[Garowe] Somalia and 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... migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), have facilitated the return of 91 citizens after more than two years of confinement in detention centers in Libya.
Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdisaid Muse Ali, who received the nationals who landed at the Mogadishu airport early Wednesday, said that the government worked tirelessly to secure their release.
Muse said the government is expected to bring another 100 citizens from Libya soon.
"We welcomed 97 Somalis this morning back home from Libya. The government worked to secure their release. The government has been working hard to return citizens who have suffered in foreign countries," Muse said.
The IOM has been facilitating the return of Somalis who have either been stranded or incarcerated in foreign nations especially in Libya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
According to the Somali government, more than 2,500 Somalis have been repatriated from Libya, India, Seychelles, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , Sudan, and Tanzania since 2018.
The UN says Somalia continues to be characterized by migration flows, with internal displacement and irregular migration constituting major challenges. Every year, thousands of Somalis who make hazardous journeys along regional migration routes are exposed to severe protection risks.
[Garowe] For years, Somalis have contributed handsomely to the Ottoman Turkish economy, but now the prosperity of the group has become a target of abuse in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , where anti-immigrant sentiments are on the rise. "Maybe they just don't like you?"
As per the international think tank based in Canada, International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS), Turkey is an opportunist country that has its own agenda focused on geoeconomics and geopolitics. Instead of facilitating Somalia's development, Turkey has used state-sponsored corporations to exploit its assets, all as part of a development trap cloaked in the guise of religion.
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Operation Lone Star was created by Abbott amidst a wave of illegal immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador crossing the US-Mexico border
Judge Jan Soifer ruled in favor of Jesus Alberto Guzman Curipoma, an Ecuadorian engineer arrested in September and charged with trespassing
Angelica Cogliano, Curipoma's lawyer, said that Operation Lone Star was unconstitutional because it tries to supersede federal immigration law
She added that Curipoma was jailed rather than being considered for asylum, which is within his right
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, acting on behalf of the state, actually agreed with the argument that Operation Lone Star violates federal law
David A. Schulman filed on behalf of the state in Kinney County, where he argued the case should be heard, because that's where Curipoma was arrested
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Did the judge also order the Feds to do their job?
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Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, acting on behalf of the state, actually agreed with the argument that Operation Lone Star violates federal law
Why was this Soros-funded tool allowed to represent the State?
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Appeal. Trespassing is a crime no matter who commits it. Lock 'em up.
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First of all they're acting at the state not federal level, thus not subject to the posse comitatus constraints. Second like any citizen, they can be deputized by proper authority.
More on yesterday’s story of their release. Kenyan Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu and Yemenis Omar Muhammad Ali al-Rammah and Suhayl al-Sharabi are also to be released.
[Garowe] The United States has approved the release of a Somali prisoner from Guantanamo Bay prison, over 17 years after his arrest and subsequent detention without trial, despite complaints from his family.
According to the Geneva Conventions, captured soldiers in uniform are held as prisoners of war until a signed peace treaty ends the war. Illegal combatants can be given a summary court martial by their captors or even more summarily shot in the field. President George W. Bush decided these particular captives ought to be exploited for their intelligence value...
Guled Hassan Duran,
...also known as Guleed Hassan Ahmed and Gouled Hassan Dourad, who insisted he did not belong in GITMO since he merely got paramilitary training in Afghanistan and fought Ethiopians in Mogadishu as a member of jihadi group al-Ittihad al-Islami (Islamic Union), founded by Somali mujahiddin returned from Afghanistan, which in turn evolved into Al Qaeeda-linked Al Shabaab in 2003. That the US government has him tagged as an Al Qaeda cell leader in Djibouti is clearly not worth noticing...
"I'm a simple, but well-armed, rustic!"
47, received the great news about his impending release on Monday during the 20th anniversary of the prison, which was first established in 2002 in Cuba to hold suspected murderous Moslems across the world.
He was arrested in 2004 in Djibouti by US authorities and was transferred to the facility where he has never been charged. He cannot return to his homeland under a congressional prohibition on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees to Somalia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen
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[Rudaw] Germany decided on Wednesday to end its military mission in Syria while keeping up to 500 soldiers in Iraq, reported state media.
The German government convened on Wednesday, deciding to end the mission of its army, Bundeswehr, in Syria but the force will continue supporting Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) until the end of October, according to Deutsche Welle.
Germany has been an essential member of the global coalition against ISIS. The Coalition was formally established in October 2014, after ISIS took control of vast swathes of territories in Iraq and Syria. Consisting of 84 nations, the US-led Coalition’s mission has been "degrading and ensuring ISIS’s enduring defeat," it says on its website, using Arabic acronym for the hard boy group.
The combat mission of the Coalition ended in Iraq at the end of the last year but it continues in Syria. German army has been mostly based in Kurdish areas of both countries.
The Bundeswehr will provide "air refueling, air transport, air surveillance and situational awareness capabilities as well as staff" to Iraqi forces, DW quoted Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht as saying.
The cabinet decisions have to be approved by the German parliament.
The decisions came days after Lambrecht visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. The newly-appointed minister discussed ISIS with Iraqi and Kurdish officials.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani welcomed the extension of the German army’s deployment to Iraq. "ISIS is still a threat to International peace and security, and continued collective effort is required to counter and eradicate terror," he said in a tweet.
In late October 2020, Germany’s parliament decided to keep forces in Iraq as part of the global coalition and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ’s training mission until January 2022. The parliament reviews its commitment to the military missions annually. In 2020, it approved extending the mandate for a year, but reduced its total number of troops across the Middle East from 800 to 700.
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