[ToloNews] Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at a presser with Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov said the Turkmenistan delegation and Islamic Emirate held good talks on economic and political issues.
Muttaqi said the Turkmenistan delegation included officials from various ministries who held talks with Islamic Emirate officials.
Muttaqi said during the two-day visit both sides discussed issues around strengthening political relations and economic ties.
Muttaqi said they talked about the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistain-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, adding the implementation of the project in Afghanistan will start soon.
"Important issues such as TAPI, railroads and electricity were discussed. We discussed how to strengthen the projects that had already started.
Also, the projects that were started by Turkmenistan, such as TAPI--its practical implementation will start soon in Afghanistan."
Muttaqi said Meredov has invited him to visit Turkmenistan.
Meredov and his accompanying delegation also met with PM Deputy Abdul Salam Hanafi and discussed economic issues--especially the TAPI project--and railroads and made important decisions, the Islamic Emirate Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
The TAPI project was launched in 2016.
TAPI pipeline is expected to carry 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas each year along a route stretching 1,800 km (1,125 miles) from Galkynysh, the world's second-biggest gas field, to the Indian city of Fazilka near the Pakistain border.
Work on the project in Afghanistan began in February 2018 and will include a 1,814-kilometer gas pipeline intended to pass through Afghanistan to Pakistain and India, with at least 816 kilometers of the pipeline passing through Afghanistan.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the construction has faced delays in Afghanistan due to insecurity, among other issues, in the past years.
[KhaamaPress] Tajikistan’s interior ministry has denied construction of any military base on the country’s border with Afghanistan while China’s foreign ministry has also ruled out the possibility of a military base in central Asia.
Spokesperson of China’s foreign ministry Wang Wenbin though did not directly answer the question of constructing a military base in Tajikistan, denied having a military base in central Asia.
In the meantime, Tajikistan’s interior ministry in a statement said that they and China do not plan to do so.
Tajikistan meanwhile acknowledged that both countries will be carrying our military maneuvers on the Tajikistan border with Afghanistan.
Earlier, it was rumored that China intends to build a military base to prevent the potential pouring of bully boyz to its soil.
[KhaamaPress] Deputy Minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Zabiullah Mujahid said that the international community must recognize the Taliban if they do not want to receive any threat from Afghanistan.
Zabiullah Mujahid during a presser in Kabul on Saturday, October 30 said that the Taliban must be recognized as a responsible side.
It has been more than two and half months since the complete takeover of the Taliban but no country has recognized them yet.
The spokesperson of the Taliban added that they will not take any responsibility to avert threats to other countries until and unless they are recognized by the international community.
He added that the recognition of the Taliban is a bilateral need.
"We fought the US because they did not recognize us in the past. If the Taliban are not recognized, it will only increase problems in Afghanistan, the region and the world." Said Mujahid.
Mujahid further added that they have completed all preconditions of their recognition and the world will recognize them one way or the other.
He asked all the countries to activate their diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and acknowledged that they will not give room for military bases for any country.
#Yemen’s Houthi militia put up posters in support of Lebanese Information Minister #GeorgeKordahi whose criticism of the war in Yemen sparked a diplomatic row between #Lebanon and Gulf states.https://t.co/xR4Yjfm9PB
#SaudiArabia recorded a budget surplus of $1.79 billion (6.7 billion riyals) in the third quarter this year, as higher oil prices fueled its first quarterly surplus in over two years.https://t.co/XAgC3Ztrgj
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^ A fiscal situation resulting from the interaction of
a) rational, mature, patriotic adults in positions of authority and
b) economically-productive, high-ROI natural and human resources permitted by the state to flourish.
Not known in the Woke America of 2021 aka the USSA
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#1 It is a lot of money that Joe gives to foreign nations that produce oil.
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It is what happens when you put profits above people which is why your gasoline price isn't Biden's fault. /current trial balloon spin
*strangely, or not so, no mention of trump as a culprit, instead they are scoffing at anyone driving anything larger than a mario kart for bringing it upon themselves.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The mother of the Manchester Arena jacket wallah received over £17,000 in benefits after leaving the country, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.
Despite returning to Libya in October 2016, Samia Tabbal
... trained as a nuclear scientist, she and her husband Ramadan Abedi were up to their elbows in the Libyan Salafi jihadi movement. The entire English branch of the family were known wolves, including both Abedi parents, uncle and cousins, not to mention relatives back in the olde countrie. It isn’t comforting that while in England Papa Ramadan worked in airport security...
continued to receive almost £2,500 per month in housing and child benefits, as well as employment and tax credits, through her HSBC bank account.
The payments ended just days after her son, Salman Abedi
...one of the more notable members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses...
, killed 22 people by detonating a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22nd, 2017. It could have continued if the subsequent police investigation had not revealed that Tabbal and her husband, Ramadan Abedi, were back in Libya.
The Daily Mail added that official documents released to the Manchester Arena Inquiry disclose the 55-year-benefits old’s bonanza, which suggest she failed to notify HM Revenue & Customs that she was leaving the United Kingdom (UK).
Dhimmis gotta pay jizya, donchaknow. Why else have them?
According to a financial report, she received £692.32 a month in housing benefits for her rented home in Manchester’s Fallowfield neighborhood, as well as £61.80 in weekly child benefits and £302.76 in weekly work and tax credits.
The payments stopped nine days after the Arena incident, on May 31st, 2017.
Tabbal’s debit card was used by her sons to buy components for the deadly bomb, according to a jury in the Old Bailey trial of Salman Abedi’s younger brother, Hashem Abedi,
... on occasion spelt Hashim al-Obeidi, Salman Abedi’s baby bro and bomb assistant was arrested in Tripoli while pretending to have nothing to do with that messy nonsense back home. And then, after he snubbed the sentencing hearing, the unbelievers went and sentenced him anyway...
, 24, earlier this year.
Hashem was convicted of 22 charges of murder and sentenced to at least 55 years in prison.
There is no proof that Tabbal was aware of or participated in the Arena attack, but the investigation has heard that she voiced sympathy on Facebook for the Libyan February 17th Martyrs Brigade
...an Islamist militia that had previously guarded Americans in Benghazi before being replaced by Blue Mountain ...
and the Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... Force ...paramilitary organization formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya. The Libyan parliament now designates much of the Libya Shield Force as terrorist. Elements of the Libya Shield Force were identified as linked to al-Qaeda as early as 2012.... , both of which are affiliated to Al Qaeda.
Tabbal and Ramadan Abedi are said to be hiding out on the outskirts of Libya’s capital, 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... , and are being watched.
Although he has denied having any links to Islamist terrorist organizations or knowledge of the incident, a senior MI5 officer told the inquiry last week that Ramadan was "likely" to have affected his son’s turban beliefs.
Whoa! That kind of insight is worthy of the big bucks.
The couple and their oldest son Ismail,
...he may not have been directly involved in that attack, but he raised enough eyebrows in the local Muslim community that they reported him to the counter-terrorism unit even before Middle Bro went kaboom...
who flew out of the UK on August 29th apparently to avoid giving evidence to the inquiry, have refused to assist the authorities.
The dossier of financial documents also show that Salman Abedi received £10,331 into two bank accounts between October 2016 and May 2017, including £4,263.08 from the Student Loans Company that he did not qualify for because he had quit his business studies course at Salford University.
Two separate deposits totaling £3,200 were made by unknown sources into his RBS account in January 2017, shortly before the bank closed it over suspicions about fraud.
[DW] The tour guides say they're encouraging intercultural contacts. Their critics say they're helping normalize international relations with a murderous regime.
Because if the tourists can go there, the migrants Muslim colonists can be returned, right?
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The near perfect gift for that pesky brother-in-law.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish-flagged fat merchantman carrying 382 mostly Afghan migrants colonists docked safely at a Greek island’s port early on Sunday, two days after losing power in the Aegean Sea and sending out a distress signal.
Six people among what was the country’s biggest single influx of migrants colonists in years were detained after the vessel, the Murat 729, was towed into Kos port by a Greek coasties ship, the migration ministry said.
The other arrivals were taken to a reception center on the island. Their stay at the center, where they will be processed and quarantined, will be temporary, the ministry said.
Greece has been the main route into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for asylum-seekers arriving from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... . The number of arrivals has fallen sharply since 2016 after the EU and Ankara agreed a deal to stop migrants colonists from crossing to Greece.
Since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... takeover of Afghanistan in August, however, many EU states fear a replay of the refugee crisis of 2015, when nearly 1 million people, mainly Syrian refugees, arrived in the EU after crossing to Greek islands close to Turkey.
On Friday, Greece’s Shipping Ministry had asked Turkey to accept the ailing vessel’s return.
On Tuesday, four migrants colonists, three of them children, drowned after a boat in which they and 23 others were trying to cross from Turkey to Greece sank off the island of Chios.
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No supply chain crisis there.
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[NATION.PK] The federal government and outlawed Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) have reached a fresh agreement.
A government team comprising Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... , National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan, and Mufti Muneebur Rehman held talks with the top leadership of the banned outfit, the sources said.
The ministers will announce the development via a presser shortly.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... met a group of top holy mans at the PM House. Briefing the media about the meeting, Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri said that the prime minister was of the view that he does not want bloodshed in the country.
"The prime minister conveyed that he has always welcomed negotiations, however, no compromise will be made over the writ of the state," he said.
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[SHAFAQ] A source from inside the Sadrist movement lambasted the approach that some Iraqi forces pursue to shuffle the cards and earn a position in the cabinet line up, stressing that the movement has changed its mindset and it will "not share the power this time."The source said in a statement to Shafaq News Agency, "the political forces that lost in the recent parliamentary election are trying to impede al-Sadr and prevent him from forming the government in every way possible. The first of which is to demand a manual recount of the ballots to all the Electronic Voting Machines [EVMs]."
"If those demands were met, regardless of being illegal, a manual recount will take eight months. It is sufficient time to devise a well-plotted scenario that reshuffles the cards."
"Surprises are coming from all the parties that lost the election and [the parties that] support them," the source said.
For his part, the former MP and the leading figure in the Sadrist movement, Riyad al-Masoudi, said that conducting a manual recount of all the EVMs in the country requires legislation.
"The endorsement of all the defeated parties to this choice is a political issue," he said.
"Article 76 of the Constitution stipulates that the President of the Republic assigns the largest bloc to form the government (the Sadrist movement). The Prime Minister, according to the components equation, shall be a Shiite. i.e. a Sadrist."
"The Sadrist movement has a new political vision. It is different from the former one that relies on quota and sharing the power with parties it does not agree with."
Al-Masoudi called on the defeated political parties to "strive for coining agreements to build the state. Participating in the political process is not exclusively participating in the government."
"The axis of the political process is the Iraqi Parliament and the agreement of the political forces upon active oversight, legislation, and true representation of the people."
"The political forces that did not win enough seats wish to participate in the government regardless of the number of seats they won. This means that they do not believe that there is a new political map after each election. Hence, the reasons for some parties' insistence upon holding a manual recount became clear."
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[SHAFAQ] The head of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF), Falih al-Fayyadh, said that deciding the movement of the troops affiliated with the PMF is a prerogative of the PMF's Chief of Staff.
Al-Fayyadh's remarks came against the backdrop of Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... 's statements about closing the headquarters of Saraya al-Salam, a PMF faction that is loyal to the leader of the Sadrist movement, in all the Iraqi governorates except for Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala, and Saladin (Samarra).
A document issued by the office of al-Fayyadh himself said that "the movement of any unit can only be decided by the PMF's Chief of Staff."
The document stipulated the PMF members from the brigades 313, 314, and 315 who miss their joining day will be held accountable.
It is noteworthy that the brigades 313, 314, and 315 are the official nomenclature of the military wing of the Sadrist movement, Saraya al-Salam.
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[JPost] Home Front Command and RAHEL to carry out joint war-time drill starting today * In war, 2,000 rockets expected to be fired per day by Hezbollah
Israel’s Home Front Command and National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) will hold a week-long drill starting on Sunday simulating a large-scale war in which civilians are evacuated from northern border communities and security agencies will deal with massive rocket barrages sent by Hezbollah.
The drill will take lessons that have been learned from past events in the North, as well as those from the May fighting between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip — Operation Guardian of the Walls — and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
Following the May fighting, the Home Front Command "carried out a very significant learning process with a lot of research, and this exercise is going to test what we’ve learned," said Home Front Command Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Itzik Bar.
Israel Police and Magen David Adom will also participate in the drill, which ends Thursday, and will see all security and various governmental bodies take part.
"This exercise is also a great opportunity for all government ministries to understand the implications, starting with disruptions in the energy sector — we are talking about 24-hour power outages across the country, 72 hours in localized communities — and other such aspects in terms of continual functioning," Bar said.
According to RAHEL head Yoram Laredo, the drill is the first time that it is working together with the Home Front Command, and it will sharpen the abilities of the two to work hand-in-hand.
The drill will focus on a new alert system for residents of northern Israel, as well as the rate of fire and the ability of Hezbollah to fire precision missiles and massive barrages toward specific areas — especially communities near the border fence.
According to Bar, some of the issues that concern him are "the issue of precision-guided munitions and the effect that they will have on our ability to function and on things in the world of incoming fire alerts. The second is the rate of fire and Hezbollah’s ability to conduct truly massive rocket barrages at specific geographic areas — I’ll use the phrase ’demolishing the front line’ — directed fire at the communities near the border."
On Wednesday, warning sirens with a new alert time and the unit’s emergency application will also be tested.
LOCALITIES IN which the sirens have changed from "immediate" to "15 seconds" are the communities of Ga’aton, Yehiam and Evron in the Mateh Asher Regional Council; the Golan communities of Geshur, Neot Golan, Yoav-Bnei Yehuda, Mevo Hama and the IDF’s Kela base; in the Jordan Valley, the communities of Ma’agan, Golan Heights, Maasade, Kinneret College and Tel Katzir have been extended from 15 seconds to 30 seconds.
Due to the large number of projectiles expected to be fired toward border communities and the continued lack of adequate bomb shelters, the drill will also focus on joint evacuation of residents of communities that are within five km. of the Lebanese border and their absorption into other locations in Israel.
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[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... has promised that if his administration renews compliance with the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal, Washington won’t leave it unless Iran clearly violates its terms, according to a joint statement issued today with European leaders, The Guardian reports.
The statement is issued after a meeting Biden held with Germany’s Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... , La Belle France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britannia’s Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome.
"We welcome President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...... ’s clearly demonstrated commitment to return the US to full compliance with the JCPOA and to stay in full compliance, so long as Iran does the same," the statement says, using the deal’s official name.
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Less than a week before Virginia's closely watched race for governor, just over 40% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's overall performance as president, according to the latest national poll from NBC News.
With Crib notes in hand
Biden appears to use prepared list of reporters after G20 summit in Rome: 'I'm told we should start with AP'
The president took questions from reporters before departing for the UN climate summit in Glasgow
[IsraelTimes] Black Shadow group’s channels are removed shortly after it sought payment within 48 hours to block data leak from Israeli sites; no immediate comment from the messaging service.
The Black Shadow hacking group, which in recent days has been leaking personal information from Israeli websites, had its Telegram messaging app channels removed on Sunday.
The suspected Iran-linked group’s main Telegram channel for communicating messages, as well as a separate channel for releasing data, were both unavailable on Sunday afternoon, just hours after it had demanded a new ransom payment of $1 million in digital currency to stop the leak.
There was no immediate comment from Telegram on the removal. Previously, controversial channels, such as one belonging to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -based Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group, were temporarily removed likely due to mass reporting on the group by the app’s users. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the messaging service has previously denied that mass reports can remove channels.
The hacking group on Sunday morning said in a statement, released through the now-removed channel, that it was "looking for money" and would not leak further information if the ransom was paid within 48 hours.
The group said the database of the Atraf website, a geo-located dating service and nightlife index, whose app and website are popular in the Israeli LGBT community, contained information on some one million people.
"If we have $1 million in our [digital] wallet in the next 48 hours, we will not leak this information and also we will not sell it to anybody. This is the best thing we can do," the hacking group said, noting that it was in possession of users’ chat content, as well as event ticket and purchasing information.
Later on Sunday, using a backup channel after its main accounts were removed, the hacking group threatened to release data on fifty "famous" Israelis who had been using the online dating service.
"Atraf’s team did not contact us for any deal’s yet so we collected 50 famous israeli that were surfing and we leak their video’s to access the private group," the Black Shadow group published, demanding $500 for access to the data.
The hackers said that they had not been contacted by anybody in the Israeli government or Cyberserve, the Israeli internet hosting company they breached on Friday, taking down several of its sites, including Atraf.
The hackers said the lack of contact showed it was "obvious [the hack] is not an important problem for them."
The names of some Atraf users and their locations have already been posted online, as well as the HIV status that some users had put on their profiles.
#BREAKING: After #G20RomeSummit, @POTUS says today when asked about #Iran drone attack on Al-Tanf airbase in #Syria and attacks on US interests says "we are going to respond. We are going to continue to respond."
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.
...Arabic for 
Hashem Abedi,
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle......
