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Afghanistan
Karzai breaks silence, condemns brutal killings in Panjshir province
Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
, the former president of Afghanistan broke his silence and published a statement about the festivities in Panjshir province between the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and National Resistance® Forces (NRF).

In a statement published by Karzai on Friday, he condemned brutal killings in Panjshir province and said the continued bloodshed must stop.

"The bitter past experience has clearly indicated that bloodshed and war is never the solution, but it brings further ruin and destruction", former President Hamid Karzai has said on his Friday’s Facebook page.

Karzai emphasized on stopping war and relying on discussions and negotiations as the only way to reach a solution for the Afghanistan humanitarian crisis.

He also asked the Taliban government to act as a responsible party in paving the way for negotiations and talks.

This comes as a 3-day discussion kicked off among politicians from Afghanistan in Vienna on August 15.

About 29 Afghan politicians from different groups including Ahmad Massoud, the leader of National Resistance® Front (NRF), Rahmatullah Nabil, former Afghan NDS Chief, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, former National Security Advisor for Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi, Shukria Barakzai and Masooma Khawari representing Afghan women gathered in Vienna to to discuss Afghanistan issues.

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance® Front said that Afghanistan issues can be only solved through political decision makings.

This comes as Afghanistan went into a humanitarian crisis and was marginalized by the world after Taliban took over last August.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa North
Misrata Court of Appeal has charged a Libyan national with Riddah (apostasy) and sentenced him to death for his insistence to abandon Islam
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  ...In fairness, any Muslim dumb enough to declare to other Muslims that he's getting out of Dodgeistan probably should be taken out of the gene pool.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/18/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#2  In fairness Mike, we could consider offering him a flight to Minneapolis instead? Every idiot can have a productive location to express their opinions!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Tension As Shi'ites Hold Procession In Abuja To Mark ‘Arbaeen Trek’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)
... the Shiite version of the Muslim Brotherhood, only beholden to Iran. It was founded by Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky (and a number of other spellings), the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, who converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran and now is a fiery Iranian sock puppet...
popularly known as "Shi’ites" on Saturday staged a peaceful procession in Abuja, the nation's capital to mark its annual Arbaeen Symbolic Trek, amid fear and anxiety among residents.

The movement said it would not surrender to the "injustice, oppression and tyranny of the President Muhammnadu Buhari-led government" and would continue to resist with its last drop of blood

The procession which kicked off from Wuse Zone 3 was terminated at the popular Julius Berger Roundabout without any incident of attack by the security agents

Arbaeen is a Shiites’ annual religious practice usually conducted on the 20th Safar of the Islamic calendar to mark the 40th day of the murder of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammed who was killed on the 10th Muharram

The protesters in their number, both males and females, marched through the Wuse Market chanting anti-government songs

According to the Secretary of Academic Forum of the movement, Abdullahi Musa, who spoke to SaharaReporters, this was the first time the movement would have a procession without any attack from the security agents

He said, "You can see how it ended peacefully today as the security forces did not attack us and this will make it clear to all and sundry that the Buhari regime is the cause of all violence in Abuja and other states with regard to our programmes as this is the first time we started and ended it without harassment from either the Nigerian Army or the police since 2015.

Also, a statement signed by Dr Dauda Nalado on behalf of the movement said the purposes of the trek was to commemorate the trials and tribulations faced by the household of the Holy Prophet (SAW), who were chained and dragged barefoot from Karbala to Damascus in the scorching heat of the Arabian desert

The statement noted that it was a sad event which clearly depicted a mark of the injustice perpetrated against Prophet Muhammad

Nalado added that Arbaeen mourners had since started trekking from different places in Iraq to the tomb of Imam Husain at Karbala, famous among which is Najaf to Karbala, approximately 100 kilometres

The statement read, "Imam Husain (AS) sacrificed his life and challenged the tyrant ruler Yazid son of Mu’awiya. He, together with his family members and tens of supporters (seventy-two males), were surrounded by thousands of well-armed soldiers and massacred in the plain of Karbala. They were subjected to psychological torture and denied drinking water for days

"He fought the stooges of the tyrant bravely and valiantly. Just before his martyrdom, he had witnessed the maltreatment of the female members of his family, the family of the greatest of all the Prophets. He made all these sacrifices to protect humanity from tyrants, tyranny, injustice and oppression."
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)

#1  ...What the Hell imagined/poorly remembered slight from two millennia ago does THIS commemorate?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/18/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Here, Mike — from the article:

Arbaeen is a Shiites’ annual religious practice usually conducted on the 20th Safar of the Islamic calendar to mark the 40th day of the murder of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammed who was killed on the 10th Muharram
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Usually coincides with the Apple Bushmeat Festival
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#4  And I thought the Serbs being ticked off about some massacre 500 years ago was Kosovars (sp?) was a bit much.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/18/2022 14:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Report: West German police knew Black September member lived in Berlin after release in 1972
[IsraelTimes] Revelation supports theory that West Germany facilitated release of hostage-takers, and didn’t re-arrest them, in order to avoid retaliation from Paleostinian terror groups

German police knew that one of the Paleostinians who took Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympics lived in Berlin for several years following the attack, the Suddeutsche Zeitung daily wrote on Saturday.

On September 5, 1972, eight button men of the Paleostinian terror group Black September stormed into the Israeli team’s flat at the Olympic village, shooting dead two and taking nine Israelis hostage.

West German police responded with a bungled rescue operation in which all nine hostages were killed, along with five of the eight hostage-takers and a police officer.

The three remaining hostage-takers were captured, but released weeks later in an exchange when button men hijacked a Lufthansa plane on October 29, 1972, and demanded their release.

Incensed by the chain of events, Israel subsequently launched the operation "Wrath of God" to hunt down the leaders of Black September.

On Saturday the German daily said that one of the three Paleostinians who was released then lived for years in Berlin, citing a report in Munich police archives. The report did not specify which of the three surviving Black September members — Ibrahim Mosoud Badran, Samer Mohammed Abdulah and Abed Kair al Dnawly — was the individual who lived in Berlin.

Suddeutsche Zeitung said Munich police — which were in charge of investigating the attack — were told by the BKA federal police that the Paleostinian in question was living in West Berlin and that he went to East Berlin almost daily, to work at the office of the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).

When contacted by AFP, Bavaria’s interior ministry had no immediate comment.

Following the release of the three hostage-takers, a theory made the rounds that then West Germany had facilitated the release in order to avoid any more operations by Paleostinian faceless myrmidons on its territory.

"We can pose the question if the police really wanted to act or if they wanted to give up arresting someone to avoid a new attack by Paleostinian murderous Moslems" in West Germany, German historian Dominik Aufleger, who had access to the same documents as the paper for his research on the attack, told the daily.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the attack this September, Germany sought "forgiveness" from families of the Israeli victims.

"We cannot make up for what has happened, not even for what you have experienced and suffered in terms of defensiveness, ignorance and injustice. I am ashamed of that," said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a ceremony with a visiting President Isaac Herzog last week.

Steinmeier’s apology came after a bitter fight by bereaved relatives for Berlin to own up to mistakes that enabled the massacre and for appropriate compensation.

A dispute over the financial offer previously made by Berlin to victims’ relatives had threatened to sour the ceremony, with family members planning a boycott.

But a deal was finally reached last month for Berlin to provide 28 million euros ($28 million) in compensation. It also — for the first time — saw the German state acknowledge its "responsibility" in failings that led to the deaths of the Israelis.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: PLO


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas sends message of support to Chilean president Gabriel Boric for refusal to meet with Zionist ambassador
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has commended Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s refusal to accept the credentials of the Israeli regime’s new ambassador to the Latin American country.

Boric, a vociferous critic of Israel, refused to receive on Thursday the credentials of new Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli because of "Israel’s killing of children in 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...
" and the occupying regime’s atrocities across the Paleostinian territories.

Israeli media reported that "Artzyeli was to present his credentials to President Boric as a formality, but the Chilean government told him to cancel the meeting because of Israel’s killing of children in Gaza."

Reports said the new ambassador had already arrived at the residence of the Chilean president to attend the credential presentation ceremony before he was informed of the cancelation of the meeting and returned to its place.

In a press statement on Friday, Hamas spokesperson Jihad Taha expressed appreciation for the Chilean president’s move.

Taha called on Chile and all countries around the world to sever their ties with the Israeli regime in support of Paleostine’s liberation as well as humanitarian justice issues, foremost among them the Paleostinian cause.

Boric’s move came against the backdrop of the killing of a 17-year-old Paleostinian at the hands of the regime forces during overnight festivities in the occupied West Bank.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Time for a far right uprising. Or far left, it doesn't matter.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/18/2022 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Boric is the Communist uprising.
Chile elected Gabriel Boric its president on Sunday, a sharp turn left after two years of Marxist mob violence targeting churches and government institutions. Boric is a far-left radical protest organizer endorsed by the Communist Party.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/18/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  In the old days, the Culinary Institute of America would have had served this guy lunch. It is after all, the neighborhood that early President claimed. These days, he may be staff?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Boric also got his ass kicked in the recent Constitution vote, no?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2022 12:22 Comments || Top||


Israel to reopen northern West Bank checkpoints, days after deadly gun battle
[IsraelTimes] Work permits for residents of Kafr Dan, hometown of Paleostinian button men, remain frozen after shooting that killed senior IDF officer Bar Falah

Israeli authorities were set Sunday to reopen two checkpoints between Israel and the northern West Bank, which were closed last week after two Paleostinian button men shot up troops along the security barrier, killing a senior officer.

Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians, widely known by its acronym COGAT, announced Saturday that the Jalamah and Salem checkpoints would reopen Sunday, following an assessment held by Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Following Wednesday’s deadly shooting, Gantz also ordered to freeze the entry permits to Israel for residents of Kafr Dan, the hometown of the two button men, until further notice.

The restrictions on the entry permits were to remain in place, COGAT said Saturday.

Early Wednesday, Ahmed Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed, from the village near Jenin, were killed in a shootout with Israeli troops who sought to arrest them, after they approached the West Bank security barrier.

Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, was killed when the button men opened fire.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tribal spies in Syria help U.S. win drone war against Islamic State
[ShafaqNews] When the U.S. military targeted 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....
commander Maher al-Agal with a dronezap in northern Syria in July, there was little chance it would miss. The reason? Revenge.

With Islamic State's last battle-hardened forces holed up in remote areas, the United States is turning to the aid of rustics burning to exact Dire Revenge for the atrocities unleashed by the group when it ruled over swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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