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LNA forces eliminate GNA/al-Qaeda leader Ayoub Bu Ras in Tripoli
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Afghanistan
Pompeo meets Mullah Baradar after failed talks with Afghan leaders and cutting $1b in aid
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Wiki: Mullah Baradar Akhund or Mullah Brother, is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Taliban movement. He was the deputy of Mullah Mohammed Omar. Baradar was captured in Pakistan by a team of Pak Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and CIA officers in February 2010 and was released on 24 October 2018 at the request of the United States.
Posted by: b || 03/25/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Long War Journal
Generation Jihad - Ep. 2 - Wishcasting in Afghanistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9s3hDwNR44
Posted by: Sonny Black || 03/25/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3 
That's still close to $3.8b sunk in shit and sand per year.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/25/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Huh, the US is about to dump $2T into eggs, milk, bread and lotto tickets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't forget the Colt 45 Malt Liquor, Skid.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/25/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Islamic State children still waiting for Tunisia to bring them home
It looks like Tunisia doesn’t want’em. If they did, the kids would have been brought back by now.
[al-Monitor] The nongovernmental organization Observatory of Rights and Freedoms of Tunis launched a national campaign March 4 to pressure the Tunisian state into bringing home the children of Tunisian Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters killed in conflict areas.

Observatory head Anwar Awlad Ali stated during a presser in the capital that 104 children are stuck in Syria, 58 of whom are girls, 78 were born in Syria and 88 under 13 years old. He indicated that 65% of their fathers are dead, 25% in prison and 5% deported to Tunisian prisons.

Awlad Ali said that dozens of Tunisian children are still trapped in Libya, kept with their mothers in Libyan prisons. He added that more efforts are needed to help these victims who chose neither their parents nor where to live.

At the same conference, Awlad Ali called on the Tunisian authorities to apply the constitution and international agreements related to children by respecting the right of return for all Tunisians.

Halima al-Juwayni, member of the Tunisian Human Rights League, stressed to al-Monitor that these children must be returned to their families in Tunisia and not be held accountable for what their parents have done. She called on the state to establish treatment facilities to rehabilitate these children.

She added that regardless of whether the Tunisian state has the capabilities to provide for the children and their reintegration into society, they must be brought back home.

In a Feb. 28 protest in front of the parliament, parents of Lions of Islam who died in Syria called on the Tunisian state to bring home their grandchildren.

Human Rights Watch reported Feb. 6, "Tunisian authorities should now do their utmost to promptly bring home more than 36 other children of [IS] suspects who remain stranded in Libya, as well as 160 others believed to be held in camps and prisons in Syria and Iraq."

Amna Guellali, Tunisia director at Human Rights Watch, was quoted in the report as saying, "Tunisia should move swiftly to follow this positive step with further action to bring home its children trapped in squalid camps and prisons in war-torn countries."

Since Feb. 12, 2019, Human Rights Watch has accused Tunisian officials of "dragging their feet on helping bring home Tunisian children held without charge in foreign camps and prisons for families of IS."
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Good luck getting a flight.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey charges 20 Saudis over murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Still milking this, Yippy?
[NY Post] Turkish prosecutors have charged two former top aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and 18 other Saudis over the 2018 murder of journalist Qatari and MB Mouthpiece and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi, officials said Wednesday.

The kingdom's deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Assiri and royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani are accused of leading the operation and giving orders to a hit team to kill the Washington Post columnist.

An indictment charges the two with "instigating a premeditated murder with the intent of (causing) torment through fiendish instinct," according to a statement from Chief Prosecutor Irfan Fidan's office.

It also calls for life prison sentences for 18 other Saudis charged with carrying out "a premeditated murder with the intent of (causing) torment through fiendish instincts."

The 18 suspects are accused of "acting in consensus from the beginning in line with the decision of taking the victim back to Saudi Arabia and of killing him if he did not agree."

The group includes intelligence operative Maher Mutreb, forensic expert Salah al-Tubaigy and Fahad al-Balawi, a member of the Saudi royal guard, who were among 11 people on trial in Riyadh.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2020 11:04 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey is mulling legislation that would free some of its 300,000 detainees to reduce the risk of COVID-19 deaths
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But NOT the Kurds or "Gulenists"
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  mulling legislation

That would be 'direct' execution?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Trucked to the Greek border and released at bayonet point (shoes and toothbrush optional)?
Posted by: magpie || 03/25/2020 22:17 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Najaf records 13 cases of coronavirus, including #Iraqis coming from "Syria, Turkey and Iran"
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Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess, when it's all you know, going home from 'Syria, Turkey and Iran' can seem like a good thing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Field hospitals 'only option' to treat Gazans sick with coronavirus
[JPost]

...A senior defense source told the Post that there is no current comprehensive plan should there be a significant rise of Gazans sick with the virus. While "every effort" will be made to assist them, "if there are thousands, they will not enter" Israel for medical treatment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2020 15:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Modeling for NYC?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Everyone always skips right over the flamethrower option.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/25/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably could have ended the headline after "Gazans".
Posted by: York Harding || 03/25/2020 18:15 Comments || Top||


Edelsteins resigns from post of Knesset speaker
[YNet] - Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein resigned from his post on Wednesday after being ordered by the High Court of Justice to convene the parliament to hold a vote on his replacement.

...The move effectively ends any hope of a unity government being formed as Blue & White prepares to replace the speaker with a member of their own party, a condition which the Likud members find unacceptable.
Hopefully, this leads to fourth elections and not Arab supported government - because, in a few week there going to be tens of thousands "Palestinians" with severe coronavirus, and admitting them into Israeli hospitals will spell megadeath in Israel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2020 05:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


PA to Palestinians in Israel: Return to West Bank at once
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And I endorse this massage.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2020 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  And don't come back now, ya hear?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/25/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Where they'll be safe.
Posted by: gorb || 03/25/2020 18:07 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Thousands to Attend Terrorist Funeral in Coronavirus-Ravaged Iran
[BREITBART] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hosted a funeral attracting thousands for Hossein Assadollahi,
...whose name does not really translate as Anus of God...
a senior terrorist leader and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, on Monday.

Photos and video of the ceremony ‐ which attracted notably minimal attention in Iranian state media outlets like PressTV, the Fars News Agency, and others ‐ show mourners tightly packed in public spaces, a prime location to infect a large number of people with a contagious disease. As the world faces a pandemic caused by the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
originating in central Wuhan, public health experts have universally agreed that "social distancing" ‐ avoiding contact with individuals as much as possible and abstaining from organizing into large groups ‐ is necessary to slow the rate of infection of the coronavirus so as to not overwhelm the world’s healthcare systems.

Iran’s healthcare system has, by all measures, been overwhelmed for months. While Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
claims only 24,811 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country and nearly 2,000 deaths, reports citing whistleblowers and dissidents in the country have published evidence suggesting the corpse count is much higher. The National Council of Resistance® of Iran (NCRI), the largest Iranian dissident group, announced on Tuesday that it had documented over 10,500 deaths at the hands of the virus in Iran, citing sources within the country.

The NCRI also noted an increase in the number of arrests of people for "spreading rumors" about the true extent of the outbreak.

The Iranian regime has largely responded to the outbreak by empowering the IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist group and not a medical organization, to lead the nation’s coronavirus response. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
has claimed the Chinese virus is a biological weapon, implying the United States deliberately spread it in Iran. This weekend, Khamenei rejected a U.S. offer of humanitarian aid, partially on the grounds that he claimed America could use the aid to spread more "poison" in the country.
"Let the dead bury the dead."
~ Matt 8:22
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "You ask for harvest when the corn is green"
Posted by: Lex || 03/25/2020 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Somewhere, Leonidas has a good laugh.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2020 3:16 Comments || Top||

#3  ...whose name does not really translate as Anus of God...

Maybe. Reminds me of a Monty Python skit.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/25/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ...whose name does not really translate as Anus of God...

I dunno, I have it on good authority that it does! (*cough* TW said so! *cough*)
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/25/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The veterans of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war are now in the high risk group for the Wu.

As many as a half million didn't survive that war. Probably a million or so did survive and are still alive.

Posted by: lord garth || 03/25/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Will there be poles and monuments for licking?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/25/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  a million or so did survive

And some may be Chlorine Lung compromised.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Thousands to Attend Terrorist Funeral in Coronavirus-Ravaged Iran

Gee. I wonder why.
Posted by: gorb || 03/25/2020 18:07 Comments || Top||

#9  They should have herd immunity soon.

For what's left of the herd. 100K deaths wouldn't really bother them, insh'allah.
Posted by: KBK || 03/25/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Islamic State Asks Allah to ‘Increase Coronavirus Torment’ of Infidels
[BREITBART] Proving that nothing is so awful that the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
cannot make it even worse, ISIS on Sunday reportedly published an article in one of its newsletters asking Allah to "increase the torment" of infidels from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
while sparing faithful Moslems.

The al-Naba newsletter, as translated by the typically pro-Bashir al-Assad Al Masdar news service, celebrated the coronavirus as an act of divine judgment for idolatry. According to ISIS, Allah has "imposed something of His painful torment on the nations of His creation" by conjuring the epidemic.

"We ask Allah to increase their torment and save the believers from all that. Indeed He is harsh of punishment against the one who rebels against Him, and merciful to the one who obeys Him and stands with Him," the jihadists wrote.

The bandidos murderous Moslems also praised what they saw as a military retreat by "crusader nations" because their soldiers were supposedly needed to maintain order within their own nations during the coronavirus epidemic. ISIS looked forward to "a great economic catastrophe" befalling the West due to the virus.

The UK Daily Mail noted on Tuesday that ISIS previously advised its jihadis to avoid nations suffering from coronavirus outbreaks and recommended common protective measures such as thorough hand-washing, but also assured the faithful that "illnesses do not strike by themselves, but by the command and decree of Allah."

The Islamic State might have noticed that Iranian mullahs made similar promises of religious immunity to the coronavirus, which they also portrayed as Allah’s wrath against the infidels, but Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
wound up with the deadliest outbreak in the world, and some of the most incandescent of its many fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
holy mans have been felled by the disease.

Presumably, ISIS theologians would dismiss the Iranian experience as irrelevant because they are signaling to Allah on the wrong frequency. Last week the Jerusalem Post puckishly suggested jihadis of all denominations might be among the groups hardest hit by the epidemic, in part because their leaders seem eager to demonstrate they are immune to the disease, while the coronavirus seems completely unmoved by appeals to religious authority.


Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The 'torment' is listening to your wailing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2020 15:59 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2020-03-25
  LNA forces eliminate GNA/al-Qaeda leader Ayoub Bu Ras in Tripoli
Tue 2020-03-24
  Gutierrez calls for an immediate global ceasefire
Mon 2020-03-23
  27 Taliban militants killed, 19 others wounded in Kunduz
Sun 2020-03-22
  Greeks Find Tunnel Full of Weapons Under Athens,
Arrest Turkish Terrorists
Sat 2020-03-21
  TSA halts all NY airport departures do to infected people showing up at each one.
Fri 2020-03-20
  Militant attack kills about 30 Malian soldiers -army
Thu 2020-03-19
  Migrants at Refugee Camp in Germany Riot,
Display ISIS Flags After They’re Put Under Coronavirus Quarantine
Wed 2020-03-18
  Manchester Arena bombing: Hashem Abedi guilty of 22 murders
Tue 2020-03-17
  China expels ALL American reporters!
Mon 2020-03-16
  Saudi Arabia detains 298 officials in new corruption cases
Sun 2020-03-15
  Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
Sat 2020-03-14
  Violence by Taliban Spikes Despite Peace Efforts
Fri 2020-03-13
  Sudan moves against Bashir loyalists after assassination attempt
Thu 2020-03-12
  4 Iranian proxy forces HQ hit in airstrikes along Iraq-Syria border
Wed 2020-03-11
  Rocket attack in Iraq kills two Americans and a British citizen


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