[AlArabiya] Khalozai operated a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... -based hawala business to transfer funds to finance ISIS-K operations over two years, the US said.
The US announced new sanctions on an operator for ISIS-K in Afghanistan on Monday, accusing him of operating a Turkey-based money-moving business.
"Ismatullah Khalozai has been an international financial controller for ISIS-K and has carried out missions for senior ISIS leadership," the Treasury Department said in a statement.
Khalozai operated a Turkey-based hawala business to transfer funds to finance ISIS-K operations over two years, the US said.
Before that, he allegedly ran a United Arab Emirates-based financing scheme, "which involved sending luxury items to international destinations for resale to generate funds in support of ISIS-K."
He is also accused of human trafficking and facilitating the movement of imported muscle "who seek to escalate tensions in Afghanistan and the region."
"The Biden Administration is committed to rooting out terrorist financing networks around the world," Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Andrea Gacki said. "Today’s designation underscores the United States’ determination to prevent ISIS-K and its members from exploiting the international financial system to support terrorist acts in Afghanistan and beyond."
Additionally, the State Department designated three ISIS-K leaders.
Sanaullah Ghafari, Sultan Aziz Azam, and Maulawi Rajab were designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
Last week, the UN said ISIS had a presence in almost every Afghan province.
The current emir of ISIS is also included among those blacklisted, the statement reads.
"Sanaullah Ghafari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajir, is ISIS-K’s current overall emir. He was appointed by the ISIS core to lead ISIS-K in June 2020. Ghafari is responsible for approving all ISIS-K operations throughout Afghanistan and arranging funding to conduct operations," the statement reads.
ISIS spokesperson Sultan Aziz Azam is also blacklisted who, according to the statement, has been acting as ISIS’s spokesperson since the group's emergence in Afghanistan.
Maulawi Rajab, the leader of ISIS in Kabul province, has also been blacklisted. "Rajab plans ISIS-K’s attacks and operations and commands ISIS-K groups conducting attacks in Kabul," the statement reads.
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[ToloNews] The World Food Program (WFP) in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided cash-aid to dozens of vulnerable families in west of Kabul on Monday.
WFP’s zone manager, Daoud Ghaznawi said that each family would receive 7,000 Afs in cash.
"We distribute the aids in two rounds. First, we have provided food materials. Now provide about 76 US dollars to each family," he said.
The international organization including the UN have warned of severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the winter is approaching.
The vulnerable families praised the provision of aids, calling on the international organization to ramp up their efforts to help the people who are in grave need.
"I ask the donors to support the hospitals, boot up their donations to overcome the existing poverty," said Bibi Anisa, who was waiting on the line to receive the aids.
"I called on them to surge the rate of the aids in the future. This will help the people a lot better. This capable us to at least provide burning materials for the winter," said Safiullah Khan, another aid receiver.
WFP provided donations to at least 9 million Afghans last year. According to the organization, 14 million people would be given aids in the ongoing year. The organization is also planning to provide aid for over 23 million people- that will also cost more than 220 million dollars.
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[AlAhram] Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... was refusing to discuss the fate of 2,000 migrants colonists wishing to go to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and stranded in Belarus.
The West accuses Belarus of bringing in would-be migrants colonists_mostly from the Middle East_and taking them to areas along its borders with EU members Poland and Lithuania with promises of an easy crossing.
Belarus denies the claim, instead criticising the EU for not taking in the migrants colonists.
"I am waiting for the EU to respond on the issue of 2,000 refugees," Lukashenko told officials on Monday, adding that he expected Europe to let the migrants colonists in.
"They said, (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel promised me that they will consider this problem at the level of the European Union. But they are not doing it," he said, quoted by state news agency Belta.
Lukashenko said European officials refused any contact on the subject despite calls from the Belarusian foreign minister.
"We should demand that the Germans take them in," Lukashenko said.
Earlier this month Belarus cleared a makeshift border encampment, sending 2,000 migrants colonists to a nearby logistics centre.
Last week Lukashenko and Merkel spoke by phone twice, discussing the migrant crisis and agreeing to maintain contacts.
The migrants colonists, many fleeing war and poverty, have spent thousands to fly into Belarus on tourist visas. Once at the border, they are faced with squalid, freezing conditions.
The West accuses Belarus of engineering the crisis is Dire Revenge for sanctions slapped on Lukashenko's regime after its brutal suppression of protests against his rule.
The migrants colonists say they want to get to Germany via Poland and Lukashenko has said that he is ready to send them there by plane if necessary.
Throwing bad money after worse. The good money disappeared into select bank accounts long ago.
[AlAhram] The International Monetary Fund said Monday that weeks of talks with Pakistain have produced a preliminary agreement toward reviving a $6 billion economic bailout for the Islamic nation.
Pakistain and IMF originally signed the accord in 2019, but the release of a key installment had been on the hold since earlier this year. That's when the fund expressed reservations about a delay in Pakistain's compliance with conditions of the bailout.
The IMF statement Monday said that under latest proposal, IMF would disburse about $1 billion to Pakistain, bringing the total disbursement out of the $6 billion bailout to about $3 billion since 2019, according to the statement.
The talks this month yielded an agreement ``subject to approval by the Executive Board, following the implementation of prior actions, notably on fiscal and institutional reforms,`` the IMF statement said.
Such an approval by IMF's executive board is considered a formality.
Muzzammil Aslam, a front man at Pakistain's finance ministry, also confirmed the latest development, saying the staff-level agreement was reached between Pakistain and IMF after 45 days of discussion.
In April 2020, the IMF released $1.4 billion to Pakistain, helping it handle an economic crisis amid a surge in fatalities from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . At least 28,663 Paks have died from COVID-19 since last year, while about 1.2 million tested positive from the new virus.
Analysts say the fund wants Pakistain to further reduce the budget deficit, increase tariffs of electricity and petrol, as well as curb money laundering and corruption. The government in recent weeks complied with most of the conditions of IMF, but doing so made Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... highly unpopular among people as inflation and the price of essential food soared.
In its statement Monday, the IMF also praised some measures taken by Pakistain government, saying the country's new moves could result in 4% growth this year and 4.5% the fiscal year after that.
Officials say the delay in agreement between Pakistain and the IMF was due to uneasy relations between Pakistain and the United States. U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... has avoided a call to Khan since he came into power. Khan this year publicly refused to provide bases to Washington for operations in Afghanistan.
The U.S., which exerts major influence over the IMF, has said the fund should not finance the tens of billions of dollars in loans that Pakistain has taken from China as part of Beijing's worldwide Belt and Road Initiative.
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How long have these "negotiations" been going on now? They just keep beating a dead horse.
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I wonder how ValJar gets her daily brief from Tehran? Since she lives inside the walls of the Presidium, the Kalorama Kompound, with Champ and Big Mike. Sadly, the entire complex is protected, by the United States Secret Service, from surveillance and intercept monitoring by foreign powers. Still, somewhere there must be a record of OCONUS calls, so maybe its just asking ATT for a copy of the collect calls made from the upstairs ValJar bedroom?
[BBC Jerusalem] In the turquoise waters of the Red Sea, Israeli, Emirati and Bahraini naval forces for the first time just days ago rehearsed joint security operations with a US warship.
It followed a war-game at a desert airbase just north of the Israeli port city of Eilat last month, which sent fighter planes from Israel and seven other countries roaring into the skies.
Such drills aim to send a strong warning to Iran, which has recently been holding its own large military exercises, and stress strategic alliances.
But they come at a time when many in Israel are worrying about whether this small country could soon feel forced to act alone to attack Iran's nuclear programme militarily.
The government has allocated $1.5bn (£1.1bn) to prepare the Israeli armed forces for a potential strike against Iranian nuclear sites, and there are near-daily warnings from political and military leaders.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, cell reportedly being directed by Istanbul-based leaders; Israel held off on announcing arrests until return of two Israelis accused of spying by Ankara
Hamas gunman Fadi Abu Shkhaydam had traveled to Turkey several times in recent months and met with senior Hamas officials there. Security officials believe that he had received his instructions for the attack there.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday demanded The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... shut down the offices of the Hamas terror group operating in the country after Israel announced the arrests of a sophisticated 50-member West Bank cell being directed from Istanbul.
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[NPASYRIA] Syrian government exploits Ottoman Turkish threats to take control over northeast Syria’s regions, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Monday.
Of course. As far as the central government oligarchy is concerned, the Kurds are no less resisting reunification than the Sunni jihadi groups on the other side of the country, if considerably less viciously destructive in the dealings with the surrounding population.
"Syrian government is not ready for any political settlement in Syria, and it exploits the deteriorating economic conditions of the people," the SDF statement added.
"The insistence of the ruling authority in Damascus to solve the Syrian crisis through its own logic and striking compromises is void from any surreal or national criteria," the SDF noted.
"Our people have to realize this fact very well and defy the autocratic policy," the statement stressed.
The meeting announced that the SDF will closely work with all parties including the US-led Global Coalition and Russia to find a real solution to the Syrian crisis that will meet the demands of the Syrian people with all its political and social entities.
The statement pointed out that the military operations against ISIS should be accompanied by real developing and economic projects in northeast Syria, notably in the areas directly affected by the war on ISIS.
On Monday the military council of the SDF held its periodic meeting in which it discussed the SDF military, political and field conditions as well as its future plans for the next phase.
The meeting also rounded on the continuous Ottoman Turkish threats to northeast Syria and "provocations along the Syrian border specially on the occupied areas."
The statement focused on the necessity to take Ottoman Turkish threats seriously and that all forces have to mobilize and get ready for fighting to confront any Ottoman Turkish fresh aggressions.
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