It’s taqqiya frosting slathered on a taqqiya cake baked out of bullshit held together by straw men.
[ToloNews] At a time of growing concerns over the future of the nascent democracy in Afghanistan in a potential peace agreement with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , the group on Friday in a statement explained their perception of an Islamic political system, emphasizing the need for the implementation of Islamic laws and jurisprudence.
Taliban in its statement said that only the restoration of a true Islamic system can ensure a prosperous and successful future for Afghanistan.
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[KhaamaPress] William Burns, CIA director has reportedly made an unannounced visit to Kabul, associated press reported on Saturday.
CIA had been training an Afghan special forces team known as Counter Terrorism Pursuit Teams and are located in Kunar, Paktia, Kandahar, Kabul, Khost, and Nangarhar provinces.
Two credible sources confirmed Burns’ visit to Kabul to AP news but officials in the states declined to comment on the matter.
Burns had a quiet visit to Kabul last weekend, but sources to associated gave no further details about whom Burns met but some discussions were made on Afghanistan’s capability after the US withdrawal.
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There may not be ponies. Burns may be getting a command briefing that is too sensitive to be done remotely. Or delivering directives regarding Biden's added withdrawal assets.
That’d be the unidentified knifeman of yesterday’s story. See here for next steps in France.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee in La Belle France in a suspected attack was depressed and not devout, relatives said Saturday, expressing shock and disbelief.
They identified him as Jamel Gorchene, 36, who hailed from M'saken -- the same hometown as Tunisian Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel,
...the jihad-curious French resident from Tunisia and father of three with a taste for petty criminality, a background of psychological problems — whatever that means — and a vast acquaintance in the jihad-curious world who finally dunnit...
who carried out a deadly attack in La Belle France in July 2016.
Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd of people on the waterfront of the Mediterranean city of Nice as they celebrated Bastille Day, killing 86 before being rubbed out by police.
Thank goodness his former neighbour was not nearly as efficient.
That attack came less than a year after deadly assaults in November 2015 that saw 130 people killed in bombings and shootings across Gay Paree, including at the Bataclan concert hall.
"Jamel was a quiet person, reserved," said his cousin Noureddine, according to AFP.
"But he did not have much to do with religion, and was not particularly pious," he said, adding however that he had not seen his cousin for some time.
There is a pattern of the not-devout becoming radical when they arrive in Dar al Harb. Not all, but enough to cause problems.
Sameh, another cousin, recalled that Gorchene suffered from depression and was seeing a psychiatrist in La Belle France.
Depressed, and now he is dead. But suicide by cop as a result of jihad...
A brother-in-law said Gorchene recently returned home to Tunisia, where he spent two weeks.
Sameh confirmed that report, adding Gorchene apparently "planned on returning home definitively".
"He was expected to return home today," she said.
Does returning home in a pine box meet the criteria? Incidentally, will he get a place in Paradise for having died while merely injuring his unbeliever target?
President Biden does not like wannabe neo-Ottoman sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, the otherwise much beloved.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... on Saturday said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies.
The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, will likely to be celebrated by the Armenian diaspora in the United States, but comes at a time when Ankara and Washington have deep policy disagreements over a host of issues.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey "entirely rejects" the US decision which he said was based "solely on populism".
Biden’s message was met with "great enthusiasm" by the people of Armenia and Armenians worldwide, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote in a letter to the US president.
In his statement, Biden said the American people honor "all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today."
"Over the decades Armenian immigrants colonists have enriched the United States in countless ways, but they have never forgotten the tragic history ... We honor their story. We see that pain. We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated," Biden said.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Saturday accused the United States of trying to rewrite history, resoundingly rejecting US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... 's decision to formally recognise the Armenian genocide.
From the streets of Istanbul to the halls of power, Turks were united in anger at Biden's decision to side with Armenia, La Belle France, Germany, Russia and numerous other countries in their interpretation of the horrific World War I events.
"Words cannot change or rewrite history," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted moments after Biden announced his decision.
"We will not take lessons from anyone on our history."
Biden became the first US president to use the word genocide in a customary statement on the anniversary of the 1915 to 1917 massacre, which happened as the Ottoman Empire unravelled.
Trying to soften the inevitable blow to the pride of the strategic NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ally, Biden on Friday placed the first phone call since his election to Erdogan.
The two leaders agreed to meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit in June, and Erdogan -- who has spent his 18 years in power trying to fight the US decision -- carefully calibrated the weight of his response.
In a message to the Armenian patriarch in Istanbul, Erdogan accused "third parties" of trying to politicise the century-old debate.
"Nobody benefits from the debates -- which should be held by historians -- being politicised by third parties and becoming an instrument of interference in our country," Erdogan wrote.
On a more conciliatory note, Erdogan said Turkey was "ready to develop our relations with Armenia based on good neighbourhood and mutual respect".
- 'VERY BAD STEP' -
But the message from Cavusoglu's foreign ministry was strident.
"We reject and denounce in the strongest terms the statement of the president of the US regarding the events of 1915 made under the pressure of radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups on 24 April," the foreign ministry said in a separate statement.
"It is clear that the said statement does not have a scholarly and legal basis, nor is it supported by any evidence," it said.
"With regards to the events of 1915, none of the conditions required for the use of the term 'genocide' that is strictly defined in international law are met."
The Armenians, supported by many historians and scholars, say 1.5 million of their people died in a genocide committed under the Ottoman Empire, which was fighting tsarist Russia in areas that include present-day Armenia.
Turkey accepts that both Armenians and Turks died in huge numbers during World War I, but vehemently denies there was a deliberate policy of genocide -- a term that had not been legally defined at the time.
Turkey puts the Armenian corpse count at around 300,000.
Ordinary Turks said Biden's recognition of the genocide underscored the troubled nature of Turkey's current relationship with Washington, which had once benefited from Erdogan's personal friendship with Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "It's a very bad step. Our relationship is already really bad with the US, and this will only worsen it," said Istanbul resident Dilek Mercin.
"During a war, things happen to both parties, so it is meaningless to call it like that," added Selda, a pensioner.
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Even a stopped clock shows right time twice a day?
#2
Not really.
The story is much, much more complicated (ala the Balkan Wars) and pretty much everyone played the bad guy at multiple points.
As I remarked before, this episode of theater is mostly aimed at driving up the rental prices on Turkish Armed Forces for E.U. and other western aligned factions.
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At first glance it does seem like the thing to do, but then you have to think about motive and Mandarin Bei-Den's track record so far. The actual motive might be to further widen the breach between Turkey and the West, not that Yip-yip needs any help in that arena.
Congress passed an Armenia Genocide Resolution in 2019. There is a near consensus among historians that it was a genocide. There is enormous documented evidence.
The only real debate is on the numbers with low estimates at about 1.0M and higher estimates at 1.5M.
Turkey also forcibly converted 100k+ Christian children to Islam in that time period. Turkey also
wiped out much of of the Syriac Christian and a similar percentage of the Greek Orthodox. Combined deaths of these two populations were over 100k.
Before 1920 the Armenian Genocide was the worst such event in Western history.
Later in the 20th century was the Holodomor in the Ukraine (early 1930s), the Holocaust (40s), the Cambodian Class Genocide (70s) and the Rwandan Genocide (90s).
If you add all the deaths of these previously mentioned genocides, they still are fewer than the 25 to 50 million deaths from the Chinese Great Leap Forward beginning in the late 1950s.
The GLF is generally not considered a genocide because Mao presumably believed his policies would work to bring prosperity and ideological purity.
Another case is the Muslim Genocide in India. It lasted from about 1000 to the late 1700s. Certainly more than 100M Hindus were killed, many in battle but many more in massacres.
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just moslems being moslems, aka 'some people did something'
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Please limit the width of graphics to 500 pix.
Learning from history is important.
That would include learning that the Turks (as then constituted) inflicted grave atrocities upon the Armenian segment of the human race. Hopefully, the Turks have changed for the better, but (by denying the atrocity) the Turks undermine our confidence that they have changed. It’s like Germans who argue Hitler was misunderstood — I’ve met them & they miss the whole point that any level of holocaust is a bad thing.
We are one race—diverse, unified—the human race.
Devine & bedeviled, we’re best off speaking to our better angels. We are majestic or monsters—in every age, worldwide, no matter our skin color, nationality or creed.
All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
“No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people”
~ Victor Frankel
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Most people can see that what happened to the Armenians was genocide. That recognition has widespread, bipartisan support in the USA and worldwide. Beijing Biden recognizing the obvious is simply an attempt by his handlers to shore up his reputation, which is in a profound state of contemptuous collapse.
The undeniable photographic evidence from the time (depicting what the Turks did to the Armenians) sure lacks any other explanation than flat out genocide of the Armenians.
#14
Bill tossed back his poolside martini.
"That Turk! What a terrible meanie!"
"Yes, downright un-Christian...
Let's use crucifixion,"
Keened Hollywood, dreaming of Jeannie.
[Aawsat] The election this week of Iran to a UN committee on women's rights is an "insult" to women who suffer daily discrimination in the country, groups representing Iranian women outside the country said Friday.
Iran was elected Thursday to a four-year mandate along with six other countries to the New York-based UN Commission on the Status of Women, which works to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.
"We consider the election of the extremely misogynistic regime of Iran as an insult to all Iranian women, the main victims of this regime during the last four decades," said the Association of Iranian Women in France (AFIF) and their counterparts in Italy and Sweden in a statement.
"We call on governments, institutions and associations to condemn this decision," they added.
They pointed to the March report by Javaid Rehman, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, which was highly critical of the situation of women in Iran.
While some positive steps such as in education were recognized in his report, Rehman said "egregious gender-based discrimination persists in law, practice and societal attitudes, disempowering women and girls from participating and contributing in society."
He urged action to end child marriages and practices where permission from fathers or husbands is required for a range of actions "that should be the woman's own choice".
Iran has arrested and prosecuted women who took part in a civil disobedience campaign to remove the obligatory headscarf in public, while prize-winning lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh who defended their cases is serving a prison sentence.
Masih Alinejad, a US-based activist who founded the My Stealthy Freedom movement that encouraged women to remove their hijabs, said the naming of Iran to the commission was an "insult" to those women arrested.
"A regime that does not allow women to make decisions for their own bodies has been elected to a body to monitor the condition of women around the world," she told the Swedish parliament in a video statement.
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[SHAFAQ] The leader of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, the villainous-looking Qais al-Khazali ...... Iranian stooge, Secretary General of Persian proxy militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, wannabe Nasrallah...... , expressed skepticism towards the US intentions to withdraw its troops from Iraq, calling the Iraqi government to clarify its position.
Al-Khazali tweeted today, Saturday, "the statements of the United States Central Command are clear evidence for the US administration's lack of seriousness in withdrawing its military forces from Iraq's territory."
The leader of the Iran-backed faction demanded the Iraqi government to debunk the US statements, "otherwise, it will be an evidence of lack of credibility for its claims that it demanded the departure of the US forces."
"The Americans prove time after time that the language of dialogue and logic does not work with them. The Afghani way is the only way to get them out."
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USA leaves, China comes in. Let see how you like it, Qais.
That’s nastier than mustache cursing! Or possibly it’s meant as admiration...
[SHAFAQ] A local official in Diyala described the parties the Peshmerga forces' return to Khanaqin district as "Baathist chauvinist mouthpieces."
The head of the dissolved Khanaqin District Council, Samir Muhammad Nour, told Shafaq News agency that there is a "chauvinistic nationalist view towards the Kurds in Khanaqin and the disputed areas, as some political parties are seeking with all their government influence to prevent the return of the Peshmerga to Khanaqin and Diyala."
Nour asked about the reasons and obstacles to the return of the Peshmerga to the outskirts of Khanaqin, despite the presence of three brigades in the Green Zone in Baghdad, pointing out, "the army and al-Hashd al-Shaabi have made enormous sacrifices to protect Khanaqin, but they lack security and intelligence awareness of the conditions in the vicinity of Khanaqin, which resisted terrorist groups throughout the presence of the Peshmerga in 2003-2017."
Another official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Khanaqin, who preferred to remain anonymous, described the political parties that reject the return of the Peshmerga as "Baathist."
"The return of the Peshmerga to their sites in Khanaqin means the return of stability to more than 80 threatened villages since October 2017 events", he told Shafaq News agency.
He stressed, "the security file of Khanaqin and its affiliates has become a political card controlled by parties seeking demographic changes and the Arabization of several villages and areas by fueling security unrest."
The Khanaqin district is witnessing a remarkable increase in the rate of security breaches, which became almost daily following October 2017, and the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces, which were deployed in the area.
The withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the Diyala borders in 2017, after the Kurdish independence referendum, caused vast security gaps exploited by ISIS Lions of Islam fleeing from the western governorates and Diyala areas to launch attacks and operations that killed dozens of civilians and security personnel.
[JPost] - Ofer Kopelman, 57, a resident of Alfei Menashe was indicted on three counts of inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, according to Walla! News.
According to the indictment, in June and July of last year, Kopelman published Facebook posts calling for violence and encouraging acts of violence against Netanyahu. As I wrote on several occasions: our monkeys always imitate yours (USA).
#1
Thank goodness Bibi manages to continue taking care of the important stuff despite the hyenas. Don’t they understand that for Israel politics is existential?
#3
/\Are some of them "Anti-Zionists"? I mean they have passports and aren't afraid to use them -- Israel is not as important as World Socialism™ to them.
[JPost] - Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday called to "escalate the uprising in Jerusalem" and to form a "unified leadership for popular resistance" against Israel, while the enclave’s dominant party, Hamas, told terror groups to remain ready to launch more rockets at Israel.
Hamas’s call came after Gaza’s terror organizations launched more than 40 rockets into Israeli territory on Friday and Saturday. Please do. Some of our politicians need a remainder why "Israeli" Arab parties cannot be a part of a ruling coalition.
#1
Thank you for being on top of this for us today, g(r)omgoru. Fred and Frank G had taken care of it yesterday, so I concentrated on other parts of the world.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] More and more Paleostinian officials have stated that President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... may postpone the upcoming parliamentary elections, a move increasingly opposed by the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, movement and other electoral lists.
Nabil Shaath, an advisor Abbas, was among the latest officials to warn that elections are "very likely" to be delayed if Israel continues to bar voting in East Jerusalem.
A senior Paleostinian Authority (PA) official told Kan 11 News on Wednesday that he believes there is a high probability that the elections, which are scheduled for May 22, will be delayed.
"Currently, there is a 90 percent chance that the election will be postponed," the source said.
According to the report, Abbas has not yet decided on whether to postpone the polls, even after a series of discussions on the issue that took place this week in Ramallah.
Kan 11 News reported that the pressure on Abbas has increased in recent days.
Among other things, Fatah officials fear that the internal divisions within the party ahead of the polls may allow Hamas to gain a foothold that would adversely affect relations between the PA and Israel and the administration in Washington.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for "calm on all sides" after several nights of unrest in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
The prime minister also warned that Israel remains "prepared for all scenarios" after dozens of rockets were fired from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip towards Israel overnight, prompting Israeli retaliatory air strikes.
He made the remarks after attending an emergency security meeting with bigwigs, including army chief Aviv Kohavi, hours after Israeli warplanes struck Gaza early Saturday and a second night of festivities between Paleostinians and police in Jerusalem.
Thirty-six rockets were launched, the Israeli army said, the most in a single night this year, after Gaza's Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers voiced support for the east Jerusalem protests, which were fueled by a march Thursday by far-right Jews.
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I blame Ben-Gurion - he ordered IDF to stop Arabs' flight from Eretz Israel by force. Should've encouraged them, and establish a precedent for 1967.
#2
If they're IPv4 addresses, it's hard to see it as a big deal.
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There isn't a subnet which is around 175M in size. 175M is somewhere between 28 and 29 bits in the subnet mask. Unless the DOD has 175M individual IP addresses.
Being the DOD, and the ARPA originated the 'Internet' it makes sense they might still have huge sections they can dispose.
I suspect the reporter doesn't know what he's talking about - big surprise there. Where do you 'buy' an IP address for $25 anyway? You can register a domain name for about that much (depending on the type).
If they are IPV6 addresses then this isn't 4% of the space.
My guess is that the DOD has several subnets it is getting rid of (making available to the public) and they are using this as a mechenism to do so.
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Is this really War on Terror, or even WoT background? It seems more non-WoT to me, but I would like to hear from those here who know more on the subject before making that change.
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Good conversation.
I think this is prob SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, but it is DoD and they may have engaged a possibly black cutout GRS (a little like URS?). If they are mapping traffic these may or may not be in a IP block. They may be onion layers, cutouts and linkage endpoints.
[Times of Israel] Good, if true. I wouldn't trust Biden's Regime for a second
Brett McGurk tells Jewish leaders Washington will not take pressure off until it is clear program will be capped and ’back in a box,’ Forward reports
A top US official spoke to American Jewish leaders Friday on US efforts to revive the nuclear deal with Iran, telling them that no sanctions would be removed from the Islamic Republic before Washington gets clear commitments on Iran’s return to the 2015 accord.
"Until we get somewhere and until we have a firm commitment, and it’s very clear that Iran’s nuclear program is going to be capped, the problematic aspects reversed and back in a box, we are not going to take any of the pressure off," the National Security Council’s Brett McGurk told leaders, according to quotes provided to the Forward by several individuals on the call.
McGurk is the NSC’s coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.
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That's today. Who knows what our position may be tomorrow?
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Also, it would be nice to hear words like this from someone whose name we even remotely recognize.
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McGurk has been around a long time. His word means nothing when Biden can flip-flop on Immigration numbers in a day
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Joey can't plagiarize any more from Neil Kinnock, so he has trouble keeping his lies straight.
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...
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee in 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...46th president of the U.S. S Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
[Aawsat] The election this week of Iran to a UN committee on women's rights is an "insult" to women who suffer daily discrimination in the country, groups representing Iranian women outside the country said Friday.
...... Iranian stooge, Secretary General of Persian proxy militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, wannabe Nasrallah......
[SHAFAQ] A local official in Diyala described the parties the Peshmerga forces' return to Khanaqin district as "Baathist chauvinist mouthpieces."
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
[Times of Israel] 
