[GEO.TV] A top Afghanistan diplomat said Wednesday that the Islamic Emirate — or the Taliban ...Arabic for students... administration — had already issued a fatwa (decree) that launching attacks in "Pakistain is not jihad" (holy war). "But possibly Dirka Dirka Jihad Jihad?"
Hafiz Mohibullah Shakir, the acting consul general at the Afghan Consulate 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... , told Geo News that the neighbouring country’s defence ministry had also made it clear that attacking Pakistain did not fall under jihad.
The Pak government has time and again stressed that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) turbans have safe havens in Afghanistan and that the neighbouring nation’s soil was being used for attacks on Pakistain.
Since the Afghan Taliban took over the reins of government in 2021, Pakistain has witnessed a rise in terror incidents with 2023 being the deadliest in eight years, despite months left in its conclusion, with officials also saying that Afghan nationals were involved in attacks on security forces.
Asif Durrani, Pakistain's special representative on Afghanistan, said that the banned TTP’s attacks on Pakistain along the borders have increased and that they were "taking shelter on the Afghan soil".
In response to Pakistain’s repeated insistence on taking action, the interim Afghan rulers arrested 200 suspected turbans involved in attacks against Pakistain, Voice of America reported last month, citing Pak officials privy to the development.
Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani and his Taliban counterpart, Amir Khan Muttaqi, met on the sidelines of a China-hosted international conference earlier this month.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, said Jilani "underscored that challenges confronting regional peace and stability be addressed in collaborative spirit through collective strategies".
In his conversation with Geo News, Shakir said the TTP turbans had migrated to Afghanistan during former US-backed Afghan president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ’s tenure — 2014-2021. He was tossed by the Taliban.
"I want to make it clear: No attacks will be launched from Afghanistan on Pakistain," the envoy added.
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[KavkazUzel] The Islamic movement Hamas has not been declared terrorist in Russia, since none of its representatives have been convicted in Russia, the Prosecutor General's Office said in response to a request from a deputy from St. Petersburg, a scan of which was published online. The movement is recognized as terrorist in a number of countries, in particular, France and the European Union added it to the terrorist lists after the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict evoked a response among Muslims in the North Caucasus. Thus, in Chechnya, the official clergy organizes daily mass prayers in support of Palestine, and prayers are also held in schools.
On October 17, residents of Dagestan tried to hold an action in the central square of Makhachkala, which was dispersed by security forces; several more actions, including car rallies, took place in support of Palestine, and residents of the republic donated 20 million rubles to help the Palestinians. On October 19, the Muftiate of Dagestan called on the imams of mosques to pray for an end to the war at Friday prayers.
The fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7 with the firing of hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, including civilian targets. The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching the Iron Swords military operation against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel were suspended. Thousands of people died on both sides.
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Sergei Samusev sent a request to the FSB and the Investigative Committee in which he proposes to investigate some of the actions of the Islamic movement Hamas. Mundep recalled that Russian citizens were among those killed and captured as a result of recent Hamas attacks on Israel. He demanded that agencies investigate these attacks.
The Prosecutor General's Office responded to Samusev that the Islamic movement has not been declared terrorist in Russia, since none of its representatives have currently been convicted in Russia, the Zaks.Ru publication reported today.
“As of today, we do not have information about judicial acts against members of the Hamas group that have entered into legal force,” says the letter, which was signed by Deputy Prosecutor General Alexei Zhafyarov. A scan of the letter was published today on the “We Can Explain” Telegram channel.
On October 11, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov avoided answering the question whether Hamas would be recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. “We maintain our contacts with the parties to the conflict. There are Russian citizens both there and there. For us, the fate of Russian citizens is priority number one,” he said in response, adding that Russia continues to analyze the situation, RIA Novosti reported.
Peskov later called on Hamas to release all hostages. “All hostages must be urgently, immediately released, this is our firm position. We, of course, call on Hamas to ensure that all hostages are released,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on October 24.
France and the European Union recognized the Hamas group as a terrorist organization on October 10, TASS reported the same day. Previously, Hamas was recognized as a terrorist organization in Israel, the USA, Canada, and Japan. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the military wing of Hamas has been recognized as terrorist, the publication states.
Russia has always supported the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine, the Russian President said on October 11.
Of course. The PLO, like so many terrorist groups around the world, was a special client of the Soviet Union. The current president of the Palestinian Authority (which is the PLO with fancy letterhead stationery), Mahmoud Abbas, was one of many educated in Soviet universities...and given more esoteric technical training that they brought back to their fellows. And Russia continues to be sentimentally attached to many Soviet clients.
He noted that initially there was talk of creating two independent and sovereign states - Israel and Palestine. “Israel, as we know, was created, but Palestine as an independent and sovereign state was never created,” RBC quoted Putin as saying.
Actually, it was Israel and the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan, both of which were created. Jordan lost the “Trans” part and Egypt lost the Gaza Strip when they started and lost the Six Day War in 1967. They could have had them back by trading land for peace, as Egypt subsequently did with the southern half of the Sinai after losing the Yom Kippur War in 1973, but both decided they were better off without the troublemaking populations resident there. Israel regularly tries to give back both territories, and is equally regularly rebuffed by the former owners. Also by the current residents, who want all the benefits of being bought off without daring to actually deliver what was promised, lest they, too, be martyred by assassins from their loving people.
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[KavkazUzel] The “Team Against Torture” informed law enforcement officers and the authorities of Ingushetia about the threat to kill human rights activist Magomed Alamov, but there was no response to the appeal. Marina Yandieva, who fled from domestic violence and was given a lift by Alamov when escaping from home, asked the Russian Ombudsman to intervene in the situation.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, relatives of 28-year-old resident of Ingushetia Marina Yandieva, who escaped due to domestic violence, are holding human rights activist and lawyer Magomed Alamov and threatening to kill him, accusing him of organizing the girl's escape.
Alamov did not know about the situation, but only gave her a lift, the “Team Against Torture” said on October 24. Human rights activists also reported that security forces from Chechnya, shortly after Yandieva’s escape, kidnapped Alamov’s brother, demanding that Magomed Alamov return to Chechnya.
Addition from the "Caucasian Knot" from 23.30 Moscow time 25.10: Magomed Alamov is in Chechnya, where he is from, along with his relatives, while the threat remains, the "Team Against Torture"* reported today. He cannot leave because he fears for the lives of his relatives who will remain in the republic, human rights activists reported today. They added that appeals have been sent to a number of law enforcement agencies with a request to verify arguments about possible threats of murder and criminal prosecution against Magomed Alamov and his relatives, as well as with a request to take measures to ensure the safety of Alamov and his relatives.
The "Team Against Torture"* confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that lawyer Magomed Alamov is not staying with the family of Marina Yandieva's relatives, and earlier he himself came to the house of Marina's relatives. His brother is also free. “Magomed is in touch with us. It is important to note that he was not held by force - he came to the house of the girl’s relatives of his own free will. He wanted to explain that he did not kidnap her, that in general he knew little about her. However, they began to threaten him there, then "We contacted Marina - the conversation was published. He was not kidnapped - this is incorrect information, neither the checkpoint nor he himself said anything like that. As for brother Magomed, he is now at home, no harm was done to him," the human rights organization said.
Law enforcement agencies did not react in any way to the situation with Alamov, the organization reported. “There are no public reactions yet. The head of the “Team Against Torture”* Sergei Babinets sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia Andrei Vasilchenko, the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Makarov, the Minister of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia Mikhail Korobkin.
Human rights activists asked to check the arguments about possible threats of murder and criminal prosecution to Magomed Alamov and his relatives, to take measures to ensure the safety of Alamov and his relatives. They also sent an appeal to the head of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, with the same request. The crisis group SOS appealed to Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova. On behalf of the Human Rights Council, Eva Merkacheva joined the work," the press service of the "Team Against Torture" reported*.
The SOS Crisis Group also told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there was no reaction from law enforcement agencies. Marina Yandieva did not return to Ingushetia. “She doesn’t want to return. She is being demanded to return to her family in Ingushetia, the family lives in Nazran. The checkpoint lawyer* who gave her a lift is a Chechen, and it is he and his family who are now being threatened. The connection with Chechnya is due here precisely to the fact that the checkpoint officer is a Chechen ", explained the human rights organization. They confirmed that Magomed Alamov's brother is now safe.
“He was kept for about a day, then released. Alamov was just returning from Ingushetia to Chechnya so that his brother would be released,” Alexandra Miroshnikova, press secretary of the Crisis Group IC SOS, told the correspondent.
Marina Yandieva, in a video published today on the Telegram channel of the Crisis Group SK SOS, addressed the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, law enforcement agencies, human rights organizations and the media. She reported that she voluntarily left the house and notified her family of her departure. According to her, her family, in seeking her return, uses manipulation: they put her on the wanted list and actually “took hostage” the man who was simply giving her a lift to Mineralnye Vody. “I have absolutely no idea what to do in this situation,” says the girl in the video with tears in her eyes.
The recording was made immediately after a call to relatives, when they began to threaten Marina that they would kill a person, as indicated in the description of the video.
According to Marina Yandieva, she was subjected to domestic violence. In 2016, she tried to escape to Moscow, but she was tracked down, beaten and returned home. After this, Marina lived in isolation and without means of communication for three years, and her relatives fabricated a certificate about her mental disorder and threatened her with an “honor killing,” human rights activists previously reported. Women whose behavior is considered a disgrace by their relatives may become victims of “honor killings,” says the Caucasian Knot report “ Honor Killings in the North Caucasus.”
Security forces interviewed Alena Sadovskaya, a Caucasian Knot journalist detained in Nazran, and released her. The arrest was preceded by the journalist's trip to the house where Team Against Torture lawyer Magomed Alamov was reportedly being held.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, security forces today delivered to the Nazran police department the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Alena Sadovskaya, who came to Ingushetia to attend the Batalkhadzhin protest . They took her phones and press card.
Security forces interviewed Caucasian Knot correspondent Alena Sadovskaya, after which they released her.
Sadovskaya said that journalist Lilian Rubtsova was detained along with her. They arrived at the house where Team Against Torture lawyer Magomed Alamov was reportedly being held, who was giving a lift to local resident Marina Yandieva, who had fled domestic violence. “The residents of the house called the police and reported that two suspicious women were walking around the house. As a result, the police arrived and made an arrest,” Sadovskaya said.
According to Sadovskaya, at 21.40 Moscow time she left the Nazran police department, giving the lawyer a copy of her protocol. After this, the journalist and an escort were taken to the border of Ingushetia with North Ossetia, after which she went to one of the hotels in Vladikavkaz.
Relatives of 28-year-old resident of Ingushetia Marina Yandieva, who escaped due to domestic violence, are threatening to kill lawyer Magomed Alamov, accusing him of organizing the girl’s escape. Alamov did not know about the situation, but only gave the girl a lift, the “Team Against Torture”* said on October 24.
In connection with the threats to Alamov, human rights activists turned to law enforcement agencies and the authorities of Ingushetia, but there was no reaction.
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[Regnum] Russia has experienced and knows what international terrorism is, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 25 at a meeting with representatives of religious associations of the Russian Federation.
That’s very true. Islamofascist terrorists committed the Beslan atrocities, and more in that theater in Moscow.
He added that Russia will always feel the bitterness of the irreparable losses inflicted during the years of the fight against international terrorism.
International Muslim terrorism, to be precise.
At the same time, according to him, the fight against terrorism cannot be carried out on the principle of collective responsibility, when old people, women, children and entire families also die.
Hamas rules the Gaza Strip like a nation state, When nations start wars, as Hamas did on October 7th, they and their international partisans ought not be surprised when they get war back. Were Israel to do so proportionately, all the babies of Gaza would be beheaded in front of their families, who would then themselves be brutally murdered — some being raped before death and others afterward, just for funsies. Or Israel could do to Gaza what the Soviet Union did to Nazi Germany... How very lucky the residents of Gaza are, that Israel does not do either Russian-style or proportional response.
“Innocent people should not be held accountable for crimes committed by others. The fight against terrorism cannot be carried out according to the notorious principle of collective responsibility,” Putin said.
Go fuck yourself unsuccessfully, Vova.
The President called what is happening in the Middle East a humanitarian disaster. He also emphasized that Russia is following the situation in the Holy Land with anxiety and pain.
As Regnum reported, the situation in Israel worsened on October 7 after fighters of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas attacked areas adjacent to the border and rocket attacks on Israeli territory.
Tel Aviv has imposed a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, is preparing a ground operation and is launching strikes on Gaza. The death toll as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip exceeded 6,500, more than 17,400 people were injured, Palestinian authorities reported.
...most of them have splinters and stubbed toenails. A couple of torn hangnails, too. Still, they are injuries, and must be counted.
On October 25, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the foundation for resolving the conflict in the Middle East should be the creation of a Palestinian state. He stressed that Russia condemns all manifestations of terrorism, and also condoles with the relatives and friends of the victims.
The Israeli Defense Forces have already eliminated thousands of terrorists and are preparing to enter the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on October 25, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
“We have already eliminated thousands of terrorists, and this is just the beginning. At the same time, we are preparing for the land entry,” he said.
The Israeli Prime Minister did not disclose the timing, specifics or scale of the ground operation. At the same time, he noted that the main goals of the government and military remain the complete liquidation of the Hamas infrastructure and the rescue of all hostages.
Earlier, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal wrote, citing Israeli and American officials, that Tel Aviv agreed to temporarily postpone the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Israel, according to the publication, made this decision so that the US military could transfer air defense systems to the Middle East region.
CNN observers previously noted that American military advisers have repeatedly convinced the Israeli authorities not to launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, so as not to repeat the negative experience of urban battles during the Iraq campaign of the United States itself, and called for limiting it to air attacks and “targeted” raids.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously warned about the consequences of a possible Israeli operation in Gaza. According to him, the ground operation using heavy equipment in the enclave, which Israel is planning against Hamas, threatens to result in serious consequences and many casualties.
The New York Times noted that Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip would lead to the fiercest fighting since World War II. The publication also predicted that the operation in the enclave could take “several months, if not years,” and lead to “the spread of the war to Lebanon and Iran” and large civilian casualties.
If only Iran hadn’t paid — and trained — Hamas to invade so viciously, the entire Middle East would not have to anticipate the discomforting idea of their own mass deaths. FAFO, guys.
[BenarNews] Australia sent 11 asylum seekers to Nauru in September, the head of Australia’s military-run border security operation told parliament, the first transfer of people to immigration detention on the 21-square kilometer Pacific island nation in nearly a decade.
Rear Adm. Justin Jones, commander of Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders, which the government says aims to stop migrants colonists'>colonists Migrants making risky sea voyages to Australia, told a Senate committee hearing that the 11 people were transferred to Nauru for "regional processing by the government of Nauru" on Sept. 7 after being intercepted that month.
"They were transferred from Australia across to Nauru and any further details there would disclose operationally sensitive material," he told a Senate hearing Monday under questioning from an opposition senator, video of the hearing shows. His comments confirmed a Guardian Australia report last week that said 11 asylum seekers had been secretly transferred to Nauru.
Australia has sent people who tried to arrive on its shores by boat to Nauru and Papua New Guinea since 2001, according to the Refugee Council of Australia. It halted the practice from 2008-12. Australia’s detention center on Manus island in Papua New Guinea eventually closed after the Pacific island country’s Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that it was unconstitutional.
The Australian detention center on Nauru once housed more than 1,200 people, but last year was empty with several dozen remaining refugees living in the Nauruan community, according to Australian government figures and the refugee council. As of August this year, only two refugees were on the island, according to the council.
Despite the facility being unused, Australia’s government has kept it open, providing a continuing windfall to Nauru. Fees and income tax on the profits of the detention center operator have for several years contributed more than half of the Nauru government’s annual revenue, its budget documents show.
In the Senate committee, Jones declined to give details about the asylum seekers including whether children or women were among them, their nationalities, which country they had left from in their attempt to get to Australia and how long they would be detained for.
Green Party Senator Nick McKim said the secrecy was "outrageous." There was an "Alice in Wonderland" quality to the evasiveness of Jones’ answers, he said.
Offshore detention, supported by Australia’s largest political parties and the public who feared an influx of people transported by boat via Indonesia, has resulted in years-long limbo for asylum seekers and has been criticized as a form of torture by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups.
The U.N. Committee on Torture, which monitors nations’ compliance with the Convention against Torture, in November said Australia should repeal provisions in its migration law that allow mandatory and indefinite detention for people, including children, who are unauthorized arrivals to the country.
Nauru, northeast of Australia, is the world’s third smallest state by area after the Vatican and Monaco. It is reliant on aid from Australia, Taiwan, organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and the income it gets from the detention center and its tuna fishery.
The Australian government awarded a 422 million Australian dollar (U.S. $270 million) contract to U.S. prisons operator, Management & Training Corporation, to provide "Facilities, Garrison, Reception Services in Nauru," according to details published on the Australian government’s contracting site in January. The contract covers September 2022 to September 2025.
Nauru, home to about 10,000 people, is pockmarked by a phosphate mining industry that on paper made Nauru among the world’s richest nations in the second half of last century.
The phosphate is now exhausted and Nauru turned to problematic money-making schemes such as selling passports and offshore banking that earned it international notoriety in the 1990s and 2000s.
It just looks like one, quacks like one, and waddles like one.
*Shrug* President Erdogan, who aims to be neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, “the much beloved”, heads the party that is the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Of course he can’t see Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, as beyond the Pale.
[GEO.TV] In his most assertive statement to date on the 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 Hamas with 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... conflict, Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated Wednesday that Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... was not a terrorist organization but rather a group working for the liberation and protection of Paleostinian lands and people.
"Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, 'mujahideen' waging a battle to protect its lands and people," he told politicians from his ruling AK Party, using an Arabic word denoting those who fight for their faith.
Unlike many of its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... allies and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization and hosts members of the group on its territory.
Erdogan also slammed Western powers for supporting Israel's bombing of Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire, the unhindered entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and for Moslem countries to work together to stop the violence.
"The perpetrators of the massacre and the destruction taking place in Gaza are those providing unlimited support for Israel," Erdogan said. "Israel's attacks on Gaza, for both itself and those supporting them, amount to murder and mental illness."
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They're a regime ruling an independent country.
The link to this piece was given in comments yesterday, but I wanted to post it properly so it would be searchable in the Rantburg archives.
[PJMedia] Last week a group of pro-Paleostinian protestors stormed the Cannon House Office Building and staged a protest inside the Rotunda. Protests are not allowed in congressional buildings, so they had no right to be there. Roughly 300 of these protesters were arrested for illegally demonstrating, and a few more were charged with assaulting coppers.
The protest, which promptly met the qualifications of an insurrection (according to Democrats), was organized by the supposed "Jewish" organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow. How Jewish are these groups in reality? I dare say very little.
An interesting thought...
IfNotNow claims to be an organization of Jews but doesn’t appear to have any good relations with longstanding Jewish advocacy groups. Similarly, JVP is likely no more Jewish than Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’... . JVP doesn’t even claim to be an organization exclusively for Jewish anti-Zionists but merely "an organization that is inspired by Jewish values and traditions to work towards peace and justice."
How did such fringe groups acquire the resources to stage a massive protest at the Capitol? Just follow the money, which leads us to George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... "Through Soros’s philanthropic work, JVP was awarded several grants totaling $650,000 that bankrolled its ’human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ’ campaign and ’social welfare activities’ in the Middle East, according to a grant database maintained by the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the central hub of the financier’s anti-capitalist, redistributionist network," writes Mia Cathell over at our sister site Townhall. "The Soros-branded Open Society Policy Center Inc. — once the second-largest spender on federal lobbying after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — donated $150,000 and $200,000 in 2021 and 2019, respectively, to the Jewish Voice for Peace Action Incorporated, JVP’s tax-exempt 501(c)(3). And, in 2017, Soros’s primary grant-giving vehicle, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, gifted JVP $300,000."
IfNotNow has also been the beneficiary of Soros’s money. "Soros’s grant-making Foundation to Promote Open Society handed $200,000 in 2019 and another $200,000 in 2021 to the 501(c)(3) IfNotNow Education Fund for growing membership, visibility, and impact around ’general support’ to end Israeli ’occupation in the Middle East’ (meaning the eradication of Israel), Open Society Foundations grant records show."
Should we really be all that surprised that Soros’s hand is in all this? Soros-funded prosecutors have been weaponizing the justice system against Trump and conservatives; with all of his resources, it’s a no-brainer to imagine that he’s funding various organizations that are causing civil unrest. For decades, Soros has made his intentions about using his wealth and resources to advance leftist causes clear. His handpicked prosecutors are trying to put Trump behind bars as we speak. Before long, none of us will be safe from the clutches of the web of corruption funded by Soros.
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Just asking.....
Given certain a _ _ _ agency's known abilities of successfully eliminating US threats. Why hasn't the Soros' family had a plane crash?
Also...Will the Pro-HAMAS / Palestine protestors be joining the JAN 6th protestors, since they did the same thing... Protest Capitol Hill?
[GEO.TV] In a bid to bring political stability to the country, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... has agreed to play a leading role in national reconciliation, The News has learnt.
According to sources, Fazl, who also heads the multi-party alliance Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM), has supported the idea of playing a role in political dialogue among key stakeholders at the suggestion of former senator Muhammad Ali Durrani.
Durrani called on the PDM chief at his residence in Islamabad on Tuesday and the meeting lasted for two hours.
When contacted, Durrani told The News that PDM chief had agreed to play a leading role in national reconciliation. "Fazl is a national leader who can bring about national reconciliation," he said. "and some nifty Cannon™ Dish Towels!"
According to sources, Fazl will discuss the agenda of reconciliation with the national leadership in the coming days. In the first phase, efforts will be made to create a consensus on the national agenda for reconciliation among the political parties.
It may be mentioned here the PTI has already agreed to the agenda of national reconciliation while former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... had also announced national reconciliation at the Minar-e-Pakistain rally on October 21.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... according to a blurb issued by the Central Media Cell of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam, former federal information minister Muhammad Ali Durrani met JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and offered condolences on the death of his mother-in-law.
In the meeting, the country’s political situation, upcoming elections and other issues were discussed.
Earlier this month, President Arif Alvi called for ending "bitterness" to pave the way for "cooperation and forgiveness" among the stakeholders in a meeting with Durrani.
Durrani held a third meeting in one month with President Alvi which is part of his efforts to reduce political temperature in the country.
Urging free, fair, transparent, and inclusive elections, President Alvi emphasised that all political parties and their leadership should be given equal opportunities to participate in the election process to strengthen democracy in the country.
The president was of the view that there was a dire need for political, institutional and stakeholder unity in the country to battle the difficulties on all possible fronts, including that of economy.
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[GEO.TV] Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Wednesday clarified that the November 1 deadline is not limited to Afghans, but applies to all foreigners illegally residing in Pakistain.
Speaking in the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, the security czar clarified that the government addressed the issue of expulsion of "all" illegal foreigners living in the country, however, the message was wrongly received as if the state wanted to repatriate only Afghan citizens.
The caretaker government, earlier this month, had directed all "aliens" — including 1.73 million Afghan nationals — to leave the country following a series of terrorist attacks in which Afghan nationals were found to be responsible for 14 of 24 suicide kabooms.
"Government's message [to leave the country] is not limited to Afghans, [it is applicable] on all illegal foreigners living in the country," Bugti said.
The government is also deporting Baloch people coming into the country from Iran, Bugti said while reassuring that those with refugee cards and visas are "our guests".
The issue is being given an ethnic angle, it's not like that at all as we intend to expel all illegal foreigners, he stressed.
ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS TO LEAVE PAKISTAIN BY NOV 1
In a bid to tighten the noose around illegal "foreigners", the caretaker government has set November 1 as a deadline for the immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants residing in the country unlawfully, warning that action will be taken against them after the time limit.
The decision was taken in an apex committee meeting on the National Action Plan (NAP) on October 3 after a deadly suicide kaboom in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ’s Mastung, in which over 60 people bit the dust. In most of the recent terror incidents in Pakistain, Afghan nationals or soil was reportedly used.
According to a statistical report released by the independent think tank Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), at least 271 Death Eater attacks took place during the first half of 2023, resulting in the loss of 389 lives and injuring 656 individuals. Terror activities in the country soared by 79% during the period.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... (UN) has also said that refugees residing in Pakistain should be allowed to exit the country voluntarily and no pressure should be exerted on them.
Pakistain has hosted millions of Afghan refugees since the Soviet Union’s invasion in 1979.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) data, approximately 1.33 million registered refugees hold Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, and 840,000 possess Afghan citizenship cards.
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[AFRICANEWS] In the days since Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... faceless myrmidons stormed into Israel early Oct. 7, a flood of videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.
While plenty of real imagery and accounts of the ensuing carnage have emerged, they have been intermingled with users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.
Among the fabrications, users have shared false claims that a top Israeli commander had been kidnapped, circulated a false video imitating a BBC News report, and pushed old and unrelated clips of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... with inaccurate English captions.
Here is a closer look at the misinformation spreading online — and the facts.
CLAIM: A video showsNorth Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader KimPudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... saying in a speech that he blames President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented’... for the latest Israel-Hamas war.
THE FACTS: The video is from 2020 and the version currently circulating online features incorrect English captions. The footage actually shows Kim celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers' Party; he doesn't reference the conflict in the Middle East or Biden at any point.
In the misleading video circulating online, the English captions claim Kim says: "Under the Biden administration, conflicts erupt yearly. This year a war begins between Israel and Paleostine."
"I'm afraid that if the Biden admin does not cease to exist in the next election, World War 3 may begin," the captions continue. "Who knows what next year's war will be. I support Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... for President in 2024. Good Luck to Mr. Trump."
The video was shared on Instagram and TikTok, where one post garnered more than 223,000 likes.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the video is old and the captions are completely inaccurate.
Clips and images from the same speech can be seen in news reports from October 2020 about an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party.
A transcript of the full speech translated to English by The National Committee on North Korea, a U.S.-based organization, does not mention anything about the Israel-Hamas war nor the 2024 U.S. presidential race.
Multiple Korean speakers and an expert who reviewed the portion of the speech circulating online also confirmed Kim says nothing of the sort in the footage.
Instead, Kim thanks his people and his military, saying: "The patriotic and heroic commitment shown by our People's Army soldiers on the unexpected frontlines of epidemic prevention and natural disaster recovery this year is something that evokes tears of gratitude from everyone."
Ji-Young Lee, a professor of Korean Studies at American University who confirmed the captions are inaccurate, noted that the surprise attack on Israel by Hamas faceless myrmidons did create concerns in South Korea about a similar assault from the North.
CLAIM: OttomanTurkishPresidentHis Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has threatened to intervene in the latest Israel-Hamas war.
THE FACTS: The conservative Moslempresident has said no such thing. A social media post he wrote recently about the ongoing conflict has been misquoted.
Social media users are sharing a quote they say is from Erdogan, in which the long serving leader warns his country will take decisive steps to end the conflict if the destruction of Hamas-controlled 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 Hamas with 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... continues.
"Ottoman Turkish President Erdogan has THREATENED to intervene in the Israeli war on Gaza: 'I call on all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented brutality in the Gaza Strip. If not, we will do it'," wrote one user on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in a post that has been liked or shared more than 105,000 times.
But the posts are misquoting a comment Erdogan posted Oct. 17 on his personal account on X about the deadly conflict.
In the message, which was written in Ottoman Turkish, the president did "invite all humanity" to help stop the "unprecedented brutality in Gaza," as the posts claim.
But he doesn't write "If not, we will do it" or other threatening phrases suggesting a direct military intervention by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , according to native Ottoman Turkish speakers and other experts who reviewed Erdogan's social media posts for The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"President Erdogan did not threaten to intervene in the conflict," Steven Cook, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington think tank, wrote in an email. "He was speaking generally about getting the world to put pressure on Israel to stop its military campaign."
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, a political science professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the Middle East, added that she hasn't seen any indication that Erdogan has made such a threat elsewhere.
Ottoman Turkish government spokespersons didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment, but Erdogan posted a lengthier statement on his personal account on X, also written in Ottoman Turkish, in which he denounced Israel's attacks on Gaza, criticized Western nations and media outlets and called for the international community to push for a ceasefire.
The official, English-language account for the Ottoman Turkish president's office echoed that sentiment in a post about a call between Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
"Underscoring that forcing the Paleostinians in Gaza to migrate from their homeland is unacceptable, President Erdogan stressed that Turkiye will continue to make every effort in order for peace to be ensured and for humanitarian aid as well as healthcare services to be immediately delivered to Gaza," the office wrote.
— News Agency that Dare Not be Named writer Philip Marcelo in New York contributed this report.
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CLAIM: The Israeli military confirmed it bombed a hospital in Gaza in a social media post written in Arabic.
THE FACTS: A screenshot circulating online shows a Facebook post from an account posing as the Israeli military. No such post exists on the military's actual social media pages and its top Arabic-speaking spokesperson confirmed his office has issued no such statement.
In the wake of the Oct. 17 deadly blast at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, social media users shared the screenshot, claiming it is from a member of the Israeli military's Arabic-speaking media relations team.
The user's profile image bears the blue-and-white emblem of the spokesperson's office, which features radio waves atop the Israeli military's traditional symbol of an olive branch-wrapped sword.
The post, written in Arabic, suggests the Jewish nation said it bombed the hospital because the Gaza City medical facility lacked supplies and staff.
"Israeli official facebook post: 'Due to the lack of medical equipment and the lack of medical staff, it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia'," wrote one user on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in a post translating the screenshot. Similar posts were also widely shared on TikTok and other social media platforms.
But the purported statement wasn't penned by the Israeli military's press office, its top Arabic-speaking spokesperson confirmed this week.
"Just to clarify: I did not issue any statement or comment regarding the Baptist Hospital in Gaza," wrote Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab media branch of the Israeli military's Spokesperson's Unit, in a post on X from Oct. 17, when the blast occurred. "All the news circulating in my name comes from the Hamas media outlets and is completely false."
The office on Oct. 19 confirmed the post did not come from the military's official Arabic page, saying in an emailed statement: "The IDF has made it very clear that there was no IDF strike on the hospital."
What's more, the Israeli military's press office doesn't use its own logo on its actual social media accounts, unlike the fake account.
The unit's separate Facebook pages in English and Hebrew, as well as its X account written in Farsi, for example, all use the military's main symbol. That gold-colored emblem features the olive branch-wrapped sword with the Star of David in the background.
Meanwhile Adraee's social media accounts, which are the main channel for the Israeli military's messages in Arabic, feature his profile picture and a maroonlogo consisting of five swords with flames in the background as its cover photo.
The original fake account and post on Facebook also appear to have been deleted as of Oct. 19. Spokespersons for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, didn't reply to an email seeking comment.
There were conflicting accusations of who was responsible for the hospital blast, with Hamas officials in Gaza blaming an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... and Israel saying it was caused by a an errant rocket launched by Paleostinian Death Eaters. U.S. and French intelligence services also concluded it was likely caused by a misfired rocket. An AP analysis of video, photos and satellite imagery, as well as consultation with experts, showed the cause was likely a rocket launched from Paleostinian territory that mishad gun sex and crashed to the ground. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... a definitive conclusion could not be reached.
— News Agency that Dare Not be Named writer Philip Marcelo in New York contributed this report.
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CLAIM: A video shows 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... 's emir threatening to cut off the world's natural gas supply if Israel doesn't stop bombing Gaza.
THE FACTS: Qatar's ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, says no such thing in the widely circulating clip, which is more than 6 years old. A spokesperson for the Qatari government also confirmed that neither the emir nor any other government official has threatened to cut off exports in response to the conflict.
Many online are sharing the video of the Persian Gulf nation's ruler, falsely claiming it shows him saying in Arabic that he's willing to halt the distribution of its gas reserves to achieve his desired end to the latest Israel-Hamas war.
"BREAKING: Qatar is threatening to create a global gas shortage in support of Paleostine," wrote one user who posted the video on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "If the bombing of Gaza doesn't stop, we will stop gas supply of the world."
But Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says nothing of the sort in the video. The 7-second clip is actually a tiny snippet from his opening speech at the Doha Forum in 2017.
Marc Owen Jones, a professor of Middle East studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, the capital of Qatar, confirmed that the emir touches briefly on Paleostinians in the widely shared clip, but doesn't make any threats related to the current conflict.
Instead the emir, in his remarks, urged the international community to take more steps to address the region's refugee crisis, news outlets reported at the time.
"The exact translation is: 'The issue of Paleostine, I'll begin by saying it's a case of a people uprooted from their lands, and displaced from their nation'," Jones wrote in an email.
Qatar's government on Oct. 16 confirmed the clip dates to 2017 and is being misrepresented.
"This is yet another case of an online disinformation against Qatar — such a statement has never been made and never would be," wrote the country's International Media Office in an email. "Qatar does not politicize its LNG supplies or any economic investment."
Qatar is one of the world's top natural gas producers. It controlled the third-largest natural gas reserves and was the second largest exporter of liquified natural gas, or LNG, in 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
What's more, the country has been working in recent years to use its sizable resources to build ties with other nations, not antagonize them, according to experts.
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, a Boston-based company that tracks gas prices nationwide, pointed to a deal Qatar's state energy company just announced to supply French energy company TotalEnergies with 3.5 million tons of natural gas annually for the next 27 years.
"Qatar has been securing investment since Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to find new sources of natural gas and quickly," he wrote in an email. "They're making deals left and right."
— Philip Marcelo.
___ CLAIM: A video shows a BBC News report confirming Ukraine provided weapons to Hamas.
THE FACTS: The widely shared video clip is fabricated, officials with the BBC and Bellingcat, an investigative news website that is cited in the video as the source, confirm.
The clip, which includes the BBC's distinctive block-text logo, purports to show a story from the outlet about a recent report from Bellingcat on Ukraine providing arms to Hamas.
"Bellingcat: Ukrainian military offensive failure and HAMAS attack linked," reads the text over the video, which has more than 2,500 comments and 110,000 views on the messaging service Telegram. "The Paleostinians purchased firearms, ammunition, drones and other weapons."
But neither the BBC nor Bellingcat has reported any evidence to support the notion that Ukraine funneled arms to Hamas.
"We've reached no such conclusions or made any such claims," Bellingcat wrote Oct. 10 in a post on X that included screengrabs of the fake report. "We'd like to stress that this is a fabrication and should be treated accordingly."
Eliot Higgins, the Amsterdam-based organization's founder, noted in a separate post on X that the claims have been amplified by Russian social media users.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a New York University professor briefly shown near the end of the video, also disputed the clip's suggestion that he's said the U.S. might leave NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... if the arms claims prove true.
"Entirely fake. Never said that," the distinguished professor of risk engineering wrote in an email.
Spokespersons for the BBC didn't respond to emails seeking comment, but Shayan Sardarizadeh, a news hound with the organization's fact checking unit, confirmed in a post on X that the video is not real.
Ukrainian officials have similarly dismissed the notion that its country's arms have somehow found their way to Hamas. The country's military intelligence agency, in an Oct. 9 post on its official Facebook page, accused Russia of plotting a disinformation campaign around these claims.
Experts say there is also no evidence of Hamas making any claims about receiving arms from Ukraine, nor would it make sense for Kyiv to provide them.
"I see no reason Ukraine would do this," said Michael O'Hanlon, director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "Starting with the fact that Kiev is in the business of obtaining weapons and not giving them away."
— News Agency that Dare Not be Named writers Philip Marcelo in New York and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv contributed this report.
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CLAIM: Video of a young actor being filmed lying in a pool of fake blood shows propaganda being created for use in the Israel-Hamas war.
THE FACTS: The video is behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Empty Place," a short film focused on the story of Ahmad Manasra, a Paleostinian who was arrested at age 13 in 2015 in relation to the stabbing of two Israelis.
Social media users on both sides of the latest Israel-Hamas war are sharing the video, each falsely alleging that it's proof the other group is creating propaganda about their own.
In the clip, a young actor lies on a sidewalk covered in fake blood, his right leg bent backward, as a film crew works around him. Other actors mill about dressed as soldiers and in garb worn by many Orthodox Jewish men.
"See how Israelis are making fake videos saying that Paleostine Freedom Fighters killed children," reads one tweet that had received more than 5,600 likes and more than 4,400 shares as of Oct. 11.
An Instagram post claimed the opposite, stating: "These snuffies are dressing up as JEWISH soldiers to create fake videos about Israeli soldiers! Faking Propaganda!"
But neither allegation is correct. The video shows footage from the making of the 2022 short film directed by Awni Eshtaiwe, a filmmaker based in the West Bank. The scene being shot begins about 1 minute and 10 seconds into the approximately 2 minute film.
Mohamad Awawdeh, a cinematographer listed in the film's credits as a camera assistant, posted the behind-the-scenes footage to TikTok in April 2022, around the time the film was released. A caption on the post, written in Arabic, explains that the scene being filmed in the video shows Manasra being attacked. Awawdeh posted the same footage to Instagram on June 30.
— News Agency that Dare Not be Named writer Melissa Goldin in New York contributed this report.
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CLAIM: Nimrod Aloni, a top general in the Israeli army, was captured by Hamasfaceless myrmidons during a deadly incursion Oct. 7 into southern Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.
THE FACTS: There's no truth to this claim, a spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed. Aloni was seen Oct. 8 at a meeting of top Israeli military officials.
The erroneous claim that Aloni was one of the hostages taken by Hamas spread widely online after the Death Eater group attacked Israel.
"Paleostinian resistance fighters capture Israeli commander Nimrod Aloni along with dozens of other Israeli soldiers as the resistance fighters attacked neighbouring occupied towns and Israeli check posts near Gaza," stated one Instagram post that received more than 43,000 likes.
But Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military's chief military front man, told news hounds Oct. 7 that claims Aloni was captured are "not true."
Aloni clearly appears 10 seconds into a video posted to the Israeli military's official YouTube channel of brass hats discussing the war on Oct. 8. The date can be seen on a slide in the background. The military also published online four images from the meeting. The one on the lower right shows Aloni on the far right.
The Israeli army confirmed to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Aloni is the man in the video and image.
— Melissa Goldin.
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CLAIM: A video shows Hamas fighters parachuting onto a sports field before attacking Israeli citizens during the group's surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
THE FACTS: While Hamas did employ paragliders to get some fighters across the border between Gaza and southern Israel, the footage of the sports field shows parachute jumpers in Cairo and has been online since at least September.
The clip shows people strapped to multi-colored parachutes descending onto a crowded sports field complex filled with children and families, many in red sports jerseys.
"Hamas paraglided amongst Israeli citizens and proceeded to massacre them," text on the video clip reads. One post of the misleading footage on TikTok was viewed more than 38,000 times.
But this footage has been online since at least Sept. 27, when it was posted to TikTok with the location tag "Egypt."
Details of the video also point to Egypt as the location — a person is wearing a blue shirt that reads "El Nasr SC" on the back, the name of a sporting club in northeastern Cairo.
Images of the club on Google Maps match the scene of the video — as well as several other clips of the event from the same TikTok user — with both showing a bright blue fence around a sporting ground next to a paved area with green and blue plastic seats.
The parachuters land on a larger soccer pitch surrounded by tall field lights. The field matches photos posted to the club's Facebook page and footage of its soccer team's matches, including a distinctive red building with a blue fence on top at one end that can be seen in the TikTok clip at around 19 seconds.
Other TikTok users shared footage of a parachuting similar scene around the same time, with "El Nasr" in the caption in Arabic.
The crowd of onlookers in the clip circulating online also doesn't seem distressed by the arrival of the parachuters, as one might expect if they were an invading force. In fact, many women and kiddies are seen running towards them, phones in hand taking videos and photos of the aerial display.
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CLAIM: Two videos show Russian President Vladimir Putin warning the U.S. to "stay away" from the latest Israel-Hamas war.
THE FACTS: Both videos circulating online are months-old clips of Putin speaking about the Russia-Ukraine war, not the conflict in the Middle East, which have been miscaptioned in English.
Both videos show Putin speaking in Russian, with false English captions saying he was warning the U.S. to refrain from helping the Jewish state.
"America wants to Destroy israel as we destroy ukraine In past," the captions on one video state. "I am warning America. Russia will help palestine and america can do nothing." One TikTok post that shared the clip had received approximately 11,600 views as of Oct. 9.
A caption on another video of Putin, filmed in a different location, similarly reads: "I am warning america to stay Away from palestine israel war."
But the two clips long predate the latest Israel-Hamas war and make no mention of Israel at all.
The first shows Putin at a meeting of Russia's Human Rights Council in December 2022, where, amid discussions about the war in Ukraine, he responded to a question about the country's potential use of nuclear weapons, as the AP reported at the time. The footage was featured by multiple other newsoutlets with similar translations.
In the second, Putin is speaking at a February 2023 event marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad. In his remarks, he compared this threat to Germany's then-recent decision to supply Ukraine with tanks, the AP reported at the time. Several media outlets also featured the footage in similar reports.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds on Oct. 9 that Russia is "extremely concerned" by the "spiral of violence" in Israel. Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia's deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, told the state Tass agency Oct. 7 that Moscow has been in touch with "all parties (of the conflict), including Arab countries" and was urging for "an immediate cease-fire and peace."
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All we have to remember is that the modern "Western" Left is a mental desease.
[AFRICANEWS] National Security Council front man John Kirby says the call for a cease-fire right now "only benefits Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ."
This comes as Israel is escalating its bombardment of targets in the 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 Hamas with 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... Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion against Hamas krazed killers.
The war is rapidly raising the corpse count in Gaza, and the U.S. fears the fighting could spark a wider conflict in the region.
Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been running out of food, water and medicine since Israel sealed off the territory following the Hamas attack on Israeli towns on October.
The aid convoys allowed into Gaza so far have carried a fraction of what's needed, and the U.N. said distribution will have to stop if there's no fuel for the trucks.
The U.N. health agency on Tuesday called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza to be able to distribute fuel and essential, life-saving health supplies, including to major hospitals in the strip’s northern half.
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Kirby figured that out, huh? Genius.
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[Regnum] Queen Rania of Jordan on October 25 accused Western leaders of “blatant double standards,” noting their reluctance to condemn Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip, which has killed thousands of civilians.
“Over the past couple of weeks we have witnessed a blatant double standard. On October 7 (the day the conflict began to escalate - editor's note), the world immediately and unequivocally supported Israel and its right to self-defense and condemned the attack that took place (by Hamas - editor's note). But what have we seen in the last couple of weeks? Silence,” Rania said in an interview with CNN.
As Regnum reported earlier, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry , speaking at an open debate of the UN Security Council, said that Cairo favors a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip without additional conditions. The minister expressed regret that the UN Security Council could not adopt a corresponding resolution and pointed out the double standards that have been observed since the beginning of the crisis. Western politicians act "as if the people of Palestine are not worthy of efforts to protect them," he said.
On October 23, the Korean Central News Agency published a commentary noting that the Middle East is on the “brink of all-out war” due to US policies of supporting Israel and applying double standards. The United States rejected a draft resolution in the UN Security Council on a ceasefire in the region, thus “destroying even a small chance” of overcoming the escalation, and the EU is trying to “yes along” with Washington, Pyongyang said.
The situation in Israel escalated on October 7 after an attack by fighters of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas on areas adjacent to the border and rocket attacks on Israeli territory. Tel Aviv has imposed a complete blockade of the sector, is preparing a ground operation and is launching strikes on Gaza. According to the Palestinian authorities, their victims have already become more than 6,500 people, including more than two thousand children.
The ground operation of the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip, as well as its abandonment, is fraught with big problems for Tel Aviv, so the Israeli authorities are maneuvering and do not make a final decision, orientalist Artyom Kirpichenok said in an interview with Regnum news agency . The ground operation was initially a big question mark, primarily because the lives of the hostages, many of whom had high-ranking relatives, were at risk, the expert noted.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more, including some photos of the physically lovely queen.
[IsraelNationalNews] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the press following a meeting of the war cabinet at the IDF central headquarters. "All Hamas men are dead men walking, above ground, below it, in Gaza and abroad," Netanyahu opened.
"Together with Defense Minister Gallant, Minister Benny Gantz, the Chief of Staff, and the heads of the Defense Branches, we are working around the clock to reach the goals of the war, until victory, without political considerations," he added.
"We eliminated thousands of terrorists, and that's only the beginning. We are preparing for a ground incursion. I will not specify how and how much, and what the considerations, most of which are not known to the public at all, are" Netanyahu stated.
"When we enter Gaza, we will take the full price from the Hamas-ISIS murders," he emphasized.
For the first time, Netanyahu mentioned his responsibility for the failures that led to the war. "Citizens of Israel, we will investigate what happened thoroughly. The failures will be checked thoroughly. Everyone will have to give answers. Myself included. But that will happen afterward. As Prime Minister, I am responsible for ensuring the state's future." FDR did not resign over Pearl Harbor
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