This is why people in war zones can’t have nice things.
[ToloNews] Razo Khan, a resident of Shah Wali Kot district in the eastern province of Khost ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... , claims that four members of his family were killed in an operation by a unit of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in Khost while his brother was maimed.
Khan is now in Kabul "to seek justice." He says the operation happened last year at 11 pm. Gunmen shot two of his brothers as well as a woman and a child in the family.
He threatened self-immolation if his case is not addressed.
"The government should respond about why he was arrested--why were my brothers martyred?--and if it does not respond, I will torch myself in my home," Khan said.
"This man was neither a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... member nor did he have any links with the government. He was working to pay for his family’s needs and he was innocent," Khost resident Sher Mohammad said.
Another family in Kandahar faced a similar incident in October when allegedly the 03 Unit of the NDS killed one of their members, according to Jabbar Pashtun, who is also in Kabul to seek justice. Pashtun said the perpetrators should be punished.
"These forces are not accountable to the government. They are a black stain on the NDS’ name. They are not accountable. No matter how much we raise our voice for justice," Kandahar resident Khwaja Ahmad said.
The NDS said that Razo Khan’s brother had been arrested for activities linked to terrorism, and for links with the Taliban.
Such operations have always been criticized by military analysts.
"The consequence is very big because they are damaging the legitimacy of the government and are causing outrage among the people towards the government," military analyst Atiqullah Amarkhail said.
Local officials in Khost said the incident will be investigated, and declined from providing further details.
"The National Directorate of Security and other institutions are working on the case, and, so far, they do not have precise information," Khost governor's front man Talib Mangal said.
The Independent Human Rights Commission claimed that an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... earlier this month killed more than 15 civilians--including women and kiddies--during an attack targeting Taliban commander Mullah Nangialai in Shindand, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... .
#GNA optical division Alswihly The #MuslimBrotherhood has been leading our political movement but at great cost some many wars and so much blood was spilled to serve them though they have no public support and they have benefited by having no election. pic.twitter.com/I9vU3jET2Z
[Breitbart] A senior police detective who was involved in an operation that failed to go after a predominantly Pak child rape gang has been elevated to a top position dealing with sexual abuse against children.
Tony Cook, an investigating officer in the failed Operation Augusta, was promoted to the head of operations at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in Manchester four years ago, despite the institutional failure of the operation to protect children from a Pak grooming gang in the mid-2000s.
In a report last week detailing the failures of Operation Augusta, it was revealed that officers were told to focus on arresting grooming gang offenders of "other ethnicities" so as to not appear racist.
Detective Cook has denied that race played a role in the failure of the operation, saying in comments reported by The Times: "Any concerns about creating further community tensions did not influence any of his investigative decisions."
The report, which relied heavily on Cook’s notes from the time, paints a different picture, however, quoting the inspector as saying there were "sensitive community issues" around the case and that perpetrators were "predominantly adult Asian men".
Maggie Oliver, a former detective turned whistleblower on the failed operation, recommended that senior officers in the case should be prosecuted.
"I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty... [those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct ‐ it’s criminal ‐ where is the accountability?" the former detective said.
Operation Augusta was initiated after a 15-year-old girl, Victoria Agoglia, died after being injected with heroin by her 50-year-old Asian male abuser, a man who the report claimed remains unpunished to this day.
The operation was shut down due to the inability "to put permanent staff into Operation Augusta", claimed another senior officer. The report insisted that Tony Cook had no role in the shutting down of the operation.
[Breitbart] A report has found that police in Rotherham ignored decades of abuse carried out by ’Asian’ grooming gangs against maiden of tender yearss for fear of sparking "racial tensions".
After years of denials by police in the north and Midlands, who claimed that race played no role in their inadequate response to the grooming gang epidemic, a report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has found just the opposite.
According to the IOPC, a Rotherham chief inspector told the father of a missing girl that the town "would erupt" if it were revealed that south Asian grooming gangs were preying on young white girls.
The officer described the abuse epidemic as "P*** shagging" and said that he had been aware that it "had been going on for 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions", per the Rotherham Advertiser.
"With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out as Rotherham would erupt," said the chief inspector.
The report was sparked by a complaint from a victim who was sexually abused by a Rotherham rape gang for several years starting in 2003. The IOPC said to the victim that it was "very clear that you were sexually exploited by Asian men" adding that the local police force "took insufficient action to prevent you from harm", according to The Times.
In response to the failures of police in Rotherham and in Manchester, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: "Tackling this abuse is a priority for the Home Office, which is why I have accelerated the delivery of the Tackling Child Sex Abuse strategy that will put victims first. There will be no no-go areas."
The victim who sparked the investigation, who is now in her early 30s, said that she was "heartbroken" that the report did not recommend prosecution for any of the police involved in covering up grooming gang crimes but said that the report vindicated her complaints.
"It’s great that I have been vindicated finally after all these years, but yet again no-one is going to be made accountable for the failings that happened with my case ‐ I’ve not even received an apology from South Yorkshire Police," she said, adding: "For 18 years I have being trying to prove that I’m not a liar, that I didn’t make it up."
"I’m really, really disgusted in what was in there [the report] ‐ basically, that victims and their families were sacrificed. Their lives ruined, living with a life sentence because of fear of racial tension," she concluded.
The IOPC report was launched following the Jay Report, which found that 1,400 children were sexually exploited by Rotherham rape gangs between 1997 and 2013. So far, 36 men and two women have been given a total of 550 years in prison in relation to the scandal.
The South Yorkshire Police accepted the findings of the report, saying that it has "been working to address the issues it raises since the publication of the Jay Report in 2014". However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... it went on to decry the lack of accountability for the officers involved in overlooking the crimes committed by the grooming gangs.
"After such a lengthy IOPC investigation it is disappointing that no individual officer has been identified as this is not something we would tolerate in today’s force," the statement read.
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How keen is the Crown on prevention
Of racial dissension and... tension?
That one race is feckin'
The kids of a second
Is seen as too hateful to mention.
#4
In the US we expect the "child exploitation unit" to stop children from being exploited. I guess it's different in Britain.
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How long before the brave Sons of Manchester - fathers of victims and potential future victims of these hordes of monsters - solve this problem at its core, without waiting for non-existent law enforcement?
[LegalInsurrection] Norway’s ruling coalition collapsed on Monday over the repatriation of a suspected female Islamic State fighter from Syria.
The right-wing Norwegian Progress Party ended a seven-year alliance with Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s Conservative Party after she agreed to take in a suspected female jihadi and her two children on “humanitarian” grounds.
The unnamed 29-year-old woman of Pakistani origin had reportedly left Norway to join the ISIS Caliphate in 2013. The children were born after she departed to join the terrorist group in Syria, reports say.
“We could welcome the children, but we do not compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terrorist organizations and who are working to tear down all the values Norway is built on,” Siv Jensen, leader of the Progress Party, told reporters.
Since the Norwegian constitution does not allow for an early election, Prime Minister Solberg will continue to lead a minority government until the next year’s general election. With the right-wing Progress Party mobilizing openly against the government, the country could plunge into a political crisis.
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We do not compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terrorist organizations and who are working to tear down all the values Norway is built on.
The MSM will report this as more far-right nationalist extremism. Veritable Nazis, they are.
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From the country that gave us the word Quisling.
Because Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would be so very delighted to be ruled by a jumped up wannabe sultan without breeding or connections to any historic Muslim personalities.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will appear in a Guantanamo Bay courtroom this week, more than 18 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is alleged to have criminal masterminded and a year before he will finally face a jury.
In the nearly two decades since 19 al Qaeda bully boyz crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center buildings, the side of the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people, the five men believed to be responsible have yet to face a trial.
The U.S. government alleges that the plotters carried out a criminal conspiracy in planning and executing the 9/11 plot, listing the names of all 2,977 victims killed on Sept. 11, 2001, in the 90-page 2011 charging sheet. The five, who were arraigned in 2012, were also charged with attacking civilians, hijacking, terrorism, violations of the rules of war, and more.
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Trump should close Gitmo the old fashion way and hang every prisoner the after the election in November.
#2
These are enemy combatants. They declared themselves as such; their fellow jihadi warriors view themselves the same way. Why are they being afforded a civilian trial in the first place?
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Why hasn't anyone filed suit claiming that the US is not following the Geneva Conventions? As Lex pointed out, these people are illegal combatants. The can be given a court martial, and then executed.
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why isn't this piece of shit dead yet
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[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... blocked a request from Cyprus on Tuesday to participate as an observer at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, amid growing tensions between the two countries.
Cyprus was one of a long line of countries to request the right to serve as observers in the first session of the year of the 65-member Geneva-based body.
All but one request were accepted by the necessary consensus.
But when the request from Cyprus was raised, Turkey's representative requested the floor.
Ankara, he said, has in the past refrained from blocking Cyprus's participation, and had simply voiced its displeasure in a letter at the end of each session.
But that has changed, he said, stressing that "Turkey will not support this particular request this year."
The US and EU lamented the Ottoman Turkish move.
"It is unfortunate that Turkey has decided to block Cyprus from participating in the work of the conference," said the US ambassador to the conference, Robert Wood, urging "Turkey to reconsider its objection."
Turkey's objection came amid growing tensions over Ankara expanding its claims over a large gas-rich area which Cyprus says includes its territorial waters.
Cyprus has aligned itself with Greece, Israel and Italia in planning an ambitious 2,000-kilometre (1,250-mile) eastern Mediterranean gas pipeline to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... despite Turkey's hostility to the deal.
Cyprus is divided between the Greek Cypriot-run south -- an EU member state -- and the Ottoman Turkish Cypriot north, where Ankara has stationed tens of thousands of troops since its 1974 invasion following an Athens-engineered coup.
Turkey insists the Ottoman Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -- recognised only by Ankara -- has the right to explore in the island's waters.
Cyprus has also joined forces with Greece, Israel, Egypt and La Belle France in condemning a maritime and security accord that Turkey signed with Libya's UN-recognised government.
Turkey has been flexing its muscles across the Mediterranean from Libya to Syria, where Ankara has taken on diplomatic and military roles.
Analysts have warned that Turkey sees Cyprus as the weakest link in the regional alliance buffering Ankara's ambitions.
The Conference on Disarmament is a multilateral disarmament forum that meets in three sessions a year in Geneva. It negotiates arms control and disarmament accords and focuses on the cessation of the nuclear arms race.
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[IsraelTimes] Additional US troops have been flown out of Iraq for closer evaluation of potential concussion injuries from the Iranian missile attack of January 8, US defense officials said Tuesday.
The exact number of troops flown to Germany was not immediately clear, but officials said it was a small number. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because some details were still being sorted out. Last week, 11 US service members were flown from Iraq to US medical facilities in Germany and Kuwait for further evaluation of concussion-like symptoms.
Navy Capt. Bill Urban, front man for US Central Command, which oversees military operations across the Middle East, confirmed the additional evacuations but did not say how many were included.
"As medical treatment and evaluations in theater continue, additional service members have been identified as having potential injuries," Urban said Tuesday evening. "These service members ‐ out of an abundance of caution ‐ have been transported to Landstuhl, Germany, for further evaluations and necessary treatment on an outpatient basis. Given the nature of injuries already noted, it is possible additional injuries may be identified in the future."
As recently as last Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... said he had been told no American had been harmed in the Iranian missile strike.
The question of American casualties was especially significant at the time because the missile attack’s results were seen as influencing a US decision on whether to retaliate and risk a broader war with Iran.
Trump chose not to retaliate, and the tensions with 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... have eased somewhat.
In the days following the Iranian attack, medical screening determined that some who took cover during the attack were suffering from concussion-like symptoms.
No one was killed in the attack on Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq. The strike was launched in retaliation for a US drone missile strike that killed Qassem Soleimani , the most powerful military general in Iran, on January 3 at Baghdad International Airport.
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Headache or a feeling of pressure in the head
Temporary loss of consciousness
Confusion or feeling as if in a fog
Amnesia surrounding the traumatic event
Dizziness or "seeing stars"
Ringing in the ears
Nausea
Vomiting
Slurred speech
Delayed response to questions
Appearing dazed
Fatigue
You may have some symptoms of concussions immediately. Others may be delayed for hours or days after injury, such as:
Concentration and memory complaints
Irritability and other personality changes
Sensitivity to light and noise
Sleep disturbances
Psychological adjustment problems and depression
Disorders of taste and smell"
[AnNahar] The bank through which Iraq pays for Iranian gas imports to power its grids said Tuesday it would stop processing payments if a crucial US sanctions exemption expires next month.
"We'll stop. As simple as that," the head of Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) Faisal al-Haimus told AFP.
That could be devastating for Iraq's crippled electricity sector, which has relied on 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... for about a third of its supply, and comes at a time of heightened US-Iran tensions.
Washington slapped tough sanctions on Iran's energy sector in 2018 but has granted Iraq a series of temporary waivers over the last 15 months to allow it to buy gas from Tehran.
Baghdad pays for the imports by depositing Iraqi dinars into an account at the state-owned TBI, which Iran is technically allowed to use to purchase non-sanctioned goods.
But if Iraq's waiver is not renewed next month, TBI would stop processing payments, Haimus said.
"If the waiver ended, of course TBI will not pay for any gas or deal with any Iranian entity over gas or electricity. Absolutely," he said.
"As a bank, the most important thing we have is that we are compliant (with international regulations). That's why people trust us," the chairman added.
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Any entity that deals with institutions or countries that are blacklisted by the US could be slapped with secondary sanctions, which restrict its access to US dollars.
The waiver protected Iraq from such sanctions, allowing it to continue importing about 1,400 MW of electricity and 28 million cubic metres (988 million cubic feet) of gas from Iran.
In the meantime, Iran and Iraq agreed on a payment scheme in line with US regulations: a TBI account in Iraqi dinars.
As of last year, Iraq had an outstanding bill of around $2 billion for previous gas and electricity purchases, according to Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh.
Haimus declined to disclose how much had been paid into the account or how much was still owed, but told AFP that "disputes" meant Iran had not been able to actually access the money.
"A few payments were made according to this mechanism but the problem is that handling this money was not possible," he said.
Iraq fears being swept up in the spiralling tensions between Iran and the US, both of them allies to Baghdad.
Earlier this month, Iraq's parliament voted in favour of ousting foreign troops -- including some 5,200 US forces -- following a US dronezap near the Baghdad airport that killed top Iranian and Iraqi military officials.
Outraged by the vote, US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... threatened to impose sanctions "like they've never seen before" on Iraq if US troops were forced out.
The US then informed Iraq that it was considering blocking Baghdad's access to a US-based account where Iraq keeps oil revenues that contribute 90 percent of the national budget.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the world to remember the Nazis’ brutal genocide of millions of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Jews, comparing the event with Iran’s nuclear program.
"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 openly declaring every day that it wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth ‐ and, by the way, Israel today has a population of more than six million Jews," Netanyahu said, speaking to the US-based Christian broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network in an interview expected to air later Tuesday.
The Israeli prime minister recalled that during the Holocaust, "a third of the Jewish people went up in flames; there was nothing we could do. Now, after the Holocaust, the State of Israel has been established ‐ and the attempts to destroy the Jewish people are not disappearing."
According to Netanyahu, "the lessons of Auschwitz are: First, stop bad things when they’re small ‐ and Iran is a very bad thing. It’s not that small, but it could get a lot bigger with nuclear weapons, and I think the first thing is to stop that. And second is to understand that the Jews will never, ever again be defenseless in the face of those who want to destroy them."
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[AlAhram] 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... acknowledged on Tuesday that its armed forces fired two Russian anti-aircraft missiles at a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed after taking off from Tehran's main airport earlier this month, killing all 176 people on board.
The new preliminary report by Iran's Civil Aviation Organization however stopped short of blaming the TOR-M1 for the crash of the Boeing 737-800, flown by Ukraine International Airways.
For days after the Jan. 8 shootdown, Iran denied that it fired missiles at the plane, initially blaming a technical malfunction and engine fire for the crash.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... after the U.S. and Canada blamed missile fire for the crash, Iran's armed forces said anti-aircraft fire from the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard had downed the flight.
The new report identified the missiles fired at the aircraft as coming from the TOR-M1. In 2017, Iran received the delivery of 29 TOR-M1 units from Russia under a contract worth an estimated $700 million.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the report said ``the impact of these missiles on the accident and the analysis of this action under is under investigation.''
Surveillance footage earlier obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named showed two missiles were fired at the plane. The two minutes of black-and-white footage purportedly shows one missile streaking across the sky and exploding near the plane. Ten seconds later, another missile is fired. Some 20 seconds after the first explosion, another strikes near the plane. A ball of flames then falls from the sky out of frame.
The footage corresponded with AP reporting, appeared genuine and matched geographic features of the area. It also explained how so many people filmed the shoot down: the first explosion drew their attention so they turned their mobile phone cameras to the predawn sky.
The Tor short-range air defense system, code-named the SA-15 by 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... , was designed during Soviet times to shoot down aircraft and precision guided weapons.
It is mounted on a tracked vehicle and carries a radar and a pack of eight missiles. Each vehicle can operate independently. Tor has a range of up to 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) and can hit aerial targets at altitudes of up to 6 kilometers (about 19,700 feet).
Tor missiles explode near their target, taking it down with shrapnel that devastates engines, fuel tanks and other vital components.
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[AlAhram] 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... said it had asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analysed abroad.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... of Canada, which lost 57 of the 176 people killed in the crash, said Iran did not have the ability to read the data and he demanded the cockpit and flight recorders should be sent to La Belle France. Kiev wants the recorders sent to Ukraine.
The US-built Boeing 737 flown by Ukraine International Airlines was shot down in error by Iranian forces on Jan. 8 during a period of tit-for-tat military strikes that included the killing by the United States of a senior Iranian general on Jan. 3.
Tehran, already embroiled in a long-running standoff with the United States over its nuclear programme, has given mixed signals about whether it would hand over the recorders.
An Iranian aviation official had said on Saturday the black boxes would be sent to Ukraine, only to backtrack in comments reported a day later, saying they would be analysed at home.
A further delay in sending them abroad is likely to increase international pressure on Iran, whose military has said it shot the plane down by mistake while on high alert in the tense hours after Iran fired missiles at US targets in Iraq.
"If the appropriate supplies and equipment are provided, the information can be taken out and reconstructed in a short period of time," Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said in its second preliminary report on the disaster released late on Monday.
A list of equipment Iran needs has been sent to French accident agency BEA and the US National Transportation Safety Board, the Iranian aviation body said.
"Until now, these countries have not given a positive response to sending the equipment to (Iran)," it said. It said two surface-to-air TOR-M1 missiles had been launched minutes after the Ukrainian plane took off from Tehran.
'MAXIMUM PRESSURE'
Iran's aviation body says it does not have equipment needed to download information from the model of recorders on the three-year-old Boeing 737.
Trudeau said the data should be downloaded immediately.
"There need to be qualified experts doing that but it's also a question of technology and equipment and that is not available in Iran," he told a news conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
"There has been broad consensus in the international community that La Belle France would be the right place to send those boxes (and) we continue to pressure Iran to do just that."
Trudeau also said Tehran's refusal to acknowledge dual citizenship was posing a challenge when it came to helping support the families of the Canadian victims, many of whom had close ties to Iran.
Iran, which took several days to acknowledge its role in bringing down the plane and faced street protests at home as a result, fired its missiles at US targets in response to a US dronezap that killed General Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3.
Iran has for years faced US sanctions that limited its ability to purchase modern planes and buy products with US technology. Many passenger planes used in Iran are decades old.
Under Tehran's 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, Iran received sanctions relief in return for curbing its nuclear work. But Washington reimposed US sanctions after withdrawing from the pact in 2018, a move that led to the steady escalation of tension in recent months between the United States and Iran.
Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an governments say they want to save the deal but have also suggested it may be time for a broader pact, in line with Trump's call for a deal that would go beyond Iran's nuclear work and include its missile programme and activities in the region.
Iran says it will not negotiate with sanctions in place.
Since the plane disaster, Iran's judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi has said compensation should be paid to families of the victims, many of whom were Iranians or dual nationals.
Canada, Ukraine, Britannia, Afghanistan and Sweden, which all lost citizens, have demanded Iran make the payouts
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[AlAhram] South Korea's military said on Tuesday it plans to expand the deployment of an anti-piracy unit now operating off the coast of Africa to the area around the Strait of Hormuz, after the United States pressed for help to guard oil tankers.
Attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of 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... last year prompted US officials to call for allies to join a planned maritime security mission.
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And long past time, too. Let’s see if Hezbollah lets them keep this one.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Leb has announced the formation of a new government that will be led by caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
According to the Prime Minister, the new government includes Minister of Defense Zeina ’Akkar, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nassif Hatti, Minister of Finance Ghazi Wazneh and Minister of Interior Mohammad Fahmi.
"Much has been said in my mandate and I decided to remain silent in the face of accusations because I want to work and not argue. I armed myself with the constitution and with a different approach and specific criteria in choosing ministers," Diab said.
"I salute the uprising that pushed us towards this path. Leb won an this government expresses the aspirations of the protesters over the area and country. We will work to fulfill your demands," he continued.
"The scenes that we saw during the past few days were painful and what is important now is to maintain stability and support the Lebanese Army and security forces," Diab asserted.
The new premier said his government will promote a new election law that will enforce national cohesion and fulfill the desires of the protesters.
"We have the capabilities to continue. We have our wealth. We will protect it and defend our right to it by all means," he added.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Armed Forces have deployed their S-400 air defense system at the Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria, the Chinese publication Sohu reported on Wednesday.
"The maximum detection range of the S-400 air defense radar at the Hmeimim Airbase is only 600 kilometers, which means that the Russian S-400 radar can only detect aircraft over most of the border between Iraq and Syria, but not over the border between Iraq and 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... . The most appropriate explanation is that the Russian Air Force sent the 96L6E radar, located at the Hmeimim Airbase, to the Qamishli Airbase in the northeast border region of Syria, which is only 100 kilometers from the Iraqi border," the publication reported.
According to the publication, this information was made available after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told news hounds that the Russian Armed Forces tracked six F-35 warplanes along the Iran-Iraq border during the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) attack on the U.S. forces inside Iraq.
The report would be corroborated by the aviation publication Avia.Pro, who also confirmed that if the Russian air defenses did indeed pick up the U.S. aerial presence along the Iran-Iraq border, than it was due to the S-400’s proximity to the Iraq border.
"Given the Russian S-400’s target detection range, these air defense systems could indeed detect six a-35 fighters near Iran’s borders," they said.
It should be noted, however, that while Iran has made similar claims, the U.S. has not commented on Lavrov’s allegations.
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Russian Armed Forces tracked six F-35 warplanes
Big whoop. They were most likely flying to be seen by other radars as they were not on a combat mission. And even when they do go for combat, you can only "see" them on long UHF frequencies. Which means you know a plane is over in that direction somewhere. Not even accurate enough for a targeting solution with a weapon.
The F-35 also has frequency jamming where they can overwhelm a radar with so many signals it basically shuts down. That feature has been proved in combat missions.
Commander in the Turkish-Backed Free Syrian Army: We Will Go to Libya, China, and Wherever There Is Jihad; We Are Willing to Sacrifice Our Lives and Our Children for the Sake of the Ottoman Caliphate pic.twitter.com/NtRkLS8p3Z
[FOXNEWS] Ahmad Hamzeh made the declaration Tuesday during a speech to parliament in Tehran, although it’s unclear whether it has any backing from Iran’s top leaders, Reuters reported, citing the ISNA news agency. Wonder if they ever read up on Archduke Ferdinand?
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The same report we had yesterday, but sometimes you just have to appreciate the in-lines.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The new leader of Islamic State has been revealed as Iraqi Amir [so he is just an Emir, not a Caliph]
Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi.
Two intelligence services said al-Salbi took over from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after the terrorist blew himself up in October.
Al-Salbi, who helped found ISIS, brought in brutal Sharia Law in Iraq and Syria, led the enslavement of the Yazidi and has operated across the world...
The Mosul-born leader is believed to be one of the most influential ideologues left in ISIS's depleted ranks and is one of the last non-Arabs [an ethnic Turkman - this should please Erdogan].
Al-Salbi was born in Tal Afar, a city near Mosul, to Iraqi Turkmen and went on to study Sharia Law at the University of Mosul
[apparently he was not on the football team although there is a rumor that he assisted equipment management for the track team].
After a background as an Islamic scholar [or as the WaPo would say 'an austere scholar'],
he rose the ranks in the terror organisation [he had great annual reviews from supervisors],
and tried to justify an attempted genocide on the Yazidi people.
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.
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[Breitbart] A senior police detective who was involved in an operation that failed to go after a predominantly Pak child rape gang has been elevated to a top position dealing with sexual abuse against children.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will appear in a Guantanamo Bay courtroom this week, more than 18 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is alleged to have 
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...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 
...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 
...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 
...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 
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
...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 
