[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan reacted at the reports regarding the alleged killing of a top Chinese murderous Moslem leader in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... front man Zabiullah Mujahid claims that the reports regarding the killing of a top Chinese murderous Moslem leader in Jurm district are baseless as he called it a ’propaganda by enemies’.
Mujahid went on to claim that the Afghan forces conducted an operation in Jurm district but the heavy mortar shelling and raid resulted to massive civilian casualties.
The Taliban front man claims that 28 civilians including women and kiddies were killed as he emphasizes that no imported muscle are based in Badakhshan apart from the Talibs.
He also claimed that the there is no foreign bully boy by the name of Mustafa among the ranks of the Taliban in Badakhshan. The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said on Saturday that at least seven snuffies including two Chinese nationals were killed during the operations.
The officials further added that one of the Chinese nationals killed during the operations has been identified as Mustafa who was the deputy leader of a Chinese murderous Moslem group.
A front man for the 209th Shaheen Corps Mohammad Hanif Rezayi confirmed that the snuffies were killed in Jurm district.
Rezayi further added that thirteen snuffies were also maimed during the operations but the security personnel involved in the operations have not sustained any casualty.
The local residents in Jurm district have also not sustained any casualty during the operations, the Shaheen Corps front man added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) released new information regarding the deadly Arclight airstrike in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
MoD front man Gen. Mohammad Radmanish shared the latest information as well as pictures of the airstrike as he was updating the media during a presser today.
Gen. Radmanish said the airstrike was carried out a main stronghold of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in Dasht-e-Archi district which was also being used as the training camp by the group.
He said the raid was conducted based on accurate intelligence information and as a result several Taliban gunnies including eighteen of their leaders were killed.
The defense ministry front man also displayed several pictures taken from the site before the airstrike and said only the Taliban gunnies and their leaders were seen in the compound before the raid was conducted.
He said several key members and gunnies of the Red Unit of Taliban were also killed in the airstrike together with the foreign nationals from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
In regards to the civilian casualties, Gen. Radmanish said the Afghan army helicopters attacked the the compound with rockets but the civilians sustained casualties from small fire arms.
According to Gen. Radmanish, the Talibs initially opened fire on army helicopters after their base was attacked with rockets and later opened fire on civilians.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Military released the video taken by ScanEagle drones purportedly showing the targets chosen by the armed forces ahead of the deadly Arclight airstrike that left scores of people dead amid speculations that the raid resulted into massive civilian casualties.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the latest video shows the Afghan military is pinpointing the target where a large gathering is underway.
Although the authenticity of the video cannot be verified independently but the video show several gunnies patrolling close to the vicinity of the gathering which proves the Afghan military claims that a larage gathering of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders was underway.
This comes as the Ministry of Defense front man Gen. Mohammad Radmanish shared the latest information as well as pictures of the airstrike as he was updating the media during a presser today.
Gen. Radmanish said the airstrike was carried out a main stronghold of the Taliban group in Dasht-e-Archi district which was also being used as the training camp by the group.
He said the raid was conducted based on accurate intelligence information and as a result several Taliban hard boyz including eighteen of their leaders were killed.
The defense ministry front man also displayed several pictures taken from the site before the airstrike and said only the Taliban hard boyz and their leaders were seen in the compound before the raid was conducted.
He said several key members and bandidoshard boyz of the Red Unit of Taliban were also killed in the airstrike together with the foreign nationals from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
In regards to the civilian casualties, Gen. Radmanish said the Afghan army helicopters attacked the the compound with rockets but the civilians sustained casualties from small fire arms.
According to Gen. Radmanish, the Talibs initially opened fire on army helicopters after their base was attacked with rockets and later opened fire on civilians.
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[DAWN] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said on Tuesday it was investigating "disturbing reports of serious harm to civilians" in an Afghan Arclight airstrike on a religious school that security sources say left dozens of children dead or maimed.
Hundreds of people were attending a graduation ceremony at the madrassa in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... -controlled northeastern district on Monday when Afghan Air Force helicopters struck, witnesses have told AFP.
"Human Rights team on ground establishing facts. All parties reminded of obligations to protect civilians from impact of armed conflict," the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a brief statement.
At least 59 people, including Taliban Überstürmbannführers meeting at the compound in the Dashte Archi district in Kunduz province, were killed in the attack, Afghan security sources told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Most of the civilian victims were children, they said. Government officials in both Kabul and Kunduz have given conflicting figures, with some denying any civilians had been killed or that a madrassa had been hit. Afghan officials have been known to minimise civilian casualties.
"I myself counted 35 bodies," Abdul Khalil told AFP at the hospital in the thriving provincial capital Kunduz ─ more than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the airstrike ─ where health officials said 57 injured had been taken.
"I arrived at the scene right after the airstrikes ─ it was like a butcher's shop. Everywhere was covered with blood, the ground was littered with body parts, heads, limbs and other parts."
A man called Yousuf, who was at the ceremony when the airstrikes happened, told AFP he saw "blood and body parts everywhere".
Television showed anguished relatives standing outside the hospital yelling "Shame on you!" Defence ministry front man Mohammad Radmanish on Tuesday distanced the air force from responsibility for civilian casualties ─ which on Monday he had denied existed ─ and instead suggested the Taliban opened fire on them.
"Half of them (civilians in hospital) have gunshot wounds, hit by light weapons that we didn't use. We used rockets fired by MD-530 helicopters ─ how were they hit by bullets?" he said.
But Naim Mangal, a doctor at the hospital, said "all the victims" had been "hit by pieces of bomb, shrapnel". "Out of the 100 maimed and six dead in the hospital none have been hit by a bullet," he told AFP.
Radmanish said 18 senior Taliban Überstürmbannführers were killed in the airstrike on a "training centre" for the group's elite Red Unit.Another 12 were maimed.
Earlier he had said 20 Taliban were killed.
The government has sent two teams to conduct an investigation into the incident, he added.
Police deny madrassa hit
Kunduz police chief General Abdul Hamid Hamidi told AFP on Tuesday that "72 of the enemy" had been killed in the airstrike.
Hamidi added that five civilians also died and another 52 were maimed but he denied a madrassa or mosque had been hit. Security forces have donated large quantities of blood to the hospital.
The Taliban has confirmed the attack on the religious school but denied that any of its gunnies had been there.
The madrassa was run by Islamic scholars sympathetic to the Taliban but the facility was open to the public, a senior Taliban Überstürmbannführer speaking from an unknown location in Pakistain told AFP on Tuesday.
He said as many as 2,000 people were at the school on Monday, including 750 students, for a graduation ceremony, but insisted there were no senior Taliban leaders present.
He estimated that 400 people had been killed and an unknown number maimed.
The Taliban are known to exaggerate battlefield claims.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s acting General Intelligence chief Abbas Kamel met with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in Ramallah on Tuesday to discuss the latest Egyptian efforts to secure Paleostinian reconciliation as well as cooperation between Egypt and Paleostine, Paleostinian news agency Maan reported.
Abbas said during the meeting that he values Egypt's support of the Paleostinian cause.
It doesn’t sound like a very effective meeting thus far.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Bahraini Foreign Minister, Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa, opened the first session of the Arab Media Forum by telling the audience that his nation will not be reconciling with 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... anytime soon .
"With what we’ve seen from the Qatari regime, there is no way of reconciling with them considering the time we are in," bin Khalifa began, as quoted by Gulf News.
"The conspiracies, interventions, abuse, and the lack of respect to commitments; there is no way," bin Khalifa added in regards to reconciliation with Qatar.
The Bahraini Foreign Minister would then slam Qatari regime for failing to fulfill their commitments to the Gulf Cooperation Committee (GCC), adding that this organization is capable of functioning without Qatar.
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[DAWN] A top Emirati security official, known for making controversy-catching remarks on wide-ranging issues, took to Twitter to denounce Paks, accusing them of being a "dangerous threat to Gulf societies".
In his recent diatribe on April 1, Lt Gen Dhahi Khalfan, who is the head of general security of Dubai, wrote in Arabic: "The Paks pose a serious threat to the Gulf communities for the drugs they bring with them to our countries."
The tweet, followed by a series of similar attacks targeting Paks, came in the backdrop of a drug racket being busted in Dubai. The tweet was also carrying a photo apparently showing three Pak smugglers, along with the drugs allegedly recovered from them.
No government data is readily available to show that Pak citizens have been involved in certain crimes in UAE more than immigrants colonists belonging to other countries.
Khalfan resorted to generalising, however, asking his fellow citizens "not to employ Paks". The security official, who was the head of Dubai Police Force until 2013, termed it a "national duty to stop hiring Paks".
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[SABANEWS.NET] A diphtheria outbreak has killed 84 people in Yemen since late October, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.
In a statement, the UN agency said some 1,516 suspected cases of diphtheria have been registered in 20 of Yemen’s 23 provinces.
It listed Ibb and Hodeida provinces in central and western Yemen as the hardest-hit by the disease.
Diphtheria spreads as easily as the common cold through sneezing, coughing or even talking, according to health officials.
Mainly affecting children, diphtheria can cause devastating epidemics if left unchecked.
Yemeni health authorities have recently launched a major vaccination campaign across the country in an effort to avert the growing spread of the disease.
The ongoing conflict in the country has devastated basic services, including water and sanitation systems, prompting the UN to describe the situation in Yemen as one of “the world’s worst humanitarian disasters in modern times”.
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All that weeping has left her dehydrated and depleted of key salts (and non-key salts as well, but nobody cares about them).
[DAWN] Bangladesh's opposition party accused the government on Tuesday of putting the health of their jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! leader at risk by refusing to let her personal doctors treat her inside prison.
the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , the 72-year-old leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) who was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in February for corruption, has been suffering complications from arthritis and is struggling to walk, doctors say.
A team of four government doctors from a state-run hospital in Dhaka have been treating Zia, a two-time former prime minister, in prison where she is serving her five-year sentence in isolation.
But her supporters want Zia's personal physicians given access to her cell.
The government has yet to respond to the request.
"The government is trying to break our leader's morale and it is taking a toll on her health," BNP front man Rizvi Ahmed told AFP.
Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, an orthopaedic specialist at Dhaka Medical College Hospital who visited Zia as part of the government team, said her condition was not serious but her arthritis had worsened in prison.
"She has pain in hands and legs. She couldn't walk 50 metres without assistance," he told AFP, adding she had also developed back pain.
Zia, an erstwhile ally turned fierce political rival of 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.. , already suffered from arthritis, diabetes and knee replacements when she was sentenced to prison for embezzlement.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq has told British parliamentarians it opposes the return of Iraqi refugees there against their will as the country tries to recover from a war that displaced millions inside and abroad.
In a statement, the Iraqi foreign ministry said Minister Jassem al-Jaff, meeting a delegation of members of the UK houses of commons and lords, said "Iraq continues to coordinate with all European countries to work out suitable solutions for asylum seekers like encouraging their voluntary return to their homeland while ensuring attention to the humanitarian sides at host countries".
He added that his government works to create work opportunities and restore stability to areas recaptured from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters.
Iraq has regularly urged world countries not to force Iraqi refugees to return home, arguing that such action could violate international laws.
Iraq’s war against the Islamic State displaced nearly five million of civilians both inside and outside the country, and left thousands dead. Of those displaced, nearly a half have returned home, according to government and U.N statistics.
Ankara (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan has vowed that his country will track down on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters inside Iraqi territories even without Baghdad’s approval if no action was taken by the Iraqi government to deter this group.
Speaking at an opening ceremony of a number of new schools and gymnasiums in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan said if Baghdad fails to confront the PKK in its northern and Kurdish provinces, Ankara will be forced to act unilaterally and extend its operations into Iraqi territory, according to Rudaw.
"If you can deal with them, deal with them, or else we will come to Sinjar and deal with them. We do not ask for permission from anyone, nor do we look into anyone’s eyes for all this," said Erdogan.
He noted that PKK fighters may flee across international borders, but they cannot hide from the Ottoman Turkish armed forces.
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The Turks have already been bombing Iraqi infrastructure such as bridges, utilities and other vital infrastructure in that area. This is an opportunistic Turk expansionist invasion of several of their weak neighbors.
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Hell is where NATO representatives stand on their tippy toes to keep their mouths just above the human sewage they're in saying "don't make waves" while the Turkish representative is water skiing among them.
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They'll have no authority to arrest or detain, though.
Posse Comitatus Act and all that, unless it's National Guard and under a state's authority.
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...but they can detain till the ICE reps show up. You breach a military installation boundary, they'll hold you till the federal LEO show up to escort you off.
An EO defining any land one mile within the border, not incorporated by civil authorities, as a military zone falling under existing rules governing military installations would cover a multitude of options in military utilization. Lot of Bureau of Land Management property along that border.
[DAWN] Hundreds of activists and leaders of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) on Monday evening blocked Islamabad Expressway against disappearance of their colleagues, including a leader.
More than 300 activists gathered at the expressway near Zia Masjid and blocked both the lanes.
As a result, motorists remained stuck on the busy artery.Police along with reserves and an anti-riot unit reached the spot and diverted the traffic to alternative routes.
Till the filing of this report, hundreds of vehicles were stuck on the expressway. The most affected parts at the expressway were Zero Point to Shakrial and Khanna Bridge to Loi Bher.
The demonstrators staged a sit-in on the highway to protest the disappearance of ASWJ big shot Maulana Masoodur Rehman Usmani.
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[DAWN] The US Department of State amended its designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) on Monday, identifying Milli Moslem League (MML) and Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAK) as LeT affiliates, which makes it impossible for them to register as political parties.
The US Treasury Department also updated its list of individual terrorists, naming seven members of the MML leadership as LeT activists who were acting in MML on behalf of LeT.
The State Department described the MML and the TAK as LeT ’aliases’ and added their names to its lists of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
"In August 2017, LeT chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... created the MML to serve as a political front for the group. LeT members make up MML’s leadership and the so-called party openly displays Saeed’s likeness in its election banners and literature," the State Department pointed out.
Monday’s amendments "take aim at Lashkar-e-Taiba’s efforts to circumvent sanctions and deceive the public about its true character," said Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, the coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State.
"Make no mistake: whatever LeT chooses to call itself, it remains a violent terrorist group. The United States supports all efforts to ensure that LeT does not have a political voice until it gives up violence as a tool of influence," he added.
The designations clearly undermine MML’s effort to get itself registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain as a political party and contest the 2018 general elections. It will be difficult for the Pak government to ignore the designations and register MML as a political party, as it would be seen as an act of direct confrontation with the United States.
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[DAWN] Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi on Tuesday threatened to hold nationwide protests if the government fails to carry out the terms agreed in the controversial army-brokered Faizabad agreement.
The contentious Faizabad agreement had led to the resignation of the then law minister Zahid Hamid in return for the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) promising they would issue no fatwa against him.
Rizvi, who was declared an absconder later in the day, has been leading a TLYRA sit-in outside Data Darbar in Lahore since Monday.
The leaders at the protest announced that if the conditions stated in the apparently one-sided Faizabad agreement ‐ which had become a cause of much controversy for carrying signatures of an army general as a mediator ‐ are not met, they will announce their future course of action via a presser at 4pm on Wednesday.
Khadim Rizvi, others declared absconders
TLYRA leaders, including Khadim Hussain Rizvi, were declared absconders by an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad. Others declared absconders by the court in cases filed during and after last year's Faizabad sit-in, include Pir Afzal Qadri, Maulana Inayatullah and Sheikh Azhar.
Aabpara police informed the court that summons were posted outside Rizvi's residence and the notice board of the relevant cop shoppe. It requested the court to take the cases forward in absence of the accused.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the military's spokesperson said later in the day that if the court has issued orders for Rizvi's arrest he should be put behind bars.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed Italia’s 500,000-euro contribution to establish a prosthetics and rehabilitation center in Hamdaniya district to support people who suffered disabilities as a result of the conflict in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "The conflict in Mosul has affected tens of thousands of people who are in need of specialized rehabilitation services," WHO Representative in Iraq Altaf Musani said.
"The establishment of this rehabilitation center will ensure the availability of postoperative, post-traumatic, and rehabilitation services for amputees. In addition, such center will help in ensuring a better quality of life and in reducing social exclusion and enhancing social integration in their own communities," he added.
The ten-month project aims to provide over 450 people including 50 under five and 300 above five years old children with specialized medical care and rehabilitation services.
Recent national health statistics indicate the presence of approximately 4800 amputation cases in Mosul requiring urgent attention and care to help them in attaining a better quality of life.
Currently, the Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre in Suleimaniya is the only active center in the country specialized in physiotherapy and the production of upper and lower limbs in addition to walking aids/orthopedic devices for persons with disabilities.
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[The Federalist] Every once in awhile, the Western media finds itself complacent in playing to the narrative of those opposed to liberal values. In an attempt to seem universalist and open-minded, the international press often portrays immensely complicated global conflicts in Leibniz terms that fit their progressive and simplistic paradigm. In the course of such oversimplification, the press becomes increasingly more apt to demonize Western nations in order to fit their reductionist narrative.
Take, for example, the recent events in Gaza. This past Friday, before the first night of Passover, the Palestinian-Arab terrorist group Hamas launched a series of protests on the Gaza Strip near the Israeli border. Over the course of the afternoon, the protests turned violent, as Palestinian-Arabs heaved rocks and firebombs towards the border fence and sent tires engulfed in flames towards Israeli soldiers. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) responded in kind by targeting those civilians instigating violence or attempting to breach the border wall. In total, seventeen Palestinian-Arabs were killed in confrontations with Israeli soldiers, while over a thousand others were injured in the clashes.
For context, Hamas labeled the planned six-week insurrection the "March of Return," a reference to the Palestinian-Arab desire to return to Israeli land after their defeat in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and subsequent departure. Hamas planned the protests to coincide with the Palestinian-Arab holiday known as "Land Day," a day in 1976 when Israeli security forces killed six Arab-Israelis who were protesting the appropriation of Arab-owned land in northern Israel.
At the behest and encouragement of Hamas, roughly 20,000 Palestinian-Arab civilians set up five large camps near the border fence, demanding the "right" to enter Israeli land. The final "push" of the six-week protests will involve rushing the border wall on May 15, the day coined by the Palestinian-Arabs as nakba or "the catastrophe," a politically absurd reference to Israeli Independence, which occurred on May 14, 1948. May 15 holds particular contention this year, since it is also the day upon which President Trump will open the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
In response to the Hamas-led protests, the IDF tweeted, "Hamas is responsible for violent riots and everything taking place under its jurisdiction. The IDF will not allow the security fence to be turned into an area of terror." The IDF had earlier alluded to the existence of various terror sites within the rioting encampments, whose chaos Hamas has used to "camouflage" its terrorist activities next to the border wall.
[Ynet] Residents of the Gazoo border communities and the Northern Negev region reported having no cellular reception on Tuesday, due to electronic warfare the Egyptian Army uses against ISIS in Sinai.
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This has been an intermittant problem as the Egyptians became more serious about hunting down bad guys in the Sinai, Skidmark. The local Israelis have complained, but there isn’t anything the government can do about electronic spillover from across the border.
[DAWN] Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... reaffirmed support for Paleostinians to US 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... , state media said Tuesday, after his son and heir apparent said Israel has a "right" to a homeland.
The king "reaffirmed the kingdom's steadfast position towards the Paleostinian issue and the legitimate rights of the Paleostinian people to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital," the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The king also emphasised the need to advance the Middle East grinding of the peace processor in a phone call with Trump, which came after Israeli forces killed 17 Paleostinians last week during a demonstration on its border with Gazoo.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Israel have no formal diplomatic relations, but behind the scenes their ties appear to have improved in recent years against what they see as a common Iranian threat.
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[IsraelTimes] Detailing failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to boost Israeli leader he thought more supportive of peace efforts, former US president says, 'I tried to do it in a way that didn't overtly involve me'
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When the victorious Netanyahu subsequently visited him at the White House, Clinton recalled, the new Israeli prime minister “wanted me to know that he knew I wasn’t for him and he beat us anyway.” The former president laughed, then added: “And he was being very ‘Bibi'” (Netanyahu’s nickname).
In other words, he stuck it right up your arse. Nicely played I'd say.
[ALMASDARNEWS] With the conclusion of the Syrian Army’s operation in East Ghouta it has become apparent that government forces will now shift their attention towards what has become a threatening Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... presence in the southern districts of Damascus.
Islamic State forces in southern Damascus ‐ the result of a sudden conversion of rebel ranks several years ago ‐ have always been something of an enigma and only recently has their capability become known.
Against both pro-government forces and rival rebel groups, ISIS has rapidly expanded its control south of the Syrian capital since the beginning of 2018 through a series of rather brute offensives.
Existing estimates put the strength of the terrorist group’s forces in south Damascus at anywhere between 1,500 to 2,500 frontline fighters.
This seems reasonable and it might be the case that another three to four thousand armed people who are not necessarily proper ranked infantry but have nonetheless aligned themselves with ISIS are also present in areas it controls.
Finally, whether or not the Islamic State bastion is in possession of heavy weapons like main battle tanks and howtizers is unknown, however medium weapons such as mortars, high-powered rifles and platoon-level machine guns are known to be used (quite efficiently) by it.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and rebel forces are currently negotiating a peace plan that would put an end to the latter’s presence in southern Damascus.
According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Army and rebel forces are negotiating the fate of the in southern suburbs of Yalda, Babeela, and Beit Sahm.
The Syrian Army has reportedly offered the rebels in these suburbs the same terms they gave the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in al-Qadam.
Should the rebels reject the Syrian Army’s offer, they will likely face a military operation once the latter completes their battle against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in southern Damascus.
With virtually nowhere to retreat and limited provisions, the rebels in southern Damascus are likely to surrender the area in the coming weeks.
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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 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...
[SABANEWS.NET] A diphtheria outbreak has killed 84 people in Yemen since late October, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. 
...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 
[The Federalist] Every once in awhile, the Western media finds itself complacent in playing to the narrative of those opposed to liberal values. In an attempt to seem universalist and open-minded, the international press often portrays immensely complicated global conflicts in Leibniz terms that fit their progressive and simplistic paradigm. In the course of such oversimplification, the press becomes increasingly more apt to demonize Western nations in order to fit their reductionist narrative.
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
