[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group and Afghan government are expected to exchange at least six thousand prisoners following the signing of peace deal between Taliban and Washington.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesperson of the political office of Taliban in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... has confirmed to RFE/RL that the group would definitely launch intra-Afghan talks after the signing of the deal.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Shaheen said trust-building measures would be a prerequisite for the launch of the intra-Afgahn dialogue.
According to Shaheen, the Afghan government will release 5,000 Taliban prisoners in its first step to build trust and similarly the Taliban group will release 1,000 security personnel.
Shaheen also confirmed to RFE/RL that the Taliban group is expected to sign the peace deal with the United States on coming Saturday.
He also added that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will likely sign the agreement in Qatari capital of Doha, in the presence of the representatives of 26 countries.
#Nairobi#Kenya: Terrorist groups may be plotting an attack against a major hotel in Nairobi. The exact hotel has not been identified, but it is believed to be a hotel popular with tourists and business travelers. Exercise increased vigilance. https://t.co/PL7VWqTQ0Opic.twitter.com/ZDiJqwNGyS
....the bearded former manager at a Chechen state telecom who fled west when accused of being a Wahhabi, which in Chechnya means membership in the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate...
posted a video showing him disheveled and breathing hard, standing over the bloodied body of another man. “Who sent you? Where have you come from?” Abdurakhmanov asks, before producing a hammer, which he says was used by the man in an attempted murder.
The injured man on the ground, whose voice is muffled, replies that he came “from Moscow”7 and says, “They have my mother.” There was no immediate comment from Polish authorities.
The Sweden-based Chechen rights group Vayfond described the attack as an assassination attempt.
Abdurakhmanov is one of the most prominent and outspoken critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya province. He left Chechnya in 2015 following threats from a Chechen official linked to Kadyrov.
After being refused asylum in Georgia, Abdurakhmanov moved to Poland, where he lived at an undisclosed location while attempting to apply for asylum. The application was rejected by Poland’s interior ministry in 2018.
Following anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in Halle and Hanau, Israeli ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff warned Thursday that: "No democratic society can survive if minorities are constantly threatened or harmed."
"The Holocaust has shown us all where such hatred leads," he told the German regional newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. "An open society can tolerate many things, but never violence. People are starting to act violently against minorities, against Jews and Muslims again."
The ambassador also appealed to Jews and Muslims not to hide their religious affiliation.
"More security for every kind of community in Germany cannot be achieved by people hiding their identity, their religion," said the Israeli ambassador, who has been living in Germany for two and a half years.
"Not wearing a kippa or Muslim headgear would also mean hiding the problem. We have to protect everyone, stem terrorism and hatred, and maintain an open society where we can celebrate our diversity."
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Committed our treasury and manhood for pulling them out of two suicide attempts in the 20th Century. Then we indebted ourselves for generations doing the same to protect them from Moscow only to have them erect an authoritarian system in Brussels that is basically no different, other than having better suits. As lost as Justinian's attempt to resurrect the fallen Western Roman Empire.
REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) ‐ The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke over the phone on Friday, a day after Syrian government airstrikes killed 33 Turkish troops, significantly ratcheting up tensions between Ankara and Moscow. It was the highest number of Turkish soldiers killed in a single day since Ankara first intervened in the Syrian conflict in 2016.
The development was the most serious escalation in the conflict between Turkish and Russia-backed Syrian forces and raised the prospect of all-out war with millions of Syrian civilians trapped in the middle.
NATO envoys held emergency talks at the request of Turkey, a NATO member, and scores of migrants began converging on Turkey’s border with Greece seeking entry into Europe after Turkey said it was "no longer able to hold refugees." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country already hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees, has long threatened to "open the gates" for millions of refugees eager to flee to Europe unless more international support was provided.
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy warned the movement of migrants to the West could continue if the situation in Idlib deteriorated.
"Some asylum seekers and migrants in our country, worried about developments, have begun to move towards our western borders," he said. "If the situation worsens this risk will continue to increase." However, he added that there was "no change" in Turkey’s migration policy.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] Head of al-Wataniya (National) Coalition Ayad Allawi affirmed his determination to pursue the demonstrators' killers and bring them to justice.
Allawi earlier censured those who seek assuming posts regardless protesters’ demands, describing it as dishonorable.
In a Tweet, Allawi said the government should, during the next period, be keen on holding the murderer of protesters accountable and on holding early elections.
Allawi condemned ignoring protesters’ demands and the oppression against protesters for five months.
Political analyst Ali Fadhil: #AlSadr's speech today has been full of contradictions. He says killing protesters was just to pinch them. He says a government will only be formed after I approve it and that he may restore Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.#BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/zeezAI4qO0
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According to the reports, Imad al-Tawil, a Hezbollah terrorist was working with Iran to set up an Iranian infrastructure in the Golan. Israel has not commented on the story.
Graham calling for Pentagon to establish a no-fly zone in Russian-controlled airspace in Idlib likely a difficult sell for the Trump admin. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thurs that US has not had "discussion about reengaging in the civil war"https://t.co/aDyLwPQWAShttps://t.co/WeJR6o9SrH
Just about as crummy an idea as NATO joining in the festivities on the Turk side. We're out of it. Sit and watch the show and pass the popcorn. Assad - bad. Think we can all agree on that. Al Qaeda (al-Nusra, etc.) worse. ISIS worse. Since Erdogan's now allied with al-Nusra, why in the world would we support him in any manner?
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Now why would Lindsey say this? It's an amazingly bad idea.
Theory: Whatever the Trump admin proposes, the Dems are against automatically. Lindsey says no-fly zone. Everyone freaks out. Trump says OK we're not going to do what we weren't going to do anyway. Great Victory for the Dems. And Trump is immunized against some idiot calling for a no-fly zone.
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Lindsey has been fairly unpredictable lately. He does have to face us SC voters in a primary in June or July (separate from the Democrat one tomorrow), and so he may be zigging and zagging...he is unpopular with a fairly large segment of the Republican party down here.
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TEHRAN – Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president of Iran for Women and Family Affairs, has tested positive for the coronavirus. "Ms. Ebtekar showed signs of infection with coronavirus and was tested. The results came back positive," her adviser was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
The vice president is also known as the English-language spokeswoman for the 1979 hostage-takers who seized the US embassy in Tehran and sparked the 444-day diplomatic crisis.
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.
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