
The five helicopters, according to the report, are part of a total delivery of 30 helicopters ordered by the US Army under a wider $1.4 billion Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract issued in September 2017.
The 2017 contract entails the "procurement of an estimated quantity of 150 MD 530F aircraft and required production support services to include program management, delivery support, pilot training and maintenance" to be implemented by September 2022, according to the US Department of Defense (DoD), as quoted by The Diplomat.
The Diplomat quoted a contractor’s statement: "With the latest shipment, the number of MD 530F training and combat aircraft delivered to the Afghan Air Force has reached 60."
[ToloNews] Security threats have affected telecom services in many parts of the country.
The Afghanistan Telecom Regulatory Authority, or ATRA, says that 220 telecom towers have been destroyed by "the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and some other groups" over the past eight months, inflicting a $33 million to $50 million loss to telecommunication companies who must repair pylons.
According to ATRA, security threats have decreased telecom service by 30 percent across the country.
"These 220 telecom towers mean that people in 220 areas in the country were deprived of telecommunication services temporarily or continuously," said Sayed Haris Mir, head of ATRA services monitoring department.
Kunduz, Farah, Ghazni, Zabul, Baghlan and Balkh are among the provinces which according to ATRA have witnessed the highest number of attacks by murderous Moslems on telecom towers.
In many parts of the country, telecom services are turned off during nights due to security threats by krazed killers.
Some MPs, meanwhile, said there is a need for addressing the problem by security agencies.
"This has created many problems for the people who all want these challenges to be addressed," Nilofar Jalali, an MP, told TOLOnews.
"The government is responsible for preventing threats against telecom companies countrywide," said Raihana Azad, another MP.
They are momentarily more secure when Taliban, et al don’t come after them with intent for daring to be connected to the outside world just when the Taliban, et al, want to be free to prey on the locals without having to worry about the police, the army, or Allah forbid, the Afghan Special Forces knowing that they need to take action.
[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... on Tuesday hit out at his own intelligence agency for detaining two activists who broke the story of an alleged massive paedophile ring operating in the country’s schools.
Ghani said he was "deeply disturbed about the recent reports on sexual abuse" in six schools in Pashtun-infested Logar province bordering Kabul, which were brought to light by a youth social worker, Musa Mahmudi.
Mahmudi told Britannia’s Guardian newspaper this month that at least 546 boys had been allegedly abused by a paedophile ring involving teachers and local officials ‐ allegations that sparked national outrage.
But Mahmudi and a colleague, Ehsanullah Hamidi, were arrested last week on suspicion of threatening public order, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said on Tuesday.
The NDS said Mahmudi’s claims were part of a scheme aimed at securing asylum in a foreign country, blasting the report as "baseless" and predicated on "unfounded allegations."
The Afghan spy agency also released a video of Mahmudi appearing to retract his account. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... it was not clear if he was speaking under duress.
But Ghani ordered the NDS to "stop the proceedings." "The protection of civil society and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... defenders is the sole responsibility of the security forces," the president said in a series of tweets.
Presidential front man Sediq Sediqqi said Ghani had ordered that the activists be handed over to the interior ministry for their "protection."
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[Libya Observer] A local source from Benghazi has confirmed that the mutilated body found in al-Abyar town east of Benghazi last Sunday belongs to "Faraj Khalafallah al-Furjani".
A relative of the dead man had explained that the victim was kidnapped from his home by two masked men riding a civilian car last Saturday evening.
"The men told him that they were officers of the internal security agency," the relative said.
He pointed out that the family had not received any information about his whereabouts or the reason for his abduction.
The victim's family demanded the authorities in the east to uncover the murder and prosecute the offenders.
Under the influence of gangs, the forensic report claimed that Faraj had drunk a substance that caused his death and skinned off his face. I had one of those once, at a bar in Saigon. It wuz one of those "drink the first one and the second one's free" deals. Except for the part about dropping dead and my face scorching off, it wasn't that bad.
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[Libya Observer] The Associated Press quoted a military official affiliated with Haftar that their forces shot down a U.S. military drone over Tripoli by mistake last Thursday. The official, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that they later apologized to the U.S. for the incident and agreed with U.S. officials to coordinate their operations in Tripoli and surrounding areas to avoid similar issues in the future. "Our bad"
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[Libya Observer] The United States' Department of State said American officials met with Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... on Sunday to discuss steps to achieve a suspension of hostilities and a political resolution to the Libyan conflict.
The US Department of State said in a statement that the officials underscored the United States’ full support for the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of Libya and expressed serious concern over Russia’s exploitation of the conflict at the expense of the Libyan people.
The American delegation included Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs Victoria Coates, Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy Matthew Zais, and USAFRICOM Deputy Director for Strategy, Engagement, and Programs Brigadier General Steven deMilliano.
"These frank discussions build on recent talks with Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based officials (Delegation led by Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and Foreign Minister Mohammed Sayala) aiming to establish a common basis for progress between the parties on the issues that divide them, in the context of moving toward a ceasefire." The statement said.
US news reports revealed earlier this month that Russian mercenaries linked to Wagner Group are fighting on the ground for Haftar's forces on Tripoli outskirts and elsewhere.
Likewise, the UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame referred in his recent briefing at the Security Council to the presence of fighters from private military firms on the frontlines in southern Tripoli, warning that direct effects of the foreign intervention in Libya has become very clear.
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[Breitbart] President Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly he will designate some Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). His comments came during an interview released on Tuesday.
"The Mexican drug cartels kill more than 100,000 Americans every year by the importation of dangerous narcotics," O’Reilly said to President Trump during an interview aired on O’Reilly.com. "Are you going to designate those cartels in Mexico as terror groups?"
"They will be designated ... I have offered him (the Mexican president) to let us go in and clean it out," President Trump responded. "He, so far, has rejected the offer. But at some point, something has to be done."
The president explained that the cartels have "unlimited money" from drug smuggling and human trafficking.
"I’ve been working on that for the last 90 days," Trump stated. "You know, designation is not that easy, you have to go through a process, and we are well into that process."
The President told Breitbart News earlier this year that he was thinking about the designation. "We’re thinking about doing it very seriously. In fact, we’ve been thinking about it for a long time," he said during an Oval Office interview.
"It’s psychological, but it’s also economic," the President explained. "As terrorists ‐ as terrorist organizations, the answer is yes. They are."
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Impressive Jalisco New Generation Cartel (JNGC) promo photo, weapons, fatigues, boots, matching balaclavas, etc. Something from Erik Holder or the intelligence community will surely be forthcoming.
#4
In practical terms what does this mean? Bank accounts can be seized? members caught in US territory can be shot? Occasional drone fly-overs of cartel homes?
[Rudaw] Efforts by the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union to curb online terror propaganda have dealt a "severe blow" to 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.... group's online presence, according to European officials.
Taking place from November 21-24, an operation coordinated by European police agency Europol removed 26,000 Islamic State (ISIS)-related pieces of content from the web, including videos and profiles of fighters, according to AFP.
More than 40,000 foreign nationals flocked to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS during their bloody reign which ended in Raqqa earlier this year. Social media propaganda drives have played a key part in recruiting new members of the terror group, and channels are updated on a regular basis.
The group also used online platforms to boost their slave trade of Yezidi women, who were sold for as little as $5 on Facebook and Telegram.
"ISIS is not present on the internet anymore and we will see how fast, if ever, they will regain service," Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric van der Sypt told news hounds on Monday.
The operation aimed to remove "everything" related to the Islamic State, he added.
A joint operation by the US, EU and Canada forced the terror group to rely further on online messaging after seizing a number of its servers in spring 2018.
This is not the first time Europe has targeted the group’s online presence, and der Sypt remained optimistic but cautious.
We've knocked them down for the moment... but we're not naive. A first cyberattack in 2018 didn't stop them from bouncing back," he told AFP.
Spanish police have also arrested a man suspected to be one of the "main distributors" of online bully boy content, the outlet reported.
Belgian authorities sparked the operation following an investigation into Amaq, the ISIS propaganda outlet.
The country has been at the epicenter of IS attacks in Europe, following a double suicide kaboom in March 2016 that left over 30 people dead. The attacks were said to be retribution for La Belle France’s capture of Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national who is the sole surviving perpetrator of the deadly 2015 Gay Paree terror attacks.
Telegram emerged as the main source of offending material, and a "significant" number of key actors were removed from the service, according to Van der Sypt.
Twitter previously reported that it suspended 1.2 million accounts spreading terrorist content over a three-year period.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Facebook has not been as vigilant.
A 2018 report by the Counter Extremism Project highlighted the failures of social media outlets, namely Facebook, in removing ISIS-affiliated material.
The project accused Facebook of failing to "effectively prevent ISIS’ extensive misuse of the platform," and added that terror content remained "pervasive" on the site.
Of 1,000 ISIS profiles it observed, only 430 (43 percent) had been removed by Facebook by the end of the six-month research period.
"Perhaps most concerning is that Facebook’s suggested friends algorithm, which recommended IS supporters, propagandists, and even fighters as suggested friends, reveals how the company’s tools have aided in connecting bully boy profiles and help expand IS networks," it added.
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One must note that at least some of these narco gangs are Muslim colonists connected to various jihadi groups — Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and so forth. And we haven’t been hearing much about North Korea on the subject, but didn’t they used to be involved in the heroin trade?
[AlAhram] The Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union agency that monitors drug use says it has detected a trend of escalating violence between gangs operating on the continent.
The development of new synthetic drugs and changes to traditional supply routes feeding drugs into Europe
...heroin and opium from the Taliban in Afghanistan, cocaine from Hispanic America trafficked with the help of Hezb’allah, ISIS used to be very keen on captagon in Syria, both for the jihadis at home and for sale abroad...both
are bringing gangs into conflict, the agency said in its annual report published Tuesday.
The online sale of synthetic opioids creates new and unwelcome competition for heroin suppliers, for example.
These developments "create the conditions for disruptive criminal business models, greater competition and associated conflict, with the potential for an increase in harms, including violence, associated with the drug market,'' the report said.
"Drug market-related violence and intimidation is a growing concern in the EU,'' it added.
"In addition to firearms, including automatic weapons, the use of hand grenades and explosives in the context of drug-related violence appears to be increasing.''
...which explains the nonsense in Sweden...
European consumers increasingly have access to "a wide variety of high-purity and high-potency products," the agency said.
And what better way to turn your back on the future than with a wide variety of pure and potent mind-altering substances!
It added that these products are available at the same price or cheaper than over the past decade.
Europe's biggest market is for cannabis,
...from Mexico? That’d be Hezb’allah....
worth at least 11.6 billion euros ($12.8 billion) in 2017, followed by cocaine
Central to South America — Hizb’allah again, perhaps with help from the IRGC....
with an estimated minimum market value that year of 9.1 billion euros ($10 billion).
The Lisbon, Portugal-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction notes in its report Tuesday that illicit drugs are "the most valuable market" for criminal organizations in the EU.
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But... but if everyone makes drugs legal in their States, these people can become legitimate entrepreneurs, and exporters. They will enter the free market economy, have quality ratings... whaddayaknow, TV Ads !
Then they'll give up the violence too. I'm sure of it. /sarc
Go home/stay home! There is nothing for you in Europe but misery and failure.
[ToloNews] The camp is located on a former landfill, not far from a minefield left over from Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
Despite the approach of harsh weather, hundreds of refugees and migrants colonists including Afghans are still stuck in northwest Bosnia in a makeshift camp described by international organizations as "dangerous and inhumane."
Migrant men, including many who have made several unsuccessful attempts to cross into neighboring Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union member Croatia, sleep in the ill-equipped Vucjak tent camp.
The men spend their days collecting wood from a nearby forest to use for the small fires that are their only source of warmth during Bosnia’s chilly fall nights.
They get only one meal per day, distributed by local Red Thingy volunteers, and are forced to shower outside, with no privacy or even a semblance of comfort.
The Vucjak camp, where they might end up spending the entire harsh Bosnian winter, was set up by local authorities to increase the pressure on the central government, which they have accused of not doing enough to distribute the migrant burden around the country.
Bosnia has been overwhelmed by the arrival of migrants colonists heading toward Europe along the Balkan route. Most migrants colonists flock to its northwest region, which borders Croatia.
This has led to tensions in the border area where most of the over 6,000 migrants colonists are now in the country.
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The men spend their days collecting wood from a nearby forest to use for the small fires that are their only source of warmth during Bosnia’s chilly fall nights.
You're not getting into Europe with that kind of carbon footprint.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Denmark’s government has withdrawn the Danish passports of two men who joined ISIS - the first such cases since a new law was passed last month.
Denmark's immigration minister, Mattias Tesfaye, said Tuesday his ministry is looking into a total of four cases "where two have had their citizenship withdrawn."
The lawyer for one of the men - a 25-year-old man with dual Ottoman Turkish citizenship who is wanted by Denmark - said she learned about the decision Monday and informed her client, whose location is not known.
Mette Grith Stage told Danish media she would bring the ruling before Danish courts. The man reportedly joined the group in September 2013. He cannot be identified due to a court order. No information was given about the second man.
On Oct. 24, Danish politicians voted in favor of a law allowing the withdrawal of Danish citizenship from imported muscle with dual citizenship without courts being asked.
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[Rudaw] Would the real djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... governor please stand up? Two men are claiming to rule Iraq’s northern province, gripped by a head-spinning drama against the backdrop of anti-government protests elsewhere in the country.
Sunni-majority Mosul has been insulated from mass protests demanding regime change that have rocked Iraq’s capital and Shiite-majority south since October 1.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Denmark offered to take over Canada’s leadership of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ’s non-combat training mission in Iraq from the end of 2020 until mid-2022, the Danish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
"With the contribution we will be able to deliver an even stronger effort in our fight against the terror group ISIS by training Iraqis," Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said.
Denmark will present the offer at a NATO summit in London next week. It would send around 213 people to the mission which trains Iraqi security forces.
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[Rudaw] As winter approaches, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has pledged to provide a "warm and safe" winter for the thousands who have fled to the Kurdistan Region following unrest in Syria.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Firas al-Khateeb told Rudaw late Friday that camps housing the displaced are "equipped with electricity, water, medical care, psychosocial support, and core relief items needed for winter."
"The new Syrian refugees Kurdistan are stating that there are strict security controls at the border inside Syria not allowing people to flee," read JCC’s November report on refugees and IDPs. "They have paid smugglers inside Syria around USD 250 USD per person to help them reach the border."
Temperatures regularly drop below freezing during winter in the Kurdistan Region. The harsh weather disproportionately affects refugees and IDPs, with tents destroyed by flooding and torn apart by the cold.
"In addition to shelter, we provide them with a winter kit, insulation mats, high-thermal blankets, and kerosene heaters to ensure they are warm and safe for winter," added al-Khateeb.
There are nearly 232,000 Syrian refugees, mostly Kurds, in the Kurdistan Region who have fled Syrian unrest since 2011, including the recent Ottoman Turkish invasion of northern Syria, according to the Kurdistan Region’s Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC).
According to figures obtained from both the UNHCR’s spokesperson and the JCC, nearly 16,000 Syrian refugees have entered the the Kurdistan Region since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... launched Operation Peace Spring against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria on October 9.
Since the incursion began, several camps in the Kurdistan Region have been reopened, with more Syrians now facing another winter in tents.
The operation continues despite Turkey’s ceasefire deals with the US and Russia.
UNHCR said in a Friday statement that they need $222 million "to provide timely assistance to all those in need through its winterization programme, which covers the period from September 2019 to March 2020."
He added that they are optimistic they will receive the funds from donors, and the private sector. These people "always give when we ask for appeals, especially for the winter and Ramadan and other occasions," he said.
"Hopefully, we will provide them with what they need for a warm and safe winter," he added.
Most of the Syrian refugees who have recently entered the Kurdistan Region arrived through informal border crossings at Sehela and al-Walid village, according to the JCC.
This is partly due to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) restricting the number of people crossing the border.
"The new Syrian refugees Kurdistan are stating that there are strict security controls at the border inside Syria not allowing people to flee," read JCC’s November report on refugees and IDPs.
"They have paid smugglers inside Syria around USD 250 USD per person to help them reach the border," it added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Paleostinian prisoner died Tuesday in Israeli custody after battling cancer, Israel’s prisons service said, ahead of demonstrations in the West Bank planned before his death.
The protests, dubbed a "day of rage" by organizers, are against the US announcement last week that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law, reversing four decades of American policy. The protests were also set to call for Sami Abu Diak’s release.
In a statement, the prisons service said Abu Diak, 35, died in an Israeli hospital early Tuesday. The statement said he was serving three life sentences for voluntary manslaughter and kidnapping, among other charges.
Abu Diak was linked to the armed wing of the Paleostinian Fatah faction and was arrested in the early 2000s, during the second Paleostinian intifada, or uprising. He was allegedly involved in the killing of three Paleostinians accused of collaborating with Israeli security forces.
The Paleostinian Authority and Abu Diak’s family had asked for his release to allow him to die at his family’s side, but Israeli officials denied the request. The Paleostinians also reached out to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries and the Red Thingy to apply pressure on Israel to release him.
Previous deaths of terminally ill Paleostinian prisoners have sparked protests and accusations of medical negligence by Israeli authorities.
Tuesday’s protests were called before Abu Diak died. Organized by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’ Fatah movement, the demonstrations were set to protest the Trump administration’s embrace of a hard-line Israeli view on settlements at the expense of the Paleostinian quest for statehood.
Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated across the West Bank on Tuesday to protest the recent US announcement that it no longer believes Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate international law. As the so-called “day of rage” continued, groups of protesters clashed with Israeli security forces in several flashpoints, with 77 reported lightly injured.
Around two thousand people gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah. They set ablaze posters of US President Donald Trump as well as Israeli and American flags. Schools, universities and government offices were shuttered and rallies were held in city centers around the West Bank.
“The biased American policy toward Israel, and the American support of the Israeli settlements and the Israeli occupation, leaves us with only one option: To go back to resistance,” Mahmoud Aloul, an official with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, told the crowd in Ramallah.
Demonstrators held signs reading: “TruAt Israeli checkpoints near Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron, dozens of protesters threw stones at Israeli forces who responded with tear gas.
Dozens of protesters were lightly hurt, according to Palestinian rescue services.
According to the Ma’an news agency, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it dealt with 77 injuries, which included tear gas inhalation, rubber bullet wounds and burns.mp to impeachment, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to jail, the occupation will go and we will remain on our land.”
At Israeli checkpoints near Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron, dozens of protesters threw stones at Israeli forces who responded with tear gas.
Dozens of protesters were lightly hurt, according to Palestinian rescue services.
According to the Ma’an news agency, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it dealt with 77 injuries, which included tear gas inhalation, rubber bullet wounds and burns.
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No surprise. Gawd's always stepped in when Israel slacked off.☺
The cultural deputy of #IRGC, says if it wasn’t for Khamenei's support of the government, the exploiters would have demanded the resignations of the heads of the three branches of government, resignations of the parliament, and toppling the revolution.”#IranProtests
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Demonstrators would have demanded the resignations of the heads of the three branches of government, resignations of the parliament congress, and toppling the revolution
[IRANINTL] Ali Balali, an IRGC commander said that if the Internet was not shut down in Iran, the protests would have spread all over the country.
He continued: "Just as we are independent in our military, we must become independent in the field of the Internet, and in order to achieve that goal we must empower our domestic messenger apps."
According to NetBlocks, the non-profit global Internet watchdog, during the protests in Iran, Internet access was limited to five percent of the country.
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In the pre-Internet days, networking was done on an ad-hoc point-to-point basis between nodes.
Gosh, I wonder if this is why California is trying to shut down amateur radio repeaters? Alternative explanation: the State of Cali is just fishing for more money.
Unofficial reports indicate that all #satellite channels of the Islamic Republic of #Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Hotbird and Eutelsat satellites have stopped broadcasting.
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Send St. Greta to suck it up...
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https://theiranproject.com/blog/2019/11/27/iran-launches-operation-to-seal-an-expanding-leak-off-persian-gulf-rig/
Head of the local branch of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) in the southwestern province of Blushehr said on Tuesday that the leak had been spotted from an oil transfer pipeline connected to the Abuzar Oil Platform located around 13 kilometers off Kharg, the island from which Iran sells much of its crude.
“I am sticking by the rule ‘not me, rather someone else,’” says Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, criticizing those who have suggested that the formation of a new government is dependent on him.https://t.co/V6j3jXOhd5pic.twitter.com/Zn3tXrOIHg
Lebanon’s black market exchange rate soars over the 1,507.5 peg to over 2,000 pounds to the dollar, as dollar scarcity intensifies during the country’s ongoing economic and political crisis.https://t.co/zNRUjqjBGV
[Rudaw] At least 140 people are believed to have been killed in five days of protests in 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... last week, according to updated figures released Monday by Amnesia Amnesty International.
Unrest sparked by a 300 percent hike in petrol prices on November 15 morphed into anti-government protest and caused havoc in the country for five days, spurring the authorities to order a vicious crackdown.
Iran ordered a virtual internet shutdown to prevent information and video footage of the protest from getting out of the country leaving human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations including Amnesty unable to reach the country for several days.
As authorities gradually reconnected the country to the web on Monday, Amnesty issued a short statement calling on Iranian people to provide information about the "bloody crackdown of protests" to the watchdog in order to hold the Iranian government accountable.
The organization revised its November 23-reported corpse count of 115 civilians.
"140+ Iranian protesters have been killed in 5 days. Iranian security forces shot unarmed people on streets, from rooftops & a helicopter. 1,000+ protesters have been arrested. The internet was blocked to stop the world from seeing this. Watch what's been happening in #Iran," Amnesty tweeted.
Monday’s updated tally coincided with huge rallies organised by the government and the paramilitary Basij to condemn the protesters and reaffirm their pledge to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... "Believe me, we are in the middle of a big world war and at this moment you are in the process of defeating the Arrogance and believe me the war that raged in our streets in recent days was a global conspiracy," Hossein Salami the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told the gathering in Tehran.
Salami then proceeded to threaten the United States, the United Kingdom and 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... with annihilation. "You have been struck with our decisive slap and were not able to respond," Salami said. "If you cross our red lines, we will destroy you."
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Glad the Pope is on the nuclear weapons problem and not wasting his time with actual human rights abuses.
[Rudaw] 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... appears to have stopped large volumes of petrol being smuggled out of the country after raising the price by 300 percent on November 15, sparking four days of violent unrest which left more than 130 dead and thousands of protesters incarcerated.
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.
[ToloNewsj This shipment brings the total number of MD 530F training and combat choppers up to 60.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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...
[Libya Observer] A local source from Benghazi has confirmed that the mutilated body found in al-Abyar town east of Benghazi last Sunday belongs to "Faraj Khalafallah al-Furjani".
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly he will designate some Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). His comments came during an interview released on Tuesday.
...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 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
I blame the Orange Man. 
...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 
...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 
