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Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claiming responsibility for Karachi Stock Exchange attack. Majeed sucide Brigade
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Africa North
Sudanese Brigadier General Jamal Juma : Sudan never sent any fighters to Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Sudanese forces arrest dozens of mercenaries en route to Libya
[ALMASDARNEWS] The front man for the Rapid Support Forces, Brigadier Jamal Jumaa, announced that a joint security force managed to arrest 122 spoilers, including 8 children who were going to work as mercenaries in Libya.

Brigadier-General Jumaa said that 72 of those arrested will face charges under Article 5 / H of the Emergency Law related to "attacking the Katrum camp, belonging to the Revolutionary Awakening Council, buying weapons, child soldiers, inciting against the state, provoking tribal strife, and armed robbery," while 50 others will be handed over to the police because there are suspected cases against them.

The Spokesman for Rapid Support Forces considered the arrest of this group a major act calculated by the security forces and informing the people and citizens of the crimes committed against Sudan through the use of youth, at a time when all efforts in the search for peace and the transition period are moving towards safety and democracy.

He explained that the joint force consisting of the police, army, security and rapid support was able to arrest these groups in different areas of Darfur, including Sarf Amra, Kabkabiya and Kulbus.

He pointed out that this work was carried out after the Supreme Security Committee received documented information that a number of Sudanese people were being recruited to work as mercenaries in Libya.

He explained that the Supreme Security Committee confirmed all information regarding the existence of correspondence between two people in Sudan to recruit 1,000 young men to fight in Libya, noting that in February, the Rapid Support Forces arrested a group of 243 people in both El Fasher and El Geneina and were brought to justice.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


India-Pakistan
India seeks extradition of alleged Mumbai attack mastermind from Pakistan
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] India is seeking the extradition of a top Pakistain bad boy suspected to have planned the 2008 Mumbai attacks after the United States said last week he was living freely in Pakistain, government officials said on Sunday.

India and the United States have both indicted Sajid Mir of the Pakistain-based Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
group for the three-day attacks on hotels, a train station and a Jewish center in which 166 people were killed including six Americans.

While Pakistain took action against the Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
last year, it continued to provide safe harbor to other top bad boy leaders, the US State Department’s 2019 country report on terrorism said.

One of them was Sajid, the "project manager" of the Mumbai attack, believed to remain free in Pakistain, the US report said.

An Indian official said the government has repeatedly asked Pakistain to hand over Sajid who is charged with serving as chief planner of the attacks, directing preparations and reconnaissance and was also named as one of the Pakistain-based controllers during the attacks.

"We have asked before, and are demanding again, he needs to be handed over," the official dealing with regional security issues said.

Pakistain’s foreign office did not immediately respond to a Rooters request for comment.

Pakistain has repeatedly rejected US allegations that it is a safe haven for murderous Moslems and said it has prosecuted the leadership of several proscribed groups.

Another Indian official said the lack of action against Sajid was in conflict with Pakistain’s assurances to international organizations including the Financial Action Task Force, the global watchdog on terrorism financing.

Pakistain is trying to get off the FATF grey list of offending nations.

The FBI has posted a reward of $5 million for information leading to the capture of Sajid who is also wanted for a 2008/2009 plot against Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper to avenge its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that enraged many Moslems.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Mahmoud Abbas refuses Mike Pompeo's phone call
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  MAKE sure to cut off ALL FUNDS!
Posted by: ranture || 06/29/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Oh Noes! Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top commander Qasem Soleimani
I guess that State visit to Qom is out...
[CNBC] Iran's government has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump over the killing of its top commander, Qasem Soleimani, in January, the country's semiofficial Fars news agency reported Monday.

Tehran is also reportedly asking Interpol for help, according to Fars. Ali Alghasi-Mehr, the attorney general of Tehran, named Trump and 35 others Iran has accused of involvement in Soleimani's death as facing "murder and terrorism charges," and was quoted as saying he had asked Interpol to issue "red notices" for them ‐ the highest level notice Interpol can issue on an individual to pursue their arrest.

Trump, however, is in no danger of arrest and it's highly unlikely Interpol would honor Iran's request, as the international agency's guidelines forbid it from "undertaking any intervention or activities of a political" nature. Red notices enable local law enforcement authorities to arrest individuals on behalf of the requesting country, though they cannot force the country to arrest or extradite suspects.

The Trump administration has so far not responded to Iran's announcement. Interpol did not immediately reply to a request for comment from CNBC.

Soleimani led Iran's Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Trump administration labeled him a terrorist, and Washington deemed him responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq.

The 62-year-old Soleimani was killed in a drone strike directed by Trump in early January while in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in a move that sent regional tensions and oil prices soaring and triggered a retaliatory attack by Iran and its proxies on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.

In emphasizing Soleimani's significance, one defense analyst called the strike "the equivalent of Iran killing the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then taking credit for it."
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2020 10:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Reminds of the police chief in The Russians are Coming pulling out his ticket book on the docked Soviet sub. I also like the part about 'regional tensions', what a howler. WW III coming any minute.
Posted by: Cesare || 06/29/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
I wonder how many in the HoR will concur ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#3  The HoRs will live up to their name, Dron.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/29/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe we should have the Iranian leader arrested for being a skulking backstabber.
Posted by: gorb || 06/29/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||

#5  So much for 18 holes at the Trump Plaza in downtown Tehran.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/29/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I see what you did there, Mercutio. Bummed I didn't think of it first.
Posted by: gorb || 06/29/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||


British ambassador blames Hezbollah for Lebanon’s problems
[ALMASDARNEWS] The British Ambassador to Beirut, Chris Rampling, expressed his belief that the current path of Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
is worrying and that the long-awaited economic reforms are more important than ever.

Rampling said in an interview with Independent Arabia that Britannia expects the government and the International Monetary Fund to agree on a clear framework before the program.

He made it clear that external financing will not flow and will not be a product for the Lebanese people in the absence of comprehensive economic reforms implemented by the Lebanese authorities.

The ambassador emphasized the necessity for the local players to avoid the pattern of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
’s speech and his equations in terms of heading east in Lebanon’s economic dealings, and threatening to respond to the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s.

He continued, saying: "Lebanon unfortunately is in a hole from which it will not come out if the Lebanese do not look to their national interest ... If this does not happen, the situation will continue to worsen and I cannot predict which direction will proceed."

The British ambassador to Lebanon added: "Last year, a decision was taken to ban Hezbollah in its entirety to include the political wing, and this is an important part of our policy."

Noting that one of the reasons for the decision is London’s vision that Hezbollah has been operating for several years across the region, in direct violation of the policy of distancing oneself, and destabilizing the region and the stability of Lebanon as well.

Regarding the options presented by the Hezbollah leader to go east in Lebanon’s economic dealings, the British Ambassador to Lebanon said, "I do not know what is behind his words, but the local players should avoid this type of communication, and this type of equation." .
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Not Israel - what kind of Briton is he?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 3:19 Comments || Top||

#2  First the US ambassador and now the UK. Diplomatic pile-on. Maybe somebody smells blood in the water?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The water smells MM but I'm not sure it's blood.

Where's Hunter Biden these days?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||


Lebanon's President Michel Aoun protected the now Minister of Interior Mohamed Fahmi after he killed two men during the Lebanese Civil War
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Terror Networks
A Match Made in (fill in the blank)
[JPost] Zeinab Soleimani, the 28-year-old daughter of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, has reportedly married a close relative of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, N12 reported on Sunday.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/29/2020 07:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  28 yr old? She should have 15 kids by now
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  But I bet her mustache is fierce.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2020-06-29
  Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claiming responsibility for Karachi Stock Exchange attack. Majeed sucide Brigade
Sun 2020-06-28
  Leb officials apologize to US ambassador after judge issued order banning her from speaking to media
Sat 2020-06-27
  Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias threaten to assassinate Iraq's Prime Minister Kadhimi
Fri 2020-06-26
  Iraqi security forces have raided a HQ of Ketaib Hezbollah
Thu 2020-06-25
  Black Lives Matter Leader: ‘If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System'
Wed 2020-06-24
  Appeals court orders judge to dismiss Flynn charges
Tue 2020-06-23
  Ivory Coast says it has captured jihadist leader behind border attack
Mon 2020-06-22
  Libya's Presidential Council slams Sisi's threats as ''declaration of war''
Sun 2020-06-21
  Sisi threatens direct Egyptian intervention in Libya
Sat 2020-06-20
  UN arms embargo on Iran must remain in place:
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Fri 2020-06-19
  Mufti Al-Ghariani issues fatwa giving the GNA militias right to execute anyone loyal to the LNA
Thu 2020-06-18
  Iran announces its support for Turkey-backed gov't in Libya
Wed 2020-06-17
  Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament: We request to expel the GNA ambassador
Tue 2020-06-16
  Al Qaeda calling their fighters to join the GNA in Libya
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