[AnNahar] Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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... returned Thursday to the eastern city of Benghazi after a long absence, including for treatment in a Gay Paree hospital, an AFP correspondent reported.
The 75-year-old, smiling and dressed in a black suit, greeted generals from his self-styled army after descending from a plane, in his first public appearance for weeks.
[AnNahar] The man tasked by French President Emmanuel Macron with coming up with a battle plan for the country's most deprived areas called Thursday for a "radical change" in approach in high-immigration suburbs.
During campaigning, Macron vowed to tackle what he termed the "house arrest" of many young people who find it hard to escape the poverty, unemployment and crime that blight many suburban areas of French cities.
He promised to invest more in basic services, promote entrepreneurship as a fast-track to success and crack down on employers who push applications from people with Arab- or African-sounding names to the bottom of the pile.
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During campaigning, Macron vowed to tackle what he termed the "house arrest" of many young people who find it hard to escape the poverty, unemployment and crime that blight many suburban areas of French cities
No different here. You keep following the behavior of your failed progenitors and their progenitors and their progenitors, you'll never have change. Nothing will change.
...the Muslim convert who for years had a website he described as a jihadist news service for his brothers worldwide, which no doubt had something to do with the fact that Homeland and the FBI investigated him for ties to ISIS...
57, entered his plea to one count of making a false statement to law enforcement. Under his agreement, both he and federal prosecutors have agreed to ask a judge to sentence him to between 10 and 16 months in federal prison.
Should Chief U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan accept the recommended guidelines, she can sentence Pino to prison, house arrest or probation, or a combination of the three.
Gaughan will sentence Pino on Aug. 23. She released him on $25,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to surrender his passport.
Pino has worked at Kent State since 1992 and specializes in Latin History and the Third World. The tenured professor has a history of making controversial statements in line with his Muslim faith and his anti-Israel views.
[Ynet] Israel's envoy to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... said on Thursday that Iran had recruited at least 80,000 Shiite fighters which it was training at a base just over five miles from Damascus.
Holding up a map, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told the Security Council that Iran had set up a training base just over five miles from Damascus.
"What you can see here is Iran's central induction and recruitment centre in Syria. There are over 80,000 Shia turbans in Syria under Iranian control. It is at this base, just over five miles from Damascus, where they are trained to commit acts of terror in Syria and across the region," Danon said.
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80,000 guys take up a lot of room. At, say, three pounds of food per day, that's 240,000 pounds of food, or 120 tons. Every day. You can't forage among the locals at that rate for long, even if you have the buttheads spread out in locations with, say, 1000 guys. Logistics are going to be difficult or, if not, Obama's millions bought a lot of trucks.
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Ample logistical food supply available from the "fields of grain" and refining/milling capacity of metropolitan Damascus, Bekaa Valley, and Golan Heights. Should last a least... a couple hours
At least a full stomach won't make them sleepy, Infidel!
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[AnNahar] In the vast desert province of Anbar where 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.... group jihadists first emerged in Iraq, parliamentary elections next month are an opportunity for the predominantly Sunni residents to settle scores.
Many of the new candidates are eager to push out politicians they believe minimised the danger of -- or even sympathised with -- the Sunni Lions of Islam that stormed across the country in the summer of 2014.
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[AAWSAT] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... vowed to continue the "Great Return March" and move it to the West Bank, hoping it carries out the message and achieves goals it is set out to accomplish.
"Rallies will move to the West Bank and will be joined by our people abroad," Haniyeh told a meeting organized by the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Gazoo Strip on Wednesday.
On another hand, a Fatah official source told Asharq al-Awsat that the Paleostinian nationalist political party viewed Haniyeh's comments as a national trade.
"Hamas wants to draw attention. Wants to show itself as the leader of these demonstrations‐they want them to escalate in order to continue the evasion of reconciliation."
"They (Hamas) can rid Gazoo of all its dire crises by handing over to the government and not sending people to die," the source added.
"Fatah supported, acted and was the first to take part in peaceful marches in the West Bank and Gazoo, even before Hamas said it supported these approaches. Fatah is moving in the West Bank and in Gazoo," he pointed out.
Needless to say, Fatah works to ensure freedom of demonstration and protection of the Paleostinian people, the source confirmed.
[IsraelTimes] At Gazoo funeral, Paleostinian terror group leader Haniyeh vows to 'sever the hand' that assassinated Fadi al-Batsh
Thousands of Paleostinians joined a mass funeral on Thursday for a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", rocket and drone expert who was bumped off in Malaysia last week.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group backs workshops teaching activists what isn't permitted, while leaders frame themselves as followers of Mandela, Gandhi; Israel says protests are cover for terrorism
Reveling in its success in winning the attention of the international community with the latest mass border protests, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", claims to be embracing new, nonviolent tactics for breaking the Israeli security blockade on the Gazoo Strip.
The Paleostinian terror group that rules Gazoo says it considers the weekly "March of Return" rallies ‐ in which protesters have burned tires, hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at Israeli troops, flown flaming kites over the border and attempted to sabotage the security fence ‐ a pivot toward nonviolence. Israel says Hamas uses the marches ‐ which the terror group’s leaders have publicly declared are intended to erase the border ad liberate Paleostine ‐ as cover for terrorist attacks.
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[Ynet] Citing Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials, New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report claims Fadi Albatsh's liquidation in Malaysia was part of wider Mossad operation to eliminate Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", drone experts, and sabotage a Pyongyang-backed project for development and transfer of advanced weapons to Gazoo.
The recent liquidation of Fadi Albatsh, a Hamas electrical engineer and drones expert, was part of a wide scale operation by the Mossad to sabotage projects, which may have been assisted by North Korea, aimed at developing and bringing advanced weapons to the Gazoo Strip, according to a report in The New York Times.
The report cites Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials to support the claim that Albatsh "may have been involved in negotiating North Korean arms deals through Malaysia."
One of the intelligence officials added that Albatsh had helped broker the deal, which was exposed by Egypt when it recently seized a shipment of North Korean communications components used for guided munitions that were being transported to the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.
The Middle Eastern intelligence officials, the report continues, added that the killing was part of a broader operation headed by the Mossad chief, Yossi Cohen, aimed at subverting a Hamas program that entails the participation of Gazoo’s foremost scientific experts in overseas projects "to gather know-how and weaponry to fight Israel."
Albatsh, 35, who co-authored an academic essay on the use of drones, was dispatched to Malaysia to research and purchase drones for his terror group back home.
According to officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Israeli intelligence agency has attached particular importance to monitoring Hamas’s clandestine drone project, which focuses on aerial and underwater vehicles capable of upgrading Gazoo’s strategic offensive capabilities by enabling more accurate and effective homing in on Israeli targets than the rockets utilized in the last military conflicts.
Malaysia, a predominantly Moslem-populated country, has backed the Paleostinian cause throughout the years, has no diplomatic relations with Israel and its prime minister, Najib Razak, visited Gazoo in 2013. The intelligence officials speaking to the New York Times said that Hamas began to see Malaysia as an ideal location to advance its research ambitions.
In 2010, the country served as a training ground for Paleostinian paragliders who were being prepared for use in future attacks on Israel, according to a statement cited in the report by the Israeli secret service. Malaysian officials denied any involvement in such a plot.
The hit on Albatsh was not, however, the first attempt on his life, the report claims. "Mr. Albatsh told friends in Malaysia that he had narrowly avoide
[AlMasdar] Russian continues to send more arms, ammunition and military equipment to Syria to help the Syrian forces defeat the terrorist group across the war-torn country.
Recently, the Kyzyl-60: a Russian cargo vessel was seen crossing the Mediterranean-bound Bosphorus en route to the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia keeps its naval base.
According to sources, the vessel is laden with weapons, ammunition and desert camouflage URAL 4320 trucks.
The kind of cargo might indicate that Russia is planning a new offensive alongside the Syrian Army in the Syrian Desert.
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Against the Turks?
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[Free Beacon] Secretary of Defense James Mattis explained Thursday why he directed a strike that reportedly killed hundreds of Russian mercenaries in Syria back in February.
Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. has a deconfliction line with Russia to ensure that the two countries can communicate in order to avoid direct conflict with one another in Syria. He said that a group of "irregular forces" were in conflict with U.S. forces, and once it was ascertained that those forces were not Russian regulars, Mattis directed a counterattack.
"The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, and my direction to the chairman was for the force, then, to be annihilated," Mattis said. "And it was."
The force comprised hundreds of Russian mercenaries, which then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo attested to when he said the U.S. killed "a couple hundred Russians." On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Pompeo to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of state.
Asked about whether the Russian Federation was harassing U.S. forces in Syria, Mattis stopped short of blaming Russia for particular battlefield actions.
"I cannot target the responsibility to the Russians right now," he said. "It is a crowded battlefield; it’s also got Iranians there and, of course, the regime forces as well."
He touted the sanctions the Trump administration has imposed on specific Russians.
"You notice as we go forward, we’ve so far sanctioned 189 individuals in Russia," he said.
"Economic sanctions are going to be obviously looked at for future violations as well," Mattis added. "So we have an asymmetric way, an indirect way, of going after them and making them pay."
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
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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.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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...
[Cleveland.com] A controversial Kent State University professor known for his anti-Israel views pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the FBI.
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
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