[KhaamaPress] US special operations forces chief, Gen Richard Clarke told the Senate Armed Services Committee, that Afghan national defense and security forces require US assistance to counter the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... "The capabilities that the US provides for the Afghans to be able to combat the Taliban and other threats that reside in Afghanistan are critical to their success," US news quoted Clarke
According to Military Times, the US general declined to provide any details of possible options he has outlined to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on how he could provide needed counterterrorism troops or capabilities if special operations forces are not physically in Afghanistan.
The Spec Ops General declined to provide further details on the possible option he has outlined to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for providing required counterterrorism troops and capabilities, in case U.S special forces are not physically available in Afghanistan.
According to Clarke, United States will always provide options to fight and defeat al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
Despite Clarke’s previous visit to Afghanistan and efforts for peace violence in the country has escalated.
This comes as Taliban warned against Biden’s withdrawal remarks that delay in American forces presence in Afghanistan will violate the US-Taliban deal.
Those who will violate the deal will be responsible for continuation and escalation of violence, the statement added.
Taliban called on the US that they are committed to the US-Taliban deal and no time should be wasted in grabbing this historic opportunity being disturbed due to incitement by warmongering circles and flawed advice.
According to the statement if the deal is violated the group will continue its "jihad and fight" against the US to liberate the country.
Earlier, United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... in a presser on Thursday said that meeting the May 1st deadline is hard for troops withdrawal for tactical reasons.
Taliban front man, Mohammad Naeem told the media, that all tactical reasons for the withdrawal have been settled in the Doha agreement.
According to US and Afghan officials Taliban has not cut ties with al-Qaeda and intensified violence across Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] Germany's Parliament extended the presence of German troops in Afghanistan for another 10 months, media reports say.
Germany has up to 1,300 soldiers in Afghanistan under NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ’s Resolute Support’s train, advice and assist mission to Afghan forces who will stay until January 2022.
The current parliamentary mandate for the German operation expires at the end of March, according to a Rooters report.
This comes as the Biden administration is still reviewing the 2020 agreement with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and it is not yet clear whether or for how long NATO troops will stay in the country.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name... on Thursday said it will be hard to meet the May 1 deadline for getting troops out of Afghanistan for "tactical reasons."
"We will leave--the question is when we leave," he said.
Asked if he envisioned US troops in Afghanistan a year from now, Biden said, "I can't picture that being the case."
[ToloNews] TOLOnews’ Abdullah Hamim who visited different parts of Kandahar as well as the frontlines said he has found from residents and officials that insecurity and assassinations have increased in Kandahar over the last year and that thousands of families have been displaced due to violence since last February when the United States’ former administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Doha.
TOLOnews findings from official sources show that at least 55 people have been killed in assassinations in the city of Kandahar in the last three months.
The figures show that 61 assassinations have happened in the city during this period.
"There won’t be any need for the fighting if the Taliban agrees on peace," said Mohammad Nasim, father of a victim of assassinations. "We want to live with our families."
The Taliban conducted widespread attacks on central districts of Kandahar and those near the capital city of the province and captured some parts over the last six months, according to officials. These attacks have been called unprecedented in the last 12 years.
"In an outpost with 20 people, five of them are addicted to drugs. Salaries are paid with delay," said Samiullah, a soldier, recalling problems on the frontlines.
"I don’t think that Kandahar can be controlled like this because it is controlled by soldiers, but soldiers are not paid on time and meanwhile, they are not supplied on time," said Haqmal, a soldier, referring to problems around their duty.
Violence was expected to reduce following the Doha agreement, but it remained high in various parts of the country, especially in the southern zone.
"The Taliban attacks have increased over the last two years after the start of the peace efforts," said Karimullah, an army officer. "They are seeking leverage by increasing their violence."
Those on the frontlines have different views about the impacts of the US-Taliban agreement on the security situation in Kandahar.
"Americans used to help (Afghan forces) in the past. They patrolled with us, but now their cooperation has reduced to 10%. Most of the military operations are conducted by Afghan forces," the commander of the 3rd Regiment of 205 Atal Corps in Kandahar, Zabihullah Ghorzang, said.
Those who live in insecure parts of Kandahar said they are faced with an uncertain fate and that they are concerned about their future. Everyone in the Zherai district in Kandahar had a sad story from the conflicts.
"We are close to volatile areas. We are stuck between both sides. The Taliban asks us not to enter their areas while the government asks us not to enter their territories," a Zherai district’s resident Najibullah said.
"Farming has stopped. Houses are closed (due to conflicts)," said Hafizullah, a resident of Kandahar.
At least 12,000 internally displaced persons are living in the city of Kandahar and have no access to basic needs in life as they described.
"We have been displaced since the start of the fighting... We left many things there," said Mohammad Qasim, a resident of Panjwai district.
[Garowe] The UN humanitarian agency said Wednesday attacks on aid workers delivering humanitarian supplies in Somalia resulted in the death of 15 aid workers in 2020.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 12 workers were maimed, 24 kidnapped and 14 arrested in 2020 in which 56 incidents involving aid workers were reported.
It could be Al Shabaab, it could just be Somali orneriness. They’re like their Yemenis cousins that way — a single tribal culture connected across the water.
"In a single tragic incident, seven healthcare workers were kidnapped and subsequently murdered. Several cases of the confiscation of humanitarian supplies, robbery, and the harassment of humanitarian personnel were also reported," OCHA said in its latest humanitarian report.
The UN relief agency said violence against humanitarian personnel and facilities was one of the major access challenges alongside the ability of humanitarian workers to reach affected communities and support sustained programming.
According to OCHA, humanitarian access challenges were most frequently reported in the South West, Jubbaland, and Hirshabelle states, which combined made up some 53 percent of all access incidents reported in Somalia in 2020.
It said the main constraint recorded was for the restriction of movement of humanitarian supplies and personnel.
"This included illegal taxation, roadblocks, checkpoints imposed by al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... and clan-related militias, ongoing hostilities among armed actors, military operations, and improvised bomb attacks as well as the overall security situation, which was marked by unpredictability," said OCHA.
These, the UN agency said, resulted in restrictions or suspensions of movement for civilians and humanitarians alike.
It said COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the government meant that many humanitarian organizations had to modify their ways of reaching those in need.
"The diversity of access challenges in Somalia not only creates serious obstacles for overland movement but also amplifies the importance of air access," OCHA said.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Foreign Ministers of Germany, La Belle France, and Italia arrived in 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... on Thursday. This was part of a unified step meant to show greater support to the newly appointed Libyan government.
Libya’s Foreign Minister, Najla al-Mangoush received her European counterparts and held a joint meeting with them, where they agreed to reopen their embassies in Tripoli. She called on all foreign forces in Libya to withdraw immediately.
German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas said the visit aims to prove the EU’s determination to stand by the Government of National Unity (GNU), "indicating that his country will monitor the arms embargo on the parties in Libya."
Maas stressed that the withdrawal of foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya is a prerequisite for preparing for the upcoming elections, saying: "We are now reaping the fruits of the Berlin track, and the credit belongs to the Libyans."
French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian stressed the need to hold the elections in December as scheduled. He said that the main coastal road in Libya should be reopened to ensure the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries. Le Drian pointed out that the EU supported the smooth transfer of power in Libya.
Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio affirmed that the EU supports the stability of Libya, stressing that cooperation with Libya will continue to combat illegal migration and human trafficking.
"We will continue our commitment to monitor the ceasefire and arms embargo on Libya," Di Maio said during the joint conference in Tripoli.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... of violating the Berlin Conference agreements on Libya, by sending thousands of Syrian mercenaries and Ottoman Turkish forces to the North African country.
The remarks came during Macron’s interview broadcast Tuesday evening on La Belle France5 TV, as part of a documentary titled "Erdogan: the Sultan who defies Europe."
Turkey backed the 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 Government of National Accord (GNA) during its conflict against the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA). It has previously been accused of sending mercenaries, ammunition, weapons, and drones to Libya.
"There will be no peace" in the broader region "if we can’t get peace and stability in Libya, if we do not succeed in eradicating the terrorist groups and all kinds of smugglers," Macron said during the meeting with Mohammed al-Mnifi, Head of the Presidential Council, alongside his deputy Mousa al-Koni.
He added that priority should be given to maintaining the ceasefire, leading the country towards the December elections, and unifying the armed forces to support the transition.
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council called for countries with troops and mercenaries in Libya to withdraw them "without delay." The UN has estimated that there are 20,000 imported muscle in Libya, including Syrians, Turks, Russians, and Sudanese.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, Libya’s new interim authority announced that it had assigned Major General Abdel-Hamid Bouderbala, as commander of the Presidential Guard.
The announcement came in a ceremony attended by a large number of serving officers and non-commissioned officers of the Presidential Guard.
Notably, Head of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohammed al-Mnifi expressed his sincere appreciation and gratitude for the Egyptian support to Libya since the outbreak of the crisis in 2011. He lauded Egypt’s leading role, and its tireless efforts in supporting the Libyan people.
These remarks came during al-Mnifi’s meeting with Egyptian President, Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi in Cairo. "Egypt has always been the most likely factor in activating and supporting efforts to settle the Libyan crisis in various political, military, and economic tracks," said al-Mnifi.
He thanked President El-Sisi and the Egyptian people for standing by their Libyan brothers during this difficult transitional stage.
On his part, President El-Sisi stressed Egypt’s full and absolute support for the new executive authority in Libya. He also affirmed the continuation of the Egyptian position aimed at "achieving the supreme interest of the Libyan state, preserve the integrity of Libyan territories, restore security and stability, build a unified national army, stop foreign interventions, and expel all mercenaries and imported muscle from Libya."
El-Sisi asserted that "Egypt is ready to provide its expertise to the Libyan government in various fields, and to restore the national institutions of the Libyan state."
The meeting witnessed a review of the prospects for cooperation and coordination between the two countries, with the aim of supporting Libyan efforts to lead the transitional phase. It was also agreed to intensify consultations and mutual visits between bigwigs in the coming period.
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Houthi leader in televised address Thursday: "The war on Yemen was a joint plot constructed by the US and the Israeli regime. They assigned Saudi Arabia to the task, and the kingdom had to bear the costs and acknowledge full responsibility for its offensives against Yemen." pic.twitter.com/O8kpOqxnH9
Wartime Defense Army commander Lieutenant General Jalal Harutyunyan whose car was hit by a drone due to a traitor leaking the coordinates to the enemy seen for the first time since early last October. https://t.co/626jPDPdiEpic.twitter.com/ThbGDWI4Qi
[Insider] The Pentagon's Inspector General is investigating US Central Command's (CENTCOM) and US Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) handling of potential war-crimes cases within their operational jurisdiction or by their units.
CENTCOM is one of the more important unified combatant commands in the US military, as it is responsible for the Middle East and parts of Africa. SOCOM is responsible for developing, equipping, and employing most US special-operations units.
According to the Inspector General, the objective of the investigation is two-fold: First, to evaluate and determine the extent to which CENTCOM and SOCOM developed programs compliant with the Defense Department's Law of War requirements and aimed at preventing or reducing potential war crimes, and second, to determine whether CENTCOM and SOCOM properly investigated allegations of potential war crimes.
In addition to CENTCOM and SOCOM, Inspector General will be investigating US Forces-Afghanistan, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve — which is name for the US-led coalition against ISIS — and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The investigation comes after an ethics review within US special-operations units and a major scandal in the Australian special-operations community, where an extensive investigation revealed several cases of war crimes by the Special Air Service Regiment — a unit equivalent to Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 — and the Commando Regiments.
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Meanwhile, the liberal attorneys and liberal media valiantly defend the AQ detainees in GTMO for the war crimes they committed against innocent victims...
#8
I have not forgotten bldg 4 Fort Benning and the RIF aka betrayal of VN WIA ( my personal observation) Aug,1972. Matter of fact, I will never forget.
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Stalin purges of the 30's, looks like Champ and ValJar are following the playbook. The ChiComs must be overjoyed that we are commiting national suicide virtually overnight!
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...Perhaps I'm a bit too conspiriatorally minded, but if one looks at it, accusations like this (they don't HAVE to be true, just 'troubling') would be a good way to cripple what are arguably the most effective units in the GWOT while still enabling Regular units to continue the Forever War.
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'Theories' both plausible and potentially implausible generate thought and dialogue which is healthy and ultimately productive. The ideas, comments, and recommendation posted on the Burg have intrigued me for many years. I regret our political leadership cannot muster similar insights.
This is really worrying: looks like the Air Force is about to downgrade the importance of flight experience for those seeking a Rated Pilot slot.
Never mind that RAND analyzed the issue of racial disparities in the pilot washout rate extensively and found that it's mainly because the women/black/black women UPT candidates lacked skills at, um, er, flying airplanes. From the mammoth RAND report done just a few years ago:
"Minority and female candidates have relatively high attrition due to flying performance. Data confirm that female and minority candidates are at higher risk for attrition in UPT, stemming from eliminations due to flying performance.
"Minority and female representation among UPT graduates would be low even if all groups had similar attrition levels. [ or BECAUSE THEY HAVE INFERIOR SCORES ON THE TBAS, orTEST OF BASIC AVIATION SKILLS].
"In a hypothetical counterfactual scenario in which all groups had the same attrition rates, representation among graduates changed by less than 1 percentage point for each group.
"Candidate characteristics could account for higher attrition among female and black candidates. Attrition for female and black candidates was no higher than those for male and white candidates with similar characteristics"
^ The last point is unambiguous: it's not racism but shitty flying skills that cause someone - black or white, female or male - to wash out of Undergraduate Pilot Training.
[OneIndia] At a rally in Assam, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that if the BJP comes to power, laws will be implemented to tackle the problem of both land and love jihad. He said that refugees will be granted citizenship, while infiltrators will be thrown out.
A politician’s promises. But the information is interesting.
In January 2020, nearly 450 persons were arrested by the Bangladesh police when they crossed over from India. That month, there was a major exodus of Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants colonists back to their country.
Now coming to the issue of land jihad, it is a rampant problem both in Assam and West Bengal. In several parts of the country, illegal immigrants colonists have become so powerful that they mingle with the local Moslem population and indulge in crimes. In West Bengal instances of land, jihad has been reported.
[JPost] - December 2008 was the turning point. After a year of incessant rocket fire, the Israeli government decided enough was enough. It was time to go back into the Gaza Strip and do everything possible to take down Hamas.
...On December 27, at 11:30 a.m., what would become known as "Operation Cast Lead" was launched with the bombing of 50 different targets by dozens of IAF fighter jets and attack helicopters. The planes reported "Alpha Hits," air force lingo for direct hits on their targets. Some 30 minutes later, a second wave of 60 jets and helicopters struck another 60 targets, including underground rocket launchers — placed inside bunkers and missile silos — that had been fitted with timers.
In all, more than 170 targets were hit by IAF aircraft throughout that first day. Palestinians reported more than 200 Gazans killed and another 800 wounded.
...What the IDF knew was that Hamas was storing its weapons in homes, in apartment buildings and under schools, mosques and hospitals. If a war erupted, Israel had to find a way to attack the targets while, at the same time, reducing civilian casualties and collateral damage.
Recognizing the challenge, the Shin Bet did something new: it created lists of phone numbers belonging to the owners of the homes, office buildings and hospitals throughout the Gaza Strip. It was a Sisyphean effort never undertaken by another military, but Israel knew it didn’t have a choice.
While collecting the phone numbers was difficult, their use was supposed to be simple. The IDF knew that there were basically two categories of targets. The first were terrorists: Palestinians perpetrating an attack or in the midst of planning one. Those people were not going to get called before being attacked. To successfully hit them, Israel needed to retain the element of surprise even if that meant some innocent civilians would unfortunately be caught in the crosshairs.
The second category included the homes, apartment buildings, offices, mosques and other civilian buildings where Hamas and Islamic Jihad had stored their weapons, set up command posts or used as cover to hide a cross-border terror tunnel. These were the targets that would get phone calls in order to give the people inside the opportunity to leave.
...because Israel knew that civilians would be inside the buildings, the IDF and Shin Bet created a new operational doctrine. Before attacking, it would take the extra precaution of contacting the building owner or occupant.
The callers had a standard text they read in Arabic that went something like this: "How are you? Is everything okay? This is the Israeli military. We need to bomb your home and we are making every effort to minimize casualties. Please make sure that no one is nearby since in five minutes we will attack." The line would then go dead. "This is Ernestine. Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?"
...FOR THE most part the tactic worked. A building would be brought by the Shin Bet to the Southern Command’s Attack Center where it would be added to the list of targets. There, on the second floor of a plain-looking gray structure in the Beersheba-based headquarters, the IDF soldiers and Shin Bet analysts would discuss what to do and how to attack.
The IDF officers would allocate the necessary attack platform and ensure it was available. Once the mission was approved, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer would call the owner. The drone would show that the people inside the building had left, the soldiers in the IDF command center would count the number of people who had left, ensuring the number matched up with the intelligence they had received, and they would then give the IAF the green light to attack.
The type of bomb used was adapted based on the target. If it was a private home with an arms cache hidden in the basement, the bomb needed to be capable of penetrating the roof and other floors and only detonate once it hit the basement. If the target was on the second floor, it needed to be a bomb that could be launched into a window and just destroy the second floor but nothing else. Success was often measured by the number of secondary explosions, caused by the amount of explosives hidden under the home.
...AFTER THE first time one of the telephoned Palestinians refused to leave his home, Fogel gathered his men in the Attack Center for a consultation on what to do. The home was a legitimate target and had been authorized by Sharvit-Baruch’s team. On the other hand, Fogel knew that attacking would incur too many civilian casualties and whatever tactical gain Israel might achieve from the bombing, it would be for naught.
...After a few more times, the IDF had refined the tactic. It selected a missile developed by Israel Aerospace Industries known for being small, accurate and capable of being configured to carry a limited amount of explosives.
After calling and encountering a refusal to leave the home, the air force will first fire one of these missiles on the roof. It will usually be fired into a corner, far from where people might be standing. In some cases, the missiles can be configured to burst in mid-air, minimizing even more the chances of casualties.
Once the Palestinians experience the "roof knocking," in almost all cases they flee the building. After the Israeli drones verify the people have left, the Air Force then drops an even heavier bomb, destroying the structure.
Al-Qassam Brigades official channel didn't miss the opportunity to show the support it is has in the West Bank during today's funeral of Omar Barghouti. The scene of al-Qassam Brigades flags along w/ Qassam militants in fatigues in the town of Kobar is an unusual sight. pic.twitter.com/Zn2gmrpM8t
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization. Created in mid-1991, it was at the time concerned with blocking the Oslo Accords negotiations.
[IsraelTimes] International group of researchers in Jewish-related fields releases new definition of anti-Semtism in pushback against moves to define BDS campaigns as anti-Jewish.
A group of over 200 scholars has released a definition of anti-Semitism that explicitly excludes efforts to boycott Israel — the latest pushback against a campaign by a number of establishment Jewish groups to label boycotts campaigns against Israel as anti-Semitic.
The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism released Thursday comes just over a week after a separate statement by a liberal group of Jewish scholars said that double standards applied to Israel were not necessarily anti-Semitic.
The Jerusalem Declaration goes further than the earlier declaration by the Nexus Task Force in explicitly saying that the movement to boycott Israel is not in and of itself anti-Semitic.
“Boycott, divestment, and sanctions are commonplace, non-violent forms of political protest against states,” according to the Jerusalem Declaration, which was signed by scholars in the fields of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Jewish thought, Israel and other disciplines. “In the Israeli case, they are not, in and of themselves, anti-Semitic.”
Both statements seek to push back a bid by a number of mainstream Jewish groups to have state and national governments adopt the 2016 definition crafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The most controversial component of the IHRA definition defines as anti-Semitic “Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
The Jerusalem Declaration, so named because it is the initiative of a group of scholars who came together in 2020 under the auspices of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, makes clear that it was spurred in part by objections to the IHRA definition.
“Because the IHRA Definition is unclear in key respects and widely open to different interpretations, it has caused confusion and generated controversy, hence weakening the fight against antisemitism,” the declaration says.
Among the signatories to the Jerusalem Declaration are well-known critics of current Israeli policies, including Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania, and the writer Peter Beinart, as well as others in the mainstream of modern Jewish scholarship, including Susannah Heschel, the chairwoman of the Jewish studies program at Dartmouth; A.B. Yehoshua, the Israeli novelist; and Dov Waxman, the chairman of Israel studies at UCLA.
Among the declaration’s lead drafters are anti-Semitism scholars in the United States, Israel, Germany and Britain.
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If the BDSers do the same to all the other countries that do the things they accuse Israel of, and worse, then it is not Jew-hatred. However, since none of them do so, Jew-haters is what they are. Insisting that discrimination only against Israel with the intention of destroying the only Jewish nation is not discrimination? The answer is left as an exercise for Woodrow Glinemp4761.
End the apartheid and these programs will quickly disappear.
Israel has long had Arab Muslims and Arab Christians as teachers in public schools, IDF generals, supreme court judges, and members of not only the Knesset but members of the cabinet. Ethiopian Jews and Arab represent Israel in international beauty pageants and music competitions. Cities are so integrated that Tel Aviv has its own chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
If this is apartheid, Chock Unusock9099, those juices have never done it right.
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Sadly, apartheid (the only Afri word many people know) has become a four letter word. American Indian reservation have become sacred territories, and rightly so. What would have been the alternative, whole scale slaughter and extinction.
[BenarNews] A hard-line Indonesian holy man slammed "discrimination" in enforcement of quarantine laws as he appeared in court for the first time on Friday to respond to charges that he violated COVID-19 restrictions by urging others to attend his gatherings last year.
Muhammad Rizieq Shihab,
...less formally Rizieq Shihab, he founded the FPI for nefarious purposes...
founder of the now-disbanded Islamic Defenders Front (FPI)
...headquartered in Jakarta, FPI began agitating for national imposition of sharia law in 1998. The group quickly attracted patronage — including funding and military training for its paramilitary arm, Laskar Pembela Islam (Islamic Defenders Paramilitary, LPI)— from Indonesia’s army and Jakarta’s police. They’re fond of vigilante actions and Antifa-style protests with violence...
vigilante group whose trial opened earlier this month, said police did not take action against many large gatherings that flouted COVID-19 protocols. He cited crowds who got close to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo when he visited East Nusa Tenggara province last month, as an example.
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[BenarNews] A senior Malaysian police official revealed on Thursday that his agency had foiled an ISIS sympathizer’s plot to kill then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in January 2020.
Police discovered the plot when they arrested Wan Amirul Azlan bin Jalaluddin, the suspected leader of a group called Anshorullah At-Tauhid, on Jan. 6 last year, Azman Omar, the assistant director of counter-terrorism at Special Branch, said during a roundtable discussion in Kuala Lumpur on Islamic extremism.
”No shit, guys, there I was thinking I was picking the guy up for littering — like Alice’s Restaurant, donchaknow — and it turns out they were planning blood and guts and gore and veins in their teeth! Bog standard inshallah plotting, too. Thank Allah most of ‘em go in for faith instead of brains, or we’d be wading through rivers of blood.”
"During interrogation, Wan Amirul admitted that he intended to launch attacks against several government leaders by stabbing them with knives or sharp object as a sign of support for ISIS," Azman said, using another name for the terror group known as 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.... Continued on Page 49
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[DW] Sri Lanka has proposed a series of policies that rights activists say target the country's Moslem minorities and further marginalizes them. In its latest move, the island nation is looking to ban 1,000 madrasas.
Amena (name changed), a 27-year-old homemaker from Sri Lanka, felt dismayed when she heard about the government's proposal to ban the wearing of the burqa and other facial coverings.
"Honestly, I am afraid these days. Things are becoming increasingly difficult for us [Moslems] in the country now," she told DW.
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“In the spirit of scientific inquiry, we want to discover if Iranians can make a viable nuclear bomb or twenty.”
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] 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... ’s General Oil Directorate on Friday issued a detailed statement confirming that the nuclear materials that had been found in Zahrani Oil Installation were strictly used for scientific purposes. "These materials entered Lebanon between 1950 and 1960 before the international treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons of 1973; thus, Lebanon is not considered in violation of the international treaty," the statement affirmed.It added that total amount of these chemical materials was four 100 gram canisters, three 250 gram canisters, and another 50 gram canister, which were only used in scientific research.
"What was meant by the term ’highly pure nuclear materials’ is that they were of a high quality and could be invested in the framework of scientific research and studies by universities and specialized institutes," the statement explained.
Moreover, the oil directorate confirmed that the Zahrani Oil Installation had initiated talks with the German company COMBILIFT on its own in a bid to examine the materials fearing they could be dangerous. It also noted that the nuclear materials were only found in Zahrani.
An agreement has been reached today between the General Oil Directorate and the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, under the supervision of the National Council for Scientific Research to transport these materials in a private vehicle on Monday to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission to be safely stored in its custody.
"We assure all the Lebanese that the matter is strictly scientific and does not carry any other dimensions; therefore, there is no reason for any fear or concern. We wish of all the media outlets to convey the facts that we have listed to reassure the public opinion," the statement concluded.
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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.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Foreign Ministers of Germany, 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, Libya’s new interim authority announced that it had assigned Major General Abdel-Hamid Bouderbala, as commander of the Presidential Guard.
...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 
...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...
