[ToloNews] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... do not accept a decree by President Ashraf 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... on the release of the prisoners, sources close to the group said on Thursday, two days after Ghani signed an order to conditionally pardon and release Taliban prisoners to open the door for intra-Afghan talks.
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There's an easy solution there, since the Taliban doesn't want them back, take them out of the equation. Dig a nice pit with a dozer, toss in the bodies and bury them.
[ToloNews] A research paper by the Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies (AISS) has found that ISIS’s Khorasan branch which operates in Afghanistan is "fragile and disunited."
The research paper titled "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.... Wilayat Khorasan: Phony Caliphate or Bona Fide Province?" was based on a series of interviews with a number of ISIS prisoners in which they talked about the techniques and ideology of the group.
Speaking at the ceremony to present the research paper, Dr. Dawood Azami, head of the BBC in London (Pashto department), said that ISIS is the first group in Afghanistan that has challenged the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... both militarily and ideologically.
According to Azami, ISIS not only rejected the "Emirate" but also challenged the legitimacy of the group's leader by declaring the caliphate.
"All fighters operating within the ranks of ISIS never joined this group because of their ideology, they joined ISIS because of some financial issues," said Hussain Ehsani, an AISS researcher.
According to the research paper, ISISholy warriors are currently operating in the north, east and some areas in the west of the country, and they receive financial and military support from neighboring countries.
Some other speakers at the event raised deep concerns over what they described as the influence of ISIS among some young people.
"it's natural-- some of these people who do not see a future for themselves are being recruited by such groups very easily, said Sima Samar, the former head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).
"Most of their activities are limited in the country, rather than coordinated and organizational activity, which is seen in Iraq or Syria, although some of their activities are concerning," said Ramin Kamangar, an AISS researcher.
The researchers suggested that the Afghan government learn from the ways the Iraqi Kurds tackled ISIS in their areas.
Researchers said that the Afghan government needs to define a clear strategy for preventing the entry of ISIS affiliates into Afghanistan’s territory.
Although the Afghan government has in the past said that ISIS has been defeated in Afghanistan, there are reports that the group is still active in some areas of Kunar and Baghlan provinces.
[ToloNews] Local officials in the eastern province of Kunur province said on Thursday that al-Qaeda, with the support of Pakistain, has begun recruiting Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters who disagree with the recently signed US-Taliban deal.
Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, governor of Kunur province, said: "Based on our information, Pakistain intelligence and al-Qaeda have begun efforts to attract Taliban fighters and commanders," said Mirzakwal.
Kunur provincial council members said that besides al-Qaeda, many other terrorist organizations are also active in some parts of the province.
"It's very clear that those Taliban fighters and their families who live in areas where the peace is not maintained will seek allegiance to other krazed killer groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS or Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (Pakistain-based krazed killer group)," said Wilayat Mashwani, the head of Kunar provincial council.
"It is possible that al-Qaeda, which had relationships with some Taliban groups earlier, will develop their relationships again," said, Malek Sher Zameen, a member of Kunur's provincial council.
Residents of Kunur province said that ISIS is also a threat, and many people have left their homes because of Taliban-ISIS fighting.
"We want security and schools. We do not want those groups," said Haidar Khan, a resident of Chawki district of Kunur.
"I have cut my relationships with ISIS. We are tired of the war and we have joined the grinding of the peace processor," said Shah Gull, a surrendered ISIS commander.
The residents are optimistic about the US-Taliban deal that was signed on February 29 in Doha, 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 say that it will bring lasting peace to Afghanistan.
Local officials, however, said that the Taliban will fight terrorist organizations such Al Qaeda and ISIS if the peace deal between the US and the Taliban is implemented successfully.
[AlAhram] Sudan's ruling council said on Tuesday it would step up its drive to remove loyalists of former president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... , a day after the prime minister of the transitional government escaped an liquidation attempt unscathed.
A branch of Sudan's security services that was closely linked to Bashir will be brought under control of the civilian government and a committee tasked with dismantling the old regime will be given additional powers, sovereign council front man Mohammed al-Faki said in a statement.
Authorities have launched an investigation into Monday's liquidation attempt, when a blast targeted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's convoy as he drove to work.
They have not said who was behind it, but by reasserting that Bashir loyalists will be firmly dealt with, they have suggested possible links with old regime supporters trying to disrupt a democratic transition.
Hamdok heads a government of technocrats serving under a 39-month power-sharing deal between civilian groups and the military that was struck after Bashir was tossed last April.
As part of efforts to disempower Bashir's supporters, the "dismantling" committee has already moved to disband the former ruling party and dismiss bigwigs at banks and embassies.
Some officers at the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have also been dismissed, and the name of the agency has been changed to the General Intelligence Service (GIS).
Faki said on Tuesday that the part of the GIS that operates inside Sudan would be brought under the interior ministry.
In mid-January, armed security agents linked to Bashir fought soldiers in Khartoum for several hours, after a dispute linked to severance packages.
Rami Abdul Rahman, Director of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Libyan Irish #Mahdi#Al-Harati, founder of the Ummah Battalion in #Syria, plays a role in sending and receiving Syrian militants from northern Syria via #Turkey to #Tripoli. #Libya#GNA#LNApic.twitter.com/b2xdMvOxmv
Only in the #GNA’s militia state of terror can a militia deny the existence of a disease Giwa Militia : The news of a corona infection in the Oil Corp Hospital is not correct, and the patient suffers from a severe cold. #Libya#Tripoli
[AnNahar] Bulgaria's defence minister has hit out at "unreasonable" Greek plans to build a camp near their border to shelter asylum seekers amid a migration surge from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... "The accommodation by the Greek side of illegal migrants colonists near our border is a pre-requisite for building up of additional tensions. This is not good-neighbourly and is unreasonable!" Krasimir Karakachanov posted late Monday on Facebook.
The comments came after Greek migration minister Notis Mitarachi announced over the weekend that Athens wanted to build two closed centres in the northern region of Serres that borders Bulgaria and in the Athens area with 1,000 places.
Greece -- already struggling to accommodate thousands of asylum-seekers stranded in the country -- has come under even more pressure since Turkey stopped preventing migrants colonists and asylum seekers from leaving for EU territory.
"The Bulgarian army is on standby, and I guarantee that I won't allow a new migration wave to our country," wrote Karakachanov, the leader of the nationalist VMRO party, a junior coalition partner in the government. "Bulgaria will not pay other people's bills!"
Bulgaria borders on both Greece and Turkey to the southeast but has so far not seen an influx of asylum seekers.
Conservative prime minister Boyko Borisov recently welcomed what he said was "zero migration" thanks to a barbed wire fence Bulgaria built on the 259-kilometre (160-mile) border with Turkey and his close ties with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... Bulgaria's 493-kilometre border with Greece is guarded by border police and has also has not seen any pressure recently.
In talks with Erdogan last week in Ankara, Borisov proposed undertaking "actions which would contribute to solving the crisis in Syria and stop migration pressure" on the region.
He has long pressed for the setting up of closed security centres for asylum seekers outside the EU, funded by the bloc.
Spox of #Iran-aligned Iraqi militant group Harakat alNujaba, seemingly addressing Iraqi authorities who have condemned #CampTaji attack: "You [plural] condemn the killing of the brutish invaders whose expulsion has been approved by parliament...1/3 https://t.co/XT1lKBqQ2T
"...& you are silent before the abominable American crimes that overcame the great leaders Abu Mahdi alMuhandis & #Iraq's guest, Qassem Soleimani, & the mujahideen on the Iraqi border, and which are considered as flagrant violations to all traditions & concepts." 2/3 #العراق
3/ "But however impossible it is for slaves like you to dare against their masters, the American tyrants of the age, blessed is the operation that revealed the servile tails dressed up as patriotism like you." 3/3 #Iraq#العراق
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https://www.pbs.org/ Iran asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion loan to fight the coronavirus, the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that it has sought such assistance.
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they seem to have enough funds to
- hold 'death to America' or 'death to Israel' conferences
- subsidize Hezbollah and other terror groups
- dig lots of mass graves
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If they get an AMF IMF loan, who is going to volunteer to go over there and do a loan compliance audit? Any volunteers?
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Those whose actions are pleasing to Allah don’t need outside help. On the other hand, perhaps they are merely thinking of this as taqiyya to get stuff from dhimmis.
Because those beloved of Allah would never experience the deadly punishment of his plague.
In the world of diplomacy, this is known as "squealing like a piggy."
[EN.ANNAHAR] Iran’s foreign minister demanded Thursday that the United States immediately halt what he called a "campaign of economic terrorism" and lift sanctions, saying they have made it increasingly difficult for the country to export oil and virtually impossible to import medicine and medical equipment, including to identify and treat coronavirus ...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... patients.
Mohammad Javad Zarif ...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values... said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... that U.S. sanctions have also left thousands of Iranians stranded abroad and severely disrupted air links with Europe. And he said they have led to what he called "Google’s immoral censoring" of a new government app designed to help Iranians identify potential symptoms of the COVID-19 virus.
He said it is "imperative" that the government of the United States immediately halt its campaign of economic terrorism against the Iranian people and lift all sanctions it has illegally imposed on my country," in violation of the Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between 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 six major powers which the U.S. pulled out of in 2018.
"To this end," Zarif said, "It is imperative that the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and its member states join the Iranian people in demanding that the government of the United States abandon its malign and fruitless approach against Iran."
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
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...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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
