[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Sunday revealed one of the main reasons behind the delay in the intra-Afghan negotiations, saying it is not releasing 597 prisoners of the 5,000 inmates that were to be freed as part of the confidence-building measures established in the US-Taliban ...Arabic for students... agreement signed in late February.
These individuals are accused of "crimes and moral issues" and are on a list that was given to the government by the Taliban, said Ahmad Rashid Totakhil, head of the prisoners’ release affairs.
"'Murderers’ are on the Taliban list and the government has resisted. It is a (victims’) rights issue and the law does not allow to release someone under the pretext of being a Taliban member, who is charged with murder or even moral crimes like rape," Totakhil said.
The Taliban rejected this and said the list includes names of members of the group who have been arrested on charges of being a Taliban member.
The prisoners’ affairs department did not reject the possibility that there are some key and "dangerous" members of the Taliban among those freed so far.
"Based on the political agreement, the condition is to release 5,000 prisoners and it has not specified who should be released. For the Taliban, it should be only important that their inmates are released, not specific people," said Abdullah Qarloq, the deputy head of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan.
Rights organizations say the issue of war crimes and people’s rights should be considered when it comes to the release of Taliban prisoners.
"There are some concerns about the recognition of prisoners. We call on the Taliban, the Afghan government and the US to respond so that people are assured," said Zabihullah Farhang, head of media office of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
According to the Afghan government, so far, 4,015 Taliban prisoners have been released and that the process will continue this week.
May all of India’s investments pay off, preferably sooner rather than later.
[ToloNews] Afghan and Indian officials signed five memoranda of understanding (MOUs) at a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday for the development of educational infrastructure in four Afghan provinces namely Nuristan, Farah, Badakhshan and Kapisa.
The MOUs, worth $2.6 million, will go towards the $200 million pledge by the Indian government made in 2005.
"One of the reasons for the start of the fourth phase was the closure of the first and second phase. These phases were awaiting the new government and now the new government has started its work," said Mustafa Mastoor, the minister of economy.
The High Impact Community Development Projects started 15 years ago, and, so far, 587 projects have been implemented in different provinces.
The projects signed on Sunday include the construction of classrooms, the construction of a higher education building and the construction of a road within the Alberoni University compound in Parwan province, north of Kabul, according to a statement by India’s embassy in Kabul.
"Today, we also started two other projects in two provinces worth $1.7 million," said Abdul Tawab Balakzarzai, the acting minister of higher education. "One of them is the construction of a building for higher education and another is the construction of roads within the Alberoni University compound that has 2.7 kilometers length."
"These projects that we do contribute to the local economy and human and physical capacity building at multiple levels. We of course remain committed to continue this development cooperation that we have," Indian Ambassador in Kabul, Vinay Kumar, said.
India has provided at least $3 billion in aid to Afghanistan.
Leaving the Muslim world on short rations forever after, forcing them to throw the jihadis on their own resources? What a marvelous idea.
[Rudaw] Although crude prices have rebounded from coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...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 lows, oil execs and experts are starting to ask if the industry has crossed the Rubicon of peak demand.
The plunge in the price of crude oil during the first wave of coronavirus lockdowns — futures prices briefly turned negative — was due to the drop in global demand as planes were parked on tarmacs and cars in garages.
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[AlAhram] Anti-racism groups are leading a ``de-colonial tour'' of Gay Paree to call attention to monuments and streets honoring historical figures tied to the slave trade or colonial-era abuses.
The march, starting at the French capital's Museum of Immigration, is being held on the 58th anniversary of Algeria's independence from La Belle France after a long and brutal war.
It's organized by a group representing low-income neighborhoods in French suburbs that are home to large communities who trace their origins to former colonies. Black activists and migrants colonists' rights groups are also joining.
There it is: the Black Bloc - jihadi nexus.
While statues have fallen across the U.S. and in some other European countries amid the global anti-racism movement following George Floyd's death by police on May 25, the response to such monuments in La Belle France so far has been more muted.
Scattered statues have been covered with graffiti, but French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that authorities will not remove any controversial monuments, as has happened in other countries.
In a call on social networks, the organizers of Sunday's march accused the government of ``ignoring the memory of the peoples it reduced to slavery or colonized by mass slaughter.'' They want La Belle France to rename streets and monuments for people who fought against slave trading and colonial crimes.
Algeria was considered the jewel in La Belle France's colonial empire, and is marking its independence day Sunday with a special funeral ceremony for 24 resistance fighters decapitated by French forces in the 19th century.
The fighters' skulls were brought back to La Belle France as trophies and held in a Gay Paree museum for decades until their return to Algiers on Friday.
That stupid intersectionality nonsense, used to make any and all causes into one.
[LivingLutheran] In a June 9 pastoral letter, ELCA
...the Evangelical,Lutheran Church in America, when not abbreviated...
Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton wrote to Bishop Sani Ibrahim Azar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, responding to his Pentecost statement "Liberation, Not Annexation."
...The Rev. Rafael Malpica Padilla, executive director of ELCA Global Mission, said that one should be aware of the connection between the Israeli government’s repressive tactics against Palestinians and those taking place against people of color in a number of localities around the United States.
"As it has been reported [only reports of this kind were from Paleo terrorist dupes]
the kind of police tactics used to kill George Floyd are among those taught to a number of police departments that have taken part in training by Israeli police and military forces," Malpica Padilla said. "For example, 100 Minneapolis police officers received counterterrorism training from Israelis at a conference held in 2012." [that's not true either, it was 100 Minnesota Troopers and they weren't taught combat skills]
Malpica Padilla also emphasized how the detention of migrant families and children seeking shelter in the United States is comparable to the plight of many Palestinian children. The ELCA was formed in 1988 merging three Lutheran associations each was losing members. The've continued to lose members. The Babylon Bee said they were dropping the problematic words in their title including 'Evangelical', 'Lutheran', 'Church' and 'America'.
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Church HQ is officially right near O'Hare in (Des Plains) Chicago but most of the politically correct idiots running the church are in the Twin Cities. (I know from long experience with them and know many of them through family.)
Luther Seminary is in Saint Paul. Lutheran World Relief and the church pension board are in Minneapolis. I wouldn't be surprised if half the maggots are marching with the Antifa.
Also, have never had a sane conversation with them about Israel.
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Penetrated first by the KGB starting with the late 50s. Then by draft dodgers as you can't force a pastor to be drafted into Nam. Next was the LGBT invasion and now its a POS.
The generals signal mutiny with the "peaceful protest" narrative, former SOCOM Commander stands up information warfare outlet to attack Trump, a sitting president, the Army promotes Vindman, and now a vocal anti-Trump person picked to run the Army Times. https://t.co/Tpjo8ywr0m
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/\ Yes, loyalty to community and family. Many must have surely realized what a lost cause it was, but chose to fight for an eventual political compromise. An arrangement that was never to be.
[Rudaw] The United States-led Coalition has announced its presence in Iraq will shrink and become primarily concerned with high-level advisory work, as the US and its anti-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.... (ISIS) coalition partners continue their withdrawal from the country.
As part of a "new approach" to support the country's armed forces in their continued campaign to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS), Task Force-Iraq (TF-I) transitioned into the Military Advisor Group (MAG), according to a statement from the Coalition's Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) released Sunday.
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— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) July 5, 2020
Many, many years ago, when Norodom Sihanouk was in power and the North Vietnamese were running a freeway of sorts into South Vietnam, the route went through Cambodia into Tay Ninh province. Cambodia was neutral in the war, but didn't have the military strength to enforce its borders. They used to send a single guy on a motorcycle to meet the North Viet supply columns to tell them they couldn't enter, as that was Cambode territory. Sometimes it actually worked.
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Well-informed security sources told North Press on Sunday that #Russia, #Turkey, and #Iran have agreed to launch intense strikes against the Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF) in #EinIssa in northern countryside of #Raqqa. https://t.co/cAp3zhuI2O
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 5, 2020
My, how time flies. The other day it was only a two month setback. Nicely done, guys.
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“Israeli experts assess that the damage from the apparent explosion have set back Iran’s nuclear program by a year, according to Channel 13 news. The network said that the lab in Natanz where advanced centrifuges are assembled had been destroyed.” https://t.co/LhUcrXDBsF
[IsraelTimes] Officials says powerful bomb was used to damage building involved in centrifuge production at Natanz, denies Israeli connection to other recent fires in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
A fire that damaged a building used for producing centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site was sparked by Israel, a Middle Eastern intelligence official told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... on Sunday.
The unidentified official said the blast Thursday at the Natanz nuclear complex was caused by a powerful bomb.
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also told the newspaper that an explosive was used, but didn’t specify who was responsible.
The Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel wasn’t linked to several other recent mysterious fires 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... over the past week.
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Forbes: Iran is claiming a fire and possible explosion at its Natanz nuclear plant on July 2 could have been caused by a cyberattack, and is threatening retaliation in response. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has confirmed an incident took place at the nuclear site where in 2010, a highly-sophisticated cyberattack was orchestrated by the U.S. and Israel, now known as Stuxnet.
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[Jpost] Calling itself a Statuary Sanctuary City, Newton Falls has promised to be a home for any statues of historical figures with legacies marred by racism or slavery.
A small city in Ohio has decided to open itself for all statues and monuments of historical figures throughout the country that many seek to remove due to the problematic aspects of their legacies, local NBC affiliate WFMJ reported.
David Lynch, city manager of Newton Falls, signed an official proclamation Saturday transforming the city into a Statuary Sanctuary City.
This proclamation, uploaded in its entirety by WFMJ, officially declared "a general amnesty for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Patrick Henry, Francis Scott Key, Theodore Roosevelt and Christopher Columbus."
This decision comes amid widespread efforts across the US to remove statues of historical figures with problematic legacies, usually marred by slavery and racism. These statues have included several veterans of the Confederacy from the US Civil War, several US politicians such as president Theodore Roosevelt and of other historical figures such as Christopher Columbus.
These efforts began following protests that sparked after the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis by coppers, leading to greater calls to crack down against white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... and racism, as well as to stop glorifying the legacy of such controversial figures.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... some have criticized this movement, believing that it is disrespectful to American history.
"Whereas the great leaders of our country and Western civilization, though flawed in many ways, have risen to great achievement, such as the founding of our nation, the ending of slavery... and the discovery of the New World itself," Lynch wrote in his proclamation.
"Whereas these great leaders as represented by beautiful and artistic statuary throughout our nation deserve to stand in a place of honor and respect as a reminder that we as Americans can achieve great things."
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.
...Arabic for 
...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...
[LivingLutheran] In a June 9 pastoral letter, ELCA 
/\ Badges and patches, I'm sure you've seen what they've done to scouting.
...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 
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
