[Libya Observer] The advisor of the dialogue committee of the High Council of State (HCS) in Tunisia talks, Ashraf al-Sheh, said they provided moderate forms for the amendments needed to be done to the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) in the second round in Tunis.
Al-Sheh told the Italian news agency Aki on Monday that three of the House of Representatives (HoR) dialogue committee members rejected the HCS's forms and demanded a constitution-guaranteed post for Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... in the Libyan upcoming government, which took the talks back to the drawing board, he remarked.
Two days of suspension of talks by the HoR members delayed the progress of the negotiations as they protested what they described as "unclarity" of the HCS's demands, then resumed after they conditioned it to receiving written ideas and forms of amendments by the HCS.
The HCS said the HoR committee is the one hindering the talks, adding that they did not present any written forms of amendments proposals, whereas other sources said that several HoR members insisted to remove Article 08 of the additional provisions in order to approve the amendments.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Eissa al-Aribi - a member at the HoR committee - said Wednesday that the members of the Justice and Construction Party (Political Arm of Moslem Brüderbund in Libya) must be dismissed from the HCS's committee in order to reach consensus, adding that they are trying to fail the talks as they are clinging to leaving Article 08 intact and demanding voting - like the HoR - for the selection of the new Presidential Council.
Pro-Haftar HoR members have announced time and time again their utter rejection to the LPA as it shelves Haftar, whom they tried more than once to include in any sort of future common ground agreement, while at the same time the HCS remains in strong refusal to make any concessions in that regard, leaving the talks option dangling not knowing to which party it should swing.
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[Al Jazeera] 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... has reiterated its readiness for dialogue to solve the GCC crisis and called on its citizens and media outlets to refrain from attacking "Gulf symbols".
A statement by Qatar's foreign ministry on Tuesday was in response to a call by the Kuwaiti emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, for all sides to de-escalate the ongoing Gulf crisis.
The statement said Doha "hailed the appeal" made by the Kuwaiti leader and did not seek to "escalate the situation".
"In line with the approach laid down by HH the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in his address to the people of Qatar on 21 July 2017, calls upon citizens, residents and all media in Qatar to avoid slipping into the abuse of Gulf symbols," the statement read.
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[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish authorities have put 11 human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activists on trial, including the chairman of Amnesia Amnesty International in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Taner Kilic.
Those facing charges at Istanbul's Caglayan courthouse on Wednesday were enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in separate police raids in June and July and include one Swede and a German national.
Idil Eser, director of Amnesia Amnesty International Turkey, is also among those on trial.
Accusations include supporting groups that Turkey has proscribed as "terrorist" organizations, such as the Gulen movement, and Kurdish separatist factions.
A court in Istanbul on Wednesday said that German activist Peter Steudtner and 11 other human rights activists should be released on Wednesday after the Turkish public prosecutor requested an end to the pre-trial detention of the group.
It sounds like this is a for-the-duration-of-the-trial thingy, rather than sending them home for good.
The Turkish government has accused the group of "aiding armed terrorist organizations" through civil society actions in Turkey. The government has also accused the activists of being members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), far-left DHKP-C and the Gulen movement.
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[Al Jazeera] Using "The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will be good" as its slogan and a bright sun as its logo, ex-Ottoman Turkish minister Meral Aksener has launched a new political party with a promise to shake up the country's politics.
"Turkey and its people are tired, the state is worn down and public order is unraveling," Aksener told hundreds of enthusiastic supporters at the founding event of the Good (Iyi) Party in the capital, Ankara, on Wednesday.
"There is no other way [for Turkey] than a change in the political climate," said the 61-year-old, a prominent right-wing politician and former interior minister.
The party, which has adopted a centre-right platform, has been backed by five members of Turkey's 550-seat parliament, as well as other well-known public figures named in its its constituent structure.
It lists pluralism, democracy, the rule of law, freedom of speech and nationalist values as some of its founding principles
"Democracy is under threat and the government's justice is above all else," said Aksener, in an attack against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), led by President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... "The primary quality of the state should be fairness for its own people," she added, criticising the government for "eradicating" state balances.
In response to supporters chanting to her, "Prime minister," Aksener said: "I will be president".
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[AlAhram] The Trump administration will temporarily delay processing of most refugees from 11 countries identified as high-risk, while resuming refugee admissions for other countries, government officials said on Tuesday. Most of the affected countries are in the Middle East and Africa, according to documents seen by Rooters.
The administration also will place on hold a program that allows for family reunification for some refugees resettled in the United States, according to a Trump administration memo seen by Rooters and sent to Congress on Tuesday. The resettling of so-called following-to-join refugees will resume, according to the memo, once screening "enhancements have been implemented."
U.S. officials said the changes were aimed at protecting U.S. national security, but refugee advocates said they amounted to a de facto ban on refugees from the 11 countries and were unnecessary, since refugees are already heavily vetted.
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[PRESSTV] The stalemate in Afghanistan will not improve unless the United States acknowledges its defeat in the country, says Pak Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif.
"Their failures over the past 16 years [since the war in Afghanistan started] is before them," Asif said Wednesday, while briefing the Pak Senate on Wednesday about the talks he held the previous day with an American delegation led by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Asif told politicians that US policymakers, and not their military commanders, needed to drop the failed military plan and devise a political solution.
"There will only be room for improvement if Washington accepts their defeat, their failures in Afghanistan," Asif said. "They are not ready to accept this."
"Our country, our military and our police have made sacrifices in the war and in return, we have gained unmatched success," the foreign minister said, rebuking claims by the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... that Pakistain was not doing enough to fight the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the ISIS terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
The new Republican president denounced the Pak government for offering safe haven to "agents of chaos" in a speech in April, when he revealed Washington’s plans for prolonged military presence in Afghanistan by sending 3,000 more troops to the country.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -led militias in northern Aleppo province have asserted a clear intention to launch an offensive to capture the large town of Manbij, currently held by US-backed forces.
Yesterday, the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... in northern Aleppo dispersed leaflets saying that Syrian rebels will seize the town of Manbij from US-backed forces "no matter what the cost is."
Manbij was captured from ISIS by the Syrian Democratic Forces in June 2016 after a two month battle. Following the Ottoman Turkish military intervention in northern Syria, Turkey demanded that all Kurdish militias in the Manbij region withdraw east of the Euphrates.
Officially, Manbij and the area around it is void of Kurdish fighters and only US-backed Arab factions of the Syrian Democratic Forces are present there (although there is little evidence to decisively prove this).
The town has constantly been a source of tension between Turkey-led militias and the US-backed forces.
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If we are going to let our enemies seize land taken by our allies at significant cost in their blood and our treasure, you have to wonder what the heck the point was of taking the land in the first place.
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I say light them up if they come for territory that we support. Turks or not. Its about time we start letting Turkey know just what they are going to get into if they continue to act as an enemy.
[PRESSTV] The US House of Representatives has endorsed new sanctions on the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah.
The new sanctions were passed by voice vote, without opposition on Wednesday on the pretext of the resistance group’s "acts of death and destruction."
This is while Hezbollah has played a major role in battling ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz near the Lebanese border with Syria.
"These critical measures will impose new sanctions to crack down on Hezbollah’s financing, and hold it accountable for its acts of death and destruction," said Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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.
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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
