A response to this story from yesterday. It might be true, it might be taqqiya — I know which way I’d bet.
[ToloNews] A day after TOLOnews published a document titled the "Charter of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... on Tuesday rejected it, saying it has "nothing to do with the Islamic Emirate." "We play by Islamic Calvinball, nothing's written"
"Yesterday, some media outlets published documents with many articles and claimed it was the charter of the Islamic Emirate. We reject this report and the papers. The Islamic Emirate, during its full rule, had a constitution called the Islamic Emirate Order, which was not finalized and signed. After the occupation of the United States, the Islamic Emirate has only a jihadist bill, and the Taliban commissions are regulating this. These papers, called the "charter," have nothing to do with the Islamic Emirate," said Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban front man.
The charter, which contained many articles that laid out the structure and procedure of an "Islamic emirate" government, showed little difference from the policies of the Taliban regime that was in power in the late 1990s.
"If they (the Taliban) are inflexible about their demands and the government officials and government representatives are inflexible on their side, a compromise and a negotiated agreement will not be reached," said Fizullah Jalal, a university lecturer.
Jalaluddin Shinwari, the attorney general in the Taliban regime, said that this charter is not new, but it is from the Taliban era, and that he was also present at the time of its writing.
"This charter was published 22 or 23 years ago, and I was there. The title of the Islamic emirate and the white flag might be some of the most pressing and important issues in the inter-Afghan talks, and these are debatable and the Taliban will pave the way for the talks with these issues--the inter-Afghan talks--and as far as the outcome of the debate, one cannot say anything now," said Shinwari.
Shinwari also said that the delay in the inter-Afghan talks is the only reason for the escalation of violence in the country.
Shocking scene #GNA Militia attack Municipal Guard Center while performing their daily work in controlling prices and markets . Note the Municipal Guard Center is a civilian control authority not military.#Terrorism#Libya pic.twitter.com/UzR8hwHHEM
[ALMARSAD.CO] In a statement made to "Media 24" website on Sunday, former Libyan ambassador to Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Mohammed al-Qashat explained that the Ottoman Turkish president trying to seize Libyan wealth such as oil, which is why he continues to take advantage of the situation to send mercenaries to Libya. He pointed out that Erdogan does not care if Libyans get infected with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... or the humanitarian situation in the country.
The former ambassador said that the military will combat these forces and continue to perform its duties on all fronts, and will fight any attempts to violate the ceasefire agreement until Libya is fully liberated from terrorists.
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It's cheaper than having to kill them in Idlib? They are pawns really, not allies and have outlived their usefulness.
[Fox News] The construction of the wall at the southern border has been continuing despite the shutdown of much of daily life due to the coronavirus -- with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announcing this week that more than 150 miles of new wall have been built.
According to CBP statistics, 156 miles of new primary and secondary border wall system have been constructed since January 2017. Of that, 140 miles of primary and 11 miles of secondary wall replaces old or dilapidated wall. It means that there are a total of 656 miles of primary barriers and 42 miles of secondary barriers at the border when including those built before President Trump took office.
A CBP official told Fox News last month that wall construction schedules have so far not been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Two miles of primary wall and five miles of secondary wall are being installed at sites where there was no previous wall built. This stat is likely to continue to disappoint immigration hawks, who argue that almost the entirety of the border wall is replacing old structure, rather than plugging gaps in the border.
Officials have noted that getting permission to build on private land is a lengthy process, but one that is starting to bear fruit, meaning that construction of more wall in places where no structure existed would start to accelerate.
Additionally, the administration has pushed back on phrases such as "replacement wall" when it comes to describing the wall structure that is being built over old or dilapidated structures -- arguing that new structures are so radically different to count as "new wall."
Compared with the landing mat barriers in place, that could be easily driven or climbed over, the new 30-foot structures -- complete with cameras, anti-climb technology, access roads, lights and other tech -- are considerable upgrades.
"I use this analogy: when someone builds a new modern smart five-bedroom house in place of a dilapidated run-down shack, you do not call that a replacement house, you call that a new house," Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said in January.
Much of the fight for the administration has centered on the question of funding -- but a series of efforts both in Congress and in the courts to allow the rechanneling of money from the Pentagon have paid off. CBP says that since 2017 it has identified a total of $15 billion to construct a total of 753 miles of border wall system, through a combination of Pentagon and Homeland Security funding, and the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
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You mean in over 2,000 billion dollars of pandemic relief, Congress couldn't find a few billion for border security?
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[DAWN] A Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... court granted pre-arrest bails to a prayer leader and two members of the mosque administration committee, booked in a case pertaining to an alleged attack on a female police official, who attempted to implement government restrictions on Friday congregations in Orangi Town last week.
Haqqani Jamia Masjid’s prayer leader, Abdul Rehman, as well as two mosque administrative committee members were booked along with 20 to 25 others for allegedly inciting violence, attacking the cops and violating the ban on religious congregations put in place to control spread of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... The crowd had allegedly attacked the coppers with stones resulting in injuries to the newly appointed SHO of the Pirabad cop shoppe Sharafat Khan, an intelligence police officer Hayat Gul and Constable Abdul Salam.
According to Orangi SP Shabbir Baloch, around 30 people were on their way to the Haqqani Masjid near a mazaar in Frontier Colony to offer Friday prayers followed by other people when a police party tried to stop them. The mob had allegedly pelted the police with stones. As a result, the female SHO suffered bruises on her nose, Baloch had added.
On Tuesday, the mosque’s prayer leader Abdul Rehan along with the administrative committee’s president and secretary — Moulana Qavi Khan and Moulana Zareen Khan — moved applications before the ATC-II judge, seeking grant of pre-arrest bails to prevent their arrest in the case.
The applicants denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! of having incited the worshipers to attack the police officials and pleaded for bail.
The judge granted interim pre-arrest bails against a surety of Rs50,000 to each applicant till April 18.
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Forget everything you thought you knew about dismantling IEDs. As this Peshmerga EOD guy clearly shows, all you need is a pickaxe and a pair of pliers. pic.twitter.com/hZOoP9m291
[PRESSTV] US oligarchs and globalists are seeking to exploit the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic to "reassert hegemony" over Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and other nations that have rejected US imperialism, says an American writer and former professor. E Michael Jones, the current editor of Culture Wars magazine.
President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... has warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to consider Iran’s request for $5 billion without "discrimination" after reports said the US was seeking to block the loan.
While the IMF has said it is in dialogue with Iranian authorities to understand Iran’s needs and what is required for Tehran's demand to be processed, several reports say the fund is under the US pressure to forego the request.
Iran’s Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati wrote last month to the IMF to request a $5 billion emergency loan for funding Tehran’s needs to fight the novel coronavirus.
"The IMF, all of these things are part of the globalist elite that rules the world and the United States is the premier power and so they're the ones that control the globalist economy," said E Michael Jones, the current editor of Culture Wars magazine.
"The whole point of this is to use the economy as warfare on nations that they consider intransigent," Jones said Monday in an interview with Press TV.
"The issue here with coronavirus is an attempt to reassert hegemony over the world narrative because the oligarchs lost control of this in 2019 is the battle of the internet at that time," he added.
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
