[Libya Observer] The anti-ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... al-Bunyan al-Marsous has welcomed the US announcement of the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, reminding the world that it lost 788 fighters, while 3500 were maimed in the war on ISIS in Sirte.
The operation said in a statement on Sunday that Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's offensive on 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... is hindering efforts to terminate the presence of murderous Moslems in Libya, pointing out that some of its fighters are defending Tripoli against Haftar's forces and the rest are searching for the remnants of ISIS murderous Moslems in the desert.
The statement added that drone-backed attacks by Haftar's forces on civilians and civilian infrastructure such as airports pave the way for terrorism to resurface.
"This dirty war of Haftar's forces on Tripoli is a terrorist act against people who want democracy and peace." The statement reads.
[Free Beacon] A legal organization has filed a series of requests to compel American universities to turn over documents that it suspects will shine light on efforts by Qatar to peddle influence and push anti-Israel bias in U.S. public schools, according to a copy of public records requests obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The Lawfare Project, a legal group that provides services to the pro-Israel community, has filed document requests to compel Middle Eastern studies departments at the University of North Carolina and Duke University to turn over documents related to the alleged promotion of curricula sponsored by Qatar Foundation International, a partially state-funded organization that has helped Doha spend an estimated $1 billion pushing the Middle Eastern nation's priorities.
The Lawfare Project suspects these documents will reveal how Qatar has worked to spread its propaganda inside the American education system. The organization is seeking public records from UNC regarding any potential involvement by Qatar and its proxies in teacher training programs sponsored by the Duke-UNC Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
The document requests come as the Department of Education investigates how some $235,000 in federal funds were used to organize a series of anti-Israel events jointly held by Duke and UNC. The events have sparked questions from lawmakers and others into the relationship between these American universities and nations such as Qatar that spend millions to influence the U.S. education system.
The Education Department is also investigating teacher-training programs Duke held through its Islamic Studies Center and Middle East Studies Center underwritten by QFI. Critics say these programs promote anti-Israel bias and unfairly portray the Jewish state.
Qatar has "spent billion of dollars in the U.S. trying to influence not just colleges ... but also public schools and police departments," Gregg Roman, chief operations officer of the Middle East Forum‐which promotes American interests and western values in the Middle East‐said during a recent conference on Qatar's influence operations.
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[Breitbart] Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice said she was "quite confident" that the Trump administration did not follow the "normal protocol" of informing President Barack Obama about the weekend killing of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A partial transcript is as follows:
MARGARET BRENNAN: What is your reaction to the death of al-Baghdadi?
SUSAN RICE: Obviously, it’s a major milestone and it’s one we all should be welcoming quite plainly, but it doesn’t mean that the fight against ISIS is over. And it doesn’t mean that we can declare mission accomplished and just walk away. What we’ve seen time and time again in this part of the world is that when the pressure is relieved on terrorist organizations, whether al-Qaeda or ISIS, they are able to reconstitute. So we need to be vigilant. We need to maintain a minimal presence in order to ensure that the pressure stays on ISIS and they don’t come back roaring.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Was President Obama informed of the death of al-Baghdadi by the administration? Did you know before the news today?
RICE: No, there’s no reason why I should know. There is a tradition of common courtesy of presidents informing their predecessors of things of significance like this. Since the White House seemingly didn’t feel it necessary to inform the leadership of the intelligence committees on a bipartisan basis, I’m quite confident that they didn’t do the normal protocol with respect to predecessors either. Sorry, 'NO NEED TO KNOW.' Read about it tomorrow.
#5
Yeah, me too. There I was sleeping peacefully in my own home in bed while some certified American bad asses were turning Beg-deady into confetti. Didn't some English guy say something about that?
#10
Didn't some English guy say something about that?
Rough men performing acts of toxic masculinity to keep our sorry asses safe. Yeah, I'm paraphrasing.
As for Carter: "Can't we just shoot him in the shoulder?"
If you don't find that both hilarious and sad, go read "Guests of the Ayatollah" about the ill-fated Iran hostage rescue. That was actually Jimmy's attitude. Worst President Ever.
#12
Trump probably thought Obama had nothing to offer.
Obama and the Dems have hammered Trump without let up since before he was elected. The Dems would likely break security protocols and leak the mission to try to make Trump look bad so...&%$#-off Dems.
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SteveS, I haven't read that book yet, but my recollection is that Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, actually did put that question to Charging Charlie Beckwith, the founder of Delta Force. I've never seen Beckwith's response in print, but one can imagine. I'm may be off on that.
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Like Obama didn't extend Trump the "Common Courtesy" of telling him that the Democratic Deep State was running an operation to frame him?
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A Dem President can inform Repblicans on this sort of issue with 100% assurance the info won't be leaked. That does not go both ways and they know it, they just don't like it in practice.
#18
Legally, Obama is just another citizen now, just like you and I. Other than he has Secret Service protection, a generous pension, free healthcare and many other benefits.
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Why would you tell a predecessor? I don't think that's a thing.
#20
Why on earth would any rational human, POTUS or otherwise, entrust his most important secrets with people who have been screaming nonstop for nearly 3 years that said individual is a despicable traitor?
Does this make any f---ing sense?
Why do these people keep insulting our intelligence?
[DAWN] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F)'s Azadi March ‐ an anti-government movement calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... ‐ entered Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... on Monday evening, a party spokesperson told DawnNewsTV.
JUI-F Punjab chief Maulana Attiqueur Rehman welcomed the participants of the march as they reached Kot Sabzal town in Rahim Yar Khan district after travelling from Sukkur.
Earlier today, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... while addressing the marchers had said: "The war has been announced and now [the party] cannot retreat. We are moving forward with full confidence. We have to protect the Constitution, democracy and Pakistain because the incumbent government has put the survival of the country at risk."
"The Constitution has been made a joke in this country," he said, alleging that the prime minister has become a security risk. "He [Prime Minister Imran] has ruined the economy, and a country with a devastated economy can't survive. We approached the masses against him and took out 15 million marches and now we are able to help the people get rid of the government," the JUI-F chief said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Populist Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... on Monday called on Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi to announce early parliamentary elections overseen by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and without the participation of existing political parties.
Al-Sadr’s bloc, Saeroon, which came first in a 2018 election and helped bring Abdul Mahdi’s fragile coalition government to power, said on Saturday it was going into opposition until the demands of anti-government protesters were met.
On Sunday, four Iraqi parliamentarians resigned in anger at the government’s perceived failure to respond to mass protests, piling more pressure on embattled Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi.
Saeroon on Saturday announced an open-ended sit-in to show support for protests.
Five protesters were killed on Monday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a rights commission said, bringing the total corpse count nationwide since anti-government rallies erupted this month to nearly 240.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran developing ability to accurately hit anywhere in Mideast, prime minister warns visiting US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who vows more economic sanctions on Iranians.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is seeking to develop and deploy guided weapons that can strike any point in the Middle East, including placing them in Yemen
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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s underpants were obtained by an undercover source and DNA tested to prove his identity before an operation by US forces to kill him, an adviser to the Syrian Democratic Forces say.https://t.co/TmbByucZbf
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[Breitbart] Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice said she was "quite confident" that the Trump administration did not follow the "normal protocol" of informing President Barack Obama about the weekend killing of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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