[OneIndia] The Deputy Prime Minister in the Taliban ...Arabic for students... government Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has returned to Kabul and assumed duties.
He has however refused to take security from the interior ministry headed by Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , a report in the Hindustan Times said. The development comes a month after Baradar was injured in a fight with the Haqqani faction in Kabul. He had even issued an audio statement denying reports of his death following the fight with the Haqqani faction.
While Haqqani had insisted that he take security from the interior ministry, Baradar refused the same.
He is said to have brought his own security. Baradar is now living in the Kabul Palace. Defence Minister, Mullah Yaqoob the son of Mullah Mohammad Blinky Omar ...a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality. Died of an unspecified ailment in a Pak hospital... is still in Kandahar.
The report also said that the return of Baradar could increase tensions in Kabul. Tensions could escalate with the ISI backed Haqqani Network, the report also added.
[THEEPOCHTIMES] The ISIS-K terrorist who carried out a suicide kaboom in August outside of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, had reportedly been released from prison just days before the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s overthrow of the government, according to a U.S. politician."U.S. national security officials have now confirmed to me the reports that the Aug. 26 Kabul bomber was a known ISIS-K terrorist that was previously detained at the Bagram prison and was released along with thousands of others just days before the deadly attack," Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) said in a statement.
"President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...... ’s disastrous handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan led to a series of events that culminated with the tragic loss of life on Aug. 26 outside of the Kabul airport," he continued. "Thirteen Americans, including one of my constituents, were killed because of the poor judgment and execution of our troop withdrawal."
Calvert, who is a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, told Fox News last week that he obtained information from intelligence sources that said the bomber was one of the 7,000 prisoners housed at Bagram prison, from which he was released by the Taliban terrorist group.
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[ToloNews] Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) on Wednesday said it is preparing to sell off the properties of a number of former government officials and local prominent people who have not paid their electricity bills, in some cases for years.
DABS announced the decision on Tuesday and has also stated that Afghanistan owes $62 million to four neighboring countries for imported electricity.
Safiullah Ahmadzai, acting operational director of DABS, said that after the procedure is finalized and approved by the caretaker cabinet, the company will start selling the properties of the indebted officials and local powerbrokers who have left Afghanistan.
According to DABS, the total amount of electricity bills owed to the company is around 500 million Afs.
"We are working on a procedure. A policy should be established to receive payments for the electricity bills from these people. Based on the policy, we might sell their properties or we will find alternative options," said Ahmadzai.
To what extent will the sale of properties aid DABS in paying the electricity costs?
Amanullah Ghalib, the former director of DABS, said: "This will address the problem in the short term. An amount of money will be collected to pay the electricity cost--at least an installment. But in the long run, it cannot resolve DABS’ problem."
Residents of the country welcomed DABS’ decision, saying the company should do all it can to prevent the cutoff of imported electricity.
"Their properties should be sold. They have left the country and will not return. The poor people have paid bills and now electricity should not be cut off for them," said Rohullah, a Kabul resident.
"Their property should be sold to pay their electricity bills," said Shafiq, a resident of Baghlan province.
DABS also said its revenue collection has dropped by 70 percent since the fall of the former government.
There would be no reason for Tajikistan tension, were the Taliban not such generous hosts to their longtime Tajik jihadi guests across the border in Badakhshan province, Jamaat Ansarullah. See here about that generosity.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Information and Culture said that diplomatic efforts were underway to reduce tensions between Afghanistan and neighboring Tajikistan.
A member of the cultural commission of the ministry, Rohullah Omari, on Wednesday called Tajikistan a good neighbor, but said Kabul will not allow Afghanistan’s soil to be violated by any country.
"The Foreign Ministry is in touch with all countries and is working for the facilitation of good ties," he said. "We will have discussions with Tajikistan on all issues."
Reportedly travel between the two countries at the border is no longer possible.
Stranded people say that they have spent several days trying to get across the border.
"The refugees come from Badakhshan to Takhar and from here they want to go to Shirkhan port but Shirkhan port is also shut and they are engaged in these problems," said Fawad, a displaced person.
"The tensions that exist between Afghanistan and Tajikistan are not in anyone's interest," said international relations expert Hamid Obaidi. "Resolving this is possible through mutually-recognized policy and neighborly gestures."
The Talib government responds to this story from yesterday that did not appear in either Khaama Press or Tolo News.
[ToloNews] Amnesia Amnesty International on Tuesday reported that their investigation findings show that Islamic Emirate forces unlawfully killed 13 people in Daikundi province on August 30.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, 11 of the victims were former members of security and defense forces and two of them, including a woman, were civilians.
Agnès Callamard, director of Amnesia Amnesty International Afghanistan, called on the Islamic Emirate to stop such killings. "The Taliban ...Arabic for students... must immediately cease these cruel acts of Dire Revenge and ensure employees of the former government and their families can live safely in Afghanistan. The new government must make clear that such grave violations will not be tolerated, and that those responsible will be prosecuted," Callamard said.
Reacting to the report, Interior Ministry front man Saeed Khosti said the report is not factual nor impartial and the view of the Islamic Emirate is not included.
"This report is incorrect because the view of the Islamic Emirate is not included. It was investigated unilaterally. There should have been documented evidence, and there is not," Khosti said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... a number of Daikundi residents who fled to Kabul said justice should be served, and that many people have been displaced due to insecurity in the province.
"When the Islamic Emirate forces arrived in Daikundi, I was not at home, but my wife and children were. They forced them out of the house and set on fire to our house," said Ghulam Hazrat, a resident of Daikundi.
"Due to the bad security situation, 300 families were forced to leave their homes only in our district. They (Islamic Emirate forces) were killing everyone and taking them away," said Ali Ahmad, a resident of Daikundi.
The Amnesia Amnesty International report comes as a number of Daikundi residents claimed they were forced by people calling themselves members of the Islamic Emirate to leave their houses.
See here to read how Tajikistan feels about that generosity to Jamaat Ansarullah in Badakhshan.
[PJMedia] They warned us this would happen. As the Taliban ...Arabic for students... moved into Kabul in August, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... : "It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day." Then in early September, another Taliban commander declared: "We are happy that we are victorious. We fought for 20 years. We want Islamic law, and not just in Afghanistan." Old Joe The Big Guy Biden
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[Red State] Over the weekend our Managing Editor, Jennifer Van Laar, broke the story of a huge scandal by reporting on the 2-ton war trophy Major General Christopher Donahue placed in the last C-17 out of Kabul. Even a C-17 has weight and cargo limits, so the war trophy reportedly displaced up to 50 people — human beings who were told/ordered to exit the aircraft so the Hilux and its accessory, a Russian anti-aircraft gun, could be loaded.
Now that the story has broken all hell has broken loose to find Jennifer’s source or sources. The Pentagon is embarrassed not because one of its Major Generals displaced human beings for a war trophy, but rather because the Army got caught doing it.
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Moral issues aside, I can see why our very modern Major General might covet said equipment. The Hilux is a fine vehicle and you could scare squirrels way the hell off your lawn with a ZSU. Also good for pesky drones!
#5
How deep is the rot in our military? Is it primarily an affliction of the top brass?
Is the source of the rot mainly cultural i.e. the way our service academies and ROTC detachments recruit, train, promote and reward officers? Inquiring minds, etc
#10
The radar-guided ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" SPAAG, with its four 23 mm (0.90") autocannons, was a revolutionary SPAAG, proving to be an extremely effective weapon against enemy attack aircraft and helicopters under every weather and light condition.
The unit was enviable for it's capacity to "scoot-n-shoot" accurately. As Berserker suggests, its quite possible some reverse engineering is underway for fitment to the GMV.
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Regarding the wreck with a frown,
"Good luck that that thing's broken down,"
Popeye said. "Were it not,
I'd have had to get shot
All to shit on the chase across town."
[Rudaw] Dozens of migrants colonists, including Kurds, are stuck in Libya after trying to reach Italia by boat from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , and have appealed for help to get out of the north African country. They are part of a wave of Iraqi citizens who have tried to migrate to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... this year, taking often risky routes and ending up stranded in countries like Syria or Belarus.
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[AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi praised the sacrifices made by the people of Sinai during times of war and peace, and the support they provided to the Egyptian Armed Forces against the Israeli occupation of the peninsula (1967-1981).
El-Sisi also pledged his continuous support for the citizens in the peninsula and his commitment to developing the entirety of Sinai.
The president's comments came during a cultural symposium titled ’October 1973 - Crossing to the Future’, which was organised by the Armed Forces as part of the celebrations for the 48th anniversary of the October War victory on Wednesday.
Egypt achieved victory in the October 1973 war against Israel, paving the way for the return of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to the homeland after a peace deal was signed with Israel.
During the symposium, Major General Samir Farag, the former head of the Army Morale Affairs Department, stressed that Egyptian soldiers shocked Israel with their bravery during the 6th of October War.
"After the October war, Israeli leaders admitted that the Egyptian soldiers they faced in 1973 were not the same soldiers of 1956 or 1967," Farag said.
Egypt’s victory during the October War eventually led to Israeli forces withdrawing from the Sinai Peninsula on 25 April, 1982 after 15 years of occupation that ended when a peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979.
In 1981, Tel Aviv provoked a diplomatic crisis with Cairo by refusing to hand back the Taba region in South Sinai to Egypt using false border maps.
Egyptian diplomats, historians, and legal experts managed to reclaim Taba, however, after an intense legal battle before an international judiciary to prove that the area was Egyptian territory.
Mofid Shehab, a member of the Taba National Committee and a member of its judicial defence panel before the International Court of Arbitration, was also honoured during the event today.
Shehab, a professor of international law in Cairo University, said that Egypt resorted to international arbitration to restore illusory sovereignty over its entire territory after the glorious October War because "we were not willing to give up an inch of Egypt’s land."
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Don't know that getting your 3rd army surrounded with Israeli troops west of the Suez, and advancing within 60 miles of Cairo, could be considered a 'victory'. Ended in a mandated cease-fire when the UN realized that their Arab 'brothers' (and the Syrians to the north) were getting their *sses handed to them.
To be fair, the Egyptians fought much better in '72 than they did in '68, due the new improved soviet equipment and training.
From Wiki: "Egypt wished to end the war when it realized that the IDF canal crossing offensive could result in a catastrophe."
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The Bedouins of Sinai got what they asked for, good and hard - an impoverished existence under Egyptian rule. Their miserable life makes the lot of Egyptians in Africa proper look like the lap of luxury, by comparison.
#4
To be fair, the Egyptians fought much better in '72 than they did in '68, due the new improved soviet equipment and training.
I prefer the theory in Kenneth M. Pollack's Arabs At War:
...The Egyptian High Command wargamed the initial three days against the Israeli Army for years until they got it "right". What seemed to be improved Egyptian 'combined arms maneuver' was a series of orders in the nature of: "Move two(2) kilometers East and shoot at the charging Israeli tank column that will appear there..." issued before the fact. When the Egyptians actually had to dynamically respond their army operated about the way that you would expect... poorly.
[IsraelTimes] Cypriot authorities are probing an Azeri national on suspicion of carrying out a terror attack as part of an alleged plot to assassinate one or more Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus, according to Israel’s Channel 12 news.
During a hearing at which the suspect’s remand is extended by six days, Cypriot police reveal they are also investigating the suspect for attempted murder, belonging to a criminal organization, conspiracy to commit a crime and being in the country illegally, among other charges.
The suspect’s lawyer tells the Israeli network that his client denies any terror links and has nothing to hide.
The lawyer also denies any Iranian connection to the alleged plot, despite Israel’s government blaming "Iranian terror" for the reported liquidation attempt.
"The investigating unit has not proven these things to us," the lawyer says.
The network further reports the Mossad intelligence agency believes seven Israelis were targeted as part of the plot — businessman Teddy Sagi and six people who work with him.
[AlAhram] Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Gay Paree on Wednesday told the trial being held over a night of bloodshed in the French capital they "played dead" on the ground for hours to avoid being shot.
A total of 130 people were killed in synchronised suicide kabooms and mass shootings at venues across Gay Paree on the night of November 13, 2015, including 90 rock fans watching US band Eagles of Death Metal perform at the Bataclan.
Twenty people are on trial over the bloodshed, including the sole surviving member of the IS cell behind the attacks, Salah Abdeslam.
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[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say 30-year-old Mohammed Haroub shouted ’Jew, Jew’ as he tried to kill victim, who was not Jewish.
Prosecutors on Wednesday filed an indictment against a Paleostinian man for the alleged terror stabbing in Tel Aviv on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, during which a man was seriously hurt.
Mohammed Haroub, 30, was charged with "a terrorist act of attempted murder, a terrorist act of aggravated assault," and illegally entering Israel from the West Bank.
Prosecutors said Haroub stabbed the victim with a screwdriver, assuming he was Jewish.
"The defendant, who believed that the plaintiff was a person of Jewish descent, approached him without being noticed, shouting at him in Arabic ’Jew, Jew,’ hit him over the head with a bottle of water next to him, and stabbed him with the screwdriver in his upper body, with the intention of causing his death," a statement from the Justice Ministry said.
The victim, a 49-year-old man from East Jerusalem, shouted back at the assailant in Arabic during the attack that he was not Jewish, but Haroub ignored his calls, the indictment read. "That's just what a Jooo would say!"
Haroub only expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after he thought the injuries he had caused the victim would lead to his death, prosecutors charged. Police arrested him nearby shortly after the stabbing.
The court extended Haroub’s remand until the end of the legal proceedings.
Israel and the West Bank saw a spate of stabbing attacks in September, apparently in solidarity with six Paleostinian security prisoners who beat feet from Gilboa Prison and were all later rearrested.
#1
IMO, we shouldn't wait until they try to stab somebody (or blow up, or set fire to a forest) - we should charge them for being "Palestinians" (a "nation" invented after Arabs lost the Six day war).
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of Paleostinians lined up outside chambers of commerce across the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Wednesday, hoping to get permits to work inside Israel after rumors circulated that more would be issued to residents of the territory ruled by the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror group.
Gaza’s more than 2 million Paleostinian residents have lived under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade since Hamas seized power from rival Paleostinian forces in the coastal region in 2007. Israel says the closures are needed to contain the terror group sworn to its destruction, and to prevent it from importing weaponry and materials to manufacture arms and attack tunnels.
An Israeli security official said authorities decided to allow in 7,000 workers in September but were only able to issue 4,500 permits. They are now taking applications for the remaining 2,500, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... in line with regulations. The permits were for businesspeople, rather than day laborers.
Sharif al-Faqawi, one of the workers lining up for a permit, said he shares a single room with his wife and eight children.
"We hope the crossings will be open so we can work and feed our children," he said. "When I go north (into Israel), at least I will be able to feed them and build a future for them."
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since 2008, the most recent in May of this year. Hamas has demanded the easing of the blockade as part of an informal cease-fire brokered by Egypt. Israel has lifted some restrictions since the end of the 11-day May war while warning that any broader easing depends on continued calm.
Hamas recently organized a workshop to discuss the management of natural resources in what is now Israel once the terror group "liberates" historical Paleostine.
Critics saw the event as evidence of Hamas’s disconnection from the daily hardships endured by Paleostinians in Gaza, where employment hovers around 50%.
Tens of thousands of Paleostinians from the West Bank also work in Israel, where wages are much higher, mainly in construction and agriculture.
[IsraelTimes] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... has asked Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to restrain settlement building in the West Bank, according to the Walls news site.
Citing unnamed Israeli sources, the report says the request was relayed to the Prime Minister’s Office last week, with acting US Ambassador Michael Ratney phoning PMO officials to say the Biden administration wants plans for new settlements to be reduced in scope.
Ratney also reportedly raised concerns about possible future construction in the so-called E1 corridor between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement.
An unnamed senior US official tells the news site that the administration has been in contact with Israel about settlements every week since Biden hosted Bennett at the White House in late August.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian-mediated talks between Israel and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, on a possible prisoner swap deal have stalled, with the two sides remaining firm in their demands, the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya news channel reports.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations, the report says Israel is refusing the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -ruling terror group’s demand to release 1,000 prisoners and that several other issues remain unresolved.
A thousand? Sure Israel traded that many last time, but times have changed.
[IsraelTimes] President Isaac Herzog meets with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Ukraine ahead of the memorial ceremony this evening marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre, when tens of thousands of people, mostly Jews, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
Both are due to speak at the ceremony and a statement from Herzog’s office says the two noted the "powerful symbolism" of them meeting today.
Herzog and Steinmeier also "talked at length about the matter of the State of Israel’s captured and missing [citizens] in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and other places," according to the statement.
Germany has previously been linked to efforts to broker a prisoner swap between Israel and the Gaza-ruling Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group, which is holding a pair of Israeli citizens who entered the Strip and the bodies of two soldiers killed in the 2014 war. The statement says Herzog acknowledged this while meeting with Steinmeier.
Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect talks to firm up a shaky ceasefire since 11 days of fighting between the sides in May. Israel has vowed not to allow a full reconstruction of Gaza without a prisoner swap.
[IsraelTimes] In violation of sanctions on Tehran, fuel to be taken overland into Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... , which is in an ongoing economic crisis.
A third tanker containing a shipment of Iranian oil destined for Lebanon docked in Syria’s Baniyas port on Wednesday, an online oil shipment tracking service said.
The service said the Fortune tanker, registered in Iran, had arrived at the northern Syrian port — the same docking point for previous shipments.
Dozens of trucks carrying Iranian diesel have arrived in Lebanon in recent weeks — deliveries organized by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.
The overland delivery through neighboring Syria violates US sanctions imposed on Tehran after then-president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... pulled America out of a nuclear deal between 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... and world powers in 2018.
The shipments are being portrayed as a victory by Hezbollah, which stepped in to supply the fuel from its Iranian patron while the cash-strapped Lebanese government grapples with months-long fuel shortages that have paralyzed the country.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said the shipments violate Lebanon’s illusory sovereignty and are not approved by his government.
Israel has said it will not interfere with the shipments.
Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the ruling class and a sectarian-based political system that thrives on patronage and nepotism.
Severe shortages in fuel have resulted in crippling power cuts and hours-long waits at gas stations.
Hezbollah’s leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , announced in August that Iran was sending the fuel to Lebanon to help ease the crisis. The first Hezbollah-commissioned Iranian oil tanker arrived in the Syrian port of Baniyas in September and the diesel was unloaded to Syrian storage places before it was brought overland to Lebanon by tanker trucks, where it was welcomed with celebratory gunfire.
Hezbollah, often accused of operating a state-within-a-state, has been taking part in Syria’s civil war alongside government forces. It manages its own crossing points along the Lebanon-Syria border, away from formal border crossings.
Nasrallah said that the tanker did not offload its cargo directly in Lebanon to avoid embarrassing authorities and risking sanctions on Lebanon.
While the oil delivery was seen as a victory for Hezbollah, the group is facing growing internal criticism for increasingly pulling Lebanon into Iran’s orbit and for defending its political allies who resist change rather than push for reform.
[IsraelTimes] The Quds Force of the elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), responsible for Iran’s controversial operations abroad, is increasingly using drones as the main means for carrying out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and supplying proxies, an exiled opposition group says.
The National Council of Resistance® 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... (NCRI) says that the drones are being manufactured at eight plants in Iran, sometimes using materials smuggled from abroad, and then sent to countries like Iraq and Syria where they are assembled and then deployed.
The NCRI, the political wing of the People’s Mujahedin (MEK), which is banned in Iran, says it based its findings on reports from the network of supporters the MEK claims to maintain inside the country.
It supplies images that it claims are of drone production plants but it isn’t immediately possible to independently verify the claims.
The Quds Force, which was led by commander Qassem Soleimani until his killing in a US strike in Iraq in 2020, is accused by the West of leading Iranian operations in Iraq, Syria and 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... and seeking to strike Western targets.
The NCRI says the Quds Force is "chiefly using various unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for its terrorist operations as well as for supplying its proxies in the region."
"To an extent, the regime is trying to compensate for its outdated and decrepit air force with this technology," it adds.
It says that to produce the drones Iran has been smuggling some of the main parts, such as engines and electronic components from China as well as raw materials from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and South Korea.
It says there is now a specialized UAV Command among the five command units of the IRGC Aerospace Force. The UAV Command has several groups that are stationed at various bases across Iran.
Oct 6, 2021 Press Conf - Exposed: The IRGC Aerospace Force Drone Command Center’s 8 UAV manufacturing centers & 7 UAV maintenance & utilization centers, including The headquarters of the drone command center in Dastvareh in northwestern Tehran#Iran#UAV#Drones#Terrorismpic.twitter.com/yzzjVjowwN
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Two years of displacement from her hometown, Anoud al-Jassem, 69, an IDP from the countryside of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), who resides with her family in Washokani camp near Hasakah city in northeast Syria, still remembers everything she left behind.
The displaced woman, sitting in front of her tent with her disabled daughter and other displaced women from her region, said that she left behind her warehouses of wheat, barley, cumin, electricity generators, tanks of water and diesel, and all its possessions, including a house, land, and others.
The old woman, who suffers from many diseases, the most noticeable are herniated disc, diabetes and blood pressure problem, added that "We just took our clothes we were wearing when we were displaced."
On October 9, 2019, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and its affiliated opposition factions invaded Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, causing the displacement of 300,000 indigenous people.
The people of the two cities are distributed among tents and shelters in northeast Syria. They live in harsh living conditions amid lack of humanitarian aid.
Washokani camp, which was established by the Autonomous Administration on October 24, 2019, on the outskirt of the town of al-Tweina, 13 km west of Hasakah, houses 2,317 families, a total of 15,158 people, distributed among 1,986 tents, according to the camp management.
Riyad Mer’i, official of the Relations Office at Washokani camp, said that food baskets have not been distributed for the past two months, as "the organizations justified this by the lack of sufficient budgets."
According to Mer’i, the provided aid does not meet 20% of the needs of the IDPs of drinking water and food.
Over the last period, organizations that were providing services in the camp, have stopped distributing these services and headed towards the areas of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa, according to Mar’i.
"Three children bit the dust in the camp in the summer due to the high temperatures," Meri’ told North Press.
Meri’ pointed out that many NGOs have evaded their "moral and humanitarian" responsibilities towards the IDPs of Sere Kaniye, "as a result of the Syrian government’s failure to recognize this camp and the failure of the UNHCR to provide aid to the displaced."
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.
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
...... 46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle......
...Arabic for 
[Red State] Over the weekend our Managing Editor, Jennifer Van Laar, broke the story of a huge scandal by reporting on the 2-ton war trophy Major General Christopher Donahue placed in the last C-17 out of Kabul. Even a C-17 has weight and cargo limits, so the war trophy reportedly displaced up to 50 people — human beings who were told/ordered to exit the aircraft so the 
[AlAhram] Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
Hezbollah
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...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
