[KhaamaPress] The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released a report stating that over the past year, 2.2 million Afghan migrants have returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, November 13, USAID, quoting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reported that these returnees arrived between August 15, 2023, and September 2024.
According to the report, 734,817 Afghan migrants returned from Pakistan alone.
USAID noted that of these returnees, 588,000 received assistance to help with their resettlement.
Previously, the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation had also reported that around 2 million Afghan migrants had returned from Iran and Pakistan in the past year, while approximately seven million Afghans remain in other countries.
The report comes amid an increasing trend of Afghan migrants being expelled from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey, with hundreds of families being deported daily.
Recently, Iranian officials warned that by the end of this year, around 2 million undocumented Afghan migrants would be expelled from Iran.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) announced that the United States has spent over $14 billion in the past three years on relocating and resettling Afghans in the U.S.
The Washington Times reported on Sunday, November 10, that this $14 billion was allocated to evacuation flights and resettlement programs for Afghan refugees in the United States.
According to the report, since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regained control on August 2021, the U.S. has not only spent billions on evacuation and resettlement but also sent over $3 billion to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told the newspaper that "the United States remains the largest donor to the Afghan people."
Why?
Sopko noted that while Afghanistan continues to need humanitarian aid, what he described as "harassment of aid groups" has led to the shutdown of over 80 humanitarian operations in the country.
The U.S. continues to play a major role in supporting Afghan refugees and providing humanitarian assistance, even as challenges persist within Afghanistan under Taliban control.
[Garowe] The Rapid Support Force (RSF) commander is the latest victim of sanctions imposed by the United States Treasury Department, with gross abuse of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. in West Darfur being one of the atrocious activities he is accused of.
In a statement, the Treasury Department said Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla led the RSF’s campaign in West Darfur, marked by credible claims of serious human rights abuses, including the targeting of civilians, conflict-related sexual violence, and ethnically motivated violence.
A few days ago, Barkalla was slapped with sanctions by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council. The war between the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Armed Forces and the RSF erupted in April 2023 and has since left thousands dead and tens of thousands displaced from their homes.
The RSF and the Sudan Armed Forces have been wrestling for control of the country, leading to acute instability since the exit of Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. He was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... , the former ruler who was kicked out by the military following the civil uprising in 2019.
"Today’s action underscores our commitment to hold accountable those who seek to facilitate these horrific acts of violence against vulnerable civilian populations in Sudan," Bradley Smith, Treasury’s acting under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in the statement.
"The United States remains focused on supporting an end to this conflict and calls on both sides to participate in peace talks and ensure the basic human rights of all Sudanese civilians," Smith said.
The ethnic-driven violence is a major concern in the international community and the incoming US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... could further pursue those linked with the violence. The military transitional council has yet to embrace civilian rule in the country.
The U.N. says nearly 25 million people — half of Sudan’s population — need aid. Famine has taken hold in displacement camps, 11 million people have fled their homes and nearly three million of those people have left for other countries.
Sudan is yet embroiled in a tussle over the control of Nile Basin waters and has since formed a coalition with Egypt against Æthiopia. The instability in the Horn of Africa has attracted world major economic and military powers, including countries within the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... of Nations bloc.
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[Regnum] The Yemeni movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) is armed with the most modern weapons, including missiles that can shock. This opinion was expressed by US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Armament Support Bill LaPlante.
"I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've dealt with missiles my entire career. What I've seen the Houthis do in the last six months is just shocking to me," Axios quotes him as saying.
I agree. Who wouda thunk a bunch of inbred 8th century illiterates could light a fuze and back away without catching their hair on fire? Aiming is clearly beyond them, but there are miracles beyond even Allah’s ability to bring to pass. Though given what IDF just did to Iran’s manufacturing capacity, the Houthis haven’t much longer to demonstrate their hair-burning talents. How much longer before the Persian Gulf is reopens for traffic, dear Reader?
In addition, as Laplante noted, the Houthis are becoming "scary."
These comments, as the portal notes, come against the backdrop of the fact that Ansar Allah, having acquired powerful arsenals, threatens virtually every ship passing the Yemeni coast, and both civilian and military vessels could come under attack.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on November 12, the head of the Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria, announced a successful attack on the American aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. According to Yemeni media, the operation lasted eight hours. In addition to the aircraft carrier, the Houthis attacked two American destroyers in the Red Sea. Saria noted that the movement will continue to carry out such attacks until Israel ceases hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
They did attack. Not successfully, but they did attack.
On November 13, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder acknowledged that the Houthis had indeed carried out an attack on US Navy ships in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. That's very interesting and all, but I think the past year (and preceding years) has demonstrated that non-nuclear missiles don't win wars. They're harassment weapons. Actually winning takes combined arms: Infantry, armor, artillery, and now intelligently guided drones, backed by air and naval power as appropriate, and impeccable logistics Thinking on the part of the people running things helps. Generals should concentrate on how to best kill people and break things rather than on how many Polynesians made E4 in the last quarter.
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Nice thought but that isn’t in the cards. They have shot down 14 Reapers so far and motivated two destroyers to RTB before going Winchester. If the US brought naval assets to bear necessary to create serious pain it would simply provide an amalgamated target.
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You get this situation when you 'manage conflict' with 'measured response'. I think it began when you threw out the name War Department and renamed it Defense Department.
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[Regnum] A Muscovite who set fire to toys at a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in the Desyonovskoye settlement in New Moscow in April has been sentenced to a fine. The decision was made by the Shcherbinsky Court of Moscow at a hearing on November 15.
“The court believes that the objectives of the punishment will be achieved by imposing a penalty in the form of a fine,” the court’s decision says.
The court found that the man set fire to the memorial during a night walk with his dog on April 5. Seeing the stuffed toys left by people in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack, piled next to the stone memorial to soldiers who took part in local conflicts, he took out a lighter and set them on fire.
At the time of the arson, the Muscovite was in a state of alcoholic intoxication. According to the case materials, the man thought that a fire should supposedly burn at the memorial in memory of the victims.
He failed to set the objects on fire right away. When one of the toys caught fire, he put it in the general mass, and then the neighboring ones caught fire. He did not watch them burn, but continued walking the dog.
The stone was damaged in the form of soot and smoke. Cleaning service employees spent two hours removing the dirt.
As the judge noted, the arsonist led an immoral lifestyle due to systematic alcohol consumption.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the terrorist attack in Crocus took place on the evening of March 22. A group of terrorists burst into the concert hall filled with people, opened fire, and then started a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 144 people were killed and 551 were injured. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened several criminal cases, including under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist attack"), under which 12 people were arrested.
In a number of Russian cities, people organized spontaneous memorials of flowers, toys, and lit candles in memory of the victims. One of these memorials appeared in New Moscow. On the night of April 5, a fire broke out there, the toys burned, and the stone was covered in heavy soot. Commenting on this event, Regnum editor-in-chief Marina Akhmedova said that burning the memory of the victims is more than vandalism.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Destruction or damage of military burial sites, as well as monuments"). On April 8, police detained a suspect in the arson - a 49-year-old Muscovite.
[IsraelTimes] Junior minister Nora Achahbar said to have quit in protest of ‘racist’ comments made blaming Moroccan immigrants for violence against Tel Aviv fans, her party could leave coalition
The Dutch cabinet met in an emergency session on Friday amid reports the coalition could implode over the government’s handling of violence last week against fans of an Israeli team visiting for a soccer match, local media reported.
Nora Achahbar quit on Friday as junior finance minister after prominent ministers accused Dutch youths of Moroccan descent of attacking the Israeli fans in Amsterdam around the November 7 match between Dutch side Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, local media cited sources in the cabinet session as saying.
The violence was roundly condemned by Israel and Dutch politicians, with Amsterdam’s mayor saying "antisemitic hit-and-run squads" had attacked Israeli fans.
Israeli officials said 10 people were maimed in the Thursday night violence carried out by local Arab and Moslem gangs against Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans. Hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked. Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found, as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants who shouted pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel slogans while they hunted, beat and harassed them.
Social media footage also showed Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans and pulling down a Paleostinian flag before the game.
Achahbar, a former public prosecutor who was born in Morocco, felt comments by several ministers about last week’s events had crossed a line, with hurtful and possibly racist comments about the attacks on the Israeli fans, the De Volkskrant daily reported.
Her resignation triggered Friday’s crisis cabinet meeting in which other cabinet members of her centrist NSC party also threatened to quit, broadcasters NOS and RTL said, citing government sources.
If Achahbar’s center-right NSC party does leave the government, the other three coalition members could continue as a minority government, or call early elections.
The coalition is led by the anti-Moslem populist PVV of Geert Wilders, which came top in a general election a year ago. It was installed in July after months of tense negotiations.
Wilders has repeatedly said Dutch youth of Moroccan descent were the main attackers of the Israeli fans, although police have given no details about the background of the suspects.
Wilders last Wednesday blamed Moroccans for attacks on Israeli soccer fans, claiming that "we saw Moslems hunting Jews" and added it was fueled by "Moroccans who want to destroy Jews." He said those convicted of involvement should be deported if they have dual nationality.
Party leaders were seen joining the meeting at the official residence of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in The Hague. Caterers brought dinner in, media said.
Schoof said on Monday the incidents showed that some of the youth in the Netherlands with an immigrant background did not share "Dutch core values."
Opposition politicians accused Wilders of pouring oil on the fire. Wilders, whose party became the biggest in last year’s election, also sowed some dissent within the four-party coalition with his comments.
The leader of the Green-left-Socialist opposition, Frans Timmermans, lauded Achahbar even before any move was announced.
"In this government, racist remarks are the order of the day. This government is not for all Dutch people," he said.
NSC acting leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven said "we will see" if the party wanted to continue in the government coalition.
"We have had to swallow quite a bit, it’s difficult," Van Vroonhoven told news hounds at the gates of Schoof’s official residence in The Hague.
Asked if Achahbar had handed in her resignation, Van Vroonhoven said "it looks like it, but we are going to look into it."
"The minister is expected to hand in her resignation later today [Friday] after unhappiness with incidents within the cabinet after the violence in Amsterdam involving the game between Ajax and Tel Aviv Maccabi," public broadcaster NOS said.
"Last Monday, during the cabinet meeting, things reportedly got heated, and in Achahbar’s opinion racist statements were made," it said.
"Achahbar reportedly indicated then that she, as a minister, had objections to certain language used by her colleagues," NOS added.
Other NSC cabinet members had not ruled out quitting, NOS said, citing unnamed sources.
Wilders’s Freedom Party won the most seats in Dutch elections a year ago, but the coalition it formed will lose its majority if the NSC, with its 20 seats in the 150-seat lower house, pulls out of the government.
The ruling coalition led by Schoof has 88 seats in parliament between the NSC, Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV), the Liberal VVD and the farmer-friendly BBB party.
Neither Wilders nor Achahbar were available to comment as the cabinet meeting was ongoing on Friday afternoon.
[IsraelTimes] A government crisis in the Netherlands has been avoided following a tense emergency meeting, as a cabinet member resigned over comments by the head of a hard-right coalition party about the assailants who attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last week.
Nora Achahbar unexpectedly quit on Friday as junior finance minister, triggering an emergency meeting in which other cabinet members of her centrist NSC party also threatened to quit.
But Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof later announces his cabinet has reached an agreement, resulting in only the resignation of Achahbar but not of others.
The Moroccan-born Achahbar quit the government after Geert Wilders blamed Moroccans for the violent attacks, saying “we saw Muslims hunting Jews” and added they were fueled by ”Moroccans who want to destroy Jews.” He said those convicted of involvement should be deported if they have dual nationality.
[IsraelTimes] A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Paleostinian Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said.
The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves La Belle France, French anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement to AFP, adding that they would appeal.
"In (a) decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition that he leaves French territory and not appear there again," the prosecutors said.
But his release remains conditional on the outcome of the appeal by prosecutors, to be heard at a hearing on a date yet to be set.
Abdallah, a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
Barsimantov’s killer, a woman wearing a white beret, fled into the Gay Paree subway after shooting him in the head in front of his wife and children at their apartment building. The diplomat was the second secretary for political affairs at the embassy.
Abdallah shot Ray, an assistant military attaché, outside Ray’s apartment building the same year.
Washington, a civil party to the case, has consistently opposed his release but Lebanese authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail.
This was Abdallah’s 11th bid for release.
Abdallah, now 73, had been eligible to apply for parole since 1999 but all previous applications had been turned down, except in 2013 when he was granted release on the condition he was expelled from La Belle France.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the then-interior minister Manuel Valls refused to go through with the order and Abdallah remained in jail.
The court’s decision on Friday is not conditional on the government issuing such an order, Abdallah’s lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, told AFP, hailing "a legal and a political victory".
"It’s not surprising that the prosecution is appealing, since they want him to die in prison," he added.
One of La Belle France’s longest-serving inmates, Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions, claiming he was a fighter" and not a "criminal"
Wounded in 1978 during Israel’s invasion of Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , he joined the Marxist-Leninist PFLP, which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s. It is banned as a terror group by the US and EU.
Yes, but then in 1979 Mr. Abdallah moved from the PFLP to the equally Marxist-Leninist Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF), which he led until France arrested him in 1984.
[JPost] You tolerate this shit, you suffer the consequences
“Free Palestine” and “blood on your hands” were spray painted onto University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce's property.
Pro-Palestinian vandals invaded the home of University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce, on Thursday, damaging her car and leaving pro-Hamas symbols, the university confirmed in a statement.
University spokesperson Victor Balta said in an email Thursday evening that “several masked perpetrators” invaded Cauce’s home, where they slashed the tires to her car and painted “pro-Hamas symbols” across multiple surfaces. Videos circulating online show inverted triangles being painted onto home’s walls.
Those recorded promised, “you will not know peace until you meet the demands of our movement.”
[Jpost] Trump added that any colleges that permit antisemitic violence will be seen as violating the Civil Rights Law.
All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.
To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal support.
“We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we’re not going to do it – certainly on American soil,” he said.
Trump added that once in the Oval Office, he would inform all educational institutions that if they permit violence or harassment against Jewish students, they will be “held accountable for violations of the civil rights law.”
“It’s very important – Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law, and they’re going to get it,” he said. “At the same time, my administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students and Jewish people on American streets.”
TRUMP'S ACTIONS TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM
In his first term as US president, Trump issued an executive order on combating antisemitism by adding Jews to the list of protected minority groups under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
He has also offered Rep. Elise Stefanik, the Republican representing New York’s 21st district, the position of US ambassador to the UN. Stefanik has been one of the leading lawmakers against US campus antisemitism.
[X] Concrete steps like this will start persuading some anti-Trump voters that while he is the new Hitler, he’s actually doing [whatever one thing it is] right.
Donald Trump on antisemitic universities:
“My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that, if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.” pic.twitter.com/S72r3KPTpQ
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While I agree, we need to stamp out antisemitism.
We must also keep in mind the LEFT could "STAGE" massive fake antisemitic events on Conservative Colleges campuses to place them on such an accreditation hit list.
Because, we have clearly seen that the Fed's have their own 5th column of Left Wing (D) / antisemitic staff.
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We must also keep in mind the LEFT could "STAGE" massive fake antisemitic events on Conservative Colleges campuses
They stage them on Progressive campuses now, NN2N1. The problem is that Progressive university administrations let it happen, allowing their Jewish an Zionist students and faculty to be harassed verbally and physically instead of calling in the police to arrest them all, then expelling the students who partake in the LARPing. That won’t be a problem on conservative campuses.
[IsraelTimes] US Moslem leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on 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 a rusty 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... and attacks on Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Rooters.
"Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others," says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Moslems for Trump. Moslem support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.
Trump picked Republican senator Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida... , a staunch supporter of Israel for Secretary of State. Rubio said earlier this year he would not call for a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he believed Israel should destroy "every element" of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... . "These people are vicious animals," he adds.
Trump also nominated Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and staunch pro-Israel conservative who backs Israeli occupation of the West Bank and has called a two-state solution "unworkable," as the next ambassador to Israel.
He has picked Republican Representative Elise Stefanik, who called the UN a "cesspool of antisemitism" for its condemnation of deaths in Gaza, to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of the American Moslem Engagement and Empowerment Network (AMEEN), says Moslem voters had hoped Trump would choose cabinet officials who work toward peace, and there was no sign of that.
"We are very disappointed," he said. "It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people, which is a failure on the side of President Trump, to the pro-peace and anti-war movement."
Nazarko says the community would continue pressing to make its voices heard after rallying votes to help Trump win. "At least we’re on the map."
Rola Makki, the Lebanese American, Moslem vice chair for outreach of the Michigan Republican Party, shrugs off the criticism.
"I don’t think everyone’s going to be happy with every appointment Trump makes, but the outcome is what matters," she says. "I do know that Trump wants peace, and what people need to realize is that there’s 50,000 dead Paleostinians and 3,000 dead Lebanese, and that’s happened during the current administration."
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"what people need to realize is that there’s 50,000 dead Hamas Paleostinians and 3,000 dead Hezbollah Lebanese, and that’s happened during the current administration."
Cause => Effect evades some people
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there’s 50,000 dead Paleostinians and 3,000 dead Lebanese
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
[Rudaw] The United Kingdom is collaborating with the Kurdistan Region to combat "organised immigration crime" as Kurdish groups have come to dominate deadly smuggling routes into Britannia, a British official told Rudaw.
"We maintain a positive relationship with law enforcement partners in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and work with them against a range of shared threats, including organised immigration crime," a spokesperson for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) press office told Rudaw via email on Wednesday.
Kurdish criminal groups control the increasingly lucrative cross-Channel migration routes, according to the NCA, which said in its 2023 assessment that the groups are mainly based in northern Europe.
Last Tuesday, a French court sentenced 18 people, mostly Kurds from the Kurdistan Region, to prison terms of up to 15 years for operating a smuggling network that transported people across the English Channel. In May, Kurdish police in Sulaimani arrested a Kurdish man accused of heading an organized crime group that smuggled people into the UK.
The NCA spokesperson said that in addition to working with Kurdish law enforcement, they also "target and disrupt organised crime groups at every step of the route, in source countries, in transit countries such as Greece, Italia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , near the UK border in La Belle France and Belgium, and those operating inside the UK itself."
The spokesperson added that they have "around 70 ongoing investigations into networks or individuals in the top tier of organised immigration crime or human trafficking, those inflicting the highest harm, and who are the most difficult to reach. Some of these sit right at the top of the NCA’s priority list."
Every year, tens of thousands of people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region seek to escape endless crises of lack of employment, political instability, and corruption by joining thousands of others from scores of countries taking perilous routes to Europe. The UK is a popular destination for many people, but crossing the English Channel is dangerous and can be deadly.
Feryal Clark, a British Labour MP, told Rudaw in July that the UK needs better policies to deal with immigration.
"The bottom of the English Channel and the seas are littered with the hopes and dreams of immigrants colonists, people who have taken the horrible, horrible journey. It is unacceptable. We need a fairer, better way of dealing with immigration. We need to have legal routes, as we had for Ukraine, as we had for Afghanistan, where people can apply in the country where they’re in, and travel without having to take this perilous journey," she said.
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in 2023, with at least nine of them losing their lives on the dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
[IsraelTimes] The Lebanese army’s head of security at Beirut’s airport directed his officers to search a security team that was accompanying Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International reports.
The Iranian team refused to be searched, citing diplomatic immunity, leading the airport security head to shut down all gates surrounding the VIP lounge where the Iranians were residing, preventing them from leaving the airport, according to the report.
The incident appears to point to growing frustration in Lebanon over Iran’s alleged meddling in its internal affairs through Tehran’s ongoing support for Hezbollah.
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...Arabic for 
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[IsraelTimes] A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Paleostinian Lebanese terrorist 
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[Jpost] Trump added that any colleges that permit antisemitic violence will be seen as violating the Civil Rights Law.
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
