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Iraqi security forces have raided a HQ of Ketaib Hezbollah
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Africa North
UAE declares support for the French position in criticizing the Turkish intervention in Libya
[ADDRESSLIBYA.CO] The United Arab Emirates has declared its support for French criticism against Ottoman Turkish interference in Libya, after French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
is playing "a dangerous game" in Libya.

"The UAE affirms its solidarity with La Belle France in the face of Turkey’s continuing offensive declarations and actions," UAE Foreign Minister, Anwar Gargash, tweeted on Wednesday.

"We strongly condemn its dangerous behaviour and hostile action against a French navy vessel on a 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...
mission to enforce the UN arms embargo earlier this month," Gargash added.
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Di Maio: Terrorists among migrants fleeing Libya
No!! Reeeeelly??
[ADDRESSLIBYA.CO] Terrorists are hiding among the migrants colonists fleeing to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to escape the war in Libya, Italia’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio stated on Thursday.

"The conflict in Libya, which I remind you is close to Italia’s coasts, result in migrants colonists fleeing the war and seeking shelter elsewhere. And very often turbans as well are hiding among these people who are fleeing," Di Maio wrote in post via Facebook.

"Working intensely to stop the war in Libya means therefore stabilizing the region, but at the same time securing our country, our coasts, our citizens," the top Italian diplomat added.

Di Maio went on to write that following his meeting with 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...
-based premier Fayez al-Sarraj, the latter presented him with a proposal to change the 2017 Italia-Libya agreement on migrant.

"I can tell you that we are going in the right direction," he concluded.
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Venezuela reveals truth about allegations of Haftar’s visit
I was under the impression that the field marshal was a bit too concerned with personal projects to go running off to the other side of the world...
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
n Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, commented on the allegations about the alleged visit of Libyan National Army (LNA) commander, Field Marshal 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...
, to Caracas last month."There have been no visits by any of the parties to the Libyan conflict to Venezuela," Arreaza said during a presser after his visit to Moscow.

He stressed that "Venezuela does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of Libya," noting that his country "is open to cooperation between the two sides, but there have been no contacts or visits."

The Venezuelan embassy in Washington, which opposes the government of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, published on its official website, information that Haftar visited Venezuela.

The confirmation came through the Venezuelan opposition Juan Guaidó
...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis....
, who indicated through his private sources about this secret visit by Khalifa Haftar to Venezuela to meet Nicholas Maduro and discuss the possibility of cooperation between them.

A Libyan media agency, quoting "well-informed sources", denied news that Haftar had taken refuge in Venezuela.

The sources told "Libya 24 News Agency" that "the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar is currently at the headquarters of the General Command in al-Rajma, and not as the Venezuelan embassy in the United States claimed."

The sources confirmed, "the news of Haftar’s arrival in Venezuela for asylum, which was published on the official website of the Venezuelan embassy in America, is completely untrue."
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Caribbean-Latin America
Tankers Carrying Two-Months Worth of Venezuelan Oil are Stuck at Sea
President Trump keeps tightening the screws on Maduro.
[gCaptain] Tankers carrying nearly two months’ worth of Venezuelan oil output are stuck at sea as global refiners shun the nation’s crude to avoid falling foul of U.S. sanctions, according to industry sources, PDVSA documents and shipping data.

Washington is tightening sanctions to cut Venezuela’s oil exports and deprive the government of socialist President Nicolas Maduro of its main source of revenue.

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Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Turkey ‘continuously’ violates sovereignty of Libya, Syria, Iraq: Greek FM
Picked right up on that, didn't he?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  well, he has a point
Posted by: Chris || 06/26/2020 19:54 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
UAE and Greece increasing military cooperation amid conflict with Turkey
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Remains 'Safe Haven' for 'Terrorist Groups': US Report
[ToloNews] In an annual report released on Wednesday, the US State Department said Pakistain continued to serve as a "safe haven for certain regionally focused terrorist groups."

"It allowed groups targeting Afghanistan, including the Afghan Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and affiliated HQN (Haqqani network
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/26/2020 01:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  This is what happens when a deep state overthrows its government. They take actions that are in their own interest, that harm their people. And since they are in control, they will never change.
Posted by: Maggie Poodle6767 || 06/26/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  In response, Pak pres has called Osama Bin Laden a martyr and Pak foreign policy agreements with the USA a bad mistake.
In truth, USA-Pak foreign policy under Bushes, Clinton and Obama was a dreadful mistake.
Posted by: b || 06/26/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how much the person or people nake that wrote this report. I'm would have did it for a 12 pack.
Posted by: Chris || 06/26/2020 19:53 Comments || Top||


Mullah Baradar holds Pakistani Passport and National Identity Card: Report
There is a photo of the thing at the link.
[KhaamaPress] The Deputy Political Chief of Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar also holds Pak passport and National Identity Card.

A former official of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) has told RFE/RL that three reliable intelligence sources have confirmed that Mullah Baradar holds Pak passport and National Identity Card.

The official further added that Pakistain has issued the documents to Mullah Baradar under the fake name of Muhammad Arif Agha.
Good to know.
The official also added that Pakistain has adopted a policy to issue passports and National Identity Cards to Taliban under fake identities in a bid to pave the way for them to travel abroad.

The documents were reportedly issued to Mullah Baradar in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
city of Pakistain on 7th of July 2014.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the Taliban group has rejected that Mullah Baradar holds Pak passport and National Identity Card, claiming that the pictures of documents circulating on social media are fake.

This comes as the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was also holding a Pak passport which was recovered following a dronezap which killed him in 2016.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/26/2020 01:18 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Stands to reason. The Taliban was a creation circa 1984-5 of Pakistan's military ISI.
Posted by: b || 06/26/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  He's got shopping rights at the Rawalpindi PX
Posted by: Frank G || 06/26/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  PakistaniPM under fire for saying US ‘martyred’ Osama bin Laden
Critics on Friday slammed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for telling Parliament that the US “martyred” al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was killed in 2011 when US special forces raided his hideout in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, an operation that Pakistan was not told of in advance.

“I will never forget how we Pakistanis were embarrassed when the Americans came into Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, martyred him,” Khan said, the BBC reported.

“Imran Khan called Osama bin Laden shaheed. Bin Laden brought terrorism to our lands, he was a terrorist through and through and he [Khan] calls him shaheed?” said Pakistan Muslim League senior leader Khawaja Asif Asif during the National Assembly session, reported Dawn.com, an English-language Pakistani news site.

Shaheed is an Arabic term for martyr.

Asif ripped Khan, calling bin Laden an “ultimate terrorist.”

“He destroyed my nation, and [Khan] is calling him a martyr,” Asif told Parliament.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, whose Pakistan Peoples Party was in power when bin Laden was killed, accused the prime minister of appeasing violent extremism, according to the BBC.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/26/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||


So much for satellite imagery analysis!
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  False color artifacts from UV/blue filtering?


Posted by: Skidmark || 06/26/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ ☺ Nope. The cheapo contractor called Mira Miri Tents, whom we 'procure' our larger tents and portable structures from is obsessed with pink or can't be bothered to use a dye.

Also nobody cares to 'flage anything because there's no such thing as tactics here.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/26/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Heh. Thanks Dron. 'Sangars' was googleable, but I had no idea about the pink. It seems a bit garish.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/26/2020 15:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Pink tents matter?
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/26/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#5  San Francisco Camouflage™
Posted by: Frank G || 06/26/2020 20:01 Comments || Top||

#6  At least you know who's tents are on what side.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/26/2020 22:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Occam Rules!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/26/2020 23:55 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli PM announces "cooperation" with UAE to fight coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Hamas warns Israel's annexation of West Bank will lead to war
A different war, not the same war they've been trying to wage since 1948.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Instead of what we have now?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#2  "Get it ON!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/26/2020 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  The Hamas charter initiated in 1988 promised eternal war with Israel. So what's new?
Posted by: b || 06/26/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, you see, this will be "War-War" instead of the rather pedestrian backbiting, ankle biting and calling of vicious names that already goes on.
Posted by: magpie || 06/26/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Not a balloon war?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/26/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||


Israel will 'prevent' Iran from developing precision missiles in Syria, Lebanon: Netanyahu
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran says it's ready for talks if U.S. apologises over nuclear pact
[THEBAGHDADPOST] 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...
would be open to talks with the United States if Washington apologises for exiting a 2015 nuclear deal and compensates Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
said on Wednesday, cautioning that U.S. calls for discussions were insincere.

The confrontation between arch foes Tehran and Washington has worsened since 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
withdrew from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy.

Iran has refused to hold any talks with the United States, which is trying to force Tehran to negotiate a new deal, unless Washington lifts sanctions on Tehran and returns to the original agreement.

In a tweet in early June, Trump repeated Washington’s call for a new deal with Tehran aimed at putting stricter limits on Tehran’s nuclear work, curbs its ballistic missile program and ends its decades of regional proxy wars.
"We have no problem with talks with the U.S., but only if Washington fulfils its obligations under the nuclear deal, apologies and compensates Tehran for its withdrawal from the 2015 deal," Rouhani said in a televised speech.

"But we know these calls for talks with Tehran are just words and lies," he added.

In retaliation for Washington’s ’maximum pressure’ policy, Iran has gradually scaled back its nuclear commitments, a process Tehran says is reversible if the European parties to the pact carry out their promises to shield Iran’s economy from U.S. penalties.

"The Europeans have failed to fulfil their promises. They should carry out their obligations," Rouhani said.

Rouhani also blasted a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog passed on Friday that called on Iran to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former sites and to cooperate fully with it.

"Iran is ready to cooperate with the (ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency) IAEA under law," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/26/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Piss off...
Good talk.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/26/2020 5:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I concur with Mercutio
Posted by: Chris || 06/26/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Tahwee...........is that a good enough applogy?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/26/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#4  EatAdick

Posted by: DarthVader || 06/26/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Eat a bag of dicks
Posted by: Frank G || 06/26/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2020-06-26
  Iraqi security forces have raided a HQ of Ketaib Hezbollah
Thu 2020-06-25
  Black Lives Matter Leader: ‘If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System'
Wed 2020-06-24
  Appeals court orders judge to dismiss Flynn charges
Tue 2020-06-23
  Ivory Coast says it has captured jihadist leader behind border attack
Mon 2020-06-22
  Libya's Presidential Council slams Sisi's threats as ''declaration of war''
Sun 2020-06-21
  Sisi threatens direct Egyptian intervention in Libya
Sat 2020-06-20
  UN arms embargo on Iran must remain in place:
France, Germany, Britain
Fri 2020-06-19
  Mufti Al-Ghariani issues fatwa giving the GNA militias right to execute anyone loyal to the LNA
Thu 2020-06-18
  Iran announces its support for Turkey-backed gov't in Libya
Wed 2020-06-17
  Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament: We request to expel the GNA ambassador
Tue 2020-06-16
  Al Qaeda calling their fighters to join the GNA in Libya
Mon 2020-06-15
  Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief
kneels with protesters
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  Coup attempt on the Lebanese government that has failed, Prime Minister Hassan Diab says
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