ISTANBUL (Reuters) - CIA director Gina Haspel heard an audio recording of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during her visit to Turkey this week, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, the first indication Ankara has shared its key evidence.
The killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has sparked global condemnation and mushroomed into a major crisis for the world's top oil exporter.
Saudi Arabia first denied any role in Khashoggi's disappearance before blaming his Oct. 2 death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on a botched attempt to return him to the kingdom.
On Thursday, Saudi state Ekhbariya TV quoted the Saudi public prosecutor as saying Khashoggi's murder was premeditated, and that prosecutors were interrogating suspects on the basis of information provided by a joint Saudi-Turkish task force.
Turkey has dismissed Saudi efforts to blame rogue operatives and urged the kingdom to search from "top to bottom" for those responsible for the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi leadership.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...My name is Jamal Khashoggi - with two "g"s. Ahhhhh!!! They're killing me!!!
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Turkey has dismissed Saudi efforts to blame rogue operatives...
The 'Iranian checque just cashed' -OR- did Caliph Recep Tayyip Erdoğan feel that the Ottoman's former rule over the Arabian peninsula was being disrespected by the current occupants? Both?
[Babylon Bee] TIJUANA ‐ Democratic party icon Hillary Clinton held a "Get Out & Vote!" tour stop in Mexico's populous border city Tijuana Tuesday. Clinton stated that "the Republicans will lose the midterm elections because they are neglecting our minorities, while we're able to inspire many Mexican nationals to get out there and vote."
"Uh... Pokemon VAMINOS to the polls!" she added before aides silenced her.
Tour organizers claim Democrat voter registration is already healthy in Tijuana and surrounding Mexican cities but hoped that Clinton could inspire higher voter turnout in the coming midterms. They further claimed it's beneficial to the Democrats' cause to have Clinton not talk very much ahead of important elections, so they wanted to get her out of the country.
Barack Obama was reported to have been a part of the tour stop but didn't want to leave the country in fear of being unable to continue stabilizing the economy. "If there is anyone that can bring the people of Tijuana to the polls, it is my dear friend Hillary," said Obama. "We'll entrust this important task of registering foreign voters to her while I keep things together here in the States."
The tour will continue into Mexico, then make its way back into the U.S.‐but not before Clinton makes scheduled stump speeches at several local cemeteries.
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[DFP] CAMARILLO, Calif., A World War II-era plane crash landed on a Southern California highway Tuesday afternoon but the pilot was able to walk away, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department was notified at 1:48 p.m. PDT about the plane along the northbound lanes of Highway 101 near the Liberty Canyon Road exit in Agoura Hills.
Crews arrived to find the plane on fire, billowing smoke. The fire was put out by 2:14 p.m., fire officials said. The pilot was removed uninjured, they said.
The crash landing clogged traffic in the region during busy commuter hours.
Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the agency had been notified of the crash and that the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board were going to investigate. Aside from the plane's model and the substantial damage it sustained, little was known so far about the incident.
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The plane was painted with World War II-era German air force markings, Rushing said. He said the plane that crashed was a North American AT-6. The squadron performs mock dogfights for air shows.
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Man, these things crash all the friggen time. And this is supposedly one of the safe and easy to fly ones. They always manage to find a way to clog a busy highway, too.
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Commuting with a Messerschmidt is so 1940s...
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[ABC] BARTOW, Fla. ‐ Police say two middle school girls, who worship Satan, armed themselves with knives in a foiled plot to violently kill classmates and drink their blood at school on Tuesday.
The 6th and 7th-grade girls attend Bartow Middle School, police say. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Bartow Police School Resource Officer assigned to the school was summoned to the principal's office in reference to an armed juvenile complaint.
The investigation revealed that the students armed themselves with knives, and planned on attacking fellow students during the school day.
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[Right Scoop] "People are really fearful because the Trump administration is perceived to be very anti-immigrant," Lee said. "There is legitimate concern that their information may be turned over to the federal government and that they may end up being detained or deported."
Lee and other community groups have been inviting prospective voters to register but also warning them of the risks. The city election department also has warnings on its registration form and on flyers saying voter information would be public and could be seen by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies.
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Be advised: Georgia voter tracking device. It triggers a hidden camera as you walk out of the polling place. Wearing it on a shirt pocket usually results in a clear head shot. Sensors within the peach transmit your fingerprint and 'Google tracks' you to your residence. Pharamone sensor can track your dietary habits (rice-beans) for up to seven days.
You see any of the polling place people wearing them? Of course not.
A revealing story on the voting booths, electronic voting cards, and polling place parking lot security cams will air in Friday's Burg.
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Georgia Voting Tracker??? Please link to the Onion article you got this from, or else start taking your medications again.
That's the problem these days, the world and people are so bent that you can't tell parody posts from posts by people that really mean it.
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I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, that Mr. B is pulling your leg.
However, as Muggeridge’s Law states (I'm misquoting from memory) "It is no longer possible to be funny. Whatever goofy-ass, silly thing you can imagine is already being acted out, usually by someone famous".
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At Rantburg, the pickers and grinners
Who serve up your fried chicken dinners
Are sober and thrifty
And always drive fifty
On wheels within wheels (and not spinners).
[Freebeacon] A document that was deleted from the website of a progressive group shows Democratic congressional candidate Katie Porter, who is running in California's competitive 45th district against Republican representative Mimi Walters, would immediately back a far-left agenda and legislation if elected to Congress, including creating a commission to study reparations for slavery. Give Katie a break. She thinks and acts no differently than any other democrat.
The document was uploaded to the Progressive Democrats of America's website but was deleted after the Washington Free Beacon contacted the group over a similar document in relation to Harley Rouda, the Democratic candidate in California's 48th congressional district. Before contacting the group about Rouda's answers, the Free Beacon downloaded responses by other candidates in the event the group scrubbed the files from the site, which they did.
On a questionnaire Porter submitted to the Progressive Democrats of America as she was seeking the group's endorsement, she signaled that she would support far-left legislation despite telling CNBC in early September that Democrats would "go to work in a serious way on the most pressing issues facing Americans."
Porter signaled that she would immediately support the likes of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, the creation of a Department of Peacebuilding, the Jobs for All Act, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, and the Raise the Wage Act, among a slew of other pieces of far-left legislation.
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....the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
Already in place and working splendidly, has been for years. Visit your local IRS, Social Security, Postal Office, or any other government facility and check out the staff.
[ABC News] CAMERON, N.C. (WTVD) -- A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County Wednesday afternoon, Fort Bragg officials confirmed.
No one was injured.
The neighborhood is in the town of Cameron. This incident occurred around 1 p.m. during a training exercise.
"A load of some kind was released early and we're looking into how it happened," said Michael Novogradac, a spokesman for the USArmy's Operational Test Command.
The C-17 aircraft carries supplies and equipment into war zones and, on Wednesday, the special operations team was practicing that type of scenario when the accident happened.
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What's the drift range for a heavy static drop?
I was beyond terrible at airspeed, wind drift, pallet weight and forward throw drop zone calculations. From 1500 feet however, probably not very damn much.
My guess (and only a guess) is that it was a Computerized Air Release Point (CARP) drop. Wrong data in....
[Washington Examiner] Democrats are gearing up to use attempted bomb attacks on frequent objects of President Trump’s criticism, including the Clintons and former President Barack Obama, as part of their closing argument less than two weeks out from the midterm elections.
Although Trump denounced these "despicable acts," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said his "words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence," listing his reaction to Charlottesville, praise for a congressman who body-slammed a reporter, description of media outlets as the "enemy of the people," and encouragement of fights at his raucous campaign rallies as examples of his coarsening of the public discourse and incitement of a violent political culture.
It’s a tactic that has worked before. Then-President Bill Clinton struck back at anti-government rhetoric in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and eventually used a heroic survivor of that attack to rebuke congressional Republicans for government shutdowns. "I challenge all of you in this chamber: Never, ever shut the federal government down again," he said in his 1996 State of the Union address.
Some have credited Clinton’s response to Oklahoma City with saving his presidency after the 1994 elections dramatically handed Congress to Republicans for the first time in decades. "The haters and extremists didn’t go away, but they were on the defensive, and, for the rest of my term, would never quite regain the position they had enjoyed after Timothy McVeigh took the demonization of government beyond the limits of humanity," he wrote in his memoirs.
[Wash Examiner] The Interior Department on Wednesday approved what would be the first oil and gas production facility in federal waters off the coast of Alaska, part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand where the U.S. produces fossil fuels.
Energy company Hilcorp proposes to build a nine-acre artificial gravel island in shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean, calling it the Liberty Project. The project would be near four other oil and gas producing artificial islands in waters that the state controls.
"Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said. "That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe."
Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued conditional approval for the project after evaluating the potential environmental impacts, and incorporating input from the public, and from North Slope communities and tribes. Hilcorp still must obtain other permits from local, state, and federal agencies before moving forward with construction, development, and production, according to Guy Hayes, a BOEM spokesman.
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...And yet, not a sound in the media. Lots of stuff about bombs and a terrorist/terrorist sympathiser who may have met a fitting end, but nothing on this.
Mike
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Mike, does that comment belong in a different thread? Because I don’t understand how it fits here.
[Atlantic] If you are on the proverbial market, as you rack up phone swipes, first dates, and‐likely‐new sexual partners, you might start to ask yourself, Is all this dating going to make me happier with whomever I end up with?
In other words, are you actually getting any closer to finding "the one"? Or are you simply stuck on a hedonic treadmill of potential lovers, doomed like some sort of sexual Sisyphus to be perpetually close to finding your soul mate, only to realize‐far, far too late‐that they are deal-breakingly disappointing?
Well, sociology has some unfortunate news!
Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a "very happy" marriage. Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness‐about 13 percentage points lower than the one-partner women‐belong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, there’s still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it’s never as low as it gets for women, as Wolfinger’s graph shows:
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Eventually, if one lives long enough, no sex and no partner
...is all that’s left. Unless you are the only man on your floor of the retirement home. In which case, beware STDs and desperately flirtatious elderly females.
Don't want to hear about them. Don't want to hear from them. Don't want to be compared with any of them.
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I never worried about previous girlfriends. They were the experiences he needed in order to learn to appreciate me properly. Ditto on my side of the equation.
[Guardian] The Lasershow Spectacular (™) is a celebration of brand America. Its huge 3D video projection ("taller than the Statue of Liberty!") pulls out all the stops ‐ depicting patriotic icons from bald eagles to Mickey Mouse to towering letters spelling U-S-A, with lots of fiery explosions and a rousing musical score with at least eight separate key changes. The official website boasts that "the Lasershow is now so spectacular, the FAA must be consulted to ensure airplanes don’t become blinded by lasers."
Families visiting the park, which is Georgia’s most popular tourist attraction, come here to picnic on the grand lawn and gaze up at the show, which is projected directly on to Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument. The show ends with the three sculptures of the Confederate leaders ‐ Generals Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Confederate president Jefferson Davis ‐ coming to life and "riding off" into the evening sky.
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[Observer - 04/06/16] The hand of Russian intelligence behind some European far-right politicians and sensationalist news stories can be detected by those with the skilled eyes to see it, but there have also been nagging questions about whether the Kremlin is stoking the migrant crisis itself. It’s undeniably true that Syria, a Russian client state, has been perfectly happy to export its huge refugee problem to Europe, while Mr. Putin’s military intervention in that bloody civil war last year has only increased the flows of desperate Syrian refugees seeking sanctuary in the West.
But does Russian intelligence play a more direct role in encouraging migrants to head for the EU? Several Western security services have hinted at this reality, but only recently have any European governments been willing to go on the record with their concerns. In mid-February, Finland’s defense minister bluntly stated that the flow of migrants into his country via Russia was "our most serious challenge." Now, with refugees taking an Arctic route into the EU from Russia in unprecedented numbers, Helsinki is openly accusing the Kremlin and its intelligence services of flooding Finland, and therefore the EU, with refugees as a political weapon to destabilize Europe.
This notion, which may sound far-fetched to neophytes, is taken very seriously by leading EU and NATO members, particularly those unlucky enough to be located close to Russia. "This is all the FSB," explained a senior security official from one of NATO’s border states, referring to Russia’s powerful Federal Security Service. "Migrants go where the FSB sends them, many of the human traffickers are FSB agents," adding that for the Kremlin this is a "win-win since it gets the migrants out of their lap and drops them in ours."
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If it worked for the Russians in destabilizing Europe, perhaps it will work for the Russians using Cuban proxy, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro against the U.S.
A year ago President Trump said the U.S. was considering a "military option" for Venezuela, and last month Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said there's now "a very strong argument" that Venezuela presents a security threat to South America that calls for the use of the U.S. military.
Seemed like a rather strange statement from Senator Rubio at the time. Perhaps not so strange in light of recent events.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Three mortar missiles have been fired against a liberated village in northeast of Diyala province, a security source said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said “three mortar missiles fell, this evening, in the vicinity of Zeham village. No casualties were reported.”
The missiles, according to the source, “were fired from al-Zor basin, where Islamic State militants still exist.”
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi troops arrested on Wednesday two members of the terrorist Islamic State group in Diyala province, a security source was quoted as saying.
“A force from the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces arrested two of Islamic State militants, who were planning to flee into al-Adhim district in Diyala to carry out terrorist attacks there,” Iraqi website Almaalomah quoted the source as saying.
The source added that the pair were seized with communications devices in their possession.
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Commo devices? How many likes do they have on Facebook?
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led Coalition jets have carried out Arclight airstrikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... locations, leaving tens of murderous Moslems killed and injured, amid progress by the Syrian Democratic Forces, east of Euphrates.
In a statement,SDF said "murderous Moslems attempted to carry out an an attack using four booby-trapped vehicles against our fighters, however, we managed to confront them and control one of the vehicles after the driver was killed."
The coalition jets, according to the statement, "carried out ten airstrikes against the murderous Moslems locations in east of Euphrates, leaving many of them killed and injured."
The statement also indicated resuming its progress at al-Sousah village.It noted that the coalition artillery targeted four pockets for the Lion of Islams, killing number of them without knowing the exact figures.However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... SDF said troops controlled more regions after fierce confrontations, where 29 murderous Moslems were killed.
The Islamic State’s last stronghold in east of Euphrates includes villages of al-Bagoz, Hajin, al-Shaafa, al-Sousah, Abu Khater and abul Hassan.
In September, each of the Coalition and SDF announced the launch of operations, east of Euphrates.
SDF controls 28 percent of the Syrian lands, becoming the second controller of lands, after the regime forces, which control around 60 percent.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi troops placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Wednesday an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist, who is involved in launching attacks against security forces and civilians in Baghdad.
"Troops of the 42nd brigade of military intelligence managed to arrest a terrorist in al-Mada’in district in southern Baghdad while trying to flee the area," the Iraqi Baghdad Today website quoted the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate as saying in a statement.
"The arrestee had launched terrorist several terrorist attacks against security forces and civilians in al-Mada’in district," the statement added.
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[Wash Times] In Jean Raspail’s 1973 dystopian novel, "The Camp of the Saints," about 1 million poor folks from India make their way on hundreds of ships around the southern tip of Africa and up to the French Riviera. The international media use helicopters to follow the flotilla, and the news of the flotilla’s movements dominates the headlines for weeks.
As the flotilla gets closer to France, panic sets in, and fear becomes a political weapon. The government doesn’t know what to do. The president of France finally orders the French military to secure the borders and use deadly force to prevent the flotilla from landing.
Then, after pangs of conscience set in and animate him, the president tells senior military personnel to instruct their troops to use their own judgment and do the right thing. With the exception of some stereotypical holdouts, the military members take their arms and flee into the countryside.
The flotilla lands. The passengers have no desire to assimilate, and they murder people who do not welcome them. They change immigration laws and become a paradigm for other mass migrations. Across the West, pro-immigrant governments are established.
When the book was first published, it found favor in many nativist quarters. It is brilliantly written, and the standard English translation offers compelling reading and is hard to put down. It is also rabidly racist, portraying nearly all in the West as thoughtful, intelligent and honest and nearly everyone of color as avaricious, lazy and amoral.
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It is also rabidly racist, portraying nearly all in the West as thoughtful, intelligent and honest and nearly everyone of color as avaricious, lazy and amoral.
Throughout the book, Raspail does consistently describe the invaders as brown. Which they are. But if you read through to the end, the author explicitly makes the point that it is all about culture and skin color has nothing to do with it.
The book was disturbing in that the Europeans simply threw up their hands and did nothing to stop the invasion. Doubly so when the same events, differing only by scale and continent of origin, played out on the daily news. And now, we are watching it again. I can only hope the ending will be different this time.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a powerful assault in the western part of Aleppo, tonight, a military source told al-Masdar News.
Led by their Elite Republican Guard forces, the Syrian Arab Army fired a large number of missiles and artillery shells towards the jihadist rebels in the al-Zahra’a, Kafr Hamra, and al-Layramoun areas of Aleppo.
The Syrian Arab Army is still striking these three areas at the moment, with most of their missiles and shells concentrated on the positions of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
Tonight’s attack by the Syrian Arab Army comes just days after they threatened to strike the jihadist rebels in western Aleppo if they did not withdraw from the designated buffer zone.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham responded to the Syrian Arab Army’s threats last week by firing several missiles at the western districts of Aleppo city.
The Syrian Army is awaiting approval from their high command and Russian military advisers to launch their ground assault in western Aleppo.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six Talibs were killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the U.S. forces in eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the airstrike waas carried out in Nur Geram district of Nuristan.
The statement further added that the snuffies were targeted in Ganda Labok area of the district, leaving at least six of them dead.
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[MiamiHerald] A political action committee launched by parents of Parkland students is scaling back its 2018 midterm plans in the wake of disappointing fund raising totals.
The group, Families vs. Assault Rifles, was launched in May by Jeffrey Kasky and Sergio Rozenblat, the parents of students who survived the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The pair worked with Matt Gohd, the group’s California-based executive director, who said he was inspired by the shooting to become more involved politically.
“I have a teenage daughter, I wanted to feel like I had done everything I could to make sure this didn’t happen again,” Gohd said. More at the link
[ALMASDARNEWS] Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda was freed after being held hostage in Syria for more than three years, footage filmed on Wednesday in Antakya.
In his short statement Jumpei Yasuda confirmed his identity and the details of his captivity: "My name is Jumpei Yasuda, Japanese journalist. I have been held in Syria for 40 months. Now I’m in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , now I’m in safe condition, safe condition."
Yasuda was reportedly taken hostage by a holy warrior group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria in 2015, where he went to report on the civil war.
The release was reportedly facilitated by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Turkey.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Adel Abdel Mahdi has been sworn in as Iraq’s prime minister as politicians approved a partial list of his proposed cabinet of ministers and program on Wednesday.
The cabinet list also includes former interim oil minister Thamer Ghadhban as oil minister.
Veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Hussein was appointed finance minister, according to politicians. Parliament will vote on the remaining eight ministers at a later date.
Key portfolios such as defence and interior affairs remain unassigned, an official said.
A total of 220 politicians out of 329 elected in May to a deeply divided parliamant, approved Mahdi's 14 picks, including for the ministries of foreign affairs, finances, and petroleum.
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Call me when they elect a non-muzz...
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[An Nahar] Israel on Wednesday allowed a resumption of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-financed fuel deliveries to Gazoo after a 12-day halt it imposed over heavy border festivities, the Paleostinian territory's sole power plant said.
A front man for the plant said eight truckloads were expected to cross from Israel during the day, under a UN-brokered deal to ease hardship in the Israeli-blockaded enclave that had been suspended on October 12.
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[DAWN] United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday renewed calls on Pakistain to curb turbans fighting in Afghanistan, saying Washington was holding its uneasy war partner accountable.
Pompeo made the comment as he welcomed long-delayed legislative elections in Afghanistan, saying the US was "encouraged" by voter turnout, despite reports of widespread problems including poll centres that failed to open or lacked voter rolls.
"Our expectation is that Pakistain will not provide safe harbour to forces of Evil on their western border," Pompeo told news hounds when asked about Islamabad's role.
"We couldn't have made that message any more clear," he said, adding: "Pakistain will be held to account if they don't achieve that, if they're not sincere in that effort."
"Everyone wants a reconciliation in Afghanistan and to achieve that, you can't have a safe harbour for Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , for Haqqani and for others inside of Pakistain," he said, listing bully boy movements fighting in Afghanistan.
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 administration last month cut $300 million in military aid to Pakistain after years of US complaints that Islamabad has kept nurturing ties with faceless myrmidons that target both Afghanistan and rival India.
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[aalAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed 11 runawaybully boyz in a shootout in the country's Western Desert, the interior ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
The shootout occurred during a dawn raid on a hideout in a mountainous area in the Farafra Oasis region, southwest of Cairo, the ministry said in a statement published on its official Facebook page.
The "terrorists" were killed after they opened fire on security forces when they approached them, the ministry said, adding that authorities are still determining their identities.
Four machine guns, three pistols, five boom belts, a handgun and a rifle were found at the hideout, the statement said.
Egypt in February launched a large-scale operation against holy warriors that have launched numerous attacks on security forces and civilians in recent years, killing hundreds.
[An Nahar] Saudi authorities denied permission to Ottoman Turkish police to search a well in the garden of the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul as part of a probe into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, state media reported Wednesday.
Ottoman Turkish police this month searched the consulate twice, and the residence of the Saudi consul general, to gather evidence into what President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said was a "savage murder" of Khashoggi.
The Washington Post contributor and Riyadh critic was killed inside the Saudi consulate on October 2, which he had visited to obtain documents for his marriage to a Ottoman Turkish woman.
Basing its report on the security sources, the Anadolu news agency reported that Ottoman Turkish police "were denied authorization by Saudi officials to search the well in the consulate garden."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... is conducting its own investigation into the killing but it remains unclear where the body of Khashoggi is.
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Erdogan's gonna be reeeeally pissed that Khashoggi Fever™ has been eclipsed by the false flag not a real pipe bomb story. Journolists can only handle one CRISIS! at a time
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Shhh. We've got the 12th Imam down there!
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[An Nahar] Honduras has the world's highest murder rate per capita. El Salvador is second. Maybe it's vice versa this year. Not surprisingly, Guatamala and Venezuela aren't far behind them in terms of lethality. I wonder if that's due to global warming, too? Anyone? Bueller? Occam?
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Weather reports they can't watch because they don't have teevees. Internet hysteria they can't read because they don't have internet. And, uh, can't read. Yeah that's the explanation...
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Yeah, the difference between 97F and 97.2F is the driver...
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I'm sure it was an internet video that started all this.
[DAWN] Police said Indian forces killed two Kashmiris during a gunbattle in the outskirts of held Kashmire's main city on Wednesday, sparking anti-India protests by residents.
Indian troops laid a siege around a neighbourhood in Srinagar on a tip that Kashmiri fighters were hiding there.
The searches by troops triggered an exchange of gunfire, resulting in the deaths of two armed Kashmiris and injuries to four Indian soldiers and two counterinsurgency coppers.
The fighting sparked protests and festivities as residents tried to march to the site of the battle in solidarity with the Kashmiri fighters.
Indian forces fired warning shots, shotgun pellets and tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters, injuring at least four people.
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A senior clerk from the Central Jail Adiala, who claimed that grocery items brought for prisoners were being sold in the market, has filed a complaint with the city police officer (CPO).
Javaid Iqbal said in his complaint that he intercepted a van loaded with rice, ghee and pulses at Gate No.5 of Adiala jail Monday night. The good were being transported from the jail store to a private go-down located opposite the jail’s gate, he added.
He claimed the transportation of the goods could be seen on CCTV and in a video circulated on social media.
He added that he was followed by individuals in a white car on his way home, and took refuge in the jail colony house. He said two hours later, the owner of the go-down and two others came to his home and tried to arrest him.
He said that when he saw the go-down owner, he left his home and spent the night in an under-construction house on the jail premises.
In his complaint, he said he was being victimised for unearthing the theft of grocery items brought for prisoners.
After the incident came to light, the Inspector General Prisons Shahid Saleem Baig ordered an inquiry and deputed the DIG Rawalpindi to report within three days.
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[DAWN] Thousands of Central American migrants colonists awoke on Tuesday in a makeshift encampment in a rain-soaked town square in far-southern Mexico, some weary, foot-sore and coughing, still distant from their goal of reaching the US border.
The caravan, estimated to include more than 7,000 people, had advanced about 75kms since crossing the border from Guatemala, and still faced more than 1,000 miles, and likely much further, to the end of the journey.
But as the sun rose, a chorus of coughs arose from the shapeless forms wrapped in blankets and bits of plastic sheeting.
Burned by the relentless heat and the night’s chill, eating badly and sleeping rough, many appeared to be developing respiratory symptoms.
Forty-eight-year-old Edwin Enrique Jimenez Flores of Tela, Honduras had one of those persistent coughs, but still vowed to reach the US to seek work.
"I feel strong. My feet are good," he said.
But Marlon Anibal Castellanos, a 27-year-old former bus driver from San Pedro Sula was finding the journey difficult as he prepared to rest Monday night. He was travelling with his wife as well as his nine-year-old daughter and six-year-old son.
"It’s difficult to travel with children," he said. "Today we walked six hours" before finally paying 25 pesos about $1.30 from their thin savings to a passing van driver who took then the rest of the way to Huixtla.
"It’s dangerous. There are no ambulances and if the children pass out, they could die because there is no [medical] help."
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Forty-eight-year-old Edwin Enrique Jimenez Flores of Tela, Honduras had one of those persistent coughs, but still vowed to reach the US to seek work.
That right there is hilarious! Who's dumb enough to believe that, besides the 'reporter'?
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"It’s difficult to travel with children," he said. "Today we walked six hours" before finally paying 25 pesos about $1.30 from their thin savings to a passing van driver who took then the rest of the way to Huixtla.
"It’s dangerous. There are no ambulances and if the children pass out, they could die because there is no [medical] help."
Damned irresponsible to endanger your children that way. Go home, dude.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... coup militias tightened their security and monitoring measures against officials and ministers in the coup government in Sanaa, fearing they might break away and flee to areas under the control of the Yemeni legitimate government.
The pro-Iranian militias staged a wide campaign of arrests involving officers of the former Elite Republican Guard.
According to security sources, a number of its senior political officials, among them Yahya al-Raii, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, who has been assigned a security team and a driver of the Houthis, are under house arrest.
The Houthi militias’ measures are nothing new, as ministers in their coup government suffer from marginalization, mistreatment and strict control, after the Minister of Tourism Nasser Baqzquz submitted his resignation and his request to allow him to leave Sana’a as a result of threats from the Director of the Office of the President of the so-called Supreme Political Council of the coup militias.
The deputy minister of education in the coup-government of the Houthi pro-Iranian militias, Dr. Abdullah al-Hamdi, said that he broke with the militias, calling to rise up against these rejected militias from 90% of the Yemeni people who are suffering from hunger, death and poverty due to the militias.
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Where is the digitalis-nightshade-qat hybrid?
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Flee Sanaa? Why?! That's one of the best restaurants at Disney World! Just order another round of the bread service and some more drinks, and they'll hang around!
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Apparently the Saudi-American Aggression is working
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. Coalition clashed with an unknown group in northeastern Aleppo this week after the latter opened fire on a base near the city of Manbij.
"They [coalitions forces] received gunfire from undisclosed persons and returned fire, and it ended quickly, skirmish at best," Army Colonel Sean Ryan, Spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), told Kurdistan 24.
"But we don’t know who fired and it was during a US-MMC [Manbij Military Council] patrol," he added.
According to Kurdistan 24, a Syrian Kurdish journalist Hosheng Hesen posted a video on his Twitter account that reportedly showed the festivities between US troops in Manbij and armed rebel factions backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... "US troops stationed in Manbij clash with the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions. On the 15th of this month, the armed Ottoman Turkish-backed factions targeted the village of Bughaz in Manbij," he wrote on Twitter.
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It sure would be fun if they managed to capture those Turks.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos confirmed this week that he has asked state Attorney General Ken Paxton to open an investigation into the Democratic Party’s attempts to ask non-citizens to sign up to vote.
"The numerous calls and complaints we have received regarding pre-filled voter registration applications sent to ineligible voters are highly disturbing," Mr. Pablos said in a statement Monday.
He was referring to mail the state Democratic Party sent out urging people to sign up to vote, and warning of deadlines if they didn’t act quickly. The mailing included a voter application that already had the boxes for age and citizenship status pre-checked.
Some of the mail went to non-citizens, who are actually ineligible.
The mailings, while sent from the state party, had pre-addressed return envelopes addressed to elections officials, leaving some residents with the impression they were official communications from the state.
Encouraging someone to submit a fraudulent registration form is a crime ‐ though officials said it would take an investigation to know whether the party’s mailings cross that line.
The Washington Times reported on the mailings last week after the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed complaints with prosecutors in two Texas counties.
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"honest mistake," which of course dems can make but GOP cannot...
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Long lines are already forming for the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
[Al Jazeera] At least 10 people were killed in an air raid that struck a group of farmers in a vegetable market in Yemen's Hodeidah province, medical workers and residents said.
The Saudi-UAE alliance, which has carried out hundreds of air strikes in the country, said it was investigating the incident.
At least nine others were killed in the attack in Bayt al-Faqih, around 70km south of the city of Hodeidah, according to medical sources, while 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 ... sources put the number of dead at 19 with 10 others maimed.
Al Jazeera could not immediately verify the number of casualties, which were reported by Rooters.
In June, forces loyal to Yemen's government, alongside Saudi and Emirati forces, launched an offensive to take the city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels, but have struggled to make significant gains.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A series of intense festivities broke out between the jihadist rebel factions inside the Idlib Governorate on Wednesday, local opposition activists reported via social media.
According to the reports, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Suqour al-Sham faction of the National Liberation Front clashed inside the town of Jarjinaz on Wednesday, resulting in a number of casualties for both parties.
The reports said that as many as five jihadist rebels were killed during the festivities, while two civilians were caught in the crossfire.
Both light and medium weapons were used during the festivities, the reports continued.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF fires Iron Dome interceptor but apparently misses target, which falls in open area of southern Israel; residents rush to bomb shelters after alarms sound
Israeli aircraft bombed several targets in the Gazoo Strip early Thursday, the IDF said after a single rocket was fired into Israel, ending a week-long stretch of relative calm in the Gazoo Strip.
The army said IAF aircraft struck Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", targets in the north of the Strip and in the south near the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The IDF said it hit eight targets at the three sites, including Hamas training bases and a weapons production facility.
Late Wednesday, Paleostinian forces of Evil in Gazoo fired a single missile into Israel from the Gazoo Strip, the army said, with the projectile apparently falling in an open field despite after a failed interception attempt. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The IDF said it had identified a single launch from the Strip toward Israel and "an interceptor was fired at it."
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the missile apparently missed its target, Israel Radio reported, and the rocket from Gazoo landed in an open field in southern Israel.
Residents of the area reported hearing the sounds of kabooms following the sirens.
The Israeli military initially said it was investigating what triggered the sirens, which sounded in the communities of Urim and Patish in the central Negev.
An Eshkol region spokesperson said emergency response personnel were searching the area.
The alarms ended a relative calm that has persisted in the Gazoo Strip region following a flareup between the Hamas terrorist group and Israel last Wednesday, which was sparked by a rocket launched from the coastal enclave that struck a home in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
[Ynet] Firefighting forces aided by KKL and the Nature and Parks Authority battled eight fires so far Wednesday that broke out near the Gazoo border as a result of incendiary balloons.
[An Nahar] Clashes between rival clans have killed more than 40 people in two days in a disputed region of northern Somalia, one of the worst such confrontations seen in the area, local officials and elders said.
The festivities began early Tuesday and continued on Wednesday around remote villages in the Sool region between militias from rival Darod sub-clans.
"We are calling for a ceasefire from the brotherly clans, this is a serious situation we have more than 40 people killed since yesterday and nearly 100 others are maimed," Ismail Yasin, a traditional elder from the region, said Wednesday.
Mohammed Abdulahi, a security official in the regional capital Galkayo said the "corpse count is nearly 50, this is the deadliest conflict in the area."
Most of the casualties were reported in the village of Dhumay.
Local elders said the fighting between Dhulbahante militias in the Sool region was still ongoing, with the use of heavy weaponry.
The region has long been disputed between the breakaway state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , whose rival forces last clashed in May, leaving dozens dead.
Somalia's myriad clans -- made up of sub-clans and extended networks -- are a defining feature of society and identity.
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[JustOneMinute] The Russian landed at Dulles after 48 hours of traveling. Of necessity, he came from Moscow by a circuitous route. A long way with a very specific task. There would be no return flight.
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When it was time, he went downstairs, took his place in the lobby before the entourage appeared. The hotel staff had been lined up to see their boss, the president, go by. A few of them applauded. Most did not.
The president didn’t seem to notice. He waved, in his desultory fashion. The Secret Service agents clustered around him, ushered him toward the armored limo idling outside at the curb.
The Russian waited until they were a few steps past before he drew the gun. He sighted on the center of the president’s back, and squeezed the trigger.
The Makarov misfired.
The Secret Service agent at the president’s shoulder heard the click, spun into a crouch. He registered the scene instantly, drawing his own weapon with razor-edge reflexes.
The Russian tasted failure. He closed his eyes and waited to pay the cost.
It did not come.
He opened his eyes. The Secret Service agent stood before him, presenting his Glock, butt first.
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So the NYT says Trump is a Russian operative but the Russians would kill him anyway? At least they understand Russian spy operations...
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Oh no. Clearly the writer is — rather poorly – saying that there’s a conspiracy between the Russians and the Deep State to get rid of the president the people elected.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three family members of a Taliban ...Arabic for students... group member was killed in an kaboom triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan. "Honey? Have you seen my bomb?"
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the incident took place inside the house of a famous Taliban IED expert identified as Sadruddin. "We're about to have dinner and you left it in the middle of the table! I put it in the oven for safekeeping!"
The statement further added that Sadruddin was busy in making an IED when it went off prematurely, leaving his wife and two children dead. "But I thought I smelled pie baking?"
"Oh, dear!"
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She will make him miserable for the rest of eternity.
[DAWN] Four school children were maimed on Wednesday in Killi Shabo area of Quetta when unidentified motorcyclists shot up the gate of an educational institute, DawnNewsTV reported citing police sources.
The incident happened with unidentified button men on cycle of violences opened fire on the gate of Danish Kadah School ‐ a private establishment located in the city suburbs.
Four children received bullets on their legs as a result of firing. They were rushed to the Civil Hospital, and are now in stable, pH balanced condition.
Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Home Minister Mir Saleem Ahmed Khosa condemned the firing incident, adding: "The elements involved in this incident will be apprehended soon.
"[We] will not let Balochistan's peace be unsettled under any condition."
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[DAWN] Pakistain on Wednesday rejected Kabul's "baseless" and "unfounded allegations" regarding a recent attack in Kandahar, in which three top Afghan officials were killed when their own guards opened fire on them.
The FO's comments come a day after Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. alleged that the attack on slain Kandahar police commander Gen Abdul Raziq was planned in Pakistain, Tolo News reported.
"I want to say that this conspiracy was plotted in Pakistain. So Pakistain should give us the criminals so that we can bring them to justice," Ghani claimed.
A Foreign Office (FO) statement, without referring to specific statements, said: "Pakistain rejects baseless and unfounded allegations regarding the latest Kandahar attacks. No hard evidence or intelligence-related information has been shared to date with Pakistain to substantiate such claims."
The FO pointed out that "it would have been more appropriate to invoke the relevant arrangement" under the Afghanistan-Pakistain Action Plan for Peace and Stability "to mutually and effectively address and investigate any such unfortunate incidents... instead of resorting to media blame game which is contrary to the seven principles of cooperation agreed between the two sides earlier this year."
A Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi who grabbed credit for the Oct 18 attack earlier told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that United States Gen Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... troops in Afghanistan ‐ who had escaped the attack unharmed ‐ was the intended target.
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We should never, ever have been there in the first place. Nobody asked us, all we did is become another faction in tribal politics, and the famine was already over by the time we arrived.
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Amen, Herb...
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Herb - just set it as a Macro
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Herb certainly nails it about Somalia, and most of the other foreign engagements we've been involved in since the end of WWII as well. Globalism is absolute bullshit !
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I was watching TV news well before we went there. It was 'You to do something about this' coverage of the famine in Somalia. Manipulation, pure and simple. Great for ratings. They played the idiots in the Beltway as usual. I said then, they want us to get in there and then turn on us when we do. Soldiers got killed for nothing, but for the 'evening news'.
By law (Nichols-Goldwater Act) the Task Force was suppose to be under the senior military commander on the ground. That would have been the 10th Mtn Div commander, but instead the Delta People didn't operate that way. That left the 10th no opportunity to have a standby force ready when crap hit the fan. The only standby force were Paks who were UN and not necessarily there for their skill and proficiency.
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Dipshit Bill Clinton refused to let our troops have armor deeming it, to provocative. Bizzare day when our troops got rescued by Paki armor.
Then there was the White House announcing when and where the SEALS were landing. The Time photo of SEALs at night, crawling up in the surf, surrounded by reporters. The look on their faces was one big WTF.
Anyways Mogadishu and been moved to Minneapolis and all of Hennepin county.
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Bill Clinton refused to let our troops have armor deeming it, to provocative.
Mark Bowden's book, "Black Hawk Down", goes into some detail about the stupidity and cascading fuckupedness of the whole situation. He also makes the unrecognized point that a small group of US soldiers stood off an entire city of full of armed crazies. A very readable book.
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P2K, generally speaking your right. But in this instance their command structure was higher than 10th Mountain. 10th should have been subordinate to the TF. Even so, the SOCOM TF supports the AOR commander, but does not report to him. The TF commander is required to deconflict operations, which he did. He is under zero requirement to share any mission planning or execution. If we remember in the late 80's and early 90's conventional forced did not know how to work with SOF and did not want them in their AOR, Desert Storm is a great example of a 4 star not wanting SOF and then realizing he had to have it, and not control it. Times have changed and conventional forces commander have a better understanding of how the SOF missions work and who is pulling the trigger on approvals for those missions.
I hear all the time we did not need to be there. I think this crowd gets it, but that usually implies the guys got what they deserved for being there. These guy at TF Ranger went where the president directed them, they executed the presidential directives, its not their call if the war is just or not.
Lastly, what got them in trouble is they used the same approach, departure, and execution templates. That made their actions predictive. A mistake that will never happen again in SOF.
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On hand-held, btwn reps on the tri-press. I blame SOF cockups like Mog on their country-team lip lock. There, I said it.
No, we don't work for CENTCOM, ARCENT, AFRICOM. Our C-2 comes from elsewhere. We've got a unique mission from 'downtown.' We've been doing it for 18+ years.... and as you can see, we know WTF we're doing. So scram !
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The way I understand it is GHW Bush got us in there, he sent a lot of Marines and troops with a simple mission to distribute food. MIssion somewhat accomplished most were sent home.
Then Clinton became President and with fewer military on the ground he increased the tempo and aggressiveness of their actions which eventually led to the Blackhawk Down incident.
[PULSE.NG] Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said his government would seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) despite a $6 billion pledge from Saudi Arabia to stem a deepening balance of payments crisis.
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[PULSE.NG] Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's "heinous murder" would have been unthinkable "without US backing," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday.
"I don't think that any country would dare do such a thing without US backing," Rouhani said in remarks to cabinet broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Rouhani said that before Khashoggi's murder "it would have been unthinkable that in this day and age we would witness such an organised felony.
"It is extremely significant that an institution planned such a heinous murder.
"The tribal group that is ruling that nation (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... ) has a security margin. That security margin is that it relies on US backing. It is this superpower that is backing them."
Khashoggi, a government critic who was living in self-imposed exile in the United States, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 as he organised the paperwork for his marriage to his Ottoman Turkish fiancee.
The case has triggered an international outcry against Saudi Arabia. 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... on Tuesday ridiculed Riyadh's response as "one of the worst cover-ups" in history.
Iran had been silent about the Khashoggi case until Monday when its judiciary chief slammed Saudi Arabia over his death.
"This heinous murder further revealed the nature of Saudis, their kingdom and that young man who is seeking fame and murdering innocent people," Sadegh Amoli Larijani was quoted as saying by the judiciary's news agency Mizan Online, apparently referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
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[PULSE.NG] La Belle France is seeking to repatriate some of the 150 children of French jihadists identified as being in Syria, as Western nations grapple with how to handle citizens who left to join Death Eaters.
A French official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said Gay Paree would repatriate the children "as much as is possible, on the condition that the mother agrees".
"We're starting to look at how this might work," the source added.
French authorities only have a precise location for some of the children, making these the only viable cases for potential repatriation, the source said, declining to give figures.
The cases of the 150 youngsters, some of whom are being held in camps in Kurdish-held northern Syria after the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group was driven from the area, were flagged up by authorities there or by their families in La Belle France.
Most are under six years old and were born in Syria.
The mothers of any repatriated children would be left in Syria, the source said.
Like other Western nations reluctant to bring jihadists back onto their soil, La Belle France has so far ruled out repatriating men who left to fight alongside IS, or women who left to marry them.
"Those who committed crimes in Iraq and Syria must be brought to justice in Iraq and Syria," the foreign ministry said.
"Minors are the exception, and their situation will be examined on a case by case basis. We have a duty to protect children's interests."
Yet bringing the children to La Belle France will be highly complicated, not least because Kurdish-held Syria is not a recognised state, and Gay Paree has cut off diplomatic ties with Damascus.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] US firms nationwide complain trade disputes with China and others are boosting the prices of key inputs, while they continue to face widespread labor shortages, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
The ongoing difficulty in filling open positions at all skill levels and in every region is delaying projects and pressuring firms to raise wages or benefits ‐ or even employ robots to ramp up production ‐ according to the Fed’s latest "beige book" survey of the economy.
While the reports from the Fed’s regional banks reflected a healthy US economy, with "modest to moderate growth," 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 aggressive tariff strategy, which has drawn retaliation from trading partners, is potentially adding fuel to inflation.
The central bank is watching price pressures closely to gauge how fast and how far to raise the benchmark lending rate, to allow the economy to continue to grow without an acceleration of inflation.
The Fed has raised the key interest rate three times this year and is widely expected to increase by another 0.25 percentage points in December.
"Manufacturers reported raising prices of finished goods out of necessity as costs of raw materials such as metals rose, which they attributed to tariffs," the Fed report said.
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Is the headline suggesting the labor shortages are related to the tariffs? No one would be dumb enough to believe that. Right? I mean, excepting Alexandria O-C.
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The last big hand-wringing over the economy as all about flat wages and people dropping out of the workforce. Now it's labor shortages and rising wages due to demand for workers. But that's OK, it's still a crisis, right?
[Al Jazeera] Israeli police broke up a sit-in by Coptic monks at a major Christian holy site in Jerusalem as they were protesting against restoration work at a nearby monastery claimed by their sect.
Scuffles broke out on Wednesday between police and priests in the forecourt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.
"The police attacked us and forced us to leave the area," Coptic Orthodox Church front man Father Markos Al Orshalimy told AFP news agency, following the protest in front of the holy site.
Al Orshalimy said several monks had been lightly injured, while one was placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and later released after the Egyptian embassy intervened.
Images on social media showed coppers holding a monk down on the ground, then carrying him away in handcuffs.
Tempest in a teapot — the various Christian sects have been fighting each other tooth and nail over control of the structure of the place since Byzantine times, which is why the keys to the church have been held by two Muslim families for 850 years. Since 1948 they’ve got to fight against the Jews as well.
[IsraelTime] Cairo’s embassy in Tel Aviv intervenes after Coptic monk arrested while protesting contested restoration work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located in Jerusalem’s Old City, is shared by several Christian denominations. A long-standing status quo governs the sects’ ownership and management of the holy site. Each group is fiercely protective of its territory, and even perceived alterations to the status quo have resulted in arguments or violence.
The Copts were protesting the start of restoration work by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, which both the Ethiopian and Egyptian Orthodox churches claim.
The antiquities authority was to perform repairs after a stone fell out of place in the chapel in September 2017.
On Wednesday, police said priests blocked the entrance and barred the workers’ entry, and officers were forced to remove the monks who were blocking workers from accessing the building site.
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[IsraelTimes] Residents of Tammun village attack troops with stones and fireworks during predawn raid, army says
A Paleostinian man was killed overnight in festivities with Israeli soldiers in a northern West Bank village, Paleostinian media reported.
A riot broke out when troops entered the village of Tammun, close to Jenin, during a predawn raid.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, some 50 Paleostinians threw rocks and set off fireworks at the soldiers that entered the village.
In response, the troops fired live rounds, as well as tear gas, at the rioters, the military said.
The official Paleostinian Authority news agency Wafa reported that the man was shot in the chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.
A medical source identified the dear departed as Muhammed Bisharat, 21, according to Wafa.
The report said approximately ten other Paleostinians suffered from various injuries.
No Israeli soldiers were reported injured.
A military spokesperson said she was aware of the reports of Paleostinian casualties, but refused to comment further.
In predawn raids across the West Bank, Israeli troops enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 16 Paleostinian suspects, the army said.
They were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for further questioning.
[Ynet] Israeli security forces incarcerated Please don't kill me! several Paleostinians early Wednesday who are suspected of aiding terrorist Ashraf Na'alwa, who murdered two Israelis in a terror attack at the Barkan industrial zone.
The arrest, which was done by undercover forces in the Tulkarm area as part of the manhunt for the terrorist, constitutes a significant development in the investigation into the attack.
The IDF and Border Police said that during the arrest, forces shot up the home of one of the suspects who was feared to be armed.
[AmericanThinker] According to Vice President Mike Pence, Honduras's president, Juan Orlando Hernández, told him that the illegal migrant caravan heading from his country through Mexico on to the U.S. is the work of Chavista Venezuela, with that country's oil cash being employed to destabilize both countries.
Here's what Breitbart reported, citing an interview with the Washington Post's Bob Costa:
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[IsraelTimes] Police on Wednesday announced that they had tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! a man on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack.
According to the Walla news site, police received a tip-off that a man was planning to carry out an attack in the area of the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv.
Security forces conducted wide-ranging searches in the city before locating the man, said to be in his 20s and from Jerusalem, at the Hemed intersection, on the main highway between the coastal city and Jerusalem.
Police sappers were called in to examine a bag discovered at the scene, but ruled out the presence of a bomb.
[An Nahar] 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 crown prince Wednesday denounced the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi as a "repulsive incident," insisting the kingdom was cooperating with Ottoman Turkish authorities and that "justice will prevail."
"The incident was very painful for all Saudis, it's a repulsive incident and no one can justify it," Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... said in his first comments since the murder of the journalist.
"Those responsible will be held accountable... in the end justice will prevail," the prince said, speaking in Arabic during an address to the Future Investment Initiative Forum in Riyadh.
"Many are trying to exploit the Khashoggi affair to drive a wedge between Saudi Arabia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," he said.
"But they will not succeed as long as there is a king named Salman and a crown prince named Mohammed bin Salman," MBS stressed.
Earlier in the day, a Ottoman Turkish presidential source said MBS and Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... discussed steps to "shed light" on Khashoggi's murder, in their first telephone conversation since the killing.
Erdogan has far spoken twice on the phone with 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.... since Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and Riyadh critic, was killed inside the Saudi consulate on October 2, which he had visited to obtain documents for his marriage to a Ottoman Turkish woman.
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The final report as of 10:09 ET last night, giving us a place to add today’s revelations, which hopefully will include the identity and purpose of the miscreant. Yesterday’s post on the George Soros bomb can be seen here; the post on the rest of the bombs found yesterday can be seen here.
[WSJ] Devices are similar to one found Monday in the mailbox of philanthropist George Soros’s New York home.
Federal officials later found similarly packaged explosives addressed to Mr. Obama’s Washington, D.C., residence and sent to CNN’s headquarters and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Florida office. Two suspicious packages addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters of California were also intercepted.
Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a photo of one of the packages, saying they were mailed in envelopes with a Bubble Wrap interior. Computer-printed address labels and six U.S. Postal Service stamps, some depicting the U.S. flag, were affixed to the front. All had a return address for “Debbie Wasserman Shultz,” with her last name misspelled.
Investigators believe the packages came from the same individual or individuals, officials said. As of Wednesday evening, law-enforcement officials said they hadn’t identified any suspects. A federal official described all the devices—none of which exploded—as “very similar in style,” potentially effective but “not sophisticated.”
The packages were similar to one found Monday in the mailbox of the Westchester County, N.Y., home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a prominent liberal donor, officials said. Authorities detonated that device and the evidence was sent to an FBI laboratory in Virginia, where all the devices are being analyzed.
The string of mail bombs led to tightened security around Washington, D.C., and New York City. It also drew widespread condemnation from both political parties two weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
The Secret Service said it had initiated a criminal investigation into the packages sent to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, both of whom receive Secret Service protection. Mr. Obama is protected as a former president, and Mrs. Clinton remains under protection as a former first lady.
Bombing incidents remain relatively uncommon in the U.S. falling 24% to 335 incidents last year from the year before, according to federal data.
The FBI said it was working with other law enforcement agencies. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has technical expertise on such matters, is also part of the investigation as is the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
On Tuesday night, the Secret Service recovered a single package containing an explosive device at a checkpoint outside the Chappaqua, N.Y., home of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The package was addressed to her, according to the Secret Service.
Secret Service agents then discovered another package addressed to Mr. Obama early Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
Both packages were identified during mail-screen procedures, and neither reached Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton.
The New York Police Department then warned businesses, urging security and mailroom staff to be on the lookout for suspicious packages, according to a senior law-enforcement official. The NYPD said that the suspicious packages might contain protruding wires, excessive or missing postage stamps, strange odors and oily stains on wrappers.
NYPD officials were in the CNN mailroom in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center advising staff on the warning signs when they found a package addressed to John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Mr. Obama. The package contained a pipe-bomb and white powder, according to Police Commissioner James O’Neill.
It wasn’t clear why the device found at CNN was addressed to Mr. Brennan.
Wednesday morning, bomb squads were dispatched to the Sunrise, Fla., office of Ms. Wasserman Schultz, a former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. A pipe bomb was found there in a package addressed to former Attorney General Eric Holder, who worked for the Obama administration, the FBI said.
The package didn’t reach its intended address, and was rerouted to Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s office, which was given as the return address, the FBI said.
A suspicious package intended for Ms. Waters in Washington was intercepted at a congressional mail facility in Maryland, the lawmaker said Wednesday. The FBI later confirmed it was also investigating a second package addressed to the lawmaker.
The Telegraph is liveblogging events here.
Update at 10:00a.m. EDT: My apologies — they were only liveblogging yesterday. Today they report only an article from noon Greenwich time reporting that former vice president Joe Biden and Robert DeNiro’s New York city restaurant were sent bombs.
The Daily Mail started a new article on the story last night at 9:23 EDT:
Delaware police conduct sweep of Biden's 7,000 square foot home in Greenville
Authorities believe that the package may still be in the mail system because it was misaddressed
Meanwhile, a second suspicious package was sent to California Rep. Waters
The package forced the evacuation of a mall outside Los Angeles
The crude devices were made of PVC tubing attached to a digital clock available for purchase on Amazon and included sulfur as explosives and shards of glass as shrapnel
This is a boom, not boom, update. Adam Housley says a federal official told him the bombs were complete fakes.
From fed source: “complete hoaxes” multiple wires when they only needed one. Reports of cell phones being involved was false. So no intention of harm. Now the questions. Dry run, or a false flag from the right or left trying to mess over the other side?
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 24, 2018
Wow. That would be a huge.
Now, we have to be careful because this is complete contradiction to what was reported before:
Packages to Soros, Obamas, Clintons, Brennan c/o CNN, Holder -- these devices, per law enforcement sources, were rudimentary but functional.
Meaning the intent here was mass murder.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 24, 2018
Breaking: FBI says explosive devices “rudimentary but functional”, at least one included projectiles.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2018
We should know pretty soon if they were real or not, which would make a big difference as to motivation, and what the attacks mean for the election….
[H/T: Crazy Korean lady on the podcast]
UPDATE: Just to be clear, I changed the headline to reporter, because Adam Housley is a former Fox News reporter, not a current one. I apologize for the mistake.
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Gosh, such convenient timing. The Democrats really have nothing, don't they? Resorting to this kind of "Reichstag fire" tactics. False flags are all they've got.
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detail left out of the WSJ account was that Governor Cuomo of NY implied that he had been a bomb addressee but it was just a thumb drive containing .pdf files
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As soon as it comes out they were sent by a muslim or nazicrat, all this goes down the hole with all the other 'inconvenient truth'
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Noting that "first reports are always wrong", some stories are indicating that these "bombs" were more like Hollywood movie props. False flag? Maybe. Nutcase? For sure.
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So it HAS occurred to several people besides myself that these "bombs" addressed to Donks are probably Donks initiated. In other words these phony baloney bombs which were packed with flour or sugar and never meant to go off ( none of them did ) were actually Democratic Party in origin sent to themselves ( quite safe and loaded with nothing more dangerous than toothpaste.) Pipe bombs at their most incompetent . no boom boom and did they even HAVE detonators to explode their funny fantasy bogus look at me democrat gizzards?
If you thought the Donks were google eyes oogity boogity with frustration and hatred ...this is a big serving with a bent spoon.
2016 Trump craziness second act while the Donks "bomb" themselves with pancake mix. And CNN j'accuses its own butt
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Next time I hear someone call a bomb a"device"...
There are so many stupid or deliberate mistakes, I'm up in the air. Because none of the bombs went off (dummy bombs) must be false flag or threats.
If they don't find the sender rather quickly or at all, now that will be telling. That is, simpleton, clever faker, maybe pro? If more don't turn up today I'm guessing one of the later two.
"They are also commonly used by special effects artists, filmmakers, and pyrotechnicians, given their spectacular appearance and ability to be safely contained under certain carefully controlled conditions."
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I bet they have their canned goods all ready go to go. They'll find him, and he'll conveniently commit suicide or die in 'crossfire' and then the whole thing will be pinned on him. Like Oswald.
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Could be Donk designed to stir up the Donk base just prior to a critical election?
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Some sources are reporting the Soros and CNN-NY devices were "hand delivered". I never knew NYC was such a hotbed of right-wing bombmaking terrorists.
Put this one on the False-Flag side of the ledger.
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October surprise. This stinks of media and Democrat collusion to influence this election.All bombs found. No bombs exploded. Insufficient postage.Weight at least was tip off. No stamp from postal service. The FBI could have colluded as well. This is a manufactured fake news event.
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The methods and timing of this is what first aroused my suspicions.
If the devices are all as shown in the Daily Mail photos:
BIG white lumpy envelope (instead of box) with huge address lettering (subtlety is not our friend, apparently). No stamp cancellations, unless scrubbed for security, shown in published photos (may have been hand-delivered somehow, but why put 3-bucks worth of stamps on them then? Maybe to fool the Mail Rooms?).
Using an $12 4-digit LCD timer (better than a blinking Red LED, so there's that) although the black electrical tape does give it a nice 'homegrown' appearance. Why spend the money on a LCD? A blank 555 chip/board would be cheaper, smaller and less obvious as to when it would time out.
Then there's a problem with the detonator battery (unless it's a 2nd item stuck inside the pipe itself). The nano-battery(s) in the timer wouldn't have enough juice to trigger a b-cap, 2301 Igniter, or even a short piece of nichrome wire, unless I'm unaware of some new nano-amp firing method. Cellphone batteries would have enough juice, but they'd be way too big for the timer in the photo. CR2032 or CR2430 might be enough if 'stacked', but then almost larger than timer.
And that they were delivered seemingly simultaneously. One (or even handful of) nutjob couldn't do this. Very coordinated.
The fact that none of these went off is sort of telling, too. Found right away, like someone almost knew where to look for them.
Then there's the '2-week prior' timing of this......
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Real or not, I cant imagine the DNC being this stupid. I am certain we will find some far left fringe group that did this as a false flag. If the far right fringe did it, they would have exploded, the militias know how to make pipe bombs. The left will ride it for all its worth, but the crackpot that did this will be found, hopefully before the elections, and Just as the DC shooter was found, they will be leftists.
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So Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't even spell her own name correctly?
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Ahmed the Clock Boy is doing Grad Studies work
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It started with Soros - could he have sourced a false flag? I would not put him past it, he has organized people to do things like tank currencies, etc. before. Awfully convenient that these were delivered all over the place on the exact same day and that at least 2 of them in NYC were hand delivered.
So its either a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that is competent enough to do a time-on-target but not competent enough to build a decent explosive device or package the bomb, or even get the postage right... Or someone out there is trying awfully hard to make it look like there is one.
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Looking more and more like a false flag. I suspect it is some hard core demoncrat that wants to make it look like Trumpkins are trying to kill all of the left's leadership and spokespeople. Doubt this is a full hoax effort by the official left.
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My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.
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My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.
[PULSE.NG] A middle aged man, identified as Lawan Faro, has threatened to jump down a billboard hanger within 12 hours if President Muhammadu Buhari does not resign.
Faro made the vow in Yola, Adamawa state capital, and disclosed that his action was necessitated by the extreme poverty in the country.
According to Sahara news hounds, the Adamawa State indigene threatened to fall off after 12 hours if PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, does not show up to assure him of taking over President Buhari's seat after the 2019 presidential election.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] The Archbishop of the Douala Metropolitan Archdiocese Samuel Kleda has taken a swipe at the re-election of Paul Biya for another seven-year mandate.
Paul Biya, 85, was declared winner of the October 7 Presidential election by the Constitutional Council on Monday with 71.28 percent of the votes far ahead of Maurice Kamto in second position with 14.23 percent.
Reacting to the reults, the Archbishop of Douala who also doubles as the President of the National Episcopal Conference however casts shadows of doubts over the results.
The Archbishop told a presser in Douala on Tuesday said it was impossible for Biya to overwhelmingly win in the Far North region where the population has been suffering as a result of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... a.
"I am not sure up to 89% of the people(in the Far North region)who have been going through alot of sufferings will go out to vote for the same person who has been in place doing nothing to ameliorate their conditions," His Lordship Samuel Kleda said.
Paul Biya equally got the lion’s share in the troubled North West and South West regions of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... causing the Archbishop to ask where the voters came from given that a majority of the population has been displaced as a result of the conflict.
The drama at the Constitutional Council last week was equally on the menu for the Samuel Kleda who regretted the fact that all petitions filed in by the opposition caandidates were thrown out.
He argued that the opposition candidates had a strong case in their petitions especially the SDF’s ability to demonstrate irregularities in the North West and South West regions where few people voted.
Election results are known even before voters go to the polls in most Central African nations and Cameroon is not an exception, he regretted.
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[PULSE.NG] At least three migrants colonists were hurt Wednesday in a second day of skirmishes with police at Bosnia's border with EU member state Croatia, according to an AFP journalist, with several officers also reporting minor injuries.
The group are among thousands who have fled wars and poverty in Asia and North Africa and are now stuck in Bosnia's northwest region, many without proper shelter as winter looms, and making periodic attempts to pass into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... through Croatia.
The violence on Wednesday broke out after around 100 people pushed through a Bosnian police cordon in a march towards the border with Croatia, where they were stopped by another column of anti-riot police from both countries.
Police used batons and pepper spray in a scuffle with those trying to cross the border, leaving three maimed, including one woman who was bleeding from the head.
Two Croatian coppers were also "slightly injured" by migrants colonists who threw stones, Croatia's interior ministry said in a statement.
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic repeated that his country would continue to "protect its border from illegal entries and migrations".
The migrants colonists, with young children among them, brought tents and appeared ready to spend another night on the roadside near Maljevac border crossing, despite cold weather.
On Wednesday they blocked any traffic from passing.
"We have no other choice, we don't have any money and we cannot stay here, we have no warm place, we don't have showers," Majid Dayyani, a 29-year-old Iranian, told AFP.
Aid groups have repeatedly warned that a humanitarian crisis is looming if better shelter and care is not provided before winter hits.
Bosnian authorities have not set up a formal centre in the northwest region where most migrants colonists are camped out.
Some 20,000 migrants colonists have registered in Bosnia since the start of the year, according to the security ministry.
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Which is why you do not bring parasites, muslims into your home.
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Police used batons and pepper spray in a scuffle with those trying to cross the border, leaving three maimed, including one woman who was bleeding from the head told "No"
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You don't need 'cleansing' if you don't get dirty.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bahrain has locked away You have the right to remain silent... two nationals who raised and received money from a former Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i minister in their bid to influence the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The news was confirmed by Advocate General Dr. Ahmed Al Hammadi who said the Public Prosecution has now launched an investigation into a notification by the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) regarding the two Bahraini nationals.
"It has been found out that the two nationals received money from former Qatari minister Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani through their bank accounts or by occasionally going to Qatar to receive the money in cash. Investigations showed that one of the two nationals received from the Qatari former minister sums of money to run for the parliamentary elections set to be held this year and to support his electoral campaign. Intensive investigation into the suspects' relation with the Qatari official, the purpose of receiving money from him and the motive behind funding the electoral campaign of one of the suspects revealed that the aim was to undermine the national interests by interfering in the internal affairs of the kingdom and influencing the work of the legislative institutions to serve the Qatari antagonistic goals," a statement on Bahrain News Agency read.
A judicial permission was issued to control and record telephone calls between the suspects which confirmed the investigations, the statement added.
The two suspects were arrested at Bahrain International Airport upon their return from Qatar with more than BD 12,000 and 500 Qatari Riyals in their possession without claiming them at the Customs Department.
Bahrain’s Public Prosecution has ordered to hold them in jug pending investigation after charging them with exchanging intelligence information with someone working for a foreign country to undermine the national interests. The suspects were also accused of illegally receiving money without claiming it at the Customs Department. The Public Prosecution also ordered confiscation of the money and investigation of the number of people implicated in the case.
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[An Nahar] 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 powerful crown prince said Wednesday his country would be "totally different" within five years, vowing to pursue sweeping reforms to diversify its economy away from oil.
"I believe the new Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is the Middle East," Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... told a major investment forum in Riyadh.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in five years will be completely different."
Prince Mohammed has been the driving force behind Riyadh's Vision 2030 plan for economic and social reforms, including ambitious projects such as futuristic mega-cities, as Riyadh prepares for a post-oil era.
"If we succeed in the coming five years, other countries will join us," he said.
He was speaking at the three-day Future Investment Initiative forum, which went ahead despite mass cancellations from global business leaders following the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Further stoking investor anxiety, the kingdom is embroiled in a costly war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and is leading an embargo against Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
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powerful crown prince said Wednesday his country would be "totally different" within five years
Sure, Global Warming will make the world a desert.
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[BREITBART] 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... defined nationalism for CNN news hound Jim Acosta in the White House Tuesday, saying that he’s "so proud of our country."
"Mr. President, just to follow up on your comments about being a nationalist‐there is a concern that you are sending coded language or a dog whistle to some Americans out there that what you really mean is that you’re a white nationalist?" Jim Acosta asked in the Oval Office.
"I’ve never even heard that, I can’t imagine that," Trump said. "I’ve never heard that theory about being a nationalist."
Trump also said, "I am very proud of our country. We cannot continue to allow what’s happened to our country to continue happening. We can’t let it happen. So I’m proud. I’m proud of our country, and I am a nationalist. It’s a word that hasn’t been used too much. Some people use it, but I’m very proud. I think it should be brought back."
"All I want our country is to be treated well, to be treated with respect. For many years, other countries that are allies of ours‐so-called allies‐they have not treated our country fairly. So in that sense, I am absolutely a nationalist, and I’m proud of it," the president also told Acosta.
This question comes after Trump enthusiastically called himself a "nationalist" at a rally in Texas Monday.
"A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much," the president said.
"You know what I am? I’m a nationalist. Okay? A nationalist. Use that word."
Acosta, as usual, took to his Twitter to recap what just happened for his followers.
"I also asked Trump about the ’nationalist’ label he has given himself. He brushed off the notion that this means he is a ’white nationalist,'" he said in part.
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"Dear Diary": Jim Acosta is an idiot and a narcissist
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Nacht und Nebel. If Trump was a (quote) Nazi (un-quote) Acosta would be too afraid to open his silly mouth about "How brave he was 'Speaking Truth To Power'!"
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They have to beiieve he is Hitler and they are super-brave speaking truth to power because the reality that htey are totally safe protected by the Constitution that Trump respects and they do not.
[PULSE.NG] Four detained Iranian environmental activists could face the death penalty after the charges levelled against them were changed, the Tehran prosecutor said on Wednesday.
"After completion of the investigation, the charges against four of the defendants have been changed to corruption on earth," said Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, cited by Mizan Online, a news outlet run by the judiciary.
"Corruption on earth" is one of the most serious charges in Iran and can be punishable by death.
The defendants were initially locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! on suspicion of espionage, but Mizan Online did not specify the charges that had preceded Wednesday's alteration.
Indictments for eight environmental activists have been issued in total and "are ready to be sent to court," the agency quoted the prosecutor as saying.
"The defendants had been notified of the charges," he added.
The prosecutor did not specify the charges against the other four activists, nor did he say when the trial would be held.
The authorities have not released the names of the defendants, who were arrested in January.
Iran has arrested at least a dozen environmental activists this year on charges of spying for foreign intelligence agencies.
One of them, Kavous Seyed Emami, a 63-year-old professor and renowned environmentalist, allegedly did away with himself in prison in February, a fortnight after his arrest.
Military authorities told the judiciary that the defendants had tried to "get close to military centres and get military information about these centres, under the cover of environmental activities," the prosecutor said.
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red on green or maybe green on green
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Oooooh, corruption on earth, huh?
What about corruption in outer-space, is that worse?
[An Nahar] Sugar: it's so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island's economy.
Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the stuff for the first time, and in large amounts, from La Belle France after another bad harvest.
Sugar used to account for the vast majority of Cuba's exports. But the fall of its big brother, the Soviet Union -- a key, hungry customer -- changed everything, as did a lack of investment in seeds, fertilizer and pesticides.
To wit: in the early 1990s, Cuba produced about eight million tons of sugar a year. A decade later, it stopped reaching two million a year.
Back then, sugar accounted for almost 75 percent of Cuban exports. In 2015, it was only 13 percent, with other products like nickel and tobacco making up some of the difference.
The 2017-2018 harvest suffered badly after Hurricane Irma ravaged the country, followed by a long rainy season.
So Cuba is importing sugar from La Belle France.
- WHITER SUGAR - On the island, residents quickly caught wind of the somewhat counter-intuitive development.
Here, sugar from cane tends to be brownish. But the French version comes from beets so it is whiter, and the granules are finer. And that is what Cubans started receiving with their "libreta" -- their ration book.
"The sugar we get now is very good. It is very sweet, not very different. The only difference is the color," said Felicia Navarro, a 40-year-old homemaker.
The French government farm and seafood export agency La Belle FranceAgriMer said that from 2001 to 2017, Cuba had imported just three tons of sugar from La Belle France.
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#AlwaysFail. When Communists/Socialists take over the Sahara, you'll suddenly see a shortage of sand
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Tuesday indicted six leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... Pakistain (MQM-P) in 21 cases pertaining to allegedly facilitating a hate speech of party founder the increasingly corpulentAltaf Hussain ...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt... , conspiracy against the state and law enforcers, terrorism and other charges.
Several big shots, including Dr Farooq Sattar, now Mayor of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Wasim Akhtar, Rauf Siddiqui, Khwaja Izharul Hasan, Qamar Mansoor, Rehan Hashmi, Amir Khan, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Rashid Godil, Gul Faraz Khattak, Salman Mujahid, Abdul Qadir Khanzada, Khushbakht Shujaat, Shahid Pasha, Qamar Mansoor and Kunwar Naveed, with nearly 200 party workers, have been booked in identical cases.
Perpetual arrest warrants for the MQM founder have been issued in some of these cases.
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[Al Jazeera] US border agents tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! nearly 17,000 members of family units attempting to cross the US border with Mexico in September, a 31 percent increase over the previous month, according to official statistics released on Tuesday.
In a news briefing with news hounds on Tuesday, Trump administration officials pointed to the increase in migrant families as evidence of a "border crisis" because those groups are more difficult for immigration enforcement officials to detain and deport because of protections granted by US law to migrant children. Rights groups, however, dispute Trump's claim, saying that while there was an increase in apprehensions in 2018, overall, irregular immigration has been at a historic low over the last few years.
The Trump administration expressed alarm at the change in the makeup of migrants colonists attempting to cross into the United States from mostly single adults to children and families travelling together.
About 40 percent of those apprehended in the fiscal years 2017 and 2018 were unaccompanied children or families with children, compared with 10 percent in 2012, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan think-tank.
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If apprehended, are they collecting DNA samples for the database, adding tracking devices (just supply with Obummer phones), and enforcing E-Verify for employment? It is very difficult to make it without ID in the US if they do enter but remove the entire family. Biometric ID's make false documents very difficult to make. Tax remittances to pay for technology. And the US has the sovereign right to defend ourselves from an invasion. Plasma gun technology, Ultra-Short Pulse Laser, for crowd control exists, non-lethal in small doses but very lethal if they fail to heed warnings. All options should be on the table.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Bahrain added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to their terrorism lists on Tuesday for financial and material support to what they describe as Iran’s terrorist activities, the SPA news agency reported.
Among the names added to the list is also Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani , the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC special forces unit.
The designation entails the freeze of all IRGC’s assets and properties and ban on any transactions with the organization and its representatives, the media outlet clarified.
The decision was made by the two nations as part of their collective action as members of the Treasury and the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center, co-founded by Riyadh and Washington back in 2017.
Earlier on Tuesday, The US nd its Gulf Arab allies have imposed sanctions on eight individuals linked to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan, including two officers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In particular, the sanctions target Mohammad Ebrahim Owhadi (also known as Jalal Vahedi) and Esmail Razavi, the US Treasury Department said in a blurb, adding that the two men are members of the IRGC’s elite Quds Force.
In July, Qassem Soleimani responded to threats that 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... aimed at Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani, warning that if the United States were to start a war against Iran, the latter would be the first to end it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Freebeacon] A document that was deleted from the website of a progressive group shows Democratic congressional candidate Katie Porter, who is running in California's competitive 45th district against Republican representative Mimi Walters, would immediately back a far-left agenda and legislation if elected to Congress, including creating a commission to study reparations for slavery.
[Washington Examiner] Democrats are gearing up to use attempted bomb attacks on frequent objects of President Trump’s criticism, including the Clintons and former President Barack Obama, as part of their closing argument less than two weeks out from the midterm elections.
[Wash Examiner] The Interior Department on Wednesday approved what would be the first oil and gas production facility in federal waters off the coast of Alaska, part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand where the U.S. produces fossil fuels.
[Guardian] The Lasershow Spectacular (™) is a celebration of brand America. Its huge 3D video projection ("taller than the Statue of Liberty!") pulls out all the stops ‐ depicting patriotic icons from bald eagles to Mickey Mouse to towering letters spelling U-S-A, with lots of fiery explosions and a rousing musical score with at least eight separate key changes. The official website boasts that "the Lasershow is now so spectacular, the FAA must be consulted to ensure airplanes don’t become blinded by lasers."
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos confirmed this week that he has asked state Attorney General Ken Paxton to open an investigation into the Democratic Party’s attempts to ask non-citizens to sign up to vote.
[An Nahar] Clashes between rival clans have killed more than 40 people in two days in a disputed region of northern Somalia, one of the worst such confrontations seen in the area, local officials and elders said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three family members of a 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...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....
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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...
[BREITBART] President 
...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...
