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Afghanistan
Ex-Kabul Bank shareholder Dawi jailed for 9 years for embezzling of millions of dollars
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The owner of Dawi oil and former share holder of Kabul Bank Abdul Ghafar Dawi has been nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for nine years on charges of embezzlement of at least $38 million in a fuel contract.

Dawi’s court hearing was organized late on Tuesday evening in the Anti-Corruption Justice Center of Afghanistan.

Apart from Dawi, his deputy Asghar Ghiasi was also nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for nine years and nine months in prison for having role in the multi-million embezzlement of the fuel contract for the government.

According to the court hearing, apart from the nine years and nine months of jail term, the two bigwigs of Dawi Oil were also awarded a total fin of twelve thousand Afghanis and the reimbursement of $38 million embezzled funds.

Dawi was initially nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in mid-March this year over the allegations of embezzlement of millions of dollars in oil and fuel contracts as he was key a shareholder of the Kabul Bank.

Kabul Bank was seized by the government in 2010 after the exposure of a staggering $900 million fraud, which led the International Monetary Fund to temporarily halt its hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to the country.

Kabul Bank was one of Afghanistan’s largest private financial institutions founded in 2004 by Sherkhan Farnood, who was an international prominent poker player. Khalilullah Ferozi, the former chief executive of the bank, was another key staff.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Hekmatyar-led Hezb-e-Islami harshly criticizes pro-Iran media of sparking tensions
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
has harshly criticized certain media outlets, specifically the ones being operated from Iran, of sparking tensions among the various sects, groups, or movements in Afghanistan.

Noting the recent media reports regarding the ongoing differences and deadly festivities among the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and ISIS turbans in Afghanistan, Hezb-e-Islami strongly condemned the reports suggesting that the party will side with Deash, ISIS loyalists, in the event tensions further intensify among the two Death Eater groups.

According to a statement by Hezb-e-Islami, such rumors and reports are only aimed sparking further tensions among the people belonging to different sects and groups in a bid to keep fueling the violence in Afghanistan.

The statement further added that the ISIS turbans operating in Afghanistan are only the former turbans of the Taliban group who have only changed their insurgency by changing the color of their flags.

The party also insisted that the ideology of the ISIS group in Iraq and Syria are far more different than the ones operating in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Arabia
Obaid bin Daghar sez Houthis, militias close to defeat
Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obaid bin Daghar declared on Wednesday that his country’s army and popular resistance are close to score a real and final victory over coup militias which controls capital Sanaa, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) .

According to the Yemeni news agency, the victory on the Iran-backed Houthi militias and troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh will spark Yemenis aspirations to establish a federal state consisting of six provinces, guarantor of equality and justice in wealth and power.

During his meeting with the governors of Amran and Rima provinces, the Yemeni official praised the heroic role of the people of the two provinces in confronting the coupist militias and their efforts to restore legitimacy and preserve the republic and unity.

Insurgency militias overran the capital Sanaa, forcing the internationally-backed government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to re-establish a temporary capital in Aden. Each of the United States and Saudi Arabia have accused Houthi militias of receiving Iranian funds and arms.

A Saudi-led coalition, composing a number of Arab states, intervened to back Yemen’s pro-legitimacy forces to regain control over the war-torn country and counter the foreign agenda militias are believed to promote.

Houthis fingered for human rights violations
Of course. The winners always get to decide what is a war crime and what isn't
Aden, Taiz- The National Committee to investigate allegations of human rights’ violations in Yemen announced that it had monitored 7,818 cases during the period from September 2016 until June 2017.

In its third report, which was released on Tuesday in the temporary capital of Aden, the committee said that it has completed its investigation into 4,101 allegation cases, including 2,082 civilian deaths and 2,019 civilian casualties.

The committee said that it has monitored, during the same period, 176 cases of child recruitment and 362 cases of individual mine-laying, which resulted in the death of 138 people and the injury of 224 others.

It has also monitored 10 cases of alleged assault and damage to cultural and historical objects and property, 16 cases of alleged attacks on medical staff and health installations and 732 cases of forced displacement.

The report also revealed the results of the investigations carried out by the Commission related to international law during the past period. There were 693 cases of illegal prosecutions, 1,037 cases of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, 386 cases of torture, 384 cases of house bombings.

National Committee’s Head Qaher Mustafa stressed that the report was meant to explain the major steps taken by the committee during its monitoring and investigation based on legal references and provide a full explanation of the results of the investigations and the causes of those violations.

Mustafa pointed out that security and political challenges and the continuation of the war have motivated the committee to investigate as much as possible in the allegations of human rights’ violations.

He called on international organizations, the non-governmental organizations and the local civil society to take a look at the report and provide the committee with an appropriate vision at the aim of improvement to reduce violations and promote human rights.

For her part, member of the National Committee Judge Sabah al-Alwani said that the total cases that have been monitored, documented and saved in the database since the beginning of the Committee’s work until the date of the report “amounted to 17,123 cases distributed among 20 types of violations, and the Commission has completed the investigation with 10,000 cases and 594 were monitored, and it was briefed by 16,191 victims and witnesses”.
Posted by: badanov || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Turkey asks Germany for extradition of top coup suspect
[DW] Ankara has formally requested that Berlin arrest and extradite a man suspected of playing a major role in last year's failed coup. The request follows reports suggesting the theology lecturer was spotted in Germany.

Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
sent a diplomatic note to Germany, demanding the extradition of runaway Adil Oksuz.

Cavusoglu told broadcaster TRT Haber that Ankara sent the note following reports that Oksuz was seen in Germany.

"If this person is there, we asked that he be located, taken into custody and returned to Turkey," the minister said.

Oksuz, a theology academic, is accused of being a follower of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, who Ankara says was behind last year's failed coup attempt.

Ottoman Turkish media reported that Oksuz has been seen in the German cities of Frankfurt and Ulm and was granted a temporary residence permit in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg.

Turkey's most wanted
The Ottoman Turkish government says that Oksuz was a "civilia holy man" for air force personnel who bombed parliament last July as part of efforts to topple the government.

Oksuz was jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
at Akinci air base once the coup bid collapsed, but was released two days later by an alleged Gulenist judge. He has been on the run ever since and is one of Turkey's most wanted runaways.

Footage released after the failed coup showed Oksuz and his alleged assistant, businessman Kemal Batmaz, arriving at the main airport in Istanbul two days before the attempted putsch.

Ottoman Turkish authorities say the men were returning from a trip to the US where they allegedly met with Gulen, who denies involvement and has condemned the attempted putsch. He has been living in Pennsylvania in self-imposed exile since 1999.

Batmaz remains in detention following his arrest immediately following the failed coup and is awaiting trial
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


The Grand Turk
Turkey warns Iraqi Kurdish referendum risks ‘civil war’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Wednesday warned that a plan by the leadership in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region to hold a referendum on independence next month could lead to civil war, in Ankara’s strongest warning yet against the poll.

"In that country (Iraq), which has been through so many problems, a referendum on independence can make the situation even worse," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state TRT Haber broadcaster. "God forbid, it could even bring it to civil war."

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas pledges to ‘crush’ Israel if Gaza attacked
Like they did last time? How dreadfully frightening.
[Iran Press TV] The Paleostinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, has pledged to "crush Israel in case it wages another war on the besieged Gazoo Strip.

Israeli media reports on Wednesday cited Hamas leader in Gazoo Yahya Sinwar as saying that while the movement was not looking to start a war, it was well prepared to take on the Tel Aviv regime’s military forces at any time.

"We do not seek confrontation with the Israelis, but if the confrontation happens, we will crush them," Sinwar was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

The Hamas chief, who was appointed in February to succeed Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
to head the movement’s political office in Gazoo, said any "stupid steps" by Israel against the coastal enclave would be met with a response greater than the one the movement gave to the 2014 Israeli invasion.

July marked the third anniversary of the 51-day Israeli war on Gazoo that left more than 2,200 people dead and over 11,000 others injured. Gazoo stood its ground and was able to repel the ruthless invasion.

"Israel is not launching a new war against Gazoo, which stresses Tel Aviv's fear of the unknown that awaits it in Gazoo," the Paleostinian leader asserted.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  With a new management in DC, we might be able to do something more effective than the last time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  A decent sized earthquake should collapse most of their underground stuff.

The Dead Sea Rift is due for a big one.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/17/2017 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Kim's PR firm picking up additional clientele during the slack period?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Possibly speaking to please their new Iranian patrons.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Gazoo stood its ground and was able to repel the ruthless invasion.

Iran Press TV history rewrite
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/17/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Gives new meaning to "fighting in the shade".
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 08/17/2017 21:20 Comments || Top||


Israel revokes credentials of Al Jazeera reporter
[IsraelTimes] Government Press Office cites an interview in which Elias Karram said ’media work is an integral part of the resistance’

The Government Press Office revoked the credentials of an Al Jazeera news hound Wednesday for allegedly being an "active partner in Paleostinian resistance" amid Israeli efforts to boot the network from the country.

The GPO said the decision to strip Jerusalem correspondent Elias Karram of his press card came after it was alerted this week to a 2016 interview in which the Arab Israeli news hound said "media work is an integral part of the resistance."

"As a Paleostinian journalist in an occupied area or in a conflict zone, media work is an integral part of the resistance and its educational political activity," Karram said in the interview, according to a translation provided by the GPO. "The journalist fulfills his role in the opposition with the pen, voice or camera because he is part of this people and he carries out resistance in his unique way."

The GPO said that a hearing will be held for Karram to clarify his comments and how his role as a self-declared member of the "resistance" influences "his work as a journalist according to universal ethics."

"These remarks call into question the ability of Karram, the representative of a foreign network, to cover ‐ as a professional journalist ‐ the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict in which, according to his own words, he is taking an active part," the GPO said in a statement.

Al Jazeera declined to immediately comment on the move.

The Union of Journalists in Israel called the revocation of Karrem’s press card "intolerable."

"The planned move by the Government Press Office, which does not at all claim incitement or harm to the state’s security, is not only an attack on Elias Karrem but an attack on the principles of freedom of expression and freedom of press and the ability of news hounds to faithfully serve the public."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month that he wants to expel the 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...
i broadcaster from the country, accusing it of inciting violence.

Netanyahu made the comments as tensions soared over metal detectors Israel installed at entrances to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem following a terror attack outside the compound last month, in which three Arab Israelis rubbed out two coppers using weapons smuggled into the al-Aqsa Mosque.

At the time, Al Jazeera condemned what it called "arbitrary accusations and hostile statements."

It added the network would "take all necessary legal measures in case they act on their threat," saying its coverage was professional and objective.

On August 6, Communications Minister Ayoob Kara followed up on Netanyahu’s comments by saying he would take steps to close Al Jazeera’s offices in Israel. He accused the broadcaster of "inciting violence which has provoked losses among the best of our sons," referring to the July 14 attack.

The GPO’s move to revoke the press card for Karram marks the first concrete action against the broadcaster since Netanyahu’s remarks. The GPO statement on Wednesday said Kara recently requested that "the press cards of Al Jazeera personnel in Israel be revoked on the grounds that the network was inciting and agitating to violence in a way that harmed the security of the state."

Amnesia Amnesty International has said Israel’s move against the broadcaster is a "brazen attack on media freedom."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria says US, allies supplying terrorists with toxic agents
[Iran Press TV] Syria says the US, Britannia and their allies are supporting gunnies in the war-torn Arab country by supplying them with toxic agents and other kinds of weapons.

During a presser in the Syrian Foreign Ministry’s main office in the capital Damascus, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Wednesday that toxic agents found in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus were made by US and UK companies, Syrian's official news agency SANA reported.

He also called on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate those countries' actions in his country.

Mekdad added that since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the West, based on false allegations made by the gunnies they support, has usually blamed the government in Damascus for various incidents of the use of chemical weapons throughout the country.

He stressed that the US has even used those "fabrications" as a pretext to attack the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province without launching an investigation into the terrorists' claims.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Terror Networks
Al-Qaeda Urges Muslims to Derail Trains in Britain and U.S.
[Breitbart] al-Qaeda’s glossy magazine has urged Moslems to attack trains in Britannia and the U.S., claiming tracks are a weak spot in the West, and gives detailed instruction on how to sabotage lines.

Safeguarding thousands of miles of track is "practically impossible" and attacks would cause "great damage and destruction" without the need for explosives, the terrorist group said in the 17th edition of Inspire, which is "dedicated" to train attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  It's all the fault of Robert E. Lee
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 4:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll bet the next issue will be dedicated to sewage lines and septic tanks.
Ally ally ballyhoo.
Posted by: Dron || 08/17/2017 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  In NYC and Washington D.C., I doubt the subway lines need any outside help.
Posted by: Raj || 08/17/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Haha British train's so seldom run they may never manage to get one
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/17/2017 12:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Someday these fanatical assholes are going to do something so heinous we're left with no logical choice but to annihilate them all.

Until then, we're just spinning our wheels.
Posted by: Dave D. || 08/17/2017 12:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Only if it involves dead on the Left, Dave.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/17/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#7  The derailer pictured in the article looks to be made from lightweight metal and would not survive the initial hit from a modern locomotive. But the principle as shown is accurate. This could get scary; think not just a passenger train but any unit train carrying oil, gas, ethanol, etc and jumping the tracks in a highly populated area. I would expect any train watchers to get visited by railroad security starting about now.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 08/17/2017 14:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Greens love trains over the personal freedom of automobiles.

I wonder at what point do the Jihadists piss of the greens.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/17/2017 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Surprised nobody has begun to fire .50 tracers into gas tankers on the freeway.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/17/2017 18:45 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-08-17
  Breaking: Barcelona Van Attack on Pedestrians.
Wed 2017-08-16
  Tunisia says IS plot to seize territory foiled
Tue 2017-08-15
  Russia foils two ISIS suicide bombers who planned to blow themselves up on the subway in Moscow
Mon 2017-08-14
  At least 17 killed in attack on restaurant in Burkina Faso
Sun 2017-08-13
  IS executes its Legal Judge in Hawija for attempting to secede
Sat 2017-08-12
  30 Taliban insurgents killed as suicide vests explodes in Farah gathering
Fri 2017-08-11
  Theft and kidnapping ravages north Aleppo as Erdogan’s Syrian caliphate experiment fails
Thu 2017-08-10
  Gang convicted of sex offences against vulnerable girls in England
Wed 2017-08-09
  Police hunt BMW driver who mowed down six French soldiers in Paris
Tue 2017-08-08
  Kurdish authorities arrest 1700 Islamic State militants among displaced civilians
Mon 2017-08-07
  Taliban kill 30 villagers in Afghanistan's Sari Pul province
Sun 2017-08-06
  Governor of Galgaduud region shot dead in Somali capital
Sat 2017-08-05
  US confirms airstrike killed al-Shabab commander in Somalia
Fri 2017-08-04
  Al Qaeda frees South African hostage after six years
Thu 2017-08-03
  Police Make Arrest in 2003 Case of Grooming Gang Victim Believed Ground Up and Sold as Kebab Meat

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