[Al Ahram] U.S. 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... said on Monday "rogue killers" may have been behind the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and 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... 's 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.... ordered an internal investigation into the case.
Trump said he had spoken with King Salman about Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi policies, and that he was sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immediately to meet the king and travel to other places as needed.
Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago to get marriage documents. Ottoman Turkish officials have said authorities believe he was murdered there and his body removed.
Saudi Arabia has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! killing Khashoggi and denounced such assertions as "lies", saying he left the building shortly after entering.
"The king firmly denied any knowledge of it," Trump told news hounds. "He didn't really know, maybe - I don't want to get into his mind but it sounded to me - maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?"
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Turkey has said a lot but provided zero evidence so far. Come on Turkey, provide the evidence.
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Jamal reportedly left his iPhone with his fiance but was wearing an Apple watch with recorded it all to the Cloud. The German news reported other details that should be investigated--a WAPO journalist with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood is not an innocent victim:
Germany's leading right-of-center daily Die Welt this morning reveals that Jamal Khashoggi was not a journalist, but a high-level operative for the Saudi intelligence service, an intimate of Osama bin Laden, and the nephew of the shadiest of all Arab arms dealers, the infamous Adnan Khashoggi. John Bradley reported last week in the Spectator that Khashoggi, who allegedly met a grisly end in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that among other things wants to replace the Saudi monarchy with a modern Islamist totalitarian state.
So much for the whining in the Establishment media about freedom of the press and protection of the rights of journalists. The presumed-dead Khashoggi was a top-level spook who swore fealty to some of the Arab world's nastiest elements, and who played a high-stakes game in Saudi spookdom.
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There is no way that an Apple Watch stayed paired with his iPhone while he was in the Consulate. That connection is only good for about 30 feet or so.
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It doesn't have to stay paired to the phone. It just needs a connection to a cellular network. The phone is used to retrieve the audio on his account afterwards.
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"Unhealthy?" A man and his duck.
A quack and a whack. A quick pluck.
No time wasted yacking
Or awkwardly hacking.
When ducks attack us... well, good luck!
[Al Ahram] Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi dismissed Prime Minister Ahmed Bin Bagher and appointed Maeen Abdulmalek Saeed as premiere, according to Reuters.
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[Al Ahram] U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he made no deal with Turkey to lift U.S. sanctions in exchange for the release of an American pastor who had been detained there and who returned to the United States over the weekend.
"We had no deal with Turkey," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I feel much differently about Turkey today than I felt about them two days ago. I have a very good feeling toward Turkey -- two days ago, I did not."
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[DAWN] Two accused of the 2013 slaying of Chaudhry Zulfikar, the lead Federal Investigation Agency prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder case, were acquitted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday.
ATC Judge Shariq Arjumand read out the short order, saying that brothers Hammad and Adnan Adil were acquitted due to a lack of evidence against them.
Zulfikar was killed as he made his way to court on the morning of May 3, 2013, to appear in hearing of the Benazir murder case. He was driving himself and was escorted by an armed guard sitting on the passenger seat. As he prepared to take make a turn, the assassins drove alongside the car and sprayed it with a hail of bullets. They pumped 10 bullets into Zulfikar’s chest and also injured the guard who was shot in the back.
Zulfikar then lost control of the car which careened up an adjacent green belt and ran over a female bystander before smashing into a tree. As he lay dying at the steering wheel, the security guard Farman Ali managed to return fire with an AK-47.
He was able to hit two of the fleeing assassins, killing one (Harris) and gravely injuring the other (Abdullah). A third assassin (Tanveer) trailing in a car behind, was able to collect the body of his accomplice and the other injured button men and escape.
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[PRESSTV] An Iraqi court has overridden an earlier decision by outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to dismiss the former head of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, and declare himself as the replacement.
The Iraqi Administrative Court ruled on Monday that the dismissal of Falih al-Fayyadh as the chief of volunteer fighters ‐ better known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Sha’abi ‐ and a number of security agencies will result in hiatus in those organs, and will expose the country’s security to terrorist threats.
The court further noted that Fayyadh must also reclaim his position as the head and advisor of the National Security Council.
On September 3, Abadi named himself the new Hashd al-Sha'abi head.
The premier’s office announced in a statement that the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces had visited the command center of the pro-government forces to oversee the situation there.
"He (Abadi) lauded the hero fighters of the Hashd al-Sha’abi, their enormous sacrifices to achieve victory over terrorism in addition to their continued efforts to rebuild and reconstruct the country," the statement added.
It concluded, "He is keen on the rights of the fighters, and is willing to provide them with all forms of support."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As the first anniversary of the Iraqi forces victory against ISIS nears, the terrorist organization’s remnants are trying to exploit security gaps in some areas that are not very far from the capital Baghdad.
Doctor Hashem al-Hashemi, an expert in gangs’ affairs, said ISIS has adopted a new military tactic ever since its defeat in October last year and the declaration of victory against it later in December.
"After ISIS commanders (dispatched) their fighters to the desert and mountains in scattered areas in Iraq and Syria, the organization resorted to the so-called gang hybrid warfare and (adopted) the tactics of the ghost fighter," Hashemi said, adding that the aim is sowing chaos in areas with sectarian or ethnic diversity or finding areas that are fragile in terms of security.
He added that ISIS’s new tactic also includes deploying fighters in areas of minorities.
FUNDING VIA ABDUCTION, THEFT Commenting on the group’s economic activity, Hashemi said the organization has begun relying on self-funding via theft, abduction and blackmail, adding that this means ISIS has lost its ability to receive foreign funding and to make money from the investments it had done by selling oil in Iraq and Syria.
According to some observers, ISIS smuggled around $400 million abroad from Iraq and Syria and it seeks to increase its resources via money laundering operations.
He noted that ISIS, which once controlled 48 percent of the Syrian territory and 32 percent of the Iraqi territory, now only controls 2 percent of Syria and its organizational capacity decreased from 32 states to just six.
ISIS’s THREE DIWANS
Hashemi also said that ISIS’s self-appointed caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... eliminated more than nine diwans and kept just three, which are Diwan al-Jund (soldiery) that manages military affairs, a diwan for security and intelligence and a financial and administrative diwan.
Hashemi added that legitimate committees are no longer binding and only act as an advisory body, administrative and financial departments are decentralized and the organization’s targets are selected by the security commander, and not the military commander.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a security source in Diyala said the number of ISIS remnants in Diyala is no more than 70 gunnies, adding that most of them are present in Hamrin Basin which is 55 kilometers northeast of Baqubah. He added that ISIS’s activity decreased by 70 percent compared to this time last year.
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[PRESSTV] Iran’s envoy to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has slammed Washington’s ’morally wrong’ measures against other countries, saying that unilateral sanctions amount to collective punishment and violate basic human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... .
Gholamali Khoshroo on Monday regretted that the US "is addicted to sanctions" and sees it "as a tool in its toolbox in pursuance of its own national interests."
"The morally wrong and ethically unjustified unilateral measures not only defy the rule of law at the international level but also infringe upon the right to development and lead to the violation of basic human rights," Khoshroo said.
He made the remarks in an address to the Sixth Committee of the 73st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 'Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization'.
The Iranian envoy further noted that Tehran welcomes a report by the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, particularly where it says unilateral sanctions, aggravated by secondary sanctions seeking the "economic isolation" of the target country, amount to discrimination against the innocent population of the country concerned."
"Coercive measures often lead to collective punishment of innocent civilians and violation of human rights," he noted, blasting the US’ measures against the Islamic Theocratic Republic, which have hit innocent civilians on the contrary to what American officials claim.
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Next thing we'll hear is that Trump sexually harassed Iran.
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Pretty rich hearing the Ayatollahs crying about basic human rights
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Iran says US unilateral sanctions to violate basic human rights
So where does bringing in thugs to quell uprisings fit into this?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem held a presser on Monday after his meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Ja’afari concluded in Damascus.
During the presser, the veteran politician touched on a number of topics, including the situation inside the Idlib government.
Muallem said that if the jihadist rebels do not accept the Idlib agreement, the Syrian Armed Forces is prepared to deal with them militarily.
Furthermore, Muallem told the news hounds at the presser that once the situation in Idlib is resolved, the Syrian military will shift their attention to the territories to the east of the Euphrates River.
"After Idlib, our target is east of the Euphrates," Muallem stressed.
This comment is in direct reference to the U.S. Coalition’s presence along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
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Please, stay on your side of the river.
Please, remember what happened during the last sneak attack.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... has allegedly called on the Syrian government to allow them more time to persuade the jihadist rebels to leave the Idlib buffer zone.
According to the Syrian daily al-Watan, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their allies have never retreated from the established demilitarized zone in northwestern Syria.
The daily further stated that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hurras al-Deen and the Turkestan Islamic Party have reinforced their positions and hidden their heavy weapons, adding that the jihadist groups have decided to remain in the demilitarized zone in northeastern Lattakia, northwestern Hama, and southeastern, northern and southern Idlib.
The paper said that Ottoman Turkish intelligence has thus far been unsuccessful in persuading Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham to leave its positions in the demilitarized zone, adding that Ankara has called on Damascus via Moscow to delay any military operation and give them more time to do their undertakings with regard to the expulsion of the jihadists form the zone.
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[Al Ahram] Syria's foreign minister said on Monday that Syrian forces stand ready to fight Islamist Lions of Islam around the northwestern region of Idlib if a Russian-Ottoman Turkish deal is not implemented there the same day, in keeping with a critical deadline.
The deal for Idlib sets up a buffer zone running 15-20 km (9-13 miles) deep into rebel territory that must be evacuated of all heavy weapons and all Islamist Lions of Islam by Monday.
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said it was up to Russia now to judge whether the agreement, which staved off a government offensive on the last notable swathe of territory in bully boy hands after seven years of war, was being fulfilled.
"Our armed forces are ready around Idlib to eradicate terrorism if the Idlib agreement is not implemented," al-Moualem said at a presser with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Damascus.
"Idlib, as any other province, has to return to Syrian illusory sovereignty. We prefer to have it through peaceful means, through reconciliation, but if not there (are) other options."
Tahrir al-Sham , an alliance of Islamist Lions of Islam spearheaded by al Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate, signalled on Sunday that it would abide by the terms of the deal, although it did not explicitly say so.
"We value the efforts of all those striving - at home and abroad - to protect the liberated area and prevent its invasion and the perpetration of massacres in it," Tahrir al-Sham said in its statement. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... it added that Tahrir al-Sham would not end its jihad or hand over its weapons.
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[Al Ahram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and Italia are the last buyers of Iranian crude outside China, India and the Middle East, according to tanker data and an industry source, the latest sign that shipments are taking a major hit from looming U.S. sanctions.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic has exported 1.33 million barrels per day so far in October to India, China, Turkey and the Middle East, according to Refinitiv Eikon data. No vessels are shown heading to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... with Iranian crude.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... an industry source who also tracks the exports estimated shipments at 1.5 million bpd, including vessels which are not showing on AIS satellite tracking, of which a 1 million-barrel tanker is going to Italia.
That's down from at least 2.5 million bpd in April, before 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... in May withdrew the United States from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions. The figures also mark a further fall from 1.6 million bpd in September.
The expected loss of a sizeable amount of Iranian supply has helped drive a rally in oil prices, which on Oct. 3 hit their highest since late 2014 at $86.74 a barrel. Crude has since eased to $81 although analysts say the Iranian export drop remains supportive.
"It's one of the reasons why prices are still above $80," said Eugen Weinberg, analyst at Commerzbank.
The October figures add to signs that buyers are sufficiently wary of the U.S. sanctions to stop or scale back their Iranian crude dealings, and that exports are falling more steeply than some in the market expected.
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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.
...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....
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
