Hi there, !
Today Fri 08/21/2020 Thu 08/20/2020 Wed 08/19/2020 Tue 08/18/2020 Mon 08/17/2020 Sun 08/16/2020 Sat 08/15/2020 Archives
Rantburg
533696 articles and 1861951 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 67 articles and 302 comments as of 6:40.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    Non-WoT    Opinion        Politix   
Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 2: WoT Background
6 21:06 Dacama [5] 
0 [3] 
1 06:57 Frank G [8] 
0 [8] 
0 [9] 
0 [7] 
0 [7] 
0 [2] 
2 07:19 Frank G [1] 
4 08:01 trailing wife [2] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
8 19:09 jpal [2]
13 22:47 Rupert Cromoting1818 [10]
2 10:18 Skidmark [6]
0 [17]
0 [6]
3 09:32 DarthVader [4]
0 [3]
0 [14]
8 20:14 Rex Mundi []
0 [14]
2 12:24 Woozle Grundy1232 [1]
0 [4]
0 [1]
0 [5]
0 []
2 12:44 M. Murcek [4]
1 18:37 Glenmore [6]
0 [12]
5 18:38 Glenmore [9]
0 [11]
0 [17]
4 12:18 Woozle Grundy1232 [5]
3 19:47 M. Murcek [11]
Page 3: Non-WoT
9 14:49 M. Murcek []
1 12:21 Skidmark [2]
14 23:09 Clem [4]
14 18:42 swksvolFF [1]
26 22:26 gorb [4]
18 18:02 swksvolFF [3]
9 17:11 M. Murcek [6]
8 15:28 Thing From Snowy Mountain []
1 05:47 Mike Kozlowski [1]
3 17:46 Clem [1]
2 12:46 M. Murcek []
0 [2]
1 06:45 Mercutio [9]
0 [2]
6 10:55 CrazyFool [9]
10 23:01 crazyhorse [7]
6 17:46 746 [8]
Page 4: Opinion
8 14:46 gorb [6]
2 10:03 JohnQC [1]
12 17:35 swksvolFF [8]
3 18:17 Clem [3]
2 13:48 Abu Uluque []
17 17:40 swksvolFF [1]
0 [2]
6 17:06 M. Murcek [13]
0 [4]
Page 6: Politix
12 22:32 trailing wife [11]
3 13:13 Abu Uluque [8]
3 16:41 Airandee [3]
4 18:47 M. Murcek [6]
22 16:45 Clem [12]
9 21:02 Woodrow [10]
4 07:51 Besoeker [1]
3 13:45 Abu Uluque [1]
Africa North
Leaked information from the Turkish and Qatari Defence ministers meeting in Tripoli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Qatar decides to send military advisors to train GNA militias and terrorists
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)

#1  Exactly what do military advisors from Q(u)atar know about the military? Perhaps they are mercenaries?
Cannon fodder? Stooges?
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 08/18/2020 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Targets
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||


Constitutional Committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives approves the agreement on demarcating the Egyptian maritime borders with Greece
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The map produced yesterday on a Rantburg entry is much the better representation of the various Limits in the Seas.
Posted by: b || 08/18/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Map b is referring to:

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Link to a map source and larger view.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker, I was able to make your map a bit larger by adding width=500 to the HTML string.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
‘Degrading and inhumane': Court slams France for callous treatment of refugees which forced them to flee to Britain
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • European Court of Human Rights said French authorities 'failed in their duties'

  • ECHR ordered French government to pay £32k in compensation to three men

  • The French police have also been accused of attacking migrants on the streets
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 09:59 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  *Snicker* How will France respond when the EU lawyers think they can disrespect them?
Harassing Hungary was obviously something different...
Posted by: magpie || 08/18/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not like made it to England and had to eat British cooking.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Snark of the day? (always excepting fish & chips).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Fish and chips and the Full English breakfast.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Bangers and Mash
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 20:50 Comments || Top||

#6  #5. No thanks.
Posted by: Dacama || 08/18/2020 21:06 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey lashes out at Armenia and 'evil alliance' in eastern Mediterranean
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel tells UN: Hezbollah cell crossed border with sniper rifle, fatigues
[Jpost] Ambassador Erdan files formal complaint with Security Council over July 27 incident, in which IDF says members of the Lebanese terror group entered Israeli territory.
Keeping Hezbollah on the back foot? Israel can’t seriously expect the UN will take meaningful action, despite the evidence.
Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Security Council on Monday over an incident along the Lebanese border last month, in which the Israeli military says it foiled an attack by the Hezbollah terror group.
Carry on foiling, Israel, while the UN continues blithely doing nothing.
In the complaint, Israel’s new ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said the Hezbollah cell was armed with a .50-caliber sniper rifle, which was recovered at the scene, along with military fatigues.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 02:17 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


The Dahlan enigma: One Palestinian leader isn’t condemning the Israel-UAE deal
[IsraelTimes] Some Paleostinian officials believe Emirates-backed Mohammad Dahlan, a former top security official to PA President Abbas, was involved in the move to normalize ties.

Prominent figures in Paleostinian politics condemned the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a betrayal. The PA itself called the deal "despicable" and demanded it be reversed. Said Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
, the veteran Paleostinian negotiator, "I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 02:02 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  So Herb Tarlick Mo Dahlan stays bought?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 6:57 Comments || Top||


Israel releases prominent Palestinian BDS activist
[IsraelTimes] Israel on Monday released a West Bank leader of the global campaign to boycott the Jewish state, following his arrest last month by Israel’s internal security agency.

Mahmoud Nawajaa, coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, was arrested at his home in Ramallah on July 30.

Several rights groups, including Amnesia Amnesty International, campaigned for his release, including through rallies in Ramallah and Gaza this month.

Israeli military tribunals exercise jurisdiction over Paleostinians in the West Bank.

A Shin Bet spokesperson told AFP that Nawajaa had been "arrested and questioned on security matters... and released at the end of the investigation."

The BDS movement calls for a wide-ranging embargo of Israel over its treatment of the Paleostinians. Israel sees BDS as a strategic threat and accuses it of anti-Semitism.

A law passed in 2017 allows Israel to ban foreigners with links to BDS.

Last year, Israel expelled the country director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, after accusing him of supporting BDS, a claim he denied.

Israeli sources had previously told AFP that Nawajaa’s arrest was not linked to his role with the BDS movement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 01:06 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Egyptian envoys in Gaza in bid to ease tensions with Israel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN-backed court to issue verdicts in Lebanon's Hariri case
[EN.ANNAHAR] More than 15 years after the truck bomb liquidation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands is announcing verdicts this week in the trial of four members of the krazed killer group Hezbollah allegedly involved in the killing, which deeply divided the tiny country.The verdicts on Tuesday at the Special Tribunal for Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, based in a village on the outskirts of the Dutch city of The Hague, are expected to further add to soaring tensions in Lebanon, two weeks after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port that killed nearly 180 people, injured more than 6,000 and destroyed thousands of homes in the Lebanese capital.

Unlike the blast that killed Hariri and 21 others on Feb. 14, 2005, the Aug. 4 explosion was believed to be a result of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that accidentally ignited at Beirut’s port. While the cause of the fire that provided the trigger is still not clear, Hezbollah, which maintains huge influence over Lebanese politics, is being sucked into the public fury directed at the country’s ruling politicians.

Even before the devastating Beirut port blast, the country’s leaders were concerned about violence after the verdicts. Hariri was Lebanon’s most prominent Sunni politician at the time, while the Iran-backed Hezbollah is a Shiite Moslem group.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



Who's in the News
32[untagged]
6Sublime Porte
5Antifa/BLM
3Taliban
3Commies
3Hezbollah
2Hamas
2Govt of Qatar (MB)
2Muslim Brotherhood
1Arab Spring
1Houthis
1Moslem Colonists
1Palestinian Authority
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Iraq
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Govt of Sudan
1Govt of Syria

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-08-18
  Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
Mon 2020-08-17
  Syrian presidency reveals conditions for direct talks with US
Sun 2020-08-16
  Erdogan accused Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority
Sat 2020-08-15
  Recently released ISIS terrorist beheaded his mother, father, sister & two nephews in Ain Zara Tripoli
Fri 2020-08-14
  Oman and Bahrain to follow UAE in normalizing Israel ties
Thu 2020-08-13
  Diplomatic relations between Israel and UAE
Wed 2020-08-12
  Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
Tue 2020-08-11
  Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts
Mon 2020-08-10
  Lebanese Prime Minister announces resignation of government
Sun 2020-08-09
  Lebanese Army evacuates protestors from government buildings
Sat 2020-08-08
  Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations
Fri 2020-08-07
  Pakistain Borrows $1 Billion from Chinese Peter To Pay Back $1 Billion Saudi Paul
Thu 2020-08-06
  DOJ Atty reveals 300 domestic terrorists investigations have been opened since May 28th
Wed 2020-08-05
  Death toll from Beirut blast reaches 100 but is expected to rise even further
Tue 2020-08-04
  Beruit goes BOOM!


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.
3.144.84.155
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (23)    Non-WoT (17)    Opinion (9)    (0)    Politix (8)