[GEOTV] The Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... have barred United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... -appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, the administration's spokesperson told local broadcaster Tolo, accusing the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... watchdog of "spreading propaganda".
Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan's human rights situation after the Taliban took over the previous year.
Bennett, who has previously said the Taliban's treatment of women and girls could amount to a crime against humanity, is based outside Afghanistan but has visited several times to research the situation.
The UN Human Rights Council did not immediately respond to request for comment. Bennett could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Taliban administration's foreign ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi told Rooters that Bennett "had been unable to acquire a travel visa to Afghanistan".
"Even after repeatedly requesting Mr Bennett to adhere to professionalism during work... it was decided that... his reports are based on prejudices and anecdotes detrimental to interests of Afghanistan and the Afghan people," Balkhi said.
Taliban administration spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has previously said the Taliban respect women's rights in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic law and local customs. He told Tolo that Bennett would not be allowed to come to Afghanistan, a rare public barring of an individual foreign official.
"Mr Bennett's travel to Afghanistan has been prohibited because he was assigned to spread propaganda in Afghanistan... He used to exaggerate minor issues and propagate them," Mujahid said, according to Tolo.
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Should read "to" Afghanistan, not "from" Afghanistan.
[NEWARAB] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... expressed concern on Tuesday about the rapid deterioration of the economic and security situation in Libya, denouncing the "unilateral" moves by Libyan actors that have "increased tension."
The country of 6.8 million people has struggled to recover from years of conflict after the 2011 Libyan revolution that overthrew longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...> , and remains divided between a UN-recognised government based in the 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 a rival administration in the east, backed by military strongman 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. Actually, he is, but slowly... Now, reemerging bloodshed and power struggles in the vast North African nation have raised fears of a broader escalation, threatening to deal a fatal blow to the UN-brokered political transition and push the war-torn country deeper into turmoil.
"Over the past two months, the situation in Libya has tanked quite rapidly in terms of political, economic and security stability," Stephanie Koury, acting head of the UN's political mission in Libya (UNSMIL), told the Security Council.
"Unilateral acts by Libyan political, military and security actors have increased tension, further entrenched institutional and political divisions and complicated efforts for a negotiated political solution," she added.
She cited a number of events since the beginning of August, including fighting between gangs on the outskirts of Tripoli and attempts to forcibly expel the governor of the central bank.
The American diplomat is acting head of UNSMIL pending the appointment of a successor to Abdoulaye Bathily, who threw in the towel in April, condemning a "lack of political will and good faith" by Libyan leaders.
"In the absence of renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections, you see where this is heading: greater political, financial and security instability, entrenched political and territorial divisions, and greater domestic and regional instability," warned Koury.
"Libyans are frustrated with the status quo and the toll it is taking on their lives. People struggle to withdraw money from the banks and to meet their daily needs. Many express fear about war once again erupting," she said.
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When Italy ruled Libya it divided the country in three parts Tipolitania to the west, Cyrenaica to the east, and the Fezzan to the south. It would be well to reintroduce that arrangement. The Libya that is "deteriorating" is Tripoli, which is basically ungovernable. Thus, create a new Cyrenaican polity with its capital at Benghazi and let Tripoli go to Hell. As for Fezzan, it is not worth governing.
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Libya was governed about as well as anyone could expect by Muammar Qadaffy. Sure, he was a scoundrel but Ronald Reagan rendered him harmless in 1983. The current state of that country is the legacy of treacherous meddling by America, Britain and France during the Obama administration. David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy headed the governments of Britain and France at the time. The question is: Are Libyans better off now than they were when Qadaffy was in power?
Miss me now?
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The miserable condition in western and southern Libya can be laid at the doorstep of Hillary Clinton. M. Qadafy had been (metaphorically) emasculated and was actually making some good economic and political changes in Libya when Washington's idiots backed by Paris and the EU, thought they could play petro-politics. They played "throw out the bastard and we'll take over." They forked-up, and to this day millions have suffered from their stupidity.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... , acting chairman of BNP has been acquitted by a Noakhali court in a sedition case filed with the court.
Noakhali Additional District and Sessions Judge Court Noman Mohi Uddin passed the order on Wednesday.
Court inspector Md Shah Alam confirmed the matter.
He said that the judge has ordered the officer-in-charge (OC) of Char Jabbar cop shoppe to send back the arrest warrant sent in the name of Tarique Rahman in this case.
Earlier on last Sunday afternoon, BNP leaders and activists of Subarnochar held a procession with brooms and shoes against the plaintiff advocate Omar Faruk to withdraw the false case against Tarique Rahman.
It is reported that in December 2014, Tarique Rahman made a speech about former Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... 's father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at an event in London.
Subsequently, on February 28, 2015, Advocate Omar Faruk, President of the Subornachar Upazila Awami League and Chairman of Char Jabbar Union, filed a case against Tarique Rahman at the Noakhali Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court.
The court instructed Char Jabbar Police Station to take legal action.
On April 4, 2017, Sub-Inspector (SI) Anwar Hossain Bhuiyan of the cop shoppe submitted the charge sheet to the court.
The court then issued an arrest warrant for Tarique Rahman in this case.
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[NEWARAB] Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... , a vocal advocate for Paleostinian rights, has urged Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress to take a new approach regarding 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 Hamas with 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... , an issue that continues to create division within the Democratic Party as the November elections approach.
Harris has adopted a more conciliatory stance towards pro-Paleostine groups but has stopped short of implementing policy changes, such as cutting off aid to Israel, despite reports of widespread violations of international law by Israeli forces.
''Vice President Kamala Harris has an opportunity to demonstrate our party's courage and commitment to ending the genocide not just in condemning it with words, but in action by conditioning aid,'' Omar stated on X. ''A better world is possible, but we must have the courage to fight for it."
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How about rechecking Ilhan's emigration papers - I'm sure they're full of lies, and therefore her US citizenship is void.
Heavens to Betsy! I need to fetch my pearls so I can clutch them while I swoon.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Gilad Erdan, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , has called for the destruction of the UN headquarters in New York.
In an interview published Tuesday by the Israeli daily Maariv, Erdan stated, ''The UN building should be closed and wiped off the face of the earth.''
Erdan, who has been a fierce defender of Israel's genocide in 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 Hamas with 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... , did not mince words in his criticism of the UN, describing its headquarters as ''twisted and distorted,'' despite its outward appearance.
This is not the first time Erdan has lashed out at the United Nations. During his tenure, he frequently criticized UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), accusing them of bias against Israel.
Erdan's comments come amid ongoing international condemnation of Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of over 40,170 Paleostinians, most of whom are women and kiddies.
The UN Security Council has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire, but the genocide continues unabated.
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50% or more of the UN is composed of dictatorships. We have the UN to thank for COVID disinformation. Getting rid of the UN and decreasing US funding of it should be the first job of the new congress.
“The member states of the United Nations comprise 193 sovereign states. The United Nations (UN) is the world's largest intergovernmental organization. All members have equal representation in the UN General Assembly.“
[NEWARAB] 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 Hamas with 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... ceasefire talks are near to collapse, again, following reports in Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not believe a truce deal will take place despite a top US diplomat voicing optimism.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... returned to Washington empty-handed on Tuesday ending his ninth visit to the region since October without a deal after meetings with officials in Egypt, 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... and Israel.
Speaking to news hounds before flying out of Doha on Tuesday, Blinken said the deal must be done and "we will do everything possible to get it across the finish line".
A day earlier, Blinken said the deal on offer was "probably the best, maybe last, opportunity".
Despite the pressing need to end the bloodshed, hopes are waning amid reports that Netanyahu had admitted he does not believe a deal will be reached and was reluctant to end the war.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Relations between Egypt and Israel have deteriorated significantly due to disagreements over the deployment of Israeli forces in Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor on the Egypt-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 Hamas with 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... border, according to a report by the Emirati newspaper ''The National''.
Naturally. Israel wants to prevent weapons and personnel smuggling into Gaza from Egypt, while Egypt wants to profit from it on the way to the righteous Moslem conquest of lands separated from the Ummah in 1967 by a bunch of uppity Jooooos.
During negotiations in Cairo over the past 48 hours, Egyptian officials informed their Israeli counterparts that Egypt would never agree to the presence of Israeli forces at either of the specified locations, regardless of their number, the paper reported citing sources familiar with the matter as saying that
One of the sources clarified that Israeli officials were insistent on maintaining their troops in Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor, and had pledged to provide satellite imagery to prove that only a limited number of their forces were stationed there.
The Egyptians rejected this proposal and suggested the deployment of American or UN forces at the two sites, a proposal that was turned down by the Israeli side.
They have accused Israel of violating bilateral agreements that prohibit the deployment of Israeli troops in these areas.
It is noted that Israel took control of the Paleostinian side of the Rafah crossing in May, and subsequently its forces entered the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between Gaza and Egypt during the Israeli military operation against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and other factions in Gaza, in response to Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7.
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Israel patrolled that Gaza border region from 1967 until it turned over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians in 2005. It would just re-assume its former role.
Show us what you got, tough guy. Or shut up and sit down.
[GEOTV] Reiterating its resolve to retaliate against Israel over Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... leader Ismael Haniyeh's killing, Iranian mission to the UN has said that Tehran's response come come in a time and manner that would take the Israelis by surprise, Al Jazeera reported.
"Maybe when their eyes are on the sky and the radar screen, they are surprised from the ground, and maybe a combination of the two," the statement said, adding that Iran's response should not only punish the aggressor for violating its illusory sovereignty but also act as deterrence for others in future.
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.
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan's human rights situation after the Taliban took over the previous year.
...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 
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
