[Breitbart] Migrant apprehensions in Mexico hit the highest number ever recorded in a single-month period in September, the latest available official data reveals.
Still, a record number of migrants managed to make it to the U.S southern border in September, the last month of the government’s 2021 fiscal year.
The result is that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents interdicted an unprecedented 1.7 million-plus migrants along the southern border in the 12-month period ending on September 30, known as the fiscal year.
Analysts have historically used apprehension data as a rough measure of migration flows to the U.S. The data does not account for illegal migrants who successfully make it into the United States.
Citing the most recent data released by the Mexican government late last month, Adam Isacson from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) wrote on Twitter, “[Mexico] updated its official migration data today. In September, Mexico’s migration forces shattered their previous single-month record for apprehensions of migrants. 41,225 apprehensions last month, up from the previous high of 32,155 set in August.”
Migrant arrests by Mexican authorities increased by nearly 30 percent from August to September.
It is unclear what Mexico is getting, if anything, for ramping up immigration enforcement. Republicans and some Latin American governments have blamed the border crisis on Biden’s lenient migration policies, saying they are incentivizing tens of thousands of global migrants, also known as extra-continentals, to make the journey to America.
Extra-continental is government jargon for migrants from regions far away from the U.S. southern border, including South America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
As a transit country for the growing number of global migrants, courtesy of Biden’s immigration measures, Mexico is in a position to demand immigration concessions from a U.S. administration reeling from falling poll numbers over its handling of the border crisis.
A growing wave of U.S.-bound global migrants, largely from the Caribbean and South America, is fueling record high migrant arrests in Mexico and the United States.
In September, nearly four (35.5 percent) of every ten migrants taken into custody by Mexican authorities hailed from outside Central America’s Northern Triangle (NT) region (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador).
The rate was similar in the United States. Extra-continentals made up 36 percent of all 192,001 apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border for September, according to the latest official data released by President Joe Biden’s administration last month.
Terrorists linked to jihadi groups such as al-Qaeda have reportedly attempted to blend in with the high number of U.S -bound migrants who are allowed safe passage through Panama, where authorities vet those it encounters, and neighboring Costa Rica, the next stop on the land route to the U.S.
U.S. officials allege that the safe passage agreement between Panama and Costa Rica benefits the U.S. by warning America about migrants heading towards its border.
While Mexico and the NT region remain the traditional top drivers of United States migration trends in sheer numbers, the tally of global migrants encountered by American authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to increase at a much higher pace.
Overall, CBP apprehensions saw a slight drop from August to September, the latest month for which data is available.
CBP officials encountered 192,001 migrants in September, over 17,000 fewer than the previous month (209,840). However, the figure still marks the highest September for interdictions since 2000.
A decrease in the detention of migrants from Mexico and the Northern Triangle drove the drop in total apprehensions from August to September.
Meanwhile, the number of global migrants flocking to the U.S. continued its exponential growth trajectory that began soon after President Joe Biden took office.
In recent weeks, even members of Biden’s own administration and the Democrat-allied corporate media acknowledged that global migration had intensified the border crisis for the Biden administration, which is still struggling to solve the problem.
The number of apprehensions at the U.S. southern border remains high despite the Biden Administration’s continued use of the pandemic control protocol known as Title 42.
Although the measure, invoked by former President Donald Trump’s administration, allows immigration authorities to remove any migrant immediately, the Biden team has watered down the policy, allowing for exceptions.
Talibs convinced the charity is driven more by its need to give money away than its need to treat female staff like full humans. Probably right, too.
[ToloNews] Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the Islamic Emirate has been prohibiting women from "operating as aid workers," which worsens the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
"The Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s severe restrictions on women aid workers are preventing desperately needed lifesaving aid from reaching Afghans, especially women, girls, and women-headed households," said Heather Barr, associate women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. "Permitting women aid workers to do their jobs unfettered is not a matter of agencies or donors placing conditions on humanitarian assistance, but an operational necessity for delivering that assistance."
According to HRW, only three out of 34 provinces officially allowed female workers to operate.
"The document, reviewed by Human Rights Watch, indicates that, as of October 28, 2021, Taliban officials in only three provinces had provided a written agreement unconditionally permitting women aid workers to do their jobs," the report said. "In over half the country, women aid workers face severe restrictions, such as requirements for a male family member to escort them while they do their jobs, making it difficult or impossible for them to do their job effectively."
"This deprives the women and kiddies who are in dire need in the far provinces, and this also intensifies the crisis," said Zarqqa Yaftali, a women's rights defender.
"The Islamic Emirate should cooperate with the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... in Afghanistan to get recognition and the (UN) will continue its assistance to the people," said Soman, a civil rights activist.
The Islamic Emirate said that it was committed to providing security for the aid organizations in Afghanistan.
"We assure all foreign aid (organizations) that their security will be ensured in Afghanistan and that they should not be worried about their personal security and should continue their cooperation with people who are in need in Afghanistan," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate.
This comes as some female US Senate members in a letter asked US President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... to form a procedure for the protection of Afghan women.
[DW] Rights groups say hundreds of Afghans fled to neighboring Uzbekistan to escape the Taliban. But, without official refugee status in the Central Asian country, they are vulnerable and could face deportation.
Almost every day Marina's family turns the living room carpet of their flat into a dance floor. When the music starts, her two little sons immediately bop and twist to the song, as the whole family claps along.
Marina, a 26-year-old Afghan journalist and women's rights activist, fled from the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in mid-August, along with her husband, her two small sons, her sister and her brother-in-law. Now they are in an apartment in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, funded by several international NGOs. Since they left Afghanistan for Uzbekistan, they have been trying to keep their spirits up — but Marina is finding it hard to ignore what happened.
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[BBC] They had happy childhoods in Brussels, Malmo or Tunis, with plenty of brothers and sisters and parents who worked hard to give them life's comforts.
The long-running Paris attacks trial heard this week how the once ordinary lives of 14 men in the dock became a mix of petty jobs and petty crime. Some went to join the war in Syria, and then became caught up in an Islamic State vengeance plot to wreak terrorist havoc in Western Europe. It culminated in the murder of 130 people on the night of 13 November 2015.
Also about 350 maimed when button men with boom jackets targeted six bars and restaurants, the Bataclan concert hall, and a sports stadium.
This is the moment in major trials in France when prosecutors and lawyers get a chance to look into the private, working - and criminal - lives of defendants. Questions on the actual charges or the men's religious beliefs were excluded by the presiding judge until January. After weeks of painful eyewitness accounts, it is the first time since the trial began in September that the spotlight has been on the accused, and their voices help build a picture of the world from which they emerged.
A key place in this world was the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels,
...which is notoriously Salafist...
and in particular the Les Béguines café there, run by Brahim Abdeslam.
Brahim Abdeslam was one of the café terrace gunmen in November 2015. He blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire. He was also the brother of Salah Abdeslam,
...the only surviving button man of the Paris attackers — because his suicide vest failed to blow up — he has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
the alleged "10th man" in the Paris attacks and best-known of the defendants.
Speaking of his childhood on Tuesday, Salah Abdeslam, 32, cut a different figure from the aggressively unrepentant side that he has shown so far in the trial. He even raised a few mild laughs in the courtroom. Born in Brussels to Moroccan parents, and with French nationality, he described himself as "quiet - a nice guy". "I was popular with the teachers… good in certain subjects. I studied hard. I gave my all. I was ambitious."
He took a diploma in electrical mechanics and started work, like his father, at the Brussels tram company. But after a year and a half he was fired.
"Why were you fired?" asked the presiding judge.
"Because I was in prison."
At the end of 2010, Salah Abdeslam had taken part in a botched robbery with his friend Abdelhamid Abaaoud
..criminal mastermind of a large Francophone network in Europe which committed a series of attacks in France and Belgium in 2015-16, even after he was killed in shootout with French police following the November 13, 2015 Paris massacre. His projects included the Vervier, Belgium cell plot foiled in January, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani’s attempted Thalys train attack the following August, and the March 22, 2016 attack on Zaventem airport in Brussels that had over 200 casualties...
- the same Abaaoud who would become the ringleader of the Paris attacks.
"I was born and grew up in Belgium. I went to state school. I lived as I was taught to live in the West. Like everyone else, I wanted to marry and have children," he told the court.
"But I put all that to one side the moment I decided to invest myself in another project."
What other project, asked the judge. "The things I am accused of now."
Another habitué of Les Béguines in Molenbeek was Mohamed Abrini,
...in our archives more commonly spelt Mohammed Abrini, he was an ISIS courier who ranged as far as Birmingham, England ...
36. He is accused of ferrying the Paris jihadists from Brussels on the eve of the attacks. He is also believed to be the "man in the hat" who failed to blow himself up in the deadly attack on Brussels airport in March 2016.
One of seven children of a Moroccan-born builder who "earned a good wage - we were neither rich nor poor", he had a first conviction (of six) at 17 for stealing a car. Then came a succession of odd jobs, but he was also a compulsive gambler. He planned to marry, but when a younger brother was killed in Syria, he vowed to go there too.
"Did you not wish to repay your parents for their love and encouragement?" asked the judge.
"Naturally they were disappointed. I'd have liked to make my father proud. Our parents did all they could to make sure we succeeded in life. I was dragged down by the neighbourhood."
"And yet your elder brother, who also grew up there - he did well in life."
"If you add up those who failed and those who succeeded, it's about 80-20. I am one of those who did not make a success."
Hamza Attou,
...the youngster who helped Salah Abdeslam escape to Brussels after the attack...
27, also frequented Les Béguines. The youngest of six children born to Belgian-Moroccan parents, he said he had a good childhood but after leaving school developed a cannabis habit. To pay for it, he began to deal.
"That's how I lived. I sold cannabis resin. I know it's an offence. I'm not proud of it. But I couldn't see myself robbing people or mugging them."
He is accused of driving from Brussels to pick up Salah Abdeslam late on the night of the attacks.
One of three defendants who are not in custody for the trial, he was nonetheless found to have occasionally violated the terms of his conditional release, notably by staying out late at night.
"Do you not see you could go to prison for that?" asked the judge.
"Often in my life I act and then I reflect. That's how I ended up where I am now," he said.
Another Belgian of Moroccan origin, Mohamed Bakkali
...among other things, ISIS ringleader for a plot to do something with or to Belgium’s nuclear power plants...
, 34, grew up one of six children "in a nice house and garden".
"It was a united family. I played football at a local club and went to the municipal library. I read a lot."
After leaving school he worked with his father at a garage. "That's when I began to learn Arabic, to speak to the customers." At home they spoke Berber.
But then he began dealing in counterfeit goods: "Clothes, trainers, watches, perfume - I sold it all."
Bakkali is accused of helping with the logistics of the attacks. He is serving a prison term for a similar role in the so-called Thalys attack of August 2015.
In jail, where like other defendants he is kept in isolation, he has taken up studies in sociology.
"Originally I wanted to do ethnology, to discover the Berber people and my roots," he said. "But then I discovered sociology. It has helped me understand the complexity of things. I am learning about the things I no longer have - social relations."
While most of the accused have Belgian or French nationality, four grew up in Sweden, Tunisia, Algeria and Pakistan. They went to Syria to join Islamic State militants and then crossed Europe in 2015.
Osama Krayem,
...investigated by Belgium for his part in the burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot in Syria in 2015 for ISIS, and by Sweden for unspecified war crimes...
29, was born in Malmo, the son of a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother. At 12 he appeared playing football in a Swedish television documentary on the successes of the immigrant experience.
"So you were given as an example of integration?" asked the judge.
"You felt you were well integrated at that point?"
No, he replied: "I lived in a neighbourhood where there was not a single Swede."
Pakistani Muhamed Usman lost his farmer father when he was very young. He remembered enjoying cricket as a boy, but could not tell how many years he spent working in the fields and how many studying at a madrassa. "I don't know at what age I stopped my studies. In my people we do not celebrate birthdays."
Which is a problem, because no-one can determine his age today. Fake papers that he was carrying when arrested in Greece say he was born in 1981, but an identity card sent by Pakistani police gives his year of birth as 1993.
The judge said he looked far too old to be just 28. "I know I do not look my age. It is because of being in isolation," he said.
The religious motivation of the accused was not explored, nor were the steps they took that brought them to where they are. All that must await another chapter in the trial.
[JustTheNews] The bureau scrutinized the extent of support provided by Saudi officials, including one at their embassy in Washington, to three Saudis involved in the attacks after their arrival in the U.S.
Newly declassified documents from the FBI give a sense of the depth of the bureau's investigation into potential ties of the Saudi government to the 9/11 terror attacks.
According to The Hill, the FBI investigated how much support Saudi officials — including one at their embassy in Washington — may have given to three Saudis involved in the attacks, including "procuring living quarters and assistance with assimilating in the country."
The declassified records also reveal the hijackers were kept unaware of certain aspects of the terror attacks, but all of them knew they were participating in a "holy war."
"In relation to the 9/11 attacks, the hijackers knew there was a martyrdom operation, but did not know about the nature of the operation until shortly before the attack for operational security reasons," the documents allege.
Previously, the Saudi embassy said the Saudi King "welcomes the release of the documents."
The embassy went on to say that "any allegation that Saudi Arabia is complicit in the September 11 attacks is categorically false."
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Nothing much to see in that release. The 28 page release was back in 2016 was much more revealing.
The Prince Bandar bin Sultan connections to Bassnan, Bayoumi, 9/11 hijackers Midhar and Hazmi were never fully investigated because Bandar was a big wig ambassador with connections to the DC elites, Bush included. This um, intel/information was very highly classified due to its political nature.
Maybe it was harmless and a "witting" connection did not exist...maybe it did. Maybe it was the intent of OBL to get a cell close to the big wig in order to cast doubt on the Saudi government...if so, that was a clever move and a indicator of the complexity of the planning that went into this attack. However, Moussaoui and Zubaydah's statements indicate that Bandar was a AQ donor...
And the 9/11 case has still not made it to trial...I wonder why
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While I have Not read the Whole document Yet, from the news articles on this there is nothing really new here. Nothing that those of us who have spent the last 20 years looking into the Who,What,Why,How of 9-11 didn't already know.
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[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency earlier this week arrested a suspected terrorist of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.
The NIA personnel conducted a search operation while acting on a tip-off. The search was conducted in the Subhasgram area following which the JMB terrorist hailing from Bangladesh was arrested. The arrested persons has been identified as Abdul Mannan Bachu.
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[DW] Businesses fear a sizable reduction in output, after many migrant laborers fled due to assassinations. Experts say that tensions are on the rise between locals and migrants colonists over fears of a demographic transition.
A recent spate of killings of migrant laborers in India-administered Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has triggered a widespread emigration out of the region, shaking supply chains and bringing some industrial activity to a halt.
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[ToloNews] The activities of the Afghanistan embassy in Islamabad have returned to normal, the embassy confirmed in a statement on its Facebook page.
"All Afghan refugees living in Pakistain, businessmen, Pak nationals and other esteemed foreign citizens residing in Pakistain who wishing to travel to Afghanistan via Pakistain are kindly informed that Afghanistan’s Embassy in Islamabad and all General Consulates in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , 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... and Quetta are active and carrying on their activities as before," the statement said. "You can refer to the mentioned missions 5 days per week."
The Islamic Emirate also confirmed the reopening of Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad.
The Islamic Emirate spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that the move was made in a bid to resolve the existing challenges of the Afghan refugees.
"Those who were there, the employees of the embassy and consulates, they resumed operations," he said. "Because you know that people have a lot of problems related to the embassies and consulates. This doesn’t mean our diplomats returned there and started official work."
The resumption of the Afghanistan embassy’s activities in Islamabad faced various types of reactions in the country.
"There is no information regarding the recognition, but it would be better to (have) some daily activities for the sake of people’s problems," said Sayed Akbar Agha, head of the Rah-e-Nejat Council of Afghanistan.
Earlier some reports leaked to the media suggesting that the Islamic Emirate had sent its envoys to run the embassy in Islamabad.
But Mujahid then told a news conference that there was no official envoy sent by the Islamic Emirate.
[An Nahar] The U.N.'s top human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... body is holding an urgent session about Sudan on Friday after a military coup there nearly two weeks ago, with Britannia, the United States, Germany and Norway leading a push to commission an expert to monitor the situation. Somehow "urgent" and "two weeks ago" don't seem to go together.
The Human Rights Council debate is taking place while the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... still recognizes the ambassador from the deposed Sudanese government as the country's official representative in Geneva, raising questions about how — or if — the military leadership in Khartoum will be represented during the session.
The push for a human rights expert comes amid mounting international pressure on Sudan's top general, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the forces loyal to him who dissolved Sudan's transitional government and detained other government officials and politicians in the Oct. 25 coup.
"The actions of the Sudanese military are a betrayal of the Sudanese revolution, of the democratic transition, and of the hopes and aspirations of the Sudanese people," Simon Manley, Britannia's ambassador in Geneva, said in a statement sent to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "Fundamentally, this is about respect for democracy and human rights."
"I hope that fellow council members will stand in solidarity with the brave people of Sudan today," Manley said.
The four Western countries presented a draft resolution on Wednesday, and the final language still was being worked out. Human Rights Council spokesperson Rolando Gomez said a provision remained intact to create a "special rapporteur" to monitor the situation in Sudan for one year.
The draft also called for the immediate return to a civilian-led transitional government under Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was among those detained in the coup. He is now under house arrest but has been allowed to meet with U.N. and international diplomats as part of mediation efforts.
On Thursday, Sudan's state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported that Burhan had ordered the release of four government ministers who also were detained. A defense lawyer for the ministers said they had not yet been freed.
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[AlAhram] Afaf al-Najar had found a way out of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . The 19-year-old won a scholarship to study communications in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , secured all the necessary travel documents and even paid $500 to skip the long lines at the Rafah crossing.
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[BenarNews] A Guantanamo Bay inmate’s testimony before a U.S. military tribunal last week about being tortured at a secret CIA site and the jury’s clemency recommendation tied to that account have implications for the trial of three Southeast Asian terror suspects incarcerated at the notorious prison, lawyers and activists say.
Majid Khan, who acknowledged having served as a money courier leading up to the 2003 bombing of the Marriott hotel in Jakarta, was sentenced to 26 years in prison last week. Before his sentencing, he testified in graphic detail about torture he allegedly experienced at an overseas "black site" run by the Central Intelligence Agency after his arrest that year until he was transferred to the U.S. military prison in Cuba in 2006.
"I thought I was going to die," Khan said while reading from a 39-page statement during his sentencing hearing at Guantanamo on Oct. 28, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "The more I cooperated and told them, the more I was tortured."
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Needs must when the Devil drives, and Lebanon is not the first country to cast lures for the Jews they were once happy to be rid of. But none before were Arab...
[IsraelTimes] At unprecedented ’reunion’ in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism... ’s embassy in Gay Paree, ambassador says country in danger of total collapse, citizens of all different sects must unite together to save it. "Come back, so we can strip you of all you own again!"
[An Nahar] Prime Minister Najib Miqati might soon move to "plan B" should the governmental paralysis continue, seeing as the impasse further complicates the solutions for the country’s unprecedented financial and economic collapse, a ministerial source said."He might resort to the option of resignation and his moves will start next week," the source told al-Liwaa newspaper in remarks published Friday.
Political sources meanwhile expected a worsening of the diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the Gulf countries, amid a continued failure by the country’s leaders, especially Miqati and President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , to find an exit.
The sources said Aoun and Miqati failed to agree on a solution in their meeting on Thursday after the President "rejected the option of sacking Information Minister George Kordahi to avoid its negative repercussions on his relation with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... Miqati instead openly called on Kordahi to voluntarily submit his resignation in order to "pacify the atmosphere and later launch contacts with the officials in the Gulf countries to discuss means to resolve the crisis," the sources added.
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[An Nahar] President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... has agreed with Prime Minister Najib Miqati on "the need to contain the repercussions of the Gulf’s crisis with Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... ," Presidency sources said."They agreed on the need to take initiative to rectify the relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and a number of Arab Gulf countries," the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Friday.
"This initiative is based on two key points: the first is based on the information minister himself taking initiative to resign without wasting further time, to prevent certain parties and forces from aggravating the tensions between Lebanon and the Gulf Cooperation Council member states," the sources added.
The second point stressed the need for Cabinet to convene without any delay "after the developments surpassed the issue of the stance on investigative judge Tarek Bitar, and after it has been proved that there is no solution for any objection against his investigations or performance except through the judiciary itself," the sources went on to say.
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"We need that boodle"
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[An Nahar] The Court of Appeals on Friday stressed that Judge Habib Mezher has not been tasked with looking into the recusal lawsuit against Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, noting that Mezher has instead been exclusively tasked with ruling on a recusal lawsuit filed against Court of Appeals judge Nassib Elia, a memo obtained by al-Jadeed TV showed.
The lawyers of the blast’s foreign victims meanwhile submitted a request to the court asking its chief Judge Habib Rizkallah to separate the file of Bitar’s recusal from the file of Elia’s recusal "after it turned out that there is not any assignment for Judge Habib Mezher to look into the file related to Judge Bitar."
"Accordingly, the decision that Mezher made on November 4 is illegal," the lawyers added.
Bitar's probe was suspended on Thursday after Mezher notified him of a lawsuit filed against him by ex-minister Youssef Fenianos. Similar temporary suspensions have plagued the course of the probe over the past weeks but previous cases to remove the judge have been turned down.
Mezher also asked Bitar to hand over the details of the case to enable the court to review the lawsuit, according to a copy of the decision seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The Beirut-based rights group Legal Agenda warned that Mezher's request to see the full content of the investigation violates the secrecy of the probe. The group also said that Mezher's known opinions critical of Bitar may constitute bias.
According to media reports, Mezher is close to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Amal Movement, which both have called for Bitar's removal and launched a fierce campaign against him over alleged selectivity in his summonings.
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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
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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.
...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan......
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
[An Nahar] The U.N.'s top 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism...
Najib Miqati
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
[An Nahar] The Court of Appeals on Friday stressed that Judge Habib Mezher has not been tasked with looking into the recusal lawsuit against Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, noting that Mezher has instead been exclusively tasked with ruling on a recusal lawsuit filed against Court of Appeals judge Nassib Elia, a memo obtained by al-Jadeed TV showed.
