[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mullah Yaqoob, the son of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group founder and ex-supreme leader, Mullah Mohammaer Omar, regarding the deadly attack January in Kabul city, reveals deep rift among the Taliban group leadership.
The authenticity of the letter cannot be independently verified but it carries an official tamp of the Taliban group with the official designation of Mullah Yaqoob as the deputy Taliban chief for the military affairs.
The letter states that the attack near Jamhoriat hospital with an ambulance has not only resulted in massive civilian casualties but resulted into depiction of a negative image of Taliban on domestic and international level besides resulting into reduced support to the movement.
Mullah Yaqoob states in his letter that the current Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself... and the military commission did not consult with him prior to conducting the attack.
According to Mullah Yaqoob, the attack was carried out based on the instructions of Haqqani network leader, insisting that he has always rejected such attacks that results into growing hatred among the people regarding the Taliban group.
He suggested that the Taliban leader Mullah Akhundzada should refrain from such attacks in the future results more into the defamation of the Taliban as compared to the benefits the group gains from such attacks.
The Taliban group had claimed the responsibility for the attack which left more than 100 dead and hundreds more maimed.
The group called the attack a major breakthrough claiming that heavy casualties were incurred to the police forces after the jacket wallahs managed to infiltrated through several check posts in the city to conduct the attack.
This is not the first reports have emerged regarding internal rift among the Taliban leadership after the confirmation of the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullh Omar.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... a front man for the Taliban group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi blames the intelligence circles for the circulation of the letter although the Afghan officials have not commented in this regard so far.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A fire broke out at the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah early on Saturday, destroying warehouses filled with cooking fuel and foodstuffs, port workers said.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire engulfed five warehouses belonging to the World Food Program, in the area of Kilo 7 in the Houthi-controlled city of Hodeidah, stressing that the stores contained various aid and food items, including cooking oils and other materials.
There has been no explanation from the WFP yet on the causes of the fire at the time of publication, while Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia authorities have kept silent on the matter.
Yemeni’s internationally-recognized government condemned in a statement what happened to the aid storage centers and damage done to relief and humanitarian materials and has called for an urgent and impartial investigation into who those responsible for the fire, hinting at the involvement of the Huthi militias.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... wants the US military to maintain a presence in Syria, he told TIME on Thursday during his multi-city tour of the United States.
"We believe American troops should stay for at least the mid-term, if not the long-term," he said.
Prince Mohammed said the US military presence is the last effort stopping Iran from continuing to expand influence with regional allies.
The presence of the troops, which have a remote base at Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, will also allow Washington to have a say in Syria’s future, the crown prince said.
"If you take those troops out from east Syria, you will lose that checkpoint," Prince Mohammed said. "And this corridor could create a lot of things in the region."
There are currently about 2,000 US troops working with Syrian Democratic Forces to re-capture territory from ISIS.
The crown prince’s remarks came just hours after Trump told a cheering crowd in Ohio that US troops will soon be pulled out.
"By the way, we’re knocking the hell out of ISIS," Trump said. "We’re coming out of Syria very soon. Let the other people take care of it now, very soon. Very soon, we’re coming out."
During the interview, the crown prince also said he believes that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... is not likely to be ousted from power.
He said he hopes that Assad will not become a "puppet" for Tehran.
"Bashar is staying ... But I believe that Bashar’s interests is not to let the Iranians do whatever they want they want to do."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... has called on the government to release BNP Chief the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... so that she can receive medical treatment wherever she wants.
The party, an ally of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, made the demand in a statement on Saturday.
"We are concerned over the news that Khaleda Zia has fallen ill in jail," the party’s acting chief Maulana ANM Shamsul Islam said in the statement.
"Ministers are creating confusion by making numerous statements on Khaleda Zia’s illness. This is unfair and unexpected. She returned home a few months ago after receiving treatment abroad," he said.
The Jamaat leader alleged the government was trying to create mental pressure on the 73-year old BNP leader. "That is why she has fallen sick again."
He said the government has violated human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... by not allowing better treatment for Khaleda Zia.
"Since she is a former prime minister, she has constitutional right to get better treatment abroad. The government is violating the constitution by not releasing her," said the Jamaat leader.
On February 8, a special court sentenced the BNP chairperson to five years in jail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Since then she has been at a special cell at the Old Central Jail.
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[DW] The EU has followed the UN and called for a probe into the deaths of 15 Palestinian protesters in Gaza. The EU's Federica Mogherini said a continuation of "peace talks towards a two-state solution" is needed.
"The EU mourns the loss of life … The use of live ammunition should, in particular, be part of an independent and transparent investigation," Mogherini said in a statement. "While Israel has the right to protect its borders, the use of force must be proportionate at all times," she continued.
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Proportionate force is wrong. Overwhelming force deliver the message. Europe should pay attention to their back yard.
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Put up two fences. On the first, put in many languages "If you cross this fence you /will/ die." Once they cross it, kill them. That's how borders should be enforced.
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Put up two fences. On the first, put in many languages "If you cross this fence you /will/ die." Once they cross it, kill them. That's how borders should be enforced.
SOP for places we store stuff we neither acknowledge or deny.
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Put up two fences. On the first, put in many languages "If you cross this fence you /will/ die." Once they cross it, kill them. That's how borders should be enforced.
Isn't Trump collecting proposals for the U.S. Mexico border wall?
[Debka] The US liquidates its two main Mid East air bases at Incirlik and Al-Udeid
Plans to speed up the transfer of the big US CENTCOM base in Qatar to Saudi Arabia were approved by President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Muhamed bin Salman when they met at the White House on Tuesday, March 20. This is an earthshaking event for the Middle East, which far transcends US-Saudi relations, say DEBKAfile’s military sources.
They also disclose that, despite repeated denials, the Trump administration is in the process of another momentous move, packing up its air force and quitting Incirlik in southern Turkey, the biggest air base in the region.
The two moves are interconnected. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has become an avid supporter of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who is locked in a feud with the Saudi rulers. Turkey recently established a large military base in the oil emirate. The Saudi Crown Prince and his ally, the UAE ruler Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, are close friends and President Trump’s leading allies in the Gulf region. The two Gulf rulers view the Turkish president and Qatari emir as arch-foes.
The relocation of the two US bases stems additionally from the sharp reduction in fighting against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. There is therefore less need for US air force operations in those parts. The US facilities and aircraft based in Incirlik are already being shifted to bases in East Europe, our military sources report. The Pentagon is also looking at Andravida in southern Greece as a replacement for Incirlik.
US installations are being shipped out of Al-Udaid in Qatar to the Prince Sultan Air base in central Saudi Arabia near Al Kharj, which lies 77km south of Riyadh. Fifteen years ago, this base was the main US air force hub for the oil-rich Gulf region, home at times to more than 60,000 US service personnel. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and captured Baghdad, the Saudi rulers insisted on the evacuation of US troops. Now they are returning.
The relocation of the two big US air bases in the Middle East is bound to shake up the region’s strategic dynamic. American soldiers are now in place to defend the Saudi kingdom. This will no doubt convey a clear message to Iran that the Trump administration has the back of the royal regime in Riyadh.
A good question, one that has been asked often enough to have an easily found answer, Spoling Hupith7299. From Wiktionary:
Etymology
Origin uncertain; conjectured to be from Dutch dit voor dat (“this for that”), French tant pour tant (“equal for equal”),[1] or English tip for tap (“a blow for a blow”).
[Rooters] Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her birthplace in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Saturday, bursting into tears as she entered her childhood home for the first time since a Taliban gunman shot her in 2012.
The 20-year-old told a family friend she planned to return home after completing her education at Oxford, where she is reading for a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.
Roads were blocked off in the town of Mingora as Yousafzai, known universally by her first name, flew in by military helicopter with her parents and brother.
Security was tight around her former home, now rented by a family friend, Farid-ul-Haq Haqqani, who has kept the young woman’s room intact with her books, school trophies and luggage.
“I asked her when are you permanently coming back and she said ‘God willing, when my education is completed, I will God willing come back to Pakistan.’”
He added that Malala chatted in her room with four friends from her school days in Swat, while her parents greeted neighbors who dropped by - since the security detail would not allow her to go to other houses or even up on the roof of her home.
Malala has been visiting Pakistan since Thursday, her first trip home since she was shot and airlifted abroad for treatment. The government and military have been providing security.
This month, a new girls’ school built with her Nobel prize money opened in the village of Shangla in Swat Valley.
[IsraelTimes] Scrapped Security Council draft urges investigation into IDF response, reaffirms 'right to peaceful protest'
The United States on Saturday blocked a draft UN Security Council statement urging restraint and calling for an investigation of festivities on the Gazoo-Israel border, diplomats said.
Kuwait, which represents Arab countries on the council, presented the proposed statement, which called for an "independent and transparent investigation" of the violence.
The draft council statement also expressed "grave concern at the situation at the border." And it reaffirmed "the right to peaceful protest" and expressed the council’s "sorrow at the loss of innocent Paleostinian lives."
The Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gazoo security fence as members of Paleostinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations.
The draft statement was circulated to the council on Friday, but on Saturday the United States raised objections and said it did not support its adoption, a Security Council diplomat told AFP.
The US mission to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... did not immediately respond to a request from AFP for comment.
The proposed statement also called "for respect for international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... law and international humanitarian law, including protection of civilians," according to the draft seen by AFP.
Council members "called upon all sides to exercise restraint and prevent a further escalation," the draft said. The proposed statement stressed the need to promote peace between Israel and the Paleostinians based on a two-state solution.
The Paleostinian Authority on Saturday blamed the US and Britannia for obstructing the Paleostinian and Arab effort to persuade the Security Council to issue a resolution blasting Israel for the 16 Paleostinian fatalities.
Yusef al Mahmoud, spokesperson for the PA government in Ramallah, said that Washington’s and London’s opposition to a resolution condemning Israel "turns them into accomplices in the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army against our defenseless people."
Mahmoud accused the US and Britannia of displaying "bias in favor of oppression and suppression." He claimed that the Friday protests were "peaceful marches and demonstrations" to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land day.
The Israeli government alone, he charged, was "directly responsible for this dreadful massacre, which resulted in 16 deaders and hundreds of maimed."
The Security Council held a closed meeting on Friday night to discuss the festivities along the Gazoo-Israel border, despite a request from the US and Israel to postpone deliberations for Saturday due to Passover holiday eve.
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... announced on Friday that he had instructed his envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, to ask the Security Council to provide "international protection" for the Paleostinians.
On Saturday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "those concerned to refrain from any act that could lead to further casualties." He also called for an independent and transparent investigation into the deaths and injuries during Friday’s festivities.
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group, for its part, expressed "regret" over the Security Council’s failure to issue a resolution condemning Israel.
The group condemned the US for thwarting the move at the Security Council and accused Washington of being "fully biased" in favor of Israel and "encouraging Israel to commit more violence and terrorism against Paleostinian civilians."
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ As part of a program established between the Kurdistan Region and Germany, 500 Yezidi women and girls once held captive by ISIS will be sent to the European country, a Yezidi MP in the Iraqi parliament said.
Vian Dakhil, the only Yezidi in the Iraqi parliament, claimed many of the women and girls have been relocated by runaway ISIS fighters to other Iraqi provinces, including Baghdad.
During the first phase, 1,200 Yezidi women were sent to Germany. After going through rehabilitation programs, the former captives are free to decide whether they would prefer to stay in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... or return to the Kurdistan Region.
"In the second phase, 500 Yezidi girls and women, freed from ISIS will be sent to Germany," Dakhil told Rudaw.
La Belle France is also dedicating resources to helping the Yezidi women and girls, of whom 3,100 are still missing, Dakhil revealed.
She claimed that some of the Yezidis have been transferred by ISIS fighters to other Iraqi cities, including the capital.
"ISIS is present inside Baghdad. Some of the kidnapped girls and women have been transferred to Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces," she claimed.
"Not only in Saladin, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Anbar, but they [ISIS] are also present in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities and that the Yezidi girls and boys have not only been taken to Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , but also the Iraqi provinces as it is being disclosed bit by bit."
She recounted the story of a Yezidi woman, aged 20, who has recently been discovered in Baghdad. The woman had informed her neighbors she was a Kurd and Yezidi.
After the neighbors informed police of her story, the murderous Moslem holding her was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Dakhil confirmed the murderous Moslem has been captured by police, saying "we are trying to bring back the girl."
She claimed that Yezidis are still being bought and sold in Syria and Turkey.
Asked by Rudaw whether any budget had been allocated to pay ransoms, she said "the Iraqi government earmarked three billion dinars in ransom to help return the Yezidi women and girls. Except for that, no other amount has been allocated."
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani established an office in 2014 to help rescue the Yezidis kidnapped by ISIS. More than 3,000 Yezidis have been rescued, according to the KRG.
More than 6,000 members of the religious minority were taken captive by ISIS when they swept through northern Iraq, committing genocide against the Yezidis. Nearly half of the abductees remain unaccounted for.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A representative of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, told Sputnik that claims by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) about having retreated from Sinjar were actually a ruse.
In Iraq, the issue of the PKK leaving Sinjar is still on the agenda. A number of key political and military figures, including an Iraqi army front man, an al-Hashd al-Sha’abi militia representative, and Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Ibadi, have said that the PKK has completely retreated from the Sinjar region near the northern border of Iraq, with government forces and Peshmerga units taking their place.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Xelil Shirvan, a Peshmerga representative in Sinjar, told Sputnik that the PKK has not, in fact, leave the area.
"The PKK leadership claimed it left Sinjar, but in reality it is not so. They made this statement to confuse the citizens of Sinjar and prevent a Ottoman Turkish attack in the area. There are still some 500 snuffies of the PKK in the Sinjar mountains. In addition, there are some 2,000 Yazidi fighters of the Sinjar Resistance Forces, which is a division of PKK, despite having a different flag," Shirvan said.
He also underscored that there are rising tensions between Iraqi government forces located in Sinjar and several Peshmerga units.
"There are rising tensions between the Iraqi army and units under the command of Kasim Shisho, the commander of the Peshmerga in Sinjar. The Iraqi army intended to take Sherefedin ‐ a major center of the Yazidi population in Sinjar. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Peshmerga forces under Shisho’s command stood up against it and stated their readiness to protect Sherefedin. This was the reason for rising tensions," he said.
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[Jpost] Jerusalem rejects accusations of ’disproportionate’ force, says Gazoo fence separates state from terrorists.
Israel is bracing for several weeks of military and diplomatic confrontation that began with Friday’s march in the Gazoo Strip that left 16 Paleostinians dead and hundreds more injured and is expected to continue until May 15, which the Paleostinians mark as Nakba Day, the "Day of Catastrophe" marking Israel’s birth.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night congratulated the IDF for defending the borders and making it possible for the country’s citizens to celebrate the Passover Seder quietly.
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[AlArabia] The White House has instructed the State Department to freeze more than $200 million in funds earmarked for "recovery efforts" in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The report -- which came a day after Trump declared in a speech that the US would be quitting Syria "very soon" -- is another indication the president wants to disengage from the country.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) will be officially launching their southern Syria offensive in the coming weeks, a military source told al-Masdar News this evening.
According to the military source, most of the Syrian Army units that participated in the East Ghouta offensive will now partake in the operations in southern Syria.
The source added that the primary objectives will be to secure the main highway from Dara’a to Damascus and retake the al-Quneitra Governorate from the jihadist rebels.
The Syrian Army has offered to reconcile with the rebel forces in Dara’a; however, the latter has rejected all of the government’s offers.
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[BREITBART] Two men from Britannia and alleged members of ’the Beatles’ Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... execution cell have complained about being stripped of their UK citizenship, claiming they have been denied the right to a fair trial.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces captured Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh in January in eastern Syria, and they are currently being held in the north of the country by Kurdish forces.
Their cell became notorious for capturing, torturing, and murdering Western hostages, including American journalists and aid workers, and was seemingly led by the infamous ’Jihad John’ ‐ real name Mohammed Emwazi.
Now, in an interview with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named from captivity, they spoke of their membership of Islamic State, but denied membership of the brutal execution cell.
Elsheikh, from White City in west London, called the allegations "propaganda" and another called the killings "regrettable".
They argued that press stories about ’the Beatles’ were fabricated and used as a pretext to have them killed ‐ as ’Jihadi John’ was in a dronezap. "No fair trial, when I am ’the Beatle’ in the media. No fair trial," Elsheikh said.
He claimed the British government’s decision in February to strip them of citizenship was "illegal", exposing them to "rendition and torture", Elsheikh said, "being taken to any foreign land and treated in anyway and having nobody to vouch for you".
"When you have these two guys who don’t even have any citizenship... if we just disappear one day, where is my mom going to go and say where is my son," he added.
Asked about the beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other victims, Kotey said many in Islamic State "would have disagreed" with the killings "on the grounds that there is probably more benefit in them being political prisoners".
"As for my position, I didn’t see any benefit. It was something that was regrettable," he added, before blaming Western governments for failing to negotiate and offer ransoms.
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Just kill them. Naow!
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Restore their citizenship! Try them as traitors and give them the fullest penalties available under British law.
Terrorists from a wide array of ideological influences and organizational structures consider security and risk on a continuous and rational basis. The rationality of terrorism has been long noted of course but studies tended to focus on organizational reasoning behind the strategic turn toward violence. A more recent shift within the literature has examined rational behaviors that underpin the actual tactical commission of a terrorist offense. This article is interested in answering the following questions: What does the cost–benefit decision look like on a single operation? What does the planning process look like? How do terrorists choose between discrete targets? What emotions are felt during the planning and operational phases? What environmental cues are utilized in the decision-making process? Fortunately, much insight is available from the wider criminological literature where studies often provide offender-oriented accounts of the crime commission process. We hypothesize similar factors take place in terrorist decision making and search for evidence within a body of terrorist autobiographies.
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.
...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A fire broke out at the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah early on Saturday, destroying warehouses filled with cooking fuel and foodstuffs, port workers said.
Crown Prince of 
[DW] The EU has followed the UN and called for a probe into the deaths of 15 Palestinian protesters in Gaza. The EU's Federica Mogherini said a continuation of "peace talks towards a two-state solution" is needed.
[Debka] The US liquidates its two main Mid East air bases at Incirlik and Al-Udeid
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[AlArabia] The White House has instructed the State Department to freeze more than $200 million in funds earmarked for "recovery efforts" in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
[BREITBART] Two men from 
