One must feel for our senior generals. After all their plotting and scheming to drive out that horrible Donald Trump, with his old-fashioned ideas about winning decisively or cutting the nation’s losses and walking away, they’re stuck with a perverted, senile corruptocrat who not only openly despises them but actually agrees with The Donald about pulling out — and is going to shame them before the entire world by making them haul down the colours on 9/11. What exactly one feels may be one of the less savoury emotions, to be sure, but one feels it very strongly indeed.
[ToloNews] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Saturday that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
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Pff, as if the elected government commands the military. They'll manufacture some false flag like they did with the Syria chemical attack and say troops can't be withdrawn.
Or they'll just declare the president a threat to national security and act accordingly.
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Bidet listens to the Chairman of the Central Committee over at the Kalorama Kompound and especially the voice of foreign policy,ValJar. Everything else is MSM enabled theater for the rubes. Obama 3.0, Alinsky and Cloward-Piven strategies all in play.
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the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq was followed by the explosive growth of ISIS
after ISIS overran much of Iraq the US came back to Iraq
had the US not done this, ISIS might have taken Baghdad or at least part of Baghdad and slaughtered tens of thousands until Iran brought its own troops in and slaughtered both ISIS and lots of civilians until a shaky truce was reached
This would have been horrible for the innocent civilians but, from a realpolitik view, a result that would have spared American lives and resources and maybe even led to some de radicalization in the Islamic world
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[Sudan Tribune] The second batch of Sudan Liberation Forces Alliance (SLFA) arrived Saturday in the North Darfur capital El-Fasher.
The alliance is led by Tahir Hajar who is also a member of the Transitional Sovereign Council.
The forces led by Commander Abdallah Bashir Jali were welcomed by a number of military and civilian official of the North Darfur government.
According to the UN experts panel, the SLFA fighters were in Libya fighting along with the Libyan National Army of General Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... Al-Burhan Friday said the belated arrival of the gangs in the country is one of the causes that delayed the implementation of the security arrangements.
Some SLFA fighters arrived last March in the capital following Minnawi forces. The move triggered sharp criticism for the two groups.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... al-Burhan said that in line with the peace agreement every group has to bring 100 fighters who will receive a close protection course before joining the Sudanese army protection units.
He further said that another force arrived in Khartoum with special permission and would not remain for a long time before to praise their discipline and coordination with the army.
[LIBYAREVIEW] Following the release of one of the world’s most wanted human traffickers, Abdelrahman al-Bidja, several migrants colonists spoke up about their experiences at the hands of this "feared boss" of the Libyan coasties in Zawiya.
"A monster, who is capable of shooting a human being as he would shoot an animal," Mamadou, who fled Libya to return to his home country Guinea, told InfoMoslem colonists Migrants news website.
"Even the Libyans don’t dare contradict him because he is known to be very violent mostly peaceful with them too," says Ali, another Guinean who spent three months in the Zawiya prison, run by al-Bidja and his cousin Osama.
Al-Bidja has been on the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council’s (UNSC) Sanctions Committee list since June 2018, for his involvement in human trafficking and fuel smuggling. He was also subject to a special bulletin by INTERPOL, and an arrest warrant issued in April 2019 by the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Public Prosecution Office. All were given on similar charges of human trafficking and fuel smuggling.
Al-Bidja was released from a Libyan prison on April 11th, six months after being incarcerated for human trafficking in a judicial decision that has left several international organizations stunned.
Al-Bidja has a long record of human trafficking crimes in western Libya. Born in 1990 in the city of Zawiya, he worked as a Lieutenant Officer assigned by the Government of National Accord (GNA), to head the Coast Guard in the western region. He is also the Head of Zawiya’s most notorious militia, known for its human trafficking activities.
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[THEHILL] The State Department ordered nonessential U.S. personnel out of Chad on Sunday amid growing concerns about advancing rebel forces in the country.
The announcement was posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Chad, which pointed to the proximity of rebel groups to the nation's capital.
"On April 17, 2021, the Department ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. babus government employees from U.S. Embassy N’Djamena due to civil unrest and armed violence," the warning read.
"Armed non-governmental groups in northern Chad have moved south and appear to be heading toward N’Djamena. Due to their growing proximity to N’Djamena, and the possibility for violence in the city, non-essential U.S. Government employees have been ordered to leave Chad by commercial airline. U.S. citizens in Chad wishing to depart should take advantage of commercial flights," it continued.
Rebel groups have frequently tried to overthrow Idriss Déby, Chad's self-proclaimed president who has ruled the country for more than three decades after launching a successful coup himself. Déby is supported by La Belle France and the U.S., which consider him and the country an important ally against Islamist snuffies in the region.
Rebel forces posted on social media late last week that they had overtaken a Chadian army base in the country's northern region, while claiming that the army was receiving logistical support from La Belle France.
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The rebel Front for Change and Concord in Chad issued a statement Sunday on its Facebook page stating that its forces had begun “the liberation of Kanem region.” The rebels invaded Chad from Libya a week ago. It was election day as President Idriss Deby is sure to continue in power after three decade rule. Intelligence agencies are silent on who is financing the invasion.
[AlAhram] A senior Saudi official has denied there being direct talks with Iran, four years after the two countries cut off diplomatic ties, contradicting a Financial Times report claiming discussions were ongoing between the two major regional players, Arab News said.
The Financial Times report, which cited unnamed sources, said the first round of talks took place in Baghdad on April 9, which included discussions on attacks against 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... by the Iran-backed 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... militia.
The report said the talks were being facilitated by Iraqi Prime Minister Mostafa al-Kadhimi, who held talks with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed in Riyadh last month.
Interestingly, not only did a Saudi source deny the story, but neither the Iranian nor the Iraqi governments provided the Financial Times with a comment, the Arab News report said.
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One thing the Saudis are pretty good at is knowing which way the wind is blowing.
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[EpochTimes] Members of the infamous Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... cell in Portland are anxious after an informant in their midst gave information to police, leading to arson charges, Antifa expert Andy Ngo says.
"They’re panicking because this may possibly mean that somebody has infiltrated high ... and there’s a lot at risk, because this is a criminal cartel," Ngo said Saturday on NTD’s "The Nation Speaks."
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This is very good, if it's true. And even if it's not.
The introduction of distrust among lynchpins of any organization is the most effective output minimizer, meaning it significantly reduces their capacity to work. If one can induce internecine hostility to a point where they start killing each other, that's real progress. It makes them devote most of their good-for-nothing efforts to hunting and spying on each other, and they even lose the ability to communicate and coordinate freely.
The basis for this principle is simple. Criminals know they are themselves by nature untrustworthy and all motivated by diverse, disunited interests. Every collective of criminals is ordered and organized along the lines of who has the most money and charisma to command. These will be individuals who have spent their lives hoarding ill-gotten gains, hiding their income streams, back-stabbing and screwing others on their way. Meaning they are sociopaths and sharks under the gay cape of revolutionary fraternity. Such people are susceptible to doubt and confusion about each other. Which is why there are so many gang wars and shootouts over assumed infractions among them; things a clever police brass takes advantage of in controlling crime.
If it's a strategic counter to the growing power of the antifad, it may have from a Democrat's mind.
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Neither criminals nor revolutionaries. These are psychopaths, most of whom also have serious drug problems, gender confusion and/or weird sexual proclivities: trannies, "furries," ped0s and other pervs.
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Related: The Post-Millennial has photos of the young lady, and informs us that Alma Yesenia Raven-Guido, 19, of Beaverton, Ore. is a journalism student at the University of Oregon who has been arrested for such behaviour before.
...Just 19 and that far outta whack? There's a much bigger story hiding there.
Mike
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...And a quick follow-up: just took a look at Ms. Raven-Guido's pic.
That's a really hard 19.
Mike
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Know thy enemy.
You people are just cracking jokes and engaging in wishful thinking. Antifa is no joke.
Let's say the Police/FBI have a Sneaky Pete(s) or Pauline(s) in their leadership level.
Let's assume they collect good CRIMINAL, SUBVERSIVE, REVOLUTIONARY FUNDING data, COUP Agenda Evidence.
Given the US DOJ and many State AG's Socialist-Democrat politicization's. Does any one expect them to use the videos, documents and even Smoking Guns when handed to the Law Enforcement system?
Before you answer.
Remember they have had Biden's Laptop for how many months now and done nothing?
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Antifa is a joke. A while ago one of them was bragging that they were able to hold a shield wall together while advancing. In other words, they managed the second easiest part of a formation that's been outdated since stirrups.
"But they'll learn!" Really? Where's the evidence of that? They're leftists; they call someone with a string of Spanish names "indigenous"; they don't realize their entire organization is riddled with informants. They CAN'T learn; if they did, they'd have to abandon their "revolution" fantasies.
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#5 Yep, Democrats. Like Mad Maxine. Vampire parasites on the country.
#13
Psychopaths are not a joke. But this is less a military matter than a law enforcement and social services problem. Most of these people belong in an asylum. Lacking those, we give them Portland and Seattle - small difference, agreed.
And yes, Democrats know exactly what they're doing -- or not doing. First they let these sickos have the run of a few non-strategic targets in 2020, and then their media toadies dialed characterized it as "chaos" in order to bring down Trump.
Now it's ignored. Instead the Democrat state media line is now that the "chaos" is created by Trump's supporters -- "insurrectionists" and "white supremacists."
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Antifa cannon fodder appear to me to be about half revolutionaries with mental health issues and half straightforward opportunistic criminals. The leadership appear to be psychopaths. BLM leaders appear to have more who are sane opportunists coldly profitting from race gamesmanship to acquire money and influence, and more criminals among the cannon fodder.
The FBI is investigating far-left Antifa radicals linked to violent attacks around the country, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress on Thursday.
"Mr. Wray was asked his views on whether Antifa, a leftist radical group that has triggered violent attacks in several U.S. cities, is an organized group.
'We consider Antifa to be more of a movement,' Mr. Wray said during an appearance before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 'There are certainly local and regional nodes, individuals who self-identify with Antifa who commit violent attacks, citing that as their motivation. And we have a number of predicated investigations into such individuals.'
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Not RICO - Whitewash. Notice how he implies that the rioters are not really Antifa but 'self-identify' as Antifa. That is a hint to how the FBI is preparing to protect the DNC terrorist arm.
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Regardless nothing will come of it. With FBI pickle head Wray cover for these obvious acts of treason.
We all know it. Soros Aktion chicom and corp funded nazis moving, destroying freely at will. There will never be any charges. Our nation's collapse is sealed.
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Not only does the FBI now have a severe senior management bias for Democrats but they have perfected the three year investigation into a stalling artform, allowing recriminations to be muted after an event, give the appearance of integrity and professionalism while waitro see what the 7th floor wants as an outcome. But just as frustrating and dystopian, DoJ is perhaps the swampiest of all agencies, so getting prosecution against the politically powerful is even more remote. The entire Russiagate investigation got one lawyer on one charge after two plus years.
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NO BS -- FBI and DOJ are now part of organized crime.
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[i]Oh come on. Antifa isn't a criminal mafia, they're revolutionaries. Let's be smart about this...
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I offer the example of the Man of Steel himself, sometimes also known as Joseph Dzhugashvili, Koba the Dread, your good old Uncle Joe, or Stalin.
Kidnapper, Bank Robber, Revolutionary, former Jesuit Seminarian, and Dictator who killed millions of people. He's where Criminal, Revolutionary, and Psychopath meet.
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Normally i would applaud but millions of dollars late and untold lives ruined because authorities played defense instead of holding on to arrested Antifa for days or weeks to break the cycle of violence.
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rj, it's just like Venezuela. They let the criminal/revolutionary gang beat up beat cops to act as enforcers for the dictatorial state at the same time they're cosplaying as anti-authoritarian revolutionaries.
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All revolutionaries are killers but most are not psychotic.
Nearly all of the Antifa characters who've been identified are clinical cases: schizoid or bipolar; sexual deviants; personality disorders. These lost souls wouldn't know a proletariat from a lariat or an AK 47 from an AR 15.
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I'm not sure how the colectivos are doing in Venezuela these days. Dad had contacts there.
When I tried to get in touch with my last contact there a month back I found out he was being sought by federal US law enforcement for theft of industrial equipment, couldn't enter the US, and his US phone wasn't working.
BUT... for the sake of historical completeness: previous brownshirt analogues in communist societies have generally been used to subjugate the populace before then being subjugated themselves. Like all the Old Bolsheviks who wound up with their skeletons paving the bottom of the White Sea Canal.
...and like, of course, the ones who give their name to the class of belligerent: the brownshirts, who were mostly killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
(And, of course, although I haven't read it in a long while, the standard book on the subject is _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_.)
[WWeek] The police officer who killed a man in Lents Park on Friday morning
...to clarify, the dead man was described yesterday as an unnamed white man, aged 30, which suggests the police know exactly who he is...
was identified this morning by the Portland Police Bureau as Officer Zachary DeLong, an eight-year veteran of the bureau.
DeLong was featured in a 2016 documentary series on the History Channel called The Warfighters.
DeLong was one of four main subjects in an episode detailing a specific U.S Army Ranger mission in 2010 in Afghanistan called Task Force Merrill that was meant to find Taliban compounds and strongholds, fortify the strongholds, and draw Taliban members back toward them to attack. Then planes would swoop in to kill the Taliban fighters.
DeLong was a sniper for the mission, meaning he and several other rangers would walk ahead of the platoon and chalk out the best route to get to compounds without accidentally stepping on explosives.
"We’d take all these inhabitants that were living there and say, ’Hey, you guys know where the Taliban are.’ We want you to go out there and find somewhere safe to be, leave the area, and tell them that we’re right here and we’re here to fight," DeLong says to the cameras. "Sometimes we’d take a big ’ole American flag and throw it up in the roof, and wait for them to start shooting at us."
DeLong continues, "We’d get that first burst of machine gun fire that was aimed at us, and then it was on." Ok, let's review. On the one hand, there are the bad guys, who are 100 or so Communist insurrectionists whose night-after-night tactic is to march through downtown Portland -- which is a collection of large buildings some with perfect overlooks and concealment -- making a lot of noise and breaking stuff. On the other hand, in the Portland police force we've got one Ranger-tabbed sniper whose idea of a good time was to get the Taliban to fire machine guns at him by waving an American flag. Is there any possible strategy that would put all those elements together? Nah, I just can't think of any. Totally stumped.
The Turks stole the payroll of their Syrian mercenaries in Libya, too. And given that many of their Karabakh mercenaries were shipped directly from Libya, they often stole twice from the same suckers.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian mercenaries that took part in the Karabakh conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were filmed recently complaining about stolen salaries,
In the short video, members of the Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade complained that they fought with the Ottoman Ottoman Turkish forces alongside the Azerbaijani troops in Karabakh, but not compensated for their service.
The Syrian mercenary that was speaking about the salaries said that their money was stolen from them, despite the fact they suffered casualties during the month-long war.
The Syrian mercenaries were previously deployed to Karabakh to assist the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in their war against the Armenian troops there.
This deployment of mercenaries to Karabakh was widely covered by the local Armenian media, as the Ottoman Ottoman Turkish-sponsored fighters were sent to this region just weeks before the war broke out on September 29th, 2020.
Hafiz Muhammad Saad Rizvi, head of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP), has issued a message to the members of the party’s Majlis-e-Shura not to indulge in any illegal activity and call off their protest demonstration and sit-in immediately.https://t.co/ULwFI23Mix
[AlAhram] Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal, which Israel said on Sunday would strengthen political and economic ties between the countries.
The agreement includes a $1.65 billion contract for the establishment and operation of a training centre for the Hellenic Air Force by Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems over a 22-year period, Israel's defence ministry said.
The training centre will be modeled on Israel's own flight academy and will be equipped with 10 M-346 training aircraft produced by Italian company Leonardo, the ministry said.
Elbit will supply kits to upgrade and operate Greece's T-6 aircraft and also provide training, simulators and logistical support.
"I am certain that (this programme) will upgrade the capabilities and strengthen the economies of Israel and Greece and thus the partnership between our two countries will deepen on the defence, economic and political levels," said Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz.
The announcement follows a meeting in Cyprus on Friday between the UAE, Greek, Cypriot and Israeli foreign ministers, who agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries.
How about NO, Fuck Off?
[JPost] "A one-state solution, an apartheid state... is something neither, we nor the entire world would accept. A one-state solution will only perpetuate the conflict," Abbas said.
The Biden administration must, rescind the 1987 US determination that the Palestine Liberation Organization is a terror group, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the annual J Street Conference, as he spoke of the steps to re-establish ties between Washington and Ramallah.
The far left J Street lobby group was founded and funded by the Soros team in late 2007 to provide a claimed Jewish but functionally pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel alternative to AIPAC for the Obama administration and fellow traveling Progressive Democrats. Fortunately, J Street is too far left and too anti-Israel to be heeded by even liberal-oriented American Jewish organizations.
"We seek to develop and strengthen bilateral relations with the new US administration for the common interest of both countries and the interest of peace and prosperity in our region," Abbas said in a virtual address to the US based gathering.
He explained that ties between the PA and the US had been severed when former US President Donald Trump was in the White House, but that the PA now sought to open a new page with the Biden administration.
"However, this requires the elimination of some obstacles, most important of which is removing the PLO name from the terrorism list pursuant to the Congress Anti-Terrorist Act of 1987," Abbas said as he referenced the legislation that marked the PLO as a terror group.
Most American presidents until Trump had waived the act, thereby allowing for ties between the PLO and the US. Rather than reinstate the waiver, Abbas wants the act to be rescinded.
He asked J Street to help the PA sway the Biden administration and the US Congress "to repeal all laws that block the road toward enhancing Palestinian-US relations."
Abbas appeared to reference laws put in place during the Trump administration to prevent direct financial assistance to the PA from the American government as long as the PA provided monthly stipends to jailed terrorists and to families of terrorists.
"On our part, we will remove all obstacles to achieve this goal. The continuity of these laws is frustrating and un-constructive," Abbas said.
Scare quotes mine. On the other side is not anything like dovish.
[IsraelTimes] Labor
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head Merav Michaeli, Meretz
...Social Democrat Green...
head Nitzan Horowitz, and Joint List
...Arab-Israeli umbrella party minus the Muslim Brotherhood party, which ran separately...
head Ayman Odeh have just addressed the opening plenary session of J Street’s annual conference, which is being held virtually this year due to the pandemic.
Each of the party leaders expressed their support, to varying degrees, for Israel to return to negotiations with the Paleostinians to achieve a two-state solution. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... they all recognized that the current political dynamics will make such a reality very difficult to achieve.
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I love the hubris of a terroristso arrogant as to demand we stop calling him a terrorist before he will let us give him money to sustain being a terrorist. Bidet is just that fricking stupid!
[Rudaw] Russia has repatriated 34 children held at a camp for 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.... (ISIS) linked detainees in northeast Syria (Rojava), according to a children's rights agency linked to the Russian presidency.
The Russian children, all of whom had been living at al-Hol camp, were flown home from the city of Qamishli, according to a statement from Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner for the Rights of the Child released on Sunday.
The repatriations are the first of this year by Russia.
The flight from northeast Syria to Moscow had been postponed several times due to the "difficult situation" at the camp, the statement read.
A Russian team have also identified 12 Russian children living at Roj camp, it added.
Al-Hol camp, whose conditions have been condemned by human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups, has seen a spike in murders since the beginning of 2021. Most recently, an Iraqi refugee was found dead at al-Hol on Saturday -- the first murder at the camp since Rojava's security forces conducted a large-scale operation at the beginning of this month to root out ISIS sleeper cells, arresting more than 100 people.
Over 30,000 foreign nationals are held at al-Hol camp.
Rojava's authorities have for years urged countries to take their nationals home, but few have heeded the call. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and human rights groups have condemned countries for failing to take back their nationals.
Countries in Central Asia have proved to be exceptions. Uzbekistan repatriated 93 people, including 75 children, earlier this month.
Russia repatriated 144 children in 2020, according to a December statement from the Commission for the Rights of the Child.
Most of the foreign nationals at al-Hol camp are Iraqi. Baghdad will take back 2,500 people from the camp in the coming days, a bigwig in Rojava told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Caretaker Lebanese Justice Minister Marie Claude Najm tasked the Judicial Inspection Authority to carry out an assessment of judges in wake of Mount Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... state prosecutor Ghada Aoun's rejection of her dismissal by the the discriminatory Public Prosecutor, Judge Ghassan Oweidat.
Oweidat had dismissed her from investigating alleged financial crimes committed by a money exchange service.
The case has sparked widespread debate, significantly since Aoun is close to President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... Najm stressed after Saturday's meeting that she would not take a position with or against any political party, saying she was exercising her legal duties.
She remarked that the people believe that the judiciary is divided and affiliated with political powers. This in turn is dividing the people.
She added that she had tasked the Judicial Inspection Authority two weeks ago to carry out an assessment of judges, urging it to go ahead with the case because the situation was no longer tolerable.
Oweidat had on Friday ordered that the money exchange service case be restricted to three general prosecutors. Judge Aoun would consequently be excluded from the case.
She, however, remained defiant. Hours after his order, she personally showed up at the exchange service , along with state security members, to raid the office.
Amid the raid, supporters of President Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... gathered outside the office in a show of support.
The owner of the exchange service called on the army and Internal Security Forces to intervene because "a judge, along with partisan supporters, were vandalizing private property."
Former General Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi told Asharq al-Awsat that he was not opposed to the involvement of the Judicial Inspection Authority, noting however, that it was not part of its jurisdiction to determine whether the general prosecutor was right to dismissing a state prosecutor from a case.
The entire affair has sparked heated debate in the country.
FPM lawyers condemned the affair as an attempt to tarnish Judge Aoun's image, saying the entire issue was politically motivated.
They defended the judge for "daring to tackle corruption cases and cracking down on corrupt figures."
The Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement said the affair was "very dangerous and marked a precedent not witnessed during the civil war or even during Syria's hegemony over Lebanon."
It accused Judge Aoun of being selective in opening corruption cases, saying she chooses to prosecute opponents while turning a blind eye to other violations.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Two Moroccan military planes landed in Beirut on Saturday, carrying the first batch of essential food upon instructions by Morocco's King Mohammed VI.
The aid was received by Moroccan ambassador to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... Mohammed Karin and members of the embassy, in addition to a representative of the current Commander in Chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
The shipment was the first of eight military planes delivering basic food products to Lebanon.
King Mohammed announced he would personally fund the large donation of aid.
The 90 tons of food aid will go to citizens and Lebanon’s armed forces as the country endures its worst economic crisis in decades, which was exacerbated by 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... pandemic.
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and wheel barrows to have sex with dead who die in line waiting at UN Walmart! religion matters
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Beirut's roads are riddled with potholes, many walls are covered in anti-government graffiti and countless street lamps have long since gone dark.
At night, car drivers creep cautiously past broken traffic lights and strain their eyes for missing manhole covers, stolen for the value of their metal.
Many parking meters have been disabled in protest over an alleged corruption scandal, while cars are parked randomly on sidewalks.
Charred patches from burnt tires are seared into the asphalt downtown, reminders of angry street protests of past years against the politicianship held responsible for the malaise.
To many, the dysfunctional capital has become emblematic of a country mired in its worst crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war after decades of mismanagement and corruption.
Much of Beirut's infrastructure started falling apart long before last August's massive portside explosion killed more than 200 people, levelled the waterfront and damaged countless buildings.
Amid the crisis, the Lebanese currency has collapsed and continues its downward slide at a sickening rate that in itself is deepening the problem.
As the currency has dived by more than 85 percent on the black market, wary contractors are steering clear of any municipal repairs that are paid for in Lebanese pounds.
When the Beirut city council called for tenders to fix lighting on streets and in tunnels, no one showed up at two meetings to assign bids last month.
"Not a single contractor wants to work with the municipality," a Beirut city council official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... But if the city raised its offers, the official added, "there would be nothing left in the coffers".
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So, a denizen of any blue American city would feel right at home...
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...Don't forget that big hole in the shoreline at the harbor...
Mike
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the deputy commander of Iran’s Quds Force, has died, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement on Sunday.
Hejazi died due to a "heart condition," the IRGC statement said, without elaborating further.
Hejazi was appointed as the deputy commander of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the IRGC, in January 2020 following the US killing of Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani .
There goes one of the Hezbollah PGM project leaders.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. 
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[SHAFAQ] Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi, 
