[DAILYTIMES.PK] Leading Sudanese politician and former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a 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... infection three weeks after being hospitalised in the United Arab Emirates, according to family sources and a party statement early on Thursday.Mahdi, 84, was Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and was tossed in 1989 in the military coup that brought former president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... to power.
The moderate Umma Party was one of the largest opposition parties under Bashir, and Mahdi remained an influential figure even after Bashir was toppled in April 2019.
Last month, al-Mahdi’s family said he had tested positive for COVID-19, and was transferred to the UAE for treatment a few days later following a brief hospitalisation in Sudan.
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[KhaamaPress] Global Terrorism Index 2020 Marks Afghanistan to be the most impacted nation by terrorism, the country was subjected to 26 world’s terrorist attacks out of 50 worst terrorizing incidents. "Allahu Akhbar! We're Number One!"
According to the report, while deaths caused by terrorism declined in 2019, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... still remains the deadliest terrorist group in the region.
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If you strike at the king... This went quicker than I expected.
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Libyan MPs Agree To Hold Unified Parliamentary Session in Ghadames
MP Saleh Fahima said that the Libyan lawmakers had agreed to designate Benghazi as the constitutional and legal headquarters of the Parliament...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/wkYCVPrRDg
A close friend of the Manchester Arena bomber who refused to cooperate with the UK public inquiry into the attack is set to be released on parole this week, according to The Guardian.
British national Abdel-Raouf Abdallah
...in our archives as Abdal Raouf Abdallah, 27, the wheelchair-bound Libyan-Brit was left paralyzed after being shot in 2011 during that nonsense in Libya. The convicted ISIS recruiter was Salman Abedi’s BFF, according to phone records and prison visits...
befriended Salman Abedi and visited him in jail in the months before the attack. He visited Abedi in prison twice and the pair were in regular telephone contact discussing martyrdom, the inquiry was told.
Abedi detonated a bomb after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds.
Abdullah has so far refused to speak to the inquiry about his links with Abedi. He is claiming legal privilege by refusing to answer questions that may incriminate himself, the hearing was told.
[RFERL.ORG] Two weeks after a Moscow-brokered truce and with returnees and evacuees still flowing to and from Nagorno-Karabakh -- the center of a conflict abruptly "unfrozen" two months ago -- the anguished families of missing Azerbaijani soldiers are scrambling for news of their loved ones.
"I was told by the [Defense Ministry] hotline that he wasn't among the injured," a cousin of Yahya Abdinov, a 21-year-old soldier from the eastern Azerbaijani city of Shirvan, said on November 18.
"Everyone says different things," the cousin, Saday Tagiyev, told RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service. "One person says he's alive and doing his service, another says he's somewhere where there's no [mobile-phone] network so he can't make a call. We're lost. We can't get accurate information."
This week, the family still had no idea what had happened to Abdinov or whether he was even alive.
As fresh graves are dug and filled, and coffins are lain in "deaders' alleys" in Baku and other cities as bodies are returned from the battlefields in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, there are estimates of possibly thousands of Azerbaijani dead.
But no one outside the halls of power of this strategically located Caucasus nation that has been locked in a "frozen conflict" with neighboring Armenia for decades knows for sure.
'WE DON'T HAVE PROTESTS' Authoritarian Azerbaijani President Ilham The Well-Beloved Aliyev ...Hereditary President-for-Life of Azerbaijan, Conqueror of Artsakh, Victorious Commander-in-Chief, Terror of the Infidel Armenian, Most Favored of the Sultan of All the Ottomans... 's already secretive government remains silent about overall casualty figures from six weeks of intense fighting after it kicked off an offensive on September 27.
Officials refuse to answer journalists' questions about specific cases, too.
So parents and cousins still regularly crowd lists of the maimed hung outside hospitals in the capital, Baku. Multiple accounts suggest the Defense Ministry hotlines mostly take down information and urge patience.
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[ToloNews] At least 10 current members of the Australia's elite Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment implicated in the damning Afghanistan war crimes inquiry have received "show cause" notices from the Defense Department, ABC News reported.
ABC quotes Defense sources saying that the elite soldiers facing possible expulsion are members of the SAS's now disbanded 2 Squadron as well as the Regiment's 3 Squadron.
Other Special Forces members may eventually be discharged or face a range of disciplinary sanctions, including formal warnings.
The personnel are suspected to have been "accessories" or "witnesses" to alleged murders carried out by other Special Forces soldiers but are not among the 19 personnel who Justice Brereton recommended be referred to Federal Police.
"Defense can confirm it has initiated administrative action against a number of serving Australian Defence Force personnel in accordance with legislation and Defence policy," a spokesperson told the ABC.
Early this week, Defense Force Chief General Angus Campbell said he would be held to account to ensure the report was dealt with thoroughly, as well as for duty and performance as the commander in the Middle East in 2011.
"I want the ADF (Australia Defense Force) to acknowledge that this is something we’ve got to own because if we don’t own it, we won’t fix it and if we don’t fix it, this horror may appear again and I just cannot accept that," Campbell said as quoted by ABC.
The report, which recommended referring 19 current and former soldiers for potential prosecution, caused shame and anger in Australia, a country that usually honours its military history with fervour.
"I see layers of responsibility here," Campbell said. "I’m determined to see deep, comprehensive and enduring change where it is needed."
Reports published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016, found that senior commandos forced junior soldiers to kill defenseless captives in order to "blood" them for combat. p
[al-Monitor] A marked increase in Turkish military activity in the area between Ain Issa and Tall Tamer in northern Syria has raised the specter of a fresh Turkish military move to curb the Kurds before Trump leaves the White House.
A fresh Ottoman Turkish military buildup is underway in the northern Syrian region of Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, around the key M-4 highway, raising the specter of another Ottoman Turkish thrust to curb the Syrian Kurds.
Military vehicles, heavy weaponry, radars and remote surveillance equipment have been stationed in areas that form the line of contact with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). According to Kurdish sources, the Ottoman Turkish military and allied rebel groups have set up military posts at the village of Saida, north of Ain Issa, as well as around Tell Tamer and Zirkan. In early November, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Ottoman Turkish forces had been stationed also at Kaffifa, Ain Rummana, Tina and al-Rabea, all near the M-4 highway.
Mervan Rojava, the head of the media office of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, told al-Monitor that Ottoman Turkish forces had set up a watchtower with surveillance cameras and snipers at Saida, a deserted village just north of M4. Rojava recalled that the M4 had effectively become a separation line between Ottoman Turkish forces and the SDF after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... seized control of the border stretch from Tell Abyad to Ras al-Ain in Operation Peace Spring in October 2019. "The Ottoman Turkish military has been setting up military bases and digging trenches along the separation strip at sites just several hundred meters from the highway," he said.
After Operation Peace Spring, the grain silos in the village of Shergirak near Ain Issa became the largest Ottoman Turkish base in the vicinity of M4. Another camp area is located near the village of Misherfa, not far from Tell Tamer. Turkey has been reinforcing both bases as well as new sites, according to Syria-based Kurdish journalist Nazim Dastan. Trenches, canals and tunnels are reportedly being dug near Medrut, not far from Tell Abyad, Zirkan and the Hoshan and Khalidiya villages along the M4.
Referring to Saida, which has been a sort of a buffer zone between the two sides, Dastan said, "Ottoman Turkish officials met with the Russians a while ago, asking to set up a military base at Saida. The response of the Russians was negative. This was followed by an intensive assault, which the SDF repelled. Then they began to dig trenches and tunnels and erect a watchtower. They are now using the site to monitor the M4 and Ain Issa."
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Those bullets don't shhotvthemselves and territory doesn't occupy itself.
Beside fresh from the hard fought war against the eeeevvvilll Armenians, it's necessary for those mercenaries to show value!
[KSAT] Kristopher Sean Matthews, 34, admitted to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS on Tuesday.
A San Antonio man pleaded guilty to a plot to provide material support to the terrorist organization 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.... of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria, a.k.a. ISIS.
Kristopher Sean Matthews,
...who took the Muslim name Ali Jibreel ...
34, admitted to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS on Tuesday, John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for Nation Security, said.
Officials said that Matthews’ plea admitted that he conspired with 22-year-old Jaylyn Christopher Molina
...who took the Muslim name Abdur Rahim..
of Cost, Texas, to provide services to ISIS by administering an encrypted, members-only chat group for persons who supported ISIS ideology since 2019.
The group collected, generated and disseminated pro-ISIS propaganda and sent out firearms training materials and bombmaking instructions to group members and others.
Officials said Matthews faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and Molina faces up to 40 years in federal prison upon conviction.
Creeping Sharia tweeted photos of the the imaginative ISIS fanboi site moderators following their arrests in September:
Texas & South Carolina: 2 arrested for plotting jihad attacks on Trump Tower, NY Stock Exchange
💣Jaylyn Molina aka Abdur Rahim "we need to take a lot of casualties" 💣Kristopher Matthews aka Ali Jibreel bombings across US "could be Netflix worthy"
Former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman: #Hamas has cruise missiles and cluster munitions. Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gantz are hiding that from the public https://t.co/VYIq5qnMdo
[AlAhram] Thai officials declined to call it a swap 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 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... referred to the men as "economic activists"
Thailand said Thursday it transferred three Iranians involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot back to Tehran, as Iran released an Australian academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges.
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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 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...
...Arabic for 
...Hereditary President-for-Life of Azerbaijan, Conqueror of Artsakh, Victorious Commander-in-Chief, Terror of the Infidel Armenian, Most Favored of the Sultan of All the Ottomans...
[al-Monitor] A marked increase in Turkish military activity in the area between Ain Issa and Tall Tamer in northern Syria has raised the specter of a fresh Turkish military move to curb the Kurds before Trump leaves the White House.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...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 
