[ToloNews] Americans and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are discussing the possibility of ending the withdrawal process by the beginning of July, sources familiar with the matter said.
The Taliban will return to the talks, will attend the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... conference and will reduce violence if there is an agreement on the matter, the sources said.
The US began its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan this week, and, based on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s decision, the process was to be completed by Sept. 11. According to the Doha agreement, the US was expected to complete the withdrawal by May 1.
The Taliban considers the postponement of the withdrawal date a violation of the Doha agreement.
"The US has set a deadline for itself and it is possible that the Taliban will not agree to it and then a deadline in the middle will be agreed upon," said former Taliban commander Sayed Akbar Agha.
US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Monday and, according to sources, he intends to discuss his regional trip and the upcoming Istanbul conference with Afghan officials, along with other topics related to the grinding of the peace processor.
Khalilzad met with Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... in Uzbekistan this week. He also met with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and discussed the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
"Discussions were held on the grinding of the peace processor and the Istanbul conference as well as political consensus," Dostum’s front man Ehsan Nairo said.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Second Vice President Sarwar Danesh at an event on Monday called the Taliban a rebellious and runaway group that is thirsty for power.
"The Taliban, because it has turned away from peace, is considered a runaway group because, based on a verse of the Holy Koran, if a group violates the call for peace, it is considered violent mostly peaceful and runaway," Danesh said.
Khalilzad also met with peace negotiators in Doha during his trip to 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... last week.
"Efforts to hold the upcoming Turkey conference were welcomed. And the US envoy assured his country’s continued support to the government and the people of Afghanistan," said Ghulam Farooq Majroh, a republic negotiator.
The Istanbul conference was delayed two times because the Taliban backed out. It is expected to be held late this month.
[AllAfrica] Families of women and kiddies with ties to suspected members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) who were recently repatriated to Tunisia say that all of the women are in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Some have faced abuse, have contracted Covid-19, and have been denied their rights.
Between March 11 and 18, 2021, Tunisian authorities repatriated 10 women and 14 children who were held in Libyan prisons, some for more than 5 years, for having ties to suspected members of the hard boygang Islamic State (also known as ISIS), according to the Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights (TOHR). One woman, who has two children, was a child herself when she went to Libya, her brother said. All the repatriated children were released to the care of relatives or are under government care in social service facilities.
Relatives and lawyers of four of the women said they are detained in Manouba Prison. None had access to a lawyer during interrogation, and one of them said the family could not afford to hire a lawyer. One woman told her relatives she was beaten by Sherlocks during interrogation and coerced to sign an interrogation report. Formal charges against the women remained pending, relatives and lawyers said.
The basis for the continued detention without charge of the women is Tunisia's 2015 counterterrorism law, which extends incommunicado detention from 6 to up to 15 days for terrorism suspects, permits courts to close hearings to the public, and allows witnesses to remain anonymous to the defendants. The law allows the police to interrogate suspects without a lawyer for 15 days. The law endangers human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , lacks safeguards against abuse, and should be amended, Human Rights Watch said.
"These Tunisian women and kiddies have already spent up to five years in abusive arbitrary detention in Libya because the two countries failed to reach a repatriation agreement sooner," Salah said. "Those not suspected of serious crimes badly need assistance, rehabilitation, and reintegration, especially the children, some of whom were born in prisons in Libya and know no other life."
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Thousands of imported muscle and their family members, including hundreds of Tunisian nationals, went to Libya in 2016 when ISIS controlled some areas in Libya.
Libyan forces battling ISIS in Sebratha in February 2016 and Sirte in December 2016 captured hundreds of women and kiddies with suspected ties to ISIS fighters, including Libyans, Tunisians, and other foreigners and detained them. Tunisia repatriated nine orphans from Libya between 2019 and 2020, but had been deadlocked with Libyan authorities on bringing home or helping repatriate the rest. According to TOHR, in 2020, Tunisian authorities also repatriated from Libya one woman with suspected ties to ISIS who remains under investigation.
Ten more Tunisian women and twenty-one children, most of them young, await repatriation from Libya, according to TOHR, which has been tracking cases of Tunisian citizens with suspected links to ISIS members abroad.
Scores of other Tunisians are arbitrarily detained as ISIS suspects and family members in northeast Syria. The Tunisian authorities should take all feasible steps to bring their nationals home or assist their repatriation for rehabilitation and reintegration and, if warranted, monitoring or prosecution in line with international legal standards.
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#Turkey wants to improve economic relations with #Egypt as it pushes to repair strained diplomatic ties between the two regional powers, Trade Minister Mehmet Mus says, ahead of a visit by a Turkish delegation to Cairo this week.https://t.co/afcyeMjljspic.twitter.com/ezGyBXvjqo
#Russia sets up two new military sites in the south of #Armenia near the Azeri border as an “additional security guarantee” following last year’s conflict, Russian news agencies report, citing Armenian PM Pashinyan.https://t.co/2sXzYDo7AE
Someday it’ll be a big hit in Somalia and Yemen, when it moves beyond the cardboard-and-tinfoil mockup stage.
[AlMasdar] The Ottoman Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency reported that the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces, on Wednesday, began training their personnel to use the "Hissar" air defense system, which is the first domestically-made missile defense system.
The agency pointed out that the missile defense system, which was developed by the Presidency of the Ottoman Turkish Defense Industries, has been trained to simulate devices to learn the multi-tasking roles of the defense system.
They added that the training aims to provide the trainees with all system capabilities, knowledge and skills to ensure the most efficient use of systems in accordance with general and tactical requirements, with the participation of experts from the Ottoman Turkish company Aselsan for Military Electronic Industries.
According to the Anadolu Agency, the systems will be effective against planes, helicopters, missiles, drones, and air-to-surface missiles.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has one of the most successful defense industries in the world, as their engineers have patented several weapons, including their attack drones.
Several? Goodness. In America even little suburban housewives have patents. Mine is for the sparkles in a popular children’s toothpaste.
Their Bayraktar TB2 drones have become popular, with several nations, including Ukraine and Morocco, inquiring to buy these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Ooooohhhh, inquiring. That’s like doing due diligence to justify plumping taxpayer money down for the better one they intended to buy all along.
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I wouldn't mock the turks in this; they have been doing a lot of due diligence lately in showing the Russians how to destroy the low level air defense systems (pantsir?) they've been using in Syria and Libya.
The Institute of International Finance raised its “fair value” estimate for #Turkey’s lira to 9.50 versus the dollar from 7.50 due to “a sharp deterioration of sentiment” since March, its chief economist Robin Brooks says.https://t.co/Af7xjUw2sn
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The fair value was “ lowered” not raised. If it takes 9.5 Turkish Lira to buy a dollar vs 7.5, the value of the Lira has dropped against the dollar., not increased.
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..I'm sure those in the White House and Nancy's Congress are working mightily to bring 'equity' to the issue. Keep those printing presses rolling boys!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Non-profit organization Sherpa and a group of lawyers have filed a legal complaint to La Belle France’s financial prosecutor against Lebanese Central Bank's Riad Salameh ...Governor of Leb's central bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world.... over alleged corruption and money laundering, an official at Sherpa said on Monday.
Sherpa said in a statement the legal complaint, filed on Friday, was over "suspicious" real estate purchases in La Belle France and that the aim was to return the property to the Lebanese people.
The complaint covers millions of euros worth of property assets in La Belle France and also targets Salameh’s brothers and an associate, said Laura Rousseau, head of the illicit financial flows program at Sherpa, in comments to Rooters.
Salameh, who has led Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s central bank since 1993, was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" He has previously denied allegations of corruption and has said he has been targeted by a smear campaign.
"The complaint lodged not only targets money laundering in connection with the outsourcing of considerable capital from the fall 2019 crisis, but also the suspicious circumstances under which some very luxurious real estate in La Belle France has been acquired by private or public Lebanese officials in recent years," Sherpa said in a statement.
Its statement did not identify any individuals.
La Belle France’s National Financial Prosecutor was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!"
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...Governor of Leb's central bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world....
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
