[Garowe] The fight against terrorism in East Africa will take a new shape after various military intelligence agencies agreed to sign a cooperation pact that will see them work effectively together to contain violent mostly peaceful extremism within the region.
Over the weekend, military intelligence teams from across East Africa gathered in Æthiopia's capital Addis Ababa, where they discussed effective ways of fighting forces of Evil who have left thousands of people dead.
Military intelligence in Kenya raised issues about their Somali counterparts, accusing them of trading information with Al-Shabaab. The National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] denied the allegations.
Djibouti, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Æthiopia, and Uganda sent representatives to the forum in which Kenya was curiously not represented.
Very curious, indeed.
Kenya has actively been fighting terrorism both within her territory and across the border.
During the meeting, participants called for vigilance and cooperation among the countries in order to defeat the Death Eaters. Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda are worst affected by terror groups, which often cause havoc and mayhem.
According to a statement issued by the Æthiopian Ministry of Defense, the military agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly combat terrorism and counter anti-peace forces that pose threat to regional peace and security, The EastAfrican reports.
Except for Kenya, because they weren’t there...
Sharing of military intelligence has perfectly worked elsewhere around the world but in Africa, due to dysfunctional systems, the mechanism has not often worked. There is high suspicion among certain countries and endless conflicts which hinder such cooperation.
For instance, military intelligence in Kenya raised issues about their Somali counterparts, accusing them of trading information with al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... . The National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! accusing Kenya Defense Forces of fuelling propaganda.
In Somalia, NISA has also been battling similar claims, with the opposition and a number of stakeholders accusing the team of infiltration. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... NISA has often taken credit for a number of al-Shabaab snuffies who have either been killed or arrested.
Last year, Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble sacked Fahad Yasin, who is the current presidential security advisor, and served as the agency's director. Yasin, who had his victory as MP nullified by the electoral commission, is accused of meddling in the country's politics.
[AlAhram] The Public Prosecution referred on Tuesday the man accused of murdering Coptic priest Arsanios Wadid last week to stand trial on charges of deliberate murder and possesion of a cold weapon, affirming that he was "fully cognizant" of his actions at the time of the incident.
The prosecution has collected evidence and built a case against the defendant based on the testimonies of 17 eyewitnesses and the Ministry of Health and Population’s Regional Mental Health Council’s report on his mental health condition during the time of the crime, the statement read.
The council's report showed that the man was fully cognizant and possessed agency throughout the crime, according to the statement.
The report also found that the defendant did not suffer from any symptoms of mental or psychological disorder at the time of examination or at the time of committing the crime, thereby making him criminally responsible, the prosecution said.
Additionally, the Public Prosecution said the victim’s autopsy report showed that the DNA extracted from the blood on the knife that was seized from the defendant after he was apprehended matched with the genetic fingerprint of the victim.
The prosecution also decided to move forward with the referral after checking on-site surveillance cameras, inspecting the scene of the crime, and obtaining other evidence, the statement said.
Wadid, 56, the Coptic priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in Alexandria, was stabbed with a knife while walking along the Mediterranean Corniche in the Sidi Bishr District in Alexandria on Friday 8 April in a crime that terrorised witnesses and left the public in a state of shock.
Wadid was transported to Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital in Sidi Gaber, however, he departed this vale of tears.
During interrogation, the defendant confessed to deliberately killing the victim, the prosecution said in a statement last week.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the defendant later recanted his confession, claiming that the knife in his possession was just for self-defence and that he was not aware of what he was doing on the day of the incident until he was arrested.
Wadid, born in 1966, was ordained to priesthood in 1995 by the late Pope Shenouda III, the former head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
[FoxNews] The United States has reportedly stopped asking Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... to pump more oil to combat market disruption from Russia’s war with Ukraine as the relationship between the U.S. and the oil rich kingdom is said to have hit a new low.President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...... ’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan brought up the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... in a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world... which angered the crown prince to the point where he told Sullivan never to mention it again and to forget about Saudi Arabia increasing its oil production, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday,
That’s what the subtle types call diplomacy. Well done, Jakey!
The report states that the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... has since asked Saudi Arabia to increase production as gas prices soar in the United States amid Russia’s war with Ukraine and the conversations have gone nowhere.
A senior U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House has now stopped asking for more oil production from Saudi Arabia and now asks only that the country avoid actions that hurt U.S. interests in Ukraine.
#4
Jake should get ready for the interviews with Durham over the dossier
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#5
Everyone remember come Mid-terms the LSD's know we have plenty of OIL waiting to be pumped here in the USA. But they have taken every opportunity to halt pumping, refining, and delivery of it.
Under their "RULE" Gas has gone from $2.12
to $3.69+ a gallon, Food prices have gone up 1/4 to 1/3 in cost and our dollar is worth 8.54% LESS than a year ago.
But the LSD's solution is IMPORT other Nations' costly OIL, where there are FAR LESS Environmental protections and a 100x's greater likelihood of Oil Spills, Environmental Pollution in the delivery process
It also seems they could care less about driving up US Gas, delivery, and Food prices. ALL OF WHICH are seriously hurting the lower-income working wage earners?
So IF we vote based on facts and our wallets and not their politically spewed BS, they are no longer in control come 2024.
#6
#2 Deliberate or not, the effect is the same. Unbefokkinlievable.
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#7
Talked around who is in charge and led with Kashoggi?
Wow.
To those new, this is the team which called for up to and including the dissolution of the Saud Government over the death of their, uhem, "News Associate".
Perhaps a bit butt-hurt that Saud's SNL skit with Brandon had Kamela actually competent? That's what I was laughing at. Hardball, gonna play some hardball. Yeah hardball. Hardball.
#8
How Not To Do Diplomacy or, Exercises in Futility
Lecture and insult the Chinese in your very first meet & greet
Destroy any remaining influence you might have over OPEC and oil price stability through pointless insults directed at your only Arab ally
Encourage a puppet regime to demand the impossible - surrender of Russia's most important military base and membership in NATO - and then walk away, refusing to deter the puppet regime's enemy or even pay any attention to him
Leak your classified intelligence all over the world - but refuse to engage with the president of the country that is threatening an invasion
Insult all the other major nations you need to persuade to join you. Call their leaders "shaky" when they declare they'll do what's best for their people
Destroy the world's economy and make your own people poor as a means of getting back at your adversary
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^^^ Excellent summary of the Biden Administration's foreign policy so far.
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I believe most people would do the green thing if it is not overly expensive and probably do better in the long run than knee-jerk green solutions that just create the next environmental problem.
I'm confident we'll do alright when the green movement is humiliated and made a pariah for a century or more and can't wait for that to start.
[RT] By sending its troops into Kurdish areas in northern Iraq, Ankara was looking to fight terrorism and secure its own borders, not acquire new territories, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has stated.
The aim of Operation Claw Lock, which kicked off late on Sunday, was to "rid Iraqi lands of forces of Evil and guarantee the security of our borders," Erdogan outlined during a parliamentary group meeting of the ruling AK Party on Wednesday.
The northern Iraqi regions of Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan, where the operation is unfolding, have been used by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to prepare attacks against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , he said.
The PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, has been fighting Ottoman Turkish forces for decades, striving for greater autonomy for the Kurdish population.
"Turkey does not claim any territories," the president pointed out, adding that it was instead "making every effort to contribute to the strengthening of their territorial integrity and political unity so that our neighbors can live in security and peace."
"We will continue to do so. We act with the same aim in Syria as in Iraq," Erdogan insisted.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry slammed the operation by Ankara as "a violation of its illusory sovereignty and the sanctity of the country" that didn’t make Turkey look like a good neighbor. Iraq shouldn’t be "an arena for conflicts and settling scores for other external parties," according to the ministry.
The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry had said earlier that the incursion was needed to avert a large-scale attack on Ottoman Turkish territory that was being prepared by the Kurdish forces.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said the central government in Baghdad supported Turkey's latest offensive against outlawed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.
The Turkish leader's comments came a day after Iraq summoned Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad to lodge a formal protest against Erdogan's latest military campaign.
Turkey's armed forces have reported the death of two soldiers and dozens of Kurdish militants since the launch Sunday of their third offensive in northern Iraq since 2020.
Erdogan told a parliamentary meeting of his ruling party that both Baghdad and the leaders of the autonomous Kurdish region based in Erbil supported Turkey's ground and air assault.
"I thank the central government in Iraq and the regional administration for their support to our fight against terror," Erdogan said.
"I wish success for our heroic soldiers involved in this operation, which we are carrying out in close cooperation with the central Iraqi government and the regional administration in northern Iraq."
Officials in Baghdad are publicly voicing displeasure over the Turkish military push into the mountains of northern Iraq, and later on Wednesday, the government dismissed Erdogan's claims.
"We promise that everything the Turkish side keeps saying regarding any coordination or agreement with the Iraqi government is not true," foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahhaf said, quoted by state news agency INA.
The foreign ministry on Tuesday said Iraq handed the Turkish ambassador a "firmly-worded note of protest" urging its northern neighbor to "put an end to acts of provocation and unacceptable violations".
Some analysts believe that Iraqi leaders -- while lodging formal protests -- are privately happy that Turkey is trying to punish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The group is recognized as a terrorist organization by both Ankara and its Western allies.
#3
"Turkey does not claim any territories," the president pointed out, adding that it was instead "making every effort to contribute to the strengthening of their territorial integrity and political unity so that our neighbors can live in security and peace." ...and then his lips fell off and lightning struck from a clear sky.
[oneIndia] The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the decision of a Christian woman to marry a MoslemDYFI
...The Democratic Youth Federation of India, the youth arm of the CPI(M)...
leader, a decision which stirred up a political storm in the state after her relatives alleged "love jihad", as she categorically told the court that she has not been illegally detained and she was not interested in speaking to her family at present.
A bench of Justices V G Arun and C S Sudha after interacting with the woman, Jyotsna Mary Joseph, said, "She has categorically stated she has decided to marry Shejin (DYFI leader) out of her own free will and not under any compulsion.
She has also stated that as of now she was not interested in interacting with her parents or family and will do so at a later stage," the court noted in its order.
It also told the woman's family that she has said she intended to visit them after her marriage, for which an application under the Special Marriage Act has been moved and is pending consideration, and not before that.
The bench told the family that while it understands their concerns, their daughter was a 26-year-old woman, who was a nurse in Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , and capable of making her own decisions.
"She has taken a decision and she is not deviating from it. It is her will and pleasure. She is not willing to speak to her parents now, so how can we compel her to do so," it said.
The woman's father, Joseph, had moved a habeas corpus plea alleging that his daughter had been illegally detained and seeking directions to the police to produce her before him.
He had also told news channels that since the day his daughter left her home, she has not spoken to any of them and therefore, he believed that she was being restrained against her will by the DYFI leader.
Joseph had also said that he lacked faith in the Kerala Police to look into the matter and wanted an agency from outside the state, like the CBI or NIA, to investigate what had happened.
The interfaith relationship stirred up a political storm after the woman's relatives alleged "love jihad", with a senior Left party leader supporting the charge, only to retract his statement later.
The CPI(M),
...the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is the largest communist party in India. It’s part of ruling alliances in Kerala and in Tamilnadu, and was actually elected in the legislatiures of 9 states...
thereafter, made it clear that there was nothing unnatural in interfaith marriages and the campaign of 'love jihad' was a creation of RSS and Sangh Parivar.
'Love jihad' is a term used by right-wing outfits to claim that Moslem men lure women from other faiths to convert them into Islam.
The couple had denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! of her family.
[OneIndia] With the abrogation of Article 370, not only have terror cases and incidents of violence reduced in the country, but the investment proposals to create jobs in Jammu and 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.... have also gone up.
In the past one year, there have been investment proposals of Rs 52,155 crore. The investment applications received until April 11 2022 seek to create 2.4 lakh employment opportunities in the Union Territory, a ToI report says.
Nearly 17,970 kanals of land as against a total 29,0322 kanals sought for setting up key units have already been allotted in both the Jammu and Kashmir divisions.
The hotels and restaurants, health and social work sectors have raked in total investments of Rs 5,193 crore in Kashmir alone, the report said. In the case of other sectors such as steel fabrication, recreation, warehousing and cold storage, sports, ecotourism and handicrafts have proposals totalling Rs 5,146 crore approved for Jammu division and Rs 2,157 crore for Kashmir.
At 3,164 kanals, the biggest chunk of land allotted in Kashmir has so far been for the food processing and hotel sector.
Meanwhile on the terror front there has been a considerable decline in the number of cases. In 2021 the number of terror related incidents stood at 229 when compared to the 417 reported in the year 2018 thus indicating a drop of 38 per cent over the past three years.
In the 2019-2021 period, 46 military personnel and 87 civilians bit the dust when compared to the 178 soldiers and 177 civilians who were killed in terror related incidents in the 2014-2019 period.
[OneIndia] The Centre on Tuesday designated Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) member Sheikh Sajad alias Sajjad Gul and Al Badr member Arjumand Gulzar Dar alias Hamza Burhan as turbans for their involvement in a series of terror acts in Jammu and 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.... While Dar has been involved in funding terrorism and other violence, Gul, who belongs to the LeT terror group, had taken part in the conspiracy to kill journalist Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar in 2018.
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Two opposing messages... and that’s just in English.
[IsraelTimes] ’It’s not taken for granted’: Senior Israeli official lauds PA’s Abbas for condemning terror attacks
A senior Israeli diplomatic official lauds Paleostinian Authority 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.... ’s condemnations of the recent terror attacks in Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv.
The diplomatic official recognizes the impact in Ramallah from the fatalities and injuries on the Paleostinian side as a result of the recent IDF activities in the West Bank in response to the recent terror wave. Seventeen Paleostinians have been rubbed out by IDF forces in the West Bank since the beginning of the month. The majority, but not all, were participating in festivities with Israeli troops.
The official says the PA faces its usual dilemma where it wants to maintain the security coordination with Israel because it allows Ramallah to maintain its stronghold in the West Bank, while also recognizing the unpopular nature of the cooperation among Paleostinians and the need to maintain "national independence."
But while Israel was pleased with Abbas’s response to the recent terror wave, it took note of the remarks made by PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh who claimed that the al-Aqsa compound, known by Jews as the Temple Mount, is for Moslems only and accused Israel of trying to divide the site.
"We didn’t respond publicly because it’s not worth it at the moment, but I have a good memory and everything is written down," says the senior Israeli diplomatic official.
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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...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....
