[PRESSTV] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has declared that a recent attack on police forces outside Cairo has not dented his government’s resolve in fighting terrorism.
"Egypt will continue its confrontation against terrorism and those financing and standing behind it, with strength, decisiveness and efficiency, until it’s curbed," Sisi said during a special security meeting in Cairo on Sunday, a day after scores of police forces were killed in an ambush outside the capital.
Egypt is still in shock after the massive attack which began late Friday just 135 kilometers outside Cairo where police forces reportedly tried to raid a major terrorist hideout. Authorities said 16 coppers were killed in the ambush but security sources have put the corpse count on more than 50. The confusion surrounding the incident and how it unfolded has sparked widespread criticism among the public.
No group has grabbed credit for the high-profile attack. It is the latest to rock Egypt since the overthrow of the country’s first democratically-elected president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, a coup many say was orchestrated by Sisi, the then army chief.
A branch of ISIS, a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group which is losing its foothold in the Middle East, has launched numerous attacks against security forces and civilians across Egypt and in the restive Sinai Peninsula over the past years. Recent ambush on police took place near Egypt’s western desert region, where bully boyz from neighboring Libya have carried out attacks in the past.
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[Daily Caller] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham both said Sunday in appearances on "Meet The Press" that they didn’t know there are 1,000 troops in Niger.
News broke recently of four American special operators dying in an ambush in the African nation. Details of their mission are scant, and the Pentagon, while investigating, has been slow to release information.
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And I can almost guarantee neither the "1000 troops" or the SOB in charge of the 1000 troops knew a damn thing about an SF A-Team meeting with locals, or the potential need for a quick reaction force (QRF) or overhead persistent surveillance.
Unity of Command, Area of Operation situational awareness? Who needs it? We're SPECIAL. Big Green Army, you wouldn't understand.
I refer to it as 'Wars Within Wars'....seen it time and time again. Thank you Goldwater-Nichols Act (Separate budget and funding line item from Big Army for SOF), thank you Klingon masters.
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That's what happened in Mogadishu. The snatch and grab commander avoided the tenets of Goldwater-Nichols Act and put himself under the UN command structure rather than the US military structure. Thus the US forces were not in readiness posture to respond.
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Running SOF operations out of the office US Embassy Chief of Station (COS) is a cock-up waiting to happen. How many Mog's and Benghazi's do we need ?
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Sadly, most Americans feel no pain and really don't care if we have 1000 SOF troops in a place like Niger. Most folks couldn't even find the place on a map. It only becomes an issue when the MSM decides to claim that Trump was not duly sympathetic to one of the widows. MSM doesn't give a rat's ass about the widow or the 996 brave soldiers who are still there and they won't even bother to ask why. They just want to use the widow as a club to bash Trump. Extremely cynical of them.
I still think we need to pay more attention to the WOT in Europe and America than in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Soddy Arabia and Niger. We don't need to send our troops there if those people can't come here. It'd help if we could get certain Hawaiian judges on board with that concept. Maybe they think they're immune from bombs going off at concerts and shopping malls.
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The US has Troops all over Africa and has for a long time. The Continent is in dire straights.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hassan Zaid, the minister of youth and sports in the Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... government in Sanaa, called for closing schools and sending students to battle fronts.
The minister’s proposal revealed the Houthis’ intentions to mobilize efforts to recruit children and send them to war.
"Wouldn’t we be able to reinforce the ranks with hundreds of thousands (of fighters) and win the battle?" Zaid wrote on Facebook.
His statements sparked outrage on social media. One user proposed leaving students at schools and sending ministers and their bodyguards to war instead.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources at the Iraqi parliament said the judiciary intends to issue a summons against Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani following lawsuits filed against him regarding 55 alleged violations.
It is expected that the judicial summons will be issued on Sunday. The lawsuits cite affairs related to the referendum and to threatening Iraqi security and the illegal smuggling of oil, in addition to other administrative and legal violations.
On Thursday, a Baghdad court issued an arrest warrant for Kosrat Rasul, the vice president of Iraqi Kurdistan, on charges of "provocation" against Iraq’s armed forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee recommended the joint operations’ command to suspend arming the Peshmerga forces affiliated with the North Iraqi area after they shelled Iraqi forces in Kirkuk.
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Isn't that the guy who tried to take out the Corleoni family?
[IsraelTimes] United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov says Paleostinian factions should use reconciliation to solve humanitarian crisis in enclave, not destroy Jewish state.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Rohingya Moslems who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to officials and plans seen by Rooters. Howzzat jihad thingy workin' out for ya?
Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have crossed the border since Aug. 25, when coordinated Rohingya krazed killer attacks on security posts sparked a ferocious counteroffensive by the Myanmar army.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has no control over the military, has pledged that anyone sheltering in Bangladesh who can prove they were Myanmar residents can return.
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The United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs since late August amount to a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
Would this happen to be the same UN that gets everything wrong?
[Dhaka Tribune] Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said Myanmar must take back their nationals from Bangladesh and there should be a permanent solution to the crisis.
Sushma Swaraj said this referring to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh when she met Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. at the latter’s official residence Gonobhobon, reports UNB.
PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed news hounds after the meeting.
"Myanmar must take back their nationals ... this is a big burden for Bangladesh. How long will Bangladesh bear it? There should be a permanent solution to this crisis," Sushma was quoted as saying.
Ihsanul Karim said the Indian foreign minister called on the international community to contribute to social and economic development of Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
About terrorist acts in Rakhine, Sushma said turbans can be punished. "Why innocent people?"
Sushma appreciated Bangladesh’s stance for adopting a humanitarian attitude towards the forcibly displaced people of Myanmar.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Indian minister that Bangladesh had given shelter to the Rohingya on humanitarian ground.
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This is what I need and want, but reality is like a fart in Church.
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation has said, "Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial," referring to the area now known as Rakhine.
But then it says:
During the more than 100 years of British rule (1824-1948), there was a significant amount of migration of labourers to what is now known as Myanmar from today's India and Bangladesh. Because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India, such migration was considered internal, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The migration of labourers was viewed negatively by the majority of the native population.
After independence, the government viewed the migration that took place during British rule as "illegal, and it is on this basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya," HRW said in a 2000 report.
This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya to be Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons.
So maybe India and Bangladesh are the "permanent solution". I would say Pakistan as well but that really would be cruel.
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Who are the Rohinga?
Palestinians. Kosovars. And, I wonder what Muslims in EUrope are going to call themselves in a few years.
[PRESSTV] A senior Russian diplomat has criticized certain countries’ calls for the expansion of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspections to include Iranian military sites, saying the IAEA has no authority to carry out such inspection.
"I would like to say absolutely clear and directly that acquiring some false topicality [about] the theme of the IAEA work on Section T of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA) over the Iran nuclear program has no topicality for us although it is a talking point now," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told TASS on Saturday.
Section T of the JCPOA bans any development activity by Iran on nuclear weapons technology and restricts dual-use items that could be used to research warhead design. Iran has repeatedly said that it does not possess or seek nuclear arms.
The high-ranking Russian diplomat said IAEA could not be tasked with carrying out inspections of Iran’s military sites, "because Section T highlights the issues of the agency’s competence."
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... he added that some P5+1 parties prefer to "call black white and vice versa...We cannot get them to understand this evident logic and obvious truth."
"Since they are insisting, we say if you cannot do without discussions on the theme, it should be raised at the [Iran-P5+1] Joint Commission when the next session is convened," Ryabkov noted.
The Russian deputy foreign minister expressed his country’s readiness to discuss the issue with other signatories to the JCPOA and announce Moscow’s stance.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] One of Syria’s most highly decorated military officers in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), General Ghassan Iskander Tarraf, has been named the new commander of the Elite Republican Guard in the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
General Tarraf will replace the late Major General Issam Zahreddine as commander of the Elite Republican Guard in Deir Ezzor, a position he held since 2013.
Previously, General Tarraf was the field commander of the elite al-Qassem Group, a small special operations unit that primarily operated in the Deir Ezzor Goverorate.
General Tarraf is known as one of the most successful field commanders currently in the SAA, as he has yet to lose any battle.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia on Sunday accused the US-led coalition in Syria of having flattened Raqqa with a Dresden-like bombing campaign and masking the destruction with a rush of humanitarian aid.
In a statement, the defense ministry said that Raqqa -- the capital of ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate -- "inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, razed to the ground by Anglo-American bombings."
US-backed Kurdish-led forces last week recaptured Raqqa, its last major stronghold in Syria.
US officials hailed the event, led by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... who said "the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight."
"The bravura statements by official representatives of the US administration about the 'outstanding victory' over ISIS in Raqqa prompt bafflement," the Russian ministry said.
The US is overplaying the strategic significance of the fall of Raqqa, it charged.
In reality, Raqqa is a "provincial city" that is much smaller than Deir Ezzor, where a Russian-backed Syrian regime operation is underway, the ministry said.
It accused Western countries of pumping aid into Raqqa to mask the degree of destruction inflicted on the city.
Moscow, it said, had previously received only refusals from the West to its requests for international humanitarian aid.
"There is only one (reason) -- the aim is to sweep away traces of barbaric bombings by US aviation and the 'coalition' that buried in Raqqa's ruins thousands of peaceful citizens 'liberated' from ISIS," the ministry claimed.
Russia has been operating a bombing campaign in Syria since 2015, when it stepped in to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's rule and tipped the conflict in his favor. Human rights monitors say that the raids have resulted in many civilian casualties.
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Russia likens US coalition bombing of Raqqa to WWII Dresden
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They also burned Columbia. The sentiment at the time was it was the birthplace of the Rebellion and they wanted it destroyed. Sherman didn't order it but he didn't object, either.
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Sherman's march through Georgia left a 50 mile wide trail of burning and looting. The soldiers took anything they could carry including the heirloom Revolutionary War uniform of a plantation owner. It was his scorched earth policy. He said that if the Union had lost the war he expected to be tried as a war criminal. After the war he did a lot to help Southerners , probably more than anyone else.
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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.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources at the Iraqi parliament said the judiciary intends to issue a summons against Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani following lawsuits filed against him regarding 55 alleged violations.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
