The probability is greater than zero, but not by much.
[ToloNews] US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... has told news hounds on Tuesday that there is a chance of making a deal with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , AP reported.
"So, we are negotiating with the Taliban. We've been negotiating with them for a while. We will see what happens. It's a chance of making a deal. It is a chance," Trump said.
This follows a public announcement by US Defense Secretary Esper last week that an agreement for a seven-day reduction in violence was on the table at the US-Taliban talks, and also an AP report citing high-level officials saying that President Trump had "conditionally" approved a peace agreement being discussed in Doha, 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... The expectation is that a signed peace deal between the US and the Taliban will lead to intra-Afghan talks.
The Afghan government has begun work on forming a peace-negotiating team with the Taliban, said Waheed Omar, director general of the president's office of public and strategic affairs.
"The government will determine authorities of the negotiating team. The team will have about 15 members," said Omar.
The peace-negotiating team will handle the technical aspects of the talks and the final decision will be taken in Kabul, said Omar, amid reports that the peace deal between the US and Taliban will be "finalized" next week.
"The Taliban are fighting with the Afghan govt. If they don't agree to talk with the Afghan govt, there are no peace negotiations," said Omar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... a number of politicians have said that the Afghan government should make sure an inclusive peace-negotiating team is formed to avoid any possible obstacles in the process.
[ToloNews] Presidential candidate and leader of Hizb-e-Islami party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , at a presser in Kabul on Wednesday rejected Tuesday’s announcement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) declaring incumbent Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... the country’s next president, saying Ghani "chose the path of crisis rather than the path of cooperation."
"We suggested that you (President Ghani) cooperate with us to resolve the crisis, but you (Ghani) chose the path of crisis," said Hekmatyar.
"Let's compete in any province you (Ghani) want, if you (Ghani) get 30 percent of the votes, I will accept you as president," Hekmatyar challenged Ghani.
Hekmatyar opposed the creation of a ’parallel’ government in the country.
"We do not support any parallel government, but we support an inclusive government where all see themselves represented, including the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ," he said.
Hekmatyar said that officials of both electoral commissions should be punished, because they have pushed the election process "into a crisis."
[KhaamaPress] Ata Mohammad Noor, one of the most prominent leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , who was once considered as the emperor of Balkh province, welcomed the re-election of Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... as the President of Afghanistan.
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#Algeria has issued an order to deport the country head of telecommunications company @ooredoo for the offense of sacking 900 Algerian workers, according to a local news outlet.https://t.co/dKDwABxK7K
#Erdogan: Since I set Turkish feet in #Tripoli, the progress of Hafter has been halted, and #EU has no authority to take a decision on #Libya, not by land or sea. (In reference to EU’s decision to control and stop sending weapons). pic.twitter.com/HRfX7ogYwe
LNA Spox: There is no possibility of peace, and there is no sovereignty while we have foreign terrorists on our soil. Erdogan’s intentions and the crimes he’s committing here are clear through his statement today. pic.twitter.com/lMwZYQKZvQ
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Libya: "foreign terrorists on our soil" = the Turks, McCains Moderates & NATO allies GNA, and Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the orgs MB birthed like Al Qaeda and ISIS types.
The body overseeing Turkish judges and prosecutors has launched an investigation into three judges who acquitted philanthropist businessman Osman Kavala and eight other activists of terrorism charges, according to Turkey’s state media.https://t.co/cv4QzgH9QZ
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We might have a look at a few of our judges, Congress members and prosecutors as well after observing the rigged Mueller investigation and the impeachment.
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As far as I can tell, a meaningless, titular position created to provide oversight to the intelligence community. Grenell will only know what they want him to know. If he had control of their secret budget, perhaps another story entirely.
[NYPOST] Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov
...the Uzbeck lone wolf who rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible, though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer...
threatened to decapitate a federal corrections officer for repeatedly waking him while he’s locked up at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,
...what a crabby little Hero of Islam he is, to be sure...
a new court filing detailing a trove of the government’s evidence against him alleges.
Saipov, who’s accused of killing eight people during his 2017 Halloween terror attack on the West Side Highway, allegedly threatened the officer on Dec. 17 last year for repeatedly slamming a door at night, making it hard for the ISIS follower to sleep, the filing states.
"During the course of this confrontation, the defendant threatened to kill the Officer. Indeed, as the defendant later admitted to the MCC’s disciplinary committee (the ’Committee’), he told the Officer that if the Officer dared to open the defendant’s cell, in two minutes ’other guys will be picking up your dead body,’" the filing states.
The next day, still angry from the prior incident, Saipov obstructed a security camera in his cell and said he wouldn’t remove it until "the Officer’s head was cut off" and then referred to the officer "as an animal," according to the filing.
"Again, the defendant unapologetically admitted this threat to the Committee, telling the Committee that he wanted to ’cut this animal head off,’" prosecutors allege.
The government’s motion, filed late Tuesday, describes all of the evidence it plans to introduce in Saipov’s April trial and all of the items it wants the court to exclude.
It plans to call on some of Saipov’s 11 living victims, some who were permanently disfigured following the attack, and will include the never-before-seen note that Saipov allegedly left at the scene.
#BREAKING The IRGC-backed Al-Nujaba posted this footage, saying it could easily target this American airplane. According to the militia, the footage was filmed near one of the American military posts in Iraq. pic.twitter.com/yICPBiect6
Iraq's outgoing prime minister urged political leaders to quickly approve his designated successor's cabinet and warned he would walk away from his caretaker post if they do not do so by March 2.#BaghdadPost#Baghdad#Iraq#FreeIraqhttps://t.co/PgrbW1lbgj
The Lebanese central bank is investigating transfers abroad, says its investigation unit, as the country's economic situation continues to deteriorate. #Lebanonhttps://t.co/RjSj3G2p4E
Chairman of Lebanon’s Association of Banks Salim Sfeir calls for an orderly rescheduling of a $1.2 billion Eurobond due on March 9. #Lebanon#Eurobondhttps://t.co/gULpFtIT5p
A group representing the major Lebanese political parties and Palestinian factions in Lebanon rejects US President Donald Trump’s plan to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict.https://t.co/AHEQDnABLQ
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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[NYPOST] Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov 
