[ToloNews] On the threshold of the intra-Afghan talks, which are expected to be held on Doha in the near future, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... on Saturday issued a statement saying the group does not recognize the Afghan government as a legitimate system.
The statement was apparently issued in response to a recent statement by the Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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... and one of his advisers on the grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban.
"The Islamic Emirate does not recognize the Kabul administration as a government but views it as western imported structure working for the continuation of American occupation," the Taliban’s statement reads, in versions of English, Dari and Pashto.
"Two days earlier, an advisor to Kabul administration’s Arg stated that ’intra-Afghan’ term ascribed to the negotiation process was incorrect and that talks were going to be held between the Kabul administration and Taliban along with other such remarks," the statement said.
Also last week, the Taliban’s front man Suhail Shaheen in an interview with Iran's Hamshahri newspaper said that the group doesn’t recognize the government in Kabul as a legitimate government.
In the interview, Shaheen described the Taliban as the 'winner of the war,' stating that the group will attend the intra-Afghan talks only to bring an Islamic government in Afghanistan.
Shaheen said that the Taliban will talk with all Afghan factions not only the government and the High Council of National Reconciliation.
In response to the statement, the Presidential Palace has said that such statements by the Taliban are only to waste time and make irrelevant excuses.
Afghan government officials have said that the Taliban must accept the Afghan government as the main side of the talks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... Mohammad Reza Bahrami, the former Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan, in a series of tweets, said that recent statements by the Taliban officials indicate that their views have not changed.
"The position of the Taliban's spokesmen as articulated in recent interviews with the ShemshadTV and Hamshahri paper reaffirms the fact that their ideology remains fundamentally unchanged; their perspective on governance is essentially the same and they are as intransigent as ever," tweeted Bahrami.
"It cannot be accepted that the architects of the Doha agreement signed it without being fully informed of the Taliban's intentions. Perhaps one should search for a more realistic characterization than "mistake" for their act," Bahrami said.
Shaheen has said that the Taliban’s violence reduced significantly in the country, but the Afghan government has insisted that violence has increased despite the Taliban’s continued assurances.
The Afghan Ministry of Interior said on Thursday that at least 121 Afghan non-combatants were killed and 336 more were maimed in Taliban attacks in 29 provinces over the past two weeks.
The majority of the casualties occurred in Kandahar, Baghlan, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces, according to the Ministry of Interior.
[Al Ahram] The corpse count in South Sudan's Warrap State has risen to 148 following fighting this past weekend during a disarmament exercise, a local government official said on Friday, and the UN has deployed forces to maintain calm in the region.
Heavy festivities erupted over a two-day period between armed civilians and government forces carrying out a disarmament project, after some armed youths in the Greater Tonj area started engaging the security forces.
It is still unclear what set off the festivities.
Tonj East County Executive Director Makuei Mabior Dhuol told Rooters that the corpse count jumped due to some of the injured not receiving immediate medical treatment after the fighting.
"According to the latest report, we have collected 148 people killed from both sides," Mabior said. "85 were civilians and the other 63 were government soldiers."
A further 141 were maimed, Mabior added.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Peace Mission in South Sudan peacekeeping's patrol arrived in Tonj on Tuesday and has set up a temporary operating base to help deter further violence, spokesperson La Belle Francesca Mold told Rooters.
"The patrol reported that the situation is calm although tensions remain high," Mold said.
The national government, formed this year after a deal to end a conflict that broke out in 2013, launched a disarmament exercise in Tonj county last month, saying that armed militias in the area were driving inter-communal violence.
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#Turkey's #Erdogan today accused #Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority, claimed mosques and schools are under attack, and declared Turkey won's hesitate to use force. ( #Greece a Terrorist state ) ? 😂 When a Slut speaks of honor pic.twitter.com/WPmFMbrKzq
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Confucius say, "Mosque? Me no see 'em.
We Chinese demolish to free him,
But Muslim ungrateful!
Next, really make hateful:
Refurnish his place as museum."
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Many years of hatred towards the Turks. Well deserved.
[Rudaw] A Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) affiliate group confirmed on Saturday the death of seven fighters in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in northern Sulaimani province last week.
The East Kurdistan Protection Units Command revealed the identities of seven of their fighters killed in Ottoman Turkish airstrikes on August 7 near Qamish village, 50 kilometres north of Sulaimani city.
The slain PKK fighters include six women and one man, according to PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency.
Hours following the attack, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s Ministry of Defense claimed that it had "neutralized" seven PKK fighters in the strike.
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[BenarNews] Efforts to combat militancy in the Philippines seem to have made no substantial dent against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -linked groups since the United States launched a multi-million-dollar program in 2017 to back Manila’s counter-extremist activities, the Pentagon said in a new report.
The regional branch of Islamic State and associated turban groups in the southern Mindanao region remain about the same in size and in strength, the report said. And in recent months, the Philippine IS affiliate tried to take advantage of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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COIN is pretty much a bad joke everywhere at this point.
Some people never learn.
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Bureaucrats everywhere think the same. If they couldn't operate without strict rules and regs governing their organization they think that no one else can either.
Gotta have org charts and meetings or you don't exist.
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"These groups continue to operate in the southern Philippines where separatist groups and hard boy groups have existed for decades. [W]e have seen little progress in improving the economic, social, and political conditions in that part of the country."
Ding ding ding.
These Muslims were acting up before the US occupation in 1898. Not gonna change now. Especially with the government in Manila who neglects them. The whole thing is none of our beeswax.
[Al Ahram] There can be no financial bailout for Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , a senior U.S. official said Saturday, calling on the country's politicians to heed popular calls for change, real reform and an end to endemic corruption.
David Hale, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, said the U.S. and its allies will respond to ``systemic reforms with sustained financial support.'' He also called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the Aug. 4 blast that killed nearly 180 people and maimed thousands.
He said an FBI team is arriving this weekend to take part in the probe at the invitation of Lebanese authorities.
Hale arrived in Beirut on Thursday, where he met with volunteers helping out at the site of the blast, as well as the country's top political and religious leadership.
``America calls on Lebanon's politicians to finally respond to the people's longstanding and legitimate demands and create a credible plan - accepted by the Lebanese people - for good governance, sound economic and financial reform, and an end to the endemic corruption that has stifled Lebanon's tremendous potential,'' he said.
``But as the dozens of young activists and volunteers I met so bluntly demanded, there can be no bailout,'' Hale said in a recorded message posted on the U.S. Embassy website Saturday.
Hale's comments were in line with Washington's message before the visit. But he didn't detail whether the U.S. and Western allies are ready to support a government in which Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group has clout.
After visiting the site of the blast, Hale called for the state to exercise control over its borders and ports, in a clear reference to claims Hezbollah group controls them.
``We can never go back to an era in which anything goes at the port or borders of Lebanon,'' Hale said.
Washington and its allies consider the Iran-backed group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, and have accused it of abusing government funds and undermining state authority. There was speculation in the local media that Hale would be pushing for a government that excludes the group.
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[IsraelTimes] IAEA document reportedly says Tehran moving advanced centrifuges to the nuclear facility targeted by mysterious blast last month, in order to set up new cascades.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has reportedly been moving to boost uranium enrichment at the Natanz nuclear facility, the site of a mysterious blast last month that allegedly targeted advanced centrifuges.
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I wonder if they'll be as proficient with nukes as they have been with air defense artillery and high level personal security.
[Jpost] Cyberterrorism experts say Hezbollah’s cyberwarfare education is second to none, imported from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and fine-tuned over two decades.
Hezbollah’s is the best, North Korea’s is the best, Iran’s is the best, Russia’s is the best, China’s is the best — so many bests!
Many universities around the globe have had their operations disrupted by COVID-19. But Hezbollah’s school of cyberwarfare remains open for instruction.
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Jpost] Cyberterrorism experts say Hezbollah’s cyberwarfare education is second to none, imported from 
