[ToloNews] Certain circles in the government are involved in structuring militia forces and arming local strongmen in the provinces, a number of politicians and critics said on Wednesday.
Critics said that the Afghan government, under the pretext of building security, is trying to pursue its political agendas by using public uprising forces. Critics called the move "against peace."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... a former number of politicians in Afghanistan’s parliament have confirmed reports that the Afghan government was arming local strongmen and militia forces in the northern regions of the country.
"Arms are being distributed by the high-level government officials---this is happening particularly in northern provinces. This is a problem because some people have major influence in these provinces," said Humayoun Humayoun, a former MP.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the Afghan Ministry of Interior has rejected the reports, saying it will never resort to building militia forces or arming any local commander.
"No additional budget, no additional resources and additional structure has been considered," said Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Ministry of Interior.
Critics warn that such a move will worsen the security situation.
"If they do such business with the gunnies, this will pose threats," said Ismail Khan, a former mujahideen commander.
There are reports that in some districts in Baghlan and Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... provinces local commanders and a number of political parties have been armed by the Afghan government.
"The government plans to arm some local commanders and mujahideen commanders and get them mobilized alongside the security forces," said Safdar Mohseni, a member of Baghlan provincial council.
"Under the pretext of security strategy or any other name you give it, this will increase insecurity," said Assadullah Danish, the acting head of Sar-e-Pul provincial council.
Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a Facebook post said that some circles within the government are arming milia forces.
Residents in Khinjan district of Baghlan have said that local strongmen have displaced dozens of families from their native areas, adding that the local forces have also plundered all their belongings.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... in Kabul, some people have been armed to take security of the Muharram ceremonies in different parts of the city alongside the Afghan cops.
In the past the Afghan local police and public uprising forces have been accused of rights violations by human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations.
[ToloNews] The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), citing reports by Afghan agencies, said that nearly half of all police forces in the southern regions of Afghanistan are using drugs.
"Afghanistan’s General Directorate for Internal Security, partnering with National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , found that approximately 50% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... & Uruzgan provinces used drugs," said SIGAR.
Also, "50% to 70% of police positions were "ghost soldiers," said SIGAR, meaning personnel listed on the books do not exist.
The report said:
General Directorate for Internal Security (GDIS) arrested approximately 1,025 police and government officials over the past year as part of its countercorruption, counter-insider threat, and counterespionage efforts. GDIS, partnering with the National Directorate of Security for an insider threat assessment in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand, and Uruzgan Provinces, found that approximately 50% of the police in these provinces used drugs and 50% to 70% of police positions were "ghost soldiers. CSTC-A and DOD commented that this was a draft MOI-NDS report that cannot be corroborated.
"The government spent millions of afghanis combating drugs, but, they did not get any result out of it...instead we hear that 50 percent of Afghan police personnel are using drugs," said Abdul Baseer Osmani, a member of the Afghan parliament.
According to the report, however, a number of security officials were dismissed from their jobs over their involvement in corruption.
"Despite these challenges, CSTC-A said its efforts helped MOD remove 40 corrupt actors whose cases stagnated through mandatory retirement or assignment to the active reserve. For example, the deputy minister of interior for personnel and training was removed after a four-year effort. According to CSTC-A, this deputy minister had control over all police training centers; there are active investigations of his subordinate partners," said SIGAR.
The report also stated that the political certainty and COVID-19 challenges have had an impact on countercorruption efforts.
On political uncertainty, SIGAR said: "CSTC-A reported that national-level political uncertainty, COVID-19 challenges, and continuing violence have negatively impacted countercorruption efforts. For example, administrative punishments and removals in both the MOD and MOI have been concentrated at the regional (rather than national) level. CSTC-A has received multiple reports of attempted interference by military commanders and elected officials in countercorruption investigations."
According to the SIGAR report, failure to fight corruption in the institution may lead to the termination of US funding to the Afghan forces in the future.
According to the report, insufficient progress to counter corruption in managing US-funded equipment and materiel "could trigger a DOD decision to withhold ASFF in the near future. CSTC-A reported that national-level political uncertainty, COVID-19 challenges, and continuing violence have negatively impacted countercorruption efforts. For example, administrative punishments and removals in both the MOD and MOI have been concentrated at the regional (rather than national) level."
Afgjan officials responded:
"We have seen the recent report by SIGAR, its under our assessment, after conducting a thorough assessment of the report, we will share the outcome of the study with our countrymen," said Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Afghan Ministry of Interior.
"This can affect international commitments and assistance, this could have serious consequences for Afghanistan," said Abdul Rahman Wardak, a member of the Afghan parliament.
"Major Crimes Task Force (MCTF) effectiveness is steadily improving. The new director has replaced or fired several section chiefs while implementing changes to the organization’s personnel structure. The MCTF has an active corruption investigation into a deputy minister who reportedly participated in forgeries involving 65 construction cases billed to CSTC-A.
SIGAR said that by March 2020, the MOI reported it executed 171 warrants and had 84 outstanding. Of the 171 executed warrants, Afghan authorities immediately released all but four defendants.
West African mediators and #Mali’s coup leaders are discussing the possibility of a transitional government, which could allow the #EU to eventually resume training in partnership with the United Nations.#Africa#BAMAKOhttps://t.co/hJW8RZbHwg
[ALMARSAD.CO] A leading Libyan figure in the international network of the Moslem Brüderbund, Imad al-Din al-Muntasir, said that Europe’s role has re-expanded upon the request and support of Fayez al-Sarraj himself, who is trying to limit Ottoman Turkish role in Libya.
In a statement to the 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... i website Arabi 21, Imad al-Din al-Muntasir commented on media reports on leaked "conditions" claimed to be submitted by "Haftar’s" forces to the United States and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... for agreeing to a permanent ceasefire. "Though the source of these reports remains dubious, if they were true, they are illogical and inconsistent with the facts on the ground," argued al-Muntasir.
The pro-Ottoman TurkishMoslem Brüderbund leader said that "Haftar may impede implementation, but the demand for the withdrawal of Ottoman Turkish forces from Libya is just nonsense," as he put it.
[ALMARSAD.CO] The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) published one statement in which it shyly condemned what it described as the "excessive use of force" against the demonstrators without referring in any way to the fact that the unarmed protesters had been fired at from a vehicle of the GNA’s Interior Ministry carrying anti-aircraft guns, specifically the Nawasi Battalion.
Today evening, Wednesday, after Fayez al-Sarraj announced a 24-hour curfew, and despite Amnesia Amnesty International’s condemnation of the violations committed against peaceful protesters, the attacks on the popular movement’s youth in the Martyrs Square renewed just because of their presence in the square chanting their demands against the GNA.
It seems that UNSMIL has not seen these successive attacks on the demonstrators and is content with the statements of the GNA’s Interior Ministry, the Presidential Council, and Osama al-Juweili, who considers the demonstrators as rioters and saboteurs infiltrated from inside and outside.
Citizens vituperatively criticized UNSMIL and its head, Stephanie Williams, and all Western and Arab diplomatic missions for their shameful silence as regards what has taken place. UNSMIL has a tradition of issuing immediate statements on matters and events related to other parties and cities hundreds of kilometers away from it, yet now, on a matter that directly pertains the behaviour of Fathi Bashagha’s Ministry of Interior who is responsible for security in the capital and the country, it finds itself unable to find the words to describe the situation as it is.
According to well-informed Western diplomatic sources, UNSMIL may issue a statement to welcome Fathi Bashagha’s statements though has not so far announced the results of his promised investigation concerning the so-called "infiltrators" in the ranks of his forces. These "infiltrators", ironically enough, have been roaming the streets since yesterday to suppress and kidnap the peaceful protesters. These are well identified, notably among them is the Nawasi Battalion of the Interior Ministry itself. The UNSMIL has not so far issued any comment while its media office did not respond to journalists requests regarding the incessant violence against the peaceful protesters.
Regrettably, this has been the way with UNSMIL and Williams personally when it comes to the GNA. She refrains from issuing condemnation statements and then waits for the statement of condemnation and investigation from Bashagha or Sarraj to announce her welcome and support, instead of UNSMIL spearheading the investigation of the cases itself—because the government is always involved and thus cannot be impartial. Otherwise, the GNA would be both perpetrator and judge.
It is noteworthy that UNSMIL had announced its support for opening an international investigation into post-2016 violations only. Regrettably, this would absolve many parties from the violations they committed since 2011 and involve discrimination as some Libyans would then enjoy justice while others, also deeply wronged, will not.
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A nation's Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone are what they are and are determined by existing International Law of the Sea. I believe this boundary shift occurs because there is no agreement between Turkey and Greece. The Greek islands that front the Turkish peninsula make such an agreement (from the Turkish standpoint) most indigestible. As far as Greece is concerned, Turkish claims in the eastern Med now approach a causus belli.
EU Countries to Hold Military Exercise in Eastern Mediterranean
These are part of cooperation agreements between the four countries to address the escalating tensions in the Mediterranean...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/AQvMPyUILj
[NYPOST] Accused fraudster Shaun King is threatening to name innocent cops as Jacob Blake’s shooter if the Kenosha Police Department does’t release the identity of the officer who did. Talcum X
"If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him," the anti-police Black Lives Matter activist threatened online.
"F—k it. Your protection of his identity is unethical. What’s his name?" King wrote in a message "to the Kenosha Police Department" that he pinned to the top of his Twitter thread.
The Brooklyn-based King later named an officer whose name has circulated — with no proof — saying he was "in protective custody in a hotel because people thought he shot Jacob Blake." He then named a second officer, again with no proof it was the officer who shot Blake in the back as he got into his car after brawling with officers.
"POLICE COULD END THIS RIGHT NOW. They are deliberately protecting the man who shot Jacob. What’s his name?" he wrote.
King — who found notoriety for numerous outlandish claims in support of the Black Lives Matter movement — has repeatedly praised rioters as well as calling to fully defund the police.
"I’m not going to call for peace. We’ve tried peace," he wrote Monday, calling for a "complete dismantling of American policing" while conceding that "mayhem is the consequence."
While a handful of followers supported his call to name innocent officers, King was inundated with people attacking him, with some formally complaining to Twitter.
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Doing this could be charged as several different crimes (unfortunately I don't believe any of them are major felonies?). It is also a way to major civil liability, but that unfortunately isn't a solution to anything unless the named officers are actually injured by people who can be proven to be aware of King's existence. Unfortunately, scumbags like King always walk on the edge of what is legal, relying on their political connections and the local political establishment to keep them from suffering for the pain they cause. He is a cowardly pig.
What type of person uses such a tactic to achieve whatever goal they have?
A terrorist. That's what terrorists do. That's one of their strategies. They take hostages, they detain them, they contact whomever they need to contact, and they say, "Give me what I want, or these people are going to get it."
Shaun King, in addition to being a race-baiting grifter, scammer, slanderer, liar, fraud, white man pretending to be black, and reprehensible human being, has also shown himself to be just that — a terrorist.
Last night "Seany O'King" posted to his 1.1 million Twitter followers a public threat, or ransom note, to the Kenosha Police Department, reading, and I quote, "If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him."
He threatened to dox cops who had nothing to do with anything amid frenzied anti-police rioting and chaos.
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Perpetrating violence against innocent people in order to forward a political agenda?
Good point Frank G.
Now may be a good time to recount ISIS in Mosul when they drove around pulling over vehicles and executing any occupants they had on their list.
Metin Külünk, a former AKP deputy from the same youth movement as Erdogan, calls for a Greater Turkey that includes northern Greece & half the Aegean islands, Cyprus & parts of Syria, Iraq, Armenia & Georgia.
Germany keeps calling for "dialogue" with such a disgusting ideology. https://t.co/LnguaWC5zD
[Jpost] The US State Department pointed out that Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, is a designated terrorist organization and that the officials that Erdogan met with are "special designated global terrorists."
The US State Department on Tuesday strongly objected to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s hosting of two Hamas leaders in Istanbul over the weekend. They received red-carpet treatment from Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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[PJMedia] Last month, I reported about Gabe Johnson, the black man who lives in Portland, a stone’s throw away from the scene of the nightly riots. He believed the media line that the protests were mostly peaceful, until he attended and tried to put up an American flag. He has since done a complete 180, and believes that Portland must do everything in its power to bring the riots to an end. Now, he tells me he’s set up a fundraiser for the Portland Police Chaplains, and even got invited to attend a Town Hall with Mayor Ted Wheeler on race relations in the city.
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister hails Ofek 16 and country’s other technologies as critical to security.
The Defense Ministry on Tuesday released some of the first photographs taken by Israel’s newest spy satellite, showing ancient ruins in the central Syrian city of Palmyra.
On July 6, the Defense Ministry launched Ofek 16 into orbit and a week later activated its powerful camera arrays, but did not release the images taken by the satellite until now.
The three detailed black-and-white photographs focused on two main sites in Palmyra: a Roman amphitheater and the Temple of Bel, or Ba’al.
A Defense Ministry spokesperson said there was no hidden significance to the specific locations in Syria.
In 2018, shortly after Israel launched the satellite’s predecessor, Ofek 11, the Defense Ministry released its first images, showing Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad’s palace, in what was seen as a tacit threat against the strongman, who is closely allied with 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... and the Hezbollah terror group.
Israel is one of a small number of countries in the world that operate reconnaissance satellites, giving it advanced intelligence-gathering capabilities. As of April, that cadre included Iran, which successfully launched a spy satellite into orbit after years of failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... s.
"Our network of satellites lets us watch the entire Middle East — and even a bit more than that," said Shlomi Sudari, the head of IAI’s space program, after the Ofek 16 launch.
Yep. That oughta do it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Lebanon hours after Israeli forces fired dozens of fluorescent and phosphorous bombs at Lebanese border towns, causing fires but no human casualties.
"After midnight, helicopters belonging to the Israeli enemy targeted posts belonging to the Green Without Borders environmental NGO with three missiles at the outskirts of the town of Ramya and eight missiles at the outskirts of the town of Aita al-Shaab, in addition to two missiles that were fired from the Tal al-Raheb post at the outskirts of the aforementioned town," the army said in a statement.
"A post for the aforementioned NGO was also targeted in the Aitaroun national reserve, which sparked a blaze in it," the army added.
The military also said that Israel had earlier in the night fired 117 flares and around 100 explosive and incendiary shells at the outskirts of the Lebanese towns of Mays al-Jabal, Houla, Maroun al-Ras and Aitaroun, which resulted in several forestfires and damaged a house and a goat farm.
The Israeli army said Wednesday that attack helicopters overnight struck observation posts of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... along the 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... border after shots were fired at Israeli troops operating in the area.
The Israeli army said no Israeli forces were maimed, and there were no reports of casualties in Lebanon.
A Hizbullah front man declined to comment.
Another member of the group, who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said no Hizbullah positions were hit. He said shrapnel hit a structure belonging to Green Without Borders, an environmental NGO that Israel says is an arm of Hizbullah, allegations denied by the bad boys.
The Hizbullah member would neither confirm nor deny that an attack had been launched from Lebanon.
According to the IDF’s initial investigation of the incident, at 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday Hezbollah snipers fired two shots from a small arms weapon at combat intelligence troops operating near the Israeli community of Manara near the Lebanese border. The shots, fired from 200-300 meters (660-990 feet) away, missed their target, hitting a nearby object.
In response, Israeli artillery fired a number of flares and smoke shells into the air as troops searched the area for potential border breaches. A short while later, Israeli aircraft bombed a number of Hezbollah observation posts near the frontier, the military said.
In response to the sniper attack, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan submitted a request to the UN Security Council to strengthen UNIFIL’s mandate, allowing it to more effectively enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War and demanded all armed groups besides the Lebanese military remain north of the country’s Litani River. Under its current mandate, UNIFIL is not able to enter private property without permission, which Erdan said makes the peacekeeping force “neutered” as it is not able to ensure Hezbollah is not building up arms and forces in private homes and land.
In his request, Erdan included a map of southern Lebanon marked with locations where Hezbollah has fired anti-tank guided missiles and built cross-border attack tunnels, as well as known “Green Without Border” facilities and areas where UNIFIL has been barred from inspecting.
“Green Without Borders” is an environmental group that has long been suspected of being a front for Hezbollah’s military wing.
The IDF on Wednesday evening said it was remaining on high alert following the border clash with Hezbollah.
Israel has long accused Green Without Borders of serving as a front for Hezbollah’s military wing, constructing observation posts near the border that are used by the group’s operatives and planting trees in strategic locations to block Israeli surveillance cameras. Though the United Nations and UNIFIL have not confirmed a direct link between the two organization, they have acknowledged some connection between the two, including the fact that an attack against Israel by the terror group last September was apparently launched from a GWB site in southern Lebanon.
Palestinian doctor travelled to Lebanon with New IRA suspect (Issam Hijjawi, who lives in Scotland, is well-known among pro-Palestinian activists) https://t.co/LSnZULuIDj
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OK, wait a minute. Just because this Arab currently resides in Scotland is no reason for the headline to infer that Scotland is now together with the IRA and the likes of Hamas.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[NYPOST] Accused fraudster Shaun King is threatening to name innocent cops as Jacob Blake’s shooter if the Kenosha Police Department does’t release the identity of the officer who did.
...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...
