[AlAhram] Afghanistan will be forced to reconsider its policy towards the United States unless Washington reverses a decision to freeze part of the country's assets as compensation for victims of the September 11 attacks, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... said Monday.
"The 9/11 attacks had nothing to do with Afghanistan. If the United States does not deviate from its position and continues its provocative actions, the Islamic Emirate will also be forced to reconsider its policy towards the country," the Taliban deputy front man said in a statement posted to Twitter.
Last Friday US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... seized $7 billion in assets belonging to the previous Afghan government, aiming to split the funds between victims of September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and desperately needed aid for post-war Afghanistan.
The move drew an angry response from the country's new Taliban leaders, which branded the seizure a "theft" and a sign of US "moral decay."
On Monday they went further, saying: "Any misappropriation of the property of the Afghan people under the pretext of this incident is a clear violation of the agreement reached with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Taliban's name for the country.
[IsraelTimes] Hailing bilateral ties, Abdel-Fattah Burhan says security cooperation with Jerusalem enabled Khartoum to dismantle dangerous Sudanese bully boy groups
Sudan’s top general has lauded recent ties with Israel in a Saturday interview, saying that intelligence sharing between the two former adversaries helped arrest suspected gunnies in his country.
The two countries normalized relations late in 2020 as part of a series of US-brokered deals between Israel and four Arab countries — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Israel and Sudan have since crafted security and intelligence relationships that have seen officials exchange meetings repeatedly in unannounced trips.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling Sovereign Council, said exchange of intelligence has enabled Sudan to dismantle and arrest suspected bully boy groups in Sudan that "could have undermined the security of Sudan and the region."
Speaking in an interview with Sudan’s state-run TV aired late Saturday, Burhan said it is legitimate for Sudanese security and intelligence agencies to have ties and exchange visits with Israel.
He insisted his country’s relations with Israel are not of a political nature, saying that no senior Sudanese official has yet made a visit to Israel. He did not elaborate.
There was no immediate comment from Israel. Israel has been silent on the October military coup in Sudan, led by Burhan, and the ensuing unrest there, indicating it intends to maintain normalized ties with Sudan.
Sudanese and Israeli officials exchanged unannounced visits in recent weeks. Most recently, a Sudanese security delegation visited Tel Aviv last week, following a visit by Israeli officials, including Mossad intelligence officers, to Khartoum in January.
In October, the then Sudanese justice minister, Nasredeen Abdulbari, and Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll and Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej held a rare public meeting in the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi.
The normalization of ties with Israel paved the way for Sudan to reintegrate into the international community after two decades of isolation under former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... Sudan was once one of Israel’s fiercest rivals in the Arab world. It hosted the landmark Arab conference after the 1967 Mideast war at which eight Arab countries vowed never to make peace with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] A spokesperson for Energy Minister Karine Elharrar says Israelis are right to gush over Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s warm welcome for her at the Egyptian Petroleum Show in Cairo.
"The president approaching the minister, the fact that he said he is happy she came and invited her to return is super exciting and testifies to the fact that ties that were once under wraps have become public," the spokesperson says, adding that the display was not totally expected.
This is the first time Israel has been invited to the major regional gas conference, which has met four times before, according to Elharrar’s spokesperson. Most Egyptians reject normalization with Israel despite a peace treaty between the countries.
Elharrar says that Israels’ energy industry is "a bridge for regional ties," in comments carried by Ynet.
According to to the news site, Elharrar indicated to the conference that Israeli gas would eventually reach Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... , via Egypt.
On Twitter, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joins the crush of Israelis praising the authoritarian leader for his gesture to the Israeli minister, saying he "touched us all."
[Breitbart] Mexico’s president drew harsh criticism from various international press freedom organizations after he singled out a journalist for revealing his son’s alleged income and other personal information. The confrontational statements between politician and journalists in Mexico follows the deaths of five journalists killed since the start of the year.
In recent days, Mexican Journalist Carlos Loret De Mola published an expose claiming that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) son, Jose Ramon Beltran, is living a life of luxury in Houston benefiting from companies that had dealings with Mexico’s oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos). Loret de Mola pointed to two houses in Houston, as well as Jose Ramon’s alleged lavish lifestyle even though he has no real source of income. Of course he does: El Grande Hombre
This week, Lopez Obrador lashed out at Loret De Mola by revealing a series of PowerPoint slides with the journalist’s financial information claiming that the journalist made over $1.5 million USD for writing hit pieces against his government. AMLO repeatedly claimed that since he took office in 2018, corruption and impunity have ended in Mexico and that critical news stories are pushed by corrupt news outlets serving his rivals.
Loret De Mola published a short video soon after being singled out by AMLO claiming that the information was false and that releasing financial information about an individual is a crime. In one example, AMLO claimed that Loret De Mola earned millions of Pesos for working in Televisa. However, the journalist claimed that he left his job as an anchor in that channel in 2019. Loret De Mola then said he would redouble his efforts in exposing a “dictator” in the making.
In prior days, AMLO lashed out against other journalists who he praised under prior administrations such as Carmen Aristegui. International press freedom organizations have called out the Mexican president for targeting news outlets while little has been done by the government in stopping the impunity with which journalists have been killed in Mexico As Breitbart Texas has reported, since the start of the year, there have been five journalists killed, sparking mass outrage from journalists throughout. Activists claim that under AMLO’s administration, there have been more journalists killed than in prior administrations.
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A citizen mused, "Is it true
That our agency rules us? Who knew!"
Dubya smirked. Poppy blinked.
Barack lurked. Bubba winked:
"Was your first clue Bush 1 or Bush 2?"
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[IsraelTimes] Attackers slit Father Jacques Hamel’s throat in his church in 2016, as La Belle France was on high alert over jihadist attacks following the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... massacre.
Four alleged accomplices
...Jean-Philippe Jean Louis, Farid Khelil, Yassine Sebaihia, and ISIS recruiter Rachid Kassim - who was probably airstruck in Mosul after the events in question...
in the murder of an 85-year-old French priest go on trial in Gay Paree on Monday after years of investigations into one of the most grisly jihadist attacks that have rocked La Belle France in recent years.
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[EpochTimes] One of America’s largest militias has been inactive since its leader’s arrest—and it’s not the Oath Keepers.
The group in question is the Not F****** Around Coalition (NFAC),
...the Not Fucking Around Coalition has been around under that name since 2017. Originally described as a far right Patriot militia made up primarily of US Constitution-respecting military veterans, different only in its Black racial exclusiveness from the III Percenters, Oath Keepers, and Boogaloo Bois. But with exposure it became clear their Black Nationalist/Black Separatist ideology marked them as similar to Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers. Protests in Louisville, Kentucky and Stone Mountain were the big excitements until they commandeered the center of Austin in early 2021 as a CHAZ-like independent Black homeland called Orisha Land. There was also a colony in the Colorado mountains, but the romantic city folk who made up the membership never developed the necessary skills, so that, too, ended quickly ...
an all-black militia that captured headlines during the protests in the summer of 2020. With untold hundreds of NFAC members showing up at events sporting military gear and rifles, the organization has claimed credit for pressuring government for justice in cases such as the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
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The flashlight was as good an excuse as any to get the head of one of the bigger BLM-related armed militias out of circulation, like whatsisname back in the day who was done in by the ITS for not paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
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The smuggling of drugs and humans across our border seems to be going according to DS/left-wing/Dem plans. If this weren't true, Bidet would have left Trump's control measures in place (agreements with countries south of our border, withholding aid unless they help control our border, wall and other means). Since there is large amounts of money involved, what's the flow of money back through the U.S. and into the coffers of those who benefit, namely those mentioned in the first sentence? Networks?
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Allow lawsuits against the PRC by those affected by fentanyl and carfentanil ODs. Collect the $$$ awarded by slapping punitive tariffs on all PRC imports to the USA across the board, distribute to the plaintiffs.
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Shafaq News / The Investigation and Evidence Gathering department in Duhok governorate revealed today that an international team will unearth a mass grave in Hardan area, in Sinjar district.
The department's spokesman, Nechirvan Soleiman, said that the team will begin its work on February 20, in coordination with the mass graves directorate in Baghdad, in addition to a team from the Kurdistan region.
Soleiman indicated that the number of mass graves in Sinjar has reached 105, noting that they contain bodies of Yazidi victims who were killed by ISIS terrorists when they invaded the city back in 2014.
The joint national team, in cooperation with the international team, managed to excavate 27 mass graves in Sinjar until today, he added.
In August 2014, ISIS invaded Sinjar district, in Nineveh governorate, committed bloody massacres against its Yazidi community, and abducted more than 5,000 young girls and women whose fate is still unknown until today.
[IsraelTimes] Security officials reportedly advised Shaked to prevent Sheikh Raed Salah from traveling abroad amid concerns he will continue anti-Israel activity.
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on Monday signed an order prohibiting bully boyMoslemholy man Sheikh Raed Salah
... alternately Raed Saleh, he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as suitable for the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee. Sheikh Saleh’s role is to cycle in and out of Israeli prisons for the cause...
from leaving the country.
Security officials had advised Shaked to take the measure in order to stymie Salah’s ability to renew his activities for the Islamic Movement, according to Hebrew media reports.
Salah has long been one of Israel’s most prominent Islamists. He led the Islamic Movement’s radical Northern Branch until it was banned by the government in 2015 for its alleged terror ties. Israeli authorities charged that the Northern Branch had helped incite a wave of stabbing attacks and car-rammings against Israelis.
Salah was arrested two years later and eventually convicted of incitement to terror, as well as supporting a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization — in this case, his own movement.
He was released in December last year after serving 17 months and given a hero’s welcome in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm in the north of the country.
Salah was incarcerated for praising a 2017 attack by three Arab Israeli bandidosgunnies at the holy Temple Mount site in Jerusalem’s Old City; the assailants shot full of holes two Druze coppers before being killed by Israeli forces.
The hilltop is Judaism’s holiest place, as the site of both Biblical Temples, as well as the third-holiest sanctuary of Islam. The incident — and an Israeli decision to intensify security on the hilltop — precipitated days of intense festivities between Israeli forces and Paleostinians. Several Paleostinians were killed, both while committing attacks and during festivities with Israeli troops.
According to the verdict against him, Salah gave a sermon in the midst of the crisis in which he praised the "deaders of al-Aqsa."
Salah gave a similar speech at a symbolic funeral for the three button men in Umm al-Fahm, and a would-be stabber from the city who was arrested in Tel Aviv days later indicated he had been inspired by Salah’s words, according to the conviction.
Israel’s Islamic Movement was founded in the early 1970s by Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish, a preacher from Kafr Qasim.
In the 1990s, the Islamists split over the negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians that led to the Oslo Accords. Darwish’s Southern faction embraced the grinding of the peace processor, eventually entering the Knesset as the Ra’am faction. The party is now a member of the ruling coalition.
The more radical Salah and his disciples — the so-called Northern Branch — staunchly opposed the Oslo Accords and Israeli parliamentary politics alike. The division was rarely publicly acknowledged, with both parties continuing to call themselves simply "the Islamic Movement."
Salah had previously been convicted on a number of occasions of terror charges and in 2017 was released from prison after serving a nine-month sentence for incitement to violence and racism.
Nonetheless, his 2020 conviction was slammed by Arab Israeli parliamentarians as an attempt to suppress free speech.
[IsraelTimes] American military says flight was meant to demonstrate its ability to send aircraft from UK to the Middle East ’seamlessly,’ given tensions in the region.
Israeli F-15 fighter jets escorted an American B-52 bomber as it made its way through Israeli airspace en route to the Persian Gulf on Monday in an apparent show of force to Iran ...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... amid lingering tensions in the region.
"The flight was held as part of close cooperation with the US military, which represents a significant element in ensuring the security of the State of Israel’s airspace and the Middle East," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
The B-52H Stratofortress, which is capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, flew from its base in the United Kingdom, through the Straits of Gibraltar, over the Mediterranean, through Israeli airspace and out over the Red Sea, before traveling back on roughly the same route to the United Kingdom, as could be seen on public flight-tracking software.
The US military said the flight was meant to demonstrate the "US Air Force’s ability to seamlessly operate across combatant commands." It said the B-52 was also accompanied by two F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets.
Israeli jets escorting American bombers have become a regular fixture in the skies of the Middle East in recent months as tensions between Tehran and the West have risen, while an attempt is underway to negotiate a new nuclear deal to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from obtaining an atomic weapon in exchange for sanctions relief.
Israel, which is not a party to the talks, has maintained its freedom to act against Tehran’s nuclear program if it deems it necessary.
To that end, the Israeli Air Force has begun conducting exercises simulating strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, with a US military official reportedly observing one recent drill.
Recent weeks have also seen a noted rise in attacks by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... against the United Arab Emirates and Saudia Arabia, two key US allies in the region.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
...The word 
