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Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
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Afghanistan
180 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus Headed for India
[ToloNews] A group of around 180 Afghanistan Hindu and Sikhs is likely to reach India on Wednesday, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.
The combined Sikh and Hindu population in Afghanistan numbered 220,000 in the 1980s, which dropped to 15,000 when the mujahideen ruled during the 1990's followed by the Taliban. It’s currently estimated that 1,350 Hindus and Sikhs remain.
Efforts are underway to evacuate relatives of all persons who died in the Kabul kaboom in March that claimed 25 lives at a Hindu and Sikh place of worship, the report said.

"As many as 180 Sikhs and Hindus are likely to leave Kabul on Wednesday," sources in Kabul told The Times of India on Monday.

The minority Hindu and Sikh community is in panic following attacks on them, and blamed the Afghan Sikh leadership for not caring about their safety, said sources quoted by The Times of India.

Their number in Afghanistan had come down to around 700, the report said.

The first batch of 11 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus arrived in India on July 26.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/12/2020 00:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sort off like normies leaving Portland, Seattle, St. Louis and Minneapolis?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The trick is to get the muzzies to leave in equal numbers.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/12/2020 4:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Nah, they'll just end up in your neck of the woods, BP.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/12/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Driving taxis full of white meat
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/12/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||


Afghan Foreign Ministry Opposes Fence Along Durand Line
[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday reacted to reports that Pak military forces were conducting illegal fencing along the Durand Line — the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistain--saying Afghanistan has already shared its grievances and has protested the move through through diplomatic channels.

"In this regard, any action which has been taken by Pakistain, the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan has recorded its protest regarding the issue through the Afghan embassy in Islamabad to Pakistain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Pak Embassy in Kabul," said Geran Hewad, a front man for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Local officials in Kunar have also confirmed the move by Pak military forces.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/12/2020 00:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
Photo currently circulating purporting to show Russian S-300s in Libya is from Algeria
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Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "...Algeria, Libya, who's to know?"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/12/2020 18:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Which Libya?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/12/2020 20:14 Comments || Top||


Chancellor Aguila Saleh to US Ambassador Richard Norland: We do not accept the use of the oil revenues to pay the salaries of the armed militias and mercenaries.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Whose mercs? Paid with fungible oil revenue by whom?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2020 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  The GNA’s Syrian mercenaries — mostly former ISIS and various Turkic jihadi remnants — brought over for the purpose by Turkey.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/12/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Programs! Programs! Gitcher programs! Can't tell the bands of murderous lunatics without a program.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/12/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Saleh is head of the eastern HoR. Everything in Libya is paid for by oil revenues.
Posted by: Glavinter Greretle1225 || 08/12/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemen president Hadi to head to US for medical treatment, sources say
[Al Ahram] 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...
's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi will leave 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 head to the United States for medical treatment early on Wednesday, two sources close to the matter told Rooters on Tuesday.
The head of the country's internationally-recognised government, who has lived in exile in Riyadh since the Iranian-aligned Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
group captured the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2015, has been treated for a heart condition since 2011.He is set to return in a week, the sources said.

Hadi has been on several trips for medical checks and treatment to the United States, most recently in June 2019.

Yemen's conflict has killed more than 100,000 people since a Saudi-led alliance intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to try to restore Hadi's government, an ally of Riyadh. The war is largely seen regionally as a proxy struggle between Riyadh and Tehran.



Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Qatari sociologist links the Beirut explosion to plastic surgery and ''widespread'' homosexuality
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Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Sociologist? Is that some kind of scientist? Maybe NASA should elevate his voice or something?
Posted by: gorb || 08/12/2020 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a plausible an explanation as all the others being floated right now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2020 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  "...No, really, you go in for a tummy tuck and the next thing you know, you're fabulous! Hey, stop laughing, you guys, this is serious..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/12/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  A senior chair at Harvard awaits him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Well that explosion was pretty fabulous
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/12/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  What is it with Arabs and utterly loony theories like this? Like, he doesn't even have a fake cause, he's just saying that "something I don't like equals EXPLOSION". I mean, yeah, I know, Western academics are basically utterly nuts too, but they never come up with anything entertaining, they just kind of compete for the title of "Dumbest Theory of the Week".
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 08/12/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe they see the massive hole and are like, 'ymmmmm, Arafat'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/12/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Who is to say he is wrong?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  When you have nothing else, conspiracy theories are a way of life.

How would you like being a 'Sociologist' in a mooselimb society? I wouldn't be able to mentally accommodate the ironies.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/12/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#10  How would you like being a 'Sociologist' in a mooselimb society? I wouldn't be able to mentally accommodate the ironies.

"Zionist Juice mind rays made my pee pee shrink!"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#11  its not limited to just Lebanon, the whole middle East are a bunch of closeted fags
Posted by: 746 || 08/12/2020 13:30 Comments || Top||

#12  this can't be i was told that there are no homos in moslem lands like Iran and such.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/12/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#13  He might be right. My personal theory is that all the explosions and fires are caused by too much oxygen in the atmosphere. It's a very reactive gas, you know.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/12/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||

#14  Beirut, the gay root of all evil!
She's many a Muslim made feeble:
Mohammedan breeders
Say shade of her cedars
Turns furious fellahs to... gleeful.

Not that there's-- what an I saying? Tallulah sidecar! Kaboom!
Posted by: Floluck Shineck6478 || 08/12/2020 18:46 Comments || Top||

#15  Mustafa Scapegoat - always
Posted by: Spitch Wittlesbach7036 || 08/12/2020 19:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Where you have polygamy, you’re going to have homosexuality. This is basic physics.
Posted by: KBK || 08/12/2020 23:38 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greece Seeks Emergency EU Meeting on Turkey
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Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Followed by a "Sternly worded" note...?
Posted by: magpie || 08/12/2020 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone here shocked by Turkey?

I guess not...

Lots of "MSM" journos shocked? Probably or have they knowingly shilled for Erdogan?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/12/2020 4:14 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
New Linda Sarsour Group ‘Until Freedom’ Relocates to Louisville, Training Activists to ‘Escalate’
[RedState] Earlier on Monday, my colleague Sister Toldjah shared an update on the Black Lives Matter violence and mayhem in Louisville, Ky., in the wake of the death of Breonna Taylor by local coppers in March. She wrote that "[a]fter BLM escalated their tactics last week in harassing and/or assaulting pedestrians and restaurant patrons, and damaging property, the Louisville PD has had enough — and is banning street protests for the foreseeable future."

And Nick Arama wrote last week about Mafia-esque, strong-arm tactics by BLM groups against Louisville business owners.

But it’s worth asking if there’s more going on behind the scenes that can only worsen the situation in the Bluegrass State.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Ya know, John Rambo was just exercising his freedom to be left alone when all that trouble started...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I project this will grow until the election.
Then explode.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Sarsour and Mallory didn’t appear as individual citizens supporting a spontaneous march. They came to garner press and donations for their new organization, Until Freedom,

501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) is the only remaining question. It's always about the Benjamins.
Posted by: Raj || 08/12/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Training Activists to Escalate


There's gotta be a department store joke in there someplace.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/12/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey, escalating on rollerskates is no joke!
Posted by: Gruque Shater6394 || 08/12/2020 19:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Ima pimp muh Escalade
Posted by: Spomoling Shineting7539 || 08/12/2020 19:32 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Chadian President Accuses International Community of Excluding African Union from Libyan Solution
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Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Well, duh!
Posted by: Clem || 08/12/2020 0:20 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq cancels the Turkish defense minister's visit to the country
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PA renews security coordination with US after annexation halt - report
[Jpost] The Paleostinian Authority renewed security coordination with the US after receiving assurances that a planned annexation of parts of the West Bank would not occur, according to Channel 12 news.

The PA halted security coordination with the US and Israel earlier this year after Israel announced plans to annex parts of the West Bank as part of the Trump administration's Middle East peace plan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/12/2020 02:16 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  State Department folks thinking that Trump won't win?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/12/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese newspaper reveals likely replacement for prime minister position
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Tuesday, a Lebanese newspaper revealed the potential candidate for the next prime minister of the Lebanese government, after Hassan Diab announced the resignation of the government and its transformation into a caretaker government.

The al-Joumhouria newspaper reported that ex-prime minister Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
is the most likely replacement, but the matter is not definitively settled, as reliable sources have confirmed that this matter needs serious consultations, especially since Hariri has certain conditions that he previously had announced it before the formation of the current government.

Citing government sources, al-Joumhouria said that consultations will take place at a rapid pace in order to combat the ongoing economic crisis and upheaval inside the country.

It should be noted that Saad Hariri previously said he was not interested in the premiership, especially after the collapse of his prior government.

On Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced resignation of his government; this was preceded by the resignation of several ministers and parliamentarians.
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran's IRGC reveals ''main reason'' Qassem Soleimani was assassinated
[ALMASDARNEWS] The head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Yadallah Jawani, revealed the "main reason" for the liquidation of the commander of the Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani
, by the U.S., claiming that "it was a strategic goal through which they sought to stop the resistance in the region and change the course of developments that were in the interest of the resistance."

Jawani said, in an interview with the Fars News Agency, that "when the resistance in the region becomes strong, this means weakening the anti-it movement in our region represented by the Zionist entity and reactionary regimes associated with foreign powers as well as foreign powers, the counterpart of the United States in the region."

He referred to the statement of the Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
during his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister that "the Islamic Theocratic Republic 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
will never forget the case of the liquidation of the martyr Soleimani and the martyr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and we will definitely deal a blow to the Americans."

Jawani added: "The Americans estimated that the main reason for their defeats over the past two decades in the region was Iran, especially the Revolutionary Guard, particularly the Quds Force, whose activity revolves around the axis of the martyr Qassem Soleimani, and from here they believed that striking Soleimani would enable them to stop the course of developments and change them.” .
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Deep analysis there, Jawani.
Posted by: gorb || 08/12/2020 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought the main reason was kinetic energy
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2020 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  the main reason was because we could.

and the only thing they can do about it is fire some missiles at the desert, shoot down a civilian airliner and sink a wooden aircraft carrier in their own port.

chumps.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/12/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  He ordered anchovies on the pizza. Everyone hates those things.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2020 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  The main reason is that he was an asshole.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/12/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Because he was where the missle landed.
If you can manage to avoid these kinds of incidents, your life span tends to increase.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/12/2020 15:39 Comments || Top||

#7  ...The judges would also accept, "He was a bad man, and he needed killin'."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/12/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Texas Rules?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2020 19:20 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2020-08-12
  Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
Tue 2020-08-11
  Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts
Mon 2020-08-10
  Lebanese Prime Minister announces resignation of government
Sun 2020-08-09
  Lebanese Army evacuates protestors from government buildings
Sat 2020-08-08
  Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations
Fri 2020-08-07
  Pakistain Borrows $1 Billion from Chinese Peter To Pay Back $1 Billion Saudi Paul
Thu 2020-08-06
  DOJ Atty reveals 300 domestic terrorists investigations have been opened since May 28th
Wed 2020-08-05
  Death toll from Beirut blast reaches 100 but is expected to rise even further
Tue 2020-08-04
  Beruit goes BOOM!
Mon 2020-08-03
  Israel army says it has foiled a terror attack at the border with Syria
Sun 2020-08-02
  Turkish brig.-gen. executed for revealing Qatari funding of jihadists
Sat 2020-08-01
  Turkey Sends Fighter Jets to Azerbaijan After Threat to Bomb a Nuclear Power Plant
Fri 2020-07-31
  Indonesian Court Convicts, Sentences Top 2 Jemaah Islamiyah Militants
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  ISIS claims responsibility for killing of top Iraqi commander
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  Iran launched several ballistic missiles from Iran to the Southern Arabian Gulf

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