[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group released 21 more prisoners of the Afghan government as part of the ongoing prisoners’ release program aimed at aiding the grinding of the peace processor.
"Today, a total of 21 soldiers and coppers of the Kabul Administration were released from a prison of the Islamic Emirate in Takhar province and sent to their families after giving them the usual package of assistance," Suhail Shaheen, a spokesperson for the Taliban group said.
The Afghan government started the release of Taliban weeks after the Taliban group signed a peace deal with Taliban in a bid to help kick start the intra-Afghan talks.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... a series of attacks in Kabul disturbed the release of prisoners until the Taliban group announced a ceasefire on the occasion of Eid which was widely welcomed with the Afghan government vowing to expedite the release of prisoners.
The Afghan government released close to 3,000 prisoners of Taliban as of 31st May, according to Shaheen.
[American Thinker] The other day, the New York Times was subtly and not so subtly promoting the claim that President Trump was standing callously by and coddling Russia's Vladimir Putin even as Putin was busily offering the Taliban bounties for the bodies of dead U.S. servicemen. It was the old "Trump is a Russian agent" canard whipped out in a new form.
The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House's National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.
Heartless bastard, allowing Russia to pick off our men while he kaffeeklatsched with Putin and invited him to the G-7. Anything for his Russian master.
President Trump denied it. His acting director of National Intelligence at the time, Richard Grenell, denied it vehemently. Grenell's disavowal of the leak of such "partial intelligence" was something I noted here. And for what it's worth, even the Russians denied it.
But the Times pressed on with the claim and even did some additional reporting to claim that it had proof. The Guardian helped the Times along with a follow-up story beginning with "Outrage Mounts about..."
Fortunately, there was CBS's Catherine Herridge, who batted back at the press at its own game — and found some pretty exculpatory backing for the Trump administration's statements:
Happened to catch a bit of Chuck Schumer on CBS this morning with his phony sanctimony on this subject. It was seriously disgusting.
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I'll give 'em credit, though. They sure know how to coordinate their presentation of these hoaxes. They keep all their singers on the same page all the time.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] "Al-Ain News" reported that an agreement between the transitional government in Sudan and negotiators of the armed struggle movements is about to be set, which extends the transitional period to 4 years, instead of 3 in this country.
The report quoted sources, who asked not to be named, that the Supreme Peace Council headed by Lieutenant General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan and the Prime Minister agreed to extend the transitional period to 4 years, starting at the final signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
In addition, members of the armed struggle movements who signed the peace agreement will be excluded from the provisions of Article 20 that prevent the occupants of constitutional positions in the councils of illusory sovereignty and ministers and states or governors of the provinces from running in the upcoming elections.
Regarding power, it was agreed to increase the members of the Transitional Sovereign Council and grant the Revolutionary Front two seats, while 4 ministries would be granted to the revolutionary Front.
The sources pointed out that there are differences in opinions regarding members of the Legislative Council, and the sources expected the number to increase to 400 seats instead of 300.
The mediation team approved confidence-building measures between the two parties, including the release of prisoners of war, the dropping of absentee rulings, the ban imposed by the Omar Bashir regime on some leaders of armed factions, and the opening of humanitarian corridors to relief those affected by the war.
The measures also stipulated that the formation of the Legislative Council and the appointment of state governors be postponed until an agreement on peace in war zones is reached, so that leaders of the armed rebellion can participate in the transitional authority.
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...pouty connected Pakistani-American who trained with Hamas before training in human rights law at Fordham. Her self-proclaimed best friend, successful Washington, DC lawyer Salmah Rizvi, previously worked for President Obama as an intelligence analyst ...
31, entered a not guilty plea through her lawyer on Monday
Rahman remains jailed at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
Her attorney, Paul Shechtman, entered a not guilty plea via teleconference
On May 30, Rahman and Colinford Mattis were arrested by the NYPD in Brooklyn
Rahman was allegedly seen on surveillance footage throwing Molotov cocktail
Improvised explosive was hurled inside unoccupied NYPD van in Fort Greene
The firebomb caused damage to the console of the vehicle; no one was injured
Both Rahman and Mattis face 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges
Another woman, Samantha Shader, 27, was also arrested in Brooklyn that night
She was filmed throwing Molotov cocktail at NYPD van with four cops inside
I am honored to have spoken at today’s congressional briefing.
I leave feeling despair that 1/2 of this nation’s political parties refuses to admit left-wing extremism is even real. At the briefing, we were told the riots of past month were peaceful & that antifa are imaginary.
INTERPOL has an annual budget of around €113 million (GBP £99 million) (US$131 million), most of which comes from annual contributions by member police forces in 181 countries.
Contrary to frequent portrayals in popular culture, INTERPOL is not a supranational law enforcement agency and has no agents with arresting powers.[27] Instead, it is an international organization that functions as a network of criminal law enforcement agencies from different countries. The organization thus functions as an administrative liaison among the law enforcement agencies of the member countries, providing communications and database assistance, mostly through its central headquarters in Lyon.[28]
[Defense News] The U.S. would be able to buy Turkey’s Russian-made S-400 air defense system under legislation proposed in the Senate last week. The proposal is one powerful lawmaker’s attempt to alleviate the impasse between Washington and Ankara over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., has proposed an amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the purchase to be made using the U.S. Army’s missile procurement account. The move comes a year after the U.S. expelled NATO ally Turkey from the multinational F-35 program because it received the S-400 in a $2.5 billion deal.
However, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, has introduced an amendment that would take a tougher stance, mandating the Trump administration implement CAATSA sanctions on Turkey within 30 days of passage of the NDAA. Risch has been critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused him of bad faith in dealings with the U.S. over the S-400.
The U.S. routinely buys foreign technology and could both exploit the S-400′s technology and test U.S. tactics, said Jim Townsend, a former Pentagon official for European and NATO policy. If Turkey doesn’t go for the idea, he said, the two countries are still stuck.
“I think the US buying the S-400s from Turkey is a clever way of getting Erdogan out of the jam he put himself in,” Townsend said. “We just want to get the system out of Turkey ... and if it enables the Turks to take part in the F-35 then all the better.”
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner 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... in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities, the military prosecutor for Tehran province, Gholam Abbas Torki, said on Monday, Tasnim news agency reported.
There was no indication that the downing of the airliner, which killed all 176 people aboard, was due to a cyber attack on Iran’s missile or air defence systems, Torki said, adding that three people were under arrest related to the accident.
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The human error was that they didn't anticipate that the US wouldn't retaliate.
As there was zero US military activity in Iranian air space there was no way they could pin this on Trump.
OTOH if there had been any military reaction the MSM's dominant narrative would have been accusing Trump of a war crime, even in the face of evidence of Iranian wrongdoing.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese media reported on Monday, that Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti met the American Ambassador to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... Dorothy Shea at the Pine Palace in Beirut, where they touched on the judicial decision, which sparked widespread controversy in Lebanese circles.
The Lebanese website, al-Tayyar, conveyed the statements of the Foreign Minister who stressed the freedom of the media and the right of expression, which are sacred rights.
They also frankly discussed the current developments on the local scene, and the two sides touched on the bilateral relations that bring together the two countries and the Lebanese and American peoples.
He even stressed the importance of cooperation between the two governments in all fields in order to support Lebanon to get out of the economic crisis that it suffers from.
In the same context, the Supreme Judicial Council summoned the Judge of Urgent Matters in Muhammad Mazeh to listen to him, noting that "the judge will not meet the summons, and he will submit his resignation at 11 before tomorrow noon tomorrow Tuesday."
The judge previously issued a decree banning the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon from making media statements after a remark criticizing the government last Friday.
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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.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[American Thinker] The other day, the New York Times was subtly and not so subtly promoting the claim that President Trump was standing callously by and coddling Russia's Vladimir Putin even as Putin was busily offering the Taliban bounties for the bodies of dead U.S. servicemen. It was the old "Trump is a Russian agent" canard whipped out in a new form.
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
