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'The war has begun' - Polisario Front launches attacks on Moroccan military bases
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Afghanistan
New Pentagon Chief to US Troops: ‘Time to Come Home’
[ToloNews] The newly appointed acting defense secretary of the United States, Christopher Miller, in a message signaled that he could expedite the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the Middle East, saying that "it’s time to come home" and that "all wars must end."

Miller was appointed as acting defense secretary by US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
on Monday.

He said in a memo to his department that the US is committed to defeating al-Qaeda and is "on the verge of defeating" the group.

"Many are weary of war — I’m one of them," he wrote in the message posted on the US Defense Department website on Saturday. "But this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role."

Miller said, "Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it’s time to come home."

Trump has been pushing for the withdrawal of his troops from Afghanistan by Christmas during his campaign.

The United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
on February 29 and agreed on the gradual withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan. But Trump last month said the troops should be home by Christmas.

The new Pentagon chief did not mention specific US troop deployments, but the reference to al-Qaeda appeared to single out Afghanistan and Iraq, where US troops were deployed after the September 11 attacks.

The concerns about an early withdrawal from Afghanistan comes as violence has remained high in the country despite efforts to resume peace negotiations in Doha.

The Washington Post reported that former US defense secretary Mark Esper after consulting with senior military officers, sent a classified memo to the White House this month expressing concerns about additional cuts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Finally.
Hope at last. Hope for sanity in US foreign policy
Posted by: Gerthudion Cleart1869 || 11/15/2020 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Miller doing what the last guy failed to do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2020 3:56 Comments || Top||

#3  GC, you do realize that you sanity will last only until Gropey Joe and the hard left take over?

You do realize that, right?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/15/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#4  What future do these warriors have to come home to? To get a job, then train a foreign H1B1 replacement brought in by Wall Street how to do your job as what happened under Obama/Biden after you have been given two weeks notice or loose your severance pay?
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/15/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  They have the same future we all do: Stagnation, stagnation, and more stagnation. It took us 40 years, but we finally are going to see what Jimmy Carter's second term would look like.
Posted by: Tom || 11/15/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Jimmy Carter looks like Robert Taft nowadays. Even Slick Willy looks good when compared to the Dem cast of characters of today.
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Historically, as I understand it, the companies that have been the strongest in this country, long term, were those started during one of our regular economic downturns. So those future civilians, and current civilians as well, should look at this as an opportunity to build over, build under, and build around the current failing behemoths. Do something better, do something new, turn a hobby into a micro-business... shoot, become a licensed plumber/electrician/mechanic/HVAC technician and you’ll have more work than you can handle at $50-100/hour. Factories have been working short handed for several decades because they can’t get people who can work with the computers that do much of the work.

Yes, it now takes a BA in accounting to do the work that used to be done by math-able kids with some high school, and for about the same pay, while other BA degrees lead straight to the fast food counter up-selling fries with that. But there are plenty of blue collar jobs going begging, for those not so proud of having useless college degrees that they turn their backs on honest, well-paid work.

Jimmy Carter looks like the self-righteous, Jew hating ass he always was, and Slick Willy now appears too old and sick to act the rapey horndog he was with and without his bootie buddy, Jeffrey Epstein. Joe Biden is merely the dregs of that particular vintage; just because the MSM shriek that he has won does not mean he has.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm starting to think Keith Richards looks better than Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Clem || 11/15/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Bush Jr, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Romney, the Squat = the last gasp of the post-Cold War Kakocracy

Stupidest, most incompetent, most corrupt and all around shittiest political class this nation has seen since the 1870s
Posted by: Gronter Thusogum7759 || 11/15/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya-Tunisia Border Crossing Reopens
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Death toll for Armenian forces increases by nearly 1,000 after exchange of dead
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Poll: Palestinians prefer binational state with Jordan if no statehood possible
[Jpost] Citizens from multiple countries were asked about Israel as a Jewish state, the US elections and a future Paleostinian state.

A new extensive multi-country survey released by the German think-tank Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Wednesday assessed attitudes from multiple countries on a wide arrange of topics related to the Middle East, Abraham Accords and Israeli-Paleostinian relations, which was covered in part here.

Citizens from multiple countries participated in the survey, hailing from Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, the Paleostinian Authority, Soddy Arabia
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  honestly, besides the Un beauracrats, who gives a shit what the paleos want?
Posted by: Chris || 11/15/2020 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Paleos - agreed. And who gives a shit what the 2nd most hostile nation on that list wants?

That would be the supposed ally where the majority hates not just Trump (only 15% favorable) but also Biden (only 49% favorable)
Posted by: Titus Unaitle1766 || 11/15/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  interestingly the think tank didn't seem to ask the Jordanians what they thought of a Paleo-Jordanian state

Probably the think tank didn't want to know.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/15/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  What the Jordanians think is why the Paleos are living in the West Bank and Gaza.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/15/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny, the Germans are as hostile to the US as the Paleos are...

Why do we still have NATO?
Why are we defending people who hate us?
Posted by: Shomogum Lumumba1756 || 11/15/2020 16:44 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
A year ago Kurds in SerêKaniyê/ Rojava forced to left their homes exactly like what happening now in Artsakh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iran denies Israel killed al-Qaeda’s No. 2 in Tehran: ‘A Hollywood scenario’
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] 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...
said Saturday that a New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

report that al-Qaeda’s second-in-command was secretly killed in Tehran this summer by Israeli agents was based on "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the group’s members on Iranian soil.

Iran’s foes, the United States and Israel, "try to shift the responsibility for the criminal acts of [al-Qaeda] and other terrorist groups in the region and link Iran to such groups with lies and by leaking made-up information to the media," foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement.

The New York Times reported Friday that Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah, indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was shot and killed in Tehran in August by two Israeli operatives on a cycle of violence at Washington’s behest.

The senior al-Qaeda leader, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of the late Osama bin Laden
...... who used to be alive but now he's not......
’s son Hamza, the Times said, citing intelligence sources.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Hezbollah presence in south Syria much larger than previously revealed
[Jpost] New report by the ALMA Research and Education Center locates 58 sites belonging to group's Southern Command and Golan Project.

Hezbollah’s presence in southern Syria is much larger than previously revealed to the public, a new report by the Alma Research and Education Center has found, with some 58 sites where the terrorist group’s Southern Command and Golan Project have been deployed.

The report, which is based on Syrian opposition websites and cross-referenced with actual locations of sites (some military) damaged by Israel, revealed 58 locations belonging to the group in the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Dera’a.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Terror Networks
Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the emir of the Islamic State’s Saharan branch, heavily critiques Al Qaeda’s operations in the Sahel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Explains much that has puzzled me about the various groups we’ve encountered in that part of the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2020 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  From the article: "Sahrawi links much of the events during these periods, as well as the emergence of the Islamic State in the region, to the creation of the current Sahelian al Qaeda wing, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims(JNIM)." It's hard to keep track of AQ because of the various name changes over the last twenty years. Suffice to say, the Islamists have their own internal struggle playing out.
Posted by: b || 11/15/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Suffice to say, the Islamists have their own internal struggle playing out.

Something akin to Kudzu. Easier just to view at a distance or walk around it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2020-11-15
  'The war has begun' - Polisario Front launches attacks on Moroccan military bases
Sat 2020-11-14
  Zawahiri reportedly died a month ago of natural causes
Fri 2020-11-13
  Seven Soldiers Killed in Burkina Faso Attack
Thu 2020-11-12
  Turkey signs MoU for ceasefire in war it instigated and supplied terrorist Syrian mercenaries for in Karabakh
Wed 2020-11-11
  Minneapolis Starts Begging For Outside Resources
Tue 2020-11-10
  Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he signed an ''extremely painful'' agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
Mon 2020-11-09
  Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
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  Turkish-backed forces attack Syrian Christian city in Hama
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  Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after failure to prevent Islamist shooting
Fri 2020-11-06
  Marauding mob of antifa smashed up buildings one-by-one in Portland to protest election, IED and other weapons found
Thu 2020-11-05
  Armenian forces stifle Azerbaijani advance into key city
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  Joe Biden's campaign says he will have path to victory later Wednesday
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  Day 2: Vienna synagogue shooting: Active shooter situation in Austria
Mon 2020-11-02
  Report: At least one dead in shooting attack near synagogue in Vienna
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  Islamic State claims responsibility for church attack in Congo


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