[GREATERKASHMIR] Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar alias 'Mushtaq Latram' has been designated as a "terrorist" under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA, a move which enables the security agencies to attach his or associates' properties believed to be purchased from proceeds of crime.
With this, anyone staying in touch with him becomes an offender under the law, reported news agency PTI.
Zargar was one of the Death Eaters released in exchange for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999 besides Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... , the chief of banned group Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Sheikh Omar, who killed American journalist Daniel Pearl who was working for The Wall Street Journal.
Zargar is the fourth individual to have been designated as a terrorist by the Centre in the last one week and the 35th individual to have been declared a designated terrorist by the government.
In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said, Zargar alias Latram, 52, belongs to Nowhatta in Srinagar and is the "founder and chief commander of terror group al-Umar-Mujahideen and had been affiliated with the Jammu-Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Liberation Front."
Zargar is currently based in Pakistain where he had gone in the late 1980s to receive arms training.
The home ministry said Zargar has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistain to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
He has been involved in various terror crimes, including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, planning and execution of terrorist attacks and terror funding, it noted.
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[Rudaw] All groups, whether local or international, who fund 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.... (ISIS) and its activities will be held responsible and punished accordingly, the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) coordinator for international advocacy told Rudaw's Sangar Abdulrahman on Wednesday.
A delegation from the Kurdistan Region in Berlin revealed the prevalence of entities that financially support the terror group, despite it having been devoid of all territorial control for around three years. In the meeting, light was also shed on the existence of groups in Erbil that fund the organization.
"We have arrested some groups in Erbil and the Kurdistan Region in the past who transferred funds to ISIS-controlled areas and funded ISIS through offices based in the Region," said Dindar Zebari.
"The UN [United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ] Security Council has decided to punish those who supported ISIS financially," he said, adding that a UN team in Iraq has launched investigations on the case to be handed over to international courts.
According to Zebari, citing a UN report, ISIS receives up to $100 million annually from external funding.
The US-led coalition stated that ISIS "continued to raise funds via various means, including oil smuggling ... kidnapping for ransom, extortion, looting, and the possible operation of front companies," in their 2021 report.
The aforementioned report noted The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... as a significant intermediary in ISIS's transfer of money between Iraq and Syria, saying that the group uses its trusted partners in Turkey as agents.
Private banks have also delivered funds to ISIS, Zebari noted.
Zebari stressed the issue of vast amounts of money being transferred from Gulf countries "in the name of charity, and the money has reached ISIS-controlled areas."
As the terror group's grasp on the region continues to decline, it resorts to other means to generate funds, including drug smuggling and kidnapping to collect ransom money.
ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across the country's provinces.
In January, Iraqi security forces arrested four civilians who were financing ISIS by means of collecting royalties.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... has announced that his party wants a "national unity" government to be formed after the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"Our project is partnership with everyone and a national unity government," Qassem said in an interview with Hizbullah’s al-Nour radio station.
"We don’t have any plan to change the (political) system and we don’t propose any modifications. As for those who have changes that they consider to be appropriate, there are legal mechanisms for that," Hizbullah’s number two added.
Commenting on the latest return of the Saudi and Gulf ambassadors to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , Qassem said the envoys who returned "realized that their absence would not put pressure on Hizbullah but would rather deprive them of the possibility of" making use of their presence in the country.
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[An Nahar] Cabinet on Thursday agreed to demolish the blast-hit silos at Beirut’s port, which according to a technical report are facing the threat of collapse, as it approved the use of funds from the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights for importing wheat and incurable disease medicines.
"The banking secrecy law will be re-discussed at the next Cabinet session," Information Minister Ziad Makari said after the meeting.
"The Council for Reconstruction and Development has been tasked with overseeing the demolition of wheat silos at Beirut’s port," Makari added.
Al-Jadeed TV meanwhile reported that Cabinet agreed that Special Drawing Rights funds can only be used for urgent matters and that any such move would require a Cabinet decision
Makari said the government's decision to demolish the silos was based on a report by Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... 's Khatib and Alami Engineering Company, which warned that the silos could collapse within months.
"Repairing them will cost a lot," Makari said.
Last year, Swiss company Amann Engineering also called for their demolition, saying the most damaged of the silos were tilting at a rate of two millimeters per day.
Once boasting a capacity of more than 100,000 tons, the imposing 48-meter-high structure has become emblematic of the catastrophic August 4 port blast, that killed around 231 people, injured 7,000 and damaged swathes of the capital in 2020.
The silos absorbed much of the blast's impact, shielding large swaths of west Beirut from its ravaging effects.
Activists and some relatives of blast victims have called for the grain silos to be preserved as a memorial site.
"The silos are a witness to the massacre you committed against us," said a statement last month by the victims' families, referring to authorities.
"They will not be demolished, no matter how hard you try."
To assuage potential anger over the decision, the Cabinet on Thursday tasked the interior and culture ministries with erecting a monument commemorating the victims of the earth-shattering kaboom.
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[An Nahar] Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi warned neighboring Iraq on Thursday not to allow its soil to be used for activities that disrupt the Islamic republic's security, his office said.His comments follow accusations by Iran ...The nation is 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... last month that Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region had hosted a "strategic center" used by Tehran's arch enemy Israel.
"The president emphasized that Iran strongly expects neighboring countries, especially Iraq, not to allow any presence that is disruptive to the security of the Islamic republic," a statement by Raisi's office said.
The president accused Iraq's Kurdistan region of "negligence", adding that Iran is closely monitoring the movements of Israel and will not allow it to endanger the security of the region through any country, including Iraq.
The Iranian president made the remarks in Tehran during a meeting with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
Iraq's top diplomat pledged that his country will not be a base for actions against Iran's security, the statement added.
"We are ready for extensive cooperation, including in the field of security, to prevent any threat to the interests of Iran," Fuad said, according to Raisi's office.
Last month, Iran targeted the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with a dozen ballistic missiles that lightly maimed two civilians.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the country's military, confirmed at the time that they fired the projectiles and targeted a "strategic center" used by Israel.
Arbil governor Oumid Khouchnaw dismissed as "baseless" any notion of Israeli sites in and around Arbil, saying "there are no Israeli sites in the region."
The Iraqi foreign ministry condemned the attack and summoned Iran's ambassador to protest the strikes.
Iran holds considerable influence over the federal government in Baghdad.
"Iraq considers itself not only a neighbor but also an ally and a friend of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," the Iranian presidency further quoted Baghdad's top diplomat as saying on Thursday.
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[An Nahar] Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... has said that he is willing to meet with Swiss prosecutors over a money-laundering investigation.
"I have already informed the Swiss justice that I am ready to go," he told Swiss television SRF.
"Because they asked the question in February 2020 whether they can (interview) me in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... or in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . I said I am ready to go to Switzerland... I am waiting for them to call for me," Salameh added.
Asked about properties he owns in Switzerland, Salameh said he used investment advisers and bank loans to buy property, adding: "I don't see where is the crime in that."
Lebanon opened a local probe into Salameh's wealth last year, after the Swiss top prosecutor's office requested assistance in an investigation into more than $300 million which he allegedly embezzled out of the central bank with the help of his brother.
Salameh also faces lawsuits in other European countries, including La Belle France and Britannia.
Lebanon's top banker of three decades is blamed for policies that contributed to the country's financial collapse, a charge he has repeatedly denied.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
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...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
