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Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
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Afghanistan
Over 1,000 Afghan youth commissioned to army after training
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A total of 1,227 youth were commissioned to the Afghanistan National Army on Saturday after completing a three-month military training.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Payenda Mohammad Nazim, director of education with the Defense Ministry, said the newly graduated soldiers would be deployed to serve the nation.

Afghanistan has been facing a protracted war over the past more than four decades that has claimed countless lives including military personnel, bandidos Death Eaters and civilians.

Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad 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...
said in January last year that more than 45,000 Afghan security personnel had been killed since 2014.

More than 70 Afghans including civilians and combatants have been killed since Oct. 7 in the country, according to officials.

The country’s 350,000-strong troops including police and army have been fighting a brutal war against krazed killer groups.

More than 20 krazed killer groups including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, al-Qaeda, 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....
and Lashkar-e-Tyeba are operational in Afghanistan, according to security officials.
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Arabia
UN envoy to discuss Yemen peace plan in Riyadh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
UK education secretary accuses universities of disregarding anti-Semitism
[IsraelTimes] Gavin Williamson threatens to suspend funding if international definition of anti-Jewish hatred is not adopted by end of year.
Grab ‘em by their bank accounts — that’s the only way to get their attention.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 02:30 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Universities have rejected adopting the definition on the basis of academic autonomy and freedom of speech, according to The Guardian."

Critics of the definition argue that it stifles criticism of Israel. The definition includes a clause defining anti-Semitism as “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”

Freedom of speech on one side, censorship on the other.
Posted by: Sleregum Flans6022 || 10/12/2020 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  They do no such thing!

They promote it, not disregard it!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/12/2020 20:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Egyptian native Adel Abdel Bary, 60, was jailed over the 1998 terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224

  • He was the leader of the London branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad,
    ... Ayman al-Zawahiri‘s outfit...
    which merged with Al Qaeda

  • His long legal battle meant he was sentenced in 2015 after 16 years on remand

  • A judge ruled last week he could be released early amid coronavirus fears

  • He had been serving his sentence in the ADX Florence supermax prison

  • Bary - who had struck a plea deal - is at risk because he is obese and has asthma

  • He is currently in a US immigration and customs enforcement detention facility

  • He cannot be placed under Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures because he has already served his sentence

  • UK officials are mulling over whether to ask if he can stay in America

  • He is the father of ISIS jihadi Abdel-Majed Abdel who is in jail in Spain
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 10:31 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  "We keep telling you, send us Christopher Steele or more of this..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Set as today’s headline.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Food too good in Florence???
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/12/2020 17:42 Comments || Top||

#4  WTF?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/12/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Why not? Everybody's doing it.
Posted by: Clem || 10/12/2020 18:45 Comments || Top||

#6  But who's gonna bring him his Jello.
Ya gotta have Jailo.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/12/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel and Hamas said to reach agreement for 6-month ceasefire
[IsraelTimes] According to report, deal brokered by Mossad head, COGAT includes $100 million from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to 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...
terror group; local leaders in Israel’s south angered by lack of long-term quiet.
We’ll see whether they can even hold to a purchased hudna.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 03:37 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s currency hits new low as atomic energy chief contracts COVID
If one went by the evidence, it would appear that Allah is severely displeased with Iran...
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s currency hits another record low on the same day a local news report says the head of the country’s atomic energy organization has tested positive for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, becoming the latest bigwig to become infected.

The semiofficial Tasnim news agency says Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also a vice president of Iran, had confirmed positive for the virus last week and has been in home quarantine since. The news agency reports that his health condition is currently good.

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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has recorded at least 28,000 deaths out of around 496,000 confirmed cases of the virus, making it the hardest-hit country in the region. Just last week, Iran reported its highest daily corpse count from the virus with 239 new fatalities reported on Wednesday.

Iran has struggled to contain the spread of the virus across this nation of 80 million people, initially beating it back only to see a spike in cases again, beginning in June. The government has largely resisted imposing wide-scale lockdowns as the economy teeters from continued US economic sanctions that effectively bar Iran from selling its oil internationally.

Money exchange shops in Tehran sell the US dollar at 315,000 rials today, compared to what was 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Salehi is known internationally as one of the key Iranian negotiators who took part in those nuclear talks. The deal curbed Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, but US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed crushing economic sanctions.

The currency plummeted further days after the Trump administration’s decision to blacklist 18 Iranian banks that had so far escaped the bulk of re-imposed sanctions. The move subjects non-Iranian financial institutions to penalties for doing business with them, effectively cutting the banks off from the international financial system.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 03:37 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  On the bright side, nothing else blew up.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/12/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Since he's a party hack - not an actual researcher, there is nothing to celebrate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  We aren't happy when party hacks get sick?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  No. We like Iranians who know how to make atomic bombs to get sick. Party hacks are in overabundance.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Iranians who know how to make atomic bombs to get sick.

Those tend to have fatal accidents from time to time... sometimes involving their cars blowing up.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Funny how that happens....
Posted by: Clem || 10/12/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Pikers. Our president caught COVID.
Posted by: KBK || 10/12/2020 22:48 Comments || Top||

#8  The COVID is now in 2 week quarantine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 23:23 Comments || Top||


Released Clinton emails show that in case Biden wins, he will likely complete a series of cooperation with Tehran and Doha against ArabCountries, including softening the US stance on Iran's nuclear program
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  So yet again, another set of discovered Emails out Hillary and others AGAIN as working with the enemies of the USA, against the Citizens and our allies.

If this turns out to be solid court presentable / usable evidence. When can we then expect to see some indictments, as we are coming up on 4 years+ of waiting now.

Side Notes:
1. Are the DOJ upper level types waiting for the political outcome of the 2020 election for JOB Security reasons, or maybe negotiating for career rewarding incentives?

2. Trump knows Obama/Clinton's have well entrenched 5th Column within the DOJ to circumvent and deal with.



Posted by: Steve T. || 10/12/2020 5:26 Comments || Top||

#2  To Biden's voters, it's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||


#4  If the enemy tries any lawfare hijinks after the election, Trump may have a huge ace up his sleeve with material incriminating so many lawyers on the enemy side, material just waiting to be disclosed.
Posted by: Grort Snineter7862 || 10/12/2020 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ^I like how you think
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||


Residents of Kobani commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of the Future Syria Party Secretary-General, Hevrin Khala
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2020-10-12
  Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
Sun 2020-10-11
  Iraq reshuffles military chiefs amid escalation of ISIS groups
Sat 2020-10-10
  Elon Musk and the U.S. military plan to build a reusable 7,500mph cargo rocket
Fri 2020-10-09
  US hits Iran’s entire financial sector with sanctions
Thu 2020-10-08
  International mediation meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict set for Geneva
Wed 2020-10-07
  BLM rioters in Los Angeles are breaking into buildings & smashing the glass
Tue 2020-10-06
  Baku demands apology from France after Macron claims Syrian jihadists deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh
Mon 2020-10-05
  DC Antifa ‘Ringleader’ Jason Charter Arrested Again at WalkAway Rally
Sun 2020-10-04
  8 charged in French cryptocurrency scheme to finance jihadis
Sat 2020-10-03
  Iraqi Air Force bombed ISIS terrorist hideouts on the border between Diyala and Salah al-Din
Fri 2020-10-02
  Trump confirms he and Melania test Positive for Covid-Virus
Thu 2020-10-01
  France arrests 29 in anti-terror Syria financing sting
Wed 2020-09-30
  First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
Tue 2020-09-29
  US moves its embassy from Baghdad to Erbil
Mon 2020-09-28
  U.S. Plans 'Full Withdrawal' From Iraqi Embassy


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