[ToloNews] The Office of National Security Council (ONSC) on Thursday confirmed the Afghan government had nearly completed the release of Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners on the group's list, except for a half dozen prisoners about whom international partners have reservations.
The government received commandos held hostage by the Taliban, said Javid Faisal, the front man for the National Security Council (NSC), after the government released the bulk of the remaining 400 Taliban prisoners.
Sources close to the peace talks said that the travel plans of the delegation representing the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan have been delayed until Friday.
The Afghan government has released 4,993 Taliban based on the list provided by the Taliban. The remaining seven are those with whom partner nations have taken issue. Both La Belle France and Australia publicly asked the Afghan government to not release prisoners that had killed citizens from their respective nations.
"The peace negotiating team of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan represents the Afghan nation and the government in the peace talks with the aim of creating a progressive, independent and unified Afghanistan in which the rights of all citizens of Afghanistan are protected," said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, the head of the govt peace negotiating team.
The date of the talks:
"There is a possibility that the delegation departs tomorrow or day after tomorrow, but it will go in the near future," said Haji Din Mohammad, the deputy of the High Council of National Reconciliation.
"We are busy coordinating the arrangements for the talks between the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban group that are expected to begin soon," said Najia Anwari, a spokeswoman for the State Ministry on Peace Affairs.
A source close to the Taliban said that the seven hardcore Taliban prisoners about whom Australia and La Belle France have expressed reservations will be shifted to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... where they will be put under monitoring.
"The agenda of the talks and the redlines for talks are not clear for the republic team (govt negotiating team), but the [Taliban] team has established a new team and they plan to pursue clear agendas and programs," said Tamim Asey, Founder & Executive Chairman at the Institute of War and Peace Studies (IWPS).
Sources close to the Taliban said that the Taliban team led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has arrived in Qatar after undergoing COVID-19 tests.
"I had no choice. I mean...I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that," Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, told VICE in an interview set to air Thursday night.
Reinoehl is seemingly admitting to playing a role in the fatal shooting Aaron Danielson, a supporter of the Patriot Prayer movement who died Saturday night after sustaining a gunshot wound to the chest. Patriot Prayer members took part in a pro-Trump caravan that ventured through Portland, where Black Lives Matter protesters had gathered.
There have been no reports that Danielson, who went by the name Jay Bishop, was armed or was threatening anyone when he was shot.
Video footage of the incident has been released but it does not clearly show what happened leading up to the shooting.
"You know, lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn’t even be saying anything, but I feel it’s important that the world at least gets a little bit of what’s really going on," Reinoehl told VICE. (RELATED: Antifa Supporter Is Person Of Interest In Portland Shooting)
Reinoehl has not been arrested or charged in the case.
The New York Times and other outlets now report that Michael Reinoehl, an avowed member and supporter of antifa, was shot in Lacey, Washington, a town near the capital of Olympia.
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"I had no choice. I mean...I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that," Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, told VICE in an interview set to air Thursday night.
Show me the weapon. If you do produce one, show me his DNA or fingerprints on it.
And exactly how did you have no choice but to get your thug ass killed when the feds came to arrest you? Keep in mind that they probably have video of it all.
The only tears that will be shed at your funeral might be those of your parents.
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Who are his accomplices? Where are all the people he's been "organizing" with these past several months? Roll them up
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Trace his firearm.
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The only tears that will be shed at your funeral might be those of your parents
Not likely, if what his sister says about this vermin is true. Stealing mom's dementia medication and bullying her to hand over what little savings she had, re-directing debt collectors to go after his siblings....
Funny how the NYT hagiography article ignores the sister's testimony and quotes this scumbag's fellow Antifa nutjobs - paints him as a "guardian angel," like a red St Francis bringing peace where there's enmity, hope where there's sorrow etc
Washington's decision to end the arms embargo on Greek-administered Cyprus and attempts to change the balance of power will bring conflict, not peace, says Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar pic.twitter.com/amZP5uiHSx
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish TRT news channel published a video clip that it said documented the presence of Greek soldiers on the island of Kastellorizo (Meis), which is in violation of the provisions of the Lausanne and Gay Paree agreements on disarming the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
The state-owned TRT network published a video of Greek soldiers on the island of Kastellorizo, which is about two kilometers from the Ottoman Turkish mainland.
They claimed this coincides with the escalation of tension in the eastern Mediterranean region.
Two days ago, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... confirmed that it would not allow Greece to achieve its goal of sending soldiers to the island of Kastellorizo, which is located directly off the Ottoman Turkish coast.
Relations between Turkey and Greece, two members of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , have been deteriorating over the demarcation of maritime borders and the exploration of natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] Dozens of protesters from the Defense Housing Authority and Clifton in Pakistain’s largest city, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , have been charged with ’terrorism’ for
The Clifton Cantonment Board (CBC) oversees the administration of the Defense Housing Authority (DHA).
On Monday afternoon, August 31, residents gathered outside the office to protest and demand that the chief executive officer negotiates with them, but their demand was not met.
The FIR has been lodged under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 148 (rioting), 147 (punishment for rioting), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code on the complaint of Munawar Hasan, building and security supervisor of the CBC.
The complainant stated that he was present at the CBC office located on Khayaban-e-Rahat, DHA Phase VI on Aug 31 while other staff were "in the field busy in dewatering efforts" when around noon, 40-50 "peaceful residents" gathered to lodge their complaints.
Frustrated by the lack of action by departments concerned, residents of DHA and Clifton had on Monday gathered outside the CBC office to protest against the post-rain situation in the two localities.
Some of the protesters lost their cool as they scaled the CBC office gate to force it open and stage a sit-in to demand removal of top CBC and DHA officials.
The post-rain situation in Karachi is currently the focus of political and military leadership. Pakistain Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa also made an aerial tour of the rain-affected areas in Karachi and met the Karachi business community.
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[IsraelTimes] With UAE normalization begun, Intelligence Ministry report says Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... interested in ’military and intelligence cooperation,’ Bahrain and Oman in security and trade relations.
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Trying to help the Kurds become a functioning polity after all that’s happened.
[Rudaw] The United States is funding a number of reconstruction and agriculture projects in Syria’s troubled Deir ez-Zor province, home to oil fields Washington wants to control.
"To support the agricultural sector in Deir ez-Zour, the U.S. Department of State and USAID are rehabilitating bakeries and mills, expanding access to subsidized bread for nearly 30,000 people," the US embassy in Damascus announced on Facebook on Wednesday.
The US is also handing out seeds, fertilizer, drip irrigation equipment, and livestock to farming households, is aiding firefighters, and is rehabilitating irrigation canals that feed over 800 hectares of land, and a drinking water station in Hajin. Repairs to canals off the Euphrates River are expected to benefit 350,000 people in Deir ez-Zor and 50,000 people in Hasaka, to the north, according to the embassy statement.
It was in Deir ez-Zor that 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.... (ISIS) made its last stand before its so-called caliphate fell to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the global coalition in 2019. The eastern province, which borders Iraq, is home to Syria’s largest oil reserves. Holding onto that oil is US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ’s main goal in Syria now that ISIS is defeated.
American troops in Syria are "down to almost nothing, except we kept the oil," Trump said in Washington last month.
US oil company Delta Crescent Energy LLC has reportedly struck a deal with the Kurdish administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) for that crude. The agreement is to repair and develop oil fields that were damaged during ISIS’ reign. Only 20 percent of the oil fields were still operational after the war with ISIS, according to senior Rojava politician Aldar Khalil.
Relations are strained, however, between the Kurdish-led administration and the Arab tribes of Deir ez-Zor. Normally simmering tensions went kaboom! this summer after a high profile liquidation of a tribal leader. Security is a concern in the province that borders regime-held areas and where small groups of ISIS turbans remain active.
Intense talks are ongoing between senior Kurds, including SDF commander Mazloum Abdi who visited Deir ez-Zor in August, and tribal leaders, with the US military often playing a mediation role.
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Narratives are blinders that keep suckers stupid, Herb. Smart people look at the real situation, the one where we are holding the oil fields to give to the Syrian Kurds so they have an income that will allow them to cover the costs of continuing to fight against ISIS instead of surrendering to Turkey, and won’t need to depend on us.
After all, we have as much oil as we are willing to pump out of the ground, and even more natural gas and coal. We don’t have any need for the stuff on the far side of the world in Syria.
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The laborers (the Kurds) are worthy of their wage.
Hopefully, this new place will be better than the border area where they were kicked out of by Turkey.
I hope the Kurds will be a constant thorn in the side of Turkey.
[Jpost] The public remains anxious that more hazardous materials are being stored badly, putting them at risk.
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... 's army said on Thursday it had found 4.35 tons of ammonium nitrate near the entrance to Beirut port, the site of a huge blast last month caused by a large stockpile of the same highly explosive chemical.
At least it’s not something truly dangerous like hydric acid.
Army engineers were "dealing with it," according to an army statement carried by the state news agency NNA. The statement said the chemicals were found outside entrance nine to the port.
The catastrophic explosion on Aug. 4 that destroyed the city killed about 190 people. The authorities said it was caused by about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stacked in unsafe conditions in a port warehouse for years.
The blast smashed entire neighborhoods, gutting buildings and injuring 6,000 people.
Lebanon's government quit amid public anger in a nation already brought to its knees by an economic crisis. The public remains anxious that more hazardous materials are being stored badly, putting them at risk.
Earlier on Thursday, President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... ordered repairs to be made to old refueling infrastructure at Beirut airport and called for an investigation into a report that thousands of liters of fuel had leaked from the system.
Beirut airport head Fadi el-Hassan told a news conference that a leak of 84,000 liters of fuel had occurred in March 2019 and repairs were completed in two months. He said international Sherlocks had described the repairs as "satisfactory."
News of the leak added to concerns about public safety. "No explosion is awaiting us," Hassan told the news conference.
Earlier today the #Lebanese Armed Forces discovered a container in the area of #Beirut Port, #Lebanon containing 4 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate, it was unknwon to Lebanese customs. pic.twitter.com/V7DIiaQkKe
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We Pray for Lebanon, for not had you wanted this, nor could you resist it.
Clean your house, and we will still want to make our Cedar Movement finish and the Paris of the Middle East open again.(edited)
Follow Hezbollah, or Iran, and they will proxy you to doom.
If you do not know who your Friends are, take a look around again.
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Speak for yourself newc. Lebanon is a beautiful country - once the vermin currently infesting it is cleaned out, it'll make a valuable addition to Greater Israel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[DailyCaller] A self-identified Antifa supporter linked to the fatal shooting of a pro-Trump activist in Portland over the weekend broke his silence in a new interview, appearing to suggest the Trump supporter was killed in self-defense.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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 
...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...
