[An Nahar] An influential Saudi holy man who once served for years as head of the kingdom's Shariah courts and whose ultraconservative views sparked outcry died on Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy that mirrored the kingdom's decades-long slide toward Wahhabism. His family announced his death on Twitter, saying 90-year-ol Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed al-Luhaidan died after battling an illness that was not disclosed. His funeral is taking place Wednesday in line with Islamic tradition of immediate burial.
On Twitter, an Arabic hashtag with his name saw an outpouring of prayers and praise for the holy man and Islamic scholar.
His ultraconservative views, though in line with the country's Wahhabi doctrine at the time, prompted his sacking in 2009 as head of Saudi Arabia
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[Khaama] "Our allies in the Biden Regime are unable to reach the capital on I-95. Oh..wait... this is different"
Officials of the state ministry for Disaster Management of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that they have directed provincial officials about their further preparedness for rain and snowfall and that a state of emergency has been announced in the country.
Speaking with Radio Free of Afghanistan (REF/RL) an official of the ministry Muhammad Amin Mubariz said that they had sent material to provinces of which the distribution is still going on.
Mubariz added that they are in contact with the Ministry of Public Work and private firms to urgently undertake their operation of reopening ways in case the ways close due to heavy snowfall.
Salang highway that connects the Afghan capital with Northern provinces has been left clogged due to heavy snowfall and wind.
There is currently repeated snow and rainfall in 32 out of 34 provinces of Afghanistan that has clogged routes and have also erupted flood in several provinces.
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[Garowe] The National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] operatives have taken former al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... deputy leader Mukhtar Robow back to his house arrest, a week after they issued a report over his unprecedented detention in Mogadishu.
Robow, who denounced the violent mostly peaceful ideology before being officially welcomed by outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo, was taken to prison in December 2018 following his quest to run for Southwest presidency.
Reports indicate Robow was moved from house detention by NISA agents and taken back to prison but the government is yet to explain the reasons behind the latest move which comes at the time Somalia is embroiled in a political conflict.
For three years, Robow has been in detention without being given access to legal aid, further raising questions from his immediate family members. The government is also yet to present him to a court of law or institute formal charges against him.
Last week, Internal Security Minister Abdullahi Mohammed Nor wrote to NISA acting director Yasin Abdullahi Farey over Robow's detention and was later on provided with a detailed report. The report stated that Robow is still "dangerous to the public".
NISA further claimed Robow was given access to his family and friends throughout his detention, adding that the federal government of Somalia spends $7,000 monthly on him for his personal upkeep.
But in a quick rebuttal, his brother dismissed the claim, arguing that family members have not been able to access him since his arrest in 2018. Further, they insisted, Robow struggles in detention and does not have access to government facilitation.
While the government claims he was arrested over al-Shabaab active links, a number of big shots led by former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud insist that he's a victim of political intolerance and state capture in the Horn of Africa nation.
After his arrest in 2018 days to Southwest elections, violent mostly peaceful protests erupted in Baidoa, with government forces killing 11 people. Robow was intending to run against current Southwest President Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen, a close ally of Farmaajo.
[AlAhram] More than half a million children in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... are unable to go to school because of attacks by jihadists, the government said on Wednesday.
Armed Islamists have forced the closure of 3,280 schools -- nearly one in seven nationwide -- affecting 511,221 students and 14,901 teachers, government front man Alkassoum Maiga said after a cabinet meeting.
The landlocked Sahel state has been battling jihadist forces of Evil since 2015, when bully boyz started to mount cross-border raids from neighbouring Mali.
More than 2,000 people have died, according to a toll compiled by AFP.
The national emergency aid body Conasure says that 1.5 million people, nearly two-thirds of them children, were internally displaced as of November 30.
[LIBYAREVIEW] A member of the Libyan Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... , Counselor Jumaa Abu Zaid said that the Attorney General should investigate the statements made by the Head of the High National Elections Commission’s (HNEC), Emad al-Sayeh claiming that a Presidential candidate has submitted forged documents.
Abu Zeid said that al-Sayeh’s briefing to Parliament on Monday "contained a logical account of the reasons why the elections failed to be held on time."
Al-Sayeh said before the Parliament that the commission had received more than 5,400 candidacy bids for the Parliamentary elections, noting that some of them included falsified documents. He stressed that HNEC is technically ready to hold the country’s Presidential elections.
"The basis of the problem is defects in the drafting of the legislation, which are evident in the short periods specified for electoral procedures. As well as the short periods of appeals that were supposed to extend to weeks, and not to three days," Abu Zeid explained.
He added, during a briefing before the Parliament that, "we referred several appeals to the Attorney General to prove to the Libyan people that the commission is committed to the principle of holding fair and transparent elections."
Al-Sayeh’s statements came in response to accusations against the elections commission that it is a failed institution, and cannot fulfil its duty.
He also confirmed that the commission was communicating with the Interior Ministry, which had drawn up a well-prepared plan to secure the elections. This failed to materialise due to the deteriorating political and security situation on the ground.
Al-Sayeh claimed that one of the Presidential candidates had, "criticized the commission on a televised interview aired on a foreign channel, but we have evidence that he had forged his recommendation signatures."
Libya failed to hold its much-awaited Presidential elections as scheduled on 24 December. The ballot was delayed to an unspecified date, after bitter arguments over divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... candidates and a disputed legal framework.
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I have included descriptions of the drone attacks during the month of December
The link which included a graphic is all in English
[ISWnews] In 2021, Ansar Allah Air and Missile Forces carried out 332 missile and drone operations against the positions of Saudi coalition in Saudi Arabia and the occupied territories of Yemen. Details of operations are as follows:
247- Missile attack on the gathering of Mansour Hadi’s forces in the Usaylan district located in Shabwa province. Seven members of Saudi-led coalition were killed in the attack, including two field commanders of Mansour Hadi’s forces. Date: December 3.
248- Attack with four missiles on Saudi coalition positions in the city of Marib. Date: December 5.
249- Attack with four drones on Saudi coalition positions in southern Saudi Arabia. Date December 5.
250- Ansar Allah’s large-scale operation against Saudi coalition positions in Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif, Jizan, Najran and Asir. In this operation, six Samad-3 drones and a number of Zulfiqar missiles targeted the positions of the Ministry of Defense (Saudi Arabia), King Khalid Airport and other military targets in the city of Riyadh, the capital of the Saudi enemy. Six Samad 2 and 3 drones targeted King Fahd Air Base in Taif and Aramco in Jeddah. Five Samad 1 and 2 drones targeted the enemy military positions in Abha, Jizan and Asir areas. Eight Qasef 2K drones and a large number of missiles (estimated as 15 missiles) targeted critical positions in the Abha, Jizan and Najran areas. Date: December 5 – 6.
251- Missile attack on Saudi coalition positions in Jizan. Date: December 7.
252- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions at Abha Airport. Date: December 8.
253- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions in Jeddah. Date: December 8.
254- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions at Abha Airport. Date: December 10.
255- Missile attack on Saudi coalition positions in Marib. Date: December 11.
256- Missile attack on Saudi coalition positions in Khamis Mushait. Date: December 13.
257- Attack with four drones on Saudi coalition positions in southern Saudi Arabia. Date: December 14.
258- Attack with two missiles on Saudi coalition positions in Marib. Date: December 15.
259- Missile attack on Saudi coalition positions in the Mahula area of western Taiz province. Date: December 15.
260- Attack with five missiles on Saudi coalition positions at King Khalid base in Khamis Mushait and other important targets in Jizan. Date: December 15.
261- Attack with two missiles on Saudi coalition positions at Abha Airport. Date: December 15.
262- Attack with two missiles on Saudi coalition positions in the third military district of Marib. Date: December 16.263- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions in Khamis Mushait. Date: December 19.
264- Attack with two drones on Saudi coalition positions at Abha Airport. Date: December 19.
265- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions at King Khalid Airbase in Khamis Mushait. Date: December 19.
266- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions at Jizan and Abha Airport. Date: December 19.
267- Attack with two missiles on Saudi coalition positions in the third military zone in the city of Marib. Date: December 19.
268- Missile attack on Saudi coalition positions south of the city of Marib. Date: December 21.
269- Drone attack on Saudi coalition positions at Abha Airport. Date: December 23.
270- Attack with three drones on Saudi coalition positions in Jizan. Date: December 25.
271- Attack with two drones on Saudi coalition positions south of the city of Marib. Date: December 25.
272- Missile and drone attack on gatherings of Amaliqah forces under the auspices of the Saudi coalition at Ataq Airport, in the capital of Shabwa province. Date: December 28.
273- Missile attack on a gathering of Amaliqah forces under the auspices of the Saudi coalition at the Khamoumeh base in the district of Markha al-Sufla in Shabwa province. The attack killed 27 Saudi-led forces and injured more than 40. Date: December 30.
274- Missile attack on a gathering of Amaliqah forces under the auspices of the Saudi coalition at the Khamoumeh base in the district of Markha al-Sufla in Shabwa province. Date: December 31.
[IsraelTimes] Backing boycott calls by pro-Paleostinian activists, performers accuse organizers of partnering with ’apartheid’ state, failing to provide ’cultural safety’ for Paleostinians
At least 20 acts have pulled out of a major cultural festival in Sydney, Australia, set to begin later this week, declaring a protest boycott in response to the Israeli embassy in the country funding a dance performance at the event. The embassy has provided $20,000 for "Decadance," a show based on a work by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin and Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, as part of the Sydney Festival 2022. It is scheduled to be performed by the Sydney Dance Company on January 6-9 at the Sydney Opera House. On the festival website, the embassy is listed as a "star partner" due to the sponsorship.
Artists pulled out in response to calls for a boycott by Arab, pro-Paleostinian, and other activist groups, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. Some of those who withdrew accused Israel of apartheid practices toward the Paleostinians. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... festival organizers have remained determined to allow the performance to go ahead.
Local comedian Tom Ballard announced his withdrawal in a Twitter post on Tuesday, saying, "I love the Festival and I love telling jokes, but standing up for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and standing against a system of apartheid is more important."
He called on the festival to return the funding it received from the embassy and urged other artists to follow his lead.
Singer Marcus Whale, in announcing his exit on Monday, tweeted that the Israeli embassy "collaborates with Western cultural institutions to paint Israel as a liberal democracy on one hand while enforcing brutal occupation and apartheid with the other. No more."
Some festival acts said they will participate but in an independent capacity and have withdrawn from the auspices of the Sydney Festival, according to the report.
The cast of the acclaimed play "Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner" said in a statement they are pulling out "in solidarity with the Paleostinian cause" and the rights of all indigenous people to "illusory sovereignty and liberation," referring to Israel as "another oppressive settler-colony."
They further accused festival organizers of failing to provide a "culturally safe space for all artists, employees, and audiences."
The Belvoir St Theatre said it will put on its scheduled show but will not accept any direct funding from the festival in because Paleostinian artists are not able to participate in "cultural safety."
In a statement Tuesday, the Sydney Festival board said it would keep the Israel-sponsored show and that it "wishes collectively to affirm its respect for the right of all groups to protest and raise concerns."
"All funding agreements for the current Festival — including for Decadance — will be honored, and the performances will proceed," it said. "At the same time, the Board has also determined it will review its practices in relation to funding from foreign governments or related parties."
The Paleostinian Justice Movement Sydney claimed in December that the Israeli embassy funding was agreed on in May and called for a boycott, accusing the festival of contributing "to the normalization of an apartheid state."
The embassy responded in a statement to the Guardian at the time that Israel was "proud to support and participate in this important Festival that showcases leading artists and performances from around the world.
"Culture is a bridge to coexistence, cooperation, and rapprochement and should be left out of the political arena," the embassy said.
PJMS is calling for a protest demonstration to be held opposite the opera house when the festival kicks off Thursday.
The pro-Paleostinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement says it seeks to end Israel’s control of lands captured in the 1967 Six Day War and what it describes as discrimination against Israel’s Arab minority. It also calls for a "right of return" for millions of Paleostinian refugees and their descendants to ancestral lands that they fled or were expelled from in the 1948 war during Israel’s creation.
Israeli officials vehemently reject the apartheid accusations, and Israel and other BDS opponents say that the BDS campaign encourages antisemitism and aims to delegitimize or even destroy Israel as a Jewish state.
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...standing against a system of apartheid is more important.
I don't believe Blacks or 'Coloureds' in South Aferica under Apartheid had full voting rights (unless they had land ownership, then they had some), full employment capabilities, full land or business ownership nor could have members in elected high Government positions like non-Jewish folks can in Israel today.
Maybe I'm wrong, but folks throw the term Apartheid around a lot without understanding what it really is or was. Saudi Arabia (and some other Mohammedan states) kind of have a true Apartheid for their non-muslim inhabitants.
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It means whatever they need it to mean when they need an emotionally loaded scary word, even if it erodes the original usage.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Tuesday, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... slammed the Greek Foreign Minister’s statements, over its 2019 maritime border agreement with Libya.
"The anti-Turkey statements made by Greek Foreign Minister (Nikos) Dendias almost every day are populist and unrealistic claims that do not serve peace and stability," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Tanju Bilgic said in a statement.
"This provocative discourse is neither compatible with good neighbourly relations, nor with the spirit of the consultative talks we have relaunched with Greece," Bilgic added.
He underlined that the remarks are "further proof that Greece prefers tension by seeking help from third parties and creating artificial alliances against Turkey, instead of resolving bilateral issues and developing relations through an honest and meaningful dialogue."
"We reject Greece’s characterization of our country’s will to defend its rights and interests as a threat. As well as its attempts to create an unrealistic perception in this direction. If there is a threat in the region, this threat arises from the unilateral actions of Greece that increase tension," he claimed.
Earlier, Dendias called on Turkey to immediately recognise the nullity of the Ottoman Turkish-Libyan maritime agreement. In a tweet, Dendias also described Turkey’s stance on Greece as "the epitome of irrationality."
He stressed that Athens is committed to peace and stability in Libya, and supports the principle of non-intervention in its domestic issues.
In 2019, Libya and Turkey signed two agreements on military cooperation and maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean sea. The military agreement aims at ensuring the protection of Turkey’s interests in Libya, strengthening bilateral ties, and allowing Ankara’s direct intervention in the country.
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Given international Law of the Sea that is respected by early every nation, the Libya-Turkey seaward boundary in the Med is entirely bogus. That being claimed, far be it for the feckless US Department of State, and its equally feckless lawyers, to comment on the legality of the matter.
In case you needed another reason to stop Federal handouts of all stripes...
[Universal Hub] - Federal prosecutors today asked a judge to order Dzokhar Tsarnaev ...also in our archives as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with the highly connected but self-radicalized older brother he subsequently ran over while fleeing police, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. The mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connections to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles. It was founded by Clinton Friend and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi as a Muslim Student Assn/Muslim Brotherhood project in 1981. According to Russian intelligence, whose warning about our lads President Barack Obama’s intelligence agencies ignored until afterward, the Tsarnaev boys had lots of jihadi-connected friends back in the Olde Countrie, too, but nobody seems to to have found a formal connection between them and any registered jihadi group ... to hand over a Covid-19 relief check he got last year - and donations he's received from people across the country - to help pay off some small portion of the $101.1 million in restitution he was ordered to pay for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings and the death of an MIT police officer in 2013.
In a filing in US District Court in Boston, prosecutors said Tsarnaev got a $1,400 Covid-19 payment on June 22, 2021 and that he has received $11,230 in donations between 2016 and June, 2021, some from three people who sent him monthly payments for several years.
The money went into his prison trust account, from which he spent $2,000 for gifts and books for family members, prosecutors say. He has paid roughly $2,200 towards restitution, they add.
In its motion, the US Attorney's office asked that all of the money he has received from the Covid relief program and outside sources be transferred from the commissary account to "the Clerk of Court as payment toward the outstanding criminal monetary penalties imposed against the Defendant."
Tsarnaev now lives in a 7x12 cell at a federal "supermax" prison in Colorado.
Tsarnaev's sentencing also included being put to death because the bombs he and his brother set off along Boylston Street in Copley Square killed Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu, and Martin Richard and injured hundreds more along Boylston Street - and for the ambush gunning down of MIT police officer Sean Collier as they later tried to escape. A federal appeals court ordered a new trial on whether he should die or spend the rest of his life in prison; the US Supreme Court is now considering the case.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch government says UAWC members had ’individual links’ to PFLP terror group, but review fails to find sweeping financial ties alleged by Israel
After a year-long review, the Dutch government formally cut ties on Wednesday with one of six Paleostinian civil society organizations that Israel controversially declared to be a terror group in late 2021.
The Netherlands will no longer fund the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, or transfer the organization the last tranche of an already budgeted Dutch grant, two Dutch ministers wrote in a joint letter.
Israel last October declared the UAWC and five other nonprofits to be terror groups for their alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine. The declaration sparked international condemnation; Israel doubled down, insisting that the evidence supporting the classification was "ironclad."
Israel has charged that the groups hoodwinked European donors into providing them with millions in funding that they then transferred to the PFLP. The Dutch government’s review found no evidence that the UAWC had done so.
"The external review shows that no evidence has been found of financial flows between the UAWC and the PFLP. Nor has any proof been found of organization unity between the UAWC and the PFLP or of the PFLP’s providing direction to the UAWC," wrote Foreign Minister Ben Knapen and Foreign Trade Minister Tom de Brujin.
The external Sherlocks did, however, find some overlap between the two organizations’ membership.
"There were ties at the individual level between UAWC staff and board members and the PFLP for some considerable time. The great number of UAWC board members with roles in both organizations gives particular cause for concern," the two Dutch ministers wrote.
The external Sherlocks hired by the Dutch government determined that the UAWC was likely unaware of members’ political affiliation. But in their letter, the Dutch diplomats said it was "reasonable to assume" that the organization knew of board members’ PFLP ties.
The Netherlands had already suspended its funding for the nonprofit in July 2020 after two UAWC employees were arrested by Israel for terrorism. The two employees, Abd al-Raziq Farraj and Samir Arbeed, were later indicted for their alleged involvement in a 2019 roadside kabooming that killed Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb.
The investigation by the Dutch determined that their funding had helped pay for the two employees’ salaries, although neither had managed Dutch-backed development projects.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry hailed the Netherlands’ decision as an "important and commendable announcement." It declined to comment on the Dutch Sherlocks’ failure to find evidence to back up Israel’s other claims about the nonprofit.
"Israel will continue its dialogue with the Netherlands and other countries regarding these organizations, support of which constitutes a violation of Israeli law," the Foreign Ministry said.
In a statement, the UAWC condemned the decision to end funding, which it called "shocking and deeply troubling."
"We are shocked that the Dutch government has ended its funding for a leading Paleostinian civil society organization...based on alleged individual links," the organization said, adding that the investigation had contained factual inaccuracies.
Founded in 1986, the UAWC conducts agricultural projects on behalf of tens of thousands of Paleostinian farmers. According to its director, some 25,000 Paleostinian families benefit from the group’s work.
"We have no factional, religious, or sectarian affiliation. We simply don’t believe in those kinds of ties. We’re part of civil society," director Fuad Abu Seif told The Times of Israel in a previous interview.
Abu Seif claimed that Farraj and Arbeed’s alleged terror involvement was not representative of the hundreds who work in the organization.
"We’re talking about two people amidst hundreds of employees and thousands of families. What kind of ridiculous stupidity would drag us down with such an operation?" said Abu Seif.
[IsraelTimes] Judiciary spokesperson says Tehran has sent letters to nine countries asking them to take action against alleged culprits
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... said Wednesday it intends to prosecute 127 people for alleged involvement or cooperation with the liquidation of its Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani two years ago by the US administration of Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... According to Fars News, which is run by the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a judiciary spokesperson said the country sent 11 letters to nine countries, asking them to take measures against the alleged culprits.
The spokesperson also said Iran and Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding related to the prosecutions. Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant were assassinated in a US dronezap at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
The report did not provide details on who were among the 127 individuals.
On Monday, as Tehran marked two years since the revered commander’s death, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed Dire Revenge against Trump unless the former US president is tried over the killing.
Raisi, addressing Tehran’s largest prayer hall, said: "The aggressor and the main assassin, the then president of the United States, must face justice and retribution" alongside former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo "and other criminals."
Ought the government provide them with protection until this thing is resolved, or are they on their own, given they’re eeeeevil Republicans and all?
Tehran’s enemies were targeted on the day of the anniversary in unclaimed drone and cyber attacks — with two armed unmanned aerial vehicles intercepted by the US-led coalition in Iraq over Baghdad airport, and hackers attacking Israeli media sites.
Soleimani headed the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, with links to gangs in Iraq, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... , Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, Syria and 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... . The Quds force is designated by a number of countries as a terrorist organization, including the US and Israel.
The nighttime strike destroyed a convoy carrying Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy leader of the Hashed al-Shaabi coalition of pro-Iranian gangs, and others.
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[An Nahar] Amid the latest rapid developments in the country, the efforts to resolve the standoff over Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar seem to have ceased, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"There will be neither a solution nor a (Cabinet) session, and the focus is now on other issues," a senior political source told the daily.
"The latest tensions between Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... will be an addition reason to deepen the crisis, although Hizbullah has told the relevant parties that it is not inclined to complicate things," the source added.
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Thumbmarcus 8 hours ago03
and he named his government: "Together For Rescue"!
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Thumbthepatriot 7 hours ago01
This is why the French insisted for a non partisan Cabinet.
Hariri tried I guess.
But this power thirsty vampire was ready to compromise.
Months of negotiations, speculations, tractations, for that!
At the end of the day, it is always the duo or their poxies who block, paralyse, and command, and the good people of Lebanon keep on electing those thugs! Learn ya chabeb, learn...
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Missingarturo 6 hours ago01
Everyone knows that Nasrallah will not allow an investigation into the blast because the facts will direct blame to Hezbollah. Either the other parties will accept Hezbollah's position or Hezbollah will set up a government without them. Hezbollah is a dictator with military superiority over the LAF, so there's not much to discuss.
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Missingsingldad 5 hours ago01
same shit
different day
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Missingeasygoing 4 hours ago00
But, what is the solution to get rid of Hizbollah then? Civil war? International intervention? There is no future for Lebanon while this cave people are around..
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... on Wednesday charged that the latest speech of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... was "full of fallacies and lies" regarding Saudi Arabia ’s role in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... and the region.Speaking to Sky News Arabia, Geagea added that "taking up arms is not at all the LF’s plan."
"What happened in Tayyouneh showed that we have no right at all to take up arms, seeing as the incident showed that the there is a Lebanese state institution, the Lebanese Army, which is ready to protect the Lebanese and separate between them," the LF leader said.
Asked whether he will run for president, Geagea said: "I’m not a candidate in the classic sense of the word, but I’m a natural candidate, seeing as the LF leader is currently the head of the biggest Christian party in Lebanon, but what’s more important at the moment is finding a real republic."
He also stressed that "repeating the scenario of the Maarab Agreement" to "secure Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil’s election as president" is not possible, noting that "what happened once due to the intersection of certain circumstances will not be repeated today."
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[An Nahar] President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... described MP Ali Hassan Khalil’s words as "impolite and not true," when the latter said there are two presidents in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...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... "Every word he uttered is a lie," Aoun said in a press interview.
He added that "they are mixing between the Republic’s president and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... ’s president."
"I am the President of the country, (Jebran) Bassil is president of the biggest parliamentary bloc. I manage the country’s affairs, he manages the party’s affairs," Aoun stated.
"They hate him because I have raised him and like me, he refuses to bargain," the president said.
On another note, Aoun claimed that Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... ’s opposition since he was voted President has been "detrimental" to the country and has disrupted many draft laws proposed by the FPM.
"His ministers are refusing to attend Cabinet sessions," Aoun added. "Disrupting the government is a grave mistake, and no party has the right to do so."
Aoun went on to say that he wanted to replace Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh ...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... but it was Khalil, back then minister of finance, who asked him to discuss Salameh’s term extension in Cabinet.
He said that "if we fail to conduct a forensic audit, I will say what is obstructing it and I will name the ones who stole the people’s money."
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The head of #Lebanon’s General Security may have landed himself and his country in hot water after intervening in a #US lawsuit that initially accused #Iran of ordering the detainment and detention of a Lebanese-American citizen.https://t.co/UT05KPjwo5
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Thursday, August 5, 2021. President Biden announced nearly $100 million in new humanitarian assistance for Lebanon through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department will help people affected by the COVID -19 pandemic... It will also support Syrian refugees ...this support brings total U.S. humanitarian assistance in Lebanon to $372 million in FY 2021; in response to COVID-19, the humanitarian impacts of the August 2020 explosions at the Port of Beirut, and Syrian refugee crisis. As such, the USA is the largest donor in Lebanon.
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