[FoxNews] Texas is transferring inmates from a corrections facility in South Texas so it can handle criminal illegal immigrants, as the state’s governor moves to arrest those in the country illegally who have committed a state or federal crime as part of the state's response to the crisis at the southern border.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) confirmed that the state’s Department of Criminal Justice has started moving inmates from the Dolph Briscoe Unit in Dilley to other facilities with capacity across the state. That will allow capacity for criminal illegal immigrants.
"The state of Texas continues to deal with a significant number of individuals illegally crossing the border," a spokesperson said in a statement. "To address the ongoing crisis, Governor Abbott is directing state resources to arrest and confine those individuals crossing the border unlawfully and who have committed a state or federal crime."
The facility is about an hour away from the border town of Laredo and has 1,000 beds. The facility was "depopulated," meaning inmates were transferred to other spots with capacity. The move was first reported by The Marshall Project.
"TDCJ is working collaboratively with the Office of the Governor, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Commission on Jail Standards, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, and the Texas Division of Emergency Management to ensure the safe and secure detention of unlawful immigrants charged with a state offense," the statement said.
The state launched Operation Lone Star in March to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas. This week, Abbott announced a slew of measures to combat illegal immigration, including signing a letter to put down a $250 million down payment on a border wall.
Greg Abbott: Texas will increase arrests, build wall at borderVideo
Abbott said border states like Texas have seen "carnage" from people coming over. He said that in the first four months of the year, the Texas Department of Public Safety saw an 800% increase in the amount of fentanyl apprehended at the border – enough to kill more than 21 million Americans.
"Make no mistake, the border crisis that we’re dealing with right now is a direct result of the open border policies that have been put in place by the Biden administration," he said.
[ToloNews] Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, in an address to Antalya Diplomacy Forum in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on Friday called on the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to engage in talks, reiterating that there is a "real opportunity" for peace in the country that should be utilized.
"There is a real opportunity for peace, and it is our collective obligation to make the most of it," Abdullah said. "The Afghan crisis has no military solution; hence I urge the Taliban to engage in good faith in talks and negotiations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan as soon as possible and help bring an end to the violence."
Abdullah said that the world spent 20 years in Afghanistan, not only to contain terrorism but also prevent a breeding ground from re-emergence.
"We are thankful for that generous and costly global endeavor. We are now at a point where we not only need to end our internal conflict through political means, but we still need to be vigilant and assure resilience as well as containment as part of a paradigm shift that can assure peace and an acceptable and inclusive end-state for the people of Afghanistan," he said.
This comes as violence has intensified following the start of the withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Afghanistan. A parliamentary committee on Thursday reported fighting on 200 fronts across the country in just a day. Moreover, at least 30 districts have fallen to the Taliban in the last two months.
The negotiations in Doha have stalled after the announcement of the withdrawal of US and coalition forces by President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...... . The negotiating teams from the Afghan Republic and the Taliban held a meeting later this week, discussing ways to hold future meetings, but the high level of violence has diminished hopes for a progress in the negotiations.
Moreover, top Pentagon officials on Thursday said that turban groups like al Qaeda could pose a threat from Afghanistan to the United States and American allies in two years after the full withdrawal of international troops from the country.
While in Turkey, Abdullah met with foreign ministers of 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Pakistain.
In meeting with Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ...foreign minister of the Medes and the Persians, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values... , Abdullah said they exchanged views on the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, intra-Afghan talks, the latest political and security developments, and the two countries bilateral relations.
Abdullah said in another tweet that he had a "detailed and frank discussion" with Pakistain Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... and that they exchanged views on the grinding of the peace processor and bilateral relations.
Abdullah said that Qureshi assured him of "Pakistain’s full support for the acceleration of peace talks and stability in Afghanistan."
The remarks come as a UN report in January said there are at least 500 al Qaeda gunnies in Afghanistan and that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... maintains a close relationship with the group. The Taliban has denied having ties with al Qaeda.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boyz have intensified their urge to change the status quo and hijack institutions in Somalia, targeting school syllabus as one of their strategies to attract more sympathizers in a bid to overthrow the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration.
The Arabic language has been one of the group's most preferred languages due to its affiliation with al-Qaeda, a Middle East-based terrorist group, which among others, supports the draconian Sharia Law that discriminates against both women and critics.
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It’ll be interesting to see how the region reprioritizes once they have only their own funds to spend..
[Garowe] The Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] will have to operate with a deficit of $49 million in the 2021/22 budget, it has emerged, after the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... slashed the donor reimbursements to Kenya by 66 percent, ahead of AMISOM exit from Somalia.
It is anticipated that AMISOM troops will withdraw from the Horn of Africa nation upon full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP] by the end of 2021. AMISOM has close to 22,000 soldiers in Somalia, fully paid by the European Union, UN, the US among other partners.
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In which an overexcited Puntland reporter treats New York Times RUMINT as if it were solid information.
[Garowe] A contingent of Special Forces from the United States army could be sent
...translation: possibly...
to Somalia in coming weeks, it has now emerged, just weeks after former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... withdrew soldiers serving in the war-torn nation.
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We can't abandon the exercise until at least some prospect of success is in sight. Plus, a lot of good folks have to publicly stand with us.
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Last time a Liberal President (Oct 3rd/4th 1993) sent SFOD's to Somalia I lost 2 friends I worked around.
I hope this time around they are allowed to do more than have their skills wasted playing UN Peace Keeper for political showboating.
Besides ... What vital Nation Interest does the USA have in Africa? A Continent in a TRIBAL WAR for 2,500+ years. A BLACK Continent that still practices Slavery, Pillaging (looting) and murders of each other.
Or does Harris/Pelosi/biden see ANTI-FArt and BLOM need replacements already?
The African Union (AO) is comprised of 55 member nations. Stay out of it. Life Magazine cover from Feb 1966. Fighting terrorists in the Congo. Nothing in that region has changed in half a century. Nothing is likely to ever change there.
I believe I remember an operation in Oct 1993 in which U.S. special forces were deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. How did that turn out ?
55 States (September 2018) – Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau. Kenya, the Kingdom of Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Kingdom of Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Agreed.
With Africa comprised of 50+ nations, why does the USA need to be in Africa? Why isn't the African Union stepping in an helping?
The $$$$ wasted in Africa could better be used here in any US Large Metro area.
Where we have US Citizens and families living in absolute squalor. Think of what those wasted $$$ Billions could do here where it is actually needed and could be LOANED, not given, to qualified persons seeking a Leg up and willing to work at improving their lives and not coast along on the Voter Plantation?
There is also is other train of thought:
Because RUSSIA-IRAN/CHINA is making strong African in-roads and the USA Political Donors need to stake out some territorial areas to protect interests like to oil in the Gulf of Aden / Horn of Africa area? No to mention Uranium mining activities.
eg.... Uranium exploration and mining in Somalia have been hindered by the Al-Shabaab militia group which has captured some of the main deposits, especially in the Galmudug region. The group has been accused of illegally exporting Uranium to Iran in exchange for weapons.
So is this another way of keeping IRAN from getting more NUKE material?
The definitive fisking on the subject can be seen here. And no, the lady was no trafficking victim. She and her two best friends from school (Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana) fell in love with the romantic idea of being jihadi wives and brood mares for the new Muslim nation, seduced by messages from Pak-Scot Aqsa Mahmood, who was an earlier adopter. Umm Three-Dead-Babies thrived in her chosen environment, marrying a Dutch convert and being promoted to enforcer in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police before it all fell apart.
[ARABNEWS] A schoolgirl who left Britannia to join ISIS and had her British citizenship revoked was a victim of human trafficking, a court heard on Friday.
Shamima Begum was 15 when she traveled from London to Syria with two fellow pupils in February 2015.
Britannia’s interior ministry revoked her citizenship on national security grounds after she was discovered heavily pregnant in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019, amid an outcry led by right-wing newspapers.
The Court of Appeal ruled last July that Begum could return to Britannia to challenge the decision.
But the Supreme Court in February overturned the lower court ruling, and prevented her from doing so on national security grounds.
Begum, now 21, is challenging the interior ministry’s decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) that deals with deportations on national security grounds and the revocation of citizenship.
Her lawyer, Samantha Knights, claimed Begum was "a child trafficked to and remaining in Syria for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced marriage."
She also argued that revoking Begum’s citizenship left her stateless and the decision was procedurally unfair.
The court was told Begum was living in a "dire" and "fundamentally unsafe environment in which violence is endemic" in the al-Roj refugee camp in northern Syria.
Knights added there was a "serious and present danger" to Begum after the media located her whereabouts and due to her engagement with Western legal processes.
The lawyer argued against delaying her appeal until the conclusion of a separate case in March 2022.
Lawyer David Blundell, representing Britannia’s interior ministry, said Begum should not be allowed to change the grounds of her appeal.
"The absence of a claim that she has been trafficked means this ground proceeds on an uncertain factual basis. It is entirely speculative," he said.
Begum is of Bangladeshi heritage but the country’s foreign minister has said he will not consider granting her citizenship.
An estimated 900 Britons traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. The government has prosecuted returnees and revoked more than 150 people’s citizenship, with unconfirmed numbers stuck in Syria.
Rights group Reprieve in April said the government was "systematically failing" vulnerable young women who were trafficked to Syria for sexual and other forms of exploitation.
SIAC judge Robert Jay said he would give a ruling by the end of June.
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This she bitch and her friend Amira were local recruiters and proselytizers of other girls in the school she went to, until she was of age to be married to a jihadi.
[DW] After a long period of preparation, Germany's first Islamic studies college has opened. Officials are optimistic that it will help fight extremism.
It was "the right step in the right direction" for Ender Cetin. The child of Ottoman Turkish immigrants colonists was born and raised in Berlin. Now as a 45-year-old he belongs to the first class of Germany's first Islamic studies college. Based in Osnabruck, the program began this week after many delays during the pandemic.
Cetin, who is already a lay imam, told DW that he was impressed with "the idea that something can take place in Germany to train imams 'Made in Germany,' which offers a future."
PRAISE FROM THE INTERIOR MINISTER
The college in Osnabruck is part of an initiative that has received particular attention from German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, whose sprawling ministry is responsible for national security and religious affairs.
At last year's German Islam Conference, Seehofer called plans for the college good news for Moslems in Germany. The government has taken pains to reduce the influence of foreign-trained imams, especially from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... Increasing the number of German-speaking and -preaching imams has been an important goal for the ministry, which provided initial funding for the college.
The support is conditioned on the program's conducting instruction in German and being tied to an institution of higher education, which the two-year program in Osnabruck fulfills. The college says its first class includes 25 people, with another 25 registered for continuing education courses.
Bulent Ucar, an Islamic studies professor from the associated Osnabruck University, who helped set up the college, told DW that the participants — whose families frequently have Ottoman Turkish, Arab and Bosnian roots — represent the diversity of Islam. Twenty percent of the students are women.
Ucar said some Moslem communities "no longer understand" their imams if they don't speak German — a communication gap that can lead to especially younger members drifting toward krazed killer content online, he added.
'UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY'
"We have a unique opportunity to serve the practical needs of mosques," Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of Moslems, told DW. The next challenge, he said, will be to win the acceptance of Moslem communities for these newly German-trained imams.
"I think this is a turning point for Moslem history in Germany," said Cetin, the trainee. His own experience has shown that the need for this kind of practical training will only grow as "more and more young people prefer speaking about their religion in German."
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The relationship between Nazi Germany and the leadership of the Arab world encompassed contempt, propaganda, collaboration, and in some instances emulation. Cooperative political and military relationships were founded on shared hostilities toward common enemies, such as the United Kingdom and the French Third Republic, along with communism, and Zionism. Another key foundation of this collaboration was the anti-Semitism of the Nazis and their hostility towards the United Kingdom and France, which was admired by some Arab and Muslim leaders, most notably the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
[OneIndia] In furtherance of its investigation, the National Investigation Agency had earlier this week filed a chargesheet against an 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.... operative for trying to set up a province of the ISIS in the forests of South India.
During the course of the investigations, the NIA learnt that these operatives were in the process of setting up an ISIS Daishwilayah or province inside the jungles of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. When it was unraveled in 2020, the NIA said that this was the first of its kind plot.
The case arose following the arrest of a few persons who had conspired at Salem and Chennai who had fraudulently activated SIM cards by using multiple identity documents of various persons without their knowledge and consent.
The NIA in its chargesheet said that there were 20 members part of this module, which was headed by Mehboob Pasha, a Bengaluru based operative and Khaja Moideen from Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.
They had planned on visiting Shivanasamudra in Karnataka and identify a place in the jungle where training could be imparted. Before they were busted by the NIA, they had already procured tents, bows, arrows, boots, arms, ammunition, sleeping bags, ropes and ladders. They had also procured a large quantity of firecrackers to extract explosive content and make IEDs, the NIA chargesheet read.
Further the NIA also learnt that they had scouted for similar hideouts in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Kolar, Kodagu (Karnataka), Burdwan, Siliguri (West Bengal) and Chittor in Andhra Pradesh. They wanted to set up ISIS provinces in these jungles and then launch systematic attacks with the primary intention of killing Hindu leaders, government officials, coppers and politicians, the NIA said.
In its supplementary chargesheet the NIA named Syed Ali, a resident of Thiruvananthapuram. The NIA said that Ali along with the rest of were also making and testing IEDs and used the dark web for communications with their foreign based handler as part of the preparations to wage Jihad. They were also trying to establish a province of the ISIS in the forests of South India, the NIA said.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian technical teams, building equipment and material required for the reconstruction process in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip continue to follow Thursday into the enclave through Rafah Crossing Checkpoint.
According to official sources eight trucks entered into the Gaza Strip, bringing to 48 the total number of trucks loaded with building tools and materials and transferring Egyptian technicians taking part in President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's initiative on Gaza reconstruction.
Meantime, relief assistance continues to flow to the Paleostinian side, the sources said.
Rafah Crossing Checkpoint remains unexceptionally open by the Egyptian authorities to receive maimed and stranded Paleostinians and to allow the follow of humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to the Paleostinians, in the wake of a recent Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, they said.
Israel insists vaccine shipment rejected by Palestinians ‘perfectly sound’. Jerusalem hopes to solve dispute that saw Ramallah reject 100k doses with close expiration date. Health Ministry: Palestinians knew all details in advance.
As usual, posturing for the rubes.
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Fixed. It just needed to be opened and closed again to get the video to work — that happens sometimes for reasons...
Also, I pasted the URL in the source box, because this is not actually a duplicate post, it’s just that all posts submitted without a URL in the Source box look like duplicates to Rantburg’s program.
[FoxNews] Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Initial results showed Ebrahim Raisi won 17.8 million votes in the contest, dwarfing those of the race’s sole moderate candidate. However, Raisi dominated the election only after a panel under the watch of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei disqualified his strongest competition.
His candidacy, and the sense the election served more as a coronation for him, sparked widespread apathy among eligible voters in the Islamic Republic, which has held up turnout as a sign of support for the theocracy since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Some, including former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for a boycott.
In initial results, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei won 3.3 million votes and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati got 2.4 million, said Jamal Orf, the head of Iran’s Interior Ministry election headquarters. The race’s fourth candidate, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, had around 1 million votes, Orf said.
Iran’s ultraconservative top judge, Ebrahim Raisi, has been elected president in an outcome that surprised absolutely no one as many Iranians chose to sit out a vote they saw as rigged in his favor. The 60-year-old close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei won 17.9 million of the 28.9 million ballots cast and will be inaugurated in August. The voter turnout of 48.8 percent marked the lowest since the establishment of the Islamic republic in 1979. And many of those who did cast a ballot appeared to express their displeasure by voiding their ballots. Some 3.7 million people didn’t choose any candidate and while some of those may have been accidental, the number is far higher than previous elections, suggesting they didn’t want to choose any of the candidates in the race
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So when does he get invited to the White House?
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^^-- After a few more pallets of gold are delivered.
As Iranian state TV showed people streaming to cast their ballots on Friday and news anchors praising the voters, very different scenes played out on the streets of Tehran, where many polling places appeared relatively empty.
Amid rising anger and apathy over a presidential vote tipped in favor of Ebrahim Raisi, the hard-line judiciary chief cultivated by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... , the election atmosphere was distinctly subdued, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
"It is useless," said Ali Hosseini, a 36-year-old unemployed resident in southern Tehran, about the exercise of voting.
"Anyone who wins the election after some time says he cannot solve the problem of the economy because of intervention by influential people. He then forgets his promises and we poor people again are disappointed."
At 16 different polling stations across Tehran, witnesses described lines of voters as "short" as no more than eight voters at a time could be seen casting ballots.
Some polls remained virtually deserted throughout the day. Listless poll workers listened to state radio, looked at their phones, or chatted calmly.
Farid Mahoutchi, the front man for the National Council of Resistance® of 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (NCRI), a Europe-based opposition group, said that according to reports, pictures, and video clips from polling stations across 220 cities in 31 provinces, the "sham" election was met with a widespread boycott.
Reports from polling station staff in many areas of Tehran, such as the Qamar Bani Hashem Mosque, Armaghan Alam, and polling stations in Tehran’s second district, which includes 64 polling stations, show participation was very meager.
Former hard-line populist President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad seized on popular anger by repeating his decision to stay home and not vote. He warned that the heavily restricted process will produce a government without domestic or international legitimacy.
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[NPASYRIA] On Friday, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) called on the UN and the UN Security Council not to close the "Afrin Hospital crime" file and to form a special and impartial international committee to investigate, reveal the responsible parties and bring the perpetrators to justice.
"We strongly rejects that the crime should go unpunished," the SDC said in statement, calling for this file to be separated from the political discussions taking place between the parties, because it was an attempt to accuse the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The SDC accused parties related to the Syrian National Coalition of committing a massacre against innocent civilians in Afrin, with the aim of accusing the SDF ahead of meetings between the presidents of the United States and Russia on the one hand, and the United States and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on the other.
The statement described this as a "ridiculous performance" of the opposition coalition, considering the coalition’s representatives’ demand for Turkey to occupy more Syrian lands and displace more Syrians as "impudence."
The SDC statement pointed out that the Syrian Coalition should have anticipated international meetings "by any action that contributes to realizing the hopes and aspirations of the Syrian people for peace, freedom and stability."
It considered that the coalition’s attempts to distort the image of the SDF will not reach their goal, "because the whole world knows who are the killers of innocent civilians, who are the olive thieves and thieves of the people’s property, and who settled the settlers in the homes of the displaced."
The SDC added that it refuses to turn the blood of innocent Syrian people into "mere pressure cards used to strengthen the positions of the occupiers in their negotiations with the major countries."
On June 12, media reported the killing of more than ten people and the injury of several others in two separate artillery attacks on the city of Afrin.
The first attack targeted a residential area, while the second targeted a hospital in the city.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... no party claimed the attack on Afrin Hospital, while Turkey and the Syrian opposition were quick to accuse the SDF.
Following the attack, the SDF Commander-in-Chief, Mazloum Abdi, tweeted, "We condemn the attack without reservation. Targeting hospitals is a violation of international law."
The SDF denied reports that the SDF targeted the city of Afrin, north Syria.
For its part, the US Department of State condemned the attacks on Afrin region, northwest Syria, and called for a ceasefire.
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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.
[FoxNews] Texas is transferring inmates from a corrections facility in South Texas so it can handle criminal illegal immigrants, as the state’s governor moves to arrest those in the country illegally who have committed a state or federal crime as part of the state's response to the crisis at the southern border.
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Afri solutions for Afri problems.
[ARABNEWS] A schoolgirl who left 
Begum, now 21, is challenging the interior ministry’s decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) that deals with deportations on national security grounds and the revocation of citizenship.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...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 
[AlAhram] Egyptian technical teams, building equipment and material required for the reconstruction process in the 
...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 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
