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Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
finally moves on to a warmer place
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-Obits-
Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah finally moves on to a warmer place
[Jpost] A former leader of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
holy warrior group Ramadan Shallah has died after battling illness, al-Manar TV reported on Saturday.

Shallah, 62, served as secretary general of the Iran-backed group from 1995 to 2018. al-Manar did not specify the exact nature of the illness.

Labelled a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and others, the group has waged attacks on Israel and aims to establish an Islamic Paleostinian state.

"By losing Shallah we lost a great national man," said Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
in a statement published by the Paleostinian official news agency WAFA.

Shallah was born in 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 Hamaswith 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...
in 1958 and studied in Egypt before earning a Ph.D in economics in the United Kingdom. He was elected head of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad after the killing of the group's former chief, Fathi Shiqaqi, in 1995.
The Times of Israel adds:
Shalah, who led PIJ from 1995 until 2018, had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery, the terror group said. It didn’t say where he died, but he is believed to have been in Lebanon.

Shalah was appointed head of the terror group after the assassination of his predecessor, Fathi Shikaki in Malta, which was widely attributed to Israel. He was succeeded by Ziad al-Nakhala in 2018.

In 2003, Shalah was among eight Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives indicted in the United States on 53 terrorism and racketeering counts for running a cell out of Tampa, Florida. Though four suspects were arrested, Shalah was overseas and charged in absentia.

The US Department of Justice, in a statement on the indictment at the time, underlined the terror group’s role in suicide bombings that killed scores of Israelis, and at least two Americans, 20-year-old Alisa Flatow and 16-year-old Shoshana Ben-Yishai.

In April 2018, Shalah was transferred from Damascus, where he lives, to a hospital in Beirut after suffering a series of heart attacks, a source close to the group told the Palestinian Quds Press news agency. Shalah has been unconscious since undergoing surgery at the Beirut hospital, the report said.

Although the source attributed the Islamic Jihad leader’s deteriorating health to “natural causes,” the Palestinian Authority embassy in Beirut believed there’s a possibility Shalah may have been poisoned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/07/2020 01:58 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad (Palestian)

#1  That calls for a drink!
Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  My thanks for the image and the outstanding headline. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/07/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  He finally found his own private Two-State Solution.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/07/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  His state: burning while Beelzebub cornholes him. Outstanding.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  "Mother of Mercy...is this the Eid of Ramadan?"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/07/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
LA police lose confidence in mayor!
[LA Times] LAPD union decries Garcetti’s ‘killers’ comment. He says he wasn’t talking about police

Officials with the Los Angeles police union assailed Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday for comments he made about cutting the LAPD budget, saying police officers have lost confidence in the mayor’s ability to lead the city after days of demonstrations.

Speaking at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles on Thursday, Garcetti said that his proposal to reduce LAPD spending and shift the savings to minority communities was getting attention from mayors across the country.

“That’s exactly the point,” he said. “It starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be, or we’re going to continue being the killers that we are.”

A Garcetti aide later told The Times that the “killers” remark referred to police agencies across the country.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/07/2020 02:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  The dumbest African tyrant knows not to annoy his armed forces.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/07/2020 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I doubt the "loss of confidence" came on suddenly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/07/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Mayor Yoga Pants never inspired much confidence.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/07/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Between this putz, that chump in Minneapolis, and that f-tard in NYC (to name but three), it is absolutely no surprise that our major cities are really becoming sh!t holes (if not already).
Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Confusing cause & effect?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/07/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ You tell me. Is it causation or correlation?
Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#7  When the funding cuts come to transfer money to black communities you are gonna see massive changes anyway. Might as well retire early and move over to the CHP if possible.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/07/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 IMO, shit People have shit leaders (whether it's democracy or something else)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/07/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#9  When his elite security detail quits, then this will mean something.

Otherwise, it's a nothingburger.
Posted by: charger || 06/07/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Apparently DeBlasio thinks Minneapolis has a great idea and he's going to defund all those NYPD racists. That'll teach 'em to turn their backs on me!

Posted by: Mercutio || 06/07/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Antifa, et al., will be very, very pleased.
Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#12  When the police are no longer there to keep citizens from killing criminals...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/07/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#13  The wealthy have their own hired guns. The "poor" have armed themselves as well.

The law-abiding middle-class is screwed. Again.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/07/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Can you lose something you never had?

Have the trogs started looting Hollywood and Beverly Hills yet?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/07/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
OPEC, allies agree to extend deep output cuts through July
At a time when governments have higher than usual expenses and considerably lower tax revenues, certain very deserving governments continue the trend of substantially lower oil income.
[AlAhram] OPEC members led by 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...
and other key oil producers agreed Saturday to extend historic output cuts through July, according to the United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Anwar Gargash.

The 13-member cartel and its allies decided to extend by a month deep cuts, first agreed in April for May and June, to boost prices hit hard by the new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, Gargash said on Twitter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/07/2020 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraq's parliament gave its vote of confidence to seven cabinet ministers, completing the 22-member government of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran orders tougher jail sentences for people starting wildfires
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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