[Breitbart] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) last week tried to block billions in U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the Afghan military and police forces unless its’ units stopped sexually abusing young boys, but he was opposed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders.
During a committee business meeting last Wednesday considering the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, Paul proposed an amendment to withhold all U.S. funding for all Afghan security forces unless the U.S. government’s watchdog in Afghanistan could verify those forces were not using children as child soldiers or sex slaves.
The U.S. is slated to provide Afghan security forces ‐ military and police ‐ with $4.92 billion in 2019 for equipment, training, supplies, services, infrastructure repair and other funding.
Paul told other members, according to a transcript of the business meeting first obtained by Breitbart News: "I think that the committee is right to be gravely concerned with sexual trafficking and abuse of young people around the world in a variety of countries. I think we shouldn’t turn a blind eye towards when our allies are responsible for this, as well."
For this reason alone any attempt at 'liberating' Afghanistan or Arab/Muslim nations has been doomed from the beginning.
Operation 'Infinite Justice''Thank You Sir! May I Have Another' 'Whatever It's Called in 2018' is about appeasing and paying danegeld to moderate and not so moderate Taliban.
Which is why current Western involvement in Afghanistan is actively eroding Western deterrence aside from being expensive and deadly.
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The article said that two key opponents to Rand Paul's proposal were Bob Corker of Tennessee, and (surprise) Bob Menendez of New Jersey. "it would be impossible to enforce" is the claim.
Oh yeah? Put Dan Quinn, Greg Buckley, and Jason Brezler in charge of the eradication effort.
Under Coker and Menendez, "suttee" would still be practiced in India, because a prohibition "would have been impossible to enforce" (really? Just ask General Charles Napier).
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The photos of some prominent Jihadi leaders which purport to show the acrobatic dance of some Chinese girls before them have gone viral on the internet and have sparked reactions among the social media users.
Some of the prominent Jihadi leaders who are currently serving in the leadership of the government could be seen in the photos which are being shared on social media.
The photos purport to show Second Vice President Sarwar Danish, First Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Khan, Second Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq, and former Jihadi leader Sebghatullah Mujadedi, among several others who have attended the party.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the majority of the social media users have criticized the Jihadi leaders for watching the acrobatic dance by the Chinese girls.
The party was reportedly organized on the eve of the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
The First and Second Deputies of the Chief Executive have shared some of the photos on their official Facebook accounts.
One of the photos shows the cake-cutting ceremony by the government and Jihadi leaders together with the Ambassador of China in Kabul.
While some social media users have criticized the Jihadi leaders for watching the acrobatic dance, others have criticized them for participating in a party despite fighting Communism for several years.
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All of that, yes.
But were any of the ladies threatened with 'groping'?
[Libya Observer] The Libyan High Council of State (HCS) found the statements of the UNSMIL's Head Ghassan Salame at the 39th Human Rights Council round "strange."
HCS said in a statement that Salame's accusation that 2012 and 2014 elected MPs of the HCS and the House of Representatives only aspire for staying in their posts forever is untrue.
"We remind the UNSMIL and Salame of the HCS's stance in support of the political agreement and the communication with the HoR for any efforts to reshuffle the Presidential Council and appoint incumbents for state sovereign posts, thus leading to uniting the fragmented institutions." The statement reads, adding that its efforts always were for ending the transitional phase and entering the constitutional one.
The HCS also reminded Salame that it was the first to propose a constitution referendum law and then sent it to the HoR, hence expressing on more than one occasion that it is with the efforts that establish Libya as a state with a permanent constitution.
"We have not been a hindrance at any time to the political process, so we reject the statement of head of the UNSMIL." It explained.
Salame accused the current political bodies of having no true will to end the crisis in Libya, calling on HCS and HoR to do their bits or the UNSMIL will fall back upon some other plans.
Visiting Zuwara on Sunday, Salame said hoped he would not resort to other plans due to any upcoming prolongations by the political bodies regarding electoral laws, saying government posts are not an everlasting privilege because the UNSMIL sees such ideology as undemocratic.
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[AlArabiya] 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.... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud instructed that 200 million US dollars be deposited in Yemen’s central bank account as financial support.
This comes in continuation of the Kingdom's support for the Yemeni people and its interest in achieving economic stability in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and strengthening the country's currency value.
This will contribute to reducing the economic burden on the Yemeni people, and it is the latest addition to the previous three billion US dollars of Saudi deposits at the Central Bank of Yemen, reported Saudi Press Agency.
[Al Jazeera] Prominent Emirati rights activist Ahmed Mansoor has filed a Supreme Court appeal in a bid to overturn a 10-year prison sentence handed to him earlier this year over several Twitter posts.
Mansoor was sentenced in May by Abu Dhabi's Federal Appeals Court for "defaming the UAE through social media channels".
A father of four, Mansoor was also fined 1 million Dirhams ($270,000) for insulting the status and prestige of the UAE and its symbols, including its leaders.
Several international rights groups, including a number of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. bodies, the EU Parliament's subcommittee on Human Rights, Amnesia Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have condemned the move.
According to Joe Odell, the campaigns manager for the International Campaign for Freedom in the UAE (ICFUAE), since the instituting of the cybercrime law in 2012, there has yet to be a precedent where a rights activist has successfully appealed their sentence.
"Under new laws in the UAE, Mansoor is entitled to appeal the verdict," Odell told Al Jazeera. "Since the appeal process is held in the same court, it is unlikely that the process will be a fair and independent one," he added.
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[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... has called on Germany to extradite 136 people with suspected links to groups that played a key role in orchestrating the July 2016 coup attempt against the government in Ankara.
Turkey's English-language Hurriyet Daily News newspaper said on Monday that President 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... told news hounds on a return flight after a visit to Berlin last week that Turkey had delivered a list of 136 people for extradition from Germany following the failed coup.
"I don't know all of the names but it is a substantial list. A list of 136 people in Germany," Hurriyet quoted the Ottoman Turkish president as saying, without specifying which groups or individuals were included.
The paper, however, quoted Erdogan as saying that Germany should be more effective in countering members of the network of the US-based holy 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... , the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) hard boy group and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
Erdogan also said his administration had in the past delivered documents to Berlin containing the names of more than 4,000 people with links to the PKK, adding that there was a difference in the "understanding of terror" between Turkey and both Germany and the United States.
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish President 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... has slammed as unjust the United States' move to impose sanctions against Iran and threaten to further toughen them.
In a speech at the opening of the Ottoman Turkish parliament on Monday, Erdogan added that excluding Iran from regional matters is wrong.
He emphasized that the US had taken the wrong path by threatening and using blackmail instead of dialogue, saying it was impossible for any country to trust Washington.
In his second address to the General Assembly in New York on September 25, 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... promised hard-hitting sanctions against Iran and urged the world to isolate the Islamic Theocratic Republic, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism and sowing "chaos, death and destruction," in the Middle East.
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[ARABNEWS] Afghanistan wants refugees back, a senior Afghan diplomat said on Monday, days after Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... announced that nationality would be granted to Afghans born in Pakistain.
Khan’s proposal was opposed by Baloch nationalists but hailed by Pashtoon nationalists and some senior politicians.
"Imran Khan’s statement was in a positive spirit but Afghan government policy is to repatriate our citizens in a gradual and graceful process. But expect Pakistain to extend their support during their stay till return," Afghanistan Deputy Ambassador to Pakistain Zardasht Shams told Arab News.
"I am speaking on our policy on refugees which has not changed so far." He recalled President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s announcement that refugees would be repatriated in two years and he has also assigned the task to various ministries to implement the plan.
"We cannot take them (refugees) by force and repatriation will be voluntary. But the policy is that we want the return of all refugees from Pakistain and Iran," he said.
The Afghan diplomat’s comments came after Pakistain Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Sept. 27 that the federal Cabinet had extended the stay of the Afghan refugees until June 2019.
Chaudhry said the prime minister also issued instructions for the formulation of a comprehensive policy about the Afghan refugees living in Pakistain, adding that Pakistain cannot expel the refugees under its international commitments.
The previous extension of refugees, who have Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, expired on Sept. 30 and with a new extension, the refugees could stay for nine more months.
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[DAWN] Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. has taken notice of reports that there are several espionage gadgets installed in the Diplomatic Enclave and Constitution Avenue.
Mr Malik has directed the Ministry of Interior to submit a report within the next 10 days over the warning issued by the National Telecom and Information Technology Security Board.
The former interior minister has also asked the Federal Investigation Agency and Islamabad police to locate where these gadgets have been installed.
Reportedly, the government has issued an advisory to federal ministers and other officers around the area about these gadgets that are capable of intercepting cellular communications. Ministries were warned not to share classified information using cell phones and instead, use landline communication.
Allegations of spying on brass hats and departments in the country are not new, as it has often been claimed in the past that their communications may be bugged.
Senator Malik said that spying, in any country, was a severe violation of security laws. "The government should also take notice of the matter and identify those who are responsible," he added.
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there are several espionage gadgets installed in the Diplomatic Enclave and Constitution Avenue
[DAWN] Former chief minister of Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and big shot of National Party (NP) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has criticised the federal government’s move to grant citizenship rights to Afghan refugees in Pakistain. He said the NP would not let anyone turn Baloch people into minority on their own soil.
Speaking at a public meeting in Behman area of Turbat on Sunday, he asked Baloch people and workers of the National Party to be politically more vigilant and active to safeguard their genuine rights and interests and to meet future challenges.
He also asked party workers to immediately intensify their political activities across the province and to make functional all units of the party.
Dr Baloch said that despite being part of the previous PML-N-led provincial government, the National Party had never compromised on interests of the local people of the province.
He said that the NP government not only had protected the Baloch identity, it also retrieved 350,000 acres of land from powerful land mafia in Gwadar and handed it over to local people.
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He said the NP would not let anyone turn Baloch people into minority on their own soil.
[DAWN] Veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Gilani has said that he neither has a Twitter account nor has he ever criticised a Pak newspaper for its coverage of the protest movement by Kashmiris for their right to self-determination in India-held Kashmire.
Mr Gilani’s family sources said the recent outburst on social media, quoting Ali Gilani in the debate about the use of phrases like ’militants’, has no basis. It was done through a fake account as Mr Gilani doesn’t use social media.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling...... Iftikhar Gilani, son-in-law of the veteran leader, while referring to the coverage of events in IHK said in a tweet that "Dawn is perhaps the only hope left in South Asia that stands for objectivity, credibility and accountability. [we] need to celebrate the feat and feel proud rather than berate".
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[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi has said that Pakistain expects the United States to "respect our legal process as we respect yours" while speaking on the imprisonment of Dr Shakil Afridi, who was convicted by a tribal court in 2012.
FM Qureshi was speaking to Fox News on Sunday during his official visit to the US.
Dr Afridi was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! for 33 years in May 2012 after he was convicted over links with holy warriors, a charge he has denied. He had been taken into custody soon after the killing of Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... by US commandoes in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... in May 2011. He was accused of helping the CIA track down the Al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad.
Many in the US, however, had raised questions about his due process under the tribal system.
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[PRESSTV] The governor of Basra has dismissed US allegations that it closed its consulate in Iraq’s southern city of Basra last week for security reasons, saying the decision is "political".
The US State Department has announced its decision to place the consulate in Basra on "ordered departure," temporarily relocating its diplomatic personnel in the country over what it has called security risks after violent incidents near the facility.
"The security situation in Basra in 2003 was far worse and the consulate did not close at that time, so it’s basically an American political decision," Asaad al-Eidani told the online news website Middle East Eye.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision had been made to protect American diplomats against violence. He claimed that Iran was trying to use the potential risk to US staff there as a form of leverage on the administration of 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... and his anti-Iran policies.
Pompeo's claim was rejected by a senior Iraqi security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Washington Post quoted the official as saying that the decision to close the consulate in Basra did not appear to be driven by any credible threat from Iran or the groups it supports.
The developments come a few weeks after a group of attackers set fire to the Iranian consulate in Basra. Later, a number of rockets were also fired at the American consulate, which is located near the city’s airport.
The attacks followed several weeks of unrest in Basra, triggered by the residents’ anger over poor electricity supply and contaminated water, which made thousands of people ill.
Speaking from the Basra oil ministry, which he has used since his own building was torched by the demonstrators, Eidani rejected US claims that Iran had "controlling power" in Basra, saying Tehran's influence in the city was being exaggerated.
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[IsraelTimes] Moscow has been criticized for indiscriminate air strikes that target civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
Russia, a steadfast ally of Syria’s ruling regime, began carrying out bombing raids in the country on September 30, 2015 ‐ more than four years into the devastating conflict.
Since then, they have killed 18,096 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"That number includes 7,988 civilians, or nearly half of the total," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
Another 5,233 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.... fighters were also killed in Russian strikes, with the rest of the dead including other rebels, Islamists and jihadists, the Britannia-based monitor said.
Human rights groups and Western governments have criticized Russia’s air war in Syria, saying it bombs indiscriminately and targets civilian infrastructure including hospitals.
The White Helmets, a Syrian rescue force that works in opposition areas, said in a report released Sunday that it had responded to dozens of strikes by Russia on buildings used by civilians since 2015.
They included Russian bombing raids on 19 schools, 12 public markets and 20 medical facilities over the past three years, as well as 21 of its own rescue centers.
Russia has operated a naval base in Syria’s coastal Tartus province for decades, but expanded its operations to the nearby Hmeimim airbase in 2015.
It also has special forces and military police units on the ground in government-controlled parts of the country.
The air strikes were crucial in helping troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... retake swathes of the country, including second city Aleppo in 2016 and areas around Damascus, the rural centre, and the south this year alone.
Last week, the Observatory said that US-led coalition air strikes on Syria had killed more than 3,300 civilians since the alliance began operations against IS targets.
The Observatory, which relies on sources inside Syria for its reports, says it determines whose planes carried out strikes according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions involved.
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Define "citizens" ... After the Lebanese 'Green Helmet Guy™' and the mock funerals of 'Paliwood™' I find it difficult to believe anything coming out of that region... Sadly.
[AlArabiya] The United States and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have started training together to carry out joint patrols soon in northern Syria’s Manbij area, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday, despite tense relations between the two countries.
As agreed by the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies in June, Ottoman Turkish and US forces are currently carrying out patrols in Manbij, but those are independent of each other. Training is the last step before the two countries carry out joint patrols.
Last month, Ankara said joint patrols and training for those would begin soon.
"The training now is under way and we’ll just have to see how that goes," Mattis told a small group of news hounds traveling with him to Gay Paree.
"We have every reason to believe the joint patrols will be coming on time, when the training syllabus is complete so that we do it right," Mattis added.
He said the United States was currently working with trainers and it would be followed by a few weeks of training with Ottoman Turkish troops before the joint patrols started.
The training will take place in Turkey.
Turkey has been infuriated with Washington’s support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia - which it views as a terrorist organization - and prior to the June agreement it had threatened to push on with a ground offensive against the YPG in Manbij despite the presence of US troops there.
Turkey’s detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson on terrorism charges has also hit relations between Ankara and Washington.
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... , angered by Brunson’s detention, authorized a doubling of duties on aluminum and steel imported from Turkey in August. Turkey retaliated by increasing tariffs on US cars, alcohol and tobacco imports.
Mattis said he would speak about the situation in Syria and militancy in Africa while in Gay Paree, where he is expected to meet his French counterpart and President Emmanuel Macron.
Turkey and Russia agreed in mid-September to enforce a new demilitarized zone in Syria’s Idlib province from which rebels will be required to withdraw.
Before the deal and when a Syrian government offensive on Idlib seemed imminent, La Belle France had said that it was prepared to carry out strikes on Syrian targets if chemical weapons were used.
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[PRESSTV] Leb’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil says Israel is seeking to "justify another aggression" against his country after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made "false allegations" against the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah that it has purportedly built missile sites in the midst of civilian districts of Beirut.
During his speech at the 73rd annual session of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... General Assembly in New York on Thursday, the Israeli premier alleged that Hezbollah had built "three" clandestine missile storage facilities "along Beirut’s [Rafic Hariri] International Airport", showing some pictures of the so-called sites.
On Monday, the Lebanese top diplomat, however, harshly lambasted Netanyahu’s fresh allegations, saying that what he had claimed were "based on inaccurate information."
Bassil added that Netanyahu’s allegations were supported by no "evidence" whatsoever, and that showing some pictures "does not contain any proof." The resistance movement "has missiles but they are not near the airport", he further noted.
The Lebanese foreign minister also stressed that his country has "the legitimate right to resist until the liberation of all the occupied territories" from Israeli occupation, referring to Leb’s Shebaa Farms, which were occupied by the Israeli regime during its full-scale war against Arab territories in 1967.
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[ARABNEWS] Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil responded to what he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s "allegations" in his speech to the UNGA on Sept. 27 claiming that Hezbollah had missile launchers near Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport.
Bassil gathered foreign ambassadors to Leb and representatives of the diplomatic missions and UN organizations in the ministry’s headquarters in Beirut about "false allegations" from the UN forum.
Bassil said that the international community bears the responsibility for "accepting false allegations launched from the UN forum, and this is your responsibility, especially the permanent members in the UNSC."
The US ambassador, Elizabeth Richard, was absent because she was traveling, but prominent attendees included the ambassadors of Russia, La Belle France, Britannia, the EU, 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 Kuwait.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Arab ambassadors and diplomats missed Bassil’s tour to the area, which Netanyahu said housed Hezbollah’s rocket launchers, in the Ouzai neighborhood, part of Beirut’s southern suburb.
Russian Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin was keen to be present for every part of the tour.
The tour, which was accompanied by journalists and photographers, started from the golf course that Bassil said "Netanyahu raised its (the hangar’s) image in front of the UNGA audience." Instead of heading to the hangar, the delegation went to the al-Ahed stadium, which Israel claimed was a missile platform. "The doors are open to see everything, we are a sports club, we played 47 games without a loss," a stadium official said. "What’s under the stands is changing rooms."
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[ARABNEWS] Damning new evidence has emerged of an Iranian plot to detonate bombs during the Hajj pilgrimage in 1986, using explosives planted in the baggage of innocent pilgrims before they flew to 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... .
The pilgrims, about 100 elderly men and women from Iran, were unaware that their bags contained bombs. The explosives were detected, removed and made safe by Saudi authorities during the regular screening process, then returned to the visitors to continue their pilgrimage unhindered.
The new evidence has been revealed in an interview on Iranian TV with Mullah Ahmed Montazeri, a leading holy man. He disclosed that the explosives were planted by Mehdi Hashemi, an Iranian radical and a senior figure in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on the instructions of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‐ at the time chairman of the High Council of Revolution Culture Affairs and supervisor of the IRGC, who became the country’s Supreme Leader in 1989.
Hashemi had become head of the "liberation movements unit" of the IRGC in 1983, and "by order of Ali Khamenei, the shipment of explosives was packed into the bags of pilgrims in 1986," Mullah Ahmed said.
He said the late Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, the Iranian theologian and one of the leaders of the 1979 revolution, had disclosed the plot in a letter to the first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He wrote: "The Revolutionary Guards made an unacceptable mistake during Hajj and used the bags of 100 Iranian pilgrims, including elderly men and women, without their knowledge. They lost the dignity of Iran and the Iranian revolution in the eyes of Saudi Arabia and during the Hajj season."
The new evidence suggests that Iran’s malign regional meddling goes back more than 30 years, the analyst Mohammed al-Sulami, head of the International Institute for Iranian Studies, told Arab News.
Al-Sulami said the practice at the time was for Iranian pilgrims to deliver their luggage to an Iranian government institution, which sealed the bags and and shipped them to Makkah or Madinah, where they were screened.
"Saudi investigations at the time undoubtedly showed that the elderly owners of the bags had no clue about the explosive charges, so they were allowed to perform Hajj without any complications" out of the Kingdom’s concern not to disrupt the Hajj season, he said
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[CreepingShariah] On Saturday September 22, 2018 at the ValleyFair amusement park in Shakopee, Minnesota, police and emergency responders had to evacuate all guests after a mob of Somali teenagers and men rushed through security and caused several violent fights to break out inside the park.
According to eyewitnesses who were at the park to celebrate Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, a group of nearly 100 Somali men mob rushed past security and amusement park staffers at the front entrance, and proceeded to run through the park and instigate fights among themselves and with guests.
As several violent fights broke out, guests began to panic as reports of people being stabbed and shot began to circulate.
Cliff Hallberg, who was inside the park with his children at the time the fights broke out said it was very frightening for his children. "I saw about 60 Somali teenagers push their way through lines and scream at guests."
Hallberg said tickets to the ValleyScare Halloween themed amusement park are usually expensive, which is why he attended on LEO appreciation day, as he himself is a member of law enforcement and received discounted tickets.
"I’ll take my kids back to ValleyFair someday when I can afford it. I’m just glad I got my kids out safely," Hallberg said.
The violent fights erupted during Law enforcement appreciation day when the park was full of police officers and other members of law enforcement who received discounted tickets so that their families could enjoy the amusement park. An estimated 263 police officers responded to the fights inside the park, according to witnesses.
"This looked like a targeted attack on law enforcement," Hallberg added.
Hallberg also told Big League Politics that his car was spit on and that the rioters were setting off car alarms and causing chaos in the parking lot, all of which can be seen in video that was exclusively obtained by this reporter.
In the video, a woman who was evacuated and filming from inside her car can be heard saying, "Oh my god! We are never going to make it out of here."
The spokesperson for the park also never disclosed that a police K-9 unit was called to the scene, ambulances and firetrucks responded, and a police helicopter was ordered to fly above the park as people were being evacuated, all of which was caught on video.
A Facebook post posted by one of the ValleyFair attendees noted,
"Just left ValleyFair. Several Somalians fighting, knocking over Halloween props, knocking people over Halloween props, knocking people over terrorizing young children. ValleyFair shut down. Somalians pushing kids over. Running from police in the parking lot in circles. I stood in front of about 15 lost and terrified young children until their parents could find them."
According to eyewitnesses and police officers who wish to remain anonymous, they believe the media is covering up the fact that the violent rioters were Somali men because the media and police don’t want to offend the Muslim Somali population or influence the upcoming election.
Officers in Minnesota have told this reporter that they are often told to avoid using the word Somali when discussing crimes committed by members of the Somali population because police and local Democrats have asked them to "stand down" in an effort to create positive community relations between Minnesota natives and the continually increasing Muslim Somali "refugee" population.
In the United States, Minnesota is the state with the largest Somali population.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison( D-MN), who is currently embattled in a domestic violence scandal and running for Minnesota Attorney General, is leading an effort to force President Trump to accept and permanently resettle nearly 110,000 more Muslim "refugees" in Minnesota, most of which will be from Somalia.
Peggy Tierney, a Minnesota native, posted on her Facebook about the incident:
"I also have video of the Somali boys in the parking lot. This explains why the media and police are covering it up. They can’t have a negative narrative against the Somali community before midterms when Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, Mohamud Noor, and Hodan Hassan are running for office in Minnesota."
#9
depends which Minnesota you're talking about, Twin Cities or the rest of the state with a deer rifle in every closet and a shooting range in nearly every town. I note that the Somali community in central MN is very polite and easy to get along with (see above: deer rifles & shooting ranges)
#10
In my Homeland Security days, 10 years ago, we had a chance to get some insight into the small colonies in San Diego and the Bay Area. Tribal kleptocracy, taxicab reconnaissance, widespread fraud, and violently sharia-based Islamic attitudes. Importing these people is nuts! When asked of a federal homeland security analyst what was the basis for the refugee policy from the 80's being maintained, we were told that they were minority and muslims and there was no will to be seen refusing them.
#12
Is there any non-Muslim country (not necessarily Western) where Muslim immigration takes place and does not lead to the establishment of Islam's bloody borders?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Breitbart] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) last week tried to block billions in U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the Afghan military and police forces unless its’ units stopped sexually abusing young boys, but he was opposed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The photos of some prominent Jihadi leaders which purport to show the acrobatic dance of some Chinese girls before them have gone viral on the internet and have sparked reactions among the social media users.
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... 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...
... 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...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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