[KhaamaPress] Afghan Civil Aviation Authority in a statement said on Saturday that Afghanistan will soon take full responsibility for the airports.
Currently, four international airports in Afghanistan are jointly controlled by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... and the Afghan government including the watchtowers, control towers, some fire department services and weather forecasting.
Transfer of this process to a single party was delayed in 2014 and Afghanistan was given full authority over the airspace in 2015, the aviation authority said.
"In the first months of the transitional process, Afghan forces will fully be given the control of Kandahar and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. airports said the general director of Afghan Civil Aviation Authority, Qasem Wafayezada said on Saturday.
Wafayezada also stated that this transfer is a challenge and requires additional and alternative capacities.
"The capacity building sessions will be carried out in technical sections of the airport, but maintenance towers will require practical training and further capacity building sessions", Wafayezada said.
[ToloNews] Two days after the government started the release of the 400 high-value Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners, an official from the High Council for National Reconciliation said some countries are opposing the freeing of six of the inmates that are accused of killing citizens of those countries.
The United States, La Belle France and Australia are the countries that are opposing the release of some of the prisoners, according to sources within the government, but reports confirm the position of Australia and La Belle France only.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... signed the decree to release the prisoners a week ago, a process that was first approved by the Loya Jirga, the grand council of at least 3,400 delegates.
A front man of the council, Fraidoon Khwazoon, said the release of the prisoners will continue and the Afghan government is in talks with the three countries to prevent any challenge for the grinding of the peace processor and to maintain its relations with these nations.
Rooters also reported that La Belle France that has asked the Afghan government not to release Taliban fighters convicted of killing French citizens.
Before the start of the process, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said last week he had lobbied for a former Afghan army soldier, who went rogue and killed three Australian colleagues, to stay in jail, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
"There is some criticism against (the release) of some prisoners, a limited number of prisoners, but we hope that intra-Afghan negotiations should not be delayed. The Afghan government is trying to overcome the issue in a way to maintain the current opportunity and our relations with the international community," Khwazoon said.
Sources within the government said that the Taliban has not released more than 20 Afghan commandos but sources within the Taliban said the group will not release them until the release of their 400 prisoners. The Taliban has also said that they will not attend the intra-Afghan talks until the release of 400 prisoners is completed, said the sources.
"The Afghan government is claiming that their 20 commandos are in Taliban custody. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... Australia has criticized the release of the three (Taliban) prisoners and La Belle France has has listed six others. The US is in talks with La Belle France and Australia to convince them and to open the way for the release of the prisoners," said Khalil Safi, former country director of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international crisis group.
Critics said such positions against the release of the six prisoners is a new hurdle in the way of the intra-Afghan negotiations, which are expected to be held in Doha.
"I am sorry that we are in a country that freeing prisoners involved in the killing of 10 to 15 foreigners is criticized but in Afghanistan we have lost thousands of our youth, but we released 5,000 individuals," said Nilofar Ibrahimi, an MP.
The General Commander of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal /Khalifa Haftar, meets in #Benghazi with Mr. Jadallah Al-Awkali member of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation, and Mr. Muhammad bin Shatwan Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Gulf Oil Company. pic.twitter.com/D99SatRyt4
As long as this image ( Libyan wealth being stolen by terrorist militias of the #GNA ) is still ongoing and the systematic starvation of #Cyrenaica and #Fezzan is still implemented, the oil facilities will remain closed indefinitely.#Libya#LNA#HoRhttps://t.co/8JJfpITwRd
[EN.ANNAHAR] The U.S. wants tighter cooperation on developing gas finds in the "strategically significant" eastern Mediterranean and supports Cyprus’ right to exploit hydrocarbon deposits discovered in its waters, a senior U.S. State Department official said Sunday.
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale said hydrocarbon development would aim to "provide durable energy security and economic prosperity throughout the Mediterranean," according to the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus.
The statement was issued after Hale met with Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides to discuss the eastern Mediterranean’s "growing strategic significance" as well as recent developments in the region, including the devastating Aug. 4 blast in 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... ’s capital of Beirut.
Hale’s brief visit to the island nation came amid growing military tensions over The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s gas prospecting in waters where European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... members Greece and Cyprus say they have exclusive economic rights.
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Ugh. But they are fond of their leftwing terrorists in Europe.
[BREITBART] Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... University students have donated at least €8,500 from their student fees towards a far-left holy warriorAntifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... group which is under observation by the German security services.
The Cologne General Students’ Committee (AStA) has donated thousands of euros since at least 2010 to the Antifa AK holy warrior group, according to budget documents. Following the revelation, the local Green University group expressed their full support for Antifa.
"Antifa AK is the student body, and the student body is Antifa!" the Green group wrote on Facebook. It added that Antifa AK was "a working group of the student body of the University of Cologne and thus an integral part of it", Die Welt reports.
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The USSR never died, even despite them being more harmful than the National Socialists.
All those Muslim Brotherhooders support each other...
[IsraelTimes] Most members of 12-member cell already given papers and passports, UK newspaper says, including one who allegedly plotted to kill mayor of Jerusalem.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... is in the process of granting citizenship to high-ranking members of terrorist group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, living in its territory who are said to be involved in directing terror attacks, one of whom allegedly oversaw a failed plot to assassinate the mayor of Jerusalem, a report has said.
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The Hamas Charter created in 1988 openly stated that it was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. When Morsi was ousted in Egypt the MB reorganized in Turkey and now Erdogan can be cosidered its leader in exile.
[ALMASDARNEWS] During his trial, a Ottoman Turkish officer said that in 2016, Ottoman Turkish Special Forces snipers received orders from their commander to target Syrian Arab Army soldiers in the border area between the two countries.
The Ottoman Turkish newspaper, Zaman, reported on Saturday, that these statements came from the non-commissioned officer, Darwish Tash, during his trial on charges of being involved in the events of the failed coup attempt in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in mid-July 2016.
The newspaper quoted the officer as saying in his defense, during a court session, that the Ottoman Turkish Special Forces were obliged to carry out all orders from their command, whatever they were.
To clarify this matter, the officer revealed instructions that he said he had received eight and a half months before the attempted coup from the commander of the Special Forces at the time, Major General Zakai Aksakali, when he was performing service in the ranks of the Special Forces units deployed in the Iskenderun Brigade in the Hatay Province.
The newspaper pointed out that the attorney for the Presidency of the Republic, Suleiman Ayhan, tried to make the soldier retract the story of the incident, but the court allowed the accused to continue the conversation.
Tash continued, according to the newspaper, that Aksakali visited his squad in February or March 2016, when it was deployed in the Yaila Mountain overlooking the border, and he issued the following order: "Command your snipers to shoot at the soldiers of the Syrian regime."
The newspaper pointed out that the attorney for the Presidency of the Republic objected to these statements, and claimed that Aksakali was intending to shoot at ISIS members, and boycotted Tash in his defense.
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And?
(I realize they were nominally allies, but you have to make sure your rifle is zeroed in.)
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🇹🇷💸⚠️ Decline of the value of the Turkish Lira from 1 January 2020 to 14 August 2020 in one chart. | Started a 2nd downward trend with the deployment of Oruç Reis research ship https://t.co/IwOw4I1nDYpic.twitter.com/VqPWexI13h
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Not the first time the Turkish Lira has dropped into the toilet. It cost 7 1/2 Lira to mail a first-class letter in 1980. By 2000, that had changed to 100,000 Lira. In 2004, it was 600,000 Lira.
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Took a look at Twitter's transparency report after learning a complaint had been filed against another of my tweets and 1/3 of all court orders/legal demands issued by governments against Twitter content come from Turkey. 1/3 of the cumulative, earth-wide total from one country. pic.twitter.com/izw9XFLIPh
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] High Representative of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on Sunday urged The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to immediately end renewed drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean.
"I call on the Ottoman Turkish authorities to end these activities immediately and to engage fully and in good faith in a broad dialogue with the European Union," he said in a statement.
The statement was issued after Ankara announced on Saturday that it will resume drilling activities by the Yavuz vessel, an ultra-deepwater drillship, in a maritime zone that has been delineated by Cyprus and Egypt.
Borrell said the move "regrettably fuels further tensions and insecurity in the Eastern Mediterranean" and "runs counter and undermines efforts to resume dialogue and negotiations, and to pursue immediate de-escalation."
In an urgent meeting convened by Borrell on Friday, the foreign ministers of EU member states considered the recent naval mobilizations by Turkey would "lead to greater antagonism and distrust" and supported Borrell to re-establish dialogue and facilitate re-engagement with Turkey.
The High Representative will also prepare "options on further appropriate measures in case tensions do not abate," according to the Council of the EU.
On Aug. 7, Ottoman Turkish 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said his country resumed drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean, one day after Egypt and Greece signed an agreement on the demarcation of the maritime borders between the two countries and setting up an exclusive economic zone between them.
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The Island State of Cyprus is located where its south facing coast is directly opposite the north coast of Egypt. In 2003 these two States signed a bilateral agreement to delimit their overlapping Exclusive Economic Zone entitlements in the Mediterranean. The boundary was based on the equidistance methodology, and it extends for 155 M from an area in the west where it will someday need to establish its tripoint with Greece, eastward until reaching its tripoint with Israel. See Department of State Cyprus – Egypt maritime boundary map 2003.
Turkey is asking for real trouble.
[Rudaw] 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... said Saturday he will try a controversial "snapback" to force a return of UN sanctions against Iran, after the Security Council rejected Washington's bid to extend the arms embargo against the Islamic republic.
"We'll be doing a snapback," the president said, referring to the contested argument that the US remains a "participant" in the 2015 Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal — despite Trump's withdrawal from it — and therefore can force a return to sanctions if it sees Iran as being in violation of its terms.
The president added that the US will make its move next week.
Washington's defeat at the Security Council on Friday highlighted its isolation on Iran since Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018.
Only two of the Council's 15 members voted in favor of the US resolution.
Washington's European allies all abstained, Russia and China voted against it, and Iran mocked the Trump administration for winning the support of just one other country, the Dominican Republic.
Trump argued Saturday that Iran was a "different ballgame" now, and that the country no longer has the funds to sponsor terror.
"Iran wants me to lose so badly" in November's presidential election, he added.
If Trump follows through, the snapback could plunge the Council into one of its worst-ever diplomatic crises, experts warn.
European allies have been skeptical on whether Washington can force sanctions and say the attempt may delegitimize the Security Council.
The embargo on conventional arms is due to expire on October 18.
[Rudaw] US-led coalition troops transferred control of an ammunition supply point inside Taji military base in northern Baghdad to Iraqi security forces (ISF) on Sunday, according to a coalition spokesperson.
"The Coalition transferred approximately 50 ammunition storage bunkers, and associated secure facilities, to full Iraqi control," read a statement from Col.Myles B Caggins III.
The statement also revealed that the supply point is the "primary storage facility" for the anti-Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) mission in Iraq.
"In 2020, more than $11 million of ammunition inside the ASP was divested to the ISF as part of the Coalition’s Counter-ISIS Train and Equipment Fund," the statement added.
Caggins confirmed that the coalition maintains a "small presence" at the base.
Baghdad invited the US-led international coalition to intervene in Iraq in 2014 as ISIS seized control of vast areas of northern Iraq and neighbouring Syria. Some 7,500 foreign troops formed part of the 81-country coalition; over 5,000 of them were American.
But with ISIS territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017, US military presence in the country has met increasing opposition, particularly from Iran-backed militias and political parties.
Bases hosting US military personnel have come under repeated rocket attack by militias closely linked to Tehran.
In recent months, the coalition has withdrawn from several Iraqi bases and repositioned troops after successes in the campaign to defeat ISIS and to protect personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The last base to be transferred to the ISF by the US-led coalition was Besmaya military base, southwest of Baghdad, last month.
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[Jpost] Checkpoints were set up at multiple sites in the West Bank and Paleostinian workers were preventing from crossing into Israel through multiple checkpoints on Sunday, according to Paleostinian reports.
Images reportedly from checkpoints near Hebron showed long lines waiting to be allowed entry. Even those with permits were denied entry, according to the reports.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, revealed the fate of Iranian gasoline revenues from oil tankers seized by the U.S., which were bound for Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... Pompeo said, "The proceeds of Iranian gasoline sourced from oil tankers bound for Venezuela can be paid as compensation to the American victims of Iranian state terror."
He explained that "if gasoline revenues are confiscated in American courts, they can go to the American state-sponsored terrorist victims fund instead of the terrorists’ hands."
On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department said that the United States had seized four Iranian fuel shipments on the way to Venezuela and confiscated them, describing it as the largest U.S. seizure of Iranian fuel ever.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... an unnamed source told the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (ISNA) that no Iranian tanker or cargo has been seized.
He added, "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has announced several times that it will respond to any hostile steps aimed at restricting its legitimate and legal rights, and it has not allowed any country to undertake such acts."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... also asserted that "the ships that the United States seized and claimed to be Iranian were not Iranian and did not carry Iran’s flag."
Rouhani said, "This lie was to mask the shame of the United States in the Security Council after the rejection of its draft resolution to extend the embargo on Iran."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian presidency revealed on Saturday, Damascus’ conditions for talking to the Americans.
The Syrian presidential advisor, Buthaina Shaaban, said in statements to the al-Mayadeen channel:
"It is not possible to give up our land and our country, and it is not possible to talk with the occupier until after his departure from Syria; from our land."
Shaaban explained, "The targeting of Syria is due to the central role of Damascus in the region and the axis of resistance, and that President Assad’s link between terrorism and the Caesar Act and the United States and Israel is important because they are all parts of one scenario, and the demands that they placed in the Caesar Act mean that we hand them what they want, and thus rob Syria’s independent decision."
The presidential adviser pointed out that "only the Arabs are afraid of the American administration despite the absence of unipolarity," adding that "Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... ’s speech before the People’s Assembly was decisive, as he emphasized that the strategic vision should produce implementable plans, and that the Syrian President presented a clear vision for the official and the citizen for the stage."
Shaaban’s comments to al-Mayadeen came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... sent a letter to his Syrian counterpart about direct dialogue over the case of missing journalist, Austin Tice, who was kidnapped in rural Damascus in 2012.
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Tice went off the grid in 2012? I don't recall any efforts by the BHO admin. to get Tice back. Maybe, I just missed it.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... said onSaturday, that "the ships that the United States seized and claimed to be Iranian were not Iranian and did not carry Iran’s flag."
Rouhani said, during the meeting of the National Committee to Combat Coronavirus, "This lie was to cover up the shame inflicted on the United States in the Security Council after rejecting its draft resolution to extend the embargo on Iran," the Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... reported.
The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that "the U.S. government has seized for the first time ships that it said were transporting Iranian fuel in violation of the sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s administration."
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice said that the United States had seized four Iranian fuel shipments en route to Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... and confiscated them, describing it as the largest U.S. seizure of Iranian fuel ever.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... an unnamed Iranian government official told the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that no Iranian tanker or cargo has been seized.
They added, "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has announced several times that it will respond to any hostile steps aimed at restricting its legitimate and legal rights, and it has not allowed any country to undertake such acts."
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I long to do the BDA of the ARCLIGHT strike against Bandar Abbas ordered by the newly-re-elected President Donald Trump. I think 24 B-1 Lancers, each with 80,000 pounds of ordinance would do a sufficient job.
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I think 24 B-1 Lancers, each with 80,000 pounds of ordinance would do a sufficient job.
That'd be fun! Pity someone doesn't reboot the game Harpoon so we could all share in the excitement. I hear the Navy has some great gaming stuff, but they refuse to share for some reason.
[EN.ANNAHAR] Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... didn’t rule out that 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... may one day make peace with Israel, once unresolved issues were solved.
"It depends," Aoun said when asked by French TV station BFMTV if Lebanon would reach a peace deal with Israel following a deal last week establishing full diplomatic relations between the Israel and United Arab Emirates.
The deal brokered by the U.S. required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex West Bank land sought by the Paleostinians for a future state.
"We have problems with Israel that we need to solve first," Aoun said in an interview aired late Saturday. Lebanon and Israel are technically still at war, and Hezbollah has engaged in occasional festivities along the border. Hezbollah and Israel last engaged in a full-fledged conflict in a 50-day war in the summer of 2006.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Arabic for 
...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...
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
