[al-Monitor] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has shipped a second supply of medical equipment to 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as the Islamic Theocratic Republic fights to contain its spreading coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... outbreak, which has so far killed more than 800 Iranians.
"Providing life-saving assistance to those experiencing distress is essential to serving the common good," the UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashimy said in a statement. "The leadership and people stand shoulder to shoulder with nations in their time of need."
The two aircraft, which took off from Abu Dhabi on March 16, were carrying 32 tons of medical supplies and equipment, including thousands of pairs of gloves, surgical masks and protective equipment, according to the UAE Foreign Ministry.
"Provision of medical supplies is critical to curbing the spread of COVID-19, and the UAE is committed to doing all it can to stamp out the virus, both at home and around the Gulf region," Hend Al Otaiba, director of strategic communications at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, wrote on Twitter.
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[al-Monitor] 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... ’s Socotra island has become the center of a power struggle between the Yemeni government and the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC). Tensions have been running high, especially since two government battalions defected last month and joined the STC. The defections clearly indicate that Socotra is contested and polarization will continue, despite Saudi-led peace efforts in Yemen’s south.
Moreover, more US Marines arrived on the island March 7, raising new speculation that the United States wants to establish a military base there. Some Marines also had deployed in December to the island southeast of Yemen's coast.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is part of a Saudi-led coalition formed in 2015 to fight Yemen's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels. But coalition relations became strained as the UAE began supporting the STC's movement to secede. The Saudis want a united Yemen.
Tensions continued to escalate this month. On March 2, STC and UAE forces reportedly kept Saudi military forces from entering the southern port city of Aden. On March 12, the coalition denied STC leaders permission to land in Aden as they prepared to return from Jordan. Then, on March 15, STC and UAE forces allegedly closed off the presidential palace in Aden and refused to allow Yemeni government officials to meet there.
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Unleaded is $1.85-1.95 around upper Midwest (NOT Chicago) today.
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Unleaded gasoline @ NY harbor (wholesale) today is $0.70/gallon. Add taxes and transportation to your local gas station (~75 cents+/-) equals about $1.50 a gallon retail next week (+/-). Depends on local taxes/regulations.
[BREITBART] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has been accused of "Fanning the flames of Europe’s coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... crisis" by crowding migrants colonists onto its frontier with Greece.
Seth J Frantzman, a U.S.-born academic and Middle East affairs analyst with The Jerusalem Post, said that the Ottoman Turkish government had "sought to distract from its losses in [the Syrian province of] Idlib by creating a migrant crisis on the Greek border", abetted by Ottoman Turkish media pushing "populist messages of Ottoman Turkish troops aiming rifles at Greece and Ottoman Turkish drones flying over the border".
Dr Frantzman warned that Turkey’s "denial of health care" to migrants colonists ‐ an accusation he sources to Human Rights Watch ‐ had taken on "added dimensions amid the coronavirus pandemic", particularly given a previous admission by Ottoman Turkish officials that preventing the virus’s spread through migrant encampments was "Mission: Impossible".
Turkey, Frantzman said, was "shoehorning refugees into Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... at a time when Europe is suffering a pandemic" and encouraging them to "gather in crowds" to try and storm the border at a time when people the world over are being urged to practise social distancing ‐ while taking drastic measures to protect its own borders.
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Islam, trying to help the Germans get over their WW2 guilt by providing an enemy even the Germans can get behind crushing. At some point they'll succeed and wonder WTF happened as they sign the Peace treaty of Constantinople.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s envoy to the UN threatened on Tuesday to arrest US troops in the country for carrying out air strikes on Iranian-backed Iraqi militias in the country amid rising tensions between US troops and pro-Iranian groups.
The US "perpetrators will be arrested and held accountable" for the attacks on the Iraqi militias last week, said Iraq’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Uloom in a draft letter seen by Al Arabiya English.
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good fuckin luck with that
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These people are long, long overdue for a massive, multi-targeted kinetic slap down.
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I firmly believe that just ONE 12-ship B-1/B-52 ARCLIGHT strike over a specific target (cough-Baghdad-cough) would do wonders for diplomatic relations in the Muddled East. They want to see a strong man, so show them a strong man. Then tell them to either behave, or we'll come back -- with the REST of our Air Force. These people only understand strength, so da*^&%&*^%$^&% show them STRENGTH!
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PS: United Nations enclaves also make nice targets. And unless Brussels learns it doesn't control the entire world, so does it. MEWBNCH (Mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel and heartless) is the only way to get your enemy's attention.
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KILL THEM ALL! ALL the mongrels and the LORD sort them out!.....Oh wait! allah ain't, just kill'em all period!
[JPost] - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Arab sector of Israel on Wednesday night of "insufficient adherence" to the guidelines set forth by the Health Ministry to stop the spread of the potentially lethal coronavirus.
"There is a problem in the general public, and there is a problem especially in the small villages," the prime minister said Wednesday night in a meeting with senior Arab doctors at his office in Jerusalem. "We need to fix this right away."
..."If some of the public, in one place or another, does not obey these instructions, it simply causes it to first of all infect his dear and beloved family members and also the general public," the prime minister said. "I ask for the cooperation of all the Arab-speaking public, of the Arab citizens of Israel. I ask you, for your sake and for the common future of us all, please follow the instructions. "
[al-Monitor] As of March 17, the coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... epidemic in 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had killed nearly a thousand people and infected over 16,000 others. For a theocracy like the Islamic Theocratic Republic, closing down religious sites as a measure to slow transmission is a tough decision, leaving the authorities stuck between a rock and hard place.
Yet with the epidemic showing no sign of abating, the Iranian authorities chose to impose a lockdown on the key religious sites, among them the highly revered shrines of Hazrat Masoumeh and Imam Reza in the conservative cities of Qom and Mashhad, respectively.
The controversial decision triggered furious reactions from some hard-liners, who saw it as an unforgivable insult to the "infallible" household of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Videos quickly went viral from outside the two shrines, showing mobs breaking metal fences and storming the sites as they cursed those who ordered the closure. "No one in the past 14 centuries has managed to close this door, not even during the Mongol Conquest. ... We will continue to stay outside the shrine until it is reopened," said one of the protest leaders addressing the crowds.
Elsewhere at a sit-in, the protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... and his health minister and expressed open defiance toward orders from the capital, suggesting that Mashhad would act on its own discretion and independently from the central government.
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[al-Monitor] The Ottoman Turkish forces and Russian military police conducted their first joint patrol mission on the M4 highway in Idlib March 15. The move comes as part of the countries' implementation of a March 5 cease-fire agreement. Yet the patrols were met with popular rejection and created division among the Syrian armed opposition.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said March 15 the patrols on the M4 highway were cut short at the Ottoman Turkish forces’ request, stating that "terrorist groups" were using civilians as human shields. The ministry added that it has given The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... more time to create safe conditions for the patrols on the M4, which runs from Aleppo to Latakia.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said the mission was carried out alongside Russia, but did not state that it was cut short. The ministry posted photos of the patrols, with Russian and Ottoman Turkish soldiers discussing road maps.
Opposition and civil activists gathered along the M4 March 13, near Ariha, south of Idlib, to protest the cease-fire and Ottoman Turkish-Russian patrols. The protesters blocked the road and burned tires to express their opposition to the patrols.
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[Rudaw] The United States on Tuesday placed the new leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) on its blacklist of terrorists, naming him as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that al-Mawli was named leader of the ultra-violent group after an October raid by US commandos killed its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The organization had earlier named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new head, but US officials acknowledged they knew little about him ‐ and later came to believe that the Islamic State group was using his nom de guerre.
Al-Mawli "was previously active in al-Qaeda in Iraq and is known for torturing innocent Yezidi religious minorities," Pompeo said.
"We’ve destroyed the caliphate and we remain committed to ISIS’s enduring defeat no matter who they designate as their leader," he said.
A US-led coalition, spearheaded on the ground by Syrian Kurdish fighters, crushed the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate that once stretched for vast stretches of Iraq and Syria ‐ but the group has inspired attacks much farther afield.
Al-Mawli was named a specially designated global terrorist, putting him on a list created after the September 11, 2001 attacks that makes any support to him a crime in the United States.
The State Department has already issued a $5 million bounty for information leading to al-Mawli’s capture.
A scholar in Islamic sharia law, al-Mawli rose through the ranks by issuing edicts to justify the persecution of the Yezidi, a campaign that the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has described as genocide.
The jihadists killed thousands of Yezidis, who practice an ancient religion, and kidnapped and enslaved thousands more women and girls as they rampaged across the Middle East.
The Guardian, in a January article that cited intelligence sources, said that al-Mawli was raised in an Iraqi Turkmen family ‐ making him one of the few non-Arabs to rise through the ranks of the holy warrior group.
The newspaper said that intelligence officials were unsure of his whereabouts but believe he likely followed Baghdadi to Idlib, the last Syrian outpost out of the control of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... ’s forces.
The Counter Extremist Project, which tracks bully boys, said that al-Mawli served in the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein before joining al-Qaeda in Iraq, becoming a jurist for the Sunni Arab bully boys.
It said that US forces captured al-Mawli and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! him in southern Iraq where he formed his bond with Baghdadi, who was also tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! as part of al-Qaeda.
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
