[KhaamaPress] The First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh said the confessions of the detained ISIS leaders leave no room for illusions regarding Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS, apparently gesturing that there is no distinction between the two groups.
Speaking during a gathering 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.. province, Saleh said certain ’strangers’ claim that a specific group carried out the attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar on Tuesday.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Saleh said the confessions of Aslam Farooqi and Abu Omar, the two top leaders of ISIS, leave no room for any question regarding the Taliban and ISIS.
Saleh accused the Taliban group for the deadly attack on maternity ward in Kabul city, emphasizing that the group would not be able to seize power by force.
He also added that Taliban inked a peace deal with the foreigners but the group is still killing the Afghans.
This comes as Taliban rejected the involvement of the group in the two deadly attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
The group on Friday issued a statement demanding a transparent and impartial investigations into the deadly attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
The group condemned the two attacks in strong words and blamed the ’criminal and malicious elements affiliated with the Afghan government’ for being involved in the two attacks.
"The Islamic Emirate strongly condemned both attacks and clarified that these attacks were the work of criminal and malicious elements who are seeking to attain their malicious objectives by killing defenseless human beings," the group said in a statement.
The statement further added "The Islamic Emirate once again clarifies that it had no hand in the Dashti Barchi incident, considers it a vile, inhumane and an un-Islamic act and shares the grief of the families of deaders and maimed of this tragedy."
The Afghan government earlier ordered the Afghan forces to resume offensive operations against the krazed killers, blaming the Taliban and ISIS groups for targeting the civilians, women and infants.
Dozens of people including many security personnel, women and newborn children were killed after the gunnies carried out a series of attacks in Kabul, Nangarhar and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... provinces during the course of the week.
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan’s annual inflation rate hit 98.81% in April, from 81.64% in March, Sudan’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBoS) said on Saturday.
The CBoS monthly bulletin said Saturday that the inflation has increased due to the rising prices of food, drink, fuel, bread, grains, meat, legumes, milk, and sugar, in addition to the rise in the housing and transportation.
Inflation rate in urban areas has reached 86.71% in April, while it was 66.83% in March 2020.
While, the inflation in the rural areas hit 107.82% in April, while it was 93.36% in March.
The transitional government took some measures to reduce the subsidies, such as selling fuel in some stations at commercial prices. Also, the price of subsidised bread in the capital Khartoum has been doubled to 2 pounds per loaf from 1 pound.
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[Sudan Tribune] The transitional government and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) will initial the peace agreement on 20 June, announced the South Sudanese mediation on Sunday.
The eight-month process had initially to last for two months but the parties continued to extend it month after month until the 9th of May when the mediation extended the negotiations with no time limit, as some observers say the process has lost momentum.
After consultations with the parties, the South Sudanese mediation Sunday released a time table of the talks showing that the discussions will resume on 18 May and be concluded on 19 June.
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[DW] Despite supporting an embargo, Germany has exported €330 million in weapons to countries involved in the war in Libya. The conflict has escalated since 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. Actually, he is, but slowly... 's forces seized 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...
Embargo for thee, but not for me?
Since hosting a Libya summit four months ago, the German government has approved arms exports worth €331 million ($358 million) to countries accused of supporting warring parties in the country, according a report from the German Economy Ministry seen by news agency DPA.Between January 20 and May 3, Germany approved €308.2 million in arms destined for Egypt alone, the ministry said. The information was provided in response to a request from Germany’s leftist die Linke party.
Perhaps there is a deep, statesmanly motivation, like keeping the parties killing each other off at home so they’re too dead to attempt migrating across the Mediterranean...
The German government also approved €15.1 million in arms exports for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and €7.7 million for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), DPA reported.
Or possibly, having promised arms to Erdogan to close the “migrant” spigot, they promised the same to the other side to minimize the mischief Turkey could cause in this arena...
Turkey supports the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is backed by the UN, while Russia, Egypt, and the UAE support rival forces led by Khalifa Haftar.
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The German government also approved €15.1 million in arms exports for Turkey and €7.7 million for the United Arab Emirates (UAE),
So the Germans are supplying both sides. Nothing personal, it's just bidness.
[DW] An increasing number of "Islamic State" returnees are standing trial in Germany, including female supporters of the terror group. To make their case, federal prosecutors are relying on international criminal law.
In the past five years, 122 IS supporters have returned to Germany from Syria or Iraq, according to government figures reported in late 2019. Of those returnees, 53 have been classified as a "potential threat," and 18 are considered "relevant persons.”
Taha A.-J.*
...somewhat more completely Taha Sabah Noori al-J., and elsewhere as Taha al-Jumailly...
, an Iraqi man believed to have belonged to the "Islamic State" (IS), has been standing trial in Frankfurt since late April on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the center of his trial is the death of a 5-year-old girl belonging to the Yazidi minority group.
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Just take them out and shoot them
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Sorry Frank. Shootings too good for the likes of them. There are things like concentrated HCl or some of the more robust medieval devices that would be more appropriate. Or you could always bring back Vlad.
#Erdogan surprised observers by demoting Rear Admiral Cihat #Yayci, the architect of the illegal maritime #MOU between #Turkey and #Sarraj, from his position as chief of staff of the Turkish Navy to a managerial position in the Army General Staff. #Libya https://t.co/wnOJUIJB0u
[Rudaw] At least 100 mostly babus government employees, activists, and journalists in Duhok have been arrested by security forces after allegedly organizing a protest against the government’s delay in paying civil servants’ salaries, according to a politician.
Over the last week many have taken to social media calling for an impassioned gathering in downtown Duhok at 3 pm on Saturday against the continued delay of wages from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Halz Botani, a member of the Kurdistan Region's parliament for the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), told Rudaw that of the 150 people who attempted to organize the protest, around 100 were arrested while assembling for the protest at Azadi Park.
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— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 17, 2020
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So it's true, then?
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To be replaced by a direct Iranian Shiite stooge (war continues and maybe escalates), another Alawite related to Assad (war continues), or "Some Person To Be Named Later" (...and war still continues)?
#Iran’s FM has addressed a letter to the U.N.’s Sec. Gen. warning against the US’ “provocative” acts through dispatching its naval forces to the #Caribbean Sea to disrupt the course of Iranian tankers carrying fuel for #Venezuela
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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