[Tolo] I almost swallowed my tongue the first time I read this. Someone left the irony on. Iran’s ambassador in Kabul said that his country will not recognize the current Afghan government unless its government is inclusive.
He made the remarks in a special interview with TOLOnews’ Bahram Aman in Kabul.
Ambassador Bahadur Aminian said that Tehran might persuade other countries to recognize the Afghan government if the Islamic Emirate brings reforms to its government structure.
"If a group comes (to power) and the group is (comprised) of a single ethnic group and all other ethnic groups are not included in the government, we don’t accept it, and, therefore, we benevolently call on the Taliban rulers to form an inclusive government," he said. like Kurds?
But the Islamic Emirate said Aminian’s remarks are an attempt to interfere in Afghan affairs.
"Is the government or the cabinet of Iran based on other people's definition of inclusive?" said Inamullah Samangani, deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate. "Every country has their own definition of inclusive government based on their national interests."
"This government should be inclusive based on the Afghan nation’s wishes, not based on foreign countries’ interference," said Sayed Javad Husseini, leader of Hezb-e-Adalat wa Tawsa.
The Iranian ambassador said that the current economic crisis will pave the way for extremism, particularly for Daesh.
"If the economic problems remain, it will cause more migration. If the economic problems remain, they will cause extremism, which will not only threaten Afghanistan but also the region," he said.
Aminian, however, denied reports that Iranian forces were treating Afghan refugees violently, saying that approximately four million Afghans are settled in Iran.
Iran's government provided educational opportunities for the Afghan refugees, he said.
Aminian is optimistic over the US withdrawal of Afghanistan and says that Tehran considers it part of its revenge against Washington for the killing of Qasem Soleimani, a senior Iranian military official, who was killed by a US drone strike in January 2020 in Iraq.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan reacted to US claims over releasing the "ISIS-K affiliate" who carried out a suicide kaboom on Kabul International Airport that killed nearly 200 people including US marines.
A spokesperson of the IEA Bilal Karimi in a series of Twitter posts on Sunday, January 2, 2022, said that the release of the perpetrator of the August 26 attack is "baseless" and there is no proof of the claim.
Bilal Karimi said that the timeframe between the release of prisoners from Bagram prison and the suicide attack was too narrow and that it was not possible to plan an attack during that short time.
He added that the ISIS-K prisoners were freed before they (Taliban ...Arabic for students... ) gain control over prisons.
"The affiliates of ISIS-K were released before Taliban gain full control of prisons. We have eliminated or arrested back those who affiliated the terror group." Reads a Twitter post.
The ISIS-K affiliate conducted the heinous attack on August 26 on Kabul International Airport killed 13 US marines.
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[Al Ahram] Video footage released by the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) showed its agents pouring alcohol stored in barrels into the canal after seizing it during a raid in the capital.
"Moslems have to seriously abstain from making and delivering alcohol," an intelligence official said in the footage the agency posted on Twitter on Sunday.
It was not clear when the raid was carried out or exactly when the alcohol was destroyed, but a statement issued by the agency said three dealers were arrested during the operation.
Selling and consuming alcohol was banned even under the previous Western-backed regime, but the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , known for their austere brand of Islam, are stricter in their opposition to it.
Since the Islamists seized power on August 15, the frequency of raids, including on drug addicts, has increased across the country.
The Taliban government's Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has also issued several guidelines restricting women's rights.
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[Breitbart] Police in Rotherham, where the authorities failed to tackle South Asian heritage “grooming” gangs due to political correctness for years, failed to record most abusers’ ethnicity in the year to December 2019.
Despite national and regional inquiries all concluding that victims had been failed and claiming lessons had been learned after the grooming gangs scandal was finally exposed at scale, an investigation by The Times has found that every police district in South Yorkshire, a major centre of abuse, still “routinely failed to log the ethnicity of those suspected of sexually abusing minors”.
Rotherham, which along with Rochdale was arguably ground zero for the scandal breaking nationwide, was the district most reluctant to log predators’ ethnic background, failing to record the ethnicity of an astonishing 67 per cent of suspects.
Independent investigations strongly suggest that a highly disproportionate number of grooming gang abusers are men of South Asian, mostly Pakistani Muslim heritage, and their victims largely white working-class girls and young women, but members of the media are still generally unable to describe suspects as anything other than “Asian” — to the chagrin of British Sikhs, among others — because the authorities almost never release information on their national and religious background.
“I reviewed these historic failings and, like this investigation by The Times, found that data collection on offenders is still poor, which is why I am making it mandatory for police forces to record the ethnicity of those arrested and held in custody as a result of their suspected involvement in grooming gangs,” commented Home Secretary Priti Patel of the situation, not explaining why she did not implement such a measure before the newspapers highlighted police failings if she was already aware of them.
The Tory MP, whose department has broad responsibility for policing, border control, deportations, and national security in the Boris Johnson administration — and is performing rather poorly across the board — added that “community and cultural factors are clearly relevant to understanding why people offend”, although to date police, prosecutors, and judges have remained unwilling to concede that the systematic abuse of mostly white non-Muslim girls and women by mostly South Asian Muslim men is racially or religiously motivated.
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Surely the names of the miscreants would give a strong hint to their ethnic and religious identity. Singh = Sikh, Mohammed (and variations) = Moslem, Christian =... well, you get the idea.
[DW] EU rules call for the nation where asylum-seekers first enter the bloc to process requests for protection. But most applications in Germany come from people other EU countries failed to register, a media report says.
The majority of asylum applications in Germany last year were from people not registered at the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's external borders, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday.
Citing figures from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). the paper said 53% of first-time applicants aged 14 and over were not listed on the Eurodac fingerprint database during the first 11 months of 2021.
The fingerprints of 74,837 applicants who met the criteria were compared with the EU database, which showed that 35,245 claimants had previously applied for refugee status, the paper reported.
In total, 172,370 claims for asylum, including children, were made in Germany from January to November.
Eurodac was set up in 2003 to handle the fingerprint identification of everyone who applies for asylum in any EU country, as many people arrive without paper identification documents.
ASYLUM SHOULD BE REQUESTED ON ARRIVAL
The BAMF data revealed that many refugees in Germany had not made their claim for asylum when they first set foot on EU soil — in countries like Greece, Italia, Poland or Lithuania — which sit at the bloc's land or sea borders.
Under the EU's Dublin III regulation, asylum applications must be registered in the arrival country, which is then responsible for processing the person's request for protection.
One of the principles of the regulation is to stop multiple applications for asylum in several EU states.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... countries in southern and eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... have complained they carry a heavier burden, when most asylum applicants would rather take refuge in wealthier countries in western and northern Europe.
The measure has also been labeled unworkable, as most refugees move between EU countries and asylum applicants aren't often returned to their arrival country.
As Germany doesn't lie on the EU's external border, under the Dublin rules the number of asylum claims should be much lower.
GERMANY RECEIVES MORE APPLICATIONS
Data from the EU's statistics agency Eurostat showed Germany's share of all asylum claims made in the EU was 28.4%, compared with 20% for La Belle France, 11% for Spain and 8% for Italia.
Alexander Throm, a spokesperson for the center-right bloc in the German parliament, the Bundestag, said the data "drastically demonstrates the dysfunctionality of the Dublin system."
He told Welt am Sonntag that the registration and return of asylum-seekers are fundamental precepts of the EU's asylum system.
He called on Germany's new coalition government to demand better compliance with the Dublin rules.
"To disproportionately relieve other EU states by redistribution despite the registration deficiencies, as the coalition agreement envisages, is the wrong signal," Throm said.
The German government's coalition agreement calls for a "forward-looking and realistic" migration policy and adds that "irregular migration" should be reduced.
BLUF: known criminal previously jailed for several years by Saudi Arabia for trying to join ISIS along with his father, whose sister got herself killed trying to knife a Tampa policeman after his arrest, protests during trial that the FBI paid attention to him.
[JustTheNews] The planes "followed him" and would circle his home "for hours on end," the defense argued.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) use of so-called "secret spy plane surveillance" is under scrutiny after the defense attorney for a Florida man accused of terrorism filed a motion to review the program.
The Department of Justice accused Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari of planning to carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State, for which he was arrested in May 2020.
Al-Azhari's attorney filed a motion in August to suppress the FBI's aerial evidence.
"The FBI operates a secret spy plane surveillance program," federal public defender Samuel Landes wrote. The Associated Press first reported on the program in 2015, and the FBI admitted to it shortly thereafter.
The Baltimore Police Department used similar warrantless aerial surveillance, but in June, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the program's "warrantless operation [violated] the Fourth Amendment."
At least nine FBI planes were used to surveil Al-Azhari without a warrant, Landes alleged, creating more than 900 videos that were provided to the defense. The planes, mostly small Cessnas, would circle his home "for hours on end. When Mr. Alazhari left his home, the planes followed him, including when he drove his car, and including when he traveled long distances," Landes wrote.
Because the government did not obtain a warrant, the defense argues that the search was "unreasonable under the fourth amendment" and evidence obtained from the surveillance "must be suppressed."
The Epoch Times reports that the Department of Justice responded to the motion in September by arguing that the FBI's surveillance was mischaracterized.
"The surveillance conducted in this case is not novel, nor did it involve highly invasive or extensive monitoring that would raise constitutional concerns," prosecutors wrote, adding that even if it were a search, it would be legal.
The FBI was "leaving nothing to chance," prosecutors said. "At the time aerial surveillance ramped up, the FBI had every reason to believe that the Defendant was planning an imminent attack."
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The defense filed another motion stating that Al-Azhari may be mentally unfit for trial.
Throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if any sticks.
They requested him to undergo a mental health exam, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The judge granted the defense's request earlier this month, The Epoch Times stated, adding that a "status conference is set for Jan. 18."
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem Post and Maariv sites show warnings from Iran ...The nation is 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... propaganda video of a missile hitting mock-up of Dimona nuclear site.
At least two Israeli media sites were apparently hacked early Monday with warnings from an Iranian propaganda video and linked to the second anniversary of the liquidation of top general Qassem Soleimani
The website of the Jerusalem Post showed a scene from an Iranian missile drill last month in which Tehran destroyed a mock-up of Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona.
In the picture, the rocket appears to be fired from the iconic ring of Soleimani, with the caption: "We are close to you where you do not think about it," in English and Hebrew.
The Twitter account of the Maariv newspaper, which has the same owners as the English-language Post, briefly held the same message, but soon took it down.
The Post said it was working to restore its site.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... says that if Israel does not come to a prisoner accord with the terror group, it will kidnap more Israelis.
"We have four prisoners, and if Israel is not convinced by that, then we will add to our stash," Haniyeh says in comments circulated in official Hamas media.
Israel and Hamas have held indirect talks in an attempt to reach a prisoner exchange for years. The terror group holds two live Israeli captives and the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. Repeated negotiation attempts have failed to bear fruit.
According to Hamas-affiliated websites, Haniyeh’s remarks were made during an interview with the 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... i state-backed Al Jazeera news network that is set to air later tonight.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... ’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful Shia group Hezbollah was no longer working and must evolve.
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Iran’s ambassador in Kabul said that his country will not recognize the current Afghan government unless its government is inclusive. 
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...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
