von Yves Mamou 26. März 2021 – GATESTONE INSTITUTE – Englischer Originaltext: “Kill Them; Kill Them All”: The War against Police in France
Im Januar verzeichneten die statistischen Dienste des Innenministeriums 2.288 solcher “Tötet sie alle”-Vorfälle, basierend auf Informationen aus Polizeiberichten.
- Der Verdacht der Medien auf die illegitime Anwendung von Gewalt durch die Polizei ist so groß, dass angegriffene Beamte sich nicht einmal berechtigt fühlen, ihre Waffe zu benutzen.
- Die Anklage der Medien und der Unterhaltungsindustrie – Schauspieler, Sänger usw. – gegen die französische Polizei wird auch von Akademikern angeheizt.
- Natürlich stellen sich auch Feiglinge in Richterroben auf die Seite des schicken Pöbels gegen die Polizei.
- Wenn die Polizei die Öffentlichkeit nicht untersuchen oder schützen kann, weil Beamte Angst haben, als Rassisten bezeichnet zu werden, ist die Sicherheit der Bürger gefährdet.
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US Special Forces at lowest level worldwide since 2001
AFP – 9 Hours 26 March 2021 – US Special Forces deployed around the world are at their lowest level since 2001, their chief, General Richard Clarke, said Thursday in Washington.
“Today, we have nearly 5,000 SOF [special operations forces] deployed to 62 countries,” the Special Forces command chief said in a document released on the sidelines of a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. That is down 15 percent from last year and the lowest number since 2001, the document said.
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Bundestagsabstimmung : EU-Rettungsfonds nimmt erste Hürde
- Von Corinna Budras, Berlin FAZ – 25.03.2021-18:55 – Für die Corona-Bekämpfung will die EU massenhaft Schulden anhäufen. Der Bundestag hat dem jetzt zugestimmt. Aber der Protest wird lauter – und erreicht Karlsruhe.
Der Bundestag hat mit großer Mehrheit den Regelungen für die Einführung eines EU-Aufbaufonds in Höhe von rund 750 Milliarden Euro zugestimmt. Mehr als zwei Drittel der Parlamentarier befürworteten den zugrundeliegenden Gesetzesentwurf in einer namentlichen Abstimmung. Mit dem bisher einmaligen Rettungspaket sollen die EU-Staaten finanzielle Unterstützung bei der Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie erhalten. Es umfasst erstmals die Möglichkeit der EU, sich im großen Stil selbst am Kapitalmarkt zu verschulden. Bisher finanziert sie sich ausschließlich aus den Haushalten der EU-Mitgliedstaaten.
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by Michael Knights Crisis Response Council March 25, 2021
Iraqi militias value legitimacy and try to portray themselves as acting within the law, so evidence-based approaches can be very effective at reining in those who attack on Tehran’s behalf.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the phrase “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” and this is certainly the case when it comes to defeating the blurring tactics used by Iran-backed militias in Iraq. The February 15 rocket attacks on Erbil, a wanton act of vandalism that sprayed 107mm high explosive munitions across a densely populated city near a U.S. base, were followed by a new attack on U.S. forces at Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on March 3. An Iraqi and a Filipino died in the Erbil strike, which wounded nine others; and a U.S. contractor died at Al-Asad. Kurdish security forces arrested at least two of the perpetrators behind the barrage of rockets that hit Erbil, and then reported he had confessed to undertaking the attack. The militia fighter in Kurdish custody claimed he was recruited by Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, a militia group struck by the U.S. in Syria last week, as a response to its involvement in the attack on Erbil.
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America is exporting its Calvinistic tendencies to British workplaces
BY ED WEST – Ed West is the Senior Editor of UnHerd. His book Tory Boy is published by Constable – March 26, 2021
Half a millennium ago a social revolution caused a culture war setting two world views at each other’s throats. The Reformation unleashed by Lutherans was then followed, a generation later, by a more radical, second burst of Protestantism led by the French theologian Jean Calvin.
Calvinism was an energetic and revolutionary creed which found its epicentre in Geneva. Here, as elsewhere, Calvinists showed themselves devoted to education, enthusiastic charity givers and generous to refugees.
They also proved to be violently intolerant, with Jean Calvin’s Geneva imposing extreme punishments for perceived sinners, including the death penalty for pregnancy out of wedlock. They also had a tendency to smash up statues and burn down abbeys, or anything else that was associated with the old religion. Perhaps most puzzling of all to religious conservatives, Calvinists saw the world being divided between the damned and the saved — and the doubt this caused in believers often led to extreme psychological stress, to the point of breakdown.
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Iran is concerned that Turkey, Russia and Qatar are trying to bypass the Astana accords. A senior Iranian claimed openly that Iran should not become dependent on the survival of Assad alone
Ami Rojkes Dombe | 22/03/2021 AHVAL NEWS : President al-Assad receives Senior Assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister Khaji and the accompanying delegation – http://sana.sy/
According to a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Iran is concerned about a change of direction in Syrian President Assad’s palace in Damascus. “In an extraordinary statement, a former Iranian Majlis member stated that it can not be ruled out that Syria will change its approach toward Iran is the future, and hence Iran must not place all its eggs in President Assad’s basket. His statement was made against the backdrop of Iran’s exclusion from a meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia and Qatar in Doha, which convened to discuss the crisis in Syria,” the report said.
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So: MAX NYFFELER IM FEUILLETON DER FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINEN ZEITUNG – 26. März 2021
„Wie hört man Herkunft?“
Die Weltgesellschaft der Individualitäten reproduziert zumeist den Normalsound des Westens: Berlins Festival MaerzMusik bemüht sich redlich um den schwarzen Klang.
(….) Inzwischen hat sich der Wind gedreht, und diejenigen, die bislang draußen gehalten wurden, drängen sich an die Schalthebel des Kultur- und Wissenschaftsbetriebs. Der globale Disput dreht sich um Begriffe wie Dekolonisierung und weiße Suprematie. Indem die MaerzMusik mit dem Thema „Black Music” die Hauptfront der gegenwärtigen Auseinandersetzungen ins Blickfeld rückte, importierte sie zugleich die amerikanische Problematik. „Schwarz” bezieht sich aus dieser Sicht auf die um Gleichberechtigung kämpfende schwarze Minderheit, und folgerichtig wurde aus der Perspektive der kritischen westlichen Intelligenz argumentiert. Die afrikanische Sichtweise blieb weitgehend ausgespart.
Zu den Ausnahmen zählte die in Berlin lebende Arlette-Louise Ndakoze,
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Arab-Israeli legislator emerges as kingmaker
If the current numbers hold and the Ra’am Party gets four Knesset seats, its leader Mansour Abbas could hold the key to choosing the country’s next prime minister.Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic party Ra’am, speaks at his campaign headquarters in the northern Israeli city of Tamra on March 23, 2021, before polling stations close during the fourth Israeli national election in two years.
Afif Abu Much March 25, 2021 AL MONITOR – Knesset member Mansour Abbas woke up this morning with four Knesset seats in his pocket. Last night’s vote tally had seemed to promise him five, but as the count continued his Ra’am party lost one. With 95.6% of the votes counted this number can still change, but it seems clear that Ra’am will be in the next Knesset.
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Wenn die aktuellen Zahlen anhalten und die Ra’am-Partei vier Knesset-Sitze erhält, könnte ihr Führer Mansour Abbas den Schlüssel zur Wahl des nächsten Premierministers des Landes halten.
Mansour Abbas, Chef der islamischen Partei Ra’am, spricht am 23. März 2021 in seinem Wahlkampfhauptquartier in der nordisraelischen Stadt Tamra, bevor die Wahllokale während der vierten israelischen Parlamentswahlen in zwei Jahren schließen.
Afif Abu Much 25. März 2021 – AL MONITOR – Knesset-Mitglied Mansour Abbas wachte heute Morgen mit vier Knesset-Sitzen in der Tasche auf. Die Abstimmungsauszählung gestern Abend schien ihm fünf zu versprechen, aber als die Auszählung weiterging, verlor seine Ra’am-Partei eine. Mit 95,6% der ausgezählten Stimmen kann sich diese Zahl noch ändern, aber es scheint klar zu sein, dass Ra’am in der nächsten Knesset sein wird.
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Armed and masked operative (center), next to two armed and masked operatives, threatening the Shiites in Pakistan (Telegram, March 19, 2021).
Main events of the past week
- Syria: In the Idlib region, exchanges of artillery fire continued between the Syrian army and the forces supporting it, and the rebel forces. In the Deir ez-Zor-Al-Mayadeen region, ISIS operatives continued to attack Kurdish SDF forces. Russian warplanes attacked ISIS targets in the area of the Al-Bishri mountain range, bordering on Al-Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor. In the Al-Badia region, several Syrian soldiers were abducted and later executed. In the Al-Mayadeen region where ISIS operates, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander and one of his escorts were killed when their vehicle drove over an IED.
- Iraq: This week, there was a decrease in the volume of ISIS’s terrorist activity. As part of ISIS’s “economic war,” its operatives blew up two high-voltage pylons in the Al-Khales region, about 10 km northwest of Baqubah. Both pylons were destroyed. The Iraqi army continued its counterterrorism operation in the Qarah Dagh Mountains, about 50 km southwest of the city of Erbil, with air support by the International Coalition against ISIS.
- In the United States: a man opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. At least 10 people were killed, including a police officer. According to preliminary reports, the shooter was Ahmad al-Issa, 21, a Syrian refugee. For the time being, his motives are unclear.
The Syrian arena
Syrian governorates (freeworldmaps.net)
The Idlib region
- This week as well, exchanges of artillery fire continued in the region south and southeast of the rebel enclave in Idlib between the rebel forces headed by HTS, and the Syrian army and the forces supporting it. On March 21, 2021, a rocket was fired from the rebel enclave to the region controlled by the Syrian army east of Aleppo. Six civilians were killed and several others were wounded. Russian fighter jets attacked rebel targets in the northern and western rebel enclave (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, March 21, 2021).
The Deir ez-Zor-Al-Mayadeen region
- On March 16, 2021, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander and one of his escorts were killed when their vehicle drove over an IED in the Al-Mayadeen desert region, east of Deir ez-Zor, where ISIS operates (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, March 16, 2021; Jihan News, March 16, 2021).
- ISIS operatives continued to attack SDF forces in the region. Following are noteworthy incidents[1]:
- On two separate occasions (March 22 and 23, 2021), rockets were fired at SDF headquarters in Al-Basira, about 15 km north of Al-Mayadeen. The buildings sustained damage.
- On March 20, 2021, SDF forces were attacked while they were celebrating Nowruz (the spring festival) in Jazrat Albu Hamid, about 3 km southwest of Al-Raqqah. Three fighters were killed and four others were wounded.
- On March 17, 2021, an SDF fighter was targeted by gunfire in Shahil, about 10 km north of Al-Mayadeen. He was killed.
The desert region (Badia)
- Russian fighter jets attacked ISIS targets on the Bishri Mountains, bordering on the Al-Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor provinces (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, March 16, 2021).
- Following are attacks carried out by ISIS against the Syrian security forces, according to ISIS’s claims of responsibility:
- On March 21, 2021, a Syrian army outpost in the Salamiyah region, about 30 km southeast of Hama, was attacked. Several soldiers were killed and wounded in the exchange of fire. The ISIS operatives set fire to the outpost and fled.
- On March 21, 2021, two soldiers were taken prisoner in the Al-Sukhnah Desert, about 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor. They were interrogated and then executed. Another soldier was taken prisoner northeast of Qaryatayn, about 70 km southeast of Homs. He was interrogated and then executed.
The Al-Hasakah region
- An SDF force detained 10 ISIS operatives in the Al-Hawl camp, on the outskirts of Al-Hasakah, where ISIS operatives and their families are held. No details about the detainees were released. It should be noted that since the beginning of 2021, there have been 42 murders in the camp, indicating the shaky security situation there (www.kurdistan24.net, March 19, 2021).
The Iraqi arena
Provinces of Iraq (Wikipedia)
ISIS’s attacks in Iraq[2]
Salah al-Din Province
- On March 20, 2021, an IED was activated against the vehicle of a foj commander (a foj is a military framework similar to a regiment) in the Iraqi police, in the Yathrib region, about 40 km southeast of Samarra. The commander and two of his escorts were wounded.
- On March 18, 2021, ISIS ambushed a Popular Mobilization force numbering several vehicles in the Samarra area. Six Popular Mobilization fighters were killed in the exchange of fire. When another force arrived on the scene, an IED was activated against its vehicle, killing or wounding the passengers on board.
- On March 17, 2021, a force of the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization was targeted by gunfire in the Tarmiyah region, about 30 km north of Baghdad. Two fighters were wounded.
Diyala Province
- On March 21, 2021, the Iraqi police reported that ISIS had abducted three farmers in the northeastern rural area of Baqubah (Al-Sumaria, March 21, 2021).
- On March 20, 2021, two “polytheist Shiites” were abducted in the Abarah area, in southern Baqubah. They were interrogated and then executed. The day before, an IED was activated against a “polytheist Shiite” in the Abarah area, in south Baqubah. He was wounded.
- On March 19, 2021, an IED was activated against a police car south of Bahraz, about 2 km southeast of Baqubah. Two policemen were wounded.
- On March 16, 2021, IEDs were activated close to two high-voltage pylons in the Al-Khales area, about 10 km northwest of Baqubah. The two pylons were destroyed. ISIS noted that this was part of its “economic war” against the Iraqi government (Al-Naba’ weekly, Telegram, March 18, 2021).
Kirkuk Province
- On March 18, 2021, a joint roadblock of the Iraqi police and the Popular Mobilization forces in the Riyad area, about 50 km southwest of Kirkuk, was targeted by gunfire. Three policemen and Popular Mobilization fighters were killed or wounded.
- On March 18, 2021, a Popular Mobilization fighter was killed and two policemen were wounded in the Hawija region, about 50 km east of Kirkuk (Popular Mobilization website, March 18, 2021).
- On March 16, 2021, an IED was activated against Iraqi police forces in the Rashad area, about 40 km southeast of Kirkuk. Several policemen, including an officer, were killed or wounded.
Counterterrorism measures in Iraq
Erbil Province
- The Iraqi army carried out an extensive counterterrorism operation against ISIS hotspots in the Qarah Dagh Mountains, about 50 km southwest of Erbil. The Iraqi army operation against ISIS, which lasted for 10 days, was carried out with air support by the US-led International Coalition. Coalition aircraft carried out 133 airstrikes. Dozens of ISIS targets were destroyed, including several dozen hiding places and caves. An unknown number of ISIS operatives were killed (Sky News, March 21, 2021).
Kirkuk Province
- On March 20, 2021, the Iraqi security forces located 30 IEDs in the Rashad area, southeast of Kirkuk (Al-Sumaria, March 20, 2021).
Salah al-Din Province
- On March 19, 2021, the Popular Mobilization forces located an ISIS weapons cache in the Yathrib area, about 40 km southeast of Samarra (Al-Ahed, March 19, 2021).
ISIS’s weapons cache located by the Popular Mobilization forces (Al-Ahed, March 19, 2021)
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