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[Regnum] The Taliban movement (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) in Kyrgyzstan has been excluded from the list of banned organizations, the republic’s Foreign Ministry reported on September 6.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic confirms that after careful consideration and comprehensive assessment by the competent state bodies of the country, a decision was made to exclude the Taliban movement from the list of banned organizations on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic,” the department reported.
The Ministry stressed that it supports the efforts of the international community to ensure a stable and peaceful environment in Asia, including Afghanistan.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice reported to President Vladimir Putin that the Taliban movement could be excluded from the list of terrorist organizations.
On July 3, Kazakhstan removed the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations. As the president of the republic, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, noted, this will allow for the development of economic cooperation with Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been in power since 2021.
The Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan published an updated register of banned organizations on September 2. The Taliban was not on the list. The republic's authorities have not yet published an official announcement.
Russia understands Kyrgyzstan's decision to remove the Taliban movement (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) from the list of terrorist organizations. This was stated at a briefing on September 6 by the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.
The Kremlin representative recalled that Kyrgyzstan is very, very close geographically to Afghanistan, and the Taliban is the de facto power in Kabul.
"It is very important for neighbors to build relationships with the de facto authorities. This is necessary, without this it is impossible to build any contacts," Peskov explained.
He added that Moscow understands this situation.
On September 2, the Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan published an updated register of organizations banned in the republic, which did not include the Taliban. A representative of the Kyrgyz State Commission on Religious Affairs did not explain the reasons for this decision, but confirmed that the prosecutor's office could have followed the example of neighboring Kazakhstan, where the Taliban were no longer considered terrorists back in early June.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 3, Kazakhstan removed the Taliban movement from the terrorist list in order to develop economic cooperation with Afghanistan. As the country's president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, explained, one of the strategic tasks at the present stage is the active involvement of Afghanistan in interregional relations.
On May 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Taliban movement could be removed from the list of terrorists. Zamir Kabulov, the Russian President's Special Representative for Afghanistan and the head of the Second Asian Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that recognition of the Taliban was much closer than when they came to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The Russian leader said on May 28 that the status of the Taliban movement is constantly being discussed. Putin added that Russia takes into account the opinion of each country in the region on the issue of recognizing the Taliban. The decision, according to the head of state, will be worked out together.
We love our Jews, and will gladly protect them with the bodies of our German police, never questioning the outrageous expense, but they need to stop upsetting our consensus with that part of the world that matters: that helping those romantic Arabs who would kill them all is much more important than Jewish survival.
[Yahoo - DPA] Germany is to increase humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by €50 million ($55 million), Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced in Amman on Thursday, as she condemned Israeli attempts to further destabilize the Middle East.
No condemnation of the Arabs upsetting things by killing Jews, we note.
Baerbock, speaking at a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi, said Germany has now pledged more than €360 million since last year to Gazans.
The focus of the latest aid push is combating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, along with the provision of health services during the Gaza conflict between Israel and Islamist rulers Hamas.
In addition, humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan is to be increased by €12.7 million, raising German aid to Jordan to €63 million over the course of 2024.
According to the German Foreign Office, two convoys of 120 trucks per week travel from Jordan directly to the Gaza Strip via border crossings in the north of the Gaza Strip. Germany is to provide an additional €5 million to support this access.
Before travelling on to Israel as part of a two-day trip, Baerbock was to visit a warehouse operated by the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), a non-governmental organization playing a key role in distributing Jordanian aid to the Gaza Strip.
The JHCO provides medical equipment, food, tents, household goods and clothing. It is supported by the German government with €4 million for the purchase of trucks, fuel and vehicle maintenance.
'IRRESPONSIBLE' ACTIONS BY PARTS OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT
Baerbock's trip to Israel could be frosty after she called on parts of the Israeli government to stop fuelling religious tensions amid the war in Gaza.
"We firmly reject any attempts to shake up the existing status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem," the Green politician said.
Actions of individual Israeli ministers, such as the visit of the far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, "are irresponsible and are already fuelling an absolutely explosive situation. We expect the Israeli side to stop this provocation," Baerbock added.
The Temple Mount, which includes the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is the third holiest site in Islam and is under Muslim rule. However, it is also sacred to Israeli Jews because two Jewish temples used to stand there.
Baerbock said that the recent outbreak of violence in the Palestinian West Bank, on the other side of Israel from Gaza, was causing the German government great concern.
"Israel is the occupying power in the West Bank and is obliged under the Geneva Convention to uphold law and order rather than jeopardize it," she said.
"This explicitly includes protecting the population from attacks by violent, radical settlers."
JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SLAMS NETANYAHU
Israel has the right to combat terrorism, she said, "but you don't fight terror by tearing up roads, destroying water pipes and electricity grids or even blocking access to hospitals."
Jordanian Foreign Minister Al-Safadi called on the German government to impose sanctions on Israel.
"After more than 10 months of aggression (in Gaza), (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu will obviously listen neither to the UN Security Council nor to the advice of his friends in the West," said Al-Safadi.
Netanyahu will continue if he is not threatened with consequences for his actions, he said.
The Gaza war, in which over 40,000 Palestinians have reportedly died, was sparked by Hamas launching a terrorist attack on Israeli soil on October 7 which killed over 1,200.
Baerbock arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks earlier on Thursday, before travelling on to Jordan.
[IsraelTimes] Artists4Ceasefire group, founded in October to demand halt to Gaza war, launches new campaign with NGOs; hundreds signed group’s first petition.
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Meanwhile 'Hollyweird' business is crashing. Obviously no one is thinking years out.
Two actions I'd like to see with a real Trunk congress - (1) end the guaranteed student loan program, (2) bring back copyright to 14 years with an extension of 14 more years to the individual artist.
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Don't be mad at yourself if you don't know who Ruffalo is.
He was at best a low-mid among the A list who made his way by being GAF on the casting couch. For a few years now, he has be auditioning for the same line of work Tom Hanks, Mark Hamill and George Clooney were recruited for, and here he is, employed for the first time since She Hulk, if you could call what he did in that 'working'.
[IsraelTimes] Plaintiff in Harvard discrimination suit, a former Bernie Sanders supporter, says Democrats won’t do enough to protect Jewish students
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Jewish Harvard alumnus who is suing the school over its response to antisemitism, announced on Thursday that he has broken with the Democratic Party and will be voting for Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... Kestenbaum made the declaration during a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention, saying that he had become disillusioned with Democratic leaders and their policies during his push for action against campus antisemitism.
"I did not support Trump in 2016, I did not support Trump in 2020. Hell, I did not support Trump six months ago. Nobody’s perfect," said Kestenbaum, a registered Democrat.
"The Democratic party has taken the Jewish vote and Jewish voters for granted for far too long," he said. "I will be supporting, I will be endorsing, I will be voting for President Trump."
Kestenbaum’s party switch isn’t a complete surprise: He addressed the Republican National Convention in July, an experience, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the time, that felt "lonely" but that was warmly received by the crowd. In that speech, he talked about his vote in November — but did not specify which candidate he would support.
"Let’s elect a president who will instill patriotism in our schools once again," he said from the convention podium. "Let’s elect a president who will confront terrorism and its supporters once again."
The next month, he attended but did not speak at the Democratic convention, an experience he also portrayed positively on the social network X, where he posted a photo of a button reading, "I’m a pro-Israel Democrat."
He also posted a video of the crowd applauding the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage by Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... on October 7. In 2016, he attended the Democratic convention as a supporter of Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... "Let me also add that as a visibly Jewish person crying as I was recording this, numerous delegates came up to me after, saying they stand with the Jewish people," he wrote from the Democratic convention on August 21. "I have had serious disillusionments with Dems, but am confident we can one day restore the soul of our party together."
Two weeks later, he was onstage at the RJC confab, speaking alongside two other Democratic voters who have switched their party allegiance. He said Republicans had been more responsive to his efforts in combating antisemitism.
Republican leaders such as House Speaker Mike Johnson and the chairman of the House Boodle Central, Rep. Jason Smith, had actively sought out Kestenbaum and other Jewish students, he said, adding that Democratic party leaders have not done the same.
He also lashed Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... such as Reps. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore and Jamaal Firebug Bowman ...sleazy Dem politician and educator, U.S. representative for New York's safe 16th congressional district since 2021. On September 30, 2023, while House Dems were desperately attempting to delay a vote that avoided shutting the government down so they could blame it on the Pubs, Bowman pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building, causing the building to be evacuated. Bowman told reporters he thought it was a doorknob or something. Capitol Police released a statement saying they were investigating the fire alarm incident, and maybe a few rubes somewhere expected something to come of it. Republicans introduced a motion to expel Bowman from the House but that evaporated too. Bowman issued a statement saying they were Nazis. Bowman is a member of The Squad, a faction of like-minded subversives... , members of the hardline left-wing "Squad," for supporting anti-Israel campus protesters, and mentioned other instances in which he felt Democratic officials hadn’t taken campus antisemitism seriously enough. He feels the Democratic Party has also not articulated policies for protecting Jewish students.
"The Trump campaign invited me and other college students to sit, front row, as President Trump not only condemned antisemitism but clearly articulated the policies he would implement to combat it," Kestenbaum said. "The Harris campaign delivered no such promises."
In his speech, Kestenbaum advocated for measures including deporting non-American students "who abuse the foreign visa system," echoing the 2024 Republican platform, which called for "revoking Visas of Foreign Nationals who support terrorism and jihadism."
He also called for withholding federal funding from universities that violate the civil rights of students, including Jews, and for taking a stance against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs.
"These common-sense, once bipartisan policies are not a hallmark of the Harris campaign. They are not featured on any campaign platform," Kestenbaum said.
He said that he had initially refrained from condemning Democrats, instead trying to change the party from within. He was disappointed with party leaders’ statements at the Democratic convention about anti-Israel protests and campus policies, but said he will still support his Democratic congressman, pro-Israel stalwart Ritchie Torres, and backs other Democratic policies including minimum wage legislation and pro-environmental measures.
"I wanted to show my party, the Democratic party, that they could and they should support Jewish students, however, elections are binary choices," Kestenbaum said. "For the first time since I started voting, I cannot support the Democratic nominee for president."
He added, "I did not abandon the Democratic party. The Democratic party abandoned me."
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[Regnum] The United States and Iraq have reached an agreement on plans to withdraw coalition forces from the country. American troops are expected to begin leaving the Ain al-Asad base in September 2025, Reuters reported on September 6.
"The plan, which has been broadly agreed upon but requires final agreement from both countries, calls for hundreds of troops to be withdrawn by September 2025 and the rest by the end of 2026," the agency wrote, citing sources.
The first phase of the troop withdrawal is planned to be completed a month before the parliamentary elections in Iraq, scheduled for October 2025.
The official announcement of the agreement was delayed due to the escalation in the Middle East.
The information was confirmed on condition of anonymity by five American officials, two officials from other coalition countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy) and three sources in Iraq.
Separately, a senior US official said the US and Iraq are also seeking to establish a new consultative relationship that would allow some US troops to remain in Iraq.
As reported by Regnum, the Ain al-Asad airbase was attacked by missiles in late July. Sources said two missiles hit the perimeter of the base, but the airbase itself was not damaged. No casualties or injuries were reported.
The airbase is located in the al-Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. It was originally known as Qadisiyah Air Base. It was the second largest US military airbase in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003–2011).
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Somehow I expect that the Biden/Harris administration will f**k this up too, just like they did in Afghanistan.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and the Shin Bet security agency have canceled nine arrest operations in the West Bank in the past two days due to a lack of capacity in Israeli prisons to process Paleostinian security suspects, Channel 12 reports.
"The failure of Minister [Itamar] Ben Gvir, who is responsible for national security, to deal with the issue of prison space, endangers national security and it won’t be long until it costs human life," the network cites a security source as saying.
The issue has been ongoing since Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel and the ensuing war in 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 Hamas with 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... , with the Shin Bet repeatedly complaining that it has been forced to send prisoners back to the Strip due to a lack of jail space.
The IDF said earlier today that over the past week, troops killed more than 35 button men in the West Bank and detained some 45 amid an operation in the Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a areas. The operation aims to dismantle Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror networks in the northern West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] According to Bild, terror organization seeks to introduce Arab forces to Strip to serve as buffer with Israel as it rebuilds, disregards Palestinian civilians
A newly revealed Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... document indicates that the terror group’s main concern in ceasefire negotiations with Israel is to rehabilitate its military capabilities, and not to alleviate the suffering of 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 Hamas with 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... ’s civilian population, German newspaper Bild reported Friday.
The spring 2024 document, which Bild said it had obtained exclusively, without offering further details, was reportedly found on a computer in Gaza that belonged to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
It articulates Hamas’s strategies and objectives in negotiations with Israel over a potential deal that would see hostages released in exchange for a ceasefire and the release of Paleostinian prisoners held by Israel.
According to the report, Hamas is indifferent to whether the ongoing war ends quickly, instead prioritizing maintaining the terror group’s military capabilities, "exhausting" Israel’s military and political apparatuses, and increasing international pressure on Israel.
While the terror group admits in the paper that the war, going into its 12th month, has diminished its military capacities, Hamas still seeks to "improve important clauses in the agreement, even if the negotiations continue for an extended period." Notably, Paleostinian civilian casualties are not mentioned in the document.
The report also said Hamas lays out a strategy of psychological warfare through the hostages, calling to "continue to exert psychological pressure on the families of the [hostages], both now and in the first phase [of the ceasefire] so that public pressure on the enemy government increases."
This strategy has been demonstrated through Hamas’s periodic publishing of videos of hostages pleading for their release. In the past week, Hamas has published such videos featuring hostages whose bodies were recently recovered from Gaza, days after they were executed by the terror group.
In the document, Hamas also plans talking points, blaming "Israel’s stubbornness" as delaying a deal. It also reportedly lists Hamas’s main objectives in a deal. One is securing the release of 100 Paleostinian prisoners held by Israel serving life sentences, usually for murder.
Another purported Hamas goal is to have forces from Arab countries stationed along the Israel-Gaza border as part of a more permanent ceasefire, to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hamas, thus allowing Hamas to recuperate and reorganize under the protection of these forces.
Notably, Israel has also reportedly suggested that a coalition of Arab forces administrate the enclave at some point in the future. Unlike the Hamas proposal, the Israeli plan would see the Arab forces ensuring Hamas does not rehabilitate its military capabilities.
The report also noted that the document does not mention the Philadelphi Corridor, despite the strip of land on the Gaza-Egypt border recently becoming a key sticking point in negotiations. This may be attributed to the time the document was written, as Israel only took control of the Philadelphi Corridor in May.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...sleazy Dem politician and 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
