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Greeks Find Tunnel Full of Weapons Under Athens,
Arrest Turkish Terrorists
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Africa Horn
Sudan's Unionist Alliance: Authority Figures Are Obstructing Dismantlement of Former Regime
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Africa North
TFSA in Libya says 700 TFSA have refused to fight and will be returned to Syria in several flights in the next few days
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


GNA has called for a enforced curfew on all Libya
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


GNA's Bashaga tried to embezzle one billion dinars under the pretext of supporting the "volcano operations " through fake contracts
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336100 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Straight out of Biden's playbook.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/22/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Is that Hunter in a curly gray wig and spray tan?

Lil' Crackpipe got a brand new joint?
Posted by: Lex || 03/22/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Attacks On DoD Networks Soar As Telework Inflicts ‘unprecedented' Loads
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/22/2020 01:23 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Vastly increased code traffic in the wake of the Doolittle raid facilitated the cracking of the Japanese codes in the run-up to Midway.

What will hackers do with the added raw data when almost all transactionsg goes cyber?

Including banking, tax returns, perscription issuance/re-ups, etc.?
Posted by: charger || 03/22/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#2  same shit they been doing theybeen doing for years
Posted by: Chris || 03/22/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, but on a bigger scale. Possibly much bigger.
Posted by: charger || 03/22/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey announces curfew on chronic patients and persons over 65 years of age
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Sindh's coronavirus cases total nears 400
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Sindh Corona sounds like a Paki typewriter
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shias stream to mausoleum of Imam al-Kadhim in Baghdad, defying curfews
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Shocked & upset!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2020 4:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Think of it as evolution in action.

I'm sure their hospitals are equipped and staffed to deal with enough cases.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/22/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as the shoes are removed, there should be no problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/22/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr Charles Darwin to the Green Crescent Courtesy Phone...
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 03/22/2020 14:57 Comments || Top||


21 new #coronavirus cases, 3 deaths in #Iraq, bringing total to 214 cases & 17 deaths
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran 'Frees French Researcher' in Apparent Prisoner Swap
[AnNahar] President Emmanuel Macron announced Saturday 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has freed a French researcher imprisoned in the Islamic republic after La Belle France released an Iranian threatened with extradition to the US.

Macron "is happy to announce the release of Roland Marchal, imprisoned in Iran since June 2019" but he "urges the Iranian authorities to immediately free" Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist, his office said.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2020 00:24 || Comments || Link || [336088 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iranian cleric believes coronavirus cannot be transmitted by dealing with others without proper distance
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Go for it, yer holiness. An inspiration for the entire world.

Pilot from Iran's 'terror' Mahan Air dies from coronavirus
[Jpost] Mahan Air involved in aiding Syria’s regime in murdering civilians

A pilot for the Iranian regime-owned Mahan Air died from the coronavirus on Wednesday, according to Iranian state media.

Iranian reports say that the pilot, Asghar Loran, serviced the route between the Islamic Republic of Iran and China—two of the leading hotspots for the outbreak of the deadly virus.

The Saudi Gazette wrote on Thursday that “Mahan Air has been accused of smuggling weapons to Iran’s proxies in the region on behalf of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps].”

The paper added that “Mahan Air has also been accused of being behind the coronavirus crisis in Iran, as it continued its flights to several Chinese cities throughout February despite an official ban on flights to China on January 31.”
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336097 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Hezbollah was not informed about Fakhoury's release: Nasrallah
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By golly, if I was them, I'd be really cheesed. But I'm not.
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336088 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Where the Fakhoury?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 03/22/2020 5:09 Comments || Top||


Iranian President calls on US to end crippling sanctions during coronavirus outbreak
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336101 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Are these the crippling sanctions that some-who was laughing off the other day for being ineffective?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/22/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  What coronovirus outbreak? Do you have a coronavirus outbreak? I'm sure Allan will provide if you pray hard enough.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2020 4:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Iran leader refuses US help, citing virus conspiracy theory


Iran’s supreme leader Sunday refused U.S. assistance to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments come as Iran faces crushing U.S. sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude oil and accessing international financial markets.

But while Iranian civilian officials in recent days have increasingly criticized those sanctions, 80-year-old Khamenei instead chose to traffic in the same conspiracy theory increasingly used by Chinese officials about the new virus to deflect blame for the pandemic.

“Possibly your (offered) medicine is a way to spread the virus more,” Khamenei said. “Or if you send therapists and doctors, maybe he wants to see the effect of the poison, since it is said that part of the virus is built for Iran.”
Posted by: Frank G || 03/22/2020 5:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Iran should of saved their cash and not bought back stocks. oops wrong thread.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 03/22/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  fuck em
Posted by: Chris || 03/22/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||


Syria to stop all flights to and from country
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Transport Minister ’Ali Hammound announced this evening that they will be halting all flights to and from Syria amid the ongoing coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
crisis.

According to Hammoud, the last flight to Syria will take place on Sunday; it is a schedule flight from Moscow to Damascus International Airport.
Does that include Iranian cargo shipments? I thought not
The Syrian Transport Minister did not provide any details regarding the time frame that Syria would be closed off to air transport.

The minister added that an additional period was given to all airports that were decided to close, and this was not surprising, and training courses were suspended for all workers in the Ministry of Transport.
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  So much for the TFSA returns from Libya.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/22/2020 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Does that include F35s?
Posted by: jpal || 03/22/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Nope, they only drop self-sterilizing packages.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
5,000 Terrorists Detained In One of The Toughest Prisons Worldwide
[AAWSAT] In al-Hasakah, the United States and the international alliance against ISIS have established the largest prison in the world for murderous Moslems, holding around 5 thousand inmates. These are men who fought alongside ISIS until its final days in Baghuz last spring before turning themselves in and ending up in this place.

Before entering, the guards verify the visitor’s identity and put them through complicated security checks, out of fear that pro-ISIS sleeper cells may slip in. At the main gate, tens of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) personnel stand in full uniform and fully armed. Visitors are asked not to discuss field news, including the death of ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Ottoman Turkish attack on East Euphrates.

These are the ISIS members who struck fear with their murderous Moslem rules, barbaric sentences and their crimes committed between 2014 and 2019. During its peak, ISIS issued its own religious system and currency and taxed around 7 million people. It also removed borders between areas under its control in Syria and Iraq before its geographic and military control were eradicated last March at the hands of several parties that operated under the umbrella of the Arab-Kurdish SDF supported by the international alliance led by the US.
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Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336146 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  How utterly ridiculous. Keeping them alive on taxpayer money, we are symbolically supportive of every fucking inhumanity committed under their dark, misbegotten flag. Idiocy posturing as humanist conventions of honor and conduct.

An Epstein can be killed, a Kashoggi can be offed and governments can move heaven and earth to kill a Snowden, but known mass-murderers and examples of demonic savagery are being suffered to live, funded by nations with supposedly altruistic constitutions.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/22/2020 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to worry Dron - their Chinese friend is already visiting.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2020 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  "Take out? Again?"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/22/2020 5:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Dron, haven't seen you in awhile. Been looking for your info in these times. ;)
Posted by: Chris || 03/22/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Give em blankets?
Posted by: Lex || 03/22/2020 17:47 Comments || Top||

#6  lol lex
Posted by: Chris || 03/22/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2020-03-22
  Greeks Find Tunnel Full of Weapons Under Athens,
Arrest Turkish Terrorists
Sat 2020-03-21
  TSA halts all NY airport departures do to infected people showing up at each one.
Fri 2020-03-20
  Militant attack kills about 30 Malian soldiers -army
Thu 2020-03-19
  Migrants at Refugee Camp in Germany Riot,
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Wed 2020-03-18
  Manchester Arena bombing: Hashem Abedi guilty of 22 murders
Tue 2020-03-17
  China expels ALL American reporters!
Mon 2020-03-16
  Saudi Arabia detains 298 officials in new corruption cases
Sun 2020-03-15
  Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
Sat 2020-03-14
  Violence by Taliban Spikes Despite Peace Efforts
Fri 2020-03-13
  Sudan moves against Bashir loyalists after assassination attempt
Thu 2020-03-12
  4 Iranian proxy forces HQ hit in airstrikes along Iraq-Syria border
Wed 2020-03-11
  Rocket attack in Iraq kills two Americans and a British citizen
Tue 2020-03-10
  US begins military pullout from two Afghan bases
Mon 2020-03-09
  Turks Use Drones in Tear Gas Attacks on Greek Border Guards
Sun 2020-03-08
  Leb defaults
Sat 2020-03-07
  Saudis reportedly detain three royal princes over ‘coup plot’

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