[NYPOST] The 21-year-old Colorado man accused of killing 10 people, including a police officer, in a Boulder grocery store shooting has been hit with more than 40 new felony charges.
The charges filed Wednesday against Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa
...the ISIS-curious, Trump-hating, untreated paranoid schizophrenic known wolf whose aggressive, infidel-hating Syrian refugee family did not bother to stop him from getting guns and running amok in a Jewish grocery store just before Passover. Mr. Al Issa would have preferred to shoot up a Trump rally the previous year, but the Covid shutdown meant the scheduled rallies were cancelled...
include 32 allegations of attempted first-degree murder in the attack last month at the King Soopers store.
The charging document lists 19 new victims — including 11 law enforcement officers — whom Alissa is accused of trying to kill when he shot up the grocery chain on March 22.
Prosecutors allege he tried to kill them either intentionally or through "extreme indifference" to their lives.
The accused gunman also faces 10 new counts for allegedly using a large-capacity magazine, which was banned by state politicians in response to recent mass shootings.
Alissa was already facing 10 first-degree murder counts in connection with the shooting.
[AlAhram] There have been indications that the pullout could be completed well before Sept. 11, which marks the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terror attack on the US and the trigger for the US invasion of Afghanistan
The US military has begun shipping equipment and winding down contracts with local service providers ahead of the May 1 start of the final phase of its military pullout from Afghanistan, a US Defense Department official said Thursday.
The pullout under US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... marks the end of America's longest war after a 20-year military engagement. Currently, some 2,500 US soldiers and about 7,000 allied forces are still in Afghanistan.
In February last year, the US military began closing its smaller bases. In mid-April, the Biden administration announced that the final phase of the withdrawal would begin May 1 and be completed before Sept. 11.
Since then, the military has been shipping equipment and winding down local contracts for services such as trash pickup and maintenance work, the US official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... in line with briefing regulations.
While preparations are under way, troops likely won't begin to depart for a few weeks, he said, adding that ``we won't see a coming down of the (troop) numbers`` until remaining bases close.
On Wednesday, Germany's Defense Ministry said discussions are underway among military planners with the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led Resolute Support Mission in Kabul for a possible withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan as early as July 4.
In the short term, America will likely increase its troop presence in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said last Friday. The additional troops would be in Afghanistan over the coming weeks and months to help with what the herculean task of wrapping up 20 years of war.
While much of the equipment headed back to the US will be shipped by air, the military will also use land routes through Pakistain and north through Central Asia, the Defense Department official said.
The US equipment that is neither shipped back to America nor given to the Afghan National Security forces will be sold to contractors, who will, in turn, sell it in the local markets.
``You'll most likely start seeing it eventually showing up in bazaars as scrap,'' said the official.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , meanwhile, were non-committal when asked by the AP whether the faceless myrmidons would attack departing US and NATO troops. ``It's too early for these issues, nothing can be said about the future,'' said Taliban front man Mohammad Naeem.
In a deal the Taliban signed last year with former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , the final US withdrawal deadline was set as May 1. Under the agreement, the Taliban promised not to attack US and NATO troops but they also later promised ``consequences'' if Washington defied the May 1 deadline.
Some 2,500 US troops, plus 16,000 civilian contractors and their equipment, must be evacuated from the country, along with some 7,000 NATO soldiers who depend on the US for transport.
The logistical operation will take at least three months to be completed safely, according to the US military.
Despite billions of dollars of investment, equipment and training, "my concern is the ability of the Afghan military to hold the ground that they're on now, without the support that they've been used to for many years," McKenzie said.
"It's intelligence, it's fire support, it's the enabling things that actually give them an edge over the Taliban. And all that will be gone."
He added "the ability of the Afghan Air Force to fly" without support was a key concern.
McKenzie dismissed talk of defeat, but he said the Taliban were more numerous than in 2011, estimating they have 50,000 fighters, and that they control more Afghan territory than 10 years ago.
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Don't worry, a false flag attack is on the way. It will be outrageous and absolutely require US troops to stay. Whistle-blowers will be interviewed briefly and forgotten.
[ToloNews] The Biden administration hopes to send almost $300 million in extra civilian aid to Afghanistan this year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.
"President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...... was clear that while the United States will withdraw military forces from Afghanistan, our support for the country will continue," Blinken said in a statement.
"As part of our commitment to invest in and support the Afghan people, we are working with Congress to provide nearly $300 million in additional civilian assistance for Afghanistan in 2021 from both the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development," he said.
The assistance, he said, was announced at the quadrennial donors’ conference in November 2020 as potentially being available at a future date, "is being made available now to demonstrate our enduring support for the Afghan people."
"The funding will be targeted at sustaining and building on the gains of the past 20 years by improving access to essential services for Afghan citizens, promoting economic growth, fighting corruption and the narcotics trade, improving health and education service delivery, supporting women’s empowerment, enhancing conflict resolution mechanisms, and bolstering Afghan civil society and independent media," according to statement by US Department of State.
As the United States begins withdrawing our troops, we will use our civilian and economic assistance to advance a just and durable peace for Afghanistan and a brighter future for the Afghan people, the statement said.
This comes as Biden announced that all troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, ending the longest war in US history.
[All Africa] The five-day terror attack on the coastal town of Palma last month once again stressed the severity of the conflict in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. In its fourth year, the insurgency shows no signs of dissipating and exposes Mozambique's lack of political will to address the problem. It also reveals the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) difficulties in crafting a regional response.
The bloc's communiqué after its 8 April meeting in response to the Palma assault said the 'heinous attacks cannot be allowed to continue without a proportionate regional response.' The meeting mandated an immediate 'SADC Organ technical deployment' to Mozambique.
While it remains unclear what the technical deployment means or aims to achieve, the communiqué suggests a SADC military response is being considered. Another meeting is planned for 28 and 29 April.
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[All Africa] The federal government has refused to comment on the reported past link of the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the al-Qaeda terrorist sects.
Also, the demand by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, for the sack or resignation of the minister for once backing activities of Jihadist leaders and deadly Islamic sects, was yesterday blocked by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its weekly meeting yesterday did not discuss the issue of the minister whose alleged previous link with al-Qaeda and Taliban, had recently led to calls for his removal from the cabinet by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Information and Culture Minister, Mr. Lai Mohammed, told news hounds after the FEC meeting presided over by President Buhari that the issue was not raised at the meeting.
Mohammed said: "I'm not going to go into the issue of whether government is comfortable or not. I will answer your questioned directly. It was not discussed at the council meeting."
Pantami was one of the ministers who attended the council meeting virtually from their various offices in Abuja. He had been embroiled in controversy over his past comments endorsing both terrorists' organizations, though he had renounced the views.
He said during his daily Ramadan lecture at Annor Mosque in Abuja last Saturday that he now knows better about some of the comments he made in the past, adding that the campaign for his removal is politically motivated.
Pantami said: "For 15 years, I have moved round the country while educating people about the dangers of terrorism. I have traveled to Katsina, Gombe, Borno, Kano states and Difa in Niger Republic to preach against terrorism. I have engaged those with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... ideologies in different places. I have been writing pamphlets in Hausa, English and Arabic. I have managed to bring back several young persons who have derailed from the right path.
"Some of the comments I made some years ago that are generating controversies now were based on my understanding of religious issues at the time, and I have changed several positions taken in the past based on new evidence and maturity.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... the demand by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Elumelu, for the sack or resignation of Pantami was yesterday blocked by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gbajabiamila.
Elumelu, at yesterday's plenary, raised a point of order to demand that the House acts on the issue.
He particularly demanded the minister's resignation or sack.
But Gbajabiamila overruled the Minority Leader, noting that Elumelu came under a matter that had nothing to do with his privilege as a politician.
[All Africa] Chad's Transitional Military Council is backing down and is reviewing the measures it took just a day ago by allowing ministers in the government of slain leader Idriss Deby to continue working.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, the junta also reviewed curfew hours, reopened borders and said all officials on duty before President Deby's death would serve until new elections are held.
The Transitional Military Council said it will allow ministers to ensure "the continuity of public services until the installation of the new transitional government".
It said they should "continue to deal with current affairs and cannot take any new measures relating to the assignment, appointment of personnel, expenditure commitments, reform of vehicles".
It is not known why this turnaround, just a day after these steps were taken.
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As the news of the death of President Idriss Deby Itno was made public, Chadians learnt from the new authorities that they will stay indoors for most of the days. Now the curfew hours have been reduced to between 8pm and 5am.
The Transitional Military Council had decided to dissolve the government and the National Assembly and institute a 14-day national mourning throughout the country.
The council nevertheless intends to lead the country for an 18-month transition period at the end of which "democratic" elections will be organised.
In N'djamena, opponents of Deby Itno's regime gathered to pressure the new leaders to convene a dialogue that would bring all Chadians together.
The junta appointed Deby's son, Mahamat Deby, as interim leader who will head the military council for 18 months, leading a group of 69 officials he handpicked.
On Wednesday, the council said Deby junior will perform duties of the "president of the republic." It was an apparent climb-down from tough talk the previous day when the council announced that President Deby had died from gunshot wounds sustained in a battle front a day earlier.
The group that is responsible for the death, known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (Fact) warned it will target the capital to eliminate what it called a "monarchy".
[ToloNews] A trilateral meeting between the ministers of foreign affairs of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Afghanistan and Pakistain will take place on Friday in Istanbul, the Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
"Along with recent developments regarding the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, cooperation in the fields of security, energy, connectivity and irregular migration will be discussed during the Trilateral Meeting," it said.
"On the margins of the meeting, Mevlut Cavusoglu will also hold bilateral meetings with his Afghan and Pak counterparts," it added.
In the meantime, Haneef Atmar, Afghanistan's foreign minister, has left Kabul for Istanbul this morning to attend the meeting.
At the meeting, the resumption of peace talks, the strengthening of a regional consensus in support of Afghan peace, the role of Turkey and Pakistain, and the strengthening of trilateral relations will be discussed, the Afghanistan foreign ministry said in a statement.
This comes as the US-backed Afghan peace conference in Turkey was postponed over non-participation by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... The conference was scheduled for April 24 and was expected to see inclusive participation from parties to the Afghan conflict.
"We have consulted with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , the US and the UN," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. "We have decided to postpone the Istanbul Conference on the Afghanistan grinding of the peace processor after Eid al-Fitr."
The US, Turkey, Qatar and UN have reportedly attempted to convince the Taliban to attend the planned meeting in Turkey.
But the group has insisted that the US first needs to implement the Doha agreement before the start of the Istanbul conference, meaning that the US needs to honor its agreement signed under the Trump administration to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by May 1.
The Afghan government on Tuesday said the list of a republic delegation for the conference has been finalized.
A high-level Afghan government official who spoke on condition of anonymity told TOLOnews that there is the possibility that a 15- or 17-member team will represent the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan at the conference scheduled for April 24.
The High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR) also confirmed the finalization of the republic's negotiating team.
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[Khaama Press] Maulavi Abdul Hakim, chief Taliban ...Arabic for students... negotiator leaves for Pakistain from Doha to consult and seek guidance from Taliban leadership and the ISI paymasters
and whether the delay in US withdrawal will lead to a halt in peace talks and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... summit or if there are any other ways to proceed, Taliban officials told Tolonews.
The First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh also said that the Taliban’s delegation visited Pakistain to seek guidance from Pak intelligence agencies.
According to Saleh whenever there is a stalemate in the peace talks in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , the Taliban say they left for Pakistain to consult with their elders, he said "elders" means they are seeking guidance and suggestions from the ISI and Pak military.
This comes as the Taliban said that the extension of US troops’ withdrawal is the main cause for their non-participation in the Turkey summit.
"The US acted in contrast to the Doha agreement, now the Taliban need to consult their elders, I know that they have gone to Pakistain", Tolonews quoted Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban member.
[SHAFAQ] The security official of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, Abu Ali al-Askari, stressed said that al-Hashd al-Shaabi will not be dissolved in any way, distancing the Brigades from any Iranian-Saudi negotiations in Iraq.
Al-Askari said in a tweet, "Al-Hashd al-Shaabi will not be dissolved, and if this happens, the Islamic Resistance® will absorb all Mujahideens, with all their classes and specializations."
"Everyone should know that we are not a part of any negotiations conducted by the Saudi entity in Iraq", he added.
It is noteworthy that Baghdad hosted Iranian-Saudi negotiations on the ninth of April, and another round of negotiations is expected to take place between the two parties.
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[AlAhram] 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... has reduced the number of centrifuges enriching uranium to up to 60% purity at an above-ground plant at Natanz to one cluster from two, a report by the UN nuclear watchdog seen by Rooters indicated on Thursday.
Iran announced the shift to 60%, a big step towards weapons-grade from the 20% it had previously achieved, in response to a kaboom and power cut at Natanz last week that Tehran has blamed on Israel.
Iran's move complicated the current indirect talks with the United States on rescuing its nuclear deal with major powers. Washington pulled out and reimposed sanctions on Iran in 2018 under President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ; Iran responded as of 2019 by breaching the deal's restrictions on its nuclear activities.
"On 21 April 2021, the Agency verified that Iran had changed the mode by which it was producing UF6 enriched up to 60% U-235 at PFEP," the report said, referring to the above-ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz and to uranium hexafluoride, the form in which uranium is fed into centrifuges for enrichment.
Iran was now using one cascade, or cluster, of IR-6 centrifuges to enrich to up to 60% and feeding the tails, or depleted uranium, from that process into a cascade of IR-4 machines to enrich to up to 20%, the report said. The IR-4 cascade was previously being used to enrich to up to 60%.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report did not say why Iran had made the change or say how many centrifuges are in each cascade. A previous report in February said there were 119 centrifuges in the IR-4 cascade and 133 in the IR-6 one.
The deal lets Iran produce enriched uranium but only at an underground plant at Natanz and only with first-generation IR-1 machines, which are far less efficient. It also caps the purity to which Iran can enrich uranium at 3.67%.
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Having trouble with new machinery and they need adjustments?
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The French government and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... are preparing proposals that could see asset freezes and travel bans imposed on Lebanese politicians accused of obstructing the formation of the Lebanese government.
La Belle France has led efforts to help 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... but failed in pushing the various factions to agree on a cabinet formation, let alone initiate reforms that could allow the influx of foreign aid.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the French politicians about the concrete proposals against the same people who have abandoned the general interest for their own personal interests.
Le Drian indicated that if the Lebanese politicians do not fulfill their responsibilities, "we will not hesitate to assume ours."
He added that the European Union cannot stand idly by while Lebanon is collapsing.
The minister warned senior Lebanese officials that the EU is currently exploring ways to exert pressure on those who stand behind obstructing a solution to the political and economic crisis in the country.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... met Thursday with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... and urged all of 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... 's politicians to "urgently commit themselves to the benefit of the nation," the Vatican said.
Francis also reaffirmed during the 30-minute audience his desire to visit Lebanon as soon as conditions permit, according to a statement from the Vatican front man.
Hariri’s visit to the Vatican comes as Lebanon is experiencing its worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history following decades of widespread corruption.
Since late 2019, the local currency has lost 90% of its value, and more than half of the country's population now lives in poverty, according to the World Bank.
Hariri has been touring the Middle East and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to win support for his efforts to form a government. And to avoid being assassinated
Among the countries he recently visited were La Belle France, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. He was also meeting Thursday with Italian officials.
Hariri has not been able to form a Cabinet six months after he was chosen for the prime minister's post amid deep disagreements between him and President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
One of the main points of difference includes Aoun’s rejection of Hariri’s plan to choose some Christian members of the new government.
The Vatican said that during the meeting with Hariri, Francis expressed his solidarity with the Lebanese people who are "living in great difficulty and uncertainty, and recalled the responsibility of all political forces to urgently commit themselves to the benefit of the nation."
Francis is hoping that Lebanon can once again embody "the fortress of the cedars, the diversity that from weakness becomes strength in the great reconciled people," the statement said.
The Vatican didn't list the meeting on Francis' official agenda given that Hariri isn't yet in office; it was described by the Vatican as a private audience, not an official state visit that carries with it specific protocol.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... warned against the destruction of property on Thursday after the removal of a judge from a financial corruption probe last week prompted her and her supporters to storm a currency exchange bureau.
Aoun made the remarks in a statement after a security meeting that included caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab, the interior minister and other officials.
On Wednesday, judge Ghada Aoun and others had stormed the offices of a foreign exchange dealer in Awkar in defiance of her removal from the investigation, with some of them breaking down doors. Doesn't sound like she has a "Judicial Temperament"
It was the second such attempt to enter the bureau by judge Aoun, who is not directly related to the president and whose supporters appeared largely to back President Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... Judge Aoun, chief prosecutor of the 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... region, took folders and computers out of the building with her, the state news agency (NNA) reported. Security forces deployed to the scene, Rooters said.
Aoun, who had also sought to question central bank chief Riad Salameh, has objected to her removal from financial crimes cases last week by Lebanese public prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat.
The row has spilled out into the streets and all over local media, with critics saying it laid bare the political grip on the judiciary in a country battered by a financial crisis rooted in graft and debt. The collapse has sunk the currency, paralyzed banks and trapped savers out of their deposits.
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Israel has dramatically expanded air strikes on suspected Iranian missile and weapons production centres in Syria to repel what it sees as a stealthy military encroachment by its regional arch-enemy, Western and regional intelligence sources say. (Reuters)
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYPOST] The 21-year-old Colorado man accused of killing 10 people, including a police officer, in a Boulder grocery store shooting has been hit with more than 40 new felony charges.
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences......
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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...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 
...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...
