[Khaama Press] The fallen Afghan and coalition forces were also recognized during the Memorial Day ceremony held in Kabul.
"Commemorating this sacred day here in Afghanistan offers us a special opportunity to recognize the tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers and coppers who have died in the defense of their nation," the commander of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led Resolute Support Mission and US forces General John Nicholson said.
He said "So, it is all of these sacrifices Americans, coalition, Afghan that have all contributed to the unprecedented time we are in. A time when two peace offers are on the table, there is a national call for peace by the Afghan people and there is an outpouring of support from the international community in support of the grinding of the peace processor."
A combination of American and international service members, and civilians gathered for the ceremony. They stoically reflected on past sacrifices and the hope for a peaceful future for Afghanistan, according to a report by Resolute Support Mission.
"Today, here in Kabul, we want to especially honor our fallen from this war. We remember all of the American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines killed in Afghanistan," said Nicholson.
He asked the crowd of Resolute Support staff to remember and honor the latest service member killed in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Spc. Gabriel Conde, killed in action, April 30, in Kapisa province.
During his remarks, Nicholson shared the stories of three U.S. Army Soldiers ‐ Lt. Col. Joseph Fenty, Pfc. Justin Davis and Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti ‐ killed-in-action while serving under his command in Afghanistan. He described their heroism and last acts of valor as he recalled their commitment to their country, families and brothers and sisters-in-arms.
"Our duty is to remember them, say their names, tell their stories and ensure that we never, never forget them," said Nicholson.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Libya’s rival political factions met in the Elysee palace in Gay Paree on Tuesday, to sign an agreement on the UN-backed presidential and parliamentary elections, set to be held later this year.
During the talks, the parties decided to adopt the necessary electoral laws by September 16 and agreed to hold the parliamentary and presidential elections on December 10.
Prime Minister Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj joined Commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , President of the Eastern House of Representatives Aguila Saleh and President of the High Council of State Khaled al-Mishri for talks held under French President Emmanuel Macron.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The UN is extremely concerned about the situation around the Port of Hodeida in western Yemen, the press secretary of the UN Secretary-General Stefan Dujarrik stated during a regular briefing for journalists. I'm extremely concerned about my waistline. The UN is extremely concerned about western Yemen. I'll have a sandwich. The UN will send out for five-star delivery. What we accomplish will be equally significant for any part of Yemen.
According to the supporters of the Yemeni regime and the Arab coalition, Hodeidah is the main source of arms supplies to the Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... forces.
The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is also close to the world’s most important shipping area.
In recent days, the situation around the port has become tense.
"We are extremely concerned about the situation around Hodeida. Our colleagues in this area have already begun to take precautionary measures in terms of curtailing aid and reviewing the contingency plan in case of further escalation of the situation," Dujarrik said.
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I'm sure the new chair of the UN Disarmament Committee will solve the problem...
For Scotland, Continued Access to Mass Migration is Top Brexit Priority
12 April
Keeping Scotland’s border open to an unlimited number of migrants after Brexit is a top priority for the nation, Brussels heard this week.
Confirmed: Two-Thirds of ‘Child Refugees’ Questioned in UK Are Adult
9 April
Around two-thirds of “child refugees” who were questioned about their age in the UK were revealed to be adults, a government report has found.
Refugee Mosque Plans on Small Scottish Island ‘Threat’ to Liberty, ‘Unwelcome’, Says Christian Community
6 April
Church leaders of the staunchly-Christian community on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, have called plans to build a mosque for just six Syrian refugee families a “threat” to “religious and civil liberties”.
UK Government ‘Lost’ 600,000 Foreign Visitors in Two Years
31 March
The Home Office lost track of 601,222 foreign, non-European Union visitors in two years who should have left the UK.
Deported Asylum Seeker Illegally Returned to UK and Raped Teenager
27 March
A failed asylum seeker who was deported to Afghanistan in 2010 and returned to the UK last year via Italy has been jailed for raping an 18-year-old, treating her as “a disposable sexual commodity”.
“This is a unique investigation — these individuals might not have been caught if these young victims hadn’t reported the incident to on-site security.
Singh (IPA: /ˈsɪŋ/), is a title, middle name, or surname which originated in India. Derived from the Sanskrit word for lion, it was adopted as a title by Rajput warriors in India,[1] and mandated by Guru Gobind Singh for all Sikhs. It was later adopted by several castes and communities. As a surname or a middle name, it is now found throughout the Indian subcontinent and among the Indian diaspora, cutting across communities and religious groups, becoming more of a title than a surname.[2] It is one of the most common surnames in the world, shared by 36 million people in India.[3]
Not Moslem colonists, but of the Indian subcontinent mindset that rapes girls on public busses with iron rods when they think they can get away with it. In that case, both several of the perpetrators and the victim were named Singh. Link.
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Thats sad. I have an MD name of Singh, turban and all. He and his family are wonderful people, and all the interactions I have had with the Sikh community have been good. Of course all these folk came to the US by way of India, and most are second or 3rd generation Americans. Are those molesters perhaps Paki-stainy culture, or actually Muslims, not Sikh?
I bet thats the case.
The Sikhs here strike me as good moral people in general, soft spoken, well disciplined, and hard working, like the Indian (from India) people they associate with here in the US.
This episode makes me wonder if there isn't something in the water (no pun intended) out there in California?
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Woodrow, with respect, Sikh and ye shall find. Don't be that guy who, pondering a photo of a blond suspect, opines, "Well, he must have a little n----- in him."
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Also, may I interest you in a vocative comma? Very cheap now that they've fallen out of fashion, and I'm sure they'll be coming back in style any day now!
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So there are no Muslim with Indian surnames TW?
I wouldn’t argue that at all, Woodrow, but non-Muslims have also been known to misbehave in this manner. In fact, like Injun Bucket8891 I only knew Singh as a Sikh name, but the Wikipedia article shows there are a great many non-Sikhs from that part of the world who use it as well. And none of the names in your waterpark article sound Muslim to me — no Mohammed, no -ullah or -al — though I realize my knowledge of such things is limited.
My conclusion is that this time the nasty little rat bastards are probably not Muslim, and definitely deserve to be castrated... after a fair trial and before they are sent back to India with only the clothes on their backs. In fact, it occurs to me to wonder whether they are here legally...
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraq has the exclusive right to try Russian women, who are implicated in terrorist attacks on its territory, the Iraqi ambassador in Moscow said on Tuesday.
"It is difficult to send Russian women standing trial in Iraq to their homeland in order to serve their jail terms there," Baghdad Today quoted Ambassador Haider Mansoor al-Ithari as speaking at a presser, stressing that the trial of Russian women will be pursuant to the Iraqi law.
"Work is underway to exchange prisoners between Iraq and Russia until an agreement is reached on that score," the ambassador pointed out.
Iraq has sentenced several foreign nationals to death and life in prison over involvement with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... during the Death Eater group’s three-year occupation of large parts of the country.
Iraq is holding hundreds of foreign wives and children of Islamic State bandidosbully boyz who were captured as Iraqi forces gradually seized back territories held by the Death Eater group since 2014. The government declared victory over IS last December.
Authorities say they are coordinating with other countries to extradite those held who are not convicted of terrorism.
The exact number of detained bandidosbully boyz is still unknown, however, it’s estimated to be at thousands. It’s also unclear how many members are likely to face death sentences.
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[Ynet] Ministers Shaked and Steinitz say armed conflict and retaking of the Gazoo Strip are now on the table after more than 70 rockets, mortar shells were fired into Israel's south in less than a day.
Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked and Minister of Energy and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz warned Tuesday that should the incessant rocket fire from Gazoo continues, Israel will have no choice but to retake the strip by force to rid it of the terror groups holding it hostage.
More than 70 rockets and mortar shells were fired into Israel Tuesday in the biggest attack on Israeli communities since the 2014 Operation Protective Edge. The IDF retaliated by bombarding Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, military posts in the strip, warning Gazoo civilians to stay within reach of a bomb shelter in an effort to avoid collateral damage.
So far, only three Israelis were hurt by the indiscriminant attack, two lightly and one moderately. All three were soldiers stationed close to the Gazoo border.
"We are not interested in conquering the entire Gazoo Strip, and we hope that we will not be forced to carry out this move," Steinitz said, adding it is the reason why Israel's response should be "sharp and deterrent" so the violence would not "deteriorate into something much bigger."
The minister added that he thinks "the other side is not interested in a confrontation," and so Israel has to take the opportunity to "strike with all its might" so the strip's Hamas ruler would be forced to restrain the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ‐which the IDF says did most of the firing‐from launching any more rockets or mortar bombs.
He stressed, though, that the humanitarian situation in Gazoo should be taken into account when considering such action, blaming Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... for "deliberately putting Gazoo in a humanitarian crisis so that the anger and distress will be directed at the State of Israel."
He concluded by saying any intrusion into Gazoo would have to be taken after planning out its long-term implications on the strip's residents.
Backing him, Shaked said Israel should go even further and mull a potential retaking of the coastal enclave as a decisive move to topple the Hamas regime.
She said it was only a "miracle" no children were harmed when a mortar shell landed in a kindergarten earlier Tuesday when the barrage from the strip started, saying if ant had did it "could have led to war."
"The response should be very severe, as if blood was spilled here. All the options are on the table, including conquering the strip," she said, echoing Steinitz.
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Not a good idea as long as Gazooks infest it.
Remember: it's hard to fire rockets and mortars or dig tunnels if you're dog-paddling to survive in the Med.
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Move them all to the Golan Heights and transfer ownership to Assad. Syria is already a mess of violent factions, the Palestinians should feel right at home.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian state news agency SANA reported Tuesday that, citing its sources, US intelligence services are continuing to organize staged operations with chemical weapons against Syrians.
According to the Syrian Committee on the elimination of chemical weapons, quoted by the SANA, the US intelligence forces are teaching Syrian families to show the aftermath of chemical attacks at a Syrian base.
"The US and its intelligence and military services continue to prepare staged operations in some parts of Syria, pushing their agents and their tools to use chemical weapons against innocent Syrian citizens, accusing the Syrian state of deception," the source said, as cited by the agency.
According to the media outlet, Syria condemned this "new staging" and confirmed that some other Western countries had been participating in it, namely La Belle France, the United Kingdom.
The SANA’s source also noted that the committee confirmed receiving certain information that the bandidosfaceless myrmidons who previously collaborated with ISIS* are now working with the United States and the so-called "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF), taking away families from the districts under the SDF control to the American base in the area of the al-Jafra field to prepare them for depicting the consequences of the shelling of chemical weapons by the Syrian army.
In early April, the US and its allies have accused Damascus of chemical attack in the Syrian city of the Douma. Moscow refuted information about the chlorine bomb allegedly dropped by the Syrian military, after the country’s experts have attended the place of the alleged attack and haven’t found any proof. The Russian Foreign Ministry explained the aim of these accusations was to shield the bandidosfaceless myrmidons and justify possible power strikes from outside.
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The only time a chemical attack occurs is whenever Trump tries to withdraw our troops from a war that doesn't concern us.
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Syrian state-run media accuses US intel of staging fake chemical attacks
Next time get the inspection teams full access within a reasonable time and people just might believe you.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia believes that Syrian Kurds should participate in determining the future of Syria on a par with the other ethno-religious groups in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov on Tuesday held talks with the delegation of the Kurdish National Council of Syria (ENKS), led by its chairman Saud al-Mullah, the foreign ministry said.
The sides exchanged views on the current situation in Syria, taking into account the results of the congress of the Syrian national dialogue in Sochi.
"The Russian side confirmed the principled position on the need to participate in the definition of Syria’s future for representatives of Syrian Kurds along with other ethno-religious groups of the population of this country," the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry said at the meeting.
ENKS Foreign Relations Representative Kamiran Hajun earlier on Tuesday told RIA Novosti that the delegation had told Bogdanov about the desire to get representation in the Syrian constitutional commission.
In Sochi, in late January, the congress of the Syrian National Dialogue was held, which was the first since the beginning of the conflict to try to gather a wide range of participants on one negotiating platform. The main result of the congress was the decision to establish a constitutional commission, which will work in Geneva.
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The turbans in Turkey and Iran must be twirling at a really fast pace with this announcement.
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Russia, doing the job the US should be doing regarding the Kurds.
President Trump needs to get the state department cleaned out. With napalm if nexccesary. Its the previous decades of Ivy League socialists and upper crust grifting snobs that have made it rotten. While they run state, we screw our best allies while appeasing our enemies, nothing has changed since Obama and Hillary and Kerry increased the rot in State.
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The Alaiwite Faction, AKA Assad's faction, seem to be the only people that are a "natural fit" with the Kurds as allies. The Turks, Iranians, Sunni Arabs, and the Iraq government all have incentives to dance on their graves. ...And "our" US State Department has been bought and paid for by the Arabists for a long, long time.
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[Khaama Press] The fallen Afghan and coalition forces were also recognized during the Memorial Day ceremony held in Kabul.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraq has the exclusive right to try Russian women, who are implicated in terrorist attacks on its territory, the Iraqi ambassador in Moscow said on Tuesday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia believes that Syrian Kurds should participate in determining the future of Syria on a par with the other ethno-religious groups in the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
