#US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed #Libya’s Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) for a ceasefire and criticized the flow of weapons as Tripoli pushes back against a year-old offensive. https://t.co/Aljq8UmKiE
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It is hard to figure the US role in all this. It seems to be supporting the GNA which has provided a home for Islamists of many Muslim organizations. It accepts the support of Erdogan, a man who all concede is determined to revive the Caliphate. It seemingly backs the An Nahda in Tunisia, a Muslim Brotherhood operation. It does not appear to support a putative Egyptian ally what supports the LNA and will probably invade Libya if Haftar's forces are nearing defeat. It is a complex situation and one wonders who is advising Pompeo?
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LNA loses 1 battle and ppl start talking about near defeat. From the articles I see on Rantburg, it seems the GNa are the ones on their heels.
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#US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed #Libya’s Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) for a ceasefire and criticized the flow of weapons as Tripoli pushes back against a year-old offensive.
Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I don't recall Pompeo asking for a ceasefire when the LNA was advancing. It's possible that Uncle Sam is rooting for the LNA. After all, Haftar was a 20-year US resident.
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In the past week the LNA attempt to take Tripoli has stalled. The LNA has retreated from some forward positions. This all occrred when planes provided by Turkey started to show up in Libya. Now Russia is reported to have provided the LNA with planes of superior capacity. There is back and forth, but one thing is for sure, neither Egypt for Saudi Arabia wants the GNA to emerge the victor.
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05/24/2020 20:59 Comments ||
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Thks, b. It felt...incomplete as reported. Perhaps the LNA could get S-400's?
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It's more serious than that. It's been reported that the Turks have transported over 17,000 Syrian jihadis to Libya along with several hundred Turkish troops and a LOT of gear. That probably more than doubles GNA fighting strength and allows them to go the offensive. Like any rented item, the Turks/GNA are going to drive the Syrians like, well, rented mules.
In addition, Turkish UAVs are tearing up LNA and Russian equipment. They don't seems to have a counter for it, which is surprising given the vaunted Russian electronic warfare reputation.
No mustache cursing, but otherwise a nice selection of insults. And no doubt the UAE will find a more grateful recipient for the supplies.
[Jpost] "If the plane was carrying dollars, Abbas would have received it."
In another post, al-Mazroui called Abbas "shoes and a son of shoes."
United Arab Emirates (UAE) political activists, academics and social media users have expressed outrage over the Paleostinian Authority’s reported refusal to accept medical supplies from the Gulf state because they were delivered through Ben-Gurion Airport.
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said last week that the UAE did not coordinate the delivery of the medical supplies with the Paleostinians.
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[Jpost] Middle East Forum Berlin urges ban of "antisemitic" al-Quds rally.
The intelligence agency for the state-city of Berlin registered May 19 a dramatic increase of violent supporters of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in its newly released report.
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Not major news, but now we know the jihadi is an American citizen. Next we just need to discover when and why he moved to the U.S.
[MSN] The suspect killed at the scene of Thursday's "terrorism-related" shooting at a U.S. naval air base in Texas has been identified as 20-year-old Adam Aalim Alsahli,
...previously Adam Salim Alsahli, so hopefully the above is a typo...
a Syrian-born U.S. citizen, federal law enforcement officials said on Friday. In the Thursday morning attack, the gunman shot up Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, wounding one sailor, a member of the base security force, but the assailant was the only person killed, the FBI said.
The Syria-born attacker killed Thursday morning during an apparent jihad-inspired attack on a Texas naval air station was neither a resettled refugee nor an asylum-seeker who slipped through security vetting. Instead, CIS has learned that he fell under an immigration category unusual for foreign-born extremists who have attacked inside the United States.
Adam Alsahli, 20 at the time of his death Thursday, was already a U.S. citizen when he moved from the Middle East to Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2014 with his mother (and likely several siblings) at the height of the Syrian civil war, by virtue of his father's American citizenship, according to two sources familiar with the family's immigration status. The attacker's 75-year-old father, Salim Alsahli, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1984, the sources told CIS, and subsequently seems to have sired a family back in Syria that included Adam Alsahli's birth in 1999.
Although his children and their mother were born in and resided in the Middle East, the father's U.S. citizenship conferred U.S. citizenship on Adam Alsahli, since he properly registered a declaration at a U.S. embassy or consulate office overseas. That apparently happened with Adam Alsahli because by the age of three, in the year 2002, he was granted an American passport that was repeatedly renewed over the years, sources said.
In 2014, at the height of the civil war inside Syria, Adam and at least his mother moved to the United States. The mother is currently a legal permanent resident who has a pending application for U.S. citizenship, the sources said.
With an American citizen father anchored inside the United States, Adam Alsahli, his siblings, and their mother would not have entered any refugee resettlement pipeline, nor would they have had to apply for asylum, processes that would have required fairly extensive security vetting. Adam Alsahli, then about 15 years old, would have been moved right to the front of the line with almost no security vetting; likely the same would have been true of his mother and siblings.
Little is known at this point about Alsahli's interest in Islamic extremist theology or connections to foreign groups, as the FBI continues an investigation. Nor is it yet known where the family was living prior to entering the United States in 2014.
At about 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Alsahli drove a vehicle up to the gate of the naval air station near Corpus Christi, exited, and began firing shots at military personnel. One round hit the bullet-proof vest of a sailor guarding the gate, which drew a response from other armed sailors, who killed Alsahli.
One well-placed source told CIS that Alsahli drove up to the gate wearing an Arab head-wrap garment and blaring Arabic language music from a vehicle stereo. Arabic-language writings were found inside the vehicle. Although these details could not be independently confirmed, the FBI stated at a press conference later Thursday that Alsahli's attack was "terrorism-related". A linkedIn page for Adam Alsahi of Corpus Christ contains only one bit of biographical information, which is that he is a "student at Umm Al-Qura University" in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
A discussion of the implications of this situation continues at the link.
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One of those things that just happens when our Top Men and our seventeen crack intelligence agencies are trying to take down POTUS. Not to worry. There will be more.
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We had the American arrest and conviction. Now we get the rest of the story.
[OneIndia] An al-Qaeda operative from Hyderabad, who was convicted in the United States has been deported to India. He was convicted for financing activities of slain al-Qaeda preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... A resident of Toledo in Ohio, US, the 41-year-old Mohammad Ibrahim Zubair
...in the archive as Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad. One wonders what happened to his and his brother’s American wives, not to mention the Mohammad brothers’ partners in crime, Asif Ahmed Salim and Sultane Room Salim ...
was deported to India on a special flight that landed in Amritsar on May 19. He was born in Sharjah, but is an Indian national. His parents originally hail from Hyderabad.
[HindustanTimes] CM Chouhan said that the Jamaatis who attended a religious gathering in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin in March travelled to other areas in the country and contributed to the spread 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... The members of Tablighi Jamaat A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... contributed to the initial spread of coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh, particularly in cities like Indore and Bhopal, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in an interview.
CM Chouhan said that the Jamaatis, who attended a religious gathering in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin in March, which emerged as a coronavirus hotspot in the country, travelled to other areas in the country and contributed to the spread of the virus. "They did not act responsibly," Chouhan told news agency PTI.
As John Frum explained on April 5th:
From January to March, almost 8500 stayed in the Tablighi Jamaat Delhi mosque complex, sometimes 2000 at a time. Two thousand men eating from communal plates with their hands, with the plates being reused for the next group without washing. Two thousand men using a pool of water for wudu. Washing their feet, hands, arms, noses, mouths in the same pool of water with 2000 other men.
He said these Jamaatis further added to the problem by not cooperating with government and not coming forth for timely testing.
It’s the easy but uncomfortable jihad of the Plague, dude. How dare you judge with your Unbeliver judginess!
On the Covid-19 situation in the state, Chouhan said that the administration is monitoring the situation continuously.
"Situation seems to be improving and stable now. More than 1,500 patients of Indore, Bhopal and Ujjain have recovered and are well now," Chouhan said.
Madhya Pradesh is struggling with the rising number of Covid-19 cases. With 6,170 coronavirus cases in the state as of Saturday morning, the state stands sixth on the national Covid-19 tally after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , Delhi and Rajasthan.
Three thousand and eighty-nine people have recovered from Covid-19 in Madhya Pradesh or have been discharged from the hospital while 272 people have bit the dust. Indore, Bhopal and Ujjain are the top affected districts in the state.
[HindustanTimes] The big 4 Covid-19 states - Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... and Delhi - continue to struggle with a surge in cases. Together, these four states account for over 67% of the total number of 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... cases in India.
[Jpost] Millions of dollars of international funding for the Paleostinians’ 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... emergency response, coordinated by the World Health Organization and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have gone to organizations with links to terrorism, a new report by NGO Monitor found.
The research institution focused on the funding of non-governmental organizations found that several of the groups funded by OCHA and the WHO are tied to the People’s Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), which is recognized as a terrorist organization in Israel, the EU, US and Canada, and had staff members arrested and indicted late last year for the murder of 17-year-old Israeli Rina Schnerb.
Among OCHA’s NGO partners with ties to the PFLP are the Health Work Committees (HWC), Union of Health Work Committees (UHWC), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Union of Paleostinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), and Paleostinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR).
HWC’s Financial and Administration Director Waleed Hanatsheh bankrolled the PFLP that murdered Schnerb, and is currently standing trial for the murder, as is Samer Arbid, UAWC’s financial director. UHWC was identified by USAID as "the PFLP’s health organization."
The NGO Monitor report also pointed out that OCHA stated that the aid money was meant to "respond to the public health needs and immediate humanitarian consequences of the pandemic in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip," but many of the activities funded do not appear to be vital or lifesaving. Rather, anti-Israel advocacy ventures were relabeled COVID-19 without substantive contributions to humanitarian aid.
For example, the OCHA coronavirus response includes a "Joint Statement on Israel’s Obligations vis-a-vis West Bank and Gaza in Face of Coronavirus Pandemic" by 18 NGOs, calling for Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza to let medical supplies in. OCHA notes in the very situation report in which this statement is listed that Israel does allow medical supplies into Gaza.
Another example is Israeli NGO HaMoked receiving funding for an "urgent letter demanding Sheikh Sa’ed checkpoint is opened," "two urgent letters of impacts of closure on Al Jib checkpoint," among other similar actions. These letters by a HaMoked attorney to Israeli officials are part of the organization’s standard tasks. Several other organizations received funding for related letters and blurbs.
One such letter was from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and his party "demanding that they fulfil their promise to protect democratic institutions and uphold the rule of law," which seems to have little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza, and more to do with internal Israeli politics.
Some of the countries that contributed to the COVID-19 emergency response plan were Canada, the EU, La Belle France, Germany, Ireland, Kuwait, Norway, Sweden, Spain and the UK, in addition to international organizations.
NGO Monitor President Prof. Gerald Steinberg said: "Our report provides a snapshot of what humanitarian aid actually looks like in crisis situations, and the accompanying shortcoming. It appears that key factors for OCHA are the goals of procuring of funds for NGO allies and ’padding the stats,’ not providing critical humanitarian aid."
[Rudaw] 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... Committee against Torture
Golly. All the usual nasty suspects are members, one assumes...
has asked La Belle France to "take all possible measures" to prevent the executions of five French jihadists in Iraq in a letter seen by Agence La Belle France-Presse.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian security forces have assured their Israeli counterparts that they will work to thwart acts of violence and prevent the breakout of an intifada, Channel 13 reports.
This comes despite PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’s declaration earlier this week that he was ending security cooperation with Israel.
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.
...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 
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and 
...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...
...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...
...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...
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
