trump has brain worms on Twitter: “I miss Obama. His only scandal was a tan suit/Chelsea Manning’s torture/the extrajudicial murder of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki/destroying Libya/arming and enabling the Saudi destruction of Yemen/letting the bankers off scott-free/mass deportation/the drone kill list/Espionage Act/...”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/martsendo/status/1032704156362977280
Le blocus du Qatar est-il un échec ? Par Abdulrahman Al Rashed dans As-Sharq Al-Awsat- Actuarabe
▻http://actuarabe.com/le-blocus-du-qatar-est-il-un-echec
Que dire de la menace qatarie de rapprochement avec l’Iran ? Les liens entre Doha et Téhéran étaient bons avant le boycott et ils ont fait échouer la coordination à l’intérieur du Conseil de coopération du Golfe. Si Doha veut accroître les échanges commerciaux ainsi que la coopération civile et militaire avec le régime de Téhéran, elle se heurtera aux Etats-Unis, qui imposent de lourdes sanctions aux Etats coopérant avec l’Iran, notamment dans des domaines vitaux directement liés aux entreprises et aux intérêts américains.
Names and ages of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in Gaza
These are the names of the unarmed Palestinians shot dead by Israeli troops since Friday 30 March, 2018. They were protesting at the Gaza border for the right of return to their ancestral lands and homes, from which they were driven out in 1948. The list does not include the many thousands wounded by live fire.
Name and age of victims :
01. Omar Wahid Samour, 31 years old
02. Mohammed Kamal al-Najjar, 25 years old
03. Jihad Zuhair Abu Jamous, 30 years old
04. Amin Mansour Abu Muammar, 22 years old
05. Ibrahim Salah Abu Sha’er, 17 years old
06. Nagy Abdullah Abu Hjeir, 25 years old
07. Musab Zuhair Al-Soloul, 23 years old
08. Abd al-Qader Mardi al-Hawajri, 42 years old
09. Mahmoud Saadi Rahmi, 23 years old
10. Mohammed Naeem Abu Amro, 26.
11. Ahmed Ibrahim Ashour Odeh, 19.
12. Jihad Ahmed Farina, 34 years old
13. Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Nabi, 18 years old
14. Bader Fayiq al-Sabbagh, 22 years old
15. Sari Walid Abu Odeh, 27 years old
16. Hamdan Isma’il Abu Amsha, 23 years old
17. Fares Al-Ruqab, 29 years old
18. Ahmad Omar Arafah, 25 years old
19. Osama Khamis Qdeih, 38 years old
20. Majdi Ramadan Shabat, 38 years old
21. Hussein Muhammad Adnan Madi, 13 years old
22. Subhi Abu Atawi, 20 years old
23. Mohammad Said al-Haj-Saleh, 33 years old
24. Sedqi Faraj Abu Atawi, 45 years old
25. Alaa al-Din Yahya Ismail al-Zamli, 15 years old
26. Hamza Abd al-Al, 20 years old
27. Yaser Murtaja, 30 years old
28. Ibrahim Al-‘ur, 19 years old
29. Mujahed Nabil Al-Khudari, 25 years old
30. Marwan Odeh Qdeih, 45 years old
31. Mohammed Hjeila, 30 years old
32. Abdallah Al-Shahri, 28 years old
33. Tahrir Wahba, 17 years old
34. Saad Abu Taha, 29 years old
35. Mohammed Ayoub, 15 years old
36. Ahmed Abu Hussein, 25 years old
37. Abdullah Shamali, 20 years old
38. Ahmad Rashad Al Athamna, 23 years old
39. Ahmed Nabil Aqel, 25 years old
40. Mahmoud Wahba, 18 years old
41. Ahmed Dabour, 23 years old
42. Ayed Hamaydeh, 23 years old
43, Amjad Qartous, 18 years old
44. Hesham Abdul-Al, 22 years old
45. Abd al-Salam Bakr, 29 years old
46. Mohammed Amin al-Maqeer, 21 years old
47. Khalil Na’im Mustafa Atallah, 22 years old
48. Azzam Oweida, 15 years old
49. Anas Shawqi, 19 years old
50. Jaber Salem Abu Mustafa, 40 years old
51. Amin Mahmoud Muammar, 26 years old
52. Hani Fayez al-Ardarba, 23 years old
53. Mohammed Khaled Abu Reida, 20 years old
54. Jamal Abu Arahman Afaneh, 15 years old
55. Laila Anwar Al-Ghandoor, 8 months old
56. Ezz el-din Musa Mohamed Alsamaak, 14 years old
57. Wisaal Fadl Ezzat Alsheikh Khalil, 15 years old
58. Ahmed Adel Musa Alshaer, 16 years old
59. Saeed Mohamed Abu Alkheir, 16 years old
60. Ibrahim Ahmed Alzarqa, 18 years old
61. Eman Ali Sadiq Alsheikh, 19 years old
62. Zayid Mohamed Hasan Omar, 19 years old
63. Motassem Fawzy Abu Louley, 20 years old
64. Anas Hamdan Salim Qadeeh, 21 years old
65. Mohamed Abd Alsalam Harz, 21 years old
66. Yehia Ismail Rajab Aldaqoor, 22 years old
67. Mustafa Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Almasry, 22 years old
68. Ezz Eldeen Nahid Aloyutey, 23 years old
69. Mahmoud Mustafa Ahmed Assaf, 23 years old
70. Ahmed Fayez Harb Shahadah, 23 years old
71. Ahmed Awad Allah, 24 years old
72. Khalil Ismail Khalil Mansor, 25 years old
73. Mohamed Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26 years old
74. Bilal Ahmed Abu Diqah, 26 years old
75. Ahmed Majed Qaasim Ata Allah, 27 years old
76. Mahmoud Rabah Abu Maamar, 28 years old
77. Musab Yousef Abu Leilah, 28 years old
78. Ahmed Fawzy Altetr, 28 years old
79. Mohamed Abdelrahman Meqdad, 28 years old
80. Obaidah Salim Farhan, 30 years old
81. Jihad Mufid Al-Farra, 30 years old
82. Fadi Hassan Abu Salah, 30 years old
83. Motaz Bassam Kamil Al-Nunu, 31 years old
84. Mohammed Riyad Abdulrahman Alamudi, 31 years old
85. Jihad Mohammed Othman Mousa, 31 years old
86. Shahir Mahmoud Mohammed Almadhoon, 32 years old
87. Mousa Jabr Abdulsalam Abu Hasnayn, 35 years old
88. Mohammed Mahmoud Abdulmoti Abdal’al, 39 years old
89. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Hamdan, 27 years old
90. Ismail Khalil Ramadhan Aldaahuk, 30 years old
91. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Alrantisi, 27 years old
92. Alaa Alnoor Ahmed Alkhatib, 28 years old
93. Mahmoud Yahya Abdawahab Hussain, 24 years old
94. Ahmed Abdullah Aladini, 30 years old
95. Saadi Said Fahmi Abu Salah, 16 years old
96. Ahmed Zahir Hamid Alshawa, 24 years old
97. Mohammed Hani Hosni Alnajjar, 33 years old
98. Fadl Mohamed Ata Habshy, 34 years old
99. Mokhtar Kaamil Salim Abu Khamash, 23 years old
100. Mahmoud Wael Mahmoud Jundeyah, 21 years old
101. Abdulrahman Sami Abu Mattar, 18 years old
102. Ahmed Salim Alyaan Aljarf, 26 years old
103. Mahmoud Sulayman Ibrahim Aql, 32 years old
104. Mohamed Hasan Mustafa Alabadilah, 25 years old
105. Kamil Jihad Kamil Mihna, 19 years old
106. Mahmoud Saber Hamad Abu Taeemah, 23 years old
107. Ali Mohamed Ahmed Khafajah, 21 years old
108. Abdelsalam Yousef Abdelwahab, 39 years old
109. Mohamed Samir Duwedar, 27 years old
110. Talal Adel Ibrahim Mattar, 16 years old
111. Omar Jomaa Abu Ful, 30 years old
112. Nasser Ahmed Mahmoud Ghrab, 51 years old
113. Bilal Badeer Hussein Al-Ashram, 18 years old
114. Unidentified
115. Unidentified
116. Unidentified
–-> ▻https://medium.com/@thepalestineproject/names-and-ages-of-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-troops-in-gaza-29bad3a12db6
Gaza killings: Names and faces of those killed by Israeli forces this week
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-names-palestinians-killed-israel-us-embassy-1239370023
J’ai aussi vu une partie de leurs noms affichés lors de rassemblements commémoratifs ici à Anvers le 11 avril.
Liens : *▻https://www.syrianarchive.org/en/collections/chemical-weapons*
*▻https://syrianarchive.org/en*
Activist group publishes database of Syria chemical attacks | Nation/World | starherald.com
▻http://www.starherald.com/news/nation_world/activist-group-publishes-database-of-syria-chemical-attacks/article_d913d0e3-d784-5f52-8280-0f4e032d01e6.html
An activist group on Tuesday published a database of information on suspected chemical attacks in Syria , adding to a growing collection of videos and images documenting alleged war crimes during the seven-year conflict.
The Syrian Archive, which works with human rights groups such as Amnesty International, said it has verified 861 videos covering some 212 attacks — most of them believed to have been carried out by government forces.
The material comes from 193 sources and much of it was uploaded to social media by ordinary Syrians, the group’s co-founder, Hadi al-Khatib, told an audience in Berlin.
Al-Khatib, who has lived in Germany since 2014, said the group wants to preserve sensitive material from disappearing , so that it might eventually be used to bring those responsible for war crimes to trial. But the team, which is spread across Europe and the Middle East, also wants to “add value” to the raw material, such as by determining the location where a video was taken and, most importantly, verifying that it shows what is claimed.
The Syrian Archive cooperates with the open source journalism site Bellingcat that has made a name for itself forensically examining footage from war zones.
While most of the chemical attacks documented by the group are alleged to have been carried out by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, including most recently in the town of Douma near Damascus, a handful have been attributed to rebel forces and the Islamic State extremist group, said Abdulrahman al-Jaloud, one of the Syrian Archive’s researchers.
Al-Khatib said he and fellow activists try not to get disheartened by the fact that efforts to bring those responsible for war crimes in Syria to trial have so far been unsuccessful.
“That doesn’t mean we should stop,” he said. “We are looking forward to the day when we can use this material, because the reconstruction of Syria must include acknowledging, investigating and prosecuting crimes.”
Pro-Israel groups receive letters from Al Jazeera seeking response for ’lobby’ documentary - U.S. News - Haaretz.com
Last year, the Qatari-owned network planted an undercover reporter inside pro-Israel groups in Washington. Now, those groups were given three weeks to respond to the contents of an upcoming documentary on ’the Israel lobby in America’
Amir Tibon (Washington) Feb 05, 2018 3:38 PM
A number of pro-Israel organizations in the United States received letters from Al Jazeera on Friday, informing them their employees will appear on the Qatari-owned network’s upcoming documentary on the Israel lobby in Washington.
The letters gave the organizations three weeks to respond to the contents of the upcoming report, but did not indicate when the report would be broadcast.
Four sources within the pro-Israel circles in Washington, all of whom asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Haaretz that the letters came as a surprise to those who received them.
Al Jazeera publicly admitted in October it had planted an undercover reporter inside leading pro-Israel organizations in the United States. Ever since then, though, the story has not made any headlines, and some in the Jewish community were under the impression it might not be broadcast at all.
Following the letters’ arrival on Friday, the sources in the pro-Israel community offered two dueling interpretations of the new development. Some said the letters indicate that the film will be broadcast within the next weeks, possibly around the time of the annual AIPAC conference in early March. Others believed the opposite was true, claiming that the Qatari government was pressuring Al Jazeera not to air the report, and that the letters are the result of an internal debate within the network about the documentary.
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Haaretz revealed last October that the reporter working undercover for Al Jazeera managed to do internship work at the Israel Project and had some access to that organization’s donor files. The undercover reporter also had contacts with a number of low-level staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, some of whom had attended parties at a luxury apartment he rented in downtown D.C.
His work for Al Jazeera was first reported in 2017 by Armin Rosen in Tablet Magazine.
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In recent months, leaders for a number of right-wing Jewish organizations in the United States had visited Qatar and met with its emir. All of those leaders had asked the emir to change Al Jazeera’s negative coverage of Israel and its spreading of anti-Semitic content. Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani was asked by Haaretz about those requests during an event in Washington last week, and replied that Qatar’s constitution forbids the government from interfering in Al Jazeera’s work.
Thani also said that complaints about Al Jazeera’s coverage should be addressed not to the Qatari government, but to official media regulators. He mentioned that in Britain last year the local media regulating body, Ofcom, investigated complaints about Al Jazeera’s documentary “The Lobby,” on the Israel lobby in the United Kingdom, and denied the allegations that it was misleading or anti-Semitic.
One senior official in a pro-Israel organization called the Al Jazeera documentary a “wake-up call.” According to the official, Al Jazeera invested tens of thousands of dollars in the project.
“They rented an apartment for him that cost more than $5,000 a month,” the official said. “We don’t know what kind of recording equipment was placed inside that apartment, and what kind of equipment he took with him to meetings in offices all around town, but I assume it was of the highest quality. This is not just a television report, it’s closer to state-sponsored espionage.”
Amir Tibon
Haaretz Correspondent
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Notes sur l’Iran et l’apocalypse USA-2018
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/notes-sur-liran-et-lapocalypse-usa-2018
Notes sur l’Iran et l’apocalypse USA-2018
02 janvier 2018 – Nous n’avons pas eu beaucoup à attendre : le passage à l’an nouveau a transformé des protestations classiques en une crise qui peut devenir importante, grave, explosive, etc. Les évènements en Iran sont la première préoccupation nouvelle de 2018, la première situation crisique majeure, comme si le cours des évènements tenait à entretenir un rythme étourdissant dans le moteur de la dynamique de surpuissance de déstructuration/dissolution du Système. Depuis mercredi dernier, un mouvement de revendication se développe, dont l’origine est assez indéterminée mais les causes au départ économiques (selon les premiers slogans) tout à fait acceptables et raisonnables.
Aussitôt, l’appareil de subversion des USA, – neocons et tweets de Trump en tête, – s’est (...)
[…] mais nous aurions tendance à préférer l’explication d’un train soudain en marche aussitôt pris d’assaut par les fauteurs de trouble sans nécessaire consultation précise de leurs autorités.
• Ce qui nous pousse à cette hypothèse est que la priorité devrait être en ce moment, pour les “D.C.-la-folle”, d’interférer dans le processus des élections présidentielles russes plutôt que dans la situation intérieure iranienne. On répondra que mettre l’Iran à feu et à sang est une façon de mette Poutine dans l’embarras, ce qui est une tactique de contournement et de frappe indirecte qui nous semble déjà fort élaborée pour les brutes qui “dirigent” la machine américaniste ... Sur le fond (“mettre Poutine dans l’embarras”), on répondra “oui et non”, pour la première raison qu’une telle crise, où l’action US serait évidente, contribuerait à un resserrement patriotique en Russie, par simple hypothèse de l’analogie des situations ; et pour la seconde raison qu’une catastrophe iranienne, comme l’écrit Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, serait une catastrophe pour bien d’autres et bien plus que pour la Russie, et surtout pour toute la région, y compris pour l’Arabie sans aucun doute, par le chaos extraordinaire qui en résulterait.
[…]
Une chose refait donc une certaine unanimité à “D.C.-la-folle”, – on n’ose parler de cohésion, tout de même, – et c’est cette espèce de folie belliciste collective, qui est devenue une sorte de monstrueux “Politically Correct”.
Kuwait’s New Cabinet Takes Oath - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English
▻http://english.aawsat.com/2016/12/article55363692/kuwaits-new-cabinet-takes-oath
The Cabinet comprises of the following ministers: Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Anas Nasser Al-Saleh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Hind Barrak Al-Sabeeh, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor as well as Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Yaser Abul, Minister of State for Housing Affairs and Minister of State for Utilities, Jamal Mansour Al-Harbi, the Minister of Health, Khaled Nasser Abdullah Al-Roudan, the Minister Commerce and Industry, Abdulrahman Abdulkareem Al-Mutawa’, the as Minister Public Works, Essam Abdulmohsen Al-Marzouq, Minister Electricity and Water as well as the Minister of Oil, Faleh Abdullah Al-Azeb, Minister Justice and the Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs, Mohammad Abdulatif Al-Fares, Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education, Mohammad Nasser Al-Jabri, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs as well as Minister of State for the Municipality.
Un "anniversaire" célébré dans la discretion : 10 ans de blocus à Gaza...
Solidarité avec nos frères et sœurs de Gaza
BNC, le 7 juillet 2016
▻https://www.bdsfrance.org/solidarite-avec-nos-freres-et-soeurs-de-gaza
Dix ans de siège, deux ans depuis le massacre israélien de 2014 – il est grand temps de rendre des comptes et qu’un embargo militaire à double sens soit lancé sur Israël !
Un message du Comité National Palestinien de BDS, la plus large coalition d’organisations de la société civile palestinienne qui dirige le mouvement de Boycott, de Désinvestissement et de Sanctions (BDS) pour les droits des Palestiniens.
Il y a deux ans, Israël a engagé une attaque militaire brutale sur les Palestiniens de Gaza, au cours de laquelle plus de 2 300 Palestiniens ont trouvé la mort et où 100 000 personnes ont été déplacées.
Israël a délibérément attaqué des zones entières occupées par des civils à Gaza et a infligé autant de souffrances humaines qu’il a pu. L’ONU et les organisations de défense des droits humains ont documenté les crimes de guerre commis par Israël pendant le massacre.
Gaza vient d’entrer dans sa dixième année de siège, une politique décrite par l’historien israélien Ilan Pappe comme un « génocide progressif ». Le siège a presque complètement empêché une reconstruction significative depuis l’attaque de 2014.
Comme Abdulrahman Abunahel, notre coordinateur à Gaza le dit, « un de mes soucis est que plus Israël maintient le siège de la plus grande prison à ciel ouvert du monde , plus la communauté internationale officielle s’adapte et accepte la réduction graduelle et délibérée de Gaza en une prison inhabitable où près de 2 millions de Palestiniens sont confrontés à une mort lente ».
« Mais en tant que réfugié vivant à Gaza, il ne suffit pas d’appeler à la fin du siège israélien. Il nous faut développer notre campagne BDS jusqu’à ce que le peuple palestinien puisse exercer son droit à l’autodétermination, y compris le droit des réfugiés au retour dans leur maison ».
Israël est capable de mener ses attaques militaires violentes et de réprimer la résistance populaire palestinienne en toute impunité. Comme l’établit notre fiche Links that Kill fact sheet (Fiche sur les Liens qui tuent), Israël ne peut faire cela que grâce à l’énorme commerce des armes et à la coopération militaire, dont la recherche, qu’il maintient avec divers pays dans le monde.
Au cours de la période 2009-2018, les États Unis ont fourni une aide militaire à Israël d’une valeur de 30 milliards de dollars. Pour la seule année 2014, l’UE a exporté pour plus d’un milliard de dollars d’armes vers Israël (essentiellement d’Allemagne) et les importations en Europe d’armes israéliennes ont atteint le montant gigantesque de 1,6 milliards de dollars en 2015.
Tandis que l’Inde, la Colombie et le Brésil demeurent les premiers importateurs d’armes israéliennes, il a été récemment révélé que des livraisons d’armes israéliennes ont servi à des crimes contre l’humanité au Rwanda et au Sud Soudan, entre autres.
Israël se sert de ses attaques criminelles contre les Palestiniens pour tester sa technologie militaire et ensuite exporter ses armes « testées sur le terrain ». Jusqu’à 85% de la production de l’industrie israélienne d’armement sont exportés et 60% de la production mondiale de drones sont israéliens.
Israël ne se contente pas d’opprimer les Palestiniens – il exporte son modèle implacable de sécurisation et de répression militarisée dans le monde. Depuis les rues de Ferguson jusqu’aux favelas de Rio et aux frontières de la forteresse Europe, les armes israéliennes et des techniques cruelles maintiennent l’oppression.
Notre campagne pour un embargo à double sens contre Israël se développe. Plus d’une douzaine de banques ont désinvesti de Elbit Systems à cause de son rôle dans la violence militaire d’Israël, par exemple.
Partagez s’il vous plaît notre présentation sur Facebook et consultez notre fiche explicative pour plus d’idées sur la manière de s’engager.
Nous venons de publier un tour d’horizon de l’impact et du développement du mouvement BDS jusqu’en 2016. Nous sommes stimulés par la façon dont le mouvement continue à grossir et à défier le soutien international aux crimes d’Israël, bien qu’Israël fasse tout ce qu’il peut pour attaquer et saper notre mouvement. Regardez ce bilan et pensez à le partager avec votre famille, vos amis, et vos collègues.
Merci pour votre soutien continu à notre lutte non violente pour la liberté, la justice et l’égalité.
Le Comité National Palestinien BDS (BNC)
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Largest U.S. refinery now belongs to Saudi Arabia
▻http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/03/19/largest-us-refinery-now-belongs-saudi-arabia/81974062
Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco appear to be getting a divorce, breaking up their joint venture in U.S.-based refining assets.
The two companies joined together to create Motiva Enterprises LLC in 1998, a 50-50 joint venture that operated three refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. But Shell and Saudi Aramco have seen their interests head in different directions. “It is now time for the partners to pursue their independent downstream goals,” said Abdulrahman Al-Wuhaib, a senior vice president of Saudi Aramco’s downstream unit.
[…]
The two companies signed a nonbinding letter of intent, a plan that would divide up Motiva’s refineries between them. The refineries have a combined capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day and are all located close to each other. The breakup will allow Saudi Aramco to take over the Port Arthur refinery and 26 distribution terminals, and Aramco will also hold onto the Motiva brand name. Shell will take over the other two refineries, Convent and Norco, both located in Louisiana. Shell said that it would operate the two refineries as one plant with a combined throughput of 500,000 barrels per day.
Là je crois qu’on vient de perdre la guerre contre les takfiristes : ISIS reverts smoking ban in Kirkuk ’to gain popularity’
▻http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/09/22/ISIS-reverts-smoking-ban-in-Kirkuk.html
Residents of Iraq’s Kirkuk said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has backed down from its decision to ban smoking and has thus allowed selling cigarettes in areas it controls south and west of the province, Almada Press reported Saturday.
Abdulrahman al-Gabouri, a resident of Hawija, 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, told Almada Press that ISIS has now allowed shops to sell cigarettes in the province and its towns.
The decision came as an attempt to gain popularity after the group’s extremist actions began to appall residents particularly after security forces, aided by international support, began to attack ISIS, the report added.
Ce qui me fait penser que cette année, plus personne ne fumait dans l’aéroport de Beyrouth. L’année dernière c’était déjà interdit, mais même le personnel de l’aéroport fumait encore, en se débrouillant pour jeter les cendres sur le bord des poubelles (oh la bonne idée…). Cette année, donc, terminé. L’ambiance n’était plus du tout la même, tu vois…
Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment: ISIS: Back to Pre-Islamic Arab structures
▻http://www.conflictsforum.org/2014/conflicts-forum-weekly-comment-isis-back-to-pre-islamic-arab-structu
The Saudi response (as outlined in an opinion-piece by a top Saudi establishment commentator, Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, who heads Al-Arabiya television) is that the ISIS threat needs to be understood properly – since there is a “genuine [Sunni] revolution against a sectarian repugnant rule” in both Syria and Iraq. ISIS tapped into this ‘Sunni anger’ to become “the star at the box office” for Sunnis all over the world … However, “were it not for Assad and Maliki, ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front would not have existed.” (This Saudi meme is the ‘narrative’ that has almost universally been taken up by the mainstream western media.)
Saudi Arabia is prepared, Abdulrahman suggests to confront ISIS, but only – and only if - “a political solution [is] imposed in Syria and Iraq” — a regime change that leads to wider Sunni mobilization. The sectarian policies of Assad and Maliki “triggered this chaos. Therefore, the solution lies in strong central governments in both Baghdad and Damascus with American, Western and regional support.”
But let us be clear: When Abdulrahman insists that Nouri al-Maliki must be ousted, he is not proposing that another Shi’i simply take his place – as would occur under the present political dispensation in which the Shi’i amount to 60 – 65% of the electorate. He is calling for the overthrow of the system – with a Sunni (or a Riyadh approved Iyad Alawi) ‘strongman’ placed in power (à la Sisi). Ditto for Syria. It is a call for the purging of the Middle East.
Kuwait vows to fight terror after US sanctions - thenews.com.pk
▻http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-265968-Kuwait-vows-to-fight-terror-after-US-sanctions
“The state of Kuwait continues to cooperate with the United States and the international community in combatting this dangerous phenomenon,” he said. The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Shafi al-Ajmi and Hajjaj al-Ajmi, accusing them of raising money for Al-Nusra front, a Jihadist group fighting in Syria.
Both men are said to be Kuwaiti. A third man, Abdulrahman al-Anizi, whose nationality was not disclosed, is accused of supporting the so-called Islamic State Jihadist group, which launched a devastating offensive in northwestern Iraq on June 9.
KUNA said that all three men are Kuwaitis. The ambassador said he will follow up on Washington’s decision with the US State Department.
The two Ajmis are very popular figures in Kuwait for championing campaigns to raise funds for the “Syrian and Palestinian peoples”, according to advertisements on social networks, especially Twitter. Their campaigns have been sponsored by leading Kuwaiti clerics. But the two have expressed clear views against the Islamic State, accusing it of having links with the Syrian government, Iran and even the United States.
Following the US decision, the Twitter accounts of the two Ajmis, who together had around 800,000 followers, were suspended. They could not be reached for comment. Anizi did not have an account on Twitter.
Under the order issued by the US Treasury, any assets the men hold in the United States are to be frozen and American citizens and residents are “generally prohibited” from doing business with them.
Political Prisoners in the USA | Alliance for Global Justice
▻http://afgj.org/politicalprisonersusa
– Leonard Peltier
– Mumia Abu Jamal
– Private Bradley (Chelsea) Manning
– Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernández, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez
– Guantanamo hunger strikers
– Ricardo Palmera
– Black Panther Party, New Afrikan, and Black Liberation Army political prisoners : Russell Maroon Shoats, Jalil Muntaqim, Mutulu Shakur, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, SundiataAcoli
– Veronza Bowers
– Eddie Conway
– Ed Poindexter
– Mondo we Langa (David Rice)
– Sekou Kambui
– Herman Bell, Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald, Robert Seth Hayes, Kamau Sadiki
– Attorney Lynne Stewart
– Mohamed Yousry
– Ahmed Abdel Sattar
– Sami Al-Arian
– Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera
– Avelino González Claudio
– The Angola 3
– Shukri Abu-Baker
– Ghassan Elashi
– Mohammad El-Mezain,
– Abdulrahman Odeh
– Mufid Abdulqader
– Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
– Dr. Rafil Dhafir
– Abdelhaleem Ashqar
– Muhammad Salah
– Jeremy Hammond
– Barrett Brown
– Patrice Lumumba Ford
– The MOVE 8
– Rev. Joy Powell
– Sekou Odinga
– Amina Ali
– Hawo Hassan
– NATO 5: Brent Betterly, Jared Chase, Brian Church, Sebastian Senakiewicz, Mark Neiweem
– Eric McDavid and Marie Mason
(je ne sais pas ce que vaut cette liste de #prisonniers_politiques, voir les détails sur le site)
Bahraini dictatorship charges ex-opposition MP with « terrorist crimes »
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bahraini-dictatorship-charges-ex-opposition-mp-terrorist-crimes
#Bahrain's general prosecutor on Saturday said he had referred prominent opposition ex-MP Khalil Marzouq to court on charges of “inciting terrorist crimes.” Marzouq, a senior figure in the main #Al_Wefaq opposition formation who was arrested on September 17, also faces charges of “promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes,” Abdulrahman al-Sayyed said in a statement. Human rights groups have slammed the Bahraini dictatorship’s persecution of activists and political opponents since a (...)
Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in #Drone Killings - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/politics/judge-challenges-white-house-claims-on-authority-in-drone-killings.html
Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States District Court here was hearing the government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by relatives of three Americans killed in two drone strikes in Yemen in 2011: Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who had joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; Mr. Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, who had no involvement in terrorism; and Samir Khan, a 30-year-old North Carolina man who had become a propagandist for the same Qaeda branch.
Judge Collyer said she was “troubled” by the government’s assertion that it could kill American citizens it designated as dangerous, with no role for courts to review the decision.
“Are you saying that a U.S. citizen targeted by the United States in a foreign country has no constitutional rights?” she asked Brian Hauck, a deputy assistant attorney general. “How broadly are you asserting the right of the United States to target an American citizen? Where is the limit to this?”
She provided her own answer: “The limit is the courthouse door.”
The #Drone That Killed My Grandson
SANA, Yemen — I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he died.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?_r=1&
Bahrain on Video : Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral - IBTimes UK
▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/478263/20130613/bahrain-video-police-youth-ali-marhoon-torture.htm
Bahrain on Video: Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral
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The footage, uploaded by Bahrain’s security officer Abdulrahman Al Mannai, depicts the interrogation on a young man called Hussain Jamil Jaffar Ali Marhoon, from Hamad Town.
Repris par la presse
Le commentaire de Marc Owen Jones
Also, if this evidence is used by the courts and seen as admissible, surely Isa Qassim and Ali Salman will be arrested for inciting violence? If they are not, then is the evidence in its entirety void? Will be interesting to see how MOI handle this. Lastly, in an interesting point raised by activist Sayed Yousif, is this video recorded in the same room as those with CCTV cameras installed following BICI recommendations? Presumably, this interrogation should have been caught on CCTV too…
▻http://marcowenjones.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/policeman-leaks-video-showing-what-looks-like-a-forced-conf
Bahrain police launch probe into interrogation footage | GulfNews.com
▻http://m.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-police-launch-probe-into-interrogation-footage-1.1196046
“An immediate investigation has been launched into a video being circulated showing the confession of a detainee on being incited to kill policemen,” Public Security Chief Major General Tareq Al Hassan said. “Legal steps have been taken and the suspects have been suspended from work and referred to investigation,” he said in remarks posted on the interior ministry’s Twitter account.
The code obliges officers to abide by 10 principles, including the limited use of force and a policy of zero tolerance towards torture and mistreatment.
Part5 - Syrian Revolution General Commission |#Hama Revolutionists Command Council | Complete Daily Report | Saturday June 9, 2012
|| Protests ||
¤ Hama City :
al-Manakh :
A demonstration in support of the people of Daraa
Tareeq Halab :
An evening demonstration in the neighborhood
►http://youtu.be/M1704KNinSI
Bab Qibli :
A demonstration with the people of Bab Qibli and surrounding neighborhoods
►http://youtu.be/dijOrHLfgSY
al-Ta’awuneya :
A demonstration this evening led by singer Abu Jaafar
►http://youtu.be/9sU_uBfDbGA
Song: “No one is like Syria” sung by Abdulrahman Farhoud (known as Rahmani) and the young revolutionists Sara in al-Assi Square
Lyrics and direction by Abu al-Fidaa al-Hamwi, produced by SYRIAN EAGLES
High definition:
►http://youtu.be/_Bho_r16e3M
¤ Hama Countryside :
al-Touba :
A massive protest with the people of al-Touba joined by people from Shahshabo Mountain despite the siege and shelling the area is subject to
►http://youtu.be/brh1ZKAR8HA
al-Latamne :
An anti-regime demonstration this morning
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFE7eCXKvZM&feature=em-uploademail
Kafranbooda :
Images of the people of Kafranbooda preparing for their protest on Friday
►http://goo.gl/0Yhwe
Hamada Omar Village :
A demonstration in the village yesterday
►http://youtu.be/djJeQCY1YEo
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Activist Abu Abdo on Deir Ezzour TV speaking about the conditions in Hama
►http://youtu.be/1pvg0EU4oL0
HamaEcho
Martyred #Homs activists Abdulrahman Matar
in Qusair and Shadi Jomaa’ [Graphic]