[KhaamaPress] The Authorities of the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan stated earlier today that the reports on the closure of women-run shops in Mazar-e-Sharif and beauty parlors in Baghlan are untrue.
Mohammad Sediq Akeef, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue has said in a series of Tweets that rumors regarding the closure of women-run shops in northern Mazar-e-Sharif and beauty parlors in Baghlan are incorrect.
Mr. Akeef said that special efforts are underway to allocate a proper place for women vendors, however, until then these shops will remain in the same location.
Prior to this, the local media reported that the department of vice and virtue of Baghlan province had banned the operation of female beauty parlors. According to the reports, the IEA authorities had warned those beauty salons operating from their houses to abide by Islamic principles.
Furthermore, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities in Balkh province had given women street vendors one week to cease their businesses, otherwise, they will be treated accordingly.
This comes as the de facto authorities of Afghanistan have completely banned women’s university education and employment at government or non-government aid organizations in the recent past — accompanied by widespread condemnations and sparked protests in different parts of the country.
How the ruling regime emphasizes creating a pure Islamic environment for women and girls before they are allowed to go back to school, university, or the workplace. The implementation of the gender-based restrictions has already adversely affected the living conditions of thousands of families across the country, who are in dire need of humanitarian aid for survival.
[ShabelleMedia] The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as the "terror criminal mastermind" of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago.
It said it is seeking information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden, describing him as a leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... jihadist group that has carried out several deadly attacks in neighboring Kenya.
The al-Qaeda affiliated group grabbed credit for the January 15, 2019 siege on the upmarket DusitD2 hotel compound in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that lasted almost 20 hours.
At least 21 people bit the dust, including a US citizen, and many more were maimed. Kenya said at the time that all the assailants had been eliminated.
"Mohamoud Abdi Aden, an al-Shabaab leader, was part of the cell that planned the DusitD2 hotel attack," the US ambassador to Kenya, Meg Whitman, told news hounds in Nairobi.
She said the US was offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Aden, described by the embassy as a Kenyan national, and others accused of involvement in the hotel siege.
The head of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Amin Mohammed Ibrahim, described Aden as the "terror criminal mastermind" behind the carnage.
The State Department designated Aden a "specially designated global terrorist" in October last year.
Al-Shabaab has repeatedly targeted Kenya since it sent its army into Somalia in October 2011 to fight the Islamist Death Eater group.
In 2013, al-Shabaab laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi for four days, leaving 67 people dead.
In 2015, an attack on Garissa University in eastern Kenya killed 148 people, almost all of the students. Many were shot at point-blank range after being identified as Christians. It was the second bloodiest attack in Kenya’s history, surpassed only by al-Qaeda’s bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998 which killed 213 people.
Al-Shabaab, which has been waging a bloody insurgency against Somalia’s fragile central government for 15 years, has been designated a terrorist group by the US since 2008.
In November, Washington said it was increasing its reward to up to $10 million apiece for key al-Shabaab leaders including "emir" Ahmed Diriye.
There were speculations all players in the attack died but Sherlocks have revealed Aden is still alive and was the criminal mastermind. He could be in Kenya or Somalia.
The offered bounty is historical and is likely to draw much attention. On January 15, 2019, al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... forces of Evil killed 22 people in an attack on the DusitD2 Hotel Complex in Nairobi, Kenya.
A jacket wallah self-detonated outside of a restaurant in the courtyard. Other terrorists, armed with automatic rifles and grenades, then sought to kill as many innocent bystanders.
They were however stopped by among others quick responses from various parties including security agencies. The attack began at 15:28 with a detonation of a suicide bomber, Mahir Riziki.
Four button men — Ali Salim Gichunge, Osman Ibrahim Gedi, Siyat Omar Abdi, and an unknown individual — then proceeded with the attack using AK-pattern rifles and grenades, targeting people within the DusitD2 Hotel and surrounding shops.
The terrorists’ images emerged in December 2020 when al-Shabaab released a seven-minute clip showing them preparing to attack the complex.
The attack resulted in 22 civilian deaths. The four button men also died in the attack.
Officials say the DusitD2 attack was carried out on a significant date, coinciding with the third anniversary of al-Shabaab’s overrunning of a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base in El Adde, Gedo region.
Suspects Mire Abdulahi Ali, Mohammed Hussein Abdile, and Mohammed Abdi Ali are facing at least five charges in connection with the attack where 22 people were killed and dozens maimed.
The charges include conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, aiding and abetting a terror act, committing fraud in the registration of documents, and facilitating a terror act.
The attackers had planned to stream the attack live on social media. Their plans were cut short by the swift response from security agencies and other parties. They were all killed a few hours later.
[Garowe] At least 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money transfer firms have been closed down in Somalia over links to al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Death Eaters, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said, just a few months after the country started the implementation of tough measures on financial institutions supporting al-Shabaab.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has declared war on financial institutions linked to al-Shabaab snuffies besides putting on notice social media accounts and news sites that promote the group's agenda as part of the new strategy to cripple the al-Qaeda-linked snuffies across the country.
Without giving specifications, Hamza Abdi Barre noted that due diligence had been done before the closure of the bank accounts which are linked to transactions of colossal amounts of money in aid of al-Shabaab Death Eaters. Money firms were also affected by the crackdown.
"We have managed to get hold of about 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money transfer firms linked to al-Shabaab activities across the country," said the PM, who noted that the crackdown will continue. "We can't sit back and allow them to wreck our future for selfish gains."
According to the Somali Prime Minister, no business group should feel aggrieved because "we did monitor the transactions and we are aware of their direct links to the notorious group". The list of the banks behind the crimes was not immediately dispatched for scrutiny by members of the public.
Hassan Sheikh has activated a serious crackdown against al-Shabaab which includes targeting financial institutions behind transactions done by the al-Shabaab Death Eaters. A number of banks and mobile banking firms have been accused of abetting al-Shabaab monetary services across the country.
A report published by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... established that al-Shabaab runs an annual budget of $100 million with over $24 million going for the purchase of sophisticated weapons. While most of the money is obtained through illegal taxation of businesses, the group also gets financial assistance from foreign elements.
In addition, al-Shabaab also benefits from money obtained as ransom through the kidnapping of wealthy people across the region. The money is used for payment of brain-washed fighters mainly vulnerable youths besides going to the group to run various departments such as the intelligence wing commonly known as Amniyat.
Last year, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud warned business people against supporting al-Shabaab financially either willingly or through extortion. Those found culpable of the offensive, he reiterated, risk having their trading licenses cancelled by the government.
With upgraded military operations and a strategy targeting financial institutions, al-Shabaab has scaled its own activities in Somalia. In the latest military operation, federal forces reportedly seized two vehicles they believe were going to be used for VBIED attacks by al-Shabaab.
The operation was conducted at a farm in the vicinity of Bal’ad town. Commander Abshir says they have seized explosives, which the group uses to target innocent civilians and members of security forces within the country and across the borders, with Kenya being a victim.
On Thursday [today], the Somali government called for a major rally at a Mogadishu stadium which President Hassan Sheikh will use to announce the launch of the ’Mogadishu Peoples Uprising’ [against al-Shabaab]. All government workers have been ordered to attend the rally and participate in the uprising.
Across the border, Kenya has increased surveillance to block the team from trading and targeting business people in their extortion racket which is after all losing significance. Several senior al-Shabaab leaders have either been killed or defected to the government following the ongoing operation in Somalia.
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Here in the USA, at the rate the LSD's and DC Swampers seem to be headed with constitutional snooping violations using (insert any 3 letters) _ _ _ agency.
It could in a few years read....
_ _,000,000 Accounts closed and assets seized due to links to MAGA.
[Garowe] The people of Somalia will have an opportunity to express solidarity in the fight against al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... , the government announced on Tuesday, in what would be the first major protest against the group, which has been oppressing civilians and security forces for over 15 years.
Dubbed "Mogadishu People's Uprising", thousands of progressive forces are expected to line up in the streets of the capital Mogadishu on Thursday where they are expected to declare a major war against the bad boys. The government has been working closely with locals in the ongoing assault against the al-Qaeda-linked group.
In central and southern Somalia, locals have mobilized against al-Shabaab with the famous Macawisley militia leading from the frontline. The militia has been fighting alongside the Somali National Army [SNA], the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS], and US Africa Command.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced "total war" against al-Shabaab when he took over in May 2022 and significant progress has been noted. Recently, the president reported that over 500 Lions of Islam have been killed through joint efforts as the military seized several "strategic" towns across Somalia.
In the process, the close collaboration between locals and security forces has seen several Lions of Islam mostly youths surrender to government forces, as some claimed that they joined the group after being "misled". The government is repatriating those who have bolted out of the terror group.
To fast-track the objectives of the uprising, the government has mobilized all civil servants to turn up in the streets and join the masses. The country is finding ways of directly involving civilians in the fight against holy warriors who are hell-bent on toppling the fragile UN-backed federal government.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has repeatedly maintained that al-Shabaab will not be defeated through a military approach alone, adding that there is a need to invest in the ideological front. This week, the government denied claims that it was intending to negotiate with the bad boys, concurring with the group which also refuted the allegations.
A recent report published by the International Crisis Group noted that al-Shabaab has scaled down recruitment following a sustained crackdown against them on all fronts. Intelligence reports also indicate that imported muscle are ditching the group and are looking for exit points to avoid arrests or deaths.
The government of the United States recently increased rewards for people who would give tips at al-Shabaab's revenue collection centers. Both the government of Somalia and its partners have unanimously agreed to target sources of revenue to further cripple the group.
It is projected that al-Shabaab is able to raise over $100 million from local revenue and well-wishers, with the majority of the share going to the purchase of weapons. Intelligence reports established that Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... is being used as the entry point for al-Shabaab weapons due to ongoing political conflict.
The al-Shabaab extortionists have been destroying oil wells, communication facilities, and other essential infrastructure to further frustrate a determined local population that is taking arms against them. In Mogadishu, the National Consultative Council agreed to prioritize the fight against al-Shabaab.
Although it is not clear if President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will attend the rally, he has, however, demonstrated leadership throughout the few months he has been in office. The group has lost its main centers to government troops and it is projected that the internal leadership crisis between Abu Ubaidah and Mahad Karate will cripple it further.
[AFRICANEWS] Polisario movement members are meeting this Friday in a refugee camp in Algeria to discuss leadership elections.
Morocco controls almost 80% of the resource-rich territory and has proposed an autonomy plan under its illusory sovereignty.
The Sahrawi Polisario Front, backed by Algeria, has called for a referendum on self-determination.
More than 2,200 members of the movement and 370 foreign guests are expected to attend the five-day congress.
The rift has already led to the diplomatic breakdown of relations between Algeria and Morocco.
The Polisario's current head Brahim Ghali, 73, appears to enjoy the vital backing of Algeria and is expected to be re-elected at the gathering
The conflict in Western Sahara dates back to 1975, when colonial power Spain withdrew from the region, sparking a bitter 15-year war between the Polisario and Morocco for control of the territory.
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[REGNUM] Disputes about history between France and African countries are important, but applied value. Today, Paris has to develop a maneuvering strategy in order to maintain the remnants of its political and economic influence on the African continent.
It is difficult to name a specific reason that forced French President Emmanuel Macron to organize a “staged” interview with Le Point, in which he returned to the “Algerian dossier” and again refused to apologize to the Algerians for the colonization of this North African country in the 19th century.
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Does Algeria apologize for their part of being the Barbary Coast? These symbolic acts of 'apologizing for things you didn't do' is getting tiresome.
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[KavkazUzel] The high level of terrorist threat introduced after the explosion on the Crimean bridge has been extended in the Temryuk region until January 27.
Do they mean jihadis or Ukrainians?
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the "yellow" level of terrorist threat was introduced in the Temryuk region by order of the Governor of Kuban, Veniamin Kondratyev , on October 8, 2022, on the day of the explosion on the Crimean bridge. After that, it was repeatedly extended, the last time - until January 13 .
There are three levels of terrorist threat, which are introduced in certain territories or facilities. Increased ("blue") is entered in the presence of unconfirmed information about the possibility of a terrorist attack. High ("yellow") - in the presence of confirmed information about such a possibility, and critical ("red") - in the presence of information about a committed terrorist attack or about actions that create an immediate threat of a terrorist attack, according to the background information on the website of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. The level of terrorist threat can be set for a period of no more than 15 days, the Kuban administration specified on November 3, 2022 on its website.
In the Temryuk region, the "yellow" level of terrorist danger has been extended until January 27. The announcement was signed by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratiev, the press service of the regional administration reported today.
The regime will be valid until 20.00 Moscow time on January 27. In connection with its introduction, residents, in particular, are advised to refrain from visiting places of mass stay, to cooperate with law enforcement officers and to be sympathetic to increased attention from them, to carry identification cards with them and follow the news.
[AlAhram] The number of attempts by migrants colonists to enter the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU's border and coasties agency said Friday.
Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made overland through the Western Balkans region, EU agency Frontex said, according to its ``preliminary calculations.'' Regardless of entry route, Syrians, Afghans, and Tunisians together accounted for roughly 47% of the attempted border crossings.
Men accounted for more than 80% of the attempts to get in, Frontex said. The agency calculates entry attempts rather than the number of people trying to get into Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... because it is often difficult to identify migrants colonists, who routinely travel without passports, and some may try to enter multiple times.
People arriving at Europe's borders to apply for asylum have a reasonable chance of being allowed in, while those who come without a visa in search of jobs and better lives are mostly turned away.
Well over 1 million people, most of them Syrians fleeing conflict, entered the EU in 2015, overwhelming reception facilities and sparking one of the 27-nation bloc's biggest political crises.
Member countries still argue over who should take responsibility for people arriving without authorization and whether their neighbors and partners should be obliged to help. Attempts to reform the bloc's asylum system have made little progress.
Frontex's latest figures did not include almost 13 million Ukrainian refugees who were counted at the EU's external borders between February and December. Special emergency measures were introduced to ease their entry and help find them accommodation, training and short-term jobs.
The number of people making potentially perilous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea in poorly equipped and often overloaded boats and rubber dinghies continued to rise last year. Frontex said that well over 100,000 crossing attempts were recorded, around 50% more than in 2021.
The agency said that 2022 saw the most people in five years arrive from Libya, the main departure point in northern Africa. The number of people leaving Tunisia hit the highest level in recent history.
[Rudaw] Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz on Friday requested the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani to help his government find a way to return tens of thousands of illegal Iraqi refugees living in Germany to their country, according to Iraq’s foreign minister.
An Iraqi top delegation, headed by Sudani, is in Germany to meet with the country’s officials. They met with a German delegation headed by Scholz, discussing a range of issues, especially energy and power.
Fuad Hussein, Iraq’s foreign minister, told Rudaw’s Alla Shally on Friday that the German leader requested Sudani to support them to find a mechanism to deport tens of thousands of Iraqis who are illegally staying in Germany.
"He said that 35,000-36,000 Iraqis [in Germany] do not have residency permits. He requested the Iraqi side to help him find a way to return these people to their country because they do not have citizenship or residency there [Germany]," Hussein said.
Sudani suggested that both governments draft a plan to deal with the issue, adding that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... should be involved in the plan as well.
He elaborated that the drafting of the plan does not mean that Iraq will agree to take back the refugees.
Tens of thousands of mostly young people leave Iraq and the Kurdistan Region for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... annually in search of a better life, using people’s smuggling routes. A number of these migrants colonists die in freezing temperatures on the border and others drown in the sea. Many of them plan to arrive in Germany.
Some others used the English Channel to reach England but many could not survive the harsh conditions of the water.
MOU WITH SIEMENS
Sudani said during a presser with the German chancellor that his delegation signed a memorandum of understanding with the German energy giant Siemens to increase energy production, improve its transportation and reduce waste as well as maintaining energy stability.
"We have an understanding with Siemens in training and raising workers' efficiency to create an industry capable of securing the requirements of electric power transmission projects and providing job opportunities," he said.
His office later said that the Mou contains "several essential items that constitute an action plan for developing the electricity sector in Iraq."
"In light of the memorandum of understanding, Siemens is working, in coordination with the Ministry of Electricity, to develop an integrated plan for the electricity system in general, which includes solutions to problems. The company is also establishing new power plants," added the office.
[ShabelleMedia] An appeals court in Greece has ordered the release of a Somali immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling people.
This case has drawn international attention to the harsh punishment laws for border protection in this country that is part of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Mohammed Hanad Abdi was sentenced to 142 years in prison in 2021 after being found guilty of taking a boat with dead people from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to Lesbos in Greece in 2020.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... an appeals court on the island of Lesbos on Monday reduced his prison term to eight years, and the judge ordered his release based on the time he had already spent in prison and his good behavior.
The court was attended by several members of the European Union Parliament, who argued that Mohammed, a 29-year-old father of four, was wrongly sentenced.
"We are all in tears of joy, it was a very difficult day. The national prosecutor took a strong position and wanted the sentence to be maintained," said Stelios Kouloglou, a member of the European Union Parliament, who led the campaign, and spoke to AP.
"It is a very important decision because many people who are ordinary immigrants colonists are treated as smugglers," he said.
"Mohammed will be released from prison in a few days after his documents are prepared. Our next step is to advocate for the law to be changed."
Mohammed told the court that he only took the boat when he left a Ottoman Turkish smuggler who was smuggling people, and he took over to save the people on board.
Two people drowned in the boat, while 33 were rescued. Many of the survivors supported Mohammed’s claims, according to his lawyers.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Thursday summoned Sweden's ambassador to lodge an angry protest over a video posted by a Kurdish group in Stockholm that depicted President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... swinging by his legs from a rope.
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[TheHill] A top House Republican has officially launched a probe into the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... ’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting a wide array of information on the matter.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who served as its ranking member previously, said the Biden administration has so far refused to hand over documents but that he is now formally requesting compliance as chair of the panel.
"It is absurd and disgraceful that the Biden administration has repeatedly denied our longstanding oversight requests and continues to withhold information related to the withdrawal," McCaul said in a statement. "In the event of continued noncompliance, the Committee will use the authorities available to it to enforce these requests as necessary, including through a compulsory process."
McCaul is seeking intelligence assessments, internal agency documents and communications with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and Afghan government, among a long list of other inquiries in the letter Thursday.
He requested the information from the Biden administration by Jan. 26.
A spokesperson for the State Department said they were committed to working with the congressional committee and have already provided more than 150 briefings to bipartisan members of Congress since the withdrawal.
"Additionally, senior Department representatives have appeared in public hearings and answered questions on Afghanistan policy, and the Department has responded to thousands of requests for information and letters from members and their staffs related to Afghanistan policy," the spokesperson said.
Republicans have long hinted at the Afghanistan investigation, one of a number of probes the party planned to launch after seizing the House in the November midterm elections.
In October, McCaul demanded the State Department preserve records related to the U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan, promising he would investigate messy evacuations, the quick Taliban takeover of Kabul and the death of 13 American troops in a terrorist attack.
The chaos surrounding the Afghanistan withdrawal was the focus of bipartisan scrutiny in 2021 as the U.S. exit was highly publicized, with photos and videos showing refugees scrambling to leave the country.
Last year, Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee released a report as minority members of the panel slamming the White House for sloppy planning, understaffing at Afghanistan’s largest airport and failing to anticipate the wave of refugees.
The White House responded that the report was "riddled" with inaccuracies.
Republicans are also expected to issue subpoenas to compel U.S. officials to sit for depositions in the probe led by McCaul.
McCaul on Thursday said he takes the obligation of investigating the withdrawal "very seriously" and will "pursue this investigation until all our questions are answered and all parties responsible are held accountable."
"We owe this to the American people, especially our service members and veterans," the politician said in his statement.
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I would like to see Miley busted down to E-1 throughout the course of these many investigations. I would think that bread and water would only be a health benefit for him. You used to only get that in NJP anyway. His China stuff is more on the rope worthy level. His Afghanistan performance should have had him cashiered by the standard of every previous stand of American Military history, but I am good with keeping him on active duty while the sharks take him apart piecemeal.
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Three words: Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks.
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[LegalInsurrection] Paleostinian Arabs have zero connection to the artifact. Yet the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... appears to buy into Paleostinian myth that Arabs are the indigenous inhabitants while the ancient Jewish people never existed.
American law calls for repatriation of certain artifacts to Indian tribes, if "the requesting Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization can show that the object was owned or controlled by the Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization." That is, the Smithsonian would return a qualified Cheyenne artifact to the Cheyenne tribe. It would not return a Cheyenne artifact to, say, the Pawnee.
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So are we just pretending to totally ignore the fact that Eastern Europeans colonized and ethnically cleansed the land Palestinians lived on for thousands of years?
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Storing Jewish relics does not always work out 1 Samuel 5.
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"the Biden administration has fed the pernicious myth that the Paleostinians and not the Jews are the indigenous people of the land."
It's not a myth, it's literally true. The people who founded Israel were primarily Eastern Europeans. I'm certain that "indigenous" doesn't mean "we moved here from Ukraine".
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[BenarNews] Malaysia’s government announced Tuesday it was appointing a former military chief as the new controller of peace talks for the Thai Deep South, a move that the southern rebels’ representative and analysts welcomed saying they hoped it would step up the pace of negotiations.
As BenarNews first reported last week before the appointment was made official, Malaysia picked Zulkifli Zainal Abidin to replace Abdul Rahim Noor, a former national police chief who was appointed to the role of peace broker in 2018.
In a statement announcing the appointment, Mohd. Zuki Ali, chief secretary to the Malaysian government, thanked Rahim Noor for his service, adding that Zulkifli’s appointment began on Jan. 1.
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[ALMANAR] Head of Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... Gebran Bassil ...arrogant, overbearing son-in-law of Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah suck-ass and wannabe Bashir al-Assad who plans on being president of what's left of Leb as soon as the old man's dead and the votes have been phonied up... urged the Lebanese government on Thursday to put in place further measures to cut the number of Syrian refugees in the country. Get'em otta here!
In an FPM conference on refugees, Bassil said that Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... must implement its plan to return the refugees and must apply local and international laws.
Bassil asked the international community to stop pressuring Lebanon, financing the displaced and making them scared of returning to their land.
"The international community must rather finance the safe return of refugees," Bassil said.
Lebanon has given shelter to more than 1 million Syrian refugees but many claim the number is far higher. The U.N. refugee agency has registered about 825,000 Syrians but stopped counting them in 2015 at the request of Lebanese authorities. Officials touted last year a plan to return 15,000 refugees a month, which has so far failed to materialize.
UNHCR says at least 76,500 Syrian refugees returned voluntarily from Lebanon since 2016, some in government-organized trips and some on their own.
Syria’s conflict that began in March 2011 has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... stressed that the Resistance® in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism... has become more powerful in terms of personnel and equipment and functions as a national pillar that prevents the refugees naturalization and blocks the US plots.Sheikh Qassem indicated that all the Lebanese crises are caused by the US policies aimed at protecting the Israeli security and interests.
His eminence noted that the Resistance® power ascending, while the enemies are suffering setbacks.
Addressing a political ceremony held by the International Union of Moslem Scholars to mark the third martyrdom anniversary of General Qassem Suleimani , Sheikh Qassem affirmed that the martyr was an extraordinary figure who had managed to mobilize the Umma against the enemies.
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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
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
