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Three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan to continue for another week
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Africa Horn
Some military created "sedition" between Sudan and Qatar: Hemetti
[Sudan Tribune] The deputy head of the Sovereign Council Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemetti" said some members of the former Transitional Military Council (TMC) caused sedition between Sudan and 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...
pointing they incited to reject a visit of the Qatar foreign minister while encouraging him to come.

Hemetti speaking at Sudan 24 TV on 24 May 2020 In an interview with Sudan 24 TV channel, on Sunday, Hemetti said that they decided to refuse to receive the Qatari foreign minister in April 2019 because he had arrived without their knowledge in the country.

He added that this misunderstanding was deliberately caused by some members of the military council who were in contact with the Qatari government and coordinated with them the visit without informing the council.

"They demanded (in a TMC meeting) to not authorize the entry of the Qatari minister to cause a conflict between us and Qatar," he added.

"So the fitna (sedition) happened, but we have no position against the State of Qatar," he stressed.

On June 26, 2019, Hemetti already admitted they had made a mistake when they had refused to receive the Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.

"We recognize that from the beginning we boycotted them and we did not receive them. We admit that we were wrong, we had not to boycott them, and we are supposed to welcome them like others," Hemetti said at the time.

The Military Council was perceived as taking the side of the Saudi-UAE alliance against Qatar particularly when the former announced a three billion grant in support to Sudan after the ouster of the former Islamist regime.

During the interview, he lengthy talked about some military and remnants of the regime who were working from within the military council to bring them down adding created discord between them and the forces of the revolution.

Hemetti placed the deterioration of relations between them and Qatar within this context. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
he did not give the names of these generals who were behind this decision.

On April 24, three members of the Military Council ’resigned’ under the pressure of the street because of their affiliation with the Islamic Movement and the ousted regime.

The three generals - Omer Zain Elabidin, Jalal Aldin al-Sheikh, and Babikir al-Tayeb - were tasked with the negotiations with the revolutionary forces.

It worth mentioning that Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan the head of the military council, last April, sacked the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Badr al-Din Abdallah Mohammed-Ahmed, after issuing a statement about a visit by a Qatari delegation without notifying the Council.
Posted by: Fred || 05/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  The USA should have long ago 'listed' the Islamist al-Thani family of Qatar. However, as it served as the Gulf wing of the Democrat Party, and as the cointinually stupid US military set up a regional military base in Qatar, Washington is hoist on its own petard. The State Department thus appears to support a nation that does little but make trouble.
Posted by: b || 05/26/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The [US] State Department thus appears to support a nation that does little but make trouble somewhere else.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/26/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||


Economy
Cartels are hemorrhaging millions of dollars with traffickers forced to take more risks to move cocaine and cash across the US during coronavirus lockdown
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • From March 1 to May 8, the amount of cash seized in the Los Angeles area more than doubled from $4.5 million last year to $10 million in 2020

  • Along 2,000 mile US-Mexico border usually bustling with traffic, the vehicles which usually provide cover for the cartels to operate are gone

  • Cocaine prices are up more than 20 percent and the price of meth has doubled

  • With bars and clubs closed across the States, there is also less demand for drugs
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  And, I assume, coyotes are hurting too. Lockdown is bad for business!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/26/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder, does the wave of suicides in California connected?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/26/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#3  The cartels will think of something. They are [deviously] clever enough.

Surely Wells Fargo will understand.
Posted by: Clem || 05/26/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Well there's always Avocados.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/26/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 They can smuggle HCQ into democratic statees
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/26/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
German party seeks to ban Iranian-regime center in Hamburg
[Jpost] Islamic Center of Hamburg is Iran's supreme leader's long arm in Germany

The Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) in the city-state of Hamburg said last week that it plans to introduce an initiative to outlaw the Iranian regime-controlled Islamic Center because of its link to the terrorist organization Hezbollah.

The front man for the CDU in the Hamburg parliament, Dennis Gladiator, told Die Welt that "all official contact to the Islamic Center of Hamburg should immediately end, an association ban should be examined and introduced as well as the cancellation of the state contract with the Schura [the association of Islamic communities] as long as the Islamic Center of Hamburg is part of the association."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


The Grand Turk
Turkey's Erdogan calls Jerusalem 'red line' for Islamic world
What, again? He must be running out of material, even as he is running out of money for his many clever little projects.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  As a claimant to the Eastern/Russian orthodox church, doesn't Moscow have a interest in Constantinople and restoring Hagia Sophia to its rightful status? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/26/2020 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  The Russian attitude is "drink some more vodka, Tovarich, and we will watch them collapse themselves."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/26/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
From Khamenei's press office
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-05-26
  Three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan to continue for another week
Mon 2020-05-25
  Kurdish policeman found beheaded in Kirkuk
Sun 2020-05-24
  UN committee urges France to prevent execution of convicted jihadists in Iraq
Sat 2020-05-23
  Large cyber attack against Israel conducted from Gaza, Turkey, North Africa
Fri 2020-05-22
  PA refuses UAE aid sent via Israel, won’t be ‘tool for normalization’ – report
Thu 2020-05-21
  Iraq security forces arrest the new ISIS leader
Wed 2020-05-20
  Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all agreements with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters
Tue 2020-05-19
  GNA captures al-Watiyah Airbase from the LNA
Mon 2020-05-18
  Afghan president inks power-sharing deal with rival
Sun 2020-05-17
  Pak Doctor on H-1B Visa Wanted to Attack U.S. for ISIS
Sat 2020-05-16
  Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran reportedly set ablaze
Fri 2020-05-15
  France: Pro-Refugee Activist Murdered by Migrant He Was Sleeping With
Thu 2020-05-14
  Nangarhar Funeral Bombing Death Toll Rises to 32
Wed 2020-05-13
  President Ghani, in light of attacks, orders Afghan forces to resume attacks on the Taliban
Tue 2020-05-12
  GNA militia evacuate their headquarters in Abuslim

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