[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... said that the Moslem Brüderbund group is an incubator for terrorists.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, on the sidelines of his visit to the United States, the Saudi Crown Prince addressed several topics, including the Iranian threat to the region, the war in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and the recent reform steps in Saudi Arabia.
"We must get rid of extremism," said Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "When extremism seizes to exist, there wouldn’t be a single terrorist," he added.
As for the recent social reforms in Saudi Arabia, including allowing women to drive and opening cinemas, the Crown Prince said that the Saudi people cannot live in a "non-competitive" environment.
"The atmosphere in Saudi Arabia had pushed Saudis to leave the kingdom, and this is one of the reasons for which we launched social reforms," added the Crown Prince.
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"We must get rid of extremism," said Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
That's RACIS! Or, un-Islamic. Or something. Sufis must have gotten to him.
[Dhaka Tribune] Panic has spread in the hilly areas of Bandarban after Myanmar-based Arakan Army (AA) sent letters to Bangladeshi youths, inviting them to join the turban group.
Youths living in remote areas of Thanchi and Ali Kadam, bordering Myanmar, received these letters recently.
Panicking, they are now reportedly taking shelter in Thanchi upazila.
Thanchi Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Jahangir Alam confirmed receipt of the letters.
Written in Burmese, the letter asked old members of the group to participate in training slated for March 31. It also asked the members to recruit young people from the hilly areas.
Following the letter, the local administration, public representatives, and security forces, held a meeting on Tuesday with Thanchi UNO, Jahangir Alam, in the chair. A number of youths of the border areas also reportedly attended the meeting. The meeting asked the youths not to panic.
Locals in the border areas said some Marma youths have already joined the group out of fear, while others have escaped their homes.
Thanchi Upazila Chairman Kwa Hla Ching Marma said: "The letter invited Bangladeshi youths to join the Arakan Army. We have already held a meeting on the matter."
"But the location of the Arakan Army camp was not mentioned in the letter. We also do not know where the camp is. We have directed all to be alert."
Anupam Marma is a local journalist of Thanchi who knows Burmese. He said: "According to the letter, a 15-day training will begin on March 31. Those interested are requested to come to the camp by March 28. At the end of the letter it mentioned Camp-2, Battalion No 215, Rakhine Army."
He said many young people have already taken shelter with their relatives out of fear.
Thanchi cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdus Sattar said: "I have heard about the letter. But I did not attend the meeting held this week on behalf of the administration. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is looking into the matter since these are border areas."
Bolipara BGB Battalion acting captain Major Ruhul Amin said: "We have already held a meeting with the administration. Our battalion members remain alert on the border s."
"We have already discussed the issue. There is no need to worry about it," said Bandarban Deputy Commissioner Md Aslam Hossain.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior Ottoman Turkish official said on Friday that a French pledge to help stabilize a region of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces amounted to support for terrorism and could make La Belle France a "target of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ".
French backing for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia, has angered Ankara at a time when it is fighting the YPG in northern Syria and considers it a terrorist organization.
Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said La Belle France had taken a "completely wrong approach" on Syria, adding that he exchanged heated words with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, last week.
Ottoman Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said the French stance was setting Gay Paree on a collision course with Ankara.
"Those who enter into cooperation and solidarity with terror groups against Turkey...will, like the terrorists, become a target of Turkey," Bozdag wrote on Twitter. "We hope La Belle France does not take such an irrational step."
Ankara considers the YPG an extension of Kurdish bandidosbandidos krazed killers who have waged a decades-old insurgency in southeast Turkey. Its forces drove YPG fighters from the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin nearly two weeks ago and Erdogan says it is preparing to extend operations along hundreds of miles of border with Syria.
The Afrin operation has already drawn international criticism, notably from Macron, and Ankara’s pledge to extend it eastwards has also raised tensions with the United States which has 2,000 soldiers stationed in north Syria alongside the SDF.
All three countries - La Belle France, Turkey and the United States - are NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... partners but the rift over Syria has increasingly strained relations.
"We have no intention to harm soldiers of allied nations, but we cannot allow hard boyz to roam freely (in northern Syria)," Erdogan said.
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Erdogan put out a map of all of the positions of French troops in Syria for his jihadists.
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Really? Then the French should soring some major Kemalist bigwigs from yhe jug and then set up an alliance between 5hem and tbe Kurds. Wacth Ergodan literally explode
Yes, there was blood and people died, but it was an accident, so I put in on Page 2: WoT Background.
[IsraelTimes] Vehicle with capacity for 14 people was carrying 50, says Ottoman Turkish official
At least 17 people were killed and another 36 maimed after a bus carrying undocumented immigrants colonists hit a light pole in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... and burst into flames, local media reported on Friday.
The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, was carrying immigrants colonists from Iran, Pakistain, and Afghanistan, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
A Ottoman Turkish official told the agency that the vehicle had a capacity for 14 passengers but was carrying 50 people.
A second passenger minibus is said to have hit some of the people thrown from the first vehicle.
The maimed were taken to hospital, some of them at death's door.
Law enforcement authorities opened an investigation into the incident.
Thirteen illegal migrants colonists were detained by security forces inside another bus, which Anadolu said had been on the same journey as the one involved in the crash.
Road accidents are common in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Ottoman Turkish state broadcaster TRT said last month that 3,530 people were killed on the roads in 2017.
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And just how many American have NOT experienced a hug 'life stressor' in the last five years? Without this as a denominator, the headline is worthless.
[PJ] An American photojournalist who in 2013 escaped from an al Qaeda affiliate prison in Aleppo, Syria, after six torturous months claims that the FBI betrayed him by putting intelligence gathering ahead of his personal security while he was in captivity. And he claims that for the past four years, the Bureau has had two of the terrorists who robbed him in custody, yet no indictments have been forthcoming.
Matt Schrier was abducted in late December of 2012 by al-Nusra and escaped from prison in July of 2013. Now he's blowing the whistle on the FBI.
In an interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum last week, Schrier said the terror network stole his financial information and used his own money to buy at least a dozen computers and tablets. The former hostage said he knows "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the FBI was monitoring his accounts.
"And this is because the agent told me she thought I joined al Qaeda because they paid off my Discover card. That’s what it takes to fool the FBI," Schrier said. "So, because they thought I joined, and I was basically judged guilty until proven innocent, they started monitoring everything and they saw. They were buying laptops, ten at once, tablets on eBay. And, you gotta think, this is a dream come true. We intercept the laptops, we get the IP addresses, maybe put some GPSs, some microphones in and we deliver them right into the hands of al Qaeda. And they spy. And me, well, I’m not coming home anyway so no harm, no foul. As long as you’re not me."
Schrier also told MacCallum that the FBI fooled his mother into thinking he was okay and never even told his father he’d been kidnapped. Schrier said that at first, he thought the FBI was just incompetent, but after he started investigating, he learned that the FBI agent handling his case had been "lying about a lot of things."
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Schrier said that at first, he thought the FBI was just incompetent, but after he started investigating, he learned that the FBI agent handling his case had been "lying about a lot of things."
Correct on both counts. When will your book be released ?
[ALMASDARNEWS] La Belle France does not plan to conduct a new counter-terrorist operation in northern Syria, a representative of the country’s Foreign Ministry said Friday.
"La Belle France remains involved in the joint fight [against terrorism] and does not plan to conduct a new operation in northern Syria, except the one conducted by the international coalition against ISIS*," the representative told a briefing.
The French diplomat stressed that La Belle France is working to stabilize the areas in northern Syria that had been liberated from ISIS.
On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron met with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) delegation and announced support of Gay Paree, in particular, for stabilization of the situation in the northeast of Syria. The French president also expressed hope for a dialogue between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and SDF mediated by La Belle France and the international community.
Earlier in the day, Ibrahim Kalin, front man for Ottoman Turkish President 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... ’s office, said that Ankara does not accept Macron’s proposal on a dialogue with SDF and possible mediation of La Belle France.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] US-led coalitions’ actions have caused "a disastrous humanitarian situation" in Syria’s Raqqa, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Sergei Rudskoy said at the press briefing in Moscow, Friday.
According to Rudskoy, Raqqa’s infrastructure "is almost completely destroyed and the residents do not have access to communal and social services in the capital’s province, where about 95 thousand people have returned to."
"Due to the non-functioning plumbing, there are serious problems with water supply. Often, it [water] is taken directly from the Euphrates, which increases the threat of the spread of infections and epidemics," he added.
Rudskoy said that the Arab population is subjected to repression and forced mobilisation because of the American coalition, causing "sharp dissatisfaction of local residents."
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