[Khaama] General Scott Millar, the commander of US and Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, together with Assadullah Khalid, the acting Defense Minister of Afghanistan travelled to the northern Jawzjan province on Monday to meet Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the first deputy of National Unity Government and the head of Junbish political party and have discussed the security and election issues, sources confirmed.
Controversial statements about this visit have been reported by the news wire services and some political experts believe the government had specific messages to Gen. Dostum through this security delegation.
Assadullah Khalid had a message from the government to General Abdul Rashid Dostum saying to help in stopping the demonstrations and to reopening IEC offices in the northern provinces, a source told Khaama Press.
Bashir Ahmad Tayanj, the ex-parliamentarian speaking with Khaama Press confirmed that election issues have been discussed at the margin of the meeting.
"The main purpose of this visit was to discuss the security issues of northern provinces, however, the elections issues have also been discussed at the margin, Tayanj told Khaama Press.
[Libya Observer] 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... has summoned the Speaker of House Representatives (HoR) Aqila Saleh to inform him of a new plot that aims to withdraw the Arab, African and Islamic World recognition of the UN-backed Presidential Council, according to Libya al-Ahrar TV Channel.
At least it’s not a secret plot. Those are the worst.
The channel reported reliable sources as saying that the plot includes asking Tobruk-based HoR to withdraw confidence from the Presidential Council, then asking the Arab League
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Presidential Council has condemned the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on al-Swani in southern 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... on Sunday and the airstrikes prior to that on Um al-Aranib in southern Libya, which both caused civilian casualties.
In a statement on Monday, the Presidential Council said "those terrorist attacks are committed by war criminal 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... 's warplanes that are backed by foreign countries" and are part of the series of attacks on civilian residential neighborhoods and private as well as public properties in Tripoli, leading to civilian deaths and injuries.
The Presidential Council said Haftar forces' crimes violate all international laws and yet there are no deterrent actions by the international community against them.
"The lack of action against Haftar's forces by the international community has encouraged them to carry out such atrocities that amount to war crimes." It added, saying UNSMIL bears the blame for those continuing attacks as its verbal statements are of no use.
Haftar's warplanes struck a house in al-Sawani on Sunday, killing five and injuring 13, according to the Health Ministry.
Prior to this attack, Haftar's warplanes carried out airstrikes on a residential area in Um al-Aranib in southern Libya, killing 11 people from one family - nine children and two women - and two other people; foreign nationals.
[DW] A German court has ruled that an election campaign poster saying "Migration kills!" is partly accurate and does not incite racial hatred. The poster was part of the campaign of the extreme-right NPD party.
A German judge ruled that an election campaign poster reading "Migration kills!" was a partly accurate description of reality and does not incite racial hatred.
The decision was made in the city of Giessen near Frankfurt, according to German media outlets the Legal Tribune Online and the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland.
The election poster was commissioned by the National Democratic Party (NPD), a far-right nationalistic political party often described as "neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... ." The NDP has no elected members in any regional parliament, the Bundestag or the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Parliament.
The ruling came after the party sued the state of Hesse earlier this year because the mayor of the small town of Ranstadt blocked the NDP from displaying the posters.
The campaign poster was used ahead of the European parliamentary elections earlier in 2019. In full, it reads: "Stop the invasion: Migration kills!"
JUDGE: IMMIGRATION COULD LEAD TO 'DEATH OF GERMAN CULTURE'
Judge Andreas Hofer, who made the decision, cited "historical movements of people" from 5,000 years ago to the present day that directly led to "death and ruin," including the expulsion of the Israelites from Egypt and the colonization of the Americas. On that basis, he said that the poster "at least partly reflected reality."
Hofer had previously spoken negatively about the state of immigration in Germany, and in 2015, he said that "abstractly, too much migration in the form of immigration to Germany could lead to the death of German culture," according to media reports.
He alone made the court ruling that the poster was at least partly accurate. The August ruling can be appealed.
An excellent article by Tzoreff and Schweitzer. The mostly absent al-Qassam in the recent clash against #Israel was peculiar. They not only abstained from helping PIJ but also all the other factions that were fighting. Even some salafist groups were launching rockets at #Israel. https://t.co/Bc2AfJuCaD
Interesting images the public doesn’t generally get to see of an underground operation room of al-Qassam Brigades. The footage was a part of an @AJArabic documentary on the IDF’s 2018 Khan Yunis operation. #Gaza#Israelpic.twitter.com/lTRJjigssg
BREAKING: International Criminal Court Declines to Prosecute Alleged Israeli War Crimes -- Decision is defeat for anti-Israel activists across the globe https://t.co/zGPLjrNR2m
The International Criminal Court on Monday declined to reopen an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes stemming from a 2010 incident in which a Gaza-bound flotilla filled with militant anti-Israel agitators was intercepted by Israeli authorities, leading to a bloody confrontation.
The ICC's lead investigator declined to bow to pressure and reopen an investigation into the nearly decade-old confrontation between Israeli military personnel and activists aboard the Mavi Marmara, a flotilla that attempted to violently penetrate Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip.
This is now the third time ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has declined to pursue war crimes charges against Israel.
[DAWN] Arakan-Rohingya Salvation Army stages vicious attacks in the name of Islam, Burma kicks Islam out. My sympathy meter appears to be stuck on zero. Moslems aren't stabbing people to death on bridges in Rangoon, are they?
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A new video posted by Ruptly on Sunday showed the chemical weapons ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... site inside the town of Douma.
This location is currently at the center of whistleblower allegations surrounding a concealed report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
On 7th of April 2018 murderous Moslems in the area claimed that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical attack in Douma. The allegation of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government prompted Britannia, La Belle France and the United States to bomb targets they said were used as depots for chemical weapons.
Footage shows inside the clinic where the victims of the alleged attack were treated and various battle-scarred parts of the town as well as traffic on its streets.
Russia’s envoy to the OPCW stated in July 2019 that "in Douma, a provocation was thoroughly orchestrated and implemented," in line with Russian and Syrian allegations that the attack was staged to justify Western military intervention.
Syria and Russia allege that the OPCW’s March report was edited to make the evidence of the attack seem more conclusive and justify the Western missile strikes.
Leaked emails from two scientists employed by the OPCW have emerged since the incident to indicate that the organization misrepresented facts and simplified conclusions in its final report, published in March 2019, on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the town near Damascus in April 2018.
OPCW director-general Fernando Arias has however defended the report calling its conclusions "independent and professional."
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... sent a letter to Sadqi al-Maqat, a Syrian prisoner in an Israeli jail, after the latter refused to release him on condition that he did not return to the occupied Golan Heights.
The text of the letter reads begins: "To the heroic prisoner Sadqi al-Maqat." In nice script
"Your latest position, which came after unremitting attempts to release you, and ended up with a question and your choice between staying in Damascus and not returning to the Golan, which is closest to, or continuing your suffering in the occupation prisons and preferring detention than not returning to the Syrian Golan. The struggle that does not fade in the same instinct to fathers and pride and dignity, and the spirit of a great fighter pass the days do not get tired," the Syrian President said.
"As much as we were waiting for you to leave the prison and as much as we stood in respect of your refusal to go out on the terms of the occupier," Assad said.
"Your struggle, along with the sacrifices and epics that the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army have laid in the trenches of honor against the genuine enemy and against the proxy has become a light that guides the path for this and future generations," he continued. and a smiley emoji
Assad completed his message by promising to retake the occupied Golan Heights.
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If we here at the Burg might make a suggestion:
In 2001, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) determined that English would, from then on, be the standardized language of air travel, and issued a directive that stated that all aviation personnel—pilots, flight crews, and air traffic controllers—must pass an English proficiency test. The mandatory compliance date was March 5, 2008. Not only must applicants know the appropriate aviation terminology in English, they must also be able to understand English instructions via radio, with no facial cues to prompt them. They also must learn to develop as benign an accent as possible, so that they are “intelligible to the aeronautical community.”
- how many inter-fleet collisions
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- how many non-fleet rescues
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- how many ships depart but don't make it back to port
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
