[KhaamaPress] In a blurb by the foreign policy: Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... released prisoners are returning to battlefields as commanders and fighters, which is considered a breach of the Doha agreement.
According to the article, the majority of released Taliban have taken up arms again in an intention to fight and overthrow the government.
An unpublished paper written for the Afghan Peace dialogue project at Queen’s University in Belfast, by experts Michael Semple and Flex Kuehn, It is found that the former Taliban detainees were participating in the battle, being killed, taken prisoner again, and in one case an ex-fighter of the group was involved in Dire Revengeliquidations.
The reports indicate that 68% of the 108 former Taliban chosen for the research have reintegrated with the group to actively resume their roles in battles, or are occupying military or political positions linked to Taliban war efforts.
Foreign policy also stated, that 8 percent of those under the research wished to return to battlefields but were held back through family opposition, the other 24% voluntarily have returned to normal civil life.
A local official who did not wanted to be identified has told Foreign policy that the findings are "accord to what we have observed".
"Some Taliban interviewed understood the stance that prisoners should not return to the fight, as a deliberate deception. ... They understood that pretending that prisoners would not be allowed to return to fight was a necessary price to be paid for ensuring that the prisoner release continued," the researchers wrote.
This comes as prisoners swap previously ended, and both parties have released all the prisoners to pave the path for Intra-Afghan talks.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...Arabic for students... Delegation arrives in 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... for Intra-Afghan Talks with the Afghan Government.
Suhail Shaheen Taliban spokesperson to media, that a delegation led by Mullah Beradar has reached Qatar in a bid to establish Intra-Afghan talks.
He added, the group is currently trying to resolve some technical issues and announce a start date to the dialogues.
Earlier, the government said, the reason for the delay in the Intra-Afghan talks was a lack of hot to trot of Taliban for the meeting.
Some Politicians also warned that continued disunity between Ghani and Abdullah would have severe inferences for peace in the country
Enjoy it while you’re allowed to have it, guys. Perhaps you can even use that control to guide Pakistani behaviour.
[KhaamaPress] A tri-party agreement was established between Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistain for transferring electricity from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistain.
Mojtaba Hooshmand, Breshna’s program consultant, said in a news conference today, that the company has launched a new project called TAP, which transports Turkmenistan’s electricity from Afghanistan to Pakistain.
According to Hooshmand, with the start of the first phase of the project, the energy will be passed from Turkmenistan to Heart and Farah.
He added the amount of electricity in the country will increase and if the second phase of the TAP project is completed, Afghanistan will benefit $ 50 million annually for Turkmenistan from the project.
Earlier, Tajikistan had announced due to a reduction in the region’s water, Afghanistan’s electricity import reached down from 150 Megawatts to 50 MW, this made Afghanistan look forward to importing 300MW of electrical energy from Uzbekistan.
But recently a week ago Tajikistan announced an increase in their export Dam and Afghanistan can normally take 150MW of electricity.
On the other hand, Safiullah Ahmadzai, Director of DABs programs said, Afghanistan pays 220 million dollars annually to import electricity, the amount is equivalent to the $250 Million of Salma Dam’s construction project.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and SPLM-N
... the Sudan People's Liberation Movement – North is a political party and militant organisation in the Republic of Sudan, based in the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. They are basically that part of the South Sudanese Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army that remained in Sudan following South Sudan’s independence in 2011. In 2017 it split into SPLM-N (Agar), led by Malik Agar, and SPLM-N (al-Hilu), the factions fighting each other as well as the Sudanese government...
leader Abdel Aziz al-Hilu agreed that the gang will keep weapons until an agreement on the separation between religion and state. Hamdok and al-Hilu issued a joint statement on Thursday night from Addis Ababa where they held an unannounced meeting to discuss ways to overcome the deadlock in the peace talks brokered by the South Sudanese government.
At the end of the two-day meeting, they issued a statement saying they agreed on several principles including the respect of the right to self-determination for the Two Areas.
"A democratic state must be established in Sudan. For Sudan to become a democratic country where the rights of all citizens are enshrined, the constitution should be based on the principle of "separation of religion and state" in the absence of which the right to self-determination must be respected," said the parties.
In this bilateral document, Hamdok accepted that calls for self-determination must be "respected" but not guaranteed.
Following what the deal provides that the status quo, including the "self-protection", will continue until security arrangements are agreed and until "separation between religion and state" is actualized.
Also, they reaffirmed the principle of no-return to war saying they agreed to "maintain the cessation of hostilities throughout the grinding of the peace processor until the security arrangements are agreed upon".
Hereunder the text of the agreement which is signed in presence of the head of the World Food Programme David Beasley, a close friend to Hamdok and al-Hilu alike.
[SUNA-SD.NET]Former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is receiving treatment at a private medical clinic in the capital, Bamako.
Media reports say Keita was admitted to the Pasteur Clinic late Tuesday, 10 days after he was detained during a military coup by members of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, who are now in power.
The condition of the 75-year-old former leader and the nature of his ailment have not been made public.
[Al Ahram] Mali's military junta will hold meetings on Saturday to discuss its promised transition to civilian rule after mounting pressure from neighbours to yield power in the weeks since it overthrew the nation's leader.
The West African country has long been plagued by chronic instability, a simmering jihadist revolt, ethnic violence and endemic corruption, prompting a clique of rebel colonels to detain elderly President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last month.They pledged to step down after an undefined transition period, but the putsch has prompted Mali's neighbours and former colonial ruler La Belle France to demand a swift transfer of power, with fears the crisis could impact neighbouring states.
The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc has imposed sanctions and closed borders to Mali as part of efforts to press the junta into handing over power quickly.
Saturday's summit was originally planned for last weekend but was called off at the last minute after a quarrel between the military and the June 5 Movement, which spearheaded the protests that led to the toppling of president Keita.
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[Al Ahram] Jihadists have made $140 million from attacks on gold mines in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... since 2016, according to a report commissioned by the government.Gold mining has become increasingly vital to the economy of the landlocked West African country, which was once dependent on cotton exports for foreign earnings.
But the industry has also become a welcome source of funding for jihadists and other armed movements in areas lacking in central authority, according to the report's author Ollo Kambou of the Burkina Economic and Social Observatory (OES).
The report estimated the total cost of the attacks in terms of damage to property and wider effects to be 600 billion CFA francs ($1.1 billion) since 2016, roughly one third of the state's entire revenue.
A spiral of jihadist violence began five years ago in parallel with a gold rush.
From 0.40 tonnes in 2007, gold production rose to more than 52 tonnes in 2018, according to Burkina's Chamber of Mines.
The sector made up 11.4 percent of economic output in 2018. It accounts for 9,200 direct jobs and 26,100 indirect jobs, while the gold panning sub-sector employs 1.5 million people.
But jihadist attacks are hindering production at artisanal mines.
"Terrorist organizations exploit natural resources such as gold," Kambou said.
The mines also give jihadists access to explosives.
More than 1,100 people have died and more than one million have fled their homes in Burkina Faso since 2015 when jihadists crossed from neighbouring Mali and began their attacks.
Swathes of territory are now outside of the control of central authorities.
The violence has been attributed to jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda or 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.... group.
While those groups are using the gold to funding terrorism, Kambou said that most attacks are financed from abroad.
"Money transfer companies and non-profit organizations are the main channels used to finance terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso," he said, pointing out that the groups benefit from the fact that much of the economy is cash-based.
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[American Partisan] Antifa tactical units are organized into 'standard company sturctrure' of up to 20 individual soldiers under the immediate control of a comany commander. While there are 'special units', most notable the 'reconnaissance & coordination' teams of bicyclists, the base of the C&C structure for Antifa is the company.
Company commanders are first lieutenants' and may be idenfied in the field by their actions within the group, and frequently by possession of DX SDR units of some form. These 'duplex (send/receive) software defined radio' units will be small, and most probably attached to a smart phone. It is through the SDR's that the encrypted commands are passed to operational units. On arrest, 1st Lieutenants have been observed disarding their identifying equipment as well as destroying their phones.First Lieutenants can also be identified as being the local hub for bicycle traffic. In observations of rioting/looting activity, particularly with long distance videos of qualtity, bicyclists can cleary be seen reporting to 1st Lieutenants & even seeking them out in the mob. For this activity, bicyclists have been noted to employ 'proximate apps' to locate their units & commanders.
The Anitfa field orgnaization has up to 4 companies reporting to a 'captain (coordinator)'. Antifa Captians may be identified by common actions & equipment. Captains are 'free floating' within the mob movement, but will always be associated with increased bicycle traffic as well as 'emblems' of authority/command. These emblems include sepcific types & shapes of video camera gear. Antifa soldiers are trained to center on the emblems of both 1st Lieutentant as well as Captains. Some of the Captains have been observed pulling their command together by holding up the long lens video camera overhead while running a pattern of flashes from the light bars. These are swept around the mob & new organization results. Read the whole thing.
I'm no expert on these things, but they're clearly not all flailing amateurs with "poor trigger discipline" (a favorite trope of right wing blowhards)
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Couple of weeks ago one of their "commanders" was proud of how well they formed a shield wall. There's no sign they can actually maneuver while so formed, plenty of evidence their formations shatter easily.
And, well, that formation went out with the advent of gunpowder.
They are practiced in facing off against restrained riot cops and outnumbering isolated opponents. Beyond that? Well, Cornwallis had a force that could make pretty formations and even maneuver...
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The forces of General Cornwallis
At drill and maneuver were flawless.
"I also had trenches!"
"While we had the French."
"Yes, and that was a wonderful solace..."
"To not have been licked by us lawless."
"So, lucky we both you weren't Gaul-less."
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Their tactics will evolve.
Also, based on what we're seeing in the recent attempt to politicize the military by the Dems and their press auxiliary force, don't be surprised if these characters start reaching out to the never-Trump ex-military and ex-CIA spooks for tactical advice. Maybe active training too.
Not far-fetched at all to imagine the Resustance becoming a full-on Contra-style resistance op similar to what CIA has directed, trained and funded repeatedly for over 60 years around the Third World - which is how these bastids view the US today
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Ref #1 & #6: Not far-fetched at all to imagine the Resustance becoming a full-on Contra-style resistance op similar to what CIA has directed, trained and funded repeatedly for over 60 years around the Third World - which is how these bastids view the US today
It might be instructive to remember who, among all Federal employees (active and retired) came out vehemently against the Orange Man from the very onset. Quiet now, with this new phase underway, names like Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Panetta, Webster and others fed the mainstream media headlines daily.
With the cities in turmoil, where are the Brennan, Clapper, Hayden voices now? Where the fok are they ?
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Overthrow governance and create international panic? Lets have a look at what is currently NOT working, and when the warnings may have initially surfaced. (from the memory hole).
The construction of the lab was a joint agreement between the French and the Chinese and, according to a recent report by France’s Le Figaro newspaper, came at the objection of French intelligence officials.
“The move came despite strong opposition from French diplomatic and security advisers, who argued that the Chinese reputation for poor bio-security could lead to a catastrophic leak,” The Daily Mail reported, citing Le Figaro. “They also warned that Paris could lose control of the project, and even suggested that Beijing could harness the technology to make biowarfare weapons. Eleven years later, as the laboratory prepared to open, the French architects of the project complained that they had, as feared, been ousted by the Chinese communist government.”
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They would appear to be determined to have a cultural revolution. If the President wins it will be violent and bad. If Grampy badfinger wins it will be geometrically worse, 'every man for himself' worse.
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The more they act like a military force, the easier it will be to treat them like un-uniformed irregulars. I don't think a black hoodie with an antifa patch is going to count as an official uniform deserving of the considerations shown to opposing regular soldiers.
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Make sure you read the full article and the observations about a UA and tracking markers
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And those guys waving signal lights around, supposedly signaling the rest?
There's a reason you don't salute in a combat zone.
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-shhhhh-
Last go round, there was a demonstration in Dallas IIRC. Pedestrian fences had been chain linked and locked together to form a boundary for their activity area if you will.
Nothing short of a testudo formation assaulted the pedestrian fence with bolt cutters in order to defeat the fence and I guess charge the counter demonstration.
Police noticed this and countered; the point is that people don't just get into a formation of that sort and not trip over each other without a lot of practice.
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Also, I think the whole point of this is a: they can train their troops more, and b: they can audition their troops and find out who's good at organizing, who's good enough of a sociopath to not only commit murder, but to sacrifice the well being of others by sending them to go beat on the truck of a bystander trying to drive through the demonstration...
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#20 Also, I think the whole point of this is a: they can train their troops more, and b: they can audition their troops and find out who's good at organizing, who's good enough of a sociopath to not only commit murder, but to sacrifice the well being of others by sending them to go beat on the truck of a bystander trying to drive through the demonstration...
Exactly.
And there's nothing remotely analogous to this on the Right.
Partly because our institutions are wholly owned subsidiaries of the left who promptly crack down when there's the slightest whiff of this stuff from the Right; partly because of the mindless complacency of the "Hurdurrr, we have all the guns, and duh cops are on our side" crowd.
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I'm no expert on these things, but they're clearly not all flailing amateurs with "poor trigger discipline" (a favorite trope of right wing blowhards)
Underestimate your enemy at your own peril.
If it were me, with one of these cohorts, I'd have two video takers, one on each side of the street, with time stamps synchronized and geo-locators in the video. That video could be used for recruiting, studying tactics, propaganda, promotion/demotion, and even hunting down those who distribute unacceptable video using simple triangulation compared to the unacceptable video, such as Fire Walk with Me posted above.
I'm quite positive the software exists to create a sort of 3-D map.
I do not think it inappropriate to dust of the Olde Combat terminology of, say, Vikings vs. Northumbria. The bicyclists serve as a sort of light cavalry for recon, harassment, and courier. The skateboards serve as a sort of light infantry. Try outrunning a skater on a slight positive slope, nevermind level or negative especially someone who has been doing it long enough to solidify skater muscles (like any other physical activity such as skiing, dancing, distance running, so forth).
The Videographers and 'Paramedics' work as maneuver shields and human shields. The Umbrella Corps work as maneuver shields and Small Missile Defense (pepper balls). The Shield Wall works as maneuver screens as well as primary agitators. The Laser Group, I think they call them Light Mages, work as distance missile groups.
The whole point comes down to: humiliate your opponent - this is where I comment on the Molotov Dancer. I'm going to guess the dude who got burned was at least a screen and perhaps a human shield and he got burned because the thrower got burned themself and chunked the throw.
What this article would suggest is that a fire bombing had to be approved.
Looks to me like they think they got a mixture balanced and wanted to try it out.
As far as where they are practicing, I heard quite a while ago there are training camps set up for just this purpose. As connected as some individuals are, I don't think it is a stretch that someone owns old property like a dilapidated warehouse for working out the footwork, and those with connection to software for 3D triangulation such as one would find in virtual house tours.
The goal of this phase, humiliations, has a number of effects especially considering how quickly the Trump Hates Troops bulllll-shit was spread: keep people at home, demoralize the active participants, and in the Grande view of things eroding international support or even worse, encourage international dealers to co-opt or even ally themselves to 'The Cause'.
Consider the UN, and then consider 24/7 coverage of a poor protestor shot down because they were lighting a citronella candle.
Pallywood. They want dead because blood lubricates the movement. Look at the evidence on mass media, did Dude get killed because of Patriot Prayer, or because Trump caused people to put themselves in the way of Blamtifia?
The insurgency handbook, and counter-insurgency handbook, rightly describes that an insurgency cannot exist without a 'safe space' to operate from.
Come to your own conclusions, but here is evidence that this is more than unorganized peoples.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences.
"They’re either going to understand the language of politics and diplomacy, or in the field with painful experiences," he said at a hospital’s opening ceremony in Istanbul.
[Rudaw] A new report by the Kurdistan Regional Parliament catalogues extensive damage caused by the Ottoman Turkish army and, to a lesser extent Iranian army, incursions into the Kurdistan Region since 1992, leaving a staggering 504 villages empty as their residents fled fighting and are now internally displaced.
The parliament set up a special committee on June 29 to visit areas affected by Ottoman Turkish and Iranian attacks, assess the security situation, and provide an estimate of the losses. The formation of the committee came on the heels of a coordinated attack by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Iran
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[BenarNews] The Indonesian government needs to improve its terrorist rehabilitation and deradicalization programs because 11 percent of terror convicts in the country become repeat offenders, said a report released by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) on Friday.
The government needs to act urgently because as many as 100 people imprisoned for terrorism-related offenses are released each year, with the number set to rise to 150 in 2021, the Jakarta-based think tank said.
It said it had examined the cases of 94 repeat offenders among a total of 825 men and women convicted of terrorism and released between 2002 and May 2020.
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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
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
