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the United Arab Emirates had ignored ... OPEC quotas, which Saddam claimed Republican Senator: (Continued From Page One) cost his nation $14 billion. Saddam also accused Kuwait of stealing $2.4 billion on Wednesday told top navy com- by pumping crude from a disputed oil manders that the Iranian armed forces field and demanded that Kuwait write U.S. Should Stop Funding had to develop their capabilities to deter off an estimated $15 billion of debt that any potential aggressor. had accumulated during its 1980s Ayatollah Khamenei hailed the navy’s war with Iran. achievements, including its launch of A World War II fighter pilot shot Zionist Regime the Sahand destroyer and Fateh and Qa- down fighting against the Japanese, dir submarines, saying it showed Iran Bush came to view Saddam a threat if is capable of developing world-class WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – said in an statement. he continued into Saudi Arabia. Bush modern technologies. deployed troops to the region and began Top Republican Senator Rand Paul The legislation gives Tel Aviv $38 The Leader said Iran does not seek a bombing runs. has voiced his strong opposition to billion in the framework of a mili- war with any other country, but it needs On Feb. 24, 1991, U.S. troops and the “forever” funding of the Zionist tary aid package over 10 years and to expand its defense capabilities. their allies stormed into Kuwait. It regime by the U.S. was negotiated in the final days of On Saturday, Iran’s Army chief Ma- ended 100 hours later. America suffered On Oct. 11, the Kentucky Sena- the Obama administration. jor General Mousavi said the synergy 148 combat deaths during the cam- tor placed a hold on a bill that gives Paul’s move has met strong oppo- between the Army and Iran’s Islamic paign, while over 20,000 Iraqi soldiers Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has the regime $38 billion in military sition by major pro-Zionist groups. were killed. entered “a new phase”. He then allowed Saddam to regain the assistance over 10 years, Politico “Sen. Paul’s decision to hold this Mousavi said Iran’s navy industry upper hand against Shias and caused a reported. bill does not make America safer depended on foreign support before refugee crisis in Iraq’s northern Kurd- Paul said that he was opposed to and does not ensure taxpayer dol- the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but the ish region. legislation, known as the United lars are used most efficiently – quite force’s advancements after the revolu- One of Bush’s last acts as president States-Israel Security Assistance the opposite,” the lobbying arm tion are a source of national pride. was pardoning former Defense Secre- Authorization Act of 2018, and of the largest pro-Israel organiza- The advancements, the general said, tary Caspar Weinberger and others for have enabled Iran to guarantee security their role in the Iran-Contra scandal. sought to make changes in it in tion in the country said. Christians in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hor- Still, Bush’s decisions in the 1991 coming days. United for Israel (CUFI) Action muz, and the Sea of Oman. war and its aftermath echo even now. “While I’m not for foreign aid in Fund Chairwoman Sandra Parker The Kurdish crisis gave birth to the general, if we are going to send aid claimed, “Aid to Israel provides the People take part in a demonstration called up by local and Palestinian U.S.-imposed no-fly zone in northern to Israel it should be limited in time U.S. with an extraordinary return NGOs to denounce the U.S. decision to recognize al-Quds as the Zionist Bin... Iraq that allowed for the creation of the and scope so we aren’t doing it for- on investment.” regime’s “capital”, in the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 26, 2017. (Continued From Page One) semi-autonomous region now demand- ever, and it should be paid for by Earlier this year, the Zionist re- for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. that funding UNRWA perpetuated ing secession. Military agreements with among members of the House of Persian Gulf nations grew into a series cutting the aid to people who hate gime lauded the U.S. decision to cut Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin the Zionist-Palestinian conflict in- Saud to ensure the favored son does of major military installations across Israel and America,” Paul’s office aid to the United Nations agency Netanyahu said back in September stead of solving it. not become king when the 82-year- the region. And the presence of Ameri- old King Salman dies. can troops in Saudi Arabia, home to the Unlike European monarchies, the Muslim world’s holiest sites, served as House of Saud is made up of hun- a chief complaint of Al-Qaeda leader U.S.-Made Munitions Found in Terrorists’ dreds of princes, with the power of Osama bin Laden ahead of the Sept. 11, succession drawn across tribal lines, 2001, terror attacks. rather than automatically going to His son would launch the 2003 inva- Arms Cache in the eldest son. sion of Iraq after 9/11 and become so found American TOW missiles neitra and Damascus provinces. Each branch of the dynasty is con- hated in the Arab world an Iraq journal- sulted before a new king succeeds, ist would even throw a shoe at him dur- in the weapons cache which be- The army units found a large but as the crown prince is now the ing a news conference. longed to the terrorists before amount of military equipment de-facto ruler, an attempt to remove being forced to leave Dara’a and ammunition in the terror- him from the equation would likely have violent consequences. province. ist groups’ strongholds during A preferred candidate of the op- Railway... The source added that the army cleansing operations in the vil- position is Prince Ahmed bin Ab- Continued From Page 2) forces also found over 100,000 lage of Jabata al-Khashab in dulaziz, 76, younger full brother of King Salman and uncle to Muham- while Iraq will build the rest, which rounds of machine-guns bullets, northern Quneitra and the vil- mad bin Salman. will stretch deep into Iraq to connect a large number of RPG rockets lage of Beit Jin in southwestern Prince Ahmed was one of only to Karbala and Karbala to and a number of assault rifles. Damascus. three people on the Allegiance Syrian territory. This will facilitate the Council, made up of the ruling fam- movement of individuals and goods be- Media reports revealed last A field source said that the ily’s senior members, who opposed tween Iran, Iraq and Syria.” month that the U.S. was provid- Syrian army forces have dis- MBS becoming crown prince in The ministry denied rumors “that the ing direct military support for covered several U.S.-made 2017, two Saudi sources said at the railway will promote the Iranian influ- time. ence toward the Mediterranean.” the Daesh in trade for Syria’s machine-guns and sniper guns, Senior U.S. officials have indicat- “The railway is a part of a project This picture shows a cache of weapons and arms seized by Syria gov- artifacts. TOW missiles and tanks as well ed to Saudi courtiers in recent weeks linked with the Central Asian networks, ernment forces in the Hasrat town of the country’s eastern province of Early in November, the Syr- as a large number of different that they would support Prince which in turn are connected to the Chi- Dayr al-Zawr on July 14, 2018. Ahmed, who was deputy interior nese and Russian railways,” the email ian army forces discovered and types of bullets, mortars and minister for nearly 40 years, ac- continued, referring to Syria’s role in DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – remnants of the terrorist groups seized a large number of arms communication systems. cording to Saudi sources with direct the new Silk Road being spearheaded as knowledge of the consultations, the part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The Syrian army discovered a in Dara’a province in southern and military equipment manu- They added that the army forc- UK’s Daily Mail reported. Abdul Sattar Mohsen, media director large cache of arms and ammu- Syria. factured by the U.S. and Brit- es also found a large number of As well as dealing with enemies for the state-run Iraqi Republic Rail- nition, which also included sev- A Syrian military source re- ain from the bases of terrorist advanced medical and surgery at home, Crown Prince Muhammad ways Co., said the railway connecting faced the cold shoulder in Argen- the three countries is part of the Trans- eral U.S.-made missiles, during ported on Saturday that the groups that have been captured equipment made by the U.S. and tina as he struggled to shrug off the port Ministry’s strategies but Iraq’s po- cleansing operations against the army’s engineering units have by the government troops in Qu- Britain in the terrorists’ dens. lingering stigma of a the murder of litical circumstances were behind the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. delay. According to a highly classified Following the damage the Daesh CIA assessment seen by a U.S. caused, the ministry rehabilitated a rail- Izadis Join Case Against French Firm for Paying Daesh newspaper, the crown prince sent at way connecting Iraq to Syria. least 11 messages to Saoud al-Qa- The railway system, which connects A group of women from Iraq’s Izadi religious mi- BAGHDAD (Press TV) – Lafarge is accused of paying the terrorists long after other French compa- htani, his closest adviser who over- Tikrit, , Fallujah in the northern nority who were kidnapped and sexually abused by Daesh are seeking to join a nies and multinationals had pulled out of Syria due to the spread of militancy. saw the team that killed Khashoggi, and western parts of Iraq, is 121 kilom- legal case against a French firm charged with paying millions to the terrorist The case marks the first time a multinational company has been charged in the hours before and after the eters long. The lines are also connected group. with complicity in international crimes by Daesh. journalist’s death in October. to the southern parts of the country and Lawyers said on Friday that they had filed an application for the women to “It (the case against Lafarge) provides an opportunity to establish that ISIS The Wall Street Journal also re- to Syria. become civil parties to the case against cement giant Lafarge. (Daesh), and all those who assisted them, will be held to account for their ported on Friday that in August According to On June 28, a panel of judges in Paris handed preliminary charges to La- crimes, and that victims will be awarded just compensation,” lawyer Amal 2017, MBS had told associates that Co., the Shalamcheh- line is part if his efforts to persuade Khashoggi of a regional railway network that in- farge over complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists. Clooney, who represents the Izadi minority, said in a statement. to return to Saudi Arabia were un- cludes the Musayyib-Karbala line. Fu- The judges ordered it to pay 30 million euros ($35 million) as security de- “And it sends an important message to corporations that are complicit in the successful, “we could possibly lure ture railway plans call for connecting posit before a trial could open on the company’s alleged crimes. commission of international crimes that they will face legal consequences him outside Saudi Arabia and make Iraq not only to Iran but also Syria, Back then, rights campaigners welcomed the move and acknowledged for their actions,” she added. arrangements,” according to the as- Jordan and the Persian Gulf via Kuwait. that it showed the courts were beginning to recognize the role of Lafarge in Clooney said the women were the victims of “forced displacement, execu- sessment. Speaking to Al-Monitor, Salam spreading chaos. tions, kidnappings, and ... sexual enslavement.” The document said the commu- Smeasim, an economist and adviser to the Iraqi Private Banks League, noted The company faces allegations that it paid nearly €13 million ($14,700 mil- The Izadis are considered to be “devil worshipers” by Daesh, which in- nication “seems to foreshadow the Saudi operation launched against the railway project’s political dimen- lion) to terrorists, including those belonging to Daesh, to keep a factory open vaded Iraq and Syria in 2014 and was later defeated by the two countries. Khashoggi”. sion, stemming from the U.S. with- in Syria. It also faces charges of endangering the lives of former employees Thousands of females from the minority were kidnapped by the group that The messages appear to reveal the drawal from the nuclear deal with Iran in its branch in the northern Syrian Jalabiya region. year and subjected to torture and rape. first evidence of MBS’s involve- and devaluation of Iran’s currency. ment in the operation on the actual The project is expected to provide an day of the killing and of the crown economic and trade outlet toward Syr- prince sending messages as opposed ia and help promote religious tourism. UK Student Arrested in Egypt on Spying Charges to being told of events by an aide. “This is true particularly since there are The WSJ said it had seen excerpts many religious sites, especially the Shia CAIRO (Sputnik) – Muhammed cious’. workers to question him and check his of the CIA’s assessment, which cite shrines, in the three countries,” she said. Abulkasem, a 19-year-old student with UK The boy landed at the airport in the north- belongings. electronic intercepts and other clan- The railway connecting the three citizenship, faces trial in Egypt for spying ern coastal city of Alexandria on Novem- Muhammed was arrested and now faces destine information. countries — where wars and armed on the local military. ber 21. He filmed a cellphone video of the charges of collecting intelligence on the The WSJ said the previously groups wreaked havoc and disrupted Muhammed, who hails from Cheetham airport from the plane that featured a mili- Egyptian army. His family has launched unreported excerpts seen by the trade activities among them — will be newspaper state the CIA has “me- impressive and productive as long as no Hill in Manchester, is said to have lived tary helicopter flying by, which Egyptian an online petition, pushing the officials to dium-to-high confidence” that MBS political obstacles stand in its way. in the Arab republic for more than four security found while searching his phone. release the student and allow him to return “personally targeted” Khashoggi These potential challenges could arise years with his family in the past. His fam- According to his cousin, aid worker Sha- home. and “probably ordered his death”. from other sides, such as the occupy- ily says that he was travelling from Libya reen Nawaz, Muhammed was travelling A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Of- ing regime of Israel, that consider Iran to visit old friends. with a friend, and the pair booked a hotel fice said that London has requested in- a peril approaching the Mediterranean Security officials responded to a report room in Alexandria. Hotel staff reported formation on the matter from Egyptian Former... coasts. Syria and Iran on Aug. 29 made (Continued From Page One) from a hotel where he had planned to that his booking appeared ‘suspicious’ officials and is seeking permission for public a military deal to fortify the Syr- ian defense infrastructure, which the stay, which flagged his booking as ‘suspi- without clarification, prompting security consular access to the student. 1990, angry that the tiny neighbor and United States and its allies oppose.