[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... demanded the immediate release of his close ally and former police chief of Qaisar district of Faryab Nizamuddin Qaisari.
Gen. Dostum raised the demand shortly after returning to Kabul and appearing before a press conferene in his office in Kabul.
He said he will hold talks with 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. .. regarding the release of Qasairi.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he warned that he will leave the country once again if President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani did not accept his demand for the release of Qaisari.
This comes as sources close to Junbish Milli Party had earlier said that the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum will step up efforts for the release of Commander Nizamuddin Qaisari after his return to Kabul today.
A front man of Junbish Milli Party, Bashir Ahmad Tahyanj, said Commander Qaisari will soon be released from the detention facility of the Intelligence Directorate.
He said Commander Qaisari will be shifted to his accommodation after his release from the Intelligence Directorate’s detention facility where the First Vice President would be able to visit him.
Tahyanj did not disclose further information in this regard but added that the peaceful protests would continue regarding the recent upheavals and further decisions will be jointly taken after Gen. Dostum’s return.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities are going to close Rafah Crossing on the border with Gazoo on Monday for 24 hours, Egypt's state-owned news MENA reported.
According to MENA, the closure comes on the occasion of the anniversary of the 23 July revolution, which is a national holiday for the public and private sectors in Egypt.
The border crossing will be closed for 24 hours and reopened Tuesday.
[AsiaTimes]Saudi Arabia, one of three GCC members blockading fellow member state Qatar, is planning the Salwa Canal, a 60km-long channel which would effectively make Qatar an island.
The proposed canal would run through Saudi territory across the entire base of the Qatar Peninsula, officially creating a new sea lane and providing opportunities for tourism.Yet by physically slicing Qatar off from the coast of Arabia, the canal would also create a 60-kilometer-long, 200-meter-wide symbol of the now 14-month old Gulf Crisis.
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Another opportunity for Sh*t Fume on FauxNews to mumble "Gutter..."
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[PRESSTV] The front man for Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement says the Saudi-led military alliance has dismally failed in its campaign to overrun the strategic western Yemeni port city of Hudaydah.
"The enemies’ scenario to march into Hudaydah has resulted in failure, because they heavily relied on psychological warfare and media propaganda, concealing the real facts on the ground," Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network quoted Mohammed Abdul-Salam as saying on Sunday.
He added that 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... and its regional allies have not derived any benefit from over three-year 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... war and are losers.
"They lack any military and political vision and have no understanding of the nature of the Yemeni nation," Abdul-Salam pointed out.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's government said Sunday that it will return to the negotiating table with Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias if they release all the prisoners they are holding.
"It is necessary to show goodwill before the start of new talks through the release of all the detainees in their prisons," Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher said at talks with United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... envoy Martin Griffiths in Riyadh, the Saba news agency reported.
He also demanded for the Houthis to "facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid" in provinces where they control airports and ports.
UN envoy to 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... Griffiths has been trying for weeks to restart talks on ending the conflict between Yemen's government and the Iran-aligned Houthis that has killed nearly 10,000 people in the past three years.
Bin Dagher told Griffiths that any talks would have to lead to a withdrawal of Houthi militias from the capital Sanaa and other towns under their control, and the group's disarmament, Saba reported.
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[PRESSTV] The Mighty Pak Army has called for the Supreme Court to launch an investigation into claims made by a high court judge pertaining to the country's spy agency interfering in judiciary affairs.
On Sunday, the Pak military released a statement calling for the initiation of appropriate process to ascertain the authenticity of the allegations leveled by Justice Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui at the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI).
"In order to safeguard the sanctity and credibility of the state institutions, Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistain has been requested to initiate appropriate process to ascertain the veracity of the allegations and take actions accordingly," added the ISI's public relations.
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar responded to Siddiqui's remarks by calling on the Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to present the complete record of his remarks.
On Saturday, Siddiqui said that the ISI had manipulated judicial proceedings in several cases, such as the ouster of premier Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... He also claimed that the ISI had asked him to provide assurance that Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law would remain in jail until July 25 which coincides with the country's elections
Sharif and his daughter Maryam were nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! upon arrival in Pakistain on July 13.
Siddiqui also claimed that the ISI had offered him the position of chief justice of the Islamabad High Court.
On Wednesday, Siddiqui chided the ISI and police over alleged forced abductions, accusing the security apparatus of breaking the law.
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The Mighty Pak Army has called for the Supreme Court to launch an investigation into claims made by a high court judge pertaining to the country's spy agency interfering in judiciary affairs.
General Mattis to the white courtesy phone please, General James Mattis.
[DAWN] Maulana Sufi Mohammad of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi had once many supporters and sympathisers in native land but that is no more the case.
Unlike the past when the radical holy man declared Western democracy un-Islamic, the people of Malakand division are actively campaigning for their favourite election candidates.
[IsraelTimes] In op-ed piece for CNN, Haley, Friedmann, Kushner and Greenblatt laud recent vote to condemn Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, actions in Gazoo, say peace requires world to acknowledge realities of conflict
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – A Baghdad-based war monitor announced on Sunday that the mass protests in Iraq had left 831 protesters killed and injured over the past 10 days.
Speaking at a press conference, Mostafa Saadon, the spokesman for the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, said, "the clashes between security forces and protesters in Iraq's south and center left 831 people dead and injured since the start of the demonstrations 10 days ago."
Yes, but how many of each?
According to Saadon, Iraqi authorities are currently launching "a wide-scale security campaign in search of the activists who took part in the demonstrations in Baghdad and the other governorates."
"Iraqi authorities arrested 348 people for taking part in the rallies, 314 of whom were released later after signing a pledge that they will not stage or call for any protests afterwards," Hesam el-Hashemy, a member of the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, said.
Mass demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and poor services spread further across southern Iraqi provinces, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to rush from a NATO summit in Brussels to Basra to meet with local officials and tribal leaders in a bid to restore calm.
The demonstrations started two weeks ago in Basra province, but they later extended to other cities, including Amara, Nasiriya, Karbala and the Shiite holy city of Najaf. There were also protests in parts of the capital, Baghdad.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is planning to order his supporters to take to the streets and join the angry protesters in their mass demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and poor services in Iraq, a Lebanese newspaper reported Sunday.
According to Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper, there is a big possibility that "the Sadrists would join the protesters, particularly after Sadr called on the winning parties in the elections held last May to suspend talks over the new government formation until the protesters' demands are met."
"The winning political parties in the election have to suspend all political dialogues for forming coalitions and until they meet protesters' rightful demands," Sadr wrote on Tweeter Friday in his first public comments on unrest which has swept the south.
Mass demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and poor services spread further across southern Iraqi provinces almost two weeks ago.The demonstrations started in Basra province, but they later extended to other cities, including Amara, Nasiriya, Karbala and the Shiite holy city of Najaf. There were also protests in parts of the capital, Baghdad.
The protests prompted Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to rush from a NATO summit in Brussels to Basra to meet with local officials and tribal leaders in a bid to restore calm.
Al-Sadr's Sairoon coalition won 54 parliamentary seats in the May 12 parliamentary polls, followed by an al-Hashd al-Shaabi-linked coalition (47 seats) and Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's Victory bloc (42 seats), according to the election commission.
Al-Sadr's coalition did not win the majority needed to form a government alone but will play a primary role in selecting the next prime minister.
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[IsraelTimes] The standard ceramic vest Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi was wearing when he was fatally shot in the chest near the border Friday cannot stop the advanced weapon
An initial investigation by the IDF has concluded that Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, killed Friday by Paleostinian sniper fire on the Gazoo border, was hit by an armor-piercing bullet fired from an Iranian-manufactured rifle, Hadashot TV news reported Sunday.
The gun used in the attack was said to be an Iranian replica of an Austrian Steyr rifle.
According to the report, the IDF was aware Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", was in possession of such weapons, which can penetrate the standard ceramic vests used by the majority of soldiers.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... given the low likelihood of the rifle’s use, and the heavier weight of vests capable of protecting from such bullets, more specialized protective wear is only used in special cases.
As the military continued to investigate the circumstances of Levi’s death, hundreds participated in the soldier’s funeral in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
Levi, 21, an infantry soldier in the Givati Brigade, was close to Kibbutz Kisufim by the Gazoo border when he was shot at around 5:30pm on Friday.
The attack took place during the weekly border protests, and the army said he was killed by a Hamas gunman and that there was an exchange of fire.
He was the first IDF fatality on the Gazoo front since Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
He was wearing a bulletproof vest when he was hit in the chest, and was initially listed as seriously maimed but his condition deteriorated quickly.
In response to Levi’s death the Israel Air Force launched a major wave of strikes on Hamas targets across the Gazoo Strip on Friday evening.
[IsraelTimes] 2 months after first embarking from Denmark, four boats carrying some 40 activists prepare for final 10-day leg
A new flotilla of ships intent on breaking Israel’s 10-year blockade of the Gazoo Strip was due to set sail early this week from the Italian port of Palmero, two months after it first set off from Copenhagen in Denmark.
The flotilla, which includes some 40 activists on board, has been planned by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an umbrella of organizations aiming to end the closure.
Among those on board are Prof. Ismail Nazari, chairman of Malaysia’s boycott Israel campaign; Charlie Andreason of Sweden, who spent time in Israeli detention for his role on the Marianne, a Swedish-flagged trawler leading a flotilla of boats in June 2015; Spanish Jewish activist Zohar Shamir Chamberlain; and Heather Milton-Lightening, an activist for indigenous Canadians.
Having stopped in 15 European ports since setting off on March 22, the four boats making up the "Freedom Flotilla" were expected to depart for the final 10-day leg to the Gazoo coast this weekend but were delayed "a day or two" due to repair work needed on two of the vessels, according to organizers.
Before departing, the flotilla was welcomed by the mayor of the southern Italian town of Palermo who renamed a section of the port in honor of the late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Mayor Leoluca Orlando made the announcement last week after the arrival of the flotilla, the New Matilda reported. New Matilda editor Chris Graham is on one of the flotilla boats.
Many attempts have been made to draw attention to the Paleostinian cause using blockade-busting flotillas. From 2008 through 2016, international activists have sailed 31 boats to challenge the Israeli naval blockade of Gazoo.
In May, Israel’s Navy stopped a boat carrying 17 Paleostinians from Gazoo that attempted to breach the maritime blockade of the coastal strip. It was the first public attempt to break out of the blockade and not into it.
The attempt was timed to mark eight years since the Mavi Marmara, a boat owned by a Ottoman Turkish group, sought to break the blockade and was boarded by Israeli troops. Nine Ottoman Turkish citizens were killed in the ensuing melee between IDF soldiers and armed protesters.
The boarding of the al-Hurriyah in 2010 took place in the midst of an extensive exchange between Paleostinian terrorist groups and the Israeli military, in which some 200 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gazoo into Israel, and the IDF struck dozens of targets in the Gazoo Strip in retaliation.
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The "flotilla" are both brave or stupid ( is it possible to be both or are they mutually exclusive? ). It is not easy to hide on the briny deep. The Israeli Navy should have no real difficulty in finding the "flotilla".
And the Israelis have demonstrated their willingness to board you and kill you ( if necessary ). I predict a single word meaning both toilet and stupid as a Noun.
[PRESSTV] The Paleostinian Authority has described the so-called peace plan meant to resolve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as a US "conspiracy," which has been thwarted but still threatens the whole region.
In a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency on Saturday, Paleostinian Authority front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's much touted "deal of the century" had been foiled thanks to the "steadfastness" of the Paleostinian people.
He, however, warned that the "conspiracy" could have unpredictable repercussions for the region.
"The region is now at a crossroads to decide the fate of principle issues that affect the higher interests of its peoples, which some parties may jeopardize by creating a clear break-up of nationalist position," Abu Rudeineh said.
He also called on the Paleostinians and Arab countries "to stick together for the national interest to prevent the transformation of the deal of the century, which has slowed down but did not end, into a regional deal whose consequences cannot be predicted."
Abu Rudeineh also touched on the issue of Jerusalem al-Quds, which the US recognized last year as the "capital" of Israel.
Israel lays claim to the whole Jerusalem al-Quds, but the international community views the city’s eastern sector as an occupied territory and the Paleostinians consider it as the capital of their future state.
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Thataboy! Way to get Trump's approval!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel will reopen Gazoo’s main commercial crossing and expand its fishing zone on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds after a truce with the enclave’s dominant Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Israeli defense minister said.
Israel shut the Kerem Shalom border terminal and reduced the fishing zone to 11 km from 17 km on July 9 in response to fire-starting kites and helium balloons flown over by Paleostinians as part of weeks of border protests.
Hostilities escalated last week, with Paleostinian gunfire killing an Israeli soldier and Israel’s military killing three Hamas fighters and a fourth Paleostinian. The violence subsided on Saturday after Egypt and the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... mediated a truce.
"We saw, yesterday, what might have been the calmest day since March 30," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told news hounds on Sunday.
In weekly Gazoo protests since then, at least 140 Paleostinians have been killed by the Israeli army in what it called border protection.
"If today and tomorrow see a continuation of the situation as it was yesterday, then on Tuesday we will resume routine activity here at Kerem Shalom (border terminal) and return the fishing zone to the ranges previously in place."
Kerem Shalom is the main export-import conduit for the 2 million Paleostinians of Gazoo, which also borders Egypt.
During the terminal’s closure, humanitarian aid was still allowed through Lieberman said traffic slowed to about 140 trucks a day from some 1,000 to 1,100 trucks per day.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan on Sunday received 422 White Helmets rescue workers and their family members evacuated from Syria, the foreign ministry in Amman said, after earlier saying the kingdom had given permission for 800 to arrive.
Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Kayed said Britain, Germany and Canada had initially agreed to accept around 827 rescuers and their relatives, but eventually settled on a figure of 422 and they arrived Sunday morning.
According to Jordan’s official Petra news service, the 422 Syrian refugees will be resettled in Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany within three months. The Jordanian government initially reported that 800 had crossed the border, but later clarified that this was an incorrect number.
Jordan has a standing policy not to accept any more Syrian refugees, as does Israel.
On Sunday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision to facilitate the transfer of the "White Helmets" through Israel into Jordan was made in light of requests from US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and other world leaders.
"Several days ago, President Trump contacted me, as did Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and others, and requested that we assist in evacuating hundreds of ’White Helmets’ from Syria," Netanyahu said in a statement from his office.
"These are people who saved lives and were now in mortal danger. Therefore, I approved their passage through Israel to additional countries, as an important humanitarian gesture," the prime minister added.
Founded in 2013, the Syria Civil Defense, or White Helmets, is a network of first responders which rescues maimed in the aftermath of air strikes, shelling or blasts in rebel-held territory.
The White Helmets have rescued thousands of civilians trapped under the rubble or caught up in fighting in battered opposition-held zones along various fronts of Syria’s conflict.
Some members have received training abroad, including in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , returning to instruct colleagues on search-and-rescue techniques.
Since its formation, when Syria’s conflict was nearing its third year, more than 200 of its volunteers have died and another 500 have been maimed.
The group’s motto ‐ "To save one life is to save all of humanity" ‐ is drawn from a verse of the Koran.
The White Helmets are named for the distinctive white hard hats worn by volunteers and have gained international renown for their daring rescues of victims from rubble following regime Arclight airstrikes, often filmed and circulated on social media.
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Crucially the group has also documented chemical weapons attacks in the country, including the attack in Douma in April which led to the US, France and UK’s strike at President Bashar al-Assad’s bases.
Extraction and witness relocation to their sponsors but only half of what Jordan agreed to....if the other half remained behind, they may be casualties of the Israeli airstrike, along with the Iranians present. Dead bodies do tell tales. Another DJT winning foreign policy deal?
[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem to commemorate the historic destruction of Jewish temples, referred to in Israel as Tisha B'av.
Palestinian sources said that at least 1,023 settlers entered the compound on Sunday under heavy police protection.
The Al-Aqsa compound, which houses the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, represents the third holiest site in Islam, while in Judaism it is considered their most holy place.
Yehuda Glick, a far-right Israeli Knesset member, who campaigns for Jewish access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was seen in the compound.
Firas al-Dibis, an official with Jerusalem's Jordan-run Religious Endowments Authority, told Anadolu News Agency that Israeli police stormed the compound before the settlers and carried out security sweeps and search.
Al-Dibis also said Israeli forces denied access to Najeh Bakirat, a scholar at the Endowments Authority, and allowed Muslim worshippers inside the mosque after seizing their IDs.
According to Palestinian local news agencies, a Palestinian boy was arrested after raising the Palestinian flag in the compound.
A record number of Jews were said to have visited the Temple Mount on Sunday to mark the Tisha B’Av fast mourning the destruction of the two biblical temples, prompting rebukes from Jordan and the Paleostinian Authority.
Yehudah Glick, a Likud MK and Temple Mount activist, said that 1,400 Jews visited the holy site. That number would surpass the record 1,300 Jews who visited the Temple Mount last year for Tisha B’Av.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Firas al-Dibis, the media coordinator of the Moslem Waqf, put the number at 1,023, according to PA state-run news outlet WAFA. Police did not immediately respond to The Times of Israel with an official tally.
Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of both temples and several other disasters in Jewish history, began Saturday evening and will end at nightfall on Sunday. Both temples stood on the mount, which today houses the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock Shrine.
The Temple Mount is administered by the Waqf, a religious trust run and funded by Jordan. The site is holy to both Judaism and Islam and is a major flashpoint in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
Some 10 people were nabbed You have the right to remain silent... while on or near the Temple Mount holy site, though several of them have reportedly been released.
A video posted by the group Students for the Temple Mount showed large crowds on the esplanade and scuffles with police. Another video posted by the group showed police leading away a Jewish man for prostrating himself at the site in violation of its rules prohibiting non-Moslem prayer.
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[Al Jazeera] The indigenous Moro Moslems, a minority population in the predominantly Christian Philippines, are on the verge of securing their own substantially autonomous territory as Congress hands over a law for President Rodrigo Duterte to sign on Monday.
If all goes according to plan, the Bangsamoro Organic Law will establish the Bangsamoro autonomous region on the country's southern island of Mindanao and may put an end to five decades of violent conflict that has left more than 100,000 people dead. While the law is expected to be signed on Monday, it will still need to be ratified by a plebiscite, which is expected to take place later this year.
The Bangsamoro, which means "Nation of the Moro", will replace a nominally autonomous Moslem region which has largely been run by the central government in Manila, and has failed to quell the Moro rebellion.
The law will allow the Bangsamoro government to have its own parliament, retain the lion's share of local revenues, regularly receive a fixed portion of the central government's revenues and manage the territory's natural resources.
It will also incorporate Islamic law into the region's justice system.
In return for autonomy, the law will require the rebel group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to gradually disband its thousands-strong army.
Despite the bill only covering "85 to 90 percent" of items originally afforded the rebels in a 2014 peace agreement that foreshadowed the measure, leaders of the MILF say they are satisfied.
"This may not be a perfect law but it is good to start with," said Ghazali Jaafar, MILF's second-in-command.
"And, God willing, now that we have this government, we can improve the lives of our people."
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[PRESSTV] The front man of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says those who support turbans conducting operations against Iran's border guards will face IRGC’s "iron fist."
Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif made the remarks on Sunday following the huge turnout at the funeral ceremony held on Saturday for 11 Iranian forces killed in a terrorist attack on a military checkpoint on the western border with Iraq.
He noted that the "glorious funeral" held for the slain Iranian forces by people of Iran's Kordestan Province was a sign of strong ties between the nation and the IRGC and said, "The iron fist of the IRGC is ready to deal a direct blow to supporters of terrorists."
At least 11 members of the IRGC bit the dust in the terrorist attack occurred in the village of Dari in Marivan district, which led to an kaboom at an arms depot.
During the festivities, a large number of bad boyz were potted and several others fled with injuries.
Sharif further said the IRGC Ground Forces have played a successful role in countering the enemies' plots against the Islamic Theocratic Republic and bringing security and peace to people living in the border areas during recent years, particularly after the emergence of ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in the neighboring countries.
He added that the IRGC and other security and intelligence units have managed to inflict heavy damage on terrorist groups and mercenaries backed by the enemy's spy and security organizations thanks to complete command of the situation and their full preparedness.
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Oh. So you don't like these terrorists?
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[TeheranTimes] Rouhani cautions the U.S. that ‘war with Iran would be the mother of all wars’.
The dear man has, perhaps, forgotten that Saddam Hussein's Iraq fought Iran to a standstill. But some years thereafter America conquered that selfsame Iraq in three days.
Perhaps the Iranian sites in the graphic should be in 'all caps' as well.
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He's also apparently forgotten that he's not dealing with anybody named Hussein.
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The dear man has, perhaps, forgotten that Saddam Hussein's Iraq fought Iran to a standstill. But some years thereafter America conquered that selfsame Iraq in three days.
War is a political process. In a symmetrical war the US enjoys overwhelming superiority, but given current political paradigms this does not matter.
There's a broad consensus among Western politicians that the asymmetrical conflict with the Islamic world should be resolved by appeasing the populaces of Islamic nations.
Hence the payments of danegeld aid and the acceptance of Rushdie rules for non-muslims in the West.
The Iranian leadership can reasonably believe that Trump's current threats are as inconsequential as GWB's threats against the Taliban in 2001 were.
I predict they will defy Trump and force him to make a decision. Interesting times.
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Trump sound Jacksonian. We don't like or seek war, but if you want one, we will not hold back, we will wage war in the fullest (not some stupid kinder gentler substitute).
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Last I looked they had 1 major port, 1 major refinery, and 1 major religious city. Three strikes and they are out? Seems like you don't even have to level Tehran to cripple them. A one night operation. What's the Lion proposing to do to us?
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
...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. ..
Saudi Arabia, one of three GCC members blockading fellow member state Qatar, is planning the Salwa Canal, a 60km-long channel which would effectively make Qatar an island.
...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...
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[IsraelTimes] The standard ceramic vest Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi was wearing when he was fatally shot in the chest near the border Friday cannot stop the advanced weapon
[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem to commemorate the historic destruction of Jewish temples, referred to in Israel as Tisha B'av.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[TeheranTimes] Rouhani cautions the U.S. that ‘war with Iran would be the mother of all wars’.
