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Airstrikes kill “Huras_al_Din” commander in Idlib city
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Africa North
Egyptian delegation meets Haftar, Aguila Saleh, urges ceasefire in Libya
[Al Ahram] An Egyptian delegation met on Monday 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...
, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), in the Libyan city of Benghazi, to discuss regional and international developments, including the crisis in the oil-rich country.

The delegation was led by Ayman Badie, the head of Egypt’s National Committee concerned with Libyan affairs, and comprised a number of committee members, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.

The Egyptian delegation stressed the importance of resuming the political track and maintaining the ceasefire.

Benghazi's meeting was preceded by talks with Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh in the Libyan city of al-Qubah.

The two sides touched upon the latest developments in the conflict-torn country and ways to end the crisis by speeding up a political solution with the participation of concerned parties, Abdallah Abaihig, the Libyan parliamentary front man said.

Libya has been split since 2014 between two rival administrations in the east and west with parallel institutions; the eastern government is represented by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives allied with the LNA, and the west is represented by the 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 Government of National Accord (GNA).

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
began earlier this year sending thousands of Syrian jihadists and mercenaries into Libya to back the GNA.

On 21 August, both Libyan rival parties declared a ceasefire and agreed to hold new elections.

Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Europe
Greek government accuses migrants of 'burning' Moria camp
[Al Ahram] Greece on Monday accused migrants colonists of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp last week on Lesbos island, where hundreds reluctantly moved to a new temporary site with "no showers or mattresses".

Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze destroyed the Moria camp on the night of September 8.

The fire has forced its 12,000 former occupants to sleep rough in abandoned buildings, on roadsides and even rooftops.

"The camp was burned by refugees and migrants colonists who wanted to blackmail the government in order to be rapidly transferred from the island (to the continent)," Greek government front man Stelios Petsas told news hounds in Athens.

He gave no further details. Greece's migrations minister last week made similar accusations, even before the conclusion of the investigation into what happened.

Officials have been hastily erecting a new camp of white tents near the eastern port-village of Panagiouda as exhaustion, hunger and fear set in among the migrants colonists, and locals look on with trepidation.

Many of the former residents of Moria camp have refused to go there, fearing they will just be forgotten inside.

Others are reluctantly making their way to the site in the searing heat.

The new camp "seems harsh, with its direct sunlight and no shade. But I'm entering tomorrow as I have no choice," said Pariba, an Afghan woman.

Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 
Posted by: Clem || 09/15/2020 18:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Moria? Sounds like someone dug too deep and too greedily and woke something up....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/15/2020 20:32 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
At historic White House event, UAE and Bahrain to move toward normal ties with Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2020 08:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  they actually covered this on network news

but of course with the 'poor little Paleos' or 'in a distraction from Covid deaths'
Posted by: lord garth || 09/15/2020 19:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Pelosi and Schumer are fuming in their bathrobes tonight. Imagine history taking place and Trump forgot to invite you.
Posted by: jpal || 09/15/2020 21:34 Comments || Top||

#3  They'd just put a stop to it by insisting on more aid to blue states.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2020 23:57 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Islam has an Apostasy Spike In its Core
In seeking an answer to Islam's failure, Islamic revivalist movements proliferated over the last two centuries with the aim of restoring past successes. From Wahhabism to al Qaeda, ISIS to Tablighi Jamaat, fundamentalist movements insisted that glory could be restored to Islam by "implement[ing] Allah's laws faithfully," and "every .... human problem would be solved."

However, wherever Islamism has gained power, "the results have not been impressive." The list of failures is long when considering rule under the Taliban, the Iranian revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood's failed government in Egypt, Erdogan's Turkey, Algeria's failed Islamic revival, and the former Sudanese regime's jihad on its own people. "The harder revivalist movements struggled to promote the success of Islam, the more evidence they seem to provide of Islam's inability to solve the human problem." ...

While it is true that there are many converts to Islam in the West, this is because the utopian ideal does not conflict with a dystopian reality. For similar reasons, second generation Muslim immigrants in the West are often more eager than their parents to embrace Islamic revivalism because they didn't directly experience "the failure of Islam" firsthand. "[I]f you've lived under the boot of [a] revolutionary Islamic regime in Iran, you have a much more realistic view of the effect of Islam on a nation."
Posted by: lord garth || 09/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's what happens when you get too serious about a book that was written by a book that was written by a guy that today would either be confined to a mental institution, standing on a street corner panhandling while writing on the sidewalk with a crayon, or a key figure in the Democrat party.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2020 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Islam has a stick up its a$$.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2020 4:46 Comments || Top||

#3  When Islam gained power initially they did fairly well. Conquered half the world and held it for centuries (Yeah, they were violent from day one). Back then they didn't simply burn knowledge discovered by others but embraced it.

Shame at being left behind by the west, and the resulting not-invented here mentality that resulted, combined with inbreeding have made them the mess they are now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Boron in its nukes?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/15/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  When Islam gained power initially they did fairly well. Probably the result of breaking the status quo in the newly conquered lands and letting talented "commoner" show their talents. Once the social order settled (like concrete...) the pace of innovation died off again.
Posted by: magpie || 09/15/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||

#6  In the west they expanded over areas the Visogoths had already beaten down. I don't know as much about the eastern expansion.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Dario Fernandez-Morera
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2020 18:12 Comments || Top||



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