[Breitbart Israel] In a mockery of international diplomacy, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the Hamas terrorist organization’s propaganda narrative and voted to condemn what it claims is Israel’s "excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate" use of force against Palestinian rioters.
The UN specifically voted not to condemn Hamas violence as part of a rejected American amendment and further called for a report within 60 days to contain "recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism" for the Palestinians.
The twisted resolution inverts the reality of a situation in which Hamas orchestrated violent riots openly aimed at storming Israel’s borders and murdering Jews.
Without any evidence or official investigation, and in fact contrary to much evidence, the UN accused the Israel Defense Forces, one of the most moral militaries in the world, of using excessive force during an unprecedented and savage Hamas campaign to violate a nation-state’s borders that saw rioters repeatedly attack Israeli soldiers. The IDF says it operated in accordance with the rules of engagement.
Only last weekend, 10,000 Hamas-directed rioters burned tires to obscure the view of the Israeli military and hurled rocks, grenades and pipe bombs at the IDF. Some rioters opened fire. Even the mainstream news media, which has largely been using unverified Hamas casualty counts, has documented the unmistakably violent nature of the riots.
[Breitbart] The eagerly anticipated Justice Department (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Micheal Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation includes a previously unreleased text message exchange between disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his extramarital lover Lisa Page, according to Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs.
Jabobs’ reporting, which came hours before the official release of the IG’s report Thursday, has Strzok assuring Page, "We’ll stop it," when asked about the possibility of Donald Trump becoming President.
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Schiff responds to report
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, emphasized the OIG found "no evidence" that Comey or other DOJ or FBI officials acted on the basis of political bias.
If anyone believes that statement in the report, I've got a bridge I want to sell you.
[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.
[Al Jazeera] NASA experts have expressed concern over an unprecedented "massive Martian dust storm" that has engulfed the Opportunity rover mission.
The storm covers an area as large as North America and Russia combined - a quarter of the surface of Mars - and has left the golf-cart-sized rover temporarily unable to conduct science operations.
The US space agency's rover runs on solar power and has entered low power mode to conserve energy.
Mission engineers believe it is unlikely the rover has enough sunlight to charge back up for at least the next several days, NASA said in a statement earlier this week.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) carried out a deadly attack against Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham on Wednesday, killing and wounding several members of the latter.
According to the Islamic State’s official media wing, their gunnies planted a boom-mobile at the HTS headquarters just outside the placid provincial capital of the Idlib Governorate.
The ISIS gunnies then detonated the boom-mobile, which killed a half dozen HTS fighters, including a field commander, along with injuring four others that were resent at the jihadist group’s headquarters.
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[Rodong Sinmun] Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, held the summit meeting and talks with Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America, at Sentosa Island of Singapore on June 12, 2018 for the first time in the histories of the two countries.
Thanks to the fixed decision and will of the top leaders of the two countries to put an end to the extreme hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S., which lingered for the longest period on the earth on terms of acute confrontation and to open up a new future for the sake of the interests of the peoples of the two countries and global peace and security, the first DPRK-U.S. summit is to be held.
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[PRESSTV] Fighters from the Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have pounded the positions of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as the turbans are seeking to sneak through the border into Iraq.
Qassem Mesleh, PMU commander for Iraq’s west Anbar region, said in a statement on Wednesday that the volunteer forces ‐ commonly known with the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi ‐ have targeted ISIS positions inside the Syrian territory, dealing heavy blows to the krazed killers.
Mesleh noted that many ISISturbans have also beat feet from the border regions with Iraq, leaving behind a considerable amount of munitions and improvised bombs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Qutri al-Samarmad, a Hashd al-Sha’abi commander in Anbar, told Arabic-language Basnews news agency that ISIS Takfiris had executed 30 fellow bully boyz in Hajin region near Abu Kamal city.
Samarmad added that the executions were carried out by shooting them dead.
He went on to say that ISISbully boyz have withdrawn telecommunication devices from families of the executed fellows, and prevented them from leaving their homes.
"ISIS still exists in Jazirat al-Furat and Hajin regions in Syria as well as wide parts in the vicinity of Abu Kamal," Samarmad pointed out.
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[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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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A child was killed and seven other civilians were maimed in an kaboom in Jalalabad city, the bustling provincial capital of eastern 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.. province.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani confirmed the incident took place at around 6 am local time in the second police district of the city.
He said explosives planted in front of a shop went off in Ahangaran area, leaving a 10-year-old child dead and injuring seven other civilians.
Khogyani further added that at least four children and the shopkeeper are among those maimed.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups frequently use explosives materials for the roadside kaboomings and boom-mobileings to target the government staff and security personnel.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted besides such bombings incur casualties to the security personnel and in some cases the Talibs themselves are killed or maimed.
A total of 10,453 civilian casualties ‐ 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured ‐ were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released last month by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office.
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[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?
[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'?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi-backed troops attempted an amphibious landing at the strategic Hodeideh Port on Wednesday, a Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... official told al-Mayadeen TV.
"We foiled a sea landing of Saudi and Emirati forces near the port of Hodeidah," Dayfallah al-Shami, a member of the movement’s political bureau, told the pro-Iranian al-Mayadeen.
"The Saudi coalition has not advanced at all in Hodeidah," Shami added.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Houthi forces announced that they scored a direct hit on a Saudi Coalition boat, which later sunk the vessel off the coast of Hodeideh.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A German court convicted a Syrian refugee of fighting alongside the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) terror organization in Syria.
According to a report from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, a German court in Dusseldorf sentenced Saleh A. Saleh is Arabic for "Fritz."
to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of being an Islamic State member and carrying out killings in Syria.
The AP report stated Saleh A. is a Syrian national in his 30s, but did not post where he was from inside Syria or when he fought.
The alleged ISIS member admitted to killing a Syrian government sniper and plotting to carry out an attack in Dusseldorf.
The court concluded no such plans existed, but counted his cooperation with German security services in his favor.
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The Times of Israel has more here on his claim about the Dusseldorf terror plot and what Mr. A hoped to gain from it, not to mention the two innocent fellow migrants who spent eighteen months in jail on suspicion before being let go.
[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] 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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"Killing is a form of violence. We do not want violence to permeate in our society."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) launched a large-scale counter-offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Badiya al-Sham region of al-Sweida on Wednesday.
ISIS began the attack on Wednesday by attempting to overwhelm the Syrian Arab Army troops near the large hilltop of Tal Barakat.
For a few hours, the Islamic State repeatedly struck the Syrian Army’s defenses at Tal Barakat in a bid to overwhelm the pro-government troops.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the Islamic State’s assault would eventually lose momentum by sundown, forcing them to withdraw back into this vast desert region in southeast Syria.
According to a military report, the Syrian Army, alongside their allies from Hezbollah and the National Defense Forces (NDF), was able to reestablish full security around Tal Barakat.
The report added that scores of Islamic State bad boyz were potted during this brief battle on Wednesday.
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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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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi military announced this morning that their air defense forces had intercepted a Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... missile over the Jizan Region.
The Houthi forces’ rocket battalion fired a Badr-1 ballistic missile towards the Saudi military’s al-Faisal Base in the Jizan Region this morning.
This attempted attack on a Saudi installation marks the third time this week that the Houthi forces have launched a missile towards this Gulf kingdom.
All of the missiles fired by the Houthi forces this week have been intercepted by the Saudi air defenses.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A large number of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reinforcements poured into the Badiya al-Sham region of al-Sweida to help their comrades beat back another Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attack.
ISIS launched another attack tonight after failing to infiltrate the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses near the strategic hilltop of Tal Barakat in the Badiya al-Sham region.
While no advances have been made, the Islamic State has intensified their assault this time around in order to fracture the Syrian Army’s lines and retake the Tal Barakat area.
The Islamic State is trying to retake this area from the Syrian Arab Army after losing Tal Barakat this past weekend.
The Syrian Army is defending this area alongside their allies from the National Defense Forces (NDF), Liwaa al-Fatemiyoun, and Hezbollah.
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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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[PRESSTV] German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on European countries to join forces and confront 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... 's "America First" policy, amid the ongoing trade war between the two sides.
In his first major policy speech since taking office, the German FM said Wednesday that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... should try hard to establish a "balanced partnership" with Washington.
That would require the EU to work with Washington where possible, fill the voids in areas where the US is withdrawing, and push back where it is crossing red lines, the top diplomat added.
"We Europeans have to act as a conscious counterweight when the US crosses red lines," he said at an event organized by the pro-European organization United Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in Berlin. "Where the US government aggressively throws into question our values and interests, we have to react more robustly."
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Violating European values? Like free riding on NATO?
You have to realize, these people literally grew up under the US security umbrella. To them, it is an unassailable fact of life. They are free to bash America for being a fascist militarist, protest against it, spew vile abuse against the American scum, all secure in the knowledge the free defense will always be there. Thus when Trump threatens to withdraw it unless Europe pays its fair share, they perceive America as cruel and vindictive. This is their birthright, not a kind act of generosity from America.
This always happens with welfare recipients. They quickly grow used to it and cannot conceive a world without the free money. They're like pathetic alcoholics, withdraw their booze and they might die from seizures. If Europe had to pay fairly for defense, they wouldn't be able to fund their lavish welfare states, nor would they be able to look down on the Americans for being fascist baby killers. This outcome must be avoided at all costs.
If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
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Ignore them and endeavor to be the best (#1) at whatever task is undertaken.
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Herb McCoy is right, welfare perverts thinking of individuals and nations and should be avoided at all costs. IN the long run being cut off from leaching upon Uncle Sam will be good for all involved.
[PRESSTV] 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... has said drawing down American troops in South Korea was not a part of negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , but stated that he would love to get American military out of the Korean peninsula.
In an interview broadcast on Wednesday, Trump said that a troop drawdown was "never discussed" during the historic summit with Kim in Singapore on Tuesday, apparently trying to calm the nerves of skeptics in America who blame the president of planning to give away too much to Kim in pursuit of a nuclear agreement.
"I am sure he would like that. It was never on the table. We sort of understood that was never on the table," Trump said.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he reiterated his old desire to lower the American military presence in South Korea.
"I would love to get the military out as soon as we can because it costs a lot of money and a lot of money for us," Trump said.
North Korea has long demanded US troops be removed from the Korean peninsula as part of a nuclear deal, but the US has been at pains to stress the issue is not a bargaining chip.
The US has about 28,500 service members stationed in South Korea.
Trump said at a presser following the summit with Kim that the United States was stopping "very provocative" and expensive military exercises with South Korea to facilitate denuclearization negotiations with North Korea.
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Hooray! Bring the troops gone, close the bases. Peace dividend!
After that, we get started on closing the bases in Africa and Europe. No longer needed and we are flat broke paying for the security of other countries' borders. Use the money saved to secure our own border.
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Herb takes a beating around here for his GTFO attitude about many colorful places around the globe. I'd like to take this opportunity to share in his beating. Bullets fly the same everywhere. Dirt is pretty much the same everywhere. Uphill is, well, gravitationally, pretty much a known problem. Contact with the populace is fairly straightforward: The ones who do not run immediately need to be shot.
You don't need lots of guys garrisoned overseas to learn those things. Those who have a taste for frauleins or mama-sans should get on the mil attache track or go get on their own dime.
Lets protect our own borders and get Prompt Global Strike down to the physically constrained 18-20 minutes.
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Please add me to the GTFO beating list. Of course an aggressive GTFO strategy will put a great many 'regime change' mechnanics in McLean, VA and Foggy Bottom out of work...or redirected to their fok'n primary focus of intelligence collection and actual diplomacy (as opposed to global shi* disturbing).
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I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Many have taken this oath. Unfortunately, during the last and recent previous administrations, the threat has been greater domestically than foreign.
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I understand the sentiment, truly. But President Obama adopted withdrawal in Iraq and then Afghanistan, with interesting results that have been felt far beyond Iraqi and Afghan borders. Perhaps what is needed is a clear and actionable definition of victory in each area of operation, followed immediately by an overwhelming execution of the steps needed to achieve that victory.
Looking at the current situation in Iraq and Syria with regard to ISIS, it appears that is President Trump’s approach, though I’d be happier if he took the situation of the Kurds more seriously.
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That's because we've adopted the concept of a 'kinder gentler' war. Notice that when we bombed the **** out of two belligerent powers and the population felt it, they've never gotten around to re-militarizing again or had the stomach to do so. To quote Gen.Sherman - "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
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Count me in the GTFO Camp. Edward N. Luttwak (in his Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire) made an observation:
The Roman Empire, as empires do, got sucked into occupying everything because it might be used to attack land behind them. The Roman Republic used a doctrine of "paranoid preemptive self-defense" establishing a ring of allies client states and marching out in massive, "destroy everything and then go home" campaigns.
Wars are expensive, but defending every bit of useless dirt near your borders will bleed you dry.
[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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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two murderous Moslems affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Wataput district.
Without disclosing further information, the Ministry of Defense said the Afghan armed forces carried out airstrikes against ISIS bully boys, leaving two of them dead.
The anti-government armed bully boy and terrorist groups including ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in East of Afghanistan where the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bandidos Lion of Islams as well as murderous Moslems affiliated with the other terrorist groups are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency and terrorist related activities.
The latest airstrikes in Wataput have been carried out amid ongoing counter-terrorism operations against the loyalists of the terror group in some restive provinces of the country.
The US forces based in Afghanistan also conduct airstrikes almost on regular basis in a bid to prevent the terror group expand its foothold in the country.
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[PRESSTV] Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may face a no confidence vote in parliament over his decision to finally sign on a deal that allowed neighboring Macedonia to keep its name, which is identical to a northern province in Greece.
The opposition New Democracy party said on Wednesday that it planned to submit a motion of no confidence against Tsipras over the Tuesday deal reached in Skopje, in which Greece agreed to call the former Yugoslav nation the "Republic of Northern Macedonia".
The historic agreement, which settled nearly three decades of name dispute, should now go to a referendum in Macedonia, while it also needs the approval of parliaments in the Balkan country as well as Greece.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... a source in the New Democracy said the center-right party would submit the no confidence motion after an ongoing debate on bailout reforms end on Thursday.
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis had earlier criticized Tsipras for signing the deal, saying it would become "deeply problematic" as the premier lacked the authority to sign it.
"We are in a situation that is unprecedented in Greece’s constitutional history. A prime minister without a clear parliamentary mandate willing to commit the country to a reality which will not be possible to change," Mitsotakis said on Wednesday.
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Macedonia was a powerhouse at one time. Even over Greece. This entry into Euro vision caused a huge problem just using origin country being Macedonia. She didn't win, Politics always politics; https://youtu.be/rydVezxCoW8
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The Greeks have been allowed to indulge in this nasty idiocy for entirely too long. Thank goodness someone over there is finally showing some sense, though it appears it won’t stand.
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That country should more correctly be named "Slav Macedonia" (hence their lack of connection to the three Macedonian regions in Greece).
In fine, this modern nation will fall apart within a couple of decades because the Albanian minority (25%) is reproducing faster than the Slavs (50% of kids age 0-4 are moslems).
Aaah, the perpetual balkanization of the Balkans.
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[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."
[TMZ] Activist got huge payout from not-for-profit group he heads. The not-for-profit "social justice organization" headed by Rev. Al Sharpton paid the New York activist a whopping $437,555 bonus--on top of his $250,000 salary--according to the group's most recent tax return submitted to the Internal Revenue Service. Note they didn't specify which decade. He's been a bit "deficient" in those matters
The hefty payment to Sharpton was revealed in a filing by the National Action Network, the Harlem-based group Sharpton founded nearly 25 years ago. The organization's 2016 tax return, which Sharpton signed in November 2017, disclosed the "one-time bonus" to the 63-year-old civil rights leader.
According to its tax return, the National Action Network "works within the spirit and tradition" of Martin Luther King Jr. and promotes "an agenda that includes an equal standard of justice and decency for all people regardless of race." Sharpton, who serves as the group's president and CEO, spends an average of 40 hours a week working for the organization, according to the tax return.
The "Christian activist social justice organization" has 34 employees and 125 volunteers and reported $5.821 million in revenue in 2016 (the most recent year for which financial records have been made public). Expenses for 2016 totaled $5.817 million.
Sharpton's 2016 "base salary" was $250,000. The bonus payment ballooned his total compensation to $687,555.
In justifying the bonus, the National Action Network--which Sharpton controls--told the IRS that, over the past 25 years, Sharpton had "periodically declined compensation to ensure that the organization had sufficient operating funds to fulfill its payroll obligations and maintain ongoing operations." The organization added that it had previously "received the services of the President and CEO without fully compensating for his services.
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It amazes me that the IRS does not seem to have any liens on Sharpton or this 'nonprofit' for his back payroll taxes.
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Venda, Tswana, Tsonga, Swazi Khoisan, San Khoi, Khoikhkhoi, Ndebele, and several other Bantu and non-Bantu speaking tribal hierarchies (kings, headmen, etc) even though not part of the official South African government structure, receive gov't stipends. It's an effective method of insuring political loyalty keeping the shi* level down. Some might refer to it as political blackmail. This might answer the lingering IRS question, I don't know.
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Not bad pay for being a rabble-rousing community organizer trouble-maker and shakedown artist. Beats working for a living. Almost as good as being a Congress-critter.
[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
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"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.
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He also tweeted that the competition was important because "without free speech, civilization is over."
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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
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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."
[Libya Observer] Two ungunnies in civilian clothes were brutally executed by turbans of warlord Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s self-styled army in Derna.
A horrific video emerged online on Wednesday showing a group of turbans beating, kicking and torturing the two men before killing them.
The two appeared to have been tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! driving a civilian car in one of the streets of the city.
In the video, the two were lying on the ground while the turbans were torturing them. No arms were seized with both men.
A Lion of Islam approached one of the men and shot him to the head at point-blank range. Another Lion of Islam approached the other man and shot up him. Then the turbans showered the dead bodies with a barrage of gunfire while other turbans were cheering and chanting "Allah Akbar."
Khalifa Haftar’s turbans are notorious for committing heinous crimes against humanity. During their war in Benghazi several ISIS-style war crimes were committed by Saiqa field commander Mahmoud al-Werfalli.
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[PhilStar] Six Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and a Philippine soldier were killed in clashes in Maguindanao on Monday.
Troops from the 33rd Infantry Battalion were looking for six BIFF militants injured in air strikes on Sunday. Three rebels with aliases of Bundas, Kamid and Oruk were killed in clashes in Liguasan marsh near a BIFF bomb factory destroyed in the air strikes.
Three other rebels were killed in an encounter with soldiers when another group of BIFF men led by a certain Metin tried to surround troops in Barangay Meta, Datu Unsay. Local officials identified the fatalities as Turman Aber, Mansur Mohammad and Kusid Laguiab, alias Mamalu.
The military said 15 militants were killed in air strikes and ground offensive that targeted BIFF bomb makers Taib Dinggo and Abu Walid. Four of the fatalities are reportedly foreigners.
[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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[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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[Al Jazeera] Four Emirati soldiers were killed during an assault on Yemen's port city of Hudaida on Wednesday, the General Command of the UAE's armed forces said.
"The four were martyred while carrying out their national duties during operation 'Restoring Hope' alongside the Arab coalition in support of legitimacy in Yemen," UAE's WAM news agency said.
These were identified as Lieutenant Khalifa Saif Said al-Khatri, Ali Mohammed Rashed al-Hassani, Sergeant Khamis Abdullah Khamis al-Zayudi and First Corporal Obeid Hamdan Said al-Abdouli.
In September 2015, 45 troops from the UAE were killed in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... when a missile struck an ammunition depot.
Earlier in the day, 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... and the United Arab Emirates announced launched an assault on Yemen's third largest city, in the biggest battle of a three-year war between a Saudi-backed coalition and Iranian-aligned Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... rebels.
The air strikes on Wednesday morning targeting Houthi positions are supported by ground operations by Yemeni troops south of the Red Sea port, the internationally recognised Yemeni government-in-exile said in a statement.
The exiled government "has exhausted all peaceful and political means to remove the Houthi militia from the port of Hudaida", it said in a statement.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) allegedly executed 30 of their members in eastern Syria this week, Iraqi Kurdistan’s BasNews reported.
Citing the leader of the tribal forces of al-Anbar, Qutri al-Samarmad, BasNews reported "information by the intelligence and eyewitnesses from Syrian regions said Islamic State executed thirty of its members in Hegeen region in Syria, near al-Bu Kamal town on borders with Iraq from the side of Qaim town in Anbar."
ISIS allegedly accused these members of collaborating with the Syrian and Iraqi authorities before they executed them.
That’s the bit that was unclear yesterday. Iraqi News reports can be a bit terse.
No photos or videos have been released by the terrorist group to corroborate these claims.
The terrorist group typically releases statements, photos, and videos of their executions; however, they have yet to release anything regarding these incidents.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... forces responded to the latest offensive by the Arab Coalition and their Yemeni allies by launching a powerful attack inside 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... on Wednesday.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their troops seized several hilltops around the town of Majazah in the Asir Region after overrunning the Saudi defenses.
In addition to advancing in the Asir Region, the Houthi forces managed to score new gains inside the Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... province after killing and wounding several Hadi loyalists and Saudi-backed troops.
The Houthi forces are attempting to alleviate the pressure on their troops in western 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... by capturing several areas inside of Saudi Arabia.
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and how many Persians can you fit in a Houthi company?
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian police break up rare anti-PA protest, arrest 10After temporarily banning demonstrations, West Bank officers disperse crowd rallying against Gazoo policies
Paleostinian police have broken up a rare public protest in the West Bank against the Paleostinian Authority’s policies in Gazoo.
Dozens of Paleostinian protesters gathered in Ramallah on Wednesday calling on PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to end his "punishment" of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-ruled Gazoo.
Paleostinian police dispersed the crowd with electric shockers and batons. Undercover officers dragged others away, arresting about 10 people.
Abbas has cracked down on dissent, and such protests are rare.
Hamas drove forces loyal to Abbas out of Gazoo in 2007 in a bloody coup. In recent months, Abbas has tried to pressure the terror group to hand back power in Gazoo through cutting payments for electricity and other economic measures.
The Paleostinian Authority temporarily banned public protests earlier Wednesday, ahead of the planned demonstration that evening.
The order came after on Sunday several thousand protesters erupted into the streets of Ramallah, the West Bank city that houses the Paleostinian government, calling for Abbas to end measures against Gazoo that critics say harm the two million residents.
Organizers estimated 2,000 people attended, a rare show of opposition to the government in the city.
A statement on the official news agency Wafa said Wednesday that no permits for protests would be given out during the coming days ‐ citing the Moslem Eid al-Fitr festival, which is expected to begin Friday.
"In order to facilitate citizens’ normal life in this period, it is prohibited to grant permits to organize marches or to establish gatherings that would disrupt the movement of citizens and disturb them," it said.
Despite the ban, organizers vowed to go ahead with fresh anti-government protests on Wednesday night.
"The (Israeli) occupation is the main culprit responsible for the blockade on Gazoo, but President Abbas is making things worse by also imposing collective punishment on families there," campaign activist Fadi Koran said, vowing to take to the streets.
The PA has introduced a series of measures against Gazoo in the past year, including dramatically reducing payments to Israel for the electricity it supplies Gazoo in a bid to pressure Hamas to loosen its grip on the territory.
Abbas’s Fatah movement has also not paid full salaries to tens of thousands of its civil servants in the Strip for months.
Israel has maintained a blockade on Gazoo for over a decade, which it says is necessary to prevent Hamas, which is regarded as a terror group by Israel and much of the West and is sworn to Israel’s destruction, from smuggling in weapons and material used for digging tunnels into Israel. Egypt also maintains the blockade.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has said the Strip will be unlivable by 2020.
Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement last October, but it has since collapsed.
[IsraelTimes] No immediate reports of injuries in Arclight airstrike in central Gazoo, as near-daily arson attacks from the coastal enclave continue
An Israeli aircraft fired at a group of Paleostinians in the central Gazoo Strip who were preparing to send a incendiary kite into Israeli territory late on Wednesday night.
There were no reports of injuries in the Israeli strike.
Since March 30, Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip have launched hundreds of kites and helium balloons bearing flammable materials, and occasionally explosives, into Israeli territory.
The near-daily fires sparked by these airborne arson devices have burned thousands of acres of farmland, forests and nature reserves in the regions around the Gazoo Strip, according to Israeli officials.
The Tax Authority estimated that the damage will cost upwards of NIS 5 million ($1.4 million).
On Saturday, an Israeli aircraft for the first time attacked a group of three Gazooks preparing a store of balloons that Paleostinians have been using to send incendiary devices over the border during Gazoo protests, the army said.
No injuries were reported in the strike near the northern Gazoo town of Beit Hanoun. The IDF said the aircraft fired "a warning shot."
"We view the use of incendiary balloons and kites very seriously and will continue to act to prevent their use," the army said at the time.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed withholding tax revenue from the Paleostinian Authority to pay for the damage, though critics are skeptical of the plan as the kites and balloons are being launched from Gazoo, where the PA has limited control.
The military has sought to counter these kites and balloons with teams of soldiers operating drones. Israeli officials have deemed the drone program a success, but it has not offered a perfect solution.
On Monday, a balloon laden with burning material landed on the roof of a storehouse in one of the communities in the Hof Ashkelon region, causing light damage to the building and surrounding area before it was put out, a spokesperson for the region said.
Multiple fires were also reported in the Sha’ar Hanegev region.
Some 500 dunams (124 acres) were burned near Kibbutz Or HaNer, a spokesperson for the region said. Another 40 dunams (10 acres) were set on fire in the area around Kibbutz Mefalsim.
One blaze broke out in the community’s agricultural fields, another a little farther from Mefalsim, along the Route 232 highway leading to the nearby Kfar Azza, a spokesperson for the region said.
The fire shut down traffic along the highway in both directions for 45 minutes, interfering with school bus services, the Sha’ar Hanegev spokesperson said.
A fire near Kibbutz Nir Am also caused damage to a number of beehives, she said.
A fire in Eshkol also forced authorities to temporarily shut down the roads between Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha and Kibbutz Kissufim.
Israeli officials have been split on how to treat the Paleostinians who launch these balloons and kites.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has called on the military to shoot on sight anyone flying these so-called "terror kites."
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... a senior officer in the army’s Southern Command last week said the military considers these arson attacks to be serious, but representing "a different kind of danger."
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Since I have new time I do not have to spend on DPRK, I can focus on YEW, Maduro.
I have a few spare Angels above the Heavens and some spare time to watch Venezuelans form around you like an invisible sea and overtake your want to be there anymore.
The only place I do not see you from today is in charge of Venezuela. As for now, they are going about their zombie like motions prescribed by your state and eating gumballs caked in spiderwebs under the soda machines.
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I HEAR A LOT OF UNIVERSITY SNOWFLAKES JUST LOVE ( adore ) BERNIE.
And a lot of wealthy Liberals passionately advocate sharing the wealth as long as its the taxpayers money and not really their own investment portfolios.
Remember the Library female Science Majors with glasses and the intent young men with eye liner and plaid shirts beside them in the crowds at Bernie Rallies back during the Election cycle? And the old ladies with the small y (u) ippy Yorkies dogs ( or miniature poodles ) in their arms driving in the Prius and wearing the running sneakers or the lavender leather Birkenstocks ?
We need more of those people to tell us what to do in America with our Bible clinging lives.
Or the Millennials who don't have any children and never will, they need to step up and knock on doors for Bernie. How are we in American going to achieve the wonderful life like they have in true Socialism Venezuela if the wise and enlightened don't show us the WAY?
Come ON, people ! Let's March and protest for Social Justice and be a country like Venezuela. Show the gun toting' deplorables that all those years of Obama weren't WASTED. Show them that Mueller and Eric Holder and Comey stood for something we want more of for our children and grandchildren hummahumma.
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The biggest danger to a Prosperous nation is Pride, which leads to Arrogance, which leads to Stupidity, which leads to Bankruptcy. At any phase of the above cycle adversaries will be considered Deplorables and will be held accountable for all the things that are going wrong.
The most successful trait of a Prosperous nation is Humility ... ... ... .
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Giant empires die in the blink of an eye. Communist sh*tholes seem to linger on forever. Must be the USAID...
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When the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises and Tech Oligarchs actively suppress the news of this tragedy, it should be a clear sign that any pursuit of the socialism is a trip to the abyss for any society or culture. For the Left, that's a feature not a bug. They're big on Zero Year no matter the suffering or pain.
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The socialist paradise. Please don’t let them come here- they voted in this diabolical system. I don’t want Pelosi to start the crocodile tears for another DNC victimhood group/aka voting block.
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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.
[Al Jazeera] NASA experts have expressed concern over an unprecedented "massive Martian dust storm" that has engulfed the Opportunity rover mission.
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North Korea
[PRESSTV] Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may face a no confidence vote in parliament over his decision to finally sign on a deal that allowed neighboring Macedonia to keep its name, which is identical to a northern province in Greece.
[TMZ] Activist got huge payout from not-for-profit group he heads. The not-for-profit "social justice organization" headed by Rev. Al Sharpton paid the New York activist a whopping $437,555 bonus--on top of his $250,000 salary--according to the group's most recent tax return submitted to the Internal Revenue Service.
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[PhilStar] Six Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and a Philippine soldier were killed in clashes in Maguindanao on Monday.
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...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
