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The Two Sounds of G, a StoryBots song

Arabian Post — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:13:22 +0000

The letter G is great. It’s unflaggingly gracious and genuinely not discouraging. It’s almost like magic. Why? The letter G can make two different sounds: When it’s followed by the letters a, o, u, or a consonant, it’s pronounced with the hard sound /g/. And when the letter g is…

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Obama's Request to Fight ISIS Sparks Debate

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:02:59 +0000

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… our coalition is on the office … I so is on the offensive Anais is going to use … the only one up … with our allies and partners where to degrade and ultimately destroy … the search … the resolution resubmitted today does not … call for one of yours ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria … that’s President Obama asking Congress to authorize military action against the Islamic State … this is your Wednesday acting in news have I’m Sara Mary … present Obama is proposing a three-year authorization that would allow for some ground troops that President Obama says he is not authorizing large scale combat operations on the ground … still to be a very significant though it would mark the first time Congress impact on the right he supports Sen starting in two thousand team to allow President George W Bush to invade Iran … it’s already sparking a debate about how broad the president’s power should be in times of war … joining me now with more analysis is Richard Hoss president of the Council on Foreign Relations … they say much for joining us … thanks for having me Sarah sell your present Obama say he is not one to have a large scale … ground operation but he does like themselves are related to provide troops on the ground in certain situations … what’s your take on that it seems simulate once you open the door for that it seems difficult to closing … well … what I think you wanted to do is reassure people who worried about some new version of Iraq or Afghanistan … open ended March tale would use to think the word with him during … combat operations … on the other hand hated water precluded the rescue missions where say a special forces raided we knew there was a gathering … of my soul leaders someplace so we wanted to to take some … sort of equity is trying to do was essentially thread thread the difference … is that a lot of tightening government working on these foreign policy issues he worked a lot on Afghanistan and future of Afghanistan CEO it’s like the embroiled in these conflicts … for a long time what’s your take on this three year time limit the present wants to send … but the big on limits personally … in this case though there’s only two years left to his presidency … stories essentially saying is actually quite explicit in this in this press conference … busy busy year after he leaves office where the new Congress at that point and the new president … will be able to the … essentially revisit this issue … let’s be clear with or without the saucer ization … Thani commander in chief cause of an awful lot of authority an awful lot of power … to a reading of the Constitution or tradition … to take all sorts of military actions … that said I think the president wanted to get a successor … and the successor Congress … a year to to work this through … I must point out that I visit the lighthouse is Ardi made clear that they feel like they have the authority … to take action against ISIS and a half hearted take action had taken action through airstrikes against ISIS … so what is the … place to take this to Congress and sale of … the one of the town the it’s … well traditionally one of the reasons presidents of the taken issues like this the Congress is the salacious … spread around the responsibility … and take away the argument that it was simply the executive branch taking the United States … in sick on that in this case also … some of the early authorities which were put into place right after a two thousand come … on nine eleven … are obviously controversy Oprah strictly on the left … Coast they were seen as providing be the political and legal predicate … to the Iraq war … so that was of political are turning … to sew through supersede that … your basic points exactly is exactly right when it without explicit authorization is like this … um presidents have EU the of the basic fundamental form Policy power … the power of commander in chief … they have the permanent ability to exercise of self defense does all sorts of counterterrorism capabilities … that are on the books … so I see this more of in the political rather than in the actual law at the end in the actual sense of having an impact damage to the top about presidential car per second because as part of the president the present wants this ought to rise the ones to repeal … the authorization in two thousand to that allowed George W Bush to invade Iran … he wants the two nd place as separate authorization from two thousand won and that’s the White House please do it as a likely be at the authority to deal with ISIS right now so we and all of this quite the limits on presidential power … on … the honest answers there isn’t much women on presidential power when it comes to this sort of thing one interesting question Sarah of August Congress choose to do with this … are they going to be members of Congress who are going to say try to introduce … time limits on the go to be those who are going to try to introduce geographic limits which are not in this for example … there’s nothing in this was a precludes the United States … from helping Jordan … or doing something and and Saudi Arabia might there be people who would try to do that … might there be people who tried into further narrow will further expand what this president to do in the area of of the insertion of ground forces … to me the support of the rest what he’s done is essentially opened up a political process here … and people with very odd with various agendas … or are they going to try to broaden or narrow … this authority and that’s always the rest … get that technically are already hearing … in open early signs of that coming out of capris Richard Hoss they say much for joining us thank you …

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French Extremists Find Platform in Terrorist Propaganda

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:00:37 +0000

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… over the last six months alone … French or French speaking extremists have been highly visible propaganda for terrorist groups … especially the Islamic State … French officials recently said more than one thousand French nationals have trouble conflict zones in Syria and Iraq … or maybe claiming to … be a recent mass execution video … featured this French citizen … whose name Maxine or chart … according to the French government … this video he participates in the beheadings of Syrian prisoners of war … this video from October twenty fourteen … features the French speaker challenging America and European nations … including France to send ground troops to the territory ISIS control … of a local state team did read each … window continued on with Apple … one often repeated call for jihad this … is doing a key tool attacks inside … the Prince became ice fighters … to hold their fellow citizens to take the fight to the home … miss sitting upon the lead … missing the moment has … been seen in the men’s TPP … yet as of yet get what you … yet this evening attack … this French speaking the hottest takes France to task for participating in airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria … momentum in … the community … the bull and yet I’m a good other than some … other videos feature French speakers beckoning French nationals come to the ISIS Capital broker to either help with the cause or to join the fight … lol lol but the morning … Nepal often Mikhail … Volkl was in it … the new … this apparent French fighter with the name of upon us of her aunts … was celebrated by the ISIS media wing … for conducting a suicide attack against a Shiite militia in Iraq jihad is recently memorialized this French or redeeming … for attacking officers and police station in France on December twentieth twenty fourteen he commended him for apparently shouting a lot to our car which means God is great all

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Jury Finds Palestinian Authority, PLO Liable for Attacks

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:00:09 +0000

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federal jury said the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization held liable for supporting fixed terrorist attacks in Israel … the kids now have to pay the victims’ families … two hundred and eighteen point five million dollars for the attack … took place more than a decade now … for more NS were joined by WSJ’s Christopher Matthews … Chris thanks very much for being here thanks for still I really realize that you can actually bring a lawsuit … like this against essentially a government sends an organization how did this work … so there’s the … along the two thousand for in the terrorism Act which allow was … U S citizens to bring lawsuits … against those who sponsor terrorism in U S courts … so the plants your work and families were affected by the attacks in the basically said that … the PLO in the key a … financially supported these groups Hamas ALM … that they carry the tax out … an ETF not that you guys were the extremists in fact it’s more about cutting off money supply … that’s exactly what it’s about time there’s been a couple other cases recently in the US to one in Brooklyn involving air bank where they were held … liable for … supporting financials pointers attacks to … the US in your pictures or become this jurisdiction for holding the finance fears of a terrorism response to twenty eight PM growling like this he does this open the floodgates for there is this an … create a new pathway to call the than other types of organizations responsible for financing terror … I think it does this coupled with the air being cases for it set the path for that … there’s other cases pending aam … and I think people look at these verdicts in the numbers and and they think a you know I mean the action filed suit … and course but that these orientations say that they think that this is not and I’m just rolling a sale have anything to do with it right they say we have nothing to do with that we should help response both the actions of the few individuals … actually the interesting thing to is the verdict actually bigger than the … two hundred I think it’s and it’s the can the numbers here it’s six hundred fifty five million because under that Act all images are crippled by Apple and what is this process and like for the families who were talking about attacks that happened … over a decade ago … and the third setting a new legal precedent … what the of the litigation is dragged on for a decade I’m a visit to CA in the pillows that you have jurisdictional Scott cost out … filing with the trial and that he was an emotional trial you know the victims are out there testifying about … some pretty horrific things … and so I think there ought to be happy with the outcome but you know it’s it’s been a long road to Chris thanks for joining us of history …

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Brooklyn Men Arrested in Plot to Join ISIS

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:00:03 +0000

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… three Brooklynn men who were allegedly planning to travel to Syria to join the SS had better rested today … authorities arrested one of the suspects and at John F Kennedy Airport as he was about to board a flight to Turkey … that eleven member countries in Brooklyn and in Florida … greater New York … area driller Valley has the latest e joins us now into things famous for being here … Q so what we know about these three men … so these are extreme in all Brooklyn residents two of them are citizens of Uzbekistan one from six am … and stay are being charged with conspiracy … and it looks like … him … basically they had … the costumes and they would be worse points in social media calls to ISIS Christine increasingly happening … aam and one of the most top this he said boarding a flight to miss a ball from JFK … aam one of them was caught in his home in Brooklyn another one in Florida scary to think that … it’s him boarding this flight to get Turkey and Brazil we get to Syria from there and at the moment take on what the authorities are … um … you one of the things that set them off early on was last summer … Sullivan posting two and ISIS friendly website … on its … backline which side … and he was posting things like … you know threats against Obama … another one was offering to … buy a machine gun and if you can make its a serious issue of FBI agents and police officers in the U S … some of these things started giving them certain traces … of what was going on what is the state is that how affected I says recruiting has Ben … middle you may be in the never set foot in here and they didn’t even really understand what is going on … it’s a real threat aam and and the FBI has said that … the sum in their monastery in all fifty states … um we’ve seen overseas also hiking at some of these calls on social media are sort of summoning people’s Syria and sing to … him that when the revolution and … on the part of this and that seems to hold some appeal for for some people out there till the … next day the better rested there the Marines now I … write ALM so … I guess will will see next is awesome idea of what the strategy is from the prosecution … aam … we don’t know … much more today other than the sum of the kind of steps that lead them … to these guys … there might be more things that that that had been discussed … aam … and there might be more to this for conspiracy plot that we started to see a

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Oil’s Decline Threatens Iraq’s Fight Against ISIS

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:59:56 +0000

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… much of the past twelve months we’ve seen a precipitous decline in the price of a barrel of light sweet crude … and they use see their dad … Nymex is down forty one point one nine of that this was … well over a hundred … in a tiny segments of soda … and still fall in Korea that the numbers we see today … what is good news for motorists is bad news for economies that rely on higher prices … namely those like the rock … the rely on oil revenue to five Islamic State terrorists … the beest Middle East bureau chief Bill Spindle is back in spending some time in Iraq the Joneses and Abu Dhabi … to spell out The Dow’s how a bill … ARU Michael did very well thank so much for joining us … it … said it first up we spent some time with about a militia while euro today and it is time to fight to take … that back to creep in Iraq … I’m … you know the with looking out the fighters in fact the person you Twitter feed from that experience … what what you tell us about this problem you know that the lack of revenue … and the supplies they did go into the strips into what but it’s good for them or Island and their ability to fight … yet it’s in our rock is just in a really difficult spot I it’s one of the country’s as most exposed to the drop in oil prices because nearly all like ninety four five percent of its government budget comes from oil revenue so that’s been cut in half last night the last series in seven eight months so … you know it meanwhile Islamic state is has moved into that they’ve got a huge security from other hand so they had to allocate of a larger chunk of the budget there I think that these these years but does not allocating something like … twenty percent the entire budget … to securities on the one and they’re losing all the revenues on the other expenses are going way up … so they are very difficult situation they’re in town and that’s one of the reasons why … it’s very difficult to get the Iraqi military which is testing in tatters … back in to train Shea … and they’re turning in in fact a lot of these militias … who do with a promise to pay something to but here is much cheaper than trying to rebuild your or your military … the problem is that these militias are are really … very sectarian there are entirely … made up of Shiites … so when a moving into areas like they’re doing now and she creature not be … as they move up towards Mosul … those are all Sunni dominated areas and as they move into them … you get it all sorts of tensions … that result from all of this and you know it’s all just these at survey by the lack of money … what is it mean for the U S and the allies here and and what role that may have to play … more minority are intense about footing the bill on all … beefing up … the security commitment … because clearly if a the top job and somebody has to step in … well that’s the that’s the huge eleven the U S Steel finds itself yet it’s the if it wants to rebuild the Iraqi military wants to strengthen the central government … but … that all costs money that the US is not willing to to pay for them to really did pay for training they’re willing to supply some weapons but … on the other hand they want to be paid for it and in the Iraqi or as little money to do either of these things … so you get these militia … who were kind of running the show that makes it very difficult for the US to purchase it’s a it’s sth it’s essentially sitting out these offences now Inti create … because I think because they’re quite worried about … the implications of them and what might happen there and they they don’t want all happening under … a US air cover … however who’s helping these militias well that Iraq is behind these militias … there really … in a very much … by the funding for and providing a lot of the organization’s so to the extent the US feels a pass to see these things out because of their overtly sectarian nature … at the same time it’s losing a lot of influence … situation because it’s doing a derogatory to as beanie that Iran … in the rainbow is a highly contentious issue … given … the visit would have Congress last week been been been been picking up … the look of it … some of the Iraq grain ABBA to maintain production … aam but ISIS courses had designs on on disrupting that what what is the we have come up with to get it in fact … here that was disruption to … pipelines and then production facilities … the … yes I mean I think I it’s frankly I says it is not a direct threat to all of this it’s more than that of the budget for it that that having to pay to fight ICICI’s is causing its really … in the south … where most of Iraq’s oil is seventy five percent … the problem is really all about infrastructure … a friend up for auction remarkably over the last couple of years … but to continue doing that they’ve got all sorts of infrastructure problems that are gonna hafta be resolved if they don’t have the money to resolve those … that what’s gonna happen is … directed to detail offered out there in the north it has to do with politics the Kurdish … areas in their relationship with this there intense relationship for the central government … is is just … fraud at this point in trying to work out some sort of deal that will allow … continued growth in exports out of the North is is going to be tricky as well if they can solve those problems … Iraq is huge potential if they can they could really go into a downward spiral … sounds like a real mess Phillips puts the thank you very much

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Disarray in Middle East Imperils Obama's Policy Plans

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:59:51 +0000

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… the state of disarray themes the unusual even for that nasty region … that all risk and peril and President Barack Obama is policy dreams … and leaving him with limited ability to control events joining us this cost is the Journal’s Washington D C bureau chief … Jerry side … Gerri thank you so much for joining us … happy be here so obviously they’re a lot of policies at the top of present Obama agenda which policies … specifically do these latest developments really put in danger … well look I think it puts the president an awkward position was happening the last few days … the day with regard to Iran … that on the one in the present is trying very hard John Kerry’s in Switzerland trying … very hard even as we speak to negotiated deals the Iranians to control their nuclear program … at the same time at the US is now aligned with Saudi Arabia try to stop … a drive by Iranian backed rebels into the rebels in Yemen to take over the country … at the same time it’s working with the Iranians are least implicitly work with the Iranians … to go after Islamic State forces in Iraq so it’s an extraordinarily complicated situation … but I think the real awkward problem at the moment is that … the US is up and try to work with Iran on nuclear weapons and … a nuclear weapons deal and working against Iran on this grounded in Yemen … and in the process a lot of traditional American allies sickly the Saudis the Egyptians and the Israelis … are very suspicious of how hard the US would push back against the Iranians is to try to expand their influence in places like Iran … because of the diplomacy strand also conduct … with the Iranians deny it over the nuclear deal so there’s a lot of anxiety uncertainty … and at the same time in the U S is conducting its its diplomacy without the kind supportive dish we had from traditional ally Saudi Arabia Egypt and Israel all of whom are a little bit suspicious of U S goals motorists right now so … the president finds himself up not really able to control events … and with fewer resources at its disposal as he tries to go about it in navigating these waters … I think it is resource that this all kinds well with US troops McGrath with boots on the ground there in the Middle East how’s that complicate things further with West direct support from the US … well Iraq is a good example of the problem area the US is trying to help the Iraqi government push back Islamic state forces protected from the city of decree … it doesn’t have that the boots on the ground as you say to do that’s trying to do it with their power and working with Iraqi groups and it was actually a silly work with Iranian militias and and and Iranian leaders to help the Iraqis do that that has been successful so far … to different situations you have … twenty thirty forty thousand American troops in Iraq the you could use it in that enterprise … so that C that makes the whole situation more difficult built on or an aunt another problem that has been dire need for the president which is that he had hoped that at this point … the storyline would be that the US was smoothly ending its top it’s the occupation in it’s it’s … it’s it’s exposure in Iraq … and was also moving out of the … country for cancer list of the most of its troops out of Afghanistan was dead … you have in the U S reassert itself with mid air power in Iraq … in the present also announcing this week he’s been leaves thousands of troops in Afghanistan longer than the hope that the and after the end of this year because the situation there is too unstable so … this is not this scenario the president fish and even a few months ago … interesting Terry thank you so much for joining us … sure happy be with you … and please Richard Reed More … juries work on devastate Akande and in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal

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U.S. Training Elite Afghan Troops

The Arabian Post Network — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:59:05 +0000

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U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are trying to make sure their elite Afghan counterparts can fight on their own before American troops leave, which is planned to take place by the end of next year. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images

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