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Ideological not just military. Several service members were converting the local savages to the Christian faith when they were threatened with court-martial. You live and die for the religion or non religion that you follow.
[ToloNews] As the US troops are leaving, Russian envoy Zamir Kabulov has said that the United States cannot and should not transform the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan into the relocation of its military facilities to Central Asia, something that the US is looking into it as an option to provide over-the-horizon support to Afghan forces.
"We have already sent such a signal to Washington at various levels. I hope it will be heard," Kabulov said as quoted by Russian news agency, RIA.
He called on the Afghan government and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... to establish a coalition government.
Kabulov promised international support in forming an interim government, adding that that "the final decision on the configuration and parameters of the future power structure should be made by Afghans themselves."
The Russian envoy said he expects that a suitable occasion for the start of peace negotiations will come closer to autumn.
"We continue to work together in the format of an expanded ’troika’ with the participation of Russia, the United States, China, and Pakistain," Kabulov said as quoted by RIA. "We do not rule out the convening of its next round in the near future. In addition, we keep in mind the possibility of organizing another meeting of the Moscow format, which, as you know, unites all the countries of the region around Afghanistan, as well as the United States."
The withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Afghanistan has created many concerns about the future of the government and the Afghan forces.
[KhaamaPress] Due to the increase of violence in Mazar-e Sharif, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Iran, and Pakistain’s consulates have suspended their consulate offices in Mazar city, a local official in Balkh Province confirmed.
According to the local officials in Balkh province, these countries have suspended their visa services in Mazar-e-Sharif as the violence have increased in northern Afghanistan and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have been seizing more territories.
Other sources have told media agencies that visas are no longer being issued by these consulates in Balkh province as the diplomats have been relocated to Kabul.
On the other hand, the local residents added that Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are also limiting the number of visas to Afghanistan nationals.
Uzbekistan consulate officials confirmed that the issuance of tourist visas to Afghan citizens has been suspended.
This comes as the security situation in Afghanistan has worsen as the Taliban have launched offensive in north and they have captured around 100 districts so far.
Most Afghan families and citizens are concerned of their future and many thing of getting visas to resettle to a second country if things get worse in the country.
[ToloNews] Dozens of women took up arms — some of them heavy weapons — and marched in the capital city of Feroz Koh to pledge their support the Republic and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
The women said that the historical record of the five years of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... regime proved that the group violates women’s rights.
Thousands of people have taken up arms in support of the Afghan forces as the fall of districts to the group continues.
"They are standing by their brothers and are supporting the system, the people, and the country’s illusory sovereignty," a Ghor resident said.
The exact number of those who have taken up arms against the Taliban is so far not clear. The defense and interior ministries said that these forces will eventually be combined with the local police, NDS local forces, and the local army forces.
"A situation that will later create bad consequences will not be allowed. They will first support us and then they will be included in the police, army or the local NDS forces," the acting minister of interior Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal said.
Atta Mohammad Noor, who leads a public mobilization movement in Balkh and has gone to Balkh districts to fight the Taliban, criticized some government officials for not cooperating with them in their campaign against the group.
"We hear some words from some sides asking why have they gone to the war? They should stay in the city and hand over the war to us. My brother, you are losing the war," Noor said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... the office of Ahmad Massoud, a public figure and son of the national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, said that former mujahideen leaders are making efforts to reorganize a new front against the Taliban by consulting politicians from the former resistance front.
"We hope that this front is announced and the public uprising forces become organized," said Saleh Mohammad Registani, a member of Ahmad Massoud’s political office.
There are questions about the achievements of the public uprising forces, but representatives of these forces said they have succeeded in preventing the fall of their towns to the Taliban.
"They have proved effective in defending the security belts on the outskirts of Kunduz city," said Rabbani Rabbani, a member of the Kunduz provincial council.
"So far, we have not seen proper support by the government for the people," said Abdul Basir Osmani, an MP from Badghis.
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A tale of two little old ladies
Who feuded down by the Euphrates...
"She fired that grenade,
And I'd surely be daid
Were it not for Uday's new Mercedes."
[ToloNews] Maj. Gen. Hibatullah Alizai, the commander of the Special Operations Corps, said that suppressing the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... is the top priority of the forces and that "strong belts" have been created for the protection of big cities, highways and border towns.
Alizai said there was a vast presence of Pak Taliban, especially Punjabis, in recent attacks by the Taliban,
Interesting.
and that "hundreds" of Taliban fighters have been killed in Afghan forces operations.
He stressed the need to retake the districts that have fallen to the Taliban.
He said that political, regional and social issues are behind the evacuation of dozens of districts by Afghan forces. He added that the issue will be investigated.
The general said that the Taliban wants to attack major cities but the Afghan forces are ready to thwart such plans.
"Our main goal is to inflict as many casualties on the enemy as possible. Besides that, our goal is to protect major cities, highways and key border towns that are important for our major cities and the country," he said.
Alizai, who returned from operations in Ghazni and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... on Saturday evening, said that foreign Taliban and al Qaeda gunnies have a presence among the Taliban.
"Pak Taliban are mostly seen these days and those Taliban who belong to Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and those who even have Pakistain arm ID cards. The number of Afghan Taliban is dwindling," he said.
He added that at least 10,000 members of commando forces are engaged in suppressing the Taliban across the country and that their number will increase over time.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... there is criticism over how security in the country has been handled:
"If they had paid attention to the provinces, we would not be in the situation that we are today," said Daud Ghafoori, a Senator.
In the last two months, at least 120 districts have fallen to the Taliban, mostly in northern and northeastern Afghanistan.
[Garowe] Mukhtar Robow, the former al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... deputy leader entered his fourth day of hunger strike in Mogadishu on Sunday, in what could spark fresh debate over his continued stay under house arrest, over two years since his arrest at Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest.
A government source told Garowe Online that the former al-Shabaab leader refused to take food and that "he has now entered the fourth day". Robow was first arrested in December 2018 during final campaigns for Southwest presidential state elections.
Robow, the source noted, was decrying "his continued detention without justification by the federal government", adding that "authorities have remained silent over the latest matter which could trigger another round of protests in the country".
Further, the source said, "he has severally asked authorities to release him without success and believes that hunger strike is the last solution to his predicaments". Under international laws, a prisoner should have his or her rights safeguarded, including access to goods, water, and family.
Robow decamped from the al-Shabaab and was received by the government after he differed with Ahmed Omar [Abu Ubaidah], the current al-Shabaab leader over irreconcilable differences.
After that, he joined politics in his native Southwest, something which wasn't received well by authorities in Mogadishu since he was on the brink to become the leader of the Southwest state.
And to tame him, government troops and those from the Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] stormed his campaigns in the Southwest and arrested him, leading to chaos in the state. Over 11 people were killed in the deadly chaos.
Without pressing charges on him, the government has continued to hold him in a house controlled by the National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA], which is often accused of violation of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , torture, deaths, and disappearance of critics.
Sources privy to his arrest insist that he was overwhelmed and subsequently arrested after it emerged that he was the clear favorite to win the Southwest presidency. Outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo was keen to control all states.
The use of Æthiopian troops raised eyebrows, with Somalia's opposition bigwigs accusing the AMISOM team of interfering with Somalia's internal affairs. In fact, the Æthiopian troops who arrested him are believed to be a non-Amisom contingent.
The use of or collaboration of foreign troops is not strange in Somalia. Recently, it was reported that thousands of young Somali troops are training in Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and there is a possibility that they participated in the alleged Tigray genocide, which left thousands dead.
But despite these serious allegations, the government has fairly remained silent, leading to speculations from stakeholders. A committee appointed by Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble is also yet to table its findings over the matter.
A number of people have defected from al-Shabaab due to financial constraints, change of philosophy, or persuasion from the government. Defectors have usually repatriated the society and are given preferential treatment.
[All Africa] The government's efforts to reintegrate former Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters have seen hundreds go through rehabilitation. The UN Women International Organisation for Migration, as well as the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, have called for the inclusion of women in the reintegration, reconciliation, and rehabilitation process in the northeast. They have stressed the need for women's participation in the states ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency, to achieve better results.
The organisers noted that projects on disengagement, disassociation, reintegration, and reconciliation are already underway in the northeast region despite the challenges of ongoing hostilities. But they decried that these peace-making processes are often led and dominated by men, hence the need for a dialogue on inclusion. Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009.
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[DW] La Belle France has repatriated more than half the people it defined as radical Islamists living in the country without a residence permit since 2018. Now it wants to extend the penalty and deport even more.
When French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin summoned the country's regional prefects in June, his message was clear. The authorities in La Belle France's regions had to take swift, decisive action against foreigners who committed crimes. Residence permits should be reviewed, and more offenders should be deported if they had committed particularly serious crimes, such as second-degree murder, drug trafficking and rape.
Even if they are not immediately deported, people who have committed a criminal offense in La Belle France receive a letter telling them what the state expects of them. "Every year, the French Republic takes in people from other countries. One of the conditions for this is strict compliance with the rules and laws that govern its territory," the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche quoted from a template of the letter, which concludes with a warning: "Any further crime will lead to a re-examination of your residence status, which could result in your being required to leave La Belle France."
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”There, that'll do it. Mukkerjee, send out of chai and candied fennel seeds — I’m exhausted.”
[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... administration on Sunday banned the use and possession of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles in Srinagar, a week after two Indian Air Force personnel were maimed in twin drone attack.
In an order, deputy commissioner of Srinagar Mohammad Aijaz directed those having drone cameras or other similar kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles to deposit them in local cop shoppes.
The order, however, exempted government departments using drones for mapping, surveys and surveillance in agricultural, environmental conservation and disaster mitigation sectors but directed them to inform the local cop shoppe before using them.
The administration cautioned that any violation of the guidelines will attract punitive action, and directed police to implement the restrictions in letter and spirit.
The order to ban the use of drones came after the recommendations of the city''s police chief.
[OneIndia] While the probe into the drone attack at the Indian Air Force base points to the role of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba the role of Pakistain state players is not being ruled out.
Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Dilbagh Singh said that there is a strong suspicion that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba was behind the incident, but the involvement of Pakistain state agencies cannot be ruled. He said that this is because an IED attack had been planned by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba at a crowded place in Jammu the same evening. Since the Lashkar is run from Pakistain, in a way Pakistain's involvement cannot be ruled out, Singh also said. The question however is to what extent are the Pakistain agencies involved, he also said.
He said that the IED was sent by the LeT in a similar fashion from Pakistain and it was to be planted at some crowded place so that there was the largest possible casualties in the attack. Luckily we had information and were able to intercept and capture the operative who gave certain leads on the basis of which we recovered the IED and the terror attack was averted he also said.
Investigators that OneIndia spoke with too agreed with the DGP's analysis and said that the presence of highly sophisticated material used in the IAF base strike clearly indicated the role played by the Pakistain agencies.
Two bombs weighing over 2 kilograms each were dropped from a height of 150 meters and were activated by impact charge. It is however unclear where the drone could have originated from, but the initial findings found that it could have been from the Indian side itself. The agencies also do not rule out the possibility of the the drone emerging from the Pakistain side close to the border.
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WIKI: The NESCOM Burraq is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed and built by the National Engineering and Scientific Commission, a civil scientific research and development organization, along with the Pakistan Air Force. Primarily used by the PAF, it has also been used by the Pakistan Army in counter-insurgency operations in north- west Pakistan. The Burraq carries various imagery and motion sensors, and is equipped with a laser guided air-to-surface missile named "Barq". After demonstrating its ability to fire missiles at both stationary and moving targets, Pakistan became the fifth country in the World to successfully develop an unmanned combat aerial vehicle. On 7 September 2015, the Burraq was used for the first time in a live military operation...
[AlAhram] Pakistain's national security advisor has accused India of orchestrating last month's deadly boom-mobileing in the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistain's national security advisor has accused India of orchestrating last month's deadly boom-mobileing in the eastern city of Lahore, saying Sunday that an investigation has shown it was organized by an Indian intelligence operative.
In a news conference in Islamabad, Moeed Yousuf said the probe showed that the man was an Indian citizen living in India who works for that country's RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... intelligence agency. He did not name the alleged criminal mastermind.
``Through the forensic analysis, electronic equipment, which has been recovered from these terrorists, we have identified the main criminal mastermind and the handlers of this terrorist attack. And we have no doubt in informing you that the main criminal mastermind belongs to RAW, lives in India and is an Indian citizen.'' He said Pakistain will continue its efforts to expose India's sponsorship of such attacks internationally.
The explosion took place outside the residence of anti-India bully boy leader Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , who himself has been designated a terrorist by the U.S. Justice Department and has a $10 million bounty on his head. India accuses Saeed of helping criminal mastermind the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 170 people at several occasions including the luxury Taj Hotel. He was unharmed in the powerful explosion in Lahore's Johar Town neighborhood that killed three and maimed 24.
India and Pakistain routinely accuse the other of carrying out clandestine attacks on the other's territory. Saeed is a highly wanted suspect in India, and Pakistain has been criticized by India and the United States for not taking stronger actions against him.
Punjab police chief Inam Ghani said all those involved in the bombing have been arrested, including an Afghan who lived in Pakistain and actually parked the explosives-laden car at the site of blast.
Indian External Affairs Ministry front man Arindam Bagchi couldn't be reached for comment.
Sources tell OneIndia that the allegations are baseless. Pakistain is trying to make out a case that it is a victim after the Financial Action Task Force decided to keep it on the grey list after Islamabad failed to act against terror funding. Pakistain is also making these false allegations against the R&AW in the wake of drone sightings in India, which clearly have a Pakistain link to it. With India trying to get the political process rolling further in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Islamabad is doing all it can to stall the same and hence these allegations too are being hurled the source cited above also said.
[Rudaw] The Ministry of Migration and Displacement announced on Sunday the return of 296 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from a camp near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to their areas of origin in Nineveh.
Senior ministry official Ali Abbas Jahakir said that the IDPs returned from Khazer camp, east of Mosul, to various areas across the province.
"The returned families have been checked in coordination with the security forces and local governments," Jahakir said.
Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Paliament, Hassan al-Kaabi, met on Sunday with officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), calling for "solid laws" to tackle displacement, and an international conference to raise awareness of displacement in Iraq.
In June, almost 200 families in al-Jada camp returned to their homes in Mosul and Salahaddin.
Al-Jada, in Nineveh province, is one of just two camps still open in areas under federal Iraqi control. The camp mainly houses families with suspected links to the 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.... group (ISIS), and received ISIS-affiliated families from al-Hol camp in Syria late in May.
Last year, the Iraqi government began a push to close 17 camps around the country, three years after the defeat of ISIS, including in the Kurdistan Region. The government has been criticized for this policy. Rights monitors say returns must be voluntary.
Many displaced Iraqis are reluctant to return home because of continuing violence in their home areas, a lack of reconstruction, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps to salvage their homes and livelihoods have been forced to return to the camps, unable to piece together the basics.
The answer to that is to arrange the detainment or death of his replacement as soon as the gentleman rears up on his hind legs, and ditto each one afterward.
[SHAFAQ] The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , has informed his supporters that "the day of his martyrdom or death is near".
This came in a video showing al-Sadr addressing his supporters, published on Facebook.
"There is one thing that can revive the Sadr movement; it is my death or liquidation."
He added that his blood would be enough to revive "what has perished."
[IsraelTimes] A plane from the Moroccan Air Force touches down in Israel for the first time ahead of a joint international drill with the Israeli Air Force.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, the IDF refuses to comment directly on its military cooperation with Morocco, saying only that it "cooperates with a variety of foreign countries and armies on exercises, meetings with bigwigs, research and other developments."
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian newspaper says both Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, okay with move, quotes sources saying funds won’t go through banks controlled by 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... -ruling terror group.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has agreed to take responsibility for the disbursement of 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... i funds in the Gaza Strip, according to a Paleostinian newspaper report Sunday.
Quoting unnamed Paleostinian sources, the al-Quds daily said Israel was on board with the move as long as the flow of the money was monitored to ensure it was not diverted to the Hamas terror group, which rules the Strip and openly seeks Israel’s demise.
Sources close to Hamas were quoted saying the terror group had no objections to such a step as long as the cash is distributed.
Tor Wennesland, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy, held recent meetings in Israel and Qatar during which he reportedly said the world body would agree to divvy out the money from the Gulf emirate.
The funds will be routed through the Paleostinian Monetary Authority in Ramallah, the internationally recognized Paleostinian Authority’s seat of government, and not through banks or post offices controlled by Hamas, according to the Paleostinian sources.
With Israel’s approval, Qatar has in recent years distributed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to enable Hamas to pay for fuel for Gaza’s power plant, pay civil servants and provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the Qatari payments have not resumed since the 11-day military conflict between the Israeli military and Gaza-based forces of Evil in May, with Israel refusing to allow the money into the Strip until Hamas releases two civilians and two bodies of IDF soldiers that it has been holding captive.
Egypt also opposed restarting the Qatari payments, insisting that a new mechanism be used to transfer them to Gaza so that they do not reach Hamas.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the Walla news site reported Sunday that around 20 tanker trucks carrying fuel were set to enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel. The report said 60 fuel trucks in total were expected to enter the Strip this week with fuel for Gaza’s only power station.
Israel last week allowed Qatar-funded gasoline shipments into Gaza for the first time since time since the fighting in May.
Also last week, Hebrew media reports said that Egyptian-mediated talks in Cairo for a prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas had failed to yield progress. Israel is conditioning large-scale reconstruction of Gaza on Hamas releasing the civilian captives — Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed — and bodies of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who were killed in combat in the Strip during the 2014 war.
[IsraelTimes] Public broadcaster says head of international think tank tracking Iran’s nuclear program and others believe equipment at Karaj facility was completely destroyed or disabled.
Experts believe an attack on a facility producing centrifuge parts for Iran’s nuclear program caused extensive damage, destroying or disabling all equipment at part of the site, according to an Israeli report Sunday.
Tehran has maintained that the apparent drone assault on the Karaj factory was thwarted and no damage caused, but satellite photos published by private Israeli intelligence group The Intel Lab Saturday seemingly cast doubt on those claims, showing a large hole in the roof of one building previously identified as a bellows manufacturing plant.
The photos also purportedly showed evidence of a large fire.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, experts who saw the photos concluded that "all equipment in the area had been destroyed completely or rendered inoperable." It said the experts had made the assessments based on the satellite photos, which were taken July 1.
The station only named one expert it was relying on, David Albright, who heads the Institute for Science and International Security, a non-governmental organization which has attempted to track and expose illicit aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.
According to the report, Albright and other experts say that the Iranians have already begun attempting to repair the damage from the June 23 strike at the 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... Centrifuge Technology Company, or TESA, near the city of Karaj, northwest of Tehran.
A tweet from The Intel Lab on Saturday claimed that the roof had largely been dismantled by Iran as part of rehabilitation activities following the attack. The dismantled roof allowed analysts to peek inside the building, where dark coloration indicated the presence of a large fire inside the building, the smallest of three main structures at the site.
According to a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report last month, the TESA factory was tasked with replacing damaged centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site, a previous target of apparent sabotage, and also produces more advanced centrifuges that can more quickly enrich uranium.
In 2011, members of the National Council of Resistance® in Iran opposition group published photos of the Karaj site claiming that it was being used for the clandestine production of centrifuge parts.
"The various parts that are manufactured in this site include casing, magnets, molecular pumps, composite tubes, Bellows, and centrifuge bases. These are essentially the parts used for the production of IR-1 type centrifuges. But there are also parts related to more advanced centrifuges that are also produced at this site."
June 21st the roof was as earlier images, June 26th appearance of a small dark spot which gave the hint, June 1st shows that the roof was further dismantled as part of the cleaning. pic.twitter.com/aknog1sFhI
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.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
