[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Tunisian parliamentary bloc called for holding Tunisian defense minister accountable for the issue of financial transfers attributed to a retired 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 officer.
The case against Abdel Karim al-Zubaidi also involves opening an account in a bank branch in Tataouine in 2014, and the use of these suspicious funds by several associations and personalities accused of supporting terrorism.
In this regard, Sahbi Ben Faraj, the leader of the Tunisian Project Movement parliamentary bloc, said that accountability will revolve around the identity of the associations benefiting from these funds and the history of remittances, stressing that the bank account contained money that came from an account in the name of the Qatari armed forces, which is part of a bank account in the name of the Embassy of Qatar in Tunisia.
The suspicious funds were estimated at around 4.5 million Tunisian dinars (about 1.8 million dollars). The Financial Analysis Committee has identified a major suspicious transaction that included military personnel who have benefited from these sums.
The case dates back to 2014, when the competent authority at the Ministry of Defense questioned the Qatari general, and the whole file was referred to the military judiciary. The relevant bank accounts were suspended based on an order by the magistrate of the judicial court on July 24, 2015. The frozen amount was estimated at around 3 million Tunisian dinars (about 1.2 million dollars), but in return, the identity of the parties involved with the retired Qatari general has not been disclosed.
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[Breitbart] Mark "Oz" Geist spoke eloquently on a panel about the challenge U.S. military members face transitioning from the battlefield to the workforce.
But he wasn’t prepared for what happened next at the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Geist, who served as a Marine, sheriff, and police officer before working for the federal government as a security consultant, was chosen for CPAC’s annual Defender of the Constitution award.
Geist’s security work led to his being sent to Libya, where he survived the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi in which U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were killed. CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty also were killed in the attack.
Lee said that Geist didn’t accept the "stand down" order given in Benghazi but instead tried to save lives during the terrorist attack.
"Mark is a defender of freedom," Willes Lee, ACU board member, said. "I am proud to call Mark Geist my friend."
"Through his sweat and blood he has defended our Constitution," Lee said.
"When you enlist in the military you enlist to defend our nation," said Lee, a retired Army officer and Airborne Ranger. "When you fight, you fight for the guy on your left; you fight for the guy on your right."
"His arm is smashed; his legs and face is sliced by all that crap that flies through the air in combat," Lee said. "You don’t feel fear when you’re fighting, but after the fight, your body goes through these trembles."
"It’s the adrenaline running out of your muscles," Lee said. "You can describe that in the book; you can show in the movie. What you can never describe is the smell of combat."
"Mark always looks you [directly] in the eye when you speak to him, except when you call him a hero," Lee said. "And then he’ll divert his eyes and he’ll say, ’No, I was just doing my job.’"
Lee said Geist announced when he was in kindergarten that he wanted to be a soldier. In interviews, Geist has explained his family’s military history, including his grandfather, who served under General George S. Patton during World War II.
Millie Hallow, ACU Foundation vice chairman and managing director of executive operations at the National Rifle Association, said Geist was the right pick for this year’s award.
"We thought it was prime time that we give the Defender of the Constitution award to someone who has physically ‐ physically ‐defended the Constitution," Hallow said, noting that past recipients include Attorney General Ed Meese, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Each year the award is made from a historic document signed by Founding Fathers. This year Geist was given a framed shipping transfer document signed by President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe in 1811.
"We think this document is perfect for honoring and thanking you for your service for defending our country and our Constitution with grace, modesty, and dignity," Hallow said.
"You know we have a lot of freedoms in this country, and they come with sacrifice," Geist said in accepting the award. "Some of us in our military and working as contractors make that ultimate sacrifice."
"And for us that don’t ‐ are able to continue on ‐ for me, it’s about making that worth it. We live our lives going forward to make it worth the sacrifice that all those guys that didn’t come back home have done," Geist said.
"So every day think of going forward and making sure that you are living your life to the fullest; following your dreams; doing everything to make the sacrifice they’ve made worth it," Geist said.
Such an honor today to receive this award. I humbly except it and commit myself to continue protecting and serving this country and our Consitution. Thank you @NRA @CPAC and the people of this great country. #CPAC18 #CPAC #OZ https://t.co/39gHqWpQsX
‐ Mark Geist (@MarkGeistSWP) February 24, 2018
Lee said even after years of military service and time spent in law enforcement, Geist is still helping other contractors and their families through an organization he founded with his wife Krystal.
The Shadow Warriors Project website states:
Our goal with the Shadow Warriors Project is to create a better everyday life for as many American contractors and their families as possible. We decided to start SWP when Mark returned home from an incredibly dangerous operation. He was hurt both mentally and physically and we wished there was a system that could have helped us repair.
"Stand strong," Geist told the crowd as it rose to its feet. "The Constitution’s there."
"We’ve got to stand behind it because they want to tear it down," Geist said. "Thank you for supporting us that defend it." The night of the attack they ignored Soetero/Hillary regime orders to stand down. Two of them laid down their lives fighting off Al Qaeda that night to protect American lives. Almost 6 years later, they are finally being honored.
Almost six years, and a very, very different president.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday ‐ a day after Pakistain avoided ending up on a terror watch list by a global task force ‐ said that the government will expedite steps to curb terror financing and money laundering. If that's so -- and I'm sure we're all certain it is! -- that should mean that the money Khyber-Pakhtunwa was reported about to funnel into Samiul Haq's School for Jihad is going to be stopped. Right?
Pakistain's performance in the war against terrorism was better than others', but it still faced pressure from Washington, the minister said.
Iqbal said the motion put forward against Pakistain by the US was moved on "political basis" with the intention of bringing Pakistain under pressure.
Playing down speculations that the placement on the watch list could have severe economic repercussions for Pakistain, the minister said steps taken by the country against terror financing were not to please FATF or the US but they are "in the interest of our country".
He said being a responsible state, it was Pakistain's duty to ensure implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions as not doing so effectively could give international lobbies the chance to campaign against Pakistain.
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He said being a responsible state, it was Pakistain's duty to ensure implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions as not doing so effectively could give international lobbies the chance to campaign against Pakistain.
Ahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* ahahahahahhaa
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[DAWN] Aftab Mehsud, a young man who played an active role in the sit-in held recently in Islamabad to protest against the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, was found rubbed out under mysterious circumstances in a suburban area of the city on Saturday.
According to an official of the city’s Saddar cop shoppe, Attaullah, the well perforated carcass of Aftab was found at an under-construction house in the city’s Naqeshbund Town.
Sources said that a piece of paper was found with the body on which names of the victim and his father and his telephone number were written.
Aftab’s father, Khair Badshah Mehsud, told the police that his son had left his home on Friday night. He said he received a call on Saturday and was informed about the body of his son.
A student of Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , Aftab hailed from Makeen area of South Wazoo Agency. He moved to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... where he became friends with Naqeebullah Mehsud.
The sources said that after the killing of Naqeebullah in a fake encounter with a police party led by suspended SSP Rao Anwar in Karachi, Aftab played an active role in the 10-day Islamabad sit-in which was organised by Pakhtun Tahaffuz Movement and some rights groups.
Apart from the arrest of Naqeebullah’s killers, the sit-in participants also demanded recovery of missing persons from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. They also protested against alleged mistreatment with tribal people at security check-posts.
After assurances by some government functionaries for the acceptance of some of their demands, the protesters ended the sit-in.
The police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified people for the murder of Aftab.
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[PRESSTV] The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) says 23 of its staff members have left the relief organization over the past three years due to sexual misconduct.
"Since 2015 we have identified 21 staff members who were either dismissed for paying for sexual services or resigned during an internal enquiry. Another two staff members suspected of sexual misconduct did not have their contracts renewed," ICRC Director General Yves Daccord said in a statement on Friday.
"I am deeply saddened to report these numbers," he added, noting the ICRC was taking action to ensure all sexual abuse cases were reported and handled properly.
The statement noted that the Red Thingy, with over 17,000 staff across the world, prohibited its employees from paying for sexual services.
There have recently been numerous reports of alleged sexual misconduct in different relief organizations.
British charity Oxfam has been battling accusations about involvement of its staff in sexual misconduct in Haiti and South Sudan. The scandals have put Oxfam’s government funding at risk and threatened its global reputation.
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The advantage of a long prison sentence is that it gives one time to think, should one be so inclined.
And now the next class of Palestinians is embarking on the same adventure after being picked up by the Israelis for a variety of vicious nonsense.
In a special series of interviews, terrorists who were released in 2013 as part of an Israeli gesture to PA President Abbas tell Ynet about the murders they committed before the Oslo Agreements were signed, the ‘Israelization’ process they went through in jail and the impact of the second intifada; ‘When I heard about the Sbarro attack, I cried,’ one of them says.
In second part of special series of interviews, Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons in 2013 talk about the brutal internal punishment system against prisoners accused of violence against fellow inmates or of tipping off wardens—from denying a prisoner’s right to buy at the canteen to killing collaborators.
In third part of special series of interviews, Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons in 2013 talk about the Fatah-Hamas rivalry after the Gaza takeover, the internal politics that shaped the list of prisoners released in the Shalit deal, and their admiration for the families of kidnapped IDF soldiers.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A group of 46 Malaysian Islamic associations has jointly denied any establishment of a body to monitor 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... ’s management of the Two Holy Mosques.
In an exclusive statement to Al Arabiya English, the group of associations categorically denied any establishment of a monitoring body based in Malaysia.
This comes following the fake news of establishment of such a body by the 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-owned Al Jazeera Media Network and other news websites that falsely said the body with powers to monitor the administration of the two holy mosques was created recently.
"It is known to us that the administration of the Two Holy Mosques and the service of Holy Places has been without doubt and over time, the honor of Saudi Arabia and we confirm the associations’ denial of establishing any monitoring body," Dr. Fath al-Bari Yahya, president of the Khair al-Uma Foundation in Malaysia, told Al Arabiya English.
In a phone interview with Al Arabiya, Mufti of Malaysia Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad al-Bakri confirmed no such body has been created.
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Hey, I like this. There are a lot more Muzzi-Malaysians than Saudis. Majority should rule.
[PRESSTV] The secretary general of the Hezbollah resistance movement has warned the Lebanese nation against voting for pro-US candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, saying such contenders will simply hand over the Arab country to Americans.
Addressing his supporters via a televised speech from the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on Saturday evening, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... called upon people from all walks of life to participate in the elections, which are scheduled to be held on May 6.
"Voters should consider national interests when picking candidates and voting for them. People should approach the upcoming legislative polls from the perspective of fulfilling responsibilities towards the country," he said.
Nasrallah further noted, "Voters should not make their decisions on the basis of candidates’ family connections, religious or party affiliations."
The Hezbollah chief went on to say that the movement’s politicians represented the entire Lebanese nation, and not simply their political bloc.
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such contenders will simply hand over the Arab country to Americans.
"We're Iran's bitch!"
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[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council unanimously votes in favor of a resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria 'without delay'
...whatever that means...
to allow aid access and medical evacuations.
The resolution was adopted on by 15 votes to none, after several delays and a flurry of last-minute negotiations.
"It would be naïve to think that internal Syrian questions can be solved by a resolution," said Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia.
He added that Russia had "supported the intentions" behind the document, but stresses that a ceasefire was not possible "without agreement from warring parties."
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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.
...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...
[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday ‐ a day after Pakistain avoided ending up on a terror watch list by a global task force ‐ said that the government will expedite steps to curb terror financing and money laundering.
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