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Joan Leslie was an American actress and vaudevillian, who during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in such films as High Sierra,Sergeant York, and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Born: Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel, January 26, 1925, Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Tuesday, the US imposed sanctions on a Libyan national accused of abusing migrants colonists. This comes amid growing alarms over human trafficking and inhumane conditions in the key gateway state to Europe.
In a statement, the US Department of State said it had frozen any assets and criminalized any transactions with Osama al-Kuni Ibrahim, 45. He is described as the manager of the al-Nasr detention center in al-Zawiya, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken said that al-Kuni carried out "horrific abuses" against mostly African migrants colonists, including killings and sexual violence.
"Today’s action promotes accountability and exposes the mistreatment, exploitation and violence being perpetrated against vulnerable migrants colonists transiting Libya in pursuit of a better life," the US Secretary of State said. He called on Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU) to hold al-Kuni and others perpetrating human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abusers accountable.
The action follows a similar designation on Monday by the sanctions committee of the UN Security Council, which called on all nations to ban al-Kuni from transiting through and to freeze any funds linked to him.
Human traffickers have profited from Libya’s chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Muammer Qadaffy.
European nations led by Italia have financed the Libyan Coast Guard, to return migrants colonists to Libya. Human rights groups say that those sent back are often sent to jails mired in corrupt management and deplorable conditions.
On Sunday, Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... urged governments to stop sending people back to Libya, voicing sadness at the "inhumane violence" perpetrated against migrants colonists including children.
MOSCOW, October 29 - RIA Novosti, Andrey Kots. The situation in the north of Syria in the coming days may become seriously tense. Turkey has deployed to hundreds of military border. More than 200 trucks delivered ammunition, weapons and special equipment to Idlib province. RIA Novosti reports on the risks of another exacerbation.
General offensive
Turkey plans to advance on a wide front to close two-thirds of the 910-kilometer border. Judging by the photos on social networks, Ankara does not waste time on trifles: tanks, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and air defense systems are being transferred to Syria. The last time the region was pumped up with troops and equipment in this way was in the winter of 2020 - before Operation Spring Shield.
First of all, analysts say, Ankara wants to neutralize the threat from the Kurds who have settled in northern Syria. In 2016-2019, the Turks captured several areas there and today control the border from Bandar Khan to Ras al-Ein, as well as from Jerabulus to the Mediterranean coast.
However, the territory between Jerabulus and Bandar Khan has been in the hands of the Kurdish YPG for many years. One of the main targets of the upcoming operation is the border town of Kobani, 415 kilometers northeast of Damascus. The Kurds have been defending it since 2012: first from IS *, and then from the Turkish army.
According to Bloomberg, Ankara is going to take over the area south of Kobani in order to link the two regions under its control and to further gain a foothold in northern Syria. The formal reason for the military operation is the attacks of the Kurds on the Turkish security forces.
"The latest attack on our policemen and sorties aimed at our lands have already exhausted the cup of patience," Erdogan said.
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The second, less obvious goal of Ankara is to cover its proxies in Idlib from a possible Damascus strike. It is no secret that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in recent months has been building up a group that is trying to liberate the troubled province. A kind of layered cake was formed from the Turkish military, extremist groups controlled by Ankara, free gangs fighting against everyone, and units of the government army, operating with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Syrian troops launched a major offensive in the winter and spring of 2020, liberating 35 settlements, 320 square kilometers of territory.
By the end of January, the CAA occupied the city of Maarrat-en-Nuuman in the southeast of the province, taking control of the most important section of the Hama-Aleppo road. And on February 5, she entered the key settlement of Serakib at the intersection of the Aleppo-Hama and Aleppo-Latakia highways.
This provoked the discontent of Ankara, which demanded an ultimatum from Damascus to withdraw its troops to the positions they had occupied before. Syria has not responded. Therefore, the Turks and their proxies attacked the SAA along the entire front. In response, on February 27, the Syrians bombed a Turkish convoy - 33 soldiers and officers were killed. After that, Ankara launched Operation Spring Shield, widely using Bayraktar TB2 attack drones.
The CAA retreated. The situation was partially stabilized on March 5, after the talks between the presidents of Russia and Turkey in Moscow on an armistice. Putin and Erdogan agreed to end hostilities, withdraw troops and create a security corridor along the M-4 Latakia-Aleppo highway. Also, joint patrols were organized in this area.
Old question
Russia has its own interests in the region, which do not always coincide with Turkey's. Recently, the media published photos of a Su-35S fighter at the Kamyshly airbase in northern Syria, which was not used by Russian aviation before. In the West, this was regarded as a warning to Turkey. However, it is not yet clear how far Ankara will go.
The Turkish parliament last Tuesday extended the permission to use the army in Iraq and Syria until October 2023. This was supported by deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party, as well as the National Movement Party, and the opposition Republican People's Party and the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party opposed it. Obviously, Erdogan is betting on political allies and hopes to raise his ratings through a "small victorious war."
However, a Turkish offensive could run counter to American interests. Those have long and consistently supported the Syrian Kurds, and consider them allies. Probably, Ankara decided to exacerbate the situation in order to get additional trump cards in the negotiations between Erdogan and Biden, which are to be held in Glasgow within the framework of the UN conference on climate change from November 1 to 12.
It is not the first time for the Turkish leader to use military force to achieve political preferences. We will remind, Ankara has already deployed powerful military contingents to the Syrian borders in September, a week before Erdogan's meeting with Putin.
[JPost] Wonder who he's referring to?
The head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Shamkhani, tweeted in Hebrew on Thursday that Iran had 'foiled the enemy's plans' to wreak havoc during Tuesday's cyberattack.
Ali Shamkhani, two-star Iranian general and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, tweeted in Hebrew on Thursday that Iran had "foiled the enemy's plans" regarding Tuesday's cyber attack.
"Even though the first line of the passive defense was disabled by a cyberattack, the back line foiled the enemy's plans to wreak havoc in Iran in a coordinated action on administration, defense and media agencies," he wrote.
"The wise methods of October 2021 have revealed the hastiness of October 2019," he added in reference to a US cyber attack on Iran following the drone attack on Saudi oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blamed on Tehran.
למרות שהקו הקדמי של ההגנה הפסיבית הושבת על ידי מתקפת סייבר, הקו האחורי סיכל את מטרת האויב להתפרע באיראן באמצעות פעולה מתואמת ובזמן של סוכנויות ההנהלה, הביטחון והתקשורת. ניהול מושכל באוקטובר 2021 חשף פזיזות של אוקטובר 2019
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...I'd like to think that when this came out, a couple of guys at Mossad HQ looked at each other and said? "Cyberattack? What cyberattack? Ours isn't scheduled till Tuesday at lunch time!"
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[An Nahar] The U.S. Treasury on Thursday slapped sanctions on prominent Lebanese tycoons Jihad al-Arab and Dany Khoury and politicianJamil al-Sayyed ... who is owned by the government of Syria, but presently rented out to Hezbollah... for allegedly benefitting from corruption and adding to the breakdown of the rule of law in the country.The three "have each personally profited from the pervasive corruption and cronyism in Leb ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... , enriching themselves at the expense of the Lebanese people and state institutions," the U.S. Treasury said.
"While the Lebanese people face daily struggles to access basic public goods, including medicine, electricity, and food, during a historic and devastating economic crisis, members of the Lebanese political class and their cronies operate with impunity to enrich themselves and hide their wealth," the Treasury said in a statement.
The Treasury said al-Arab has used close political connections and kickback payments to win important public contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars in which he overbilled the government and, in an emergency deal to address Beirut's 2016 garbage crisis, did not resolve the problem.
The Treasury also said he won two government contracts worth $200 million after brokering a political deal in 2014 ahead of elections.
Khoury, it said, used his ties to already-sanctioned Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil to reap lucrative contracts "while failing to meaningfully fulfill the terms of those contracts."
"Khoury and his company have been accused of dumping toxic waste and refuse into the Mediterranean Sea, poisoning fisheries, and polluting Lebanon’s beaches, all while failing to remedy the garbage crisis," it said.
Sayyed, meanwhile, was accused of skirting banking regulations to move $120 million offshore.
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During the 2019 protests, when demonstrators protested outside his home demanding his resignation and calling him corrupt, Sayyed called on officials to shoot and kill the protesters," the Treasury said.
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...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
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...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
