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Afghanistan
“Mother of All Bombs” Caused Illness, Ruined Farmland: Residents
“Look at us suffer! Now pay us the big moneys, O America.”
[ToloNews] In April 2017 the US Air Force dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb onto a ISIS stronghold in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
Almost two and a half years after the United States dropped the "mother of all bombs" onto a ISIS hideout in eastern Afghanistan, locals say they have been afflicted by "many diseases" and agricultural lands are not yielding crops.
Would you rather have ISIS still lording over you, guys, taking your daughters as wives and your sons as soldiers, not to mention all your stuff, and forced you to live by their stupid rules?
TOLOnews news hound Abdulhaq Omeri interviewed residents of Mohmand Dara village, in the Achin district in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  STFU
Posted by: chris || 12/02/2019 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  “Mother of All Bombs” Caused Illness, Ruined Farmland: Residents

Dear Ruined Farmland Residents:

THAT'S THE FECKING POINT.

Love,
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/02/2019 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Has Afghanistan apologized in any way for 9/11?

Has Afghanistan compensated or symbolically compensated the US for any damage incurred in the 9/11 attacks?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/02/2019 4:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The agricultural yields are not the same as in the past

Maybe it's just harder to get high with the taliban shouting at you all day.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 4:44 Comments || Top||

#5  It sounds like the residents think it was a nuclear bomb and are trying to cash in.
Posted by: Charles || 12/02/2019 6:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Another "chemical weapon."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2019 6:14 Comments || Top||

#7  It have their teens acne, made them moody, and caused hair to sprout from their bodies!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/02/2019 6:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Learning the Western way of the ambulance chaser!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Certainly noting that couldn't be remedied with some generous government checks.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/02/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Next time we'll use ten smaller bombs instead 'cause that'll be ecologically sound!
Posted by: Raj || 12/02/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Whaaaaa...

Next time we will just use a goddamn nuke and fuck you all.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#12  You'd think with all the nitrogen in the MOAB that yields would go up, but poppies are a funny crop.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/02/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||

#13  The plaintiff's attorney, eyes steely:
"Abdul, share your feelings, and freely."
"It's difficult, really...
When Father McFeel--"
"--But we'll settle, in dollars ideally!"
Posted by: Hupumble Grumble3432 || 12/02/2019 13:44 Comments || Top||

#14 
Well, that's what they claim. Good muz-lumz that they are.
Posted by: Roger Smith || 12/02/2019 18:17 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt to allow Hamas leader to leave Gaza
[Jpost] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
is expected to leave 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 Monday amid reports of progress in mediation efforts to consolidate ceasefire understandings reached earlier this year with Israel.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 02:41 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Start swimming west and stoop when you hit bottom.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/02/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK military interventions fuelled terror, extremism: Labour leader Corbyn
[The News (Pak)] The threat of terrorism and extremism has been "fuelled" by the United Kingdom's foreign policy, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
...Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. Germy has been the Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983, which is 36.420906677282176 years or thereabouts. Ideologically, he identifies as a democratic socialist, but his words whisper commie. He is believed to be descended from weasels...
said Sunday, saying it supported foreign invasions and had led to the Iraq war under his own party's government - then headed by Tony Blair.

Speaking in York in the wake of terrorist attack on London Bridge by the British-born convict Usman Khan, Corbyn accused UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
of being "the world's leading sycophant" towards US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
and said it was time for Britannia to stop bring tied to the Republican head-of-state's coattails.

Britannia's repeated military interventions have "exacerbated rather than resolved" the problem of terrorism, the Labour leader warned. He said the so-called "war on terror has manifestly failed" and the world was "living with the consequences" of the botched invasion of Iraq, which he opposed.

Corbyn said the UK risked being "tied to Donald Trump's coattails" and the United States' foreign policy under Johnson but praised the public's "extraordinary bravery" in confronting and tackling the assailant. The police were right to use lethal force, he said, with lives at stake and the attacker wearing a fake boom jacket.

While the responsibility for terror acts lied with "the terrorists, their funders and recruiters", UK leaders "have made the wrong calls on our security", he added. "The threat of terrorism cannot and should not be reduced to questions of foreign policy alone.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I'd say decolonialization has fueled terror and extremism. If you sat on them back home, they wouldn't be in your walls today.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2019 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Surrender is the answer, right Jermy?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/02/2019 7:48 Comments || Top||


Usman Khan came to UK security services' attention at age of 15 for hate-preaching
[The News (Pak)] British media said Sunday the London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan, was a known krazed killer who preached hate with ISIS and al-Muhajiroun
...formerly Omar Bakri Muhammad's spin off group from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, where the detestable lunatic Anjem Chaudry got his start. More recently the name adopted by al-Qaeda in East Africa for operations in Kenya and Tanzania. It is subordinate to al-Shabaab but will probably be strong enough to fly on its own, given an uninterrupted flow of petrodollars, should the Shaboobs collapse....
flags on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent.

UK media also highlighted that Khan had come to the British security services' attention at the age of 15 but that no action had been taken by the authorities to discourage his hate-preaching.

In further confirmation of the fact that Usman Khan had no relation of any kind with Pakistain as far his extremism is concerned, British media and commentators have condemned UK’s counter-terrorism approach and jail system.

It has been now confirmed that Khan was a close friend and student of Anjem Chaudary, a convicted krazed killer preacher. After the London Bridge attacker was arrested with his Bangladeshi and Indian terror associates in 2010 in relation to the gang’s London bombings, Anjum Chaudhary described him as his "student" and "friend".

Media further wrote that Khan was bullied at school over his facial hair and suffered exclusion and racism when he was a child. The son of a hard-working taxi driver, he attended Haywood High School in Burslem, Stoke, but dropped out without any qualifications.

Local media also added that Khan desperately tried to fit in by wearing designer clothes and be liked at school by keeping up with the latest fashion but had no confidence and would never speak up. He had started growing beard at an early age.

Investigators believe that his parents, who came to the UK from Azad Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, were moderate people and had no relation with either terrorism or the krazed killer views of their oddball son.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Investigators believe that his parents, who came to the UK

That's just the problem with bureaucracy. Investigators believe. Judges assume. Leaders promise. People take great leaps of faith all the damn time.

Why can't they just assume the worst of a religion that is empirically known to deliver disobedience, inhumanity and outrage repeatedly ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, Those parents "Hard working taxi driver" Taxi=driving is mainly dodgy people
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/02/2019 3:42 Comments || Top||

#3  India shall recognize only non-muslim refugees and process only non-muslim applications for immigration by next year. Anybody seeking to escape islamic persecution from our neighboring countries will be welcome. That's hindus, buddhists, christian, sikhs, even ahmadiyas.

And a mandate to process illegal immigrants at police level is also in the offing RAB style encounter pun !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 3:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe India will be a good bolthole for patriotic British once the oikophobic establishment really start to clamp down on real UK nationals
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/02/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#5  And a mandate to process illegal immigrants at police level is also in the offing RAB style encounter pun !

Ooooooohhhhh — give us news copy to play with and you’ve got our vote!

...wanted on 12 planets...
“He’s dead, Jim.”
...a mere two-namer...
...at zero dark thirty, when respectable people are sleeping snug in their beds......
*Ring ring* “Mahmoud the Weasel here.”
...accidentally shot dead with one shot behind each ear...
“Aaaiiiiiii..Rosebud!
...rounds of bullet...


Probably no Sergeant Siddique, though. But Sergeant Mukherjee or perhaps Babuchandra will most certainly suffice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  "Austere Religious Scholar"
Posted by: Lex || 12/02/2019 12:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe India will be a good bolthole for patriotic British

There are already a couple of British authors and scientists who chose to settle in hills and picturesque estates in India, far from the madding crowd.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  give us news copy to play with

Sadly such things shall have to go unsung, TW. But when you read of the UN complain and the 'humanist' jurists and politicians of the world beat their breasts in agony over 'disappearances' and 'concentration camps'; know that some poor sad sack named Babulal is doing in the Asian subcontinent what a highfalutin' Frenchie gendarme cannot dream of. 😎
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 13:33 Comments || Top||

#9  A walk in the park to unwind.
"Allahu akbar! Change my mind."
It's Louder with Choudhury.
He, at a shout:
"Hurry up and turn Turk!" I declined.
Posted by: Hupumble Grumble3432 || 12/02/2019 14:35 Comments || Top||

#10  AGE 15? Why did he reach AGE 16?
Posted by: Injun Thrinegum4602 || 12/02/2019 22:07 Comments || Top||


London Bridge attacker had no link with Pakistan. Really.
[The News (Pak)] Indian media has published fake news to link the London Bridge attacker Usman Khan with Pakistain but the fact is Usman Khan had no connection with Pakistain as far as his Death Eater radicalisation, terror conviction and his abhorrent acts are concerned.

Indian media outlets have said that Usman Khan, the terror suspect rubbed out in the November 30, 2019 terror attack near London Bridge, was born in Pakistain but that is a lie and an attempt to malign Pakistain.

This correspondent has attended some parts of Usman Khan’s terror trial at the Woolwich Crown Court in 2012 when he was convicted of terrorism charges with eight others for planning to bomb London Stock Exchange.

Unlike false reports published in Indian media, it became evident during the trial at Woolwich Crown Court that Usman Khan had no relation of any kind with Pakistain or Azad Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, birthplace of his parents. The trial had heard from the counter-terrorism police experts that while Usman Khan discussed setting up a training camp for Jihadi training in Azad Kashmir, that plan never materialised. The evidence submitted before the court had established that there was no involvement of anyone from Pakistain in the nefarious plans that Usman Khan and his terrorism associates were making.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  And he was rehabilitated, too.
Posted by: gorb || 12/02/2019 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  So what ?

It's only healthy instinct to assume a default, that even Sajid Javid has a closet where a dummy with the word 'infidel' lies with perforations all over.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 3:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The boy had the love of Islam in him. It bent his mind and sent him down the wrong path.
Posted by: jpal || 12/02/2019 11:02 Comments || Top||


BoJo reveals 74 other criminals released on similar charges to London Bridge attacker, incl. 6 of Khan’s buddies, terror checks intensified
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
announced that 74 additional criminals with terrorist ties were released from prison under the system that freed the man responsible for the attack on London Bridge.

Usman Khan, the 28-year-old terrorist who killed two people before being thwarted by bystanders with a narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher, had been in prison prior to the attack for terror-related offenses. He had been released from prison "on license" as part of an early release program. Khan had plotted an attack on the London Stock Exchange in 2012 when he was imprisoned the first time. He was only halfway through his prison sentence and was not referred to a parole board.

Johnson claimed that Khan’s release was the fault of the left-leaning Labour Party because they had overhauled a statute, the Extended Sentence for Public Protection, allowing murderous Moslems to be held for an extended sentence until a parole board reviewed the case and agreed to release the individual. The Labour Party had overturned part of the EPP that required a parole board review, meaning Khan was freed after 8 years without any type of formal review by the board.

Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012 - and another was freed only to be re-jailed after plotting another attack
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The nine jihadists who were jailed in 2012 were part of an al-Qaeda-inspired cell

  • Members of the Al Qaeda-inspired gang who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange and kill Boris Johnson and several rabbis: Mohammed Moksudur Chowdhury, Mohammed Shahjahan, Shah Mohammed Rahman, Mohibur Rahman, Gurukanth Desai, Abdul Malik Miah, Nazam Hussain, Usman Khan, Omar Sharif Latif

  • One is still in prison (Choudhury) and another (Mohibur Rahman) was convicted over a further Lee Rigby-style terror plot in 2017

  • Khan is dead, meaning six of the plotters are believed to be still on the streets

  • They were sentenced under 2003 law, which required those given extended sentences be released at the midway point.

Terror Checks Intensified as London Attack Enters Election Fray
[AnNahar] Britannia's Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
said Sunday the security services were stepping up monitoring of convicted faceless myrmidons released early from prison, as the London Bridge attack became embroiled in the election campaign.

The prime minister revealed around 74 people with terrorist convictions had been released early from prison in a similar way to Usman Kan, who left jail last December and went on to stab two people to death in Friday's rampage.

"They are being properly invigilated to make sure there is no threat," Johnson told the BBC in an interview.

"We've taken a lot of action as you can imagine in the last 48 hours," he said, adding he would not provide "operation details."
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Terrorism is planning to murder civilians.

They should be dying in prison.

Release them within 100 meters of the judges family.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/02/2019 4:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
Hezbollah uses Germany to finance terrorism, weapons purchases – report
[Jpost] The Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah uses a center in Berlin as well as other locations across Germany to recruit members and raise funds for terrorism and weapons purchases, according to a report by the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel newspaper.

Hezbollah’s main routes now move from South America to Africa into the EU. Cocaine reaches Germany mainly via the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.
Tagesspiegel on Saturday published a detailed exposé on how the Lebanese terrorist organization uses Germany for "money generated" illicit activities and those funds are "used for arms purchases and for financing attacks."

According to the article, Hezbollah members "use Germany as a place for drug trafficking, trade in stolen cars and money laundering. The implications of the group for the drug business are well documented."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 01:44 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


#2  Gut Chermans
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||


Let's subvert the EVIL US's Iran Sanctions!
The first responses to yesterday's announcement are coming in.
[Twitter]



Posted by: 3dc || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Yea, well, what did you expect?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/02/2019 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  All of them are muslin countries now.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/02/2019 5:45 Comments || Top||

#3  The U.S. Treasury, which has the most effective intelligence agency in the U.S. government, will infiltrate INSTEX within weeks, if it hasn't already.
Posted by: b || 12/02/2019 7:17 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish president underscores his desire for the Eastern Med, including Greek Islands.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
This is closely related to his attempt to claim the Greek Islands and the natural gas near Cyprus. This agreement splits the Eastern Med between Libya and the New Ottoman Empire.
Neo-Ottoman sultans gotta sultan, donchaknow.


(3dc) Related:




Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
‘Pervez Musharraf is our benefactor,’ says Fawad Chaudhry Listen
[The News (Pak)] Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry said former president General (retired) Pervez Perv Musharraf
...former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date...
was the nation's benefactor.

"Pervez Musharraf has rid us of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif
...served two three 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...
in 1999 that's why, he is our benefactor," said the federal minister, addressing a ceremony in Jhelum.

Responding to a question about the PML-N chief's return to Pakistain, the minister was of the view, "Even Nawaz Sharif's family has no hope of his homecoming."

"When Pervez Musharraf was in power, a lot of people used to stand queuing up to light his cigar," he pointed out.

Chaudhry said all the political parties are unanimous on extension to Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa's tenure, hoping the relevant legislation would be completed in the next parliamentary session.

On November 19, an Islamabad special court reserved the order in high treason case against the former president to be announced on November 28. Musharraf and the federal interior ministry filed an application against the reservation of the verdict.

The Lahore High Court had declared the petition of the former president as maintainable on Tuesday while overruling the LHC registrar's objections. Musharraf in his petition said that the Special Court has reserved judgment in the case on November 19 without hearing his stance.

He also questioned formation of the Special Court, saying that the then prime minister alone granted approval for the constitution of the Special Court and the cabinet's sanction was not sought.

A three-judge IHC bench headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah had set aside the November 19 order of the Special Court and instructed it to hear all sides before deciding the case.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Fazl reiterates demand for new elections, warns govt of serious consequences Listen
[The News (Pak)] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty...
on Sunday reiterated the demand for new elections and warned the government that if it turned down his demands, it would have to deal with harsh circumstances.

Fazl was addressing a presser where he lashed out at the government.

"Our economy is in its worst condition," he said. "Unemployment is on the rise and people have lost the power to spend."

Fazl said that institutions had lost their ability to produce. He said that the business community was concerned while hundreds of thousands were becoming unemployed.

The JUI-F chief said that elections were the only way forward for the country.

"New elections must be held across the country," he said. "Our protests in certain areas of the country is going on."

Fazl criticised Prime Minister Imran and said that the government was a mafia.

"He [Prime Minister Imran] refers to others as a mafia whereas he and others are a mafia themselves," he said.

He said that the Azadi March had united the entire country and brought it on one common platform. Fazl was of the view that the incumbent government was an inept one and that Pakistain needed a strong political system.

"The Azadi March was a historic event. Its effects are still being felt in Pak politics," said Fazl.

The JUI-F chief said that his party had decided to be the spokesperson of the poor in the country.

Fazl said that Pakistain's foreign policy had performed poorly and as a result, Pakistain stood alone in the world.

"Our friends are even not willing to stand with us," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami

#1 
"Le JUIF sauvera le Pakistan, on promet !"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2019 5:46 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Trump and Netanyahu discuss ‘threat from Iran’ in second call in weeks
[IsraelTimes] Terse statement from White House says leaders also talk about ‘other critical bilateral and regional issues,’ but gives no details.

The two last spoke on November 19, when Netanyahu thanked the president for Washington’s decision to repudiate a State Department legal opinion that said West Bank settlements were illegal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 01:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Paleos coulda had their own country, now Israel is building new neighbourhoods in Hebron, J’lem
Defense minister green-lights new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron

[IsraelTimes] Naftali Bennett praised by right, slammed by left over move to double number of Jews living in flashpoint West Bank city.

Work begins to triple size of Jewish enclave in East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood

[IsraelTimes] Project will add 176 homes to Nof Zion, located in Jabel Mukaber; Housing Ministry said to revive another plan for up to 11,000 units on site of Atarot Airport.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 00:26 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They have their own country - Jordan.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/02/2019 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC, the paleostinians wore out their welcome there too.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 12/02/2019 19:14 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu discuss Iranian threat
US President Donald Trump spoke on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran and other issues, the White House said in a brief statement.

"The leaders discussed the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues," the statement read.

(a) Both are saying "we'll bomb them, and you take the credit"?
(b) How long until Trump/Bibi conspiracy is mentioned in Congress?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/02/2019 04:23 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ironing out the potential trip wires and targeting lists.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't we just blame the Juice? You know they are going to be on the hook for it anyway.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/02/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Iranian threat. Somewhat redundant.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||


Iranian general: Our missiles are aimed at 21 US bases in the region
[IsraelTimes] Allahnoor Noorollahi declares the Islamic Theocratic Republic prepared to fight its ’greatest enemy,’ recalls Khamenei’s vow to ’raze’ Tel Aviv.

An Iranian general has warned that Iran’s missile arsenals are aimed at 21 American military bases in the Middle East and the country is prepared for "the greatest war against the greatest enemy."

In a November 29 speech, at an event in the southern city of Bushehr commemorating 40 years since the establishment of the Basij paramilitary force, Gen. Allahnoor Noorollahi also said that 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had the ability to raze Haifa and Tel Aviv to the ground.

Noorollahi serves as a top adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Officers College. His speech was broadcast on Bushehr TV, and was reported on and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

"Iran is the world’s fourth [strongest] missile power after the US, Russia, and China," he boasted in his comments, which were translated Sunday by the MEMRI watchdog group.

Noorollahi claimed the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
military alliance had purportedly warned that Iran could launch as many as 20,000 missiles per day, but that the number could actually be higher in a future conflict with the United States.

"Unfortunately, some Gulf countries have become a military camp for our enemy. I must say this, 21 of their bases constitute targets for our missiles. NATO itself announced that Iran’s 110 missile bases and launching sites are capable of launching 20,000 missiles per day. This is what the enemy says. They only acknowledge part [of our capability]. When a country reveals not only its underground missile bases but also its missile ’cities’ to the enemy ‐ this reflects readiness and capabilities.

"It means that we have capability to confront the greatest enemy," he added, a reference to the US, which the regime has long characterized as its arch-foe and calls the "Great Satan™."

He said America’s regional allies were not Iran’s enemies, and reiterated the claim by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
that the Islamic Theocratic Republic was capable of "razing" Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.

"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 the region’s countries are neither on our level nor are they our enemies. Our enemy is the [country] that came to Kuwait and built six large bases there. This enemy knows that if it transgresses... We do not want to cause harm to our neighbors unless we are forced to," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2019 01:29 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  ...Yo, Noorollahi, throttle it back a bit on the energy drinks...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/02/2019 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Heck, one unload of a Boomer and most of Iran is like the outback of Saudi.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2019 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3 
An Iranian general has warned that Iran’s missile arsenals are aimed at 21 American military bases in the Middle East and the country is prepared for "the greatest war against the greatest enemy."

Oh, shut the hell up, you feces-flinging crapmonkey.

Iran should have ceased to exist as a nation and as a habitable region shortly after November 4, 1979.

Go ahead, attack us and see what happens next...
Posted by: Dave D. || 12/02/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Severe smack-down long, long overdue.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  the NATO military alliance had purportedly warned that Iran could launch as many as 20,000 missiles per day, but that the number could actually be higher in a future conflict with the United States.

IF nobody shot back. You'll get a couple off then the return fire will be a surprise?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Only if we're set up to 'return fire', Frank.

Might not be considered 'PC' or 'inclusive' or something.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/02/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  probably 21 photoshopped missiles and no one told the general it was all papier mache
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/02/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#8  "Iran could launch as many as 20,000 missiles per day". Even without return fire I doubt Iran even has 20,000 missiles to launch.
Posted by: Floluck Gray7134 || 12/02/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Iran Missiles graphic added
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2019 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/02/2019 14:40 Comments || Top||

#11  I didn't know we had 21 bases in the Middle East.
Posted by: Crusader || 12/02/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||


SDF agrees to allow Russian troops to enter several areas in Raqqa, Hasakah
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have agreed to allow Russian forces operating in Syria to deploy their troops in more areas in the al-Hasakah and al-Raqqa governorates, weeks after a Russian agreement with the SDF on the deployment of their troops along the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, published on Twitter, "We were honored today to host the commander of the Russian forces operating in Syria, General Alexander Tshaiko. It was a very productive meeting, and we agreed to the deployment of Russian forces in both Amuda and Tal Tamr. We look forward to further joint efforts in the interest of our two countries."

On October 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding to end a very tense situation along the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border.

The two sides agreed on several points in Syria, most notably the withdrawal of the YPG to a depth of 30 kilometers from the border.

The agreement included joint Russian-Ottoman Turkish patrols in northern Syria within 10 km of the border and the deployment of Syrian border guards and Russian military police on the border with Turkey.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Did they really have a choice?
Posted by: chris || 12/02/2019 1:39 Comments || Top||



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