If he stayed in his own country he would more than likely still be alive .It is about time America started paying tit for tat .
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NDP MPP defends rally attendance
Antonella Artuso
Published:
January 9, 2020
Updated:
January 9, 2020 2:43 PM EST
An Ontario NDP MPP is defending her attendance at an “anti-war rally” over the weekend from criticism her appearance could be perceived as legitimizing supporters of dead Iranian general Qassem Soleiman.
“I think everybody knows fully well that I attended a peace rally, an anti-war rally, on the weekend,” Marit Stiles said Wednesday. “There was no terrorist celebrated. It was a peace rally. I’ve attended peace rallies in the past.”
NDP Education Critic Marit Stiles says non-standardized standardized tests make no sense, during a press conference at Queen’s Park on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (Antonella Artuso/Toronto Sun)
The Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley reported that Stiles and fellow NDP MPP Rima Berns-McGown were front and centre at a rally where protesters flew the Popular Mobilization Forces insignia flag — a symbol of an Iranian-backed militia group whose deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed alongside Soleiman.
Stiles said she did not attend a second rally later that day organized specifically in support of Soleiman, deemed a “monster” by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“We’ve asked the Toronto Sun to correct the record and we’re hopeful that they will,” Stiles said. “I will attend an anti-war rally, a peace rally, and I could be walking down the street and somebody has a flag. I can’t control that.”
The Sun article included an image from the event where the PMF flag could be seen flying near the MPPs.
From the University Avenue rally, Stiles tweeted that she was proud to join Berns-McGown.
“We must stand together against US aggression in Iran. We must stand for peace,” she posted online.
LILLEY: NDP MPPs sing and chant as dead terrorist honoured
LILLEY: Shame on those who support a dead terrorist over democracies
Stiles said she’ll continue to attend events focusing on causes — like anti-war rallies — she supports.
Tory MPP Goldie Ghamari tweeted, “Meanwhile, tone-deaf & ignorant politicians like @NDP maritstiles &@beyrima ACTUALLY ATTEND A PRO-Iran rally in SOLIDARITY WITH those protesting the death of a terrorist. Because any protest is an opportunity to get more votes, am I right.”
The Ontario NDP has come under scrutiny in the past for attending protests where controversial images are seen, including one where NDP MPP Joel Harden posed with a man holding a “f— Ford” sign.
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has advised her caucus to be aware of what’s around them at public events.
aartuso@postmedia.com
http://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ndp-mpp-defends-rally-attendance
Antonella Artuso
Published:
January 9, 2020
Updated:
January 9, 2020 2:43 PM EST
An Ontario NDP MPP is defending her attendance at an “anti-war rally” over the weekend from criticism her appearance could be perceived as legitimizing supporters of dead Iranian general Qassem Soleiman.
“I think everybody knows fully well that I attended a peace rally, an anti-war rally, on the weekend,” Marit Stiles said Wednesday. “There was no terrorist celebrated. It was a peace rally. I’ve attended peace rallies in the past.”
NDP Education Critic Marit Stiles says non-standardized standardized tests make no sense, during a press conference at Queen’s Park on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (Antonella Artuso/Toronto Sun)
The Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley reported that Stiles and fellow NDP MPP Rima Berns-McGown were front and centre at a rally where protesters flew the Popular Mobilization Forces insignia flag — a symbol of an Iranian-backed militia group whose deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed alongside Soleiman.
Stiles said she did not attend a second rally later that day organized specifically in support of Soleiman, deemed a “monster” by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“We’ve asked the Toronto Sun to correct the record and we’re hopeful that they will,” Stiles said. “I will attend an anti-war rally, a peace rally, and I could be walking down the street and somebody has a flag. I can’t control that.”
The Sun article included an image from the event where the PMF flag could be seen flying near the MPPs.
From the University Avenue rally, Stiles tweeted that she was proud to join Berns-McGown.
“We must stand together against US aggression in Iran. We must stand for peace,” she posted online.
LILLEY: NDP MPPs sing and chant as dead terrorist honoured
LILLEY: Shame on those who support a dead terrorist over democracies
Stiles said she’ll continue to attend events focusing on causes — like anti-war rallies — she supports.
Tory MPP Goldie Ghamari tweeted, “Meanwhile, tone-deaf & ignorant politicians like @NDP maritstiles &@beyrima ACTUALLY ATTEND A PRO-Iran rally in SOLIDARITY WITH those protesting the death of a terrorist. Because any protest is an opportunity to get more votes, am I right.”
The Ontario NDP has come under scrutiny in the past for attending protests where controversial images are seen, including one where NDP MPP Joel Harden posed with a man holding a “f— Ford” sign.
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has advised her caucus to be aware of what’s around them at public events.
aartuso@postmedia.com
http://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ndp-mpp-defends-rally-attendance
From Andrew Bacevich, ex US military Viet Nam political activist.
Let me say that again: The leadership in Tehran is far more rational than the leadership in Washington. So, they decided they would continue to help us, because, after all, the enemy of my enemy — you know, all that old, good business about the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they did in fact continue to help us, all the way through the Bonn conference. And Soleimani was part of that at the time."
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"But what you had was you had essentially a war between the Taliban, Mullah Omar and his group, what was left of al-Qaeda, and the Northern Alliance, which the CIA had been supporting all along. They had killed Massoud, the “Lion of Panjshir,” the guy who was really leading the Northern Alliance, too. Al-Qaeda had killed him about the same time they did the 9/11 attacks. So it was really chaotic.
When we did get some special operators in, and we got a lot of aircraft in with, of course, precision-guided munitions, then we began to turn the tide. And we began to get to a situation where — I can tell you, we were almost apoplectic at the time — we didn’t know who was going to invest Kabul. We didn’t know that we hadn’t just turned Kabul over to the Northern Alliance, and thus to a continuation of the last 30 years of warfare. So, we were very anxious to make sure everything worked the way we wanted it to after that so-called victory.
And one of the people — one of the groups that helped us the most, as you might imagine, were the Iranians, because the Iranians looked at the Taliban as their enemy, too. You may recall that the Taliban had killed some Iranian diplomats and others in the months prior. So the Iranians were all for our eliminating the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and so pitched in to help.
As I said, once President Bush had given his speech about the “axis of evil” and included Iran in that, their desire to help was not quite as ardent as it was before. But they, nonetheless, realizing, as Iran almost always does — I hate these people who say they’re irrational. They’re far more rational than we are. Let me say that again: The leadership in Tehran is far more rational than the leadership in Washington. So, they decided they would continue to help us, because, after all, the enemy of my enemy — you know, all that old, good business about the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they did in fact continue to help us, all the way through the Bonn conference. And Soleimani was part of that at the time."
more
https://www.pressenza.com/2020/01/a...ized-approach-to-middle-east-and-build-peace/
Let me say that again: The leadership in Tehran is far more rational than the leadership in Washington. So, they decided they would continue to help us, because, after all, the enemy of my enemy — you know, all that old, good business about the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they did in fact continue to help us, all the way through the Bonn conference. And Soleimani was part of that at the time."
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"But what you had was you had essentially a war between the Taliban, Mullah Omar and his group, what was left of al-Qaeda, and the Northern Alliance, which the CIA had been supporting all along. They had killed Massoud, the “Lion of Panjshir,” the guy who was really leading the Northern Alliance, too. Al-Qaeda had killed him about the same time they did the 9/11 attacks. So it was really chaotic.
When we did get some special operators in, and we got a lot of aircraft in with, of course, precision-guided munitions, then we began to turn the tide. And we began to get to a situation where — I can tell you, we were almost apoplectic at the time — we didn’t know who was going to invest Kabul. We didn’t know that we hadn’t just turned Kabul over to the Northern Alliance, and thus to a continuation of the last 30 years of warfare. So, we were very anxious to make sure everything worked the way we wanted it to after that so-called victory.
And one of the people — one of the groups that helped us the most, as you might imagine, were the Iranians, because the Iranians looked at the Taliban as their enemy, too. You may recall that the Taliban had killed some Iranian diplomats and others in the months prior. So the Iranians were all for our eliminating the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and so pitched in to help.
As I said, once President Bush had given his speech about the “axis of evil” and included Iran in that, their desire to help was not quite as ardent as it was before. But they, nonetheless, realizing, as Iran almost always does — I hate these people who say they’re irrational. They’re far more rational than we are. Let me say that again: The leadership in Tehran is far more rational than the leadership in Washington. So, they decided they would continue to help us, because, after all, the enemy of my enemy — you know, all that old, good business about the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they did in fact continue to help us, all the way through the Bonn conference. And Soleimani was part of that at the time."
more
https://www.pressenza.com/2020/01/a...ized-approach-to-middle-east-and-build-peace/
Who cares , the pig got a bomb dropped on his head , and the world is a better place as a result .
Assassination-gate! Trump Officials Say No 'Imminent Threat.' With Guest Phil Giraldi
Trump officials - including Trump himself today - have been steadily pulling back from initial claims after the January 3rd assassination of Iranian top general Soleimani that he was killed because of "imminent threats" of attack led by the Iranian.
New evidence is emerging that the kill order had been given seven months ago and according to Israeli media, Netanyahu was directly involved in plotting the killing.
Former CIA officer Phil Giraldi joins the Liberty Report to try and unpack the competing claims and whirlwind of lies surrounding the targeted killing.
You people do know who Ron Paul is right?
Anyhow I told you this was all bull shit. The guy was the biggest ISIS killer out there. That's why he is ZIOdead. the US and israel SUPPORT ISIS FFS!
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
Ex-Mossad head on Israel medical aid to al-Nusra Front - UpFront
The former head of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, defends the country's treatment of al-Nusra Front fighters on the Syrian border.
In this web extra, Efraim Halevy tells Mehdi Hasan that he is not concerned that Israel had treated fighters in Syria from al-Nusra Front who some say is al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
"It's always useful […] to deal with your enemies in a humane way," Halevy says.
When pressed on whether he believed the assistance was purely humanitarian Halevy responds, "I didn't say there's no tactical [consideration]. I said the main consideration, the immediate consideration is humane."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vweHtxqnh-Y&vl=en
Humane? tactical aid?
What the F*k? But no humanity in Palestine, just war crimes, eh?
whatever
2 months ago
Products from palestinians can no longer be sold as "made in israel" says european high court. And boom says bibi
Trump officials - including Trump himself today - have been steadily pulling back from initial claims after the January 3rd assassination of Iranian top general Soleimani that he was killed because of "imminent threats" of attack led by the Iranian.
New evidence is emerging that the kill order had been given seven months ago and according to Israeli media, Netanyahu was directly involved in plotting the killing.
Former CIA officer Phil Giraldi joins the Liberty Report to try and unpack the competing claims and whirlwind of lies surrounding the targeted killing.
You people do know who Ron Paul is right?
Anyhow I told you this was all bull shit. The guy was the biggest ISIS killer out there. That's why he is ZIOdead. the US and israel SUPPORT ISIS FFS!
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
Ex-Mossad head on Israel medical aid to al-Nusra Front - UpFront
The former head of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, defends the country's treatment of al-Nusra Front fighters on the Syrian border.
In this web extra, Efraim Halevy tells Mehdi Hasan that he is not concerned that Israel had treated fighters in Syria from al-Nusra Front who some say is al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
"It's always useful […] to deal with your enemies in a humane way," Halevy says.
When pressed on whether he believed the assistance was purely humanitarian Halevy responds, "I didn't say there's no tactical [consideration]. I said the main consideration, the immediate consideration is humane."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vweHtxqnh-Y&vl=en
Humane? tactical aid?
What the F*k? But no humanity in Palestine, just war crimes, eh?
whatever
2 months ago
Products from palestinians can no longer be sold as "made in israel" says european high court. And boom says bibi
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See above eh?
...as I have been saying all along.
Netanyahu tells Security Cabinet Israel must not be dragged into Soleimani killing
https://www.axios.com/netanyahu-isr...ing-b846c02b-f592-4b56-9827-9310cac092b8.html
You got the wrong guy dood. How's it feel to be on the same page as the Iranian missile commander?
Now sleepy should be along any minute to tell me reporting the words of x head of mossad, netanyahoo, and ron paul is a conspiracy theory.
Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Back Syrian Rebels
Israel also provided salaries to rebel fighters, paying each one about $75 a month, and supplied additional money the groups used to buy arms on the Syrian black market, according to the rebels and local journalists.
The payments, along with the service Israel was getting in return, created an expectation among the rebels that Israel would intercede if troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad tried to advance on southern Syria.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/0...ed-and-funded-rebel-groups-in-southern-syria/
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(missed that because you were too cowardly to read the post eh man? lol)
Told ya the fakenews apartheid nazi would be along with his braindead bull sheet
...and it's not jews doood, it's epstein type ZIOTARDS there dumbass.
Say, how is your comrade epstien doing these days sleeperz? Sharing the wealth?
Photos show Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ jet
https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/photo...laine-maxwell-on-epsteins-lolita-express-jet/
love yer new a$$ hat dood.
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Obliviously, you didn't read the article and don't get it.
Juan Cole, from Truthdig will try to spell it out for you.
Its a lot of words, see if you digest and comment on this.
You can do it!
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"It is easy to demonize Soleimani in the U.S., since he certainly was an enemy of U.S. interests in the Middle East for much of his career. But he does not appear to have killed or had killed any Americans at all in the past decade, and from 2015 because of the UN Security Council nuclear deal with Iran, Soleimani was not an adversary of the US in recent years. In fact, he was often a de facto ally and the U.S. Air Force gave him air support at Tikrit and elsewhere in the campaign against ISIL (ISIS, Daesh). In fact, for a while there Soleimani was fighting ISIL and al-Qaeda-linked militias in Syria in tacit alliance with the Kurds supported by the United States at a time when Israel allied with an al-Qaeda affiliate in the Golan Heights.
Moreover, the entire narrative of the Trump administration was undermined by Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdelmahdi, who told Parliament on Jan. 5 when he asked its members to kick out the US military, that he had personally invited Soleimani to Baghdad as part of a back-channel set of negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Iran aimed at cooling down tensions between the two. Soleimani did not sneak into Iraq on a covert mission. He flew on a commercial jet and went through passport control with his diplomatic passport.
While an attempt was made to invade the U.S. embassy on the Wednesday before Soleimani’s arrival, that was done by members of the Iraqi militia, the Kata’ib Hizbullah, who were angry that on December 30, the Trump administration bombed its bases in northern Iraq and killed some two dozen of its fighters. Trump blamed Kata’ib Hizbullah for a rocket attack on a base at Kirkuk that killed an American contractor. It is murky in open, unclassified sources whether Kata’ib Hizbullah actually fired those rockets. Nor is there any evidence in open sources that Soleimani ordered the Iraqi militia to so act. U.S. intelligence may have signals intelligence to that effect, but since Soleimani is dead, they should share that at least with the Gang of Eight in Congress if they have it. For all we know, a foreign government hostile to the Iraqi Shiite militias and to Iran passed this allegation over to Trump as a false flag to manipulate him, and he swallowed the bait. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Israelis would all have a motivation to behave this way and their close military and intelligence ties with Washington would make them credible if they wanted to run such a scam on the naive and gullible Trump.
Suspicions were raised when Trump refused to come beforehand to Congress for authorization to take dramatic action against Iran, an action that could easily have sparked a war. The “gang of eight” in Congress who are usually informed of such momentous plans. They would have included Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate, Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in the House of Representatives, and the ranking and minority leaders of the intelligence committees of the Senate and the House. Was it because the “intelligence” was so “razor thin” (as one leak put it) that no one would have bought it?
Then, as The Week pointed out, the New York Times reported that while CIA Director Gina Haspel had not taken a policy position on killing Soleimani, she had assessed for the administration that removing him would improve U.S. security while not incurring unbearable risks of reprisals from a weak Iran. Haspel had supported the torture of al-Qaeda prisoners and is known for being ruthless, so you’d expect an assessment like that from her. It isn’t, however, an argument that Soleimani posed an imminent threat, just that he was an able adversary whose removal from the board would benefit the US side in its attempt to strangle Iran.
Then there was the fiasco of the post-operation briefing of Congress by the Trump Pentagon on the killing of Soleimani, which actually enraged Republican Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who says he supports President Trump.
more
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-smoking-gun-in-the-soleimani-assassination/
U.S. says 50 troops now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after Iran strike
Reuters
Published:
January 28, 2020
Updated:
January 28, 2020 8:39 PM EST
A file picture taken on January 13, 2020 during a press tour organized by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows US soldiers clearing rubble at Ain al-Asad military airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.AYMAN HENNA / AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 U.S. service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced.
President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s Jan. 8 attack had not killed or injured any U.S. service members.
“As of today, 50 U.S. service members have been diagnosed” with traumatic brain injury, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq.
Symptoms of concussive injuries include headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and nausea.
Thirty-one of the 50 were treated in Iraq and returned to duty, including 15 of those diagnosed most recently, Campbell said.
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Eighteen of the total have been sent to Germany for further evaluation and treatment, and one was sent to Kuwait and has since returned to duty, he said.
“This is a snapshot in time and numbers can change,” Campbell said.
In its previous update on Friday, the Pentagon had put the number of those injured at 34.
Trump last week appeared to play down the injuries, saying he “heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things.”
That prompted criticism from a U.S. war veterans group. William Schmitz, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said on Friday the group “expects an apology from the president to our service men and women for his misguided remarks.”
According to Pentagon data, about 408,000 service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury since 2000.
Iran fired missiles at Ain al-Asad in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a top Revolutionary Guard general, Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike at Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
The missile attacks capped a spiral of violence that had started in late December, and both sides have refrained from further military escalation.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/u-...with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike
Reuters
Published:
January 28, 2020
Updated:
January 28, 2020 8:39 PM EST
A file picture taken on January 13, 2020 during a press tour organized by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows US soldiers clearing rubble at Ain al-Asad military airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.AYMAN HENNA / AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 U.S. service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced.
President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s Jan. 8 attack had not killed or injured any U.S. service members.
“As of today, 50 U.S. service members have been diagnosed” with traumatic brain injury, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq.
Symptoms of concussive injuries include headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and nausea.
Thirty-one of the 50 were treated in Iraq and returned to duty, including 15 of those diagnosed most recently, Campbell said.
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Eighteen of the total have been sent to Germany for further evaluation and treatment, and one was sent to Kuwait and has since returned to duty, he said.
“This is a snapshot in time and numbers can change,” Campbell said.
In its previous update on Friday, the Pentagon had put the number of those injured at 34.
Trump last week appeared to play down the injuries, saying he “heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things.”
That prompted criticism from a U.S. war veterans group. William Schmitz, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said on Friday the group “expects an apology from the president to our service men and women for his misguided remarks.”
According to Pentagon data, about 408,000 service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury since 2000.
Iran fired missiles at Ain al-Asad in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a top Revolutionary Guard general, Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike at Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
The missile attacks capped a spiral of violence that had started in late December, and both sides have refrained from further military escalation.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/u-...with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike