[KHAAMAPRESS] The desecration and vandalism of the tombstone of the late resistance front commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud, in his mausoleum, in the northern Afghan province of Panjshir, caused a stir once again and infuriated the people.
The former government’s Supreme Council for National Reconciliation head, Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , responded angrily to the vandalism of Ahmad Shah Massoud’s gravestone by describing the offenders as "villainous and irresponsible."
Pictures that have been made public reveal that the recently restored headstone of the late resistance front leader has once more been desecrated and broken, with pieces scattered all over the place.
The tombstone of the resistance front commander has previously been disrespectfully and hatefully destroyed by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... government fighters. Videos of Taliban dancing and stomping in Ahmad Shah Massoud’s tomb have been circulated throughout the past year.
In response to the outrage and protests of the public, the Taliban restructured Massoud’s mausoleum, but recent reports indicate that the tomb has once more been damaged.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a front man for the Taliban government, claimed on Saturday, November 5, that Taliban forces were not responsible for destroying Ahmad Shah Massoud’s tombstone. He dismissed the claims and stated that the rumors of the Taliban members desecrating the tombstone is untrue.
[ORYXSPIOENKOP] The Islamic Emirate Air Force (IEAF) has surprised friend and foe alike by not only continuing to exist as a functional air force, but also by continuously expanding its operational inventory of aircraft through overhauling both damaged and decommissioned aircraft. Though still only a fraction of the size of the Coalition-supported Afghan Air Force, the IEAF's operational inventory meanwhile includes more than a dozen attack helicopters, more than twenty transport helicopters and half a dozen transport aircraft. While the Taliban was expected by many to be unable to operate its UH-60A+ Black Hawks for more than a few months, at least six Black Hawks currently continue to see service as well.
In its attempts to re-establish a fixed-wing transport force, the IEAF has fallen back on a number of Soviet-era aircraft decommissioned by the previous Afghan Air Force after their replacement by Western types. This currently concerns three An-32Bs and one An-26, but these are expected to be joined by other examples in the future. These Antonovs operate alongside at least four (A)C-208s inherited from the former Afghan Air Force. The IEAF has also attempted to restart operations with the four C-130Hs it inherited (which suffered only minor damage), with one aircraft performing a successful engine run in June 2022. Further progress appears to be hampered by a lack of qualified pilots.
This issue appears not only to be confined to the IEAF's C-130Hs. Indeed, while Taliban forces captured two A-29 light attack aircraft intact at Mazar-e Sharif air base, all the pilots qualified to fly the type appear to have fled the country or are currently in hiding. The Taliban has pleaded for their return on several occasions (along with the aircraft they escaped the country with), in the hopes that they would join those personnel that stayed behind and already joined the ranks of the IEAF. In the meantime, the IEAF has fallen back on four restored Mi-35s and at least ten MD 530F attack helicopters to form the armed component of its force. Additional aircraft of different types might similarly be operational but not flown due to a lack of qualified pilots.
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[Jpost] The US Central Command recently launched warplanes toward Iran from their base in the Persian Gulf after receiving reports that the country was preparing to attack Saudi Arabia, the Washington Post reported over the weekend.
The scrambling of the jets comes after Riyadh warned the US that Iran was planning an attack against both Saudi Arabia and Iraq, as reported by the Wall Street Journal on November 1.
In response to the credible threat of Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, the US military raised their alert level, with the White House National Security Council saying that it was "concerned about the threat" and in constant contact with the Gulf country.
While the US did confirm the initial Wall Street Journal report, the White House declined to comment on more recent developments, and the reported launching of US warplanes.
"CENTCOM is committed to our long-standing strategic military partnership with Saudi Arabia," command spokesperson Joe Buccio told the Washington Post on Saturday. "We will not discuss operation details."
While the exact location from where the jets were scrambled is unclear, the US maintains significant air assets in the Persian Gulf, including F-22 fighter jets in Saudi Arabia.
IRAN DENIES PLANNING SAUDI ATTACK
However, on November 2, Iran denied that it posed a threat to the Gulf kingdom, with Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani saying that the reports of an Iranian threat against Saudi Arabia were "baseless accusations" and untrue.
According to reports, Iran is planning these attacks against Saudi Arabia and Iraq as a way of drawing attention from the protests that have swept the country since mid-September.
More than once, the country has blamed both the US and Saudi Arabia, as well as Israel, for the ongoing protests, even going so far as to launch a number of strikes against Kurdish militias in eastern Iraq shortly after they began.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] 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... has given an ultimatum to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), demanding it to hand over its positions at Aden International Airport to a force loyal to the Saudis.
According to Southern media sources, Saudi forces had asked the STC militia stationed at the airport to evacuate their positions and hand them over to a security force they had trained on their territory over the past two years.
Saudi armoured vehicles arrived at the airport to implement the decision, but the STC militia refused to budge, and even and brought in reinforcements, the sources said .
The same sources pointed to the deployment of gunnies belonging to the leader of the so-called Southern Resistance® led by Abdul Nasser al-Ba’wa "Abu Hammam" in civilian clothes in the vicinity of the airport and the main streets in the district of Khormaksar, in conjunction with a similar deployment in the vicinity of the presidential palace of al- Ma’ashiq as well as in Mualla and Tawahi districts.
[IsraelTimes] Last week’s Molotov cocktailing of a UK migrant processing center was motivated by "terrorist ideology," counter-terrorism police say.
Police say evidence — including from devices — suggests "an extreme right-wing motivation behind the attack" in the southeast port town of Dover on October 30.
The evidence recovered "indicates the attack... was motivated by a terrorist ideology," police say.
Homemade incendiary devices were thrown at the Western Jet Foil Border Force center, leaving two staff with minor injuries.
The facility in the busy town processes migrants colonists who have crossed the Channel from northern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in small boats.
Tim Jacques, a senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, says while there were "strong indications that mental health was likely a factor", he had concluded that the "suspect’s actions were primarily driven by an murderous Moslem ideology".
These met the "threshold for a terrorist incident," he says.
The attack was carried out by a 66-year-old man who was later found dead.
"There is currently nothing to suggest the offender was working alongside anyone else and there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public," police say.
The British government is currently grappling with how to deal with a record number of migrants colonists crossing the Channel from northern Europe in small boats.
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[KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the arrest of a minor resident of Makhachkala in the case of assisting terrorism. The defense stated that there was no evidence of the young man's guilt.
An appeal against the arrest of a minor resident of Makhachkala suspected of assisting terrorism was considered in the Supreme Court of Dagestan. The defense of the teenager stated that his guilt was not proven.
The defendant's lawyer said that "there is no concrete evidence in the material that proves the involvement of his client" and pointed out that he is a minor and has no previous convictions. However, the court upheld the decision to arrest the young man, issued by the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala, Kavkaz.Realii* reported today, citing the decision of the Supreme Court of Dagestan.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on September 21 it became known that Omar Abasgadzhiev, a native of Dagestan, was sentenced to eight years in prison . The Southern District Military Court found him guilty of financing terrorism for transferring 900 rubles to a terrorist organization.
[DAWN] The government on Saturday instructed the Pakistain Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to reverse a ban on television channels from broadcasting or rebroadcasting PTI Chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... ’s pressers.
According to a statement released by Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the media watchdog to ensure the continued implementation of legal requirements under Article 19 (freedom of speech) of the Constitution.
The statement said that the direction to lift the ban was given under Section 5 of the Pemra Ordinance 2002.
"The prime minister has established a new tradition by ending the bitter traditions of Imran Khan’s era," the information minister said, adding that the government did not believe in "what Imran Khan did during his four years in power" with the then opposition leaders and politicians.
"We believe in democratic principles and constitutional freedoms of expression. Banning political opponents, leaders, activists and media has been Imran Khan’s negative thinking and attitude.
"If Imran Khan wants to speak against political opponents, then let him speak. Let Imran Khan’s speech against us reach the public so that the reality of this menace becomes clear to them," Aurangzeb said.
She added that the government had democratic thinking unlike "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... Imran Khan".
Hours earlier, a Pemra notice, available with Dawn.com, said that Imran during his long march speeches and a day ago had "made aspersions against the state institutions by levelling baseless allegations for orchestrating an liquidation plan".
[KHAAMAPRESS] Former Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... said on Friday he would resume the long march to Islamabad, according to reports, after recovering from an liquidation attempt that left him maimed in Lahore hospital.
On Thursday, Khan sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally, where he was leading a protest march on the capital to press early elections.
"I will give a call to march on Islamabad once I get better," Khan, a former international cricket star-turned-politician, said, as Rooters quoted him in a live address on Friday from a hospital in Lahore where he has been receiving medical treatment.
He said two shooters had tried to assassinate him, in a country with a history of politically motivated violence, the report further said. He said one person was killed and 11 others were maimed in Thursday’s attack in Wazirabad, about 170 km (106 miles) southeast of Islamabad.
Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid, a doctor and member of Khan’s Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) party, told Rooters two bullets hit Khan, wounding him in the shin and thigh.
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The assassination plotters must have bought the Joe Biden Shooter’s Manual.
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[KHAAMAPRESS] Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... National Party (BNP) party organized a rally on Thursday at Shaheed Justice Muhammad Nawaz Chowk, Distt Kohlu, according to reports, against military establishment’s apathy.
According to locals, the establishment and Mighty Pak Army is busy seeking their own interest rather than paying attention to the real issues of Balochistan and the subjugated Baloch people, who are dying of poverty and hunger accentuated by the recent floods in the region, as local media reported.
Recently, Pakistain estimated the total losses from flood could be as high as $40 billion — $10 billion, a figure more than the government’s initial estimate.
Old wine, new bottle. Army to safeguard its officers and soldiers no matter what. For more details please read today’s Dailytimes Newspaper at following link:https://t.co/pDrQNPWJMLpic.twitter.com/7RjffPQV7R
[IsraelTimes] Bahrain says it will continue to advance growing ties with Israel, as former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to form a new government.
Following this past week’s election, Israel looks set to usher in its most right-wing government ever, including extreme-right elements.
A normalization agreement between Israel and Bahrain was signed under Netanyahu’s previous government in 2020.
According to the Rooters news agency, the diplomatic adviser to Bahrain’s king says Netanyahu’s win is "normal and always expected."
"We have an agreement with Israel, part of the Abraham Accords, and we will stick to our agreement and we expect it to continue in the same line and continue building our partnership together," says Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.
"We will want to make an example and succeed together and face all the threats," he adds.
[IsraelTimes] Islamist party leader says he is ’worried’ by apparent new government, which is set to include members of the far-right
Any move by the incoming government to allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount "will lead to war," Ra’am party
...formally known as the United Arab List, as opposed to the Joint List — a bought-and-paid-for project of the Obama administration, uniting all of Israel’s Arab parties of Israel in a failed attempt to drive Bibi Netanyahu out of power. Ra’am is the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, which formally calls itself the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement — the Northern Branch being the militant arm...
leader Mansour Abbas has said.
Abbas told Channel 12 on Thursday that he was "worried" about the apparent new government, which is expected to be the most religious in Israel’s history and include members of the far-right.
With members of Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit often speaking of seeking greater Jewish clout in Jerusalem and taking actions Arabs view as provocative in the Old City, Abbas said Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, as desired by some on the religious right, "will lead to war."
"Let’s not be naive," he said. "When you’re talking about the most sensitive subject which is the holy sites... people’s minds stop working and religious feelings take over. We’ve seen how many rounds of escalation were sparked by provocations at al-Aqsa Mosque."
Israel has for decades agreed to maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount, whereby Jews were allowed to visit under police guard but not pray. For years Jewish visits were limited, but recent years have seen numbers balloon and authorities have quietly started allowing Jewish prayers.
Moslems have voiced growing alarm and anger at what they perceive as an Israeli attempt to increasingly control the site, which saw a record number of Jewish visitors during the recent High Holidays.
The presence of Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount is opposed by Paleostinians and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, warned of violent mostly peaceful "repercussions" over visits during the Jewish holidays, when some minor scuffles were recorded at the compound.
MK Itamar Ben Gvir, who heads the krazed killer Otzma Yehudit faction and emerged as the star of this week’s election, has often visited the Temple Mounts while espousing Israeli illusory sovereignty. During the recent holiday period, Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman took to blowing the shofar at a Moslem cemetery near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, action heavily criticized by police for its combustive potential but allowed by courts.
Speaking Monday, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu — who is set to form the next government — reaffirmed that he would "maintain the status quo" at the Temple Mount despite pressure from Ben Gvir. The Otzma Yehudit is seeking to be public security minister, which would make him responsible for keeping the peace at the Jerusalem holy site.
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism and is revered as the location of both ancient Jewish temples. The compound is Islam’s third holiest site and is managed by Jordan — whom Israel captured the Old City and the rest of East Jerusalem from in the 1967 Six Day War — as part of a delicate arrangement with the Jewish state.
In the television interview, Abbas also touted the work of the outgoing coalition.
"We diagnosed the problems of the Arab public and that’s why we wanted to advance, and did advance, a process of civil cooperation. This was meant to bring Jews and Arabs closer and give hope for the future," he said.
"We wanted to be partners in finding solutions [for Arabs] in the Negev and mixed cities."
Ra’am made history last year when it became the first Arab party in decades to join an Israeli coalition under then-prime minister Naftali Bennett, shunning the rejectionism of the other Arab factions.
Despite Likud’s public protests, Abbas says Netanyahu courted him for his own unsuccessful coalition-building efforts last year. In the past, Abbas has not ruled out sitting with the opposition leader in a government but has recently changed his tone.
Netanyahu’s far-right backers would be unlikely to accept sharing a coalition with Ra’am, a socially conservative Islamist faction, in any case, making the prospects of such an alliance near nil.
[IsraelTimes] Binance announces it froze transfers and blocked accounts of ’bad actors’ using Iranian platforms, as it runs risk of allowing US-sanctioned entities to move funds.
According to Rooters, some $7.8 billion has passed through Binance in connection with accounts domiciled on the busiest Iranian platform, Nobitex.
No Iranian cryptocurrency platforms are currently under sanctions. But US-imposed restrictions prohibit a US entity or US national from selling goods and services to Iranian residents, businesses or institutions. The ban includes financial services.
Binance was founded in 2017 by a Chinese-Canadian entrepreneur but following regulations on its activities in China, it moved its operations to Bahrain, Dubai, Gay Paree and the Cayman Islands.
Binance’s United States subsidiary is Binance.US, an entity that has come into regulatory crosshairs.
According to Rooters, citing data from the specialized company Chainalysis, Binance.US has conducted transactions with Iranian cryptocurrency platforms.
When contacted by AFP, Chainalysis declined comment.
By validating transactions with Iranian sites, Binance also runs the risk that they have allowed individuals or entities targeted by US sanctions to move funds.
Real or the more usual Iranian vapourware? Anyone can spoof video footage nowadays, after all, and Iran has acquired a reputation.
[Rudaw] Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Saturday launched a new satellite-carrying rocket, state TV reported, seeking to demonstrate the hard-line force’s prowess even as anti-government protests rage across the country.
Iranian state TV said the Guard successfully launched the solid-fueled rocket — what it called a Ghaem-100 satellite carrier — and aired dramatic footage of the rocket blasting off from a desert launch pad into a cloudy sky. The report did not reveal the location, which resembled Iran’s northeastern Shahroud Desert.
The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the carrier would be able to put a satellite weighing 80 kg (176 pounds) into orbit some 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Earth.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Guard’s aerospace division, said he hoped the Guard would soon use the rocket to put a new satellite, named Nahid, into orbit.
Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... says its satellite program, like its nuclear activities, is aimed at scientific research and other civilian applications. The United States and other Western countries have long been suspicious of the program because the same technology can be used to develop long-range missiles. Previous launches have drawn rebukes from the U.S.
The Guard operates its own space program and military infrastructure parallel to Iran’s regular armed forces and answers only to Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 launched a monkey into space. The program has seen recent troubles, however. There have been five failed launches in a row for the Simorgh program, another satellite-carrying rocket.
A fire at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in February 2019 killed three researchers, authorities said at the time. A launchpad rocket explosion later that year drew the attention of former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... The Guard’s announcement came in the seventh week of protests sparked by the death in jug of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained after allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
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[RIA Novosti] Jabhat al-Nusra militants are planning to attack areas in Idlib where refugee camps are located in order to blame Russia for this, Major General Oleg Yegorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Arab Republic, said.
"According to information received by the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties, militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group * ("Hayat Tahrir ash-sham" *), together with the White Helmets pseudo-humanitarian organization , are planning to carry out provocations in the province of Idlib. The militants intend to conduct staged filming of the consequences of staged strikes in the areas of refugee camps in the settlements of Kafer Dian and Kafer Jales in the province of Idlib," Yegorov said at a briefing.
He specified that the militants also intend to accuse the Syrian government forces of attacking civilians and humanitarian facilities.
In addition, over the past day in the Idlib de-escalation zone, eight attacks were recorded from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group.
They also opened fire three times in the province of Idlib, once in Aleppo , and five times in the province of Latakia.
Yegorov added that in the province of Idlib, terrorists, using an UAV launched from the Ruaikh region, dropped two improvised explosive devices on positions of government forces located in the same area. Seven Syrian soldiers were wounded.
The White Helmets organization, which gained wide popularity and support in the West, declared its goal to save the civilian population in the combat zones. Damascus , in turn, accuses her of links with extremists and conducting hostile propaganda activities.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the activities of the White Helmets an element of an information campaign to slander the Syrian authorities and, in particular, blamed them for the provocation, which gave the West reason to accuse Damascus of using chemical weapons and strike at government troops.
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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
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...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
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