[Khaama(Afghanistan)] The National Security Advisor of the former Afghan government, Hamdulalh Mohib, stated that he spoke with Ahmad Masoud, the National Resistance® Front leader about matters revolving around the return of democracy and the republican system.
Hamdullah Mohib, in a tweet on Friday, the 14th of October, said that he and Ahmad Masoud discussed about the current situation in Afghanistan and the return of democracy and the republican system in Afghanistan that protects the Afghan values including the national flag.
According to the tweet, the former National Security Advisor has discussed the situation in Afghanistan in a series of talks with different Afghan politicians.
In recent remarks to the international media, the former national security adviser of Afghanistan emphasized the need for unity among all movements in order to establish a political consensus.
According to Mohib, who spoke with Radio Liberty, people and individuals start movements, but the movements are unfortunately ineffective on their own.
The movements must be coordinated, and political solutions must be found, in order to speak with one voice and solve Afghanistan’s issues.
A political consensus is needed, according to Hamdullah Mohib, but for this consensus, all movements must come together as one.
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[ShabelleMedia] The minister of Commerce and Industry Minister Jibril Abdirashid Haji on Saturday issued today a new stiff warning to the business community.
Speaking at a presser in the capital, Haji warned the local traders against dealing with al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and heeding the group’s directives, including the tax payments.
The minister added that the Somali government decided to revoke the license of any firm that violated or reject the order. He also said the violators’ assets will be taken over.
Haji termed it illegal and crime financing terrorism.
This comes amid a nationwide military offensive against al-Shabaab which led to the liberation of more than 40 areas in the Hiran and Galgadud regions since last month.
Emomali Rahmon, the Tajik president, has expressed concern about the activities of terrorist groups in Afghanistan as well as the presence of “suicide forces” on the border, echoing the growing concerns of many countries in the international community.https://t.co/cCqgkJt2FH
[Breitbart] A high school in Nanterre was closed Friday after pupils clashed with police, demanding a ban on loose clothing, including traditional Islamic clothing, be lifted. Start the deportations to lands where they can be an Islamic Idiot
Pupils of the Joliot Curie high school in Nanterre began their protests earlier this week on Monday blocking the entry to school. On Tuesday, the blockade descended into violence as pupils clashed with local police, resulting in 14 arrests as two police were reportedly injured by pupils throwing projectiles.
On Thursday, around 50 pupils blocked the entrance to the school, according to a report from broadcaster France Bleu, and once again the situation escalated into violence.
The blockade was launched with a number of demands, including the restoration of a scrapped homework help service as well as the demand to lift a ban on loose clothing that includes the abaya, a traditional Islamic garment worn by women.
“These individuals violently attacked high school students, passers-by, motorists, as well as the police present,” the Academy of Versailles said in a statement. One police officer was injured Thursday as a result of the violence, with stones, smoke bombs and mortar fireworks being thrown at officers.
As a precaution, the school decided to close on Friday to prevent any further tensions and violence following the incidents.
They also said they would bring back the homework help service, and that two teaching assistants would be available to pupils who requested help.
Earlier this year in June, France’s Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT) reported that there had been at least 144 violations of French secularism laws in schools that prohibit the wearing of religious clothing such as the hijab or the djellaba, traditional Islamic clothing worn by men.
Former French Inspector General of National Education Jean-Pierre Obin blamed far-left ideology for the spread of Islamist ideas in French schools in 2020, saying: “It is this part of the extreme left, very present in the National Education, that thinks that attacking Islamism is attacking Islam. [They think that] Muslim students are victims, and therefore we must not have the same attitude towards them as towards other students.”
[BBC] In the '90s, Portugal was in the grip of a drugs crisis.
The country had one of the worst rates of overdose deaths in Europe, as well as the highest rate of HIV among drug users.
In response to this public health emergency, Portugal's government set up a group of experts including doctors, psychiatrists and judges to come up with a nationwide strategy.
The committee proposed a raft of radical measures including the decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use.
In 2001 the new law came into force and overdoses, HIV infections and associated crimes have all dropped as a result.
Dr João Goulão, one of the architects of the drugs policy, spoke to Witness History about the success of the strategy.
[Rudaw] The Sadr Movement announced on Saturday it will boycott the government of Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani who was tasked with forming a new cabinet on Thursday by the newly-elected president.
After more than a year of political deadlock since the parliamentary elections in October 2021, the Iraqi parliament voted in Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s new president, following a lengthy race with outgoing President Barham Salih. Rashid immediately tasked Sudani to form the new government.
Salih Mohammed al-Iraqi, a figure close to Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , the leader of the movement, said in a statement on Saturday that neither they nor anyone else affiliated to them will take part in Sudani’s cabinet.
Al-Iraqi, who also acts like a spokesperson for the movement, announced Sadrists’ "categorical, clear and explicit rejection" to participate in the next cabinet led by its rival, Coordination Framework.
The Sadrist Movement, which was the main winner of the latest elections, withdrew its parliamentarians after failing to reach a deal with the pro-Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... Coordination Framework.The movement also held a number of protests and sit-ins in Baghdad’s Green Zone, including at the parliament, calling for a snap election.
Sadr has accused the current establishment of corruption and spoken against foreign intervention in the affairs of Iraq.
"We recommend that Iraq not turn into a puppet of foreign agendas, that arms do not turn into loose hands, and that people's money does not turn into corrupt pockets and banks," al-Iraqi said.
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[JPost] "But we'll get over it. How much $$ do you need Mahmoud?"
Abbas also told Putin that he does not trust the Biden administration, a US National Security Council spokesperson told Axios.
The Biden administration condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week at an international summit in Kazakhstan where he said that he no longer trusts the United States.
"We were deeply disappointed to hear President Abbas’s remarks to President Putin," a spokesperson for the US National Security Council said. "Putin is a far cry from the type of international partner needed to constructively address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Russia does NOT stand for justice and international law."
"President Biden, in contrast, has demonstrated US commitment for decades to seeking creative solutions and working toward the lasting peace needed to advance stability and prosperity throughout the Middle East," the statement continued.
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[IsraelTimes] Lion’s Den used video-sharing site to publish footage of attacks, spread ideology; Israel said to request platform remove faction’s user as well.
The TikTok video-sharing platform on Saturday banned an account belonging to an armed Paleostinian group responsible for numerous shooting attacks against Israeli forces and civilians in the northern West Bank in recent months.
The account, belonging to the group calling itself "Lion’s Den," was removed for violating the platform’s community guidelines.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, the move by TikTok to ban the account came following requests by Israel.
The group, based in Nablus, was established in recent months by members of various terror groups. Some of its members were apparently previously affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , among others.
Lion’s Den had used its TikTok account to publish videos of its members committing shooting attacks and to spread its ideology.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz earlier this week instructed law enforcement officials to focus efforts on combating incitement on social media, amid heightened tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Lion’s Den, which is believed to consist of several dozen members without any proper hierarchy, continues to have a large following on the Telegram messaging service.
It has grabbed credit for many shooting attacks in the Nablus area in recent months, including one on Tuesday that killed an Israeli soldier.
Lion’s Den is tied to Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Paleostinian gunman who was killed in an Israeli raid in Nablus in August.
Several more members of the group have been killed by Israeli forces since.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
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...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
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