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Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Israel link keeps leftist Jewish groups from planned DC antisemitism rally
[IsraelTimes] Organizers of Sunday’s Jewish solidarity rally say it’s critical to also focus on attacks on Israel, but some say that’s not a definition of antisemitism they can agree with.


"Not a definition of antisemitism we can agree on."
Israel will feature large in a Jewish organizational rally against antisemitism, with the goal of uniting the Jewish community following a wave of attacks.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The left can't demonstrate on behalf of an apartheid state like Israel. They restrict immigration by ethnicity, which is a big no-no. This is what the alt-right wants for America.
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 07/10/2021 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I see all these kikes pushing and showing each other - trying to get into Israel when Blacks & Whites start duking it out in USA.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2021 3:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build: Biden
To be fair, the poor man can’t remember anything earlier than whatever he was told after breakfast this morning, so as far as he knows, this is true.
[KhaamaPress] US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
in his major policy speech on Afghanistan in the White House said that US did not go to Afghanistan to build nation in the first place but this is the responsibility of the Afghans.

US president delivered his speech last night in which he announced to pullout the remaining troops on August 31, days ahead of his September 11th deadline.

"It’s the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country." Said biden.

US president Joe Biden delivers his speech hours after UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
announced the end of his country’s military mission in Afghanistan in parliament. Both the leaders touched mostly the same issues on the war torn-country.

Boris Johson and Joe Biden pledged not to leave those Afghans behind who have contributed to their military mission over the past two decades in Afghanistan. Biden in particular reiterated his state department’s decision to move Afghan interpreters to a third location before they enter into United States. As per Biden, US will start relocating applicants of SIV (Special Immigration Visa) this month.

A success in their two-decade mission in Afghanistan was another coordinated point uttered by both the leaders. They said that they have achieved their mission-counterterrorism- for which they went to Afghanistan in 2001.

As the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have been in its strongest posture ever seen in past 20 years and continue capturing more territories Joe Biden said that he believes in the capacity of Afghan troops.

Biden reaffirmed that US will continue providing support to ANDSF.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  why didn't you say that 20 years ago?
Posted by: Chris || 07/10/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Cause he was on the take back then is my guess
Posted by: Raj || 07/10/2021 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Boosh and his neocon stooges pushed "nation building" and "spreading democracy" every chance the got.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's look up some of Ol' Joe's votes and speeches post 9/11/01. I bet he's on the record with some other malarkey
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  And we didn't.
Afghanistan has been described as where all the leftovers in the world ended up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/10/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||


Taliban Says It Will Not Attack Provincial Centers
[ToloNews] A Taliban
...Arabic for students...
delegation in Moscow
...they’ve visited Iran, spoken with China, and now Russia...
said on Friday that it will not attack provincial centers — despite fighting by the group on the outskirts of many cities, including Qala-e-Naw in Badghis, over the last three days.
Sieges instead of full frontal attack? Golly.
Sources from Kandahar on Friday said that the Taliban attacked District 7 of the city of Kandahar and captured two outposts.

The sources said that some residents of the area have left their homes, but Kandahar police said that more forces have arrived at the area to push back the Taliban attack.

Taliban negotiator Shahabuddin Delawar, who is in Moscow with two other members of the group, said that they will not attack cities to prevent bloodshed.

He said the reason behind their attacks is lack of addressing their demands for the release of their prisoners and removing the names of their leaders from UN blacklist.

Delwar said they are in talks with other Afghans to discuss a new system "that should be Islamic, Afghan-inclusive and united."

He added that they have "85% of Afghan soil under their control."

According to him, they have over 250 districts in Afghanistan under their control and over 170 of them have been taken over in the last two months.

In response to a question whether they will favor a return of Taliban’s emirate, Delwar said that the issue will be decided upon in the intra-Afghan peace negotiations.

He said that all Afghan border towns taken over by the Taliban will remain active. He vowed to address traders' problems.

The Taliban members sought to signal that they did not pose a threat to the wider region however.

They said the Taliban will do all it could to prevent ISIS operating on Afghan territory and that it will also seek to wipe out drug production.

"We will take all measures so that ISIS will not operate on Afghan territory," Delwar said. "Our territory will never be used against our neighbors."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Russia: No Settlement in Libya Without Withdrawal of All Foreign Forces, Libyan Tribes ditto
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Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Bahrain Publishes National Terrorism List; Includes Several Libyans
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, the Kingdom of Bahrain published the national terrorism lists in its official gazette, in order to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The list included individuals, organizations and media groups, including seven Libyan leaders and entities.The Bahraini authorities called on the Kingdom’s executive authority to act immediately on the list, which was approved by the Bahraini Cabinet. As well as implementing the resolutions of the UN Security Council under Chapter VII, on the prevention and suppression of terrorism and its financing sources.

The Libyan figures included Ali al-Sallabi, Ismail al-Sallabi, Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, Sadiq al-Ghariani
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence. Aligned with the GNC govt...
, Mahdi al-Harati, Ahmed Abdel-Jaleel al-Hasnawi, and al-Saadi Abdullah Ibrahim Bukhazem. This is in addition to terrorist groups such as the Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
, and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC), the Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB), and a number of media arms of the terrorist groups such as al-Nabaa, and al-Tanasuh TV channels.

With regard to the terrorist-designated Libyan media institutions, it was noted that Walid al-Lafi, the current Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs of the interim Government of National Unity (GNU), was one of the former directors al-Nabaa TV.

The al-Tanasuh channel was directly managed by Libya’s former Mufti, Sadiq al-Ghariani, who is known for controversial fatwas that incite violence, in addition to his support to terrorist groups in the country.



Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


India-Pakistan
Power sharing only way to avoid Afghan civil war: FM Qureshi
[NATION.PK] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
has said power sharing is the way to avert civil war in Afghanistan.Speaking at the Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Islamabad on Friday, he said it is our effort and desire that the neighboring country does not plunge into the civil war again.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistain wants that the dignified return of Afghan refugees be made part of the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.

The Foreign Minister said 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has an important role regarding Afghanistan which cannot be overlooked.

He said Pakistain s relations with Iran has further strengthened. He said we are establishing border markets with Iran.



Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Pakistan rejects India's denial, says there is irrefutable evidence of India's involvement in Lahore blast
[NATION.PK] Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry rejected India's statement of denying involvement in Lahore blast by saying that there is irrefutable evidence of India’s aiding, abetting and financing of the terrorist attack.

"We have pointed out in the past also Indian state sponsorship of terrorism in Pakistain," said Zahid Hafeez.

"There is no doubt that the intelligence agency from across the border was involved in planning and executing terrorist attacks against Pakistain," he added.

He accused India of using terrorism as an instrument of state policy and said it makes India inculpable under international law, the UN sanctions regime and international counter-terrorism conventions.
Then his lips fell off.
The FO said that the former Indian Naval officer "Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was caught red-handed in March 2016, is the most familiar and undeniable face of India’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistain."

He urged the international community to hold India to account and take practical steps to proceed against the Indian nationals involved in patronage of terrorism against Pakistain.

On June 23, at least three people were killed and 24 others maimed in a powerful blast near the house of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, the leader of Jamaatud-Dawa (JuD).

On Sunday, Moeed Yusuf, Pakistain's national security advisor, said Pakistain's intelligence agencies had found irrefutable evidence of India’s involvement in the Lahore terrorist attack.

"A detailed forensic [analysis] of all the equipment, including cellular phones, has been conducted, which has clearly indicated a connection with Indian state-sponsored terrorism against Pakistain," Yusuf told news hounds.

"There is no doubt that the Johar Town blast and cyberattacks are interlinked and state-supported by India.

"We presented a detailed dossier in November last year with very minute details highlighting terror financing, phone calls indicating network linkages and a terrorism racket run by India," he said.

Last year, Pakistain said India was funding the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain and ethnic Baloch armed separatist groups that conducted attacks on Pak soil.

Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Israeli settlements amount to war crime: UN rights expert
[AlAhram] Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a U.N. human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
investigator said on Friday, calling on countries to inflict a cost on Israel for its "illegal occupation".

Michael Lynk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Paleostinian territory, was addressing a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, boycotted by Israel which does not recognise his mandate or cooperate with him.

"In my report, I conclude that the Israeli settlements do amount to a war crime," Lynk said.
"I also note that the Jooos are icky"
He said the settlements violate an absolute ban on an occupying power transferring part of its civilian population into an occupied territory, thereby meeting the definition of a war crime under the Rome Statute founding the International Criminal Court (ICC).

"I submit to you that this finding compels the international community ... to make it clear to Israel that its illegal occupation, and its defiance of international law and international opinion, can and will no longer be cost-free," Lynk told the Geneva rights forum.

Many countries consider the settlements a breach of international law. Israel disputes this and cites Biblical and historical connections to the land, as well as security needs.

Israel's mission to the U.N. in Geneva, in a statement to Rooters, rejected Lynk's report as "the latest one-sided and biased report against Israel" and accused him of turning a blind eye to violations committed by the Paleostinian Authority and 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...
rulers Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

The United States, Israel's closest ally which has observer status at the council, did not speak at the council which it accuses of having an anti-Israel bias.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  stfu
Posted by: Chris || 07/10/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Re-issuing previous 'investigations', amirite?
Posted by: Raj || 07/10/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  an occupying power transferring part of its civilian population into an occupied territory

Isn't this what the Germans did in Poland?

Israel disputes this and cites Biblical and historical connections to the land

They can't be serious. This actually happened? Would it be valid for Muslims to cite the Koran in such matters? Or Daoists the I Ching?
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 07/10/2021 3:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The territories are part of the Mandate on Palestine given by the League of Nation to GB - to establish Jewish National Home. Six Day War merely corrected some of the deliberate crimes committed by GB's management of the Mandate & and 1947 Arab aggression.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2021 3:37 Comments || Top||

#5  ...tell me again about the plight of East Prussian and Silesian Germans which happened just 3 years before. Wars have consequences. Tell me about the Georgians and Ukrainians while you are at it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  "Jewish National Home"? Huh? An ethno-state?

This is an alt-right idea. An ethno-state is what the alt-right wants for the USA. A show of hands, please: who supports alt-right ideas?
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 07/10/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ troll bait
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 Herb is back?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Funny how sub-humans have no issue with 'muslim' countries but freak out at a jewish one.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/10/2021 14:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Herb is back?

Yes. Singing the same tedious tune.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 23:30 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Drone attacks by Iraqi militias reflect Iran’s waning hold
[Rudaw] Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force commander brought one main directive for Iraqi militia faction leaders long beholden to Tehran, when he gathered with them in Baghdad last month: Maintain calm, until after nuclear talks between 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the United States.

But he was met with defiance. One of the six faction leaders spoke up in their meeting: They could not stay quiet while the death of his predecessor Qasem Soleimani and senior Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a U.S. dronezap went unavenged.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Iraqi MP warns of ''unpleasant consequences'' awaiting Iraqi people
[SHAFAQ] A member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Badr al-Zayadi, warned that the Iraqi people are facing a "dangerous future".

Al-Zayadi told Shafaq News Agency, "The recent U.S. moves including sending new soldiers and planes to Erbil indicate that the upcoming situation is dangerous."

"Any move by these forces to strike the PMF positions inside Iraq, will result in more violent mostly peaceful responses, and therefore the security situation in Iraq will be difficult during the next stage", adding, "the U.S. attack on al-Hashd al-Shaabi is unacceptable, as they are official Iraqi government forces."

"The central government in Baghdad should schedule the departure of foreign forces from Iraq, for the situation to calm down. Otherwise, the country will be facing unpleasant consequences."

Al-Zayadi noted, "what is currently happening on Iraqi soil is like an undeclared war. The arrival of private American planes to the country means that there are specific targets for them to strike."

He called on the government to, "control the situation, as the country is on the verge of parliamentary elections, and the continuation of such events affects the holding them on time."
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Reports: Hariri to Quit as Discussions over Successor Begin
[AnNahar] 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....
has decided to step down and he is seeking an appropriate exit, media reports said on Thursday.

"There is lack of a real political will to form a government and there is an intention not to form the government," Lebanese journalist Johnny Mounayar said in an interview with al-Jadeed TV.

"PM-designate Hariri has decided to quit... and the decision is not to form a government with or without Saad Hariri," Mounayar added.

"From now until the date of the parliamentary elections, we will witness the most dangerous months of the Lebanese crisis," the journalist went on to say, warning that the country will witness further deterioration.

Center House sources meanwhile told MTV that "the issue of accepting an alternative PM-designate is being discussed by (Speaker Nabih) Berri, Hariri and the ex-PMs."

"We have not heard of the report about (Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
head Jebran) Bassil’s sadness over Hariri’s resignation and the presidential camp has done everything to prevent the government’s formation," the sources added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who's tha Saad clown then?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 07/10/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||


Syria, Russian allies claim opposition planning violent strikes
Some elements of this story have been translated via Google Translate.
[Rusvesna] At least two Syrian radical Islamic groups are planning attacks in the wake of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad's coming inauguration, according to Russian language sources.

Khuras al-Din
... Al Nusra ally also spelt Hurras al-Deen, which apparently is Arabic for "Guardians of Religion", though sometimes it is called Harakat Ansar al-Deen. The membership includes foreigners as well as Syrians...
and Ansar al-Tawhid
...formerly Jund al-Aqsa, it merged with Tanzim Hurras al-Deen in 2018 to form Nusret Islam, now apparently known as “Hurras al-Deen and Ansar al-Tawhid”, or sometimes Tanzim Ansar al-Tawhid — because if you can’t play Toad The Wet Sprocket with organization names, what is the point? The combined group lost a bunch of emirs a couple of years ago from around the Ummah...
groups recently completed preparations for attacks on Syrian government forces in the south, according to the sources:

It has been established that the turbans are almost finishing preparing for an attack on a number of facilities of the Syrian Arab army. In addition, military equipment was transferred to the Kneddah area, 40 km from Idlib, including a group of pickups with homemade rocket launchers, up to 300 turbans and a truck with ammunition.

The proof, according to the sources, is that those groups have been conducting attacks against Ottoman Turkish backed militia, their columns and at checkpoints. A failed attack against Maaret El-Ihuan by Khuras al-Din, also took place the day before. The Death Eaters have been looting local residents and robbing NGO supply columns.

Slowing down the radicals' operations have been the recent closure of the border checkpoint at Bab al-Hawa.

Syrian forces have responded to the threats by increasing the number of checkpoints.

The reports say that the Death Eaters are being supplied by "foreign intelligence services."

The attack plans are to take place in Daraa and El-Quneitra provinces. The report said the terrorist sleeper cells have been filled out in Tafas, Nava, Jasim, Es-Sanamain, Dail and Mutaya.
Posted by: badanov || 07/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra



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