[ToloNews] A letter allegedly released by former members of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... denies their engagement with ISIS.
The letter also said that former intelligence members are being hunted down by the forces of the Islamic Emirate.
The alleged letter was released in reaction to reports about collusion between security and intelligence forces of the former government with ISIS.
"Currently, hundreds of personnel of the National Directorate of Security are faced with severe economic challenges. And the Taliban ...Arabic for students... is looking for them every day to recognize them and eliminate them," the letter said. "The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... should resolve the issue between former members of the NDS and the Taliban, otherwise, (you) will witness the killings of NDS members."
The Islamic Emirate, however, denied that its forces have been chasing the former security and intelligence forces.
"No military personnel are under investigation or threat. A general amnesty has been announced but those who committed crimes after the amnesty will be held accountable," said Saeed Khosti, the interior ministry’s front man.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that some former members of the Afghan security and intelligence forces joined the ISIS group due to personal threats.
Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Zabiullah Mujahid said that the Islamic Emirate is not threatening former security forces.
"We call on all military personnel who worked for the former government to (stop worrying). This concern is false and spreads among the people--there is no threat for anyone by the Islamic Emirate," he added.
[ToloNews] Islamic Military officials said Sunday that a commission had been established to purge the ranks and bring reforms within the military in northern Afghanistan.
The head of the corps in Mazar-e-Sharif, Attaullah Omari, said the commission has pledged to work on recognizing and punishing those who misuse the name of Islamic Emirate in the north.
Officials attended the conference held in the Balkh governor's office and said the commission will work to prevent infiltrators into the Islamic Emirate forces from ISIS.
"Let us take the first step, let us check these 500 forces, 'who are these forces and where were they in the past?'," said Attaullah Omari.
"The commission is formed [with representatives from] three military organizations, the provincial head of intelligence will lead the commission in every province, because the purging is the duty of intelligence," said Shir Mohammad Sharif, the general director of borders at the Ministry of Interior.
"We want to purge the military ranks of corrupted people, the people who have bad backgrounds, and those who are aiming to defame the government," said Latifullah Hakimi, head of the commission.
The establishment of the commission comes as the residents of Mazar-e-Sharif recently complained that different groups identifying themselves as Islamic forces started house-to-house searches in the city.
The residents of Mazar-e-Sharif also claimed that assassinations have increased in the city, saying at least ten civil society activists allegedly have been killed.
At the conference, officials said those who are trying to defame the Islamic Emirate will soon be recognized.
[ToloNews] Officials at the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) said that the exports of Afghan domestic products has increased this year compared to recent years.
According to the officials, carpets, rugs, dried fruits and fresh fruits are the exported goods on the rise.
According to the officials, the export of domestic products has reached $823 million this year, while last year the export of these products reached $700 million.
"The current time is the peak of our exports of vegetables and fresh fruits. In 2021, we exported more than $800 million, and most of it was dried fruit that went to Pakistain," said Khan Jan Alokozai, a member of the ACCI.
On the other hand, a number of traders said that since the political change in August, they have not been able to export their products to the global markets due to the problems at Afghanistan-Pakistain crossings.
"In general, our exports had problems this year. During the export season of the fruits, the Spin Boldak and Torkham crossings were blocked which made it difficult for the traders to export their goods to Pakistain," said Mirwais Hajizada, a member of the Chamber of Agriculture and Irrigation.
In the meantime, some economists said that the increase in exports is beneficial for the country’s economic growth and the level of exports should continue to increase.
"Increase in exports and imports means that the countries have relations with each other. The trade which carries the message of peace will lead Afghanistan to having a political engagement with other countries," said Sayed Massoud, an economist said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... officials at the ACCI said that imports to Afghanistan have dropped to $6 billion this year, while last year it was $7 billion.
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Yeah of course their exports have increased in 2021;
They set a record as to how many people can be flown out of Afghanistan on a single C-17 Globemaster III,
transported 823 Afghanistan citizens from Kabul to the US on one flight (not counting the 'hangers on' who didn't make it all the way)
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soon rare earths will be flowing into china then hunter's crack account.
It is official: The biggest public health threat right now are "fully vaccinated" people, whom the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now warns are super-spreaders polluting society with Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "variants. "Nothing the CDC did this past year helped bring the "case" count down, nor did the agency save any lives.
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A study by the Oxford University Clinical Research Group published on August 10th (2021) in The Lancet found that fully vaccinated people carry 251 times the viral load of coronavirus as compared to those who have not received one of the controversial vaccines. “Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020,”
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ST8: Look carefully at the abstract for that report. Can you tell what's missing?
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Can you tell what's missing?
It’s the Lancet, james, always suspect given their history. At a quick glance I see no mention of how many of the vaccinated did not have breakthrough infections — is that what you meant? I seem to recall that a study of breakthrough infections by the Israeli army showed only something like 10% of those who had previous infections subsequently tested positive for the thing, and of that 10%, something like 10% of them actually showed symptoms... or possibly actually felt ill enough to matter. Though the Israeli study was about reinfection and contagiousness among those previously infected, as I recall, not among the vaccinated as that was before vaccines had become available.
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tw: while you're at it, is there anything in the memory banks about why they're not making the novavax available after they accepted money from operation warp speed for it?
[IsraelTimes] Indictment classifies planned attack on Israeli targets as terror; main suspect, from Azerbaijan, allegedly had Hezbollah-related images on his phone; trial to start in December
Cypriot authorities filed charges Friday against six suspects for allegedly planning to attack Israeli targets on the eastern Mediterranean island.
Among those charged was the main suspect, Orkhan Asadov, a 38-year-old Azerbaijani national. He and three Paks indicted in the case are accused of plotting to visit Cyprus to commit acts of terror.
All but one of the suspects allegedly planned to kill five Israelis who live in Cyprus, according to the Politis daily.
The vast majority of the charges in the indictment are against Asadov, including for using forged passports and money laundering. The indictment alleged he received $40,000 earlier this year to carry out terrorism.
According to Politis, in an interview with police before he received legal representation, Asadov reportedly told Sherlocks that he received the money from a man named only as "Mohammed," who told him to go to Cyprus and intimidate Israeli businesspeople who owed him large sums of money.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Asadov also was allegedly found to have images on his phone relating to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
One of the Pak suspects, who allegedly helped recruit the others, was accused of having links to an Iran-backed militia of Shiite Paks fighting on behalf of the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war. Both Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and its proxy Hezbollah are closely aligned with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... The newspaper report said one of the other suspects holds Cypriot citizenship, as his parents had moved to the country, but did not specify from where. There was no identifying information about the sixth suspect.
A judge ordered the suspects be kept in jug until the end of proceedings. The trial is due to begin in early December.
News of the alleged attack plans broke in early October after Asadov was arrested on suspicion of planning an attack against Israelis. Asadov reportedly was in possession of a gun and silencer when he was arrested.
While the Israeli government said the attack was linked to "Iranian terror," Cypriot officials have previously rejected the idea of Tehran’s involvement.
Reports have indicated that the plot was directed at Israeli businessman Teddy Sagi, though Israeli authorities — and Sagi himself — have denied that he was targeted specifically.
The six face charges of conspiracy to murder, participation in a criminal organization, terrorism, illegal possession of firearms and circulating fake documents.
Although police have not identified the suspects, four are said to be food delivery drivers from Pakistain and a Cypriot of Lebanese origin, according to local media.
The case reportedly began with the late September arrest of another suspect, an "Azeri national" hitman according to local media, found with a pistol and silencer in his car.
The alleged hitman was arrested on September 27 while crossing from the Ottoman Turkish occupied north through a Nicosia checkpoint, where coppers intercepted him after being tipped off.
Other arrests came in the following weeks after police accessed the main suspect's telecommunications data.
[Consotium News] The New York Times reported last week that a military jury at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo issued a sharp rebuke against the C.I.A.’s treatment of al-Qaeda prisoner Majid Khan, calling the Agency’s torture program "a stain on the moral fiber of America."
The jury recommended that Khan receive a 26-year sentence, the shortest possible under the court’s rules. Seven of the eight jurors—all U.S. military officers—then hand-wrote a letter to the military judge urging clemency for Khan.
The sentencing hearing, and Khan’s two hours of graphic testimony, marked the first time that details of the C.I.A. torture program were laid bare in public.
Khan testified that during the course of his interrogations, after he was captured in Pakistan in 2003, he told the C.I.A. "literally everything" he knew. He was truthful with the information, but "the more I told them, the more they tortured me." Khan said that his only alternative was to make up information about threats, anything to get his interrogators to stop torturing him. When the information then didn’t pan out, Khan was tortured yet again.
[ToloNews] Asked about reports over the Islamic Emirate’s mediation between the Tahrik Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) and Islamabad, Kabul said that it would support any process where it could be influencial.
According to reports, the acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... hosted talks between the two sides for the past two weeks in the southeastern province of Khost ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... The Islamic Emirate didn’t confirm the reports but said that it would play its role.
"The stance of the Islamic Emirate is that it will act in a role to resolve problems that are important," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man of the Islamic Emirate.
There are different views over whether the mediation of talks would be a in the interest of Afghanistan or not.
Rooters reported earlier that the TTP insisted on the release of its prisoners as a precondition for ceasefire. Earlier, Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... said that his administration was involved in negotiations with the TTP.
"Pakistain wants to cheat on us ... It is not a proper action and Pakistain should know its limits," said Gen. Wahid Taqat, former member of the security forces.
Neither the Islamic Emirate nor the Pak government has officially made any comment on the matter.
"The Taliban wants to show their influence to regional countries. It means that they have the ability to solve the concerns of the groups that threaten these countries," said Javid Javid, a political analyst.
The leader of National Solidarity Movement, Sayed Ishaq Gailani ,said that the ongoing negotiations are considered an achievement for the Islamic Emirate.
"If Sirajuddin Haqqani facilitated the negotiations, it is an honor for the people of Afghanistan" he said.
TTP has been active in several parts of Pakistain since 2007. The group fights against the Pak government.
[SHAFAQ] The consortium of the Iraqi Shiite "Resistance®" factions deplored the liquidation attempt against the Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, earlier on Sunday, calling for a transparent investigation into the circumstances of this transgression.A blurb released on Sunday deemed the attack a strike to "the Iraqi state that we built with our blood, because this position exclusively is one of the most crucial institutions of the state. It is the most important achievement of the majority in the post-dictatorship era."
"This deed is not concordant with our allegiance to building the Iraqi state since the fall of the dictatorship in 2003," the statement continued, "whoever perpetrated this deed is attempting to shuffle the cards; particularly as we demand a fair investigation that reveals the killers of our deaders who demonstrated peacefully on Friday."
"The making of such an incident will not prevent us from our insistence upon punishing the culprits and the big parties involved in the Iraqi bloodshed."
The statement called for "forming a committee with the participation of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) to investigate this incident and announce the results."
The Resistance® Factions warned of "a series that encompasses more of these acts that aim to confuse the Iraqi street and pass the results of the rigged elections to push Iraq into dangerous stages of its political, economic, and security future."
In a blurb issued earlier today, Sunday, the head of al-Fatah alliance, Hadi al-Ameri, called on the security forces to investigate the circumstances of the attack and reveal the perpetrators as soon as possible.
Al-Ameri warned that a "third party" has executed the drone attack on the Prime Minister's office.
A drone laden with explosives targeted al-Kadhimi's residence inside the Green Zone, downtown the Iraqi capital Baghdad, early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military deemed an attempted liquidation, but said al-Kadhimi escaped unhurt.
A source told Shafaq News Agency earlier that the residence of the Iraqi Premier was targeted by a rocket.
The attack, which security sources said injured several members of al-Kadhimi’s personal protection team, came after protests in the Iraqi capital over the result of a general election last month turned violent mostly peaceful.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack on al-Kadhimi’s residence in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign embassies.
Supporters of Iran-aligned gangs which have grown their power in parliament and government in recent years have protested the results of the October election.
Demonstrations by their supporters turned violent mostly peaceful on Friday when protestors pelted police with stones near the Green Zone, injuring several officers.
The police responded with tear gas and live gunfire, killing at least one demonstrator and wounding hundreds, according to security and hospital sources in Baghdad.
Al-Khazali casts doubts on Al-Kadhimi's assassination; al-Maliki calls for avoiding strained reactionshttps://t.co/JF5FDGxK9p
[SHAFAQ] The head of al-Hikma (Wisdom) Movement will hold a series of meetings with the Iraqi President, Parliament Speaker, and Prime Minister in the country to discuss the parliamentary election results and the recent attack on PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi's residence.
The leading figure of al-Hikma movement, Raheem al-Aboudi, told Shafaq News Agency that al-Hakim's meetings will also include the head of the Supreme Judicial Council and the leaders of Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite political parties in the country.
"Targeting the Prime Minister does not revolve around someone by himself. It is related to the political situation in the country. It has dimensions that might topple the entire political and democratic process in Iraq. Therefore, a unified dialogue shall be held in the presence of all the parties."
"The dialogue shall be held within 24 to 48 hours because the political condition is very critical," he continued, "some parties are trying to tamper with the security of the country, shuffle the cards, and drag Iraq into the abyss."
"The meeting will discuss the repercussions of the early parliamentary election, the reactions to it, and the attack on the Prime Minister's residence amid reports about a terrorist group orchestrating the entire operation and the failure of the U.S. embassy's C-RAM system. Was the attack executed by drones or rockets?"
Al-Khadhimi survived an liquidation attempt that targeted his residence inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital earlier on Sunday.
[SHAFAQ] Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi received today the head of the victory coalition, Haider al-Abadi.
During the meeting, al-Abadi condemned the attack that the PM was subjected to, describing it as an attempt to drag Iraq into chaos, according to a statement by al-Kadhimi's office.
For his part, al-Kadhimi reiterated, "proceeding with the reform project and everything that would enhance the state and the law's power", and praised, "the serious national positions denouncing the attack, issued by various international and national bodies."
[Aljazeera] Ramallah, Occupied West Bank — On October 22, Israel designated six prominent civil society and human rights groups in Palestine as "terrorist" organisations.
The designation was widely condemned by the international community and rights groups as "unjustified" and "baseless".
Five of the organisations are Palestinian: Addameer Prisoners’ Rights group; Al-Haq rights group; the Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC); the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC); and the Bisan Center for Research and Development.
The sixth is the Palestine chapter of the Geneva-based Defence for Children International organisation.
Some of the organisations conduct critical human rights work — including documenting Israeli human rights abuses, providing legal aid to detainees, conducting local and international advocacy, and working with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations.
Others, such as the UAWC, provide hands-on aid to Palestinians, including by rehabilitating land at risk of confiscation and helping tens of thousands of farmers in Area C — the more than 60 percent of the occupied West Bank under direct Israeli military control, and where all illegal Israeli settlements and settlement infrastructure are located.
Civil society organisations, which obtain most of their funding from donor states, are a key pillar in the social and economic development of Palestinians living in the 1967-occupied territories.
Israel’s October 22 move came under the pretext that these groups are affiliated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claiming they "constitute an arm of the [PFLP] leadership, the main activity of which is the liberation of Palestine and destruction of Israel". The PFLP’s armed wing was active as an organised body during the Second Intifada, and carried out attacks against Israeli targets.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces officially designates six Paleostinian rights groups as "unauthorized organizations," the military legal equivalent of terrorist organizations, following a similar decision by Defense Minister Benny Gantz last month, despite international criticism against the move.
Israel maintains that the six Paleostinian organizations — al-Haq, Addameer, Defense for Children International-Paleostine, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Paleostinian Women’s Committees and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — serve as fronts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terror group, something that the groups have repeatedly denied and that has been questioned by their European and international funders.
Last month, Gantz declared them terrorist organizations, a designation with comparatively little immediate impact, as the groups operate within the West Bank and thus officially outside of Israel’s jurisdiction.
Today, however, the head of the IDF Central Command, who has formal legal authority over the West Bank, has also now outlawed the groups "after he was presented with copious, varied and reliable information that indicates that these organizations represented a wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terror group," the military says.
With this official designation, the military now has the power, among other things, to shutter the organization’s offices and arrest its members.
[Aljazeera] Spyware from the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group was detected on the mobile phones of six Palestinian human rights activists, in the first known instance of Palestinian activists being targeted by the military-grade Pegasus spyware.
The non-profit Frontline Defenders disclosed its findings on Monday in a joint technical report together with Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which independently confirmed the results.
It is not clear who placed the NSO spyware, which surreptitiously gives intruders access to everything a person stores and does on their mobile phone, including real-time communications.
Three of the hacked Palestinians work for civil society groups. The others do not, and wish to remain anonymous, Frontline Defenders says.
Among those hacked is Ubai Aboudi, a 37-year-old economist and US citizen who runs the Bisan Center for Research and Development in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The group is one of the six slapped with terrorist designations by Israel last month.
The Irish-based Frontline Defenders considers Israel the main suspect. The first two intrusions were identified shortly after Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz declared the six Palestinian civil society groups to be "terrorist" organisations.
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Not surprising. The IRA were close allies of the PLO. There's a species of Irish zealot-fool who thinks of himself as a member of a third world, oppressed colony
#6
I'm an Anglophile Irishman, too,
And it seems we are more than a few,
Who'll lick Fenian shite
From the boots of a knight.
It's polite, and the right thing to do!
[IsraelTimes] Pilot project aims to issue documents for 500 West Bank Paleostinian workers by 2024; many Paleostinian tech graduates are already subcontracted to Israeli firms, entrepreneur notes.
Until now, the Israeli government has largely only approved permits for Paleostinian workers in construction and agriculture. Around 130,000 Paleostinians work in Israel and West Bank settlements, according to Defense Ministry statistics.
Some Paleostinians are already employed in Israel at technology firms, but largely on a case-by-case basis, rather than as a matter of government policy.
"There are plenty of young Paleostinians from the West Bank at Google and Amazon and Mobileye... so the phenomenon already exists, but on an individual basis," said Paleostinian entrepreneur Mahmoud Khweis, who runs two startups in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
The Israeli technology sector is facing a serious labor shortage, leading firms to seek programmers abroad in Eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and India. Khweis said that Paleostinians could fill some of that gap, and that some Israeli firms already outsource labor to Paleostinian coders in the West Bank and 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... "In the West Bank, we have 3,000 to 4,000 tech graduates every year. Many work for Paleostinian firms that contract with Israeli companies," said Khweis, who called Paleostinians "more culturally close" to Israelis than other potential partners.
The Israeli government — which ranges from pro-settler Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to left-wing Meretz plus an Arab party — has vowed to take steps to prop up the Paleostinian Authority. Earlier this year, the cabinet approved around 15,000 new permits for Paleostinian workers in construction.
At the same time, the cabinet on Sunday raised the number of standard work permits for West Bank Paleostinians in Israel by 8,600, to take effect in January 2022. Another 3,600 permits will be issued for the Atarot Industrial Zone, which lies north of Jerusalem in the central West Bank.
[Paleo Media Watch] belated, sorry, it was Nov 4th
PA Minister of Women’s Affairs cites female mass murderer and "female Martyrs" as proof of gender equality in Palestinian society
PA Governor of Ramallah: "The Palestinian women... have always been the spearhead alongside the men in defending our national rights... They have been self-sacrificing fighters, fighters, expelled, wounded, prisoners, and Martyrs"
"The proof that the women are continuing to fulfill their pioneering role is the fact that 40 lauded women from among the Palestinian people are in the Zionist enemy’s prison" — column in official PA daily
Speaking on occasion of national Palestinian Women’s Day last week, PA Minister of Women’s Affairs Amal Hamad highlighted "female Martyrs" and a mass murderer as proof that there is gender equality in Palestinian society.
Going back to the Arab Riots of 1929, the female minister first highlighted the fact that "the women were partners in the battle of resolve and defiance, and nine female Martyrs died." Then Minister Hamad singled out mass murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the killing of 37 Israeli civilians, among them 12 children, in 1978. As a third example, the minister mentioned the fact that "there are also female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons." These examples served the minister as proof of gender equality in Palestinian society and that men and women are "going hand in hand"
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[Rudaw] More than 190 people affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have left the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria (Rojava) to return to their homes in eastern Syria on Sunday, according to a conflict monitor.
A group of 194 people from 48 families was allowed to exit the camp, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported, adding that most of them are originally from Deir ez-Zor province.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people — mostly women and kiddies from different nationalities.
According to the Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a Kurdish administration-affiliated news outlet, 8,690 people from 2,314 families have moved out of the camp so far. This is the 43rd group of people to leave the camp since the summer of 2020.
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lamented that "some judges are increasing suspicions over the judiciary by taking part in impeding, suspending or freezing the probe into the port bombing or by questioning the work of the investigative judge."
His remarks are apparently targeted against Court of Appeals judge Habib Mezher who on Thursday suspended Judge Tarek Bitar's probe in a controversial move. Mezher is reportedly close to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Amal Movement, which are both strongly opposed to Bitar's work.
"It is a crime when some judges turn the judiciary into partisan and sectarian squares, especially in the port and Ain al-Remmaneh cases," al-Rahi decried in his Sunday Mass sermon.
He added: "In the face of the legal violations that we are witnessing, we wonder whether some judges act at the request of some officials, parties and sects."
"What's happening regarding the probe into the port bombing is really deplorable: an appeal after an appeal, a recusal request after a recusal request and a suspension after a suspension, as the souls of the deaders wait, as the families of the deaders wait and as the world waits," the patriarch went on to say.
"Why is there such disregard for the blood of more than 200 victims and 6,000 maimed people, for the destruction of half of Beirut and its suburbs and for the displacement of hundreds of families?" al-Rahi wondered.
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[An Nahar] Iran ...The nation is 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... on Sunday said it condemned a drone attack targeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi and urged "vigilance to foil plots aimed at the security and development" of his country.Iranian foreign ministry front man Said Khatibzadeh directed blame at the United States, which led the 2003 invasion of Iraq and toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, kicking off years of sectarian conflict.
"Such incidents are in the interest of those who have violated the stability, security, independence and territorial integrity of Iraq over the past 18 years," said Khatibzadeh.
"They have sought to achieve their sinister regional goals by creating terrorist groups that seek to cause sedition," he added.
The overnight drone attack, which was not immediately claimed, was the first to target the residence of Kadhemi, in power since May 2020, who was not harmed.
It comes at a time when political parties are negotiating to form parliamentary coalitions based on the preliminary results of October 10 legislative elections.
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[An Nahar] An 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... delegation led by Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki will visit Beirut Monday in a bid to resolve Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... 's row with the Gulf countries, media reports said.Senior sources meanwhile told the PSP's al-Anbaa news portal that the delegation is not expected to achieve a breakthrough due to "Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's inflexible stance, which is preventing (Information Minister George) Kordahi from bowing to the desire of (Prime Minister Najib) Miqati," who wants him to resign to "preserve Lebanon's Arab relations."
La Belle France, which supports Miqati and rejects the government's resignation, has meanwhile failed to ease the stern Saudi and Gulf stance on Lebanon, the sources added.
MP Ali Darwish of Miqati's parliamentary bloc for his part told al-Anbaa that "Miqati's behind-the-scenes domestic and foreign contacts" are what led to the vaporous Arab League delegation's visit to Lebanon.
The delegation will seek to "lower the levek of tension and start working for a settlement," Darwish added.
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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 
Hezbollah
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
[Consotium News] The New York Times reported last week that a military jury at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo issued a sharp rebuke against the C.I.A.’s treatment of al-Qaeda prisoner 
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
...aka 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...The nation is noted for 
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
