[Libya Observer] If they're open, but no classes, are they really a school?
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Sir Humphrey says yes
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First of all you have to sort out the smooth running of the school. Having students around would be no help at all. We don't measure our success by results but by activity.
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[AlAhram] The Egyptian army killed 83 Lions of Islam in North and Central Sinai between 28 September and 4 November, the Egyptian Army's General Command said in a statement on Monday.
Army forces seized 65 different types of weapons as well as ammunition, IEDs, and solar cell devices.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Egyptian Air Forces destroyed 14 terrorist hideouts, 115 off-road vehicles, 33 cars, 93 cycle of violences, two smuggling tunnels and 376 planted IEDs in the area of operations, the statement added.
Also, border guards foiled illegal immigration attempts by 4,707 people of different nationalities and seized three Thuraya satellite phones.
"Sixty-one wanted criminals and suspects were arrested," the statement said, adding that "three army personnel were killed and injured during the operations against terrorist hideouts."
Security forces “eliminated 77 takfiris,” referring to Sunni Muslim extremists, who were found with stacks of weapons and ammunition in north and central Sinai, the army says.
Six other “highly dangerous” jihadists were killed in shootouts in the region, the army says in a statement on a nationwide anti-militant operation between September 28 and November 4.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish newspaper affiliated with 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... has lashed out at 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-owned channel Al Jazeera English and called for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to withdraw support for Doha due to the channel’s coverage of Turkey’s operations in northeastern Syria.
"Al Jazeera English, Qatar’s flagship news channel, has been spreading anti-Turkey propaganda," stated the Daily Sabah’s online editorial on Monday.
Pointing to Al Jazeera English’s "Turkey-bashing" coverage of Ankara’s ongoing military operation in northeastern Syria, the editorial alleged that "the network has succumbed to bias and fake news to misportray known holy warriors and runaways from law as oppressed activists," referring to the Kurdish-led forces which Turkey is trying to remove from northeastern Syria.
Turkey’s operation has been widely criticized by media and global leaders alike, with several countries halting arms sales to Ankara over its self-declared plans to change the demographics of northeastern Syria.
"Al Jazeera English, like Western outlets where some of its employees used to serve, refused to provide factual realities in the region. Instead, it reproduced the talking points of certain Western governments and the terrorist group they sponsor, on air," alleged the paper.
In response to Al Jazeera English’s reportedly "hostile" coverage, the Daily Sabah questioned Turkey’s relations with Qatar and suggested that Ankara should withhold support for its regional ally if Al Jazeera English continued to criticize Ottoman Turkish policy.
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Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria seems to have the effect of sowing dissension among the members of the Muslim Brotherhood/Quatar/Turkey/Russia/Iran/Syria-Assad block.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish court, in a re-trial, ordered the release of journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak due to their time already served in jail, the Anadolu news agency reported on Monday.
The two men had been convicted of aiding the network of US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , accused by Ankara of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016.
They had denied the charges against them.
The court also acquitted journalist Mehmet Altan, a defendant in the same case, of alleged links to the Gulen network, Anadolu said.
Altan had already been released.
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[SMH] 'What do you want me to do with your terrorist?'
Turkey has warned Britain and other countries that it will send captured Islamic State suspects and their families back home even if their citizenship has been revoked.
Ankara has custody of more than 1000 foreign IS militants, wives and their children after seizing parts of northern Syria and taking them from Kurdish forces. It said it would not hold them forever.
"We will send back those in our hands, but the world has come up with a new method now: revoking their citizenships," Turkish Interior Minister Soleyman Soylu said on Monday, Ankara time.
"They are saying they should be tried where they have been caught. This is a new form of international law, I guess.
"It is not possible to accept this. We will send back Daesh members in our hands to their own countries whether they revoke their citizenships or not," he said, using the derogatory Arabic -acronym for the terrorist group.
“Our courts are fully booked for the next decade with Gulenist and Kurd cases. We have no time for the world-conquering caliphatists who were giving former BFF Assad such lovely problems,” he added.
Soylu complained of European inaction on the matter.
"They found an easy solution," he said. "They say, 'I took his nationality away; it's your problem now'. That's unacceptable in our view; that's totally irresponsible. What do you want me to do with your terrorist?" "Besides sitting here we have the best trained bio-weapons. What good are they to Allan just... wasting away ? We didn't join NATO to shoulder responsibility !"
[Ynet] According to Hamas sources, the Qatari Envoy to the Gaza Strip, Muhammad al-Emadi, announced that Qatar will have difficulties continuing sending the usual 30 million Dollars a month to the Strip. We checked the couch cushions and the ashtray in the Vega, but no change, sorry
Hamas sources say that the organization leadership is expected to appeal to the Qatari Emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, explaining to him that cutting off Qatari financial support will cause "an explosion with Israel, who is responsible for the continued siege on the Strip." Have you hugged a fracker today?
[Ynet] The director of the Israeli office of Human Rights Watch lost his Supreme Court appeal against deportation over his alleged promotion of pro-Palestinian boycotts of Israel, his lawyer says.
Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, had contested the revocation of his work visa and denied currently supporting anti-Israel boycotts. Why not run for Congress?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan’s cabinet on Monday resigned ahead of a government reshuffle expected in the next few days, the state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? Officials say the reshuffle will solidify Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz’s mandate to accelerate economic reforms, seen as crucial to spur growth in the debt-ridden country.
Razzaz was quoted by Petra state news agency as saying the move was needed "to face up to the challenges of the coming period."
It was not clear how extensive the reshuffle would be but an official said it would not affect key portfolios, but focus on merging some ministries to cut waste and curb expenditure.
Under an IMF austerity plan, Jordan must rein in spending to cut spiralling debt that stands at around $40 billion, equivalent to around 95 percent of gross domestic product.
Several government moves in recent months to raise the salaries of teachers and army retirees, while government revenues are falling, has further strained state coffers.
King Abdullah appointed Razzaz in the summer of 2018 to defuse the biggest protests in years over tax hikes pushed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce Jordan’s large public debt.
Razzaz has sought to revive confidence in a country where many blame successive governments for failing to deliver on pledges to revive growth, which is stuck at around 2 percent, cut waste and curb corruption.
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Yes, dear, we know. And so easy to fill them with gas or concrete, too. We’ve seen the lovely videos of concrete spreading from the far end of that Hizb’allah tunnel last summer — are you volunteering to be next?
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader Yahya Sinwar threatens Israel, warning the 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 Hamaswith 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... terrorist group has cross-border tunnels that extend for "hundreds of kilometers" and an arsenal of thousands of rockets and mortars.
Sinwar also directs warnings to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff, saying that if the centrist politician succeeds in forming a governing Israeli coalition, "he’ll curse the day he was born."
Sinwar’s comments come after a weekend of rocket fire at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, which were met with Israeli reprisal strikes in the enclave.
[Military.com] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ‐ His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed.
Speaking to The Associated Press ahead of Monday's 40th anniversary of the attack, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the repercussions of the crisis still reverberate as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
Asgharzadeh cautioned others against following in his footsteps, despite the takeover becoming enshrined in hard-line mythology. He also disputed a revisionist history now being offered by supporters of Iran's Revolutionary Guard that they directed the attack, insisting all the blame rested with the Islamist students who let the crisis spin out of control.
"Like Jesus Christ, I bear all the sins on my shoulders," Asgharzadeh said.
At the time, what led to the 1979 takeover remained obscure to Americans who for months could only watch in horror as TV newscasts showed Iranian protests at the embassy. Popular anger against the U.S. was rooted in the 1953 CIA-engineered coup that toppled Iran's elected prime minister and cemented the power of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The shah, dying from cancer, fled Iran in February 1979, paving the way for its Islamic Revolution. But for months, Iran faced widespread unrest ranging from separatist attacks, worker revolts and internal power struggles. Police reported for work but not for duty, allowing chaos like Marxist students briefly seizing the U.S. Embassy.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The US and 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have repeatedly threatened one another with deadly consequences in the event of hostilities, with the US move to send a carrier strike group to the Middle East and to set up a maritime security coalition to protect shipping in the Persian Gulf leading tensions to spike to dangerous new levels.
Iran has the ability and will to target any and all territories sheltering the US or its allies in the region in the event of aggression against Tehran, Armed Forces front man Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi has warned.
"Any place and any territorial point sheltering the interests of the United States and its allies would be threatened (in case of any war) and the Islamic Theocratic Republic has proved that it has the capability to do so," the front man for the armed forces general staff said, speaking to Fars News Agency.
"Even if a country does not directly participate in any possible war but its territories host the enemy, we consider that country as a hostile territory and will treat it as an aggressor," Shekarchi added.
Emphasising that Iran would never be the instigator of a war of aggression, the front man also stressed that "if an aggressor commits a strategic mistake" and starts a war, "that aggression will be confronted with the strongest and most crushing response over a geographic expanse beyond what the ill-wishers of the Islamic Theocratic Republic could imagine."
Shekarchi added that the ineffectiveness of US military equipment was recently proven when all the advanced US radar and air defence systems "failed their test in a shameful manner" when Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia launched attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities in September. At that time, the front man said, the whole world "realized the weakness and humiliation [of Western countries’ equipment] in this field."
This was the second time Brig. Gen. Shekarchi has warned the US about the dangers of a conflict with Iran. In June, amid regional fears about how the US might respond to the destruction of a $220 million drone by Iranian air defences in the Strait of Hormuz, the front man warned that firing even "one bullet" at Iran would cause the region to "be set on fire" in the war that followed.
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[Rudaw] The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on nine aides to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... on the 40th anniversary of revolutionary zealots seizing the US embassy in Tehran.
The United States said it was also offering a $20 million reward for information to find Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who went missing in Iran
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s nuclear chief says domestically made centrifuge in development is 50 times faster than those allowed under 2015 accord.
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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Monday broke further away from its collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers by announcing it’s doubling the number of advanced centrifuges it operates, calling the decision a direct result of President Donald Trump
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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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[AlAhram] The Egyptian army killed 83 
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