Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential aspirant for the 2020 Elections, has condemned 'anti-Muslim violence'' in India and committed herself to "fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir". The Senator from Massachusetts hasn't been performing very well in the Democratic Primaries thus far and going into Super Tuesday, the momentum is decisively against her. "As a American Indian Muslim man, I feel very deeply about this issue"
The comments against India were made in a new plan Elizabeth Warren released on Tuesday for Muslim Communities in the USA. The abrogation of Article 370 and Kashmir figure into the political equations of the USA because Radical Islamists in the country consider Kashmir to be a matter that concerns the Ummah. After Vermont Senator and Warren's rival in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie Sanders, made a pro-Jihad stance regarding Kashmir at an event organized by the ISNA which has links to terrorism, it appears Warren has decided to tread a similar trajectory.
Elizabeth Warren said in her plan, "Elizabeth knows we must stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves. That includes speaking out against China's cruel, bigoted treatment of its Uighur minority and to hold China accountable for its abuses; fighting for reconciliation and accountability for the atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Burma; condemning anti-Muslim violence in India and fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir; and holding allies like Saudi Arabia to account for abuses of human rights." As anyone aware of the nature of Kashmiri separatism knows fully well, it is Jihad that is being waged against India and any support for it is equivalent to supporting Radical Islamic Terrorism.
Aircrew of the AC-130U gunship 'Spooky 41' with Hurlburt Field's 4th Special Operations Squadron were honored at the military facility in Fort Walton Beach
The 14-man crew received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 12 Air Medals for for providing nine hours of fire support
Crew helped U.S. and coalition forces during April 2019 mission in Afghanistan
While allied forces battled ISIS on the ground, the crew of Spooky 41 helped to ensure the safe evacuation by helicopter of 15 injured ground personnel
DFCs are awarded for 'Heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight'
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Different medals for different ranks. Just like the PCS awards (remember the little gold stars from elementary school?).
- for the civie types - PCS, permanent change of station, basically good attendance record given at the end of an assignment. Heaven forbid you try to give a troop an impact award no matter how critical he was in making something happen.
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When you go to the DFC’s Wikipedia page and review recipients and their actions the pilots and the enlisted men were probably awarded the correct medal.
“If our 5,000 prisoners — 100 or 200 more or less does not matter — do not get released there will be no intra-Afghan talks,” says Taliban spokesman https://t.co/w8wYc25Xaw
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Afghanistan had only 1 reported infection as of this morning's report.
However, if the 'there are dozens or hundreds of asymptomatic for every infected showing symptoms' theory is correct, Afghanistan govt, Taliban, isis or al q will get hit just like everyone else.
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There is plenty of smuggling and just plain visiting relatives across the Iranian border, lord garth. Given the dearth of communications and the even worse dearth of modern medicine far from the modernities of Kabul, it’s likely the real statistics will never be known locally, let alone collected for international use.
[ToloNews] Any reservations Afghanistan has with Islamabad should be resolved bilaterally rather than involving the United States, Pakistain’s foreign minister said on Sunday, in reference to part of a joint US-Afghan declaration on peace efforts.
The declaration was announced on Saturday by Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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... , US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and NATO
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India may help Afghanistan with that issue. The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way.
[Libya Observer] The General Manager of the Field Medicine and Support Centre, Tariq Hamshari, remarked on Sunday that 30 % of those maimed so far are civilians, adding that the Centre has managed to evacuate approximately 90 % of the trapped families in the conflict zones.
Hamshari also said in a press statement, that the centre initially employed 200 staff; however, it now has increased to 1,000 medical staff and administration personnel.
He was further indicated that the center operates 13 field hospitals and 20 ambulance bases covering all areas from Abu Shaybah, south of Gharyan, to the outskirts of Sirte.
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[Libya Observer] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ' envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame, who is also the Head of the UNSMIL, has announced on Twitter that he is stepping down from his position for health reasons.
Salame said on Twitter on Monday that he tried to unite Libyans and restrain foreign interference, but for health reasons, he can no longer continue with this level of stress and therefore he asked the UN Secretary General to relieve him of his duties.
Salame, a former Lebanese culture minister, was appointed as a UN envoy in Libya in June 2017 and has struggled to bring the two sides together for talks to end Libya's conflict, especially after the latest wave of escalation started in April 2019.
This resignation comes after many Libyan politicians and social media activists have called on Salame to leave, saying he is biased to one party of the conflict over the other.
[AlAhram] The court had already referred the preliminary death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s to the grand mufti
A Cairo criminal court has sentenced terrorist leader Hisham Ashmawy
...also in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy and Hisham el-Ashmawi, he was also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy was thrown out of Egyptian special forces in 2011 for extremism. He went on to help found Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, then the local branch of Al Qaeda, with whom he shared the results of his military training. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left for the Western Desert to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun. At some point they wandered off to Libya, where in 2018 the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt had convicted Mr. Ashmawy in absentia in 2014, leaving very little for the courts to do now — though they are nonetheless doing it all over again ...
to death, as well as 36 defendants, in the case known in local media as the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis case.
The court convicted the 37 defendants of carrying out 54 liquidations of police and citizens, most notably coppers Mohammed Mabrouk, Mohammed Abu Shakra and Mohammed Said.
The defendants were also convicted of bombing three security directorates, including Cairo Security Directorate in 2014, and vandalising 25 public and private institutions, including police headquarters, churches and mosques.
The court also gave life sentences to 61 defendants, sentencing 21 to ten years in prison and 15 others to 15 years.
The sentences comes a few weeks after the same court referred the preliminary death sentences to the grand mufti for his recommendation, which is a necessary, albeit non-binding, procedure before issuing a death sentence in the Egyptian penal code.
The defendants can still challenge the sentences at Egypt's Court of Cassation.
The process is also a punishment. No doubt by the time he is actually hanged or shot (though given it’s Egyptians, hanging is considerably surer) he will be grateful it’s finally over...
This is the second death sentence given to Ashmawy, a former Egyptian military officer turned krazed killer, in recent months.
One of the most-wanted Egyptian krazed killers, he was apprehended in Libya in October 2018 and handed over to Egypt by forces loyal to Libya’s 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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... in May 2019.
In November 2019, an Egyptian military court sentenced Ashmawy to death for his involvement in a number of terrorist attacks, most notably a 2014 ambush that killed 22 Egyptian military border guards near Libya.
Ashmawy led the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the military has said. He broke away from the group after they swore allegiance to the Islamist State krazed killer group in late 2014.
The men are among more than 200 defendants accused of carrying out more than 50 attacks that included killing high-ranking police officers and bombings that targeted the Egyptian capital’s police headquarters. The charges include a 2013 assassination attempt on the Egyptian interior minister.
The court also sentenced 61 defendants to life in prison, and 85 others got sentences ranging from 15 to 5 years in prison.
Monday’s verdict can be appealed before a higher court.
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An Egyptian court sentences Hesham Ashmawy, a former army officer turned extremist militant leader, to death along with 37 others following their conviction on terrorism-related charges.https://t.co/txL9YGC5Tf
US President Donald Trump recognizes the right of #Greece to enforce the law on its border, according to the Greek premier's office, amid a migration crisis evolving on the country's borders with #Turkey.https://t.co/bBygy2btku
[IsraelNationalNews] Iranian FM Zarif and his entourage were likely COVID-19 carriers at the Munich Security Conference. The Democrat party senator who met with him for over an hour in Zarif's hotel room must be watched for signs of disease.
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No party supporters detained. Oh ! It's Dawn.
The inhumanity with which muslims went to town on hindus they lived with for years is something that will horrify the weak hearted. Intestines ripped out by hands, hearts removed, men burnt alive, tortured for hours, children drowned in sewage...
This is why it's essential to keep the muslim helpless, poor and miserable in Asia. The Asian sunni is the most despicable sample of the human race, a demon in human form.
The central govt mostly turned a blind eye to it all, because a) the hindus in these regions had voted for the majorly muslim Leftist Delhi gummint and they 'brought it upon themselves' and b) those who died were all poor people. Clerks, constables, drivers, shopowners and rickshaw pullers. No one in this society cares about the poor - a typically Indian conceit.
While talking to the Saudi minister, PM Imran stressed the importance of the international community playing its role in preventing the ongoing atrocities in occupied Kashmir and promoting a peaceful solution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute https://t.co/wVcGJzuQap
[JPost] The final voter turnout was 71% - up from 69.8% in the previous election.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in winning 60 seats for his bloc of right-wing and religious parties in Monday's election, one less than he needed for a majority in the Knesset, according to exit polls on the three television networks.
The first polls indicated that Netanyahu's Likud won 36-37 seats. Its allies in Shas, UTJ and Yamina won 9, 7-8 and 6-7 respectively. The polls showed Blue and White with 33 seats, its ally Labor-Gesher-Meretz 6-7, the Joint List 14-15 and Yisrael Beytenu 6-8.
When Channel 13 updated its numbers at around 1 a.m. Israel time, Gantz gained one seat to 34 and the blocs shifted slightly, leaving the right-wing with only 59 seats.
Channel 12 also updated its numbers, giving Likud 37 seats, Blue and White 32, Arab Joint List 15, Shas 9, Yisrael Beytenu 7, UTJ 7, Labor-Gesher-Meretz 7 and Yamina 6.
The numbers are expected to change overnight. The votes of soldiers, who tend to lean to the right, have not yet been counted and the Joint List tends to go down a seat when the soldiers' votes are added. But, if the Right does not obtain its 61st seat, it could end up being because the far-right Otzma Yehudit refused Netanyahu's repeated requests to quit the race.
If this is true, it's the Likud's *best ever* result under Netanyahu. September 2019: 32. April 2019: 35. 2015: 30. 2013: 31 (with Beitenu). 2009: 27. The magician has done it again. #IsraElex2020https://t.co/nf9Hx06z0Q
The university newspaper has a photo of the miscreant here.
[Jpost] A University of Maryland student was arrested last week for sending antisemitic messages to a Jewish student on campus, the University of Maryland Police Department (UMPD) announced in a statement.
According to the Police, a female university student reported that she received antisemitic text messages from a person she did not know, while she was at McKeldin Library, on December 10, 2019.
Following investigation, UMPD was able to identify Muqarrab Ahmed Abdullah, a 24 year-old student from La Plata, Maryland, who "sent multiple message to the victim because of her religious beliefs," UMPD's statement reads.
Abdullah has been charged with electronic communication harassment, telephone misuse and a race/religion crime.
#Iran has arrested two individuals who were filmed licking religious shrines in the Shia holy cities of Qom and Mashhad amid the #coronavirus outbreak in the country, according to state media.https://t.co/CPQejqGCFG
#Lebanon can no longer protect its people or ensure a decent life for them after months of anti-government protests and an economic meltdown, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab says in a speech to the country’s honorary consular corps.#LebanonProtestshttps://t.co/89PEA2dv6Rpic.twitter.com/5shsTMH9vI
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior Iranian politician and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerryand similar exemplars of Merkin values... has reportedly been infected with coronavirus.Hossein Sheikholeslam has been infected with coronavirus and is currently hospitalized in Tehran’s Masih Daneshvari hospital, the editor-in-chief of the state-run news website Entekhab, Mostafa Faghihi, tweeted on Monday.
Sheikholeslam was a senior advisor to Foreign Minister Zarif and had previously served as Tehran's ambassador to Syria.
Several officials have contracted the virus in Iran, which has the highest corpse count in the world outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died from coronavirus, state media reported on Monday.
Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi was reported as having coronavirus by the semi-official news agency ILNA on February 25.
On Thursday, former Justice Minister and Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi was hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms.
On Saturday, Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi became the latest Iranian member of parliament to announce that she has been infected with coronavirus.
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Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Twenty-three Iranian MPs have so far tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Abdolreza Mesri said on Tuesday, while state media reported the death of a senior judiciary official due to the virus. Mesri did not name the MPs.
Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi has died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (@iaeaorg) overseeing #Iran's 2015 nuclear deal plans to call out Tehran for its lack of cooperation and failure to provide access to sites of interest to the agency.https://t.co/ipXU6dr7YD
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.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential aspirant for the 2020 Elections, has condemned 'anti-Muslim violence'' in India and committed herself to "fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir". The Senator from Massachusetts hasn't been performing very well in the Democratic Primaries thus far and going into Super Tuesday, the momentum is decisively against her.
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