They’ll be able to apply their lessons entirely too soon.
[KhaamaPress] As Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are busy fighting the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in nearly entire Afghanistan, five thousand youths took entry test for National Military academy in Kabul on Sunday, August 1.
The examinees included both boys and girls and are said to enter Marshal Fahim National Military and Defense University based in Kabul.
The Afghan Army Chief of Staff General Wali Muhammad Ahamdzai attended the process and praised the youths for coming forward to join the Afghan army in such a critical situation.
"I want to thank every single one of you for expressing valor to defend Afghanistan in such a critical situation against the sworn enemies of our country." Said Chief of Army Staff.
Earlier, there were grave concerns over the lack of interest in Afghans joining ANDSF on the whole and the Afghan National Army in particular. Sources familiar with the process had said that youths have dramatically been indifferent to join especially the infantry units of the national army due to the skyrocketed rise in the Taliban offensive.
[Iran Press TV] Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... says Kabul has a plan to restore stability in the country in six months despite the fast-deteriorating security situation."The current situation is due to a sudden decision on the withdrawal of the international troops," Ghani told the parliament in a speech he delivered on Monday, Afghanistan’s TOLO news agency reported.
Afghanistan has had "an unexpected situation" during the past three months, he said. "This aggression and war has been imposed on us."
Under a deal with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , which was signed in 2020, the United States has pulled out most of its troops from Afghanistan.
Ghani said Afghans "have paid a high price for peace and showed great gentleness, but instead war was imposed on us." He was indirectly referring to the release of the 5,000 Taliban prisoners by the government as part of the grinding of the peace processor.
He also denounced that process as an "imported" and "hasty" one imposed on Kabul that had resulted in "legitimizing an Death Eater group instead of achieving peace."
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... Ghani assured the Afghan nation that the situation would change in the next six months and the government would bring everything under control due to the security plan. "The army is defending strategic goals and the police are defending the cities."
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I wonder how much money it would take for them to do that? They couldn't wipe their own ass after 20+ years.
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Afghan president: We have plan to restore stability in country in six months
"...By getting the hell out of here with our Swiss bank accounts and letting the other guys take over. Piece of cake."
Mike
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If we all join the Taliban, the Taliban won't be able to attack us.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian foreign ministry issued on Monday the country’s 2021 national report on combating terrorism.
The report, which was compiled in coordination with other ministries and state bodies, reviews the state's policies and practices in combating terrorism and holy warrior ideology, according to the ministry.
Mohammed Fouad, director of the foreign ministry’s international counterterrorism unit, said the report also discusses the legislations passed to combat terrorism in a way that is consistent with Egypt's relevant international obligations.
The report also presents the pioneering Egyptian experience in raising people’s awareness and the prevention of holy warrior ideology, Fouad said, highlighting the 2014 initiative launched by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to reform religious discourse.
This is the second issue of the annual report. It is currently available at the Egyptian foreign ministry's blog in Arabic.
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#Tunisia’s President Kais Saied relieves both the finance and economy minister and the communications and technologies minister who is also acting agriculture and water resources minister from their positions, the presidency says.https://t.co/WlFZev4fre
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Thus far Saied's efforts to eliminate Islamist (Ennahda Party)actives from government is going well. It seems he surprised Ennahda and its leader Rachid Ghannouchi by his purposeful moves which are intended to return Tunisia to some sort of rational estate. I am waiting for the State Department to screw it up.
Yes, we know, but it’s nice that the inquest and Iran Press TV have made it official.
[Iran Press TV] In what appears to be yet another failure by the UK security apparatus to stop a terror attack, it has been revealed that the convicted terrorist who stabbed two people in Streatham in early 2020 had been released from prison just days before the attack.
To make matters worse, convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman, had been released early from prison despite concerns he "retained Death Eater views".
An inquest into Amman’s death has heard that counter-terrorism police had asked the prison governor not to release him on the grounds of security concerns.
Amman, 20, was rubbed out by surveillance officers after carrying out the attack in Streatham High Road, South London, on February 02, 2020.
Before he was rubbed out Amman was able to stab a man and a woman, both of whom survived their injuries.
According to the coroner, Mr Justice Hilliard, Amman was arrested in May 2018 on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses and was later convicted and imprisoned for 40 months.
He served his sentence at HMP Belmarsh but was released early on January 23, 2020.
Counter-terrorism police were determined to prevent his release as Amman had reportedly indicated his intention to launch a terrorist attack once he was freed.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the governor of HMP Belmarsh refused the police’s request to keep Amman in detention as the offence he was convicted for could not justify an extension of his sentence.
Detective Superintendent Dominic Murphy told the inquest that a search of Amman’s prison cell had found "hand-written notes" that "appeared to show loyalty" to the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group ISIS.
Upon his release from prison, Amman was required to live at a probation hostel in Streatham and was electronically tagged and kept under curfew.
He was kept under close surveillance by at least four undercover counter-terrorism coppers whenever he exited the hostel but these measures failed to stop the terrorist attack.
[ToloNews] Uzbek military forces crossed the Tajik border on Monday, to take part in joint Russian-Tajik-Uzbek drills close to the territory of Afghanistan, Rooters reported.
The military exercises are to take place from August 5 to August 10 according to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense.
Moscow said it would send a much bigger military contingent to Tajikistan for trilateral exercises amid fears in both countries over a worsening security situation in Afghanistan that could spill over into Central Asia.
Security has rapidly deteriorated in Afghanistan amid the US troop withdrawal. Moscow fears that could destabilize its southern defensive flank and push refugees into its Central Asian backyard.
On Monday, Russia's defense ministry said that 1,800 of its soldiers would take part in the Tajik drills, instead of 1,000 as initially planned. More than 2,500 troops would be involved in total, it said.
Moscow will also use 420 units of military hardware for the drills, double the quantity originally planned, it said.
[SHAFAQ] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, said that it is early to accuse the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of the fire in the Ottoman Turkish forests
The Minister added, "A special committee has been formed to investigate the fires. We have received 270 requests about this, and we are checking each of them. Intelligence is also working in this field...But we cannot make statements now... There are detainees and the investigation is still ongoing."
He indicated that the fires might be caused by sabotage, negligence, or terrorist act.
He said, "The PKK has been engaged in economic sabotage for about three years, including breaking out fires in forests, but we are not sure of being behind the latest incidents..."
Earlier, the pro-government Ottoman Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, reported that the PKK’s Sons of Fire group bears responsibility for setting fires to the country's forests.
Since Wednesday thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. Locals, as well as support teams from Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and Azerbaijan, were deployed to help firefighters. The Ottoman Turkish government pledged to rebuild damaged homes and compensate for losses in areas affected by the fires.
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Gulenist Barbecue mishaps?
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[KhaamaPress] The National Security Advisor of Pakistain Moeed Yusuf Sunday in the Pak embassy based in Washington DC said that Tahrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) is based in Afghanistan and Afghanistan’s soil is being used to threaten Pakistain.
During the media brief, the NSA said that peace in Afghanistan is not a weakness but a strength of Pakistain.
NSA Moeed Yusuf has been visiting the United States since the 27th of July and has met with his US counterpart Jake Sullivan and other officials. Yusuf is purportedly there to discuss Afghanistan’s situation and bilateral issues.
Moeed Yusuf has suggested that now that the security vacuum is being created in Afghanistan after foreign troops’ full withdrawal, the US and Pakistain should work closely. He considered the US and Pakistain to be the only ideal duo in the region to jointly work in Afghanistan.
Pakistain was the biggest controller for US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in the past two decades as the former provided its port in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and safe routes for carrying military equipment to Afghanistan. The new collaboration in Afghanistan is yet to be clarified by the US and Pakistain.
Pakistain has always been accused of funding, supporting, and providing safe havens and medical facilities to the Taliban. Earlier Afghan NSA, Hamdullah Muhib has said that nearly 15 thousand students of religious schools (Madrasas) in Pakistain are prepared to cross the border into Afghanistan and fight along with the Taliban.
[SHAFAQ] Terror victims and their relatives in Nineveh on Monday organized a vigil, the first since July 2017, near the headquarters of the Governorate in downtown djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , accusing both the federal and local governments of "neglect".
"I did not receive any of my rights; nither salary differences nor a land," Ahmed, a thirty years old man whom a mortar shall bound him to a wheelchair, told Shafaq News Agency correspondent, "Some people use nepotism or influence to claim their rights. transaction brokers are asking for half of my entitlements to complete the legal papers."
Abdul Aziz Mahmoud, a relative of a Martyr, said that no land has been allocated to him even though he completed the paperwork years ago.
"The local government grants the families of the deaders lands that are not suitable for human living, while they preserve the good land to powerful people."
The head of Nineveh's Directorate for Terrorism Victims, Qaysar Adib, told Shafaq News Agency, "despite our relentless demands, the local government only offers promises; nothing substantial."
"The families addressed the National Pensions Commission to claim the salaries of the Martyrs and injured. Some of the injured people need the money to undergo surgeries to mitigate the handicap or the mutilation they sustained," he noted, "salary differences have not been disbursed since 2019."
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[IsraelTimes] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... of Justice has floated a compromise that would push off the pending evictions of four Paleostinian families from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
According to the Haaretz daily, the compromise would allow the Paleostinian families to continue living in the homes for another 20 years, during which they will have to pay some rent to the Jewish trusts that owned the land before Israel’s establishment in 1948 and petitioned for the houses’ return.
A representative for the trusts says he opposes the proposal and calls for the Paleostinians to recognize Jewish ownership over the homes. The Paleostinians agree to the proposal but refuse to recognize Jewish ownership over them.
[Iran Press TV] The UN reasserts its rejection of the Israeli regime’s settlement activities amid the regime’s continued threat of expelling Paleostinian families from the holy occupied city of al-Quds’ Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Stephane Dujarric, the front man for the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , made the remarks in a press briefing on Monday.
He was being asked about a pending ruling by the regime’s so-called supreme court about an incendiary decision to force four Paleostinian families from the neighborhood.
The ruling was initially expected in May, but the prospect of the expulsions gave rise to raging protests throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where al-Quds is located.
The rallies spilled over across the entire Paleostinian territories, and prompted numerous world leaders to issue condemnatory statements addressed to the regime and urge it to exercise restraint.
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Families of victims of Lebanon's deadly Beirut blast call on authorities to lift immunity within three days, warning that they are willing to "break bones" in upcoming protests unless action is taken.https://t.co/xl6ZghIWnX
[Iran Press TV] If you can't believe Iran PressTV, who can you believe?
A senior Russian foreign ministry official strictly rejects existence of any indications pointing to Iran’s likely involvement in a recent attack on an Israeli oil tanker off the Omani coast.
"We have not the slightest reason to believe [that 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... was involved in the attack]," the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Director, Zamir Kabulov told Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Monday.
In a statement on Friday, Zodiac Maritime, the Israeli-owned firm managing the tanker, said that two crewmen, a Briton and a Romanian, had been killed in the assault.
The Israeli regime and its sworn allies, the United States and the UK, rushed to accuse Iran of having a role in the incident, without providing any evidence. The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also alleged that the attack was deliberate and coordinated by Tehran.
Kabulov, however, reiterated Russia’s stance, saying Moscow’s refusal to corroborate such accusations was because "we have no facts."
"When there are facts, then we will work out our position," he added.
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In all fairness they seem to be having a lot of trouble making technology function.
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
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[Iran Press TV] In what appears to be yet another failure by the UK security apparatus to stop a terror attack, it has been revealed that the convicted terrorist who stabbed two people in Streatham in early 2020 had been released from prison just days before the attack.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...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 
