[Townhall] After defying a congressional subpoena and refusing to show up for closed door testimony Wednesday, FBI lawyer Lisa Page will testify to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Friday.
The move comes after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Speaker Paul Ryan threatened to hold her in contempt.
"Late last night through her attorney, Lisa Page did agree to appear for a private interview on Friday voluntarily," Goodlatte said during an interview Thursday morning with Fox Business.
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Lisa, who released a professional glam shot yesterday that upgraded her appearance from Mr Ed to hot "plain", won't have the benefit of FBI crap weasels blocking for her as she is no longer employed, correct?
[ABC] Delta Air Lines passenger Bolutife Olorunda was screaming and acting erratically recently on a flight, at which point he was approached by a flight attendant, according to court documents.
Olorunda verbally threatened the flight attendant by saying: "Don't touch me and if you touch me again you will regret it."
Among the 178 people onboard the Boeing 737 aircraft on May 30 were two federal air marshals, according to the complaint. One air marshal protected the cockpit while the other sat next to Olorunda to keep him calm. The captain declared an emergency and diverted the flight to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Olorunda was arrested.
Diversions are often costly to airlines. The additional fuel, rebooking of passengers, fees at the airport and swapping of crews can cause that price to reach in the thousands. Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As part of the guilty plea reached with the U.S. attorney's office in Oklahoma, Olorunda has been ordered to pay Delta Air Lines $9,118 for the cost of the emergency landing, according to court documents. An attorney listed for Olorunda did not respond to a message left at his office by ABC News.
The Washington state man is also facing up to six months in prison, a fine up to $5,000 and additional penalties from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
[Townhall] After a contentious exchange between Democrats and Republicans during a House Judiciary and Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte informed FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok he will be recalled later today and voted in contempt.
The move comes after Strzok refused to answer a question from Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy. Gowdy asked Strzok how many people he had interviewed as part of the Special Counsel before discussed impeachment for President Trump. Strzok discussed impeachment of President Trump in a text message to FBI lawyer Lisa Page just one day after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Bob Mueller to lead the Special Counsel Russia investigation.
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That was quite a circus. Clowns, dancing bears, and a Strzok had quite a visible smirk as he 'Declined to decline because his the FBI attourneysaid it was related to sooper-sekrit stuff, so: "In Your Face! Neener-neener!" '
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I think my favorite was "I don't recall writing... But... What I 'must have meant' by "We will stop him" is that the American Voters [FIFY: Strzok has a tapeworm that also hates Trump?]..." Cut to Starship Bridge Camera: "Captain! Enemy ship is maneuvering evasively and has 'Weasel Word" Shield set to MAXIMUM!"
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Strzok holds himself in high regard; he, like Comey, presents himself as a Boy Scout, an American hero following a higher loyalty all the while lying his ass off.
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Yes, very, very bad theater. He's obviously still employed by the FBI. I suspect his clearance is only 'suspended' ....the reasons for which we may never know.
I'm pretty sure this isn't satire, but by all means - please, pretty please, nominate this woman!
[Los Angeles Dial (?)] - California Congresswoman Maxine Waters could become the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
Let me repeat that, so it can sink in: Maxine Waters could be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
Ok, let me blow into a breathalyzer, take a drug test and get psychologically evaluated before I say it a third time: Maxine Waters could be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
How is it possible that a radical congresswoman, who was just called "un-American" by the leadership of her own party for encouraging viral confrontations with Trump administration officials, could win the presidential nomination of a major American political party?
It’s easy. Mad Max is the only one dancing to the beat of the "Resistance," and her album is about to go platinum.
Consider this, after musical icon Prince died in 2016, we learned a bunch of fascinating tidbits about the reclusive singer, including the fact that he had a wildly competitive rivalry with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
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Historically a party holds the white house for two terms. Trump has higher than usual ratings at this point, as things are currently going he gets reelected.
So the Dems would be smart to let their crazies take a run at the Presidency. If they lose they will be at least partially discredited and the Corrupt-side of the party can take over again.
Pictures, or it never happened!
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was arrested in Columbus. Her clothes could not be immediately found.
That's according to her attorney Michael Avenatti who tweeted the news early Thursday morning. Knowing Mr. Avenatti, that's probably the only part of what he says about this that you can trust.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was performing at Sirens Adult Entertainment Club on Cleveland Avenue in north Columbus. According to an arrest report, Daniels began dancing around 11:30 Wednesday night. During her performance, officers in the club said they witnessed Daniels using her bare breasts to smack patrons. The officers also said they observed Daniels fondling the breasts of female patrons. Observed? Perhaps the officers were lashed to a pole?
The report states that when the officers approached the stage, Daniels held the face of the female officer between her breasts. Officer Mary Praither may have taken one for the city, but she is never going to hear the end of that.
It also says she did the same to a male officer. The report goes on to say Daniels fondled the buttocks and breasts of another officer. At that point, court documents state that a fourth officer exited the club to request assistance to make an arrest. Because his priapism was getting in the way and would have made the whole thing awkward.
Daniels was arrested by Columbus Police and charged with three counts of "Illegally Operating Sexually Oriented Business - Employee Knowingly Touch Any Patron," according to online court records. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Franklin Municipal Court on Friday morning. Bill Clinton has offered to defend her based on the definition of the word "Patron".
Police brought Daniels to the Jackson Pike Correctional Facility around 4:30 Thursday morning. Her clothes were brough in around 5:30.
10TV's Angela An spoke with Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, by phone on Thursday morning. He says her arrest is politically motivated. Apparently politics isn't the same as it used to be.
"I have reason to believe it was politically motivated. There's no question these officers were undercover at that strip club. They knew my client would be performing there and I find this to be a complete waste of resources," Avenatti said. He tweeted Thursday morning that his client would be canceling her scheduled appearance. I wonder how many other performers grab patrons' faces with their breasts. Of couse, there aren't many performers built like Stormy . . . .
Back in 2007, Ohio lawmakers passed the Community Defense Act. The law restricts the hours that sexually oriented businesses can operate. It also states that a patron cannot touch a nude or semi-nude dancer in a club anywhere on the premises or in the parking lot. When asked if he knew about the law, Avenatti said, "I'm aware of the law. I think it's a ridiculous use of resources." Actually, the officers presence in this situation gives law enforcement a lot of leverage.
Daniels was released on a $6,000 bond on Thursday morning. $6,000 and maybe grabbing the rest of the guys' faces with her breasts maybe?
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Surprising.
This area of Ohio isn’t exactly conservative Meaning I doubt they were out to get her, more like she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Additionally, it’s my understanding that most of the strip clubs know who the UC cops are.
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Yeah, Columbus definitely ain't no conservative hotbed.
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In Ohio you should not want to touch the merchandise, nor be touched by it.
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I went to CWRU in Cleveland, a wide-open if rather lefty town. Ohio is the land of angry redhead bearded guy who said on video that the people killed in the Twin Towers "had it coming." Guvvener Kay-Sick. Need I say more?
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Charges against her dropped according to Drudge.
[Washington Examiner] President Trump said Thursday that he would not have allowed Russia's military intervention in Ukraine that allowed it to annex Crimea in 2014, and blamed former President Barack Obama for allowing it to happen.
"Long before I got here, President Obama allowed that to happen," Trump told reporters in Belgium just days before he's set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "That was on his watch, not on my watch."
"That was on Barack Obama's watch, that was not on Trump's watch," he added. See graphic for primary target audience of Pres. Trump's statement
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How is the question. I don't know if there were enough things we could bring pressure on the Russians with at that time to bring about a diplomatic solution.
The Baltic states are easier. Put US troops on the ground.
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The Baltic states are indefensible. I have no idea why they're in NATO.
All I can think is a jumping off point closer to Moscow, for Operation Barbarossa Part 2: Only We Bring Winter Coats This Time.
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The Baltic states are indefensible.
No more than Finland is indefensible. The difference is that the Finns choose to have a credible armed force. Whereas the Balts don't have a single tank or interceptor among them. They are relying exclusively on the kindness of strangers. They will resist to the last dead American.
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Talinn also has a NATO regional campus flyint the NATO flag that would be politically bad optics that the Russians AND NATO members would have to deal with/exploit in any "redistricting" Vlad might want to pursue.
A stop sign anyway.
[NYT - 29 June 2018] WASHINGTON ‐ The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered from American telecommunications companies since 2015, the agency has disclosed. It had realized that its database was contaminated with some files the agency had no authority to receive.
The agency began destroying the records on May 23, it said in a statement. Officials had discovered "technical irregularities" this year in its collection from phone companies of so-called call record details, or metadata showing who called or texted whom and when, but not what they said.
The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk. The National Security Agency uses the data to analyze social links between people in a hunt for hidden associates of known terrorism suspects.
The program traces back to a component of the once-secret Stellarwind surveillance program that the Bush administration put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The data collection eventually came to be justified under disputed interpretation of a law known as Section 215 of the Patriot Act and was exposed in 2013 in the leaks by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor.
The disclosure caused an uproar, and Congress eventually enacted the Freedom Act to end and replace the program. Under the new system, the bulk data about Americans’ phone calls and texts has instead remained in the hands of telecoms, and the National Security Agency may collect only specific sets of records from it: the phone logs of a surveillance target and of everyone that person has contacted. A judge must also agree that there is reason to suspect the target has links to terrorism.
Under the Freedom Act, the agency took in 151 million call-detail records in 2016 and 534 million such records in 2017, according to government reports. Emphasis added.
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Probably all a simple coincidence, but as you may recall, Candidate Trump removed his campaign team from Trump Towers the day after his meeting with Admiral Rogers.
h/t Instapundit
Populism is today seen both as a pejorative and positive noun. In fact, in the present age, there are two sorts of populism. Both strains originated in classical times and persisted in the West until today.
One in antiquity was known as the base populism. It involved the unfettered urban "mob," or what the Athenians disapprovingly dubbed the ochlos and the Romans disparagingly called the turba. Such popular movements were spearheaded by the so-called demagogoi ("leaders of the people") or in Roman times the more radical popular tribunes.
These were largely urban movements. Protesters focused on the redistribution of property, radical democratization, taxes on the wealthy, the cancellation of debts, vast increases in public entitlements, and civic employment. The French Revolution and European upheavals of 1848 reflect some of the same themes. Today, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and the Bernie Sanders phenomenon all stand in the same current. Often, urban intellectuals, aristocrats, and elites‐from the patrician Roman Republican street agitator Publius Clodius Pulcher and the Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre, to present-day billionaires like George Soros and Tom Steyer‐have sought to assist the urban protesters. Perhaps these gentleman- agitators thought they could offer money, prestige, or greater wisdom, thereby channeling and elevating shared populist agendas.
The antithesis to such radical populism was likely thought by ancient conservative historians to be the "good" populism of the past‐and what the contemporary media might call the "bad" populism of the present: the push-back of small property owners and the middle classes against the power of oppressive government, steep taxation, and internationalism, coupled with unhappiness over imperialism and foreign wars and a preference for liberty rather than mandated equality. Think of the second century B.C. Gracchi brothers rather than Juvenal’s "bread-and-circuses" imperial Roman underclass, the American rather than the French Revolution, or the Tea Party versus Occupy Wall Street.
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An upstate New York woman has been charged with false reporting of a crime after police say she claimed she was raped. In reality, she was angry at the man because he wouldn’t give her a ride home.
Jessica Gallagher, 27, met a man on a dating app and told police that he abducted, blindfolded, and raped her. Police say she later admitted that she made up the false rape claim because the man refused to drive her home.
Of course not. Haven't you understood its all about projection? Male privilege is projection of actual female privilege. No responsibility because of Excuse 1, Excuse 2 or Excuse 3.
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You hear the phrase "white privilege" nonstop in America these days, as the slogan has transcended the campus and entered popular culture.
...During the civil-rights movement of the 1960s, the nation’s racial tensions were mostly still defined as a binary of a dominant white majority and an often discriminated-against African-American minority.
Years of past prejudice had sparked the idea of affirmative action, or federal reparatory programs accorded to a historically discriminated-against black minority.
However, by the 1980s, owing to new cycles of massive immigration, other minorities likewise explained their own inequality in terms of white-majority oppressors. They lobbied to be included in government reparation programs in job hiring and college admissions.
...Sometimes even slight changes in self-identification have consequences. For the children of intermarried couples, it can be a career-changing decision to evolve from Robert Smith to Robert Garcia Smith (or even better Roberto Garcia Smith) to reflect one’s maternal Latino roots ‐ an effort especially appreciated by universities and employers.
...In some cases, the more desperate have invented minority pedigrees out of whole cloth, like the false but self-serving and opportunistic claim of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) that she was Native American (on the basis of "high cheekbones" or family mythology), or Professor Ward Churchill’s similar fake Native American get-up that got him hired as a minority at the University of Colorado.
...One of the strangest elements of the American obsession with superficial appearance is the habit of very well connected and affluent whites faulting poor whites for their "white privilege." It has become a sort of rite-of-passage virtue-signaling in which rich, white college students at tony universities damn white privilege and the supposedly racist, nativist, xenophobic, and sexist Trump Neanderthals. With this, they establish their spiritually pure fides or, more practically, earn a sort of insurance policy in case the all-seeing eye of the diversity tower turns its focus on them someday. And he doesn't even mention "war against men"
Washington (AFP via TOI) - Adult film star Stormy Daniels, locked in a court battle with President Donald Trump over their alleged affair, was arrested Wednesday while performing at a strip club in what her lawyer described as a "politically motivated" setup.
Daniels was arrested at a club in Columbus, Ohio while performing an act she has done at nearly 100 strip clubs across America, Michael Avenatti wrote on Twitter.
He said Daniels was arrested for allegedly allowing a customer to touch her in a non-sexual way while on stage.
"This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges," Avenatti wrote.
"They are devoting law enforcement resources to sting operations for this? There has to be higher priorities!!!," he added.
Avenatti said in a later tweet that he expects Daniels to be released on bail "shortly" and charged with a misdemeanor for "touching."
"We will vehemently contest all charges," he wrote.
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Apparently Stormy Daniels is short of money to pay her Lawyer. And her Lawyer HAS to be paid "something:. He seems not to be a very good Lawyer or he would've advised his client against "performing" at her trade...while in a Nationally publicized case where her every move will be easily watched and public relations are of paramount importance.
My prognosis for Stomy is: She's rather stupid and her Lawyer isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
At least some of the patron - performer contact occurred when the performer "... held the face of the female officer between her breasts." And other things. I wasn't there, so can't verify. I am too cheap to cough up the door charge, never mind the $thousands for personal, private meetings with her. This is no doubt a strong contributor to my bad luck. Or something.
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...that's why we have the internet Mike. Considerate it 'safe sex'. There is not contact or exchange of precious bodily fluids.
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Assault on a gendarme in Banyuls!
An actress addressing her spaniels:
"A starlet, my pretties,
May grab with her titties
Whomever she wants, per Ms. Daniels!"
[AlAhram] Four recent graduates of a top Ottoman Turkish university have been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for displaying a cartoon mocking Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at their graduation ceremony, according to the state-run Anadolu agency.
The Middle East Technical University students in the July 6 ceremony in Ankara made and carried a long banner printed with a cartoon of animals whose faces resembled Tayyip Erdogan, entitled "The World of Tayyip".
Originally published by a popular satire weekly magazine, the cartoon was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by Erdogan 12 years ago, when he was The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's prime minister. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... an Ankara court dismissed the case, saying the cartoon was within the limits of freedom of speech.
Anadolu said the four had been "arrested ... in the course of an investigation into a sign containing defamation of Erdogan".
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Dear Snowflakes,
When has President Trump had people thrown in jail for mocking him?
This is the dictatorship that you have been screaming about for 2 years, it's not here, capiche?
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Yippy sure is sensitive to insults and mockery. Usually the sign of a "man" with a small pen1s
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Well,
A) President Trump actually understands what the First Amendment says.
B) If he tried to deal with all the slime that 's been put out there by "the media" he would not get anything worthwhile done at all. Instead he is getting the business of his constituents attended to and that's just fine with me.
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[Right Scoop] The globalist elites who own the stock market did not like the news that glorious populist leader Trump will hit China with $200 BILLION worth of tariffs!! Now they’re recoiling in horror that they won’t be able to buy all the golden toothpicks they were eyeballing!!!
I mean, to be fair, that graph is zoomed in a bunch ‐ it’s only 0.33% of a drop, which is a third of one percent. We definitely don’t want to see it go down, and who knows how bad a hit it’ll take tomorrow, but to be honest, 0.33% isn’t that much. So far.
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So cheap labor, rent seeking globalists are upset at the idea President Trump is attempting to protect our jobs, domestic economy, and the common man ?
[Daily Caller] Former ICE Director Tom Homan praised President Trump for his immigration policies, saying he was the best president for border security, in an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner on Wednesday afternoon.
"I respect every president I ever worked for. No president has done more for border security and law enforcement than President Trump," Homan stated. "The first year he was in office, and we were out there enforcing law the way we’re supposed to because he allowed us to through his executive actions."
"The number of illegal border crossers dropped [from a] 40 to a 45-year low. A four-decade low. That’s not a coincidence. That’s because this president let ICE and the border patrol do their job," he continued.
Homan has worked at ICE during the last six presidential administrations.
He has been a big supporter of the Trump administration and their unwavering support of ICE even during the recent protests that have erupted around the country.
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I remember a time American troops pursued Apache into Mexico. When the pressure got too hot for the Apache, they turned on the local Mexican population to loot and kill. Then, and only then, did Mexico City take measures to curb the problem.
[IsraelTimes] In separate incident, soldiers shoot and then detain Paleostinian man who the army says tried to breach security fence with wire-cutters and a bottle of flammable liquid
An Israeli drone fired toward a group of Paleostinians flying incendiary balloons into southern Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip, according to Paleostinian media.
No injuries were reported in the Arclight airstrike, which was said to have occurred east of the city of Rafah.
The Israeli military confirmed that one of its aircraft fired at a cell that had launched balloons toward Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip.
This was the first such strike by the IDF against Paleostinians sending airborne arson devices into Israel in two weeks.
Throughout the day on Wednesday, incendiary kites and balloons sparked 19 fires, of varying sizes, in southern Israel, according to local government officials.
Fifteen of them occurred in the Eshkol region, which abuts the southern Gazoo Strip. The other four took place in the Sha’ar Hanegev region, which lies to the northeast of the coastal enclave.
In a separate incident, also east of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and detained a Paleostinian youth who the army said tried to breach the Gazoo security fence with a pair of wire-cutters and a bottle full of a flammable liquid.
His condition was not immediately known.
The military said the suspect was "trying to damage security infrastructure and harm IDF soldiers."
A set of wire-cutters and a bottle of flamable liquid that the military found in the possession of a Paleostinian man who tried to cross into Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip on July 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
The wire-cutters and flammable liquid were found in his possession, the army said.
The official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet, citing local sources, reported that the suspect was part of a group of people who tried to breach the fence. The others fled back toward the Gazoo Strip.
The detained suspect was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[Khaama Press] The Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North says the Walid-9 counter-terrorism operations have ended after successful raids against the turbans over a period of three days which left several turbans dead or maimed.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said Monday at least fourteen turbans were killed during the operations in Garjak, Shisha Khana, Timorak, and Bist Paikal villages of Chamtal district in Balkh.
A statement by Shaheen Corps stated that the local commanders of the turbans identified as Mullah Khairkhwa, Qari Sediqi, and Abdul Rashid Ganjom were among those killed.
The statement further added that the named villages have been cleared from the presence of the turbans and some weapons and munitions have also been confiscated.
In the meantime, Shaheen Corps said at least six turbans were killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in northern Sari Pul province of Afghanistan.
According to Shaheen Corps, at least three hideouts of the turbans were also destroyed during the airstrikes but no casualties have been inflicted on civilians.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Khaama Press] At least twenty people were killed and thirty others sustained injuries in an kaboom likely triggered by a suicide kaboom in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. city of Pakistain.
The incident took place late on Tuesday in Yakatook area of Peshawar targeting a leader of Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... Haroon Bilour.
Peshawar Capital City Police Officer Qazi Jameel has said Bilour has been killed along with at least nineteen others in the attack and at least thirty others have sustained injuries.
The officials have not confirmed the type of the kaboom however the eyewitnesses in the area have said a jacket wallah detonated his explosives when Mr. Bilour arrived in a gathering organized for the elections.
Bilour reportedly sustained injuries in the attack and later died in the hospital where he was underoing treatment.
Another senior police official Safqat Malik has said preliminary reports indicate it was suicide attack and the target was ANP leader Haaroon Bilour.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
A similar attack in 2013 left at least 15 people dead with Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain claiming responsibility behind the attack.
[Khaama Press] Several snuffies were killed after the Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), stormed a hideout of the Talibs in 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.
The provincial government issued a statement claiming that fifteen Talibs were killed during the operation conducted late on Monday night.
The statement further added that the NDS Special Forces targeted a hideout of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in Maigan area of Hesarak district, leaving at least 15 snuffies dead.
According to governor’s office, several weapons, munitions, and explosives were also destroyed during the operation.
At least one Taliban murderous Moslem was also detained alive during the operation, the provincial government said, adding that a number of Arclight airstrikes were also carried out on other Taliban hideouts.
The provincial government says heavy casualties have been inflicted on Talibs during the airstrikes as well but there are no credible information available in this regard.
The local residents and security personnel have not suffered casualties during the operations, the statement added.
[Khaama Press] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... leaders meeting will kick off in Brussels today to hold talks regarding the deterrence and defence, stepping up the fight against terrorism, and and achieving fairer burden-sharing.
The NATO leaders will also hold talks regarding the extension of the Afghan forces funding beyond 2020.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told news hounds on Tuesday "We will close the Summit with a meeting on Afghanistan, joined by our Resolute Support partners."
He said "Our presence in Afghanistan is vital to ensuring the country never again becomes a safe haven for international terrorism."
According to Stoltenberg "And Allies are increasing their commitment, both in forces and funding."
"We have added around 3,000 more trainers to our mission," he said, adding that "At the Summit, I expect we will also agree to extend funding for the Afghan forces beyond 2020."
Stoltenberg also added that the NATO leaders express full support for President Ghani’s bold peace initiative and his government’s reforms.
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....beyond 2025 ..... beyond 2030.... beyond 2100 ... and the place will still be a 10th century shit-hole - such that all of the blood and treasure that we have poured (and will continue to pour) into the place is COMPLETELY in vain. Truly a fool's errand. There is a well-established historical REASON that Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires" - and you would think that our leaders would "get a clue", but - alas - we keep doing the same thing year after year, decade after decade, and then expecting a DIFFERENT outcome. The memes about "the definition of insanity" can just about write themselves.
[SABANEWS.NET] At least 14 non-combatants were killed and 13 injured, including women and kiddies, when the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition launched over 19 Arclight airstrikes and ground attacks on several areas of Yemen’s provinces during the past 24 hours, according to medics and officials reports combined by Saba News Agency on Wednesday.
In Saada province, two non-combatants were killed, a woman and child were maimed in an airstrike on a civilian’s home in Qaher area of Baqem district.
Also in Saada, three non-combatants were killed and another was injured in an airstrike on Aqeq area of Kutaf district.
Furthermore, the warplanes of aggression launched four airstrikes on Atfain area of Kutaf district. an airstrike on Alaf area of Sehar district, and two airstrikes on Boqea area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a woman was killed, her husband and daughter were maimed in artillery and missile shells which targeted residential areas of Razih border district, as well as a civilian was killed by the fires of Saudi border guards in Shada border district.
In additional, civilians’ properties were damaged by artillery and missle shelling in Razih border district.
In Hodeidah province, five non-combatants were killed and eight injured when airstrikes hit two cars in Zabid district.
In Bayda province, a civilian and his wife were killed by the fires of Saudi-paid mercenaries in Qania area.
In Taiz province, the fighter jets waged seven airstrikes on several areas of Khadir district.
In restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, a Saudi-led coalition aggression airstrike was waged on A’airam area of Qubaita district.
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[Khaama Press] The US deputy secretary of state Alice Wells met with the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... to hold talks regarding the ongoing efforts on Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor.
Sources close to Hezb-e-Islami have said Mr. Hekmatyar met with the deputy US secretary of state Alice Wells in his office on Tuesday.
According to the sources, the two sides held talks regarding the ongoing efforts to end the war, grinding of the peace processor, upcoming elections, role of the political parties, and efforts to revive peace talks.
The sources further added that Hezb-e-Islami’s political affairs chief Bakhtar Aminzai, political delegation chief Dr. Ghairat Baheer, Dr. Farooq Wardak, Eng. Mohammad Amin Karim, and Eng. Habibur Rehman Hekmatyar.
According to reports, this is the first time a top US official is meeting with the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar after almost two decades.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar signed a peace accord with the Afghan government late in September of 2016, after months of negotiations with the government.
[Al Jazeera] A notorious televangelist has been locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by Ottoman Turkish police from his home on dozens of charges that include fraud, sexual assault, and military espionage.
Adnan Oktar was arrested in Istanbul by the city's police financial crimes unit after an operation that had spread over five provinces, Anadolu Agency reported.
According to Ottoman Turkish daily Hurriyet, security forces seized an arms cache, body armours and armoured vehicles at the televangelist's residence. Oktar was caught as he was trying to run away, the daily added.
A total of 235 arrest warrants were issued in a major crackdown on his supporters, with 79 arrested so far in raids supported by helicopters.
The detention warrant accuses Oktar and his followers of dozens of charges, including money laundering, forming a criminal organization, sexual abuse of children, torture, illegal recording of personal data, and political and military espionage.
Oktar is the host of talk show programmes on his television channel, A9, where he mixes discussion of Islam and dancing with women he calls "kittens".
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[Al Jazeera] An Afghan asylum seeker who was deported from Germany last week after spending more than eight years in the country has killed himself, Afghan and German officials have said.
The 23-year-old did away with himself at a hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday after being forcibly returned on July 4 along with 68 others, an Afghan official said.
A German interior ministry confirmed the news at a regular news conference saying: "We received confirmation from the Afghan authorities today morning that one of the passengers on the repatriation flight was found dead in accommodation in Kabul.
"According to the Afghan authorities, it was a suicide."
On Tuesday, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer appeared to joke that the 69 deported Afghans were a birthday present.
"Just on my 69th birthday - and I didn't request it - 69 people were sent back to Afghanistan," he said with a raised smile on his face.
"That's way above earlier levels."
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Mentally unstable and violent. Germany dodged a bullet.
Lucky he didn't drive a Truck of Peace[tm] through Germany and suicide himself that way.
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[Al Jazeera] Pakistain's Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) on Wednesday vowed to fight against gangs after its big shot Haroon Bilour was killed in a suicide kaboom a day ago in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The attack on Tuesday at an election campaign event organised by the ANP also killed at least 20 people. Their funerals were held in the KPK bustling provincial capitalBeautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Wednesday.
The Pakistain Taliban ...Arabic for students... grabbed credit for the attack.
Bilour was a provincial assembly candidate for the July 25 general elections. His father, Bashir Bilour, also a prominent ANP politician, was killed by a jacket wallah in 2012.
"We want peace on our soil and will stand with our people," said senior party leader Mian Iftikhar Hussain, who lost his only son in a armed attack eight years ago.
"One thing is clear: We will stand in the field against the terrorists," he told Rooters news agency.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Two non-combatants were killed in a kaboom in Diyala, a security source from the province said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said, "a bomb, placed on the side of a main road in Kanaan region in Diyala province, went off leaving two civilians injured as they were near the blast."
Security troops, according to the source, "cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the victims to forensic medicine department."
[Reuters] U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been able to review evidence and is being treated like a "VIP" in jail, prosecutors said on Wednesday, arguing against Manafort’s efforts to postpone his trial on fraud charges.
In a filing to a Virginia federal judge overseeing one of two trials scheduled for Manafort, prosecutors said Manafort’s assertions in court papers about conditions in jail, including limited access to evidence and his attorneys, were untrue.
In phone calls taped in his jail, prosecutors said Manafort had remarked that he was being treated like a "VIP", was able to receive daily visits from lawyers and had access to "all my files like I would at home."
Manafort’s prosecution spawned out of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Manafort, who faces charges including bank fraud and failing to register as an agent for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, has a trial set for July 25 in Virginia and another trial in September in Washington.
Last week Manafort filed a motion seeking to postpone the Virginia trial until after the Washington trial concludes. His lawyers cited restrictions on emailing and phone calls, and the jail’s distance from Washington, as factors that were making it difficult to prepare.
Far from restrictive, prosecutors said Manafort had been provided with a personal telephone in his cell, which he used for more than 300 calls with attorneys and others over the past three weeks.
Manafort also appears to have found a workaround to the restriction on electronic communication by reading and composing emails on a second laptop that is carried in and out of the cell by his legal team, the prosecutors said.
"When the team takes the laptop from the jail, it reconnects to the internet and Manafort’s emails are transmitted," the prosecutors wrote.
[Libya Observer] Libyan officer in charge of Ras Ajdir border crossing with Tunisia, Najmi Muammar, confirmed that the border has been shut to traffic by the Libyan side since Tuesday evening.
In a press statement, Muammar explained that the decision was taken due to increasing cases of attacks on Libyan travellers by locals of the Tunisian border town of Ben Gardane, because of decisions by the Libyan state to curb smuggling of goods into Tunisia.
He pointed out that the Presidential Council has addressed the Tunisian side officially to increase the security measures at its borders and protect Libyan travellers, but has received no response to its demands to date.
Muammar further noted that Tunisian protesters broke Libyan-registered vehicles and prevented ambulances from entering Tunisian territory.
"The Libyan state is determined to enforce its decisions to tighten control on the border in order to prevent the smuggling of fuel and goods that are active in border areas on both sides and the Tunisian authorities have to comply with the border security requirements," Muammar stressed.
He made clear that the border will not be reopened until the demands of the Libyan state are met.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council Ahmed Maiteeq gave orders to the Minister of Interior to take all necessary measures to protect Libyans travelling by road to Tunisia, including closing the crossing border between the two countries if Tunisian authorities fail to meet their obligations.
Border areas like Ben Gardane town in Tunisia have witnessed over the previous years riots, protests, closure of roads, and attacks on Libyan citizens and their property, as well as preventing them from entering the Tunisian territory in protest against the measures taken by the Libyan authorities to stop smuggling of fuel and food commodities from Libya to Tunisia.
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[PRESSTV] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... has once again accused Russia of what it sees as destabilizing eastern Ukraine as members of the Western military alliance gather for a summit in Brussels.
NATO leaders issued a declaration at the summit in the Belgian capital on Wednesday, whereby they expressed concern about reduced security at NATO borders as a result of what they said were Russia’s activities, including its "destabilization of eastern Ukraine."
Russia and the West have been at odds over Ukraine since a political crisis erupted in the country in late 2014. The West is also angry at what it claims to be Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a former Ukrainian territory on the Black Sea and dominated by ethnic Russians which joined the Russian Federation after a referendum four years ago.
NATO members said in the statement that they would remain committed to the security of Ukraine as well as members of the alliance who may be affected by Russia’s increased military activities along its western borders.
In a clear response to 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 repeated calls for increased contribution of NATO members to the finances of the organization, the statement said that NATO members would remain committed to pledges for increased military spending.
"We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to all aspects of the Defense Investment Pledge agreed at the 2014 Wales Summit, and to submit credible national plans on its implementation, including the spending guidelines for 2024, planned capabilities, and contributions," read the NATO statement.
It said all NATO members were committed to increasing military spending to reach the 2-percent portion of their overall national income.
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"NATO members said in the statement that they would remain committed to the security of Ukraine as well as members of the alliance who may be affected by Russia’s increased military activities along its western borders."
I will just bet they will. One word: Chihuahua. The Ukrainians can rely on the Vicious protection of the armed and mighty Chihuahuas.
Ever had your shoes untied by a barking and snapping angry Chihuahua? And I hope ( for your sake) that you never do.
[DAWN] Gunmen stormed an education department compound in Afghanistan's restive east on Wednesday in an attack that left at least ten people dead, officials said.
Ten others have been maimed in the second attack in Jalalabad city in as many days, 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.. provincial governor front man Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.
The sound of gunfire followed by a "big kaboom" that shattered windows alerted Qari Samiullah that an attack was under way near his shop.
"I left my shop and ran when I heard a second kaboom," Samiullah told AFP.
"Smoke came out of the building and all the people started to run away." A security guard employed by the education department branch was among the dead, Khogyani said.
Jalalabad health director Najibullah Kamawal confirmed five maimed people had been brought to hospital so far.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the raid.
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[All Africa] Zim-bob-we on Tuesday launched its space agency to advance the country's research and innovation.
Launching the institution, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the Zim-bob-we National GeoSpatial and Space Agency (Zingsa) is expected to advance the country's interests in geospatial science, earth observation and satellite communication systems.
"This initiative is expected to enhance Zim-bob-we's capabilities in global policy discourses on generation, access, use and regulation of the application of space technologies and innovations for sustainable development," Mnangagwa said.
He said the space agency will go a long way towards building technical expertise and institutional capacities in various sectors of the economy including agriculture, minerals mapping and quantification, life sciences, wildlife management and tourism, renewable energy, weather and climate services.
Tapping into global technological advancements would also aid the country's industrial agenda as the country strives to attain a middle income economy by 2030, Mnangagwa said.
Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Amon Murwira said establishment of Zingsa would take a phased approach.
"We know exactly what we are doing, we know exactly where we are going, we know that it will be a phased approach and we know that it will be successful," he said.
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He said the Chinese space agency will go a long way towards building technical expertise....... agriculture, minerals mapping and quantification, life sciences, wildlife management and tourism, renewable energy.....
"Minerals" as in diamonds, gold, etc. "Wildlife Management" game farms. All dividend to the gov't please. That would be all dividends please.
[SABANEWS.NET] The 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... army and popular committees have launched military operations, including artillery, missiles and snipping attacks to frustrate US-backed Saudi-led coalition mercenaries and soldiers’ infiltration on several battle fronts over the past 24 hours , according to military reports combined by Saba News Agency on Wednesday.
In Yemen’s western coast, a short-range ballistic missile was fired toward supply stores of coalition forces.
Also in the coast, six of Saudi-paid mercenaries were rubbed out in the south of Duraihimi district, while engineering unit of the army and committees destroyed a military vehicle of mercenaries with an bomb in Tuhaita district, killing and wounding all who were on board.
In Asir border province, a Saudi soldier was sniped in Qalat-Hassn of Raboaa city, as well as gathering of Saudi soldiers were targeted by artillery shells in Raqabt-Thia of Raboaa.
Also in Asir, two Saudi soldiers were rubbed out in Majaza.
In the border province of Jizan, a ballistic missile, Bader-1, targeted Jazan Economic City.
Furthermore, a Saudi soldier was bumped off in front of Khubah.
In 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.... Saudi border province, an offensive was waged on mercenaries’ sites in Khadhraa border crossing, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment, while artillery force of the army and committees shelled gatherings of mercenaries in Khadhraa border crossing.
In Bayda province, the army and committees carried out an offensive on sites of the enemy in Zahir district, killing and wounding dozens.
Also in Bayda, an attack was waged on mercenaries’ sites in Thi-Na’em, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment, while dozens of the mercenaries were killed and injured in an offensive on their sites in Taiab area of Thi-Na’em.
In additional, the army and committees repelled an infiltration attempt of mercenaries in Aswah area, killing and wounding dozens of them.
In Nehm district, an offensive was carried out on sites of the mercenaries in Yam, killing and wounding dozens in their ranks.
The army and committees also launched an attack, accompanied by artillery shelling and combing of medium weapons, on mercenaries sites in Madfoon, killing and wounding many.
In Taiz province, dozens of mercenaries were killed and injured when the army and committees repelled their infiltration, which was supported with coalition Arclight airstrikes, in Selw district.
In Yemen’s Jawf province, the army and committees repelled a mercenaries infiltration in Mahamisha area of Khub-washaaf district, killing and wounding dozens.
Also in Jawf, engineering unit of the army and popular committees destroyed a mercenaries’ military vehicle with an bomb, killing and injuring all its crew, while three Saudi-paid mercenaries were rubbed out in Maslub.
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[PRESSTV] Protesters chained themselves to the front steps of the ministry of transport in Rome on Wednesday morning over the migration policy of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, namely the closure of ports to migrants colonists arriving over the Mediterranean.
Footage shows police and firefighters cutting chains with bolt cutters and carrying the protesters away as they shout slogans.
Salvini recently gained notoriety for his hardline stance on migration and his decision to close Italian ports to the migrant rescue ship Aquarius, which was eventually allowed to dock in Spain.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi oil field guards were killed early Wednesday in an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk province, north of Iraq, a security source was quoted saying.
Kurdish network Rudaw quoted Hamed al-Obaidi, from Kirkuk province, saying that the attackers fired at a checkpoint at the oil fields in Dibis, northwest of the province
Obaidi said the gunmen wounded four others and managed to flee after the attack .
In a separate incident, Obaidi said security killed a suicide bomber before blowing himself up near the Dibis hospital.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops destroyed two hideouts of the terrorist Islamic State group and arrested nine suspects in Kirkuk, an Iraqi security center said in a statement.
Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted Yehia Rasool, the spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council, as saying that “troops of the federal police inspected several villages in Kirkuk, destroying two IS hideaways and arresting nine suspects.”
“The troops also destroyed five locally-made explosives and seized 14 Kalashnikov assault rifles,” Rasool said.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three militants were arrested as the pro-government paramilitary troops thwarted an attempt to kidnap civilians, south of Kirkuk, the media service said on Wednesday.
A statement on the website of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “information from the intelligence helped the 50th brigade to arrest three militants who were on motorbikes. They sneaked into Dakuk town.”
The operation, according to the source, caused no damages. The information “indicated that the militants were planning to abduct civilians from the town.”
Islamic State has resumed its attacks and explosions as well as blocking roads, abducting civilians and security personnel, despite operations carried out across the provinces. The group continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops.
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces said they arrested a senior Islamic State commander during a security campaign in the northern city of Mosul, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press website, Maj Gen. Saad Maan said, “the arrested was a member of the Islamic State’s Mosques Diwan and was responsible for taking documents on oath of allegiance from IS volunteers.”
“He was arrested in al-Resala district in Mosul’s western side,” Maan added.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Up to 20 members of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group, including fighters of different Arab nationalities, have been killed during a wide-scale security campaign in Mosul city.
“Joint security forces managed to kill 20 Islamic State members, including Arab fighters, during a security campaign in the mountainous area in al-Atshana and Badush towns, 30 km northwest of Mosul,” Basnews website quoted the spokesman for Nineveh Operations Command, Brig. Gen. Mohamed al-Jabouri, as saying Wednesday.
“The troops also destroyed a number of tunnels in the mountainous area, which, after the security campaign, was announced free of terrorist elements,” al-Jabouri pointed out.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A police conscript was killed as a bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State members exploded, south of Nineveh, a security source said on Wednesday.
Speaking to the Russian Sputnik news agency, the source said, “a bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State, planted on the road in al-Duwaizat village in Qayyarah town, south of Mosul, went off while a military vehicle of Federal Police was passing.”
The blast, according to the source, “left a policeman killed, in addition to damages to the vehicle.”
Meanwhile, a local source from the village said many bombs and war remnants left by the militants in the village had not been removed yet. “We lose many victims from Duwaizat village as well as victims of security troops due to those remnants.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have been on high alert after 60 vehicles of Islamic State members reportedly sneaked into Iraq coming from the Syrian side, a military source said on Wednesday.
“Information received by the military task force indicated that 60 vehicles of Islamic State members coming from Syria entered Iraq and specifically into Baaj town,” Col. Saad al-Marsoumi, of Nineveh Operations Command told Anadolu news agency.
The convoy, according to Marsoumi, is provided with weapons to carry out terrorist operations.
“Iraqi troops have been on high alert to handle the violation,” he added, indicating “a military plan that was drawn over the past few hours. All armed units, backed by fighter jets, will take part to end the violation.”
Marsoumi also stressed that “Iraqi-Syrian borders are so long. They need new security plans in order to control it and prevent infiltration of militants.”
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[FOX] An American tourist caused a portion of the Vienna Airport in Austria to shut down after she allegedly tried to take an unexploded World War II artillery shell through customs, reports said.
Austrian customs officials called in the bomb disposal unit to remove the shell after the 24-year-old tourist asked if she could take the "souvenir" on her flight, Deutsche Welle reported.
The incident caused a portion of the arrivals and luggage section of the airport to close for 15 minutes, according to the outlet.
The woman said she found the military ordnance while hiking, and even cleaned it off at her hotel room so it wouldn’t get her clothes in her luggage dirty, the outlet reported, citing the Krone newspaper.
The tourist, who was not identified, was fined nearly $5,000 and reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment, Deutsche Welle reported.
Despite the potentially hazardous situation, police told the outlet passengers were never in any danger.
[NYPost] Former Secretary of State John Kerry issued a scathing statement about what he called a "disgraceful," "disgusting" and downright "strange" appearance by President Trump at the NATO summit in Brussels. "No, I don't own a mirror, why do you ask?"
"I've never seen a President say anything as strange and counterproductive as President Trump's harangue against NATO and Germany," Kerry wrote in a statement on Wednesday.
"It was disgraceful, destructive, and flies in the face of the actual interests of the Iran United States."
Kerry questioned why President Trump was rebuking our allies publicly while turning Russia, "who has been attacking America's democracy, into his fawned-over ally."
Trump, who has publicly praised Russian president Vladimir Putin, brashly criticized his NATO allies for not spending enough on defense during a summit early Wednesday.
"The President set America back this morning," Kerry wrote.
"He is steadily destroying our reputation in the world. he is undermining our interests."
Trump ‐ whose presidential campaign in under investigation for possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election ‐ is set to meet with Putin in Helsinki, Finland on Monday.
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Johnny Boy - ever pay the sales tax on that yacht of yours, you bag o' shit?
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Yeah, the hagiography was that John Heinz was the next Reagan. In truth, it was probably an own goal for the left. News helicopter and light plane. Simple, easy to understand accident that could happen any day...
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he says this from his Wife's house in Sun Valley,ID where he is rubbing elbows with the Media Elite while they plan the next round of fake news
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The never ending quest for relevance from a blue-blood elite that never met a microphone he didn't like.
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Jawn pines for the days when the many NATO representatives would pony up for fine French meals and top shelf wine to listen to him pontificate,then expense it back to NATO, while President Trumps first question is "Whose paying for this meal again?"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel launched a Patriot interceptor missile on Wednesday at a drone spotted approaching from Syria, the second such incident in as many months, the Israeli military said.
The incident set off air defense sirens on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the nearby Jordanian border, the military statement said.
Israel has been on high alert as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s forces advance against rebels near the Golan and Jordan. Israel worries that he could deploy troops or allow his Iranian and Hezbollah allies to set up emplacements near Israeli lines.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Moscow on Wednesday for Syria talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , whose military is helping Assad beat back a 7-year-old insurgency.
On June 24, Israel’s military said it launched a Patriot missile at an incoming drone from Syria, which turned away unscathed. A Syrian commander said the drone was engaged in local operations.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] "We wouldn’t have gone alone, we needed him to be able to go further into the dream," this is exactly what a young man whom I met in a London hotel lobby told me.
I have seen the enthusiasm of Saudi youth after the kingdom’s Vision 2030 was announced ‐ an enthusiasm which was about to burn out before that. When I delivered a lecture in Columbia University in December 2017, this point was implicit in every question, why do the Arab youth, particularly those from 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... , love Prince Mohammed bin Salman?
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It is the walk of a man whose dream will be stopped by nothing except death.
[PRESSTV] Protesters erupted into the streets of Brussels on Wednesday as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... summit continued in the Belgian capital.
Demonstrators can be seen chanting slogans and holding banners. One of the them, Joselyne de Markten, explained her reasons for being at the rally.
"We are protesting the growing militarism of the EU and the NATO member states' role in fueling conflict and oppression against the world, around the world," she said.
Chaired by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO summit is set to discuss the most urgent issues for its members concerning international security and military affairs.
Transatlantic trade agreements as well as the US withdrawal from both the global climate pact and Iran nuclear deal are on the summit’s agenda, as are defense spending contributions.
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"We are protesting the growing militarism of the EU and the NATO member states' role in fueling conflict and oppression against the world, around the world," she said.
Kinda missing the entire point about NATO, cookie?
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Lets get out and bring back every gram of steel we have put over there. We can use it to build new ships for the navy while passing on buying imported steel. The shipping back of all the materiel can be jobs for Americans.
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Were there more reporters than demonstrators? Or did the All-Europe Rail Passes let them assemble a "authentic spontaneous[sic] crowd" properly?
[StrategyPage] The UN persuaded the Arab coalition to pause its offensive in late June so the UN could attempt to negotiate an end to the battle for the Red Sea port of Hodeida. But so far all the rebels will offer is to turn over control of the port to the UN (something the UN has been demanding for years) while the government demands that the rebels move away from the coast. The rebels will not consider this because it would cut them off from the weapons and equipment the Iranians smuggle in as well as opportunities to attack ships in the Red Sea. The rebels show no signs of surrendering control of Hodeida or any portions of the Red Sea coast. The Arab coalition reminded the UN that a "pause" was not a ceasefire and the fighting around Hodeida and other key rebel locations (the capital Sanaa and the Saada, the home province of the Shia rebels) are experiencing more combat with government and coalition forces.
As the battle for Hodeida continues the rebels are taking heavy losses and more of their Iranian advisors are being killed or captured, along with some of the specialized equipment that has been smuggled in.
Strategy Page prefers we post only a taste here at Rantburg, going to their site to read the rest of their reports. I was thrilled to learn that they use Rantburg as one of their information sources.
[DAWN] A nine-year-old boy was rubbed out and another child injured when two gunnies resorted to gun sex at a corner meeting of the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) at Kot Lakhpat on Tuesday.
Mazhar Jan, 9, breathed his last in hospital while the condition of Fahad was said to be stable as he suffered bullet wound in his leg, a doctor told media persons at the Lahore General Hospital.
There were conflicting reports about the incident when some PML-N men tried to mislead police by alleging that the party’s corner meeting came under fire by the gunnies of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... . However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... during preliminary inquiry it transpired that it was the result of gun sex by the two button men of PML-N leader Haji Muhammad Aslam Bhatti.
Eyewitnesses said the button menhad gun sex before the arrival of Saad Rafique who was scheduled to attend the corner meeting of the party at Babar Chowk. They said Saad Rafique was contesting the election for PP-168. Lahore Operations SSP Asad Sarfraz told Dawn that the death of a boy and injury to another was the result of gun sex by the two button men of a PML-N leader at the corner meeting.
"We dispatched police to respond to the emergency situation and they tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! both the button men," he said, adding that a criminal case had been lodged against them.
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[Al Jazeera] 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 told NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... countries to increase their defence spending to four percent of their gross domestic product, higher than the group's goal of two percent, a White House official said on Wednesday.
The official said the president's remarks were not a formal proposal but came as he was urging leaders of the 29-member military alliance to increase their outlays on defence.
The US president has been openly critical of his NATO allies since becoming president in January 2017. Ahead of the summit being held in the Belgian capital, Brussels, Trump sent out a tweet about the funding of NATO.
Trump has repeatedly said the US was bearing an unfair burden because it spends many times more of its GDP on defence than other NATO countries.
Speaking at the summit, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said that members states had agreed to spend more on defence in the coming years.
"All allies are increasing defence spending. This year at least eight of the NATO countries have committed to spend at least two percent of their GDP on defence and a majority of our allies have plans to do so by 2024," Stoltenberg said during a presser in Brussels.
"For a quarter of a century many countries have been cutting billions from their defence budgets. Now they are adding billions," he added.
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And cut back on the Wine and cheese a bit, or on the schnitzel if you live on the there side of the Border.
Oh and keep up the good work with the Muzzies and the Welfare payments...you are a spiritually superior people and we are inspired ( but not stupid). Anyway, keep up the spiritual inspiring example for the world. Earn the name EUroweenie and wear it with Pride.
[Breitbart] African migrants who thought they would be denied passage to Europe became violent and threatened to kill the crew of an Italian supply ship that had rescued them.
Vos Thalassa, a specialist Offshore Supply Ship which works supporting French oil and gas company Total, picked up more than 60 migrants after responding to a distress call in the Mediterranean on Sunday night.
But within minutes, the crew were taken "hostage" by the people they allowed onboard, according to Il Giornale, which reported that some of the individuals who were rescued became enraged when a Libyan coastguard boat arrived on the scene to take the illegal immigrants to safety.
"It turned from a rescue to piracy," commented the Italian transport ministry, stating that "death threats were made".
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Greece had informed Russia on July 6 that it planned to expel Russian diplomats from the country for illegal activities connected to rallies against a deal with Macedonia, a Greek diplomatic source told Rooters on Wednesday.
"We had issued warnings to Russian authorities for some time over (the actions of) these specific 4 diplomats and civilians, and on Friday it was officially raised, giving them a reasonable period of a few days to leave the country," the source told Rooters.
The allegations concerned involvement in rallies against a deal with Macedonia and attempts to offer money to state officials, the source said.
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[PRESSTV] Germans want the withdrawal of American troops from their country, a new poll says, amid 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 threats to discontinue military support for the Western military alliance of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... A YouGov poll for the German news agency DPA found that more Germans would welcome the withdrawal of the 35,000-strong American force than would oppose it, British online newspaper The Independent reported Wednesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... 42 percent said they supported withdrawal while just 37 percent wanted the soldiers to stay, with 21 percent undecided.
The finding comes on the first day of a NATO summit, during which the US president is expected to press Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to increase military spending if it wants to continue to receive American military support.
US troops have been stationed in Germany since the Second World War.
There are nearly 36 US military bases in Germany, a significant reduction from over 200 that were located there until the end of the Cold War.
Last month, US daily The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon was analyzing the cost and impact of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of American troops stationed in Germany, amid growing tensions between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. , according to people familiar with the work.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the US ambassador to NATO said earlier this month that no discussions were underway regarding withdrawal of US troops in Germany.
"There is nothing being said at all about the troop alignment in Germany or anything that would change" the basing arrangements there, Kay Bailey Hutchison told news hounds in a briefing on July 5. "I’ve heard nothing on that score."
This comes as Trump has been pushing other countries with the NATO, including Germany, to contribute more to their military spending.
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Thunderous applause. Outstanding.
Let us withdraw our troops at once and leave Germany alone. After all, they don't need us.
Moreover there will be fewer wars in the Mideast because the globalists in the US government won't be able to stage from Germany. It's win-win.
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35,000 troops is not a large number. Simply pass out 35,000 broomsticks to the local Germans mowing their lawns and load it all up and fly them home.
Tell Merkel she can take Russian language lessons and tell Brussels to tell the Russians they can have all the Chocolate they can carry. And don't forget the Wine and Cheese.
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...given the state of German military readiness, one could see a future headline "Poland invades liberates Germany" to preclude being outflanked by the Muslim invasion?
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IIRC Germany pays a lot to have US troops in Germany. They include it as part of their nato tithe.
I doubt the Russian response to US troops in Poland would be worth the effort. It’s an idea worth investigating.
Germany knows that now Poland is aligned with the west they have breathing room, troops or no troops.
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"Which" Germans? After you count the votes of the Easterners pining for the "Good Olde Tyme" of the Cold War when they were apparatchiks and times were good better than their neighbors in the Warsaw Pact.
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BP might have a point. Maybe we need to think about whether we really want the Germans to arm themselves.
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Does European Conservative have the day off?
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I've heard so much BS about NATO in the last days that I don't really feel like commenting.
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Building something like Ramstein Air Base in Poland would cost many $ billion. Building something like Landstuhl Medical Center would have a similar cost.
and there are over a dozen other smaller US facilities in Germany
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The airbase and medical center are sunk costs. Shut it down and break them up as we leave. The Krauts cannot be trusted with them.
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New Landstuhl medical center will cost at least 170 million euros. U.S. only pays 40 million euros, the rest is paid by Germany.
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Iran PressTV puts the strongest anti-American spin on the thing possible. From The Local - Germany last week:
White House has no plans to pull US troops out of Germany
"There is nothing being said at all about the troop alignment in Germany or anything that would change the 32,000 troop force that we have in Germany," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The survey, carried out for DPA and published on Wednesday, showed that 42 percent of Germans would be happy if the US pulled its troops out of the Bundesrepublik. At the same time 37 percent said they want the US soldiers to stay, while 21 percent gave no answer.
In particular, voters for the far-left Die Linke and far-right Alternative for Germany wanted an end to US army bases, with 67 percent and 55 percent, respectively, saying the Amis should go. On the other hand, only 35 percent of voters for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) support this.
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Costs? We're 20 Trillion dollars in debt. It ain't getting smaller. NATO and the rest of the world had better seek another sucker when the proverbial **** hits the fan.
[The Hill] Former CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday blasted President Trump after he hammered allies about their contributions to NATO at the group's annual summit. Leave it to the onerous John Brennan to muddle 'reckless behavior' with simple truth telling.
"It is in the interest of America’s security if NATO leaders push back against the reckless behavior of Donald Trump, who is dangerously naive & grossly ignorant of how the world works," Brennan said on Twitter.
"History inevitably will regard Trump as one of the most disastrous figures of the 21st century," the former CIA official continued.
He also shared a blistering statement from former Secretary of State John Kerry condemning the president’s remarks to NATO members at the summit in Brussels, calling them "strange" and "counterproductive." I'm satisfied writing this fellow's eulogy will present great difficulty for someone, but I simply can't wait to read it.
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If you wish to really flip over a rock, I recommend a reading of this puff piece and an examination of connections, Benghazi, no-bid security contracts at Foggy Bottom, and timelines of subsequent Aegis and Congressional resignations. If Christopher Steele lights begin flashing, you may be connecting the proper dots.
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It isn't "reckless behavior". More like tough love.
Germany's armed forces are in such a bad state, several troops of grumpy cub scouts could invade successfully. Most NATO members don't cough up shit and Trump is saying this isn't sustainable, which it isn't.
If they don't shape up, they can face the (mostly weak) Russian bear without us.
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There is simply no way you stop this abuse of authority and prevent it from recurring without making some very memorable examples.
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Just like MI5/6 in the UK the CIA/NSA etc are there to protect the establishment from us, not us from threats.
A proof of that theory might be the absence of formal indictments and continued governmental Kabuki dancing. With the obvious exception of the evil Manafort and long-time CIA provocateur General Mike Flynn.
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Jack has been given numerous opportunities and encouragements to repair. Unlike jvalentour, Raj, and scores of others, after literally hundreds of posts Jack continues to provide nothing for the good of the order.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German prosecutors said Wednesday a court had remanded in jug an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Gay Paree on June 30.
The suspect, a Vienna-based accredited Iranian diplomat whom opposition groups have named as Assadollah Assadi, 46, was one of several suspects detained in Germany, Belgium and La Belle France.
They had allegedly planned to bomb the rally by an exiled Iranian opposition group in Villepinte near Gay Paree that was attended by several US politicians.
German prosecutors said Wednesday that a court had two days earlier remanded Assadi in jug on charges of foreign intelligence activities and conspiracy to murder. They added that these charges did "not preclude" Assadi’s extradition requested by Belgium.
Assadi was believed to be a member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, which is tasked with the "observation and fight against opposition groups inside and outside Iran", the prosecutors’ statement said.
They said Assadi had in March ordered a married couple living in Antwerp "to carry out an explosives attack" on the annual rally and had handed them the explosives in a June meeting in Luxembourg.
The couple were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Brussels on the day of the rally by Belgian security services who said they found them in possession of 500 grams (about one pound) of the volatile explosive TATP and a detonator.
They were identified only as Amir S., 38, and Nasimeh N., 33, and as being Belgian nationals of Iranian origin. French police arrested another three people but later released two of them, French legal sources said.
Teheran has dismissed the alleged bomb plot as a "sinister false flag ploy" designed to discredit Iran at a time when it faces major diplomatic tensions with the United States.
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... over two months ago abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran had pledged to halt most nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief.
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[Libya Observer] The National Oil Corporation (NOC) lifted force majeure on oil exports from Ras Lanuf, Sidra, Hariga and Zuetina after the facilities were handed over to the internationally-recognized Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based NOC Wednesday morning.
In a statement, the NOC said production and export operations will return to normal levels within the next few hours.
The resumption of oil exports comes after eastern Libyan 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... ordered his so-called Petroleum Facilities Guard to allow Tripoli-based NOC to manage oil ports in eastern Libya.
Chairman of NOC Mustafa Sanallah welcomed the handover of oil ports to the legitimate oil institution and said "we need a proper national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... on the fair distribution of oil revenues. It is at the heart of the recent crisis. The real solution is transparency."
He also called on the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Libya to publish budgets and detailed public expenditure.
The warlord had closed the oil ports accusing authorities in Tripoli of using oil revenues to fund the gangs, which attacked oil crescent on June 13.
Earlier this month, Haftar preconditioned reopening the oil terminals and allowing the exports of crude to go back as normal as they have been to five necessary points.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... observers say Haftar’s U-turn comes after a letter from 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... to the Speaker of House of Representatives Aqailah Saleh and Chairman of Presidential Council Fayez Sarraj criticizing them for being unable to solve the oil ports closure by Dignity Operation.
In the letter, Trump warned both Libyan officials that they could face international prosecution as a first step, to be followed by threats to use force to solve the oil crisis.
218 TV station, which leaked the letter, said Khalifa Haftar’s General Command was aware of Trump’s strong-worded letter.
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[Libya Observer] The commander of the self-styled army 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... ordered Wednesday the arrest of frontlines commander at al-Saiqa Force Mahmoud al-Werfalli for his "escape from military prison while under investigation for military codes’ violations."
Media outlets loyal to Haftar reported sources from the general command of the self-styled army as saying that the arrest order is due to al-Werfalli’s break out of prison in Rajma, eastern Libya.
Libya al-Hadath TV channel, which is owned by Haftar’s family, said Haftar ordered the apprehension of runaway al-Werfalli and his loyalists "for breaking the law and endangering people’s lives."
Al-Werfalli made a cinematic escape from prison and arrived in Benghazi last week.
He also carried out an attack on military investment authority looking for its chief al-Madani al-Fakhri, stealing some of the belongings in there.
A leaked walkie-talkie call was also posted on social media on Tuesday when he vowed to keep looking for al-Fakhri till doomsday, calling home a corrupted person and a thief.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Since the entrance of ISIS into Sinjar which is the stronghold of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq in August 2014, and until June of 2018, official UN statistics revealed that 3,300 Yazidi Kurds were able to escape ISIS’s grip out of 6,417 others who had been kidnapped by the krazed killer group.
Samira Hassan, one of ISIS’s Yazidi survivors in Sinjar, now resides in a camp in Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, tells a story of defiance and strength in the face of war and darkness brought on her people by the krazed killer group.
Samira said that she was only 18-years-old when her family, along with12 other families, "miraculously" escaped the atrocities of ISIS in their region in Sinjar.
Four years later, Al Arabiya English met with Samira and her family who are living in a building which is still under construction in Erbil, to share a story of love and war.
Samira said in the middle of the night in June, 2014 while paying a visit to a family friend, she and others were told that ISIS has surrounded Sinjar and that there’s no way out, otherwise they will "just be an added number to ISIS victims".
The young Yazidi added that she and her family bravely ran away through a border crossing with Syria, escaping an attack by ISIS.
Arriving in a northern town called Zakho, it became a temporary home for them until they moved towards Erbil looking for shelter and work to survive.
Despite her agony of the continuous move and displacement, her love for Saeed (her husband) conquered all odds, meeting him in the camp in Erbil where they got married and later had her daughter Freiha.
She said her daughter Freiha was deprived from living in her grandparents’ home as ISIS put an end to her childhood before it even began.
She is now pregnant with their second child, hoping that one day they will reunite with all loved ones in their land.
Gang rapes and brutal crimes
Moving from her happy moments, she starts with tears in her eyes telling her accounts of the atrocities of ISIS. She tells how three maiden of tender yearss, family related, were gang raped, while another Yazidi woman who just gave birth to her child, lost her mind and did away with himself when ISIS slaughtered her infant child and cooked his flesh and gave it to her to eat, then the krazed killer group told her that she just ate her child.
She said that the road to escape this brutality was not easy, as they got lost many times when trying to reach the Syrian border.
Samira described their trip to Erbil as being full with fear and blood, saying after they escaped an ISIS attack, they were faced with a flat tire causing a car crash leading to a head injury to a family relative in her thirties who had witnessed the execution of her brother by ISIS because of his religion.
The impossible return to Sinjar
Despite that seven months have passed since the Iraqi government declared victory over ISIS, still the security situation in Sinjar and other nearby areas in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , are unstable.
Khodr Hassan, one Yazidi who escaped ISIS atrocities and lives in Erbil said to Al Arabiya English that the reason why it is impossible to go back to Sinjar, is because the place is completely destroyed and full of diseases resulting from corpses left unburied.
He added that there are many land mines left by ISIS in many areas, while the security situation is unstable, as armed forces of Evil from the Kurdish group PKK and the mobilized forces are taking over Sinjar as stronghold.
Khodr called on all concerned parties and the UN agencies to interfere and look into their situation to provide a safe return to their homes.
The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority came to the spotlight when ISIS took over large parts of Iraq, victimizing its members, committing massacres and subjecting them to forced conversions, sexual slavery and other reported atrocities.
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But remember that Islam is the religion of Peace. And that the Moslems who live in America are probably alright and that many of them are our fellow Americans.
Invite them over to Dinner .
[NYP] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asked federal prosecutors across the country to assist in reviewing documents of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court, a process that could delay his Senate confirmation, according to a report on Wednesday.
How does this compare to the vetting process of the last several Supreme Court nominees, and is it the deputy attorney general’s responsibility to initiate managing the process?
Rosenstein sent an email this week to the nation’s 93 US attorneys requesting each one to provide up to three prosecutors "who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks," the New York Times reported.
The subject line of Rosenstein’s email read, "Personal Message to U.S. Attorneys from the Deputy AG."
Trump announced his selection of Kavanaugh in a prime-time television event on Monday night to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Will Mueller be brought in next? Where is the Attorney General? This vindictive fellow should have been fired a long time ago.
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Lisa H Barsoomian a US Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, she’s a protege of James Comey and Robert Mueller.
Barsoomian with her boss R. Craig Lawrence represented Bill Clinton in 1998
Lawrence also represented
Robert Muller three times
James Comey five times
Barack Obama 45 times
Kathleen Sebelius 56 times
Bill Clinton 40 times and
Hillary Clinton 17 times
Someone out there cares so much that the internet has been “purged” of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.
Historically this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative.
Additionally Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community
And although Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney her email address is Lisa Barsoomian at NIH gov.
The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health.
This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities.
It’s a cover, so big deal right, I mean what does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter.
It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uniparty unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix…….
and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and the Russians
Between 1998 and 2017 Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times
You may be saying to yourself, okay who cares, who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman?
Apparently someone does BECAUSE : Someone out there cares so much that they’ve “purged” all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals court dockets (?)
Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention?
BECAUSE
She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s WIFE
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And there you have at least part of the answer for the Benghazi and Clinton debacles, the DNC Awan IT scandal, the neutering of Jeff Sessions, as well as the continuing Intelligence Community campaign against Donald J. Trump.
Residents of the "Imperial City," the Congress, and members of the "Professional Gov't" (as spoken about in the Daniel Greenfield video in today's Burg), are fully aware of these connections. Make no mistake, the Klingons really are in charge.
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Call Hillary's groups, ask them to generate a 'creative' dossier, then give one of my prosecutors to front for it. We'll 'leak' it to the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises to plaster all over the media.
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I was triggered by the Klingon picture. :)
She reminded me of one the Duras sisters, B'Etor or maybe Lursa, but upon reflection they looked better. Just my opinion of course.
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The deep state is really coming out into the light. 279 prosecutors digging into anyone will find something. This poor guy is screwed.
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At this point it's about diffusing responsibility as far and wide as possible. Trump has rightly focused on getting judges seated, not wasting his time on something like W's purge that cost us Gonzales' expertise. Kavanaugh is going to be confirmed and the only US Attorneys who are going to report any negative findings are people who are on their way out the door of their own volition anyway.
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I’m flummoxed over what is the basis for dedicating this level of resources to no criminal or civil behavior. What product could this possibly produce that is relevant to the mission of the DOJ? An opinion about his ability as a judge? This is incomprehensible.
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After reading her bio and work history I am pretty much convinced Resenstein is part of the deep state cabal. I was hopeful he was not, not so much now.
I think it’s time for a new AG. Then clean house.
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Jeffy Sessions comes across as one of those slightly inbred failing aristocracy drunks from a Faulkner novel. And since he doesn't drink that's saying something...
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This is on Trump, McConnell and Ryan.
Trump is the guy that hired Sessionzzz in the first place.
And, "allegedly", Trump's been told that if he fires Jeffy, he won't get any replacement confirmed.
I don't understand enough about the mechanics of these things to know what other options Trump has.
Could he do a recess appointment before the swearing in of a new Congress in 2019?
Could he just fire everyone now and have de facto acting staff for DOJ while Congress twiddles its thumbs?
Could he fire everyone and dare Congress to leave DOJ unstaffed?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army has seized three armed fishing boats used in the past by the Houthis to attack naval operations carried out by the legitimate forces.
Those operations against 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 ... militias were conducted with the backing of the coalition as Yemeni forces attempted to recapture the Habl port near Midi in the Hajjah governorate.
This is the first naval battle, through which the Houthis tried with to defend three boats loaded with guns and bombs. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the capabilities of the coalition-backed naval army were able to defeat the Houthis.
The Houthis exploited the fishing boats and the fishermen in carrying out their military operations by camouflaging the boats, out of fear of being caught.
The naval formation of the Yemeni army in Midi has succeeded in the past few weeks in securing the coastal part of the sea in Midi after being trained by the naval forces of the Arab coalition.
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[Defense One] A group of Russian special operations forces parachuted onto the island of Gogland in a Russian-controlled portion of the Gulf of Finland. They hid their parachutes, journeyed deep into the interior, and destroyed a series of mock communications stations, radars and ASM batteries. They then prepped a landing site for a helicopter escape ‐ despite the fact that the island already has a helipad.
The troops jumped from a Mi-8AMTSH helicopter at an altitude of 2,500 meters, and used satellite navigation equipment to guide them to their landing site, notes a July 10 press release on the drill from the Russian Ministry of Defense. The soldiers that took part in the exercise had "not less than a hundred jumps with parachutes of various types," it said.
Aki Heikkinen, who curates Russianmilitarywatch.com, pointed out that Gogland, seized by Russia in 1944, is just 24 miles from the Finnish city of Kotka.
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They hid their parachutes, journeyed deep into the interior, and destroyed a series of mock communications stations, radars and ASM batteries. They then prepped a landing site for a helicopter escape
A small island assault exercise doesn't mean prep for engaging Finland, as the article suggests. I would look for a more troubled region near the same latitude.
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Volodya to brass, over stroganoff:
"You've garrisoned Gogland?" Matovnikov:
"One man singlehanded
Can kill all I've landed.
We've got to get ready for Badanov!"
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Well done series on Netflix called "Occupied" is a pretty realistic story of possible Russian expansionist behavior in Scadinavia...Subtitled, but very high quality STs.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected bandidosforces of Evil in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
The news agency quoted an unnamed security official Wednesday as saying that the fighting erupted when forces raided a hideout in the city of al-Arish. It says security forces dismantled two bombs and seized weapons.
It did not say when the raid took place or whether any security forces were killed or maimed. Egypt heavily restricts media access to the northern Sinai.
Egypt has been battling bandidosforces of Evil for years, but the Sinai-based insurgency gained strength after the 2013 overthrow of an elected but 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... Islamist president.
In February, Egypt launched a massive operation against bandidosforces of Evil in Sinai and other parts of the country.
Everyone had a lovely time, while making absolutely no difference whatsoever.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A two-day International Conference of Moslem scholars on peace and stability in Afghanistan, co-hosted by the Saudi cities of Jeddah and Mecca, has concluded.
Addressing the closing session, Dr. Yusef bin Ahmed al-Othaimeen, Secretary General of the Jeddah-based Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO), thanked Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz and his crown prince, for the efforts being exerted to hold this conference.
He congratulated the Afghani scholars on the success of the conference.
The participants condemned the ongoing fighting among Afghani factions and called on all parties to go to peace and ceasefire.
They lauded the initiative of the Afghani government to start a direct and peaceful negotiations without preconditions and recognize Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... as a political party with agendas to share in developing the country and its rehabilitation.
The conference called on Taliban movement to respond positively to the call of the Afghani government to evade violence, stop fighting and sit at a negotiating table to discuss peace and security of the country without pre-conditions.
The participants also thanked 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... ’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , for hosting the conference and making the initiative a success.
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[Bayou Rennisance Man] The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Daniel Greenfield is a well-known commentator, blogger and author. In a speech to the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach last January, he outlined what he sees as the Second Civil War in the USA - and it's happening already. In the light of the fuss about the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, I thought it might be worthwhile to remind ourselves of the roots of the opposition to his appointment.
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A man from South Carolina should know it is the Third Civil War. The American War of Independence feature a really nasty American on American war in the Carolinas.
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I'll worry about SC when they drop their muzz crescent moon from their state flag. They are not as impossible to tolerate as Tarheels, I'll give em that...
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[PRESSTV] Syrian military air defenses have repelled an Israeli attack on the country's Quneitra province, Syrian state media report.
Syria's official news agency SANA reported late on Wednesday that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles at Syrian army positions located close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights causing only material damage.
"The aircraft of the Israeli enemy fired several missiles in the direction of some army positions," said a Syrian military source.
On Sunday, Syrian air defenses thwarted a missile attack on the T4 airbase in the country's central province of Homs.
The Israeli Air Force confirmed the bombings in the Syrian Golan Wednesday night, targeting regime forces in the Quneitra region near the border, hours after a Syrian drone was shot down by the military after entering Israeli airspace.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[ABC] Delta Air Lines passenger Bolutife Olorunda was screaming and acting erratically recently on a flight, at which point he was approached by a flight attendant, according to court documents.
[Washington Examiner] President Trump said Thursday that he would not have allowed Russia's military intervention in Ukraine that allowed it to annex Crimea in 2014, and blamed former President Barack Obama for allowing it to happen.
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[Defense One] A group of Russian special operations forces parachuted onto the island of Gogland in a Russian-controlled portion of the Gulf of Finland. They hid their parachutes, journeyed deep into the interior, and destroyed a series of mock communications stations, radars and ASM batteries. They then prepped a landing site for a helicopter escape ‐ despite the fact that the island already has a helipad.
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
