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More Roadside Bombs Target U.S. Convoys in Syria MIDDLE EAST September 19, 2020 7 said. important to Iran & the Iranian culture” if Although some Americans have trav- Tehran took revenge for the terrorist U.S. eled to Russia to train with the Impe- assassination. More Roadside Bombs Target rial Movement, the cross-border ties “We seriously warn about any further between groups are “nothing monolith... military adventurism against Iran by the we are not picking up anything of a rou- United States that must bear the full re- tine, systemic connection,” he said. sponsibility for all consequences,” Takht- U.S. Convoys in Syria It is “More ad hoc, because they are all Ravanchi wrote. sitting on line together, chatting.” Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Ja- vad Zarif blasted U.S. Secretary of State DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – An Trump Urges Patriotic Classes Mike Pompeo as a “habitual liar”, saying explosive device targeted a convoy of he was seeking to deceive the U.S. presi- the U.S.-led coalition that was passing U.S. President Donald Trump on dent and “sucker him into mother of all by in a village in the eastern province Thursday urged “patriotic” teaching in quagmires by leaking a new false alarm.” of Dayr al-Zawr while anger against schools and railed against anti-racism “The habitual liar bamboozled Donald training that he said is destroying na- Trump into assassinating ISIS’ enemy #1 the U.S. presence in the country is ris- tional unity. by raising a false alarm. Now he’s trying ing, a war monitor reported Friday. “The only path to national unity is to sucker him into mother of all quagmires The explosive device exploded through our shared identity as Ameri- by leaking a new false alarm,” he tweeted. while the convoy was passing by in cans. That is why it is so urgent that we the village of Abriha in the eastern finally restore patriotic education to our Yazid ... countryside of Dayr al-Zawr, said schools,” he said at an event titled the (Continued From Page One) the so-called Syrian Observatory “White House conference on American for Human Rights. history.” When the muezzin said: “Allahu Akbar”, Behind in the polls six weeks before The explosion left damage with no Imam Zain al-Abedin (AS) said: “You the presidential election, Trump is go- have acknowledged as great the Greatest report on casualties, the UK-based ing all out to stir up his right-wing base watchdog group added. One Who cannot be measured and cannot against what he argues is a far-left plot to be perceived by senses; there is nothing Also on Thursday evening, three change the American way of life. greater than Allah.” explosive devices exploded near the He has taken particular aim at so-called When the muezzin recited: “Ashhadu an al-Omar oil field while a vehicle of critical race theory, racial sensitivity la ilaha illa Allah,” which means “I testify the U.S.-backed so-called Syrian Image shows Syrians protesting in Qabba Zeki village, in the suburb of Qamishli, Hasakah training and attempts to reexamine U.S. there is no god except Allah”, the Imam Democratic Forces (SDF) was pass- province, on September 18, 2020. history by centering the deep roots of said: “My hair, my skin, my flesh, my racism against African Americans. ing by, said the observatory. blood, my brain, and my bones bear wit- armored military vehicles, trucks Turkish occupation of the Arab Turkish and U.S. troops, occasion- Trump, whose speech marked Consti- At early time on Thursday, a group carrying cement plates, and other country. ally leading to violent standoffs ness that there is no god but Allah.” tution Day, was speaking after a summer When the muezzin chanted: “Ashhadu of unknown armed men opened fire equipment, with the convoy mak- Syria’s SANA news agency re- with occupying troops and their al- of sometimes violent anti-police pro- anna Muhammadan Rasool-Allah,” which on a patrol of the SDF in the Basira ing its way for the city of Qamishli, ported on Friday that residents from lies. tests, triggered by high-profile shootings means “I testify that Mohammad is the area in Dary al-Zawr. the site of last month’s deadly clash Qabba Zeki village in the suburb Washington and Ankara have both and killings by officers of black suspects Messenger of Allah”, the Imam turned to Meanwhile, U.S. troops have between U.S. and Syrian troops, of Qameshli district waved Syrian stepped up military intervention during arrests. Yazid and asked him: “O Yazid, is Mo- brought a convoy consisting of 58 which left one Syrian soldier dead flags and held signs calling for the to prevent the Syrian government The unrest, which activists say reflect- hammad your grandfather or mine? If you ed pent-up anger at the country’s failure vehicles into Syria’s al-Hasakah and two others injured. removal of the occupation forces from fully restoring its control over say that he is yours, then you are a liar, and to reckon with racism, also saw crowds province from Iraq through the from the country. the country. if you admit that he is mine, then why did tearing down historic statues -- some cel- you kill his grandson and family?” al-Waleed border crossing point, Protest Against U.S., Turkish “Long live free Syria and its lead- Damascus has vowed to complete- ebrating figures from the slave-owning These are the among the tragic events SANA has reported, citing civilian Occupation er, President Bashar al-Assad,” read ly liberate Syria, including the Idlib South in the Civil War and some repre- of the 1st of Safar on which after a long sources in the nearby al-Yaarubiyah the signs. province, which remains the last senting the country’s early founders. wait at the Bab at-Tuma Gate of Damas- countryside. Syrians in Hasakah province have Syrians have been long protesting major bastion for foreign-backed “We are here today to declare that we cus, so the streets could be decorated and The vehicles reportedly included staged protest against U.S. and the occupation of their country by terrorists. will never submit to tyranny. We will fitted with mirrors, the Ahl al-Bayt were reclaim our history, and our country, for paraded in ropes and fetters to the court of citizens of every race, color, religion and the tyrant through the marketplace with the creed,” Trump said. heads of martyrs mounted on lances. Zionist Troops Kill Palestinian Dentist in West Bank “The left-wing rioting and mayhem are The noble captives through their ser- RAMALLAH (Dispatches) at anti-occupation Palestinian ate response by the Zionist tivities in the northern West the direct result of decades of left-wing mons turned the tables on the tyrant, and – A Palestinian dentist was demonstrators in the city on regime to the incident of the Bank, told Xinhua that Zionist indoctrination in our schools.” although with patience they suffered all killed on Friday by Zionist Friday. Palestinian dentist’s death. troops opened fire at dozens He called revisionist history projects the calamities, including the martyrdom in troops in the northern West Wisam Baker, director of Meanwhile, medical sources of Palestinian demonstrators and racial sensitivity training “toxic pro- the dungeon of the less than four-year-old Bank city of Jenin, medics and Jenin Government Hospital, said that dozens of Palestin- near Nablus. paganda -- an ideological poison that, daughter of Imam Husain (AS) –Ruqa- official Palestinian media said. told Xinhua that Jabarin died ians suffered suffocation after He added the clashes broke if not removed, will dissolve the civic yya (SA). Thus, their bold statements The official Palestinian of a sudden heart attack in the Zionist troops threw tear gas out in the area after the troops bonds that tie us together, will destroy unmasked hypocrisy and in the process Television reported that doc- hospital due to a sudden shock. at demonstrators near Nablus prevented the residents of a our country.” universalized and internationalized the tor Nidal Jabarin, a Palestin- Eyewitnesses affirmed that as in northern West Bank. village south of Nablus from Trump noted he had recently banned genuine teachings of Islam, for the pro- ian dentist in his early fifties, soon as the troops threw stun Ghassan Daghlas, the Pal- reaching their lands and farms such training “in the strongest manner tection of which, Imam Husain (AS) had died of a shock after Zionist grenades, Jabarin fell. estinian Authority official in fear of getting confiscated possible” from federal offices. chosen to drink the elixir of martyrdom troops threw stun grenades There had been no immedi- who monitors settlement ac- by the Zionist settlers. rather than acknowledging the illegal and South Africa... un-Islamic rule of Yazid. Daesh Ringleader Revealed Fellow Terrorists’ Identities to U.S.: Report (Continued From Page One) U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Iran... WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The current ringleader of the Daesh ter- phone numbers and information about their physical appearance. the report to threaten that “any attack by (Continued From Page 2) rorist group provided the names of 68 Al-Qaeda terrorists to the U.S. in The now-Daesh leader also “either provided or confirmed” his, his wife Iran, in any form, against the United States 2008, declassified intelligence files cited by the Times claim. and his son’s identities to U.S. intelligence during his detention in Camp will be met with an attack on Iran that will On the contrary, he said, the U.S. is Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Mawla passed the information to Bucca in 2008, using Iraqi paperwork, AFP said.
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