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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police in Tacoma, Wash. are asking for more information regarding a viral video which show black males assaulting a Korean couple who are screaming for help
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn videos are ruining the carefully crafted gaslighting of a white supremacist America.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Platypus5892 || 04/02/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Man attacks Jewish family in New York, stabs father, mother, baby
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2021 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Washington state? They going to charge the couple for bruising the kids' fists?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/02/2021 5:40 Comments || Top||

#4  So why isn't the Black Community being called out for the obvious RACISM?

Well, that would be truth. Truth and the Left are generally speaking mutually exclusive. Then they wonder why all their 'programs' to solve poverty, race, et al fail. It's always saboteurs and counter revolutionaries who are to blame and whose new name is 'white supremacists'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/02/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#5  So why isn't the Black Community being called out for the obvious RACISM?

Is it anti-Asian Racism or is it "targets of opportunity"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Revel in the power of "and".
Posted by: Guillibaldo Platypus5892 || 04/02/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  #5. Using per capita is a technique of the White racist patriarchy. /s.
Posted by: Dacama || 04/02/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Washington state? They going to charge the couple for bruising the kids' fists?

The videographer for illegal wiretap?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/02/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#9  #10. I respectfully disagree.

When 14% of the population commits 27.5% of the Violent crimes against Asian-Americans and 60%+/- of the Population commits only 24.1%. The biggest part of the problem lays with the outside group committing the violent crimes.

See Criminal Victimization, 2018 BJS Report Table 14 on page 13 of 37. REPORT

There is NOTHING racist about basic math or facts (yet!). Basic Math is NOT a White European developed idea. It is acknowledged to have been the Egyptian Middle Kingdom based on discovered papyrus dated c. 2000—1800 BC.

Basic Crime Fighting Logic:
If you go after the Main Problem 1st, it tends to solve 1000's of little issues further down the pipeline.






Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/02/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||


#11  Man attacks Jewish family in New York, stabs father, mother, baby

g(r)omgoru, the New York Post has a follow up to your story about the passerby turning back to knife a Hassidic family: it seems the homeless attacker was out on parole after serving ten years for robbery with violence, and the judge sent him straight to jail.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 18:40 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Chauvin Trial - Day 4
[LegalInsurrection] Another Poor Day for Prosecution, Advantage Defense.
Medics fled angry mob, Fire was late and in wrong place, MPD Sergeant was uninformed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/02/2021 08:09 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Hekmatyar Shares Own Peace Plan With Afghan Leaders
[ToloNews] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, the head of Hizb-e-Islami on Thursday said that his party has shared its plan for peace with influential political factions in Afghanistan.

The withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and the establishment of an interim setup are part of the plan.

Hekmatyar said that a number of members of the High Council of National Reconciliation, political movements and political parties are also working separately on their plans for discussions in the upcoming UN-led conference on Afghanistan in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Hekmatyar suggested that a single peace plan should be created from the various plans suggested by differing parties.

"Members of the High Council of National Reconciliation are thinking about different ways, because the peace council itself has not outlined any plan, this means that the government is also not capable of bringing a comprehensive and acceptable peace plan," said Hekmatyar.

Hekmatyar also called on the US to honor its commitment for troop withdrawal based on the US-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
peace deal.

Hekmatyar said that the possibility for the presence of Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzda in the Turkey conference looks hard, however he said that President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
should lead a delegation in the conference.

"If the first deputy of the Islamic emirate (term used for Taliban’s political system) or the political deputy of the Taliban participates in the Turkey conference, that will be enough," said Hekmatyar.

Hekmatyar said that his supporters will stage demonstrations in Kabul on Friday and their demand will be the resignation of members of the government.
Because there’s no reason to pretend that this is about anything except establishing a Taliban caliphate by force. Again.
"Amid the current situation, the increase of pressure on the government is not a good thing. Mr. Hekmatyar as a political leader should instead work for peace and reconciliation," said Abdul Rashid Ayoubi, an adviser to President Ghani.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  I think they misspelled 'piece'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/02/2021 4:27 Comments || Top||


3 Security Force Members Killed in Helicopter Crash in Helmand
[ToloNews] Three police force members, including an officer, were killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
on Wednesday evening, the head of provincial council Attaullah Afghan said.

The incident happened when the helicopter took off from Gereshk district and crash landed in Nahre Siraj district in the province due to technical issue, he said.

Mohamamd Wali Haqmal, an officer who was on board, wanted to go observe his leave and return to his home in Lashkargah, but he lost his life in the incident, according to sources.

"Seven other security force members were maimed in the incident," two sources said.

Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement on Thursday, referring to downed Black Hawk, said "all reports so far indicate the helicopter was not shot down, despite Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
claims."
So now we know. Rest in peace, warriors.
The statement confirmed three security force members--two national police and one ANA soldier--were killed.

The MoD initially reported there were no casualties.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


305 Afghans Killed in Targeted Attacks, Explosions in Past Month
[ToloNews] Data collected by TOLOnews shows that at least 305 Afghans were killed and 350 others were maimed in a series of explosions and assassinations in the past one month.

Based on the TOLOnews findings, there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of explosions and assassinations in the country in March compared to February.
Twenty per cent is a big jump.
These are the statistics which are shared with the media, however, according to the security sources, the casualties of war are much higher than this figure and each day there are about 20 to 30 fatalities among Afghan cops.

According to TOLOnews data, most of the attacks are reported in Kabul, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Kandahar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Balkh and Ghazni provinces.

"The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
are carrying out these attacks, they claim some of them and deny some others. Overall, the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the Taliban," said Rahmatullah Andar, a front man for the National Security Council.

In February, the casualties were around 264 deaths and 278 injuries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Libyan MP: GNA Squandered Hundreds of Millions of Dinars
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Haftar: Elections in December Should Not be Delayed
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
US removes some military capabilities, forces from Saudi Arabia — report
[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
has ordered the removal of some elements of the country’s military presence in 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...
, in the first of several steps to refocus US attention away from the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports citing unnamed defense officials.

The report says the US has "removed at least three Patriot antimissile batteries from the Gulf region, including one from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, that had been put in place in recent years to help protect American forces."
If the Saudis want them back, they can buy them.
"Some capabilities, including an aircraft carrier and surveillance systems, are being diverted from the Middle East to answer military needs elsewhere around the globe," it says, adding that "other reductions are under consideration."

The moves mean that thousands of troops could eventually leave the region
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  If the Saudis want them back, they can buy them.

From Israel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/02/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ASB News / MILITARY
@ASBMilitary
BREAKING: Biden has ordered the Pentagon to start removing Patriot anti-missile systems, other military hardware and forces from the Persian Gulf region and “could deploy them elsewhere to counter Russia and China” according to WSJ
Posted by: 3dc || 04/02/2021 5:51 Comments || Top||


Saudi Arabia rejects Iran's presence in Syria, demands end of 'sectarian project'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Yemeni Gov't Submits Report on Houthi Terrorist Relations to UNSC
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s internationally-recognized government submitted an intelligence report to the UN Security Council revealing that Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militia are working closely with both al-Qaeda and ISIS to inflict terrorism on the Yemeni people.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Netherlands appeal court rules against repatriation of ISIS-linked Dutch woman, Danes establish task force to investigate
[Rudaw] A top appeal court in the Netherlands ruled on Tuesday against bringing an ISIS-linked Dutch national home from al-Hol camp, citing security concerns over repatriations.

The Hague Court of Appeal said it backs the judgement made in October 2020 for the woman, who holds both Dutch and Moroccan nationality and has both psychiatric and physical problems.

"It is clear to the court that [appellant] 's interest in repatriation is very important," the court said in a statement.

"Moreover, the court considers it plausible that the situation for [appellant] is even more difficult under the influence of her psychiatric and physical problems... from the WhatsApp messages she submitted, the image emerges of a confused woman who also has a physical disability and is therefore dependent on the certainly not self-evident willingness of other camp inmates to take her fate and provide her elementary care."

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the appeal court agreed with the preliminary relief judge's claim that her situation was outweighed by national interests. The relief judge ruled that "although the interests on the part of [appellant] are very important, the interests on the side of the State are so important that the balancing of interests should be in the advantage of the State."
"Bitch is Krazy. And a burden on the State"
The Netherlands has resisted repatriating its nationals because of concerns over the security of both people who would be involved in the repatriation in "dangerous" northern Syria and the Netherlands as a whole.

The appeal court "is of the opinion that the State must have the freedom to decide on a case-by-case basis and on a "day-to-day" basis whether or not to deploy its officials in this way. In doing so, the State may always put the safety of the officials and other parties involved who would play a role in a possible repatriation of [appellant], which may mean that the State will only consider such a deployment if it is convinced that such a deployment can take place in a responsible manner for these parties."

There remain currently 110 Dutch adults in Syria who travelled to the country with "jihadist intentions" — 40 of them in camps and prisons in northeast Syria, according to data the Dutch interior ministry published on March 1.

Denmark considers repatriating ISIS-linked children from Rojava camps

[Rudaw] Denmark on Tuesday announced it has established a taskforce to assess the possibility of repatriating Danish children from camps in northeastern Syria (Rojava).

Denmark’s foreign ministry said the taskforce will reveal by May 15 whether Danish children can be repatriated without their parents "in a secure manner and within the framework of Denmark’s obligations to (international) conventions" and will take steps to prepare evacuations.

"As soon as the results of the task force are available, the government will take the initiative for renewed political consultations on the overall handling of the Danish children in the camps," it added.

The Danish government had previously stated that it would not accept children of ISIS fighters back into the country despite the dangerous conditions in the camps.

A total of 19 Danish children are currently held in the Kurdish-controlled Roj and al-Hol camps in Rojava, AFP reported on Tuesday.

A recent poll showed 49 percent of Danes were opposed to the repatriation of children up to 14 years old, according to AFP.

Denmark repatriated an injured child in June 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 01:49 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  No one ever asks what it is the Dane can't get rid of...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/02/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Heh. From a whole other context...

Twa corbies were making a mane
As they snacked on the banes of a Dane.
Crake ane, "By the devil,
These wights are uncivil!"
"Aye. Why do they raise so much Cain?"
Posted by: Ebberetle Chavilet9598 || 04/02/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Ooooh, in dialect an’ all!
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 20:44 Comments || Top||


EU Ministers Vow Syria 'War Criminals' Won't Go Unpunished
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
So how's Prince Johnson doing these days?
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Fifth Column
BLM in Chicago are planning something in response to police shooting dead an armed 13-year-old male
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  One is a martyr, 100 is a movement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/02/2021 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  But when stray rounds from gang thugs kill innocent kids -- silence. BLM is a cruel joke.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/02/2021 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Not a cruel joke. It's a well funded and organized Marxist insurrection using skin color as a very effective shield.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/02/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||


#5  As far s I can tell, Skidmark, Tigray is one of those intertribal, former-rulers-refusing-to-accept-losing-power thingies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 21:18 Comments || Top||


Investigators complete review of federal police shooting that killed wanted Portland activist
[OPB.ORG] The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday it has completed its seven-month investigation of a federally deputized task force that shot and killed Portland activist Michael Forest Reinoehl last summer.

Reinoehl, a 48-year-old self-described antifascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
who was wanted for murder, was killed by law enforcement officers near Olympia on Sept. 3. According to the Thurston County Sherlocks reviewing the case, Reinoehl "initiated" an exchange of gunfire with officers before he was killed.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "Yep. He's dead Jim."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/02/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan announces he will visit Karabakh after Ramadan
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
announced on Wednesday that he intends to visit the city of Shushi in the Karabakh region after the conclusion of Ramadan.The Sputnik Agency quoted Erdogan’s announcement during the virtual summit of the Ottoman Turkish Council, in which he said:

"We will remain close to brotherly Azerbaijan, and we will defend our Ottoman Turkish values ​​in Nagorno-Karabakh and it is important to restore and rehabilitate the region so that our brothers can return to their lands."

Erdogan added, "After Ramadan, I will visit Shushi, as we hope to celebrate Eid together."

Previously, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement to establish a ceasefire in Karabakh during a tripartite conference in Moscow on November 10th, 2020.

Under the agreement, Azerbaijan would remain in control of the areas they captured in Karabakh during the 40 day war that broke out on September 29th, 2020.



Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  he intends to visit the city of Shushi in the Karabakh region

But what are the grid coords?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/02/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Migrant families being released without notices to appear in court
[NY Post] US authorities have been releasing illegal immigrant families without notices to appear in immigration court amid an overwhelming record surge in border crossings.

News of the new practice came last week, when Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) revealed that about 150 migrants were released in one weekend "without a notice to appear" in court.

"How do you release somebody to the country without a notice to appear?" he asked on Fox News, noting that those released were family units, not adults or unaccompanied children.

Releasing families swiftly eases the burden on the overcrowded facilities run by Customs and Border Protection, which has come under fire for holding children for longer than the legal 72-hour limit.

Releasing the migrants does not solve the problem, however, instead shifting the brunt of the work involved in processing to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2021 10:22 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Did they check to make sure none of the family members or their relations are connected to narco-gangs? None of the smugglers who moved them along the way were connected, they made no promises of indentured servitude to pay off their transportation fees once they arrived in America to anyone connected? Because if any of the migrant families they set free in the interior of the country are, this becomes a War on Terror: narco-terrorism problem, even excluding all those coming from countries where jihadis are popular in certain circles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2021 21:14 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
UN Chief Urges Security Council to Deploy Monitors in Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Imprisoned Palestinian Leader's Entry Shakes up Planned Vote
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A popular Paleostinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken 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....
’ Fatah party and help its holy warrior Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rivals.

Marwan Barghouti’s wife, Fadwa, registered the list hours before the deadline set by the election commission. Polls indicate it would split the vote for Fatah, potentially paving the way for another major victory by Hamas. That increases the likelihood that Abbas will find a way to call off the first Paleostinian elections in 15 years.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Sri Lanka
Lebanese Prisons on the Brink of Famine
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Nasrallah still looked well-fed last time he came out of his hole.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Military option is no longer an option against Iran: IRGC commander
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

An interesting thought. Let’s run it by the IDF, see what they have to say on the subject.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Until, it is.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/02/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  You're right. It's a necessity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/02/2021 4:43 Comments || Top||

#3  No. no. You're absolutely right. Just sit back and think beautiful thoughts, not what a Ginsu Bomb would do to a guy named Salami.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/02/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  It is now "the" option.
Posted by: Javiter Dark Lord of the Faith7963 || 04/02/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  American Military option is no longer an option against Iran
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ So right.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/02/2021 17:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Not our fight
Let Bibi handle it
Posted by: Spairt Hatrack7339 || 04/02/2021 17:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Technically, any country the US decides should no longer exist can be dead in 40 minutes or less.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/02/2021 18:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I always wondered what happened to the Iraqi Information Minister. Glad he found a new home.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/02/2021 18:28 Comments || Top||


IAEA: Iran Adds Advanced Machines Enriching Underground at Natanz
Unexpectedly.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Lebanon: Maronite Patriarch Criticizes Hezbollah in Leaked Video
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Those dragging 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...
into regional conflicts were not acting in its best interests, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai said, in comments that appeared to refer to Hezbollah.

"I want to tell them ... Do you want to force (Lebanon) to go to war? Are you asking before you go to war? Before you go to Syria? ... You're not looking out for the interest of your people," said Rai in a video circulated by local media on Thursday.

Rai has called for Lebanon to remain neutral, referring to Hezbollah's role fighting in neighboring Syria to support Damascus and its alliance with 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in regional conflicts.

He has also repeatedly urged Lebanon's political rivals to agree a new administration, and has called for a UN-sponsored international conference to help break the deadlock.

Lebanon has been in financial meltdown since 2019 and feuding politicians have been unable to form a government since the last one quit in the aftermath of an Aug. 4 explosion in the capital.
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Lebanon: Central Bank to Discuss Forensic Audit with Alvarez & Marsal
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Russia's Top Diplomat Says Dividing Syria Is A Serious Threat
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday of the consequences of dividing Syria if Washington continues to encourage separatism in the war-torn country.

Speaking at a special session of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s Middle East Conference, Lavrov said the frozen state of the Syrian conflict is fraught with a breakup of the country, stressing that Russia is exerting efforts to avert this issue.

"It is fraught with a collapse of the country, which would be particularly tragic not just because of the Kurdish factor that will immediately acquire regional dimension. There could be unpredictable consequences," said Lavrov.

"We are making every effort to avoid it, but it does look like a frozen conflict," he said when asked about the state of the conflict in Syria.

Lavrov also strongly lashed out at the US, accusing Washington of exploiting Syria’s resources and using ISIS terror group to hinder settlement in the country.

"ISIS was actively used and continues to be used by the US to hinder the processes that will lead to a settlement in Syria with the full participation of the current government," the FM said.

He accused the US of exploiting the hydrocarbons and grain that is produced in Syria.

"They make business to pay for the separatist actions of some Kurdish organizations to block dialogue between Kurds and Damascus."

The Russian top diplomat reiterated the need to resolve the Syrian crisis by implementing the UNSC Resolution 2254.
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