India continues bootstrapping Afghan society, one set of skills at a time, with each step pushing Pakistan and their pet jihadis ever so slightly farther to the periphery of things.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of External Affairs of India published a statement on Thursday in reference to the capacity building program for Afghanistan babus government employees which as conducted the in the last week of December in India.
A special capacity building program for Afghanistan Central Civil Registration Authority (ACCRA) was organised by the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), India’s External Ministry said in a statement.
The program was conducted from December 23-30, 2019 in New Delhi followed by a field visit to Chandigarh. Afghan officials also visited UIDAI’s premises to study India’s AADHAAR initiative in detail.
The program elements included study of system of registration of citizen’s births and deaths, vital statistics and indicators system and AADHAAR. The participants were also given hands on experience with a live demonstration of the software and the processes of registration of birth and deaths; and explained methodology of census enumeration.
Afghan participants thanked India for the arranging the course that would contribute to their efforts for better implementation plans for creating a framework of population register.
Earlier, from November 13-17, 2019, a capacity building program was organised for officials from National Statistics and Information Authority, Afghanistan by FRRO New Delhi to help streamline their immigration procedures. the statement further added.
India remains of the most popular development and capacity building partner in Afghanistan and has a wide array of training and scholarship program for Afghans including under its ITEC. More than 3500 Afghans nationals benefit from the same.
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The participants were also given hands on experience with a live demonstration of the software and the processes of registration of birth and deaths
[AlAhram] Libya National Army (LNA) based in the country's east say they have called on citizens to take up arms against Ottoman Turkish troops if they deploy to fight against them in the country's ongoing civil war.
The statement came soon after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's parliament authorized the deployment of troops to Libya to support their rivals, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... -backed government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... In a statement Thursday on Twitter, the LNA, led by commander Gen. Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , said it was the people's "duty'' to fight to protect the homeland.
Libya's authorities in the east have several times throughout the war encouraged its citizens to take up arms and volunteer for police or military forces.
Militias are fighting on both sides of Libya's ongoing conflict.
The Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj has faced an offensive by the rival regime in the east and forces loyal to Haftar. The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violent chaos rivaling the 2011 conflict that ousted and killed longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... Fighting around Tripoli escalated in recent weeks after Hifter declared a "final'' and decisive battle for the capital. He has the backing of the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, as well as La Belle France and Russia, while the Tripoli-based government receives aid from Turkey, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Italia.
Turkey's parliamentary approval of a military deployment comes amid increased cooperation between the country and the UN-supported government in Tripoli. The recent escalation comes ahead of expected peace talks between the warring parties in Germany early this year.
Ghassan Salame, the UN envoy to Libya, said Ottoman Turkish troops on the ground would further disrupt chances for future peace, though he still expects the talks in Germany to take place in mid-January. He said interference by regional powers means that Libyans could lose control of their country's fate.
"The direct military involvement of member states in the Libyan conflict is escalating, inflaming, and protracting the conflict,'' he said via email.
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Remake of the Libyan-Egyptian "Four-Day War" of 1977?
"Prelude: Unnerved by Sadat's peace policy, Gaddafi sought to increase Libya's role in Middle Eastern affairs. Bolstered by strong oil revenues, he began acquiring a significant amount of weapons from the Soviet Union.[5] He also sponsored Egyptian dissidents such as the Muslim Brotherhood,..."
It is just a longer drive to Tripoli and the Egyptians have allies in country to help with defending the logistical support.
[Washington Examiner] Rep. Ilhan Omar accused President Trump of trying to create a "distraction" by killing Gen. Qassim Soleimani in an attempt to ignite a war with Iran.
"So what if Trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the distraction?" the Minnesota Democrat said Thursday on Twitter. "Real question is, will those with congressional authority step in and stop him? I know I will."
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Viewed by the Somali community as an upwardly mobil Somali. One who moved into a penthouse, sleeping with her white, married campaign manager. Most Somalis can only dream of such a thing.
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Sunni is the state religion in Somalia and Ilhan Omar is tacitly supporting Shia Iran. Certainly Trump with his big war chest could use this somehow to take her seat in the next election.
I would love to see the entire squad lose and go away.
Obama, Senator Chris Murphy, Ilhan Omar, Michael Moore and many others
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"By conservative people revered,
This strong, austere man with a beard
Detested perversion--"
"That bastard!"
"-- a Persian..."
"We're suddenly queer for him!" "Weird."
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... warns his Ottoman Turkish counterpart His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... against any "foreign interference" in Libya, the White House says, after Ottoman Turkishpoliticians approved a military deployment to shore up the UN-backed government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... In a telephone call, Trump "pointed out that foreign interference is complicating the situation in Libya," White House front man Hogan Gidley says in a statement.
The government in Tripoli has been under sustained attack since April by military strongman General Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , who is backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s regional rivals ‐ 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... , Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Erdogan has repeatedly accused Russia of sending private mercenaries to support Haftar’s forces, though this has been denied by Moscow.
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Message carries a tad more weight today.
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[Free Beacon] CNN anchor Anderson Cooper compared Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps killed in an American airstrike on Thursday, to French president Charles de Gaulle, a leader of the French resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II.
"Soleimani is‐it's difficult to convey how revered he is in Iran. Imagine the French Foreign Legion, at the height of the French empire. This guy is regarded in Iran as a completely heroic figure, personally very brave," CNN host Fareed Zakaria said.
"I was trying to think of somebody, and I was thinking of de Gaulle, although he became the leader of the country," Cooper said.
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"although he became the leader of the country"
Devil's in the detail, but seriously I had the Bee.
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"Soleimani was revered" ...
Trump has "escalated" ...
Note how all the media whores bleat the exact same language. They're incapable of an independent, well-considered thought. these whores are.
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Remembering Le Grand Charles as I do, this isn't as crazy as it first sounded. Better yet the Legion Etrangere reference is embarrassingly ignorant historically.
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Cooper is freaked because Trump's Bengazhi... and Soleimani was the guy who planned the Bengazhi attack. Obama's failure couldn't be better exemplified.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" with the targeted killing of Iran’s top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.
The former vice president joined other Democratic White House hopefuls in criticizing Trump’s order, saying it could leave the U.S. "on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East."
The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in Baghdad Friday at the direction of Trump. The attack is expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests. The Defense Department said Soleimani "was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders released a statement saying, "Trump’s dangerous escalation brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars."
Democrats acknowledged the threat posed by Soleimani, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling him "a murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans."
However, she added, Trump’s "reckless move escalates the situation with Iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict."
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang tweeted: "War with Iran is the last thing we need and is not the will of the American people. We should be acting to deescalate tensions and protect our people in the region."
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So it's better to give them the bomb and a pile of money be cause you're too much of a chickenshit to attack a weak country that is hobbled by internal strife?
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Landing folks on the Moon was sort of 'reckless', too.
Developing the smallpox vaccine.
Experimenting with split atoms....I could go on.
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Seen on twitter:"Today is the day John Kerry's checks start bouncing."
I'm surely not wise enough to know whether whacking this guy will be good or bad in the long run, but I do think that The Don reflexively acts like an American president, not like a social justice warrior or an enlightened citizen of the world. And I'm fine with that.
I wonder if the Dems will add this to the articles of impeachment.
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What, for acting like an American? Probably. It would be normal for them.
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No mention in the above Biden Bulletin about the 30 rockets fired at our troops and contractors several days ago which killed and injured Americans.
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Indian and Pak forces have been mobilizing around the border for the past 11 days. There's word from the other side Pakistain could launch an offensive into Kashmir.
[DAWN] The Pak-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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... joint border commission on Wednesday agreed to take effective measures to curb terrorism as it poses a serious threat to law and order and stability on both sides of the border.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove led the Pak delegation, while Mohammad Hadi Marshi, Deputy Governor General of Sistan-Baluchestan province, headed the 20-member Iranian delegation at the 23rd meeting of the commission.
Speaking at the opening session of the three-day meeting, Mr Langove said that people of both countries enjoyed deep and friendly relations.
He said the two countries should adopt effective measures to stop illegal border crossing and human and drug smuggling.
"There is a need to eliminate terrorist elements who are a serious threat to law and order and stability on both sides of the border," he added.
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"A cobra hisses, a Muslim speaks - what's the difference?" h/t S. M. Stirling
[DAWN] Five new cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... were reported from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one from Sindh on Thursday, taking the national total to 123 since last January.
According to the National Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Polio, of the cases to have surfaced in KP, two are from Tank, one is from Bannu, one is from Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and one from Mohmand.
In Tank, the two affected children were a 30-month-old girl and a five-month-old boy. In D.I. Khan, a 24-month-old girl, in Bannu, a 26-month-old boy and in Mohmand, a six-month-old boy have tested positive for the virus.
In Sindh, the new polio case was reported from Dadu.
Of the 123 cases to have been reported since last year, 88 are from KP, 20 from Sindh, nine from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , and six from Punjab.
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If you are going to come down with easily-preventable, crippling diseases there is no time like the present.
STFU - UN out of the US
[NY Post] The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing on Friday said the President Trump-approved drone strike against Qassim Soleimani, Iran's top general, violated international human rights law.
In a lengthy Twitter thread, Agnès Callamard said that "outside the context of active hostilities, the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be legal," adding that the US would need to prove the person targeted constituted an imminent threat to others.
She also took issue with the justification for using drones in another country on the basis of self-defense.
"Under customary international law States can take military action if the threatened attack is imminent, no other means would deflect it, and the action is proportionate," she wrote. These idiots are deranged
“The test for so-called anticipatory self-defense is very narrow: it must be a necessity that is ‘instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation.’ This test is unlikely to be met in these particular cases,” she added.
Callamard noted that “an individual’s past involvement in ‘terrorist’ attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.”
The French human rights expert also criticized the Pentagon’s statement about the airstrike.
“It mentions that it aimed at ‘deterring future Iranian attack plans.’ This however is very vague. Future is not the same as imminent which is the time based test required under international law,” she wrote.
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“an individual’s past involvement in ‘terrorist’ attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.”
Bitch is insane or what ? I agree the cheques may be generous, and prostituting yourself out to islamists is very convenient, but at least have a sense of fucking dignity.
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Do you know how many FAA rules were broken by blowing up an airport? Security security there are bad men with explosives going through the metal detectors!
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Iranian General in a foreign nation out of uniform involved in riots that threatened an embassy. He was thus legally a spy or pirate and spies and pirates can be killed legally in any way that seems appropriate (barring political considerations).
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Soleimani was full-time military engaged in some military function, considering the identities of the other KIA's. so please don't try to tell me that he was going to an "arab tribal wedding". Stop trying to equate him with a civilian. It may have been "rude" to whack him on Iraqi soil, national sovereignty and all that, but War Crime it wasn't.
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Even by her ridiculously strained definition - "imminent" - the strike was justified. Pompeo noted that this POS of course was preparing dozens of imminent attacks. That's why the f---er flew into Baghdad.
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When do they haul Bath House in for droning Anwar al-Awlaki?
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The beloved Tubby Flabbard now has weighed in that killing Soleimani was "unconstitutional. "You white devils have no right to defend yourselves." Who still admires her? Anybody?
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"outside the context of active hostilities"
Attacking tankers, a refinery and an embassy qualifies as what?
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Shorter UN: "You're gonna get raped, so just lie back and enjoy it, don't resist"
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wtf are yall going to do?
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Wow. I think people here are developing Herb Derangement Syndrome. To think of it! People bring me up in threads I'm not in, and come up with weird positions they assign to me. It's just like TDS.
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and you F-4 search for your name :-) It's all good.
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[IsraelTimes] ImageSat International issues photos of the results of Sunday’s US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah in western Iraq.
One photo of the facility in al-Qaim shows "one structure was completely destroyed and another one was partially damaged." Another photo shows "two structures were completely destroyed and one was partially damaged."
"They need to do more internally, w/in Iraq, to address these #Iran-sponsored militia groups & to stop their attacks on US&coalition forces &they need to investigate these attacks" per @EsperDoD "We haven't seen sufficient action on that front"
NEW: "We will take preemptive action" vs #KataibHezbollah, other #Iran-backed militias "to protect American forces, to protect American lives" per @EsperDoD "The game has changed. We're prepared to do what is necessary"
[Rudaw] The US embassy siege by pro-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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... protesters in Baghdad lasted just over a day, but analysts warn it could have lasting implications for Iraq's complex security sector and diplomatic ties.
Baghdad had been struggling to keep up its precarious balancing act between its allies Tehran and Washington as tensions spiralled following the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear pact with Iran.
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[Rudaw] Iraq is set to import 500 megawatts of electricity from Sunni Arab gulf countries before next summer, Iraqi Ministry of Electricity spokesperson a told state newspaper on Thurday.
Haider al-Abadi, spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity revealed that Iraq has signed a deal with the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) for electricity imports in a Thursday report published by state-owned newspaper al-Sabaah.
The agreement is to "establish two power transmission lines of extreme pressure 400 KV, with the Gulf Interconnection Authority shouldering the cost of the building of the two lines".
The business deal follows pleas from the United States for Iraq to wean itself off of Iranian electricity imports.
According al-Abadi, the two transmission lines will span 300 kilometers across Iraq and Kuwait.
The idea of interconnectivity between regional countries’ electricity grids was first touted by outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in July.
The move will allow Iraq to initially import 500 megawatts of electricity at "competitive prices."
Iraq has long suffered from chronic outages and shortages of electricity, in a country where summer temperatures reach 50 degrees Celsius.
Electricity shortages have pushed protesters to take to the streets, especially in the summer of 2018, to demand better electricity and services.
War, corruption, insecurity and lack of investment have all together contributed to a deteriorating grid, leaving Iraqis at times with just five hours of national electricity per day. Privately owned generators set up in neighborhoods try to supplement the lost hours, making Iraqis pay twice for electricity.
To make up for the shortage in electricity production, Iraq has been importing electricity and gas to power its electricity stations from neighboring Iran, much to the ire of Washington, which has imposed crippling economic sanctions on Tehran.
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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... exports 1200-1500 megawatts of electricity to Iraq on a daily basis, in addition to 38 million cubic meters of natural gas to feed several of Iraq’s power stations, according to Sayyid Hamid Hosseini, secretary general of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce.
The US has long hoped for Iraq to wean itself off of the Iranian imports, which are a source of cash for the regime it has sanctioned.
In summer of 2018, Iraq did report progress in the electricity sector with peak production previously unseen in the country. Nevertheless, it was still below demand.
Iraq has also signed deals with the German giant Siemens and the US Giant General Electric to overhaul its outdated grid.
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[Rudaw] 1.35 million Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) returned to their homes in 2019, Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced announced on Wednesday.
In a statement by Ali Abbas, the head of the Ministry’s branches, "more than one million and 350 thousand IDPs", equaling roughly 240,140 families, have "returned from IDP camps in the provinces of the country to their original homes".
Anbar province received the most returnees, with 89,224 families returning to districts across the province, the statement said.
Saladin came second, with a total of 61,055 family returnees, and Nineveh Province with 44,383 returnees.
According to a November 2019 report by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 1.5 million Iraqis, of the original 6 million who were displaced from 2014 to 2017 due to the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), remain in camps.
"Of the six million people displaced during the 2014-2017 conflict, humanitarian partners estimate that 4.1 million require some form of humanitarian assistance and that 1.77 million are in acute need. Of the people in acute need, 50 per cent reside in two governorates ‐ Nineveh and al-Anbar," said OCHA.
Many of the provinces, mainly Sunni provinces in northern and central Iraq, have not been able to secure enough funds to rebuild. According to the deputy governor of Saladin Saad Dhahir Qaisi, the Iraqi government is out of touch with the situation and approaches the destroyed areas "as if they were intact".
The historic Sunni vs Shiite silliness having an impact?
Due to unemployment, lingering destruction and insecurity, there have been instances of IDPs returning to IDP camps in the Kurdistan Region. More than 6,000 of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s IDPs had returned to camps as of August.
Among other issues afflicting the return of IDPs is corruption. In April, Iraqi Integrity Commission retrieved $64 million of embezzled funds from Nineveh’s coffers.
Impressive! What happened to the money afterward?
Security is another obstacle to returning home, with ISIS remaining active across Nineveh and other provinces. Militias competing for control in the disputed territories has also left civilians caught in the crossfire.
That would be the Shiite paramilitaries supported by Iran?
In July 2019, Yezidi activist Nadia Murad told US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... of the obstacles facing the Yezidi community returning to Shingal, which is disputed between various militias as well as the Iraqi and Kurdish armed forces.
The Yezidi community was attacked by the Islamic State in August 2014, and hundreds of thousands remain in camps across the Kurdistan Region.
"Now there is no ISIS, but we cannot go back because the Kurdish government and the Iraqi government, they are fighting each other [over] who will control my area," Murad told the US President.
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[IsraelTimes] Greece, Cyprus and Israel sign an agreement for a huge pipeline project to ship gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... despite The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s hostility to the deal.
The move comes amid tensions with Turkey over its activities in the area and a maritime deal with Libya expanding Ankara’s claims over a large gas-rich area of the sea.
The 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) EastMed pipeline will be able to carry between nine and 12 billion cubic meters of gas a year from offshore reserves held by Israel and Cyprus to Greece, and then on to Italia and other southeastern European countries.
President Tayyip Erdogan says that up to 250,000 migrants are fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara is trying to prevent them from crossing its border.https://t.co/92rbos2VSB
[ALMASDARNEWS] US Defence Secretary Mark Esper stated that Washington would respond and take pre-emptive action to protect personnel in Iraq. aaaannnnd...it did
"He [US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ] is committed to defending our interests, our personnel, our friends in the region and of course standing up to 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and deterring Iranian bad behaviour. We will either respond or take pre-preemptive action as necessary to make sure that we defend those interests", Esper told the TV channel Fox.
He continued on by saying that Washington expects more attacks from "Iran-backed" groups and that they will "regret it".
"The provocative behaviour has been out there for months... So do I think they may do something? Yes. And they will likely regret it. We are prepared to exercise self-defence, and we are prepared to deter further bad behaviour from these groups, all of which are sponsored, directed and resourced by Iran", Esper told news hounds.
He added that the Pentagon would continue to beef up its forces in the region to protect "diplomats or American citizens or military personnel".
"At the same time I know Secretary [of State Mike] Pompeo is working aggressively to talk to our allies and partners whether they are in the immediate region or beyond to build political support for what we are doing", Esper said.
Esper also called on the international community to condemn Iran’s behaviour and help the United States with its maximum pressure campaign.
Hashd al-Shabi, also known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces, said that its supporters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad after dozens of its fighters were murdered in the US strikes. They torched the fence, forcing US guards to take cover. The United States stated that it would send extra troops to Baghdad.
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Give the black ops people some fun and a break let them hang dead pigs on the outside of the embassy wall with little cuts so they bleed swell and explode from the gas build up! Give them crates of log heads with sarcastic slogans on them to throw over the walls and have the psyop people play Lord of the flies through e dry frequency and channel in iraq!
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[Free Beacon] CNN anchor Anderson Cooper compared Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps killed in an American airstrike on Thursday, to French president Charles de Gaulle, a leader of the French resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II.
...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 
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