[ToloNews] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. 's Cabinet has decided to extend the military mission in Afghanistan for another year, Deutsche Welle reported, adding that a leaked document showed government expressing doubts about the prospects of peace in Afghanistan.
According to the report, this comes a day after an internal strategy paper showed Germany had offered to host another peace conference, this time with an extra invitation for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Germany’s Bundeswehr currently has around 1,200 soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... 's Resolute Support mission.
In December, reports emerged that the 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... was planning to withdraw around half of the US military's 14,000 troops in Afghanistan. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... no confirmation or details have yet been announced.
In fact, the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said recently that recent agreements reached with the Taliban during Doha talks were around a peace agreement and not a troop "withdrawal agreement".
Deutsche Welle meanwhile reported that an internal document leaked to German weekly Der Spiegel on Tuesday (and released on Wednesday) showed the government expressing doubts about the prospects of peace in Afghanistan and apparently criticizing any potential US withdrawal plans as naive and overly hasty.
The report stated that in a strategy paper addressed to selected Bundestag members, the government said Washington was making an effort to find a political solution quickly in order to pave the way for a military withdrawal. But experience had shown that "such a process can last several years without decisive breakthroughs," especially "in the face of the complex inner-Afghan and international negotiating position."
Deutche Welle reported that the document, which was signed off by Angela Merkel's office, the Defense Ministry, and the Foreign Ministry, added: "Should the US withdraw its military engagement significantly, the government will thoroughly reassess its actions in Afghanistan."
The news report stated that Foreign Ministry front man Rainer Breul played down the significance of the 11-page dossier at a regular presser on Wednesday, pointing out repeatedly that the US had not yet communicated any concrete withdrawal plans.
"This is not a document about the USA, it's about Afghanistan, and our thoughts for a grinding of the peace processor and how we can support it, either militarily, or on a civilian level, or on development cooperation," he said.
Breul also said that the mooted peace conference, mentioned in passing in the paper, was merely the reiteration of an offer Germany had made many times before. "Our line remains very clear, that we need an inner-Afghan grinding of the peace processor, that we would support if it is desired, no more and no less," he said.
Germany first hosted an Afghanistan peace summit at the Petersberg castle, outside Bonn, in December 2001. The resulting "Bonn Agreement" laid the foundations for the NATO-backed state-building efforts in Afghanistan following the alliance's invasion of the country.
This week's document, however, expressly mentions that the Taliban should be invited, though it added that such a conference should only take place at "an appropriate stage of the negotiations."
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... according to Deutsche Welle, government representatives were silent on Wednesday on exactly how long the Bundeswehr intended to stay in Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said in response to a planned meeting between the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s negotiating team and Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan Continued on Page 49
[AlAhram] With artillery fire rumbling in the distance, residents of Derna gathered in a streetside cafe on Saturday to discuss the future of their city, long a jihadist hotbed in eastern Libya.
Libya National Army (LNA) soldiers did not declare final victory until the following day over the Islamist holy warriors whose rules had determined life in the city since strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... was toppled in 2011.
But for owner Saif and his cappucino-drinking customers, the talk was already all about what should happen next with more jobs, above all to keep youngsters out of the bad boys' clutches, the top priority for many.
"Seventy percent of residents are unemployed," he said. "We need an economic programme."
In a city notorious for having sent Islamist holy warriors to Afghanistan and Syria and where citizens were prevented from voting in the 2014 national election, public services have been deteriorating for years.
"We want better state services, health and schools," said Hafez, who runs a workshop.
Derna has had just one small hospital since 2011 and supplies are limited.
"We only have 120 beds instead of the 520 in the old hospital," said its assistant director, Adel Adwal, during a tour of the building. Only one, old X-ray machine is still functioning, but "it can break down any moment," he said.
Libya's eastern government, which oppose the internationally recognised administration in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , has allocated 100 million dinars ($72 million) to restart public services, said city mayor Abdelmoneim Gheithi.
He was appointed by the LNA, which supports the eastern government.
Much of Derna's old city, where the holy warriors made their last stand and a source said the Red Islamic Thingy found 35 bodies, has been reduced to rubble.
In the newer part of the city, which Rooters was able to visit, life appeared to be returning to normal. But appearances were in part deceptive.
Hundreds of families have fled to western Libya, residents say, fearing presecution after being accused of having supported the Islamists.
The U.N. said it was monitoring closely reports of summary executions. It had also heard of arbitrary detentions, with 2,000 people said to be held in one prison alone.
The eastern army's chief of staff, Abdel-Razeq Nathouri, rejected that figure, but said any soldiers who had committed crimes would face trial.
Another resident said the LNA had acted to prevent abuses such as lootings blamed on auxiliary tribal forces but reconciliation would take time as some wanted Dire Revenge for having suffered under the Islamists.
"There are some violations going on but state bodies such as criminal police and intelligence have arrived at the old city so hopefully things will calm down," he said, asking not to be named.
[AlAhram] Nearly 200 Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ians who were members of Nigeria's Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadist group have returned home and surrendered to the authorities after breaking with the organization, the government said Thursday.
A total of 187 former jihadists from the district of Mayo-Sava, in Cameroon's Far North province, gave themselves up, many of them returning from Nigeria on foot, provincial governor Midjiyawa Bakari said.
After surrendering to the authorities in the towns of Kolofata and Meme, they were enrolled in a programme to reintegrate them into society, he said.
They were taken on Wednesday to a base of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MMF), an anti-Boko Haram force combining soldiers from Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria, he said.
"They don't represent any danger or any risk -- quite the opposite, everything will be put in place for them to resocialise, learn the spirit of patriotism and public duty," Bakari said.
About a thousand former jihadists, including children under 15, had already joined the reinsertion programme.
After being assessed to establish that they have definitively broken with Boko Haram, ex-fighters are taken to Mowoure, also in the Far North, where they are given farmland with which to earn a living.
Boko Haram's nearly 10-year insurgency is epicentred in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , but spilled over into Niger and Cameroon as well as the Far North province.
It has left more than 27,000 people dead and about 1.8 million others homeless.
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[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish media on Thursday published images of a so-called "local collaborator" who allegedly helped the Saudi hit squad dispose of the body of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
...who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — most recently for Qatar, but in the past at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s intel chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal...
citing Istanbul police.
The dissident journalist and Washington Post contributor was dismembered after being killed on October 2 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but his remains have not yet been found.
CCTV images leaked previously showed a Saudi agent leaving the consulate after the murder wearing Khashoggi's clothes, who was identified as a "body double".
At one point, a hooded man was seen walking alongside him, who was identified in an Istanbul police report as a "local collaborator, the private NTV television reported.
After weeks of denial, 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... admitted that Khashoggi had been killed after entering the consulate to obtain the paperwork necessary for his upcoming marriage to a Ottoman Turkish woman called Hatice Cengiz.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... says he was killed by a team of 15 Saudis who strangled him, and Ankara has repeatedly asked Riyadh to identify the local who allegedly helped them dispose of the body.
The police report also said that after the murder, the hit team ordered a large quantity of meat which was then delivered to the Saudi residence near the consulate where there was a large industrial oven.
Several Ottoman Turkish media outlets speculated whether the oven may have been used to dispose of the dismembered corpse.
"Was barbecuing meat... one of the previously made plans?" wondered the police report, which was published by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
The murder sparked international outrage and hurt the kingdom's image.
Riyadh tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a number of senior Saudi officials allegedly involved in the murder.
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He's getting more after death press coverage than Elvis and JFK combined.
[AlphaNewsMN] State Rep. Ilhan Omar was arrested in 2013 for trespassing and booked at Hennepin County Jail "to prevent further criminal conduct," according to a newly uncovered police report.
The incident took place on January 18, 2013 following an event at the Minneapolis Convention Center featuring former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The Somali president was set to stay the night at the Hotel Ivy, causing large groups of Somalis to follow the presidential convoy to the hotel, including Omar.
According to the police report, hotel staff requested police assistance in clearing the lobby, saying that anyone without a hotel room key was not welcome on the premises and needed to leave immediately. The officer handling the incident said the majority of people who were asked to leave were compliant. However, Omar, when approached, was "argumentative" and refused to leave.
"As she stood her ground and refused to leave I took hold of her left elbow to escort her from the lobby. Omar then pulled away from me stating, ’Don’t put your hands on me!’ Others in her group complied and began walking toward the front entry/exit door as I ordered and I managed to coax Omar out with them," the police report reads.
Ten minutes after the original encounter, the officer reports finding Omar seated in a different area of the lobby. According to the officer’s account, Omar "remained defiant" as he informed her that she would be arrested for trespassing if she didn’t leave.
Since she refused to comply with orders, the officer arrested Omar. The officer reached for Omar’s left arm to get her to stand so she could be handcuffed, but she pulled away. The officer handcuffed her while she stayed seated in the hotel lobby chair.
"Omar was booked at [Hennepin County Jail] as I felt it was likely that she would fail to respond to a citation and she also demonstrated that she was going to continue her criminal behavior," the officer wrote.
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Omar's civil marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, at the time a British citizen, was in 2009 (at the time Omar was also married to Ahmed Hirsi). Said Elmi was naturalized as a US citizen based on the marriage to Omar and then enrolled at North Dakota State U where Omar was also enrolled. Omar says that she had a religious (apparently not civil) divorce from him was in 2011. He graduated from ND State U in 2012.
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Street cred operation. Ben Smith has a boner...
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[Dawn] PESHAWAR: The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court has granted bail to two former ’missing’ persons, who were convicted by the administration of Khyber tribal district for waging war against the state by joining a banned turban outfit.
In one of the two cases, a bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan granted bail to Amjad Khan of Bara tehsil in Khyber district on the condition of furnishing two surety bonds of Rs500,000 each.
The convict has moved the court challenging his conviction by an assistant political agent under the erstwhile Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) in 2018. He sought bail as interim relief until the conclusion of hearing.
Also, another high court bench consisting of Justice Mussarat Hilali and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim granted bail to Akhtar Nawaz of Bara asking him to furnish two surety bonds of Rs500,000 each.
The convict has challenged his conviction by an APA Bara through a petition.
Shabbir Hussain Gigyani, lawyer for the petitioners in both cases, said his clients were illegally detained for many years before they were handed over the administration by security forces.
He said the APA had conducted the ’so-called’ trial under Section 11 of the FCR and sentenced Amjad Khan to 14 years imprisonment under sections 121 and 122 of the Pakistain Penal Code, which dealt with the waging of war against the state.
The lawyer said the APA had pronounced the order on Oct 13, 2018, and by that time, the FCR was repealed through the Fata Interim Governance Regulation (FIGR) and therefore, the APA had no authority to convict a person under the abolished law.
He said the APA had acknowledged in its order that the petitioner was taken into custody by security forces in 2011 over his alleged connection with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain and was handed over to the administration of Khyber tribal district in 2017.
The lawyer said his client didn’t undergo a fair trial and had remained in illegal detention for many years.
He said after the merger of Fata with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa through the Constitution (Twenty Fifth Amendment) Act, 2018, there was a legal vacuum in tribal districts as no appellate forum was available there for the petitioner to get relief and therefore, he had moved the high court.
The lawyer said his other client, Akhtar Nawaz, was taken into custody by security forces in 2014 on the charge of links with the TTP and waging of war against the state.
He said the petitioner had remained missing before he was handed over to the administration in 2017.
The lawyer said a ’so-called’ council of elders was constituted under Section 11 of the FCR and that his client was convicted by the APA.
He added that the petitioner was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment though there existed no evidence of his involvement in the said offence.
The lawyer wondered how a person could illegally detained for many years before being tried on ’vague and ambiguous’ charges.
[ToloNews] The European Commission has reportedly added 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 other jurisdictions including Afghanistan to a blacklist of nations that pose a threat to the block because of lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering.
Inclusion in the blacklist of ’dirty-money’ not only results to reputational damage but would also complicate financial relations with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... The move oblige European banks to apply tighter controls on transactions with customers and institutions which have been included in the list.
Khalil Seddiq, the governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan called the inclusion of Afghanistan in the list a hasty move by the European Union.
Mr. Seddiq told Khaama Press that the banking system of Afghanistan is organized in line with the standard international banking systems which has operations perfectly and in coordination with the law preventing money laundering and terrorism financing.
The previous list included 16 jurisdictions but the latest additions have increased the number to 23 with Libya, Botswana, Ghana, Samoa, the Bahamas and the four United States territories of American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam being the newcomers to the list.
Afghanistan, North Korea, Æthiopia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistain, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and 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... are among the other jurisdictions which have also been included in the list.
The list will be forwarded to 28 EU members for endorsement to be endorse in a month with the deadline for the endorsement likely to be extended to two months.
According to reports, the Afghanistan Central Bank was notified regarding the inclusion of the jurisdiction of Afghanistan in the list.
[Free Beacon] Tehran has begun redeploying its military assets in Syria toward the Iraqi border.
Israel's campaign of airstrikes against Iranian military targets in Syria has led Iran to move the bulk of its soldiers and bases away from the Israeli border, according to intelligence assessments by the Israeli military released Wednesday. While some pro-Iranian forces remain in southern Syria on the border with Israel, Iran is redeploying most of its assets to eastern Syria and Iraq.
Iran's actions should not be construed as Tehran giving up its efforts to entrench itself in Syria to open up another front to attack Israel. In fact, the intelligence assessments say that Iran appears to be adopting a more aggressive posture toward the Jewish state‐last month, for example, Iranian forces launched a missile at the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Iran is simply changing its methods for achieving the same vision, the Israel Defense Forces believes.
Iran now seeks to entrench itself in Iraq, setting up missile launchers there to threaten Israel. Reuters reported last year that Iran had also given ballistic missiles to Shi'ite proxies in Iraq and that it is developing the capacity to build more there with the ranges to threaten both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Iranian-backed militias are expected to base themselves in western Iraq, awaiting orders to cross the border into Syria to target the Jewish state. Parts of Iran's elite Quds Force also appear to be leaving Syria to enter Iraq.
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Ipricks can fight it out among themselves while IAF practices precision bombing runs. Bring it.
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[IsraelTimes] At Warsaw Mideast summit, Bahraini FM says confronting Tehran more urgent than solving Paleostinian issue; UAE top diplomat says Israel has right to attack Iranian targets in Syria. Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs argued that Iran’s belligerent activities destabilize the region, thus making Israeli-Paleostinian peace impossible to achieve.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Thursday leaked a video in which the foreign ministers of three Arab countries can be seen harshly attacking Iran and defending Israel, and in one case saying that confronting the Islamic Theocratic Republic is more pressing than solving the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
The 25-minute YouTube clip, a link that the PMO sent to several Israeli news hounds, showed a segment from a panel discussion at the opening gala of the Warsaw Middle East conference, which was closed to the press.
The comments made by the foreign ministers widely confirmed what Netanyahu told Israeli news hounds during a briefing earlier in the day, when he described at considerable length the Arab ministers’ positions.
Less than 30 minutes after news hounds published the clip, the PMO removed the video from its YouTube channel.
[AlMasdar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is doing everything possible to prevent bully boy attacks on the Russian military base in Syria’s Hmeymim, 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... said Thursday.
"We are making all efforts to prevent any attacks on Russia’s Hmeymim military base. Our military agencies act in a coordinated way", Erdogan said before starting talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... He said Ottoman Turkish drones "did not detect any hardware in the area".
The statement addresses reports about the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front* terror organization that had attacked Syrian army positions in the Idlib de-escalation zone earlier in January.
According to Moscow, the situation in the zone could pose a serious danger to Russia’s Hmeymim airbase, as well as to civilians and Syrian troops in the area.
Russia also reported about numerous drone attacks on the airbase last year.
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As was said; You and Him fight.....I'll make the pop-corn.
[AlAhram] Russia told The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday it had no right to create a "safe zone" inside Syria unless it sought and received the consent of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , signaling tensions as a three-way summit on the Syrian conflict began.
President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , one of Assad’s closest allies, was hosting the summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi to discuss the future of Syria with Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
All three countries have forces on the ground in Syria where they have coordinated their efforts despite sometimes differing priorities and interests.
But a planned withdrawal of US forces from Syria, announced by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in December, has engendered new tensions between Moscow and Ankara in particular.
Turkey wants to set up what it calls a safe zone in northeast Syria, parts of which are now controlled by US forces, and for the area near the Ottoman Turkish border to be cleared of the US-backed Kurdish YPG militia.
But, speaking ahead of the start of the Sochi summit on Syria, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Ankara would need Assad’s green light to create any safe zone inside Syrian borders.
"The question of the presence of a military contingent acting on the authority of a third country on the territory of a sovereign country and especially Syria must be decided directly by Damascus," Maria Zakharova said in answer to a question about the Ottoman Turkish safe zone plan.
"That’s our base position." But that is likely to be an unappealing prospect for Erdogan, who has called for Assad to step down after years of civil war that has shattered his country.
IDLIB PRESSURE
The Kremlin on Thursday also made clear that its patience with Turkey over a joint deal to enforce a demilitarized zone in the northwestern Idlib region was running short.
Moscow and Ankara brokered the deal in September, saying they wanted the region free of heavy weapons and jihadists. The agreement helped avert a government assault on the region, the last major bastion of Assad’s opponents.
But Moscow has since complained that Islamist forces of Evil who used to belong to the Nusra Front group are now in control there and wants military action to drive them out.
Ankara is less keen as it is concerned about potential refugee flows from Idlib in the event of a military operation, and wants to retain its influence in a region on its border.
It also does not want developments in Idlib to distract from its plan to set up a safe zone in the northeast.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said Moscow wanted action on Idlib, referring to the "continued presence there of terrorist groups."
"... Implementing the decision on Idlib is one of the overall components in our policy to stabilize Syria to definitively create the conditions for things to move onto a political settlement," said Peskov, who made clear Putin would press Erdogan on the subject later on Thursday.
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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.
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
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[Free Beacon] Tehran has begun redeploying its military assets in Syria toward the Iraqi border.
... 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...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
