[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... supreme leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada has offered direct negotiations with the United States in a bid to end the ongoing conflict.
"The only path to rescuing ourselves from all these calamities is for all American and other occupying forces to leave our country and for an independent, Islamic, intra-Afghan government to take root. Our Jihad began for this exact purpose and in conjunction to our armed Jihad, we have kept the doors of understanding and negotiations open to reach this objective and appointed the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate as the exclusive avenue of activity in this regard," Hebatullah said in a message released ahead of Eid.
He said "If the American officials truly believe in a peaceful end to the Afghan imbroglio then they must directly present themselves to the negotiation table so that this tragedy (invasion) ‐ the destructive effects of which mainly harm the American and Afghan people ‐ can be resolved through talks. The biggest mistake on part of the American officials is that they approach every problem with stubbornness but force cannot yield results in every case."
This comes as efforts are underway to start negotiations for reconciliation, led and owned by the Afghans.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the Taliban group has so far refrained to participate in any form of Afghan-led and owned negotiations although President Ghani earlier made bold proposals to encourage the group for the talks.
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"Give us everything we want and we'll talk to you, infidel."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... says he is not keen but may consider nomination in the upcoming elections provided that the political parties agree with him and that no other options are left to resolve the issues of the country.
Karzai made the remarks during an interview with the Spiegel Online while answering questions regarding the upcoming elections.
He emphasized that the constitution of the country allows two terms for an individual to serve as the president.
Insisting that he has already served as the president of the country for two terms, Karzai said he would prefer not to compromise with the legacies he has left behind.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... he said if there were no other options and the political parties agree, he would consider the challenge.
In other parts of the interview, Karzai pointed towards the relations with the United States as he emphasized on the need for the change in the US approach to combat terrorism.
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Drug barons in hiding and hurting your cash flow?
[Dhaka Tribune] Drug users are now trying to turn their lives around to stay safe from extrajudicial killings as security forces launched a violent anti-narcotics crackdown all over the country.
The operation that started May 4, gained momentum in mid-May, when all units of the police joined Rapid Action Battalion in the drive.
Ministers and top government officials continue to assert that they launched the drive to purge the country of the curse of substance abuse and build a narcotics-free nation. The operation has, however, been marred by its controversial modus operandi, widespread allegations of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses, and alleged favoritism towards drug peddlers associated with the ruling Awami League.
Asked, the police headquarters refused to reveal the number of people killed in the crackdown, claiming they do not maintain such records.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... according to media reports and sources at police units across the country, over 153 people, mostly suspected drug pushers, were killed in so-called shootouts in 49 districts since the launch of the drive.
Other estimates show that the figure was over 140, as it could not ascertain if some alleged narcotics dealers were killed in firefights among themselves or with security forces.
Over 13,000 suspected drug traders were also tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! and around 10,000 cases filed until Wednesday, according to police headquarters sources.
RAB said they had arrested 4,114 "drug peddlers" and recovered narcotics worth over Tk67.15 crore. Mobile courts run by the RAB sentenced 3,521 of the arrestees to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment, while the remaining 593 were fined.
Sahely Ferdous, assistant inspector general of police (media), said the total amount of drug items recovered in the last one month was worth over Tk70 crore.
’Drug dealers now disintegrated’
Top police officials said they were conducting drives following "thorough investigations and arresting only listed drug pushers."
The ongoing operation might not help fully destroy narcotics supply chains in Bangladesh but largely disintegrated the rings of notorious drug traders, they claimed.
"We could not destroy the supply chain of drugs, but managed to rupture the drug pushers’ network. We are trying to arrest those who are on the run and establish an effective surveillance system so that no new drug barons could emerge," Sahely said.
She added that the drives would help create awareness about drugs, especially among those who have not yet been lured into substance addiction.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the operation created a huge public outcry after Teknaf municipality councilor Ekramul Haque was killed in a "shootout" with the RAB in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on May 26.
RAB claimed Ekramul had been involved in drug peddling.
Refuting the claim, the dear departed’s wife Ayesha Begum alleged that he had been killed in cold blood, not in a shootout as the anti-crime taskforce claimed.
She also gave news hounds a total of four audio clips that recorded the terrifying conversations between Ekramul and his wife, and one of their two daughters, just before he died in a hail of bullets.
The audio clips, recorded on a mobile phone, also captured sounds of gunfire and the groans of a dying man.
Even though the authorities try to establish the fact that such a crackdown was essential to save the nation from negative consequences of drug abuse, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and human rights defenders condemned the move and voiced their concerns over the increasing deaths in "shootouts".
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[TheLocal.de] The head of German federal police personally travelled to northern Iraq over the weekend to take hold of the suspect in a murder case that has inflamed debate on refugees. But did he act outside of the law?
Over the weekend Dieter Romann, head of the Federal Police, flew to northern Iraq with several elite anti-terror officers in tow and took custody of Ali B., the main suspect in a brutal rape-murder investigation in Hesse.
Authorities in the autonomous northern region of the country arrested B. and then handed him over to Romann, who flew him back to Germany. Back in Hesse Ali B. admitted to investigators that he had murdered 14-year-old Susanna F. over two weeks previously.
The murder of Susanna F. at the hands of a man who arrived during the refugee influx of 2015 was itself enough to ignite the tinder dry debate on refugees and crime in Germany. But the fact that Ali B. was able to escape to Iraq along with his family, despite being a suspect, proved to be a major embarrassment for German authorities and led critics to charge that the country’s asylum policies were in a state of total chaos.
To an extent, the dramatic arrest of Ali B. and his swift deportation to Germany, quelled the rising flames of unrest. But the dubious legality of young man’s seizure thousands of kilometres outside of the jurisdiction of the German police has raised legal questions which are proving to be a headache for the government.
Initially, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer's press secretary attempted to deny that the minister had any knowledge of the handover in northern Iraq. But the Federal Police issued a statement of its own noting that it had constantly updated Seehofer on the operation. On Tuesday, Seehofer's state secretary had to admit that he was "ill informed" when he claimed that his boss had no knowledge of the operation.
Why Seehofer was reluctant to say that he knew about the arrest became clear on Tuesday evening, when federal prosecutors confirmed that a top lawyer had filed a complaint against Romann on the accusation that the arrest was tantamount to false imprisonment.
Lawyer Daniel Sprafke filed the complaint of false imprisonment, arguing that Germany never issued an international arrest warrant for Ali B. nor did they attempt to have him deported through the normal channels.
“In my view, this action by the authorities was unacceptable. One shouldn’t tolerate it,” Sprafke told Spiegel Online.
The controversy also took on an international dimension on Wednesday when the Iraqi central government in Baghdad claimed the arrest had been carried out illegally.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that it had not given its approval to the deportation.
The statement pointed out that Iraq had no agreement with Germany on deportations and that any such hand over would have to be approved by the central government first.
Germany's Interior Ministry has rejected the accusation that the arrest was in any way untoward.
A spokeswoman has told Spiegel that “the German court that decided on the continued detention [of Ali B.] yesterday did not make any objection [to the manner of his arrest].”
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Germans don't do that anymore. So he'll probably get sentenced to 18 months in jail, out in 3 for 'good behavior' and let loose to do this again to some other girl.
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Again, it should be noted that there had never been a legal basis for this individual's (and his large family's) presence in Germany in the first place.
He was permitted to come to Germany because the Merkel administration gave verbal orders without any authorization and because these orders were obeyed by the German government apparatus.
This is 'Mandate of Heaven' territory, way outside the boundaries of a Wester style constitutional republic.
This poor, naive girl wasn't the first victim and won't be the last.
[IsraelTimes] Head of Jewish community's governing body speaks out against use of Susanna Feldman's killing as an instrument for xenophobic and anti-migration rhetoric
The case has rattled Germany, which is beset with worries about crime emanating from the large Moslem refugee population ‐ many of whom are young, single men, frustrated and aimless.
The case of a young Moslem refugee charged with the rape and murder of a teenage girl has captured media attention and rocked Germany’s Jewish community: The victim, 14-year-old Susanna Feldmann, was Jewish.
Missing since May 22, the girl’s body was found June 6 buried in a shallow grave near her hometown of Mainz. The case has rattled Germany, which is beset with worries about crime emanating from the large Moslem refugee population ‐ many of whom are young, single men, frustrated and aimless.
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At what point does it move from 'anti-immigrant' to anti-enabler (ie the standing government)? At what point does it become a point of no-return for those governing to a proper 'dictatorship of the proletariat'?
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Moslem leader Wilders gains approval from counter-terrorism agency to display controversial images of prophet in parliament offices
Firebrand Dutch politician Geert Wilders announced Tuesday that his party will hold a controversial competition for cartoons depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad, images of whom may not be drawn according to Islamic belief.
Wilders tweeted that he had received clearance from the Dutch counterterrorism agency to hold the competition in his party’s parliamentary offices. The contest is to be judged by American cartoonist and former Moslem Bosch Fawstin, who won a similar contest in the US in 2015.
Images of Muhammad have in the past been met by death threats and murder.
Two French murderous Moslems who had sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda killed 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... ’s offices in 2015 with the murderous Moslems notably seeking to punish the staunchly atheist magazine for printing cartoons of the prophet. The attack was the first in a wave of terror attacks in La Belle France over the past three years that have left more than 240 people dead.
In his tweet Wilders stressed: "Freedom of speech is most important of all!!"
Fawstin explained why he felt it was important to hold the competition.
Fawstin
@truePIGMAN
"reasonable" leftists respond to the new Mohammad cartoon contest by asking why we’re doing it, since Moslems will be offended. Moslems can be offended to death. That’s not the problem. Moslems MURDERING over cartoons is the problem. And that has to be Defied by drawing Mohammad.
11:40 PM - Jun 12, 2018
He also tweeted that the competition was important because "without free speech, civilization is over."
Fawstin
@truePIGMAN
Many of us take the fact that Moslems murder over Mohammad cartoons as the given, as if it’s an immutable fact of reality that must be accepted without judgment. Some of us see it as an evil that must be defied. Some of us understand that without Free Speech, civilization is over
11:33 AM - Jun 13, 2018
In April Wilders said his Party for Freedom (PVV) was working on a bill to go before the Dutch parliament to pass "legislation to outlaw as much Islam as possible." In 2016 he vowed to close mosques and "ban the Koran" in his party’s manifesto. In March, ahead of this year’s local polls, he tweeted a message saying in Dutch and English "Islam is deadly" in big red letters, apparently dripping in blood.
PVV is the second-largest party in the Dutch House of Representatives.
And in these troubled times, this kind of thing demonstrates why that’s so.
Wilders is currently appealing a conviction for discrimination stemming from a 2014 rally when he asked supporters whether they wanted "fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands." When the crowd shouted back "Fewer! Fewer!" a smiling Wilders answered: "We’re going to organize that."
[PRESSTV] A Pak group linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has been denied permission to register as a political party ahead of general elections scheduled to be held on July 25.
"The Election Commission of Pakistain today rejected the registration request by the Milli Moslem League as a political party," Altaf Ahmad, front man for the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP), said on Wednesday.
Ahmad said a detailed order would be issued later stating the reasons for the commission's decision.
The MML was launched last August to contest the July elections. It was founded by Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) charity, a wing of the hard boy group 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).
The LeT is believed to have orchestrated the attacks in the Indian city in 2008, where over 160 people were killed.
Earlier this year, the United States added the MML along with Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAJK) to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO), reasoning that both were fronts for the banned outfit.
The United States offers the huge bounty in return for information that could lead to the conviction of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , who heads the JuD. Washington says the JuD is a front for the LeT.
Much to the dismay of the United States and India, Pak officials have rejected calls for leveling charges against Saeed over the past years.
Consumed by years of unsuccessful anti-militant drive, Pakistain, sources say, has a general plan to de-radicalize hard boy-linked organizations and integrate them by bringing them into politics.
The ECP announcement on the MML would be a serious blow to such efforts that are believed to be led by the Pak military’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.
Saeed was sent to his room in January 2017 after years of living freely in Pakistain, but a court ordered his release in November 2017.
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[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... General Assembly has adopted a resolution condemning Israel for Paleostinian civilian deaths in the besieged Gazoo Strip.
The resolution, forward by Algeria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on behalf of Arab and Moslem countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions on Wednesday.
The resolution calls on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days "on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Paleostinian civilian population under Israeli occupation," including "recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism."
It also calls for "immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gazoo Strip."
At least 131 Paleostinians have been killed and 13,900 others maimed by Israeli forces since March 30, when the regime ordered a crackdown on weekly Gazoo rallies promoting Paleostinians’ right to return to their homeland.
Countries in favor of the measure turned to the General Assembly after the US used its veto in the Security Council to obstruct the resolution on in June.
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Since the vast majority was Hamasniks and human shields, they should be condemning Hamas. But then, this IS the UN
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But then, this IS the UN
Little known fact: the only reason they decided to call it the United Nations was because the name Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union was already taken.
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The General Assembly is a talk shop with no power whatsoever. This vote matters as little as all the other meaningless GA votes, though it would be awfully nice if all those countries that inveigh against Joo-hatred and promise “Never Again!” would see fit to vote against the anti-Israel measures.
[Al Jazeera] Israel's use of lethal force against Paleostinian protesters along the Gazoo Strip border in recent weeks could amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.
The rights group accused Israel of repeatedly using live ammunition "with apparent lethal intent" against Paleostinian demonstrators who posed no imminent threat to life.
"Israel's use of lethal force when there was no imminent threat to life has taken a heavy toll in life and limb," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"The international community needs to rip up the old playbook, where Israel conducts investigations that mainly whitewash the conduct of its troops and the US blocks international accountability with its Security Council veto, and instead impose real costs for such blatant disregard for Paleostinian lives."
Paleostinians in the besieged coastal enclave have been staging protests demanding their right to return to the homes and lands their families were expelled from 70 years ago.
Since the protests, dubbed the Great March of Return, began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed 124 Paleostinians and maimed more than 3,800 others.
At least 40 Paleostinians have had to have their limbs amputated as a result of Israel's actions along the Gazoo border, according to the rights group.
Israeli authorities allege that its soldiers were acting in self-defence and had adhered to the rules of engagement to deter protesters from breaching the fence.
In a controversial ruling earlier in May, Israel's top court deemed the military's rules of engagement - and the use of live ammunition - compatible with domestic and international law, arguing that the protests fall into the category of a state of war.
The HRW report came ahead of an emergency UN General Assembly meeting on Wednesday to vote on a resolution condemning Israel's "excessive use of force."
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"Israel's use of lethal force when there was no imminent threat to life
Speaking as your Legal Advisor, "immanent threat to life" isn't the only legal doctrine in play here. There is also "If you do that, I'll shoot you" which is an implicit contract between parties. And a hint that maybe you shouldn't.
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Maybe it's just me, but I think attempting to invade is an act that can morally be met with lethal force. As is the random arson of the incendiary life campaign.
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All the Usual Suspects: Sarah Leah Whitson: Early life and education Whitson was reared by an Armenian American mother, Ashi Whitson, who was born in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and immigrated to the United States in 1960. Her father was from Texas. Whitson was a student at Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School for 12 years in Los Angeles and spent childhood summers with family in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.[1][2]
In 1988, Whitson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California, taking time to study abroad in Egypt.[1] In 1991, she graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the Harvard Law School,[3] where she was a classmate of Barack Obama's.[4] Career
Early career
After completing law school, Whitson worked for Goldman Sachs, the investment banking firm, and the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
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YOU don't determine 'war crimes'. The word is bandied about without context to actual law and history. Remember to be very careful on its use. If you say its a war crime, then war is in effect. If war is in effect, then using civilians or those in civilian clothes without proper military markings constitutes a violation of one of the Conventions. Who's the real criminal?
[Al Jazeera] The killings of three Catholic priests since December have raised alarm in the Philippines, with the church and politicians condemning the continued "culture of impunity" in the country.
"We should be alarmed," Fr Jerome Secillano, a front man of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
"Killing is a form of violence. We do not want violence to permeate in our society. We want a violence-free society. We want our citizens to be freely roaming around, with a sense of security and safety."
Richmond Nilo was the latest member of the Catholic clergy to be killed by unidentified button men on Sunday, as he was preparing for a church service in the northern province of Nueva Ecija.
While he does not see any pattern of Catholic priests being targeted, Secillano said the continued "culture of impunity" paved the way for the killing of Nilo and other priests.
"The church has been telling [authorities] in the past that we should put a stop to the killings. The killings should not have a place in our society, even if the ones being killed are considered [by the government] as the 'scumbags' in our society," he said.
Catholic leaders in the district where Nilo served as a priest also issued a strongly-worded statement against the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, whose war on drugs has left thousands of people dead.
"Are you still saying this is the best government we ever had? They are killing our flock. They are killing us, the shepherds. They are killing our faith. They are cursing our Church," the letter, signed by Archbishop Socrates Villegas and other senior church leaders, read.
Villegas also urged Duterte "to stop the verbal persecution" against the Catholic Church, "because such attacks can unwittingly embolden more crimes against priests".
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Acts by 'Worshippers of the Moon God' not figuring into this, apparently.
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"Killing is a form of violence. We do not want violence to permeate in our society."
[PRESSTV] The front man for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the country will soon start re-building the Arak heavy water reactor once China finishes examining the last phase of the re-designing process.
China and Iran "have had several contracts that are now operational and various steps of conceptual, basic and detailed designing are completed and after that the construction phase will begin," Behrouz Kamalvandi said in an interview with the Young Journalists’ Club (YJC) published on Wednesday.
"According to the timetable, we have fortunately made good progress, and the detailed stage has been completed on our part and delivered to the Chinese side, which, after their approval, will enter the next stage within 2 to 3 months, that is, we'll start the next phase of building and [installing the reactor’s] equipment," he added.
Kamalvandi said the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal would not affect the re-designing process and noted that the Chinese side has reaffirmed its commitment to the JCPOA, and the Arak reactor re-designing.
In April 2017, Iran and China signed the final version of a contract to redesign and modernize the Arak heavy water reactor in central Iran, an important step in line with the implementation of the JCPOA.
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heavy water reactors can produce Plutonium in quantities sufficient for a nuclear bomb as India showed back in 1974
there is extra cost in producing heavy water but that is somewhat offset by not requiring Uranium to be enriched to 4%~U235
Canadian U reactors use heavy water
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[PRESSTV] Iran says the hostile policies of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... are to blame for the rising prices of crude oil in international markets, rejecting his Wednesday attack against the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for the current supply situation.
Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's OPEC governor, emphasized that the sanctions that Trump had devised against Iran and Venezuela were largely to blame for high oil prices.
"You cannot place sanctions on two OPEC founder members and still blame OPEC for oil price volatility," he said in a statement to Rooters.
Kazempour Ardebili’s comments came in response to a Trump message in which he had accused OPEC of working to push up the prices.
"Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!" he wrote in a post on Twitter.
Oil prices have risen by around 60 percent over the last year after OPEC and some non-OPEC producers including Russia arrived at an agreement in 2017 to reduce supplies, Rooters wrote in its report.
The price of Brent crude peaked in May at $80.50 a barrel, then pulled back, trading on Wednesday near $76 at barrel, partly in anticipation that the agreement may end.
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Are they bragging or complaining?
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They are just MAD because they lost their SUCTION in the election of a GOOD POTUS. Mostly lost the horse-face buttock kissing suction they had
[PRESSTV] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... says that the American, French, Ottoman Turkish and Israeli troops present in his country are occupying forces.
Assad made the remarks on Wednesday during an interview with the al-Alam News Network, where he stressed that Syria's position is to support "any act of resistance, whether against forces of Evil or against occupying forces regardless of their nationality."
Referring to the presence of fighters of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah in Syria, Assad said that "the battle is long and the need for these military forces will continue for a long time."
He also stressed that there are no Iranian military bases in Syria, but Damascus will not hesitate to allow them if there is a need.
Assad also noted that it is not yet decided how the situation in Syria's bad boy-held southwest will be resolved.
"We are giving the political process a chance. If that doesn't succeed, we have no other option but to liberate it by force," he said.
In an earlier interview with the Daily Mail, Assad accused the West of fueling the crisis in his country in an attempt to oust his government.
"We are fighting the terrorists, and those forces of Evil are supported by the British government, the French government, the Americans and their puppets whether in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... or in our region," he said.
"The whole approach toward Syria in the West is, ’We have to change this government, we have to demonize this president, because they don’t suit our policies anymore.’" Assad said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed on Wednesday that chemical weapons were "very likely used" in Syria’s Ltamenah on March 24 and 25 2017, the OPCW said.
"The Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), confirmed in a report released today that sarin was very likely used as a chemical weapon in the south of Ltamenah, Syrian Arab Republic, on 24 March 2017. The FFM also concluded that chlorine was very likely used as a chemical weapon at Ltamenah Hospital and the surrounding area on 25 March 2017," the statement read.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the international body explained that drawing final conclusions on the issue would require a longer period of time, due to "the collection of information and material, interviewing witnesses, as well as analysis of samples."
The report released by OPCW lays out that the assumptions they made are based on "separate witness testimony, epidemiological analysis and environmental samples," without providing any further details. The investigative body has further explained that its mandate is "to determine whether chemical weapons or toxic chemicals as weapons have been used in Syria," without identifying those responsible for the attacks.
The alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria has become a hot topic on the international agenda over the last several years after numerous accusations by the Syrian opposition, as well as Western countries, against Syrian government forces. The latter has been blamed for alleged chemical attacks in different parts of the country without any solid evidence. This has repeatedly been underlined by Moscow, which has stressed that drawing any conclusions without the presence of inspectors at the site is wrong.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Salafist tough guys of Jaish al-Izza jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a member of their own organization that was attempting to escape from their lines in northern Hama to the government areas.
According to Jaish al-Izza’s statement, Lu’ay al-Mustafa of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... was arrested by the group after attempting to escape to the government lines in women’s clothes.
Jaish al-Izza posted a photo of their arrested fighter and their accusation that he was attempting to defect.
Jaish al-Izza is one of the most powerful groups in northern Hama; they currently control two major towns near the government’s lines.
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[Al Jazeera] Leb's caretaker foreign minister has accused the UN refugee agency of discouraging Syrian refugees from returning to their war-torn country as a public spat between the Lebanese government and the agency deepened on Wednesday.
"It's time to tell them enough. That's it," Gibran Bassil said to news hounds during a visit to the eastern town of Arsal near the border with Syria, days after he ordered a freeze on the renewal of residency permits for UNHCR staff.
Bassil was unhappy with the information the agency gives refugees who are planning to return to Syria, which he says include an emphasis on the lack of security guarantees, possible destruction of homes and compulsory military service back home, as well as telling them the agency was not able to provide support in some parts of Syria.
"Actually, they are telling them not to go back," Bassil said.
The UN is angered by Bassil's accusations and Leb's decision to freeze renewal of residency permits for staff.
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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.
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
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