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The sex trade in Yemen: How al-Qaeda makes millions by trafficking children

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In the first in an exclusive series for The Duran, writer Catherine Shakdam exposes how with Saudi collusion, Wahhabi terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda in Yemen traffic children for use as sex slaves.

Yemen you might already know has suffered under the yoke of a brutal war - one which has plunged the impoverished nation into the arms of famine, death, and despair.

Yemen today however does not just resemble a nation in the throes of a violent military conflict; it holds a mirror to the tyranny we continue to legitimize, whose wealth still carries an attraction many cannot resist.

Yemen in so many ways has come to symbolize the essence of terrorism - this terrible agenda the Western powers still claim they too want to oppose whilst never ever really pointing the finger towards its truth....well not really anyway.

Yemen you probably know stands in pain and in blood - its borders breached, its skies darkened, and its people blockaded.

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Government hid and destroyed 9/11 evidence

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Presumption of a Cover-Up ...

Judges and lawyers know that - if someone intentionally destroys evidence - he's probably trying to hide his crime. American law has long recognized that destruction of evidence raises a presumption of guilt for the person who destroyed the evidence.

So what does it mean when the US government intentionally destroyed massive amounts of evidence related to 9/11?

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Forces of Council of Deputies commander take all three key Libyan oil ports

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© Ismail Zetouni / Reuters
Libyan National Army forces loyal to a controversial eastern Libyan commander have seized all three of Libya's oil ports, ruining the plans of the Tripoli-based UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to put them back into operation.

Colonel Ahmad Mesmari, a Libyan National Army (LNA) spokesman, reported that LNA forces had taken control over the ports of Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra on Libya's Mediterranean coastline to the east of the capital, Tripoli, Libya's Lana news agency said on Sunday.

"Our armed forces took control of the entrances to [the town of] Ajdabiya, Al-Sidra port, industrial and residential area [nearby], Ras Lanuf port. Clashes are now ongoing near the Zuwaytina site," which is east of the other two, the spokesman told the news agency.

Comment: Italy's oil company Eni won't be too happy about this development:


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Three french female jihadist suspects were planning Eiffel Tower attack

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© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
Three suspected female jihadists who were arrested in France last week had been planning to set off an explosion near the Eiffel Tower, Le Journal du Dimanche has reported citing an anonymous source close to the investigation.

The newspaper added that it was 29-year-old mother of three Ornella Gilligman, charged on Sunday, who told law enforcement about the Eiffel Tower plot.

The woman reportedly talked a lot, and varied her testimony a lot too, Le Journal du Dimanche cited its source as saying.

Her testimony will be compared with those of the other two women who were detained in connection with the case.

Gilligman is now in a high-security detention facility in Paris, facing trial for "attempted murder and involvement with a criminal gang preparing a terrorist act."

Comment: France is expecting more attacks: French PM warns 15,000 people being radicalized while 1,400 probed amid foiled terror plots


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Wounded al-Nusra terrorists taken to Israeli hospitals following clashes and Israeli air strikes

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Several Israeli ambulances entered Syria's Southern province of Quneitra and transferred those terrorists injured in clashes with Syrian Army troops to their hospitals in the occupied part of the Golan Heights, media sources said.

"First, Israeli warplanes bombed Syrian government's positions near Quneitra to back the terrorists of Fatah al-Sham (the newly-formed al-Qaeda-linked terrorists group previously known as the al-Nusra Front) who had attacked the Syrian army positions to prevail over the government's position," the Arabic service of RT reported.

"After Fatah al-Sham's attacks were repelled by the Syrian soldiers, seven Israeli ambulances entered the battlefield and transferred a number of wounded terrorists to Israeli hospitals in the occupied Golan Heights," RT added.

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French PM warns 15,000 people being radicalized while 1,400 probed amid foiled terror plots

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© Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
More terror attacks are in store for France, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned, saying that some 15,000 people are in the process of radicalization in France and currently on police radar, while 1400 under investigation.

"The threat [of attacks on France] is at its highest we have seen it in recent days; it is there even as we speak now," Manuel Valls said in an interview with Europe 1 radio and Itele television on Sunday.

"There will be new attacks, there will be innocent victims. It is my job to tell this truth to the French people... We are a target - everyone understands this," he added, stating that at least two attacks were foiled during the past week, while "every day, the intelligence services, police and gendarmerie thwart attacks and dismantle [terror] channels."

Comment: France is not the only country worried: Germany's interior minister declares its number of potential terrorists at an all-time high


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The astounding 9/11 coverup

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© UPI/Chris Pedota /POOLFlags at the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies
Did you happen to notice that after more than a decade of the 'news' media's demanding publication of "the missing 28 pages" (which turned out actually to have been 29 pages) from the U.S. Congress's investigation into 9/11, the document's press-coverage, finally, on 15 July 2016, turned out to have been little-to-none? And did you notice that the little there was, said it contained nothing important? Perhaps you didn't get to know even this much about the press-coverage of it, because the U.S. Congress, which had been hiding the document ever since 2003, dumped it on a Friday night, in order for it to receive as little press-coverage as possible.

Well, what that document actually showed, and proved (and cited FBI investigators who could then have testified in public, if requested), was the opposite of unimportant: that the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud (who was known in Washington as "Bandar Bush," because of his closeness to the Bush family), had secretly been paying the Saudi handlers of at least two of the 15 Saudis among the 19 9/11 hijackers, and that Bandar's wife and other relatives were also paying those hijackers-to-be, and their families — thus enabling the future hijackers to obtain the necessary pilot-training etc., for the 9/11 attacks.

How much news-coverage of this was there in the U.S.'democracy' that is supposed to be informing the public about such things, instead of continuing the cover-ups of them?

Why do U.S. 'news' media hide it — after having demanded for more than ten years that the 'missing 28 pages' become published?

Comment: Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, it looks like the war on terror is still in its opening act.
See also:
  • What neocon architect of the 9/11 Commission Report Philip Zelikow did to maintain the big lie



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SOTT Focus: SOTT News Snapshot: Weekend edition - Syria ceasefire signed, the 9/11 wars continue

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John Kerry being a good sport after diplomatically being beaten into submission during marathon Syria negotiations.
Syria ceasefire update

The ceasefire is supposed to go into effect tomorrow at sundown. So far at least, most sides are expressing their intention to honor the ceasefire, which is to be expected. FSA says they're ready for ceasefire - IF the Syrian government complies:
"The upholding of the ceasefire by the armed opposition depends on being upheld by the regime and by Russia, the previous agreement was not upheld by the regime, which attacked moderate opposition under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State," Abu Zeid told RIA Novosti. "For us, the protection of the civilian population is important, and we want to establish a real truce in order to protect civilians, but our experience of interacting with the regime totally precludes us from such optimism," the representative said.
The Syrian government approved the agreement, according their state news agency. Somewhat improbably, the FSA also say they support the fight against al-Qaeda/al-Nusra/al-Sham: "Regarding the clauses of the agreement on carrying out strikes against Jabhat Fatah al Sham, of course we do not want al-Qaeda to have a presence in Syria," FSA legal adviser Abu Zeid told RIA Novosti. Which is patently untrue, but they say what they're expected to say.

On the other side, Hezbollah fighters support the deal: "The allies of Syria promise to fully abide by whatever the Syrian high command and the government decides with regard to the ceasefire. We fully support the ceasefire," an unnamed Hezbollah field commander for Syria operations said as quoted by Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen broadcaster.

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After presidential elections were rigged in April, Austrian authorities may also cancel re-run scheduled for October

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Technically, this guy won the democratic vote, but the PTB in Austria don't want him
Austrian conspiracy theorists have had a bumper year in 2016.

First, in the April 24 presidential election, the frontrunning candidate of Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, who many said was virtually guaranteed to become the central European country's first "right-wing" president, mysteriously lost when some 31,000 mailed-in ballots tipped the vote against him in the last second, handing the election to his far more moderate, and pro-European challenged, Van der Bellen. Hofer's defeat sparked widespread relief across the ranks of Europe's unlected establishment bureaucrats, as his victory would mark yet another significant moment in the advance of nationalism across EU member states. As Newsweek put it, "in the wake of Brexit, it would be seen as another defeat for the European political establishment."

Accusations immediately emerged that the vote had been rigged, with the traditional response that these are merely the deranged ramblings of sore loser "nationalists." Only... that was not the case, and in July Austria's Constitutional Court ruled that the presidential runoff election must be held again, after it found "widespread" voting fraud, handing yet another victory to "conspiracy theorists" everywhere.

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Deport half of its Afghan refugees? Germany mulls while Karzai says 'good idea'

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© www.nytimes.comFormer Afghan President Karzai
Germany is reportedly seeking to deport around 40,000 of the 79,449 Afghan refugees that have applied for asylum as part of a deal with Kabul. Former Afghan President Karzai said deportations would be "a good solution" for his country's reconstruction.

Berlin wants to deport roughly 40,000 Afghan asylum seekers, including refugees willing to return to their homeland voluntarily, as well as migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected three times in a row, according to Bild magazine.

The plan is part of a bilateral agreement between the German and Afghan governments, the magazine's report said, adding that most migrants will be taken to Afghanistan on charter flights. If implemented, practically half of all Afghan migrants that have recently arrived in Germany could be deported on various grounds. Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has registered 79,449 Afghan nationals that have applied for asylum, according to the agency's July report.

There was no mention in the report of any time frame for expelling such a sizeable number of migrants, however. The Bild report adds that the German government would surely take measures to exempt women and minors whose lives may be at risk if they returned to Afghanistan.

According to the latest BAMF figures, German authorities granted asylum to 57,058 refugees in August alone, compared to just 16,769 in the same month last year.

Unexpectedly, the move has been welcomed by former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, though similar mass deportations from other European countries have courted controversy and been criticized as inhumane.

"Yes, the voluntary deportations are a good solution," he told Bild in an interview on Friday. "[The deportations] bring well-educated people back who we need so much. Every single talented Afghan is vital for our country's future."

Comment: Karzai has a point in that a refugee with talent and skill will not be valued the same elsewhere as within his or her own country in need. An even better solution would be to end wars and thus not create refugees.